During the early days of Texas history, the current site of the historic Gruene Bridge was the best option for a low-water crossing within 100 miles in either direction. The ford became a popular crossing point, utilized by wagon trains, cattle drivers and stagecoaches following the El Camino Real de los Tejas trail during westward expansion. Despite this easy access, the dirt road leading up the bank on the Gruene was formidable, and often a dedicated mule team was held on standby to assist travelers up the muddy bank. Seasonal flooding was as much a problem then as it is now, and pioneers could be delayed up to three days at a time as they waited for the waters to retreat to safe levels. The advent of the automobile made it evident that a better form of crossing was required, so the first concrete span was erected in 1909. Improvements to the bridge continue to this day, as flooding remains a consistent environmental hurdle.


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Addressing Healthcare Inefficiencies and Costs Through Robomed Network
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The effective management of costs and efficiencies is a vital element for ensuring high-functioning healthcare systems. Nowhere is this trend being more closely watched than in the U.S. and U.K.
According to a 2015 report by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the most recent year for which data is available, total expenditures on healthcare in the United States was $3.2 trillion, approximately 17.8 percent of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP). Fortune Magazine reported this year that the U.S. "spends more on healthcare than any other economically comparable country."
In the U.K., the news is similar. According to a new analysis curated by two leading thinktanks and published on the British Medical Journal's website, Britain coughed up a larger percentage of its GDP on healthcare than the European and OECD averages.
These troubling developments have led to the genesis of Robomed Network, a Russian startup that aims to utilize blockchain technology to develop a consumer-centric medical network to overcome the rigor mortis plaguing today's global healthcare industry.
The company was founded by Philipp Mironovich and Ivan Devyatkov, two veterans of the healthcare sector. The company is bolstered by a team of highly respected advisors possessing decades of experience in the space.
At present, Robomed is in the throes of deploying smart contracts in an effort to reshape the medical industry through a decentralized medical model. In light of rising costs, inefficiencies and red tape currently plaguing these medical system, Robomed is placing its bets on the revolutionary advancements of blockchain technology to streamline and repurpose current models of healthcare worldwide.
All of this comes on the heels of blockchain experimentation in shipping, food, manufacturing and other industries seeking to boost process efficiencies and reduce costs. Robomed hopes to create similar value-based solutions for healthcare by employing a smart contract approach.
A Network-Based Healthcare Ecosystem
The structural undergirding of the Robomed Network consists of a medical ecosystem driven by a blockchain token with the purpose of delivering the most effective patient care possible. This ecosystem functions with the intent of bridging the gap between medical providers and patients through smart contracts. The end game is to repurpose the prevailing medical service-oriented model into one that's more patient-centric.
"It is estimated that doctors are making mistakes in their diagnosis in 15 percent of cases (one out of six patients are misdiagnosed). Even if in most cases it doesn't result in serious harm to the patient, it has an impact on health costs," commented Caroline Maslo, M.D., medical expert at Robomed Network team. "The Robomed system assist the doctor in making the correct diagnosis and once the diagnosis is made, ensures the patient to have the best care according to the most recent internationally validated guidelines."
The white paper executive summary which appears on the Robomed website notes that, prior to tokenization, Robomed had three software products developed, 20 clinics connected, 1.7 million clients in their database and 2,900 clinical guidelines digitized.
"Smart contracts facilitate medical negotiations between patients and physicians from a clinic," said Mironovich. "The patient does not acquire something unknown but concrete health results. The smart contract consists of clinical recommendations for treatment where every disease requires a concrete list of actions."
In an effort to accelerate the company's development trajectory, Robomed launched an initial coin offering (ICO) began on November 19, 2017 and lasting till December 19, 2017. This ICO is open to the global public and includes the sale of RBM tokens, the presale has already exceeded $2 million soft cap.
The RBM token is an Ethereum-based token that empowers users to vote and unlock the value of medical services within the Robomed Network. The token can be accepted as payment for medical services rendered by participating medical providers. Member clinics of the Robomed Network are required to honor the RBM token as payment for medical services provided during a patient appointment.
With technological advancements occurring at such a rapid pace, it's easy to get caught up in the hype around making healthcare more affordable. This is particularly true with the numerous benefits being discussed with respect to blockchain technology.
While the Ethereum-centric blockchain and the smart contracts it supports continue to confront a bevy of unanswered questions and uncertainty amid promising possibilities, Robomed is banking on its development of solutions that will fundamentally shift critical cost and efficiency elements of the global healthcare landscape.
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Towards Horizon Europe: EU Council and Parliament approve positions
EUA welcomes the positions on Horizon Europe adopted by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament.
The proposal for Horizon Europe, the next EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2017), was first presented by the European Commission in June 2018. The proposal includes a budget proposal of €100 billion, new instruments such as R&I missions and the European Innovation Council (EIC), as well as a renewed focus on strengthening the European Research Area and reinforcing Open Access and Open Science principles.
Since then, the member states and the European Parliament had been working on their positions.
In November, the member states agreed on a Partial General Approach (PGA) on Horizon Europe, after a lengthy round of negotiations, concerning mostly the EIC, European Partnerships, the structure of Pillar 2 and support for researchers to return to their country of origin ("return grants"). The PGA does not cover budgetary aspects and other horizontal issues, such as synergies with other funds or third country associations, given that they will depend on agreements in other negotiation processes.
Also in November, the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) approved its position on Horizon Europe, taking into account nearly 4 000 amendments. The position was subsequently endorsed in the plenary vote on 12 December. In its position, the European Parliament proposed to increase the budget of the programme to €120 billion and prioritise projects that include women, SMEs and participants from lower-performing EU countries.
The EU Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission are now preparing for interinstitutional negotiations (trilogue), which are likely to start at the beginning of January 2019. The institutions aim at swiftly agreeing on Horizon Europe to ensure the smooth start of the programme in 2021.
EUA closely followed the debate and provided its advice to Commissioner Moedas, Members of the European Parliament and other EU high-level policymakers on a number of occasions. In June 2018, EUA released its analysis of the European Commission's proposal for Horizon Europe and a joint statement with thirteen other pan-European university networks calling, amongst others, for increasing the budget of Horizon Europe to €160 billion and aligning EU policies for education, research and innovation. EUA is pleased that many of its recommendations were taken into account. In the next step, EUA plans to work on more specific issues regarding Open Science, multidisciplinary and impact.
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    end
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end

