Effective leadership requires not only the right people in the right place, but also an environment that enables leaders to lead. This is particularly relevant for Humanitarian Coordinators, who lack formal authority over their 'followers', and therefore rely heavily on a conducive environment in order to deliver on their mandate. In the past six years significant progress has been made in improving the performance of Coordinators. It is now time to broaden our focus to the environment where these leaders are placed: the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and, more broadly, the UN system.
Strengthening Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) requires interventions not only at the individual level ? relating to Coordinators' knowledge, skills, experience and attitude – but also at the management level, relating to how Coordinators are managed and supported, and at the institutional level, relating to the environment where Coordinators are placed.
Significant progress has been made at the first two levels. A number of seasoned humanitarian professionals have been brought into the RC/HC track thanks to the HC Pool and the humanitarian community's enhanced influence in the selection process. Newly designated Coordinators learn early on about their role and partners' expectations through a systematic induction and orientation programme. Sitting Coordinators have access to a range of bespoke learning opportunities, from mentoring, coaching and shadowing to more formal workshops and retreats, alongside a user-friendly guide, the RC/HC Handbook, for less experienced Coordinators. The main remaining challenge with regard to the individual level is enlarging the pool of potential Coordinators and making it more diverse in terms of gender and country and agency of origin.
At the management level, all the elements of a professional performance management system are now in place. Coordinators' performance is managed as a matter of routine through annual Compacts, regular performance discussions and appraisals, all of which take into account partners' feedback. Under-performing Coordinators have been replaced. The quality and timeliness of OCHA's support to Coordinators has also improved, with structural weaknesses – particularly with regard to protection, advocacy and preparedness – gradually being addressed.
While no tangible progress has been made as yet at the institutional level, there is growing recognition within both the UN system and the humanitarian community that the environment where Coordinators are placed influences their effectiveness, and that a more conducive environment is required.
Within the UN system, Coordinators must balance the diverse agendas ? development, political, human rights, humanitarian and security – they are expected to deliver on. This places Coordinators in a vulnerable position institutionally, and only those who are exceptionally gifted and/or experienced are able to do this successfully. Creating a space for reconciling these different agendas would do much to transfer this burden from Coordinators to the UN system as a whole. It would also make it easier to manage the risks associated with this balancing act, thereby providing Coordinators with space to take additional calculated risks. It would also reduce the need for exceptional leaders. Two measures proposed in the context of the Rights Up Front initiative seek to create such a space: establishing inter-agency platforms at headquarters level and developing country-specific whole-of-UN strategies. If implemented, these measures will go a long way to making the role of Coordinators more manageable.
On the humanitarian side, Coordinators are expected to lead and coordinate a highly diverse community whose members have very different modalities and levels of engagement with the international humanitarian coordination architecture. The one feature all humanitarian organisations have in common is their lack of formal obligations to the HC. In this context, HCTs are often nothing more than gatherings of agency leaders who come together at best to avoid gaps and duplication in the overall response, and at worse to defend their territory.
The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) has sought to make this environment more conducive to HCs' leadership by strengthening their authority with HCT members. In the context of the Transformative Agenda, the IASC has endorsed the concept of 'empowered leadership' for Level 3 emergencies, which has essentially been defined as HCs having the authority to make quick decisions 'on behalf of the HCT' in circumstances where there is no consensus, and where a delay in making a decision could have a serious impact on the welfare of affected people. Donors have gone further, suggesting that HCT members have dual reporting lines, both to their organisation and to the HC.
Strengthening HCs' authority vis-à-vis HCT members can only go so far, however. In order to translate this into action, the authority to make decisions needs to be backed by the requisite financial and human resources. These resources are controlled by agencies, which therefore retain the ultimate say on whether or not to implement an HC's decisions. This power imbalance will not change soon, as it is rooted in agencies' governance systems: agencies are legally accountable to their board – not HCs ? for how they use their resources.
The 'empowered leadership' concept focuses only on one side of the relationship between HCs and HCTs: the HC. It does not address the role that HCTs play in enabling or constraining HCs. Moreover, by focusing on only one of the two actors, it presents the issue as a zero-sum game: if HCs are granted more authority, it surely must be at the expense of HCT members.
It may be more promising to reframe the issue as not being about HCs or HCTs, but about both at once. The narrative would then shift from institutionally weak but heroic leaders who ingeniously find ways to persuade others to follow them in pursuit of the greater good, to a team of leaders, led by a primus inter pares, who together seek to achieve collective results. Put differently, the HCT should be seen, should be treated and should behave as a team of leaders who share responsibility for achieving collective results, each through their own agency's programme: a leadership team.
HCs should create genuine team dynamics in the HCT, galvanising its members into focusing on collective results and facilitating processes to achieve them. To this end OCHA, in the context of its work on selecting and training Coordinators, should place greater emphasis on the skillset required to be an effective team leader, i.e. team leadership and facilitation skills. It should also provide HCs with advice on team effectiveness.
HCTs should be supported to become effective leadership teams. To this end OCHA, in the context of its HCT programme, should provide HCTs with advice on team effectiveness and facilitation support. It should also coordinate joint training and simulations for HCTs, so as to build team dynamics.
OCHA Offices should support HCTs by professionally managing the processes underpinning their work. To this end OCHA, in the context of its HCT programme, should build the capacity of OCHA Offices consistently to prepare, record and follow up on HCT meetings.
HCT members should behave not only as leaders of their own organisation, but also as members of a leadership team ? the HCT. To this end IASC organisations should first of all tell their country representatives that they have this dual role, either through specific guidance or – better still – by including it in their terms of reference. Second, IASC organisations should ensure that their country representatives are team players, by placing greater emphasis on the required skillset when recruiting and training them. Third, IASC organisations should provide their country representatives with incentives to behave as team members. If anything, the opposite is true today: in a number of organisations the performance of country representatives is assessed among other things on their ability to raise funds for the organisation, which may at times conflict with their responsibilities as HCT members. Country representatives must be confident that they will be supported by their headquarters if they take their HCT responsibilities seriously. Fourth, organisations should hold their country representatives accountable for behaving as team members. Such behaviour could be assessed by requesting feedback from the HC and other HCT members on representatives' performance as team members. In 2010 the IASC took a decision to this effect, but few organisations have implemented it.
All of these measures are geared at institutionalising collaborative behaviour by HCT members. However, they will not suffice if they are not accompanied by a process of cultural change within IASC organisations. This requires a concerted effort by these organisations to reframe their mandates within the broader context of their contribution to collective results, and to drive this renewed vision through the organisation. Are IASC organisations and their governing boards ready for this?
