THIBODAUX -- After graduating from Nicholls State University Saturday, Toney Edison may have thought his day could get no brighter.
But as soon as the former Nicholls safety walked outside of Stopher Gym at the conclusion of the graduation ceremony, it did.
Edison�s agent, Ken Austin, was standing at the entrance with a pen and several papers in his hand. After learning that it was a contract to play football for the Canadian Football League�s Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edison and his family and friends erupted into celebration.
Edison, who didn�t get drafted in April�s NFL draft or sign rookie a free-agent deal, signed a one-year contract with the Blue Bombers, which includes an option for next season.
The 6-foot-0, 205-pound Edison is the second Nicholls player to join a professional team this offseason. The New York Jets drafted offensive lineman Jacob Bender in the sixth round (177th overall) on the second day of the draft.
Austin said it was a fitting moment for a player who experienced the disappointment of not getting drafted.
"I held the contract specifically in order to present it to him on his graduation day," said Austin, who works for Playmakers Sports Agency in Seattle. "He was just speechless when I gave it to him. I thought this would be very uplifting and inspirational. The kid continued to work hard, and now he has to opportunity to go out into the world and make a lot more money playing football."
Edison, an engineering and petroleum service major, said he was happy to sign the contract in front of his family and friends.
"It felt really good. I think my parents were more excited than I was, and I�m the one playing ball," Edison said. "It was a great moment. They�ve been with me the whole way by going through the ups and downs and not being drafted. Now they can just relax that it got done. We can focus on football now."
Immediately after the draft, Austin said he worked the phones trying to find an NFL team interested in signing Edison as a free-agent. When no NFL teams showed interest, he called Blue Bombers general manager Brendan Taman.
Winnipeg was the only team to place Edison on its negotiation list.
"I just stayed on Brendan, and I finally got the coach (Doug Berry) to like Toney," Austin said. "Brandon and myself put a deal together to give him an opportunity because they really liked what they saw."
Although he admitted that he didn�t know anything about Winnipeg except for its cold winters, Edison said he is excited about the opportunity to play for the Blue Bombers.
"The coaches thought that I was a player that could fit into their system and be very effective in it," Edison said. "I�m just glad that they offered to give me a chance to go up there and play and show them my talents. I�m going to go up there and do my best to help contribute to the team."
The CFL is different from the American football. The playing field is 110 yards long with 20-yard endzones. It also has 12 players on the field and use just three downs.
Austin said that shouldn�t be a problem for Edison.
"He�s going to fit in great because Toney is a very smart athlete," Austin said. "He�s an academic All-American with an engineering degree. It proves that the kid is able to absorb knowledge very quickly."
Edison said the Blue Bombers plan to use him as a defensive halfback, which is a cornerback/safety position in the CFL.
Despite the differences to American football, Edison said he should easily adapt to the CFL�s style.
"It shouldn�t be a problem. It will give me a chance to polish up my game and become a better cover guy," Edison said. "It�s a blessing that I will get to work on my cover skills and technique while I�m up there. I�ve played some cornerback in junior college, so I have some experience playing it. It�s a great opportunity for me to go and show my great skills that I have."
Edison will participate in the team�s rookie mini-camp May 29. The Blue Bombers (9-9 overall in 2006) will play their first preseason game on June 14 against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and then kickoff the regular season on June 28 against the Edmonton Eskimos.
"I just want to go out there and play football and go out there and improve myself," Edison said. "I�m just thankful I have another opportunity to play football."


"That is one expensive skateboard!" remarked a chatty sales associate as he rang up our purchases. I had tried to persuade my thirteen-year-old son to buy a less expensive one, but he refused to be talked out of buying the most expensive skateboard in the store. It was his money.
When we got home the kids immediately took to the street to test the new wheels.
Less than five minutes later, my son came crashing through the door. "My skateboard just went in the gutter!!!"
"You mean the skateboard you just spent all of your money on? The one that you have owned for exactly fifteen minutes? THAT is the skateboard that is at the bottom of the gutter?"
I wasn't using my inside voice.
My son looked around frantically, grabbed a broom, and we all ran down the street.
The drainage openings for the gutter on our street are about four feet wide and less than a foot tall. We could see the skateboard sitting at the bottom, but the angle was impossible - no one could reach it, not even the broom which was plenty long but entirely too straight.
My five kids and I stood staring into the gutter trying to figure out what to do.
Teenagers are experts at thinking outside of the box. My fifteen-year-old daughter suggested that perhaps her eight-year-old sister might be able to fit her skinny little body into the opening. The very idea! What kind of a mom would let that happen?
I inspected the gutter carefully and found it to be clean and dry. Plus we were running out of time. And my younger daughter was actually excited to try. So I relented, and watched as my son held my daughter's ankles and slowly lowered her, head first, into the gutter.
With some twisting and bending, she reached the skateboard. But as soon as she grabbed it, I heard a sound that sounded a whole lot like the sprinklers about to spray. Regrettably, I was right. In the very lawn we were standing, the sprinklers turned on. We were getting very wet very quickly.
Slightly panicky, I worried that by son would lose his grip. Slightly more panicky, my daughter yelled that she couldn't pull the skateboard up. So my teenage daughter lay on the curb next to her, reached down to grab the skateboard and maneuvered it up and out of the gutter.
The precious skateboard had been safely retrieved.
Which was great. But my daughter's head and most of her body were still deep in the gutter, getting wetter by the second. While I was ordering my son to pull her up carefully so he wouldn't scrape her stomach and reminding my daughter to turn her head so it wouldn't get stuck, a man ran over from across the street and gallantly stepped on the closest sprinkler head to stop the flow of water.
We all watched my daughter emerge victoriously from the gutter - unscathed except for her long hair, which had seen significantly better days.
Our neighbor was all smiles and amazement. "I've lived here a long time and have seen lots of things go into that gutter, but I've never seen anybody actually go in after them like you just did. That is AWESOME!"
As we were walking back towards our house, my son turned to his sister and said, "Thanks. I owe you one. Let me know next time you need something."
These words came from the mouth of a boy who has recently been treating his younger sister as little more than an annoyance. I have lost plenty of sleep over this, trying to figure out how to get my kids to be nice to each other for heaven's sake.
In retrospect, it may not have been the best idea to let my son feed my daughter headfirst into the gutter. But I wonder if any other situation on the planet would have compelled him to say those kind words to his sister, words that her tender eight-year-old heart needed to hear.
As a mother, I've learned that precious gifts often come in unexpected packages. If it happens to be a skateboard stuck in a gutter, I'll take it. I'm not picky that way.


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The "Forgive Barbecue" located in 798 Art Zone, Beijing, is a startup project for hearing-impaired people. Different from other places, this "silent" restaurant welcomes customers with a guide card reading "welcome, how many people?" with order cards and tablets displayed on each table.
Although staff members are unable to speak with customers, they understand customers' requests through a simple facial expression, an action, or even a look. When the requests are complicated, the employees use writing tablets.
Customers feel good about this kind of communication; with many of them even leaving notes on the message board praising the staff members.
As one of the employees said, the restaurant is a bridge to connect hearing-impaired people with other people. Employees get a chance to learn about the society and have their own careers.


Pair of hoop earrings in 18k gold-coated sterling silver. Logos engraved at post-stud fastening. Approx. 2 diameter.Part of the Undercover x Careering collaboration.
Sterling silver necklace in gold-tone. Sculpted pendant featuring engraved logo at back face. Logo disc at at spring-ring fastening. Approx. 15 length.


