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2015 Xfinity Season in Review: Regan Smith
By Jerry BonkowskiDec 29, 2015, 11:00 AM EDT
CREW CHIEF: Jason Burdett (2015) / TBD (2016)
TEAM: JR Motorsports (2015) / TBD (2016)
POINTS: 4th
WINS: 2
TOP 5s: 11
TOP 10s: 26
LAPS LED: 160
WHAT WENT RIGHT: From a performance standpoint, Smith had his best season ever in the Xfinity Series, with two wins (tied career single-season high), 11 top-five (career single-season high) and 26 top-10 (tied career single-season high) finishes. He also had a career single-season best in average start (8.7), and second-best in average finish (9.0). … Smith was in the hunt for the Xfinity Series championship all the way up to the final race, ultimately finishing fourth. … In his three-year stint with JR Motorsports, Smith finished 3rd (2013), 2nd (2014) and 4th (2015).
WHAT WENT WRONG: On the surface, nothing appeared to be wrong with Smith in 2015, other than coming up a bit short at the end of the season for the championship. Yet, somehow, his contract was not renewed by JR Motorsports, and he was replaced by Elliott Sadler and Justin Allgaier (who replaces Chase Elliott).
WHAT TO EXPECT IN 2016: This is a question waiting to be answered. At this writing, Smith remains a driver without a team. … No matter where he goes, he has the ability and talent to improve a team, be it in Sprint Cup, Xfinity Series or Camping World Truck Series. Plus, with Chris Buescher, Chase Elliott, Brian Scott and Ryan Blaney all jumping up to Sprint Cup in 2016, Smith would likely have been one of the favorites to potentially win the Xfinity title. All he needs is a home.
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This week we're out on the bay of Green Bay with Caleb Zorn & Dale Stroschein. We've got 2 days, so we head out for walleyes on the first day, and bass on day 2.
Dale tells us that the walleyes will travel with the same year class, so if we catch a big fish, there are likely more of similar size in that same spot. To our amazement we fine some huge fish, which is very surprising given the time of year. We are fishing shallow water over rocks, and watching these fish in this crystal clear water is a true thrill. Heading out for bass with Caleb on day 2 rounds out a great trip to the Sturgeon Bay area.
This week we've taking a trip to central Wisconsin to visit our friend and Charter Captain Brett Jolly. Captain Jolly usually guides us on the bay of Green Bay, but now we're in his home area, and there is a lot of water to choose from.
We get to troll and cast to catch walleyes. Trolling is a great way to get a lot of fish, and can be constant action, which is what we experienced. After trolling, we zero in on where we got most of our fish, and set up a drift to so some casting. We catch a lot of walleyes, as well as "incidental" catches of crappies.
Matty B fished the beautiful three lakes chain as a kid, so he's excited to try out some new lakes in the nearby Conover area. We picked a lake that we've never fished, using the DNR report to see that is't got plentiful walleye and bass. This should be a great plastics bite!
We absolutely love it when we get a chance to get back to the Wisconsin River in Wisconsin Dells to fish with Big Dave. Dave knows every spot on this stretch of river; so we know he will get something to bite, no matter the time of year or weather. We've also got Dave's (and now our) buddie Dennis along as well.
This time of year is truly a multi-species anglers dream. Dave tells us that rivers are less susceptible to weather fluctuations, so if fishing is slow on the lakes in the area, that may not be the case on the rivers. Rivers are also fun to fight fish in, because the current adds to the drag on the fish, making it more exciting. We catch crappies, bluegill, bass, sauger, and dogfish. All are fun to catch, especially since you never know what you're going to catch.
This week we welcomed Valerie and Scott, the winners of last years "Catch of the Week" Contest from Baitmate. Valerie submitted a photo of a pike she caught, and it was chosen at the grand prize winner.
We are fishing on one of our favorite bass lakes, Delavan Lake. We have had some excellent day on Delavan over the years, which is impressive given that is so close to Milwaukee, and has a lot of boat traffic. We set up near a weed bed, and virtually don't need to move for the rest of the day. Using our wacky worms soaked in Baitmate we're casting and "popping" up and over the weeds, dropping in pockets to get the attention of these big fish.


Are We Anti-Aging Too Early?
Ours is a society all too accustomed to the perils of anti-aging efforts. After all, we've witnessed the Botox and Filler Revolution — seen in dramatic funhouse-like effect everywhere from The Real Housewives and Cougar Town to Lindsay Lohan's court battles and Nicole Kidman's movies.
A lot of this botched facial work has really allowed the youth of America to take a look in the mirror, pause, and say, "Oh, hell no. That just can't happen to me." So, we rush to the drugstore (or department store, depending on when the direct deposit hits) in hopes of eradicating what we swear is the beginning of a fine line. Early prevention is the key, right?
Sadly, that's not necessarily the case.
Fair enough — and also, pretty obvious. But, it gets more complicated: "People start using 'lifting and firming' products at age 20. That's ridiculous," continues Dr. Lens. He suggests avoiding these words on any skin-care labels, because they often signal a heavy concentration of peptides, which stimulate collagen production and cellular turnover. That's great for someone in their 40s and maybe 30s, but will really just put skin cells into overdrive if you're in your 20s, leading to major irritations.
Vargas also cautions against using products containing glycolic acid, an ingredient that gained renown in the past decade or so for having anti-aging and skin-clarifying benefits. "All the peeling it does actually creates skin that looks burnt," she says. "You may not be breaking out, but that activity will kill the lymphatic system and stop normal cell function, leading to dull, dead skin over time." In other words, all that work you're doing now just means you're tiring your skin out for later.
Our experts both agree that 25 is the sweet spot for incorporating (read: not a full regimen) anti-aging products into your beauty routine. But, where does one start?
"You should absolutely be wearing an eye cream, even if you see no problems around the area," says Dr. Lens. His very own Triple Action Eye Cream is a bestseller at Space NK. For a more wallet-friendly option, try this option from Burt's Bees. This is for morning and night — you'll also see a great difference in how your concealer wears during the day.
"Start incorporating an exfoliating step into your skin care that promotes cellular turnover," Vargas says. We know — you've been told to exfoliate just two to three times a week your whole life. But, refined scrubs, like Dermalogica Microfoliant or Vargas' very own Exfoliating Mask, are gentle enough to use before applying a heavier product at nighttime.
"This is the time to start with antioxidants," Vargas notes. "They can't hurt and will be a big leap forward into an adult routine." Vitamin C and argan oil are great ingredients to look out for. Try starting with a serum (like John Masters Organics or Kahina Giving Beauty) or opt for a light oil at night (hello, Josie Maran or the divine Kora Organics) a few times a week to see how your skin reacts. If all is clear, Dr. Lens recommends graduating to other user-friendly anti-aging staples, like salicylic acid and PHAs (or polyhdroxy acids). Try Renée Rouleau BHA Clarifying Serum.
And, of course, everything else you already know about your skin, from applying sunscreen daily to avoiding excessive drinking and naughty foods, will serve you immensely well. The whole "don't-drink-too-much" mantra was clearly lost on those Housewives. And, look what happened to them!


