The bible teaches us that we are all sinners and separated from God. But God has provided a remedy for us through his son Jesus Christ who died in our place. "The wages of sin is death". Thanks to Jesus, that price has been paid.
Salvation is available for all those who confess they are sinners, repent [metanoeó] of their ways, and put their faith in Jesus Christ. When you make Jesus Lord of your life and accept his sacrifice for your sins, he sends the Holy Spirit to live in you. It is through the Holy Spirit that the power to live for God is made available. You become born from above and made alive in your spirit.
Are you willing to make God the Lord [kýrios] and master of this life and the life to come? Are you willing to surrender to his Lordship?
Lord [greek; kýrios] – a person exercising absolute ownership rights; lord (Lord). likewise denotes an owner (master) exercising full rights.
If you say yes, then the scriptures below will lead you to salvation.
ROMANS 3:23-25; For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard. Yet God, with undeserved kindness, declares that we are righteous. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood.
ROMANS 6:23; For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
ROMANS 5:8; But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
Acts 3:19; Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away.
ROMANS 10:9,10; If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
Lord, I confess I am a sinner and need Jesus to be made right in your eyes. Please Lord, forgive my sins. I believe Jesus lived, died and rose again for my sin, paying the cost so I don't have to. I am placing my faith in Jesus finished work.
Please come into my life and be Lord of my life. I surrender my life to you, to follow you and allow you to live through me. Thank you for saving me and sending me your Holy Spirit so I can live according to your word.
If you asked the Lord into your life, God bless you and welcome to the family of God. You are forgiven and you have stepped into eternal life. You may not feel anything but that does not matter. A miracle has taken place and you are alive forever more. There is a party in Heaven right now because you have gone from death to life.
In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven't strayed away!
Please visit the Medea Resources page of this blog for more information on bibles, podcasts and internet radio. You will find many faith building and teaching videos on this blog that will help you grow in Christ.
God speaks to us through his word [Bible]. Everything we believe lines up with the word of God and if it does not, we disregard it. The bibles I read are the New International version, The New English Translation, and The New Living Translation. I encourage you to get one of those and begin to read at the New Testament book of John. Then continue to read through the New Testament, asking God to reveal himself to you through his word. If you have a smart phone, the resources page has very good bible apps for free. One also has an audio component so you can listen to the bible and they supply a variety of translations and languages.
It is important to connect with a local church who teaches the word of God alone. I have attended evangelical, baptist, Pentecostal and Mennonite churches over the years. Ask the Lord to direct your path in finding a solid church for you to attend.
You will want to attend a church that believes the bible alone is the authoritative word of God, that Jesus Christ is God, not a created being, and salvation is through faith in him alone. Also that the Holy Spirit is operating today in peoples lives.
God bless you and direct your footsteps.


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Q: Spring MVC with multiple view resolvers I tried to use 2 view resolvers:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.evgeni.dfr.controller" />

    <context:annotation-config />
    <mvc:annotation-driven />

    <bean id="viewResolver"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
        <property name="cache" value="false" />
        <property name="viewClass" value="com.evgeni.drf.faces.FacesView" />
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/pages/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".xhtml" />

        <property name="order" value="1" />
    </bean>

    <bean
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix">
            <value>/WEB-INF/views/</value>
        </property>
        <property name="suffix">
            <value>.jsp</value>
        </property>
        <property name="order" value="0" />
    </bean>
</beans>

The application always uses only the one with the lowest order and not the other. In the current case if my controller return "someView" the app will respond with The requested resource (/MyProject/WEB-INF/views/someView.jsp) is not available. even if there is "pages/someView.xhtml".
Spring version - 3.2.3
Edit:
If I have 2 methods in controller and methodA returns "viewA" and methodB returns "viewB". And we have viewA.jsp in 'views' folder and viewB.xhtml in 'pages'.
Case1: UrlBasedViewResolver -> order=1,InternalResourceViewResolver -> order=2
methodA -> The requested resource (/MyProject/WEB-INF/pages/viewA.xhtml) is not available.;
methodB -> OK

Case2: UrlBasedViewResolver -> order=2,InternalResourceViewResolver -> order=1
methodA -> OK ;
methodB -> `The requested resource (/MyProject/WEB-INF/views/viewB.jsp) is not available.`;

A: I think you misunderstood the order priority. The ViewResolver with the highest order is the last resolver in the chain. Since you gave the InternalResourceViewResolver an order of 0, it will be the first resolver in the chain and the InternalResourceViewResolver will resolve the view whatever view name is returned. So, if you want multiple resolvers, the InternalResourceViewResolver must be the resolver with the highest order.
Change the InternalResourceViewResolver order value to 2 :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="com.evgeni.dfr.controller" />

    <context:annotation-config />
    <mvc:annotation-driven />

    <bean id="viewResolver"
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
        <property name="cache" value="false" />
        <property name="viewClass" value="com.evgeni.drf.faces.FacesView" />
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/pages/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".xhtml" />
        <property name="order" value="1" />
    </bean>

    <bean
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix">
            <value>/WEB-INF/views/</value>
        </property>
        <property name="suffix">
            <value>.jsp</value>
        </property>
        <property name="order" value="2" />
    </bean>
</beans>

EDIT :
After checking the javadoc, it seems that these two resolvers cannot be chained since the InternalResourceViewResolver is a UrlBasedViewResolver (InternalResourceViewResolver extends UrlBasedViewResolver). Both resolver  always match the returned value. I think you will need something custom to be able to do this.

A: Chage order in InternalResourceViewResolver from 0 to 1. InternalResourceViewResolver must have largest order (lower priority)

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The Kano State Police Command on Friday paraded a 20-year-old man, Aminu Inuwa of Jakada Quarters, for allegedly slitting his wife's throat.
He was also said to have buried the corpse of the 17-year-old victim, Safara Inuwa, in his room.
Confirming the incident, the command's spokesperson, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, said on April 3, 2019 around 11:00am, the police received a report that Inuwa killed his wife with a knife.
According to the PPRO, Inuwa and his late wife had a dispute during which the suspect slit her throat and buried her corpse in his room.
However, he said the police exhumed the body and took it to the Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano for autopsy.
Haruna said the police had commenced investigation, adding that the suspect had confessed to committing the crime.


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Eduard Pană (born 28 May 1944 in Brăneşti) is a retired Romanian ice hockey player. For some years, he was the Secretary-General of the Romanian Ice Hockey Federation.

Pană was one of the best players in Europe during the 1970s. He participated in three Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998.