Donors have a key role to play in providing incentives to IASC organisations for behaving collaboratively in the HCT. At present, donors provide organisations with incentives geared towards the achievement of mandate-related results. Should it come as a surprise, then, if agencies prioritise achieving their own results over collective ones? In recent years donors have started encouraging IASC organisations, both publicly and privately, to behave collaboratively. It is now time for donors to move beyond verbal encouragement and provide concrete, positive incentives for IASC organisations to behave collaboratively.
While each donor will define for itself the form these incentives should take, two possible approaches could be to include such incentives within the context of bilateral funding agreements with IASC organisations, or to allocate more resources to pooled funds, which are predicated upon a collaborative approach.
Effective HCs, enabled by well-functioning HCTs, are not an end in and of themselves: they facilitate the achievement of collective results. Yet HCs cannot bring about collective results as they do not have authority over those who deliver results, i.e. humanitarian organisations. The whole HCT is responsible for achieving collective results ? and each and every HCT member has a share of that responsibility. Yet at present this responsibility is not institutionalised: nobody is holding HCTs and individual HCT members accountable for collective results.
As concerns HCTs, the Transformative Agenda has introduced two levels of accountability for collective results. At the country level, HCTs will monitor their own performance through an in-country monitoring framework; this is supplemented by real-time operational peer reviews. At the global level, the Emergency Directors Group regularly review the performance of HCTs.
As concerns HCT members, IASC organisations should start rewarding and holding their country representatives accountable not only for how they work with others, but also for what they do with others – in other words, not only for behaving collaboratively, but also for their share of responsibility for collective results. Once again, donors have a key role to play in providing concrete, positive incentives to IASC organisations to do so.
Claire Messina is the Senior Coordinator of the Humanitarian Leadership Strengthening Unit at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
This is an article in HPN's Online Exchange. To read other Exchange articles, please visit http://www.odihpn.org/humanitarian-exchange-magazine.
 In this paper the term "Coordinators" refer to Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs), Resident Coordinators/Humanitarian Coordinators (RC/HCs), Deputy Special Representatives of the Secretary-General/Resident Coordinators/Humanitarian Coordinators (DSRSG/RC/HCs), Deputy HCs, Regional HCs, and Resident Coordinators (RCs) performing humanitarian functions.
 See OCHA, "Strengthening the HC System: the Unfinished Agenda", presented to the IASC Working Group in March 2009.
 This diversity poses particular problems for NGO representation on HCTs, as NGOs are loath to delegate representation and decision-making power to other NGOs.
] Notwithstanding the individual capacity of the HC to lead the team, the TA has not yet succeeded in changing the priority from individual agency or sector action to collective responsibility." See IASC, "Level 3 Simulation Summary Findings", July 2013.
 See IASC, "Concept Paper on 'Empowered Leadership'", PR/1204/4069/7, 13 April 2012, and IASC, "Responding to Level 3 Emergencies: What 'Empowered Leadership' Looks Like in Practice", PR/1209/4175/7, November 2012.
 Similarly, the IASC notes that "Empowered leadership needs to be clearly defined as a two-way street, involving leadership and those being led." See IASC, "Level 3 Simulation Summary Findings", July 2013.
 Some of them also have a third role as head of a cluster lead agency. As of today, to our knowledge only UNHCR, WFP and FAO have provided formal guidance to their representatives on their role in HCTs. See UNHCR, Field Office Memorandum No. 078/2012, "The IASC's Transformative Agenda and Implications for UNHCR", 16 August 2012; WFP, Executive Director's Circular No. OED2013/015, 21 August 2013; email message from Daniel Gustafson, Deputy Director-General (Operations), FAO, to FAO Representatives, 13 November 2013. The latter states, however, that "The FAO Representative's role is to represent FAO and advocate for its interests in agriculture, food security and livelihood in the HCT," which is hardly an encouragement to collaborative behaviour.
 In the context of the RC system in 2008 agencies committed to allowing RCs to provide feedback on UN Country Team members' performance relating to the team; not all of them have done so.


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dublin | arts and media | event notice Tuesday March 15, 2022 11:28 by Odeaml
Michael O'Dea's new poetry collection 'The Sound of Water Searching' for Dublin Launch
O'Dea's first full collection since 2003 is to be launched in Drop Dead Twice on Francs St. on Friday, 25th March at 9.000pm.
Michael O'Dea
Michael O'Dea may be familiar through his blog, Poetry and Miscellaneous Yap, but he has not published a full collection since Turn Your Head (Dedalus Press, 2003). A bilingual chapbook Felos aínda serra was published by Amastra-n-gallar in Galicia, Spain in 2005. This new collection, The Sound of Water Searching is, in his words, the best of the blog which has been in existence since 2007.
"From personal poems that draw on "the emptied out treasure-chests of childhood" to reflections on the work of Elaine Leigh, John Minihan, Mick O'Dea and others, Michael O'Dea is a poet interested in the ways that memory, experience, and meditation inform the life of the poet. The poems gathered in The Sound of Water Searching give voice to his ceaseless commitment to the artistic process: a "beautiful odyssey" that takes us from Dublin to Galicia and beyond." runs the blurb by Philip Coleman of Trinity College Dublin.
The launching will take place in Drop Dead Twice on Dublin's Francis St at 9.00pm, Friday, 25th March. Guest on the night will be poet, playwright Vincent Woods who will launch the collection. The entertainment won't stop there, however, as the event will lead into the popular monthly Upstairs Sessions, a night of performances that, depending on the night, may vary from music to acrobatics, dance to comedy.
Related Link: https://odeamichael.blogspot.com/

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Runnin' Down a Dream: Week 13 in the Big 12
By Keith Patrick
My Week 12 Game of the Week was #16 Iowa State @ #15 Texas. The Cyclones struggled to get anything going offensively especially with David Montgomery out in the first half. The Longhorns regained some of their earlier season defensive prowess sacking Iowa State quarterbacks 6 times and getting 5 hurries as well.
Week 13 Game of the Week:
#6 Oklahoma @ #9 West Virginia
The Sooners and Mountaineers are playing for a spot in the Big 12 Championship Game and are sure to put their quarterbacks' abilities to the test, not defensively, just to keep up with each other. This should be a true shootout in every sense of the word and there are Heisman finalist implications on the line for Will Grier and Kyler Murray. It's going to be a wild and wooly one in Morgantown, definitely the game to watch this weekend in the Big 12.
