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WASHINGTON — In late May, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez walked onto the House floor and voted against a policy she thought was bad for her Southwest Washington district, whose residents had elected the freshman Democrat — after twice voting to send Donald Trump to the White House — in the biggest upset of last year’s congressional elections.
After talking with constituents in her largely rural corner of the state, where nearly three-quarters of adults don’t have a bachelor’s degree, she voted along with the House GOP majority to repeal President Joe Biden’s plan to spend an estimated $321 billion to erase student debt for some 43 million Americans.
When Biden announced the move ahead of the midterm elections last August, it fired up the disproportionately college-educated Democratic base, even as some left-leaning analysts warned it ran counter to the party’s progressive ideals by redistributing taxpayer money to Americans who will earn relatively high incomes over the course of their lives.
In a different era, Gluesenkamp Pérez’s vote might have been unremarkable, especially since she knew the president would veto the measure when it reached his desk. Instead, being one of only two House Democrats to take that symbolic vote put a target on her back.
From left-wing opinion pages to X — the site formerly known as Twitter — and even online reviews for the auto repair shop she runs with her husband in Portland, the congresswoman who had been celebrated months earlier by Democratic activists for defeating a far-right candidate in a conservative district was labeled a traitor to her party.
“It’s funny, I was not expecting it to blow up in the way that it did,” Gluesenkamp Pérez said in an interview last week. “Just a few years ago, it was not the dogma of the party that you had to support student debt forgiveness. Suddenly, like, everybody’s got their marching orders from somewhere, and I guess I’m not on that email chain.”
After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the one-time debt cancellation at the end of June, the Biden administration turned its attention to several other measures designed to relieve the burden of student loans. With loan payments set to restart in October after a three-year freeze, the White House on Tuesday kicked off a promotional blitz for the centerpiece of its approach, a new repayment plan that could dramatically reduce monthly payments for borrowers.
While Gluesenkamp Pérez supports some parts of the administration’s plans, such as fixing the troubled Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, she said Biden’s repayment plan still benefits people who will earn more over the course of their lives at the expense of those who will earn less.
Instead, she wants to see more targeted student debt relief paired with investments in K-12 and technical education, so that teachers earn more and college isn’t the only path to prosperity in the United States.
“I want to see our high school diplomas being the gold standard,” Gluesenkamp Pérez said. “I want someone to be able to be a shop class teacher for more than five years before they have to go, you know, work for the dealership where they can make three times more.”
As Democrats strive to keep the White House, win back the House majority and defend their tenuous hold on the Senate in 2024, their success will depend largely on winning over the kind of working-class voters who backed Gluesenkamp Pérez after voting for Trump. While Biden and his allies in Congress have enacted a raft of economic policies aimed in part at creating jobs that don’t require a four-year degree, the student debt issue could make it harder for the Democrats to expand their base beyond the college-educated.
Can the Biden administration ‘SAVE’ higher education?
On June 30, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority blocked Biden’s effort to forgive student debt outright — as much as $20,000 for students from low-income families and up to $10,000 for others.
The court’s six GOP-appointed justices ruled that a 2003 law that gave the education secretary the power to “waive or modify” laws for borrowers affected by “a war or other military operation or national emergency” didn’t mean the administration could erase billions in student debt because of COVID-19 — especially when Biden had declared the pandemic “over” in September 2022. The three justices nominated by Democratic presidents dissented.
The ruling was no surprise to observers of the court, but Biden — who has reportedly had concerns about outright debt cancellation — told the 26 million people who had applied or were automatically eligible for the relief that he shared their frustration.
“I know there are millions of Americans in this country who feel disappointed and discouraged, or even a little bit angry, about the court’s decision today on student debt,” the president said after the ruling. “And I must admit I do, too.”
Gluesenkamp Pérez said she has heard from constituents who made major financial decisions based on the expectation that their debt would be wiped out. She worries the administration made a cynical move to motivate voters, she said, “Wanting to make the Supreme Court or the Republican majority the enemy. And a lot of people with student debt became collateral damage in that fight to build political animosity.”
The backlash to the court’s decision overshadowed an array of other moves the Biden administration has made to lighten the burden of student loans, which together could have a profound impact for past, present and future university students.
On the day of the Supreme Court ruling, the White House announced it would try a different path to outright debt cancellation through a lengthy rulemaking process that won’t conclude until after the 2024 elections. Katharine Meyer, a fellow at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution’s Brown Center on Education Policy, said that while any new debt cancellation policy is likely to face its own legal challenges, that process is clearly within the authority of the Education Department.
At the same time, the administration has worked to clean up existing repayment and debt forgiveness plans that had suffered from mismanagement and bureaucratic problems, resulting in a total of $116 billion in student debt cancellation for 3.4 million Americans, according to the White House.
That includes $39 billion for 804,000 borrowers who had been on income-driven repayment plans for more than 20 years; $45.7 billion for 662,000 people in public service jobs; $10.5 billion for 491,000 borrowers with a total and permanent disability; and $22 billion for nearly 1.3 million borrowers who, according to the White House, “were cheated by their schools, saw their schools precipitously close, or are covered by related court settlements.”
The centerpiece of the administration’s approach to tackling student debt is the SAVE Plan — short for “Saving on a Valuable Education” — which calculates payments based on a borrower’s income and family size, not the amount they owe.
On Aug. 21, a day before the administration kicked off a campaign to tell the nation about the new plan, White House domestic policy chief Neera Tanden told reporters it would free an indebted generation to make moves that could benefit the entire economy.
“This plan is a game-changer for millions of Americans,” Tanden said, “many of whom are putting off having children, buying their first home or even starting a business because they can’t get out from under their student loans.”
Meyer said the SAVE Plan is also a more comprehensive approach than one-time debt forgiveness, which wouldn’t address ongoing affordability problems in higher education. It could also help people who choose careers with relatively low pay despite requiring college or even graduate degrees.
“The government recognizes that not everybody will go into a high-paying career, and they want to have a path forward for folks to do the important jobs in society that don’t get paid as much but are nonetheless very important to the functioning of society,” she said, “whether that is being a journalist and supporting the free press or being an early-childhood education teacher and supporting 3-year-olds’ development.”
Under the SAVE Plan, which effectively replaces an existing plan called “REPAYE,” borrowers with undergraduate loans will have their monthly payments reduced to 5% of any discretionary income that exceeds 225% of the poverty line. Under the previous plan, borrowers had to pay 10% of discretionary income — the money left over after paying necessary expenses such as housing and food — over 150% of the poverty line.
The payment for loans taken out for graduate school will remain 10% of discretionary spending, and those who have both undergraduate and graduate loans will pay a weighted average between 5% and 10% based on the original principal balances of their loans.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona gave reporters an example to illustrate what this change could mean for Americans with student debt.
“Take a nurse earning $77,000 a year, married with two kids,” he said. “With SAVE, their payment will drop from $267 a month to just $40 a month. That’s over $2,700 a year in savings. This is real money President Biden is putting back into the pockets of working families.”
