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Kristi Noem Visits The Southern Border, Discusses Rise In COVID Cases
Chad Hasty Published: July 27, 2021
You can listen to the full interview with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem in above.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem appeared on the Monday evening edition of The Chad Hasty Show to discuss her trip to the Texas/Mexico border and got into a few other issues as well.
Noem visited McAllen and visited with National Guard and Border Patrol Agents about the conditions on the Texas/Mexico border and the work being done by the organizations to attempt to get a handle on the number of people crossing illegally into the United States. Noem was able to visit with troops from South Dakota that were sent to help at the border.
Noem sent almost 50 South Dakota National Guard troops to Texas and said the troops are in good spirits and enjoy the work they are doing. Noem also told The Chad Hasty Show that the troops understand that an unsecured border leads to drugs flowing into South Dakota.
Noem told The Chad Hasty Show that she saw illegal immigrants crossing into the United States and that she was surprised to learn that in some sectors along the border, traffickers are making more money off of trafficking humans than drugs.
The coyotes have figured out how to put a price tag on people's heads. And they will not be detained if they have family units with a child under the age of seven. So they are picking up children and carrying them with them and bringing them along so they know they will be turned over to an NGO that will allow them to relocate anywhere in the United States. And that price tag on people's heads, typically a child is $200 to get across the border, an adult is $500 but can go up to $5,000.
Later in the interview Noem discussed the rise in coronavirus cases and said that she will continue doing what she has done in South Dakota by allowing people to make their own decisions when it comes to masks and vaccines. Noem said too many Governor's "overstepped their authority and tried to run people's lives".
You can listen to the full interview with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem above.
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Finally, a burger with a taste of place
By: Gary Paul Nabhan
Some 12 million people visit the Grand Canyon every year, but any "foodies" among them tend to be disappointed when they arrive at the rim.
Where in all this luscious landscape, they ask, is anyone serving food that tastes of this place? Why do so few restaurants in Arizona's canyon country feature the range-fed beef or lamb, vegetables, fruits or other seasonal fare produced by local farmers and ranchers? Except at the world-renowned Turquoise Room in Winslow and Garland's in Oak Creek, both of them Arizona towns several hours south of the Grand Canyon, few chefs in the region have been smart enough to make use of locally produced food and prepare it well.
Until now. When Derrick Widmark first got the idea for Diablo Burger two years ago, he was already working for the Diablo Trust, one of the oldest collaborations between ranchers and farmers in the West. The Diablo Trust began in 1993, at a humble community gathering arranged by the ranchers of the Flying M and Bar T Bar. Since then, the Trust has done so much to sustain open spaces, protect biodiversity and restore healthy watersheds that it has garnered awards from the U.S. Forest Service, the National Cattleman's Beef Association and the National Partnership for Reinventing Government.
And yet, even with such national and regional fame, Widmark knew that the nonprofit trust needed more of a human face in the communities of northern Arizona where it worked. Though millions of people travel through the hundreds of thousands of acres of working landscapes managed by the Diablo Trust, few had any idea what the group was trying to achieve. Fewer still ever tasted any of the food it produced in a local setting.
It took time and patience, but Widmark assembled a team of investors and collaborators who have now changed their community's notion of what good local food can be. And the food served on Heritage Square, smack-dab in the middle of downtown Flagstaff, is exceedingly good, modestly priced and served in a comfortable and elegant setting.
The beef in the burgers is raised on the open range, free of growth hormones and antibiotics. It comes exclusively from the ranches within the Diablo Canyon Rural Planning Area, an innovative effort to keep private landowners and agencies engaged in maintaining the integrity of a working landscape that covers nearly a half-million acres along I-40 between Flagstaff and Winslow. But this beef is not the tough, jerky-like chaw that Arizona ranches offered their cowboys a century ago; instead, it is deliciously seasoned and carefully prepared in a variety of ways that make you expand your notion of what a burger can really be.
Onions, herbs and tomatoes top the burgers, and they come from Mountain Meadow Farm in Flagstaff and McClendon's Select in Peoria, Ariz. The burgers come in buns, tortillas or rolls from the Tortilla Lady in Flagstaff and Simply Bread in Phoenix. Distinctive regional wines and beers are also featured. Soups, salads and desserts change each day or so, but the tomato soup I sampled was as good as any I've ever tasted: savory and smooth, but substantial.
Within the first month after opening, Diablo Burger was serving as many as 300 people from late afternoon through evening. Times might be hard, but the nation's economic downturn doesn't seem to be keeping folks away from food that's both good and affordable.
Range-fed beef, served within 40 miles of where it was produced, offers about the lowest carbon footprint of any food produced on the American continent. It's made up of sun and grass, and as free of petrochemicals as any food these days can be. You walk away from Diablo Burger with a lingering sense that your decision to eat there has been pretty good for you, for the land, and for the local rural community. What more could anyone want?
Gary Paul Nabhan is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he is a professor at the University of Arizona and the author of several books, including Coming Home To Eat.
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Money for Hospital Beds, Not Trump's Wall
On February 27, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, unveiled a bill that had the potential to positively affect the lives of millions of Americans. It was intended to immediately divert money from President Donald Trump's border wall to the U.S. response to the coronavirus. At the time, we could only guess how badly such funds would be needed. Now, more than a month later, public health officials have informed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that a minimum of 140,000 hospital beds and 40,000 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds will be needed by April 15 in his state alone to deal with the predicted peak of COVID-19.
Indigenous group reaffirms importance of Quitobaquito Springs amid border wall construction
Members of the Tohono O'odham Nation reaffirmed the modern relevancy of a sacred site in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument impacted by border wall construction.
A group of Tohono O'odham, Hia C-ed O'odham, Pascua Yaqui and their non-Indigenous allies gathered, Sunday, March 8, beside the pond fed by Quitobaquito Springs to discuss how building the border wall and pumping local groundwater to make cement is harming the area cherished by the local Indigenous peoples.
Marlene Vazquez is a member of the Tohono O'odham Nation. She said she regularly visits Quitobaquito Springs, but she's seen the landscape change to the recent changes.


Experimental noise rock act, Dose, presents a dim, murky track with discordant melodies and effects that will make you think deep and question some things in your life. Possibly in a good-kind-of-bad way.
The guitar work reminds us of the stylings of Interpol, but a lot darker and mysterious. It's a good listen when you're on a contemplative mood, or when you're just in an angrier state than you usually are. Perfect for the angst-ridden, music snobs, "Furniture" is like something out of the precious old school vault. And you know that it's going to be good when you open that vault.
Furniture is part of Dose's debut 7″, due for a release on April 27 via A Turntable Friend.


According to Us Weekly, Jenelle recently took to Instagram where she did a question-and-answer session with her fans. Aside from revealing that David would like to adopt her son "one day," she also spoke out about how David feels about Andrew Lewis trying to contact Jace.
Fans met Jenelle when she was pregnant with Jace on her Season 2 episode of 16 and Pregnant. The episode aired in 2010 and showed a pregnant Jenelle and her then boyfriend Andrew. Jenelle's mother eventually gained custody of Jace and while Jenelle maintains contact and visitation with her son, Andrew has not.
Still, that didn't stop Andrew from speaking his mind on the most recent episode of Teen Mom 2. Jenelle's mother, Barbara, spoke to Andrew about meeting Jace and she also voiced her concerns which included Andrew's past drinking problem.
Jenelle's concern for Jace meeting Andrew was the fear that he would come into his life only to leave again. The Teen Mom 2 star revealed that her own father did that to her when she was young, and she doesn't want her son to go through the same thing.
While Jace is her oldest child, Jenelle also has two other children. She and her ex-boyfriend Nathan share a son and she and her husband have a daughter together.
After her episode of 16 and Pregnant, Jenelle went on to film for Teen Mom 2. She has filmed many aspects of her life since then. Over the years, she and her mother have had their differences, but recently the two have been getting along.
She is currently appearing on Season 9 of the hit MTV show. New episodes are airing on MTV Monday nights.


Take a look at this tutorial that'll provides some guidance on deploying Tornado Web Server to Elastic Beanstalk.
Using Tornado Web server for Python on Elastic Beanstalk isn't quite straightforward. There isn't much information on the internet, either. The objective of this article is to be a guide and reference.
Tornado Web Server uses non-blocking IO to support thousands of connections in parallel. It is different from most Python web frameworks. It is not based on WSGI, and it is typically run with only one thread per process. Tornado is integrated with the standard library asyncio module and shares the same event loop (by default since Tornado 5.0). In general, libraries designed for use with asyncio can be mixed freely with Tornado.
Integrating Tornado and WSGI servers like (UWSGI) could be troublesome. Let's try to integrate an example "Hello World" Tornado application with UWSGI.
We will be using UWSGI server to integrate with Tornado, and a simple HTTP socket-based UWSGI configuration is given below.
Above file and along with all the required dependencies can be now bundled and deployed to Elastic Beanstalk.


