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CME Author: Zeena Nackerdien
Study Authors: Dayna A. Johnson, S. Justin Thomas et al.
Target Audience and Goal Statement
Sleep specialists, pulmonologists, and internists
To comprehend the association of sleep apnea with uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) and resistant hypertension in African-Americans.
Aberrant sleep patterns (e.g., short and excessive sleep duration and poor sleep quality) and sleep disorders are associated with a range of chronic conditions (high blood pressure, obesity, cardiovascular diseases [CVD], diabetes mellitus, and stroke) and all-cause mortality. Ongoing studies underscore concerns regarding safety that was first raised when major industrial disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill was first associated with inadequate sleep; however, according to Alex Krist, MD, vice-chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force: “We don’t know as much about the benefits of treating sleep apnea as we should.”
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep breathing disorder marked by partial (hypopnea) or complete (apnea) blockage of airflow during sleep. The result is heavy snoring, choking, and gasping for air. Several studies have shown that continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, the standard of care for OSA, is associated with (1) a CVD risk reduction of 64% ; (2) reduced brain injury and cognitive dysfunctions ; (3) increased workplace productivity; (4) improved hemodynamic functions and metabolic diseases; and (5) reduced OSA morbidity and early mortality.
Lead author of the current study, Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MS, MSW, a postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, made the following comments in a separate release preceding this analysis: “African Americans experience a disproportionate burden of numerous health problems, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and CVD, all of which have been shown to be associated with sleep. It seems plausible that sleep apnea and insomnia are important risk factors contributing to these health disparities.”
While a prior investigation assessed the link between OSA and uncontrolled BP among a population of African-Americans, the outcomes were based on questionnaires. There is therefore a need to examine objectively measured sleep apnea (based on the respiratory event index) and a key physiological stress of OSA, nocturnal hypoxemia, in relation to uncontrolled BP and resistant hypertension among blacks with hypertension. The study aim was to test whether OSA and its related hypoxemia burden would be linked with more severe forms of hypertension.
Study Synopsis and Perspective
The Jackson Heart Study involved more than 5,300 African-American residents of Jackson, Miss. It was the largest single-site prospective investigation of CVD undertaken in African-Americans. During 2012 and 2016, Jackson Heart Sleep Study participants (n=913) underwent an in-home Type 3 sleep apnea study, clinic blood pressure measurements, and anthropometry. Home-based sleep testing was done using a validated device (Embletta-Gold device, Embla, Broomfield, CO) to objectively identify OSA.
The apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was used to define sleep apnea. Mild, moderate, and severe sleep apnea were associated with AHI indices of >5, >15, and >30, respectively.
Nocturnal hypoxemia was quantified as percent sleep time with <90% oxyhemoglobin saturation. This study sample was restricted to participants with hypertension (high BP, use of antihypertensive medication, or self-reported diagnosis).
Prevalent hypertension was defined as either a systolic BP ≥130mmHg or diastolic BP >80mmHg, use of antihypertensive medication, or self-report of a diagnosis of hypertension. Uncontrolled blood pressure was defined as systolic BP ≥130 mmHg or diastolic BP ≥80 mmHg with use of one or more classes of antihypertensive medication. Resistant BP was defined as systolic BP ≥130 mm Hg or diastolic BP ≥80 mm Hg with the use of three or more classes of antihypertensive medication (including a diuretic), or use of four or more classes of antihypertensive medication regardless of BP level.
Multinomial logistic regression modelling was used to determine the association between OSA severity and uncontrolled BP or resistant hypertension after adjustment.
The analysis had data on 664 sleep study participants who were predominantly female (69.1%), obese (58.6%), and college educated (51.3%). A little over a quarter (25.7%) had OSA that was untreated (94%). About half (48%) had uncontrolled hypertension and 14% had resistant hypertension.
The authors reported that OSA and <90% oxyhemoglobin saturation were not associated with uncontrolled BP. However, severe OSA was associated with a 3.5-fold increase in risk for resistant hypertension in the unadjusted analysis.
After adjustment for relevant confounders, participants with moderate or severe OSA were twice as likely to have resistant hypertension (OR 2.04, 95%, 1.14-3.67), reported Dayna Johnson, PhD, of Emory University in Atlanta, and colleagues.
Each standard deviation higher than <90% oxyhemoglobin saturation was associated with an adjusted odds ratio for resistant hypertension of 1.25 (95% CI 1.01-1.55), they wrote in Circulation.
The findings suggest that untreated OSA may be an important contributor to resistant hypertension in a high-risk African-American population, Johnson told MedPage Today.
“This study identifies a risk factor for hard-to-control hypertension that until now has gone under-recognized in African-Americans,” she noted, adding that the findings are particularly important given the disproportionately high rate of uncontrolled high blood pressure (BP) among blacks.
African-Americans have the highest prevalence of hypertension of any racial or ethnic group in the U.S., and they have a 90% higher odds of having uncontrolled high blood pressure than non-Hispanic whites. Johnson said and stated that the reasons for this disparity are not well understood.
“We know that African-Americans tend to have higher rates of severe sleep apnea, so it made sense to look at poor sleep as a possible contributing factor to resistant hypertension,” she explained.
Study strengths include the large, African-American, community-based sample size, and use of home sleep testing to objectively assess OSA. Johnson said the lack of geographical diversity among the African-American participants limits generalizability.
Source Reference: Circulation, Dec. 10, 2018, DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.036675
Study Highlights: Explanation of Findings
Estimates of resistant hypertension in the U.S. range from 9% of all adults to 19%; the latter percentage pertains specifically to African-Americans. Moderate to severe OSA was very common in study participants with hypertension, with a prevalence of 26% and was mostly undiagnosed (6% of participants with OSA reported a prior diagnosis). The proportion of individuals with hypertension was 15%. After adjusting for confounders, the investigators noted that moderate or severe OSA were associated with resistant hypertension.
“We looked at African-Americans in Jackson, Mississippi and the people in our cohort were not all that representative of African-American’s overall in the U.S.,” Johnson said. “Most were women and their ages were similar (mean age 64.9 ± 10.6), and about half had college degrees.”
She said studies in more diverse populations of African-Americans and other races are needed to determine if the findings are generalizable.
“I suspect that undiagnosed or untreated sleep apnea contributes to resistant hypertension in everyone, but African-Americans may be more sensitive to this,” Johnson said. “This could partially explain resistant hypertension in this population.”
The researchers did not examine the potential mechanisms to explain how uncontrolled OSA may affect BP, but earlier research suggested that it caused BP spikes during the night while BP remained higher during the day.
“The findings add to the understanding of how poor sleep and sleep disorders influence cardiovascular risk,” said Michael Twery, PhD, of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) National Center on Sleep Disorders Research in Bethesda, Maryland, in a press statement. “This report underscores the need for studies to determine whether screening groups at high risk for sleep apnea, such as African-Americans, would facilitate early medical intervention and reduce the risk or severity of heart disease.”
Finally, the investigators suggest that “future studies should test whether diagnosis and treatment of OSA may be interventions for improving BP control and decreasing the burden of resistant hypertension among blacks.”
Salynn Boyles wrote the original story for MedPage Today.
Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner

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The country's imports of coffee surpassed one billion dollars for two straight years.
According to the data from the Korea Customs Service on Sunday, the combined value of imported green and roasted coffee beans reached one-point-11 billion U.S. dollars in 2023.
This represents an increase of one-point-seven times from five years ago and two-point-seven times from ten years ago.
The value of imported coffee exceeded one billion dollars for the first time in 2022 and topped the mark for the second consecutive year last year.
The volume of coffee imports came to 193-thousand tons last year, up 22 percent from 2018.
More than one-fourth of imported coffee came from Brazil last year, with more than 50-thousand tons valued at 200 million dollars. Vietnamese coffee came in second with 40-thousand tons, followed by Columbia, Ethiopia and Guatemala.