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package kth_smallest_element_in_sorted_matrix;

import java.util.PriorityQueue;

public class Solution1 {

  public int kthSmallest(int[][] matrix, int k) {
    assert matrix != null && matrix.length != 0 && matrix.length == matrix[0].length;

    final int n = matrix.length;

    // Using n-way merge of n sorted columns to find the kth smallest element
    PriorityQueue<ValAndPos> pq = new PriorityQueue<>();
    for (int col = 0; col < n; col++) {
      pq.add(new ValAndPos(matrix[0][col], 0, col));
    }
    for (int i = 2; i <= k; i++) {
      ValAndPos valAndPos = pq.poll();
      if (valAndPos.getRowIndex() + 1 < n) {
        pq.add(
            new ValAndPos(
                matrix[valAndPos.getRowIndex() + 1][valAndPos.getColIndex()],
                valAndPos.getRowIndex() + 1,
                valAndPos.getColIndex()));
      }
    }

    return pq.peek().getVal();
  }

  private static class ValAndPos implements Comparable<ValAndPos> {

    private int val;
    private int rowIndex;
    private int colIndex;

    ValAndPos(int val, int rowIndex, int colIndex) {
      this.val = val;
      this.rowIndex = rowIndex;
      this.colIndex = colIndex;
    }

    int getVal() {
      return val;
    }

    int getRowIndex() {
      return rowIndex;
    }

    int getColIndex() {
      return colIndex;
    }

    @Override
    public int compareTo(ValAndPos o) {
      return this.val - o.val;
    }
  }
}

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I was meaning to start the new website much earlier than this. But none the less, older strips and comics are now uploaded, as well as the latest Red Binder photos.
The sign painting project at Dickens was finished much sooner than anticipated.
I've paid my respects to Leonard Nimoy – in many places online, but most notably Star Trek Online.
STO makers added a Spock memorial to Vulcan in game.
So now I find myself with 5 full weeks to prep for the Calgary Expo. After not participating for 2 years and a unintentional artistic hiatus, I'm surprisingly confident I can be Expo Ready by April.16.
I've added to my table décor this time around.
With the addition/construction of a back drop and a large 3D logo, I hope to get a record breaking amount of folks by my table for Graffiti Bunny.


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PAL postpones launch of Manila-Sapporo flights after strong earthquake in Hokkaido
September 7, 2018 | 12:03 am
PHILIPPINE AIRLINES (PAL) is pushing back the launch of its Manila-Sapporo flight to October, after Hokkaido was hit by an earthquake on Thursday.
"Due to a strong 6.7 earthquake which hit Hokkaido early this morning resulting in power outages and blocked roads, PAL will be postponing the original Sept. 10 launch of its Manila — Sapporo — Manila route to a new date — Oct. 8," the flag carrier said in a post on its official Facebook page.
Reuters reported at least four people were killed and 33 were missing, after a 6.7-magnitude quake struck Japan's northern island Hokkaido before dawn on Thursday.
PAL said customers who bought tickets to Sapporo scheduled between Sept. 10 to Oct. 7 may rebook their flights free of charge within 30 days from Oct. 8.
"PAL will endeavor to rebook affected passengers on the next available flight dates. Passengers with contact details on their PNRs (Passenger Name Records) will be sent notifications via e-mail and/or call-out and/or text message/SMS," the statement added.
The flag carrier announced in July its plans to fly to Sapporo because of the rising demand from Filipinos to fly to Japan.
"Last year, we carried almost half a million passengers [to Japan] with our 89 weekly flights. With the introduction of Sapporo, this will result to more passengers going to Japan. So we're expecting more than 500,000 next year," PAL President Jaime J. Bautista said then.
PAL was scheduled to fly to Sapporo thrice weekly. The capital of Hokkaido is PAL's sixth destination in Japan. It currently offers flights to Fukuoka, Osaka (Kansai), Nagoya (Chubu) and Tokyo (Narita and Haneda), with chartered flights to Okinawa island.
PAL has also has cancelled flights to and from Osaka until Sept. 12, as the Kansai International Airport remained closed for repair and rehabilitation.
The airport's facilities and access roads suffered extensive damage due to flooding caused by Typhoon Jebi.
"A total of 55 PAL flights to/from Osaka have now been cancelled since Sept. 3 due to Typhoon Jebi, affecting all routes between Osaka and Manila, Cebu and Taipei," the airline said.
PAL Holdings, Inc. reported its net attributable loss from January to June rose 7.19% to P1.398 billion from last year's P1.304 billion due to higher losses in the first quarter.
Mr. Bautista told reporters in June that the company is hopeful to end the year with a "modest profit," as it seeks to impose a fuel surcharge, having made an application at the Civil Aeronautics Board. — Denise A. Valdez
Denise Valdez

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Gardez es la capital de la provincia de Paktiyā en Afganistán. La ciudad queda cerca de la región de las cuevas y túneles de Tora Bora, donde se pensó que Osama bin Laden estaría escondido.

Gardez queda al oeste de Jost y a 80 km al sur de Kabul.

Localidades de Afganistán


I got a chance to read the latest volume of Bizenghast on my lunch hour today. It continues the story of Dinah and Vincent, and how they're helping to collect lost souls in the unusual town of Bizenghast.
This volume is curious in that it's very dependent on having read the previous volumes. I seem to recall the first three being more friendly to first-time readers, but I got the sense here that things would be very confusing if readers were unfamiliar with what's gone on before. The characters are all identified and the basic plot summary is present for newcomers, but the transitions between worlds seems to me as decidedly vague here and could be off-putting. That's not necessarily a bad thing, mind you, given that this is designed as a finite series, but it's worth observing for folks who may wish to try the story but can't readily find the earlier volumes. For those of us reading since Book 1, it is nice to speed along through what could be the tedium of the characters getting a new assignment each night.
The plot of this volume was a little weak, by comparison to the others, largely because of the seemingly sudden introduction of Dinah's and Vincent's personal lives. While there were references earlier on to their families, there was no real mention of their schooling or social circles. Dinah finding schoolyard friends here, some of whom were evidently relatively close to her, and other schoolmates inquiring about Vincent seemed somewhat out of place. While the majority of the story is still focused on Dinah's and Vincent's helping lost souls, the introductions of their peers struck me as something of a course-change in the book's direction.
On the positive end of plot developments, we're given a greater sense of the real threat that Dinah and Vincent are facing on a nearly nightly basis. Their tasks are no longer easily achievable, but provide a true danger to their very lives. This is, of course, a welcome addition as the plot is no longer quite as predictable. There's also some more significant development in the backstory of the town itself and one it's early inhabitants: Addie Clark.
The strength of the book is still largely in LeGrow's illustrations. She spends a great deal of time with the character's clothing, designing a new outfit for almost every scene, and the details in her architecture are striking as well. Her background in costume design is plainly evident and, for me at least, quite a refreshing change from "typical" comic illustrators.
On an interesting side note, I had the book lying out the other night during band practice. The wife of the guitarist we were auditioning noticed it and said, "That looks like something one of my kids reads." I responded with, "Yeah, those're mostly popular with 14-year-old girls, but I dig this series too." She acted surprised, which I later gathered was because one of her kids is indeed a 14-year-old girl.
Just wanted to wish you a Happy New Year 2008!
I stumbled across your FFPlaze site just minutes ago and read the details about it still being kept on (if not updated) for research etc. I love that you are willing to do that. I collect no comics except the FF and basically for the same reason you point out in your explanation page.
Im bookmarking this blog and will read it when I can.
I'm surprised you consider the illustration this series' greatest strength. I've only read the first volume, so it may have improved, but I found the art very weak.
While there's a lot of variety in design, and some of the costumes are lavish, the abundance of detail is used to disguise the lack of basic drawing skill. It's not remotely accurate enough to be considered realistic, but far too fussy and detailed to be considered cartoony. Every so often there will be an image that shows some effort has gone into making it accurate, but this simply shows up how poor the rest of it is. The inking is also poor, with little to no variation, causing all the shapes to run together into a spidery scribble in the more detailed images.
But the real problem I had with the first volume is that it reads like a video game being played by someone else. Our heroes have a series of puzzles; when they have completed a certain number, they get a power up and start new puzzles. Everything beyond this is barely sketched in, mere window dressing for the adventure.
I wanted to like this, but although it has a lot to like in it, it is nowhere near professional quality in either writing or art.
Admittedly, LeGrow's drawing skills themselves aren't on par with any of a number of notable comic book artists. Indeed, I noted several instances in Vol. 4 where her renderings looked rushed and almost sloppy in places.
But I chose the word "illustration" deliberately, over "drawing" or "linework" or whatever. Even if the drawings aren't technically accurate, they have a style that conveys the attitude of the story. It's much like looking at fashion design drawings -- they, too, are often technically inaccurate with "far too fussy and detailed" linework, but they convey an impression of the end work that relies more heavily on emotion and feeling than intellect.
That's what I'm responding to in Bizenghast.
And, hey, George K -- thanks for stopping by. I always appreciate hearing from folks who are willing to slog through something I write.


