Heart attack is a dreaded event for anyone. Ever thought how you can know that you are having a heart attack. The fact is an early recognition of attack results in early treatment. This in turn leads to less suffering and risk of death.
Heart attack can present in different ways. One of the classical presentations is the "movie type" sudden severe chest pain or someone collapsing, then there is of course no doubt. But in most of the cases the the symptoms are less typical.
What are the premonitory symptoms?
In some cases before the actual heart attack, there are premonitory symptoms like extreme fatigue, generalized feeling of being unwell, low mood etc. But they are very nonspecific symptoms and sometimes are difficult to correlate with a heart attack.
At what hours heart attacks happen?
It can happen anytime. But books say that the morning hours 6 am to 12 pm are particularly dangerous for having a heart attack.
The commonest symptom of heart attack is pain in the centre of the chest which lasts for more than a few minutes and is not relieved with rest. The pain might initially get received only to recur again. Pain is usually in the middle of the chest with radiation to left arm. The pain can be predominantly felt in other parts of upper body like – neck, jaws, back etc. In patients with diabetes and in females the pain may be less and more atypical.
Chest pain is usually associated with shortness of breath, or a sense of suffocation. In more severe cases there can be accumulation if fluid in lungs when there will be severe shortness of breath with inability to lie down straight.
Cold sweating can occur in heart attack.
Other atypical symptoms like extreme fatigue , dizziness , altered sensorium are more serious manifestations and signify high risk.
Are are two things prevention and treatment.
For prevention risk factor reduction, regular intake of medicines for diabetes , high BP , elevated cholesterol. Every attempt including treatment should be done to stop smoking.
For treatment always consult a doctor for symptoms of chest pain, shortness of breath. Consult early and don't delay thinking that it will go away, as a timely treatment can be live saving.
Concluding message: know the symptoms of a heart attack and act early.


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The Glenwood Public Library District began in 1974 through the efforts of a library committee and the Suburban Library System. In September 1974, the library opened in a shopping center storefront at 301 Glenwood–Lansing Road. In February 1975, successful referendum was incorporating Lynwood into the library district, more than doubling the size of the district. The library's name was changed to reflect the inclusion of both villages in the library district.
The library moved in 1976 to another storefront in the same shopping center which 5200 square feet. In 1984 the library moved across the street from the shopping center to 320 Glenwood-Lansing Road, into a Porta-Structure. Brookwood School District agreed to lease the land to the library for 25 years at $1 per year.
The new facility cost $506,000, funded by a construction grant from the state of Illinois, monies saved over the years and a mortgage on the remaining amount. The size was 3,800 square feet and could house 33,000 volumes of library materials.
The building served the communities of Glenwood and Lynwood for over 25 years, but as the communities grew the library was not large enough to handle the demand of new library services by the residents (technology, programming, more books).
In April 2005, the residents of Glenwood and Lynwood passed a referendum to build and operate a new library facility. The referendum with passed 59% of the vote and purchased 14 acres of land was purchased in Lynwood on Stony Island Avenue. Stony Island is the approximate geographic center of the two communities and directly off the I-394 expressway. The amount of land will allow the library to grow and provide for outdoor programming options.
On September 22, 2008, the new Glenwood-Lynwood Public Library District opened to the public. It is 19,005 square feet and cost 6 million dollars. It can hold 70,000 volumes of library materials; has a meeting room that can be divided into 2 different meeting spaces; hosts 3 quiet study rooms; a computer lab with 20 computers; separate children and teen spaces; ample table seating; café area for snacks and conversation and enough room for staff and library storage. It is located in a picturesque setting with a small pond and natural prairie grass.
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You just need some fresh, crispy lettuce, mushrooms sautéed in a butter sauce, sprinkle on some parmesan cheese and you have a really tasty mushroom wrap. This recipe totally works with chicken or steak to make it a little more hearty or modify the ingredients slightly and it can absolutely be vegan.
This recipe will make 6-8 mushroom wraps depending on the size of your lettuce leaves.
Add olive oil to a pan over medium high heat.
Add in mushrooms and salt and pepper to taste, allow to cook about 5 minutes or until mushrooms are seared on one side. Careful not to crowd the pan.
While mushrooms are cooking, wash and dry lettuce and set aside.
Reduce heat to medium low, mix in onion, garlic, and butter and allow to cook another 4-5 minutes or until mushrooms are completely browned. Avoid stirring so the mushrooms can really caramelize in the pan.
Add vegetable stock, fresh thyme and reduce heat to low and allow mushrooms to simmer for about 10 minutes, just until the liquid has evaporated.
Scoop mushrooms into lettuce leaves, sprinkle a generous amount of parmesan on top, gently roll (taco style) and enjoy!
I do make an effort to find butter lettuce because it is so soft and has smaller leaves so it makes a perfect wrap. Really any lettuce works though- romaine, iceberg or bibb lettuce are all great options.
If you decide to try this for dinner at your house, please come back and let me know how it turns out. These mushrooms are absolutely delicious on a burger, with a grilled cheese, with pasta, over scrammed eggs or on their own as a side dish.


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Q: Font Responsiva Estou fazendo um tema para wordpress e coloquei a font com o tamanho de 5em o que fica em torno de 80px, mas quando eu testo no meu celular com 320px de largura, a fonte fica quebrada e feia, eu queria algo que fizesse a fonte ficar automaticamente no tamanho necessário.
Meu css está assim atualmente:
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A: A resposta do Samir está ótima, mas a medida vm não é suportada por alguns celulares mais antigos:

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*iOS7, IE11 e Edge só tem suporte parcial

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No caso provavelmente o seu layout também é responsivo, então você pode reaproveitar as suas media-queries existentes, por exemplo:
@media (max-width: 768px){
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@media (max-width: 1024px){
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Note que media-query não funciona em alguns browsers quando usado eles aninhados.
Se precisar de compatibilidade pro IE8 pode tentar este script que não tem dependencias com outros frameworks javascript: https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond

A: Isso acontece porque o em vai pegar, no caso, uma porcentagem do tamanho da fonte do elemento pai, e não necessariamente o seu próprio tamanho (height/width), então se no mobile você não usar um breakpoint para definir um novo tamanho de fonte para o elemento pai a div.logo está certa em permanecer da mesma forma, já que sua referência não mudou.
Dessa forma, você pode usar o vw unit no elemento pai ou na própria div. Explico mais sobre essa unidade aqui.
Olhe esse exemplo(ou jsfiddle):

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html, body {
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Font responsiva.

Ou você pode criar os breakpoints que disse antes. Veja esse exemplo. Repare que mudo apenas  fonte do #header.