KEITH'S PICK RECORD
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week
11 Week 12
Season Total: 49-20
#15 Texas @ Kansas
Last Week: Texas (8-3, 6-2) took down the Iowa State Cyclones in Austin 24-10. The defense defined the game for Texas allowing 3, 0, 0, 7 through the four quarters of the game. Same Ehlinger went 12/15 for 137 yards and 1 touchdown through the air. He chipped in another 32 yards and a touchdown on 8 carries before exiting in the second quarter after a hard hit. Shane Buechele entered in relief going 10/10 for 89 yards and a touchdown as well. Longhorn running backs combined for 144 yards on 26 carries, doing enough to keep the Cyclones honest but not scoring a touchdown.
Kansas (3-8, 1-7) dropped a game to Oklahoma in Norman 55-40 despite a strong offensive performance. Kansas proved once again that Oklahoma's defense is laughably bad. Pooka Williams went off with 252 yards rushing and 2 touchdowns on 15 carries, an average of 16.8 yards per carry. Williams also threw a 9-yard touchdown to Jeremiah Booker. Kansas kept up their turnover-forcing ways snagging an interception and a Kennedy Brooks fumble as well. The Jayhawk defense was no match for Kyler Murray and the OU offense giving up 272 yards through the air and another 294 on the ground.
Date & Time: Friday, November 23 @ 11:00 a.m.
Location: David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, Lawrence, KS
Television: FS1
Line: Texas -15
All-Time Record: UT 14-0-3 KU
Overview & Breakdown:
Texas could lose to Kansas, I mean we've been here before. The Longhorns were on a skid that they broke defeating Texas Tech in Lubbock. But aside from a losing slump, they've been on a defensive slump as well. The Longhorns started the season with strong defensive performances but had fallen off until out defending the Cyclones Saturday. Iowa State came in with a strong defense and a solid season with Brock Purdy under center, but the 'Horns shut them down the majority of the game. Texas allowed Iowa State only 210 total yards on the day, snagged an interception, and forced two fumbles (one recovered). The Longhorns offense also did what it takes despite quarterback injury issues.
Biggest Question: Will Sam Ehlinger be ready to go? Ehlinger has been battling nagging injuries. Credit to his toughness for continuing to play but he appears to be getting reinjured week by week. Shane Buechele was 10/10 in relief last week but the unknowns will be difficult for Texas to manage.
Kansas now has two head coaches, and they're both Les Miles. The grass eater was announced in a terrible press conference this week and he's just as weird and terrible with words as always. So at the very least, it should be fun to watch. I'm definitely expecting more disaster fun than I am Herm Edwards fun.
Biggest Question: Can the Jayhawks be Oklahoma's best friend? If Kansas wins the Sooners will lock in a spot in the Big 12 Championship Game. OU can secure the same with a win over West Virginia but this way would be much easier.
My Pick: I'll take the Longhorns in this one. I don't think David Beatty will go out with a bang. I imagine the Longhorn defense will bring more heat to bear than the Sooners did and Pooka Williams will come back down to earth.
Last Week: Oklahoma (10-1, 7-1) the Sooners outlasted Kansas in Norman winning 55-40 behind a big late quarter effort by Kyler Murray who went 21/32 for 272 yards, 2 touchdowns, and an interception. Murray also added 99 yards and 3 touchdowns on 8 carries on the ground. The Sooners ground game rumbled all day with Kennedy Brooks rushing for 171 yards and 2 touchdowns on 25 carries. The OU defense allowed 524 yards of offense by Kansas, the Jayhawks' second highest total of the season (544 against Rutgers) and their highest yards per play average of 8.2. Most notably, the Sooners allowed 348 yards rushing, 252 of those to Pooka Williams.
West Virginia (8-2, 6-2) dropped a shootout in Stillwater 45-41 on a Taylor Cornelius touchdown pass to Tylan Wallace with 42 seconds remaining. The Mountaineers carried a 31-14 lead into halftime but the Cowboys battled back. Will Grier ran for a touchdown on fourth down in the fourth quarter giving the 'Eers a 41-31 lead, but Taylor Cornelius ran for a score of his own and the Cowboys defense got a stop that put them in a position to win. Grier finished the day 27/48 for 364 yards and 2 touchdowns and he added a touchdown on the ground as well. The West Virginia rushing attack added 189 yards and 3 touchdowns with 148 and 2 touchdowns coming from Kennedy McCoy.
Date & Time: Friday, November 23 @ 7:00 p.m.
Location: Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium, Morgantown, WV
Television: ESPN
Line: OU -1.5
All-Time Record: OU 8-0-2 WVU
Overview & Breakdown: Oklahoma is in a position to clinch a position in the Big 12 Championship Game with a win in Morgantown. Kyler Murray is making a strong case for the Heisman and is oddly playing under the radar due to the incredible play of Alabama's Tua Tagavailoa. The Sooner defense continues to be abysmal. Their offense is #1 in S&P+ and they are #5 overall, but their defense is #77 in the country. The wins are even more impressive considering that they are winning true shootouts over and over again.
Biggest Question: Can the Sooners stop anyone? I'm tempted to say it doesn't matter, but it really does. Kyler Murray is impressive, but the Sooners have only won a single true shootout, against Oklahoma State in Bedlam. They lost a shootout to the Longhorns, and while they did beat the Red Raiders, they were losing the shootout until Alan Bowman went down. The fact that the Kansas game was that high scoring is proof enough that this defense is useless.
West Virginia has the ability to win this game. Their offense, when firing, can win the shootout that is sure to occur in Morgantown. When Will Grier is on and he has a running game finding success on the ground, they are extremely hard to stop. Hats off to the Cowboys for overcoming two early interceptions to ultimately win that game. Their resurgent offense has been a surprise as well. West Virginia also brings a top 10 offense and their defense S&P+ is #65. I think we're going to see offensive fireworks abound (shocking).
Biggest Question: Which Will Grier will we see? Grier has had some down games, and he's also thrown 8 interceptions, but only 2 in the last five Big 12 games. If Grier is on and the West Virginia running game gets rolling I think this could end up being a fun one.
My Pick: Both of these teams are fighting for position in the Big 12 Championship Game. I know the entire world is expecting a shootout, and I think we'll get one. I'm going to take the Mountaineers in this one. I think Grier will throw at will and his impressive receivers will run wild. I also think we'll see some mistakes from Kyler Murray that will ultimately cost the Sooners.
