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In the event of a lawsuit being filed for supposed mistakes or negligence against the firm, errors and omissions coverage for surveyors will provide protection. The surveyor’s legal defense will be completely covered which is absolutely vital, because court fees can be detrimental even if the firm is found free of any liability. One example is a 2000 lawsuit that was pursued against a land surveyor which went all the way to the supreme court of New Mexico. Despite the fact that the judicial system didn’t find the land surveyor at fault, the cost of this defense was substantial.
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Most surveyors insurance works on a claims-made basis, which means surveyor firms need to be certain their E&O insurance for surveyors doesn’t lapse in order to ensure they are protected in the event of a lawsuit. The statute of limitations for liability can be several years, so the policy you are covered under at the time of the work provided needs to still be in effect at least as long as the statute of limitations allows for a lawsuit to be made. Fenner and Esler is going to also review risk management strategies for your practice, a service that you’re not going to find from larger surveyor errors and omissions insurance coverage companies.
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You will never settle here: Australia tells boat people
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SYDNEY, Australia: A critical plank in Australia's stop-the-boats policies has been to send anyone trying to sneak into the country by sea to offshore detention centres in other countries.
The government calls it "regional processing", with people sent to centres in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific island nation of Nauru while their asylum claims are assessed.
Those deemed in genuine need of protection are promised resettlement outside their homelands, but never in Australia.
"Settlement in Australia will never be an option for anyone who attempts to travel to Australia illegally by boat. There are no exceptions," Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said in late April, as he marked 1000 days since the last people-smuggling boat reached Australia.
Dutton was also at pains to point out that it had been more than three years since the last known death at sea at the hands of people smugglers.
But the regional processing regime has exposed Australia to accusations of serious human rights breaches.
In 2015, a United Nations report found aspects of Australia's asylum-seeker policies violated the International Convention Against Torture.
The UN report said Australia had violated the rights of asylum seekers held at the Manus Island processing centre in PNG to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
It had done this by failing to provide adequate detention conditions, with the UN pointing to escalating violence and tension at the facility.
Earlier this year, Amnesty International accused Australia of setting up a deliberately cruel and inhumane system intended to make desperate and vulnerable people suffer.
Amnesty's Secretary-General Salil Shetty has gone ever further, recently saying Australia's policies on maritime asylum seekers are "flagrantly violating" international refugee and human rights conventions.
He also says Australia's hardline border protection policies are only serving to keep asylum seekers in circulation and in need of the services smugglers offer.
The Manus Island centre is to close in late 2017, but not because Australia has decided to respond to its alleged human rights violations.
In April 2015, PNG's Supreme Court ruled the centre was illegal and that detaining asylum seekers there breached the country's constitution.
That's left Australia with a problem: what to do with the more than 800 men being held there.
Dutton wants the Manus Island centre closed by October 31.
"The advocates can bleat all they want, they can protest all they want, we have been very clear those people are not going to settle in our country because that would restart the people (smuggling) trade," he said in April.
People on Manus Island, if they are found to be genuine refugees, will be resettled under an agreement with the United States or in PNG itself. Others will be returned to their homelands.
Australia and the US have done a deal that will see the US accept refugees from Nauru and Manus Island and Australia take in refugees from Central America.
The people swap deal was struck with the Obama administration and will be reluctantly honoured by new US President Donald Trump although he has branded it a "dumb deal".
But it remains unclear how many people will be resettled in the US.
American officials have already begun the process of vetting those held offshore to determine who will be let in and who won't.
Australia intends to keep the Nauru centre open, as an "important deterrent" to boat arrivals. At the end of April, 373 people were held there, including more than 40 children.


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Brittle cactus (Opuntia fragilis) is a member of the Opuntia genus, traditionally known as tuna (fruit), sabra, or paddle from the Spanish word nopal. Along with many other xerophytes, brittle cactus is an ideal transplant for gardens and xeriscapes of the Southwest desert, where it is a staple wild plant.There is a large patch of Native brittle prickly pear cactus around St. Cloud, MN that will be destroyed for a road. Is this plant protected in anyway. This is by far the larges group that I know of and hate to see that it will be removed from the world just for a road. I want to write a story about the location and what it means to save this cactus. Can you help me out? Mathew
Opuntia ficus-indica has been introduced to Europe, and flourishes in areas with a suitable climate, such as the south of France and southern Italy: In Sicily, they are referred to as fichi d'India (Italian literal translation of Indian fig) or ficurinia (Sicilian language literal translation of Indian fig). In Sardinia, they are called figumorisca – Moorish figs), the same denomination they receive along the Catalan-speaking regions of the Western Mediterranean, figa de moro. They can be found also in the Struma River in Bulgaria, in southern Portugal and Madeira (where they are called tabaibo, figo tuno, or "Indian figs"), in Andalusia, Spain (where they are known as higos chumbos). In Greece, it grows in such places as the Peloponnese region, Ionian Islands, or Crete, and its figs are known as frangosyka (Frankish, i.e. Western European, figs) or pavlosyka (Paul's figs), depending on the region. In Albania, they are called fiq deti translated as 'sea figs', and are present in the south-west shore. The figs are also grown in Cyprus, where they are known as papoutsósyka or babutsa (shoe figs).
The prickly pear cactus (Opuntia) is among the most widespread cactus genera in the U.S. With over 100 species, this plant is characterized by its spiny, flat, club-shaped pads. Many varieties have large, round spines, while others have tiny, hair-like barbs that detach upon contact. While cacti are generally known as warm-weather desert plants, there are some prickly pear species that are hardy as far north as USDA zone 4. Prickly pear is best planted outside in the spring after the threat of frost has passed. Some prickly pears produce fruits that are prized for their edibility, but the plant's growth rate is fairly slow and it can take three or four years before a new plant starts fruiting. (Source: www.thespruce.com)

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Katerina E. Aifantis focuses on using solid mechanics for understanding materials behavior at the nanoscale. Through funding from the Basic Energy Sciences Office of the Department of Energy she tries to understand the effect that grain boundary structure and chemistry have on the strength of sub-micron scale materials. In addition to basic science questions, she uses her theoretical and experimental insight into the materials mechanical behavior to predict the most promising materials systems that can be used in various applications, ranging from next generation electrodes for Li-ion batteries, to bone regeneration scaffolds and biocompatible electrodes for deep brain stimulation.
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Lou Reed Recovering After Liver Transplant; Rocker Was “Dying”
2:30 pm, June 1st, 2013
Lou Reed is recovering after a life-saving liver transplant.
The 71-year-old rock legend’s wife, artist Laurie Anderson, tells the Times of London, “It’s as serious as it gets. He was dying. You don’t get it for fun.”
Reed had the major operation several weeks ago at the Cleveland Clinic.
“I don’t think he’ll every totally recover from this, but he’ll certainly be back to doing [things] in a few months,” said Anderson.
The musician had been scheduled to perform at Coachella in April, but canceled the festival gig — and other performances earlier this spring — citing “unavoidable complications.”
Reed was a founding member of The Velvet Underground before embarking on a successful solo career.
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The latest update to Cyberpunk 2077 addresses only a few of the game’s issues, but one that it does correctly is the save file corruption bug that has plagued PC players. This fix, however, does not repair any save files that were broken prior to the release of this patch. The game has only been out for less than two weeks, but in that time it has been at the center of a lot of drama in the gaming world.
Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most anticipated titles of the year prior to its release. Since then, however, an argument could be made that it is perhaps one of the greatest gaming disappointments of 2020. Despite numerous delays from its original release date, Cyberpunk 2077 was still far from complete when it finally came to gamers. From poor graphical quality on consoles to countless bugs of varying severity, the game was far below the standards developer CD Projekt set leading up to the title’s launch. Now, it seems that the developer is in a mad scramble to fix as many issues as it can in the hopes of bringing the game to the quality level many had expected upon release.
Today, CD Projekt Red announced the release of Hotfix 1.06. Thanks to this patch, PC players will no longer be restricted by the 8 MB save file size limit, but this does not retroactively fix any save files that were corrupted by this bug prior to Hotfix 1.06. Console players, meanwhile, were given improved memory management and stability in the hopes that this would result in fewer crashes. The final adjustment Hotfix 1.06 makes has to do with the Second Conflict quest. Now, the character of Dum Dum should no longer unexpectedly disappear from Totentanz entrance. These were the only changes made according to the announcement.
While only three changes in one patch do not seem like much on its own, the larger response effort that it is a part of is impressive. It seems like CD Projekt listened to the negative reactions to its game and is now doing all it can to keep the reputation that it earned with The Witcher 3. The developer has gone so far as to offer refunds to players and has even removed the game temporarily from some platforms until more of Cyberpunk 2077‘s issues are resolved.
The phenomenon surrounding CD Projekt’s latest title is one of the more curious in gaming history. Many highly anticipated games have disappointed players over the years and those are usually forgotten relatively quickly. Yet despite all of its flaws, Cyberpunk 2077 continues to not only survive but also thrive. The game has sold over 13 million copies despite all of its problems, which suggests that gamers around the world still want it to succeed. CD Projekt has already proved itself with The Witcher 3 and that is no doubt contributing to why Cyberpunk 2077 seems to be getting a pass when other games would be immediately discredited. Hopefully, the updates in the coming weeks will raise Cyberpunk 2077 to the quality many hoped it would be at launch.

