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Mary Townsend was born in 1873 to Jacob and Emma Townsend. By the time she reached her teenage years, she had lost both of her parents. Just before her mother's death, Mary was adopted into the family of celebrated Civil War veteran and social activist Lloyd G. Seymour. Shortly thereafter, she became involved in her first act of social advocacy: in June of 1888 she visited Hartford City Hall to review her birth certificates and declared her official name as Mary Emma Townsend Seymour. At such a young age, Seymour had a distinct sense of self and this sense of identity would mark her life of socio-political activism as she became a civil rights champion, rallying other African American men and women to value themselves and their rights. She is celebrated for her commitment to the fight for equal rights and full citizenship for all, regardless of race. In 1891, she married Frederick Seymour, a member of the Lloyd Seymour family.
In the mid- and late-1910s, many African Americans from the southern United States fled to northern cities, including Hartford, looking to escape the hatred and oppression of the South. In Hartford, white residents had largely ignored their black neighbors, but now, with the black population doubling, tensions were beginning to flare. School officials considered segregating the schools, and it was clear that the racism of the South was alive and well in the north. Seymour had married Frederick Seymour, a member of her adoptive family, in 1891 and it was during this time of social change in Hartford that Seymour and her husband opened their home to 20 people (black and white, male and female) and began organizing for civil rights. On October 9, 1917, Hartford's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was born with Seymour serving as the organization's spokesperson.
The years following the foundation of Hartford's NAACP were some of Seymour's most active. In 1918, she expanded her community organizing efforts and helped form Hartford's equal rights advocacy chapter of the Circle for Negro War Relief, Inc. Here, she helped Negro soldiers' families during the war. Around the same time, she also joined the Colored Women's League of Hartford. In 1919, when suffragists like Alice Paul were fighting for Congress to pass the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, Seymour became concerned that the amendment would not include black women. Seymour worked hard to make sure that black women were not being ignored in the fight for women's liberties.
Around 1920, Seymour joined the Red Cross and worked with African American women laborers in Connecticut's tobacco warehouses. She and fellow activist Josephine Bennett interviewed female laborers and discovered immense wage discrimination. Seymour and Bennett's exposé on the subject appeared in the NAACP's The Crisis in 1920.
In 1920, Seymour became the first African American woman to run for the Connecticut State Assembly. While she did not win, her candidacy as the first African American woman to try for this position cannot go unacknowledged. Seymour's earnest belief that an end to discrimination was a universal good compelled her to fight tirelessly to unite all people in pursuing equal rights for years to follow. She died in Hartford in 1957 and is buried in Hartford's Old North Cemetery. Her grave is a site on the Connecticut Freedom Trail. To honor her legacy, in 1997 Mary Seymour Place was opened in Hartford to provide supportive housing for homeless women and children.
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1921 - 1945: Prosperity, Depression, & War
Industrial growth, economic expansion, and plenty of consumer goods gave women more purchasing power and pleasure in the 1920s. Women gained political office, but after achieving the right to vote the Women's Movement fractured over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The percentage of married women in the workforce doubled, though in menial jobs, while women of color had few opportunities. The media's message about the home was ambivalent. For daughters, the young flapper was glamorized in movies starring Clara Bow who had It (sex appeal). But the modern mother, equipped with widely-advertised appliances, was expected to keep house and raise children with new efficiency.
The prosperity of the twenties contrasted with the hardships of the 1930s following the 1929 stock market crash. Farm families in the Dust Bowl, suffering from drought and crop failures, fled to California where they worked as migratory laborers. As impoverished families across America struggled, desertion rose (but not divorce, which was expensive), and family size grew smaller. Women's jobs were largely confined to low-paying domestic labor, garment factories, and food-processing plants, all further segregated by race and ethnicity.
In the midst of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt, helped by wife Eleanor, brought strong leadership toward recovery with the New Deal. Professional women were included in federal projects, and work relief programs gave help to poor women. The Social Security Act of 1935 owed much to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in the Cabinet. African-American Mary McLeod Bethune, using her executive position in the National Youth Administration, pressured the administration to provide equal pay for blacks in all programs.
World War II deeply influenced women's lives. Sex-segregated labor diminished, as symbolized in the poster of "Rosie the Riveter." Women were accepted into the military, though the public was concerned about the loss of femininity. Defense industries were reluctant to admit women, but as men were drafted, the resistance eroded. Older, married women provided the largest number of new workers. Black, Mexican, and Chinese women had new opportunities, but Japanese women suffered internment in camps. With demobilization, women were laid off, but many were soon back on the job. Their role still was defined in the home, but the war had increased women's activities in the workplace.