Borrowers who earn less than 225% of the poverty line won’t be required to pay anything. For a single person with no children in 2023, that means an annual income under $32,805 — roughly what someone making $15 an hour would earn in a year. Under a new application to be launched in September, the Education Department can pull that information automatically from a borrower’s latest tax return.
Under the SAVE Plan, interest also won’t accrue so long as a borrower makes the required payments, even if a payment is less than the interest that accumulates each month.
Regardless of how much debt someone has, those payments will continue no longer than 25 years, with the remaining balance forgiven. For those with only undergraduate loans, the payments last a maximum of 20 years, and only 10 years if the original loan balance was under $12,000.
Because the administration is implementing the new plan in phases, however, the reduced payments won’t go into effect until July 2024. Meanwhile, loan payments are set to restart in October after a more than three-year freeze that has cost billions each month. To ease the transition back to those payments, the administration is implementing a 12-month grace period until Sept. 30, 2024, during which missed payments will not be considered delinquent, placed in default or reported to credit bureaus or debt collection agencies.
Is it fair to forgive student debt?
“SAVE won’t just benefit today’s borrowers — it will also benefit millions of future students by making college more affordable,” Cardona told reporters last week. “We know college graduates, on average in the course of their life, earn over $1 million more than students who graduated with a high school degree.”
But those benefits come at a cost to U.S. taxpayers, more than 62% of whom don’t have a bachelor’s degree, according to the Census Bureau. Sandy Baum, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Urban Institute, said that raises a fundamental question of fairness, because the SAVE Plan, like one-time debt forgiveness, could redistribute money from those who will earn less in their lifetimes to those who will earn more.
“They’re modifying the repayment system in such a way that it’s so incredibly generous that most people will never have to repay all their debts, no matter what,” she said. “That’s sort of a way around it, and arguably a worse way around it than doing what they had hoped to do.”
The SAVE Plan’s total price tag is unclear, with 10-year estimates ranging from $138 billion — the Education Department’s projection — to $475 billion, according to a Penn Wharton Budget Model analysis. That cost could grow as the plan itself enables students to borrow more and schools to charge higher tuition, Baum said, and may endanger the plan’s sustainability.
“It will provide the incentive for people to borrow as much as they possibly can,” she said.
“It’s going to be so expensive that it could kill the program in the long run. That would be a shame, because income-driven repayment is really important to protect people whose earnings are low. But if you design it so that almost nobody is going to have to repay their debts, then it’s just going to become so expensive that it becomes an arbitrary grant program.”
After growing up in Houston, Texas, Gluesenkamp Pérez earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Reed College in 2012. She covered tuition by working three part-time jobs and taking out federal loans she has since repaid, she said.
The congresswoman said she values her time at the liberal arts school in Portland, which she credits with helping her think critically and become a better writer, but she added, “It’s also an incredible amount of money, and you just don’t understand that as an 18-year-old.”
The idea that going to college is the best option for everyone, she said, “Sort of raises my hackles a little bit.” When she was dating her now-husband, Dean, who was working as a mechanic, she was put off by how other students reacted to his line of work.
“It seems like a lot of college is about being able to get the right job connections and sort yourself into this pool, and ultimately I decided that’s not what I wanted,” she said. “So many of my classmates at Reed were so condescending about him, and it really turned me off from feeling like I wanted to count myself among that — you know, affiliate in that way.”
After she graduated, the couple opened an auto repair shop in Portland. Dean still owns and operates the business, which the congresswoman had to legally separate from after her election, to comply with conflict-of-interest laws, because they bought the building with a loan from the Small Business Administration.
Gluesenkamp Pérez said she has sympathy for people saddled with student loans, including some of her own friends and family, but she concluded that Biden’s debt cancellation would hurt people in her district more than it would help.
She cited an analysis of federal data by the National Association for Independent Colleges and Universities that shows Washington’s 3rd Congressional District accounts for only 3% of student loan debt in the state. The 5th District, home to Spokane, and the 7th District, which covers most of Seattle, each account for about 31% of that debt.
“This is not a policy that’s tailored to deliver value to my district, and I didn’t think it was striking the structural reform that we all are desperate for,” she said. “And this is not just about, like, ‘I didn’t get my share of the pie.’ We can’t just give out party favors at the expense of structural reform and expect things to get better for our kids and the next generation.”
Gluesenkamp Pérez also pointed to a June 2023 report from the Progressive Policy Institute, a center-left think tank, that estimated the debt forgiveness plan would have benefitted Washington, D.C. — where the average adult would have had $2,224 forgiven — more than every state except Georgia. Washington state ranked 46th on the list, with the average adult standing to get $1,412 forgiven.
The congresswoman said student debt has come up often at the 10 in-person town hall meetings she has held in the district since taking office — something her Republican predecessor, Jaime Herrera Beutler, famously avoided.
“I’m very eager to have this conversation,” she said. “The reality is when these issues come up at the town halls — and they do all the time — I’ve gotten a lot of support, I’ve gotten a lot of encouragement from my constituents on this.”
The SAVE Plan is likely to face legal challenges. Congress could also try to block it, although Biden would veto such a move, as he did when centrist Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to repeal debt forgiveness in June.
In the lower chamber, Gluesenkamp Pérez is nearly alone among Democrats publicly opposed to spending so much taxpayer money to erase student debt. In private conversations, she said, others in her party have shared concerns about student loan forgiveness. “A lot of Democrats agreed with me, but they were like, ‘I just had to vote this way, because it’s the voting population.’”
She recalled an interaction with one activist for debt forgiveness who, when the congresswoman said she would rather spend the money to put air conditioners in K-12 schools, told her, “Kindergarteners without A/C don’t vote.”
The only other House Democrat who voted to repeal the one-time forgiveness plan was Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, who leads the centrist Blue Dog Coalition along with Gluesenkamp Pérez and Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska. In response to a news story that criticized his vote, Golden bristled in an Aug. 18 statement on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Sadly, this is what radical leftist elites are learning about ‘democracy’ these days — silence and destroy anyone who disagrees with your views or goals,” he said. “I stand by my vote and my opposition to forking out $10,000 to people who freely chose to attend college.”
Gluesenkamp Pérez has struck a different tone, even as she has faced similar criticism from left-wing writers and activists. An Aug. 10 column in Slate, taking aim at her student debt vote, argued she “is not at all what her backers expected.”
The congresswoman — who ran on a platform that paired gun rights with abortion rights, focusing on the district’s rural areas as much as the suburbs around Vancouver — sees her vote as consistent with the promises she made to voters. She said she hopes her fellow Democrats can craft policy to bolster K-12 and technical schools while targeting student debt relief to those who need it most.
“I think that there are parts of the income-driven repayment that actually can contribute to a more progressive tax policy, and there are parts that I think are a mistake,” she said.
“I just hope that we can look at the real economics behind this. Let’s make data-driven decisions for the benefit of our whole communities, not just individual voting blocs.”
In the meantime, Baum, of the Urban Institute, said borrowers should apply for the SAVE Plan, even though she believes the policy should be improved. Information on the SAVE plan and how to sign up for it can be found at
Orion Donovan Smith’s work is funded in part by members of the Spokane community via the Community Journalism and Civic Engagement Fund. This story can be republished by other organizations for free under a Creative Commons license. For more information on this, please contact The Spokesman-Review’s managing editor.