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Jornada Bat Caves Bats leaving the caves. © Jackie Hall/TNC
Jornada Bat Caves
Email: nm@tnc.org
Protecting one of New Mexico's greatest high-flying nature acts.
About Bats
The Jornada Bat Caves, located in southern New Mexico, are home to a protected population of Mexican free-tailed bats.
Only five or so cave complexes across the U.S. host larger populations of this bat species (the largest is the Eckert James River Bat Cave in Texas). The Mexican free-tailed bats occupy the caves from March through October, with a maternal colony of well over 100,000.
And, they are not alone.
Seven other species of bats have been identified at the Jornada site, including Allen's big-eared bat and the spotted bat. In addition, millions of migratory bats use the cave as a stop-over site during the warm season.
Despite these staggering numbers, bat populations around the world are experiencing dramatic declines. For example, it has been estimated that the population of Mexican free-tailed bats in Carlsbad Caverns once numbered in the millions—today those numbers are under 500,000.
Our Work in New Mexico
The Nature Conservancy recognized decades ago the significance of the Jornada Bat Caves and the site's importance to the future survival of bats. We have actively worked to find a way to end the biggest threat—unregulated use and guano mining.
Bat guano was mined from the Jornada Bat Caves in the late 19th century, and guano was still being removed from the site well into the 1980s for use as fertilizer. Miners blasted holes in the ceiling of the cave to ease the removal of guano, which limited roosting habitat for bats by creating light shafts into the lava tubes.
In the late 1980s, the Conservancy approached Tenneco—a Houston-based industrial corporation that owned the mineral rights in the area—about protection of the site. In 1993, the company donated the mineral rights associated with 5,175 acres including the Jornada Bat Caves to TNC.
Shortly after, Ted Turner acquired the property as part of his purchase of the 358,000-acre Armendaris Ranch. With his help and assistance from the University of New Mexico, the Conservancy got to work restoring the Jornada Caves for the bats.
The future of the Jornada Bat Caves looks bright. Ranch staff has taken important steps to limit access and protect the cave site from disturbance, and the Conservancy continues to work with Mr. Turner on other efforts to ensure the health of bat populations into the future.
The Jornada Bat Caves are located on a private 358,000-acre Ranch.
Armendaris Ranch
Located on a private ranch, the Jornada Bat Caves are home to a protected bat population. Public access is limited.
358,000 acres
Bats are essential to the health of our natural world. Losing them would have devastating consequences for nature and the economy. Here a few ways bats benefit us.
They help control pests. Many of the more than 1,200 bat species worldwide consume vast amounts of insects, including disease-carrying mosquitoes and damaging agricultural pests. A favorite target of the Mexican free-tail bat is the corn earworm moth, which attacks a host of commercial plants from artichokes to watermelons.
They are vital pollinators. Bats disperse seeds for countless plants, ensuring the production of fruits that support local economies as well as diverse animal populations. Even bat droppings, called guano, are valuable as a rich natural fertilizer.
Battle for Bats
The Jornada Bat Caves are long lava tubes that intersect one another and run for hundreds of feet. The caves are home to a protected bat colony—a maternal colony of well over 100,000 Mexican free-tailed bats that occupy the caves from March to October.
A primary threat to all U.S. bat species is White-nose syndrome—a devastating condition that causes bats to awaken from hibernation early, using up their fat reserves and causing death by freezing or starvation.
The disease has killed more than 1 million bats since it was discovered in New York in 2006, creating what biologists have said is "the most precipitous wildlife decline in the past century in North America."
Nine bat species in more than 20 states across the eastern U.S. have been affected. And, this relentless disease continues to spread west into new areas.
Scientists are working diligently to research White-nose syndrome in the hopes of finding a way to stop its advance and mitigate its impact.
Setting the Stage for a Comeback
The Nature Conservancy has worked over the years to limit human access to the caves so bats are not exposed to disease or disrupted during critical times of hibernation and birthing.
In fact, we limit Conservancy-sponsored visits to the site to once a year to monitor the status of the caves (from the outside) and witness one of nature's most incredible sights—a cloud of hungry bats emerging from the cave on their way to a bug buffet.
Danger for Dinner
Every night at dusk, during the summer months, waves of bats fly out of the Jornada Bat Caves and head toward the Rio Grande and irrigated farm fields, where swarms of insects gather.
But it's a treacherous road to dinner. Overhead, a group of raptors, particularly Swainson's hawks, keep watch. They circle the bats and then dive down, grabbing a bat—and their next meal—if they are lucky.
It's an extraordinary display of nature in action.
Conservation Update
Bananas to Bats
The Science Behind the First Bats Successfully Treated for White-Nose Syndrome
By Matthew L. Miller
Top 10 Bat Facts
With 1,100 species of bats worldwide, bats make up one-quarter of the world's mammals. Learn the top 10 facts!
Texas hosts one of the largest bat nurseries in the country.
Support Our Work at Jornada Bat Caves
You can help us continue our important conservation efforts to protect the Jornada bats and all of New Mexico's diverse wildlife.
Armendaris Ranch The sun sets over the Armendaris Ranch and its protected bat population. © Jackie Hall/TNC
Landscape of Armendaris Ranch The Jornada Bat Caves are located on the northern end of the 358,000-acre Armendaris Ranch, owned by Ted Turner. © Jackie Hall/TNC
Jornada Bat Cave in 1915 This photo was taken in 1915 for use in "Economic Geology of the Pedro Armendaris Land Grant in South Central New Mexico." © W.H. Storms
Repairing Skylights Armendaris Ranch staff work with the University of New Mexico and TNC to plug a "skylight" excavated by miners to provide easier access to bat guano in the lava cave below. © TNC
Lava Tubes One of several entrances to Jornada Bat Caves, which are actually long lava tubes. © Jackie Hall/TNC
Cave Entrance Eight million migratory bats use the Jornada Bat Caves as a stop-over site. © Jackie Hall/TNC
Danger for Dinner Watch one of New Mexico's greatest high-flying nature acts.