Special thanks to Barbara E. Lacey, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of History, St. Joseph's College (Hartford, CT) for preparing these historical summaries.


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Sunday, April 22, 2012
It's Not Easy Living With Someone Who's Green
A friend recently sent me this in an email and I had to laugh because it describes my father so well. He was green way before there was such a thing as an Earth Day. Back then we called it being cheap, or on kinder days, "thrifty."
It's amazing how much thrifty and being green have in common.
We had one car. But my parents didn't fight over who got to drive it. My dad walked, jogged, or rode his bike to work. My mother walked to her volunteer job at the hospital. The car was for grocery shopping and car trips.
We made our own lunches and took them to school, bringing back the lunch box, thermos, and plastic sandwich bags to be washed and reused.
Our home's thermostat was never set above 55 deg. F. When the winter winds blew, rattling the old windows, we'd pile on extra sweaters and my dad would put up his homemade double windows (plastic sheeting over a frame, inserted into the window frame - very classy). We'd get in trouble for huddling next to a heating vent, hogging up all the heat, but on the days when our breath was visible, it was worth it!
Since I was raised this way, I am still fairly thrifty. Thus, one of my favorite places to shop is the thrift store. It's like a treasure hunt, sifting through other people's cast-offs to find that one thing you've been looking for.
One of the things on my wish list was a cast-iron pan. I am weaning myself away from non-stick (toxic fumes and nastiness leaching into my food is not a bonus for me) and was delighted to acquire a rugged cast-iron pan at the thrift store for only $7. Usually something is discarded because there's something wrong with it. Such was the case here. The pan was wearing a rust coat. It looked like it had been someone's camping skillet and was left out in the rain.
Fortunately, I have a super fabulous husband who's handy with tools he sanded it with power tools, creating a silky smooth surface. Then I seasoned it with flaxseed oil, a time-consuming process, but one that gave it a nice start to being non-stick. Now it is our go-to pan for all things breakfast. Eggs, sausage, and even grain-free pancakes cook up beautifully in it. Grain-free?? Yes, you read correctly. Pancakes without grains are possible.
This lovely pancake was made with shredded apples, topped with yogurt and blueberries. Breakfast bliss! And the bonus with cast-iron is that you get extra iron in your food. And if you buy your pan from the thrift store or a garage sale, you're recycling! You can't get much greener (or healthier) than that.
Apple Pancakes
- adapted from Gluten-Free Gourmet
makes 3-4 servings
2 apple, peeled, cored, and coarsely grated
4 eggs
2 tsp ground cinnamon
Butter or coconut oil
1 - Using your hands, squeeze the grated to get most of the juice out. (Save the apple juice in the refrigerator for a tasty beverage.)
2- In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs. Add the apple and cinnamon and stir to combine.
3- Place your skillet (cast iron rocks!) over medium heat. Grease it generously with either butter or coconut oil.
4- Pour about 2/3 cup of the mixture into the heated pan. Using a wooden spoon or heat-proof spatula, gently smooth the batter to the sides.
5- When the pancake is nicely browned on the bottom, but still wet on the top, flip it over to cook the other side. To flip, slide the pancake onto a plate with the wet side up. Place the plate over the skillet and quickly invert it.
6- Cook the second side until done and slide it onto a serving plate.
7- Top with your favorite toppings. I used yogurt and blueberries. Other choices include: warmed honey, jam, peanut butter, caramel sauce, or, for the purists, butter and maple syrup.
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- Aunt Kristina said...
You are so lucky to have that handy hubby! I scored a cast iron pot a few years ago that was rusty--I cleaned it as best I could but it still wasn't great. I love love love it but just don't have the knack for seasoning. I wish I could pay someone to do it for me since that pot is just sitting there, begging to be used!
- April 22, 2012 at 9:14 AM
- Lisa@The Cutting Edge of Ordinary said...
Yum! Those pancakes look yummy! I've been using cast iron for ages. Wouldn't cook an egg in any other pan. Mines been seasoned to perfection. It's one of my favorite pans!
- April 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM
- hobby baker said...
I remember using an old rotary mower on my Grandma's lawn. It was pure torture (mostly crab grass) but I got paid well. ;) I could definitely go for those pancakes, apple frittery type things are awesome!