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Love is in the Water: A Making Waves Love Story
Some of the best love stories are the ones that are unexpected. At Making Waves, we were lucky enough to come across a beautiful couple who are happy to share their love story with our families, friends & staff. For this couple, the love was definitely in the water since they both met at Making Waves, crossed paths and set foot onto a beautiful journey together. Read on in order to unravel the wonderful journey of Stacy Burnett and Eric Ouellette.
In 2006, Eric had the pleasure to participate with Making Waves. He had experience during the past 8 summers working with underprivileged boys at Columbus Boys Camp. He quickly jumped at the opportunity to bring his energy and creativity to Making Waves Camp. From creating balloon launchers to doing fun science experiments, Eric had the opportunity to meet and grow with the Making Waves family. The following year, Eric signed up again. This time to co-direct with a Making Waves legend, Stacy Burnett.
Prior to the summer of 2006, Stacy had been at Making Waves for about 4 years, teaching lessons in backyard pools and through Regency Racket club for about 50 hours a week! Eventually, due to the fact she was working almost all the time, there came a point where Stacy was tired from being in the pool. She decided to set up a meeting with Tiernan Murphy where she asked if she could get out of the water and work at Camp for that summer. As much as Stacy preferred to do something else,Tiernan felt that she was a great Coach and a very valuable member of the team who shined in the pool! Stacy stated "I was very flattered but I still wanted to do Camp". Therefore, Stacy was presented with the opportunity to work at the Camp that summer but little did she know that there was something far more greater waiting for her.
Their summer ran pretty much like the previous years, trying to strike a balance between doing fun innovative things and maintaining a positive relationship with Tall Pines. This is where the brilliance of Stacy and Eric flourished into something great. Eric stated that "Stacy was able to smooth out the ruffles made by me and vice versa, and a partnership was born". After that first summer, they decided to attend Teachers College in Australia for 2 years. Upon returning, Stacy stated "Making Waves is like Hotel California, you can check out but you never want to leave". Both Stacy and Eric found themselves directing the swim Camp at Making Waves yet again.
As the summer went on, they towed the line of professionalism and full on flirting. As two people who love children and enjoy inspiring and teaching others, they both knew they matched up pretty well. Stacy had such huge admiration for Eric and his ability to calm all kids, even the most high energy ones! That summer, Stacy often watched the interactions that Eric had with the Camp children and thought of how amazing of a father he would be.
Today, they are happily married with two beautiful children who are also part of the Making Waves family! Both of their children swim at Making Waves and love walking into a building where everyone knows their name.
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Year round swim sessions offer daytime, evening and weekend options to suit every schedule. Session start dates are listed below. Individual class start and end dates will vary based on the day of the week you are registered for.
Winter 2023: January 2nd - March 17th
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June 5th - Spring Session Ends
July 1st - CLOSED (Canada Day)
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July 31st to August 11th - Summer Accelerated 3
August 14th to August 25th - Summer Accelerated 4
August 28th to September 1st - Summer Accelerated 5
September 2nd to September 4th - CLOSED (Labour Day Weekend)
September 5th - First day of Fall Session
October 7th to October 9th - CLOSED (Thanksgiving Weekend)
October 31st - CLOSED as of 3:00PM (Halloween)
December 22nd - Fall Session Ends
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ATTENTION: Making Waves is closed to align with directives based on the advice of Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health regarding COVID-19. Please know that we are ready to open as soon as children's activities resume in our communities. We all want our children back to a normal routine as soon as possible. We will keep in touch as this situation unfolds and will continue to respond to email and phone communications as promptly as possible during this time. Please continue to stay connected with us on our social media channels. We are so looking forward to laughter and learning filling our pools again!


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El municipio de Amatepec es uno de los 125 municipios del Estado de México, se localiza al suroeste de la entidad y su cabecera es el pueblo de Amatepec.

Geografía
El municipio de Amatepec se encuentra localizado en el suroeste del estado de México; tiene una extensión territorial de 638.55 kilómetros cuadrados y sus coordenadas geográficas extremas son 18° 35' - 18° 48' de latitud norte y 100° 00' - 100° 30' de longitud oeste. Su altitud fluctúa entre los 500 y los 2 400 metros sobre el nivel del mar.

Limita al norte con el municipio de Tejupilco, al sur con el municipio de Tlatlaya, al este con el municipio de Sultepec. Al suroeste, al sureste y al oeste limita con el estado de Guerrero, al suroeste con el municipio de Tlalchapa, al sureste con el municipio de Teloloapan y el municipio de General Canuto A. Neri y al oeste con el municipio de Cutzamala de Pinzón.

Demografía
El municipio de Amatepec registró en el Censo de Población y Vivienda realizado en 2010 por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía un total de 26 334 habitantes, de los que 12 799 son hombres y 13 535 son mujeres.

Localidades
En el municipio de Amatepec se localizan un total de 178 localidades, siendo las principales y su población en 2010 las siguientes:

Política y gobierno

El gobierno del municipio le corresponde al Ayuntamiento, que está conformado por el presidente municipal, un Síndico y un cabildo integrado por 10 regidores, el Ayuntamiento permanece en su cargo por un periodo de tres años no reelegibles para el periodo subsiguiente, pero si de manera no consecutiva, el periodo gubernamental inicia el día 1 de enero del año inmediato a la elección.

Representación legislativa
Para la división territorial es distritos electorales donde son electos los diputados locales y federales, el municipio de Amatepec se encuentra dividido de la siguiente manera:

Local:
 Distrito electoral local 9 del estado de México con cabecera en Tejupilco.

Federal:
 Distrito electoral federal 36 del estado de México con cabecera en Tejupilco.

Véase también
 Estado de México
 Tierra Caliente
 Región Tejupilco

Referencias

Notas

Fuentes

Municipios del estado de México

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Creativity Pops-up Across Singapore
Singapore creativity is all around town these days — if you can catch it on time. Pop-up markets have become a popular platform for local designers to display and sell their wares. These ephemeral events allow groups of small independent designers to rent interesting spaces together, as well as present as an attraction larger than themselves.
While trade shows in convention centres have traditionally served this role, the new pop-up style markets present themselves as specially-crafted experiences. They present designers around particular themes or standards, and are usually held in locations outside of typical retail spaces. Creatory showcased over 60 of Singapore's creative talents in an industrial building in MacPherson two weekends ago, and in February, NÓNG took over the rooftop carpark of People's Park Complex where organiser Edible Gardens is also building an urban farm.
A carpark rooftop was turned into an urban farm and marketplace for food and design in February as part of Edible Garden's efforts to promote Singaporeans to "Grow Your Own Food". | NÓNG
Reclaiming out-of-the-box locations for creative showcases is not new in this city. Back in 2004, design agency WORK brought the Comme des Garcons Guerilla Store to Singapore, helping the Japanese fashion label open year-long pop-up stores in Chinatown, Arab Street, Bukit Merah and Mount Sophia — none of which were known to be hip districts then. Around the same period, FARM also started regular ROJAK sessions by inviting designers and artists in Singapore to present their work at unconventional spaces such as the old National Stadium and an apartment in Golden Mile Complex. That today's pop-ups are filled with local designers who are making and selling (not just talking), suggests the industry has grown. And it's not just online design retailers like Naiise and Haystakt who hold such pop-ups, but there are specialist companies like Public Garden and Shophouse & Co that do so.
Creative pop-ups are only getting bigger and more ambitious. Come mid-September, Keepers: Singapore Design Collective will open for five months in the heart of Orchard Road with a specially-built pavilion designed by Zarch Collaboratives and ACRE. Also worth mentioning, is 2902 Gallery's on-going campaign to build DECK, a photography centre designed out of container boxes by LAUD Architects, which presumably can be moved when the two-year lease runs out.
2902 Gallery is trying to raise $20,000 online to build DECK, a new independent arts center dedicated to photography.
Even as pop-ups expand, brick-and-mortar stores that retail local design are not going away anytime soon either. Hong Kong based Kapok opened a store in the National Design Centre last year offering products from designers around the world including Singapore. Home-grown design shops, The Little Dröm Store and Supermama also recently refreshed and move into new stores too.
For a country, whose previous prime minister once declared that "Life for Singaporeans is not complete without shopping," buying local design has never been easier than now.
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Colbert on Debate: Trump Threatened to 'Wipe His Fat Ass with the Constitution'
The 'Late Show' host went live Wednesday night after the debate to make fun of Trump's 'suspense' threat.
Matt Wilstein
Updated Apr. 13, 2017 2:36PM ET / Published Oct. 20, 2016 12:23AM ET
Like The Daily Show's Trevor Noah—and the rest of the media—Stephen Colbert quickly recognized Donald Trump's refusal to say whether or not he will accept the results of the election as the "definitive" moment of the third and final presidential debate Wednesday night.
"Oh, suspense! Democracy's going to end in a cliffhanger," Colbert said in his live Late Show monologue. "I guess we're all going to have to wait until Nov. 9 to find out if we still have a country, if Donald Trump is in the mood for a peaceful transfer of power. Or if he's going to wipe his fat ass with the Constitution."
Colbert went on to wonder why Trump agreed to a debate at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas since "he hasn't had a lot of luck with casinos or universities." Meanwhile, when the issue of guns came up, Hillary Clinton "took the position of toddlers killing people equals bad." As the host said, "I don't know where she finds the courage to say things like that."
And then there was the moment where Trump denied the many sexual-assault accusations against him by repeating his favorite line, "Nobody has more respect for women than I do."
"That's why I use the Tic Tacs," Colbert said, assuming Trump's voice. "It's out of respect. Nobody wants to be groped and have bad breath, OK?"
Finally, Colbert flaunted his several Emmy Awards in response to Trump's claims that even that system is "rigged." But, he said, this might be Trump's year. After The Celebrity Apprentice lost to The Amazing Race, he may have them beat this year with "The Amazing Racist."