Oklahoma State @ TCU
Last Week: Oklahoma State (6-5, 3-5) gained bowl eligibility with a victory in Stillwater over West Virginia 45-41. The Cowboys trailed 31-14 at halftime but a Taylor Cornelius touchdown run and Cowboy defensive stop brought OSU back from the brink. They won the game on a Taylor Cornelius touchdown pass to Tylan Wallace with 42 seconds remaining. Cornelius finished the day 30/46 for 338 yards, 5 touchdowns, and 2 interceptions. He also added 106 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries. The Cowboys were without leading rusher Justice Hill who was held out with a rib injury, but Chuba Hubbard stepped in and rumbled to 134 yards on 26 carries to pick up the slack.
TCU (5-6, 3-5) defeated the Baylor Bears 16-9 in the least interesting game of the day. Both teams barely managed 300 yards of offense and the play of the game was a blocked punt. Sloppy play marked the day with 4 total fumbles and an interception, all recovered by the Horned Frogs. Quarterback Michael Collins went down early Grayson Muehlstein stepped in for the Horned Frogs finishing 11/15 for 137 yards and 1 touchdown and chipped in 10 yards on 10 carries.
Date & Time: Saturday, November 24 @ 7:00 p.m.
Location: Amon G. Carter Stadium, Ft. Worth, TX
Television: FOX
Line: Oklahoma State -5
All-Time Record: OSU 15-2-11 TCU
Overview & Breakdown: OSU is bowl eligible and it appears that Corn Dog has figured out how to be a D1 quarterback and his team how learned how to play with him at the helm. Two weeks ago the Cowboys lost Bedlam on a failed 2-point conversion from Cornelius to Tylan Wallace, that connection was made against West Virginia to win the game and the Bushland, TX native took a step forward. The Cowboy's defense isn't stopping anyone and because this is the Big 12 and shootouts should be a tracked stat, they are 2-3 in shootouts this season defeating Texas and West Virginia but losing to Iowa State, Baylor, and Oklahoma.
Biggest Question: How will Cornelius perform against the TCU defense? The Horned Frogs have been absolutely decimated by injury, but their Gary Patterson defense is still salty. They have the ability to shut offenses down even in their current state.
TCU is starting to make me sad. At this point, they've lost about 1/4 of their football team to injury. It's not even funny at this point, it's just sad to watch them limping along like a dog with a wounded paw trying to keep moving forward but knowing it'll never reach its destination. TCU comes into this game with bowl eligibility on the line but a huge question mark at quarterback. Michael Collins (no not the astronaut or the Irish revolutionary) went down with an injury pressing 5th-year senior Grayson Muehlstein into service. Muehlstein has waited his entire college career for this opportunity and I'm sure he'll be looking to make the most of it.
Biggest Question: Who is Muehlstein's backup? As unlucky as TCU has been this season (I sense a strength and conditioning shakeup coming) it's a fair question to wonder who will take snaps if he goes down. Much like Texas Tech, only two walk-ons remain to fill that role.
My Pick: I'm going to take the Cowboys here. I like feel-good stories of teams overcoming adversity to get bowl eligible but I don't ever feel good about the Horned Frogs, of course, I don't like Oklahoma State much either. I just think TCU is too depleted to keep up with the resurgent OSU offense.
Texas Tech vs. Baylor
Last Week: Texas Tech (5-6, 3-5) lost one of its worst games in recent memory to the Kansas State Wildcats in Manhattan 21-6. Jett Duffey went 19/27 for 150 yards and 1 interception. McClane Carter saw action as well going 0/3 for 0 yards, a lost fumble, 3 almost interceptions. The Red Raider offense managed only 181 yards on the day and the only two bright spots were an Adrian Frye interception in the end zone that was negated by a Jett Duffey turnover and Clayton Hatfield going 2/2.
Baylor (5-6, 3-5) lost a sloppy game against the TCU Horned Frogs in Fort Worth 16-9. Both teams barely managed 300 yards of offense and the play of the game was a blocked punt. Sloppy play marked the day with 4 total fumbles and an interception, all recovered by the Horned Frogs. Quarterback Charlie Brewer 14/29 for 163 yards and an interception and was the second-leading rusher with 54 yards and the Bears' lone touchdown on 18 carries.
Date & Time: Saturday, November 24 @ 11:00 a.m.
Location: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX
Line: Texas Tech -6
All-Time Record: TTU 38-1-37 BU
Overview & Breakdown: Texas Tech has pissed everyone off. The injury challenges at quarterback with McClane Carter going down in week one with a high ankle sprain, Alan Bowman suffering and then reinjuring a collapsed lung, and now Jett Duffey has been playing hurt after suffering an injury against Texas is no longer an excuse. The Red Raiders played undisciplined, uninspired, sloppy football on Saturday and it didn't go unnoticed by the Red Raider faithful. The natives have already been restless in year six of a Kliff Kingsbury era defined by late-season slides, excessive penalties, and disappointment. Texas Tech fans have been fairly understanding this season about the frustrating injuries, but a four-game Big 12 losing streak and the sub-par product on the field may have sealed Kingsbury's fate.
Biggest Question: Who will be taking snaps? Tech's depth chart is basically down to two walk-ons: Scout Team quarterback Colt Garrett from Roosevelt High School in Lubbock or record-breaking Levelland Lobo product Nick Gerber. My money is on Garrett, who has thrown one college pass, a dime to Erik Ezukanma against Lamar. So his college stat line is 1/1 for 44 yards and 1 touchdown, a passer rating of 799.6.
Baylor has made an impressive turnaround in Matt Rhule's second season after going 1-11 in 2017 and like Texas Tech, they are playing for bowl eligibility, a positive for this team at this point in a rebuild. The Bears aren't coming to the table with anything exceptional. Their offense is ranked #90 in S&P+ (Off: 62, Def: 94) but they have found ways to win in close shootoutish games over Kansas State and Oklahoma State and were close to upsetting Texas in Austin. The Bears are ranked below 100 in 13 NCAA stat categories but they continue to find ways to be competitive.
Biggest Question: Do the Bears need to do anything to win? Texas Tech has been taking care of the winning for their opponents in the second half of the season. How much help will they give the Bears?
My Pick: I have no more faith to give, I think the Bears take this one in Arlington and the Kliff Kingsbury era comes to end with a giant mouth fart.
Kansas State @ #16 Iowa State
Last Week: Kansas State (5-6, 3-5) beat the Red Raiders in Manhattan 21-6 by showing up and allowing the Red Raiders to do nothing to win. Skylar Thompson went 17/26 for 213 yards, 1 touchdown, and 1 interception. Alex Barnes led the rushing attack with 136 yards on 32 carries. The Wildcats covered up two fumbles, snagged an interception, and forced a safety on a blocked punt.