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The upcoming and most anticipated RPG Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has been revealed to be exclusive to the 9th generation PlayStation console. During the latest State of Play, a note revealed that the PS5 exclusive is “not available on other formats at least until May 29, 2024.”
The release date of the game is set for February 29, 2024, which means it is guaranteed to be PS5 exclusive for at least three months.
The original game, Final Fantasy VII Remake was released in April 2020 first exclusive on PS4 which was then enhanced to Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade for the PS5 in June 2021. It was then ported on PC later that year in December 2021.
Aside from the PS5 exclusivity, Creative Director Tetsuya Nomura revealed in an interview with PlayStation Blog the location where the upcoming video game will end.
“Although there are some changes in the order of the locations, the locations depicted in this title extend up to The Forgotten Capital, where the greatest fate of Final Fantasy VII awaits you,” Nomura revealed.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth launches on February 24, 2024 on PS5.

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"Quantitative Proteomic Analysis of Myc Oncoprotein Function"
A large body of evidence supports the notion that Myc plays a pivotal role in carcinogenesis. Myc has been shown to function as a transcription factor, yet the critical target genes that it regulates and the manner in which these impact on cell behavior have yet to be rigorously delineated.
Quantitative proteome analysis is the global analysis of protein expression and has a number of advantages over mRNA expression analysis. It directly focuses on the actual biological effector molecules and provides more accurate information about biological systems. The recently developed ICAT (isotope coded affinity tags) technology greatly expands the range of proteins that can be analyzed and allows the accurate quantitation and concurrent sequence identification of the individual proteins in complex mixtures.
This study aims at the application of quantitative proteomics to the analysis of the function of the Myc oncoprotein. Specifically, ICAT technology will be used to identify global and location-specific protein changes induced by Myc. The status of chromatin-associated regulatory factors in Myc-OFF and Myc-ON B lymphocytes or in growing fibroblasts and fibroblasts arrested by Mad (Myc antagonist) will be compared by the combination of chromatin isolation and ICAT analysis. ICAT technology will also be used to analyze the protein changes during induction of apoptosis by Myc.


I remember my youthful summers as a time of reading and exploration — diving into books, seeing new places and rediscovering nearby ones. After listening to Home of Song, the first album of family music from Minnesota singer Paul Spring, I think we spent summers in much the same way.
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Dr. Karen Sciascia of Red Hill, Pa., has delivered thousands of babies in her career. But on a vacation to Montana this week, she helped deliver another life from danger, as she and her fishing guide saved a baby moose that was separated from its mother as they crossed a river.


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At J.F. Heat Treating Inc., we understand that, while you rely on metal parts and components for your tools and equipment and recognize the importance of their being in good shape, making sense of how we get them working better may be a little more difficult. Through a variety of heat treatment options, our goal is to make sure your equipment is functioning at its highest level and your components and parts are sturdy and reliable.
One of the key processes we use when working with metals is the process of carburizing. Understanding the process of carburizing in Gastonia, NC will allow you to better comprehend one of the key processes used by heat treatment professionals as they work with metal parts and components. Carburizing is also known as case hardening, after the formation of a strong, wear-resistant outer casing layer that is carburizing’s main product. This outer casing layer surrounds a strong, solid core.
Carburizing is typically only employed on low-carbon steels, which are classified as steels with less than 0.25 percent carbon. The steels may or may not be alloyed, as well. (Nickel, chromium, manganese and molybdenum are often introduced as alloying elements.) Carburizing works more effectively on low-carbon steels than other treatment processes, such as tempering or quenching.
The process of carburization
The process works by way of the introduction of carbon, by heating a metal in contact with that carbon to a point above the transformation range, into a solid ferrous alloy. How far the carbon is able to penetrate the metal depends on several factors, not least of which is the type of carburizing agent itself. Other factors include the temperature at which the heating takes place, as well as the length of time for which the metal is heated. By way of example, a four-hour, 1700-degrees Fahrenheit heating process can result in a depth of carburization of about 0.03 to 0.05 inches. This doesn’t sound like much, but the end result is a hard outer layer that requires some amount of hardening and tempering to get just right.
Different agents, different results
A carburizing agent can be a solid, a liquid or a gas, so long as the agent is high in carbon content. Hardwood charcoal is commonly used as a solid carburizing agent, while liquid carburization comes from the use of sodium cyanide and barium chloride, which yield carbon monoxide. In gas carburizing, carbon monoxide is produced by the use of either natural gas or propane.
Gas carburizing compares favorably to carbonitriding—which involves the addition of ammonia into the atmosphere—but allows for greater case depth. For parts and components that will be subjected to considerable wear, this makes gas carburizing especially appealing. And while gas and liquid carburizing tend to be much faster than using a solid agent, they’re less effective methods if you need to carburize a particularly large part or component.
If you work with a lot of metal parts and components, you know the value of keeping those components working and looking their best. For any heat treatment needs you may have, including carburizing in Gastonia, NC, contact J.F. Heat Treating Inc.