References

External links
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1944 births
Living people
Ice hockey players at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey players at the 1976 Winter Olympics
IIHF Hall of Fame inductees
Olympic ice hockey players of Romania
People from Ilfov County
Romanian ice hockey right wingers

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Hello on this summer Thursday! Welcome to The Craft, Novella's monthly series where we talk to women like you and do our favorite thing: geek out about writing. This month, we spoke to the talented Nadya Agrawal, writer and owner of Kajal, a magazine that features the art and opinions from the South Asian diaspora. Scroll down to read about her work and how she gets it done.
My name is Nadya Agrawal and I write for a bunch of places – my main gig right now is working as a writer for the anti-Trump Super PAC Priorities USA. I also freelance for places like Hazlitt and Teen Vogue and I run my own magazine, Kajal, which features art and opinion from the South Asian diaspora. When I get the chance, I work on my own personal creative writing projects.
Just like hella plants. I pick up plants like strays and keep them in my workspace so when I'm looking around the room, mulling over some phrase or whatever, I can watch them. The angles of their leaves in the sunshine, their color and richness, the way the stems twist, it's all fertile ground for practicing imagery and usually gets me ready to write again.
On my desk, I have a small jade plant. My mom always grew jade and rubber trees (I have one of those near me too), so it's a nice little anchor that connects back to really early, vivid memories for me, gardening in the yard with my parents on the weekends.
I migrate all over my apartment, chasing the sunshine and making sure I have a nice untouchable bubble of space around me as I work. I can get something done wherever I have a flat surface for my laptop.
My fantasy workspace though is somewhere really green, tons of plants and sunshine, with fresh coffee for the mornings and white wine for the evenings. If there's a rainforest writing residency somewhere, please let me know!
Going to the gym and playing with my puppy are really good ways of getting myself out of my head. They are tiny vacations where I can focus on something else that's still useful. Basically I just need to go run around for a bit then I'll be fresh and ready to start working again.
Do you have a ritualized writing process?
I wish. I've been trying and failing at creating a viable schedule for myself for years now. At this point, I'm happy to get creative writing in every day between the cracks in my schedule. If that happens, it's a good day.
What do you think you need to happen to facilitate your dream writing process?
I'm not sure what would help me create a good writing process except maybe willpower. I have weeks and months where writing is the first thing I do when I wake up and I have time when it's the last thing I want to do. I try to be nice to myself through all this – sometimes I need a break and not having a schedule allows that kind of flexibility. But I'm also still working on building my writing space and decking it out with everything I need to feel comfortable and inspired, so maybe when that happens it'll all fit into place.
I don't write enough by hand, unfortunately, but I use this app Ulysses which creates a distraction-free writing space on my computer. There's also a whole slew of ambient noise apps, like Rainy Mood and Coffitivity, that provide a really nice array of white noise to work to.
It's travel season: do you write while on vacation or do you prefer to unplug?
Write! I enjoy experiences so much more when I document them. Taking pictures and writing captions, journaling, scratching new ideas down into whatever project I'm working on inspired by what I've seen. There's no wrong way to enjoy my vacation while writing.
Hi! I'm currently hiking through the lush jungles of Borneo (see below) and hanging out with a bunch of orangutans. I won't have access to my computer for a long long time so please direct all emails to the folks still in the office. Thx.
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Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes
Charlie J.G. Loewen, Donald A. Jackson, Cindy Chu, Karen M. Alofs, Gretchen J.A. Hansen, Andrew E Honsey, Charles K. Minns, Kevin E. Wehrly
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Aim: Recurrent species assemblages integrate important biotic interactions and joint responses to environmental and spatial filters that enable local coexistence. Here, we applied a bipartite (site–species) network approach to develop a natural typology of lakes sharing distinct fish faunas and provide a detailed, hierarchical view of their bioregions. We then compared the roles of key biogeographical factors to evaluate alternative hypotheses about how fish communities are assembled from the regional species pool. Location: Ontario, Canada and the Upper Midwest, USA. Time period: 1957–2017. Major taxa studied: Freshwater fishes. Methods: Bipartite modularity analysis was performed on 90 taxa from 10,016 inland lakes in the Southwestern Hudson Bay, Mississippi River and St. Lawrence River drainages, uncovering bioregionalization of North American fishes at a large, subcontinental scale. We then used a latent variable approach, pairing non-metric partial least-squares structural equation modelling with multiple logistic regression, to show differences in the biogeographical templates of each type of community. Indicators of contemporary and historical connectivity, climate and habitat constructs were estimated using a geographical information system. Results: Fish assemblages reflected broad, overlapping patterns of postglacial colonization, climate and geological setting, but community differentiation was most linked to temperature, precipitation and, for certain groups, lake area and water quality. Bioregions were also marked by non-native species, showing broad-scale impacts of introductions to the Great Lakes and surrounding basins. Main conclusions: The dominant effects of climate across broad spatial gradients indicate differing sensitivities of fish communities to rapidly accelerating climate change and opportunities for targeted conservation strategies. By assessing biological variation at the level of recurrent assemblages, we accounted for the non-stationarity of macroecological processes structuring different sets of species on the landscape and offer novel inference on the assembly of inland fish communities.
Global Ecology and Biogeography
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13424
Thanks to the countless employees of the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry, Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for collecting the fish community data that enabled this research. G.J.A.H. acknowledges especially Martin Jennings, Jacqueline Bacigalupi and Derek Bahr of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for their leadership in the lake Index of Biotic Integrity programme. We thank Kelsey Lucas and Brian Shuter for assistance in compiling data and feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript. Our study was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant awarded to D.A.J. and a Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to C.J.G.L. by the University of Toronto, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Loewen, C. J. G., Jackson, D. A., Chu, C., Alofs, K. M., Hansen, G. J. A., Honsey, A. E., Minns, C. K., & Wehrly, K. E. (2022). Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31(2), 233-246. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13424
Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes. / Loewen, Charlie J.G.; Jackson, Donald A.; Chu, Cindy et al.
In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 31, No. 2, 02.2022, p. 233-246.
Loewen, CJG, Jackson, DA, Chu, C, Alofs, KM, Hansen, GJA, Honsey, AE, Minns, CK & Wehrly, KE 2022, 'Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 233-246. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13424
Loewen CJG, Jackson DA, Chu C, Alofs KM, Hansen GJA, Honsey AE et al. Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2022 Feb;31(2):233-246. doi: 10.1111/geb.13424
Loewen, Charlie J.G. ; Jackson, Donald A. ; Chu, Cindy et al. / Bioregions are predominantly climatic for fishes of northern lakes. In: Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2022 ; Vol. 31, No. 2. pp. 233-246.
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A former safety manager at a Bumble Bee Foods seafood plant has pleaded guilty in the death of a worker who was cooked with tons of tuna.