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Bees add sweet new look to LEGO piece
Beeswax becomes art medium
Tyson Off Jan 16, 2022 8:00 AM
In 2017, Kelly Litzenberger designed and built a Lego replica of a business he owned and operated from 1998 to 2004, Revolution Snow and Skate,Tyson Off / Yorkton This Week
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The buzz around The Godfrey Dean art gallery this week is a local artist's honeycomb edition of a past exhibit.
In 2017, Kelly Litzenberger designed and built a Lego replica of a business he owned and operated from 1998 to 2004, Revolution Snow and Skate. The Lego building took 2,200 pieces, about forty hours to build, and was part of a larger exhibit that included Yorkton's City Hall among other well-known city landmarks. The exhibit went on to do very well, receiving over 5000 signatures in the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery's guest book.
In April of 2021, Litzenberg said he was approached by the director of the Godfrey Dean who was working in conjunction with the Regina Art Gallery.
Between Us, said Litzenberger, consists of "Multiple artists participating in a collaborative effort between artists and bees under the guidance of Canadian artist, Aganetha Dyck."
"Dyck is best known for her work with honeybees, which began in 1989 when she rented beehives, and is described by her as a collaboration. Dyck places objects into beehives and allows insects to build honeycomb on the objects, sometimes over the course of years." as per the biography section of AganethaDyck.ca.
Litzenberger said that he and the 12 other Saskatchewan artists worked with Dyck and local beekeepers in their respective areas to develop the projects.
"I worked with Sasha at Howland's Honey," he said.
"The bees at Howland's were really active", said Litzenberger, adding that he would coat certain parts of the piece with a thin layer of beeswax in the hopes that the bees would construct their combs on and around those specific parts. "I thought that I could control where the bees built, but that's not the case."
The Lego structure was placed inside of a beehive where the insects would develop their combs. Over time the bees enveloped the piece.
"It was in the hive for maybe two months, from early July to early to mid-September," said Litzenberger, "I had to wait until the end of the season for the bees to extract the honey from the model."
After the bees had removed the bulk of the honey, Litzenberger went to work cutting the model out of the hive. He said that even after the bees had done most of the extracting, some of their product remains.
"There is still honey in the model and it's not going anywhere," he added.
The project is an ongoing one.
"The project will take two years," said Litzenberger, as some of the collaborations may not have been completed on their first interaction with the bees and would need to spend additional time in a hive to develop more thoroughly. This means returning to the beehives for the 2022 season. Litzenberg added that it's possible the Lego model will once again see the inside of a beehive in the coming season, or the potential of an entirely new model receiving the bee treatment.
In the case of the latter, "I have no idea what's next," he said.
The Between Us preview of 'LEGO Revolution Skateboard Hive' will be on display at The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery until the end of February with the group exhibition being held at the Art Gallery of Regina in 2023.
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Equality and Justice
September 2, 2015 Proudhon Library
Let's take a little extra time to emphasize the flatness of Proudhon's system. Unity-collectivities at different scales overlap, but their relationships remain horizontal. The anarchistic "State" is, Proudhon tells us, "a kind of citizen" and the principle of political equality applies to all the citizens, no matter their kind. And the collective is a kind of individual almost everywhere we look in Proudhon's work, and equality extends across widely different scales and between individuals of radically different makeup.
The recognition of equality becomes the foundation for justice—and Proudhon's individualities at various scale crowd the world with potential equals, whose interests must be balanced in order to establish justice. And, indeed, equality, justice and balance are all just descriptions of particular aspects of a world without hierarchy and authority. They are really all just aspects of anarchy. But if we are to bring about anarchy, naturally we need to look closely at it from all sides.
When we are focused on equality, perhaps the most pressing question becomes what individualities can be recognized as equals. In the opening study in Justice in the Revolution and in the Church, Proudhon suggested broad inclusion as a principle. As we look around the world, we recognize those individuals capable of looking back at us, but, he said, "the passive does not exclude the reciprocal," suggesting that ethical recognition at least potentially has to extend farther, perhaps to "plants and rocks, which are, like the hairs and the bones of my body, parts of the great organism." With a modern ecological sensibility, we can certainly begin to consider some of the unity-collectivities in non-human nature that might call for recognition, along with others on a scale that includes human beings along with other elements. But the breadth of Proudhon's conclusion will, I think, still challenge many of us:
Instead of seeking the law of my philosophy in a relation between myself, which I consider as the summit of being, and that which is the most inferior in creation and that I repute to be non-thinking, I will seek that law in a relation between myself and another self that will not be me, between man and man. For I know that every man, my fellow, is the organic manifestation of a mind, is a self; I judge equally that animals, endowed with sensibility, instinct, even intelligence, although to a lesser degree, are also selves, of a lesser dignity, it is true, and placed at a lower degree on the scale, but created according to the same plan; and as I no more know of a demarcation marked between the animals and the plants, or between those and the minerals, I ask myself if the unorganized beings are not still minds which sleep, selves in the embryonic state, or at least the members of a self of which I ignore the life and operations?
If every being is thus supposed self and non-self, what can I do better, in this ontological ambiguity, than to take for the point of departure of my philosophy the relation, not of me to myself, in the manner of Fichte, as if I wanted to make the equation of my mind, simple, indivisible, incomprehensible being; but of myself to another that is my equal and is not me, which constitutes a dualism no longer metaphysical or antinomic, but a real duality, living and sovereign?
We know the instances where Proudhon struggled to be as just to women as he presumably would be to rocks or hair and bones, but even then his failure was more a matter of fact than principle. He struggled, as we still do in other contexts, to reconcile the absolute equality of his principle with his sense of greater or less capacity or "dignity." As I understand the work of Joseph Déjacque, the figure usually proposed as an alternative to Proudhon on questions of gender, he also wrestled with reconciling anarchistic thinking with his sense of natural hierarchies, and was perhaps a little more certain about the "place" of men and women in the universal circulus than we would be entirely comfortable with. Between them, I suspect we might have the material for a more successful attempt—but I'm fairly certain we won't succeed without some additional wrestling of our own.
From the side of justice, it is a question of what individualities can demand (in one way or another) to be included in the balancing of interests, and, again, Proudhon concluded that those claims could come from a wide range of sources. In War and Peace, he laid out a general theory of "rights:"
RIGHT, in general, is the recognition of human dignity in all its faculties, attributes and prerogatives. There are thus as many special rights as humans can raise different claims, owing to the diversity of their faculties and of their exercise. As a consequence, the genealogy of human rights will follow that of the human faculties and their manifestations.
What we have here is a scheme in which "faculties, attributes and prerogatives" seem to be among the elements that call for recognition. And every right "exists only under the condition of reciprocity."
Reciprocity, however, is something we will have to return to in more detail.
In the meantime, the post on "Individualities and Collectivities – Rights and Strengths" addresses some of the issues we will have to makes sense of.
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Links: Proudhon's Social Science [project page] Every individual is a group. There are a small number of key concepts in Proudhon's work, without which it is almost impossible to understand. The notion of the collective […]
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August 18, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur Contr'un, Mutualism.info, Proudhon Library
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Q: Parse ProtoBuff file to object list Hi I have a protobuff TXT file like this:
parameter {
  name: "Key1"
  value: 0
}
parameter {
  name: "Key2"
  value: 1.5
}
parameter {
  name: "Key3"
  text: "Value 3"
}
parameter {
  name: "Key4"
  arr {
    val: 0
    val: 2000
    val: 2050
    val: 2100
    val: 2150
    val: 2200
    val: 2250
    val: 2300
    val: 2350
    val: 2400
    val: 2400
    val: 2400
    dim: 12
    dim: 1
  }
}