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If you’ve ever been curious about why exactly Will Smith’s character in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has the same name as him in real life, you can now find out by simply pressing play on the video below. If video isn’t your bag, you can check out the original text article after the jump.
If you’ve ever watched The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air and managed to avoid hugging the TV whenever Uncle Phil is on screen, maybe you’ve wondered why Will Smith’s character is called, well, erm, Will Smith. For those people, we have rather sad news, the answer involves way fewer tigers than you hoped.
But we digress, before the show even went to air, both Will Smith and Alfonso Ribeiro (Carlton), were discussing ideas for what Smith’s character should be called. After passing several ideas back and forth, Alfonso very matter of factly explained to Smith that if the show was a hit, his character would be who the public saw him as for the rest of his life regardless of what roles he managed to secure afterwards. After some deliberation, Alfonso recommended that Will request that his character also be called Will, just so that if he was ever remember for the character, at least they’d both have the same name.
Smith agreed with Alfonso and when the time came to naming his character, he specifically requested that he play a fictionalized version of himself. The producers, who we’re guessing didn’t give a shit as long as Smith signed on to do the damn show, let have him have his way.
This move proved to be one of the smartest Smith had ever made because exactly as Alfonso predicted, the show took off and Will Smith became a household name. As an added bonus, he also didn’t have to spend his his entire adult career fighting the stereotype of the character he’d played on TV because the character he played on TV was himself.
To make this even more hilarious, Alfonso Ribeiro, the guy who gave Smith this advice in the first place has never managed to shake his association with Carlton Banks. Seriously, we will punch anyone in the mouth who can look at a picture of Alfonso and honestly tell us they see anyone but Carlton Banks.
Alfonso has pretty much spent his entire career having people refer to him as a character he played on a show 20 years ago because no one knows that his real name is Alfonso. To be fair, so has Will Smith, since his real name is Willard Carroll Smith, Jr, the only difference is, people refer to him by the cool nickname he got to pick, whereas Alfonso is stuck with the name associated with a fictional dumbass instead of the boss as hell, porn star name he was born with.
And it’s only made worse when you realise that he totally predicted that everyone on the show would never be able to escape the character they played. We’re honestly curious about why he never followed the same advice he gave to Smith and asked to play a character called Alfonso Banks. Seriously, imagine how cool the show would have been if that was the name of the character he played.


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Penne with pumpkin-sage sauce, crispy bacon and amarettini crumbs
For one of my cooking class I wanted to develop a recipe inspired by the famous "tortelli di zucca" done in Emilia-Romagna in Italy. Pumpkin, sage, bacon, amaretti is what I came up with. Inviting enough? What do you think?

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Correction regarding an article about Dean's Drive-In
Last updated 1/14/2021 at 11:15am
An article in the Dec. 31 issue of The Times titled “Reardan restaurants reeling under restrictions” contained multiple errors and was prematurely cut off in print copy due to reporting, graphics and editorial oversights. Dean’s Drive-In is open every day at 8 a.m. except on Sundays, when it opens at 11 a.m. The restaurant closes at 6:30 p.m. every day. Owner Robin Landreth can be quoted as stating that 90% of her workers are related to her, not customers, as was mistakenly typed and not corrected in the article. The full, correct article can be found on The Times’ sister website, o...
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Central European Nations Boost Regional Economies
CENTRAL European nations are taking steps to boost regional trade, hoping to reinforce economic reforms at home and smooth the way for integration with the West.
The four members of the Visegrad Group - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia - decided late last month to speed up implementation of the Central European Free Trade Agreement.
The decision will lift all tariffs on nonagricultural goods by 1998, instead of 2001 as originally planned when the four nations signed the CEFTA pact in December 1992. Tariffs on agricultural products, meanwhile, will be significantly reduced beginning July 1.
``This is an instrument for subregional stabilization,'' said Bela Kadar, Hungary's minister for international economic relations, in a recent Monitor interview.
``Prosperity creates political and social stability,'' Mr. Kadar added. ``It [CEFTA] might ease some historically inherited ethnic and other problems.''
Speeding up the implementation of CEFTA is the most significant attempt in the last year or so to reverse a centrifugal trend among the Visegrad states.
The Visegrad Group came into existence in 1991, before the disintegration of the Soviet Union. At the time, Visegrad members shared the view that, by presenting a united front, they stood the best chance of quickly breaking out of the Soviet sphere and rejoining the West.
But as time passed, Visegrad states began to go their own way. Lacking the common perceived enemy - the Soviet Union - Hungary, Poland, and the then-Czechoslovakia started to show tactical differences as they pursued the common strategic goal of joining the European Union (EU) and NATO.
In the last year, friction between some Visegrad members - particularly Hungary and Slovakia - has sometimes reached alarming levels. Hungary complains about discrimination against its ethnic kinsmen, while Slovakia criticizes Budapest's reluctance to sign a treaty recognizing the two countries' present border.
The CEFTA agreement is an important signal to the EU that Visegrad states have the political maturity to settle problems amicably, according to the Hungarian trade minister. Hungary and Poland have submitted applications for EU membership, and they are eager to show that they now share the same democratic values as Western European nations.
``There's a Freudian angst [in the EU] that new members might bring into the union their subregional conflicts and tension. This proves we can settle our own problems,'' Kadar said, referring to CEFTA.
Central European officials also hope that fast implementation of CEFTA will bolster entrepreneurs, who have struggled to survive in the protectionist climate. Many small businesses in Central Europe do not have the resources to establish markets in Western Europe, Kadar explained. Thus, their growth potential is limited.
``Any growth in this part of Europe has to be export-driven,'' Kadar said. ``If we create better conditions for trade with neighboring states, then we help small entrepreneurs.''
Janos Vecsenyi, a professor at the International Management Center in Budapest, said closer Central European economic cooperation could prove beneficial for regional privatization efforts.
The Visegrad states have been pursuing differing privatization strategies with little effort made to exchange ideas and information. Privatization has gone the farthest in the Czech Republic and Poland; Hungary is moving at a moderate pace, while privatization in Slovakia is becalmed.
``We can learn things from each other,'' Mr. Vecsenyi said. ``The more we learn from each other, the greater the possibility that we can find out better methods.''