What's one thing you can do to significantly impact your chance of success? Practice more Empathy.
Empathy is no longer looked at as just a soft skill, but something that is increasingly necessary for leaders and managers to increase their effectiveness and drive high performance from their teams.
For many people, they believe that Empathy is like Sympathy, but there is a very distinct difference. Empathy is the ability to sit in someone else's seat and look at the world from their perspective. It's very different than sympathy which is feeling for them, sharing in their pain. Empathy allows you to get a different view of the world and can make your product, services, and your own brand better when people feel like you can relate. No one has an objective review of reality, we all look at it through our own lens, so making sure we are looking at it from different perspectives becomes increasingly important to ensure the long-term success of our products and services.
Many business leaders and entrepreneurs focus on figuring out their own pain or problems, solving for them and then selling the solution to everyone else. That approach to new products and services works for anyone else who has the same pain. Where it creates a limitation is when they aren't listening and gauging the consumer or their client on the real problems they should be solving for.
To instill confidence in clients for the long term, you do not always have to be the smartest person in the room, you need to care the most. Focus on making your customer, your employee, or whoever you are working with the hero and not yourself or your ideas. How do we help them solve the problems they have so they become the hero?
Many people see empathy as an innate skill that either you have, or you don't. I agree that while some people have empathy as a super power, I also believe we all have the ability to strengthen our empathy muscles whether it is a natural super power or not. Sometimes it takes slowing down and really listening – as Stephen Covey taught us – "seek first to understand and then to be understood" in his book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
I want to challenge you to think about how strong your empathy muscle is and how you can exercise it more. That might mean finding someone you trust who has it as a strength to mentor and coach you along the way or it might mean taking time for quiet reflection and making sure you are building it into new projects, services or customer engagements.
The more you practice it, the stronger the empathy muscle will get, and I strongly believe that empathy is the catalyst for driving change in our businesses, communities and our lives.
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Thinking about problems as systems of relationships has a very long history. I ran across it in the 70's when I was trying to understand how change worked. Every 10 years or do, there is a resurgence of interest in systems thinking. It makes intuitive sense that seeing the problem of focus in the larger world in which the problem exists should make it easier to solve.
But systems theory is very abstract, and the history of the use of systems theory in problem solving is basically a path of trying to make it more practical. "Rich Pictures" (above) is one practical method, but there are a very large number of practical methods out there, and there is no easy way to pick one. Basically, if the tool resonates with you, you should learn more by using it. You develop the usefulness of systems thinking by trying to use it rather than by learning some specific magic-bullet method. Systems thinking is a way to frame advocacy problems and advocacy strategy, not a way to replace a leaky faucet in your kitchen.
If this description reminds you of an ecosystem, that's because ecology is the index example of a complex system, and all complex systems share important similarities. I'll be discussing some of those similarities in future posts.
For some time I have been working on a series of four presentations to help advocates understand how change strategy can support, expand, and deepen their advocacy efforts. While it is hard for me to view them as final, I thought I'd provide them for review where they are now. The links are to PDF files of each presentation. The PDFs include both the slides and fairly extensive notes (one slide + notes on each page of the PDF). If you want an alternative format, send me an email at ndelisle@mymdrc.org, and I'll crank one out for you.
This presentation gives an overview of why strategy for change organizations matters at all. I focus on a very real issue (that all advocacy organizations face); how do we struggle with the problems that our core mission and keeping our doors open create? Sometimes both these missions mesh and sometimes they don't. How can we manage the evolving relationship between our purpose and our logistics?
Since real strategy building is no longer a standard part of non-profit change work, how do we build one? There is a long history of efforts to build strategies and a wide variety of meaningful frameworks to help. Pick the one (or more) that resonate with you and learn more about those.
Once you have a strategy, how do you make it real in your advocacy environment? Again, there is a long history of methods for making what you want to be real. And Again, choose the ones that are most attractive you and explore them more.
Well, if something occurs to you, let me know!
I am part of a large work group negotiating a rough consensus about how Michigan should implement the CMS HCBS Community Services Rule. This set of requirements for services to people with disabilities through Medicaid is the most far reaching effort to change the quality and impact of supports since the closing of institutions in the 70's.
What makes the HCBS Rule so revolutionary is the guiding principle of its implementation: The life possibilities and experience of persons receiving supports should be the same as the possibilities and experience of people without disabilities.
The implementation of this rule will occur over the next few years, and there are many, many practical issues with altering the way supports are currently structured, planned, funded, and implemented.
There is a disconnect between the way a civil right is supposed to operate and the way that we actually go about realizing that right in practice. The CMS HCBS rule highlights this disconnect very clearly.
Civil rights were originally developed as an expansion of the notion of property rights. It appears as though this had to be done in order to make civil rights palatable to American courts. Broadly, property rights were intended to protect contracts (and estate inheritance, a kind of contract between generations). So the focus was on the specification of the meaning of language in a contract, and the preservation of the property interest from fraud.
And, in fact, much of civil rights advocacy whether in courts, fair hearings, IEPs, etc. is an effort to negotiate a final version of a contract (between family, student, and school; between landlord and person with a disability, and so on).
But the meaning of a civil right to the person who "has" it and the meaning of that same right in an ongoing advocacy process is different, and it is this reality that leads me to describe the HCBS implementation process as having a disconnect.
I realized this disconnect when it became apparent that many stakeholders in the implementation process for HCBS view the implementation as a negotiation over terms, albeit a new one (or as it is often called by providers, a "fad"). Their ideal outcome would be a negotiation that allowed them to behave and be paid in exactly the same way they do now.
But, from the perspective of a person who might benefit from the implementation, the terms have a very different meaning. The rights being discussed are only incidentally about what providers can no longer do in restricting the person's access to the full community. HCBS implementation has the ability to open up an unrestrained vista of choice that maps to the one that all citizens expect.
All of the counter arguments to such an opening of possibility are arguments that devalue the ability of people with disabilities to benefit from such possibilities (hiding the true agenda of maintaining current payment relationships and workflows).
The fact that there is a larger "meta" strategy underlying HCBS implementation to open up these possibilities doesn't change the requirement of negotiating as though we were creating a contract for how supports will be done. But it does re-frame what is at stake. All of our lives are a mixture of what we would choose to do if a broad range of possibilities were available, and how others work to restrict our choices to the ones that benefit them rather than us. The disconnect in the meaning of this negotiation underlies the long struggle of people with disabilities to realize their self-chosen lives and the efforts of others to stop that.
We will see how far the HCBS implementation reaches toward that goal of equity in life possibilities. But that common goal will remain the harbinger of a truly free disabled community, and nothing less will ultimately be acceptable to all in our community.
In my last post I tried to frame what I brought to the experience of social injustice gained from the communities in which I was raised. But the actual experience of social injustice and the experience of trying to prevent or resist it are far more powerful ways to develop the meaning of social justice and the motivation to pursue it as a calling.
Personal Disability Experience: A core of any social justice calling is your own experience of stigma and oppression. I was well aware before adolescence that my thinking and mood weren't normal, but because they were predictable I was able to imitate others and do an adequate job of passing. When I became a teenager, my first serious depression occurred along with massive social anxiety, and I understood that I was seriously disabled. At the same time, a friend of mine, who I knew was a person with a developmental disability was carted off to Lapeer Hospital. When I asked why I was told that his family didn't think he would be able to handle junior and senior high school. I took this to mean that I too could be institutionalized if adults decided I couldn't handle school emotionally. I hid a great deal in order to avoid institutionalization. I ran into this friend at the Michigan Arc 50th Anniversary Conference, and he was living in his own apartment and instantly recognized me. I had a notion that he had been crushed by a system of oppression, but he had found a way to live the life he wished. A very good lesson indeed.
Murder at a Fiesta: When I was 15 I worked in a Catholic youth group project with migrant family crop workers in northern Bay County. Our job was to support young children (under the age of 6 or with a disability) in schoolwork. One reason was that migrant families had to come up north before school ended and not leave until after school started. Another reason was to keep young kids out of the fields and the sun.At the fiesta in early July to celebrate the end of one kind of crop work, two young men had an argument with several others. One pulled out a revolver and fired it, missing those arguing and hitting a young man in the heart 30 feet away, killing him.
Television of Beatings of civil rights protesters: Like many others, I was shocked by the abuse of civil rights protesters in the mid-60's. It was visual proof of what civil rights activists had said was the case. This vision of oppression was cemented by the killing of 3 civil rights workers.
Military Experience: I witnessed a large amount of racially based discrimination during both my training and combat experiences. I also tried to do something about what I saw, but was barely able to dent it. But, I saw organized efforts by black soldiers to resist that were much more effective.
Fred Hampton: A couple of days after I came home from Vietnam (mid-December, 1969), I read an article about the police raid that killed Fred Hampton in Chicago. There was a small black and white picture of his bed, clearly and deeply stained with his blood. I can still remember that picture though the details of the raid have faded.
PWD and Family Support Experiences: In the early 70's I worked with people who had very significant brain injuries from a wide range of causes. Their families had kept them out of state institutions, and there were no supports for either the families or the person with the disability. The most important lesson I learned in this work was that persons with severe disabilities continued to develop and work for their own development largely unsupported by their environment. This was mostly due to our inability to see their actions as attempts to engage with their world and learn about it like the rest of us. I had to learn (as did the families) a deeper way of seeing so that I could support their efforts to become more. There was a real struggle involved in this learning, but it became easier and easier over time. Now I see this drive to have a larger life in everyone.
Advocacy experience: There are far too many lessons from my work as an advocate at Michigan Protection and Advocacy to narrate them here. Perhaps the most important for my current work and my understanding of social justice was the realization over time and through experience that the most important drivers of oppression and devaluing are habits of thought and work, and that most people (just like me) can come to a deeper understanding of the need for and power of self-determination and choice.
Seeing the disability rights movement catch fire and grow: Once I understood that everyone in the disability community was struggling to become more, I could see it everywhere. Social networks (most especially including peer groups and peer work) are now taking that struggle out of the realm of the solitary activist and making it more and more a struggle through mutual support and mutual learning.
I am able to see our common work to expand the possibilities of our community far more as a force or a flow now than I could when I was younger. Even as our community faces renewed efforts to eliminate us from the social stage, we have become far more capable of asserting our right to be as we are, and to pursue our personal and community growth as we see fit. The struggle is far from over, but we are far better prepared to embrace it. My epiphanies may have less impact on me as individual events than they did when I was younger. But now they are occurring all the time, expanding and deepening my appreciation of the gift that is the struggle for social justice.
I am going to take a short break from posts about change strategy to finish work on a couple of ideas.