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The positive kind of censorship is much worse than the negative and, if it goes very far, is almost incompatible with either deep thought or good art. It co-exists with the negative form of censorship, but in addition to making some things unsayable it prescribes what must be said, in the way that any thesis on any subject whatever in the old Soviet Union was obliged to carry quotations from Lenin, showing that Lenin had come to the right conclusions years before. Of course, intelligent people quoted Lenin with satire in their hearts; but forcing men publicly to mouth sentiments as a precondition of furthering their careers is a sovereign way to destroy their probity and induce a state of self-contempt. And men who are contemptuous of themselves are more likely to take to the bottle than to constructive activity.


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Q: how to update dynamic text in PrimeFaces I'm new to PrimeFaces (and JSF too) and I'm trying to update dialog message based on retrieved data.
View looks like:

    <h:form>
        Email address #{userListView.email} is already registered with the following user #{userListView.firstName} #{userListView.lasttName}:

        Please confirm that you would like to proceed with adding an additional account for this User.

    </h:form>

And controller looks like:
@ManagedBean(name = "userListView")
@ViewScoped
public class UserListView extends DataTableListView implements Serializable {

 .....some other code...

    public String getFirstName() {

       String firstName = "";

       List<UserMembership> membershipList = getMembershipList();

       if (!membershipList.isEmpty()) {
           UserMembership membership = membershipList.get(0);
           firstName = membership.getUser().getFirstName();
       }

       return firstName;
    }

    public String getLasttName() {

       String lastName = "";

       List<UserMembership> membershipList = getMembershipList();

       if (!membershipList.isEmpty()) {
           UserMembership membership = membershipList.get(0);
           lastName = membership.getUser().getLastName();
       }

       return lastName;
    }

    public String getEmail() {

       String email = "";

       List<UserMembership> membershipList = getMembershipList();

        if (!membershipList.isEmpty()) {
            UserMembership membership = membershipList.get(0);
            email = membership.getUser().getEmail();
        }

        return email;
    }

 ....some other code...
}

and dialog box is spawned as
RequestContext.getCurrentInstance().execute("showDialog(userDialog')");

It will work fine for the first user but then when I will get that dialog box for another one it keeps data from first one not updated with current.
Also I have try to add
onHide="PF('userDialog').content.empty()"
to the dialog but that will remove whole dialog box content.
How can I destruct and refresh that dialog box with new data then?
PS.
Not sure if I need to get this done via
   @PostConstruct
   public void init() {}

A: In the case you are using Primefaces 7.0+ swap the already mentioned
RequestContext.getCurrentInstance().update("userDialog");

for
PrimeFaces.current().ajax().update("userDialog");

If I can suggest you, set some id for <h:form> and use the full client ID after, something like
PrimeFaces.current().ajax().update("userDialog:yourFormId");

BalusC already answer a similar question in this thread Can I update a JSF component from a JSF backing bean method?

A: In my case fix looks like
RequestContext.getCurrentInstance().update(":userDialog");

just after .execute() part.

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Fall drinks -- hot chocolate, pumpkin-spice lattes, eggnog, apple cider, and hot toddies -- are a quick and easy way to take in lots of extra calories. An 8-ounce cup of homemade hot cocoa (without whipped cream) has 151 calories. An 8-ounce cup of eggnog packs 258 calories. Try a hot cup of green or flavored tea, rich with antioxidants and calorie-free. Or choose light beer or wine spritzers, and limit yourself to one or two.
Jayne Hurley, RD, senior nutritionist, Center for Science in the Public Interest; co-author, Restaurant Confidential, Workman Publishing, 2002.
Katherine Tallmadge, MA, RD, author, Diet Simple, Lifeline Press, 2011; past spokeswoman, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Liz Weiss, co-author, The Moms' Guide to Meal Makeovers, Harmony, 2003.
Janice Newell Bissex, MS, RD, nutrition consultant; co-author, The Moms' Guide to Meal Makeovers.
Suzanne Farrell, MS, RD, owner, Cherry Creek Nutrition, Denver; former spokeswoman, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Yanovski, J. The New England Journal of Medicine, March 23, 2000.


For our final we are to create a poster and cd cover for the SFCC Film Department's movie ~ The Last Prisoner. Above are my first two rough drafts. I realized too late that I need to be more generic with the face on my women.
All of my pictures are from Pixabay and are © free images. I was very pleased with the variety to select from to demonstrate the story of the Omega prison.
I will most likely develop the version with the men in the shape of the omega symbol. I will remove the large face. Swap out the top and bottom images and make the dancer a black silhouette. I will also look for a better font and remove my favorite part 😦 which is the hand with the butterfly on the finder.