Iowa State (6-4, 5-3) dropped a much-heralded matchup in Austin with the Longhorns 24-10. The Cyclones had won five Big 12 games in a row for the first time in their history but couldn't get it done against the Longhorns. Brock Purdy finished the day 10/23 for 130 yards and 1 interception and the Cyclones only combined for 62 rushing yards overall. Running back David Montgomery was suspended for the first half after throwing a punch in the previous week. His absence saw Brock Purdy pounded with a relentless attack with no other rushing option and the Cyclones crumbled in their biggest Big 12 game in years. The Longhorns finished the day with 6 sacks and 5 quarterback hurries.
Location: Jack Trice Stadium, Ames, IA.
Line: Iowa State -13.5
All-Time Record: KSU 48-4-49 ISU
Overview & Breakdown: Kansas State seemed on the brink of ending the Bill Snyder era (part deux) with a resounding thud, then they beat the Red Raiders. The Kansas State offense looked like world-beaters against the Texas Tech defense completing passes downfield almost at will. I'm not convinced the Wildcats have found a new offensive prowess, I think the Red Raiders found it for them. As with any program on the outs with a legendary coach, stories have begun filtering out of Manhattan about odd behavior by Bill Snyder signifying him being out of touch with players and coaches.
Biggest Question: How bad do the Wildcats want it? KState has a chance to gain bowl eligibility and potentially give Bill Snyder a chance to leave on his own terms, but the test they're facing is a much different animal.
Iowa State didn't look like themselves against the Longhorns. The Cyclones were one-dimensional thanks to the selfishness of David Montgomery in the previous week. With Montgomery back in the backfield for the full game, I expect the Cyclones to regain their footing offensively. Also, the Cyclone defense has fallen off a little bit in recent weeks, but they are still probably the top defense in the conference and have the ability to shut offenses down, holding them far below season averages. The Wildcats have not found offensive consistency this season and the Cyclone front seven should find success getting pressure on Skylar Thompson.
Biggest Question: Will Brock Purdy find his swagger again? The freshman quarterback struggled under the Texas rush, but that was due more to David Montgomery's absence. I'd expect the entire offense to regain their production against the Wildcats.
My Pick: I'm taking the Cyclones here to wrap up a pretty strong Big 12 campaign and go bowling.
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Svajonė ir Paulius Stanikas live and work in Paris. They successfully organise solo exhibitions and participate in prominent art events all over the world (the biennials of Venice, Liverpool, Beijing, etc.).
The artists create complex in situ installations, which consist of drawings, photographs, sculptures, videos, texts, found and acquired objects (that usually reflect the specifics of the country where the works are presented), and the interplay of light and sound in the space, avoiding the use of the conventions of any single defined single.
Concept-wise, Svajonė and Paulius Stanikas constantly balance between images derived from the mass media and subjective images, kitsch and millennia-old fundamental cultural symbols, simulation and sincerity, anecdote and epos, "pure aesthetics" and ideology, parody and tragedy (albeit gravitating towards the latter) in their work, managing to associatively find combinations of the aesthetic and the ethical that nevertheless do not become declaratory and didactic.
Numerous formal and conceptual levels form an integral whole in the Stanikas' exhibitions, which encompass not only the object/media components, but also the historical, cultural, and autobiographic ones (the Stanikas' photography and video works often reflect their personal, autobiographic spacetime as well). In a sense, the installations' "epic" logic, structure and depth, combined with personal experience, come close to such landmark multifaceted works as Dante's The Divine Comedy and François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, or allude through their meta-symbolic nature to the contemporary versions of the Book of Changes, which are frequently adapted to the current demands of the market and the consumers.
Although it is the body (usually the artists' own) and the radical de Sadean corporeality that blends into one macabre whole the masculine and the feminine identities (or yin and yang in the broader sense) that are the most important elements of the Stanikas' iconography, the semantic energy of the signs, symbols, and metaphors used in their works can be interpreted as the dialectic of the soul, in which multiple manifestations of good and evil fight each other.
The Stanikas weave the present exhibition, titled Altars, from Renaissance-like (and, at the same time, deeply contemporary) grandiose drawings, photographs that exploit visual paradoxes, the delirious autobiographical video titled Inferno, and found/acquired objects that join or, conversely, dissolve all of these media. The exhibition's visual code is monochrome, like an allusion to the semantics of the sacred notion of an altar, which is associated with various socio-cultural rituals – from wedding to funeral – where the prominence of black and/or white is important. In this sense, the exhibition also alludes to the total commodification of the contemporary world, in which window-cases filled with artefacts become the heart of today's global socio-cultural rituals.
Thus, exploring, in a paradoxical way, the fundamental cultural opposition between body and soul, the Stanikas activate and reconstruct the subjective and collective archetypal mythologems, yet by working in a vivid advertising-like visual style, they simultaneously speak about the transformations and paradoxes of the semantic and symbolic systems, thinking, faith, self-realisation, archetypes, and the self in today's world.


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Placing sculpture is one of the first things I consider when planning a new commission with a client. I always ask where the piece is ultimately going to end up. Placement and installation will often have a bearing on the composition. Some people buy a sculpture because they fall in love with it and then find the right spot for it. Other people know exactly where they want something to go, and then look for the perfect sculpture to fill the space.
Integrating sculpture into any interior or external space adds visual interest. It can also add dimension and movement, contrast and colour. Sometimes it can also bring an element of surprise.
The sculpture may be intended as a central focal point. However, with wildlife sculptures, I think it's more interesting and less obvious to come across a sculpture 'accidentally'. I particularly like seeing my pieces placed in a natural landscape. Some of my wild boar have found a home in France where they deter the real thing trampling through gardens!
When I was making my family of Roe deer, I envisioned them in a country garden. They have found homes all over the world and have been placed in long grasses and woodlands. I like to think of viewers stumbling upon them as they graze quietly under the trees.
Each location and setting will suggest different ideas. I really enjoy placing sculpture, choosing the right plinths and bases and advising clients how to display pieces to best effect. In 2017, I made a bronze pheasant for a very specific location. You can read all about the commission and the installation in this blog post: Bronze Pheasant Sculpture for the Cotswolds Distillery.
Bronze is a great material as it adapts brilliantly to most surroundings thanks to its subtly reflective surface. It is also robust, so ideal for both indoor and outside use. And because it is deeply tactile, it encourages the viewer to engage with the work. It is however quite heavy! This means that many of my larger pieces benefit from extra fixing.