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Joseph W. Hermann is a leading American wind band conductor and educator and is currently Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee. He is also the current President of the American Bandmasters Association.
Hermann received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Drake University, where he studied under Don Marcoullier. At Drake, Herman experienced frequent theoretical study by returning guest lecturer Vincent Persichetti. As a young clarinetist, he played principal clarinet in Karl King's band in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Hermann also studied and interacted with legendary conductors Sir Georg Solti and John Paynter. Hermann also studied with Václav Nelhýbel, with whom he remained close to until Nelhýbel's death, and John Boyd, who worked with Hermann while transcribing the music of Karel Husa for wind band. In college, Hermann became a Brother of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. After college, Hermann taught secondary school, directing the Dowling High School Band in West Des Moines, Iowa, and supervising the Des Moines Catholic Instrumental Music Program for the Diocese of Des Moines. Under his leadership, the school music program grew to unprecedented enrollment. In addition, he served as the Educational Director for Bands of America and McCormick’s Enterprises, a music corporation in Chicago, Illinois. His college teaching positions include Director of Bands at East Tennessee State University, Associate Director of Bands and the Director of the Pride of Arizona Marching Band at the University of Arizona, an Assistant Director of Bands and a Director of the Marching Hundred at Indiana University, where he became an Honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi. One of Hermann's students at Indiana was a young Richard Saucedo. He has appeared in over thirty states, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, and other places around the world.
In 1989, Hermann became the director of bands at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, TN. At Tech, he directs and oversees a comprehensive program that includes the University Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band as well as directing the Tennessee American Legion Boy's State Band for thirteen years. Since coming to Tech, Hermann increased the band's exposure, conducting the Tech bands for NPR broadcasts, director resource CDs, and taking the bands to various conferences, including the 2008 ABA convention and the 1994 CBDNA convention. Hermann and the Tech Symphony band are responsible for numerous commissioned compositions from award-winning composers including Donald Grantham, Robert Jager, Greg Danner, Thomas Sleeper, and Rodney Waschka II. Composers such as Adam Gorb, Robert W. Smith, Gunther Schuller, James Barnes, Mark Camphouse, John Zdechlik, Jared Spears, Eric Ewazen, James Curnow, Elliot Del Borgo and Leroy Osmon have also visited and had residencies with the Tech band. Hermann's tenure at Tech has cemented him as a music educator of note, with many of his former students teaching and conducting in every facet of the wind band community. Hermann is also frequently published in journals and research documents concerning the entire scope of wind studies. Hermann and the TTU bands record frequently and are recording a CD of new music published by C. Alan Publications, which includes music by Greg Danner and Elliot Del Borgo. Hermann also oversees Tennessee Tech's annual Festival of Winds and Percussion that has featured guest conductors including Thomas Lee, Kenneth Bloomquist, Thomas Fraschillo, James Keene, James Croft, Frank Wickes, Stanley Michalski, Alan Bonner, John Bourgeois, and Harry Begian. Hermann and the Symphony Band have also appeared with guest soloists including Joseph Alessi, Joseph Skillen, Tim Northcut, Phillip Barham, Kelly Thomas, Bryce Edwards, and the Boston Brass.
In 1996, in recognition of outstanding service and achievements to music, Herman was elected into the American Bandmasters Association. As an ABA member, Hermann has served on various committees, overseen commissioning projects, and served on the Board of Directors. In 2007, Hermann was named Vice-President of the ABA, and in 2008 became the President-Elect. He assumed the Presidency during the ABA convention March 4–8 in College Station, Texas, succeeding Robert Jorgenson.
Honors and awards
In addition to the ABA, Hermann is a member of CBDNA, MENC, NBA, the Tennessee Bandmasters Association, has served as the editor for the New Music Reviews for the Tennessee Musician, and is a past board member of the Tennessee Music Educators Association. He is a member of Phi Beta Mu, a past President of the Pac-10 Band Directors Association, a past Province Governor for Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and holds honorary memberships in Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma. In 2008, Herman received the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal honoring leaders in wind studies. In 2009, Jeremy S. Martin, composer/arranger for the U.S. Air Force and TTU alumnus, composed a Suite for Band in honor of Mr. Hermann's twenty years as director of the Tech band program.
Hermann is married and has two children. He resides in Cookeville. He is good friends with renown Tech tuba professor R. Winston Morris as well as conductors David Waybright of the University of Florida, Wiliam J. Moody of the University of South Carolina, and W.J. Julian, former Director of Bands at Tennessee Tech and the University of Tennessee.
"America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax Volume XII". Tucson: Arizona University Recordings (AUR 3129), 2007.
- Summer Concerto by Rodney Waschka II
Performed with the Tennessee Tech Wind Ensemble, Phillip Barham, soloist.
"Slide Ride: Works for Solo Trombone and Band" Mark Masters (6055 MCD), 2005
- Performed with the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band, Joshua Hauser, soloist.
"Tennessee Tech Pride" Mark Masters (4371 MCD), 2003
- Performed with the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band, Tim Northcut, soloist.
"Discovery: Emerging and Celebrated Repertoire for Solo Saxophone and Band Volume I". Mark Masters (3918 MCD), 2002.
- Performed with the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band, James Spinazolla, soloist.
"Band Music of Distinction Volume V". Daehn Publications (DP1527)
- Walls of Zion by Greg Danner
Performed with the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band
"Jupiter". Independent through Tennessee Tech. 1995
- Performed with the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band. Frank Wickes, guest conductor.
"The Waters of Myth". Independent through Tennessee Tech. 1994 Recorded at the 1994 CBDNA convention at the Ohio State University.
- Performed with the Tennessee Tech Symphony Band, Ray Cramer, guest conductor, Steven Mead, guest soloist
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
- http://americanbandmasters.org/f[permanent dead link]
- America's Millennium Tribute to Adolphe Sax, Volume X Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2011-01-25.