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Cisco said it is acquiring ThousandEyes, which provides analytics for the digital delivery of applications and services.
Cisco said it will combine its network and applications performance tools with ThousandEyes visibility to improve software and network delivery.
ThousandEyes' technology will be used across Cisco's enterprise networking, cloud and AppDynamics portfolio. Cisco said the deal will close before the end of its fiscal first quarter and reside in the company's networking services unit.
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Skip to comments.Hat-trick for missile technologists, armed forces
Posted on 03/28/2010 8:08:00 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
a hat-trick for missile technologists and the armed forces in the last two days, Agni-I, which can carry nuclear weapons and has range of 700 km, was flight-tested successfully from the Wheeler's Island, off the Orissa coast, on Sunday.
The ship-based Dhanush and Prithvi-II were test-fired in a salvo mode on Saturday.
The medium range surface-to-surface Agni-I, fired at 1.07 hours from a mobile launcher, homed in on the target within a few metres of accuracy as it splashed down in the Bay of Bengal.
The launch was carried out by Army personnel as part of a training exercise.
Describing it as one of the best-ever launches, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) officials said the specialised navigation and guidance system enabled the missile to reach the target with a high degree of accuracy after a 500-second flight duration.
During the course of the flight, it reached an altitude of 300 km and re-entered the atmosphere, withstanding high temperatures of more than 2,000 degree Celsius, as specially-developed heat shields provided protection to the electronic components and the payload.
The radars and electro-optical tracking system along the coast monitored the missile's path and trajectory-related parameters in real time.
Two down-range naval ships, about 700 km from the Wheeler's Island, tracked the missile reaching the target.
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Nothin` better than a good crossfire.
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So, I started my day early this morning woke up at 5 in the morning and could not go back to sleep so I got out the notebook and pen and continued my brainstorming. of course, I got to writing. After that I began writing for my book. Was writing for hours and happy that I got some work done and I do not feel like it was rushed and happy with what I came up with. So, 2 hours ago I decided to take a break from writing till later tonight and now movie time.
I am watching some of my favorite movies first up was American Gangster, then some of Deep Cover, now watching Harlem Nights laughing my but off. Next is Hoodlum then later Black Panther. In that order!! Just a few of my favorites, with some of my favorite snacks. Then back to writing.
I am having a relaxed day so far and enjoying this Sunday. How are you today? What are your Sunday plans? What are your favorite movies? Hope you all enjoy the rest of your day. Stay safe and blessings.
My heart and mind are heavy, my heart hurts. I feel broken and I have been trying to remain positive and pray about my life and the feelings I have. I have made post about being positive and taking care of self, but lately nothing is working for me. I feel so empty and lost. Since my mom has passed away it seems that everything in my life, the past has surfaced. I am constantly thinking of the bad, cruel, and all the shitty things that has happened to me since I was a child hate this feeling and I do not know why everything is coming to mind and heart. I try to keep busy, so I do not think about stuff, but no matter what it happens, I’m thinking and sad and crying. Another thing is the nightmares which that right there is scary some things happened to me, and I still have nightmares about it and also nightmares of me seeing my mom’s lifeless body. That is why I have not been sleeping really. I see my mom and her condition before she passed. I was taking care of her while she was in hospice care from home and watching her day-by-day change and watching her body fail and seeing her take her last breath the look on her face and all, that is what I see when I am trying to sleep. It was so hard to see and horrible going through it. It is still hard for me it has been four months and I’m not over it at all. I do not know what to do. Yes, I am not going to lie I am mad, mad at the world, and mad at myself. I have been feeling like I do not want to be here on this earth. Like, why cannot I shake these feelings, I do not like feeling this way, all I do lately is cry, cry, cry, cry. Why is it so hard? I have been too much in my mind and in the past for some weeks now, and it has me all messed up, very emotional.
Damn what is going on with me? For those who has lost someone how do you go on? How to you heal?
It is hard and I feel very lonely and scared ad mainly scared of myself. Again, trying to make it through the days but it seems my life is spiraling. Sigh, what to do? Letting it all out tonight. My feelings, my thoughts sorry to those who feel it is a dark and negative blog entry. I am my true self and I express my true. Just going through a lot and emotional and need to vent. Thank you for reading.
Hello people, how is your night going? Mine is so- so. Doing some venting tonight. And just sitting here thinking.
It really annoys me. I am the type of person who is there for everybody around me, being a listening ear, and just being there, doing for them. But when I need a listening ear or just for someone to be there for me, I get nothing. Nothing at all, no one is there. I feel messed up and not good enough. Just lonely me I guess the only person you can truly depend on is yourself, such a true statement. Ugh sigh venting tonight. Sunday night venting…
Hello everyone, hope you Sunday is going okay. Tonight, I just want to send love to those who are going through stuff, hurting, in pain at the moment. I pray that you are able to heal from the hurts, the pains, all the bad that is going on in your life. I want to let you all know that you are not alone. Today my mom was on my mind heavy and I had to pray about it and take some deep breaths. I know the healing process is not easy, but man it gets so hard on some days. I know the best thing for me to do is pray.
Again, I want to send love, and faith and hope your way and let you know again you are not alone. Wishing you all a great night. Wishing peace, love, happiness, and blessings to you and yours. 🖤💙💚💛🧡❤💜🤎🤍💕💔
Again. Happy Sunday! Happy Easter! Hope you and your families enjoyed yall day. Have a great night all.
Sending Love, Peace, And Blessings
Happy Sunday everyone! Happy Blogging Bloggers/Writers! Today just want to say hi and wish a happy day on everyone. Remember to love yourself even through the hard times. It can be hard I know, have faith. Love those around you, those who are there for you and care for you, be kind. Sending happiness and […]

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McLean, Va. March 05, 2014 -- The MTConnect® Institute and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) announce a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a cooperative forum resulting in collaboration between the two organizations to continue defining, developing and securing programs aimed at furthering the MTConnect standard.
The MTConnect Institute develops and provides open standards intended tofoster greater interoperability between manufacturing controls, devices and software applicationsby publishing data over networks using the Internet Protocol. The standards offer a solution tothe exchange of data from shop floor devices to higher level systems.
NCDMM is an organization whose goal is to deliver optimized manufacturing solutions thatenhance the quality, affordability, maintainability, and rapid deployment of existing and yet-to-bedeveloped defense systems. NCDMM fosters collaboration between government, industrial, and academic organizationsto promote the implementation of best practices to key stakeholders through the development anddelivery of disciplined training, advanced technologies, and methodologies.
"NCDMM welcomes the formalization of our strong collaborative partnership with the MTConnect Institute," stated Ralph Resnick, President and Executive Director of NCDMM and a Board member of the MTConnect Institute, "This MoU publicly confirms our mutual dedication and acknowledges our collective agreement to the advancement of the MTConnect Standard. I encourage other manufacturing organizations to likewise come forward to rally the manufacturing community around the significance of MTConnect."
Courtney Hill, MTConnect Institute President and Chairman of the Board said, “This MoU furthers our longstanding and strong relationship with NCDMM that began when AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology formed the MTConnect Institute in 2009. Our first joint program launched in 2011 and was the beginning of a series of MTConnect projects, the most recent of which is the MTConnect Challenge 2.”
Participants in the MTConnect Challenge 2 that began in July 2013, and closedat the end of January 2014, are developing software applications that harness innovation and manufacturing intelligence breakthroughs utilizing data acquired via the MTConnect standard. At this year’s [MC]2Conference attendees will then vote for the top three winners. The two-part competition has been sponsored by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) and AMT – The Association For Manufacturing Technology.
For further information about MTConnect, visit www.MTConnect.org.
The MTConnect Institute is a not-for-profit 501(c)(6) organization established to further the development of the MTConnect standard and publish related materials. The organization includes Board of Directors, Technical Advisory Group (TAG), Technical Steering Committee, as well as various working groups to further the standard in specific technology areas. Any company or organization can be a member and aid in furthering the development of the MTConnect standard by becoming a member of the TAG. Membership is free, and it requires agreement to the MTConnect Intellectual Property Policy, which can be found on the MTConnect website’s “Institute” section. www.MTConnect.org
The NCDMM delivers optimized manufacturing solutions that enhance the quality, affordability, maintainability, and rapid deployment of existing and yet-to-be developed defense systems. This is accomplished through collaboration with government, industry, and academic organizations to promote the implementation of best practices to key stakeholders through the development and delivery of disciplined training, advanced technologies, and methodologies. For additional information, visit the NCDMM at www.ncdmm.org.


