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Beginning life as Addcup Media Limited, the business quickly grew from the realisation of the huge demand for printed cups and custom food service packaging.
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We have been using Sage Pay for the last three years and Sage One Accounts for the last two years. We did not have an eCommerce payment gateway prior to using Sage Pay and we used Quickbooks for accounting.
However, the main reason for moving to Sage One was the seamless integration between the two cloud-based systems meaning we can access them from multiple office/warehouse locations and also the ease of use and ease of teaching new employees how to use it.
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As detailed above, the main advantage of using both Sage Pay and Sage One within my business is the ability to access them from pretty much anywhere with an Internet connection.
I currently travel at least one week per month throughout Europe and love the ease of access to keep an eye on the most important parts of my business wherever I am. The ease of use is also a great advantage when training staff compared with Quickbooks or other computer based programs.
My main piece of advice to anyone starting out in business is to research your market thoroughly before jumping into the unknown. The main reason for The VaioPak Group's success is due to me finding a gap in the packaging market and focusing on that rather than trying to duplicate other companies/competitors already out there.
Another great bit of advice is business is tough so don't get beaten down. If it was easy everyone would be doing it so take the knock backs on the chin and focus on your aims. If you have a great product or service, keep to your business plan and focus on your targets you will succeed.
Joe Fogel has won numerous awards in recent years including 'Entrepreneur of the Year' in the Nectar Small Business Awards 2014.


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William Cotton was the Archdeacon of Totnes.

He was born in London, the son of William Cotton, who was archdeacon of Lewes and later Bishop of Exeter, and the brother of Edward Cotton. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1597 or 1598, and graduating B.A. in 1602 and M.A. in 1605. He became vicar of Breage, Cornwall, canon of Exeter Cathedral in 1607, precentor of Exeter Cathedral in 1607, rector of Whimple in 1608, and rector of Silverton, Devon in 1613. He was collated archdeacon of Totnes in 1621, serving until 1622.

He married [settlement 23 Jul 1607] Elizabeth, daughter of John Hender, of Bottreaux Castle, Cornwall by his wife Jane Thorne. He was father of Edward, born around 1632. William made his will on 26 Apr 1652, and it was proved in London on October 28, 1656.

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On a cold, windy, rainy night just north of Madisonville, Texas on I-45, just seconds of warning and reactions learned in the Lone Star Region Car Control School most likely saved my son's life.
It was mid-December. My son, Liam, was driving home from UNT in Denton for Christmas Break. He had to finish classes, visit friends with gifts then head down to Houston. By the time he was nearing the traditional Buc-ee's stop in Madisonville the rain was slashing in at a 45-degree angle directly from the south. The windshield wipers were beating out a ramming speed rhythm and he had reduced speed by 15 mph to 60 mph. There were few cars on the road and he took up station in the right lane, making the easy drive home.
Seemingly out of nowhere Liam saw a van stalled on the road with no lights on. He began to brake but realized he would not make it. The right was not an option, it was a muddy, gravely mess, so he began to move to the left. But he just did not have time and turned sharper to miss the van. As the rear end began to break loose he steered into the skid to maintain control. He thought he had made it when the rear wheels slipped off the road and began sliding in the mud and slick grass median. The car began to go further into the center median and he felt it might stop as the front wheels seem to be getting traction. Then the center line cable barrier loomed in the headlights and seconds later he made contact. The collision did quite a bit of damage to the front and driver-side, tearing off a fender and bumper. It was not overly intense as much of the momentum had bled off. No airbag deployment. He was able to carefully get the car back on the highway and continue to Buc-ee's.
After calling us and calming down a bit he continued home. We decided it was best NOT to return to the accident scene in the late of night and current weather conditions. As you can see from the picture, the damage was extensive.
So, what helped him get through this life-changing moment? The Porsche Club of America Lone Star Region's Car Control School. In the most simple terms, the school helps people become better drivers. It helps them understand the dynamics and boundaries of a car and driver in a controlled, safe environment under the guidance of seasoned instructors.
Liam (and I) attended the one-day school in 2015 and loved it. He was 17 and already a proficient driver. While it is not a performance driving school, it does let you push your car (and yourself) on eight organized clinics over a day. There are instructors who help drivers understand the forces acting on the vehicle during different maneuvers – both planned and unplanned.
Unlike some Porsche-only events, the Car Control School is open to anyone, with any car that is in good mechanical condition. Students must be at least 16 years old and have a valid drivers license. The school is a one-day event hosted at the Houston Police Academy near George Bush Airport and starts early with gates open at 7 am. Students attend a brief classroom instruction before moving to behind-the-wheel clinics. There are typically eight clinics or drills which may include wet skid pad, decreasing radius, accident avoidance, apex drill and slalom.
In the case of Liam's accident, the chicane clinic as an accident avoidance kicked in. A chicane in his case was created by the stalled vehicle in his lane which he would have hit had he not reacted quickly. In the clinic, the chicane is created artificially using small cones simulating a stalled tractor-trailer truck. The student accelerates at high speed toward the stalled "vehicle" and using a combination of braking, steering, and acceleration avoids the hazard and ideally, returns to their lane.
Driver survival skills are increasingly important in a high speed, high-density environments. They can be acquired at any age so don't think they are only for new drivers. In fact, they are an excellent way to brush up on your skills as well as become more familiar with your vehicle, especially if it is new.
After the accident, Liam called me. The second thing he said after, "I'm alright dad, just a little jittery", was "The car control training I had just kicked in. I felt like I had been there before. I almost saved it if the rear wheels had not slid off the edge." As a parent, I cannot think of any greater endorsement for this program and I am happy to contribute to its growth.
More information on the Lone Star Region Car Control School is here and here.
Have questions? Contact the Lone Star Region Chairperson for CCS, Alan Kendall.


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LEVI KLARA Klara was accomplished ensemble musician. She played the piano, Spanish guitar and saz, often in ways that complement Rifka in her early performances by Sarajevo gatherings, dances and parties. Legends say that the sound echoed old Spain and courtyards and gardens whenever she walked them. She married a certain Dvorniković of Split from the family and also his life journey ended in New York, away from your Vratnika. BLANKA LEFT BLANK, which is considered one of the Kalam, married the pre-war Sarajevo industrialist KUIC Methodius, who, though a supporter and financier of the national liberation movement, pass the post-war communist casemates as an enemy of the people.
In Belgrade birth to a daughter Gordana, which will become an award-winning writer best known for her best-selling book "linden blossom in the Balkans" in which he sung with his mother and aunt. The novel was later filmed. NINA LEVI Sisters Left jointly held a fancy salon hats "Chapeau Chic Parisien" which was located right across the hotel Europe and represented the first expression of women's entrepreneurship in this region, about one today, almost one hundred years later, NGOs hold round tables and symposia, ostensibly teaching us that women need to be drivers of social development. Brain salon was calm and poised Nina – fifth Sister Levi, who was buried in Zagreb, this charming family sourpuss, as he called sisters.
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You should have the ability to research study this without needing to enter an estate agent's branch. Members of these schemes will be shouting about it on their websites.
When your home or business is valued it's important not to be too satisfied by the agent that values your house the greatest– this might be a ploy to win your company.
Preferably, you need an agent who is going to be sincere and fair, not one who is going to miscalculate your home then cannot get a purchaser at that cost.
What does it cost? does the agent charge for sole agency and what is the tie-in period? Sole agency is where one agent has the exclusive right to offer your home for a set period. If your home or business is offered by another agent in this time you will still need to pay the sole agent their cost, in addition to the agent who actually sold it. As a guideline, fees for sole agency can range between 1% and 2% of the price, with a tie-in duration of as much as 8 weeks.
Just how much does the agent charge for multi-agency? A multi-agency arrangement suggests a number of agents will have your home on their books, with the effective agency being given the cost. Usually speaking, this charge will remain in the area of 1.5% to 2.5% of the sale price.
How will your home or business be advertised? Will it appear in the regional paper? On a property site such as Rightmove? Is the agency able to show examples of how they promote homes?
Sole agency is cheaper, but the web isn't really cast as wide and there may be less chance of a fast sale. Multi-agency expenses more, but implies that your home or business will get more exposure, which increases the possibility of a quick sale.
Also request feedback from the agent. If you've not had watchings, or have had viewings however no deals, the agent can offer insight. It could be you're priced too expensive, or that there's an area of the property that could be beautified to encourage a sale.


For this song, you start with the number of children you have present, then go down one by one as you name off the children. I'll use a group of 6 as an example.
"No brown buns in the bakery shop, no brown buns with the sugar on the top. Along came (name a teachers name) with a penny to pay, but there were no buns, so she/he ran away.
and put it in the over for the class and me!