Saul Florez was sentenced to probation and fined $5,000 after pleading guilty Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court on a charge of violating a workplace safety rule that caused a death.
Jose Melena died three years ago after cooking for two hours in an oven that reached 270 degrees at the company's Santa Fe Springs plant.
Melena was trapped after a co-worker mistakenly believed he was in the bathroom and filled a pressure cooker with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna.
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It is said the demon in the well will give you your heart's desire…for a price.
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When Arwyn offers him a terrible bargain, Declan agrees, hoping it will finally give him the truth about what happened to his prince…and a chance to find the man he'd loved since childhood.
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One for the Road, by Kate Hawthorne
I left St. Jack's Bay ten years ago and haven't looked back once. Unless you count all the times I close my eyes and think about Rome Anderson kissing me on the water tower or all of the firsts we shared in my cramped teenage bedroom. Being in love with Rome as a teenager was serious and scary, so I did the only thing I knew how to do—I ran.
I should have known it would only be a matter of time before life called me back to the small town we grew up in, and also back to Rome who's never left. I'm only home for a week and the two of us are fresh out of firsts, but neither of us seems to be against the idea of sharing some last times together instead.
I've never stopped loving Max, but over the years, I've definitely started to hate him. At seventeen, I got left behind, but it worked out okay in the end. I own the only bar in town, I date when I want to, and Max's twin sister Lydia is my best friend. Life isn't what it was supposed to be, but it's not horrible.
Max is back now and taking him to bed was a terrible idea because it's not long before I don't hate him at all. I love Max and I want him to be mine, but we've both been here before. I know it's only a matter of time before he breaks my heart and heads back on the road, leaving me—and our future—behind once again.
One for the Road is a small town, second chance romance that proves sometimes absence does make the heart grow fonder.
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Reigniting Chase, by Jeanne St. James (Jack Calihan and Lance Greenfield, narrators)
An unexpected collaboration between two authors that's hot enough to spark a fire…
After an excruciating loss, I'm desperate for a fresh start.
Away from the painful memories.
Away from everyone I know and anyone who knows my story.
That's how I end up in Eagle's Landing, Pennsylvania.
As a bestselling author, my main reason for moving to a remote mountain cabin is to overcome the writer's block that crushed my creativity for the past two years. My hope is to rediscover my words in the quiet, small town where no one knows me. Or my past.
A place where I can blend in enough that I become invisible.
Even though Chase, one of my favorite authors, insists he wants to be left alone, I refuse to let him wallow in whatever's drowning him.
As a local bookstore owner and author myself, I'm intrigued by the man who's a master of the written word. Unfortunately, his social skills could use a lot of work.
Even so, I'm determined to pull the irritable and frustrating man out of the dark pit he's fallen into and back to the surface, no matter how hard he fights it. I only hope dragging Chase down that fiery path just might reignite his spark and that I don't get burned in the process.
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Infinite, by Charlie Godwyne
I'm on the run, leaving behind everything I've ever known.
I'm on the run, on a blessed path that leads me straight into their arms.
In 2026, Oliver Smith emigrates from the United States to Austria, to start a job as an editor for Boutique Press. Anxious, tired and broken, he hallucinates an angel comforting him on the plane. Ollie assumes it was a dream, but the Catholic contract lawyer Moritz who picks him up at the airport assures him that angels are real.
As Ollie builds a new life on the other side of the world, working his job while trying to keep himself together and hold his shadows at bay, he meets Bryn, a young man who practices a secret magic and sings gentle prayers to the sunset. Bryn is married to Moritz, the same contract lawyer who helped Ollie settle in and who keeps showing up and cooking for him in the evenings. But things have gone wrong: Bryn and Moritz are separated, pending divorce.
Ollie and Bryn fall fast together, becoming best friends, and as Ollie gets to know Moritz's caring heart he realizes he has feelings for this beautiful man, too. It's clear that Bryn and Moritz still love each other. As Ollie works to bring them back together, he finds himself being healed in return and drawn into their loving embrace.
Infinite is the first book in the Sky Nymph series and is a 50,000-word MMM romance with magical realism, patient angels, typewriters on bicycles, and lots of espresso. Although Infinite takes place in the magical Vienna of the Augarten series, it can be read as a standalone.
Oh Buoy, by Ava Olsen
Andrew: I've traveled the world as a yacht steward for the past year, trying to outrun a broken heart and a mountain of debt. Then a gig as a chief stew on board a yacht in the Caribbean comes my way. The timing is right, the weather is perfect, and the pay is desperately needed.
My billionaire boss, Rowan Carter, is way too distracting. With his charming British accent and sarcastic quips, Rowan commands all my attention and none of it is focused on work. I prepare to meet another entitled jerk when I step on board his ship, but it turns out that Rowan is the exception to the billionaire rule. And I get a first-hand glimpse of the kindhearted man behind the money.
The professional line between us melts away but I've been badly burned by a workplace relationship gone wrong. And Rowan and I live in two very different worlds. I can't – shouldn't – fall for Rowan Carter.
Oh boy. Too late.
Rowan: I run a real estate empire but being in the top one percent isn't all fun and caviar. The family business has struggled these past two years and now the one place that was my refuge may be taken away from me. Add to that, I'm a target for the paparazzi because of a former relationship. I've never felt so alone. Lonely. Unmoored…
Until a dreamy American named Andrew Slater walks aboard my ship and into my life. Andrew takes delight in answering my snark with sarcastic retorts and his wit is matched by quiet acts of kindness.
Falling in love is an unexpected voyage for both of us. Unless the press gets wind of our relationship, and then all bets are off.
But I fight to win, because Andrew is the most important deal of my life.
Oh Buoy is a boss-employee, friends to lovers, MM romance filled with tropical locations, spicy banter and swoony moments.
His Precious Omega, by Raiven Matthews
Brendan Sinclair
Being a Daddy was who I was, but I'd never found a boy that I'd wanted to keep forever.
Until I spotted him.
Standing in the line at a kink club to sit on Santa's lap, he was shy innocence all wrapped up in an adorable package. From the first taste, I couldn't get enough of him. Yet when an unseen danger prowls closer, my every instinct is protect my boy at all costs. He is my fated mate.
Do I have it in me to be the Daddy he deserves?
Ryan Foster
The night I saw him in the club, I had been waiting to ask Santa for my forever Daddy. Now, I feel my wish was answered.
He makes me feel safe… and treasured.
I want nothing more than to climb in his lap and be his boy forever. But I have a secret that threatens to tear us apart. Can I escape my past once and for all? Or will our mate bond be destroyed by a darkness I can't outrun?
This is book 3 of the Sweet Alps Mates series, and features Daddy/little kink, fated mates, shifters, mpreg, stalking, and a HEA. While other characters from previous books pop in, it is not necessary to read any of the books in order.
Apex Predator, by Cara Dee
The Game Series • Book 11 • Primal Play • MMMM • D/s • Second Chances • Hurt Comfort • Vacation Romance
Pack your sunscreen and strap in for a wild ride and a kinky vacation that doesn't go as planned.
Lane Sawyer had no complaints. Not really, anyway. After all, he'd just been invited to spend a week down in sunny Florida with his amazing boyfriend Macklin and some of his kinkster buddies. That was exactly what Lane needed. Uncomplicated fun and the promise of no drama—and hopefully a close encounter or two with the apex predator of the Everglades, the Burmese python. He loved, loved, loved reptiles.