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ORGUN, Afghanistan -- Thousands of civilians in a remote region of Afghanistan are mourning the killing of their loved ones in one of the worst terrorist attacks in the country’s recent history.
Residents of the rural Orgun district in the southeastern Afghan province of Paktika are in shock days after a massive truck bomb ripped through a busy market, killing and wounding more than 200 civilians on July 15.
Nearly every household in Orgun and the nearby Barmal district is grieving as relatives dig through the rubble of shops in the hope of finding the remains of their relatives.
The small bazaar, which was just a collection of mud and brick buildings, was nearly completely destroyed by the force of the blast.
A heavy stench of explosives and burning flesh hangs in the air of the market that once served as the hub of economic activity in the remote region bordering Pakistan's embattled Waziristan region. It provided livelihoods for hundreds of families residing on both sides of Afghanistan's porous eastern border with Pakistan.
"It felt like life stopped for a moment," said Sher Nawaz, a goldsmith whose shop collapsed because of the blast. "A moment later, all I could see was blood--a lot of blood and human flesh. I must have collected at least fifty bodies of children. Hands, legs, and flesh were scattered everywhere."
Nawaz said most families in the close-knit tribal community had lost a relative in the tragedy. "The government should call for a day of national mourning. We are devastated."
Local officials said the attack killed some 69 civilians, but a defense official had earlier put the number at 89.
In an unusual move, the Afghan Taliban, formally called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, distanced itself from the attack in Orgun. It is usually quick to claim responsibility for attacks across the country.
Hours after the attack, self-proclaimed Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Taliban fighters "do not conduct such attacks, and such attacks do not bring any benefit to them."
But Paktika officials and civilians in Orgun blamed the Haqqani network. The group is considered the Taliban's most powerful military arm, and is widely thought to be closely allied with Al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence services. The network is reportedly based in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal district where a Pakistani antiterrorist offensive is ongoing, though critics say the operation has failed to kill any Haqqani network leaders.
Abdul Ahad, Orgun's district security chief, claims most such attacks in the past were planned by Pakistan's intelligence services and executed by the Haqqani network.
He added that the Taliban fear losing their credibility and "Islamic image," if they claim responsibility for an attack that only harmed noncombatants.
"We are half way through the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and a bloody attack that took the life of dozens of innocent people is a brazen violation of Islamic teaching."
Angered by the tragedy, many residents of Orgun staged a protest on July 16, calling on the Afghan government to increase the number of security checkpoints along the border with Pakistan to prevent the infiltration of the Taliban and allied militant groups.
Kabul has been slow in responding to the tragedy, forcing Orgun's grief-stricken residents to bear the brunt of the relief work alone.
However, volunteers from neighboring districts in Paktika are helping with the cleanup of the bombed bazaar. Ahmad Shah, one of the volunteers, said Paktika residents blamed Islamabad, which they believe supported the Taliban in carrying out this tragedy.
"Everybody believes that only Pakistan can inflict such calamities here," he said.

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Monday, October 03, 2005
This happens only in India
Most people are hypocrites, its only natural. Howvever its certainly a question of degrees. There is nothing that gets my goat worse then hypocrisy. Just as the Government of Maharashtra was busy shutting down dance bars when they should have been unclogging the gutters in Bombay, now we have the TN government clamping down on a Hotel where some idiot journalist snapped a couple kissing. For a second consider the newsworthiness of a lip lock between 2 random people. Now ask yourself wether there are'nt other important matters that the government has to attend to. Whatever your opinion on diplays of affection in public, surely you see the futility of such reprehensible moral policing. What kind of society do we want to live in. One where the police determines what show of affection is appropriate? One where girls are made to feel sinful just to be seen with a guy. If the moralists have a way to live let them preach it, let them convince people. But let them not coerce. Coercion should have no place in a democracy. And oh yeah we know what sex is how do u think we got to a billion, singing songs , or letting the birds and bees do the job for us?


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Benchmark interest rate of Bank Indonesia was raised as a follow-up measure to ensure the continued decline in inflation expectation and inflation so that core inflation is maintained within the range of 3.0 ± 1 percent.
Jakarta (Indonesia Window) – Bank Indonesia (BI)’s Board of Governors Meeting on Dec. 21-22, 2022 decided to increase the BI 7-Day Reverse Repo Rate (BI benchmark interest rate) by 25 basis points (bps) to 5.50 percent, BI’s Governor Perry Warjiyo said.
The deposit facility interest rate rises by 25 bps to 4.75 percent, and the lending facility rate is by 25 bps to 6.25 percent, Perry told a press conference on Thursday.
Benchmark interest rate was raised as a follow-up measure to ensure the continued decline in inflation expectation and inflation so that core inflation is maintained within the range of 3.0 ± 1 percent.
Meanwhile, Head of BI’s Communications Department Erwin Haryono said the rupiah exchange rate stabilization policy would continue to be strengthened to control imported inflation in addition to mitigating the spillover impact of the still strong U.S. dollar and still high uncertainty on global financial markets.
Affirming the direction of Bank Indonesia’s policy mix for 2023 as stated at the 2022 Bank Indonesia Annual Meeting on Dec. 30, 2022, the monetary policy for 2023 would remain focused on maintaining stability (pro-stability), while the macro-prudential policy, the digitalization of the payment system, deepening of money markets, as well as inclusive and green economic and financial programs are continuously directed to encourage growth (pro-growth).
Bank Indonesia (the central bank) continues to push for an increase in the payment system efficiency by strengthening policies and accelerating digitalization to maintain the momentum of economic recovery, Erwin said in his official statement on Thursday.
Digital economic and financial transactions have increased as they are supported by increasing public acceptance and preference for online shopping, the breadth and ease of digital payment systems, and the speed of digital banking.
The value of electronic money transactions in November 2022 grew 12.84 percent on an annual basis (year-on-year/yoy), reaching 35.3 trillion rupiahs while the value of digital banking transactions increased 13.88 percent (yoy) to 4,561.2 trillion rupiahs in line with the normalization of people’s mobility.
In addition, the value of payment transactions using ATM cards, debit cards and credit cards also increased by 16.85 percent (yoy) to 664.9 trillion rupiahs.
Meanwhile, the amount of currency in circulation in November 2022 increased by 7.77 percent (yoy), reaching 935.2 trillion rupiahs.
Bank Indonesia continues to ensure the availability of quality rupiah currency throughout Indonesia and ensures the smooth running of the national payment system in anticipation of Christmas and New Year moments.
*1 U.S. dollars = 15,560 rupiahs
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Alleged Sony Xperia Z4 press renders leak online
A few months ago, smack in the middle of the Sony Pictures hacker attack controversy, a picture of the upcoming Sony Xperia Z4 has been leaked online. Today OnLeaks published a couple of alleged Xperia Z4 press renders, revealing the design of the smartphone from both the front and the back. Although the leaked press renders match the aforementioned Xperia Z4 photo leak, this information should be digested with a certain degree of skepticism.
If the leaked Xperia Z4 press renders turn out to be accurate, then the Japanese manufacturer is not ready to drop the Omnibalance design philosophy that it started adopting back in early 2013 with the original Xperia Z. In fact, the renders show a design that's highly similar to that of the previous four smartphones in the series. Compared to the Xperia Z3, one of the main design tweaks that we can notice from the renders are that the stereo front-facing speakers have been integrated in a narrow slit near the frame of the smartphone. Furthermore, Sony seems to have ditched the flaps covering the ports. The plastic flaps were needed in order to ensure protection against water and dust, but perhaps Sony has moved on to using water-repelling nano coatings to achieve this goal.
The Sony Xperia Z4 is expected to feature a 5.2-inch display with a resolution of 2560 by 1440 pixels, a 20.7MP primary camera, and a octa-core Snapdragon 810 processor from Qualcomm. Previous rumors claim that the Xperia Z4 will be launched at some point this summer with Android 5.0 Lollipop on board.