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package io.grpc;

import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;

import io.grpc.NameResolver.ServiceConfigParser;
import java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler;
import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;

/** Unit tests for the inner classes in {@link NameResolver}. */
@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class NameResolverTest {
  private final int defaultPort = 293;
  private final ProxyDetector proxyDetector = mock(ProxyDetector.class);
  private final SynchronizationContext syncContext =
      new SynchronizationContext(mock(UncaughtExceptionHandler.class));
  private final ServiceConfigParser parser = mock(ServiceConfigParser.class);
  private final ScheduledExecutorService scheduledExecutorService =
      mock(ScheduledExecutorService.class);
  private final ChannelLogger channelLogger = mock(ChannelLogger.class);
  private final Executor executor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
  private final String overrideAuthority = "grpc.io";

  @Test
  public void args() {
    NameResolver.Args args = createArgs();
    assertThat(args.getDefaultPort()).isEqualTo(defaultPort);
    assertThat(args.getProxyDetector()).isSameInstanceAs(proxyDetector);
    assertThat(args.getSynchronizationContext()).isSameInstanceAs(syncContext);
    assertThat(args.getServiceConfigParser()).isSameInstanceAs(parser);
    assertThat(args.getScheduledExecutorService()).isSameInstanceAs(scheduledExecutorService);
    assertThat(args.getChannelLogger()).isSameInstanceAs(channelLogger);
    assertThat(args.getOffloadExecutor()).isSameInstanceAs(executor);
    assertThat(args.getOverrideAuthority()).isSameInstanceAs(overrideAuthority);

    NameResolver.Args args2 = args.toBuilder().build();
    assertThat(args2.getDefaultPort()).isEqualTo(defaultPort);
    assertThat(args2.getProxyDetector()).isSameInstanceAs(proxyDetector);
    assertThat(args2.getSynchronizationContext()).isSameInstanceAs(syncContext);
    assertThat(args2.getServiceConfigParser()).isSameInstanceAs(parser);
    assertThat(args2.getScheduledExecutorService()).isSameInstanceAs(scheduledExecutorService);
    assertThat(args2.getChannelLogger()).isSameInstanceAs(channelLogger);
    assertThat(args2.getOffloadExecutor()).isSameInstanceAs(executor);
    assertThat(args2.getOverrideAuthority()).isSameInstanceAs(overrideAuthority);

    assertThat(args2).isNotSameInstanceAs(args);
    assertThat(args2).isNotEqualTo(args);
  }

  private NameResolver.Args createArgs() {
    return NameResolver.Args.newBuilder()
        .setDefaultPort(defaultPort)
        .setProxyDetector(proxyDetector)
        .setSynchronizationContext(syncContext)
        .setServiceConfigParser(parser)
        .setScheduledExecutorService(scheduledExecutorService)
        .setChannelLogger(channelLogger)
        .setOffloadExecutor(executor)
        .setOverrideAuthority(overrideAuthority)
        .build();
  }
}

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NTEA calls on Congress to repeal the Federal Excise Tax
Emily Norton
emilyn@ntea.com
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (July 28, 2021) — NTEA – The Association for the Work Truck Industry commends U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) for introducing S. 2435, the Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act of 2021. This bipartisan bill would repeal the 12% Federal Excise Tax (FET) on heavy trucks and trailers.
NTEA calls on Congress to repeal the FET as a part of any upcoming infrastructure legislation. Eliminating the FET would provide Congress the opportunity to create long-term stability in the Highway Trust Fund by replacing the FET with a funding source not based on annual truck sales.
"NTEA is a longstanding advocate of repealing the more than 100-year-old burdensome and complex tax, and is a founding member of the Modernize the Truck Fleet coalition," said Steve Carey, NTEA's president and CEO. "We believe repeal will help fleets to replace older and less fuel-efficient heavy-duty trucks with safer and more environmentally friendly new trucks."
Repealing the FET would allow purchasers to more readily integrate cleaner and safer vehicles into their fleet and will help protect U.S. jobs. Additionally, repeal would clear the way to better alternative funding mechanisms for highway repair and maintenance.
Senator Young stated, "Our bipartisan bill will open the floodgates to investment in safer and cleaner trucks and trailers that will benefit our economy and the environment."
The FET, originally created in 1917 to help pay for World War I, is the highest percentage excise tax levied by the federal government. Adding the tax on top of the costs associated with the latest emissions technology for heavy-duty trucks forces many small businesses to delay purchasing a new vehicle.
"Our tax policy is one of the most effective ways Congress can encourage cleaner and greener technology. The current federal excise tax has become a barrier to the progress," said Senator Cardin.
For more information on FET, including a copy of S. 2435, the Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act of 2021, visit ntea.com/repealfet.
About NTEA
NTEA – The Association for the Work Truck Industry represents more than 2,000 companies that manufacture, distribute, install, sell and repair commercial trucks, truck bodies, truck equipment, trailers and accessories. Buyers of work trucks and the major commercial truck chassis manufacturers also belong to the Association. NTEA provides in-depth technical information, education, and member programs and services, and produces Work Truck Week™. The Association maintains its administrative headquarters in suburban Detroit and government relations offices in Washington, DC, and Ottawa, Ontario. NTEA staff are knowledgeable and experienced in a variety of areas related to the work truck industry. Visit ntea.com/meetourexperts to learn more or request an interview.


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La Pierre Levée, appelée aussi dolmen de Peyrelevade, est un dolmen situé sur la commune de Lentillac-du-Causse dans le département français du Lot.

Historique
Le dolmen a été fouillé par Jacques-Antoine Delpon au début du . Il est classé au titre des monuments historiques par arrêté du .

Description
Le dolmen a été édifié au sommet d'une colline. C'est un dolmen simple.

Selon Delpon, la chambre funéraire ne contenait aucun ossement ni matériel archéologique mais le tumulus du dolmen aurait renfermé dix tombes fermées par des pierres plates placées directement sur les squelettes. Six tombeaux renfermaient qu'un squelette, trois en contenaient plusieurs (avec un maximum de quatre) et le dernier contenait des ossements calcinés mélangés avec des charbons de bois. Une médaille à l'effigie de l'empereur Constantin a été retrouvée dans l'une des tombes. En 1958, un sondage dans le tumulus a livré une poterie attribuée à l'âge du bronze.

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Sites mégalithiques du Lot
 Liste des monuments historiques du Lot

Bibliographie

Dolmen dans le Lot
Dolmen monument historique en France
Monument historique dans le Lot
Monument historique classé en 1989