But Florida was home to more than one apex predator. When Lane arrived, he found himself face-to-face with their host for the week, his high school girlfriend's dad. The man who'd once made Lane realize he was into men.
Macklin McKenna couldn't wait to get away. The problem was, he needed a vacation from himself more than DC. But maybe a week in South Florida with his friends and his adoring boyfriend Lane could distract him from the fact that he was never getting over the man he was still technically married to.
Unfortunately, Macklin's friends were fed up with his personal agony, and they'd ensured another apex predator was on his way down South.
The Game Series is a BDSM series where romance meets the reality of kink. Sometimes we fall for someone we don't match with, sometimes vanilla business gets in the way of kinky pleasure, and sometimes we have to compromise and push ourselves to overcome trauma and insecurities. No matter what, one thing is certain. This is not a perfect world—and maybe that's why the happily ever after feels so good.
The characters in the Game Series cross over in multiple books, as we follow not only new love interests but the background friendships and dynamics of a thriving kink community. The story of Lane, Ty, Macklin, and Walker begins here—but if you're interested in secondary characters and the Mclean House journey, you won't regret starting at the beginning.
Make Mine A Unicorn, by Harper B. Cole & Colbie Dunbar
Unicorns are supposed to sparkle.
Alpha Roscoe works from home creating jingles for ads. It's a lucrative business, and he works as much or as little as he wants. But recently, he's taken to doodling on scraps of paper, and without giving it much thought, each time he's drawn a unicorn.
Intrigued, he heads to the local library to research the mythical beasts where he meets an elderly man named Mr. Lucas and his blue-haired nephew, Harry, who regale him with tales of unicorns.
Harley is an omega unicorn shifter. He lives a solitary life because unlike wolves, bears, and lions, his mythical beast sets him apart from others. Until he meets a dragon shifter and his nephew and they get to talking.
Intending to meet his new friends at the local library, Harley wanders around checking out books. But neither the elderly man nor the younger one with blue hair turns up. Instead, Harley bumps into an alpha and everything falls out of the alpha's bag, including his unicorn sketches.
Harley takes fright, and it's up to Roscoe to convince the omega it was an accident. But was it, the alpha asks himself.
Make Mine A Unicorn is the sixth book in the M/M mpreg shifter, sweet-with-knotty-heat series. It features an alpha who can't stop thinking of unicorns, an omega unicorn shifter wanting to connect with people, a pair of matchmakers who use unusual methods to achieve their matches, a cute baby, and a happy ending.
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Old School Discipline, by Misha Horne
A slacker with a record and a bad attitude. A possessive bully with a very firm hand. A dorm room that can barely contain the heat.
I never planned on continuing my pointless education. But then I got arrested. Again. Hey, if those laptops weren't meant to be stolen, they should have been locked up better.
Somehow, my latest stunt and lousy attitude landed me in Redwood Academy. An exclusive university where they're supposed to turn screw ups like me into upstanding citizens. Or some crap like that. But, okay, fine, whatever. Still sounded better than jail.
So, what's the problem?
Well, let me name a few. The dean's got it out for me, because I might have broken a fairly big rule on day one. Gotta make an impression, right?
The troublemaking twink across the hall is obsessed with me, and his overprotective boyfriend doesn't like that very much. What can I say? It's hard looking this damn good.
And then there's Bax.
My obnoxious new roommate has a vicious sneer and massive biceps, and a past no one will talk about. I hate him like hell. Except when I don't. When he uses those strong hands to punish me in ways I've never dreamed of, hate is the last thing on my mind.
Oh, did I forget to mention the spanking?
See, Redwood's all about the old school discipline. And, apparently, so am I. Because getting bent over and spanked by my roommate is pushing buttons I never knew I had.
Any normal person would be planning a jailbreak, I guess. Believe me, I'm tempted. But I'm starting to think I might actually belong here. Even worse, I think I might want to belong.
To Bax.
And that's definitely a problem.
Old School Discipline is an enemies-to-lovers college romance with lots of steam, lots of kink discovery, and lots of spanking. This book includes angry, annoyed action between roommates who can't stand each other and absolutely refuse to believe they could be perfect for each other. No matter how much they like fooling around.
Lane- MxM, by Jae Greyn
The battle continues as the Witches choose another target. Secrets are exposed when the Hand-Me-Down Boys(Demi-deuil) of Fire Ridge Pride join forces with the Blood-rights of Amber Light Pride. Who lives, who dies, and who is caught in the middle?
Hide and seek becomes a dangerous game when Alisdaire Di Gatti, Blood-right and grandson of the Fire god, goes missing. Every attempt to locate him fails until the God Council mates him to the only Hand-Me-Down Boy who can find the living.
Elijah Di Gatti is crushed when the mating contract arrives for Lane Barstow, and it includes his brother's name. He knows Lane is honorable and would save Daire, no matter what. Elijah also knows his brother is conceited and cares only for himself. Elijah wants Lane any way he can have him and makes a blood pact with the goddess. She grants him permission to help Lane when things go wrong- and they will.
Will the Witches succeed and take Lane down, too, or can Elijah save Lane's life and win his heart?
We find what you left behind.
All blood bleeds red, but it does not always bleed magic.
-The Hand-Me-Down Boys
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Sanctuary for the Surgeon, by Jason S. Wrench
Finding love in the sanctuary of nature and another man' s arms.
Darrin Betancourt is a trauma surgeon in his early thirties living in New York City. His world gets thrown upside down after his husband dies in a car accident. Can Darrin get his act together and learn to love again before his life spirals out of control? His friends convince him to attend an all-gay retreat outside Woodstock. Begrudgingly, Darrin agrees to spend a weekend in nature, out of the city.
Jordan Floyd is a twenty-four-year-old farmhand who works for Devereux Farms Upstate just outside Woodstock. Jordan gets permission from his bosses to attend Camp Namast-Gay at the Woodstock Esoteric Sanctuary.
Darrin and Jordan end up in adjacent cabins. Can the two men take their friendship to a whole new level before the weekend is over? Or will disaster strike, derailing both of their lives and their burgeoning love?
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Never Have I Ever: Submitted to my Enemy, by Willow Dixon
How could I not have realized the guy I've been chatting with online is the one person I hate?
Kai, the bad boy I broke my rules for. Who stomped all over my heart. Twice. He's arrogant and annoying, and worse, he doesn't even remember what he did to me.
He's also my new presentation partner. I want nothing to do with him, but the more time we spend together, the more I realize he's not the monster I've made him out to be. I want to keep hating him, but it's hard when he's made it his mission to get me to like him.
As if things weren't messed up enough, enter MrWrong, the bossy as f*ck guy I've been chatting with online. Using an anonymous app was supposed to be an uncomplicated way to explore my more extreme interests. I didn't count on meeting the only person who's ever been able to give me not only what I want, but what I need.
I spent years denying my attraction to men to protect a broken heart. Now I have two guys I can't stop thinking about.
F*ck my life.
Alex and Kai's story is an enemies-to-lovers romance between classmates who discover they have more in common than they think. Expect lots of steamy, kinky conversations, and even hotter encounters when these classmates realize who they've been chatting with. It is the second novel in the exciting Never Have I Ever series but can be read as a standalone.
The Muse, by Emma Scott
From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Emma Scott, comes an emotional, paranormal love story of sacrifice, redemption, and the power of love over darkness.