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SNOW HILL – A measure to
allow Worcester County staff to streamline and speed up a nuisance process for
overgrown properties only received support from five of seven Worcester County Commissioners
The commissioners rarely
encounter a split vote on decisions, preferring to work out a compromise all
can agree with, but this was one instance when an agreement was not possible.
Tall grass and overgrown
vegetation was already a nuisance under county law when staff came to the
commissioners earlier this spring asking to establish a new procedure that
would allow them to handle overgrown yards more expeditiously.
The previous process was
cumbersome and could take months to resolve with requirements that the
commissioners sign off on staff actions and that numerous efforts to force
landowners to clean up the property must be made, Development Review and
Permitting Director Ed Tudor told the commissioners at Tuesday’s meeting.
The new process will
take weeks off the tall grass and overgrowth nuisance abatement procedures,
however, is as guilty of not cutting grass and allowing overgrowth as any
neglectful resident is, Commissioner Bobby Cowger said, since the county is not
cutting road verges on back roads.
How can the county
enforce a nuisance law on citizens when it does not follow its own rules,
“I think it’s a double
standard and it’s hypocritical,” said Cowger.
Commission President Bud
Church disagreed, saying Cowger is not comparing apples to apples.
Church said he has seen
abandoned, foreclosed homes with four-foot tall grass covering the windows,
where rats and mice have moved in and neighbors are dumping trash. That is the
kind of nuisance the law is meant to address, according to Church.
Regardless of its
intention, Cowger said the county should address its own issues.
“We need to set an
example,” Cowger said.
County grass cutting is
a separate issue and should be discussed at another time, Commissioner Linda
Church recalled a tall
grass nuisance case that took months to resolve because the county could not
find the owner to send a notification.
Five commissioners voted
for and Cowger and Commissioner Virgil Shockley voted against the tall grass
nuisance process change.
“The legislation isn’t
any different than what we have except it halves the time,” said Church.


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Jul 12, 2014, 7:47 PM EDT
Michael Phelps notched his second win in as many days over Ryan Lochte in the fourth meet of his comeback after a 20-month retirement.
Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time with 22 medals, won a 100m backstroke race in 53.88 seconds in Athens, Ga., on Saturday. Lochte, an 11-time Olympic medalist, touched second in 54.4.
Phelps’ victory in an event neither usually swims at major meets came one day after he beat Lochte by a comfortable 1.41 seconds in a 100m butterfly race.
Butterfly has always been Phelps’ signature stroke, while Lochte has more backstroke experience. Lochte is the reigning World champion in the 200m back. But Lochte is coming back from an aggravation of a major November knee injury, competing for the first time since April.
Phelps’ time ranks No. 14 in the world this year and third among Americans, according to SwimVortex.com.
Phelps is expected to swim the 100m freestyle on the final day of the meet Sunday.
Swimmers are preparing for the U.S. Championships in Irvine Calif., Aug. 6-10, and the Pan Pacific Championships in Gold Coast, Australia, from Aug. 21-24.
In other events, 2013 World 400m individual medley silver medalist Chase Kalisz won the 200m butterfly, a former Phelps staple, in 1:58.09, making him the third-fastest American this year. Olympic 200m backstroke champion Tyler Clary was second in 1:58.96.
Olympian Cammile Adams won the women’s 200m fly in 2:08.45, improving to 13th in the world this year.
Brazil’s second-best sprinter, Bruno Fratus, won the 50m freestyle in 22.09, .26 faster than U.S. Olympic silver medalist Cullen Jones. Two-time Bahamian Olympian Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace took the women’s 50m free in 24.67, .69 slower than the fastest woman this year.
Melanie Margalis upset World bronze medalist Micah Lawrence in the 200m breaststroke, clocking 2:27.06, still more than two seconds slower than Lawrence’s U.S.-best time this year.
Nic Fink won the men’s 200m breast in 2:11.76 and Kathleen Baker, 17, the 100m back in 1:00.65, both the fastest times by an American in 2014.
Cierra Runge won the women’s 400m free in 4:07.67, improving on her time as the second-fastest American behind Katie Ledecky this year.
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Hopes to create a “robotic revolution.”
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Brazil has never won more than 17 medals at an Olympics.
Jul 23, 2014, 12:25 PM EDT
Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C. in the running.
Jul 23, 2014, 12:02 PM EDT
LOCOG acknowledges U.S. firm submitted designs that ended up being part of the cauldron.
Jul 23, 2014, 10:05 AM EDT
New coach won two Stanley Cups in the 1990s.
Jul 23, 2014, 9:46 AM EDT
Fashion star also created Team GB kits for London 2012.
Jul 23, 2014, 9:10 AM EDT
Opening bid much higher than final price for another Olympic basketball medal.
Jul 22, 2014, 5:21 PM EDT
“It is sending a bad message,” Bolt said.
Jul 22, 2014, 4:58 PM EDT
Amarissa, 13, is a former gymnast who suffers from lupus.
Jul 22, 2014, 2:24 PM EDT
Blake recently had hamstring surgery.
Jul 22, 2014, 12:24 PM EDT
Olympic champion finished his season in Shanghai last week.
Jul 22, 2014, 10:35 AM EDT
Top sprinters from Jamaica, swimmers from Australia and more gather in Glasgow.
Jul 21, 2014, 6:09 PM EDT
U.S. stars would not make the Olympic field if it was determined today.
Jul 21, 2014, 3:13 PM EDT
NCAA’s current lawsuits may cut funding.
Jul 21, 2014, 2:11 PM EDT
“It’s inconceivable,” Maarten de Jonge said.
Jul 21, 2014, 12:51 PM EDT
NCAA Player of the Year was tournament MVP.
Jul 21, 2014, 10:43 AM EDT
Extraordinary men include war veterans, longtime NASA worker, Methodist minister.
Jul 21, 2014, 8:33 AM EDT
Kim Jin-sun had been the committee’s president since October 2011.
Jul 18, 2014, 4:15 PM EDT
U.S. sprinters shatter personal bests.
Jul 18, 2014, 3:09 PM EDT
U.S. Olympic flag bearer returned to the podium after missing medals at 2012 Olympics, 2013 Worlds.
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- 90-plus-year-old men set 3 world relay records at USATF Masters 0
- Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics chief quits 0
- Tori Bowie, Justin Gatlin star at Monaco Diamond League meet 0
- Emotional Bode Miller medals in race that mattered most (61)
- Russian women kissing after relay victory at World Championships causes stir (56)
- IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics (47)
- South Korea filing official complaint over Yuna Kim’s Olympic silver (38)
- Zola Budd, 47, dominates college runners in 5K (33)