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After the launch of BMW i8 and electric i3, the company has not introduced any new electric offering in the market. Although the company did add a convertible version of its i8 sports car as a variant in the i8 range. However, last Wednesday in Munich, BMW CEO Harold Kruger broke his silence and detailed the company's plan for upcoming electric vehicles.
Kruger disclosed that BMW Group became a pioneer in the electric vehicle segment by launching the BMW i3. He further added that electrification is one of the key pillars in the company's "Number One" strategy. Kruger added that BMW will introduce four fully-electric models by the year 2021. The lineup will include the Mini Electric, the BMW iX3, i3, i4 and iNEXT.
The company plans on growing this number to 12 models by the year 2025. The 12 models will include both plug-in hybrids and electric-only vehicles. The plug-in hybrids will be offered with improved range and the company aims to grow its electrified car portfolio even further to 25 models.
The foundation of this plan is BMW's flexible vehicle architectures and global production set up. BMW will use a single production line to manufacture conventional plug-in hybrid and fully-electric vehicles. The increasing demand for electric vehicles will be met by integrating e-Mobility in BMW's current production network.
The company plans on delivering 140,000 electric vehicles to customers by the end of 2018. The production benchmark for 2019 has been further increased and BMW plans on getting more than 500,000 all-electric vehicles on road next year.
The company is working on the 5th generation electric powertrain which will feature electric motors, transmission, electronics and batteries that will be tweaked to offer optimum performance. The first model to feature BMW 5th generation electric drivetrain technology will be the upcoming BMW iX3, which will make its debut in 2020.
Under a 4 billion euro agreement with Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) BMW's Dingolfing plant will receive batteries from CATL. The Dingolfing plant has been commissioned to manufacture the BMW iNEXT electric vehicle and CATL will manufacture batteries for the upcoming EV out of its plant in Erfurt.
BMW has also announced that it will be entering into a joint-technology consortium with Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt and Belgium-based company Umicore.


This thesis is a study of the Public Safety and Emergency (PSE) radio communication planning and implementation process in Denmark over the last two decades.
The thesis aims to contribute to the field of technology development and implementation by studying how main driving forces affect relevant and rational choices.
In particular, the lock-in effects in ICT planning and implementation projects are studied during the planning and decision-making process, implementation and operational use of new radio communication technologies.
The main research and legal context, technological context and market context affected the choices and implementation for PSE-systems by public authorities in general and Denmark in particular.
What PSE-system did the Danish state want?
What PSE-system did the Danish state get?
Which decisive driving forces within the legal, political, technological and market context influenced the planning and decision-making in Denmark?
The study belongs broadly within interdisciplinary research. It seeks to understand and explain the decisive driving forces, which are capable of shaping rational planning and implementation by studying the interaction of three contextual areas: (i) the policy/law, (ii) the technology and (iii) the market. The study also addresses the competition and transparency aspect and finally the technological utilization of essential functionalities and facilities with reference to the set of EU harmonized PSE-standards.
The study is epistemological in the sense that it provides a detailed narrative of the TETRA technology implementation in Denmark for PSE-services over the last 20 years. The study is mainly inductive as it seeks to induce a holistic understanding of the main driving forces and the consequences. It originates from a comprehensive case study of the PSE-radio communication technology implementation in Denmark.
The study is primarily based on qualitative research methods. Case studies, observations, semi-structured, open-ended interviews, archive and documentary studies are used. The research is exploratory and explanatory in the sense that it identifies the main shaping contextual factors through comprehensive research. It aims to understand and explain how and why certain identified driving forces are decisive for the implementation and explain what consequences they may cause.
The analytical framework is constructed in such a way, that theoretical models, the methodology models and data collection approaches have been combined and ensure triangulation within all three parameters. Five different theories ( Socio legal studies, SCOT, Lock-in effects, Path dependence and Making social Science matter (power studies)) are used in order to analyse which driving forces are decisive, because those forces have inherent deterministic or irreversible properties that create a certain path.
The research thus is based on a triangulation of theories, methods and data that originates from techno- and socio-economic research as well as legal research. The Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) theory (Trevor J. Pinch et al, 1986), (Wiebe E. Bijker, et al, 1989) and the Social Shaping of Technology (SST) (Wajcman et al, 1999) are addressed to collect and analyse data on how and why a technology frame and a Radio Frequency (RF) spectrum frame are constructed. It is also used to explain how social groups of actors are capable of constructing a stabilization and closure towards a certain implementation model in the planning and implementation process.
The role of this irreversibility or closure towards a technology frame and a RF spectrum is also investigated by using theories on path dependence, increasing returns and lock-in effects (see e.g. (Arthur W. B., 1989) (David, 2000) (Raghu Garud et al. 2001) (Raghu Garud et al., 2012), (Carl Shapiro & Hal R. Varian, 1999).
The research analyses the organizational behaviour and human (political) commitment that gives rise to a particular course of action in the planning and decision-making process with reference to a governmental intervention and strong commitment to a 'high risk project', which is included in the thesis in the last case study. The analysis of the case in this context is situated in the literary context of e.g. theories on Escalation of Commitment and Escalation of Commitment bias (Barry M. Staw, 1976 and Cantarelli, C. C., et al, 2010).
Reference is also made to Leo Festinger's theory on cognitive dissonance (Festinger, 1957) to understand certain human behaviours based on mental discomfort; e.g. to explain the mental state experienced by those who are engaging in conflicting attitudes e.g. an attitude where a dissonance between the individual's ideas/values and the individual's actions are formed.
According to Nietzsche and Flyvbjerg, the power and the decisive forces are to be found in actual examples (cases), the details and the thick descriptions (of cases). Therefore, the thesis is based on analysing thick descriptions and in-depth case studies. The truth is in the details, which upon a closer analysis give the answers to what sequences of events that were decisive and influential on the decision-makers.
The significance of the research lies in the insight knowledge contribution in identifying and explaining the main driving forces within the legal, political, market and technology context that is capable of shaping the planning and implementation process of a technology in a certain direction. The case studies seek to illustrate how it affects the implementation and societal consequences.
This thesis findings show, through the wealth of empirical collected data centring on the TETRA implementation in Denmark, that the choice of a private mobile operator implementation model and the mobile provider's interpretation of the set of TETRA standards for the PSE-services was based on previous political decisions, RF spectrum and licencing allocation and administration, cognitive dissonance, social pressure, agreements, construction of a technology and RF spectrum frame, strategic behaviour, political vulnerability leading to "point of no return" by creeping lock-in.
The results and findings on how and why the context and history matter in ICT projects seek to assist those actors, policy-makers, planners, decision-makers and law-makers, who have to make strategic choices. The strategic decisions at an early stage can have enormous impact on the future flexibility in strategic directions. It empowers key actors to avoid some of the severe future negative outcomes if they have knowledge on how and why different driving forces in the PSE-sector affect the implementation and the operational use of a new radio technology, and how and why the market, politics, the law and application of the law are affected by this.
Keywords: PSE-services, social, legal, political and economic construction and shaping of the TETRA implementation and operational usage, risky decision-making, lack of competition, lack of transparency and operational use.


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Austria Continues to Hold Wrongfully Imprisoned Author Stephan Templ, says Lawyer Robert Amsterdam
By Citizen M | Published: February 9, 2016
The following press release was distributed to media today by Amsterdam & Partners LLP.
The Republic of Austria is continuing to hold prisoner the author and journalist Stephan Templ despite the presentation of crucial new evidence, his lawyers say.
Mr. Templ, who was convicted of "concealing" the existence of a family member in a restitution claim for Nazi-looted property in Vienna, has been held in jail since October 2015. However, the evidence used to secure that conviction has finally been revealed to his lawyers, who say that the Arbitration Panel in charge of restitution claims is proven to have known of Mr. Templ's aunt as far back as 2006.
"After years of denials and refusals, Mr. Templ's legal team was finally granted access to view documents which conclusively prove that the Austrian authorities had knowledge of Mr. Templ's aunt," said Robert Amsterdam, an international lawyer with Amsterdam & Partners LLP, which represents Mr. Templ. "It is completely implausible for Austria to claim that Templ concealed the existence of the aunt when the name is mentioned at least six times in documents he himself submitted to the panel."
Mr. Amsterdam says that the Republic of Austria should immediately release Stephan Templ and initiate an investigation. "It's time to end this reprehensible farce. We have a situation here where Austria acknowledges these thefts by the Nazi regime, but then jails the victim of the theft, despite the absence of any damaged party. It is difficult not to see shades of retrograde official anti-Semitism in this case."
The latest documents and more information about the case are available at http://stephantempl.com.


