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The Return of Light: Swedish St. Lucia Rolls
By Astrid Hedbor Lague
Published December 6, 2016 at 10:00 a.m.
ASTRID HEDBOR LAGUE
St. Lucia rolls
Winter in Vermont means lots of darkness. In December, when the sun sets just after 4 p.m., it's hard to believe we'll ever return to bright summer days. Yet our descent into blackness is nothing compared to Sweden's.
I spent my junior year of high school there, living with my father's cousin and his family. In the middle of winter, even in the central part of the country, the sun peeks above the horizon at 10 a.m. and descends again at 2 p.m. Daylight hours are usually overcast, gray and hazy. When the sun did make a rare appearance, teachers sometimes stopped their lessons and allowed everyone to sit by the window and soak up some precious vitamin D.
It's no surprise, then, that the Swedes mark the gradual return of light with a celebration called St. Lucia's Day, on December 13. It originated as a pagan festival and, when Christianity came to Sweden, became associated with St. Lucia, a girl who is said to have secretly brought food to hiding Christians in the catacombs of Rome. She wore a crown of candles on her head so that she could find her way in the dark.
Today, St. Lucia's Day is celebrated in Sweden through songs and processions, where girls and boys carry candles, and one special girl — the Lucia — wears a crown of candles and greenery.
I was lucky enough to be part of this celebration and learned many Swedish Christmas songs in preparation. We sang for four days, bringing a parade of light to local businesses, schools and nursing homes.
Along with music, we brought lovely St. Lucia rolls. This sweet bread is also called lussekatter, or Lucia's cats. If you use your imagination, you can see the shape of a curled-up feline in each roll.
The most essential and unique ingredient in this recipe is saffron — thin, red-golden threads harvested from the saffron crocus. It lends an earthy, slightly pungent, almost perfume-y quality to the bread. Yes, saffron is the most expensive spice in the world, and I've seen recipes that add just a touch of yellow food coloring to mimic its color. But, in my opinion, you can't properly make these rolls without it. Luckily a little saffron goes a long way, and you can find affordable options at the grocery store.
I use a bread machine to make my dough, but the method I describe below does not require one. Some people stud these rolls with raisins and top them with frosting or chunky pearl sugar. My family likes them best unadorned.
They bring a little light to these dark days.
St. Lucia Rolls (Lussekatter)
Rolls ready for the oven
½ teaspoon crushed saffron
1 cup milk, slightly warmed
⅓ cup melted butter
⅓ cup sugar
3½ cups flour
5 teaspoons yeast
Add the saffron to the warm milk, allowing it to steep for a few minutes until the milk is golden in color. Add the melted butter and the egg to the saffron milk, and whisk gently.
Combine the remaining ingredients in a mixing bowl, then add the milk mixture. Knead the dough by hand for about 10 minutes, or with a mixer for about seven minutes, until it is smooth and pliable.
Place the dough in a slightly greased bowl and cover with a towel or plastic wrap. Allow it to rise for about an hour, until it is quite puffy.
Punch the dough down, then separate it into about 24 portions. Roll each portion into a rope, then coil into the traditional S-shape.
Place on a baking sheet, with about two inches between each roll. Cover with a towel, then allow to rise for about 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, then bake for 10 minutes.
Serve with coffee or tea. Flaming head attire optional.
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Q: strptime throws error when run in docker container When I run
from datetime import datetime
print(datetime.strptime('2020-01-15 09:20:00.00+00:00', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f%z'))

It prints out
2020-01-15 09:20:00+00:00

When I run a docker container with those exact same lines, it throws this error:
File "/vdp/base_functions.py", line 9, in <module>
j2lm@VB    |     print(datetime.strptime('2020-01-15 09:20:00.00+00:00', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f%z'))
j2lm@VB    |   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/_strptime.py", line 565, in _strptime_datetime
j2lm@VB    |     tt, fraction = _strptime(data_string, format)
j2lm@VB    |   File "/usr/lib/python3.6/_strptime.py", line 362, in _strptime
j2lm@VB    |     (data_string, format))
j2lm@VB    | ValueError: time data '2020-01-15 09:20:00.00+00:00' does not match format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f%z'

How can that be?