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We do house-sitting at my parents place during the Easter holidays. The weather was fine, so we spend a lot of time in the garden. But free days are not perfect without baking for me. I brought sourdough, seeds and grain from home, my mum has a kitchen machine and a lot of bread pans.
I was so glad that it’s really a lot of bread pans, because I underestimate the recipe. I was a little bit worried, when I looked into the bowl of the kitchen machine and saw how much dough was inside.
I end up with more then 3 kg dough, which yields 5 loaves between 500g and 1 kg. Luckily I have enough space in the freezer to freeze most of them.
I reduce the recipe for the blog, so it yields now two loaves of 750g.
The recipe is from “Advanced bread and pastry” from Michael Suas, I just replaced the rye flour with millet.
The special part of the recipe is that it uses both levain and prefermented dough, which create a very tasty bread with a light crumb. Continue reading
I learned two years ago, that there exist a Easterbread called Colomba, when my italian collegue brought one from Italy after easter holidays with her parents. With this incredibly soft texture of the crumb unter a sugar crust it was one of the delicouse things I ever tested. To sad that my collegue did not bake at all, so she had no recipe for me.
But from that point on I wish to bake a colomba. But I learned very fast, that it is nearly impossible to get a colomba papermold in Germany (and i do not plan to buy 100 papermolds, just for baking one or two colombas per year) Continue reading
I planed to bake brioche since months. In my new favorite baking book “Advanced Bread and Pastry” I found three diffrent recipes, using no preferment, sponge or prefermented dough. I liked the sponge most because I had not to rember to put the dough into the fridge after one hour.
While filing through the diffrent recipes I found the shaping option Brioche Tropézienne. These Brioche filled with Vanillacream and with streusel topping sounds perfect for my mums birthday. So I decided to do half of the Brioche as Brioche Tropézienne.
The look of the Brioche Tropézienne turned out not as nice as I expected. Part of the streusel topping slipped of the top. Maybe because I do not bake it in small round pans like the recipe asked for. Maybe that is a good argument for buying a muffinform, because nevertheless they taste great! Continue reading
Somewhere in germany, in the middle of the night: a dark figure sneaks out of the sleeping room and tiptoes into the kitchen. The alarm clock shows three o’clock. In the kitchen, the figure opens quietly cupboards and take out bowls, yeast and flour and prepares a poolish.
Then I tiptoe back to bed, think about if this is a case of “acute baking delirium“. But I plan to bake ciabatta this afternoon, so who cares 😉
The Ciabatta that Steve from Bread cetera bake using the douple flour addition/ douple hydration, is very impressiv. White open crump, perfect crust, thats how a ciabatta should look like. And that exactly what I want to bake, too! I baked ciabatta maybe two or three times before, and was never satisfied.I had some biger air cells, but most of the crump was more or less dense. Continue reading
We like nuts and seeds very much. That is the reason why I collect a lot of open packages with different nuts in my cupboard. But what should I do with this very small amounts?
When I read the recipe Pasta “Cosa nostra” from Petra (Chili und Ciabatta) I thougt: Yes, that is the perfect recipe for me.
But when I checked my stock I realise, that I had everything else, but not the ingredients the recipe asked for. So I had to be creative. The result is simple but delicious. With a salad and a glass of white wine it is a perfect start into the weekend. Continue reading
I ran into them twice last week: here and here. And could not get them out of my head. In germany I never found something like this, just something called Toastis from the brand Golden Toast. But I bought it just once and never again. I do not like bread that taste mostly like the plastic bag it is sold in. But the pictures in the blogs look so delcious, so I thought that it would be a good idea to give them a second try. And the muffins turned out well, a little bit sour, a little bit sweet. The recipe is a cross between the sourdough-muffins from Wild Yeast and the recipe from Le Pètrin. Continue reading
I told already last week, that I plan to bake the Chocolate Orange Soufflé from IMAfoodblog . And this weekend I had the time to do it finally. But to bad I was to slow with making a picture, so thats all I can present:
As you can see we liked it very much 😀 And because I do exceptionally the recipe without changing anything, I do not copy Nicks detailed discripton for this delicious dessert. Just go to his side and have a look by yourself.
Last weekend we were invited to the birthday party of a friend of mine. The evening before she called a little bit worried, because she realised that the party food was not vegetarian, except off salate and bread. I offered instantly to bring a quiche, pleased that I had a reason to bake.
But then I could not decide: onions or mushrooms? And I planed to bake bread also , for that I prepared already a preferment. So what to do?
But then I had an idea. Why not make one dough, then splitt it and make bread with two-thirds and the quiche with the other third? Continue reading
felt really troubled when I saw the topic of BBD#18: Quick Breads. My first though was: “But I never do quick breads. I do not LIKE quick breads.”
And the suggested variant Soda-Bread I tried once and did not like to repeat it. Bread means to me yeast and time, a lot of time! And the other recommendations like muffins, wafles and pancakes are for me no breads either, but something like cake. But this weekend I baked muffins, so I send the post to Fun & Food Blog
But then, while preparing an indian dinner, it dawns on me: chapati are quick breads! So good, that it is allowed to hand in two posts!
The recipe is in cups, what is unusual for me. But the recipe calls for cups, and that is unusual for me, too, I followed the recipe. 😉 Continue reading
I planned to try a chocolate soufflé this weekend, but I catched a mean cold (again). So I spend the whole saturday in bed, and sunday i was better, but not well enough for kitchen experiments. So I postpone the soufflé to the next weekend and choose a simple recipe instead.
I want to try the chocolate custard muffins from Dan Lepard for a long time. I just had no neutral oil, so I exchanged the oil for butter. But that did not spoil the result, the muffins are very fluffy.


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Easy songs for the beginning tenor. Part II
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(Vocal Collection). This series now has a new "Part II" for each voice type, at the same level as the original volumes. This is preparatory material for The First Book of Solos series, with modest ranges and all songs in English, including very easy art songs, folksong arrangements and vintage popular songs. The song selection is completely different for each voice type with 18-20 songs per volume. The book includes access to online recordings of piano accompaniments for download or streaming. Contents: MOORE: Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms * Bendmeer's Stream (Traditional Irish Folk Melody) * WALTERS: Bill Groggin's Goat * HEAD: A Blackbird Singing * COHAN: Harrigan * STANLEY: Greensleeves * RUCK: How CanI Keep from Singing * BERLIN: I Love Piano * WILSON: A Sailor loved a Lass * TILZER: I Want a Girl * SHARP: The Lark in the Morn * STANFORD: My Love's an Arbututs * CLOUGH-LEIGHTER: O Heart of Mine! * EDWARD PURCELL: Passing By * HERBERT: Thine Alone * TAYLOR: Twenty, Eighteen * GRANT-SCHAEFER: The Wind Speaks * COHAN: Yankee Doodle Boy
ContentsBelieve me, if all those endearing young charms / Thomas Moore
Bendemeer's stream : traditional Irish folk melody / [words by] Thomas Moore
Bill Groggin's goat : Southern Appalachian folksong / arranged by Richard Walters
A blackbird singing / Michael Head ; Francis Ledwidge
Harrigan / George M. Cohan
Greensleeves : 16th century English folksong / arranged by Bryan Stanley
How can I keep from singing : American tune / music possibly by Robert Lawry, 1869 ; arranged by Christopher Ruck ; words possibly by Anna Warner
I love a piano / Irving Berlin
A sailor loved a lass : old English melody / arranged by Henry Lane Wilson ; Stephen Storace
I want a girl (just like the girl that married dear old Dad) / Harry Von Tilzer ; William Dillon
The lark in the morn : English folksong / collected and arranged by Cecil J. Sharp
My love's an arbutus : old Irish air / arranged by Charles Villiers Stanford ; Alfred Perceval Graves
O heart of mine! / Henry Clough-Leighter ; Louise Heald
Passing by / Edward Purcell ; arranged by William Arms Fisher
Thine alone / Victor Herbert ; Henry Blossom
Twenty, eighteen : English folksong (Norfolk) / transcribed and harmonized by Deems Taylor
The wind speaks / George Alfred Grant-Schaefer ; William H. Hayne
Yankee Doodle boy / George M. Cohan.
|Series||Easy songs for beginning singers.|
Songs (High voice) with piano.
Folk songs, English.
Recorded accompaniments (High voice)
|Publisher|| New York, NY : Milwaukee, WI :G. Schirmer ;2006
Distributed by Hal Leonard Corp.,
Boytim, Joan Frey,
Ward, Laura (Pianist), performer.
Enhanced CD contains piano accompaniments performed by Laura Ward; includes tempo adjustment and transposition software for CD-ROM computer use.
System requirements: Windows: Pentium processor; Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP; 4 MB application RAM; 8x multi-session CD-ROM drive; Macintosh: MAC OS 8.5 or higher; 4 MB application RAM; 8x multi-session CD-ROM drive.
1 score (62 pages) ; 31 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).