Inspire children to explore and learn in a harmonious environment.
Montessori philosophy recognizes that children have natural drives which inspire them to reach their potential. Their minds are like fertile fields, and their inherent love of learning is stimulated when they are given opportunities to engage in meaningful activities with the proper balance of autonomy and guidance from specially trained teachers.
The school's goal is to provide a carefully planned, prepared and stimulating learning environment, where the children can meet their developmental needs, develop fundamental attitudes and skills such as high self-esteem, positive attitude towards learning and joy of learning, lay down a basis of social development, foster natural curiosity and concentration, motivation and self-discipline essential for a lifetime of creative self-realization.
Parents are the most important people and the first educators in the child's life. We do our best to provide the parents with necessary information on the child's development and on how to remove the obstacles on the child's path to self-realization. We believe, that cooperation of children, parents and teachers creates an effective and successful educational experience for the child, supporting his/her development.
Our school caters to walking children between 15 months and 6 years old. We try to keep the right age ratio to keep the group mixed in terms of gender and ages – it gives a real picture of the world where younger children can learn from older ones, and older kids learn to care for younger ones.
We do not have staffing to provide care for children with special needs. Should we, after a period of observation, come to the conclusion that a child requires special care, we will try our best to find a mutually agreeable solution. All issues will always be dealt with full confidentiality.
Please, inform us (preferably, send a SMS) if your child will not attend the school.
Parents/guardians are responsible for picking the child on time. The fee of 20 euro will be charged for every 10 minutes of being late.
If you have not arrived by 16:20 (toddler group) and 16.45 (Children's house) to pick up your child, we will begin to walk back to MIC's premises.
If the child is picked up by someone else (grandparents, nanny etc.), please, bring this person to introduce to us. We maintain a closed door policy and staff are not allowed to open the door to a person, who they do not visually recognize.
Please, arrive latest by 9.15 am. The Montessori program takes place mostly during the morning hours. Arriving early gives your child enough time for Montessori activities and develops a sense of belonging - that he/she is a part of our Montessori community.
Children wash hands upon arrival and also when they return home. This way we try to prevent your child from infection.
After the hand washing, please, wish goodbye already in the hallway and direct your child to go into the classroom. Please, avoid entering the classroom nor go into long discussions with the teachers as this may disturb the classroom.
However, if you do have something important to mention to the teachers regarding your child, do make it brief. In addition to this if you need to contact us please call during an office hour or email for general questions.
If you have questions related to your child's classroom experience, please, send an email to respective teachers (toddlers@infant-community.com or ch@infant-community.com) or schedule a phone conversation.
If you have some general questions (not related to classroom matters), please email to montessori@infant-community.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
We understand that it might be difficult for some children to separate from the parents; and it is natural for some children to be upset when the parent leaves, so in order to insure a gentle transition into a new environment the child stays half-day during the first 2 weeks of attendance in the toddler group.
We will make all possible efforts to make child's stay at school as enjoyable as possible.
After arriving to school, washing hands with the child and bringing the child to the classroom door, parents are not allowed to stay at school. You are welcome to come and observe the class in action– the dates and times should be agreed with the school separately.
For toddler group: we expect that your child enters the school in a clean and dry diaper (you can change the child at school) and you supply the school with a set of clean pull-up diapers. Please, check and replenish these supplies regularly. The child will be changed if necessary during the school hours.
- rain gear (rain trousers/jacket/overall, rain boots) to be kept at school).
- bed linen for your child (pillow case (size 40x60 cm), a sheet, a duvet cover (size 120x160 cm) and a little hand towel) to be picked up for washing each Monday.
- raingear (rain trousers/jacket/overall, rain boots, woolen socks) to be stored at MIC.
- in warm weather (early summer and autumn), please, send an extra set of clothing (top and pants) to change into when we come indoors.
Please, label ALL your child's belongings (rucksack, shoes, indoor slippers, hat, gloves, woolen socks, rubber boots, rainwear, overalls etc). This would help the staff immensely when guiding and helping the whole group of children to dress and undress. Also when something gets lost, finding the owner would be so much easier.
Please, remember to take soiled clothing home to be washed when needed.
Please, check and replenish supplies of extra clothing once a week.
• Please, avoid (for toddlers): dresses; clothes that drape; too loose trousers which make it difficult to move; jeans which have too tight waists and buttons difficult to open and close; overalls; belts; suspenders (all these make it very difficult to take off pants quickly, if a child needs to use a potty).
• We recommend pants with elastic waist bands (not too narrow and not too wide); shirts must be large enough with large head holes easy to put on and off.
Cooperation between home and school is very important, please, help your child to learn to dress up independently at home.
Warm lunches and afternoon snacks come from the Fazer kitchen of International School of Helsinki. Water is served with lunch. We use organic milk at afternoon snack. Please, inform us of any dietary restrictions and allergies. Menu is posted every week to our notice board.
We encourage children to taste a variety of food.
The school provides beds, pillows and blankets for children, where children can nap after lunch. For toddler group parents are responsible for providing bed linen (sheet, pillow case and blanket cover which should be changed every Monday). All the children are required to go to their beds to rest after lunch. Children will be woken up at 14:30.
In the Children's house bed linen is provided by the school. Children have an option to sleep after lunch. Please, inform the staff if you would like your child to sleep. Reading and quiet activities are provided for children, who do not sleep. Naptime toy is optional, but must be kept at school.
Weather permitting, we try to be outdoors twice a day in the nearby playgrounds and /or also go for short walks around the area, even in wet/cold weather (please, remember to dress up your children according to current weather).
To promote a healthy, germ-free environment please, ensure your child washes his/her hands upon arrival to school.
If you notice a change in your child's behavior such as feeling tired or out-of-sorts, please, for the benefit of your child keep your child home for some extra rest.
Children should not be brought to school if they are not well enough to cope with normal school activities. Please, understand that we are not able to give one-to-one care for ill children.
It is also important to keep your child's nails short.
In the event of an accident or emergency needing immediate medical attention, the staff will not hesitate to seek proper care for a child (calling ambulance if necessary). Every effort will be made to contact the parents immediately.
The school is covered by an accident insurance by IF Vahinkovakuutusyhtiö Oy, which covers all injuries which occur at school during school hours and when the children are supervised by the school staff.
It is very important that you keep the contact numbers as well as other information in the school UP-TO-DATE. Please, notify the school immediately of any changes.
We also ask that you give a contact number of anyone who is picking your child from school and bring a person beforehand to introduce to staff.
Please, discourage your child from bringing extra items to school (toys, jewelry, sweets etc.). Occasionally an interesting object (e.g. from nature or from a holiday trip) could be brought in for show and tell.
If your child gets interested in bringing in a book to be read occasionally, please think about it's content – we avoid books about witches, fairies, elves and other unrealistic characters. This is because according to the Montessori principles, it is better for a young child to first get acquainted with realistic imagination rather than fiction.
However, the child's creative imagination is an important part of learning and is seen in the Montessori environment in the way of role play, story time, arts and crafts.
The goal of Montessori education is to support the children in developing self-control and self-discipline. The basis of discipline is respect: respect for oneself, for others, and for the environment. The adults and children in the prepared environment set limits for behavior based on the group's need for safe and mutually respectful community.
If a child has a difficulty following the rules of the community, the response will be age-appropriate. Personal attention, distraction, substitution and/or removal from the situation are typical approaches for little children. Many instances resolve themselves as the child, within the bounds of safety and common sense, experiences the logical consequences of his/her actions (i.e. wiping up after spilling water on the floor etc.).
The school reserves the right to terminate or suspend enrolment if the child's classroom teacher and the administration determine that the child is or will be unable to thrive in the school's Montessori environment (the school anticipates that it would take this action only after attempting to resolve, with parents, teachers and the child, whatever problems exist).
Each child has own cubby in the entrance area, which should be checked regularly for dirty clothing, school information and other mail (birthday invitations etc.). Also located near the door are the notice boards where you can find information about up-coming events.
We consider cooperation and communication between families and the school extremely important. If you need to speak with the teacher, please, send an e-mail or schedule a phone conversation. Teachers are not able to answer the phone during the classroom hours.
When we discuss the child, let's use discretion so that he is not listening to what is being said about him or her.
We consider it is very important that parents are aware of the school's methods and activities as this enables us to cooperate more fully to support your child's development We email monthly newsletters and organize parent evenings providing insight and information on the Montessori method, children's physical and psychological development, healthy nutrition, toilet training etc.
We also organize parent/teacher conferences where we can discuss the child's progress in autumn and spring. Each child will receive a progress report at the end of the school year.
We have a private Facebook group, which we regularly update with class events and children's photos. Photos or videos will only be uploaded when parents have signed the photo permission form. Please, feel free to use it to connect to other families or organize play dates. This is not a place to discuss classroom matters.
During the school year parents also have an opportunity to come and observe a classroom session. Please, arrange a suitable observation time by contacting us.
We kindly request that any videos or photos that have children other than your own, are not to be uploaded onto websites such as YouTube or Facebook. All families have the right to privacy.
If you would like to send a treat for the group for your child's birthday, please, send healthy ready made cookies (not self-made, please). Please, also check that cookies do not contain nuts.
Also if you would like to send invitations to birthday parties and not all the children from the class are invited, please, do it by yourself, not at school.
We have a small collection of books, journals and articles on Montessori method, which are available to anyone. Please, ask the staff if you wish to borrow any of them. If you have an interest, a problem or a question related to childcare or development, we may be able to assist you.
Aidtolife.org offers clear and simple advice on how to implement Montessori principles at home.
Finally, please, do not hesitate to speak to the staff should you have any queries. We hope that your child's stay with us will be an enjoyable experience!