A:
How can that be?

I'm assuming you're developing snippets in some IDE, or Jupyter and than pasting it into the code that is run within a container. If so, make sure to use the same venv in your container image, that you are using to develop locally, to avoid issues like these, that can be tedious to debug.
If I use python 3.7 I cannot reproduce the error, so you might solve the error just by using an up-to-date docker image and run the script with a more recent python version (Yours uses 3.6).
Here is a sophisticated guide on how to set up your Docker file in a way that you have full control over which version of python is used, that I found very helpful.

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Kiowa County was established by an act of the Kansas State Legislature in 1867, and was named from the Kiowa Indians. Two tiers of townships from Edwards County and the northern ones from Comanche County formed the new county. The first recorded settlement of a white man was a Mr. Jordan in 1868, near the present town of Belvidere, in the southeastern part of the county. In the late 1870's, large cattle ranches were formed.
According to the Homestead Law a man could have a hundred and sixty acres after a settlement of three years, and the paying of $1.25 per acre at the end of this period. Among the pioneers who staked claims in northeast Kiowa County were those who envisioned a townsite along the railroad survey line. The first claims were established in 1884. By 1885, almost fifty families were settled on or near the present site of the City of Haviland. Family names were: B. H. Albertson, Lindley Pitts, Jabez Hall, James Gulley, Josiah Binford, Margaret Binford, I. H. Woodward, R. D. Woodward, Isaac Futhey, Charles Dowell, Vern Parnell, J. A. Harmon, Henry Hart, William Wilson, Alfred Cox, Nathan Brown, F. D. Kimberley, M. C. Shuck, Charley Hodgin, Luther Hadley, Charley Ishum, David Burns, Cordelia Mills, Gurney Mills, Zimri Thompson, Ruben Eaton, Caleb Davis, A. K. Kemp, Stanton Woodard, Verlin Pickett, Miles Woodard, William Woodard, Daton Pickett, Alva Gulley, Paris Newlin, P. M. May, Colonel Dean, E. M. Pyle, Francis McGraw, George Green, James Evans, H. J. Siler, J. A. Lucas, Andrew Amick, David Bevan, Barney Corrigan, James H. Scott and Carm Cooke.
In 1886, R. D. Woodward, A. K. Kemp and John Falter each donated ten acres of land for a new town site. The life and influence of an outstanding woman, Laura S. Haviland, of another state prompted the choice of Haviland as the name for this new Kansas town in Kiowa County. The Haviland Town Company was formed in May, 1886 and the charter filed July 12, 1886. The City was incorporated April 3, 1906.
hereby organize the HAVILAND TOWN COMPANY OF HAVILAND, KANSAS.
The town grew rapidly. Building material and food supplies were freighted by teams of oxen, horses or mules from the nearest railroad points of Larned or Kinsley. Soon homes, a school and businesses houses were built. In the early days water was hauled from Dowell (Wellsford), four miles east. A town well was dug in 1886 in the center of the crossroads on Main Street, which later had to be filled when the Rock Island track was laid. Another well, thirty-six inches across, was then dug a block north in 1887. Water was drawn with ropes and buckets and emptied into a trough. Jugs were filled and livestock watered for travelers. For many years Haviland was known as the "City of Windmills", because of having more according to its population than any other town in Kansas. When the City water system was installed in 1925, the windmills began disappearing from the town's skyline.
Worship and education were inseparable parts of community life and not dependent on the construction of a church or school building. As pioneer families arrived, Sunday Schools were organized and a school established. The Quakers (Friends) began meeting in homes in 1884. That same year, a school was started and classes met in a 10' x 14' dugout shed. The Methodist class (United Methodist) began meeting in a small frame schoolhouse in 1888.
The homesteader rush for land on west brought as many as one hundred wagons a day along the Cannonball Trail. The infamous Colonel "Cannonball" Green stopped his stagecoach, carrying mail and settlers in search of claims, at Haviland for dinner and a change of horses.