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Friday is approaching when I know I will be blessed with a whole new box of fruit & veggies. My task at hand is to use up the veggies from the last box asap! This process is my typical use up the veggies method when I am not feeling very creative.
Here’s what I had to work with this time. Some sort of broccoli leaf, bok choy, carrots & rainbow chard. Aren’t they beautiful?
I cut them all up, washed them & put them in a pan with a little water in the bottom to steam.
Once they are cooked, your options are endless. For quick weeknight meals I stick with some sort of grain (I typically use quinoa) & then whatever protein I have in the fridge. I’ve used eggs a lot, tofu, shrimp & maybe even chicken a time or two.
As for sauce once again, there are many options. You can make Healthy Peanut Sauce using TJ’s Peanut Flour (stock up because there are rumors they are discontinuing the product). I’ve also used bottled curry sauce, teriyaki, or even just some liquid aminos (soy).
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When people hear the term eating disorder, they often automatically think about anorexia (food and caloric restriction) and bulimia nervosa (post-meal purging). While those are two daunting disorders, there is another one. One that men and women are 3x more likely to suffer from. Statistics show that this eating disorder is even more common than breast cancer, HIV, and schizophrenia. It’s called binge eating disorder, or B.E.D.
Due to the nature of binge eating disorder, it is commonly misdiagnosed, and affects 1.3% of children, and about 2.5-5.5% of adults. [Being such an under-the-radar disorder, people don’t often know how to navigate the issue, or even where to start with how to stop binge eating. This blog post is not a replacement for professional guidance or a doctor’s diagnosis, but if you do believe you may have binge eating disorder, know that you are not alone and you are encouraged to seek professional help.
What Is Binge Eating?
Binge eating disorder is not simply overeating. It’s a number of things that all boil down to one common theme—shame and/or depression. Binge eating disorder is eating to the point of being uncomfortably full, eating when you’re not hungry to begin with, and experiencing feelings of depression or shame due to your eating habits.
People who suffer from B.E.D. may also eat in secrecy to avoid embarrassment and often feel like “I can’t stop eating.” It’s not easy to tell someone with binge eating disorder how to stop overeating. They aren’t having a few extra fries with dinner or having one extra scoop of ice cream on their birthday. People who suffer from B.E.D. may be eating a family-sized serving of fries, or multiple pints of ice cream in one sitting. It’s not about cutting back on portion size, as is the case with overeating, but about helping someone regain control of their mind and body.
Why Do I Overeat? Causes Of Binge Eating
If you repeatedly think, “I can’t stop eating,” during and after excessively large meals, you may suffer from binge eating disorder. But how to stop overeating is not a linear road. It may take a doctor’s guidance, therapy, and a lot of self awareness and reflection. Binge eating disorder has absolutely nothing to do with hunger. In fact, oftentimes a binge occurs when someone isn’t even hungry. It’s more of an emotional eating episode, whether to repress or avoid certain feelings.
Signs of binge eating disorder
These are the most common signs of binge eating:
- Consuming excessively large amounts of food in one sitting
- Eating in a fast, and anxious manner
- Feeling guilt and/or shame after eating large quantities of food
- Consistently eating large amounts of food until feeling sick or unwell
- Eating when not hungry
- Eating alone to avoid embarrassment of the manner, content and speed in which eating
Common causes of binge eating
These are the some common causes of binge eating:
- Social pressure to look or eat a certain way
- Body dissatisfaction and other self-image issues
- Biological risk factors including history of mental illnesses and diseases
Side Effects Of Overeating
The immediate side effect of overeating may seem straightforward—weight gain. However, because B.E.D. affects people of all sizes, including skinny and athletic built people, it’s not always easy to spot someone that suffers from B.E.D. There are a wide range of side effects of B.E.D., varying from emotional and behavioral side effects to physical side effects.
Side effects may be short-term or long-term, and may even continue after binge eating comes to a stop. Mental health disorders such as depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, self-doubt, and others may begin to creep in as people continue to binge and feel less and less in control of their life. Long-term health effects may be diabetes, increased heart rate, joint pain, digestive issues, and more. Binge eating doesn’t always mean someone is overindulging in “bad” foods. Even if someone is overeating kale salads and chickpea pasta, it is still overeating. As they say, too much of a good thing can be bad. Figuring out how to stop binge eating is important for one’s health, regardless of their natural size or what foods they are bingeing on.
Side effects are, but are not limited to:
- Trying out many different restrictive diets
- Withdraws from social activities
- Extreme concern with physical appearance
- Feelings of disgust, depression, or guilt
- Drastic fluctuations in weight
- Low self-esteem
- Stomach cramps, or aches and pains
- Difficulty concentrating
How To Stop Binge Eating
If you or a loved one are seriously suffering from B.E.D, it’s best to consult a doctor or healthcare professional for guided support on how to stop binge eating. Below are some tips, though they are not meant to replace a professional diagnosis or therapeutic services.
1. Avoid dieting
Binge eating is often a result of deprivation. People often feel their mind echo, “I can’t stop eating,” when really, they’ve had such a long period of restriction that they finally gave in and binged. It’s a vicious cycle. If you are constantly trying new diets or fad eating styles, and it’s leading to impulsive, excessive eating, it may be time to avoid dieting. Instead, focus on eating real, whole foods. If you do that, you won’t have to diet! Fast food, sugar, and processed foods are not real, whole foods. Fresh produce, grass-fed meats and fish, and whole grains are all examples of real, whole foods. When your brain can focus on what you should and can eat, rather than what you shouldn’t or can’t, it will create a stronger, more positive pathway between your food choices and your feelings.
2. Move your body
Studies show that exercising more leads to a heightened awareness and concern for what we consume. In other words, people who work out regularly are less likely to sabotage their workout efforts with food, and therefore, tend to make healthier eating choices. Making movement a daily commitment is a great way to direct your focus toward caring for your body through a modality other than food.
3. Sleep well
Under the same theory, getting proper sleep will do more for your health than you realize. A healthy circadian rhythm is so important to our hormones, immunity, digestive system, and more. Think of when you’re fatigued during the work day. You crave salty chips, fast food, possibly dessert, and other comfort foods. When you have energy and are well-rested, you’re more likely to pack healthy options (by waking up early enough to do so!). Think of proper circadian rhythms as one more stepping stone in the foundation for your health.
4. Know the difference between hunger and dehydration
We often confuse triggers for water for triggers for food. Just like people, our bodies take some getting to know before we can communicate well. Start to pay attention to your hunger cues. Are they really for food, or are you thirsty? Even in the midst of a binge, when your mind is screaming “I can’t stop eating!” try to step back, and have a moment with yourself. Start with a large glass of water, maybe a self-care practice to calm your nervous system, and then truly assess the situation on whether you’re hungry or not. Aim for 100 oz. of water per day, or at least half of your body weight in ounces of water. Don’t look at drinking water as a way of managing your binges. If you’re still hungry after a few glasses of water, then you may be hungry after all.
5. Reduce stress
A major cause of binge eating is uncertainty, depression, anxiety, and other mental health and mood disorders. By easing the mind, you can ease the body. In this process, you will find it much easier to make rational decisions, rather than emotional decisions, such as overeating. Destressing can look different for everyone. Some people enjoy meditation, long walks, or reading, and others may turn to dancing, journaling, or prayer to reduce stress. There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to relaxing, so find what works for you and make a point to do it at least once per day!
6. Get rid of triggers
How to stop overeating will look different for everyone, because everyone has different triggers. If having a box of chocolate in the house means that you’re going to avoid it at all costs until you end up eating the whole box in one sitting, GET. RID. OF. THE. BOX. It’s one thing to test ourselves, and it’s an entirely other thing to set ourselves up for failure. Do a clean sweep of the kitchen. Toss the ice cream, pour out the artificially sweetened juices, even the celery sticks if you have found yourself binging on them covered in peanut butter! Out of sight, out of mind can be your best support system.
7. Include helpful supplements
Because binge eaters will often binge on anything, it’s not so helpful to replace unhealthy treats with healthy treats. Overeating is overeating, regardless of the nutritive value of what’s being eaten. When first embarking on the road to recovery from B.E.D. it may be helpful to incorporate a natural appetite suppressant, like CRAVING BUSTER. The benefits of including an anti-snacking suppressant into your daily routine are decreased feelings of hunger, less mindless snacking, and overall prolonged satisfaction after meals. This isn’t meant to replace guidance on how to stop binge eating, but it will help your brain understand that enough is enough with proper meal sizes.
8. Know your triggers
If going to your mom’s house or talking to a certain ex causes you to spiral, put you and your health first and do what you can to cut that time to a minimum. Maybe you have a family dinner every Sunday that your mom attends, or your ex happens to still be in your life in one way or another. Notice that this section is called know your triggers, not avoid your triggers. How to stop overeating may be heavily dependent on the company you keep. If you know you’re going to get overwhelmed or upset around certain people or environments, step into the situation with that knowledge. Tell yourself that you are strong, and capable of coming away from the situation just as grounded as you were beforehand. Positive self-talk, some extra self-care and healthy movement can all play a positive role in not getting triggered, so long as you can pinpoint what your triggers are.
9. Do not endure it alone
B.E.D, along with most eating disorders, is not always easy to talk about. But guess what? Not talking about them only furthers our feelings of shame, guilt, and disappointment in ourselves. One of the most important factors in healing is shedding. Shedding beliefs, bad habits, and negativity. Whether it’s a healthcare professional or a trusted friend or family member, find someone that you feel comfortable sharing your journey with. This will not only help you come to accept your disorder, but will also give you a point of contact for any bumps along the road, and someone to hold you accountable for your process.
The Bottom Line
Binge eating disorder is not something to overlook. It’s a serious disorder that can lead to severe mental and physical health conditions. If you or someone you love suffers from B.E.D. do not be ashamed to reach out for help. If conquering binge eating on your own is not possible, receiving professional help may be necessary to healing and navigating how to stop binge eating. Throughout the process, remind yourself of your worth, that you are loved, and how strong you really are. Surround yourself with positive, uplifting people, and take moments throughout the day to reflect and be grateful for your life—highs and lows included. The journey to better is not always easy, but it is worth it.