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Our mission and approach
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The last year of the decade saw many intense climate impacts, extreme heat to storms to floods, hitting everyone from the poorest to the richest countries. But it was also a year of ever-growing attention to the need to anticipate those extremes, reduce risk, and act in advance of impacts.
From the growing number of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies active in forecast-based financing to the global commitments at the UN Climate Action Summit, from the launch of our guidance on heatwaves for local authorities to the impressive commitments at the International Conference, and from in-country advice to ICRC operations in the Sahel to discussions on climate and conflict in the Security Council, the Climate Centre has been privileged to support the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and its many partners in confronting these challenges, linking science, policy and practice.
Here's a look back at our engagement with the climate-related humanitarian events of 2019 through the eyes of our news service.
With the Hong Kong branch of the Red Cross Society of China, the German Red Cross, and the Climate Centre among organizing partners, the year began with a first in the form of an international expert forum, convened in Hong Kong, to find ways to reduce the growing global risk of deadly heatwaves.
In an op-ed for Red Cross Red Crescent magazine, Climate Centre Director Maarten van Aalst wrote that average global temperatures rises were just that: average. "We see much more rapid changes in extremes. In the last few years, record-setting – even life-threatening – hot spells have hit in Canada, India, Iraq, Japan, Pakistan and the United Kingdom."
Professor Van Aalst advised on a new action plan on climate announced by the World Bank that more than doubled its financial support for adaptation to US$ 50 billion in the four years to mid-2025, putting this on a par with its commitment to mitigation.
Another important first came when the ICRC's Permanent Observer to the UN, Robert Mardini, told an open Security Council meeting on climate and conflict that "climate change deepens vulnerabilities for communities affected by war".
On a similar theme, the first of a series of high-level round tables on the interconnected impacts of climate and conflict was held in Nairobi amid heightened security after the attack in the city in the same week.
Senior representatives from governments, financial institutions, international organizations, think tanks and universities framed a humanitarian perspective on what's become known as the climate and conflict nexus.
More than 250 experts from at least 60 countries held their first Lead Author meeting in Durban, South Africa, to make plans for the next assessment report by Working Group II, its sixth, on impacts and adaptation; they included Professor Van Aalst, the Climate Centre's Manager, Climate Science, Erin Coughlan de Perez, and Senior Pacific Climate Adviser Olivia Warrick, who will all write for AR6.
In the depths of the northern winter, the IFRC again asked people to check on neighbours, relatives and friends – especially the elderly – who were at risk as freezing temperatures hit Europe.
Professor Van Aalst said that while the break-up of the polar vortex had increased the probability of cold snaps in North America, Russia and Europe, there was no scientific consensus behind the suggestion this is linked to Arctic warming.
"In any case," he added, "the cold snap was forecast successfully well ahead of the event, partly based on stratospheric conditions," and the important point was again preparedness.
This 2019 Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships week in Geneva heard calls for the expansion of anticipatory humanitarian action, including from Pascale Meige, IFRC Director of Disaster and Crisis Prevention, Response and Recovery, and included technical meetings on humanitarian cooperation with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), facilitated by the Climate Centre.
The IFRC announced that the first early-action protocol of the forecast-based component of its DREF emergency fund was in place and ready to help the Peruvian Red Cross assist alpaca herders in the Andes; it was developed with support from the German Federal Foreign Office and Red Cross and the Climate Centre.
The Indian Red Cross and government's Earth System Science Organization umbrella agency that includes the country's met department signed an MoU to share meteorological information and data to build local community resilience.
This came shortly before a series of PfR-related training sessions by the Red Cross in several states that included the India Meteorological Department, the IFRC and the Climate Centre.
From the first week of March onwards, the entire humanitarian community was focused on Southern Africa and the impact of Tropical Cyclone Idai on Mozambique especially.
The IFRC and the Climate Centre generated the first aerial video from Mozambique showing the scale of the disaster and this won huge media exposure worldwide.
Thanks to quick action by the German Red Cross team in Maputo, funds were diverted by the forecast-based forecasting project still being finalized in the country to enable a small consignment of emergency shelter kits to be sent to Beira ahead of the storm's landfall.
The Climate Centre noted that two climate factors which could have played a role in the Cyclone Idai disaster were higher sea-levels and more intense rainfall embedded in the storm.
IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy, speaking at the end of a visit to Beira, said: "The scale and scope of suffering and damage is breath taking. Hundreds of thousands of people have been impacted in some way. We must respond fast and at scale, and prepare to accompany the affected populations in the longer term."
Also in March, evidence of one of the most serious instances of the conflict-climate nexus, Afghanistan, became irrefutable.
Ten million people in the country – more than a quarter of its population – were facing acute food insecurity and needed urgent help after floods and drought, the Afghan Red Crescent and the IFRC said.
We reported on the achievement of the Uganda Red Cross Society in becoming the first National Society in Africa to roll out the Y-Adapt curriculum at a week-long training of trainers for 30 young people.
In other highlights, Maarten van Aalst was appointed Professor of Spatial Resilience for Disaster Risk Reduction – a chair inaugurated in 2018 by the Red Cross and the University of Twente for the 75th birthday of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands.
And the Climate Centre rolled out a new collaboration with Bob Mankoff, cartoon and humour editor of Esquire, to bring humour into humanitarian communications.
'The international community must
consider how the simultaneous shocks
of climate change and conflict affect people's
livelihoods in shaping our response'
We reported on a dialogue on early warning early action convened by the Tuvalu Red Cross Society in Funafuti, its capital, that centred on the challenges of reaching the 'last mile' to communities.
It was jointly convened by the Tuvalu Red Cross with the IFRC and the Climate Centre, with support from the Australian government and Red Cross – part of a productive and ongoing engagement between the Red Cross in the Pacific and local meteorological services.
In an interview to coincide with what was quickly dubbed "the first humanitarian COP", Professor Van Aalst said that "one of the biggest rising risks with climate change is heatwaves in urban areas" – a pivotal 2019 theme.
This World Conference on Health and Climate Change was convened by the French Red Cross in Cannes and focused on "the latest scientific research, and innovative solutions designed to meet the greatest public health challenge of the 21st century," the FRC said; it also marked the centenary of the foundation of the IFRC, founded on 5 May 1919.
Mr Sy said he hoped it would "start planting the seeds for the next visionary 100 years". In a keynote address he said it was no longer possible to deny the impact of climate change on the "triptych of people's lives, livestock and livelihoods".
After Tropical Cyclone Kenneth later caused more flooding in northern Mozambique, the IFRC tweeted that floodwater had completely "covered the coastal town of Pemba", capital of Cabo Delgado province bordering Tanzania.
The Climate Centre noted that, anecdotally, the entire episode had "set two scary modern records": Kenneth was the strongest Indian Ocean cyclone to make landfall that far north in Mozambique, and it was the first time two such intense storms had been seen in quick succession there.
The Director General for International Cooperation at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Reina Buijs, addressed a policy dialogue on conflict, climate and resilience – the next in the series that began in Nairobi in January.
"Through technical support," she explained, "like improved post-harvest handling and storage, feed and seed systems...we help populations to be more resilient to shocks so conflict-induced food insecurity can be prevented."
A side-event at the Second Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference in Geneva, jointly led by the IFRC and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization that also included the Climate Centre, focused on enhancing the link between early warning and early action through impact-based forecasts that paint a picture of what extreme weather will do as well as what it will be.
Another Climate Centre side-event at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction centred on "the multiple dividends arising from investments in early action, challenges and opportunities, and practical next steps".
It noted that FbF has "grown exponentially in recent years, with at least 30 countries developing early warning early action systems".
The IFRC reported that the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society concluded that its operational decision-making process had become "clearer and more straightforward" thanks to its improved use of scientific information centred on FbF, as had been shown by the experience of Cyclone Fani.
Mark Lowcock, UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, told an audience in Berlin he was allocating US$ 45 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund for "early action to mitigate a problem we now know is on its way" in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya: drought-related food insecurity.
The UN humanitarian chief said the international community needed to repeat the success of 2017 when "four consecutive failed rains brought Somalia to the brink of famine", but "early warning led to earlier action".
Germany, he added, the world's second-largest humanitarian donor, providing nearly 3 billion euros in 2018, had become a global thought leader with its support for the piloting of forecast-based funding.
Early in a northern summer of what was to become record-breaking heat, the IFRC in Europe announced that an 80-year temperature record had been broken in the Belarus capital, Minsk.
The Climate Centre launched an updated and expanded version of its principal training resource for National Societies, the Climate Training Kit 2.0, developed with the IFRC secretariat and the Partners for Resilience (PfR) programme.
At the UNFCCC intersessional meeting in Bonn, a resilience roadshow and a Technical Expert Meeting on Adaptation looked at financing, the role of the private sector, and issues of scale, asking how we can be sure global mechanisms prioritize the highest risks and incentivise the most effective local actions.
'Heatwaves are one of the deadliest natural hazards facing humanity