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1972: The Year Anime Got Groovy
It's 1972! President Nixon's plumbers are plumbing up what we'd call Watergate, while Tricky Dick makes a historic relations-normalizing visit to mainland China. Arab terrorists murder 11 at the Munich Summer Olympics, a three-man Japanese hit squad kills 26 at Lod Airport near Tel Aviv, and negotiators in Paris try to hammer out a Vietnam peace deal. Top American films include The Poseidon Adventure, Blacula, The Godfather, and Georgia dueling-banjos favorite Deliverance, while on TV audiences enjoyed All In The Family, Columbo, The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Flip Wilson, Emergency!, Sanford & Son, Maude, the Bob Newhart Show, M*A*S*H and Kung Fu. Kids tuned in Saturday mornings to watch Scooby-Doo, The Osmonds, Josie & The Pussycats In Outer Space, The Brady Kids, Sealab 2020, and endless reruns of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Meanwhile in Japan, the Winter Olympics were held in Sapporo. Yes, they used to hold the summer and winter Olympics in the same year! Controlled by the US since the end of WWII, Okinawa was returned to Japanese administration. Japanese theaters spent 1972 screening Godzilla Vs Gigan, Female Prisoner 701 Scorpion, two Zatoichi films, and four Lone Wolf & Cub movies, while Japanese TV aired the historical dramas Mito Kōmon and Ōedo Sōsamō, the tokusatsu adventures of Kamen Rider, Lion Maru, Ultraman Ace, and Kikaida, the detective series Key Hunter, and the "Japan's Got Talent" series Star Tanjō!
1972 Japanese film and TV
But here at Let's Anime we are an anime blog, we're here to talk about Japanese animation and what it looked like fifty years ago. 1972 was a year that set Japanese animation firmly upon the path it still walks today, a merchandise-driven, synergistic production-committee collaboration between the publishing industry, the toy industry, the broadcasting industry, and the eyeballs of impressionable children. Right now we're living in the anime ecosystem that 1972 built.
Stars of 1971
Continuing from 1971 were series like the second Q-Taro The Ghost anime, the first Lupin III series, the second Kitaro show and, of course, the longest running animated series of all time anywhere, Sazae-san, brought to you by Toshiba. But let's keep moving and get into the new Japanese animation happening in 1972!
First up in our list is Astroganger. Fleeing the evil alien Blasters, the extra-terrestrial Maya crash-lands on Earth, falls in love with a scientist and gives birth to a human boy named Kantaro. When the Blasters invade the Earth, Kantaro must defeat them by fighting with Astroganger, a robot made from living metal. This was the first color super robot TV anime, if you can call Astroganger super, which I personally do not. However, let's remember that every anime series is somebody's favorite anime series, and Astrogangar is no exception, being popular in Italy and the Arabic world. This Knack anime series ran for 26 episodes between October 1972 and March 1973.
Seen in Mexico as "Capitan Centella," Moon Mask Rider is based on the groundbreaking tokusatsu hero series Gekko Kamen/Moonlight Mask/Moon Mask Rider, who donned the titular moon mask, fired up his moon cycle, and strapped on his moon six-guns for justice in the name of the Moon on TV in 1958 and soon afterwards in six feature films. The '72 version, also animated by Knack, appeared in response to the success of 1971 tokusatsu series Kamen Rider, itself perhaps influenced by the original Moon Mask.
Onbu Obake aka "Piggyback Ghost" aired from October '72 until September 1973 and was based on the manga by Ryuichi Yokoyama, who created the wartime manga Fuku-chan and was one of the first manga-ka to be recognized by the Japanese government as a serious artist. A Top Craft/Eiken series, Onbu Obake aired on YTV. The Onbu Ghost was born from jade and spends happy days with a kind old blacksmith and a young village girl, encountering a wide variety of Japanese folktales as he becomes pretty much a Japanese version of Casper The Friendly Ghost. In the final episode, Onbu saves the village by holding up a crumbling rock all night alone, before exhausting his powers and returning to the jade from whence he came. Beat that, Casper!
Tamagon The Counselor or "Kaiketsu Tamagon" is a goofy, friendly monster who is inordinately fond of eggs. He advises anyone with a problem, asking only eggs in payment - as soon as he's eaten that egg he gets to work. However his solutions usually end in comedic failure and he winds up being chased by his irate clients. This series of 195 5-minute shorts from Tatsunoko aired in Europe as "Eggzavier the Eggasaurus."
Pinocchio, the venerable Carlo Collodi folktale, comes to life in this 1972 Tatsunoko TV series. Pinocchio here is known as "Mock Of The Oak" or Kashi no Ki Mokku, and he faces constant struggle and strife as he makes his way through the world. This was released on VHS and DVD in North America, look for it in the thrifts!
The historical samurai series Akado (Red-breast) Suzunosuke is based on the 1954 manga by Eiichi Fukui and Tsunayoshi Takeuchi, which ran in Shonen Pictorial and spawned a radio drama, a TV show, nine feature films, and this anime series from TMS, which was directed by Isao Takahata and featured key animation from some dude named Hayao Miyazaki. It's about Suzunosuke Konno, an Edo-period boy swordsman learning his chops at the Hokushin Ittō-ryū Chiba Shusaku Dojo. He habitually sports his father's red breastplate, leading to the nickname and the series' title.
Mon Chéri CoCo is 13 episodes of romantic comedy anime airing from August to November 1972, with animation by Studio Look, Studio Take, and Joke. CoCo was a Nippon TV Video/NTN/TBS production and is based on the manga by Waki Yamato, who'd later create the popular Taisho-period romance Haikara-san. CoCo's star is Coco Charmant, a Paris fashion designer with a French textile-company president father and a Japanese mom from a Kyoto fabric wholesaler background. Coco creates her own new styles in the fashion world while mixing love and friendship. CoCo's production head Shimozaki Jun resigned at the end of August and NTN's animation producer resigned in October, leading us to conclude this early shoujo romance anime was cursed. The CoCo series has only been re-run once and has never been released on home video.
A child of Atlantis, Triton Of The Sea was raised by humans but discovers his true identity and sets forth to battle the empire of Poseidon with his mermaid friend Pipi and his magic sword, turning the ocean red with the blood of his enemies. Seriously, this is a violent show! Based on the "Blue Triton" manga by Osamu Tezuka from 1969, the manga was later renamed to come into line with the TV anime, which only lasted 27 episodes but would return for two 1979 features culled from the show. Triton was directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and the animation was produced by Yoshinobu Nishizaki's "Animation Staff Room," a studio which would become Nishizaki's Office Academy and soon release Space Battleship Yamato.
Based on the folksy, quirky fantasy comics & novels by Finnish national treasure Tove Jansson, Shin Moomin or "New Moomin" is a 1972 Mushi Pro anime series that continued the 1969 Moomin anime, which was produced by TMS until somebody named Hayao Miyazaki decided the show needed tanks in it. Suddenly TMS was out and Mushi was in. The 1972 series lasted 52 episodes and is all Mushi.
Doknojo Gaeru or The Gutsy Frog, based on Yasumi Yoshizawa's six-year run in Shonen Jump, is all about middle schooler Hiroshi who accidentally squashed the frog Pyonkichi onto his sweatshirt. Now Pyonkichi lives on the front of Hiroshi's shirt and causes no end of kooky comedic situations. This iconic TMS series ran for 206 episodes and was brought back in 1981 and again in 2015 as a live action show.
The '72 TMS TV series pilot "Yuki's Sun" is based on the manga by Tetsuya "Tomorrow's Joe" Chiba and is about an orphan named Yuki who's adopted by a new family. This was Hayao Miyazaki's first solo directorial work.
Yuki and Pandas
In 1972 the Chinese government loaned Japan two giant pandas for the Ueno Zoo and Japan went positively psychotic for pandas. One of the products of this mania we know as Panda ko Panda, a pair of short TMS films about a little girl named Mimiko who befriends both a baby panda named Pan-chan and Pan-chan's panda Papa. The creative team involved superstars Isao Takahata, Hayao Miyazaki, and Yoshifumi Kondo, who used concepts left over from their aborted "Pippi Longstocking" project (I guess Astrid Lindgren heard about the Moomin tanks).
Nagagutsu Sanjuushi aka The Return Of Pero aka Ringo Rides West aka the second of Toei's Puss In Boots movies is a kiddy version of a spaghetti western as Toei mascot cat Pero finds himself chased all the way to the Old West! Outlaws are trying to take over frontier Go Go Town for their own evil ends and Annie's inheritance stands in their way. Will Pero and the mysterious Kid With No Name aka Jimmy save the town?
Hellhound Liner 0011 Henshin! Tsutomu lives in the world of the future and his only friends are dogs. When those dogs are killed by outer space alien invaders in an assassination attempt on Tsutomu's father, there is only one response - to rebuild those dogs into transforming robot combination spaceship cyborgs and destroy the planet of devils! This is a kids' movie? This IS a kids' movie, a Toei Manga Matsuri favorite delivering rocket-powered robot monster-destroying excitement at 24 frames a second. Don't miss it!
"Anime Document München e no Michi" or Anime Document: The Road To Munich is a combination animation/live action documentary series about the Japanese Men's Volleyball Team as they prepare for the 1972 Munich Olympics. This series, the second time animation was used in a "documentary" format on Japanese TV, aired on TBS from 23 April to 20 August 1972, was sponsored by Fujiya (the Peko people), and was part of a plan to bring greater recognition to the men's volleyball team, who would go on to take the gold in Munich! That's the power of anime right there.
A princess in a magical land, Chappy longed to visit the human world and when her brother Jun provided a convenient distraction at just the right moment, Chappy and Jun came to Japan! There, she found the human world to be full of pollution, traffic accidents, and bad people. Chappy, Jun, and mom and pop try to get along in our modern world without revealing their magical secrets. If you count Marvelous Melmo, Toei's Magical Chappy is the sixth magical girl to appear in Japanese anime, and aired from April to December 1972.
Tatsunoko Productions' legendary animated series Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman premiered at 6:00 pm on Sunday, October 1, 1972 and gave us 105 bird-ninja starring episodes. Operating under the orders of the International Science Organization, Gatchaman fights to defeat the gangsters, robots, monsters and villains of Berg Katse, who leads the evil Galactor Syndicate controlled by the mysterious Sosai X. This immensely successful franchise would encompass a feature film, scads of merchandising, two sequel TV series, 90s and 00s reboots, a live action film, and international if slightly edited success under the title Battle of The Planets.