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Hadid, an Iraqi-born British architect, planned a structure that would dominate the skyline once and for all—the first building in Warsaw to be higher than the palace. Her proposed tower of some 850 feet is destined for a site opposite the main railroad station. Gracefully curved, bowed outward in the middle and tapering at the top and bottom, Lilium’s four wings inescapably evoke horticultural images. There’s not a square line visible, and the building makes a stunning contrast to the palace’s plodding right angles and heavy decorations.
“I love that shape,” says Zemla, before extolling all three of his pet projects: “They’re beautiful.” Unfortunately, though, he and the rest of Warsaw will have to wait to see the Lilium grow. For the moment, the developers have put the project on hold until the economy improves.
Inevitably, some people would dispute Gronkiewicz-Waltz’s belief that skyscrapers are the ticket. Disdaining the race for postmodern glamour, an articulate minority calls for the city to seek instead to recapture the homey atmosphere of Middle Europe before World War II, sometimes idealized as a place of comfortable, easy living, of cobbled streets with friendly little shops, open-air markets and tree-shaded sidewalk cafés.
“When we got our freedom in 1989, I thought we would finally have real quality architecture for human society’s needs,” says Boleslaw Stelmach, an architect specializing in building in historic areas. “Instead, I found myself working in a huge office, not doing architecture but producing buildings like a factory. Well, I would rather see wiser than taller.”
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Still, Warsaw’s long history of oppression by Russians and Germans, the terrible efficiency of its destruction and its dogged persistence in reclaiming the past make it a place apart: a city that has been obliged to reinvent itself. Even as the aesthetes and the philistines argue about what it should become, that reinvention continues. Remarkably enough, a sensible compromise seems to be falling into place.
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BIMM Berlin band The Flavians sound is warm and nostalgic, and their latest release ‘Eloise’ is no different. Take a listen and discover more about the track below.
What was your inspiration when you began writing the track?
I remember reminiscing about more youthful days, when everything was so much clearer and unconstrained, this song is a collage of all the good stuff and all the fuck-ups I’ve done from that time until today.
Are there any artists that inspire you when writing?
This song is definitely and ode to The Beatles and Brian Wilson. We are interpreting some of their signature sounds, but the mix of the four individualities within the band hopefully makes it sound more like us than anything else.
What is key to your sound and how do you make your music stand out?
We all contribute with different influences and somehow we manage to boil it down to something that represents The Flavians.
How does your songwriting process work?
It is different every time, but in this case ‘Eloise’ was a song I’ve worked on in seclusion for a long time, and after several attempts to find a fitting band arrangement we managed to figure out something we all liked.
Describe your sound in 3 words…
Slippery slope music.
How has studying at BIMM helped you develop as an artist?
In every possible way really, I’ve become more self-assured on stage, and technically I consider myself a better songwriter than before. Due to the amount of useful contacts at BIMM we’ve also been able to perform our music live at some really cool venues.
What’s next for you?
We are in the middle of the process of mixing and mastering our debut album, “Ordinary People in An Ordinary World”, which will be released in late January 2020.


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Every second 842 Arm chips were built at the end of 2020
In Q4 alone, there were almost as many chips built as there are people in the worldBy Isaiah Mayersen
The big picture: As part of their last quarterly report, Arm has revealed that the popularity of their processor designs has continued to increase exponentially. Manufacturing partners have recorded shipments of 6.7 billion chips based on Arm designs, which is roughly 842 chips produced every second, an unprecedented rate.
Arm is the largest designer of processors in the world, if the sale of their designs is counted instead of the number of designs they produce: their rather slim Mali GPU series, for example, encompasses just nine models but has been the number one shipping GPU since 2015. If Arm sold just their most popular product, the Cortex-M CPU series, then they'd still be the largest designer of processors in the world. Last quarter, 4.4 billion Cortex-M designs were shipped.
The popularity of Cortex-M designs isn't mysterious and neither is the wider success of Arm. In the IoT realm, the most affordable and efficient option is Cortex-M. Arm's Cortex-A series forms the basis of all smartphone processors, and their Cortex-R series covers critical applications like medical equipment. From the "world's number one supercomputer down to the tiniest ultra-low power devices," Arm's wriggled its way in, says Rene Haas, President of the IP Products Group at Arm. And he's not exaggerating.
But Haas doesn't attribute Arm's recent successes to his own team. Instead, he calls the recent shipments a "testament to the incredible innovation of [Arm's] partners," referring to the 530 licensees that use Arm's designs to produce their own products. Subtract the flattery, though, and he's really crediting Arm's business model.
The closest comparison might be a record label. Arm doesn't manufacture products, and nor are their designs immediately manufacturable. They license the most fundamental of processor core designs, along with the accompanying patents and software, to other companies to be integrated into products. Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm all use the same Arm designs to produce wildly different smartphone processors, for example.
Last year, Arm signed a record 175 new licenses, many to new licensees, which Haas thinks will accelerate the adoption of Arm products in 2021. Arm will probably continue to permeate new markets this year as it did last, when it saw its first mainstream laptop implementation in MacBooks, and a major integration into Amazon servers.
Arm's strong fourth quarter results are good news for the company, but they'll have placed added pressure on the looming acquisition by Nvidia – read more about that here.
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The April 5 Shallotte board of aldermen meeting ended with a new mayor.
Alan Lewis, former mayor pro tem, was sworn in as mayor of Shallotte.
The vote was unanimous. Lewis was appointed to fill the vacancy of mayor created by the death of Mayor Buddy Kelly on March 2.
The board was advised of proper procedure to fill the vacancy by Laura Thompson, town attorney. Lewis will serve as mayor until the next General Election in November. At that time he has the option to run for the position.

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Tell Jeff Sessions to #ProtectTransKids
Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed Obama-era protections for transgender students (under Title IX) that permitted them to use the school bathrooms that matched their gender identity. Trans students face high rates of bigotry and bullying–more than 40% of trans individuals attempt suicide at some point in their lives. Our government should ensure safety and promote acceptance for trans students, instead it’s enabling harmful policies that discriminate against them.
Want to voice your opinion on this issue?
Contact the U.S. Attorney General’s office
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Hi, my name is ____________ and I’m a constituent in [city, state]. I’m calling because I strongly oppose the action of the Justice Department to repeal the Obama directive protecting trans students under Title IX. As chief law enforcer of the nation, it is the responsibility of U.S. Attorney General Sessions to defend civil rights, not restrict them. [If the issue has directly impacted you or those you know, now would be a good time to share a little bit about that.]
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A slot can be a great way to pass the time and many people enjoy the thrill of trying to hit that big jackpot. However, some players may be hesitant to try a new machine or even make a bet because they don’t want to risk losing money. Fortunately, many casinos offer a demo mode for their slot games so players can test out the game without risking any real cash.
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When you play a slot, the pay table will provide you with important information such as the payouts for different combinations of symbols. It will also indicate how many paylines a slot has and can even give you a visual representation of these lines with colourful graphics. Usually, the pay table will fit in with the theme of the slot and can be easy to understand as you can see the individual symbols and their payouts.
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The random-number generator is the heart of a slot machine, whether it’s a physical mechanical reel or an electronic computer screen. It assigns a number to each possible combination of symbols and then, when it receives a signal — from a button being pressed or a handle pulled — it sets that combination of numbers to the reels. Between signals, the random-number generator continues to assign numbers randomly, so if you see someone else hit a jackpot at a particular machine, that doesn’t mean it was “due” to hit. If the machine was “due” to hit, it would have had to be triggered at precisely the same moment you saw the person walk away with the prize. This is why casinos place hot machines at the end of aisles, hoping to attract more customers. They know that people are more likely to play a slot machine if they see others win at it.