The Santa Fe and Rock Island railroads arrived in 1887.
There was a close fellowship among the early settlers. Each person was ready to share with and help others. When a child was expected, neighbor women delivered the baby into the world. When there was a death, the body was dressed and laid out by friends. The casket was built by relatives or neighbors. Burial usually was in the family yard or on a nearby hill. The cost of living and dying on the frontier was practically without need of cash. Common fare was corn mush and side meat, with sand hill plums for dessert. Fuel was buffalo chips spoken of as "prairie coal."
These early pioneers faced difficult and frightening experiences. While earlier Pilgrims in America had taken guns to church for protection against Indians, Kansas pioneers took hoes with them for protection against rattlesnakes. They were in constant fear of them, and many were snakes were killed daily. The story is told that on one particular day, Adelbert Albertson was hauling water from Wellsford, located four miles east of Haviland, and killed 22 rattlesnakes on his way home.
Prairie fires were a constant danger in the early years. In the autumn of 1885, a prairie fire swept from Dodge City into Pratt County, burning a strip 10 to 15 miles wide. The bluestem grass was as high as a horse's back and very little natural sod had been broken out. The flames, which were many feet high, swept from the northwest over the prairie and easily jumped a 100' fire guard. The smoke was so thick that breathing was almost impossible. The people were saved only by backfiring the grass and by wrapping themselves in quilts.
An interesting experience happened in 1885. It was reported that Indians in Indian Territory were on the warpath and were coming from Sedgwick County west to Meade County, destroying property and slaying settlers as they came. A great many people left their homes and congregated in nearby towns, remaining until they thought it was safe to return. It was soon learned that the truth about the scare was that a tribe was moving their summer camp in southwest Nebraska, and the false report was the cattlemen's method of chasing out the settlers.
The fall of 1885 and the early winter of 1886, the weather was extremely mild. On Christmas day of 1885 it was so warm that doors were left open. The people concluded that there was little need for coal or wood. They were using stacked ramrod hay, bluestem and bunch grass in hay burners. Ira Woodward explained that "the burner was constructed similar to a wash boiler, only much deeper. All you had to do was to take the boiler out to the hay stack and fill it with hay, taking care to tromp it in good and tight. then you took the lids off the cook stove, turned the burner upside down, stuck a lighted match to the hay, and you had a factory for cooking and heating." Mr. Woodward described the day and night of January 6, 1986: "It was warm and fine. When we awoke on the morning of the seventh, the thermometer was down to 10 below zero and at times it was as dark as night. Snow as fine as flour filled the air and the wind was blowing a terrific gale. A great deal of livestock perished in the storm and some people lost their lives farther west. our turkeys were blown off the stable where they roosted, and were frozen to death." This proved to be the worst blizzard these people had ever known.
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Dwight Howard visits China 2 weeks after missing his camp in Orlando
By By Josh Robbins and Orlando Sentinel
Dwight Howard is on the road again.
Two weeks after he originally was supposed to host a kids basketball camp in Orlando — a camp he withdrew from, citing the need to remain in Southern California to rehabilitate his surgically repaired back — Howard has traveled to China.
The former Orlando Magic superstar is visiting China as part of his annual promotional tour to the Far East for adidas, the shoe and apparel company he endorses.
Dan Fegan, Howard's agent, deferred to adidas officials when asked why Howard flew overseas but did not appear two weeks earlier at his Orlando day camp. In a statement issued to the Orlando Sentinel, adidas officials said Howard was cleared to travel "just last week."
In the statement, adidas officials said: "Since Dwight's injury our focus has been on his recovery. His health has continued to improve and just last week he was cleared to travel. We are excited that Dwight is now able to participate in fan and community events as he continues to prepare for the NBA season. Dwight is an amazing athlete and outstanding partner with fans around the world."
To be sure, Howard had remained in Southern California almost all summer after spending large portions of the 2011 offseason traveling to such locations as
, Spain and Tanzania.