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#EnDesarrollo Maduro anunció "aguinaldo" para los jubilados y pensionados de medio Petro (a precio de hoy serían Bs. 897.317,27) #17Nov pic.twitter.com/Rw6yzttS7Z — Venepress (@venepress) November 17, 2019
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Rachel Lindsay says she received death threats from the 'Bachelor Klan' after her controversial interview with Chris Harrison
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David Spade will step-in as a guest host on 'Bachelor in Paradise' amid Chris Harrison controversy, reports say
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Emmanuel Acho, a former NFL player and author, is hosting as Chris Harrison takes time away from the "Bachelor" franchise.
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Bionomics argues that what we call capitalism (or free-market economics) is not an ism at all but a naturally occurring phenomenon. It is the way human society spontaneously organizes itself for survival in a world of limited resources. Capitalism was not planned; like life itself, it did not need to be. It just happened, and it will keep on happening.
Marxism, on the other hand, has its own theory to explain why it should work, although it never seems to work in practice. Capitalism lacks a theory, but for all its flaws, it continues to outperform planned or politically directed economies. By explaining the ecology of capitalism (its cooperative as well as competitive relationships), Bionomics offers the first coherent view of the historical forces that are propelling the worldwide trend toward free-market economies.
Drawing on the science of evolutionary biology and his own experience as a high-tech entrepreneur and consultant to leading corporations, Michael Rothschild challenges conventional thinking to provide an entirely new explanation of our economic past and probable future. He argues that “on a day in-day out basis biologic and economic life are organized and operate in much the same way: in the biologic environment, genetic information is the basis of all life. In the economic environment, technological information, captured in books, data bases, and the know-how of millions of individuals, is the ultimate source of all economic life.”
Looking at the economy through the prism of contemporary biology, Mr. Rothschild challenges conservatives and liberals to move beyond ideology and to rethink government’s role in fostering a prosperous and compassionate society. And, most important, Bionomics explains how we can take advantage of fundamental economic forces to help solve our most pressing problems, including:
- Regaining our position of world economic leadership
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- Reversing the failures of our public schools
Michael Rothschild earned his law and MBA degree simultaneously at Harvard. Formerly with the Boston Consulting Group, he now directs the San Francisco office of the Cambridge Meridian Group, a firm specializing in competitive planning for corporations experiencing rapid technological change. A decade ago, after noticing several uncanny similarities between economic and ecologic phenomena, he began the research and study of biology that led to the writing of Bionomics.


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Abstract To identify genetic factors that interact with social environments to impact human health, we used a bioinformatic strategy that couples expression array-based detection of environmentally responsive transcription factors with in silico discovery of regulatory polymorphisms to predict genetic loci that modulate transcriptional responses to stressful environments. Tests of one predicted interaction locus in the human IL6 promoter (SNP rs1800795) verified that it modulates transcriptional response to beta-adrenergic activation of the GATA1 transcription factor in vitro. In vivo validation studies confirmed links between adverse social conditions and increased transcription of GATA1 target genes in primary neural, immune, and cancer cells. Epidemiologic analyses verified the health significance of those molecular interactions by documenting increased 10-year mortality risk associated with late-life depressive symptoms that occurred solely for homozygous carriers of the GATA1-sensitive G allele of rs1800795. Gating of depression-related mortality risk by IL6 genotype pertained only to inflammation-related causes of death and was associated with increased chronic inflammation as indexed by plasma C-reactive protein. Computational modeling of molecular interactions, in vitro biochemical analyses, in vivo animal modeling, and human molecular epidemiologic analyses thus converge in identifying beta-adrenergic activation of GATA1 as a molecular pathway by which social adversity can alter human health risk selectively depending on individual genetic status at the IL6 locus.
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For the past few weeks, I have observed, from a front seat position, the dangerous and relentless attempt by a Bible-quoting Christian leader to control the minds of church members. I watched curiously as this leader employed the use of guilt and degradation as the main weapons to control human life in that church. It was interesting to note that he openly defined himself as a true believer, and as such, in my opinion, he is fully convinced that when he makes any decision within the church, he is acting in the defense of or on the instructions of God. However, this kind of authoritarian, religious operation never last forever, because once a dictator begins to lose legitimacy, it is like Humpty Dumpty: “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
As I listen to the account of some who have ended up on the receiving end of his overly righteous, Pharisaic and autocratic behavior, I have come to the conclusion that education has done an injustice to him and he requires a perpetual victim. From his actions, it is obvious that he spends his time, trying, through whatever means available, to win the upper hand against fellow humans. The aim, therefore, is to defeat his foes and to prove himself, superior to the rest of us. This kind of attitude may serve the need for him to survive, but it will never serve the need for him to be whole or to be fully human. If he can not escape these troubling aspects of his frightened humanity and move beyond the limits of fear that cause him to build himself up by tearing someone else down, he can never be fully human. That, I believe is the message of our Lord and Saviour Jesus the Christ.
As a Christian, it is my conviction that the essence of the Christian gospel can be summed up in the words of Jesus to his disciples in John: 10:10 “I have come that you might have life and have it abundantly.” If abundant life is the ultimate value to which Christianity is dedicated, as I believe it is, then we must judge all expressions of Christianity by this leader according to the standard of their ability to enhance life, in line with spreading the “good news” of the gospel and the love of God.
I often wonder what is there about the Christian religion itself that both encourages and produces anger and prejudice inside those who claim to be disciples of Jesus the Christ? Unfortunately, it is not just the perceived sinners like me(whose greatest sin is not attending the same church with my wife)who have felt the sting of his religious anger. The fact is that this anger has also been turned inward on believers especially those who disagreed with some of his positions. Can anger that has been turned inward ever be a source of life? Are human beings ever helped by being told how hopeless, wretched and evil they are? Does that ever make us whole? Does it ever make us more loving?
The questions that confront me when trying to analyze this person are: Why this bible-quoting man demands such tightly ramified control over the life of everyone in the church? Why does he have to be the chief matchmaker, chief wedding Planner, and chief attendance keeper of the church attendance record? Who actually appointed him as an assistant God with the power to judge the authenticity of everyone else’s Christianity?
Even more remarkable is the control and influence he maintains over the rest of the eldership. From my understanding, these men are supposed to be intelligent, but for some reason, not quite known to me, they behave more like they belong to the same community as Dostoevsky’s village idiot. They seem to be unable to think for themselves and always demonstrate their blind loyalty of being on the same page with the leader whether he is right or wrong. There can never be any dissenting voice within this group because of the inherent fear of his wrath. The opposite, though, is true because it is clear that this leader’s actions are not consistent with the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and this is why these elders should be rebelling. They need to become more knowledgeable on who Jesus the Christ was and follow him. Clearly, this person has no morality to teach anyone of us so he can scarcely guide our conscience. He is a poor example of a Christian leader and he should not be followed.
I recalled hearing this Christian leader, who is a man of African descent just as I am, boasting, “we follow the Southern Baptist Tradition.” As I sat and listened to that particular statement coming from his sermon that day, apart from being in a sudden state of shock, I concluded very quickly, that history was not his strongest subject.
The Christianity of the Southern Baptist tradition that this leader embraces comes straight out of the region of the United States known as the Bible Belt. More people go to church in that region than in any other part of the country. The Bible is read and taught more thoroughly there, than in anywhere else in the USA. However, the same Bible-reading, church-attending Southern Baptist Christians defended the evil institution of slavery with all their might, and even quoted scripture to support its presence and practice.
They facilitated the suppression of African Americans in the South in the form of a legal system of segregation for almost one hundred years after the end of slavery. I remember seeing pictures of Police dogs and fire hoses turned on demonstrators throughout the South. It is well known that children in churches were bombed. Civil rights workers were kidnapped and executed. The states accounting for the most churchgoing Christians closed their public schools to prevent admitting African American children. Such was the anger that held this section of the USA as segregation was forced to die. My heart aches to know that in the year 2014 an Antiguan church leader is embracing the same Christianity of the Bible Belt region of the USA that justified and encouraged religious anger and prejudice against fellow human beings for years.
I remember the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, who was convicted in 2005 for murdering three civil rights workers in 1964 in Mississippi. It was interesting to note that he was identified not simply as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, but even more significantly, as a Christian preacher in the Baptist Church. Our Christian leader needs to ponder the above as he boasts about forming alliances with his Southern Baptist racist friends.
I close with a direct appeal to members of his congregation. It is a fact that change does not come easily in the realm of religious beliefs. Before one can move out of one’s religious comfort zone, more is required than simply stating that the old place of worship is no longer a viable position to occupy.
People do not move out of their religious security zones until something powerful forces them to do so. In fact, it must first be demonstrated that actual harm, physical or emotional, will occur if a move is not made. This has been the experience of my wife and daughter who no longer attend his church. When a church leader spends his time denigrating church members, when church elders spend their time defending the indefensible, and when a church spends its time abdicating its responsibility to seek new ways in which to proclaim its essential truth, then it is clearly time for either the death of that church or a bold new direction.
Finally, to the unassuming members of the congregation, who are accustomed to be fed a diet full of deceits, masterfully used by the leader to cover his indefensible actions, I would like you to remember there are more than one sides to a story and unlike the bible, this leader is not infallible. Beware, your time will come.