A revolution is underway in how large transactional and direct mailers print mail, with production inkjet price points and quality displacing traditional offset.
But some mailers are finding a cheap way to gain the power of variable data inkjet printing while retaining the low-cost of offset: mix the two.
That was the discussion by mailers and manufacturers at MAILCOM '17.
Instead of entirely replacing current printing systems with production inkjet, some lettershops are creating a hybrid system in which offset does the bulk of the printing and an inkjet printing unit does the spot variable printing at the end of the printing process.
This hybrid approach capitalizes on advanced inkjet printing systems used in addressing. One inkjet addressing manufacturer at MAILCOM noted an uptick in orders for its systems which are then incorporated with offset.
Case studies on innovative hybrid systems will be posted shortly.


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Economy Economics
Expenditure Method
By Alicia Tuovila
What Is the Expenditure Method?
The expenditure method is a system for calculating gross domestic product (GDP) that combines consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports. It is the most common way to estimate GDP. It says everything that the private sector, including consumers and private firms, and government spend within the borders of a particular country, must add up to the total value of all finished goods and services produced over a certain period of time. This method produces nominal GDP, which must then be adjusted for inflation to result in the real GDP.
The expenditure method may be contrasted with the income approach for calculated GDP.
The expenditure method is the most common way of calculating a country's GDP.
This method adds up consumer spending, investment, government expenditure, and net exports.
Aggregate demand is equivalent to the expenditure equation for GDP in the long-run.
The alternative method to calculate GDP is the income approach.
How the Expenditure Method Works
Expenditure is a reference to spending. In economics, another term for consumer spending is demand. The total spending, or demand, in the economy is known as aggregate demand. This is why the GDP formula is actually the same as the formula for calculating aggregate demand. Because of this, aggregate demand and expenditure GDP must fall or rise in tandem.
However, this similarity isn't technically always present in the real world—especially when looking at GDP over the long run. Short-run aggregate demand only measures total output for a single nominal price level, or the average of current prices across the entire spectrum of goods and services produced in the economy. Aggregate demand only equals GDP in the long run after adjusting for price level.
The expenditure method is the most widely used approach for estimating GDP, which is a measure of the economy's output produced within a country's borders irrespective of who owns the means to production. The GDP under this method is calculated by summing up all of the expenditures made on final goods and services. There are four main aggregate expenditures that go into calculating GDP: consumption by households, investment by businesses, government spending on goods and services, and net exports, which are equal to exports minus imports of goods and services.
The Formula for Expenditure GDP is:
GDP=C+I+G+(X−M)where:C=Consumer spending on goods and servicesI=Investor spending on business capital goodsG=Government spending on public goods and servicesX=exportsM=imports\begin{aligned} &GDP = C + I + G + (X - M)\\ &\textbf{where:}\\ &C = \text{Consumer spending on goods and services}\\ &I = \text{Investor spending on business capital goods}\\ &G = \text{Government spending on public goods and services}\\ &X = \text{exports}\\ &M = \text{imports}\\ \end{aligned}GDP=C+I+G+(X−M)where:C=Consumer spending on goods and servicesI=Investor spending on business capital goodsG=Government spending on public goods and servicesX=exportsM=imports
Main Components of the Expenditure Method
In the United States, the most dominant component in the calculations of GDP under the expenditure method is consumer spending, which accounts for the majority of U.S. GDP. Consumption is typically broken down into purchases of durable goods (such as cars and computers), nondurable goods (such as clothing and food), and services.
The second component is government spending, which represents expenditures by state, local and federal authorities on defense and nondefense goods and services, such as weaponry, health care, and education.
Business investment is one of the most volatile components that goes into calculating GDP. It includes capital expenditures by firms on assets with useful lives of more than one year each, such as real estate, equipment, production facilities, and plants.
The last component included in the expenditure approach is net exports, which represents the effect of foreign trade of goods and service on the economy.
Expenditure Method vs. Income Method
The income approach to measuring gross domestic product is based on the accounting reality that all expenditures in an economy should equal the total income generated by the production of all economic goods and services. It also assumes that there are four major factors of production in an economy and that all revenues must go to one of these four sources. Therefore, by adding all of the sources of income together, a quick estimate can be made of the total productive value of economic activity over a period. Adjustments must then be made for taxes, depreciation, and foreign factor payments.
The major distinction between each approach is its starting point. The expenditure approach begins with the money spent on goods and services. Conversely, the income approach starts with the income earned (wages, rents, interest, profits) from the production of goods and services.
Limitation of GDP Measurements
GDP, which can be calculated using numerous methods, including the expenditure approach, is supposed to measure a country's standard of living and economic health. Critics, such as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, caution that GDP should not be taken as an all-encompassing indicator of a society's well-being, since it ignores important factors that make people happy.
For example, while GDP includes monetary spending by private and government sectors, it does not consider work-life balance or the quality of interpersonal relationships in a given country.
Aggregate Demand Definition
Aggregate demand is the total amount of goods and services demanded in the economy at a given overall price level at a given time.
What Are Government Purchases?
Government purchases are expenditures by federal, state, and local governments. The combined total is a key factor in gross domestic product (GDP).
Gross Domestic Product – GDP
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the monetary value of all finished goods and services made within a country during a specific period.
What Inflationary Gaps Tell Us
An inflationary gap is a macroeconomic condition describing the distance between the real gross domestic product (GDP) and long-run equilibrium real GDP.
National Income Accounting
National income accounting refers to the bookkeeping system that governments use to measure the level of the economic activity such as GDP.
How the Circular Flow Of Income Model Works
The circular flow model of economics shows how money moves through an economy in a constant loop from producers to consumers and back again.
How to Calculate GDP With the Expenditure Approach
Are Social Security Payments Included in the U.S. GDP Calculation?
How Are Aggregate Demand and GDP Related?
Interesting Facts About Imports and Exports
How Do Fiscal and Monetary Policies Affect Aggregate Demand?
What is GDP and Why is It So Important to Economists and Investors?


An Electra Foundation Officer who allegedly defrauded a client out of $1.2M which was to be used for the construction of a low income house was on Wednesday answerable to the Georgetown Magistrates' Courts.
Nazia Persaud of Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD), who reportedly has similar matters at the Providence, Anna Regina and Linden Magistrate's Court, denied this present allegation read to her by City Magistrate, Judy Latchman.
It is being alleged that on October 14, 2016, with intent to defraud, she obtained the sum of $1.295M from Margaret Daly by falsely pretending that she was in a position to construct the said low income house.
The Virtual Complainant (VC) reportedly handed over the cash to Persaud for the house to be constructed in Corentyne, Berbice however this was not done.
Attorney for the accused, Stanley Moore told the Court that the VC cancelled a contractual agreement made with Persaud which states that she is entitled to a refund minus 25 per cent to be given to the company.
He requested bail to be granted on the basis of the information.
However, Police Prosecutor Quinn Harris objected as a result of this not being the first time the defendant is being accused of the said offence.
Bail was however granted to her in the sum of $400,000 and she was ordered to reappear in Court on September 26.