and the threat will only get more serious'
The ICRC and the Jordan Red Crescent Society co-hosted a dialogue on climate change, conflict and resilience in Amman, jointly organized with the Climate Centre and the UK Overseas Development Institute and the fourth in the global series of policy round-tables.
A panel at the UN in New York heard a strong call from Ireland's permanent representative for the most vulnerable people to be placed "at the centre of our work". Geraldine Byrne Nason was speaking at a side-event, chaired by the IFRC and including the Climate Centre, at the end of the first week of the 2019 high-level political forum on sustainable development.
In a key humanitarian publishing event of the year, the new Red Cross Red Crescent Heatwave Guide for Cities, providing planners with an authoritative summary of possible actions to reduce the heatwave danger, was launched at UN headquarters in New York and was covered prominently, for example, by the New York Times.
"Heatwaves are one of the deadliest natural hazards facing humanity, and the threat they pose will only become more serious and more widespread as the climate crisis continues," said IFRC President Francesco Rocca, who was at the launch together with Climate Centre Urban Manager Julie Arrighi.
Within only a few days, and for the second time in a month, Western Europe saw an intense heatwave and national temperature records broken in Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands, later joined by the UK, with many National Societies once again prominently flagging their public-health guidance on how to stay safe.
The first-ever North Pacific youth leadership camp in Pohnpei, Micronesia, was described by Climate Centre Technical Adviser, Brigitte Rudram, as "an exciting next step in the agenda for the rolling out of Y-Adapt worldwide".
The ICRC published a wide-ranging talk by its Head of Policy, Dr Hugo Slim, at the 5th Singapore Red Cross Humanitarian Conference on partnerships and volunteerism.
On climate, Dr Slim said the IFRC and its Climate Centre were jointly "becoming an increasingly important partner to the ICRC as we too engage with people's experience of the double effects of conflict and climate shocks on their lives.
"The Federation's deep knowledge in the policy and practice of climate change response, disaster risk reduction, and adaptation now needs to become central to the way we work."
The annual camel caravan in northern Kenya aimed at raising awareness of the importance of conserving the Ewaso Nyiro river basin, now in its fifth year, concluded at Archer's Post in Samburu county; USAID, Family Health International 360, Isiolo Peace Link and PfR partners Cordaid and the Merti Integrated Development Programme took part.
After the IFRC said cases of dengue fever were on the rise across monsoon-affected Asia, Maarten van Aalst argued in an op-ed that while the research that would conclusively link a particular spike in dengue to a clearly climate-related warmer, wetter season somewhere does not yet exist, the risk must be there and in all likelihood is intensifying.
The Climate Centre helped specialists from Mali, Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia attend a course at the UK's University of Reading centred on flood forecasting, FbF triggers and the Global Flood Awareness System.
After Hurricane Dorian swept across the Bahamas, Professor Van Aalst reminded the humanitarian community that "storm surges – aggravated by sea levels that are established as being higher because of climate change – are probably the most easily attributable impacts we see."
Dorian, he added, "neatly fits the expected pattern in a warmer world of stronger and more destructive, but not necessarily more frequent, storms."
In the run-up to the UN Climate Summit, convened by UN Secretary General Guterres to increase global ambition on climate, the IFRC launced its #FacesofClimateChange campaign, to advocate large-scale local action and highlight the humanitarian consequences of inaction; this was championed by the social-media platform Tik Tok, with its 500 million users worldwide.
Julie Arrighi, one of the main contributors to the IFRC's hard-hitting new Cost of Doing Nothing Report, said it presented "some of the potential consequences should the global community fail to address the rising risks of a changing climate."
But it also highlighted positive outcomes "if the global community takes action now to build resilience, adapt and address the current climate crisis."
The much-heralded Risk-informed Early Action Partnership intended to protect a billion people in the developing world from extreme weather was launched as one of the key new commitments at the UN Climate Summit, just ahead of the General Assembly in New York, signalling growing global attention for solutions to address the humanitarian impacts of climate change.
And the Climate Centre issued a lay person's guide in cartoon form to the new IPCC report on the world's oceans.
Red Cross Red Crescent engagement at the Asia Pacific Climate Week in Bangkok centred on side-events that included Stepping up Actions on Delivering a Resilient Future – organized by the Global Resilience Partnership, the Climate Centre and others.
The IFRC agenda featured "forecasting and early action, empowering local communities affected by the climate crisis, and integrated risk management."
Later in September the Climate Centre Director officially accepted his assignment as Professor Van Aalst, delivering an inaugural lecture at the University of Twente in the presence of Princess Margriet.
'Small steps are not enough'
The IFRC Governing Board approved the organizations's new Strategy 2030 that proposed "an urgent shift of leadership and decision-making to the most local level" and placed climate change at the head of a list of major global challenges facing the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement.
A rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution scientists found that the extreme rainfall and floods caused by Tropical Storm Imelda that affected Texas and Louisiana were made both more likely and more intense by global warming.
At least 130 people from 50 National Societies as well as the Climate Centre and the Global Disaster Preparedness Centre were in the Qatar capital, Doha, for the fourth Global Meeting on Innovation in Humanitarian Action, where the Climate Centre outlined operational experience with FbF and spoke about the IPCC oceans report.
We reported that the Pacific Islands Climate Services Panel will be jointly chaired by Simon McGree, a climatologist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and Olivia Warrick of the IFRC and Climate Centre.
Olivia was later at GEO Week 2019: Earth Observations for Disaster Risk Reduction in Canberra, where the Australian Red Cross and the Climate Centre presented at a side-event hosted by NASA and the IRI that focused on stronger links between Earth observations and humanitarian action.
Our colleague Andrew Kruczkiewicz quoted her telling the group: "There's often an assumption that if people can access data or a data-based tool to support decision-making like a model output, a risk map or a forecast, then they will do things differently. But this isn't always the case.
"You also need to ask if users have requested that specific information, and do they know what to do with it?"
This annual Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action in Berlin – the seventh in a series that began in 2015 – gathered more than 200 people from 40 countries.
Organized by the German Red Cross, the IFRC, the Climate Centre and the World Food Programme, it centred on the theme of Early warning early Action: evidence, coherence, influence and science.
In his opening remarks, Elhadj As Sy emphasized that "climate change is not a matter of the future, it is a matter of today – we need the science and we have the science now. The question is, are we listening to it?"
Overall he said, humanitarians could look forward to a journey that would encompass "commitment, courage, humility, questioning".
Our own board member Jagan Chapagain, a Red Cross Red Crescent veteran, was selected as new IFRC Secretary General by the Governing Board shortly before the first of the 2019 Statutory Meetings.
Professor Van Aalst recalled that at last year's UN talks in Katowice, Jagan had memorably told the Marrakech Partnership round table on resilience that "we need to move from debating value for money to value for people" – a view later explicitly endorsed in the outcome document.
After climate emerged as a growing concern in an exhaustive two-year consultation with the Red Cross and Red Crescent network, the IFRC's new Strategy 2030, formally adopted at its General Assembly, highlighted how climate change is a growing concern for National Societies.
The 2019 Statutory Meetings between them saw many concrete commitments and insightful discussions. The International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent included an intense side-event on how to be climate smart, and the establishment of a consortium on climate research for the Movement, co-chaired by Gilles Carbonnier, Vice-President of the ICRC, and Cecile Aptel, the IFRC's Director of Policy, Strategy and Knowledge.
Princess Margriet herself convened a high-level lunch on climate-smart disaster risk reduction, there was also a packed 'spotlight session', led by National Societies, and also a moving personal speech in the plenary by Australian Red Cross CEO Judy Slatyer, whose staff and volunteers are grappling with very serious wildfires, about "unprecedented risks in a warming world".
A historic joint virtual event from COP 25 in Madrid and the International Conference was the first time the most senior figures from each meeting have been brought together in a webcast, and the 17th annual Development and Climate Days went ahead in Madrid over a single day after the UN climate talks were rescheduled from Chile to the Spanish capital.
When the UN climate talks themselves ended after a second day of extra time, Maarten van Aalst, vowed "to continue to work with all states as part of the UNFCCC process to reduce humanitarian impacts of climate change" but added that the "small steps" that had been agreed to Madrid were not enough to address rising risks.
At the end of the decade, then, the mandate borne by the Red Cross Red Crescent is more demanding than ever. In 2020 we hope to contribute to restoring the global momentum on climate change that was lacking at COP 25, but we take courage from the strong leadership on display at our own International Conference, and with that will support the Movement in addressing the rising risks we will continue to face in 2020, every day everywhere.
Clockwise from top left: Elhadj As Sy visits Mozambique in March; the Red Cross responds to the monsoon in Burma; ICRC President Peter Maurer speaks to International Committee beneficiaries in Jordan at the end of an official visit in February; the met map of Europe was redrawn to include a new temperature band above 40C. (Photos: Climate Centre; Burmese Red Cross; ICRC; ESA)
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We've all seen the Silver Alert notifications on billboards as we drive around the Greater Houston region indicating a senior is missing, perhaps disoriented or impaired in some way, and might be at risk to themselves or to others. We learn what triggers those alerts, how the system works, and what we can do to try to prevent such situations.
We've all seen the Silver Alert notifications on billboards as we drive around the Greater Houston region indicating a senior is missing, perhaps disoriented or impaired in some way, and might be at risk to themselves or to others.
We learn what triggers those alerts, how the system works, and what we can do to try to prevent such situations.