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It’s never a good day when you realize your air conditioning has turned into a block of ice. Yet in the countless calls, we receive every day at Best Home Services, we find this to be a common issue. Frozen air conditioners lead to decreased performance and breakdowns—some of which can be quite costly. That’s why we decided to go in-depth into why air conditioners freeze and how you can prevent it from happening.
Why Is My Air Conditioning Frozen?
A frozen AC unit isn’t the symptom of one problem. There could be multiple reasons why it went from cooling your home efficiently to its new stint as an ice sculpture. However, the transition is triggered when your evaporator coil freezes.
This happens due to an imbalance in the refrigerant’s temperature. But before we delve into what can cause this imbalance, it’s important to know what your evaporator coil and refrigerant are, as well as what they do. Your refrigerant is essential to the operation of your AC unit, as is the coil.
The refrigerant is what is responsible for chilling your air. Your evaporator coil captures the heat within the air and passes it off to the refrigerant. These coils are typically made of aluminum, copper, or steel bent into a U-shape and installed into panels.
When your air conditioning is in use, the compressor pulls the refrigerant through the evaporator coil, absorbing the heat in the air as it passes. The heat then warms the refrigerant, causing it to evaporate as it exits the system.
So if the whole purpose of an evaporator coil and refrigerant is to steal the heat from the air, ice should be a good thing… right? Wrong! Just like frozen water can’t pass through your pipes, neither can frozen refrigerant transfer heat outside of your home. Essentially, the cooling process comes to a complete and utter halt.
The good news is that there are signs of this imbalance that the attentive homeowner can catch before your evaporator coil turns into a popsicle. As your evaporator coil starts to freeze over, you’ll find that the system becomes more inefficient. If you notice it’s taking longer to cool your home, your utility bill starts to spike, or your system just isn’t reaching the temperatures you set on your thermostat, beware! These are all signs that your system is having trouble cooling.
Make sure that you get your AC unit inspected quickly if you experience these problems. Waiting too long can lead to the ice that developed on your system to thaw and leak into your home, as well as damages to your HVAC system.
Possible Reasons For Your Evaporator Coil Freezing
So now that you understand what your evaporator coil and refrigerant is, let’s talk about what can cause this overzealous winter to take over your cooling system. There are a few things that can cause your evaporator coil and refrigerant to freeze over like Gotham in Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero.
The most common cause is a dirty air filter. There is a reason why Best Home Services stresses the importance of changing your air filter in nearly every blog. It is the simplest form of AC and HVAC system maintenance, and one of the most important. Still, it often goes neglected, leading to potentially costly AC repair problems that could have been avoided.
Air filters are designed to catch all of the dust, debris, and allergens that flow through the air so that it enters your home fresh and clean. However, when you don’t change out the filter, this collection builds up, blocking the airflow your unit is trying diligently to push throughout your home.
Blocking this airflow obstructs your air conditioning’s ability to maintain the temperature you’ve set within your home. In turn, it pushes itself harder in attempt to regulate your indoor climate until it literally freezes over.
If this is what has happened to you, turn off your AC system, let it thaw, and replace the dirty air filters with new ones. Once your system has thawed out, try running it again and see if it works properly. If it doesn’t, you’ll need to call a technician.
Another cause may be a broken fan motor. The fan is responsible for moving air over the evaporator coil. If it fails to do its job, the system is no longer able to cool properly. One of Best Home Services’ AC technicians can replace this part for you, and help you get your system up-and-running.
Lastly, you may have an air conditioning unit that is too large for the home it’s cooling. When it comes to AC units, size matters, and bigger isn’t always better. If you purchase a system that is too powerful is prone to short cycling. This means that it cannot move enough air through the home because it’s too efficient. Instead of operating regularly, its ability to rapidly reach a temperature causes frequent and short bursts of activity that can lead to a frozen evaporator coil.
If you’re looking to purchase a new AC unit, don’t make an uneducated decision. Consult a professional. A proper AC technician will help you choose the right the right unit based on the size of the space it’s responsible for cooling.
Ways To Prevent Your Ac Unit From Freezing
AC maintenance tip by BHS in Naples, FLBest Home Services recommends several things in order to help you reduce your risk of a frozen AC unit. This includes:
Regular Maintenance: Just like you get your annual physical, your HVAC system needs annual maintenance. These visits are affordable and help prevent costly issues by maintaining and replacing the components of your AC unit as needed.
Change Your Air Filters Regularly: Air filters should be changed every 1 to 3 months, depending on your home environment. Pet owners usually need to change their filters more frequently due to coat shedding and pet dander.
Ensure You Have the Right AC Unit Size: Make an educated purchase. Consult with professionals like those at Best Home Services to determine what the right size unit is for your residential home. We can also help you choose a model that aligns with what you find important, such as energy efficiency, quiet levels, and advanced features.
Professional Ac Service For Your Frozen Ac Unit
Do you need a professional AC repair, maintenance visit, or replacement for your AC unit? If you’re a resident of Southwest Florida, look no further than Best Home Services! As our name implies, we deliver the best in customer service, satisfaction, efficiency, and execution.
Best Home Services only hires licensed and certified technicians that align with our high standards and values. Don’t just take our word for it. Read firsthand testimonies by our customers left through Google, Facebook, and other online reviews.
To set an appointment, all you need to do is call (239) 946-4426 .


The Post high-school staff takes a look at the top performers in boys basketball and girls basketball from the week of March 26.
Nick Alvarez, William Bryant
Alvarez kicked off his senior season with an unforgettable performance. He notched three hits, scored four runs, drove in nine and fanned 10 over six innings of work as Bryant blasted Lane, 18-4, in its league opener. Alvarez added an RBI and run scored in a 10-0 win over Lane two days later.
Braian Angelista, James Monroe
On a team with very little experience, Angelista is one of the elder statesmen though he is only a sophomore. He showed his teammates the way in a pair of victories over Mott Haven last week, driving in seven runs adding two doubles.
Phil Maldari, Poly Prep
The junior righthander tossed six shutout innings of two-hit ball and struck out seven in Poly Prep’s season-opening, 1-0 non-league victory over CHSAA foe Monsignor Farrell.
Brian Russell, St. Joseph by the Sea
Russell is supposed to be one of Sea’s best pitchers, but he meant a whole lot more Friday. The righthander noticed smoke coming from their bus en route to Myrtle Beach for a tournament and alerted his coaches – good thing since the team evacuated the vehicle before it caught fire.
Anthony Spina, Berkeley Carroll
The junior fanned eight in five innings of work in an 8-3, non-league win over Regis and in Berkeley Carroll’s two victories, over Regis and Stuyvesant, has two RBIs, two runs scored, a double, triple and four hits.
Bianca Concepcion, Francis Lewis
Francis Lewis coach Bryan Brown said in the preseason that the team needed Concepcion to hit like she did earlier in her career. Well, she has been the Patriots’ best bat early this season, batting .667 with 14 runs and 12 RBIs in just five PSAL Queens A-I games so far.
Nicole DeMartino, Moore Catholic
The Moore Catholic senior had a big day at the plate in her team’s league-opening win. She showed plenty of power as she went 4-for-4 with two doubles and four RBIs to lead Moore’s 16-hit attack.
Julianna Orrico, Preston
Coach Rachel Mazza called the freshman windmiller a godsend. Orrico came on and didn’t allow an earned run in 6-2/3 innings of relief in two Preston wins. She also drove in two to help Preston top Maria Regina.
Taylor Sarcone, Susan Wagner
There aren’t many situations Taylor Sarcone hasn’t seen in her four years in the circle for Wagner. She shook off a rough first inning and didn’t allow a run over the next six in a win against McKee/Staten Island Tech. Sarcone also went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored.
Nicolette Trapani, Fontbonne Hall
Trapani was the hero in Fontbonne’s 6-5 upset of Molloy, homered to drive in the tying run and won the game with a single in the bottom of the seventh. She also got the win in the circle. Trapani followed that up by allowing two earned runs on two hits and struck out 10 in a win over Mary Louis.
Maria Cacciapuoti, Tottenville
Cacciapuoti has embraced her role as Tottenville’s go-to scorer in the early season. She was also the Pirates hero in an overtime win against Midwood. She led their run back from a halftime deficit and scored the go-ahead goal in overtime.
Chris Fiore, New Dorp
There aren’t too many givens in lacrosse, but the senior net minder always gives his team a chance to win. Fiore made 19 saves to help his team rally for a 9-5 win against Hunter. He followed that up with 25 saves in a win over Curtis
Tabitha Rosario, Beach Channel
The Dolphins have won three straight games since losing their first two and Rosario has been a big reason why. The senior scored three times against Stuyvesant and three more against Hunter. She is off to a good start filling in for Whitney Brown.