I was trying to parse it with this library
Current tryout code:
[ProtoContract]
public class Parameter
{
    [ProtoMember(1)]
    public string Name { set; get; }
    [ProtoMember(2)]
    public double Value { set; get; }
}
public class FileParser
{
    public static Parameter[]  Parse(string filePath)
    {
        List<Parameter> parameters;
        using (var file = File.OpenRead(filePath))
        {
            parameters = Serializer.Deserialize<List<Parameter>>(file);
        }

        return parameters?.ToArray();
    }
    private FileParser()
    {

    }
}

I am new to Proto-Buff so I don't know if I am even going in the right direction

A: Those attributes suggest protobuf-net; protobuf-net only implements the binary protocol, not the opinionated JSON protocol. As such, you'll need to use the Google protobuf implementation, by running the schema (.proto) through protoc. Note that protoc is also available by changing the drop-down here: https://protogen.marcgravell.com - just in case that saves you having to download any additional tools.

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Vacaville family shamed in anonymous letter for not decorating home on Christmas
By by Melanie Woodrow
VACAVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- Christmas dreams are made from the decadent decorations in Vacaville, where a seasonal tradition transforms Shady Glen Avenue into Lollipop Lane and neighboring Arlene Drive into Candy Cane Lane.
"It's fun for the kids, fun for the people," said neighbor Joel Dinsdle. "We do it for that and the spirit of the holidays."
Vacaville woman shamed for not decorating home on popular street explains her mother had passed away, urges anonymous sender to be kind pic.twitter.com/UsjRPUCzgM
— Melanie Woodrow (@MelanieWoodrow) December 28, 2017
But it seems the spirit of the holidays wasn't so sweet for everyone in Vacaville -- particularly those behind a letter written to one Lollipop Lane resident.
"To live on Lollipop Lane and Candy Cane Lane is an honor and a privilege," the anonymous note, which was placed in Lyndia Zarra's mailbox, reads. "It is completely unacceptable to not decorate a house for Christmas."
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes- "Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something & has lost something." pic.twitter.com/1PeFPPkKV6
For Zarra, who has lived on the street for six years and has decorated her home diligently, the letter was a blow during a particularly challenging time.
"I couldn't believe someone could be so mean. It was a hard enough time the past few months," said Zarra, who spent more than half of 2017 watching her mother struggle with stage 4 liver cancer. "I was there when she died in October."
RELATED: Vacaville woman takes to Facebook to defend why she didn't decorate her Lollipop Lane home
While Zarra's neighbors were decorating, she was dealing with everything that comes with a loved one's passing. And at the beginning of December, she returned to her Lollipop Lane home to finally spend time with her family again.
Vacaville woman who didn't decorate her home on "lollipop lane" shamed in letter, explains her mother had died, urges sender to be kind pic.twitter.com/NKMTsx77NX
"My husband and I spent four days before Christmas just baking, just to have that time together," she said.
That's something the sender of the letter probably didn't know.
"Be kind because you don't know, you don't know what's going on behind closed doors," said Zarra. "Just because you're having an off day, that you felt you needed to write this letter, maybe my day was just as bad."
You guys are making me laugh w/these Twitter comments many of which I can't RT. Let's just say #TeamLyndia I hope she has a wonderful 2018! pic.twitter.com/tGhtSTjxuK
Zarra says she will decorate next year but not because she feels shamed into doing so -- but because she wants to put out the decorations her mother painted before she passed away.
Her mom was the artist behind displays from Christmases past, a tradition that's timeless for Zarra's family even if it doesn't show on the outside.
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Q: Focuslost event on Jcombobox in netbeans I am trying to have a bind a focuslost event on my combobox but it's not happening.
Here is my code-:
jComboBox1.addFocusListener(new FocusListener(){
        public void focusGained(FocusEvent e){

        }
        public void focusLost(FocusEvent e){
         JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null,"focuslost");
          }
      });

I also tried this-:
JComboBox default editor has an internal class BasicComboBoxEditor$BorderlessTextField that is the component that gets and loses focus.
It can be accessed simply by-:
Component component = comboBox.getEditor().getEditorComponent();
if (component instanceof JTextField)
JTextField borderlesstextfield = (JTextField) borderless;

But i am getting error on this line-
 JTextField borderlesstextfield = (JTextField) borderless;

I am new to netbeans. Kindly guide me.Thank you in advance.

A: I tested this(Adding the JComboBox inside a JPanel ). If there are more elements inside the panel the focuslost is triggered when pressing tab or clicking on another element.
Considering that you do not have any other elements or you want the focus lost event to trigger also when you click somewhere on the window:
Keep your focus listener as is and add the following after the auto-generated initComponents():
    jPanel1.setFocusable(true);
    jPanel1.setRequestFocusEnabled(true);
    jPanel1.addMouseListener(new MouseListener() {
        @Override
        public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {}

        @Override
        public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
            jPanel1.requestFocusInWindow();
        }

        @Override
        public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {}

        @Override
        public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {}

        @Override
        public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {}
    });


Congratulations Paul Affatato and Carlos Meda Frias for being the first recipients of the Ryan Olaf Johanson scholarship. Good luck to everyone next year!
We apologize for the late notice, but due to our negotiations schedule the November board meeting will be moved to November 21, 2018 from 12:00 - 13:00. As a reminder, you can call in to 1-888-636-3807, with the code 9742514, or attend in-person on the 10th floor of the SOB, in the small conference room.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact anybody on the executive board for more information!
Thank you all for your patience while we get the new website up and running! We will begin posting simultaneously from here and social media to announce any upcoming events, as well as to notify you about new surveys.


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Fits long or short bed 1/2 ton trucks!
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2018 SS-1604 Features and Options
This Palomino Real-Lite Soft Side pop-up truck camper SS-1604 features many conveniences that make hitting the road enjoyable.
There is a u-shaped dinette to the right of the entrance which can easily be transformed to sleeping space for an extra camper, or even two children if needed at night. Next to the dinette there is a wardrobe with a top that can easily hold a TV if you choose to add one.
Across from the dinette you will find a single sink, a two burner cook-top, and an overhead cabinet for storage. There is also a refrigerator for perishables.
The front 60" x 80" queen size bed features bedroom storage and foot lockers on both sides of the bed, plus so much more!
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Palomino Camping Trailer construction began in 1968 with the dream of Mr. Vern Landey. Mr. Landey had been a tent trailer distributor for several years when he felt he could design and produce better quality units than were currently being offered to the public. He would design units which were lightweight and offered convenient floorplans at affordable prices. He began designing and producing Palomino pop-up tent trailers in a small building in Savage, Minnesota.
As demand for the Palomino grew, Mr. Landey felt it would benefit his company, Vanguard Ind., to relocate. With most manufacturers and industry suppliers located in the Elkhart, In. area the move eastward seemed logical. Vanguard Industries settled in the community of Colon in 1972. Once in Colon he began to put his plans in motion. By 1973 he had built the main production facility and within days Palomino tent trailers were rolling out the doors.
In 1976, Vanguard added its own Needle Division, in 1978 its own Metal Fabrication Plant, and has several cold storage facilities. On May 27, 1992, the primary production building and offices were destroyed by fire. By late August, 1992, the first 1993 model Palomino rolled of the line in the new 52,300 sq. ft. facility, which was built on the same site as the previous building had been.
The year 1998 continued to see expansion with the addition of a new 75,000 sq. ft. production facility, and another storage facility. In 2002 Vanguard was purchased by Forest River, Inc. This allowed for rapid growth and the introduction of two new towable lines of travel trailers and fifth wheels, Puma and Sabre by Palomino.
In 2005, Forest River, Inc. and it's divisions were acquired by Berkshire Hathaway. Palomino RV operates as a separate division of Forest River Inc., and has grown from humble beginnings in Minnesota to one of the top 5 RV manufacturing facilities in North America.