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July / Aug 2018 \ Courtroom Safety and Security
Courtroom Safety and Security
Following the 2015 shooting of a state district judge in Austin, the issue of courthouse security came under intense scrutiny by state and local officials. Peace officers realized that screening for weapons at the courthouse door isn't sufficient to protect the people who work inside the courthouse.
Judge Julie Kocurek was arriving home from a Friday night football game in 2015 when she was shot and severely wounded inside her vehicle while in her driveway. She survived after multiple surgeries and went on to testify in the trial of her assailant, a man whose bond revocation case was due to be heard in her court a week after the shooting. The defendant was convicted this year and awaits sentencing.
Two TAC representatives outlined the resulting security upgrades at the County Management and Risk Conference in Galveston this spring.
TAC Judicial Program Manager Susan Redford, who becomes the Association's Executive Director on Jan. 1, 2019, recounted that the attack on Kocurek spurred the Office of Court Administration (OCA) to survey sitting judges around the state. The OCA found that two-thirds of those responding said they did not know of a security plan for their court, nor had security training been provided in their courthouse.
The Legislature responded in 2017 by passing Senate Bill 42, known as the Judge Julie Kocurek Judicial and Courthouse Security Act, which lays out new requirements for counties, such as mandatory training for court security officers, including bailiffs and deputies. Employees must complete the 16-hour training by September 2019. Also, each county's local administrative judge is required to establish a court security committee to adopt security policies and procedures for the courts. A new $5 fee on civil actions will help counties pay for these measures.
The OCA was told to hire a director of security and emergency preparedness to serve as a central resource for information. And the new state law requires that personal information for past and present
state and federal judges, such as home addresses, be withheld from public documents.
Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies have ramped up their approach to courthouse security, said TAC Law Enforcement Consultant Gary Henderson. The very nature of many cases heard in courtrooms — divorce, domestic violence, child custody, murder prosecutions, sentencing hearings — means the courthouse has the potential to become ground zero for emotional upheaval and possible violence.
"There's no formula for when violence will occur, but it can happen at any time and for any reason," he said. For that reason, law enforcement stationed in courthouses look for warning signs, such as visitors who are wearing baggy clothes, are sweating heavily, acting nervous or avoiding eye contact.
X-ray scanners, along with metal detectors, do a good job of eliminating the possibility of anyone entering the courthouse with a weapon, he said, adding, "Sheriffs are making great strides to make sure they protect their courthouses." But more technology advances need to be deployed, such as metal doors, duress alarms in every office, video monitors in courtrooms, and improved interior and exterior lighting. Moreover, there should be an evacuation plan that every employee knows well.
In 2014, Henderson said, Texas courthouses reported a total of 132 violent incidents, or 11 a month. With the new reporting requirements contained in SB 42, he predicts the numbers will be much higher.
Henderson wants everyone to know their options in case of an active shooter, adding, "Your survival may depend on whether you have a plan. Always have an exit plan."
"If you can get out, do so, even when others want to stay," he said. "Leave your belongings behind and try to find a safe way out. Once out of the line of fire, call 911. If you can't get out of the building, act quickly and quietly," and find a secure hiding place, turn out the lights, lock the doors and silence cell phones. If a room or closet is not available to hide in, get behind a large object that may protect you.
Henderson's advice was blunt: "If your life is at risk, act with aggression. Disarm him or fight
with improvised weapons. Fight with everything you've got, even a fountain pen."


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Q: Why does margin override marginLeft in Android (same with radius, etc)? This makes no sense to me, coming from CSS. In CSS, if you specify a margin and then margin-left, the left margin will assume the more granular value.
In Android, it is the opposite. Same goes for android:radius, and I'm sure other values.
My question is: why?.. It makes no sense. Is there a single reason for doing it this way?
Edit: prompted by trying to find a solution to yet another Google ADT/Android bug http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7588

A: I have had the same frustration, but if you think about it, which value should be used?  I know in your post you say that CSS uses the "more granular value" but it all boils down to pixels in the end and the result is simply two pixel values that need to be chosen between.  The CSS standard chose to do it one way, Android chose the other, I don't think either approach is wrong, they are just different.


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Wincenty Pipka – polski psycholog, dziennikarz radiowy związany z Programem I Polskiego Radia,  lektor serwisów informacyjnych; w latach 2008–2009 był dyrektorem tej stacji zastępując Jacka Sobalę. Wcześniej, od 2006 do 2008 r. pełnił funkcję dyrektora Informacyjnej Agencji Radiowej. Od stycznia 2016 r. do kwietnia 2017 był zastępcą dyrektora Informacyjnej Agencji Radiowej.

Wyróżnienia
 Nagroda słuchaczy Polskiego Radia "Chryzostom" 2001
 Srebrny medal "Za zasługi dla obronności kraju" 2009