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> The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Co...
Marvin Lessen
Mr Lessen was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1934. His family moved to Hazleton, Pennsylvania thence to Albany, New York, where relatives still live. Graduating from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, he spent his career in the aerospace/defense industry, working in various technical locations in Europe and North America. A collector from an early age, of coins, stamps, arms and armour, his move to Scarborough in 1962 precipitated the interest to collect British coins on a serious basis. By the time he had joined the British Numismatic Society in October 1964, and subsequently the Royal Numismatic Society and the American Numismatic Society, he was well-known to the principal London dealers of the day – Baldwin (Douglas and Peter Mitchell, and later Michael Sharp), Seaby (Frank Purvey and Alan Rayner), and in particular, Spink, where he enjoyed firm friendships with the late Douglas Liddell, then Patrick Finn, as well as with Douglas Saville and Howard Linecar in literature; also Corbitt & Hunter in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and other sources in the North-East. In the US there developed close connections with CNG (David Guest and Victor England), David Hess, Chris Blom, Joel Malter and Bill Castenholz, to name a few dealers in classical and medieval coins, as well as friends. Perusal of this catalogue, and those to follow, will demonstrate the wide variety of sources from whom Mr Lessen developed his collection.
Mr Lessen has been a frequent contributor to the pages of The British Numismatic Journal, The Numismatic Chronicle and Spink's Numismatic Circular, as can be seen from the bibliography below. His favourite period of numismatic study centred on the mid-17th century – the coins, medals and seals of Oliver Cromwell and the early years of Charles II. It is no coincidence that his favourite numismatic author was the gifted youth Henry William Henfrey (1852-81), whose Numismata Cromwelliana, privately published in 1877, remains one of the truly significant pieces of numismatic work produced in Britain in the 19th century which is still essential for the student in the 21st. Henfrey died of TB at the age of 29, his proposed history of English country mints unfinished – a very sad loss to numismatics at the time.
P.J.P-M.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MARVIN LESSEN
'The story of the Walther P.38', Guns magazine, January 1961; reproduced in Smith, W.H.B., Walther Pistols and Rifles, Harrisburg, PA, 1962
'A Summary of the Cromwell coinage', BNJ 35 (1966)
'A Transitional Edward VI base shilling', SNC April 1967
'Another Lichfield penny', SNC May 1974
'Supplement to A Summary of the Cromwell Coinage', SNC May and July/August 1976
'Numismata Cromwelliana', SNC October 1977
'The Cromwell Lord Protector medal by Simon', BNJ 47 (1977)
'A Northumbrian styca forgery', SNC November 1979
'The Cromwell Lord General medal by Simon', BNJ 49 (1979)
'Some corrections to North volume 2', SNC January 1980
'The Cromwell Dunbar medals by Simon', BNJ 51 (1981)
'The Cromwell funeral medal by Simon', BNJ 52 (1982)
'Edward V groats', BNJ 53 (1983)
'Harris, Alchorne and 'An Essay'", BNJ 62 (1992)
'Counterfeit 'scowling bust' groats of Henry V', NC 1993 [with Drs. Mary F. Striegel and Peter P. Gaspar] 'York annulet silver coins of Henry VI', BNJ 63 (1993)
'A "Review" of Henfrey's Journal', SNC December 1994
'Simon's mill gold coins and medals of Charles II, 1660-1662', BNJ 65 (1995)
'A listing of Cromwell coin types', BNJ 66 (1996)
'Some letters by Edward Hawkins', SNC May 1997
'The Commonwealth naval medals for 1653, by Simon', BNJ 67 (1997)
'Cromwell coin tools in the Royal Mint Museum', BNJ 68 (1998)
'Bushell and the Miner, MI 467-9/67-69', SNC August 2002
'A presumed 'Hampshire' hoard of Eadgar CC coins', SNC April 2003
'Snelling's Seventy-two Plates of Coins', SNC June 2003
'Two misstruck Henry I pennies', SNC October 2005 [with Prof. Peter P. Gaspar]'Notes on Simon's pattern (Petition) crown of Charles II', BNJ 75 (2005)
'An aborted reverse on a pinecone-mascle groat obverse', SNC June 2006
'Supplement to 'The Commonwealth naval medals for 1653'', SNC June 2006
'Oliver with a Liberty Cap', SNC December 2006
'A parcel of mid-eleventh century Saxon coins, mostly of the York mint', SNC December 2007 'A Little Cuerdale Parcel', SNC September 2010 [with Antony Wilson]
'A Weight Correction', SNC April 2012.
'Roger Roger's Short Cross', SNC September 2013 [with Prof. Peter P. Gaspar]
'A Note on Violet's Answer ', BNJ 83 (2013)
This important collection of British coins, spanning the Iron Age, Roman, medieval and early modern periods, with select later additions, was begun in 1962 when its creator, Marvin Lessen, first moved to Scarborough to work at the early warning radar site at RAF Fylingdales.
PREFACE TO PART III
This third sale of coins from the Lessen collection covers the English period from Henry VII to modern times, as well as Scottish, Irish and Anglo-Gallic coins. The auction finishes with a small group of Yorkshire tokens.
In endeavouring to collect silver coins of the main coinages and types within each reign, Mr Lessen concentrated on groats and, for the later period, shillings. Collectors of these denominations in particular will find much of interest within these pages. Worthy of special mention are examples of the earliest English coinrelated piece to bear a date of any kind (Lot 891) and, in the same idiom, an Edward VI pattern shilling, the first English coin to carry a date in Roman numerals (Lot 858). With relatively few exceptions, this portion of the Lessen collection was formed before 1980, so this is an opportunity for present-day collectors to acquire specimens that have been off the market for several decades.
To aid future students and for continuity, the lot numbering sequence follows that of Parts I and II of the collection, sold in these rooms on 25 April 2018 and 3 July 2019.
PREFACE TO PART IV
This fourth sale of coins and medals from the Lessen collection is an important standalone group of coins, medals and seals of Charles I, the Commonwealth, Oliver Cromwell and Charles II, roughly spanning the years 1630-1665.
Thomas Simon, the English medallist, was born in London in the spring of 1618, the fourth son of Peter Simon, a native London merchant of French descent living in Walbrook, and Anne Germain, of Guernsey, and died there in the summer of 1665. Considered by many to be the premier English medallic artist, he was apprenticed to Edward Greene, the chief engraver at the Tower Mint, in 1635, where he would have come under the influence of Nicholas Briot. His apprenticeship ended at Michaelmas 1642, after the commandeering of the Tower Mint for Parliament. An avowed Puritan, Simon rose to become chief graver and medal maker for the Mint during the Commonwealth and Protectorate (when the works of Jean Warin at the Moulin in Paris must also have influenced him, possibly when he worked with Peter Blondeau, who arrived in England in September 1649); his appointment as such was made by the Council of State in April 1649. After the Restoration he was demoted to 'one' of his majesty's chief gravers at a time when his rival, John Roettiers, was gaining ascendency. Simon's use of puncheons for his dies and the screw press was his mode of operation, coupled with edge marking usually applied with Blondeau's process.
The catalogue arrangement is intended to emphasise Simon's personal work – the originality, and thus importance of the coins and medals, by generally grouping them as such, and by separating categories by period (parts I-XI). Later, commercially-oriented productions of medals, casts, copies and restrikes, with a few exceptions, are grouped in their own sections, since they are not Simon's original work. Multiple dies in the Charles II hammered series were acquired and listed where practical and possible. All denomination types of the Commonwealth currency, including a date-run of shillings, were traded with Spink in 1970, as were the Dutch and Tanner crown, shilling and sixpence. Weights for coins have been additionally stated in grains.
To aid future students and for continuity, the lot numbering sequence follows that of Parts I, II and III of the collection, sold in these rooms on 25 April 2018, 3 July 2019 and 29 January 2020.
This collection was sold in 4 parts:
A Collection of German Militaria
The Colonel Farnes Collection
Indian Historical Medals from the Collection formed by Michael Shaw
A Remarkable Collection of Bank of England Errors
The Collection of 17th Century Tokens formed by the late Robert Thompson
Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum
Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd
A fine Collection of Medals to the 78th Battalion (Winnipeg Grenadiers), C.E.F.
A Small Collection of Agricultural Medals
British Coins from the Collection of the late Richard Plant
Ancient Coins from the Collection of the late Richard Plant
Islamic Coins from the Collection of the late Richard Plant
Irish Historical Medals from the Collection formed by the late Barry Woodside
A Collection of European Art Medals
A Collection of Medals to Recipients of the 1914 Star
A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties
A Collection of Medals to recipients of the Burma Star
The Martyn Alan Eeley-Hardcastle Collection of British Coins
The Fleet Collection of British Milled Silver Coins
A Collection of Indian Mutiny Medals, the Property of a Gentleman
A Collection of Medals relating to H.M.S. Zinnia
A Collection of Medals for the Battle of Jutland
A Small Group of Rare and Important Military General Service Medals
A Choice Collection of Medals to War Correspondents
A Collection of Queen's South Africa Medals for Belmont and Modder River
A Small Collection of Queen's South Africa and Queen's Mediterranean Medals
British Coins from the Collection of Samuel Birchall of Leeds (1761-1814)
Irish Tokens from the Collection of the late Barry Woodside
Numismatic Medals from the North Yorkshire Moors Collection
A Collection of Medals to the 13th, 18th and 13th/18th Hussars
A Fine Collection of German Medals and Militaria
The David Muscott Collection of Northern County Provincial Banknotes
The Collection of 19th Century Tokens formed by John Akins
A Collection of Medals to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers
A Small Collection of Scottish Police Badges
The Alan Palmer Collection of British Coins
British Tokens from the Collection formed by the late David Barry Bailey
The Collection of Sheffield Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by Tim Hale
The Parker Family Collection of Irish Communion Tokens
The Barry Hobbs Collection of Great War Medals
Anglo-Saxon Pennies from the Collection of Michael Trenerry
English Hammered Coins from Various Properties
A Collection of Coins of the Chester Mint, the Property of a Gentleman
The David Marshall Collection of British Coins
A Collection of Irish Coins, the Property of a Lady
The Collection of Wiltshire Coins, Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by the late David Ward
British Tokens from the Collection of the late Bill McKivor
A small collection of medals to the Essex Regiment
The Michael Gietzelt Collection of British and Irish Coins (1625-1660)
British Coins from the Collection of Ian Sawden
The Collection of Medals formed by the late Ron Wright
The George Holloway Collection of Fine Sovereigns of Elizabeth I
The Gus MacAmhlaigh Collection of Isle of Man
The Gus MacAmhlaigh Collection of Ireland
The Red Ox Collection of Lebanon
The Red Ox Collection of Syria
The Claremont Collection of Historical Medals
Medals of Bridges from the David Young Collection
A Small Collection of Medals and Tokens Related to Aviation
A Small Collection of Medals and Badges Related to Railways
A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units