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An NFL Draft like no other before it will unfold April 23-25. Due to the unique circumstances brought about the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's proceedings, which initially would have marked Nevada's debut as a host state, will be held from a television studio and feature live looks of teams making their draft selections.
While the logistics and format of this year's edition of the NFL's annual "player lottery" will certainly be outside the norm in many ways, there is one aspect surrounding it that thankfully remains unscathed – betting. NFL Draft prop wagers could certainly experience the height of their popularity this year, considering all other major sports are currently shuttered.
NFL draft odds: First WR drafted
The WR market for the 2020 draft is headlined by Alabama's Jerry Jeudy and Oklahoma's CeeDee Lamb, while the X-factor of the group – one who improved his stock with a blazing 4.27 40-yard dash at the combine – is Alabama's Henry Ruggs III.
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One of the most common NFL Draft prop wagers are those that involve betting on which player will be the first drafted at each position. To find these wagers in an online sportsbook, click the NFL tab to navigate toward the 2020 Draft section. Once there, click on "First Pick by Position" to view the players in the market and their corresponding odds.
Each player will have a number next to their name that is three, four or even five digits in length, along either a plus or minus sign next to it. Players with a minus sign next to their number are considered to have a higher probability of being the first player drafted at the position than those with a plus sign.
The higher a number with a minus sign attached is, the higher the probability he has of being the first player selected at the position. Conversely, the higher a number with a plus sign attached is, the lower the probability he is the first player selected at the position.
To utilize an example from this year's draft, say odds-on favorite Jeudy is carrying a -110 figure to be the first receiver taken. That means a bettor will have to wager $110 to win $100 that Jeudy is the first wideout taken. Then, say Lamb carries a price of +160 as the second-likeliest player to be the first receiver off the board. In his case, bettors will win $160 for every $100 they wager on Lamb as the first wideout taken.
NFL Draft: 2020 WR profiles
Jerry Jeudy, Alabama: Jeudy parlayed a starting opportunity over his junior and senior seasons into a pair of 1,000-yard campaigns and a combined 24 touchdown receptions over that span. Jeudy boasts a 4.4-second 40 time and is lauded for having an impressive second gear, but he also put in plenty of work as a receiver in the short and intermediate passing windows in his junior 2019 campaign.
Jeudy has been projected as a target of the Raiders in many mocks, although the Jets, who just lost their biggest downfield threat Robby Anderson in free agency to the Panthers, are another natural fit and currently select one pick higher than Las Vegas at No. 11 overall. It seems highly unlikely both teams pass up a shot at a receiver given their needs at the position. Jeudy offers the speed each team covets at the position, although it bears noting New York did partly address the loss of Anderson's big-play capability with the recent signing of talented but inconsistent Breshad Perriman.
CeeDee Lamb, Oklahoma: Like Jeudy, Lamb wrapped up an impressive college career at a big-name school with back-to-back 1,000-yard campaigns and added a combined 25 touchdown grabs over his sophomore and junior seasons. Lamb boasts solid height at 6-foot-2 and carries a bit more weight than Jeudy at 198 pounds. He is, however, a tad slower with a 4.5-second time in the 40, but he actually has more game reps under his belt after logging 13 games of action as a freshman.
Lamb's host of junior-year accolades include first-team Associated Press All-American and first-team All-Big 12 honors. He's not far behind Jeudy in terms of pedigree and could conceivably pull an upset and be selected before his Crimson Tide counterpart. Lamb could also slide right into the lineups of either the Jets or Raiders and serve as a formidable weapon for Sam Darnold or Derek Carr.
Henry Ruggs III, Alabama: There's always the possibility of a wild-card selection in any draft, and Ruggs is shaping up as a potential one this year. The speedster significantly boosted his stock in one of the most visible ways possible – by blowing away the radar gun at the combine. Ruggs put up an eye-popping 4.27 40-time, which helps prop up his value after a couple of solid but not elite sophomore and junior seasons during which he averaged 43 receptions, 743.5 yards and nine touchdowns.
Speed has traditionally been one of the biggest enticements for any team to blow up its original draft plans and perhaps swing a trade to move up in the first round. Interestingly, NFL.com Chad Reuter has the Broncos doing just that in his latest mock draft and vaulting over the Jets and Raiders by trading with the Cardinals into the No. 8 spot to land Ruggs. Meanwhile, CBS Sports' Pete Prisco interestingly also has Ruggs as the first WR taken, albeit at the Jets' No. 11 spot.
Justin Jefferson, LSU: Jefferson is a distant fourth in the First WR drafted odds table, but some team will acquire a talented wideout with plenty of upside whenever he is selected. The LSU product decided to forgo his final year of college eligibility after exploding for a 111-1,540-18 line as a junior, with his reception tally serving as a team- and co-FBS –high figure. Jefferson then generated a strong 4.43 40-yard dash at the combine, and he's been lauded by draft experts for a 6-foot-1 frame that affords him an excellent catch radius.
Jefferson's extreme long-shot status to be the first receiver taken is seemingly warranted despite his eye-popping final college season, as Jeudy and Lamb particularly have proven their ability to offer strong production over longer periods.
NFL Draft WR history
Here is a list of the first wide receivers taken in each NFL Draft going back to 2010.
Pick (No. overall)
2019 Baltimore Marquise Brown Oklahoma 25
2018 Carolina DJ Moore Maryland 24
2017 Tennessee Corey Davis Western Michigan 5
2016 Cleveland Corey Coleman Baylor 15
2015 Oakland Amari Cooper Alabama 4
2014 Buffalo Sammy Watkins Clemson 4
2013 St. Louis Tavon Austin West Virginia 8
2012 Jacksonville Justin Blackmon Oklahoma St. 5
2011 Cincinnati AJ Green Georgia 4
2010 Denver Demaryius Thomas Georgia Tech 22
NFL Draft betting strategy and trends
A total of 34 receivers were taken in the first round of the NFL Draft between 2010 and 2019. The apex was 2015, when a total of six wideouts were taken in the opening round. Notably, the last two drafts have seen the fewest first-round selections at the position over that sample – two apiece. Meanwhile, A.J. Green (2011), Sammy Watkins (2014) and Amari Cooper (2015) all share the distinction of being the highest overall selection at the position during that span. Each was taken No. 4 overall by the Bengals, Chiefs and Raiders, respectively.