This trip is supposed to be shorter than Howard's prior trips to the Far East. Also, Gregg Darbyshire, the chief executive of ProCamps Worldwide, the company that runs Howard's camps, said that, as far as he knows, Howard's previously scheduled camp for kids in China has been canceled.
Howard underwent surgery to repair a herniated disk and remove disk fragments from his lower back April 20 in Marina del Rey, Calif. If he's returned to Orlando since then, no visit has been publicized.
His camp originally was supposed to be held July 1-2 at UCF but was postponed and later rescheduled for Aug. 13-14 at the Orlando Volleyball Academy.
On Aug. 6,
ProCamps officials e-mailed registrants' families to let them know Howard wouldn't attend
because Howard needed to remain in Southern California to continue rehabilitating his back.
In the meantime, Howard was asking for a trade from the Magic, and the cancellation of his camp appearance
ignited speculation that he simply didn't want to face fans in Central Florida again
Magic traded him Aug. 10 to the Los Angeles Lakers in a complex four-team deal
Rookie Andrew Nicholson took Howard's place at the camp, and families who paid the $199 registration fee and were upset by Howard's absence were given the option of receiving refunds.
Howard had never missed a day of his camp before and
always donated his proceeds to local charities, Darbyshire said
. About two-thirds of the camp's 140 participants this year had their registration fee paid for by nonprofit groups because their families couldn't afford it.
Howard won the Magic's annual Rich & Helen DeVos Community Enrichment Award six times during his eight-year Magic tenure.
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It seems that Howard will continue his training regimen while he's overseas. His Altamonte Springs-based personal trainer, Bryan Meyer, could be seen trailing Howard in the video.
A group of screaming fans — some of them waving signs featuring Howard in a Lakers uniform — greeted Howard as he walked through the terminal.
With photographers and cameramen trailing him, Howard blew a kiss to the crowd, smiled and said, "I missed you, China!"
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The Central Highlands Regional Assembly - Voices of the Community
Written by George Fong
On Thursday afternoon/evening, I had the great privilege of being a part of the 2nd Central Highlands Regional Assembly, held in the Hepburn Shire at the RACV Goldfields Resort. This event was different from the first assmbly. We have done a lot of work since then. The work included grinding down waht the community were telling us were priorities, working out how we talked to various State Government departments and developing a strategic foundations for our four year journey as the Partnership.
I wrote about my hopes and aspirations for the Partnership and the first Regional Assembly last year. I reflected back on it before I wrote this piece, and if anything, I am now more committed and invested in this arduous but greatly fulfilling initiative. There are some things we haven't gotten right. We found it hard to go back to the community and spell out excatly what we were doing. In those early stages, what we were doing is spending a lot of time listening and learning, developing relationships, building a strategic footing for that four year journey. It was much harder and more challenging than we thought.
But now that we are here at the end of our first year of this project, we've got so much more to say and we are so much better now at listening and getting the messages back to Government. In the first Assembly we asked what the region's priorities were; today we have articulated and refined those priorities and we are builing on them. Connectivity, both Physical and Digital, Primary Health, Waste to Energy,
© George Fong 2016 - 2020


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Written by Jim Murphy | Photos by Anthony Harden
The printing room throbs with the efforts of two massive multicolor presses and a series of machines that cut, fold, and assemble the catalogs, brochures, and posters that come off the presses. The room is as well lit as a basketball court on game day—and even bigger.
The design room produces a muted hum against the insulation of padded cubicles where Apple computers stand ready to create the layout and the look for a client's promotional material.
The man in charge of all this orderly, even sleek production is Jim Daniels. Jim's office at the front of the building looks out on Swannanoa Road through a window that runs the length of the room. Awards cover the walls, and family pictures of three smiling generations sit on a side table.
And then there's Jim's desk. It is not so much a workspace as a mini-warehouse, displaying no fewer than 11 stacks of papers, each at least a foot high. They contain brochures, folders, pamphlets, binders, booklets, correspondence, proposals, and a vast selection of unclassified random paperwork. Jim shows a sheepish grin as he swears he could find anything he might need in his maze of stacks.