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UAE: Police urge parents to protect children against online blackmail
Abu Dhabi Police urged families to inform their children about the dangers of online strangers.
Abu Dhabi Police urged families to protect their children and warned against the dangers of extortion and online blackmail.
In a video posted on its official Instagram account, Abu Dhabi Police urged families to warn their children against interacting or accepting invitations from strangers online.
They also appealed to parents to educate their children about the dangers of sharing photos, videos and personal information on the internet, social networks and electronic games.
Abu Dhabi Police also advised netizens to avoid suspicious sites, be careful when dealing with strangers, and not accept communication with them, or send private and/or sensitive data to them.
Abu Dhabi Police explained that online blackmail was based on threatening victims to publish pictures or film materials or leak classified information, in exchange for money or carrying out illegal acts.
The most common way these crimes are done was luring men by creating fake women's accounts on social media and photographing the victim in indecent situations during live video calls.
In the event of exposure to cases of electronic blackmail, Abu Dhabi Police advised the public not to respond to blackmailers’ requests, but to communicate with the 24/7 confidential Aman service on the toll-free number 8002626 (AMAN2626)
Victims could also send text messages to 2828, email email@example.com or use the Abu Dhabi Police smart app.
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Motorola is taking a cue from other manufacturers and is now offering a wireless headphone that follows the earbud and collar school of design. The Motorola Buds is promised to go easy on your ears with an ergonomic form factor and soft buds that don't sacrifice sound quality for comfort.
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Broadcom has embarked on a journey that will hopefully bring wider support for Android devices among in-vehicle systems. Its new Automotive Bluetooth software stack aims to break down barriers between different and sometimes incompatible Bluetooth stacks in order to deliver seamless connectivity between the car and the phone.
Bluetooth 4.1 Core Specification that has seen current trends and makes provisions for the future.
Nike has once more received some amount of flak from Android supporters when it earlier announced the next version of its fitness bracelet, the Nike+ FuelBand SE. While it has already come out that it will not be working on an Android app for the wearable device, the company is now making known exactly why.
adaptable Android tablet. The latest hack comes from CM7 Developer "Kmoobs" who managed to bring bluetooth capability to it through CM7 Nightly for Encore which takes advantage of the hidden bluetooth capability of the NookColor's WiFi chip. The capability is turned off in the software and CM7 Nightly for Encore re-enables it.


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A warm front is the transition zone where a warm air mass is replacing a cold air mass. The air behind a warm front is generally warmer and more moist than the air ahead of it. A likely scenario has been depicted below, where temperatures ahead of the front are in the 20's and 30's while behind the front they are in the 50's and 60's.
The air mass behind a warm front is likely to be warmer and more moist than the one before the front. If a warm front is approaching, light rain or light winter precipitation is possible before and as the front passes. Behind the front, expect clearing skies, warmer temperatures and higher relative humdities.
The figure below is a vertical cross section depicting the development of precipitation ahead of and along a warm front. The region shaded in blue represents the colder air mass while the yellow areas indicate the warm moist air mass behind the warm front (solid red line).
The surface of the warm front extends vertically into the atmosphere, sloping up and over the colder air ahead it. Warm air rides up and over the cold air mass, cooling as it rises, producing clouds and precipitation in advance of the surface warm front. Because the lifting is very gradual and steady, generally wide spread and light-intensity precipitation develops ahead of a warm front.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a better Coltrane alternative or higher similarity.
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Posts with mentions or reviews of Coltrane. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-06.
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Support the BC Choral Federation
As an provincial arts organization, the BC Choral Federation is proud of its thirty year plus record of supporting the choral community. Well over three-quarters of our annual budget comes directly from the programs we run.
To get involved with the BC Choral Federation, consider a membership: individual, choral, and institutional. Online registration will be available soon. In the meantime, please contact BCCF Administrator, Anita Lindsay.
To find out about possible fund-raising opportunities for your choir, please contact the BCCF office.


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There’s no debating it. The 2021 Concordia University Baseball team boasts the best collection of hitters in the history of the program. Here at “Wake & Rake University,” the Bulldogs love to hit, whether it’s morning, noon or night. While the pitching and defense have been solid, Concordia will enter the NAIA National Championship Opening Round ranked 19th thanks in large part to a relentless offensive lineup that has torn apart GPAC pitching.
Assembled and developed by Head Coach Ryan Dupic, current hitting coach Caleb Lang and previous hitting coach Bryce Berg, the ’21 Bulldogs have broken program single-season records for runs scored (428), hits (530) and home runs (80) while the batting average of .346 is also on track to set a new standard. And the 38 wins this season – also a program record.
Said Dupic, “We’ve driven the baseball really well. We’ve hit for a ton of power up and down the order. We look for good players (in recruiting). It just kind of worked out that we have a lot of good offensive guys. I’m a pitching guy so I know how hard it is to pitch to a lineup over and over again when they have so much depth. It’s nice to have that production up and down the order.”
The GPAC champion Bulldogs haven’t just merely broken the school home run record, they have completely obliterated it, put it to shame and kicked it to the curb. The new home run record was established already on April 2. The tally has moved to 80 blasts, propped up by five Concordia sluggers with at least 10 home runs: Joey Grabanski (17), Jesse Garcia (12), Keaton Candor (10), Beau Dorman (10) and Jakob Faulk (10).
While playing back-to-back morning games in the GPAC tournament last week, members of the team started wearing “Wake & Rake University” warmup shirts. It seemed appropriate that an offense this prolific would need some sort of moniker. In a game that got started at 9 a.m. local time on May 7, Jesse Garcia hammered a first-inning three-run homer that carried the Bulldogs to a 9-1 postseason win over Briar Cliff. Wake and rake!
Catcher Ben Berg helped explain the meaning behind it. Said Berg, “It’s been a ton of fun. We’ve played a couple early morning games the last couple days. Just getting out waking and raking has been fun. We have so much depth up and down the lineup. One through nine we’ve just been hitting the ball really hard and putting together good AB’s.”
This is an offense that hasn’t only been historically good in program annals, it is also one of the very best in the NAIA. Currently, Concordia boasts NAIA national rankings of ninth in home runs per game, ninth in batting average, 10th in hits per game, 10th in runs scored per game and 13th in slugging percentage. There just aren’t any breaks. All nine lineup regulars are hitting .299 or better.
Coming into the season, perhaps some opponents would have felt like they could attack the bottom third of the order by pounding the middle of the zone. But the likes of Teyt Johnson, Faulk and Jose Cevallos have made the 7-8-9 spots formidable. During this season, Johnson has put together a three-homer day and an eight-RBI game. There’s just no chance for a pitcher to catch his breath.
Said Johnson earlier this season, “It’s a lot of fun. After the first five or six guys – they’re all scared of those guys – so they just come right at me lower in the lineup. I owe a lot of credit to them. It’s nice having them in front of me.”
At the top of the order, Jayden Adams is hitting .406 and got out to a particularly hot start having earned the first two GPAC Player of the Week awards. He’s on the cusp of breaking the school record for hits in a season – but he’ll have to also hold off Grabanski. The freshman from Grand Forks, N.D., has had little trouble adjusting to college baseball. His 17 homers have far surpassed the school single-season record (12). His crowning achievement thus far was a four-homer doubleheader versus Morningside that featured a walk-off bomb with two outs.
Said Grabanski, “Coach Lang always preaches to stick to my approach and try to use all fields. That just helped me stay back and drive the baseball … We have a really good team. We have a good pitching staff and a good offensive lineup. I think we can do some damage (at nationals).”
At times pitchers have succeeded in containing the Concordia lineup, but it’s been rare for it to be kept quiet over the course of an entire game. Dupic also has speedster Peyton Scott to insert on the base paths and a trusted pinch hitter in Noah Janssen to plug into the right moments. There are so many elements to this offense.
“We have really good depth offensively so we don’t rely on one person to provide offensive production,” Dupic said. “Somebody new can step up each time, which is really important. Scoring in different ways has been a big deal too.”
Dupic and his staff have pulled from five different states to put together the lineup of nine that has been most commonly used. Concordia has mined the Midwest and has also gotten a large boost from California. Meanwhile, Grabanski hails from North Dakota and Dorman comes from Arizona. In other words, the offensive fireworks are a product of both recruitment and development. The Wake & Rake Bulldogs aren’t afraid to work deep into the count while they look for pitches to drive.
Lang sees each of the aforementioned standouts on a daily basis. He can help explain how this monster of an offense has taken flight in 2021. Prior to his hiring, Lang researched the Concordia lineup and knew he would have plenty of talent to work with. Said Lang, “I think a lot of the success has been the guys building off each other. One thing we’ve stressed is taking joy in your teammates’ accomplishments, more so than your own accomplishments. Everyone has seen how much fun of atmosphere that can be. If you can take joy in the other eight guys in the lineup, you’re going to have a lot more fun.”
The fun will continue next week at the NAIA Opening Round. The Bulldogs will await Thursday’s announcement to find out where they will be headed for the national tournament.