- April 23, 2012 at 1:26 PM
- Melinda said...
I love my cast iron pan, too. It is my precious.o I think it will out live me.
- April 23, 2012 at 11:27 PM
- grace said...
i could handle the push mower--we had one too--but 55 degrees? i 'd be positively miserable!
- April 24, 2012 at 1:59 PM
- We Are Not Martha said...
I desperately need a cast iron pan! Great find! Oof to 55 degrees. I guess I am very spoiled because I can't stand it below 70.. :)
- April 26, 2012 at 7:56 AM
- Elle said...
I love my cast iron skillet and am so glad that you have one...it's the best for so many cooking applications.
The pancakes sound yum. Had you considered adding some shredded yams/sweet potatoes along with the squeezed out shredded apples? You might like it, especially with some warmed honey.
- April 29, 2012 at 10:33 PM
- Elle said...
I love my cast iron skillet and am so glad that you have one...it's the best for so many cooking applications.
The pancakes sound yum. Had you considered adding some shredded yams/sweet potatoes along with the squeezed out shredded apples? You might like it, especially with some warmed honey.
- April 29, 2012 at 10:34 PM
- bellini said...
We found a cast iron skillet that we still use today on the side of the road from the Sharp Company in Brockville, Ontario. As for the pancakes I am wishing for the morning already.
- May 6, 2012 at 1:20 AM
- Jay said...
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Despite arriving at 3:45, I was still first in line.
The boxes you see in the above photo were Shin Soo Choo bobbleheads. I was a little worried that today would be very crowded because it was a bobblehead night and a Saturday. However, the attendance was below 20,000. Kind of sad for a franchise that once sold out 455 games in a row.
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"My focus is on sport in China and the way culture affects the way we use our bodies. The motivation is find out how we can better interact across cultures and how environment shapes the way we think and act," he said.
This follows on from his honours thesis, entitled, 'Why do Chinese rugby players exhibit a different "feel" for the game than their Australian/Fijian/Kenyan counterparts?'
Jacob co-authored the Australia-China Youth Dialogue's submission to the recently released white paper on "Australia in the Asian Century" and he is also the co-founder of the Engaging China Project, a youth-driven, not-for-profit project aiming to ignite interest in China among high school students.
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Bil and I received Lunch Money's newest album just a few days ago, and I am already in love with it. Lunch Money is, by far, our favorite kids' band. From the day that Bil heard a clip of "A Cookie as Big as My Head" on NPR 2 years ago, we knew we had found what we'd been searching for musically--a kids' band we actually enjoyed.
Their latest album, Spicy Kid, showcases Lunch Money's traditional wit ("S.P.E.L.L") and inventiveness ("What Will You Ever See?") but what is updated is drummer/engineer Jay Barry's lusher instrumentation and mixing ("Gingerbread Man" and "Time Out" sound stunning) and singer Molly Ledford's expanding storytelling personas.
Molly regularly draws musical inspiration from her two vivacious kids, and her lyrics in previous albums have mainly focused on seeing the world through a carefree, precocious child's eyes. The songs now point more directly to Molly's experiences as a parent, reading like excerpts from love letters to her kids (for example: "You were a Basket of Flowers," "Awake," "A Walk in the Rain"). The emotional details paint a universal mural, capturing the yin and yang of our own feelings about our children. As I listened to the lyrics, almost every song evoked such a strong memory with my kids that I felt like Molly had to be singing about my family.
She is able to capture my feelings in a way that leaves me alternately smiling broadly and wiping tears from my cheeks, depending on the song.
Some of the standouts include the following:
In the title track 'Spicy Kid' we get to relive the instant we saw our kid as a complete person, a person independent of our parenting and our genes.
"Watching you trying to cheat at games, in the most creative ways... I'd stop you, but I'm still amazed."
"Time Out" is ironically, over too quickly, it could have lasted several more minutes and I wouldn't have been begging at the stair step to be let out early. My favorite part of this song is that it somehow takes a typically unpleasant aspect of parenting (putting kids in timeout) and puts a positive spin on it.
"A Walk in the Rain"is probably Bil's favorite song. He says: I can't tell if it reminds me more of some timeless bit of pop from the 4AD catalog, or Brian Burton's more recent production work with Norah Jones. To me, it's just beautiful in every sense that a song can be, and sits really well with other stuff in my rotation.