One wonders if some of the documents in his towers of paper might reach all the way back to the beginning of the business in 1948.
That's the year doctors sent Jim's father, Ernest, to Asheville in a desperate effort to deal with his tuberculosis. "The doctors sent him here to die," Jim says. But Ernest was a widower with a young son to support, so he rejected the death sentence and began looking for a way to support the two of them.
"He had been a stenographer in Florida. He knew how to take dictation and he was a good typist. So he went to the offices around Pritchard Park, looking for temporary stenographer work—taking dictation, typing letters. He got enough work that we managed to survive."
One of his clients was a law firm, and he soon made a deal to provide free typing services in the morning in return for desk space and use of their equipment in the afternoon.
Pretty soon, the elder Daniels was ready to expand to his own office. "He rented a room in the McIntyre Building in Pack Square Park. He borrowed $50 to buy a used typewriter and mimeograph machine and he put out a shingle that said, Daniels Secretarial Service. I worked there after school and on Saturdays and—if we were busy—on Sundays. My job was to crank that damn mimeograph machine. I was making a quarter an hour. After a while, business was good and we expanded to two rooms."
Expansion became the company keyword. Daniels Secretarial Services soon became Daniels Duplicating, then Daniels Duplicating and Mailing, and Daniels Business Services before it finally settled into its current identity: Daniels Graphics.
As the name changed so did the location. Over the next four decades the company moved to bigger offices six times, finally settling in their current headquarters on Swannanoa Road. Along the way one of their offices was in a building that had been occupied by Mission Hospital.
"We were using the morgue, the laundry, and the D.O.A. room. By this time we had three or four presses, duplicators, folders, cutters, cameras, and stuff. Maybe five or six employees. I think my pay was up to $100 a week by then. We were doing real well.
"Our biggest customer was GE in Hendersonville. One day they contacted us and said, 'You know, we've got a little building out here that's full of our literature.' It was sales documentation, collateral material, that kind of stuff. They said, 'Could you store it for us, send it out to our customers?' That was the beginning of our fulfillment business."
Now an entire floor of the Daniels building—20,000 square feet—is dedicated to fulfillment and mailing. In the fulfillment area, rows of shelving are stacked with printed material for an array of clients in the furniture and bedding industries. The promotional and product packaging pieces are ready to go whenever the client needs them. Daniels can ship the products to the client or to its overseas manufacturing headquarters. Daniels also provides direct-mail service. A client sends in a mailing list, and Daniels' mailing department can fold, insert, seal, and stamp items, and send them on their way. Daniels can give its clients full service, from the initial design of a piece, through the printing, and, finally, the direct mail marketing.
This post-printing dimension to the company began back in the late '50s with that request from General Electric. "GE was our biggest customer back then. We depended on them. And they're still a good customer. We've been working together since 1958."
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Inflation Spain 1984
Inflation Spain 1984 (CPI) - The inflation chart and table below feature an overview of the Spanish inflation in 1984: CPI Spain 1984. The inflation rate is based upon the consumer price index (CPI). The CPI inflation rates in the table are presented both on a monthly basis (compared to the month before) as well as on a yearly basis (compared to the same month the year before).
Using the tabs you can switch between the 1984 CPI inflation overview and the 1984 HICP inflation overview. In case you are interested in the long term development of the inflation in Spain (CPI), click here. For the current inflation in Spain (CPI), click here. Following link provides you with an overview of current inflation by country (CPI).