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Sunshine Dizon has released a statement anew via Instagram today, June 22. The actress, who is currently involved in a marital dispute, has been airing her sentiments on social media regarding her husband’s alleged relationship with a certain Clarissa Sison.
“Hindi po madali ang pinagdadaanan ko at ng mga anak ko ngayon.
“I'm trying my best to keep everything private but my situation as an actress makes it difficult to keep everything away from the public,” she wrote in her latest post.
She also admitted that she was overwhelmed with the support she’s been receiving and promised that she’ll continue with the legal battle. Timothy said in his statement that it is best for them to have an annulment but in a separate post, Sunshine said she wouldn’t grant his request.
“Please bear with me in this difficult situation as I am preparing for battle.
“Hindi ko po ipagkakait sa inyo ang mga mangyayari sa buhay ko at sa pinaglalaban ko legally as your overwhelming support inspires me to fight not only for myself, for my children but also for those out there who are in the same situation like me.
“As a wife and mother who uncovered lies, hindi po tama siguro na ako ay manahimik lamang, and I assure everyone that I will finish this legal battle until the end.
“Makakaasa po kayo na magsasalita po ako ng katotohanan lamang sa tamang panahon.”


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Ahead of the launch of their new campaign to highlight the dangers animals and those trying to protect them face, the RSPCA have released some examples of the cases and violence faced by RSPCA inspectors over the past two years.
Cases of animals suffering brutal attacks included:
- A dog beaten with a pole, causing 30 fractures
- A swan shot with a crossbow
- A cat beaten against a tree
- A three-week-old lamb with its ears cut off
- A lurcher stamped on, run over and stabbed with a potato peeler
- A bird shot with a blowgun dart through his eye
- A mouse tortured with a power tool
Staff investigating violence on animals were threatened with:
- A claw hammer
- A knife
- A crossbow
- A shotgun
- A machete
- Death threats
- Read more: RSPCA's anti-cruelty heroes
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A football tournament has been held in memory of 14 year old rapper who was killed in a car accident last year.
Apart from a few outbreaks of rain in the south, it will be a dry night with patches of frost or fog forming under any cloud breaks.
Most places will be dry. Broken cloud will allow a slight ground frost to form away from coasts.


Uber is seeking to give its drivers a share of its business, joining Airbnb in calls for US regulators to change rules about security ownership.
The ride-hailing company has written to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to say it is the "proper role of public policy and key institutions as well as the private sector to explore avenues to give individuals greater economic security regardless of how they work".
Uber has asked for a change to the SEC's "Rule 701", under which companies can issue shares to employees, to include so-called "gig economy" workers, who are not officially classed as employees but still work for a company.
Currently the rules say that any private company with more than 2,000 shareholders must be registered, triggering SEC reporting.
The letter, which was sent yesterday and obtained by Axios, marks a ramp up in efforts by Uber to amend the rules, coming years after the ride hailing company first approached the SEC about the issue.
It follows a similar letter from Airbnb earlier this year in which the holiday rental platform urged the SEC to allow it to give homeowners on its site equity in the company.
Companies in the "gig economy" have been wrangling with how to define their workers for years, with critics concerned that gig economy workers are exploited and treated like full-time employees without the same rights, such as holiday pay and sick leave.
Deliveroo earlier this year came under fire after it said it would make all its permanent staff shareholders, but excluded delivery drivers.
At the time, the company had said finding a way to give equity to those drivers was "not something they were looking at right now", but that they "accepted the case that recognising riders who had worked with the company for a long time would be the right thing to do".
The news follows strikes held by Uber drivers across several UK cities this week over pay and working conditions.
The rallies were organised by The United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) branch of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB). They demanding a fare increase to £2 a mile, up from the current rate of £1.25.