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Q: Delphi - Form creation and objects on the newly created form The dynamic form creation subject has been covered many times, but I could not find something to solve my problem, so here I am... again... :-)
My previous questions lead me to think that my application would start faster if not all forms were created on startup, but created dynamically when needed.
And that is mostly true, the startup is much faster when I only have my main Form and a Datamodule created.
On button click, here is the code I use to create and free forms on demand (mostly inspired by what I found here from answers by Jerry Dodge and Craig Young, thanks to them for their assistance) :
procedure TfrmWelcome.BtKeywordsClick(Sender: TObject);
  var
    F_Keywords : TfrmKeywords;
  begin
    F_Keywords := Tfrmkeywords.Create(nil);
      try
        F_Keywords.ShowModal;
      finally
        F_Keywords.Free;
      end;
end;

Again, this works fine but, on creation of frmKeywords, a main tablegrid is supposedly filled by a FDQuery that fires upon displaying the form.
Of course (or I would not be here), adding
frmKeywords.FDQuery1.Open;

in the FormShow or FormCreate event ends up with an "access violation error".
So I modified my creation code and it now looks like :
procedure TfrmWelcome.BtKeywordsClick(Sender: TObject);
  var
    F_Keywords : TfrmKeywords;
  begin
    F_Keywords := Tfrmkeywords.Create(nil);
      try
        F_Keywords.FDQuery1.Open;
        F_Keywords.ShowModal;
      finally
        F_Keywords.FDQuery1.Close;
        F_Keywords.Free;
      end;
end;

(I'm not even sure that the FDQUery1.Close is useful in the finally block).
Great, now my Form shows up and the main datagrid is filled with data.
Problem is that, when the user clicks in the DBGrid1, the database id of the selected record is passed as a parameter to a secondary FDQuery which in return fills a secondary DBGrid with data (master data in DBgrid1, child data in DBGrid2)
This is done like :
procedure TfrmKeywords.DBGridEh1CellClick(Column: TColumnEh);
var
  kwid : Integer;
begin
  frmKeywords.FDQuery2.Close; //Closing secondary query
  kwid := FDQuery1.FieldByName('id').AsInteger; //Assigning kw_id according to selected row
  frmKeywords.FDQuery2.ParamByName('kw_id').AsInteger := kwid; //Linking query2 parameter to kwid
  frmKeywords.FDQuery2.Open; //Reopening query2 to display assets
end;

And there, again like previously, "access violation error". Like FDQuery does not exist maybe ?
So my question is : When you dynamically create a Form, are all visual and non visual components of that Form automatically created ? Dbgrids appears on my Form and seems to work because data is displayed (at least in one of them), but the second FDQuery just does not want to work.
I am obviously missing something here. I ruled out the FDConnection that is on the datamodule because the FDQuery1 works, so I'm out of ideas...
Thanks in advance
Math

A: The problem is that you are accessing the predeclared global variable frmKeywords which is nil at the time you are trying to access it. Instead you are instantiating your form and storing a reference in a local variable, which is fine by itself, what is not is accessing that unassigned variable. So, just modify your code like so:
procedure TfrmKeywords.DBGridEh1CellClick(Column: TColumnEh);
var
  kwid: Integer;
begin
  { do not access the frmKeywords variable here; if you want to explicitly
    hint yourself about accessing the current form instance, you can write
    Self.FDQuery2.Close; but that Self is not necessary, e.g. the following
    lines refer to the current form instance as well }
  FDQuery2.Close;
  kwid := FDQuery1.FieldByName('id').AsInteger;
  FDQuery2.ParamByName('kw_id').AsInteger := kwid;
  FDQuery2.Open;
end;

About explicit closing dataset before it's released, you don't need to explicitly Close dataset before it's released. That happens internally.
One last note, you don't have to reopen dataset for refreshing data view when changing parameter value. It's actually not wanted. You setup an SQL query, open the dataset which prepares the query on DBMS and then you are just modifying parameter(s) and calling Refresh to refresh the view, so in your case code can be simplified to (don't forget to Open that FDQuery2 somewhere before this occurs, but only once):
procedure TfrmKeywords.DBGridEh1CellClick(Column: TColumnEh);
begin
  { dataset must be opened here, which means that FDQuery2.Open method has
    been called before (but only once for the query) }
  FDQuery2.ParamByName('kw_id').AsInteger := FDQuery1.FieldByName('id').AsInteger;
  FDQuery2.Refresh;
end;

Or take a look at Master-Detail Relationship (M/D) topic to see how to do what you want without any code (it's applicable for you because you are using DB aware control).

A: If you Ctrl + Click on frmKeywords you'll be taken to the default global definition of that identifier that Delphi automatically generates(imho unhelpfully) for you.
Notice that when you create your form at runtime you're assigning the newly created form to an entirely different reference: F_Keywords := Tfrmkeywords.Create(nil);.  It's very important to note that this doesn't set global variable frmKeywords. If you debug any of the access violations you were getting as follows:

*

*Put a breakpoint on the offending line.

*Run in Debug mode.

*When you hit the breakpoint, check the value of frmKeywords and you'll notice it's nil.

*This is what trigger the AV: you're trying to access members of "nothing".

TIP: Although forms and and data modules have some special features, they're still "normal objects". So they behave exactly like other objects:

*

*Multiple instances can be created.

*References still have to be explicitly assigned to be used.

*Object methods can easily reference their own members.

  (You may know the above, but as you'll see, the conscious reminder is important.)

So you might be thinking you could simply change your runtime creation to frmKeywords := Tfrmkeywords.Create(nil);. Yes that would work, but is a bad idea. You've done well to not use the global variable. So you should rather delete the global variable Delphi created. At which point you'll discover that your application no longer compiles because you still have a number of references to the global variable. E.g.
procedure TfrmKeywords.DBGridEh1CellClick(Column: TColumnEh);
var
  kwid : Integer;
begin
  frmKeywords.FDQuery2.Close;
  kwid := FDQuery1.FieldByName('id').AsInteger;
  frmKeywords.FDQuery2.ParamByName('kw_id').AsInteger := kwid;
  frmKeywords.FDQuery2.Open;
end;

3 lines above would produce compiler errors when the global variable is deleted. The irony is that those references are completely unnecessary, because FDQuery2 is a member of TfrmKeywords. They would also result in incorrect behaviour if you have multiple instances of the form. Apart from a possible AV: even if frmKeywords did reference a valid instance, the OnCellClick event handler would likely modify the wrong form's queries!
Victoria has already explained the simple change to the above method that fixes those problems. I'd like to just point out a few other problems associated with using global references (apart from those you've already experienced).

*

*Global references mean that the objects can be accessed from anywhere within your program.

*This makes it much more difficult to assess the impact of changes that interact with the globals. A change in one unit can have unintended consequences in a seemingly totally unrelated area of your application.

*Global variables make it much more difficult to modularise your program, because the global effectively ties your separate units together.

The problems associated with global variables has been well researched and there is plenty of information on the subject. In short they seriously hamper maintainability. You'd do well to simply delete all the global variables Delphi generates for you. Imho, it's unfortunate that these are created, there are trivial alternatives. And I feel the chosen approach leads to bad habits for beginning programmers.

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The Polish language and culture summer course, organized by Lodz International Studies Academy (LISA), is a unique opportunity to be able to learn Polish language at the basic level in a short time, and also to learn Polish culture and history. The course is a great proposal for foreigners, who intend to study or work in Poland.
The course is confirmed by a Polish language certificate.
The course consists of 90 teaching hours (90 x 45 min.) The classes will be 5 days a week from Monday till Friday 6 hours a day.
In the afternoon the students of the course will be invited to participate in sport games at LISA SPORT CENTER, visit the city of Lodz and other places in the neighborhood.
We can also organize two day trips to the seaside, to the mountains or to some other interesting place in Poland. The price depends on the number of the participants.