Gatchaman's muscular realism would provide a template for a decade's worth of Tatsunoko hero adventure as the studio brought forth similar adventure programs like Shinzō Ningen Casshan, Uchū no Kishi Tekkaman, and Hurricane Polymar. I've lost count of how many times this show has been made available in America - televised as BOTP, dubbed again as G-Force, Gatchaman II and F shown as Eagle Riders, on VHS and DVD as BOTP, and on DVD and Blu-Ray as Gatchaman.
Not content with the cataclysmic climax of his parent-disapproved "Shameless School" manga, up and coming manga superstar Go Nagai continued to push boundaries with his next popular series, Devilman. Notorious crybaby Akira Fudo lives with foster parents and endures abuse by bullies until one day he merges with the demon Amon and becomes Devilman, sworn to battle the awakening devils that seek to exterminate mankind. This Toei TV adaptation of Nagai's manga began airing in July of 1972, barely a month after the manga began appearing in Weekly Shonen. The comic's nihilistic violence was toned way down in the anime, but it still took decades to see any sort of English-language appearance of the character, who would return to the anime world in two 1980s OVAs and a 2018 Netflix series.
Mazinger Z, the super robot, was built out of Chogokin-Z by Juzo Kabuto to battle the forces of Dr. Hell, in much the same fashion as creator Go Nagai forming Dynamic Pro to battle those who would abscond with licensing rights to his creations. Just before Dr. Kabuto's murder by Dr. Hell's agents, Kabuto reveals Mazinger Z to his grandson Koji Kabuto, who then pilots Mazinger Z through 92 episodes of a Toei TV anime series airing from December 1972 until September 1974. Based on the manga by Go Nagai, Mazinger Z spawned armies of toys, battalions of merchandising and legions of sequels and imitations that infest Japanese popular culture to this day.
English versions
Mazinger Z was dubbed into English in the 1970s (by M&M) and again in the 1980s as "Tranzor Z" by 3B. In 1973 Devilman and Mazinger Z would team up to star in the fine art film Mazinger Z vs Devilman. Koji Kabuto and Mazinger Z would return in the 2009 series Mazinger Edition Z: The Impact! and in the 2017 feature film Mazinger Z Infinity.
cinema at its finest
And that's 1972, without which we would not have Tatsunoko adventure, Toei super robots, Devilman Crybabies, Gutsy Frogs, or Astrogangers. What would that non-'72 world look like? Popular culture would have to limp along without bird ninjas or super-mechanical heroes, toy companies would be bereft of robot toys, Japanese PTAs would have to find something else to complain about. Fifty years later, however, we still live in the world that 1972's anime created, our feet firmly planted in that strong 1972 foundation. Now, choose your soundtrack: "Ziggy Stardust" or "Exile On Main Street"!
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The DREAM Initiative: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention to promote weight loss among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes
Sahnah Lim, Laura C. Wyatt, Shinu Mammen, Jennifer M. Zanowiak, Sadia Mohaimin, Keith S. Goldfeld, Donna Shelley, Heather T. Gold, Nadia S. Islam
Background: Electronic health record (EHR)-based interventions that use registries and alerts can improve chronic disease care in primary care settings. Community health worker (CHW) interventions also have been shown to improve chronic disease outcomes, especially in minority communities. Despite their potential, these two approaches have not been tested together, including in small primary care practice (PCP) settings. This paper presents the protocol of Diabetes Research, Education, and Action for Minorities (DREAM) Initiative, a 5-year randomized controlled trial integrating both EHR and CHW approaches into a network of PCPs in New York City (NYC) in order to support weight loss efforts among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes. Methods/design: The DREAM Initiative was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institutes of Health). A total of 480 individuals at risk for type 2 diabetes will be enrolled into the intervention group, and an equal number will be included in a matched control group. The EHR intervention components include the provision of technical assistance to participating PCPs regarding prediabetes-related registry reports, alerts, and order sets. The CHW intervention components entail group education sessions on diabetes prevention, including weight loss and nutrition. A mixed-methods approach will be used to evaluate the feasibility, adoption, and impact (≥ 5% weight loss) of the integrated study components. Additionally, a cost effectiveness analysis will be conducted using outcomes, implementation costs, and healthcare claims data to determine the incremental cost per person achieving 5% weight loss. Discussion: This study will be the first to test the efficacy of an integrated EHR-CHW intervention within an underserved, minority population and in a practical setting via a network of small PCPs in NYC. The study's implementation is enhanced through cross-sector partnerships, including the local health department, a healthcare payer, and EHR vendors. Through use of a software platform, the study will also systematically track and monitor CHW referrals to social service organizations. Study findings, including those resulting from cost-effectiveness analyses, will have important implications for translating similar strategies to other minority communities in sustainable ways. Trial registration: This study protocol has been approved and is made available on ClinicalTrials.gov by NCT 03188094 as of 15 June 2017.
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Lim, S., Wyatt, L. C., Mammen, S., Zanowiak, J. M., Mohaimin, S., Goldfeld, K. S., Shelley, D., Gold, H. T., & Islam, N. S. (2019). The DREAM Initiative: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention to promote weight loss among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes. Trials, 20(1), [635]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3711-y
The DREAM Initiative : Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention to promote weight loss among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes. / Lim, Sahnah; Wyatt, Laura C.; Mammen, Shinu; Zanowiak, Jennifer M.; Mohaimin, Sadia; Goldfeld, Keith S.; Shelley, Donna; Gold, Heather T.; Islam, Nadia S.
In: Trials, Vol. 20, No. 1, 635, 21.11.2019.
Lim, S, Wyatt, LC, Mammen, S, Zanowiak, JM, Mohaimin, S, Goldfeld, KS, Shelley, D, Gold, HT & Islam, NS 2019, 'The DREAM Initiative: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention to promote weight loss among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes', Trials, vol. 20, no. 1, 635. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3711-y
Lim S, Wyatt LC, Mammen S, Zanowiak JM, Mohaimin S, Goldfeld KS et al. The DREAM Initiative: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention to promote weight loss among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes. Trials. 2019 Nov 21;20(1). 635. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3711-y
Lim, Sahnah ; Wyatt, Laura C. ; Mammen, Shinu ; Zanowiak, Jennifer M. ; Mohaimin, Sadia ; Goldfeld, Keith S. ; Shelley, Donna ; Gold, Heather T. ; Islam, Nadia S. / The DREAM Initiative : Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention to promote weight loss among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes. In: Trials. 2019 ; Vol. 20, No. 1.
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title = "The DREAM Initiative: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention to promote weight loss among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes",
abstract = "Background: Electronic health record (EHR)-based interventions that use registries and alerts can improve chronic disease care in primary care settings. Community health worker (CHW) interventions also have been shown to improve chronic disease outcomes, especially in minority communities. Despite their potential, these two approaches have not been tested together, including in small primary care practice (PCP) settings. This paper presents the protocol of Diabetes Research, Education, and Action for Minorities (DREAM) Initiative, a 5-year randomized controlled trial integrating both EHR and CHW approaches into a network of PCPs in New York City (NYC) in order to support weight loss efforts among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes. Methods/design: The DREAM Initiative was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institutes of Health). A total of 480 individuals at risk for type 2 diabetes will be enrolled into the intervention group, and an equal number will be included in a matched control group. The EHR intervention components include the provision of technical assistance to participating PCPs regarding prediabetes-related registry reports, alerts, and order sets. The CHW intervention components entail group education sessions on diabetes prevention, including weight loss and nutrition. A mixed-methods approach will be used to evaluate the feasibility, adoption, and impact (≥ 5% weight loss) of the integrated study components. Additionally, a cost effectiveness analysis will be conducted using outcomes, implementation costs, and healthcare claims data to determine the incremental cost per person achieving 5% weight loss. Discussion: This study will be the first to test the efficacy of an integrated EHR-CHW intervention within an underserved, minority population and in a practical setting via a network of small PCPs in NYC. The study's implementation is enhanced through cross-sector partnerships, including the local health department, a healthcare payer, and EHR vendors. Through use of a software platform, the study will also systematically track and monitor CHW referrals to social service organizations. Study findings, including those resulting from cost-effectiveness analyses, will have important implications for translating similar strategies to other minority communities in sustainable ways. Trial registration: This study protocol has been approved and is made available on ClinicalTrials.gov by NCT 03188094 as of 15 June 2017.",
keywords = "CBPR, Community health workers, Diabetes prevention, Electronic health records, Health disparities, South Asian",
author = "Sahnah Lim and Wyatt, {Laura C.} and Shinu Mammen and Zanowiak, {Jennifer M.} and Sadia Mohaimin and Goldfeld, {Keith S.} and Donna Shelley and Gold, {Heather T.} and Islam, {Nadia S.}",
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T2 - Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention to promote weight loss among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes
AU - Lim, Sahnah
AU - Wyatt, Laura C.
AU - Mammen, Shinu
AU - Zanowiak, Jennifer M.
AU - Mohaimin, Sadia
AU - Goldfeld, Keith S.
AU - Shelley, Donna
AU - Gold, Heather T.