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When it comes to Factoring of Accounts Receivable, the two most important categories are recourse and non-recourse Factoring. Keep reading to learn more about non-recourse Factoring: its differences with recourse Factoring, and how it can help you maintain and grow your business.
How Factoring Works
Before we delve into specifics, let’s review how Factoring works. Factoring your outstanding invoices means selling them to a company (called Factor) that pays you upfront and takes care of the collection process in exchange for a small fee.
Factoring is a useful tool to free up cash locked in your unpaid invoices. It allows you to improve the cash flow of your business without incurring debt and without having to wait 30 to 60 days for your customers to pay you.
Now that we have laid out the basics of Factoring, we can take a look at recourse and non-recourse Factoring.
Think of the process we outlined earlier, but imagine that for some reason the Factor is unable to collect the invoices from your client. What to do in this case? Well, what happens next depends on the kind of Factoring you choose.
With recourse Factoring, you buy back any invoices that the Factor is unable to collect from your clients. By contrast, with non-recourse Factoring the Factor purchases your invoices “without recourse,” meaning that it absorbs the risk for any non-payment.
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As king of baseball in the small town of Lewis Creek, Eric Perry can have any girl he wants and win every game he plays. But when a fight lands him in jail, he's only got one more strike before his baseball career is over for good. His only chance for redemption? The girl next door, Bri Johnson.
Bri hasn't talked to Eric in months- for starters, she's been too busy dealing with her jerk of an ex-boyfriend, not to mention the fact that Eric's been preoccupied trying to drink every keg in the country dry. But when he needs a way to stay on the team, she proposes a plan: if he helps her out with community service, he can stay on the team. At first it's a nightmare-Eric and Bri stopped being friends years ago, surely that was for a good reason, right? But as volunteering turns to bonding over old memories of first kisses under the stars, they start to have trouble remembering what pushed them apart.
In a town as small as Lewis Creek, nothing stays secret for long and their friendship and romance might mean bad news. But in this final, tumultuous spring before graduation, Eric and Bri are about to realize that nobody's perfect alone, but they might just be perfect together.
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Jason Momoa is best recognized for his role as Aquaman in the hit TV collection. He likewise has had an uncredited role in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy as Aragorn. The respected star is currently married to TELEVISION speaker, Lisa Bonet. Here is what you need to learn about the Hollywood fave.
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For how long was Jason Momoa wed to his first other half? – The star’s various other two marital relationships are claimed to be just as brief. Nevertheless, it’s vague when specifically he fulfilled his 2nd partner. It’s possible that she was one of the extras included on the very early season of the program The Mentalist, though no main verification has ever before been made.
When was Jason Momoa born? – The actor was actually birthed in Southern The golden state, in Beverly Hills. He was reportedly just 9 years of ages when his moms and dads separated. His stepmother was the person who presented him to acting, and also he is presently best known for his service TELEVISION programs such as Psych and also Californication. He has also shown up in a variety of independent movies.
How did Jason Momoa satisfy his present partner? – Jason Momoa met his present better half Camryn Manheim through a net dating web site. This is a common method for stars wanting to broaden their network and discover brand-new love passions.
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The Heart Collectors Strum Their Way to Buskers by the Creek
Australian folk group The Heart Collectors will be performing at this year’s Buskers By The Creek event on the Gold Coast.
“We are very excited, we performed once a couple of years ago at the festival,” Mobius Barnaby (strings, vocals) says. “It was an incredible event, so we are delighted to be a part of it this year.”
Inspired by the sounds of the ’60s and ’70s, The Heart Collectors have been creating music for the past three years.
Joining Mobius are other members Tristan Dafoe (banjo, mandolin, vocals), Kymrie Henge (lead vocals, percussion) and Reuben Loire (guitar, vocals). “We were all musicians and artists in our own right, we were all doing our own projects,” Mobius says about how the group formed.
“We knew each other from the [local] area and [the band] came together quite spontaneously,” he says. “We gave it a go and it just felt very natural for us to play together.”
With their second album, 2015’s ‘Listen’, recorded in Austin, Texas, The Heart Collectors have quickly become local favourites with two appearances at South By Southwest (2016, 2017). “We were travelling through Texas and we met some really wonderful people.
“We were very fortunate to meet some people who had a studio… they really liked our music and they gave us the opportunity to go and record.”
In late 2016, The Heart Collectors returned to Texas to record their most recent album ‘Back To The Garden’. “We released it in March and then we headed to Texas to play at the South By Southwest music festival and we launched the new album there, followed by a tour in UK and Ireland,” Mobius says.
“A lot of people have been coming to see us, so it’s always very exciting to go back to South By Southwest; it really is an incredible event and we love it.”
For the last two years, The Heart Collectors have curated the indie-folk O’ Heart Festival, which takes place in Tyalgum in northern NSW each August. “There are so many talents in this region [Northern Rivers]; we wanted to create an environment for like-minded musicians.
“As well as music, the O’ Heart Festival is also a wellness festival focussing on environment awareness, which is something we are very passionate about.”
The Heart Collectors have planned a 2018 international tour across USA, England, Ireland and Europe. “We have been invited back to South By Southwest and then we have 60 gigs booked across America. Followed by two months in Europe, starting in England, Ireland, Italy and France.
“We are really excited to be on the road again, we are excited about our music and we are just going to keep going where the energy is.”
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Governor Tony Evers is congratulating 42 new Wisconsin state troopers who recently completed six months of comprehensive training at the State Patrol Academy in Ft. McCoy and are now fulfilling their sworn duties to “serve and protect" the public.
“On behalf of Wisconsin residents and visitors, we salute all our highly-trained public servants who work throughout the year and around the clock to help keep the rest of us safe," Governor Evers said. “The ongoing public health emergency is a powerful reminder of the important and life-saving services provided by our emergency responders. These new state troopers, along with all those who serve in uniform, deserve our full gratitude and support." (Read More)