Cole Matheson didn't think the road to being a successful painter would be paved in gold, but he hoped there'd be a few less potholes. Insidious self-doubt that whispers that he's no good, talentless, hopeless has him on the brink of despair. Maybe it would be better to just give up.
A midnight visitation by a beautiful creature of darkness changes everything…
Ambrosius Edward Meade-Finch surrendered to darkness centuries ago after knowing only pain and suffering during his short life. Now, Ambri makes humans dance on his strings, feeding on their desire for his own pleasure. But his liege lord questions his loyalty and commands him to bring a human soul into their dark realm.
Cole Matheson seems like an easy mark, but Ambri didn't count on his goodness, or the depth of his generous soul that wants Ambri just as he is. And Cole never expected to find in Ambri a muse who unlocks his talent and might also be who his lonely heart has been searching for. Something fragile yet powerful grows between them, and the possibility of soul-deep love hangs in the balance, if only they have the courage to reach for it.
But fairy tale endings don't come without a price. The dark forces Ambri answers to have been promised a soul, and they're coming to collect…
Dead Stop, by Pandora Pine
With his growing family and booming business, psychic Tennyson Grimm needs a vacation. And while Ohio is hardly the tropical beach he had in mind, when he gets an offer to be a part of the anniversary celebrations for the famously haunted Cincinnati Music Hall, Ten accepts. The opera director, Matheson Jennings, wants Ten to host public and private group readings, nothing out of the ordinary for the psychic. Piece of cake, right?
Ronan O'Mara is suspicious of the invitation from the start, but agrees to accompany Ten, along with Jude and Cope for an epic road trip. The fun and games of the open road come to a screeching stop when they arrive at their final destination, where nothing is as it seems.
During the public reading, a ghost demands Tennyson solve his decades-old murder—or else. Tennyson promises to do what he can, but Ronan's gut is telling them to get out. Ronan's instincts has never been wrong before, and this time is no different. The murder may have been in the past, but the danger is very much in the now. And growing.
Can Tennyson and Ronan get to the bottom of the mystery or will they be the next phantoms of the opera?
Historic Ember, by Meraki P. Lyhne
The belief in the old gods of Norse mythology may have been suppressed by Christianity, but that doesn't mean the races of old didn't survive. Like the Vargr wolves.
Today was a seed of vision, planted by change more than a thousand years ago.
Five people with vastly different outlooks and wishes for that future found friends or enemies in each other.
To move forward without making the same mistakes again, the Alphas of all gather knowledge about that time and what happened then.
There are only three people left in the world to tell that story. One is the product of the past, one can hear what ripples through time, and one experienced it firsthand.
Gathered around a bonfire, history comes alive as those three educate the Alphas of all about the times of change that blew across the North after the Great Pack War had ended.
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Heart2Heart volume 6, by various authors
Once upon a time, a bunch of authors wondered… what would happen if Heart2Heart, the dating app responsible for pairing up the quirkiest, most perfect couples, brought people together by asking the questions they never knew they needed answered?
From learning each other's secret zombie survival skills, to disputing the greatest starship captain ever, to confessing their feelings about Cornish pasties, the characters in these fourteen brand new stories inspired by reader suggestions will learn that no matter how random the question… love is always the answer.
And, as always, all proceeds from this anthology will benefit LGBTQ+ charities to ensure that love in all its incarnations will be celebrated and protected every day of the year!
Stories included in this collection are:
Heist of Hearts, by Alice Winters | Keeping Him in Cornwall, by Con Riley
Hate 2 Love U, by Daryl Banner | Love Down Under, by Eden Finley
Rock, Paper, Scissors, by Kate Hawthorne | Dog Days, by Kelly Fox
The London Chance, by Lane Hayes | My Darcy, by Lily Morton
A Drag Made in Heaven, by Max Walker | Connection, by Nicole Dykes
Worst. Date. Ever., by Onley James | Down the Mountain, by Rachel Ember
The Anti-Wingman, by Saxon James | The Choice, by Sloane Kennedy
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Tucked far out at the end of the coveted Pointe Milou on St. Barts, the brand-new Villa Pyramide is a wonderful find. This luxurious, three-bedroom property has an unforgettable location with show-stopping sea views and a western orientation that promises amazing sunsets every day. Noted for its impressive design and world-class amenities, it will delight you the moment you arrive.
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I'm so excited to be part of the Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild's EZ Dresden Challenge blog tour today. This Challenge is in honor of Darlene Zimmerman's 20th anniversary of creating tools and rulers for EZ Quilting. One of these classic tools is the Dresden ruler, used to cut wedge-shaped pieces typically to create a very traditional Dresden Plate block.
Here is my own traditional Dresden quilt created a couple of years ago. (And still un-quilted, I might add. I should really work on that…) There are lots of excellent Dresden tutorials that show how simple it is to create this very classic block. It has been fun as part of this challenge to see the variety of other ways to use this ruler and how versatile this tool really is!
The short-cut trick for this block is using a striped fabric. You could, of course, piece strips and cut them with the Dresden ruler as well, if you want a custom stripe. I used this stripe from Bonnie and Camille's latest collection Vintage Modern. The stripe print comes in three color ways, red, pink, and gray. (You can find this fabric here, here, here or here.) A 1/4 yard gave me exactly enough fabric for the colored wedges for 2 blocks. If you want a little leeway for mistakes, get 1/3 yard.
I then cut my wedges 7″ long, so line-up the 7″ line at the top of the fabric and cut fabric into the wedge shape.
Turn the ruler upside down and cut a second wedge. Continue cutting wedges alternating the ruler's direction.
You will need 10 striped wedges and 10 white wedges per pinwheel block. Using a 1/4 yard each of the red, pink, and gray stripes I was able to get 20 wedges from each – enough for two blocks of each color. From the white fabric I cut three 7″ x wof (width of fabric) strips and cut them into a total of 60 wedges – 10 for each of the six blocks.
Using one striped wedge and one white wedge sew them together in sets of two. Combine 8 of the sets into sets of 4 wedges. Combine 2 sets of 4 wedges with a set of 2 wedges to create a half circle, always keeping the striped wedge on the same side of the white wedge.
Repeat the process with remaining wedges to create a second half circle and sew the two half circles together to create a whole circle/pinwheel.
From remaining white fabric cut 6 squares 20.5″. Fold into quarters and crease the sides. Unfold.
Using the four creases as your guide, line up your pinwheel lines with the creases. You should have 5 wedges per quadrant. Turn your raw edges under a 1/4″ and carefully press and pin in place. You can then hand applique the wheel block to the backing fabric. I just used my machine to sew the edges down.
Once your wheels are sewn down, square up your blocks to 20″. Assemble the blocks together 2 across by 3 down. Cut your outside border fabric into (5) 1 1/2″ strips and add to the outside edges. Quilt and bind as you desire.
Now is your turn to come up with a project using the EZ Dresden ruler and if you do so, you could enter to win some amazing prizes. September 1-6th you can go to the SLMQG site and enter your projects. All the details are found on the Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild site.
Don't have a Dresden ruler of your own? You can buy one at most local quilt shops, directly from Simplicity.com or from Amazon. I also have one to give away! If you want the chance to win one, leave a comment on this post. GIVEAWAY CLOSED.
If you are looking for more Dresden inspiration check out these rainbow Dresden wheels, my favorite Dresden quilt, and this Dresden circle pillow tutorial.
Very cool. I love how it turned out.
Love your use of the striped fabric.. it does a lot of the work in this quilt. Just a great looking quilt.