They have threaded holes in the bottom and are secured with stainless steel rods into concrete or anchor resined into stone. All my sculptures can be permanently fixed in this way which also prevents them going walkabout. We will always work out a way to secure sculptures, whatever the location. For instance, my life size leopards ended up in all sorts of places. In a fountain, up a large cedar tree, on top of a wall and perched on a window sill!
I also really enjoy working on a collaborative brief together with a team. My Goodman's Fields Horses was a huge project for a very specific space. It involved architects, developers, garden designers, concrete specialists, lighting and fountain engineers. The original planning was all done in drawings, a language I understand thanks to my degree in design.
I work with garden designers frequently, so together we ensure that when placing sculpture they complement the landscape. We confer over the materials we use and the planting, so that the overall effect is aesthetically harmonious. Most recently my Fallow deer were a bespoke commission for a garden I know well. I had already collaborated with the garden designers over my Roe deer who also have a home there.
Sometimes there is a location that is just crying out for a sculpture. For clients wanting to make a focal point, sculptures work well outdoors to draw the eye to particular features and spaces in the landscape. A spot by a stone wall in a garden was perfect for my Bull Head. My Swift makes a striking centrepiece for a driveway turning circle.
Bronze sculptures also enhance water features very well, reflecting the play of light on water beautifully. My Salmon looks spectacular placed in a lake, and the Otters are perfectly at home in a pond or running stream.
Lighting is an important consideration too, especially indoors. People often move their sculpture around to new places until they find exactly the spot where the light is best. With the right placement, sculptures in the house become like old friends. Some people like them to be in a central location where they can walk around them and see them every day. Others become part of the fabric of living. One of my clients uses his Stag sculpture to hang the dog leads on in the kitchen. Charles Saatchi uses the beak of my Penguin as a loo roll holder!
I take a lot of trouble when I photograph my sculptures to give potential clients a vision of where they might put them. There is a lot to think about when placing sculpture, but it is a very individual thing. If you are interested in commissioning a sculpture, don't hesitate to get in touch and we can chat it through.


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Implement the Drill interface appropriate for the type of function that you want to develop. Each interface provides a set of required holders where you input data types that your function uses and required methods that Drill calls to perform your function's operations.
The nulls = NullHandling.NULL_IF_NULL variable tells Drill to return NULL values as NULL. For most scenarios, this setting should suffice. If you want to change how Drill handles NULL values, you can change the setting to nulls = NullHandling.INTERNAL.
The simple function interface includes the @Param and @Output holders where you indicate the data types that your function can process.
The simple function interface also includes two required methods, setup and eval, that Drill calls when processing a query with the function.
The setup function performs the initialization and processing that Drill only performs once.
The eval function contains the code that tells Drill what operations to perform on columns of data. You add your custom code to this method.
The aggregate function interface includes holders where you indicate the data types that your function can process. This interface includes the @Param and @Output holders previously described and also includes the @Workspace holder.
The aggregate function interface also includes the following methods that Drill calls when processing a query with the function.
setup Performs the initialization and processing that Drill only performs once.
add Processes each and every record. It applies the function to each value in a column that Drill processes.
output Returns the final result of the aggregate function; the computed value of the processing applied by the Add method. This is the last method that Drill calls. Drill calls this one time after processing all the records.
reset You provide the code in this method that determines the action Drill takes when data types in a column change from one type to another, for example from int to float. Before processing schema-less data, Drill scans the data and implicitly tries to identify the data type associated with each column. If Drill cannot identify a schema associated with each column, Drill processes a column assuming that the column contains a certain data type. If Drill encounters another data type in the column, Drill calls the reset method to determine how to handle the scenario.
The following example shows the program created for the mysecondmin function. The mysecondmin function looks at all the incoming values to determine if there is a new minimum value. When an incoming value is less than the minimum value, the function replaces the second minimum value with the value that was previously the minimum value.


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survival rate as well as provide the possibility of a cure.
early detection. These VOCs can be retrieved and isolated from exhaled breath samples.
The VOCs reflect the unique metabolic and biochemical activity in malignant cells.
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an additional 30 participants in the second stage as explained above).
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Back To The Future: Unused Poster Art By The Legendary Drew Struzan
By David Wharton | 7 years ago
Even if you don't recognize Drew Struzan's name, I guarantee you would recognize his work. The legendary artist has provided some of the most iconic poster art in science fiction film history. All six Star Wars films? You bet. All three Back to the Future movies? Absolutely. Blade Runner, The Thing, Goonies, Indiana Jones, and Big Trouble in Little China? You better believe it. But it stands to reason that sometimes the perfect poster goes through a bit of revision before it achieves its final brilliance. Case in point, check out all the unused designs Struzan experimented with for the Back to the Future films before deciding on the three mirrored images used for the final posters, which you can see up top.
The unused poster designs come via the folks over at the amusingly named Blurppy. Even when he was getting close to the finished idea used in the posters, he still hadn't added the iconic flames, and this image for Back to the Future III also shows off more of the Western setting, rather than the bluish void used in the final images. He also hadn't added Clara (Mary Steenbergen) to the image yet, an idea that nicely linked the three posters in a numeric procession — just Marty on the first, then Marty and the Doc for Part II, then all three of them for the third installment. It's a little touch that works brilliantly even if your brain doesn't consciously register it. It's also worth noting that the image below has Marty in his frilly "Clint Eastwood" garb rather than his more convincing Western getup.
His alternate posters for the first film are where things get really interesting. The DeLorean time machine is obviously the most instantly recognizable element of the entire trilogy, but it wasn't even shown in these early posters.
In this next one they mention the DeLorean…but still don't show it. Marty does have a thing for lifting up his sunglasses in dramatic fashion though, doesn't he?
And then there's this one, which plays up one really awkward threesome — Marty and his would-be parents. It's gotta be the shoes…
Here's another variation on the clock theme, plus a bunch of little snippets from the first film's storyline — but still no damn DeLorean.
And here are a few others. It's fascinating to see some of the other directions Struzan explored along the way, and those early attempts just make you appreciate the final designs even more. After all that work, I can't think of a more perfect poster design than the one they eventually settled on.
And just for fun, here are all six of Struzan's posters for the Star Wars films. Maybe J.J. will coax him out of retirement for Episode VII.
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Black Cherry Juice for Gout: Effective Home Remedy?
Gout is a type of inflammatory arthritis. It occurs when your blood has a buildup of uric acid. This acid causes crystals to form in a joint, which leads to sudden pain and swelling.
The most common areas of the body to develop gout are the joints of the knee, ankle, and big toe.
Some people only experience one gout episode, while others may have several episodes throughout their lives.