The combination of legitimate first-round talent and team needs will likely lead to a return to a more active year at the position than the last pair of campaigns. NFL.com's Dan Parr has the Jets, Raiders, Broncos, Eagles, Packers, Vikings and 49ers as teams with first-round selections and pressing needs at receiver entering the draft.
Notably, four of those clubs – the Jets, Raiders, 49ers and Broncos – are currently all picking within No. 11 (Jets) and No. 15 (Broncos). Therefore, as cited in Ruggs' entry earlier, Denver could potentially leapfrog the other two clubs they know will be honing in on the position if there's a player – be it Ruggs, Jeudy or Lamb – that they want to make sure and lock in.
None of those four teams' current administrations have ever selected a receiver in the first round. The most recent
first-round wideout taken by one of the clubs was the Raiders' selection of Cooper back in 2015. The 49ers nabbed A.J. Jenkins with the 30th overall pick back in 2012 as well, while the Broncos last took a receiver with their first pick back in 2010, when they landed Demaryius Thomas.
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Mackenzie Davis and Kristen Stewart in Happiest Season. Photo by Lacey Terrell. © 2020 CTMG
The first disappointing thing about Happiest Season, a new Christmas comedy – with a lesbian twist! – is that its co-star, Kristen Stewart, does not appear at any point in the film wearing a Santa hat. Earth to movie studio: do you know how many women would have paid good money to see this, would have screen-capped and tweeted and direct messaged it across the internet, accompanied by rows of the Hot Face emoji and jokes about waiting up for Santa? What are you, hustlers or idiots?
On the face of it, Happiest Season has queer credentials. Apart from Stewart, megastar bisexual, the cast includes Aubrey "Girls are into me" Plaza and Schitt's Creek co-creator Dan Levy, who has previously won praise for his role as a pansexual character on that sitcom. Happiest Season is directed by Clea DuVall, whom fans of cult teen flicks will remember fondly from her performance in queer coming-of-age comedy But I'm A Cheerleader (1999). DuVall is openly lesbian – still a rarity in Hollywood. This is her second feature film as director.
But the substance of Happiest Season feels very straight: straight as in heteronormative and straight as in boring. The plot revolves around the dissembling of lesbian couple Harper (Mackenzie Davis) and Abby (Stewart); Harper invites Abby to her family home for Christmas, only to tell Abby en route that she's previously lied about having come out to her parents, and that Abby will have to pose as her roommate during their stay. At this point, any viewer might expect the deceived girlfriend to jump out of the car and hightail it back to her flat for a happier holiday alone with Christmas television, high-quality alcohol and her vibrator. Alas no. After only a moment's consideration, Abby agrees to go along with Harper's lie. "It's only five days," she reasons. "How bad can it be?"
Harper's dad, Ted (Victor Garber), is a local councillor and aspiring mayor, and her mum, Tipper (Mary Steenburgen), is overseeing Ted's bid for mayoral candidacy down to the last staged detail. Ted's campaign happens to overlap with Christmas, and requires the whole family to glad-hand at a series of festive fundraising parties both in and outside the home, which, by the way, is one of those houses I'm convinced don't exist outside American movies, with an entrance hall larger than some people's apartments. Her parents' joint ambition becomes Harper's justification for lying about her relationship with Abby.
The lie motors the film's farcical mechanics: there are scenes involving hiding behind doors and – you knew this was coming – being stuck inside a closet. But the farce isn't connected to the characters, it's imposed on them, leaving a big and unfunny gap between motivation and action. Harper's family members don't demonstrate any homophobia, either in word or deed, that would necessitate all this hiding; they're just rich. Harper has two sisters, whose characters are so thinly drawn that they might as well be named Bitchy and Ditzy, like Santa's reindeer. All three adult siblings exist in a state of arrested emotional development, in which lying to their parents and fighting with each other constitute their chief familial pleasures. Cue endless lukewarm jokes that pivot on the family's passive-aggressive remarks to each other about dress, careers and money. I felt thankful while watching this film not to have sprung from the apparently stifling and joyless confines of the bourgeoisie, if it's really as bad as that. But nor do I believe that anyone is this one-dimensional, not even clichéd rich folk in a Christmas movie.
All of this leaves Harper's disavowal of her girlfriend feeling like a crummy power play by someone using their own internalised homophobia to shame and smother their partner – an impression strengthened by a subplot involving Riley (Aubrey Plaza), an ex-girlfriend of Harper's, who had pretty much the same experience with this wealthy daddy's girl. The best scene in the film involves Riley and Abby seeking shelter with each other in a gay bar where drag queens are singing Christmas carols. At last, some bloody tinsel, and a moment that felt written for a queer audience, as opposed to – well, I don't know. I'm puzzled as to who this film is for.
Who among a queer viewership will want to watch a comedy in which the leading queer characters spend all their time making each other truly miserable? Or is one meant to screen this film to one's family at Christmas time, and if so, which of them, either bigoted or enlightened, will find anything to interest, challenge or amuse them here? A bad film is a bad film, regardless of what it's doing, superficially, to represent a minority. The assembled cast try their best with the material – especially Dan Levy, in the stock role of Gay Best Friend, and Stewart, who transcends her default nervousness long enough to deliver something like self-assuredness in her role as Abby. But they can't disguise the essential weakness of the script. The final scene sees the now happily united family – which isn't a spoiler, the ending is predetermined – gathered to watch It's A Wonderful Life at the cinema. Frank Capra's holiday classic is a wiser, sadder, funnier film about the ties of family than Happiest Season can hope to be, and that holds true whatever your sexuality.
Anwen Crawford
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On the face of it, Happiest Season has queer credentials. Apart from Stewart, megastar bisexual, the cast includes Aubrey "Girls are into me" Plaza and Schitt's Creek co-creator Dan Levy, who has previously won praise for his role as a pansexual character on that sitcom. ...


