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1 week ago | 
worldoffinewine.com | Stuart Walton |Hugh Johnson
Stuart Walton on the contents of the 2,000-year-old glass urn discovered at a Roman necropolis in Carmona near Seville. For well over a century, it was believed that the oldest surviving wine to come to light through archaeological excavations was the so-called Speyer bottle.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
decanter.com | Hugh Johnson
I have a few. I used to brag that I’d taste anything that came with a cork; these days I’m a bit more conservative. Fizz comes very high on my comfort list – and not necessarily Champagne. England has a dozen labels these days that give me the refreshment and uplift I’m looking for. I find people often complain that ‘it’s just as expensive as Champagne’. Not far off, I grant you, but then it has the same costs, above all fermentation in the bottle and all the handling that entails.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
churchleaders.com | Hugh Johnson
It would be easy to focus exclusively on our local churches in this difficult season, but recently the International Missions Board of the SBC listed practical ways we can support missionaries during these trying times. 5 Practical Ways to Support MissionariesDuring these stressful, uncertain days we need each other’s prayers more than ever. Set up a weekly time for a video chat to pray with your missionaries. Keep it to a small group and pray specifically for each other’s needs.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
accountingweb.co.uk | Hugh Johnson
Remember when summer meant postcards from colleagues boasting about their all-inclusive getaways? Now, as September returns, perhaps the only flood we’re getting is a tsunami of Excel spreadsheets, each more mind-numbing than the last. It's enough to make you long for those cheesy “Wish you were here” messages, isn’t it? Let’s face it, Excel is like a pair of comfortable slippers. It’s familiar, comfortable and dependable.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
decanter.com | Hugh Johnson
When my friend Michael Broadbent, the pioneer wine auctioneer, wrote his Decanter column (he kept it up for over 40 years) he often made life easy for himself by simply telling us where he’d had dinner and what they’d drunk. I’m not quite so convinced that you’d be interested in the Johnson family consumption, but there are occasions when I can’t resist the urge to make you drool.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
accountingweb.co.uk | Hugh Johnson
A query is simply something that selects data and/or performs some kind of action on it. This can also include creating data based on a set of input rules. The image above shows the first few lines of an income statement in my profit and loss template. There are 21 queries in the Power BI report dataset that work together to display this matrix. Each one has its own distinct purpose, and they are designed to combine a great user experience with ongoing report maintainability and flexibility.
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May 21, 2024 | 
decanter.com | Hugh Johnson
I make a distinction, naturally, between restaurant and merchants’ lists. There are restaurants that should warn you when you book that you’ll need an hour or two to pick from the 200 Burgundies and 400 Bordeaux, not to mention the head sommelier’s deep dive into Alsace, the Jura and the parts of Italy, Spain and South America where he apparently spends his holidays. These are website lists, to be tackled over the weekend before you go.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
decanter.com | Hugh Johnson
In October, the Napa Valley vintage was in full swing; a huge crop, the vines turning yellow against a sombre background: the hills all around, on the east side in particular, blackened by a series of wildfires that raced through the dry hillside grass, scorching the scattered oaks. Wineries were jubilant at 2023’s quality, after a slow, steady ripening season with none of the extreme ‘heat spikes’ that often grill exposed grapes here.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
accountingweb.co.uk | Hugh Johnson
Tracking how the various lines of your income statement and how they are moving in relation to sales is one of the simplest and most useful things that you can do to analyse your company’s performance. The good news is that it is straightforward to set up in Power BI. Consider the example below: This chart shows the income statement for the selected period with the actual expressed numerically, and then compares the actual and previous periods as a percentage of sales (% of sales).
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Dec 3, 2023 | 
boulder-monitor.com | Hugh Johnson
I would like to respond to the person condemning Senator Daines and Representative Zinke for not wanting to let Palestinian refugees i to the country (Letters, Nov. 22). The first thing that should be noted is that stable Arab countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates won’t let in Palestinian refugees because they are familiar with terror groups involved in the war.