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Q: Adding sub components to a styled component with flow typing I'd like to add sub components to a styled components similar to what is reference here
So something like this:
Text = styled.div`
  ${({color}) => color && `color: ${colors[color]};`}
`

Text.H1 = Text.withComponent('h1');
...

The catch is I want do this with flow typing.
Here is where I am at so far:
import * as React from 'react';
import styled, {css, withTheme} from 'styled-components';
import type {ReactComponentFunctional, Theme, ReactComponentStyled} from 'styled-components';

type Props = {
  color?: "blue" | "green"
};

const Text = ReactComponentStyled<*> & SubComponents<*> = styled.div`
  ${({color}) => color && `color: ${colors[color]};`}
`

Text.H1 = Text.withComponent('h1');

The type error occurs at const Text.
Cannot assign template string to Text because:
 • all branches are incompatible:
    • Either property H1 is missing in $npm$styledComponents$ReactComponentStyledStaticPropsWithComponent [1] but
      exists in SubComponents [2].
    • Or property H1 is missing in object type [3] but exists in SubComponents [2].
    • Or property H1 is missing in React.StatelessFunctionalComponent [4] but exists in SubComponents [2].
    • Or property H1 is missing in statics of $npm$styledComponents$ReactComponent [5] but exists in
      SubComponents [2].

     src/component/base/Text/Text.js
     43│   Caption?: ReactComponentFunctional<P & {theme: Theme}>,
     44│ };
     45│
 [2] 46│ const Text: ReactComponentStyled<*> & SubComponents<*> = styled.div`
     47│   ${({color}) => color && `color: ${colors[color]};`}
     65│ `;
     66│
     67│ Text.H1 = Text.withComponent('h1');
     68│ Text.H2 = Text.withComponent('h2');

     flow-typed/npm/styled-components_v3.x.x.js
 [3] 13│   & { defaultProps: DefaultProps }
 [4] 14│   & $npm$styledComponents$ReactComponentFunctionalUndefinedDefaultProps<Props>
       :
 [5] 23│ type $npm$styledComponents$ReactComponentClass<Props, DefaultProps = *> = Class<$npm$styledComponents$ReactComponent<Props, DefaultProps>>
       :
 [1] 70│   & $npm$styledComponents$ReactComponentStyledStaticPropsWithComponent<Props, ComponentList>

At the moment Text is created, it is missing H1, but I've made that type optional, so my thinking is that it should work. I also don't understand why this is an error: H1 is missing in XXX but exists in SubComponents. Indeed that is true, but I'm intersecting SubComponents with the styled component type, so I'd expect this to be a reason for it to be valid.
After figuring this out, I'd like to take this a step further and add default props and a theme to the sub component.
Text.H1 = withTheme((props) => {
  const Component = Text.withComponent('h1');
  Component.defaultProps = {
    color: props.theme.heading,
    size: 'xxLarge',
    weight: 'medium',
  };
  return <Component {...props} />;
});

Styled-component 3
Flow: 0.70
React 16
Note: I know styled components 4 has been released with the added as attribute (which replaces withComponent), but version 4 does not currently have a libdef file to work with. It's also in beta.


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Qālān (persiska: قالان) är en ort i Iran.   Den ligger i provinsen Kerman, i den sydöstra delen av landet,  km sydost om huvudstaden Teheran. Qālān ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Qālān är kuperad åt sydväst, men åt nordost är den bergig. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km öster om Qālān. Runt Qālān är det glesbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Bāft,  km söder om Qālān. Trakten runt Qālān är ofruktbar med lite eller ingen växtlighet.

Ett kallt stäppklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är februari, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är juni, med  mm nederbörd.

Kommentarer

Källor

Orter i Kerman (provins)

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American strong ale iced twice, aged in Tennessee Whiskey Barrels prior to icing.
Great beer dan R.I.P my friend.
22.5% eisbock. Great stuff from Hamp!
Daniel R.: Man, I'd bet that one is interesting.
Lee: Very interesting. Hamp said this was batch #2, which was closer to 24%. Strong but tasty.


Microsoft Corp. apologized for hiring dancers dressed as skimpily-clad schoolgirls for its Game Developer Conference (GDC) afterparty in San Francisco on Thursday night, responding to media reports citing attendees' pictures on Twitter and Instagram.
"It has come to my attention that at Xbox-hosted events at GDC this past week, we represented Xbox and Microsoft in a way that was absolutely not consistent or aligned to our values," Microsoft's head of Xbox Phil Spencer said in a statement.
"That was unequivocally wrong and will not be tolerated," Spencer said.
Photos purportedly from the party surfaced on Twitter and Instagram, with many users expressing their anger at Microsoft's actions.
"I like dancing, I like talking to devs. But not at this #GDC16 party. Thanks for pushing me out of this party, Microsoft," Tin Man Games editor Kamina Vincent tweeted.
Microsoft had hosted a "Women in Gaming" luncheon at the GDC earlier that day.
Spencer added that the matter would be dealt with internally.
Technology companies been facing intense scrutiny over diversity and compensation equity issues.
Many big firms say there is a dearth of qualified women to hire, but many critics say the firms are not doing enough to attract and retain women.


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Defenders of the Faith is a Christian denomination with a significant presence in Puerto Rico and (to a lesser extent) in the United States. It was formed in 1925 by an interdenominational group of pastors and laymen headed by Dr. Gerald B. Winrod, an independent Baptist preacher. Its main program consists of publishing a magazine, The Defender, and numerous pamphlets and tracts.  American congregations are located primarily in the New York City and Chicago metropolitan areas. In 1968 there were 14 churches and approximately 2,000 members in the U.S., and 68 churches and 6,000 members in Puerto Rico.

References

Christian organizations established in 1925
Christian denominations in the Caribbean
Christian denominations founded in the United States
Protestant denominations established in the 20th century