Przypisy

Odznaczeni Srebrnym Medalem "Za zasługi dla obronności kraju"
Redaktorzy PR1


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Et Tu Bruté
Chosen City
Get a Story Critique or Copyediting
Faith in Science Fiction/Fantasy
The Yukon
Scifi Writing Groups
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Jerome Stueart + Queerness, Art, Books, Geek Culture, and the Yukon
Better Beasts makes the Sunburst Award Longlist
July 11, 2017 July 11, 2017 jstueartLeave a comment
I'm late to announce this, but no less thrilled. On May 29, 2017, the Sunburst Award Society revealed their longlist for novels/short stories in the running for the Sunburst Award. The Angels of Our Better Beasts was on it. Well, I was completely taken by surprise, and deeply honored at the same time. A friend told me "Congratulations!" and I had to ask why. I quickly went to the website to see. The list is full of amazing works by writers in Canada–and there I was among them. The Sunburst Award is given for "excellence in Canadian literature of the Fantastic." Five judges read all the submissions and make their longlist. Later they will make a short-list of about five works per category, and in September, they will announce winners. I'm so stoked even to make the longlist with my debut book, that I'm going to revel in this for a long time! I want to buy all the other books in the Adult Fiction section and read them! And put them on a little shelf in this order, because I'm cheesy that way. And because, if you like great lit of the fantastic, you'll love what's on this list Sunburst has made for us. Thank you, Sunburst Award Society, for making lists like this, for loving literature of the fantastic, and especially, right now, for choosing my book for your longlist. It means a lot to me as both a writer and a Canadian.
ADULT FICTION:
Gail Anderson-Dargatz, The Spawning Grounds [Knopf Canada]
Madeline Ashby, Company Town [Tor Books]
Jay Hosking, Three Years With the Rat [Hamish Hamilton]
Claire Humphrey, Spells of Blood and Kin [Thomas Dunne Books]
Ami McKay, The Witches of New York [Knopf Canada]
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things [Thomas Dunne Books]
Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants [Del Rey]
Jerome Stueart, The Angels of Our Better Beasts [ChiZine]
Jo Walton, Necessity [Tor Books]
Robert Charles Wilson, Last Year [Tor Books]
YOUNG ADULT FICTION:
Jonathan Auxier, Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard [Puffin Canada]
Karen Bass, The Hill [Pajama Press]
Kate Blair, Transferral [Dancing Cat Books]
Lena Coakley, Worlds of Ink and Shadow [HarperCollins]
Marina Cohen, The Inn Between [Roaring Brook Press]
Catherine Egan, Julia Vanishes [Doubleday Canada]
Ian Donald Keeling, The Skids [ChiTeen]
Arthur Slade, Flickers [HarperCollins]
Jeff Szpirglas, Sheldon Unger vs The Dentures of Doom [Star Crossed Press]
Moira Young, The Road to Ever After [Doubleday Canada]
SHORT STORY:
Brad C. Anderson, "Naïve Gods" [Lazarus Risen, Bundoran Press]
K.T. Bryski, "La Corriveau" [Strange Horizons, October 2016]
James Alan Gardner, "The Dog and the Sleepwalker" [Strangers Among Us, Laksa Media Groups Inc.]
Kate Heartfield, "The Seven O'Clock Man" [Clockwork Canada: Steampunk Fiction, Exile Editions]
Rich Larson, "All That Robot…" [Asimov's, September 2016]
Helen Marshall, "Caro in Carno" [The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction, Constable-Robinson (UK)/Running Press (US)]
Michael Matheson, "Until There is Only Hunger" [Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling, Apex]
Peter Norman, "The Night Stylist" [Pulp Literature, Issue 12]
Kelly Robson, "The Eye of The Swan" [Tor.com, October 2016]
Madeleine Thien, "The Second Waltz" [Catapult, June 2016]
A.C. Wise, "The Men from Narrow Houses" [Liminal Stories, #1]
A.C. Wise, "The Sailing of the Henry Charles Morgan in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841)" [The Dark, #14]
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My Faith in Werewolves
January 22, 2017 March 12, 2017 jstueartLeave a comment
I grew up with a dangerous love of werewolves. I wanted to meet them. I wanted to run with them in the woods behind the house. I wanted them to break into my room at night and kneel at my bed and whisper all the courageous, adventurous things I could become.
I drew pictures of werewolves. I couldn't help myself. Especially when I was 14 and living outside of Caruthersville, MO, on the levy by the Mississippi River, where my father was the pastor of a small country church–those pictures came every day into my head and just bled out of my pencils and pens. Most of these werewolves were kind, masculine, big brotherly, mentor-like werewolves. I was not clued-in to my head at the time.
These werewolves came, most likely, from my deeply embedded and hidden sexuality, a love for hairy men that I could not understand–a feeling like there was a wild side of me that I must hide away. But the werewolves at my window were always free. Free to run.
These werewolves I drew–the first one made me weep as a teenager–there was something important in that picture, something I couldn't fully understand growing up in my deeply religious environment. I don't regret the beautiful years of being deep in that family and faith (and I'm still a big part of my family and faith) but I regret not knowing what that was. I'd have been a much different person if I had known I was gay at 15 instead of at 34.
I appreciate the magic and wonder my ignorance left me–and that's a strange blessing to be thankful for, but it's a blessing nonetheless. Because I could not believe in my sexuality, I believed werewolves were real. I musta lived under some really awesome bubble of cognitive dissonance for an A+ student to believe werewolves were possible and still understand and love my science classes. But there I was–a high school student who kept a space open in my brain for the possibility of werewolves. It's not so hard to believe. For me, son of a Southern Baptist minister, I had a world with angel-demon fights, Jesus talking to you out of the air, fiery chariots racing to the sky, resurrecting dead people, talking donkeys–that's a world where werewolves can happen, too, isn't it? That space I kept open–it's a similar space open for the possibility of miracles, of faith. So why not a …sorta faith in werewolves?
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Write with Me at The BRAINERY workshop!
July 8, 2016 July 8, 2016 jstueartLeave a comment
Would you like to write a few stories this summer and work with me for ten weeks? The Brainery Workshop has several spots still open to work with me or Valerie Valdes in times that are convenient for you!
EVERYTHING IS ONLINE. So you can participate no matter WHERE you are in the world, as long as you have a good internet connection.
We get together once a week and work on your stories. We also go through Ursula K. LeGuin's workshop guide, Steering the Craft, and we use the Jeff VanderMeer and Jeremey Zerfoss' Wonderbook. We'll also be reading stories from Lightspeed and other magazines.
Come join a small group online—using GoToMeeting and WetInk–to create a great place for writing!
Want to know more?: Follow this link to the BRAINERY WORKSHOP.
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Jesus in Science Fiction
January 30, 2016 January 30, 2016 jstueartLeave a comment
I started teaching a course that looks at the character of Jesus when he shows up in S cience Fiction. Currently the course is only 6 weeks long and only taught at the UDLLI, the University of Dayton's Lifelong Learning Centre for Senior Adults. We are using the following short stories and novels in the course, and I will be placing the blogposts of the course over on Wrestling With Gods website because it's become a great place to talk about religion and faith as it appears in science fiction and fantasy.
What happens to Biblical Jesus when the narrative is continued into the future? Is it subverted? Are writers appropriating Christianity to rewrite it and rob the narrative of its miracle, or do they instead seek to expand the notion of Jesus to its infinite possibility? How does Jesus fare in science fiction and what can we learn about faith when science fiction writers write about him? We look first at the life of Jesus in the Gospels to ground us in the ur-text, try to gather the importance of him as a character and iconic figure in history, culture and religion. How is Jesus relevant in the future? Then we look at how authors extrapolate the future of faith, or seek to tweak history, just a bit, to get the savior they want, and perhaps we can better see what kind of culture we are in the face of our chosen Saviour.
Come follow along over on the Wrestling with Gods site. Already the class has been exciting as these students know a lot about religion, specifically Judaism and Christianity (UD is a Catholic institution) and many retired professors attend these classes for fun (they also can be quite mischievous).
The works we're going to explore, and I will detail in blogposts are these:
To get us oriented on Jesus the character in the Bible:
Jesus: the Face of God Jay Parini
"The Man" Ray Bradbury from The Illustrated Man
"Mecha-Jesus" Derwin Mak from Wrestling With Gods
"So Loved" Matt Hughes from Wrestling With Gods
"The Rescuer" Arthur Porges
"The Traveler" Richard Matheson
"The Real Thing" Carolyn Ives Gilman
"Let's Go to Golgotha!" Garry Kilworth
"The Gospel According to Gamaliel Crucis" Michael Bishop (a longer work I may not use)
"Jesus Christ in Texas" W.E.B Dubois (which isn't exactly Science Fiction, but may prove useful in this study)
Then two novels:
Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock,
Jesus on Mars Philip Jose Farmer
If we have time, "Farewell to the Master," Harry Bates—Which becomes The Day the Earth Stood Still. This would be delightful to show to students in a longer class. To read the short story and then watch both films.
I can also see adding these works to the syllabus for a longer class:
The Man Who Died DH Lawrence
Jesus Christ, Animator Ken MacLeod
All Star Superman Grant Morrison
Jesus Christs AJ Langguth
Only Begotten Daughter James Morrow
If you have suggestions on stories, poems, or novels to add to this list, let me know. Specifically we are NOT covering characters who merely have a "savior-esque" quality to them, or those that have a martyr motif. I want to look at places where characters are for all intents and purposes supposed to BE Jesus.
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Jerome in the Yukon Writers Festival
Image April 22, 2013 April 22, 2013 jstueartLeave a comment
A really nice article by Dan Davidson appeared in the Whitehorse Star on Friday, April 19. Alistair Maitland did the photo. I appreciate them both. I think this Festival will be a lot of fun. It's always good to get to teach Yukon high school students as part of the Young Authors Conference as well.