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Ex-Sex Pistols frontman announces bid to represent Ireland at Eurovision
John Lydon's band Public Image Ltd have entered the song Hawaii, which pays tribute to his wife who has Alzheimer's.
Eurovision: John Lydon, who fronted the Sex Pistols, hopes to represent Ireland with his band Public Image Ltd. Getty Images
'Gutted for Glasgow': Scotland reacts to unsuccessful Eurovision bid
Disappointment for Glasgow as Liverpool named Eurovision host
Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon and his band Public Image Ltd (PiL) have announced they will compete to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest.
The post-punk group, formed in 1978, have entered the song Hawaii, described as a "love letter" to Lydon's wife of nearly 50 years, Nora, who has Alzheimer's disease.
The "pensive, personal yet universal love song" features lyrics about one of their happiest moments together during a trip to the US state.
Irish broadcaster RTE announced PiL are among the six entries vying to represent the country in Liverpool in May.
They will compete against Wild Youth, Adgy, Connolly, Leila Jane and K Muni & ND during a televised contest on The Late Late Show on Friday February 3.
Lydon, 66, also known as Johnny Rotten, said of the song: "It is dedicated to everyone going through tough times on the journey of life, with the person they care for the most.
"It's also a message of hope that ultimately love conquers all."
The singer formed PiL following the break-up of the Sex Pistols in 1978, alongside guitarist Keith Levene, bassist Jah Wobble and drummer Jim Walker.
Their debut album, First Issue, was released in December that year and showcased a post-punk sound combining prog rock, dub and dance music.
After a 17-year hiatus Lydon reformed the group in 2009 with a new line-up, touring worldwide and releasing two albums.
The group currently consists of Lydon plus guitarist Lu Edmonds, drummer Bruce Smith and bassist Scott Firth.
Eurovision will be held in May at the ACC Liverpool after the UK was named runner-up at the 2022 event with Sam Ryder.
The EBU concluded Ukraine could not host the event due to the Russian invasion, despite its entrant, Kalush Orchestra, coming first.
Original PiL guitarist Levene, who was also a founding member of The Clash, died of liver cancer in November at the age of 65.
Dame Esther Rantzen 'optimistic' after lung cancer diagnosis
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Jay Leno in motorcycle crash months after being burned in fire
Rangers unveil merchandise collaboration with rock legends AC/DC
TRNSMT announce 50 acts added to summer music festival line up
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Who Is Queen Latifah's Partner?
By Stacy Carey/April 23, 2021 12:33 pm EST
Queen Latifah's been a successful entertainer for decades, releasing her first rap single in 1998 before quickly diving into the world of acting and producing.
Some of Queen Latifah's most prominent work includes her 2002 Oscar nomination for her starring role as Mama Morton in "Chicago," her daytime talk show, and her own makeup line, The Queen Collection, with CoverGirl. Despite all of her public work, she's typically drawn a definitive line regarding her personal life (and that includes coming out). In 2008, she spoke with The New York Times Magazine about it, saying: " ... I do have a problem discussing my personal life. You don't get that part of me. Sorry ... I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway," Queen Latifah detailed.
Still, Queen Latifah has quietly been in a long-term relationship with choreographer Eboni Nichols for a number of years, prompting fans to want to learn more about the singer's partner.
A relationship blossoms and builds
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In recent years, there have been glimpses into Queen Latifah's romance with Eboni Nichols, such as when they kissed while vacationing in Italy in August 2014 (per Express). In 2019, Radar Online reported that Nichols sat by Queen Latifah's side at the MTV Video Music Awards. And they've even reportedly expanded their family, with Radar Online claiming that Nichols gave birth to a son they named Rebel, per Love B. Scott. They've kept that part of their life entirely private, but the two have seemingly built a beautiful life together.
According to Leon Carrington, Queen Latifah and Nichols initially met in 2009 on "Dancing with the Stars." Nichols apparently choreographed a number that Queen Latifah performed, and the two connected. However, their romance didn't begin until 2013.
As Nichols' Bloc Agency biography details, she grew up in Southern California. She attended Chapman University and focused on dance and theater. Nichols was a Los Angeles Laker Girl and toured as a backup dancer with Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé, and Usher.
Nichols shifted focus to her choreography skills, virtually guaranteeing people have seen her work somewhere. As IMDb noted, Nichols' choreo was woven into over 100 episodes of the CW show "Jane the Virgin." Perhaps the most memorable was the bit featuring Jane dancing with Britney Spears. Nichols also did a number for ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat," and choreographed a lot of commercials.


I have been fumbling about the earth for 37 years and some months, and with any luck will remain here for at least that much longer. I hope for more years, of course, many more. If I could keep an agreeable portion of my faculties I would gladly suffer the physical infirmities to cross 80 or even 90 years. I'd welcome 100 too–even if condemned to solitude. And though I am doubtful of claims that the "disease" of aging is one brilliant geneticist away from eradication, I fondle the fantasy as much as any futurist. How magnificent to mark our years by witnessing the erosion of those strange Sedonan plinths that temple the Arizona sky, or to find out once and for all whether freedom is just a trope applied to the long arc of time, or nature's sacred denominator. Yes, to live so long to live so would be a gift.
Most of you–and by you I mean the roughly six billion or so I have the conceit to address–don't need such fantasies, because most of you, Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Jew, believe this world is a kind of bridge, readily crossed on the long way home to God. Even the vast majority of Buddhists believe in a kind of heaven, with emphasis on the "kind of" if we're talking about Nirvana and emphasis on the "heaven" if we're talking about Amitabha Buddha's beatific abode in The Pure Land. I wish I were among you, and that is not a condescension: I support any man's efforts to transform fireflies into angels. May your tribe increase.
Please don't mistake me for an atheist, however, because I'm not. God or gods, I throw my lot in with the invisibles, the mysteriums. I believe in the reckless history of smoke, but not its reconstruction. I believe Siva dances and destroys. I believe in the crucifixion and the wine. Honestly, in the realms of the sacred I don't think it matters much whether you use the singular or the plural–one God, many gods, a bliss of Buddhas, a lineage of ghosts. I mean, have you looked through a telescope lately? I'm pretty sure there's room for it all.
There's something to be said for the domesticed Ones too. Take your pick, all of the truths are there: do unto others, suffering, humility, compassion, incomprehensible mystery. But it's easy to take this God for granted because we live with her. We always take the familiar for granted. But our domesticated gods lose their potency when we forget their "apalling strangeness." Remember that the same gods who laid down this sun and a billion, billion more besides are the gods who winnow all the wheat in Asia and grind granite into sand grains. The God that is no man or woman, the one that buried bliss so far down in the bone that we have to ply our bodies like animals to root it out, is the same God that gave us a man who washed the feet of whores, and loved the poor and the broken so completely that he let himself be suffocated to death on a stake in the sun. The same gods that fling gamma rays recklessly across the void, laying waste from the comfort of their dark houses to the careful work of a billion years, are also the ones that put Dr. Hawa Abdi to work in Somalia, fighting the cruelty those very gods are indifferent to–an incomprehensibly strange God, indeed.
Of course, some will object that it is the universe only, and that it is cruel, and random, and so hopelessly empty. It is only the accidental arrangement of peptides that stirs our compassion. We are marooned on a hostile island. Alone except for each other. I cannot prove them wrong. And save for the moments I stumble upon ecstasy, I live in the same world. My gods are not benevolent, save through the works of our hands. Neither the tiger nor the asteroid nor the half-life of stars has an amenable human purpose; no, there is no solace save human hands, and the things shaped by them. Still, it's hard to see a sunset and cry accident, move inside another body and declare chance, shield a stranger from harm and mope about delusion. I believe in God; I just don't think it matters to him. We could conscript the whole race into an army of atheists, and the gods would go right on exhausting beauty, indifferent to our vagueries.
I suppose there's no solace in this. And really, though I sling these sentiments about, they're just sentences–just my attempt to re-write the works of my betters. At 37-years-old my body is past the spectacular stasis of its early 30's–those few years when a well tended male body can still move like a boy, but more confidently. Now, my right knee swells up if I'm not slow in priming it, and my back discomforts me mysteriously, even on lazy days. I think about my mortality a little more easily though, because I'm fortunate to count these as problems. There's a whole universe flying apart, and rogue planets without a home, and several billion sapiens suffering far worse than middle age.
Believe me, I know that the gods are without discernible mercy–starve one man, make another stupid with age, lay waste to Africa, take your pick–but they also occasionally show up in a best friend, or in a really cold glass of milk, and sometimes even in a cliché, like a sunset and a whispered exchange by candle light in the empty house you hope to spend the rest of your life loving your woman in. God, like all the wild things, is fickle and fierce, and I superstitiously mutter a prayer every day I stand by his grace–I will do the same for you.
At once both lyrical and poignant. My favorite so far.