Chart - CPI inflation Spain 1984 (yearly basis)
The average inflation of Spain in 1984: 11.30 %
Table - 1984 inflation Spain (CPI)
january 1984 - december 1983 1.55 % january 1984 - january 1983 12.07 %
february 1984 - january 1984 0.38 % february 1984 - february 1983 11.93 %
march 1984 - february 1984 0.81 % march 1984 - march 1983 12.15 %
april 1984 - march 1984 0.47 % april 1984 - april 1983 11.15 %
may 1984 - april 1984 0.54 % may 1984 - may 1983 11.29 %
june 1984 - may 1984 0.71 % june 1984 - june 1983 11.43 %
july 1984 - june 1984 1.54 % july 1984 - july 1983 12.74 %
august 1984 - july 1984 0.69 % august 1984 - august 1983 12.02 %
september 1984 - august 1984 0.20 % september 1984 - september 1983 11.35 %
october 1984 - september 1984 0.60 % october 1984 - october 1983 10.53 %
Historic CPI inflation Spain
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It's Who you Know in BORN TO BE WILDE
by fangswandsfairy • Book Review, Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: Georgian, industrial revolution, laudanum, Wealth, women in business
Born to be Wilde
Book 3 in the Wildes of Lindow Castle series
Print Length: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon; Reprint edition (July 31, 2018)
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
I voluntarily reviewed an advance readers copy of this book. No remuneration was exchanged and all opinions presented herein are my own except as noted.
The richest bachelor in England plays matchmaker…for a heiress he wants for himself!
For beautiful, witty Lavinia Gray, there's only one thing worse than having to ask the appalling Parth Sterling to marry her:
Being turned down by him.
Now the richest bachelor in England, Parth is not about to marry a woman as reckless and fashion-obsessed as Lavinia; he's chosen a far more suitable bride.
But when he learns of her desperate circumstances, he offers to find her a husband.
Even better, he'll find her a prince.
As usual, there's no problem Parth can't fix. But the more time he spends with the beguiling Lavinia, the more he finds himself wondering…
Why does the woman who's completely wrong feel so right in his arms? https://eloisajames.com/bookshelf/born.php#order
If you've read Eloisa's books then you'll he romance in this cute book is as expected: initially conflicted and predictably passionate. The idea that Parth and Lavinia will end up with others is perhaps upheld just a little too long. What is delightful is Lavinia's burgeoning sense of self and of self-worth. She's an aristocrat with "the common touch" — considerate without patronizing airs, and willing to work as hard as anyone. Where Parth is concerned then, she would be a brilliant match; just as soon as he stops being an asshat. I think the subplot of Parth matchmaking for Lavinia is a red herring; It really is not that important to the novel.
For a man who owns a lace factory, it seems odd that he would consider Lavinia's interest in fashion excessive or frivolous. But he quickly realizes she has some good ideas. It is a bit surprising that her talent, good taste, discernment and ability are as well-formed as they are. Her treatment of the serving and merchant classes is impeccable and without the condescension one might expect.
Lavinia has to truly grow up in this novel: she's penniless, kind of ruined, and her mother has some serious physical and legal issues. She has to deal with circumstances of business for which her education has ill-prepared her. Her abilities and good taste, however, give her a leg-up. Like women everywhere she figures it out and gets it done. I think this is the most important theme in this book. Lavinia's success is amazing, and entirely surprising to herself. That she has a built-in clientele in the Wilde family is no surprise. As is often the case, it is who you know as much as what you know that helps one achieve success.
Parth is well-off, Half-Indian but legitimate, which Elisa points out was not yet disdained in the 18th century. His attachment to, and acceptance by, the Duke's family is complete. They consider him one of them but does the rest of society? But, this is a very unusual ducal family whose rank offers them, and those in their sphere, a lot of latitude.
Eloisa has the talent for presenting her characters a little larger than life but, even the aristos are often down-to-earth, decent, and approachable. She writes fun sheet time and the passion between her characters is believable. Furthermore the relationships that we know will work out require attitude adjustments. In this case there is a little too much use of the miscommunication device, but maybe that speaks to the time and the way in which men and women communicated in that period. However, that one person is so easily willing to believe the worst about someone for whom they care is a poor start for a lifelong commitment.
To some degree, the HEA requirement for the genre makes all romance novels predictable. Eloisa's paths from Alpha to Omega are always inventive and amusing.
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September 21, 2018 @ 12:52 PM
Sadly, I have yet to read a James' novel and I'm pretty sure I have one on the shelf from an older series. I like the way you describe the heroine having to grow up and find her way.
fangswandsfairy
While they're always amusing, and sometimes quite pioneering, I have had issues with a few. But James truly has proven her chops. Thanks for commenting.