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HERE FOR THE JAB, NOT THE FOOTBALL
THERE’S not much point in coming to Home Park to watch the football at the moment. Covid-19 means games are taking place without fans allowed into the stadium to watch.
But former Plymouth Argyle director and chief executive John McNulty was back on home turf for another reason, as one of the first Plymothians to receive his Covid-19 jab at the city’s new mass vaccination centre.
Two other centres for jabs, at Westpoint, Exeter, and the Stithians Showground, Cornwall, also opened for patients yesterday.
THREE new mass vaccination centres have opened in Devon and Cornwall, helping to speed up the administering of Covid jabs to thousands of people across the South West.
Exeter’s Westpoint Centre, the Mayflower Stand at Home Park, Plymouth and the agricultural showground at Stithians all welcomed their first patients for vaccination yesterday.
The site at Westpoint, best known as the home of the Devon County Show and other major events, was established by the NHS with support from a team of volunteers from Network Rail, and people invited for a jab were yesterday already filing in for the first injections.
Members of the public who are in priority groups started arriving at Plymouth Argyle’s Home Park ground from 8am yesterday and were allocated chairs inside a giant marquee while waiting.
Appropriately John McNulty, who is a former director and chief executive at Plymouth Argyle was one of the first to receive his jab.
It is hoped all three centres will not only vaccinate thousands, but also offer more flexibility and convenience for those being offered the jab.
Darryn Allcorn, lead chief nurse for Devon and chief nurse at Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said: “Every time someone in Devon is vaccinated, it brings us a small step closer to the end of the pandemic.”
He said of the Devon sites: “These two new sites will deliver thousands of vaccinations each week, initially bringing reassurance, safety and peace of mind for those receiving the jab, and in time, when restrictions are lifted, the confidence and safety to get back to normal life.
“Well done and thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to make these sites happen in such a short space of time.”
Centres will be staffed by specially-trained vaccinators and support staff, with help from dozens of volunteers, with more being sought to help out in coming weeks.
Bus operator Stagecoach has tweaked its timetable to help people reach the centre more easily, particularly with the elderly among the first to be vaccinated.
Westpoint Exeter – which was at one stage earmarked as a potential Nightingale hospital – will be run by the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E), while the Home Park centre will be managed by the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.
At Stithians showground the person leading Cornwall’s first mass Covid vaccination centre has said the opening was an “emotional day”.
The huge marquee, which will soon be vaccinating 1,000 people a day, will be giving vulnerable groups of people the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine 12 hours a day, seven days a week.
Iain Davidson, Cornwall’s chief pharmacist who has been the clinical lead in setting up the vaccination centre between Truro and Redruth, said: “We were so pleased with how it went. We opened up, the new systems worked, the new processes worked. To have everyone coming through was quite an emotional day for everyone and we received some really great feedback from people.”
Those who have been vaccinated are invited to write a message as they leave. Comments so far include: “Fast! Efficient! Friendly! Great Service!” and “You’re all great. God bless you all.”
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June 12, 2008
My wife and I finally made it over to the Welk Resort Theatre to see the Rankin Brothers after so many friends said, “You’ve got to see it.” Now we know why. We should have known a first rate resort with a first rate theater is going to have a first rate show. The Rankin Brothers deserve this beautiful venue where so many talented big names have played.
Our evening started with a quiet dessert at the Stage Door Restaurant right before show time. Then, when we went into the theater and got settled in the comfortable seats, we were ready to be entertained. The Rankin Brothers; Matt, Mark, and the entire cast, were ready to entertain. They came out and the brothers explained who they were, how they came to be in Branson, and what the show was about - and then the Classic Music Revue began with Bob Seger’s 1978 hit, “Old Time Rock N’ Roll.” This was well-performed and a perfect opening for two hours of music from the 50’s through the 90’s. The brothers were learning the music of the 50’s and 60’s when they were in their teens. They proved how well they learned with their second song of the evening, Eddie Cochran’s 1958 hit, “Summertime Blues.” By this point in the show they had the audience convinced they were for real, they knew their stuff, and they knew how to entertain.
Now the audience was expecting great things from these guys and they continued to deliver. Mark Rankin sang Neil Diamond’s 1969, “Sweet Caroline.” He did it just the way Neil Diamond did, sounded just like Neil, and got a response from the audience like they just watched Neil Diamond sing his old classic. With this kind of audience reaction, both the cast and the audience knew it is going to be a great show. Here is the rest of the cast:
Bill Reder on keyboards, tenor and bass sax, and vocals
Cameron Streck on lead guitar
Casey Robertson on drums
Paul Stephens on bass guitar
Galen Butler on keyboard (music director)
THE RANKINETTES on backup and lead vocals:
Lori Kelley Cathcart
Both of the brothers play guitar with Matt Rankin alternating lead guitar parts with Cameron throughout the show. This collection of talented musicians and singers sound like they have been playing together all their lives.
Now back to the music with Bachman-Turner Overdrive and the 1974 hit, “Takin’ Care Of Business” and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 1989 hit, “Runnin’ Down A Dream.” By this time you could look around at the audience and see everyone singing (or at least their lips were forming the words), smiling, clapping, and reminiscing.
A segment in the show called, “Listen To The Radio” begins with the Everly Brothers 1957 hit, “Wake Up Little Susie” and 1959’s, “Let It Be Me.” Yes you guessed it, they do sound just like Don and Phil Everly. But just as your mind returns to reality, Matt and Mark come out and sing the Righteous Brothers 1965 hit, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’.” This was just an unbelievable performance but wait, there’s a lot more still coming. Next up was Mark and Lori as Sonny and Cher doing their 1965, “I Got You, Babe.” I don’t know if it was funnier than good or vice-versa; we’ll settle for both. Rounding out the segment is Matt and Mark singing the 1966 hit by Simon and Garfunkel, “Sounds Of Silence.” Yep - all together now - “they sounded just like them.”
Mike Bliss provides a break in the music with his crazy antics, his unicycle, a little magic, a jump rope, and a willing volunteer from the audience. During this time the stage is being set for the next segment.
When the curtain opens a screen is in the back showing Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings. In 1971 Don McLean wrote a hit about Van Gogh that was released again in 2001 by Josh Groban; “Starry Starry Night.” Mark Rankin gave the audience a beautiful rendition.
Now the Rankinettes come to the front of the stage and perform, back to back:
The Ronnettes 1963, “Be My Little Baby”
The Chiffons 1963, “One Fine Day”
The Shangri-Las 1964, “Leader Of The Pack”
The Marvelettes 1961 and the Carpenters 1975, “Please, Mr. Postman”
The Shirelles 1961, “Dedicated To The One I Love”
These ladies are talented solo artists and they work extremely well providing group backup vocals for the Rankin Brothers throughout the show.
Up to this point in the show, Mark keeps trying to insert his Elvis numbers into the act and the band is eager to oblige. Matt cuts everyone short as if he wants to stick with the script. Matt wants Slovakian folk music but Mark keeps coming up with Elvis. Well Mark finally gets his way and enters the stage in his Elvis attire. He also brings his Elvis moves and voice. What follows is an excellent presentation of Elvis’ music that had the audience going wild. The songs Mark sang were, “I Can’t Help Falling in Love with You,” “Suspicious Minds,” and “American Trilogy.” You can hear a preview of “Suspicious Minds” and other songs by going to the link at the beginning of this review and scrolling to the bottom of the page.
A new theme follows intermission and the setting is that of a 1962 high school prom. The “Soda Jerks” band is playing, “Rock Around The Clock.” The singing teenage heartthrobs are Matt as, “Jimmy Lonely” and Mark as, “Johnny Cola.” The senior’s class song is Del Shannon’s 1961, “Runaway.”
Lori takes center stage to perform Connie Francis’, “Where The Boys Are.” Then the Soda Jerks and the rest of the cast gets into Sam Cooke’s 1962 hit, “Twisting The Night Away.” Matt then slows the pace down when he sings the Bobby Hatfield, “Unchained Melody.” What a job on that one!
I didn’t intend for this review to be a song list of the Rankin Brothers Show so let me just say there are many more songs presented, not just professionally but also, entertainingly. What I’m trying to say here is there is a big difference between a singer who sings a song very well and a singer who entertains while singing a song very well. The cast of the Rankin Brothers Classic Music Revue know how to entertain. You’ve got to see Matt’s portrayal of Buddy Holly and watch how he gets the crowd wanting to dance in the aisles with his performance of Chuck Berry’s, “Johnny B. Goode.” That includes the Chuck Berry shuffle across the stage like nobody has done since Chuck Berry himself.
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Baymont by Wyndham Pine Grove hotel is located just off Interstate 81 and is easily accessible to an array of attractions and businesses in the area. Nearby points of interest include Rausch Creek Off Road Park, Fort Indiantown Gap National Guard Training Center, Penn National Race Course, Hersheypark amusement park, Hershey's Chocolate World and ZooAmerica North American Wildlife Park. It is minutes from Pennsylvania Dutch Country. The towns of Hershey and Harrisburg are also close by and offer many attractions. The Harrisburg International Airport and the Reading Regional Airport are within 40 miles from the hotel. Additional nearby attractions include roadside America Indoor Miniature Village, Penn National Speedway, Indian Echo Caverns, Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine & Steam Train and Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains There are several cocktail lounges and restaurants nearby. Visitors can enjoy fishing, golfing and skiing in the surrounding area. Guests can enjoy amenities like free continental breakfast, free parking and free coffee. Access to fax services is offered. All guest rooms include cable television. In addition, some rooms come equipped with microwaves and refrigerators. Connecting and non-smoking rooms are available. Pets are welcome with a small nightly fee.
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Sean T. Benson, of West Bend, Charged with 11 Counts of Possession of Child Pornography
MADISON — On Tuesday, February 4, 2014, a criminal complaint was filed against Sean T. Benson, of 619 Imperial Court in West Bend, charging him with 11 Counts of Possession of Child Pornography, a felony. A hearing in this matter is scheduled for February 24, 2014, at 1:30 pm in Washington County.
According to the Criminal Complaint, on Friday, January 24, 2014, special agents with the Department of Justice – Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), with assistance from officers with the West Bend Police Department, executed a search warrant at the defendant’s residence, located at 619 Imperial Court in the City of West Bend. An on-scene forensic preview by a DCI analyst of a cellular telephone belonging to Benson uncovered ten images and one video consistent with child pornography, according to the complaint. After having been advised by investigators of the purpose of the search warrant, Benson stated to investigators, “It’s me. It’s all on my phone. I did it,” according to the complaint. In an interview with agents, Benson admitted to viewing and downloading child pornography, according to the criminal complaint.
The West Bend Police Department is a member of Wisconsin's ICAC Task Force. Questions concerning this case should be directed to the Washington County District Attorney's Office. A defendant enjoys the presumption of innocence. The prosecution must prove its allegations at trial beyond a reasonable doubt.