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Q: Power BI - Filters on all pages not honored Just starting with Power BI...
Using Power BI with a DirectQuery connection to a SQL Server database.  (I doubt SQL Server is relevant to the question, but if it is I'll add it to the tags.  Just leave a comment.)
I have created a "New column" defined as:
FirstOfMonth = DATEVALUE('FiscalMonth'[CalYr] & "-" & RIGHT("0" & 'FiscalMonth'[CalMonthNum], 2) & "-01")

I'm using a data mart that was developed using Kimball-methodology star schemas.  One thing that means is that there are exception records for the dimensions.  So a partial piece of the FiscalMonth table may look like this:
+---------------+--------+-------------+--------------+---------+
| FiscalMonthId | CalYr  | CalMonthNum | CalMonthName | CalYrMo |
+---------------+--------+-------------+--------------+---------+
|             0 | <NULL> | <NULL>      | DWUnk        | DWUnk   |
|             1 | <NULL> | <NULL>      | DWNA         | DWNA    |
|             2 | <NULL> | <NULL>      | DWNH         | DWNH    |
|             3 | <NULL> | <NULL>      | DWNR         | DWNR    |
|             4 | <NULL> | <NULL>      | DWErr        | DWErr   |
|             5 | <NULL> | <NULL>      | DWSys        | DWSys   |
|             6 | <NULL> | <NULL>      |              |         |
|          5275 | 1991   | 7           | July         | 199107  |
|          5276 | 1991   | 8           | August       | 199108  |
|          5277 | 1991   | 9           | September    | 199109  |
+---------------+--------+-------------+--------------+---------+

As you can see, CalYr or CalMonthNum may be null in certain circumstances.  But I know that the data I need won't involve any of the exception records (ID range 0-99), so I added a filter to the "Filter on all pages" section in hopes of keeping that from being a problem.
FiscalMonthId is greater than 99

This works fine, until...
I have put two visualizations on the page.  One is a line chart and the other is a table.  They both use the same columns (FirstOfMonth is calculated as above, ProgramCode and ExpenditureAmount are directly from the database).  When I click on one vis to filter it, the other one disappears with a message:
Can't display the visual. See details

When I click on See details, I get:
Couldn't load the data for this visual
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.. The exception was raised by the IDataReader interface.

But there are no data values used by my DATEVALUE function (within the context of my global filters) that would cause this problem.
The same thing happens when I try to add a measure.  I have tried a few different things.  Most recently adding a filter to the TOTALYTD function:
Measure = TOTALYTD(sum(ExpenditureMonthlySummaryFact[ExpenditureAmount]),'FiscalMonth'[FirstOfMonth],'FiscalMonth'[FiscalMonthId]>99)

When I add the measure to a vis, I get the same error message as above.
It looks like Power BI is ignoring my global filter when performing any kind of calculation or filter.
Short of changing our data mart design policies, how can I get past this?

A: Instead of doing a report level filter, I'd recommend filtering out any data you know you'll never use in your report as part of the query step (in the Query Editor).
This should still work fine with a direct query since it knows how to fold a filter into the SQL query that is passes back to the server.

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An appreciation: Dr. Ben, legendary Egypt scholar, dean of Harlem Street...
Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben-Jochannan, known to the African world as "Dr. Ben," believed that education belonged to any member of his race who wanted it. Perhaps it was because he believed that if his people knew their collective root, their ancient greatness, they would fight for their freedom and achieve it. Dr. Ben, one of the founding scholars and lecturers in what is now known as Africana Studies, died last week after a long illness. He was 96.
Claudia Jones: African-Caribbean Communist defied racism, sexism and class oppression
"Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment" (2011) is a collection of writings by Jones herself. The book makes a tremendous contribution to the literature on left, feminist and Pan-African struggles during the 20th century. A new generation of activists and organizers will benefit immensely from Jones' writings on the most pressing and burning issues of the period.
20th anniversary of the Welfare Poets: an interview wit' founding member...
The Welfare Poets have shared a stage with Dead Prez, Immortal Technique and the revolutionary Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Minister of Information JR Valrey speaks with founding member Rayzer about what has kept them going strong for 20 years.


"The Scarlet Sails" - is the most romantic night of the summer in the end of June in Saint-Petersburg.
The festival is attended by the most fashionable artists and world known musicians performing on open stages through the city center.
The culmination of the celebration "The Scarlet Sails" is the legendary show of fire, water and light in the night waters of the Neva River and an enormous ship under flaming red sails.
The first day we will visit Peterhof, It's perhaps St Petersburg's most famous and spectacular Imperial estate. The palace at Peterhof sits amidst an enormous park, adorned with fountains, statues and pavilions. Versailles was the inspiration for Peter the Great's desire to build an imperial palace in the suburbs of his new city.
In the evening you will visit "The Scarlet Sails" show on the board of the boat.
What exactly awaits you at the Scarlet Sails event?
• An all-night party till dawn.
You will see the historical center of the city with its beautiful palaces and cathedrals, hear about the history of St. Petersburg and of course have photo stops in the most picturesque places.
The State Hermitage Museum is a must for anyone who comes to St. Petersburg for the first time. Everyone will find something to their liking there. The biggest art museum in Russia with one of the most important and numerous collection in the world. With an experienced guide you will see its most famous pieces such as artworks of Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Rembrandt, Rubens, etc., including a great collection of the French impressionists in a newly-reconstructed building of the museum.
Leaving St. Petersburg. Guided transfer from a hotel to the airport/railway station/sea port.