And enter me please.. I would like to try this tool.
The peppermint pinwheele is awesome. So creative! Thanks for the chance to win the tool.
Great idea with the striped fabric!
Love this! So original…definitely going to have to give it a try! Thanks for sharing!
Great tutorial. I love the movement in the quilt. Another great Dresden pattern!
I really like your quilt! Very smart to use striped fabric.
I love how you've used a striped fabric to create your block. What a great idea. I really love it. And your choice in backing fabric was just perfect. You need to get that quilted to show it off. I'm sure you would get a lot of compliments because it's beautiful.
What a clever way to use striped fabric! Your quilt is lovely! Thanks for the easy-to-follow tutorial.
Just delightful!
2 of my loves combined – peppermint and quilting!
That stripe is PERFECT!!! Beautiful work!
I have loved seeing all of the fun projects made with the ruler.
That is so clever and FANTASTIC!!!! I see a table runner for Christmas in my future!
This is so, so cute I can't stand it. That was clever of you to think of it!
I could go for a peppermint right about now. Love the design.
This is a great quilt, Amy. Fun design!
What a fun quilt…love the striped fabric!
I've been holding out on buying myself a Dresden ruler, in the unlikely event that I win one 🙂 I'm just about fit to burst seeing what everyone has done. Your peppermints are too sweet! I'm excited to try my hand at Dresdens. I was terrified of them for the longest, but now ican't wait to do some!
I'll admit, the traditional Dresden doesn't really get me going, so all of these entries for the contest that have been cropping up all over blogland have been fun to look at, but haven't really beckoned me to consider them. But this…. this I like. I may have to take the plunge on this Dresden thing after all. Thanks for the alternative idea!
This is so cute Amy!! I love how your project turned out.
I love the use of the striped fabric! It's such a great use of those stripes!
So cute ! I love your idea of using the striped fabric to save time…thank you for the ideas !
Great quilt! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks for the tutorial, I really want to make something for the Dresden Challenge now!
Love this clever way of making a dresden.Thanks for the chance to win the ruler.
What a fabulous design! You've inspired a similar design that just popped into my head… Hmm, must try it out some time. Thanks!
That's a really neat quilt! It's simple but has a great impact!
So pretty…love the combo of colours! Thanks for sharing the tutorial!!
I love your quilt. The stripes are so cute! Thanks for the great tutorial.
I love your peppermint pinwheel block! What a wonderful use of stripes! This is a great tutorial and very newby-friendly. Thanks!
what a fantastic way to use a dresden ruler! I love it!!
That looks awesome–I love all the different ideas people come up with. The alternating wedges would also make a cute flower patch. Hmmmm … Thanks!
I really, really like this. It's so cute! Thanks for sharing.
Oh, Amy, I love yours the best of all!
love these peppermint twists Thanks for sharing!
Great tutorial – thanks! I love the peppermint pinwheel!
Wow, great use of that fabric!
Oh Amy, I would love the Dresden quilt ruler. I have just started quilting and absolutely love it! I want to make all my Christmas presents this year. Your blog is very inspiring, Thank you for taking the time.
I LOVE this! This is such a fun hop! You all are so creative.
how fun..I like the stripey version a lot! So cute. I have been using your tutorials as I'm working on a quilt top. I wanted to thank you so much. When I post about it, I'll link to you as your tutorials have been invaluable! Love your blog!
Wow, another amazing project on this blog tour! I have been so inspired by the projects I've seen. I never had an interest in a Dresden ruler before this tour but now I feel like I need one! Thanks for the chance to win!
What a sweet quilt (pun intended)! Thanks for your very clear instructions.
oh i adore your peppermint pinwheel! how sweet is that? thanks for the giveaway!
Nice use of stripes on your quilt. I would think you could get a wide variety of effects depending on the stripe you use. Did you also just turn under 1/4 inch on the inner circle? That seems like it might be hard to do.
When I was going to art school one of my classes made us make an advertising campaign for ice cream. I chose to do a specific flavor: Jolly Peppermint Dango, which was a Christmas peppermint ice cream with a hint of cinnamon. I still want to make it. Why am I so lazy?
nice idea, using big stripes fabric instead of making your own stripes. love the wheels! there's going to be a big run on big stripe fabrics at the quilt shops!
I love how the striped fabric really adds a whimsical touch to this. The colors are fantastic with the white and the backing is just perfect. Thanks for sharing!
Love the use of the stripes! What a fun way to use the dresden plate ruler!
I love the stripes! This would make a great Christmas quilt!
I adore that quilt! And it gave me tons of inspiration for my babies room! I thinking pinwheels! Love it! Thank you!!
I love the stripes! Thanks for the giveaway!
Love this quilt Amy! You make it look so easy peasy 🙂 thanks for your tutorial. I would love to win one 😉 thanks for the chance!
Oooh pretty circles… thanks for the opportunity!
What a beautiful idea with the striped fabric.
That's a great idea! That ruler is on my want list…I'll need to push it up on the priorities list!
The backing fabric looks great with your pinwheel Dresden block. Thanks for sharing your project, and the giveaway too.
I love your peppermint quilt! So cute and would be a great Christmas quilt to give someone!
I so love vintage modern!
What a cool item! Thanks for the chance to win.
LOVE the peppermint idea and I love your excellent photos of the step by step!
Very clever to use striped fabric. Your photos and instructions are crystal clear.
Thank you so much for the tutorial, Amy. You are so clever to use striped fabric. Love this quilt.
How clever! Love this quilt!
What a cute way to use a dresdie! Thank you for sharing.
A sweet sweet dresden! thanks for the tutorial and giveaway.
That would be so great for Christmas!
I absolutely LOVE this quilt! It makes me want to try a Dresden block and I've never wanted to before!
Hi Amy really love your quilt it is so modern and would look lovely in my living room. I sure hope that I win one of those dresden rulers as I can't find one up here in Canada at least close by.
Very cool. I love the way you used the striped fabrics.
This is an awesome way to use those striped fabrics. Great time saver and so pretty. Thanks for such a great tutorial too.
Your quilt is amazing – love the spinning dresdens. Thanks for the chance to win.
Your dresden quilt is amazing & such a clever way to create a new & unique block – even better that it's deceptively easy, with the use of striped fabric! Thanks for the inspiration & for the chance to win one of these great rulers.
Beautiful!! Using the stripe fabric was brilliant!
I love your dresden. I just used some of that striped fabric and still have some left. Please put me in your giveaway and thank you for the inspiration and giveaway!
I am seeing so many projects with this ruler. There are so many choices on how to use it I really want one. I have some ideas for this. I would love to enter my completed project in September too. Your quilt has inspired me. Thank you.
Such a cute quilt! Thanks!
Sweet stripey peppermints, who knew you could do so much with this ruler! Thanks for the tutorial.
I don't know how you do it, but you keep coming up with the cutest quilt patterns. This is my new favorite. Awesome!
What a wonderful tutorial and an adorable quilt! Thank you so much for sharing!
This is just adorable! Love the shortcut of using striped fabric too! Thanks so much!
Oh, I love the peppermint pinwheels. What a great idea for a dresden. Very different.
Oh, what a great tutorial.
Wow! The way the stripes look like they are floating on the white background is stunning. Love the skinny border too!
What a brilliant idea! I love it!
This quilting thing gets addicting. I will probably have projects until forever .. but this will definetly become one of them!!
So glad you posted this – and so glad I read ALL the way through it, I would have been sewing strips of fabric together to make those stripes!!!!! LOVE love this quilt, it's definitely on the 'to do' list. Genius – THANK YOU.
Yet another fun design. I'm just loving this Dresden kick! I would love to win the ruler to make some of these things that keep showing up on my pin boards!
I love your pinwheel design! I love that it could be Christmasy, but could still be used year round. The ruler is definitely something I could use; it looks so useful!
This is so cute! I love, love, love these dresden blocks. Thanks so much for sharing this cute quilt! I can't wait to give it a try.
Love it-just starting to quilt and I love the shortcut of using the striped fabric!
wow, I'm loving the dresden blocks I've seen, count me in for a chance to win a ruler! Thanks.
i would love the ruler!
Such a cute quilt! I'd love to win the ruler.
Love the Dresden quilt. I actually bought my first one 23 years ago at the first auction that my husband worked after auctioneers school.
Very clever!! This is super fun.
I love this!! And the striped fabric makes it so much easier! What about the centers? Is there anyway we could get an upclose picture of the circle and how you finished those edges? Thanks!
You rock Amy! Seriously this is like the cutest thing EVER!
I love this quilt! I especially love the backing fabric.
You are so creative. So cute. I'm off to check out your blog. Thanks for participating in the tour.
I love this. It has so much movement. This would be great in a Christmas quilt!
How clever to use the striped fabric to create the blocks! I love how they look like they're floating on the quilt. Well done.
I love this quilt!! It's so awesome. Thanks for the chance to win. I am definitely going to make a quilt like this in the future and it's marked away in my TO-DO folder 😀 Thanks!
How much fun! I love the little Starlight Mints candies, and your quilt reminds me of those! This would be a fun quilt for anyone to make.
Thanks for a chance to win! After all this blogging, I can tell this ruler would be great to have and use.
This is adorable !thank you!
This is lovely! Love the colour combination.
The pinwheels are so stinkin' cute! What a great way to let the fabric help with the design.
Really cute, love the dots!
This is such a unique block – thank you for sharing! And thanks for the chance to win!
I am a new quilter and this makes dresden quilting look far less intimidating, thanks for that! it'd be awesome to win a dresden wedge tool.
Beautiful! I just started to gather my first quilting tools, I hope to show some final work soon. In the mean time I will keep visiting and learning more from you. Thanks!
Oh, so many ideas you've inspired here! Now if only I could find the motivation to go with the inspiration. Maybe the ruler would be just the ticket? Love the quilt!
Love! My next to do quilt is a dresden. The ruler would be awesome.
I would love a Dresden ruler!
your quilt is so pretty and delicate – thank you for sharing!
I love the tute and I love the result.
I'd love to win too!
Lovely! It reminds me of Milly-Molly-Mandy in her peppermint striped dress.
An inspiring quilt! Great job.
I love peppermint – fresh and inspiring – congratulations!