The Festival starts with a big reading at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Tuesday night at 7pm. The Young Authors Conference is held the next two days after that in FH Collins Library and then we head off Friday to Haines Junction for a reading.
Organizer Sara Davidson has done a great job at gathering diverse writers together. Yukoner Dennis Allen, as well as Drew Hayden Taylor and Carrie Mac and Beverley Brenna.
If you can, come and enjoy the readings with us.
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Speculating Canada reviews my story, "One Nation Under Gods"
November 22, 2012 November 22, 2012 jstueart1 Comment
Really thrilled that Speculating Canada reviewed my short story, "One Nation Under Gods" which appeared in Tesseracts 14. It's hard to get short fiction reviews and they are so valuable. The SF/F/H community should hold tight and nurture as many reviewers as we can. With a growing market of books, the discerning reader looks to reviews to help choose what to read. And reviewers who choose short fiction, new authors, and anthologies help support beginning writers who are starting their careers, hoping that someone notices. So we can't fete reviewers enough–we need them, we love them, we should be very kind to them.
I'd say this for any thoughtful reviewer, even if Derek had NOT liked my work. It's the way he liked my work that makes me happy.
Speculating Canada has a really great aim:
This site has been created in response to the overwhelming number of people who are surprised that Canadian literature includes the fantastic. Canadian SF, fantasy, and horror have been cast into a literary ghetto under the power structure of CanLit, and cast as either inferior literatures, or literatures that are not 'of here', i.e. from abroad. Yet, Canadian speculative fiction has a long history in Canada and engages with ideas of Canadian identity, belonging, and concepts of nationhood, place and space (both 'the final frontier' type, and the geographical).
Realist fiction is often seen as the only 'truly' Canadian fiction, but even realist fiction speculates, postulates and creates a fantastic idea, just one that is based more closely on the normative world around us than most SF authors are inclined to do.
Canadian SF allows for the engagement with ideas such as What is Canada? What does belonging mean? What is the nature of 'human'? Why are things the way they are? How do we change things? Can things change?
The appeal of Canadian SF is not just regional, but has implications for a wider audience. Canadians, long un/comfortable with our identity as a hybrid of the American and English, Francophones and Anglophones, Aboriginal and settlers, and the multicultural mix that is embedded in our philosophy, means that we are comfortable with questions of identity and the exploration of our place, ideas that naturally lend themselves to science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We live in a world that is unsure of itself, and uncomfortable with ideas of belonging, and Canadian SF plays with ideas of belonging, disrupts the normal (or what has come to be seen as normal) and allows for a new way of experiencing the world.
As for the review–well, I'll let you read most of it as his site, but here's a nice chunk:
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Clarion Write-a-Thon: Join Team Bears Discover Fire
June 9, 2012 June 28, 2012 jstueart1 Comment
Wanna light a fire under your writer's bum and do a good deed?
Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop has developed the Write-a-Thon to help YOU and to help THEM.
You might be in a place in your life where you haven't been writing much, but you wish, wish, wish, that you could–or that you had the time. What we need, rarely, is the time—we need encouragement. The time will magically appear when we feel people in our life actually WANT us to write.
So Clarion has developed teams of writers to help you reach your writing goal—AND help Clarion reach their fundraising goals.
1. You say to yourself, I give myself permission to write for six weeks as much as I can. I don't have to take off from work, but I will find some time–with the help of my spouse, my significant other, my parents–to cordon off even a smidgen of time a day to write.
2. You sign up with Clarion Write-A-Thon by clicking on those words.
3. (from the Clarion write-a-thon website)
First, sign up to write! Fill out as many of the fields as you can. It's especially important to include a bio and excerpts. A link to your website and/or personal blog helps, too. Your name and a link to your new writer's page will appear automatically on the Browse Writers page of the Write-a-Thon site.
Be sure to upload a recent photo of yourself. A .jpg that is a maximum of 200 pixels in width is ideal. But our software can resize it for you if necessary.
Post frequent updates everywhere. Refresh your Write-a-Thon writer's page often with new excerpts. Post writing progress reports on your personal website, your blog, your Facebook page, and your Twitter feed. Make sure all of your efforts link to your Clarion Write-a-Thon writer's page.
Line up your sponsors. Contact friends, family and fans to let them know you're raising money for Clarion while nurturing your writing life. Your writer page comes complete with personalized donation buttons to make it easy for your supporters. Feel awkward about asking? Here's a model letter to use as a starting point.
Participate as both a Writer and a Sponsor. When you support others, they'll support you in return.
Join a team and get a mentor. Once you have $20 in donations, you'll have the option of joining a small group of eight Write-a-Thon writers. Each group is mentored by a Clarion Workshop instructor or graduate, ready and waiting with advice and encouragement. To join a team, wait for your emailed invitation, or write to treasurer@theclarionfoundation.org.
Get Write-a-Thon badges for your blog and your website.
Remember, there are prizes! We're giving away iTunes, Amazon, or B&N gift cards to our top earners, along with Write-a-Thon keepsakes. And each writer who brings in $250 or more gets a free story critique from a Clarion author!
You can also earn Write-a-Thon merit badges. You can begin writing any time. But beginning on the June 24, the official start of the Write-a-Thon, we have a special treat for you. On your Write-a-Thon writer's page, you'll see a grid with a question mark in each square. You can earn a maximum of one merit point every 24 hours by clicking the "I WROTE TODAY" button that will soon appear near the grid. As your merit point total passes certain milestones, merit badges will appear in your grid. We're keeping the formula secret, so you never know when a badge will appear or what it will be. It's all part of the motivational fun. We're also trusting you to be honest. Only click the button if you really did some writing!
Sign up for the Clarion E-bulletin mailing list. It's the best way to keep up with the latest Write-a-Thon news
See that part about "JOIN A TEAM"— that's where I come in. I've volunteered to be a mentor–with advice and encouragement! My team is called TEAM BEARS DISCOVER FIRE after Terry Bisson's story, "Bears Discover Fire." You're going to discover fire in this group–as I'll encourage you to write every day. I'll give prompts for those who want them, and encouraging little notes as we go along. You'll be in a group of people just like you who are pushing themselves for six weeks! It's just six weeks. I wonder what YOU could do in six weeks if you had the encouragement from family and friends to do a little writing.
MY goal is to churn out six stories—they're trunk stories, for the most part, but I need to get them finished. And Clarion is the way to do it!
You might have a book that needs more chapters. You might have some stories that need to get out. You might have an idea that needs a story!
This Write-a-Thon is Write Up Your Alley.
Join my team and light the fire you need to get some stories and writing done.
BEARS! Go light that fire!
[Visit the TEAM BEARS DISCOVER FIRE on WordPress and see what we're up to!]
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Awards Eligibility Post, 2019
Clarion Write-A-Thon 10, June 23-Aug 3
UFO Sightings in the Yukon Territory
A Response to Those Who Think Avatar Repeats a Racist Motif
All the Perks from my Patreon Page
Back to School–Art School that is.
Illustrating Our Lives Together
Communion, my art show, up at FBC Dayton, coming to Christopher's Restaurant in June
"Postlude to the Afternoon of a Faun" published in F&SF + Some featured Jazz
Defining What Netflix Will Be, or Eight Reasons to Give Sense8 a full 3rd Season
From 1914, Merry Christmas by Stephen Leacock
Which do you want? Love or Power: Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
How to Keep Garden Veggies Fresh All Winter: The Pedersen Method
Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth? It's the future again.
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How Anne Lamott Saved My Life: the Mercy of 'Traveling Mercies'
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Christian Parents Who Tried to Love Their Gay Son the way the Church Taught them to
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TACOMA --- The George Fox swim team made the trip up to Washington Friday night in a Northwest Conference dual meet against the Loggers of Puget Sound. The Bruins fell to the Loggers, 260.5-113.5.
The men's team had their best performance to date with a team score of 62.5 points. As a team, they recorded four event wins and one relay victory. They swept all the 100-yard events, as Drew Johnson kicked things off with a first-place finish in the men's 100-yard butterfly. D. Johnson posted a time of 55.57 to beat out teammate Zach Johnson in second place with a time of 57.00. D. Johnson recorded his second win of the night in the men's 100-yard breaststroke after posting a time of 1:01.45.
Caleb Dean won the men's 100-yard free with a time of 49.93, while Noah Burlingame won the men's 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.54.
Burlingame, D. Johnson, Z. Johnson, and Dean were in true form on the night, winning the men's 200-yard medley relay by four seconds. They posted a time of 1:41.61 to beat out the Loggers' time of 1:45.86.
On the women's side, Olivia Gibson won the women's 200-yard free with a time of 2:03.71, while teammate Gabrielle Wood came in second with a time of 2:05.67. Aspen Monkhouse continued her perfect streak in the women's 50-yard free with a time of 24.45.
The Bruins are back in action Saturday, Jan. 19 when they host Linfield College at 1 pm.