"S.P.E.L.L." is a detailed, hilarious indictment of one of my own foibles-- the other day Charlotte asked me why I felt the need to spell "ice cream" in front of her instead of just saying the word. I pretended it was so Tommy would finish his dinner without freaking out about dessert, and that I would appreciate it if she didn't repeat the word either. Truth is, I honestly forgot that I can't fool Charlotte anymore, that little squirrel understands every word. A brilliant slice of parental vaudeville.
"Translator" is very touching, with a killer opening line. "You ask 'Where is the bathroom?' and they hand you a balloon..." It took me back to when Danny, at age 3, wasn't talking; he had only a handful of words and wasn't able to make simple requests, like asking for a drink of water (Patty and I celebrated on the day he finally told us he was thirsty!).
What's great about the song is that it doesn't get mired in feelings of frustration, but rather validates and assures the misunderstood child, that even though "No one understands you, [...] I DO." The song's parent-figure isn't wearied by the labor, "I'll explain it to them later..." knowing that while "one day you will have great conversations" that "right now I'm the lucky one who listens everyday." I think any parent can relate to this song. All children go through a phase where very few people understand them. For us, though, this song had a deeper meaning. Having a child who struggled to learn language, and who still now at 9 years old, is often misunderstood, this song is a tender reminder of how lucky we are to be Danny's translators. And its message is hopeful, because I agree with Lunch Money: Someday maybe Danny WILL give a speech that wows the entire nation!
Now I'm the one who feels understood.
When I listen to "Basket of Flowers" I flash back to the days I spent in the hospital after having each of my kids. I treasure the memory of the hours I spent quietly cuddling my babies with no other concern in the world, the time when I could focus solely on them and nothing else.
Parents: Lunch Money is a higher form of kids' music, which makes perfect sense, because kids are a higher form of people.
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Complimentary shared airport transfer from Kuwait International Airport.
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Names: Seven Barks, Wild Hydrangea
Habitat: USA.
Collection: The roots should be unearthed in the autumn. Clean and slice whilst still fresh as they become very hard on drying.
Part Used: Dried roots and rhizome.
Indications: Hydrangea's greatest use is in the treatment of inflamed or enlarged prostate glands. It may also be used for urinary stones or gravel associated with infections such as cystitis.
Ellingwood gives the following specific symptomatology for this under used remedy: "frequent urination with heat, burning, accompanied with quick, sharp, acute pains in the urethra; partial suppression of urine with general irritation and aching or pain in the back, pain from the passage of renal sand, are direct indications for this agent. I am convinced after a lifetime of experience that it is more specifically, more universally a sedative to pain and distress in kidneys and urinary bladder than any other one remedy." He gives the following indications: acute nephritis, lithaemia, backache due to urinary tract problems, urinary irritation.
Combinations: In kidney stones it is often combined with Stone Root, Bearberry and Gravel Root. In prostate problems it combines well with Horsetail and Saw Palmetto.
Preparations & Dosage: Decoction: put 2 teaspoonfuls of the root in a cup of water, bring to the boil and simmer for l0-l5 minutes. This should be drunk three times a day. Tincture: 2-4 ml of the tincture 3 times a day.


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5 Email Terms That Ruled 2013Jillian Smith
Our goal at SendGrid is to make sure that we're providing our customers, potential customers, and industry friends with the information they need to be successful senders. A big part of that is making sure we're all on the same page when it comes to some tricky email terminology.
We've done our best to demystify some terms that might give new…and veteran senders alike some pause. So what were our most popular email terminology definitions (in descending order) from 2013?
Drumroll please….
Here's a Cliffs Notes version of what each of these email heavyweights means. For a full breakdown, read through to the full posts.
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, and most email services in the world use SMTP to send email. When an email service tries to send an email, it connects to the configured SMTP server and communicates to it using the SMTP protocol. Once it can communicate with the configured server, it can then deliver the email message.
In simpler terms, SMTP relay is much like how snail mail works, with the server acting as the post office. In order to send a paper letter, you must address an envelope and fill in your return address. Your local post office then determines which local post office is closest to the recipient, and then directs the letter there to be delivered. When you send an email, the message includes the recipient's destination address as well as your "return address" information – i.e., your email address, IP address, and timestamp. Your local server then sends your message to the recipient's server to be delivered.
DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is an email authentication method developed by Yahoo! that checks an encrypted "key" embedded in each email sent against a list of public records to positively confirm the identity of the sender. In short, it helps ISPs identify the good mail and aids in preventing malicious email from getting through. It pretty much works the same way IP reputation does, except it works with your domain name. This is actually better for brands because if you switch email service providers, you can take your domain reputation with you.