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I believe the saying is true, that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But to be honest, it's not my favorite one. Partly because I've never been a morning person and I probably never will be. And also because it's so easy to get stuck in a breakfast rut. When I was in high school I had a bowl of Oatmeal Squares cereal with raisins every morning for four years straight, never stopping before I picked up the spoon to ask, "Could I start my day with anything else? Maybe something more glamorous and savory?" I had yet to learn that in France it's okay to eat cheese for breakfast and that the simple combination of a cappuccino and a croissant was a perfectly respectable start to the day. I was probably too tired and hadn't ingested enough coffee yet to think about it.
"Two." with a smile that read "Please excuse my friend, she's quite slow before she's had coffee". And from then on she always insisted on doing the talking when we arrived at brunch. Those non-coffee drinkers always amaze me.
So to climb out of my recent breakfast rut, I thought about my ideal breakfast. Which involves a latte with perfectly foamed milk paired with a buttery baked good from my neighborhood coffee shop. Unfortunately, due to the overwhelming "hipness" of my neighborhood, the coffee shop, in addition to being a scene, is the most expensive coffee shop I've ever been to and a coffee and muffin will cost you. So why not bring the homemade baked goods home?! I did by making this amazingly moist banana bread, and my mornings are already looking brighter.
In my dream world…or maybe I should say my dream kitchen, I would open my refrigerator and it would be spotless. It would neatly stocked with only the freshest produce, a perfect bowl of bright red berries, crisp lettuces, French cheeses, milk in a glass bottle and an unending supply of sparkling water. There would be no Tupperware containers of scary leftovers hiding in the very back, behind styrofoam containers of week, maybe even month-old Thai take-out. The 6-month-old cupcakes from our roommates 30th birthday party that are held on to for sentimental value wouldn't be there. The garlic would never end up lonely little shriveled cloves hidden beside half-used slimy red onions. And there would always be as many shallots as I thought there were. Alas, cleaning out the fridge is one of my most dreaded tasks.
"Please, please please don't tell me that you're going to eat the leftovers if you really have no intention of it. I won't hurt my feelings. I promise." I say to my super-sweet and encouraging boyfriend as I gag while emptying out a container of who-knows-what-that-was because now it's just green and furry in to the garbage.
Needless to say, keeping the fridge in top form is an ongoing task, at which, I might add, I'm getting much better. It is important to stay aware of what's in there and use it while it's fresh. It can also help to get you out of your cooking comfort zones and try new things. For example, I had a container of buttermilk sitting on the shelf and thought, I'm never going to use that for anything. But instead of letting it perish, I made cheddar buttermilk biscuits for the first time. And they were delicious.