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Shoot!'s Arsenal-Liverpool combined XI
Date: 21st December 2017 at 7:30pm
On Friday night, the Premier League's final round of fixtures before Christmas Day kicks off with a crucial clash at the Emirates Stadium as Arsenal host Liverpool (19:45), with a top four place at stake.
The Gunners, who lie one point adrift of tomorrow night's opponents in fifth spot, are seeking revenge after their humiliating 4-0 thrashing at Anfield back in August.
Meanwhile The Reds, who hammered AFC Bournemouth 4-0 at the Vitality Stadium on Sunday, could move within one point of defending league champions Chelsea in the standings with all three points on Friday evening.
With both sides determined to send their fans home happy ahead of the festive period, and keep their top four mission on track, Shoot! has put together our very own Arsenal-Liverpool combined XI…
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaks with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
Do you agree with our selection? Or, which player(s) do you think we have missed out?
Comment below with your tactical suggestions!
*The combined XI follows a traditional 4-3-3 formation and includes ALL players from either squad, regardless of whether they are injured or suspended in reality*


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Unnamed officer to become first female colonel in COGAT
An unnamed female officer will be the first woman in COGAT to become a colonel, and the first woman to lead the unit's operational department, the IDF announced Monday.
COGAT is the IDF unit responsible for coordinating government activities in the West Bank. The unit's commander, Maj.-Gen. Kamil Abu Rukun, congratulated the officer and noted that she has proven herself as a professional officer and has set an example for others in the unit.
Morocco reports first case of new coronavirus variant


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Virus. Vaccine. Volatility. This strategist says 2021 will be the year of the 'V,' and here's how to play it.
December 26, 2020 by Retirement
It's Christmas Eve, which marks the start of what has traditionally been the best seven-day sprint for stocks of the year — aka the "Santa Claus rally." So far there's been a promising start to that ritual, but as this market still belongs to 2020 for a few more days, anything could happen.
Investors are also watching the fate of a $900 billion financial aid bill to help Americans cope with the coronavirus pandemic, though President Donald Trump has indicated unhappiness over the package.
Onto our call of the day, which says get ready for 2021 and the "year of the V." It comes from Vincent Deluard, global macro strategist at financial services group StoneX, whose collection of V's includes a still-raging virus leading "to one last deflation scare in the first quarter."
Deluard warns of a brutal first three months of the year in his December newsletter, predicting record COVID-19 infections and deaths and lockdowns on both sides of the Atlantic. He sees grim economic data for December and January triggering a selloff for the big cyclical assets of gold and copper and central banks jumping in to head off deflation.
But then comes relief in the second quarter, with vaccines unleashing pent up demand, leading to rapid reflation. That's amid disrupted supply chains, demand returning to real goods, soaring consumption due to record net worth and low debt-servicing costs, and then massive cuts in big oil company spending budgets, squeezing the oil market, he said.
Deluard's big advice? "Investors should start accumulating dirt cheap inflation-sensitive assets now. However, it may prudent to hedge cyclical risks with the 'antigrowth trade' in the first quarter: long gold, health care and the yen against a short position [bearish] in oil futures," he said.
"In the second half, investors should focus on the best reflation and reopening trades: Latin American equities (unhedged) and the IBEX 35 Index, respectively," said the strategist.
Here are more of his V's for 2021 — valuations will matter, value stocks will finally shine, volatility becomes the new normal, with the VIX or Cboe Volatility Index
VIX,
-7.64%,
which measures stock volatility, above 20 for much of the year. Below 20 often means markets aren't stressed. He also warns of vulnerable and overvalued bonds and many stocks and a bursting of the IPO bubble.
With that dear investors, have yourself a merry and safe little Christmas.
On a half-day for markets, U.S. stock gauges DJIA SPX COMP were on track for modest gains on Thursday, the final trading day of the Christmas week, with activity expected to be subdued due to the holiday. European markets
SXXP,
finished mostly higher. Sterling GBPUSD, 0.38%, which had rallied in early trading to hit $1.36, fell slightly to $1.3525 shortly after the deal was struck.
Read: Here's what a Brexit deal means for markets
Asian stocks finished mostly higher, except in China as Alibaba
slid as regulators launched an antimonopoly probe of the e-commerce group.
Read: Which markets are open and when over the holidays
A post-Brexit trade deal between the U.K. and Europe may finally be here, in the wake of marathon talks.
House Republicans blocked a bill from Democrats that would send $2,000 checks to individuals as part of a coronavirus financial aid package, up from the $600 agreed to in the measure Congress approved earlier this week. President Donald Trump has said that $600 is too meager.
There may be some good news on the COVID-19 front, as a pair of studies indicate having the infection could protect against reinfection. That's as more than 1 million Americans have been vaccinated. Meanwhile, the U.K. is expanding its lockdown as a second, even more contagious strain, believed to have originated from South Africa, spreads.
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Nuro has become California's first company approved to operate a driverless delivery business.
President Donald Trump issued more pardons on Wednesday, bringing the total to nearly 50. Former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared are among the latest recipients.
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AAFP News
Academy Calls for Detailed COVID-19 Patient Data From HHS
'Sober Understanding' of Inequities Needed, Says AAFP President
April 09, 2020 03:03 pm Scott Wilson – Patients of color are among those most likely to slip through the public safety net and die as COVID-19 frays the nation's health care system, the Academy and six other medical organizations told HHS in an April 3 letter that called on the agency to help physicians by releasing more granular data on those stricken with the disease.
With the pandemic gaining intensity, the organizations wrote, HHS should "collect, analyze and make available to the public explicit, comprehensive, standardized data on race, ethnicity and patients' preferred spoken and written language related to the testing status, hospitalization and mortality" associated with COVID-19.
It's a significant call to action, Academy President Gary LeRoy, M.D., of Dayton, Ohio, told AAFP News.
"This letter challenges HHS to fully illuminate each and every shadowed crevice of statistical inequity in our U.S. health care system," he said. "There, it will find unsettling answers about the lethality of social and racial disparities left unchecked in the U.S. health care system."
The letter, sent to HHS Secretary Alex Azar, was signed by the AAFP in conjunction with the AMA, American Academy of Pediatrics, National Medical Association, National Hispanic Medical Association, Association of American Indian Physicians and National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians.
The Academy and its co-signatories, LeRoy added, have made a "commonsense demand that this nation no longer permit its most vulnerable members of society to be the first to perish during a public health crisis because they are the last to be considered when resources and credible solutions are in short supply."
Evidence is already emerging that racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 deaths can be linked to misinformation, the prevalence of preexisting conditions in minority populations and the high representation of minorities in occupations with an increased risk of exposure to the virus.
Danielle Jones, M.P.H., director of the Academy's Center for Diversity and Health Equity, told AAFP News that the pandemic "has exposed the deeply rooted social, economic and health inequities that create racial and ethnic disparities in the United States."
"Institutional racism embedded in the way our systems are designed and implemented creates the policies, processes and infrastructures that produce racial inequities that result in health disparities," she added.
HHS' release of detailed data, the organizations wrote in their letter, is "essential to understanding the unique challenges and inequities facing communities of color and individuals with limited English proficiency." Making this information known "will help to best prepare our physician members to coordinate medical resources to leverage the greatest and most equitable level of care possible for all patients in a timely manner."
Citing the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) outbreak, the letter reminded HHS that "low-income individuals, those living in impoverished neighborhoods, and people of color and diverse ethnic backgrounds" face higher rates of hospitalization during pandemics. Research on past events, the letter added, underscores "the urgency to adapt our country's COVID-19 response to monitor and act on these inequities via explicit data collection on race, ethnicity and language needs."
The co-signers urged HHS to coordinate its efforts with state and local public health offices and clinical data registries to minimize the burden of data collection for frontline clinicians "and to ensure that data collection efforts prioritize cultural sensitivity and patient privacy."
"I hope we emerge from this crisis with a sober understanding of how best to rid our society of these inequities of care," LeRoy told AAFP News.
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Il Sasso della Dolorosa (682 m s.l.m.) è una cima appartenente alla piccola catena montuosa dei Monti Pisani; dalla sua cima partono le linee di spartiacque che costituiscono i confini fra le vallate di Vicopisano, di Buti e di Calci. È particolarmente noto per il fatto che i Fiorentini, impegnati nella guerra contro Pisa, nel 1496 vi costruirono un forte a pianta triangolare, con il duplice scopo di isolare la fortezza della Verruca e di controllare al meglio la situazione nelle tre valli circostanti, la posizione strategica della cima infatti, trovandosi sul punto di intersezione delle già citate linee di spartiacque, permetteva una grande libertà di azione.