Impeachment was clearly the word of the day, so let's talk about it.
It is freighted with anxious connotations for many Americans, who remember the tumultuous end of the Nixon administration in August 1974 and the national mood at the time. From a capital markets perspective, it was also a grim period. The S&P 500 fell 26% in 1974, tagging on to a 14% drop the prior year. That memory casts a long enough shadow that S&P futures dropped +10 handles yesterday afternoon after the Cohen/Manafort convictions on fears the US is doing a slow motion tumble into a political crisis.
That US stocks recovered yesterday is a good reminder that 2018 is not 1974. Recall that the country entered a deep recession in 1973 on the back of much higher oil prices (caused by a shooting war in the Middle East and Saudi embargo) and a weaker dollar (which ended a global system of fixed exchange rates). Now, we have 20% earnings growth in 2018, a good economy, low/stable interest rates and a rising dollar. From a macroeconomic standpoint, things are very different indeed.
Still, we have little doubt that a political event on the scale of a presidential impeachment would roil markets until the issue was resolved. Consumer confidence would likely take a hit as Americans engaged in a spirited national debate on the topic. Business investment might slow as managers took a wait-and-see approach to political developments. Whether this would cause a 5% pullback in US stocks or more is as unknowable as the exact timeline of how all this might unfold.
Impeachment doesn't mean President Trump is out of a job. The House, which PredictIt users believe Democrats will control in 2019 (66% odds), could technically impeach the president but the Senate (76% odds Republicans hold) could still acquit him.
That 45% is an all-time high, likely in response to yesterday's news. At a few points during the day it was actually over 50%.
While interesting, we take the PredictIt platform predictions with a grain of salt. Less that $7,000 of wagers pushed that mean impeachment trade over 50/50 and there are only $84,000 worth of bets outstanding.
55% said "No". This is greater than the 51% "No" responses at the start of 2018.
Responses split along gender lines, with 65% of men saying "No" as compared to 46% of women.
The youngest age cohort in the survey (18-34) is even on impeachment (48% "Yes", 48% "No") while every other age group skews "No" (56%).
65% of self-reported Democrats do want their party to start impeachment proceedings.
Independent voters – the sort that swing elections – reply "No" (53%) more than "Yes" (42%).
Over the short term, markets will likely ignore political headlines in the same way they did yesterday. This isn't 1974; there is plenty of positive corporate and economic news to buffer equity prices from small shocks.
It will take a decisive outcome to the Mueller investigation to swing general US public opinion towards the "Impeach" camp. As controversial as President Trump may be in some circles, and even after all the headlines of his time in office thus far, more than half of Americans do not want their representatives to impeach him.
In the end, we don't worry much about this issue from an investment perspective regardless of what happens in Washington DC over the coming months. Aside from a panicky drop on nasty sounding headlines (which we will tell you to buy), all this will run its course. Anticipated corporate earnings and interest rates drive stock prices, and nothing else.
For those clients who disagree with our take, we have one word: Treasuries. These should rally if a political crisis takes deep roots and hobbles consumer and business sentiment.