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On the big screen: February 2020.
Everyone works hard for their cash. So, when visiting the cinema, your decision is all the more important on what to spend a tenner on.
Should you get a Netflix subscription? Or should you venture to your local silver screen? Let us do the research and you make the final call.
Here's five films that we think deserve your attention this fine February…
Director: Cathy Yan
Writer: Christina Hodson
Stars: Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor
After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
Margot Robbie starring with Mary Elizabeth Winstead? Absolutely yes please! Robbie's Harley Quinn was the scene stealer in Suicide Squad, so this movie is long overdue.
Directors: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Writers: Jesse Armstrong (screenplay by), Nat Faxon (screenplay by)
Stars: Will Ferrell, Miranda Otto, Zach Woods
Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to revaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.
Anything Jesse Armstrong touches is usually top drawer. Succession, Fresh Meat, Peep Show and Four Lions to name a few… I think we will be safe with Downhill.
Director: Autumn de Wilde
Writers: Eleanor Catton (screenplay by), Jane Austen (based on the novel by)
Stars: Tanya Reynolds, Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O'Connor
Based on the classic Jane Austen novel.
It wouldn't be a new month at the cinema without a classic novel getting a movie – so here it is!
Writers: Michael Winterbottom (screenplay)
Stars: Asa Butterfield, Sophie Cookson, Isla Fisher
Satire about the world of the super-rich.
Winterbottom is back on the big screen with his trusted pal, Steve Coogan. The cast here is very much the best of British, and the film isn't too shabby either!
Director: Leigh Whannell
Writers: H.G. Wells (novel), Leigh Whannell
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Aldis Hodge
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Our film of February is The Invisible Man. Whannell's movie Upgrade from a couple of years ago really put him on the map… and the trailer for this one looks like he has 'upgraded' his skills even further too.


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Is the U.S. Senate any less unethical, dishonest and corrupt with Al Franken gone?
Democrats say they want to shed themselves of Al Franken because they want to be seen as honorable, ethical and decent... this is laughable given these same Democrats just supported a corrupt warmonger like Hillary Clinton for president... if they really believed this why do they take Wall Street bribes?
I would suggest that Al Franken, in spite of political and ideological differences I have with him, is one of the more decent, ethical, honest and honorable people sitting in the United States Senate.
Al Franken, in announcing his resignation, didn't apologize for anything because he didn't do anything he was accused of doing.
If Al Franken is unworthy of occupying a chair in the U.S. Senate, the rest of the senators certainly need to go, too.
We should take the way Al Franken has been treated as the need to form a progressive "New Broom Electoral Coalition" to sweep Washington clean.
And ditto for the U.S. House... and the Oval Office.
We need a good stiff new broom--- a militant, mass people's movement and electoral coalition--- to sweep Washington clean and create the kind of democracy articulated on paper in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Jerusalem is an international city.
Most of the world agrees that Jerusalem should be an "international city."
Why then has Trump with support from Netanyahu pushed this scheme that is sure to further inflame the situation and incite people to war?
This scheme concocted by Trump and Netanyahu completely defies international public opinion and all attempts to achieve peace in the Middle East.
Corpus separatum (Latin for "separated body") is a term used to describe the Jerusalem area in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. According to the plan the city would be placed under international regime, conferring it a special status due to its shared religious importance.
Most of the world still supports this... but not Donald J. Trump nor Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu... both of whom seem to prefer continued never-ending carnage, destruction and war to peace and friendship with people living in harmony with one another.
Jimmy Carter declared in 1980: "As to Jerusalem, we strongly believe that Jerusalem should be undivided, with free access to the holy places for all faiths, and that its status should be determined in the negotiations for a comprehensive peace settlement."
Obviously, there has been no "comprehensive peace settlement." Any such settlement will most likely once and for all make Jerusalem an "international city" contrary to the imperialist desire of Trump and Netanyahu.
By the way, had the proponents for establishing Israel in the first place not accepted Jerusalem being designated an "international city" Israel would not exist today.
In fact, many Israeli politicians have been opposed to Israel proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel. Among the most notable of these politicians was one of the original founders of Israel and who had been the longest serving and a most respected elected member of the Knesset, Meir Vilner, who served from 1949 to 1990... some forty years.
Is the U.S. Senate any less unethical, dishonest a...


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Two Webinars for Two Important Aspects of SAP Deployment
March 4, 2021 | By: Michael Tabron
We introduced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications nearly 11 years ago with two features that are critical for SAP infrastructures: high availability (HA) and automated deployment. Today, it is no less important to keep current business services operational and deliver new services quickly. The problem is that the increased number of HA scenarios and options for cloud implementations makes it harder for system administrators and integrators to implement SAP systems reliably and consistently. There are experts out there, and here is your opportunity to learn from two of them in the SUSE 2021 SAP solution technical webinar series.
"Guided SAP Deployments using AWS Launch Wizard for SAP"
Whether you're rolling out a new SAP-based application or migrating an existing application to the cloud, you want the deployment to be fast and based on best practices, so you don't spend a lot of time troubleshooting. SUSE partner Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a tool for you to automate scale-up of SAP HANA deployments using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications subscriptions in the AWS Marketplace.
David Rocha, a Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, delivers a webinar describing how you can use the AWS Launch Wizard to deploy SAP HANA databases and NetWeaver applications with automation. The presentation gives an overview of the capabilities of the AWS Launch Wizard and includes a demonstration of how to size, configure and deploy AWS resources specifically for SAP HANA.
If you're considering or planning SAP implementation in the AWS Cloud, check out this webinar before you get started to see the features that are available for a smooth deployment.
Click here to view "Guided SAP Deployments using AWS Launch Wizard for SAP" which is available now on-demand. It's a lot of good information in just over 20-minutes for you and your colleagues.
"SAP High Availability: How to Get it Right the First Time"
Let's face it – high availability for SAP systems is complex and this complexity delays the roll-out of a lot of SAP system implementations. SUSE not only delivers automated configuration and installation for all supported SAP HANA System Replication and SAP NetWeaver Enqueue scenarios, but SUSE Services can also help you get it right the first time with consulting guidance and pre-deployment checks.
Sagar Ravi, a Technical Architect at SUSE, is a SUSE Services consultant and delivers a webinar giving you the information you need to plan, design, and deploy SAP high availability on a SUSE platform. His presentation gives you tips on how to avoid common pitfalls in configuring failover and recovery for SAP HANA and applications.
This is a great opportunity to get first-hand knowledge and insights from a SUSE expert who has seen what can go wrong and knows how to avoid problems.
Click here to register for the live webinar "SAP High Availability: How to Get it Right the First Time" on Thursday, March 18, 2021, at 11 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time / 17:00 Central Europe Time, and be sure to invite your colleagues to register too. This webinar is scheduled for one hour including 10-15 minutes of Q&A at the end.
If you're interested in this topic but aren't available for the live session, register anyway. You will receive a follow-up email with a link to the replay. To see other technical webinars, go to www.suse.com/solutions/run-sap-solutions/#webinars.
As always, feel free to follow me on Twitter @MichaelDTabron.
Michael TabronI'm a SUSE Product Marketing Manager focused primarily on open source solutions for SAP applications across all platforms. I joined SUSE in 2015, and have over 20 years of experience with hardware and software marketing.


Asparagus shoots emerge from the crown... | Grow Your Own Veg Blog. Gardening and Food Blog.
we have watched as these cute little asparagus shoots emerge from the soil and grow into tall, long spears. Both years, we have had to resist the temptation to harvest any, as it is said that you should not harvest from the asparagus crown for the first two to three years since this weakens it.
So we sit tight and wait. But this year, we will harvest asparagus for the first time and I can't wait to taste these tender shoots!


My favorite quotes are: Love is giving someone the space to evolve. and Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
I live in Cleveland, OH and work as a developer in Information Technology. Two dogs and a cat allow me to live with them, but only if I provide food. One dog is balancing between the couch and my shoulder as I type this. She's trying to reach my sandwich.
I have Activity ADD, so the things I do during my non-work hours change regularly. The things that have remained consistent are kickboxing and yoga. Kickboxing and yoga seem to be at odds with each other in a philosophical sense, but they are both wonderful ways to work out stress. My love of animals has also remained consistent throughout my life. I have a hate-hate relationship with running.
Through the years I've had several people tell me I should share my writing, but I am an extremely private and somewhat shy person so the idea of letting anyone in scares the crap out of me.
I have a confession to make. My favorite quote is actually from an episode of 'That 70s Show', but both of the quotes I listed were ones that I heard in my yoga class right before I began writing this bio. I liked them and it felt more grown-up to not quote a TV sit-com.


The Kiwanis (Downtown) Club of Indianapolis honored and presented scholarships to four candidates at its 38th annual Abe Lincoln Scholarship Awards banquet. Jaime Robbins from Southport High School was the second-place scholarship recipient. Congratulations, Jaime!
Pictured are Pat McCrory, President of the Kiwanis Foundation of Indianapolis, Jaime Robbins of Southport High School and Jeremy King of the Kiwanis Club of Indianapolis.