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Often times, I feel a bit lost.
Often times, I have this “I don’t belong here” feeling.
Often times, I am in this “somewhere in between”.
I am a stranger here in New York. I am a stranger there in Japan.
I am a stranger here and there.
This is a piece about my forever journey to somewhere, searching for something.
wonder. I. wanderer. I am. somewhere. in between.
Clown/Butoh inspired movement theatre performance by Chobibi
Written, directed and designed by Yuki Kawahisa
Choreographed by Yuki Kawahisa and Melissa Lohman
Yuki Kawahisa, a native of Japan, is an actor and performing artist. She moved to New York in 2005 and ever since she has been actively performing her own works and others. Kawahisa has worked with internationally acclaimed theatre directors such as Robert Wilson and Richard Forman. She has collaborated with theatre artists with different disciplines, choreographers and dancers, multimedia artists and musicians and performed in many different forms at various New York and international venues (The Public Theatre, The KITCHEN, Baryshinikov Arts Center, PS122, A.R.T/New York, Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Creteil Maison des Arts, Paris, Brisbane Power House, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre).She is also a playwright. Her original one woman-show “The Kimono Loosened” (written and performed by) received very positive reviews throughout Canada and in New York. She has studied Balinese dance, mask dance, Wayan Klit (shadow puppet theatre) in Bali, Indonesia, Butoh from various masters, Nihon Buyo (Japanese classic dance), Noguch Taiso and clowning. She combines these materials to create her own unique form of dance and theater. www.yukikawahisa.com
Melissa Lohman is a performer, dancer, visual artist from New York City. She currently lives in Rome, Italy. BFA 2000, School of Visual Arts, NYC. In 1995 she began showing her work as a performance artist in various theaters and clubs in New York City such as the Living Theater, the Knitting Factory, UCB Theater, CBGB’s and Webster Hall. After returning to dance training a few years prior (ballet, Afro-Caribbean, Simonson technique, contemporary), in 2004 she began training in the Japanese contemporary dance form butoh with Minako Seki. She continued her training with Ko Murobushi, Yoshito Ohno, Tadashi Endo and Katsura Kan. She studied Noguchi taiso with and danced for Mari Osanai. From 2008-2010 she danced for and collaborated with Katsura Kan in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. She has brought her work as a solo performer and collaborator to theaters in Rome, Paris, Tuscania and New York. Melissa teaches dance/movement and stretch classes in different environments. www.melissalohman.com
Yuki and Melissa met in 2007 in New York City and have been collaborating ever since. They organized the New York Dance Qube, a series of performances at Melissa's live/work space in Industry City, Brooklyn 2008-2012. In 2008 they created their duo project, Chobibi and performed as such with live musicians in various venues in NYC. Chobibi brings them together again for this new work.


There is more on the story of Obama’s woefully murderous program of selling guns to Mexican narco-terrorists, the operation called Fast and Furious (also called Gun Walker). We’ve been reporting on this widening scandal for months, now and the latest is that two officials are either removed from their high place of influence or have resigned over the disastrous policy.
We already saw BATF agent Vince Cefalu was fired after he blew the whistle on Obama’s gun running program. But now U.S. Attorney for Arizona, Dennis Burke has offered his resignation.
Burke was the legal counsel for Operation Fast and Furious in Arizona.
Additionally, BATF Director Ken Melson has been replaced and transferred to a backwater position of the Office of Legal Policy.
Melson testified before the congressional committee headed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R, Iowa) and Rep. Darrell Isa (R, Calif.) offering some stark and shocking testimony of the culpability of Obama’s Dept. of Justice.
Despite all the proof that the DOJ, the CIA, the BATF and other agencies were involved up to their armpits in various parts of this gun running scandal — an operation that has spread illegal guns to criminals here in the US as well as Mexico and has been responsible for killing one U.S. Federal agent already — President Obama has brazenly claimed that neither he nor Attorney General Eric Holder had any knowledge of this program.
My attorney general has made clear that he certainly would not have ordered gun running to be able to pass through into Mexico. … I’m not going to comment on — a on a current investigation. I’ve made very clear my views that that would not be an appropriate step by the ATF, and we’ve got to find out how that happened
Obviously this president is lying!
In any case, let us hope that this is just the beginning of government officials being removed over this scandal. Eric Holder should be one of them.
As this scandal gets worse, we’ll bring you the news.
- New Mexico Officials Arrested, Likely Part of Obama’s Gun Running to Mexican Narco-Terrorists
- Gun Walker Guns Linked to 11 US Crime Scenes, BATF Officers PROMOTED!
- Was Obama’s CIA Behind Guns for Mexican Narco-Terrorists?
- Obama Mentioned ‘Gun Tracing’ in 2009 Mexico Visit
- BATF Official: The White House Knew About Fast and Furious Gunrunning Operation
- Obama’s Guns Appearing at Mexican Crime Scenes
- ATF Director Worried That DOJ Kept Him in the Dark
- Democrats Really Are Using Illicit Gunwalker Program to Push New Gun Banning Laws
- Was Obama’s Arms for Naco Terrorists Program an Attempt at Pushing Gun Control?
- Obama Directly Connected to Murderous Gunrunning Program
- Rep. West Calls for Resignation of U.S. Attny Gen Over Obama’s Arming of Mexican Narco Terrorists
- Obama’s Mexican Gun Running Paid For by Stimulus Money
- Newest News on Obama’s Arming of Mexican Narco Terrorists
- Obama Happily Putting Guns in the Hands of Mexican Drug Dealers, Now Ending Up in Phoenix
Another good source on this story is the blog Of Arms & the Law.


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Year Established: 2017 Start Date: 2017-03-01 End Date: 2017-09-30
Total Federal Funds: $6,000 Total Non-Federal Funds: $15,725
Principal Investigators: Joel Moore, Kaye Brubaker
Abstract: This project aims to quantify the relationship between weathering of the urban built environment, geochemical cycling, and major ion concentrations in urban watersheds. Previous studies demonstrated that urban streams have dramatically higher major ion concentrations but were unable to quantify major ion sources due to mixed bedrock geology, lack of a baseline forested watershed, or the presence of point sources. Major ions and strontium isotopes will be measured in 5 watersheds to quantify ion sources across a forested to urban gradient with impervious surface coverage ranging from 0 to 25% and underlain by similar silicate bedrock with no carbonates.

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A committee of devils scheming to thwart American intentions in Iraq could have done no worse than turning a group of loutish, leering U.S. soldiers loose with a camera on bound, hooded, naked Iraqi prisoners.
The U.S. intervention in Iraq is troubled, to say the least, and now our own forces have handed our enemies a propaganda coup that trumps their best efforts. The photos from Abu Ghraib prison portray Americans as exactly the sexually obsessed, crude, arrogant, godless occupiers that our enemies say we are. They have even succeeded in uniting those on both sides of the war issue at home. Everyone is outraged and disgraced. The two sides are competing for adjectives to properly express the depths of their revulsion. And rightly so. There is no excuse for the abuses at Abu Ghraib. The individual soldiers involved ought to feel ashamed, as should our military and our nation. The photos we have seen so far come in two categories: one suggests a complete lack of order; the other, even more disturbing, a systematic, inappropriate use of coercive interrogation methods. In certain rare cases keeping a prisoner cold, uncomfortable, frightened, and disoriented is morally justified and necessary; but the danger in acknowledging as much has always been that such abusive treatment will become the norm. This is what happened in Israel, where a newly introduced regime of officially sanctioned "aggressive interrogation" quickly deteriorated into a system of routine physical abuse. (The Israeli Supreme Court reissued a ban on all such practices in 1999.) Routine physical abuse appears to have resulted already at Abu Ghraib, where such torments were apparently employed wholesale, and where a climate of dehumanization and sadism took root. The responsibility for that extends way up the chain of command, in ways that will become clear only with time and investigation. There are predictions (including one by Karl Rove, no less) that it will take a generation to repair the damage to America's image in the Middle East.
In the face of this horror even the most measured attempts to add context or perspective seem almost beside the point. Have there been exaggerations? The photos are said to prove that American forces are no better than Saddam Hussein's jailers. Well, no: whatever the Americans did, it is not the equivalent of cutting out tongues, gouging out eyes, lopping off limbs, stringing people up with piano wire, and executing people by the tens of thousands. One former Iraqi prisoner was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that he would rather have been tortured by Saddam—an opinion that, like a boast of bravery, is easier to hold to when there is no danger of its being put to the test.
And, needless to say, there's plenty of hypocrisy. Maybe it's just me, but did I miss a similar storm of moral outrage from the Arab world over the pious Islamists who got out their video cameras to record the gruesome beheadings of Daniel Pearl and Nicholas Berg? Okay, those were renegade co-religionists, and maybe it's not a fair comparison. So let's look at official government policy. Any reader of the yearly reports on torture published by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch would pay his weight in antique dinars to stay in an American military prison if the alternative was jail anywhere in the Arab world. Hayder Sabbar Abd, one of the men being abused in the Abu Ghraib photos, said he fully expected to be killed. Of course he did. That's what happens to men thrown in jail in his part of the world.
In the end, though, context and perspective cannot mask what is universal about the events at Abu Ghraib. I respect soldiers as much as anyone, but every group of young men (and, apparently, women) contains a few who get a thrill out of kicking somebody when he is helpless and down. Americans are not a superior race, and American soldiers are not morally superior to the soldiers of other nations. The best we can hope is that they are better trained and disciplined, and guided by policy that is morally sound. Sadly, this is not always the case.