AU - Islam, Nadia S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s). Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
N2 - Background: Electronic health record (EHR)-based interventions that use registries and alerts can improve chronic disease care in primary care settings. Community health worker (CHW) interventions also have been shown to improve chronic disease outcomes, especially in minority communities. Despite their potential, these two approaches have not been tested together, including in small primary care practice (PCP) settings. This paper presents the protocol of Diabetes Research, Education, and Action for Minorities (DREAM) Initiative, a 5-year randomized controlled trial integrating both EHR and CHW approaches into a network of PCPs in New York City (NYC) in order to support weight loss efforts among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes. Methods/design: The DREAM Initiative was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institutes of Health). A total of 480 individuals at risk for type 2 diabetes will be enrolled into the intervention group, and an equal number will be included in a matched control group. The EHR intervention components include the provision of technical assistance to participating PCPs regarding prediabetes-related registry reports, alerts, and order sets. The CHW intervention components entail group education sessions on diabetes prevention, including weight loss and nutrition. A mixed-methods approach will be used to evaluate the feasibility, adoption, and impact (≥ 5% weight loss) of the integrated study components. Additionally, a cost effectiveness analysis will be conducted using outcomes, implementation costs, and healthcare claims data to determine the incremental cost per person achieving 5% weight loss. Discussion: This study will be the first to test the efficacy of an integrated EHR-CHW intervention within an underserved, minority population and in a practical setting via a network of small PCPs in NYC. The study's implementation is enhanced through cross-sector partnerships, including the local health department, a healthcare payer, and EHR vendors. Through use of a software platform, the study will also systematically track and monitor CHW referrals to social service organizations. Study findings, including those resulting from cost-effectiveness analyses, will have important implications for translating similar strategies to other minority communities in sustainable ways. Trial registration: This study protocol has been approved and is made available on ClinicalTrials.gov by NCT 03188094 as of 15 June 2017.
AB - Background: Electronic health record (EHR)-based interventions that use registries and alerts can improve chronic disease care in primary care settings. Community health worker (CHW) interventions also have been shown to improve chronic disease outcomes, especially in minority communities. Despite their potential, these two approaches have not been tested together, including in small primary care practice (PCP) settings. This paper presents the protocol of Diabetes Research, Education, and Action for Minorities (DREAM) Initiative, a 5-year randomized controlled trial integrating both EHR and CHW approaches into a network of PCPs in New York City (NYC) in order to support weight loss efforts among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes. Methods/design: The DREAM Initiative was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institutes of Health). A total of 480 individuals at risk for type 2 diabetes will be enrolled into the intervention group, and an equal number will be included in a matched control group. The EHR intervention components include the provision of technical assistance to participating PCPs regarding prediabetes-related registry reports, alerts, and order sets. The CHW intervention components entail group education sessions on diabetes prevention, including weight loss and nutrition. A mixed-methods approach will be used to evaluate the feasibility, adoption, and impact (≥ 5% weight loss) of the integrated study components. Additionally, a cost effectiveness analysis will be conducted using outcomes, implementation costs, and healthcare claims data to determine the incremental cost per person achieving 5% weight loss. Discussion: This study will be the first to test the efficacy of an integrated EHR-CHW intervention within an underserved, minority population and in a practical setting via a network of small PCPs in NYC. The study's implementation is enhanced through cross-sector partnerships, including the local health department, a healthcare payer, and EHR vendors. Through use of a software platform, the study will also systematically track and monitor CHW referrals to social service organizations. Study findings, including those resulting from cost-effectiveness analyses, will have important implications for translating similar strategies to other minority communities in sustainable ways. Trial registration: This study protocol has been approved and is made available on ClinicalTrials.gov by NCT 03188094 as of 15 June 2017.
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The Columbia Review
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Sunday Staff Picks: December 1st
by thecolumbiareview
Further Up the Path / Daniel Oz, trans. by Jessica Cohen / BOA, 11/2019 – $17 (Paperback)
Further Up the Path by Daniel Oz, translated by Jessica Cohen
I cannot decide how one should read Further Up the Path. Daniel Oz's collection of "flash fables"—short stories, allegories, phrases, and meditations that each take up around half a page—demands to be devoured in one sitting, blending a world that feels both familiar and wholly original. And yet, I want to instruct readers to savor every bit. Take one with tea. Let them sit. Return to them again, one in the evening, another read first thing in the morning. My own copy has become littered with post-its on every story that I want to come back to.
Reading Further Up the Path made me feel like a child, anxiously trying to savor my dessert by spacing out bites, but inevitably failing. Like a child, but never childish: Oz's fables are simple and sophisticated. New renditions of fairytales often assign themselves strict limits on subject matter or time period, trying to recreate the balance between specific and universal that shapes the folkloric genre. Oz feels no such imperative; his collection mixes tales of animals and people, men and women, the past and the present, the surreal and the concrete. His ability to maintain a wide range of subjects is matched by his talent in traversing tones. He oscillates between whimsy, melancholy, joy, and fear with elegant concision. The stories are never inhibited by their length– their brevity amplifies the effect of each technical choice. In a sea of experimental prose that seems to trip over itself in order to discover the next new form, Further Up the Path is a wonderful return to the art of storytelling.
–Sasha Starovoitov
Frankissstein / Jeanette Winterson / Grove, 10/2019 – $27 (Hardcover)
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
The cover of Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson brands itself a love story. But this is not a conventional tale of first dates and butterflies. Woven expertly together across substantial gaps in distance and era, Winterson shares three romances: Mary Shelley's intense relationship with heartbreak as she writes her seminal Frankenstein, Rob Lord's desire to mass-produce love with bestselling sexbots, and Dr. Ry Shelley's intimate yet hesitant relationship with mad scientist Victor Stein, who views Ry's transgender body as a precursor to a world beyond the body itself, where a person's essence can be uploaded and separated from conventional form.
The crux of each narrative is the human dream. What does it mean to be a body? And what does it mean to be more? The limits of humanity are pushed through the inescapable pairing of life and death, the "convenience" of a robotic woman who won't think, speak, or eat, and the experiments pulsing in a macabre tunnel below Manchester. This text blends questions of humanity raised in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with a cuttingly modern context, and I found myself repeatedly rattled by their implications and by how palpably I already felt their stirrings in my day-to-day.
Despite the futuristic premise of a world separate from the human body, these stirrings constantly ground the characters in a hyper-realistic context. Dr. Ry Shelley encounters violent transphobia. Mary Shelley has death in her DNA. Ron Lord spews bitter misogyny. These unsettling moments are penned with equal intensity as the story's sci-fi elements, but there is nothing fictional about these passages. They deliver a jarring shift that forces the reader to reckon with a reality that's scarily familiar, regardless of the narrative's context. And as a result, the characters do not feel imaginary but, rather, pulled off the street and onto the page. Their struggle to understand the future of humanity prompted me to reconsider the same, and I emerged from the text with a renewed terror and curiosity for what lies ahead.
-Cassidy Sattler
Reading is Walking (The Encyclopedia Series) / Gonçalo M. Tavares / Quantum Prose, 11/2019 – $25 (Paperback)
Reading is Walking (The Encyclopedia Series) by Gonçalo M. Tavares
Award-winning author Gonçalo M. Tavares wields language, abstraction, and the specific with an evident mastery in his new work, Reading is Walking (The Encyclopedia Series). A series of writings dealing with, in turn, the topics of Science, Fear, Connections, Music, and Bloom-Literature, Reading is Walking turns the abstract into a tangibility you can taste and renders the concrete at a distance, until "no country, nowhere is further away than the page [you are] reading." From the very title of his piece onwards, Tavares begins by breaking down the known world—or, rather, what we believe is known in the five modes of existence Tavares explores—before re-piecing it, reordering the fragments in a way that presents to us a variegated reconstruction that both challenges and comforts.
Thus, we find in the tapping of our feet below the desk a kind of "traversing", "an impressive march" despite our immobility. We are pushed to imagine reading as "a movement class", a "form of physical exercise" the way we would regard running, soccer, or track and field; we find that the very idea of abstraction becomes useful only if we've left "a trail of breadcrumbs in order to identify the way back." In bursts of humor and wit, Tavares leads the reader on a jaunt—through the pages, through a series of thought exercises—until we, perhaps, have precluded the possibility of return. I, for one, did not mind being left there between the pages by Tavares– not alone, but simply "lost… among the splendid ideas."
-Ilina Logani
12.01.2019 – Staff Picks / BOA / Daniel Oz / Frankissstein / Further Up the Path / Goncalo M. Tavares / Grove / Jeanette Winterson / Quantum Prose / Reading is Walking
Sunday Staff Picks: Favorites of the Decade
Sunday Staff Picks: November 24th
Mystery At the Edge of the World: A Review of Julia Phillips's Disappearing Earth