Tuttavia, questo avamposto venne con tutta probabilità costruito frettolosamente, in quanto solo pochi detriti sono sopravvissuti fino a oggi. Per raggiungere ciò che resta del fortino, è necessario lasciare l'auto al Passo di Prato Ceragiola, prendere il sentiero 00 in direzione sud, fino ad arrivare sotto alla cima del Sasso, che è possibile raggiungere solo inerpicandosi fra gli alberi e i rovi.

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How can you find a contest that suits you? It's easier than you think. Use your favorite Internet search engine, and search on a couple words. If you live in Alabama, and like taking pictures, you might search on "contest 2011 photography Alabama." Today, that search results in the Outdoor Alabama Photo Contest. Perfect! Or perhaps you'd prefer a national essay contest, but you're not sure what topic you'd like to write about. I might search on "national essay contest." In the first page of results, I've found National Peace Essay Contest, Holocaust Remembrance Project, and Idea of America among others. Do you have some unique characteristic, talent or passion area? Search for that uniqueness.
It's easy to find a contest that suits you!
International programming contest for college students!
An international competition seeking the next popular novel. Beginning in 2010, the competition will award two grand prizes: one for General Fiction and one for Young Adult Fiction. The competition is open to unpublished and previously self-published novels waiting to be discovered. Each winner will receive a publishing contract with Penguin, which includes a $15,000 advance. Watch for next year's contest!
open to high school seniors in the United States who plan to further their education at a college/university or certified trade school in the United States. You must be a high school senior during the 2006-2007 school year who will attend a college/university or trade school in the United States starting with the fall 2007 semester. Read the "Fire Sprinkler Essay" (approximately 3000 words) about automatic fire sprinklers and take a ten-question multiple-choice test!
Beans for Brains Scholarship Program!
Internet-based competition that provides middle school and high school students with a realistic, engaging introduction to engineering... and the free Bridge Designer software is addictive for adults, too!
Story, Poetry and Art contests throughout the year, with lots of opportunities to win!
"We are challenging you to use your imagination and creativity to make your community a better place to live. We think you have what it takes to identify a problem, look into it, come up with an innovative solution, refine the solution...and have fun doing it!"
Invites young people to reflect on specific quotations and express in their own words what their Foundations for Life are. The program enables students to think about the values that will guide them the rest of their lives, with the option of using a challenging and engaging composition activity that emphasizes a process approach to writing. Divisions for high school, middle school and elementary school students.
The competition is open to students aged 13 to 18 from around the world working on their own or in a team of two or three. Entries are due by early April; semi-finalists are announced in early May with final judging completed in late May.
Submit original stories and artwork featuring real or imaginary travel adventure set in the Costa Rican rainforest. Contest is open to USA residents in 3 grade level groups as of the contest deadline date November 30, 2009 (5K-1st grade; 2nd-3rd grade; or 4th-5th grade).
Annual essay contest for high school juniors.
Are You LEGO® Smart™? Being LEGO® Smart™ is more than building with LEGO bricks. It's having the ability to work in teams, solve problems, and create solutions. It means understanding key science, technology, engineering, and math concepts – not just on paper, but through demonstration.
LEGO® Smart™ students don't just know it, they do it! Open to K-12 educators and home educators, register for the year by July each year.
Lincoln & the Gettysburg Address "A New Birth of Freedom"
An essay contest for middle & high school students, deadline March 1, 2005. To commemorate the opening of the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois, on April 19, 2005, C-SPAN and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum are asking students to read and consider the sentiments expressed in the Gettysburg Address. In the speech, Lincoln asked his audience to resolve that the country "...shall have a new birth of freedom...." Students are invited to write and submit an essay not to exceed 272 words (the same number of words in the Gettysburg Address) with their own thoughts about "a new birth of freedom" in the 21st century.
Children under the age of 18 read a segment of our list of books, while parent and child track the reading of the books. When the child completes their reading list, he/she is honored with a certificate of achievement and a cool Mensa for Kids T-shirt!
Children ages 9-14 are eligible. They can be enrolled in a public, private, territorial, tribal, DoD or home school — or through a sponsoring club, such as an art, computer or science club; scouting organization; or 4-H club. WIN a Trip to Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the National Safety Council and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Have your students ever created a newspaper of their own? Would they like to?
Did you know? 250 million children worldwide do not have access to books. You can help change this story.
In honor of our new How 2.0 group on Instructables—the place to be for the coolest step-by-step DIY guides on the Web—we're launching what will likely be the first of many contests. And we're definitely kicking things off right—the winner will bag a new Canon 8-megapixel digital SLR and have their project featured in the How 2.0 section of an upcoming issue of PopSci!!
Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize sponsored by The Concord Review, Inc.
For active STARFLEET members who are attending community colleges, four-year colleges, most technical schools, junior colleges and universities or graduate school, including DeForest Kelley/Dr. Leonard McCoy Medical Scholarship, James Doohan/Montgomery Scott Engineering Scholarship, Patrick Stewart Scholarship for the Performing Arts, Gene Roddenberry Memorial Scholarship for Aspiring Writers, LeVar Burton Educational Scholarship, Marina Sirtis Veterinary Science Scholarship, Armin Shimmerman Scholarship for Profitable Business and others. Yes, these are real scholarships!
K-12 Students: Tell us why Science is Cool! Enter now for the USA Science & Engineering Festival Kavli Science Video Contest! Have your video screened on the National Mall, win prize money and possibly even a trip to the Expo in Washington D.C.!
Tessellation is a combination of mathematics and artistic ability. Do you have what it takes? Compete with entries from all over the world. See your work displayed on the Internet. Win prizes. Each entry will be judged individually, and a winner will be announced. There will be prizes for each winner from our online store. All winners will be included in our "Hall of Fame"


Discover the work of a new and unusual group of world-class artisans where the emphasis is on high quality fine craft.
two furniture makers, a restaurant focusing on zero-mile cuisine, a winery that proffers balsamic vinegars and a traditional barber offering straight razor shaves.
A stop at The Land Conservancy's Keating Farm or at the Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society's out-door educational marshland, provides a truly wonderful respite.
Studio tour brochures are available throughout the Cowichan Valley but always at Excellent Frameworks, 28 Station St., and at Experience Cycling, 482 Trans Canada Highway, in Duncan.


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The companies that make high-fructose corn syrup want to pick a new name for the sweetener, so we're asking Well readers to help.
We asked a panel of nutrition experts what they thought about the term "corn sugar," which is the name suggested by the Corn Refiners Association. We also asked them to offer their own ideas.
Read what they have to say and then vote on your favorite, or write in your own sweet suggestion in the Comments box, below.