It's that time of year again. The time I dread, when the seasons change and I have to move my summer clothes up into the attic and my winter clothes down.
Don't get me wrong. I hate saying good-bye to summer but I also loathe having to exchange sweaters and scarves for shorts and sandals. There's just something about seeing your clothes from last season, remembering the times you wore them (and the really tough part, realizing they no longer fit!).
I didn't always hate changing my clothes for the season. I actually used to look forward to it, when I lived in a studio apartment and had a walk-in closet (strange but true; my closet was almost as big as the apartment). All my clothes were there, winter and summer, and I just left everything where it was. Cold out? No problem. Grab the sweater next to the bathing suit (I never said I was organized). Everything was in plain sight, and it was easy to make a choice.
Then I moved to a triplex with my boyfriend (later, my husband) and we inherited another walk-in closet. He got the linen closet next to the bathroom, which worked fine, since he wore the same t-shirts and sweats year-round. But that's another story.
Then we bought our house, built in the '50s, and realized people in those days didn't have a lot of clothes, because we had two-and-a-half tiny closets, and my summer clothes barely fit in them all.
But we did have an attic, and so began the trek, each season, for my husband with the clothes.
Then our son was born. Thankfully, since he's now only 8, he pretty much outgrows the clothes he wore last season so I just buy new ones. If only it were all that easy!
I have to confess, it's not the moving the clothes around I hate so much, but the having to give them up. The lives lived.
There's the leather jacket that no longer buttons, worn maybe twice. And the pink angora sweater I keep taking out, and putting back, but never wear because it's too itchy (and too pricey to give away!).
There are the big shirts I bought from Old Navy so my drains would fit under them after cancer surgery.
And there's the embroidered turquoise shirt with rhinestones and lace I bought on a business trip in Arizona, when I was consulting for IBM, made lots of money and never had to think, what's for dinner, no, not chicken, tonight. I'll never wear it in this lifetime again, but there's something about it that reminds me of those days, pre-marriage, pre-diagnosis and pre-kid, when my biggest worry was how to tell my client she couldn't smoke in my hotel room because it was no-smoking (she did, anyway).
But this year I put it in among the clothes Larry was taking out to the car to be given away. It was time.
I focused on organizing my winter clothes, the ones I was keeping, while he loaded the car. "This, too?" he said, holding up the last bundle, the turquoise shirt on top. "Yes," I said, and he headed out the door.
Then I ran and grabbed it back.
God knows what I'll do with it. It will probably sit in my closet for the next 10 winters. But there's something of me still in that shirt, and I'm not ready to give it up.
Deborah DiSesa Hirsch is a writer living in Stamford.