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Black Friday comes early for some businesses
Others willing to pay fine to stay closed on Thanksgiving
Black Friday comes early for some businesses Others willing to pay fine to stay closed on Thanksgiving Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: http://bwne.ws/1xN3cNb
Syeda Ferguson, Times Herald Published 4:40 p.m. ET Nov. 27, 2014
Cousins Isaiah Koschnitzke, 14, and Latrel Gamez, 17, were first in a line of at least 15 people waiting for Best Buy in Fort Gratiot to open on Thanksgiving Day. Their family has been camped outside the store since Tuesday.(Photo: SYEDA FERGUSON / TIMES HERALD)Buy Photo
Black Friday could not come early enough for some area shoppers who were out early Thanksgiving Day to get a jump start on the holiday rush.
Gander Mountain in Fort Gratiot opened its doors at 8 a.m. with deep discounts on certain brand items including handguns and biometric gun safes that were on sale Thursday.
"Everybody's looking for .22 ammo," store employee Amy Garcia said.
Best Buy in Fort Gratiot had marked down its 50-inch Panasonic television by hundreds of dollars for its Thanksgiving Day sale. The advertised discount was enough to draw people who camped in tents in front of the store, hoping to take advantage of the sale before supplies ran out.
As of 10 a.m. Thursday, at least 15 shoppers were bundled up outside the store in 30-degree weather waiting for its 5 p.m. opening.
Shoppers Eli Koschnitzke, 14, his brother Isaiah, 16, and their cousin Latrel Gamez, 17, of Port Huron were first in line. They had been camped outside the store since Tuesday in a three-person tent equipped with an air mattress, heat lamp, and sleeping bags.
"It's not too bad," Gamez said. "It's actually fun."
Shopper Randy Henry drove in with his daughter and his two sisters from St. Thomas, Ontario, for the sale. Henry said there was a difference in price of $600 for the same television set at the Fort Gratiot store compared to the Best Buy in London, Ontario.
"I'm just hoping there's enough (TVs) to go around," Henry said.
Birchwood Mall was participating in extended hours on Thanksgiving for the second year in a row, general manager Beth Isola said. The majority of stores were open from 6 p.m. to midnight Thursday, closed overnight, and scheduled to re-open at 6 a.m. on Black Friday, Isola said.
Retailers who did not open their stores on Thanksgiving were faced with fines administered by mall management. Casey Schlager, manager of Lawrence Jewelers, said his family's store was looking at a $900 fine for not being open on Thanksgiving.
Schlager said he was willing to pay the fine in order to stay closed for the day.
"It's worth it to us," Schlager said. "We felt strongly that people in our family and people that work for us should be with their families on Thanksgiving."
Lawrence Jewelers also was fined last Thanksgiving along with several other mall retailers for staying closed. He said that mall management ultimately waived the fines.
"There are some things we thought were important to take a stand on, and this was one of them," Schlager said.
Contact Syeda Ferguson at (810) 989-6276 or email her at syeda@thetimesherald.com. Follow her on Twitter @shossainfe
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A closer look at head coaches in the finals: AAA to A
By: Todd Holcomb, AJC Sports
Updated: December 12, 2019 - 7:44 AM
The 16 head coaches in the state finals have won 1,515 games, lost only 583, tied seven, and have a winning percentage of .721 while in Georgia. They have won 15 state championships and 62 region titles. Three are first-time head coaches this season.
Here is a closer look at each of the 16 coaches, concluding today with classes AAA through A.
Class AAA
*Brad Harber, Crisp County: Harber played high school football in San Antonio, but his father, William, played football at Georgia under defensive coordinator Erk Russell in the 1960s. That's partly how Brad wound up at Georgia Southern, the football program that Russell built. Harber changed his mind and didn't play football but graduated from Southern, and he's been in the state since. Harber assisted for 24 seasons at West Laurens, Metter, Dublin, Bleckley County, East Laurens, Lamar County and Dublin again before coming to Crisp County in 2016 as offensive line coach. A year later, after Crisp had a 13-1 breakout year, he was promoted to head coach when Shelton Felton was hired away to UT-Chattanooga. Harber has kept the Cougars winning. The 2019 region title is the school's fourth straight. This will be Crisp's first state final in history. Harber and his wife, Marcia, had six children - all girls. Their ages now are 13 to 21.
*Miguel Patrick, Cedar Grove: Patrick, who grew up in Dayton, Ohio, has coached his entire career at Cedar Grove, starting as a linebackers coach in 2007, then as the defensive coordinator when Jimmy Smith got the head coaching job in 2013. Patrick made a name for himself during the Saints' 2016 and 2018 Class AAA championship seasons as those teams fielded rugged defenses. Patrick also was head boys basketball coach for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons before being named head football coach this season when Smith joined Georgia State's staff. Patrick was a linebacker at Alabama State. His coach there, L.C. Cole, recommended him to then-Cedar Grove coach Ray Bonner, as Cole and Bonner had coached together at Tennessee State.
*Maurice Freeman, Brooks County: Freeman is a Brooks County alumnus whose school counselor encouraged him to play football at Florida A&M and come back home to coach. So Freeman went off to be a place-kicker for the Rattlers. He became his alma mater's head coach in 1994 at age 27 and immediately won the school's first state championship. Freeman left after four seasons to become head coach at Southwest (Macon) and Brunswick. He came home in 2008, and he's led Brooks to five region titles since. The Trojans have gone to the semifinals or better seven times under Freeman. This would be their second state title. Freeman's motto is ''Bring that Hammer.''
*Roger Holmes, Dublin: Holmes, a Tennessee native, came to Dublin in 2002 and had an immediate impact. His first Fighting Irish team reached the Class AAA final. His 2005 team set a state record for points in a regular season (549), and his 2006 AA champion set a record for points in a full season (682) while winning the school's first state title since 1963. Dublin is 160-59-1 with eight region titles under Holmes. He was a head coach for 11 seasons at Beech, Tenn. His overall record is 233-108-1. Holmes is most noted as a wing-T guru. He's a national speaker on the offense that he first studied as a quarterback at Westmoreland High. He went on to play defensive back at Middle Tennessee, which also ran the wing-T.
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*Jonathan Gess, Eagle's Landing Christian: Gess, a native of South Carolina, was a walk-on player and three-year starting center at The Citadel who went into the Air Force upon graduation and was stationed at Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins. While there, he began helping First Presbyterian Day's middle school and then high school team and eventually got a full-time job on the staff. ELCA hired him as head coach in 2007 at age 27. His 13-year record with the Chargers is 143-28. Gess has won four consecutive state titles, five overall.
*Franklin Pridgen, Wesleyan: Pridgen is a Westminster graduate who played football under hall-of-fame coach Wayman Creel and once remarked that his former coach would laugh if he knew Pridgen was a head football coach today. Pridgen was a better basketball player and played that sport at Washington and Lee in Virginia. Pridgen didn't plan to coach or even teach but worked at Athens Academy and Lovett before winding up at Wesleyan, committed to the coaching profession. After six years on the staff, Pridgen was promoted to head coach in 2006. Wesleyan won its first state title under Pridgen in 2008. His record in 13 seasons is 112-55.
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*Chris Kirksey, Marion County: Kirksey is a former Taylor County quarterback and Georgia College graduate who has coached at only two high schools in his career - alma mater Taylor County (1995-2014) and Marion (2015-present). Those are bordering counties in the Columbus area. Kirksey was Taylor's head coach for 11 seasons and compiled a 50-62-1 record. He spent a year as Marion's defensive coordinator before getting the promotion to replace Mike Swaney in 2016. Kirksey's record at Marion is 39-10. His teams have advanced further in the playoffs each of the past three seasons. This is Marion's first final since the Eagles' 2013 Class A championship season.
*Buddy Nobles, Irwin County: Nobles is in his 32nd season as a high school coach. He got the Irwin County job in 2014. His record in Ocilla is 66-13-2 with region championships and state-final appearances in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. A Jacksonville native, Nobles was on the staff of current Coffee coach Robby Pruitt at University Christian (1989-92) and Union County (1993-99) in Florida and Fitzgerald (2007-11) and Coffee (2012-13) in Georgia. Nobles was part of six Florida state-championship teams. He also was head coach at Union County (Fla.) from 2002 to 2006 and was a state runner-up in 2003. His overall record is 97-40-2. Nobles was diagnosed with stomach cancer late last summer and has turned over many of his head-coaching duties to defensive coordinator Casey Soliday. For home games, Nobles has coached while sitting on a red-and-white wooden stand built for him by the school's agriculture department. It's situated at midfield and gives him an unobstructed view of the field. Irwin took it on the road to one game. The stand might make an appearance with his golf cart at Georgia State on Saturday. Otherwise, Nobles plans to work from the coaches box upstairs.
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Microsoft is rolling out the final build of the Fall Creators Update to Insiders in the Fast ring today, which is packing new bug fixes and changes. This is the final build, also known as the Release To Manufacturing (RTM) build, which means from here on out Microsoft will be servicing build 16299 with cumulative updates and patches.
The Fall Creators Update is pretty much done at this point. From here on out, Microsoft will be fixing any last minute bugs via patches installed through Windows Update, rather than using full new builds. 16299.15 is the last full build Insiders will receive for the Fall Creators Update.
With build 16299.15, you can clean install or leave the Insider Program without worry of your install eventually expiring under the Insider Preview. This is the official, non-preview release of the Fall Creators Update.