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Retooled Dance Theatre of Harlem Makes a Comeback
Carla Defordcmaadmin (EDU)
Temporarily shuttered, renowned dance company returns to national stage with a 40TH anniversary tour that includes campus stops.
On Oct. 16, 2004, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the only major ballet company in the world composed primarily of Black dancers, shut its doors. It was a move that stunned the New York arts community.
"Everything came to a screeching halt," says then-director of the DTH school, Laveen Naidu. Internal financial problems coupled with deep cuts in charitable donations following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks caused the company to acquire a $2.4 million deficit. The show could not go on.
Founded in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook in response to the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the company had become known as the place for ballet dancers of color to practice their art. Mitchell made history in 1955 when he joined the New York City Ballet, becoming the first Black male to be a permanent member of a leading ballet company.
Convinced that teaching ballet to the children of Harlem would fulfill his dream of "using the arts to ignite the mind" — the company's motto — Mitchell started with a few classes held in a garage. Mitchell made a practice of leaving the door open, which not only enticed children in the neighborhood to check out the school, but also spread the word to professional dancers that Mitchell had started a new venture. Before long, the school grew to serve thousands of students, and a group of professional dancers, under Mitchell's direction, became a company that performed to critical acclaim in New York and around the world.
When news broke that the dance company had ceased operation, hundreds of small donations came pouring in. "That told us the audience's desire to see Dance Theatre of Harlem was strong," says Naidu.
Within five months, $1.6 million had been raised, including $500,000 from an anonymous donor, who, it has since been reported, turned out to be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. What followed was a total restructuring of the DTH organization. Naidu, a former DTH dancer, took over as executive director and the board grew from three to 11 members. "It has taken four years but we have paid down about two-thirds of our debt," says Naidu.
DTH was able to reopen the school within two months, but its 40-member company was a casualty of the financial meltdown. Veteran dancer Keith Saunders remembers the dissolution of the company as a sad event, but notes that many of the dancers went on to accomplish great things in performing and teaching. Saunders is now director of the Dancing Through Barriers program, which gave rise to the DTH Ensemble, the reconstituted performing arm of the organization. Athough the ensemble has performed regularly at the DTH headquarters in upper Manhattan, it has never left its home base.
That is about to change. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the DTH organization will launch a tour, "Dancing for America," on Jan. 16, 2009 that will take the ensemble to nine states in 12 weeks.
As Saunders observes, "It was always a matter of when, not if, the company would return, but there had to be a new paradigm." Consisting of only 15 dancers, the ensemble is a leaner version of the previous DTH company, but Naidu sees it as the foundation on which to build a larger troupe in the future.
Despite the artistic success of DTH, performing opportunities for Black ballet dancers remain scarce. Even last year's unprecedented promotion of Misty Copeland to soloist at American Ballet Theatre merely underscores how very few dancers of color find a home in major ballet companies. The situation has not improved substantially since the days when Arthur Mitchell was performing, which is one reason the survival of DTH is of paramount importance to the world of dance and the arts in general.
Statistics show that Blacks continue to be underrepresented in ballet and academic dance programs. Of several colleges and universities around the country that shared information about the racial makeup of their dance programs, only one reported having more than 20 percent Black students. That is Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., with 13 Black dance majors out of 40. These are not ballet majors, however, but students who take various styles of dance. Indiana University, which has separate modern dance and ballet departments, reported having two Black ballet majors out of 42, or 4.7 percent.
The DTH ensemble will tour several colleges and universities in the South and Midwest, where the troupe will offer a lecturedemonstration or master class in the afternoon and an interactive performance in the evening. Representatives of those institutions are excited about welcoming the troupe, and their enthusiasm should come as no surprise. After all, during its historic tour of South Africa in 1992, a reporter described the company itself as "a traveling university."
Carl Baker, executive director of the Memorial Student Union and chair of the Lyceum Committee at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, is one such representative.
"At first I wasn't enthusiastic about Dance Theatre of Harlem. I didn't see its relevance to our students, but then I found out about its connection to Martin Luther King, and that's when the light bulb went on," says Baker. "Dr. King encouraged us to open our minds and broaden our thinking. He gave us the courage to get involved with activities that are nontraditional for Black people."
"Ballet isn't something I grew up with," Baker continues, "but being in an academic setting allowed me to become more knowledgeable about the arts." By bringing the DTH Ensemble to campus, Baker hopes to give N.C. A&T students similar opportunities. "The Dance Theatre of Harlem visit will be a win-win for everybody," says Baker.
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In an Austrian prison 25 years ago, a team of foreign monitors heard repeatedly from prisoners who had been beaten in police custody. Over an eight-day period, serious abuse was exposed in a country where few had imagined it. Protections were subsequently put in place – and Europe's anti-torture committee was born.
You haven't heard of them. And yet they can walk into any prison, police station, psychiatric ward or immigration detention centre at a moment's notice. Their interventions have helped stop degrading practices across the continent. Immigrants chained to metal hooks on the floor. Prisoners kept underground for months pre-trial, with no access to natural light and no idea whether it is night or day. As recently as 2008, a visit to a police station in Northern Ireland found evidence of police tying distraught individuals, naked, to their chairs, apparently to prevent self-harm – a practice we insisted must stop.
These are important successes. The anti-torture committee is part of the Council of Europe – the body I lead that is responsible for defending human rights across 47 European states. Thanks to many willing politicians and countless activists, much progress has been made. But there is still a great deal to be done.
It is now well known that a number of European states were complicit in the abuses conducted by the CIA in the hunt for al-Qaida after 9/11. Less understood is current ill-treatment at the hands of European police and prison officers.
Most worrying is the persistence of police brutality in custody, often to extract a confession. Electric shock treatment. Asphyxiation by plastic bag. The stringing up of suspects by their hands, barely able to breathe while they are punched and kicked. We know this still goes on.
This is also a matter of security. As governments across Europe now grapple with the problem of radicalisation among prison inmates, state authorities must uphold the highest standards. Torture in our cells will only feed terror on our streets. Treating people like animals is the surest way to help their humanity disappear. For the sake of our shared values and collective security, we must guarantee basic human rights for anyone in state detention.
The Council of Europe is a vigorous watchdog and we will continue to help our members reform, but we cannot be everywhere at once. National governments must now take greater responsibility, with oversight bodies that are independent and have real expertise. Inspection is a sensitive business. It takes careful handling to protect prisoners and whistleblowers from reprisals once the monitors have left.
As more states develop their capacity for self-inspection, the UK will be important. It is in a unique position to show others the way.
When we first came here in the 1990s we found a police force acting as its own judge and jury. The current system is not without critics, but no one can deny that the creation of the Independent Police Complaints Commission> has changed the landscape dramatically. The England and Wales Inspectorate of Prisons has also been an outrider – the first of its kind on the continent. It's no surprise that, in developing their own systems, the French and others look to the UK for inspiration.
Of course, things are not perfect. Rising prison populations, reduced staffing levels, a lack of activities for inmates and an increase in suicides are problems that must be tackled. However, the UK has a long tradition of openness and self-scrutiny. As we expect the same of others, it has an opportunity to lead.
In all this, what will be needed is political will. This is the lesson of the past 25 years. In our efforts to unearth torture, the Council of Europe has seen many grave things. But we have also seen what is possible when governments commit to human dignity for all. It's time to make all of Europe a torture-free zone.