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Topkapi (1964) Directed by Jules Dassin. Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley (119 min).
An emerald studded dagger in an Istanbul palace museum proves an overwhelming temptation for a sultry jewel thief. This frothy yet suspenseful caper, shimmering with 1960s glam and skillfully adapted from Eric Ambler's novel, has inspired countless imitations. Ustinov won an Oscar for his jittery conspirator.
Topkapi was based on Eric Ambler's novel The Light of Day. Ambler was a prolific writer of thrillers, several of which became well-known films, including The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear. Many of his works involved amateurs becoming involved with professional spies, or in this case, criminals. The plot and structure of The Light of Day were followed quite closely in Monja Danischewsky's screenplay. Surprisingly, the novel is told in the first person by the hapless Arthur Simpson, and it is clearly his story. The glamorous master criminals played by Melina Mercouri and Maximilian Schell are decidedly minor characters in the book. Simpson, and therefore the reader, doesn't even realize there is a plot to rob the palace until about the last 50 pages, unlike the film, in which the prize is revealed at once.
Much as last week's film, The Lady From Shanghai, came into being because of the opportunity to team Orson Welles with his ex-wife, the beautiful screen goddess Rita Hayworth, so Topkapi seems to have been inspired so director Jules Dassin could blend his two greatest successes, the French crime procedural Rififi and the role that made his wife into an international sex symbol, Never on Sunday.
Dassin made classic film noirs on location in three great cities, New York (The Naked City) London (Night and the City with Richard Widmark) and Rififi in Paris. He was born in 1911 and died at the age of 96 in 2008. He grew up in Manhattan and the Bronx, and worked as an actor, then a director and writer in the Yiddish theater. He began in radio, directed a Broadway flop and then got a contract in Hollywood, where he was the assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs. Smith. He directed a short, The Tell-Tale Heart, which TCM shows from time to time, and this led to him getting a job directing feature films.
His first film after liberation from the confines of a studio contract at MGM was a raw and sadistic prison drama, Brute Force which starred a young Burt Lancaster. The atmospheric photography was an effort to fuse expressionism with the kind of documentary realism he would tackle in his next film, The Naked City, filmed on location in New York City. Albert Maltz wrote The Naked City and became one of the Hollywood Ten, going to jail rather than name names before HUAC. Dassin was at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival when he learned he had been named before the committee by director Edward Dmytryk, who testified Dassin had been a member of the Communist party in the 1930s. Dassin left the United States for France in 1953, and never returned to live in the US.
Melina Mercouri was born in Athens, Greece, in 1923. Her father was a prominent politician, and objected to her choosing the stage as a career at the age of 17. Her first film, Stella, was a hit at the Cannes Film Festival, and it was there that she met Jules Dassin. It was a momentous meeting for the couple, each of whom was married at the time to someone else. Before long they were living together, and Dassin dedicated his career to Mercouri. "Julie insisted that I must make films with other directors, but he did not like to make any without me. His point was that no relationship could survive long separations…I suffered terrible jealousies at the thought of his making a film without me. I don't like his working with other women. Director-actress relationships are by nature too intimate" (132 Mercouri).
Dassin and Mercouri
In 1960 she shared a Best Actress Award at Cannes for her role as the exuberant prostitute in Never On Sunday, a role for which she was also Oscar nominated. The film became an international hit, popularizing Greek bouzouki music, thanks to its popular theme song. Mercouri became quite devoted to her character. "I loved her independence, her sense of friendship, her intense need for people to be happy. I loved her Sundays at home. We had done some research in Notaras Street, the red light district of Piraeus. The girls received us graciously and in the most bourgeois manner. There was tea, little cakes and polite conversation. They liked me…with Illya I became the mascot of the whores of the world. I received letters from everywhere thanking me for portraying their profession with dignity"(142 Mercouri).
Of Topkapi, she wrote, "Julie, as a film maker is slightly schizophrenic. He believes that films are valid when they teach, when they uplift, when they protest. At the same time, he loves to hear an audience laugh. He enjoys making films whose sole purpose is to entertain, but then later gets embarrassed about it. This doesn't sit well with me at all. We've even had sharp words about it, and I made long speeches about entertainment being a social contribution." But, she confessed did not enjoy making the film, not relenting even in the face of its great success (161 Mercouri).
Mercouri was beginning to lose interest in acting by the time of Topkapi, "The cinema wants young people. I didn't see myself clinging to the cinema until the last possible moment. I wanted a graceful exit" (Mercouri 162). She had become an ardent anti-Fascist, and lost her Greek citizenship in 1967, after campaigning against the ruling junta in Greece. She spent most of her exile in Paris, returning to Greece after the fall of the government she had protested against. In 1977 she became a Parliament member, ironically from Piraeus, the city of her greatest cinematic triumph in Never on Sunday. She later became culture minister, although she was defeated in her bid to become the mayor of Athens. Dassin and Mercouri remained married until her death in 1994.
Peter Ustinov was an actor, director, playwright, novelist and screenwriter. A versatile character actor, he was "an accomplished actor, a literate author, a cultivated wit and a delightful conversationalist and raconteur of TV talk shows" (Katz 1407). He had previously won an Oscar for Spartacus, and surprisingly had even less to say about making Topkapi than Mercouri did in his autobiography. "I did the film Topkapi in Turkey and Greece, with a little of it in France. It was directed by Jules Dassin, a fine meticulous director with a great sense of humor, who dedicated his career to his wife, Melina Mercouri. It is no reflection on her to suggest that perhaps he could have had a rather more remarkable career if he had not dedicated himself so devotedly to her service" (Ustinov 326). This seems rather ungrateful, considering he won an Oscar for his role in Topkapi, about which he said dismissively, "Oh, yes, I was reaching the age of compensation" (Ustinov 327).
In another interview, he amends this statement, "I have a special affection for Topkapi. The character is so absurd. I love the idea of a man who aims low and misses" (Thomas 151).
Robert von Dassanowsky, in his entertaining and provocative paper locates Topkapi's heroine, Elizabeth Lipp, within a unique cultural moment. The sexual liberation occasioned by the widespread use of the birth control pill changed the culture as well as female images in the movies. Although these opinionated, risk-taking heroines could be said to have originated in some of the 1950s films of Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest and To Catch a Thief (played by Eva Marie Saint and Grace Kelly, respectively) the female as spy, secret agent and criminal mastermind owes everything to the James Bond films of the 1960s. Beginning with Doctor No in 1962, these films showed women as objects of sexual desire, but also as capable of participating in the hero's mission as something other than wife or girlfriend.
"Like the spy film, which provided a release valve for the pressures of the cold war with its update of the knight-hero as playboy, so the caper film glamorizes crime as a stylish adventure, complete with fashion, romance and sex, to function as vicarious escape from the hypocritical structures of consumerist capitalism and the institutionalized heterosexual relationship" (von Dassanowsky). These films completely restructured a major provision of the Hollywood Production Code, which said in effect: "Crime mustn't pay!" The rebelliousness of the 1960s was encapsulated by the enjoyable films which said there was no difference between enforcing the law or violating it…as long as it was fun!
Topkapi seems to have transgressed a significant boundary. Elizabeth Lipp may very well be the first female criminal mastermind of the movies. The Light of Day was narrated by Arthur Simpson, but Topkapi is Elizabeth Lipp's story. She speaks directly to the camera, and swoons over her passion, emeralds. They are "dazzling, flawless and warm" which might be used to describe her, as well. She is always in charge of the operation, because she knows how to delegate, and she knows how to use her charms. And nobody questions her authority, as she seems the natural leader of this rather motley crew of criminals…although amateur criminals, with the exception of her colleague, mentor and lover, Mr. Harper.
She calls herself—jokingly?—a nymphomaniac and her powers of persuasion are used on every character actor, as well as the other half of the romantic couple, played by Maximillian Schell. He seems a little less interested in sex than the robbery, unless Miss Lipp really focuses on him. But, she is never kittenish or coy, and Mercouri, with her deep voice and somewhat masculine appearance yields to no man. A passion for jewels is well within the acceptable female sphere of desire, although, these, threateningly, are embedded in a curved dagger, a symbol of both wealth and (male) power. She doesn't want a man to give her jewels, she will take them for herself, with the aid of her crack team of thieves.
Topkapi's popularity in the US, linked with the James Bond films, influenced television shows like The Man From UNCLE, which appeared, like Topkapi, in 1964. If I may digress for a moment, I've been rewatching these shows, much beloved in my youth, and they fascinate me. Although, I remembered adoring them for one of my first crushes, on David McCallum (as Russian turned international agent Illya Kuryakin…interestingly sharing the same first name as Mercouri's character in Never on Sunday) the episodes speak to me in new ways. First of all, I was astonished at the talent behind the camera. One episode was written by future Oscar winner Robert Towne. Others are directed by Richard Donner (Superman) Joseph Sargent (The Taking of Pelham 123) and other big screen directors to be.
But, the most engaging aspect is that many episodes take an everyman…or more often, an everywoman, and involve them in a plot of danger of intrigue, clearly influenced by Eric Ambler and the film, Topkapi. If it is an everywoman, assistance most often includes a glamour makeover (courtesy of UNCLE) an adventure which shows her capable of more than she, or anyone else ever suspected, and a reluctant, but firm return to school teaching in Des Moines, or whatever, her Interpol Cinderella moment over. Weekly reminders of female cleverness and potency (The Avengers Emma Peel would arrive on American tv screens shortly afterwards) certainly reinforced the role of the women in the caper film, following in the bejeweled footsteps of Elizabeth Lipp.
This photo, cut from a newspaper tv schedule, was on my bulletin board when I was a teenager. Note thumbtack holes.
Contemporary critics, even cranky ones at Films in Review, raved: "Jules Dassin has managed to top Rififi—and in magnificent color to boot! Topkapi is a thoroughly entertaining mixture of wit, adventure and sur-realistic photographic effects, and this is '64's most enjoyable suspense spoof" (FIR). And later analysts concurred, which is sometimes an unusual combination: "Critics claim Topkapi does not have quite the suspense or the sting of Rififi. This may be so, but Topkapi is a vastly more entertaining film, more amusing, more adventurous and handsomely photographed in colour, mostly on location in Turkey" (Thomas 150).
Topkapi is the genesis of untold numbers of crime films and television shows, as well as utilizing Dassin's documentary sensibility with its luscious footage of Greece and Turkey. He also slips in a bit of his Yiddish theater background, as Miss Lipp and Mr. Harper describe the hapless Arthur Simpson as a schmo, a Yiddish word meaning "a boob, a hapless, clumsy, unlucky jerk." But, Dassin's most significant cinematic contribution here is reimagining the caper, with a brilliant woman in charge.
Photos: Dassin and Mercouri, and Mercouri, Schell, and Ustinov at restaurant from I Was Born Greek, Mercouri portrait from Films in Review, newspaper photo from the author's collection remaining two photos from Ustinov in Focus. Sources include, " Topkapi" by Nanda Ward Haynes , October, 1964 Films in Review, New York Times Obituary for Jules Dassin, April 1, 2008, I Was Born Greek by Melina Mercouri, Dear Me by Peter Ustinov, Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz, "A Caper of One's Own: Fantasy Female Liberation in 1960s Crime Comedy Caper Film" by Robert von Dassanowsky Journal of Popular Film and Television Fall 2007, Ustinov in Focus by Tony Thomas, The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten.


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Underlying assumptions of air quality need to be redefined
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The 40-meter-high monitoring tower of the Innsbruck Atmospheric Observatory near the city center of Innsbruck in Austria, Europe, continuously provides data on the composition of the atmosphere near the surface. Every hour, 36,000 data points are recorded. Using a special measuring method – the so-called eddy covariance method – the concentration of air components can be continuously monitored. An international team led by Thomas Karl from the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences at the University of Innsbruck has now used these data to study the chemistry of ozone, nitrogen monoxide and nitrogen dioxide in urban areas in detail. The high proportion of diesel vehicles in European cities leads to strong concentrations of nitrogen monoxide. This reacts with ozone to produce nitrogen dioxide. In the atmosphere, nitrogen dioxide decomposes again to nitrogen monoxide and atomic oxygen, which immediately combines with atmospheric oxygen to form ozone.
Credit: University of Innsbruck
Common assumption needs to be refined
This chemical cycle was described mathematically over 60 years ago in the first air pollution textbook by Philip Leighton. The relationship between the two processes has since been referred to as the Leighton ratio. Computer models of atmospheric chemistry use the Leighton ratio to minimize complexity by deriving the concentration of ozone, nitric oxide, and nitrogen dioxide from the concentration of each of the other two. In practice, this has been used, for example, to derive ozone concentrations in areas polluted by nitrogen oxides. The Innsbruck atmospheric researchers' data now show that in the presence of high nitrogen monoxide emissions, computational simplifications made by Leighton lead to incorrect results. Thomas Karl points out that "in cities with high nitrogen monoxide emissions, this ratio can be overestimated by up to 50 percent, which can lead to model calculations overestimating ground-level ozone concentrations in urban areas." The effect of chemistry – turbulence interactions plays a significant role in the lowest layer of the atmosphere, up to 200 meters above the ground.
Responsible for the effect studied in Innsbruck is the combination of strong turbulence in urban areas in the presence of high nitrogen monoxide emissions. . The mixing of the gases combined with the relatively rapid chemical processes lead to more ozone being converted into nitrogen dioxide. The researchers' data also show that direct emissions of nitrogen dioxide from urban traffic are largely negligible in comparison to secondary formation. "It remains important to note that environmental regulations do not rely on model calculations but come into effect depending on actual measured pollutant concentrations," Thomas Karl emphasized.
The results have now been published in Science Advances. The research was conducted jointly with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA), Case Western Reserve University (USA), Wageningen University (NL) and Luftblick (AT), and was financially supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF and the European Space Agency ESA, among others.
Publication: High Urban NOx Triggers a Substantial Chemical Downward Flux of Ozone. Thomas Karl, Christian Lamprecht, Martin Graus, Alexander Cede, Martin Tiefengraber, Jordi Vila-Guerau de Arellano, David Gurarie, Donald Lenschow. Science Advances 2022 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add2365
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The Marysvale volcanic field is located in southwestern Utah, United States.