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The Horizon is the Limit
Martin Man
MARTIN MAN (M.Arch. I, '19)
To draw in perspective, one begins with a horizon line. When constructing a view, we are taught that parallels converge at points on said line, off of which is based a realistic approximation of a scene. Just as it is primary in sketching, the horizon is primordial to our spatial perception as earth-bound beings. All orientation to our environment is made in relation to this horizon, which—in addition to separating ground from sky—fundamentally demarcates that which is "furthest."
In Old English, the word for horizon was eaggemearc, or "eye-mark," meaning the limit of one's view. Our modern word, however, derives from the Greek horizōn kyklos, "bounding circle," from horizō, "to divide, bound, limit, separate," and from oros, "boundary, landmark." In other words, a boundary encircles us, delimiting the scope of what we are able to see. More importantly, however, that boundary also moves with us. By definition, we will never reach the horizon.
Certainly, it bounds our physical perception. So, too, does the horizon line in perspectival drawing form the basis of modern Western spatial understanding, and by extension bound its ontological outlook. This story of the individual-as-subject viewing objects on an infinite plane is well-rehearsed. It suffices to allude to the trajectory stretching from the painting of The Ideal City attributed to Laurana—one of the earliest paintings to use strictly constructed perspectival projection to depict an architectural environment—to Heidegger's essay on "The Age of the World Picture"—in which he identifies this logic culminating in a treatment of the whole world as an image detached from human observers—and beyond.
To appreciate how our spatial understanding is delimited by the perspectival horizon, one must appreciate the difficulty of imagining the type of perception entailed in medieval European images, where the horizon was absent or rejected perspective altogether. Or perhaps in medieval Islamic illustrations, Byzantine mosaics, or Japanese paintings beginning in the Heian period, exhibiting their distinctive type of detached, floating "axonometric" view. Through these examples, we understand that we cannot physically see beyond the horizon, and that our grasp of the world is inescapably bounded by the perceptive structures that frame our relation to it.
But what of recognizing the horizon itself? Not the literal horizon, but horizons that symbolically surround our imagination? Given the over-specialization of knowledges in our age—which splits those who investigate space into compartmentalized disciplines like geography, planning, engineering, architecture, sociology, etc.—do we even lift our eyes from our field to inspect where the horizon lies?
On a much larger scale, one which encompasses not only architecture, but the globalized, Western early 21st century society, we are further bounded by a general inability to imagine what lies beyond our capitalist political economy. It is, as philosopher Slavoj Žižek has pointed out, easier for us to imagine the end of the world—as evinced by the number of apocalypse-themed Hollywood films—than a non-capitalist one. As writer Ursula K. LeGuin noted, "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings." With multiple crises of climate change, rampant inequality, and violent nationalism, looming, we find ourselves at a juncture where designing the location of castle turrets or the view out the prince's dining hall is no longer enough.
Facing our own second-year, core design studio projects, where we are currently designing food-business incubators within a ferry terminal, how do we look simultaneously at the layout of a kitchen and what it means to design for an enterprise like Foodworks, one of many in the so-called "sharing economy," such as Uber, Airbnb, and WeWork? These companies, which are birthed by neoliberal market logics; which attack social protections and offload risk to workers; which further reinforce economized subjectivities that render every aspect of life a competition between individuals; which ultimately render our profession undervalued and our very lives economized, precarious, and monadic; which destroy the commons, widen class inequalities, and deprive people of healthcare, food, or education. Once we see the bounding horizons around us and find them inadequate, we may not only start to imagine otherwise, but move to shift what we can see.
Looking beyond to a world that dismantles our current political economy may require us to organize a fundamental break in the order of abandoning representational perspectives and horizons. This is an endeavor that begins now in school, as well as in professional practice. We should be thinking and designing the world that lies beyond our current horizons, not just reproducing what we see within current boundaries.
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The original Kahlua Recipe Book (photo, at left, circa 1986) was distributed "back in the day" FREE to anyone who wrote in to request it. You could have one. You could have one hundred. Millions, millions, millions were given away – by mail, on displays, at events, in gift boxes. It was HUGE and pretty much every foodie owned one, including you, right? And many then lost theirs.
Around 1992, my food-centric PR agency produced The Best of Kahlua, A Guide to Food and Entertaining (booklet on the right). Think of them as the Original Classic and the New Classic. They are, no matter what, both collectors' items and great little booklets.
So get cooking – or mixing. I'll run this drawing until Thursday November 5, 2014 — just in time to snail mail both books to the winner to hopefully receive by Thanksgiving. You can enter in a couple of ways. Go for it!
In the top of a double boiler over barely simmering water, stir white chocolate until melted. Add milk and remaining butter; stir until blended. Remove from heat; stir in chopped red walnuts and Kahlua.
Pour into prepared pan. Smooth top. Cover and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Remove from refrigerator and lightly press the walnut halves into the top, 6 rows of 6. Refrigerate again until firm, up to 2 hours.
Using foil, lift fudge out of pan. Gently peel off foil; cut fudge into 36 squares. Yield: about 2-1/2 pounds.
Hi Debbie, I would look on Amazon or Ebay for a copy of the Kahlua Recipe Booklet. The company published millions of them, they are still out there.
Do you still have the Kahlua recipe booklets ? Mine was just destroyed by Water yesterday 😡😩😩😩😩😭😭😭😭 I TRIED to save them but it was complete failure If you do not have them can you direct me to where I can get them ?
From the picture, the Fudge looks pretty tasty. Thanks for the recipe!
Hello: I'm bummed because I just (1/22/15) discovered your website, and learned I'm too late to qualify for your cook book(s). Even though Kahlua has been my drink of choice for many years I was not aware of recipes…I mean who thinks knowing how to make a White Russian, as opposed to a black one, requires a RECIPE. Both being about Kahlua of course!
P.S. I don't "do" Facebook, Twitter or other such sites.
I'd love a vintage Kahlua cookbook! Please enter me. This is great! Thanks.
Looks good but I have never seem red walnuts!
Kahlua and fudge together?? I cannot wait to try this recipe!
That was some of the best fudge I have every had.
Yes Karen, English walnuts would work. Just not as pretty!
If you can't get red walnuts, will English walnuts work?
I had the Kahlua recipe book back in the day. Emphasis on HAD! Thank you for sharing a recipe. Off to buy red walnuts!
I am definitely going to try out that fudge.
Those red walnuts are beautiful! This fudge recipe sounds great. My husband only likes white chocolate, so this would be right up his alley. I never knew there were Kahlua cookbooks!
I know I must have one of these somewhere, but I could sure use a copy for my daughter. Love your blog, and thank you for posting Christmas stuff well in advance of the holidays, so I can make a plan!
Love these booklets – had mine until last year- lost !!!!
Wish I could have been there! Looks heavenly!
That was some good dang fudge!


Once again, investors are hoping they will be rescued by our Federal Reserve. This cycle has repeated itself several times since our last recession: The Fed signals there will be no more easy money yet economic growth slows. Investors become worried and the stock market sells off as financial conditions deteriorate. The Fed then reacts by administering another dose of monetary medicine which reassures investors and pushes the stock market back up again.
During this most recent market downturn, valuations of safe havens such as government bonds have been pushed up in price to extreme levels, while the drop in price of risk assets like stocks created some value – although most likely not enough. Unfortunately, the global economy has not improved and the outlook for corporate profits remains tepid. The emerging markets continue to face debt problems as their commodity-based economies struggle. Europe is also dealing with re-ignited financial stress as their banks are under-capitalized. More importantly, however, investors may be losing faith that governments have the tools to handle their deteriorating financial situations.
With several versions and iterations of quantitative easing (QE) already administered in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, central banks have now begun to adopt a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) as their new monetary medicine. In fact, almost 45% of all outstanding government bonds in developed countries now have negative interest rates. NIRP could be viewed as an act of desperation by central banks signaling that previous doses of monetary policy were not sufficient to win the battle with deflation's post-2007 powerful headwinds. Nonetheless, interest rates and bond yields around the globe will likely remain lower than normal for longer than normal.