never mind it's working now :) so cute! but gordon stop tryin to steal luella's food!
looks like someone would rather play and wander than eat. they are the cutest!
the boys get distracted and the bitty girls just keep chowin' down!
Squeee! Lookit the floofers!! Is that Perry covering up his dish? My girls do that too, so cute, so funny.
Young man...eat your lunch. You can play once you clean your plate.
"But mom, I don't like the way it smells! :)"
Just when my job cuts off video... Laurie starts posting videos of the bitties. No fair! I do so love these teeny Drapers.
i dont know if that is gordon or perry but he is having none of this.
"lets just cover this up for later"
Millicent will be catching up quickly at this rate, she and luella are both good little eaters!
Potter and Beatrix say not to bother sending this recipe if you get in one of those recipe swap email thingies.
soooo sweet - Laurie, thanks for having videos, too! Such a stress reliever for many of us who do not have a herd of cute kittens in our offices.
There is always one in the bunch!
Laurie - let me guess. That little kitty wanted to be in your lap.
soooo funny! I think the girls know they need to eat to catch up with the boys in size! And Perry covering his food? Is that an editorial comment or is he saving it for later. Thanks for the laughs, Laurie - I love these videos!
Perry trying to hide his food. Bet he doesn't eat his veggies either.
So very cute. Orange and white kittens always put me in a spin.
Laurie - can't thank you enough for sharing wee videos of these Drapers. They are a much-needed stress break during the work day. The fella (Perry? Gordon?) more interested in wandering off than eating? PRICELESS.
That is completely adorable! Little kitties, all in a row, eating out of little glazed bowls.
If Perry asks for a cookie later tonight, ask him if he's going to bury it where he buried his lunch. No lunch, no dessert, little fellow. The girls were delighted with the menu, weren't they?
My cat will paw at food she can't stand the smell of too. And will refuse to eat it.
Which is all things fish-smelling and pretty much not-chicken.
She is a strange cat.
I love how the girls just dig right in and keep on going!
1. I LOVE the videos.
2. When my kitty scratches around her food like that, it means it gave her an upset stomach (and the associated litter box problems).
Awwwww ... they're all so dainty! What kind of food is considered kitten food? I saw in earlier posts that Charlene Butterbean likes it too, but she's no longer a kitten. What does she eat, then?
They are so cute - and I loved the digging at the end. One of our kitties does that when he doesn't want to eat the food we gave him. I like that there is another kitty who wasn't interested in eating who tried to bury it too! I look at it like a little kid hiding their peas in their napkin.
I'm with everyone else- LOVE the videos! What a wonderful addition!
I love watching kitties enjoying (or not enjoying, as the case may be) their noms! It looks like little Milly will catch up in size soon, they way she was eating! So cute!!! I love these videos so much!
just love how the girls eat away and the boys would rather play! and seeing you lift them up and place the... WoW! they are so tiny!
Is that Perry or Gordon covering his food?? But moooom, i'm fullll! Lemme go play!
Too, too cute! Love how one keeps saying, "I'm done." At least that's what it means in our house when Maren and Spenser do it. Better not let the Bean see this video. She'd be more than willing to any picky eaters.
that's perry covering up his food. kittens do this all the time. i don't think it's always disapproval, sometimes they do it when they've cleaned the plate.
leslie,,kitten food is higher in calories than adult cat food and designed for the active little beings they are. it's tastier too!
glad you're all enjoying the videos.
I love this! The girls certainly stay on track! Those boys - too cute!
MOL! The one on the right is JUST like me! Never satisfied with the offerings.
Love it, love it, love it!! I have a boy who compulsively buries messes - even ones he didn't make - so I know it's disapproval when he buries his food. My girls couldn't bury anything to save their lives, much to my nose's disappointment.
Sweet little kittens! The girls, nomming away. The boys, wanting to play!
If my girls saw this then I'd have to start serving them out of matching little pottery bowls too. Sheesh..
The gals were dedicated to showing their brothers the way food is s'posed to be eaten!
Sweet Millie is even tinier than I thought when I see the size of an adult human hand swing on thru!
Perry's not interested in his lunch because he's been out biting necks like the little vampire he is!
I guess that is an universal cat language for "I am not eating that!" Scratching the floor like he had done his business and then flipping the corner up to cover the nasty stuff! TOO CUTE.
Ha! I had to get a stiff mat that doesn't flop over for my cats to eat on because one of them was so bad about scratching something over their food bowls. Silly cats.
Nummmm....Oh you mean the food, right? I mean tiny marmalade kittehs. Oh my they are lovely.
Awwww, sweet! Thanks, Laurie - I needed a smile after a rough morning at work! makes me wanna go home an cuddle my kitty! they are very neat eaters, though! At that age my kitty would immerse herself in the food - made for a long cleanup session afterwards!
They're so fluffy and chubby looking. :D Such a beautiful set of kittens.


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Carrie Doehring
Clifford Baldridge Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling
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B.Mus., McGill University
M.Div., McGill University
M.Th., Wilfrid Laurier University
Ph.D., Boston University
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Carrie Doehring directs the Master of Arts in Pastoral and Spiritual Care at Iliff School of Theology, where she has been on the faculty since 2003. She is a licensed psychologist in Massachusetts and Colorado, and ordained in the Presbyterian Church, USA. Her scholarship focuses on interreligious, socially just and research literate spiritual care of trauma, moral stress, and spiritual struggles.
Dr. Doehring is the author of over 50 chapters and articles, including her first-authored chapter on "Practicing socially just, interreligious, and evidence-based spiritual care" in Rambo & Cadge (Eds.), Chaplaincy and spiritual care in the twenty-first century: An introduction. Her book The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach, Revised and Expanded (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2015) is used as a textbook in pastoral care and clinical pastoral education throughout the United States and Canada. She is co-editor of (2019) Military moral injury and spiritual care: A resource for religious leaders and professional caregivers.
She has advised 26 doctoral dissertations. She was awarded 2009 the Virginia Sexton Mentoring Award, from Division 36 (Psychology of Religion) of the American Psychological Association. She received the Senior Career Award, the Society for Pastoral Counseling Research in Canada. She has also received the medal from The Network on Ministry in Specialized Settings (COMISS), given in recognition of outstanding scholarship and leadership in teaching spiritual care.
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Spiritual care of post-traumatic stress


Directive 98/44/EC affords patent protection to biotechnological inventions. As the Commission states in its Notice of 8 November 2016, it was never the intention to grant patents on natural properties obtained naturally by crossing plants. In response to this, the European Patent Office (EPO) altered its policy in Implementing Regulation 28(2) so as not to grant patents for products of essentially biological processes.
In December 2018, the Technical Board of Appeal of the EPO concluded that the policy that the EPO had recently adapted in Implementing Regulation 28(2) should not be implemented and that patents could be granted on natural properties of plants.
Does the Commission still agree that barrier-free access to plant material is essential for the innovative capacity of the European plant-breeding sector, as well as for the genetic variety of our crops?
Does the Commission agree that this decision by the Technical Board of Appeal contradicts the interpretation of Directive 98/44/EC given in the Commission Notice of 8 November 2016?
Will the Commission take steps to reconcile the interpretation of the European Patent Convention and its implementation by the EPO with Directive 98/44/EC again with regard to the exclusion of patenting of the products of essentially biological processes? If so, what steps?


Ask ten Athenians what's the best cocktail bar in the city and the chances are at least nine and a half will say Baba Au Rum. This legendary Athens bar is a veritable cocktail lab. The guys import directly most of the rare spirits, bitters and syrups they use to produce their out-of-this-world cocktails. Their excellent award winning menu-booklet includes two main sections of drinks: The Avant Garde Cocktails inspired by the social movement of modernism and of course the Rum Society. The menu also includes an impressive rum spirit list, one of the biggest in Europe. The place itself has a unique, 1950s unique retro - exotic style. During the summer season many people stand outside, right in the heart of the city's historic triangle.


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Our aim is for children to be healthy in all ways physically, emotionally and mentally. We do this by giving families access to professionals who can help them prevent and cure illness and trauma. SOS Children's Villages Ethiopia provides health service to target children and families, as well as to other members of the community through SOS Medical Center located in Gode,.
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Asia Pacific represents a major portion of global real estate, with about 40% of the world's building stock. As energy prices rise and regulations on energy use and carbon emission get more strict, new technologies to monitor and control use in buildings have been put under spotlight more than ever.
While emerging economies in Asia Pacific continue to construct steady volumes of new commercial buildings, developed countries are focusing on comprehensive energy savings and conservation measures in existing buildings to reduce costs and help secure national energy independence. Most of these measures focus on heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), energy efficient lighting systems, and building energy management systems and controls. Navigant Research forecasts that annual revenue from energy efficient building technology and services in Asia Pacific will grow from $45.5 billion in 2013 to $91.6 billion by 2022.
This Navigant Research report examines the trends for energy efficient building technology and services in the Asia Pacific region. The study covers three main areas of technology – HVAC, energy efficient lighting, and commercial building automation – as well as the energy service company (ESCO) sector. Market forecasts for revenue, broken out by technology, lamp type, segment, and Asia Pacific country, extend through 2022. The report also examines the regulatory issues, market competitiveness, and key industry players related to energy efficient building technology and services in Asia Pacific.


In June 2017 we launched Tradebox One, a robust order management system that can run stand-alone or as an integration with your accounts software. We also added an option to our licensing; the Community Edition.
One of the main drivers for our users is in saving time by automating; we believe the cost of our software should and does reflect a saving to their business in freeing up time that they can reinvest into other areas…and the more orders you're taking online, the bigger benefit you'll feel. But not everyone who sells online sells in high volumes. Not everyone who could benefit from order management or accounts integration needs all the options we provide. It was with those users in mind that we created the Community Edition.
The Community version is limited to a maximum of 50 orders per calendar month. It doesn't matter when in the month you start, or when you use Tradebox, once 50 orders have been downloaded during that month no new orders will be downloaded.
At any time, go to Support within the program to see how many orders you have remaining this month.
You have the option to delete orders. Deleted orders still count towards your monthly limit; the limit is per order downloaded not per order that currently exists. Be aware that a deleted order can and will be downloaded again if it still meets the download criteria specified in the sales channel, and will be counted again. The option to Rebuild Data Tables is not available in the Community version.
The Community version is limited to creation of a single sales channel. This is the same as the entry version of our paid software. If you require Tradebox to handle orders from multiple sales sources, in multiple currencies, or you wish to apply more complex rulesets than are available in a single channel, moving to one of our multi-channel paid licences will allow you to do this.
We don't offer any support for the Community licence, however we do have an extensive knowledgebase which will assist you in getting set up and answer any questions you may have.
Our definition of support covers technical support, help with installation and setup, and guidance in using the program. The Community version of the software is provided 'as is' and while we extensively test our software and have a large number of users running it every day without problems, as with any software you may encounter issues. Tradebox Support will not respond to support requests on any issue while you are on a community licence. Common problems will be addressed in our knowledgebase which is freely available.
You can access the Community Edition by downloading and installing Tradebox One as normal – Sign up for Free Community Edition. During the initial setup wizard you'll be prompted to enter your licence key: TBFREE.
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