Inspector Chen gets mired in a toxic murder case when his vacation at beautiful Lake Tai goes awry. Please feel free to bring your lunch and a covered beverage as we discuss this gripping novel.
Copies of the book can be found at the Information Desk.


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Q: Bootstrap overlapping border with columns with no margin and padding I have this annoying problem with the borders of the divs.
How can I avoid the borders overlapping each other?
This is my codepen where you can see the problem:
http://codepen.io/mp1985/pen/Bzrgzx
.square {
    background-color: #595959;
    position: relative;
    text-align: center;
    width: 100%;
    -webkit-transition: background-color .3s,color .3s;
    transition: background-color .3s,color .3s;
    overflow: hidden;
    border: 1px solid #ffde14;
}

.square:after {
    content: "";
    display: block;
    padding-bottom: 100%;
}

A: If your border width is fixed you can avoid this by reducing the right margin of your bootstrap cols by the width of your border:
  & > [class^="col-"],
  & > [class*=" col-"] {
    padding-right: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
    margin-right: -1px; /* <- */
  }

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"If she can have a good five years, that would be awesome," Wayne Winters told KTSU. "We can have our life back."
Sadly, this wasn't the first time a husband has had to literally go to these lengths to try and save his spouse's life. In 2012, Larry Swilling of Anderson County, S.C., put on a nearly identical signand walked around his neighborhood to find his wife a kidney, leading to a donor match.


Honda HR-V Boot Space, Size, Seats | What Car?
Even adults over six foot won't struggle for space in the front of an HR-V. There's plenty of head room to ensure their heads won't be brushing the ceiling, and enough leg room to stretch out, too. Shoulder room in the front of the cabin is also generous.
Each front door has its own pocket with enough room for a water bottle and there's a cupholder handily placed on the centre console to the rear of the gearlever. There's also a useful storage cubby in front of the gearlever lower down, and the HR-V's glovebox will accept more than just the car's manual.
Rear space in the HR-V isn't quite as generous as it is in the front. Because of its styling which incorporates a sweeping rear roofline, tall adults will find their heads brushing against the ceiling. Leg room is good though; those same adults will find their knees free from the front seat backrests.
Seating three adults across the rear seats will prove uncomfortable on particularly long journeys, though, because there isn't enough shoulder room to ensure they sit free from one another.
Each rear door has its own pocket like the front ones, but the space on offer isn't quite so generous in each. A small water bottle should slip inside, though. SE models add a rear armrest as standard while EX models add pockets the backs of the front seats.
This is one of the HR-V's strongest assets. The front passenger seats has a good range of legroom and backrest adjustment, although only range-topping EX models get passenger seat-height adjustment as standard and no HR-V has lumbar adjustment – even as an option.
The rear seats have Honda's Magic seat function as standard, which means it's possible to not only split the rear seats in a 60/40 configuration and fold them completely flat, but also raise the rear seat bases to leave a long, narrow space between them and the front seat backs. It's a useful space for carrying slim, tall objects such as bicycles. The front passenger seat can then be folded flat to allow long items to be pushed from the boot opening right through to the dashboard.
The HR-V has one of the bigger boots in the small SUV class and the fact that it has a low loading lip and a wide opening means lifting heavy, bulky items from the floor and placing them inside is never too strenuous. It's a relatively good shape, too, remaining nicely square from front to back.
SE models add a false boot floor, which leaves enough room to store valuable items out of sight and removes the step down to the boot floor suffered by the entry-level S model. A boot light comes as standard across the range.


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Q: Generate analog signal from Windows 7 I want to output an analog signal from my Windows 7 computer. The wave will be a combination of about 5 frequencies, with a maximum of 28 MHz. It won't be a problem to generate the wave data with C++, but I am not sure how to output the wave dynamically (as it is being generated). I am sure an audio port is not set up to output 28 MHz, but is there some way to bypass the sound card and interface directly with the port?
If not, what would be the easiest way to output a high frequency analog signal with C++?

A: Look into professional hardware. For example National Instruments definitely provide generators that can output those frequencies, and are programmable via C+.
Audio cards are only capable of generating frequencies up to 20kHz.


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#ifndef DELAYEDSCHEDULER_H
#define DELAYEDSCHEDULER_H

#include <chrono>
#include <functional>
#include <mutex>
#include <thread>
#include <unordered_map>

#include "joynr/DelayedRunnable.h"
#include "joynr/JoynrExport.h"
#include "joynr/Logger.h"
#include "joynr/PrivateCopyAssign.h"
#include "joynr/Runnable.h"

namespace boost
{
namespace asio
{
class io_service;
} // namespace asio
} // namespace boost

namespace joynr
{

/**
 * @class DelayedScheduler
 * @brief Using a @ref Timer and @ref BlockingQueue to execute a runnable delayed
 */
class JOYNR_EXPORT DelayedScheduler
{
public:
    /*! Handle to reference a @ref Runnable scheduled to work */
    typedef std::uint32_t RunnableHandle;

    /*! Invalid handle */
    static const RunnableHandle INVALID_RUNNABLE_HANDLE = 0;

    /**
     * @brief Constructor
     * @param onWorkAvailable Callback done if work is available after timer
     *      has expired
     * @param defaultDelayMs Default delay used by @ref schedule
     */
    DelayedScheduler(std::function<void(Runnable*)> onWorkAvailable,
                     boost::asio::io_service& ioService,
                     std::chrono::milliseconds defaultDelayMs = std::chrono::milliseconds::zero());

    /**
     * @brief Destructor
     * @note Be sure to call @ref shutdown and wait for return before
     *      destroying this object
     */
    virtual ~DelayedScheduler();

    /**
     * @brief Schedule a @ref Runnable to be added to execution queue
     * @param runnable Runnable to be added to queue
     * @param delay Number of milliseconds to delay adding the @ref Runnable
     *      to the queue.
     *      If this parameter value is invalid (aka null) its default value will be used.
     * @return Handle referencing the given @ref Runnable in this scheduler. If
     *      @ref INVALID_RUNNABLE_HANDLE is returned, the @ref Runnable either
     *      is directly submitted to run or the @ref DelayedScheduler is already
     *      shutting down.
     */
    virtual RunnableHandle schedule(Runnable* runnable, std::chrono::milliseconds delay);

    /**
     * @brief Schedule a @ref Runnable to be added to execution queue
     *
     * This method calls @ref schedule with the default delay.
     *
     * @param runnable Runnable to be added to queue
     * @return Handle referencing the given @ref Runnable in this scheduler. If
     *      @ref INVALID_RUNNABLE_HANDLE is returned, the @ref Runnable either
     *      is directly submitted to run or the @ref DelayedScheduler is already
     *      shutting down.
     */
    virtual RunnableHandle schedule(Runnable* runnable);

    /**
     * @brief Try to remove a @ref Runnable while waiting
     * @param runnableHandle Handle given by @ref schedule
     */
    virtual void unschedule(const RunnableHandle runnableHandle);

    /**
     * @brief Does an ordinary shutdown of @ref DelayedScheduler
     * @note Must be called before destructor is called
     */
    virtual void shutdown();

protected:
    /*! Logger */
    ADD_LOGGER(DelayedScheduler);

private:
    /*! @ref DelayedScheduler is not allowed to be copied */
    DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(DelayedScheduler);

private:
    /*! Default delay set by the constructor */
    const std::chrono::milliseconds defaultDelayMs;

    /*! Callback on timer expired */
    std::function<void(Runnable*)> onWorkAvailable;

    /*! Flag indicating @ref DelayedScheduler will be stopped */
    bool stoppingDelayedScheduler;

    std::unordered_map<RunnableHandle, DelayedRunnable> delayedRunnables;

    /*! Guard to limit write access to @ref delayedRunnables */
    std::mutex writeLock;

    /*! Next runnable handle which will be returned by ::schedule */
    RunnableHandle nextRunnableHandle;

    /*! Used for async timers. */
    boost::asio::io_service& ioService;
};

} // namespace joynr
#endif // DELAYEDSCHEDULER_H