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A morning roundup of the day’s news.
Cut here: The budget President Trump introduces today proposes contracting federal spending by $3.6 trillion over 10 years, including $1 trillion in cuts for safety-net programs like Medicaid and food assistance. One key theme is requiring low-income Americans to work in order to qualify for welfare programs. The Washington Post reports:
The budget, in its deeply conservative framework, risks alarming some of the president’s supporters. … But a White House official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Trump saw the shrinking of the “welfare state” as a necessary component of his nationalist, working-class appeal and part of his pledge to “drain the swamp.”
Easing on sanctuaries: The Trump administration apparently won’t go after so-called sanctuary cities as harshly as it originally stated. A new memo from Attorney General Jeff Sessions limits the financial consequences for cities and counties that don’t comply with federal immigration enforcement, though it leaves the Justice Department’s powers open-ended. (Los Angeles Times)
Back on track: After months of delays, the feds made a major reversal to grant $647 million toward electrifying Caltrain tracks—which will nearly double capacity for the overburdened 51-mile Bay Area commuter route. (Mercury News)
Growing out, not up: That’s the prevailing trend for U.S. cities, as limited housing supply drives people to sprawl out in the suburbs. But a New York Times analysis also points to some outliers, including dense metro areas like Seattle that are becoming more urban.
DIY bike intervention: Boston volunteers have installed large black-and-white comic cutouts along bike lanes, prodding City Hall for safety improvements. The lead architect says he was motivated after hearing the mayor cast blame toward pedestrians and cyclists in car crashes. (Streetsblog)
Sounds of the city: Planners are starting to give more consideration to acoustics when designing urban projects, as seen in efforts in Switzerland to avoid after-the-fact noise reductions. (World Crunch)
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Let’s dive into financial life in Portugal as an American.
When people reach out to our team of US expat financial advisors, there’s a good chance they’re either living or planning a move to a certain place – Portugal. And it’s not just something we’ve seen. It’s something the Wall Street Journal & LA Times have written about, too.
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The bulls could not push the price above the 20-day EMA in the past two days, which shows weakness.
Conversely, if the bulls defend the support at $0.27795 and push the price above the 50-day SMA, the XRP/USD pair is likely to pick up momentum.
We shall wait for the price to close above the 50-day SMA before suggesting a trade.
If the price turns down from the current levels, it can again drop to $105 and below that to the low at $73.5.
We might suggest long positions if the price closes above $141.LTC/USDLitecoin broke above the overhead resistance of $33 on Feb. 2.
The bulls could not build upon the breakout and carry the price to the next overhead resistance at $36.428.A small positive is that the bulls have managed to sustain above the breakout level of $33 since scaling it.
If the price rebounds sharply from $33, we anticipate a move to $36.428, and above it to $40.784.
The lower levels attracted buying, which pushed the price back above the moving average.
We shall wait for the price to scale above the 50-day SMA before turning positive.
Conversely, if the BSV/USD pair bounces sharply and rises above both moving averages, it can rally to $102.58, and above it to $123.98.
Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, EOS, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Tron, Stellar, Bitcoin SV, Cardano: Price Analysis, Feb. 4
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Create a CARDS file from a SAS dataset. More...
Uses dataset attributes to convert all data into datalines. Running the generated file will rebuild the original dataset. usage:
%mp_ds2cards(base_ds=sashelp.class , cards_file= "C:\temp\class.sas" , maxobs=5)
stuff to add
|base_ds=||Should be two level - eg work.blah. This is the table that is converted to a cards file.|
|tgt_ds=||Table that the generated cards file would create. Optional - if omitted, will be same as BASE_DS.|
|cards_file=||Location in which to write the (.sas) cards file|
|maxobs=||to limit output to the first |
|showlog=||whether to show generated cards file in the SAS log (YES/NO)|
|outencoding=||provide encoding value for file statement (eg utf-8)|
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Oprah Winfrey celebrated the 24th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago. It will start on September 10 in the US.
The chat queen will also honour Michael Jackson after the new season goes on air with an exclusive two-part interview with Whitney Houston on September 14.
Actress and singer Jennifer Hudson performs during a taping celebrating the 24th season of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago.
Singer James Taylor also performs on the show.


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The practice of yoga is finding space within the body and mind through asanas and
meditation. We often feel pain in places where there is no space, and relief when
we can allow space. Embodying spaciousness is key to this practice.

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