One of the largest volcanic fields in the western United States, the Marysvale straddles the Colorado Plateau-Great Basin transition zone. Most igneous rocks belong to a middle Cenozoic (~32 to 22 million years old) calc-alkaline sequence, although about 5% are related to an upper Cenozoic (23 million years to Holocene) bimodal (basalt and rhyolite) sequence. The Marysvale contains a variety of volcanic features, including stratovolcanoes, calderas, lava domes, and cinder cones.

The field is an example of intraplate volcanism; its earlier deposits are thought to be related to Farallon plate subduction, while the later bimodal assemblage (especially the basalts) have been linked to Basin and Range extension.

Notable calderas

See also

 Geology of the Bryce Canyon area
 Large volume volcanic eruptions in the Basin and Range Province
 Tushar Mountains, Delano Peak

References

Volcanic fields of the Great Basin section
Volcanic fields of Utah
Holocene volcanoes
Miocene volcanoes
Oligocene volcanoes
Pleistocene volcanoes
Pliocene volcanoes
Landforms of Piute County, Utah
Landforms of Sevier County, Utah
Holocene North America
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As the only company in the world to design, develop and market both inkjet printers and industrial precision robotics, it makes perfect sense for Epson to combine the two. The result is the Discproducer – photo-realistic printing and fully automated CD/DVD reproduction in one neat package.
As easy to use as an office printer, the Discproducer can output up to 100 CDs/DVDs in a single session. Depending on data type and volume that amounts to up to 30 units per hour. It's the only product in its class that has front facing control and status reporting.
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kissing the frog: I Won't Be Watching the New ABC Show "Resurrection"
I Won't Be Watching the New ABC Show "Resurrection"
Have you heard about the new show ABC is airing this coming Sunday night? If you watched The Oscars, you couldn't help but spot at least one of the several dozen commercials for "Resurrection." True to the name, it's about people coming back from the dead.
But supposedly not in a creepy, undead, zombie way; but in a "Oh my god, I can't believe we have a second chance" way.
"The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to return. An 8-year-old American boy wakes up alone in a rice paddy in a rural Chinese province with no idea how he got there. Details start to emerge when the boy, who calls himself Jacob, recalls that his hometown is Arcadia, and an Immigration agent, J. Martin Bellamy, takes him there. The home he claims as his own is occupied by an elderly couple, Henry and Lucille Langston, who lost their son, Jacob, more than 30 years ago. While they look different, young Jacob recognizes them as his parents. Those closest to the family try to unravel this impossible mystery — but this boy who claims to be the deceased Jacob knows secrets about his own death that no one else knows."
As interesting as this show looks, I will not be watching it. There is not a day that goes by that I don't wish Joey was with us again. There is not a day that goes by that I don't wish that I could hold him in my arms again and feel his arms around my neck and hear his infectious giggle.
I think anyone who has lost someone - whether recently, many years ago, after a long illness or suddenly - wishes the same thing. We all wish for one more moment with the loved ones that we've lost.
But that is never going to happen, is it? It is almost cruel to put this out there. For me, it's just painful.
I have so many problems with this concept - why would we want our loved ones to come back three decades later when we have moved on, healed, grown, had so many life experiences of which they were not a part? And does everyone get someone back whom they lost or just certain people? What if my son came back, but your baby did not? What if your mom returned, but my grandmother stayed dead?
And once they are back, does everyone live happily ever after? They can't because, after all, this is television. There has to be a problem. Is the problem that the resurrected person has changed like the father wonders or is it that everyone else has moved on with their lives? Do they have to suffer through losing their loved one again? I have so many questions swirling and none seem to work out to a positive conclusion.
I know I am not the only one who feels this way. One Fit Widow, who has 50k more followers on Facebook than I, asked the same question of her readers. The majority of people commenting were disturbed by the premise. My friend Meredith of The Mom of the Year, who lost her mother two years ago this past weekend said, " I don't think this is a healthy or helpful message to share at all."
Jessica, of Four Plus an Angel, who lost one of her infant triplets, agrees. "I can't imagine what they were thinking when they came up with this one. It's like a kick in the gut." I totally feel that way every time I see those commercials with the haunting song I'm coming home, I'm coming home, tell the world I'm coming home.
Ellen, one half of the dynamic duo at Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms, just wrote about her own mother's tragic passing. She says, "This show seems sacrilegious, unhealthy, and from the appearance of the promoted snippets, like a human version of Pet Cemetery. "
And my sweet friend Courtney of Our Small Moments, who lost her husband to cancer less than a year ago firmly stated, "Personally, I'm tired of Hollywood making money off of death and grief."
I knew I wasn't really crazy when I was explaining the show to Hubby, who usually rolls his eyes at my rantings. I was a few sentences into the plot when he waved his hand at me and said, That's just disturbing." And when the commercials were on during the Oscars he said, "I can't even watch this." In addition to losing his son, he also lost his father in 1999. What if he got his father back and not Joey?
Ultimately, this is a television show; and honestly? I find a lot of what's on t.v. these days disturbing. I can choose not to watch it - which I won't. From the sounds of it, neither will several others who know they will never get a second chance with the ones they love.
What are your thoughts about this television show? Is it going too far? Does it upset you or will you watch it?


– Tell us a bit about 'The Deepwater Bride'.
It's a love story. It's also a story about responsibilities, a story about being too smart for one's own good, and a story about ghastly, abyssal intelligences surfacing to crush mankind. But mostly it's a love story.
I can't talk too much about it because I'd give away the plot, but it's basically What I Did On My Summer Holidays starring a teenage prophet and the Other Girl she's trying to save from a horrible fate. It pays a lot of homage to Lovecraftian mythos, and probably some to Encyclopedia Brown.
I've always loved Lovecraft, but as all his fans know, there's a long list of fairly important subjects he hardly ever goes near. Women are one; youth is another. I wanted to see whether you could write a Lovecraft story in which all the characters were female and the protagonist was a teenager into the bargain. I also have a long-standing fondness for small-town Americana, perhaps as a result of not being American, and I wanted to imagine Innsmouth with a Starbucks. I suppose you can think of it as The Strange Sweet Valley High House in the Mist.
– What do you think is the ongoing appeal of reading/writing Lovecraftian fiction, and what are the challenges in making it feel fresh?
I think what makes Lovecraftian monster stories still stand out from other kinds of monster story is the lack of a win/loss narrative. When the aliens come to Earth, humanity can go to war with them, or make peace with them, or give them all the flu. When the zombies rise from their graves, humanity's courage and ingenuity and stockpiled shotgun cartridges mean that there's always hope of a better dawn to come. When Cthulhu arrives, you're screwed. Not just because he's so big or powerful or whatever, but because he so profoundly defies human comprehension and human analysis that you simply can't engage with him on any meaningful level. You can't even run away. This is where I think some Lovecraftian fiction can go wrong – it can fall into the video game trap of thinking that you can kill a shoggoth if you brought enough bullets, or you can capture one and put it in a lab. The minute you start thinking like that, you're just telling a monster story, not a Lovecraft story.
Over time, of course, whereas some kinds of horror have become harder to accomplish – stalked by the Strangler, but you've got your iPhone 5 – Lovecraftian horror just gets more and more horrifying. Because the more we understand, the more of the world we can tag and put in boxes, the more fascinated we become by the idea that there are things we will never be able to solve. Good horror knocks away whatever you rely on, and the more we rely on science and reason, the more thrilling it is to have them knocked away.
– Was 'The Deepwater Bride' personal to you in any way, and if so, how?
Well, as a young queer woman, I suppose writing a story about a young queer woman was always going to be personal in some respects. But it's not a story that's particularly close to where I live. I'm not Hester, I'm not Aunt Mar, and I'm certainly not Rainbow. This is a pity as I would actually quite like to be Rainbow.
– How has the experience of attending Clarion affected your writing?
If I listed all the things I learnt at Clarion we'd need a bigger interview, but one major thing it gave me was the ability to see my own work from the outside – or at least to get closer to doing so. At Clarion you write a story and then a lot of very smart, very thoughtful people come along and tear it to shreds – as kindly as possible, but that's the game. And that makes it easier to, if you like, adopt the persona of your own critic: look at what you've written, spot the holes, spot the points where someone might come along and say 'I have a problem with that'. And then you can decide whether it's a problem you want to fix, or a problem you're content to leave the way it is. No-one's a good judge of their own work, so it helps to pretend to be someone else for a bit.
– Has the experience of being a New Zealander living in the US and now the UK had any impact on your perspective as a writer?
I used to think that being a New Zealander hadn't affected my writing much, either in flavour or setting. Moving away has changed that. It's easy to be a Kiwi writer when you're physically in NZ. While living in the UK, I've noticed how I keep coming back to New Zealand in a way I didn't bother to before – my stories were set in America or Germany or nowhere in particular. The first story I sold after coming to the UK, I'd set it in Whitford and Howick, where I grew up. I'm writing another set in a fantastical Waiuku, another town in Auckland where I used to live. I must have some particular stance in which I write from that's peculiarly Kiwi – I've grown up reading the science fiction and fantasy of Margaret Mahy and Ken Catran – but I think I'll only be able to identify it the longer I live and write away from home.
Various things, too slowly. I have another Lovecraftian story with a female protagonist – although a very different story and a very different protagonist – coming out in an anthology this year. I have a story about skeletons which has been on the back burner for so long it's reduced down to a gritty paste, but it's one I'm very fond of and I'm looking forward to scraping it off the bottom of the pan. I have a story about lichen, because everyone loves lichen, and possibly a story about a princess, although I'm not completely sure where that one's going at the moment. And then there's the novel. But the less said about that, the better.
"The Deepwater Bride" appears in the July/August 2015 issue of F&SF, which you can order here: https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/toc1507.htm.