THE European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is launching a consultation to expand its pioneering testing facility in Orkney to meet growing demand for full-scale test sites.
The move comes as one of Europe's largest electricity producers, Vattenfall, is confirmed as the latest utility to secure a test berth at the world-leading wave energy test site at Billia Croo in Orkney, where they intend to test a next generation Pelamis (P2e) device.
EMEC is already host to major utilities EON and ScottishPower Renewables, who are collaborating on the development of their own Pelamis (P2) devices which are currently being tested alongside each other operating as a twin-machine wave farm.
Last year, Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Japan and Bluewater Energy Services of the Netherlands both also announced intentions to test their own tidal energy devices at the test site off the island of Eday.
EMEC already has clients from across the globe, including Edinburgh-based Aquamarine Power; Norwegian firms Wello Oy and Hammerfest Strom; Kent-based Seatricity, Dublin-based OpenHydro; Atlantis Resources Corporation, based in Australia; Dutch developer Voith Hydro; Tidal Generation Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of Rolls-Royce; and Orkney-based Scotrenewables.
Neil Kermode, managing director at EMEC, said: “It is great to know that our facilities are attractive to the major utility companies, who are demonstrating a real commitment to marine renewables in testing these innovative technologies.
"This should instil further confidence in the value of the marine energy industry for potential investors."
EMEC's 14 full-scale test berths are the first and only accredited facilities of their kind in the world.
The centre is now discussing its options with industry stakeholders and authorities, and while these are still at a very early stage, expansion is now a major focus to ensure the centre can continue to deliver to the sector’s increasing needs.
Kermode added: “The initial public investment and years of hard grind to establish EMEC are now really paying off.
“The influx of developers that has been witnessed over the last couple of years has been astounding, and the signing of the latest berth is a significant milestone for the centre.
“Ultimately, the focus of the expansion will be determined by consultation with stakeholders to assess current and future requirements, but the development of berths suitable for testing small demonstration arrays is a real possibility.
“If the full potential of the industry is to be realised, there is a need to understand how arrays are to be built and operated, and if EMEC can ease the path to commercial deployment for developers, then we will.”
The centre also operates two nursery test sites where smaller scale devices, or those at an earlier stage in their development, can gain at-sea experience in less challenging conditions.
In the past week, EMEC signed a second overseas memorandum of understanding to assist the creation of a test centre with the Ocean Energy Association of Japan, following a similar arrangement with the Ocean University of China made last year.
EMEC was established in 2003 from £30 million of funding from the Scottish Government, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Carbon Trust, the UK Government, Scottish Enterprise, the European Union and Orkney Islands Council.


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- 2/3 ounce dried morel mushrooms
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 2 cups coarsely chopped baby portobello mushrooms
- 12 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese
- 1/3 cup shredded Asiago cheese
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 48 wonton wrappers
- 2 cups pasta sauce of your choice
- 2 tablespoons shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh Italian parsley
- Place mushrooms in a small bowl; add warm water to cover. Soak 30 minutes or until softened. Remove mushrooms with a slotted spoon; rinse and finely chop.
- In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook and stir 3-4 minutes or until tender. Add fresh mushrooms, chopped morels and garlic; cook 3-4 minutes longer or until mushrooms are tender and liquid is evaporated. Stir in cream cheese, Asiago cheese, salt and pepper. Remove from heat; cool.
- Place 1 tablespoon filling in center of each of half of the wonton wrappers. Moisten wrapper edges with water; top with another wrapper. Press around filling to remove air pockets and seal edges. (Cover remaining wrappers with a damp paper towel until ready to use.)
- In a Dutch oven, bring water to a boil. Add ravioli in batches. Reduce heat; simmer gently 1-2 minutes or until ravioli float and wrappers are translucent. Remove with a slotted spoon. Serve with sauce; sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and parsley. Yield: 4 servings.
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August 12, 2023
Distributing payments in Sumrasar Jatwali, 2001.
After working with Kala Raksha, the trust I co-founded in 1993, I became acutely aware of the limitations of development for artisans in the NGO sector.
As Dr. Ismailbhai Khatri said (last post), the government should provide basic amenities to all. He was not asking for anything specific to artisans. But what should private entities provide? A plethora of NGOs have emerged to offer assistance to artisans beyond the scope of government.
Intermediaries fill a need. Arjo Klamer imagines an ideal Creative Craft Culture, in which there are 3 components: creative artisans, an appreciative market, and intermediaries to connect the two.
The issue is how do private intermediaries understand the need and attempt to fill it? When artisans are imagined as pre-industrial manufacturers, the goal is understood as making hand work fit into an industrial model: artisans need to scale up to make in quantity and make cheaply. Further, many NGOs need their artisan constituency in order to endure. So there is a vested interest in keeping artisans dependent, “helping” in order to maintain a status quo.
From the artisan perspective, a more respectful model could be developed on the concept of partnership, in which parties agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests and there is some mutuality of rights and obligations. Could artisans and intermediaries join their respective strengths and abilities to form balanced partnerships?
Another intriguing model is Gandhi’s specific concept of trusteeship as a way to address inequalities of ownership and income. Gandhi believed that
everything belongs to God and is for His people. No one could accumulate wealth without the labour and cooperation of poorer sections of society. So when an individual had more than their fair share, they became a trustee of that portion, and were logically and morally bound to share it. Gandhi’s goal was progress that promotes human dignity, rather than mere charity. Today’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is rooted in this concept of trusteeship; the concept is that companies have a responsibility to the society from which they derive resources.
As always, the question is, how to authentically interpret and implement this ideal?