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Stuart Island Marine State Park
Picture an island with turquoise inlets and craggy coves. The northern San Juan Islands may not come to mind at first, but Stuart Island Marine State Park could surprise you.
Stuart Island, near the U.S.-Canada border, is one of the northernmost islands in the famed archipelago, and you can only reach it by boat.
Anchored in two harbors, boaters mingle as they fish, crab, dive or swim. Hikers can walk up to higher ground or hoof it to the Turn Point Light Station outside the park. Canoeists and kayakers can pitch their tents in the primitive campsites near Prevost Harbor or on the spine of the island. In the evening, all faces turn west as the sky glows red and the sun falls below the horizon.
Whether you expect it or not, you will find a little bit of Paradise (and a friendly boating community) at Stuart Island Marine State Park.
Counting waterways and anchorage areas, Stuart Island Marine State Park is a 433-acre marine camping park with 33,030 feet of shoreline. The park is part of the Cascadia Marine Trail and offers camping and moorage at Reed and Prevost harbors. Some campsites are for the exclusive use of those arriving by human- or wind-powered watercraft.
Picnic & day-use facilities
There is no garbage service on the island. Visitors must pack out what they pack in. Potable water is available May through September.
3.5 miles of hiking trails
Water activities & features
Fishing (saltwater)
A recreational license is required for fishing and shellfish harvesting at Washington state parks. For regulations, fishing season information, or to purchase a recreational license, visit the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife website.
San Juan Islands state park brochure (PDF).
Boating features
Located in the San Juan Islands in San Juan County, Stuart Island State Park offers 20 buoys and 448 feet of dock, as well as a pumpout station. Additionally, there are plenty of good anchorages the entire length of the harbor. Please respect the private buoys, docks, and property surrounding the park.
Moorage fees are charged 1 p.m. to 8 a.m. year-round. All boaters must register and pay upon arrival. Boaters must also pay for boats rafted to another boat.
Boat moorage
Latitude: 48° 40' 31.8" N (48.6755)
Longitude: 123° 11' 55.68" W (-123.1988)
Prevost Harbor
Prevost Harbor has seven buoys and a 128-foot dock (256 feet total).
Latitude: 48° 40' 41" N (48.6780)
Reid Harbor
Reid Harbor has 13 buoys and a 96-foot dock (192 feet total).
Latitude: 48° 40' 19.92" N (48.6722)
Boat pumpout
This facility is open year-round, 24 hours a day. This facility has a floating dock available year-round. There are two slips available for pumpout usage. Access to this pumpout is limited to vessels with a length of no more than 60 feet. The pumpout is located on a barge. There is a stationary pumpout located at Reid Harbor. This facility also has a portable toilet dump station located at the Reid Harbor barge.
Unless arriving by kayak, boaters should not attempt to enter the harbor at the east end. This entrance is full of rocks and reefs. The only safe entrance is at the west end of Satellite Island. Stay in the middle of the channel and harbor until you are adjacent to the park dock. Consult your charts before you arrive. Once inside Prevost Harbor, there are plenty of deep water anchorages available if the park buoys and dock are full.
Campsite information
The park has 14 primitive campsites and four marine trail sites. Camping is available on a first come, first served basis. Most sites are located on Prevost Harbor or on the ridge that separates Prevost and Reid harbors.
Check-in time is 2:30 p.m.
Check-out time is 1 p.m.
Cascadia Marine Trail sites
Campsites 15-18 at the head of Reid Harbor are designated Cascadia Marine Trail sites and are for the exclusive use of those arriving by human- or wind-powered watercraft. There are an additional 14 campsites available to all boaters.
Composting toilets are near the dock at Reid Harbor and to the right of the Prevost Harbor dock. Pit toilets are available at the head of Reid Harbor.
For fee information, check out our camping rates page.
Services & supplies
The nearest fuel and groceries are at Roche Harbor on San Juan Island, 4 miles southeast of Stuart Island.
Stuart Island is one of many San Juan Islands known to have been used by Coast Salish peoples beginning more than 10,000 years ago. The island is most strongly associated with the Saanich peoples, who maintained a village there.
Stuart Island was first charted by Spanish explorer Francisco de Eliza in 1791. Eliza named the combination of Stuart Island and the adjacent Waldron Island Isla de Moralesa.
In 1841, American explorer and naval officer Charles Wilkes assigned the island's present name during the United States Exploring Expedition. The name honored Frederick D. Stuart, who served as the captain's clerk on the expedition.
Euro-American settlement of Stuart Island began shortly after it became part of the United States in 1872. For decades prior, Stuart and the rest of the San Juan Islands had been the subject of a border dispute between the U.S. and Britain, which ultimately led a military confrontation known as the "Pig War." The Treaty of Washington established Haro Strait as the boundary between the U.S. and British-held territory in present-day Canada.
Bernard Mordhorst, a German immigrant to the U.S., was the first to apply for a land claim on the island in 1876. He settled near Reid Harbor and made a living fishing for herring. Over time, a handful of additional settlers established claims on the island, with farming and fishing being the primary industries. The Turn Point Lighthouse was constructed at the west end of the island in 1893.
Stuart Island Marine State Park was established in 1952 when descendants of Mordhorst sold 80 acres of their family's land to the State of Washington for use as a park. The park has since grown to include a separate site at the west end of the island as well as land on neighboring John Island.
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The 2018 edition of the World Happiness Report is out, and it shows pretty much what other recent reports have shown: Western European countries are the world's happiest, the poor countries of Africa and the Middle East are the world's unhappiest, and Finland has moved into the #1 spot. A new aspect of the report deals with immigration, and finds that immigrants quickly tend to approach the happiness of the countries to which they moved. This is expected because, after all, immigrants usually move to where they expect to find a better life.
And, here are the rankings, from happiest to unhappiest countries, with the statistical analysis of what factors contributed to the overall happiness, which is measured on a scale from zero to eight (data from this part of the report).
Most of the top 20 countries are from Western Europe or are Anglophone, while, with the exception of Ukraine, all the 20 bottom countries are from sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. This is similar to the results of last year's report.
Here's a map of happiness measured in 2017. Greenest countries are the happiest (scores above 5.0; darker green indicates real happiness), while red and blackish-brown countries are the unhappy ones (scores below 5.0). You can see that misery correlates with social well-being, including poverty. But it also correlates (negatively) with religiosity.
No wonder people ignore religiosity when they're analyzing happiness! Who but a petulant atheist would even make a plot like this?
Of course correlations are not causation, and the negative correlation that I expect between religiosity and happiness does not mean that atheism makes people happier, or religion unhappier. What it means—and this is supported by several sociological studies (see here for one)—is likely that people either turn to religion or maintain their religion when their social situation is so dire that they're unhappy. When conditions are good, and there's lots of social support, including help for sick people, old people, free medical care, and so on, then there's no need to be religious, no need to supplicate a god for what your society can't provide. When you're well off, your country gradually loses religion, the thesis of Norris and Inglehart in the preceding link.
In short, what makes people happy is not religion, but material well being and the assurance of material aid. That's supported by the study's finding that immigrants, including Muslims from the Middle East, quickly gain the happiness of their new country, while (I suspect), still keeping their religion, though perhaps in an attenuated form.
Religion is simply what you do when you don't have well being.
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Not simply — statistically, and it's complicated. A lot of fairly comfortable religious folk focus on spiritual attributes of "expressing gratitude" or "seeing the Divine in all things." That's a lot easier when you're well off.
But I think it's a lot harder to look at others expressing non religious feelings of appreciation and joy and think "no, those don't count." People with a high sense of well being tend to feel charitable towards others and have trouble drawing enemy lines against their neighbors. And in the long run, the recognition that there's no deep, serious, critical universal need which only belief in God will or can fill probably chips away at personal belief — and belief in general.
Jerry, I agree with all you write about religion, however a correlation between countries does not allow to draw conclusion at the level of individual people; this would be what epidemiologists call an "ecological fallacy" (epidemiologists make a bizarre use of the word "ecological").
It is indeed possible for religiosity to correlate positively with happiness within countries, while still correlating negatively with happiness among countries. These data don't address the within correlation, and I don't think Jerry said that they did in the OP. What the data do show is that less religious countries are happier countries, so less religion is correlated with the socio-cultural circumstances that produce happiness. It might still be the case that an individual could become happier, within his culture, by becoming religious. But if you want everyone to be happier, then you want to promote the socio-cultural conditions that lead to general happiness.
The term "ecological fallacy", as you note, seems bizarre. The phenomenon is well known in morphometrics, where I don't believe it has a name. For example, the fact that big species of deer have disproportionately large antlers does *not* imply that bigger individuals within a species have disproportionately larger antlers.
Its bad enough that religion is the opiate of the masses but in the US the overdose epidemic is ruining the country.
We need a religious Narcan (or maybe saltpeter would be the more apt analogy).
Opiates are the opiate of the people!
When we say lets do things socially that improve conditions for all the citizens, that falls directly on the Scandinavian region. Much in religion simply does not do this. It makes second class citizens of half the population even before it gets started. The treatment of women or others outside of the religion are part of the second class. How does any country, heavy into a religion that operates this way expect to progress?
Education may be one of the correlates of both being well-off and not religious, or at least not very religious.
After all, knowledge tends both to facilitate the attainment of wealth and appears to promote secularization. In the sciences, that seems to be due at least in part to the fact that religious ways to "knowledge" don't work.
Oh, I meant to write that education is one of the correlates of not being religious and being well-off, but it may also be a substantial cause of it.
Personally I think happiness is the default condition in the absence of worry. It doesn't take a lot to be happy, it just takes enough. If you know where your next meal is coming from and you have a roof over your head and no one is coming to kill you, you will be happy. That's why first world countries are happy. Not so sure it's about religion so much though worrying you're going to burn in hell if you don't obey the priest has got to be a downer.
Happiness is a subjective condition and one should define it before talking about it. The millions of people who have physical and psychological problems as well as those who feel there is something "missing" from their lives despite having all their material needs met would probably have a more expansive definition of the word than yours.
Presumably here "happiness" is a technical term.
I think it is more complicated. Happiness also correlates with how one compares oneself with others. Someone who is poor but surrounded by rich people will, in general, be less happy than if surrounded by other poor people. Who one compares oneself to is a complicated matter. For example, the average Chinese person is much poorer than the average American but it is doubtful many compare themselves either way.
This simply isn't true Kevin – freedom from want & being safe from physical violence does not a happy person make. I'm with Paul Topping [below] on this – the individual is acutely conscious of their own 'wealth', health & freedom of choice relative to those around them.
Part of the Skandi happiness model is due to a formula being in place that limits the gap in earnings between lowest & highest paid workers – if the boss wants to hike his pay then he has to drag the office boy & cleaner upwards too. Having a share in the business that occupies a quarter of your awake life [no matter how lowly ones position] makes a big difference psychologically even if there's no actual difference in remuneration. A feeling of belonging, social inclusion & having a voice are necessary foundations for well being.
I'd be interested to see "Happiness" plotted against "Average temperature", but am too lazy to do it myself.
I'm no Marxist either — and I find his prescriptive writings to be dangerous horseshit — but Marx was undoubtedly one of the most trenchant social and economic critics ever to put pen to palimpsest.
I always say to people: read Marx. If you disagree with the prescriptions (and they are sometimes dubious, often nonexistent), *propose another solution* to the very real problems. People did this, of course – the "anarchist" tradition is another answer.
A few other correlations evident from the Happiness scores are of interest. Of the 11 nations which score highest, only one (the Netherlands) has a history of imperialism outside of Europe and established significant overseas colonies; only two others (Denmark and Sweden) held any minor colonies at all. It might also be of interest that the only Mid-East country in the highest group is Israel, at #11.
The countries of Latin America are widely distributed in the ranking: Costa Rica at #13 is among the higest; Mexico (24), Chile (25), Panama (27), Brazil (28), Argentina (29), Guatemala (30), Uruguay (31), and Colombia (37) are in respectable middling positions; assorted other Latin American countries appear further down in the list. At the very bottom for Latin America at #102, barely ahead of Gabon, we find Venezuela, which has been the lucky beneficiary of two decades of rule by the Unified Socialist Party of Chavez and Maduro.
Perhaps the unhappiness in Estonia relates to significant Russian minority — who are themselves oppressed and with an expansionist Russia, a worry to the majority.
I know that jobs & incomes are weak in Estonia. Too weak considering Estonia's strength in other areas.
I think if I was Estonian I'd have my 'happiness' effected by Russia's cyberwar capabilities – Russia crushed Estonia a decade ago.
Well, Finland *also* shares a border with Russia, but it is true it lacks the minority (in any sizable amount, anyway).
I think that IQ of nation and happiness will show moderate to strong positive correlation. There are all kinds of correlations one could find.
I would like to see this information correlated to genetic evolutionary lines (populations) from sub-Saharan Africa out to the broader world.
Yes politically incorrect, but genes have lots to answer for.
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I can probably find time to update that plot in the next day or two with this new data.
Japan is low??? How was happiness measured? How was religiosity measured?
Most of the countries in the first twenty you say are Anglo. That gives me another correlation. The colonial countries taht caused genocide are also in this group. UK committed genocide in India alone creating famines and looting- millions of Indians killed by rulers like Churchill. The USa killed as many as 200 million First Nations People. Australia and New Zealand wiped out whole tribes. Canada committed genocide and it is on going genocide there where the Police and RCMP facilitate genocide. No wonder the white nations are the happiest. they derive their happiness by killing other races indiscriminately. These are also the countries that caused more violent wars than any other group of countries. These are also countries that promote Evangelism in other countries. How can you say the USA is non religious? France is non religious? The UK is non religious? This is a bogus survey. Fake, fake, fake .Some lazy mind came up with this idea.
Yes. Religion – specifically, the Church of England, is (sadly) intertwined with our institutions, but 53% of the UK population have no religion.
Do you seriously think that the economy of pre-Columbian America could support anywhere close to 200 million people? And where do you put the deeds of Japanese militaristic regime during WWII, the genocides in Bangladesh, Rwanda, Sudan? As for native Americans, some of them had their own genocides. The Aztecs constantly waged wars on their neighbors to get prisoners for sacrifice, the Incas systematically sent settlers to conquered tribes and supplanted the local languages. Small wonder that many native Americans sided with the European invaders against their local overlords.
Am I not reading Michael's graph right, or is Cyprus out of place on the happiness axis? It's 61 on the UN chart, but is right up there with Finland and Norway on the graph.
That's the only one that leapt out at me, but perhaps there are others?