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New data from the CDC suggests the overdose epidemic may have peaked, a new Gallup poll shows support for marijuana legalization remains strong, Oregon passes an interstate marijuana commerce bill, and more.
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Gallup Poll Has Support for Marijuana Legalization at 64% Nationwide. A Gallup poll released Wednesday has support for marijuana legalization at 64%, down two points from the last Gallup poll in October. The poll also asked why people opposed or supported legalization. The top reason for opposition was concern about impaired driving, while the top reason for support was because of its medical value to patients.
California Appeals Court Rules Prisoners Can Possess -- But Not Use -- Marijuana. The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned the convictions of five state prisoners for marijuana possession, ruling that Proposition 64, which legalized marijuana in the state, made possession of under an ounce of marijuana legal -- even in prison. But smoking or ingesting marijuana in prison is still a felony.
Oregon Legislature Approves Bill for Interstate Marijuana Commerce. The House on Tuesday approved SB 582, which would allow the governor to enter into agreements with other states for the import and export of marijuana. The Senate has already approved the bill, so it now heads to the desk of Gov. Elaine Brown (D), who is expected to sign it. The bill moved in the House after a Republican representative from a prime marijuana-growing area urged its passage.
House Foe of DC Legalization Doesn't Bother to File Amendment Messing with City's Ability to Make Marijuana Policy. Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) didn't bother to even propose his amendment to the DC appropriations bill on Tuesday, recognizing that it would go nowhere in the Democratically controlled House. For years, Harris has filed an amendment blocking the city from using its funds to implement marijuana commerce and taxation.
New Mexico to Expand Medical Marijuana Production. The state Health Department on Tuesday proposed new rules for marijuana production that would increase a 450-plant limit per grower to 1,750 mature plants per grower. The move is designed to ensure adequate supplies of medical marijuana without flooding the market.
Texas Governor Signs Hemp Bill. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has signed into law HB 1325, which will create a state-regulated hemp industry. The law will allow hemp products, including CBD, to be sold as long as it contains no more than 0.3% THC.
Heroin and Prescription Opioids
Federal Data Suggests Overdose Epidemic Has Peaked. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Tuesday shows that the age-adjusted overdose mortality rate declined in the twelve months ending in the second quarter of 2018. The rate was 6.1 deaths per 100,000 people in 1999 and increased steadily over the past two decades to 21.7 per 100,000 in 2017. Now, it has declined to 20.8 per 100,000. This isn't a final figure, but it is an encouraging sign.
Canadian Commons Committee Urges Government to Study Portuguese Model. The House of Commons Health Committee has called on the federal government to study Portugal's drug decriminalization and see how the model could be "positively applied in Canada." The recommendation came in a committee report produced after members held hearings across the country on drug use and abuse. "Witnesses recommended that the federal government examine the implementation of the Portuguese model of decriminalization of the possession of illicit substances, which included a scaling-up of treatment programs and the creation of diversion programs for offenders who commit crimes related to their substance-use disorders," the report says.
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Nevada is going to pilot a digital banking program for cannabusinesses, Alabama's governor signs a medical marijuana study bill, chain pharmacies make recommendations on opioids, and more.
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New Jersey Legislature Approves Expungement Bill. Most state residents convicted of marijuana possession offenses would be able to get their records expunged under a bill approved Monday by both the House and Senate. If signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy (D), the bill would open even more marijuana offenses up for expungement, including possession of up to five pounds.
Alabama Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Study Bill. Gov. Kay Ivey (R) on Tuesday signed into law a bill creating a commission to study medical marijuana. The commission must report back with recommendations for future legislation by December. The bill, SB 236, also allows the University of Alabama Birmingham to continue its research on the use of CBD cannabis oil as a treatment for debilitating epileptic conditions.
National Chain Pharmacies Issue Recommendations to Fight Opioid Abuse. The National Association of Chain Drugstores (NACSD) has issued four policy recommendations for opioid abuse prevention. They include increased access to naloxone, working toward a national prescription drug monitoring program, pursuing non-opioid remedies for chronic pain management, and requiring coverage of pain management services.
Congressional Committee Advances Schedule I Amendment. The House Rules Committee voted Tuesday to approve an amendment by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) that would remove a longstanding rider on an appropriations bill that bars federal agencies from using tax dollars for "any activity that promotes the legalization of any drugs or substance in Schedule I" of the Controlled Substances Act. Ocasio-Cortez successfully argued that the provision impedes research into substances that have therapeutic potential, such as psilocybin or MDMA. or marijuana. The amendment and the larger appropriations bill now head for a House floor vote.
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Mississippi Medical Marijuana Initiative Signature-Gathering in Good Shape. Medical Marijuana 2020, the group behind a state medical marijuana initiative campaign, has already collected 96,000 raw signatures with months to go. The campaign needs 86,000 verified voter signatures to qualify for the November 2020 ballot. The campaign will likely need to collect several tens of thousands more signatures, in order to have that many left after the inevitable disqualifications. But things appear to be on track.
North Dakota Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Bill Package. Gov. Doug Burgum (R) has signed into law four bills related to the state's medical marijuana program: HB 1417 will allow greater amounts of marijuana for cancer patients; HB 1519 expands qualifying conditions to include (among others) anorexia, bulimia, and brain injury; HB 1119 provides for the removal of social security numbers from program documents and declares an emergency to do so; and HB 1283 amends parts of the written certification requirements.
Trump Defends Administration Opioid Policy. Addressing the Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta Wednesday, President Trump said his administration had made "tremendous progress" on the issue in the face of critics who argue that the drug czar's office (ONDCP) has done little to combat the crisis and that a law passed last year did not adequately fund drug treatment.
Pardons and Commutations
Kamala Harris Says She Will Pardon Low-Level Drug Prisoners If Elected. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said Wednesday she would pardon low-level drug prisoners if she becomes president. "Absolutely," she said when asked about using the power of commutation. "We have to have the courage to recognize that there are a lot of folks who have been incarcerated who should not have been incarcerated and are still in prison because they were convicted under draconian laws that have incarcerated them… for what is essentially a public health issue." Her remarks came at a She the People town hall in Houston.
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BCB After Dark: The kings of the hill
The nightclub for night owls, early-risers and Cubs fans abroad asks who was the greatest Cubs starting pitcher of the expansion era.
By Josh Timmers@JoshFTimmers Jun 3, 2021, 12:30am CDT
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Welcome back to BCB After Dark: the nighttime meeting spot for night owls, early-risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. I'm so glad to see you again this evening. We've waived the cover charge, but there's a two-drink minimum, which you have to provide yourself. You are on the honor system.
BCB After Dark is the place for you to talk baseball, music, movies, or anything else you need to get off your chest, as long as it is within the rules of the site. The late-nighters are encouraged to get the party started, but everyone else is invited to join in as you wake up the next morning and into the afternoon.
It looks like it's time to start taking the Cubs seriously. With today's 6-1 win over the Padres which completed the three-game sweep, the Cubs are now 9-0 against the Mets, Padres and Dodgers, the three teams that almost everyone considered to be the best in the National League heading into the season. And they are three teams everyone still expects to be playoff teams come October, although the Giants, currently with the best record in baseball, will have something to say about that. The upcoming series in San Francisco will provide a huge test. Splitting the four-game series would be a good result, in my mind. Winning the series would be terrific.
Fangraphs gives the Cubs a 46.8% chance of making the playoffs as I write this. The Cardinals game is not over but they're losing by 11 runs late, so I think those odds will increase a little by the time you read this. They still have the Brewers as the narrow favorites to win the NL Central, however.
Feel free to continue to discuss the Cubs hot streak here if you wish.
Last time I asked you who the greatest Cubs third baseman of the expansion era was and you voted for Ron Santo with 63% of the vote. Kris Bryant had 25% and an Aramis Ramirez was third with 12%.
Here's the part where I discuss jazz and movies. Those of you who want to skip to the baseball poll question at the end are free to do so now. You won't hurt my feelings.
Charlie Haden was a jazz double-bass player who got his start with saxophonist Ornette Coleman on his groundbreaking album The Shape of Jazz to Come in 1959. By the late-sixties, he broke off on his own and kept making music until his death in 2014. This is a lovely little piece of music from Charlie Haden's Quartet West group. It's the title track from his 1992 album, Haunted Heart. [VIDEO]
Haden is also part of a long musical family. Haden played country and folk music growing up in Iowa where the Haden Family had a bit of a following. In 1971, he and his wife had triplet girls, Petra, Rachel and Tanya, who became very accomplished musicians as well, both together as a jazz trio and on their own. Petra Haden did a brilliant solo a cappella cover album of The Who Sell Out [VIDEO], complete with commercials, which is a must-listen for any Who fan or fan of a cappella music, I suppose. Pete Townsend loves it.
Tanya Haden is married to the actor Jack Black, if you're interested in that kind of trivia.
As I wrote last week, I really don't have the time to do an essay on two movies a week and do the baseball stuff, which has to come first on a baseball site. So instead, on Wednesday night/Thursday morning, I'm just throwing out a question for discussion.
Even before the pandemic, I wasn't a big movie goer. As you can tell, much of my tastes goes towards older movies and they don't show up on the big screen all that often around my house. I did see maybe two to four movies a year before the pandemic in theaters. I do love those Marvel movies and saw most, but not all, of them in theaters. That will probably get me kicked out of the Pretentious Old Movie Fan Club™ now that it's gotten out. Martin Scorsese has already drawn up my expulsion papers.
I went to a lot more movies in theaters before I became a parent. Once you have a kid, it often just becomes more trouble than it's worth. At least it did for us. It helped that my daughter was born about the same time that decent HD televisions became affordable. But even when I was young, I wasn't a "one movie each week" type of person.
So the closing of the theaters during the pandemic wasn't a big deal for me, but I do miss them. At least sometimes. I'm going to break my desire to not put two poll questions in one article by asking you when you think you'll go back to movie theaters.
So when do you think you'll buy a ticket to see a movie in a theater? Tomorrow? Later this year? Never?
When do you think you will go back to see a movie in a theater?
I never stopped/I already have
Sometime this summer
In the fall or around Christmas
Next year (2022)
I don't see movies in theaters/I won't go back
78 votes total Vote Now
Welcome back to all the people who skip the music and movies. We missed you, but we're glad you're still here.
I've been asking you who you think are the greatest Cubs player of the expansion era at various positions. Tonight I'm asking you who you think is the greatest Cubs starting pitcher since 1962?
The candidates are:
Ferguson Jenkins (1966-1973, 1982-1983): Won 20 games six times for the Cubs, which is a feat that's not ever going to be equalled unless the rules change. Won one Cy Young. But he did pitch in a different, more pitcher-friendly era.
Rick Reuschel (1972-1981, 1983-1984): Easily the most underrated pitcher of the expansion era. Reuschel was a very good pitcher on some very bad Cubs teams.
Rick Sutcliffe (1984-1991): His dramatic 16-1 record after the Cubs got him in a mid-season trade from Cleveland will never be forgotten. He won the Cy Young that season, but continued to be an effective pitcher (when healthy) the rest of his time in Chicago. He wasn't always healthy though.
Greg Maddux (1986-1992, 2004-2006): Certainly the best pitcher overall on this list, but his best days were in Atlanta. He did win one Cy Young Award in Chicago.
Kerry Wood (1998-2008, 2011-2012): Some of that time with the Cubs was as a reliever. He turned in the greatest single-game pitching performance in Cubs history and maybe in all of MLB history with his 20 strikeout game in 1998. He also won the Rookie of the Year Award that year.
Carlos Zambrano (2001-2011): Doesn't get the respect that some of the other guys on this list do, but he was consistently a very good pitcher for a decade. He has a higher career WAR as a Cub than Maddux does, for example.
Jake Arrieta (2013-2017, 2021): Won the Cy Young Award in 2015 and was a key member of the 2016 World Championship team. Started and won Game 6 of the World Series, which is something only one other Cubs pitcher in history can claim. (Hank Borowy)
Jon Lester (2015-2020): Didn't start Game 7 in 2016, but would have won it in relief were it not for a Rajai Davis home run. Was as important off-the-field as he was on it during his time in Chicago.
So who is it? Who is your choice for the greatest Cubs starter of the expansion era?
Who is the greatest Cubs starter since 1962?
Rick Sutcliffe
Kerry Wood
Carlos Zambrano
Jon Lester
Thanks for coming. I hope to see you again next week.
BCB After Dark: Youth will be served The cool spot for night owls, early-risers and Cubs fans abroad asks which young superstar would you like to steal for the Cubs