The Arthritis Foundation estimates about 6 million American men and 2 million American women have gout.
How does black cherry juice work?
Like all cherry juices, black cherry juice has a high amount of anthocyanins. These are antioxidants found in fruits and vegetables that are red or purplish in color.
While beets, purple cabbage, and blueberries (among others) contain anthocyanins, cherries have the most.
Antioxidants relieve inflammation, which is important for the treatment of gout.
Did you know? Black cherry juice contains anthocyanins. These are antioxidants that give dark red and purple fruits and vegetables their color. They may help relieve pain caused by gout.
While there are no studies about black cherry juice specifically, a 2014 study found that tart cherry juice lowers uric acid — the culprit of gout.
Both the lowering of uric acid and the increase in antioxidants may help lessen the number of gout attacks. Since black cherry juice contains similar antioxidants, it may also help reduce uric acid and improve gout symptoms.
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Research has found that two to three servings of cherries or cherry extract over a 24-hour period may have the beneficial results of decreasing gout attacks.
Less than two servings in 24 hours didn't show any results. More than three didn't provide any additional benefits, either.
As of now, it's unknown whether there's a best time of day to drink cherry juice or whether it's better with or without food.
However, it does seem clear that ingesting cherries, including black cherries, in any form provides the same benefit. Consume your cherries in whatever manner you choose. You can eat them, drink them, or take a cherry extract supplement.
The traditional treatments of gout include diet modification, medication, with using hot and cold compresses. If your doctor suggests that you modify your diet, black cherry juice alone won't relieve your symptoms. But it may be one of the things you do to improve your health.
Replace meat with beans and legumes.
Avoid soda and meats such as bacon and salty fish, like sardines or anchovies.
Unless you're allergic to it, black cherry juice is safe to drink for gout.
Of course, too much of a good thing is possible: Overdrinking black cherry juice may lead to stomach cramping and diarrhea from the extra fiber.
Don't stop any medication or treatment plan prescribed by your doctor. Studies show that cherry juice may help when added to a treatment that's already in place. If you aren't sure whether you should incorporate cherry juice into your daily routine, talk to your doctor.
If you think you have gout, be sure to see your doctor. They can make the diagnosis and get treatment started for you as soon as possible.
To confirm a gout diagnosis, your doctor will ask about your lifestyle and any current conditions you may already have. They'll perform a blood test to measure your body's uric acid level, too.
Your doctor may also take a sample of fluid from the affected area for examination.
These tests will help your doctor rule out other possible causes for your pain, including infection or arthritis of a different kind.
When used alongside a treatment plan from your doctor, drinking black cherry juice may keep a gout attack at bay. The juice can relieve inflammation through the effects of antioxidants and by lowering uric acid.
You can also ingest cherries in other ways, like eating them raw or taking a supplement, to get the same benefits. It's always safest to choose the whole, natural, unprocessed cherry.
Research regarding the benefits of black cherry juice for gout is relatively new. However, in general, ingesting black cherries has no negative effects.
If you have gout, don't stop your current treatment plan if you start drinking black cherry juice.
If you suspect you might have gout, make an appointment with your doctor before self-medicating with cherry juice. Black cherry juice alone won't cure your symptoms.


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Jon McAlice
Encourages a shift from a structural to a dynamic approach to school governance
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'All education is self-education and, as teachers, we can only provide the environment for children's self-education... where children can educate themselves according to their own destinies.' -- Rudolf Steiner
This radical book seeks to shift the governance of Steiner-Waldorf schools from a structural to a dynamic approach. Jon McAlice argues that for teachers to help children 'practice the art of self-education', they must themselves model confident, honest self-governance.
He shows how this ideal can come about by teachers, parents and students working together. He addresses issues of trust and colleagiality, authenticity, and self-development, and provides the tools and language that schools will need to make progress in this important area.
'Jon McAlice has written a book about the challenges of governance in Waldorf schools in the context of the mission of Waldorf education. His book is a meditation on this relationship, urging us to embrace the challenge, free from our preconceived notions of how Waldorf schools 'should' be run: to look at what is needed now, in our current situations, in our individual schools. At the same time, he shines a light on the manifold opportunities for growth, change, and development that are possible when we embrace this challenge.'
-- Kevin Hughes, Waldorf Teacher (26 years, Kimberton Waldorf School, as Class teacher, art teacher, and current member of the 'governing team')
Jon McAlice is a freelance designer and consultant, focusing on the creative use of time and space. He is co-founder of the Center for Contextual Studies in Vermont.


Next Patch Tuesday, the 12th of January, Microsoft plans to release only one update to close a single hole in Windows. According to the advance notification, the hole is only critical under Windows 2000. Under Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server and 2008 Server, Microsoft rates it as low risk. The vendor also considers it unlikely that a functioning exploit for the hole will appear.
According to the Security Response Center, the DoS vulnerability in the SMB clients of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, which has been known since mid November, will remain unpatched. However, the flaw can only be exploited using manipulated SMB servers which send compromised packets to clients – apparently a scenario which is so unlikely that Microsoft has reportedly not observed any attacks so far.
Next Tuesday will also bring the long-awaited update for Adobe Reader to close a hole that has been actively exploited for several weeks. Apparently the update will also solve several other security problems.
Despite increasingly frequent attacks, no update for Adobe's Reader, a report from The H.
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Members gathered with their families for a day filled with fun, laughter, snow and lots of slime!
The children started their day with a group treasure hunt, giving new members the opportunity to meet and to get to know their fellow little soldiers. They were all then divided in to five teams and taken on a magical adventure.
Each member travelled through six different themed rooms, including a ball pit room containing over 60,000 balls, a curly wurly room where stretching and curling were the name of the game, Mrs Claus's kitchen where Christmas pudding was top of the menu, a slime room bursting with different kinds of slime, a UV Crazy room with UV face paint, 'fear pong' and UV twister and then finally, a snow filled Winter Wonderland.
Santa also stopped by to meet the children and provide them with an early Christmas gift.
The girls lost their dad, Sergeant Antony Reynolds on 1st July 2018 after he took his own life.
She said: "The girls had an absolutely amazing time, they had smiles on their faces for days afterwards and told everyone they could about it. They loved the ball pit and the slime and even my eldest got involved.
For eleven-year-old Hamish Trotter, this year's party meant more than ever. His mum, Sarah Judd explained: "The Scotty's Christmas party does exactly what it says on the tin, helping us smile! We've had a rough time recently, and until last week Hamish didn't want to do Christmas.