The competition is open to anyone born in 1994 and selected schools will be invited to enter up to five pupils. The students will have to translate a one-page text based on their choice of any of the 506 language combinations possible among the EU’s 23 official languages.
"The contest promotes language learning in schools and translation as a career," said Androulla Vassiliou, the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth. "Knowledge of languages can open your mind to different cultures and boost your job prospects," she added.
The contest will be held at the same time across the EU (09.00 – 11.00 GMT) on Thursday, 24 November 2011. Under the school’s supervision, participants will have two hours to translate a text, which the Commission will send to the schools shortly before the competition starts. Dictionaries can be used, but not electronic devices.
The theme of the texts to translate will be volunteering to mark the fact that 2011 is the European Year of Volunteering.
All the national winners will be invited to an awards ceremony in Brussels in March 2012, hosted by the European Commissioner for Multilingualism, Androulla Vassiliou.
Schools wishing to participate must respond by completing the online registration before the 20 October 2011.


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NEW DELHI: The government has decided not to allow foreign airlines to pick up equity in domestic airlines in India but has agreed to let foreign institutions and strategic investors buy upto 49 per cent stake in the local carriers, as part of its new policy drafted by the civil aviation ministry.
The final policy will be discussed by the group of ministers at meeting to be convened after the Budget 2003-04, sources said. The civil aviation minister said the Centre has decided to allow only upto 49 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the sector.
While ministry officials feel that this move will help in developing the ailing civil aviation sector, industry insiders say the decision to bar foreign airlines from equity participation would act a major deterrent.
"Most airlines would like to have a direct entry into the market, but this move would keep them away from India. By allowing just strategic and institutional investors, the government is just opening a small window and this would not, in any way, help in the sector's development," an industry analyst said. Under this policy the airlines will have access to institutional funding from abroad.
This is, however, a major departure from the ministry's previous proposal, under which the Centre had proposed to to allow upto 26 per cent foreign airline stake holding in domestic carriers. The Centre expects the policy to give a boost to the government's effort to privatise Air-India and Indian Airlines. But analysts feel otherwise.
"The aviation industry worldwide is going through turbulent times. After Sept 11, a few airlines have grounded their fleet while most are bleeding from heavy loss on operations. So, whether the policy is changed or not, any immediate possibility of foreign investment in the Indian aviation sector seems remote now," an industry insider said.


Athens, June 22, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency
By Spiros Sideris
Invitation to social bodies for a “fruitful and constructive dialogue for the improvement and rehabilitation of industrial relations, to restore collective negotiations, moving to a new productive model” sent Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, speaking at the annual general meeting of the Federation of Hellenic Enterprises (SEV).
The Prime Minister said that “we need labour market reforms that respect the social, psychological and creative aspects of the job and will not degrade the worker in a consumable component of the production process”.
“The unilateral, extreme neoliberal approach insisting on flexible labour, the reduction of labour costs and deregulation of the labour market, is ultimately counterproductive. As it works to the detriment not only of employees but also of labour productivity itself”, the Prime Minister said.
“Common European industrial policy in the spirit of the CFP”
“Europe needs a common European industrial policy in the spirit of the common agricultural policy (CAP)”, Tsipras said, specifying that the CAP, “despite the contradictions and the distortions” raised about 50 years ago two objectives: the nutritional adequacy of the continent and the support of the agricultural and livestock income.
“Both goals were largely achieve”, Tsipras said, stressing that on the contrary, the European industrial policy is mainly limited to regulatory aspects of the market and copyright, “leaving the essential issues of strengthening the competitiveness and distribution resources at the national level of the Member – States”.
The premier also talked about inequalities and “dualism between North – South” and stressed that the four major industrialized countries receive 45% of the capital of the European Investment Bank, while Greece 2.3% despite having 5% of the unemployed in the EU. He acknowledged, however, that the Juncker plan “is a positive move towards revitalization of investment”.
“We will utilize its potential to the utmost to the benefit of as many large and small Greek businesses”, Tsipras said and added that recently 42 investment projects were approved, totaling EUR 5.6 bn, which could have been used in this program.
“Let’s open a dialogue on the causes of the crisis”
The premier also highlighted the need to open in the EU a dialogue that will address the causes of the economic and political crisis, and well as the causes for the upsurge of nationalism and national conflicts.
“The pro-European forces, regardless of our positioning, can open a dialogue on the causes of the economic and political crisis”, he said. “Only if we agree that we are in political crisis and talk calmly about the causes we can look forward,” he said.
“Without private investment, employment growth will not drop at the desired pace”.
The PM argued that without private investment, “employment growth will not drop at the desired pace” and named the increase of domestic investment as a prerequisite.
He also sent a call “to domestic forces who believe in the prospects of the economy and the dynamics of their business to enhance their investment”, adding: “from our side we take all the necessary steps to restore confidence and restart the development process”.
“Insistence in the policy of internal devaluation proved wrong”
The Prime Minister stressed that “the insistence on the policy of internal devaluation proved wrong” and added that the recession has aggravated the crisis.
He reiterated that the government was not responsibile for any delays, while also stood on the need for “similar phenomena and practices” not to be repeated during the closure of the second evaluation.
“A Brexit would cause shockwaves”
Alexis Tsipras referred to the critical importance of the referendum in Britain, underlining that “a negative result, which all pro-European forces which against, would have adverse economic effects on the entire European and world economy”, while he added that it “would cause great turmoil in the European integration process itself”.


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Over the past few days I’ve been catching up on some New Yorkers that arrived while I was on vacation. One of them has a long article about the illegal slaughter of literally millions of songbirds annually in Mediterranean countries, and the fruitless efforts to fight it. Some places have an entrenched culture of killing birds, mostly for sport – Malta, Cyprus, and Italy are specifically named, but there’s no claim that they’re the only ones — to the extent that the authorities won’t even try to enforce the laws. (In this regard, I’m reminded of dog laws in California parks).
And then last night I read an article about overfishing. The article implies that it’s only recently been realized that fish populations everywhere are declining, the catch in almost all established fisheries is declining in spite of more sophisticated fishing gear, and that many former “staple” species, like North Atlantic cod, have been reduced to economic and ecological irrelevance. Actually those facts were recognized by a lot of people years ago — for instance, the book “The Empty Ocean” came out in 2003 — but perhaps the article is right that they’re not widely known by the public.
And the San Francisco Board of Supervisors just approved an enormously expensive bridge right through a wetlands that Golden Gate Audubon has been restoring, to save 2 minutes of travel time for a small number of drivers.
And, of course, there’s the oil disaster in the Gulf, the failure of any climate bill in the Senate this year…it’s been a depressing couple of days of news.


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Good friend of The Dankles and excellent producer, Johnny Mabie, makes music under the moniker, Be Good, out of beautiful Boulder, Colorado. The world of making music is no stranger to the young DJ, he has been played guitar in past bands, and he has proven himself as someone who can make the transition from organic to synthetic sounds successfully. Johnny has made experimental down-tempo songs such as “You Know“, but his repertoire also includes hard-hitting dubstep thrillers such as his remix of Moby’s “Flower“, and somewhere in between with his “Money Trees” remix; hitting all ends of the EDM spectrum.
Be Good is an extremely talented, young producer who has the versatility to create a down-tempo track, hip-hop beat, a trap anthem, a firey dubstep track, or a combination of those as seen in the case of this track. “Sea Foam” is as if XXYYXX and Griz collaborated on a track together. The song starts off pretty mellow and evolves into a bass heavy, glitchy tune with the excellent use of chopped vocal samples.