eBook Carver: A Life in Poems [AUDIO MP3] by Marilyn Nelson Available!
Marilyn Nelson is the author of many acclaimed books for young people and adults, including CARVER: A LIFE IN POEMS, a Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Honor Book, and A WREATH FOR EMMETT TILL, a Printz Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She also translated THE LADDER, a picture book by Halfdan Rasmussen. She lives in East Haddam, Connecticut.


Discusses the implication of the consolidation of art into the larger economy. Engagement of painters Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse in promoting their artworks; Fallacy of the belief that this behavior compromises the artist's stature; Fear over the growing irrelevance of art history.
Focuses on the economic impact of arts on Tucson, Arizona, as shown by a study made by the Tucson/Pima Arts Council. Museums and arts organizations' contribution to the area's economy; Direct economic contribution; Secondary revenues.
Discusses that critics retorted a study by the Calgary Arts Initiative asserting that local art subsidies generate much more in tax revenues than they cost. The Economic Impact of the Not-For-Profit Performing Arts in Calgary; Economic activity; Spending; Private spending; Government spending.
Discusses the economic aspect of art. Conflicts in the theories of art history; Idea of art as transcendent value reigns in spite of challenges from philosophers; Critique of ethnography; Financial aspects of museums; Selection of topic for art research; Status of museulogical studies.
Focuses on the economic impact of the arts in Long Island, New York State. Impact of arts spending on the area's economy; Features of the study by the Arts Means Business Task Force; Annual operating expenditures and ticket sales by type of arts organization for 1995.
Focuses on the New England Council's report entitled 'The Creative Economy Initiative.' Purpose of the report; Contribution of arts and cultural heritage to the economy of New Hampshire; Revenue derived by the state from the arts.
Discusses the mutual interests of the arts and business in Indianapolis, Indiana. Cultural tourism; Role of the arts in boosting economic development and employment; Deterrence of delinquent behavior of at-risk youth; `Start with Art' luncheon sponsored by the Arts Council of Indiana.
The article reports on the decline of Broadway sales, with total sales slid to 14.2 dollars from 3.3 dollars for 23 shows, in the U.S. in 2010.


As the autumn leaves fade and fall, November is an appropriate time for the season of remembrance.
Last night [4 November 2015], I celebrated the Community Eucharist, commemorating the Feast of All Saints, having read the Gospel at the Eucharist on All Saints' Day last Sunday [1 November 2015] in Christ Church Cathedral Dublin. In many parishes, All Souls' Day was marked on Monday [2 November 2015].
Then, this morning, there is a quiet marking of Remembrance in a Service of the Word in the Chapel of the Church of Ireland, and again on Sunday morning.
In remembrance, silence is an appropriate symbol, and I have long been guided by a sign in the Chapel of Saint John's Hospital Lichfield, a church in the Anglo-Catholic tradition that from the beginning played a significant and formative role in shaping my adult faith.
I wonder what others think of this advice. Do you find it an admonition? Or do you find it helpful as you settle into Church and try to bring your mind out of the secular concerns of the world and into sacred space?
The other two signs are ones I notice during a recent visit to the National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin.
Kind deeds are the roots.
They seem to be three appropriate thoughts to share as we reflect on the meaning of remembrance this month.


Another one for the books... :) First time having acorn squash and decided to try a different technique for cooking the quinoa. All worked out delicious!
Cut acorn squash in half lengthwise, scrape out seeds and strings.
Place face down in a glass baking dish with 2 cups of water (or 1 cup water and 1 cup broth) and a tbsp of oil.
Bake at 400* for about 15 minutes.
After the acorn squash has baked for 15 minutes or so, pull out of the oven and turn face up. Drizzle a little oil over the top of the squash.
Add 1 cup uncooked quinoa to the water all around the acorn squash.
Put back in the oven for about 20 minutes, or until squash is tender and quinoa is absorbed in the water.
When the sweet potato mixture on the stove top is tender and done, turn the heat off and add 1/2 cup of low fat feta cheese (optional).
When the acorn squash is tender and done, take out and add the sweet potato mixture.


Halloween is almost here and with it comes one of the most fun parts – planning your costume! Every year we see so many fantastic Halloween pictures pop up online, and we thought we would round up some favorites to share with all of you!
Follow all safety rules and guidelines for the carrier. Always make sure baby has two fingers width between chin and chest to keep airway open and clear and baby is close enough to kiss.
Only face baby out if you are using a Multi-Position carrier, which allows for a front-outward facing position.
Pay special attention to baby's temperature since you both may be wearing things you may not normally have on.
Most of all, have FUN…and have a happy, babywearing Halloween!