Nikki Scott, the founder of the charity, is determined to make each party bigger and better every year. She said: "Christmas is one of the most difficult times for our members, so the Christmas party is a chance for them all to come together and enjoy time celebrating the festive season. For some of our beneficiaries it is the first Christmas without one of their parents so it's even more important they realise they are not alone and there are other children going through the same experience as they are.
For more information on Scotty's Little Soldiers visit www.scottyslittlesoldiers.co.uk.
Scotty's Little Soldiers, founded in 2010, honours Corporal Lee Scott's memory – both as a loyal soldier and a loving father – and provides a practical yet personal way for the public at large to show their appreciation for those brave individuals who make the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country. Currently Scotty's Little Soldiers supports 368 bereaved children and runs a variety of programmes to help children smile again and look forward to a brighter future. You can visit the charity online at www.scottyslittlesoldiers.co.uk.


WEDNESDAY, Sept. 12, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Mindfulness meditation may take the edge off of pain, a new study suggests.
"Mindfulness is related to being aware of the present moment without too much emotional reaction or judgment," explained lead researcher Fadel Zeidan. He's an assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.
"We now know that some people are more mindful than others, and those people seemingly feel less pain," Zeidan said.
The research was a continuation of a 2015 study that compared mindfulness meditation to a placebo painkiller. For the new study, the researchers had 76 volunteers who had never meditated complete a questionnaire for measuring mindfulness.
The study participants then had a brain scan using functional MRI while being given painful heat stimulation.
The researchers found that those who had higher levels of mindfulness during the heat test showed greater deactivation of a brain region called the posterior cingulate cortex. In those that reported the most pain, however, that area of the brain was highly activated.
The brain network that extends from the posterior cingulate cortex to the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain continuously feeds information back and forth. This network is associated with processing feelings of self and mind-wandering, Zeidan explained in a Wake Forest news release.
"As soon as you start performing a task, the connection between these two brain regions … disengages and the brain allocates information and processes to other neural areas," he said.
"The results from our study showed that mindful individuals are seemingly less caught up in the experience of pain, which was associated with lower pain reports," Zeidan added.
The report was published online Sept. 6 in the journal Pain.
"Now we have some new ammunition to target this brain region in the development of effective pain therapies," Zeidan said. "Importantly, this work shows that we should consider one's level of mindfulness when calculating why and how one feels less or more pain."
Based on his team's earlier research, Zeidan continued, "we know we can increase mindfulness through relatively short periods of mindfulness meditation training, so this may prove to be an effective way to provide pain relief for the millions of people suffering from chronic pain."
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Ground Floor: Kitchen/diner, sitting room/bedroom, shower room/whb/wc.
Parking: 1 allocated space in communal parking area.
Facilities: Electric cooker, microwave, fridge/freezer, washing machine, TV, basic Sky package, DVD player, WiFi, garden furniture.
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Approached from an A-road, then approximately 120 metres to entrance. Drive leading into stoned courtyard and parking areas.
Main entrance is level, as is all the property.
The garden is enclosed and attached to the property.
A very small gentle slope leads to the garden.
External lighting outside the property activated by a switch in the kitchen.
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Here are links to the information and videos referred to in this presentation.
I have also found another 38 degree's petition claiming Katy Bourne - Sussex Police Commissioner is involved in corruption, so those claiming Sussex police and those responsible for them is totally and utterly corrupt is shocking!
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Over the last year I've grown increasingly tired of the previous "dark" theme of my site; not that it was THAT bad, it actually did the job, but I felt it didn't convey enough of what makes myself… well, myself. Wishing for something more light-hearted but still legible, and convinced these qualities were to come from a good choice of type, I started a quest for the perfect font, well before starting to code my new site.
I read a number of online resources on the matter, and a number of books as well, with The Anatomy of Type being probably my favourite; I also subscribed to Typecast (which comes with a subscription to Fonts.com) so that I could use not only very high quality fonts, but also those iconic fonts that have made history, like Helvetica, Gill Sans, or Futura.
Always take into account the "soul" of the owner of the website. The font has to sing with her voice.
When you are pairing fonts, you can try putting one over the other, and observe the peculiarities of the two fonts. Pay attention to the x-height of the two fonts (with x-height being the height of a lowercase 'a', 'o', etc).
Also when pairing fonts, you could "cheat" by choosing two typefaces either made by the same artist, or in the same period, perhaps in the same geographical region too.
If in doubt, or in a hurry, or you're not sure, use Helvetica in a couple of variants.
Give your fonts space to breath, by choosing a generous line-height and good spacing between sections.
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As physicians who provide a majority of care to individuals for physical and mental conditions, we know these insurance reforms and protections are essential to ensuring access to affordable health coverage for more than 130 million Americans, including the more than 31 million individuals between the ages of 55 and 64 who have at least one pre-existing condition.
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The DOJ's new position, if accepted by the courts, would endanger not only essential protections for persons with preexisting conditions, but other programs that millions of Americans depend on to ensure their access to affordable health care. These include federal funding for Medicaid expansion, premium subsidies to make coverage affordable in the individual market, and the ban on annual and lifetime limits on coverage. In addition, insurers would no longer be required to cover essential health care such as maternity care, pediatric services, cancer screenings, prescription drugs, and mental health and substance use disorder treatments. Additionally, dependent coverage up to age 26 would be discontinued, seniors would no longer have access to no-cost preventive services, and women could again be charged more for coverage simply because of their gender.
Our organizations strongly disagree with the DOJ's position. We fully support the protections and programs established by the ACA that are essential to ensuring access to care. We strongly urge the Administration to reverse its position in Texas v United States, and even if it does not do so, we hope and expect that the appellate courts consider the impact on patients and rule against overturning the law.
Our organizations stand ready to collaborate with the Administration and Congress on policy solutions to increase access to affordable health care and provides all individuals, regardless of their gender, race, and health status; and provide reasonable protections against discrimination in coverage and pricing.
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Founded in 1947, the American Academy of Family Physicians represents 129,000 physicians and medical students nationwide, and it is the only medical society devoted solely to primary care. Family physicians provide comprehensive, evidence-based, and cost-effective care dedicated to improving the health of patients, families and communities. To learn more about the AAFP and family medicine, visit www.aafp.org/media. Follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook. For information about health care, health conditions and wellness, visit the AAFP's award-winning consumer website, www.familydoctor.org.
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The American College of Physicians is the largest medical specialty organization in the United States with members in more than 145 countries worldwide. ACP membership includes 154,000 internal medicine physicians (internists), related, and medical students. Internal medicine physicians are specialists who apply scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness. Follow ACP on Twitter,Facebook and Instagram.
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