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Where Did I Get the Idea for the Fates of the Bound Series?
Many moons ago, I wrote down a backstory/flashback sequence that had gotten stuck in my head. It began with armed men, barging into a young family's home. The parents hid their daughter, a five-year-old girl who had been blessed with the sight. She would have become the oracle one day for her city.
In the world she inhabited, oracles didn't have normal childhoods. They served their villages as some sort of mix between a pastor, leader, general, and judge. They also didn't have much freedom. Think of child stars. We're talking about that level of craziness and press. Since her parents wanted her to have a normal childhood, they had taken her away and hid her, electing to have her decide if she wanted to take up the oracle's position after she came of age.
The armed men had other plans.
That was the first writing I did on Fates of the Bound. After a few chapters, I stopped to flesh out the world this character would inhabit, jotting down about fifteen pages of typed notes. I knew I wanted a matriarchal society because I wanted to populate the story with a lot of confident female characters. I also wanted to flip some of the stereotypes/tropes we have about men in romance novels. At some point, I had this image of one character in particular I wanted to add, a militia chief who gets thrown into the oracle's world. I knew she would be the bridge between the families and the oracles, I just didn't know how.
Then I realized I was way more excited about Lila Randolph than my original idea.


Sondra: So sorry to hear of Bud's passing. He was always such a good neighbor and such a gentleman. He will be missed.
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So sorry to hear this but at least he made it to heaven in time to help Don celebrate his birthday. So many good memories. Euchre games,with popcorn and koolaid, high school memories and so much more. My prayers are with you and yours. Give me a call. I'm in the phone book. Love and prayersc.
Sondra, so sorry to read about Bud. My sympathy to you and family.
Sondra, deepest sympathies on the loss of your brother. I know when we spoke recently at the doctor's office you said he was not doing well. Now may he RIP and have no more pain.