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Trump Taps Mark Morgan, Former Obama Border Patrol Chief, to Head ICE
WASHINGTON — It’s not the kind of first meeting you want to have with your new boss: Just after Mark Morgan, then head of the Border Patrol, met Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly for the first time in January 2017, he was told that newly inaugurated President Trump was firing him.
Morgan had served as chief of Border Patrol for the last six months under Trump’s predecessor, President Obama, and Trump, who’d won the White House in part because of his pledges to crack down on immigration, had made clear he wanted to go in a different direction.
On Sunday, Trump announced he was bringing Morgan back, saying in a Twitter message that he was tapping Morgan to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, the embattled Homeland Security agency charged primarily with enforcement and deportations.
Morgan must still be formally nominated to the post, and confirmed by the Senate.
“I am pleased to inform all of those that believe in a strong, fair and sound Immigration Policy that Mark Morgan will be joining the Trump Administration as the head of our hard working men and women of ICE,” Trump tweeted. “Mark is a true believer and American Patriot. He will do a great job!”
As Trump has grown increasingly frustrated that his aggressive policies have failed to curb a surge in people crossing the southern border, primarily Central American families and asylum seekers, Morgan has voiced support for the president. In public appearances, congressional testimony, and interviews, Morgan has made clear he was auditioning for a new administration job.
Morgan did not respond to requests for comment Sunday.
“Here’s phase one of what ‘tougher’ looks like, in my opinion,” Morgan told The Times in an interview last month. “They have to stop expecting that Congress is going to do their job. DHS is going to have to address this issue all alone.”
Under current laws on asylum, “the incentive is: grab kid, step one foot onto U.S. soil, and you’re allowed in, never to be heard from again,” he continued. “In the immediate, we have to do something — even if we lose in the courts, we still gotta do something to stop the incentive.”
If confirmed, Morgan would be among the first to fill a key post vacated in Trump’s recent purge of top Homeland Security officials — starting with his previous nominee to lead ICE — as he vowed to go in a “tougher” direction to stop the surge at the border.
In contrast to a White House with relatively shallow experience in government, Morgan left at the end of January 2017 with more than three decades of service, in the Marines, like Kelly, as well as the FBI and several Homeland Security posts, under both Democratic and Republican administrations.
“Mark Morgan’s career spans more than 31 years of faithful service to the nation, including service in the U.S. Marine Corps, as a local deputy sheriff and police officer, 20 years in the FBI, as Assistant Commissioner of CBP’s Office of Internal Affairs, and, finally, as Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol,” Kevin McAleenan, the head of Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol’s parent agency, wrote upon Morgan’s departure. “I wish him every success in the future.”
That future is now again working under McAleenan, another former Obama official whom Trump named acting Homeland Security secretary after ousting Kirstjen Nielsen.
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A longtime anti-firearm politician in California who was charged with gun trafficking and corruption for allegedly accepting bribes thinks taxpayers should pay for his political campaigns.
In an interview in December, only a few months before he was charged, the suspended state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, said the public needs to “bite the bullet and take money out” of campaigns through public financing, because “money just simply corrupts.”
Yee explained to the Orange County’s Voice of OC, a non-profit investigative news agency, how politicians acquire a sense of entitlement.
“I think there’s that old adage, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s just human nature,” he said. “After a while, you kind of feel that you deserve, you know, all the perks of office, because you’ve suffered so much, you’ve given up so much. You should have all of those kinds of trappings.”
Yee said he had “served for a long time, and I know this stuff, so I don’t have to explain it to you, I don’t have to tell you that.”
“You should just believe me and trust me,” he said. “And I guess I kind of grew up in an era where that was not the norm, that’s not the way in which people behave. And you have to be open and you have to be transparent and you have to be accountable.”
Federal prosecutors on Thursday said they were planning to add racketeering charges to the organized crime and political corruption case against Yee.
The Mercury News reported U.S. Attorney William Frentzen told a federal judge that “RICO charges are coming” in the case.
Yee, 65, has pleaded not guilty to corruption and gun trafficking counts. He’s accused of taking cash in exchange for political promises as well as offering to set up an international arms deal.
He explained why he thinks candidates should be publicly financed.
“I just think that we’ve got to bite the bullet and take money out of it,” he said. “Because money just simply corrupts.
“We ought to find ways to take money out of it and part of it is we’ve got to look at public finance. I hate to say that because that’s going to be an additional responsibility to residents, to the taxpayers … but if we’re going to have open government, transparency, a government that is accountable to the people, the people’s going to have to fund that.
He said, however, it’s “not about simply letting anybody who wants to run all of a sudden go to the people and say give me … you’re going to have to raise enough money, demonstrate you’re a serious candidate and then get public financing.”
“I think we’ve got to tone down large campaign contributions coming in and taking away an election of the people,” he said.
“And you have to be open and you have to be transparent and you have to be accountable.”
WND reported April 13 that the suspension of Yee by the legislature was accompanied by a poll showing a plunge in support for California state lawmakers.
Yee, who was named to the “Gun Violence Prevention Honor Roll” by the Brady Campaign in 2006, is now under fire for his alleged involvement in supplying guns illegally in what is dubbed as “gangland ties.”
A Field Poll showed a nine-point shift in approval for the Legislature, with those who approve declining from 46 to 43 percent and those who disapprove rising from 40 to 46 percent.
National Rifle Association Director of Public Affairs Andrew Arulanandam told WND that when citizens are confronted with scandals such as the Yee case, “it dramatically violates their trust.”
“They roll their eyes and think this is the definition of hypocrisy,” he said.
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text: The ports of New England and eastern Canada bear witness to fascinating histories and vibrant cultures that continue to thrive to this day. Approaching these cities from the sea offers a memorable perspective: For many immigrants to North America, their first glimpse of their new lives would be from the decks of ships sailing into these harbors. While the fishing villages of New England and Canada's Atlantic Provinces embody a long seafaring tradition, neither region is frozen in time. World-class museums and celebrated restaurants sit side by side with historic sites. Whether you want to explore the early days of Canada and the United States or see what the future holds for their metropolises, a journey along North America’s Atlantic coast promises to be unforgettable.

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It might be theoretically possible for a punch to travel faster than the speed of sound* for a very short distance. (*about 355m/s or 1130 ft/s or 1230 km/h or 770 mph) But this would only be possible if one could conserve the momentum of the whole body and transfer it efficiently to the fist.
In classical mechanics momentum is equal to mass times velocity. P=mv
The velocity of a punch depends on the ability to efficiently transfer the maximum momentum of the body to the arm and fist. The momentum is increased by have a well trained connection from the ground through the properly aligned physical structure of the body to the hand. You are essentially converting the downward and backward force of the legs back up through the body and into the hand.
The neat thing about this is that you can, without bending your arm to wind up, make the fist go much faster than the combined speed of your body and arm could go using your own muscular force.
The punch can go faster than your muscles can make it go.
In Tai Chi we say “The power is like a whip.” This doesn’t refer to the quality of the movement, but to the way momentum is transferred.
The whip is the oldest supersonic machine known to man. The cracking sound of the whip is actually a sonic boom caused the the end of the whip breaking the sound barrier.
The tip of the whip is so light that the mass of whipper’s arm translates into velocity at the end of the whip (because the tip of the whip maintains the momentum but can’t increase its mass. (P=mv)
Doing this to your body can have some unfortunate consequences. That is why taijiquan stylists who practice the kind of conservation of momentum necessary to do this prefer instead to keep the body connected and let the momentum go some small part of the other person’s body.
If I can punch at 50 km/h but keep my body connected and properly aligned and stabilised, the momentum in my fist might approach 50 km/h X 90 kg, if I weighed 90 kg. Therefore p= 4500 kg•km/h
If I could efficiently transfer the momentum of my fist to a head that weighs about 3.6 kg then the head will accelerate to 1250 km/h (just a little faster than the speed of sound.)
Of course, even if such an efficient elastic collision could happen, neither of us would likely hear the sonic boom. I would be too distracted by the pain in my fist, and my “target” would be too distracted by the brain bouncing around inside the skull. So, even if I could hit that hard, I don’t think I would ever want to.
Some of fastest visible punching I’ve seen is done by a martial artist named Tommy Carruthers. You can see his videos on youtube.
Mantis Shrimp can “punch” about 80 km/h
In reality a good boxer can punch effectively at about 30 – 60 km/h. If the hand goes faster than that the boxer loses control and risks injury.
The force generated by a properly aligned 40 km/h punch is amazing. I’ve heard of punches with 400 kg of instantaneous force! That person could punch a field goal!
– Ian Sinclair