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Forget Iowa's stupid app: Democrats can't ignore the dismal turnout if they hope to win
My caucus in Iowa City had 60 fewer people than four years ago. Tepid turnout will re-elect Trump for sure
By Jeff Biggers
February 5, 2020 12:00PM (UTC)
Local residents enter an Iowa Democratic caucus at Hoover High School, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
We arrived at 6:25 p.m. on Monday night at our caucus location in Iowa City, assuming there would be an overflow crowd. Sure, there was a line, and the crowd was packed. But within 20 minutes, I was sitting snugly in my seat in the high school auditorium.
Despite the pre-caucus hype of record turnout, my caucus in our university town, one of the largest in the state, checked in at 875 people — a decrease of 60 from 2016's total of 935. That turnout appears to be the general rule across the state, even as we await final tallies, which now place Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg in a tight race, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren not far behind.
Here's the real wakeup call for Democrats, coming out of Iowa: We can't put our heads in the sand and ignore the middling turnout, in a time of bonafide historic upheaval.
If Democrats don't put together an unprecedented get-out-the-vote effort in 2020, far exceeding anything from the past, we are setting ourselves up for failure.
The Iowa caucus is a case study of this reality. While Republicans reveled in record turnouts, Democrats faced an entirely different scenario.
Forget about problems with the Iowa Democratic Party's apps. Put aside your dismissals of Iowa's antiquated caucus process. My precinct secretary tallied our two rounds of votes and posted the final delegate numbers on social media later that night.
According to a NBC News entrance poll, even first-time voters — the young backbone of the progressive forces — dipped below past years as well. In 2008, first-time voters soared to 57%, thanks to the enthusiasm over Barack Obama's campaign; last night, an estimated one in three voters was a newcomer.
And it gets worse: Past turnouts were already at such cringe-worthy lows. In 2016, only 15.7% of Iowa's voting-eligible population took part in the caucus. Our record turnout, thanks to Obama's campaign in 2008, clocked in at 16.1%.
We all know turnout is the key to every election, especially in swing states. In 2016, Trump beat Hillary Clinton in neighboring Wisconsin by only 23,000 votes.
So this has nothing to do with malfunctioning apps — or even with Iowa.
Iowa's caucus debacle is only the flat tire on a Democratic Party bus that is waiting to take off.
The real discussion, post-Iowa, is whether Tom Perez's Democratic Party can galvanize the necessary vision, enthusiasm and opposition to beat Donald Trump in November — or not. Will an entrenched party leadership under Perez allow Sanders, Warren or Buttigieg to rise in the front ranks?
It's about the Democratic Party uniting around a bold vision that not only challenges the empty promises of Trump's economic claims, devastating environmental rollbacks, and reckless immigration and global policies, but inspires new and dispossessed voters to show up on Election Day.
Battered by the trade wars, a farm crisis and historic flooding, Iowa should not have been a tough playing field to rouse enthusiasm. Rising health care costs and climate change remain the top two priorities of caucus-goers.
But with Democratic leadership that has refused to allow debates on climate change, stacked the convention committees with members of the corporate establishment, and eased debate requirements for billionaire Michael Bloomberg, you have to wonder: This party could go down to defeat once again, against one of the most dangerous presidents in American history, unless the Democrats get new leadership, and a unified message — and right now.
Having served as a Democratic Party aide in the presidential campaign in 1984, where I crisscrossed snowy Iowa and the country, I witnessed firsthand the chronicle of a disaster foretold by a Democratic Party under the stranglehold of an outdated machine. Vice President Walter Mondale went down in a landslide against President Ronald Reagan, after the party managed to crush the enthusiasm of a broad section of candidates, including the "new ideas" of Sen. Gary Hart, former astronaut John Glenn and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, leader of the Rainbow Coalition.
If Iowa accomplished anything in 2020, it appears to have dispelled the Mondale curse. Electing our stale former vice president, Joe Biden, does not look likely after what looks to be a distant fourth-place finish.
Now it's time for the rest of the Democratic Party to get in gear — and get out the vote.
Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers is the founder of the Climate Narrative Project and the author of numerous books, most recently "Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition."
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