Sender ID
Sender ID Framework is an email authentication protocol designed to keep spammers out of the inbox. It's pretty similar to Sender Policy Framework (SPF), but with one main difference; Sender ID verifies sender identity based on the Purported Responsible Address (PRA) domain using the From:or Sender: header fields. For those a little less technical, it's simply a different way to identify the legitimacy of a sender.
Sender ID was developed by Microsoft to help prevent spammers from duping unsuspecting customers into downloading malware or giving away their personally identifiable information. By authenticating your email streams with Sender ID, you are helping mail receivers sort through the barrage of spam they receive on a daily basis. There had been some talk that Sender ID was dead, but Sender ID continues to provide important benefits to both senders and receivers.
Feedback Loops
Spam complaints have a huge impact on your sender reputation, so wouldn't it be helpful to know who's reporting your email as spam? You can with feedback loops. Feedback loops were once a tool for ISPs to monitor abuse from their networks, but now, they are also available to senders who would like to use the information to perform list hygiene and to gain insights into what may be negatively affecting their email program.
Email Throttling
Some ISPs limit the amount of email they accept from a particular sender during a specified period of time. If you try to send email above their acceptable threshold, they will reject your email resulting in a high number of bouncebacks. This is email throttling and is also referred to as a "deferral."
This refusal to deliver your mail is usually temporary, but it depends on the situation. When this happens, you will get a message that says something like "user is receiving mail at too great a rate right now, please try again later," or "user's mailbox is over quota." This is almost always a 400 class of error and can be cleared up within 72 hours.
We want to keep writing about topics that interest you, so keep an eye on the blog for more and check out our interactive email deliverability guide for more email terminology definitions.


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March has been a heck of a month for Legend guys registered for the 2014 Advantage Program. Among other smaller payouts, pictured are two $10,000 winners from this month; Todd Castledine and Chris McCall. Castledine, a repeat offender on the $10k win list, has our check-writing pens running dry. McCall won the ten Gs for the first time on March 8 at a BFL event on Grand Lake.
The great (from our perspective) part about both of these wins is that cumulatively, these guys collected just $11,111 from the actual tournaments they won ($5,507 and $5,604, respectively), only 55% of their combined $20,000Continue Reading..


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New York is full of good (and expensive) places to stay. We've heard of players staying everywhere from a high-rise hotel room in Midtown Manhattan (Sorana Cirstea) to a quiet private home on Long Island (Nadia Petrova). Here are three hotels that have climbed out of the concrete jungle that is Manhattan to nab our attention for the 2009 Open. Check it:
The first is the Jumeirah Essex House, the site where the 2009 Billie Jean King Cup players stayed. Situated just south of Central Park and to the east of Columbus Circle, the hotel has a prime location. The iconic building, which is operated by Jumeirah Hotels and Resorts, is housing a few USTA officials this Open go around.
If you're a thirsty tennis fan, then the South Gate restaurant (attached to the Essex House) is featuring The Honey Duece Cocktail, the official drink of the US Open. The drink, made with Grey Goose vodka, raspberry liqueur and lemonade (don't forget the honeydew lemon balls, too!) is featured throughout the tournament on the grounds of the National Tennis Center, along with at South Gate itself.
Our plan: Head to the South Gate before the night session (or after the day!) for a couple Honey Duece Cocktails and Macaroni and Cheese Fritters, our fave taster on the appetizer menu. Chef Kerry Heffernan works wonders with the square-shaped mac 'n' cheese, and the sleek interior design by Tony Chi brings in Upper West and East Siders along with hotel visitors.
The W Hotel also likes to get in on the action in Queens, and this year the Midtown staple hosted the always-popular "Taste of Tennis" last week. The event was attended by some of our personal faves, including Andy Roddick, Nicholas Kiefer (giving the camera some puppy dog eyes! …and looking good in that black button up, too), Chanda Rubin, Melissa Joan Hart and the Queen of All New York, Bethenny Frankel, of Real Housewives of New York fame.
But since TOT is so last week and the US Open is so the next two weeks, the hotel offers great packages for tennis fans that include a killer deal on rooms, MetroCards to ride the beloved 7 Train and a "Grand Slam Survival" kit that features all the essentials for a fan's day at the Open. Game, set and match to the W.
Click below to see who our last (but not least) 2009 US Open hotel is.
Fed's pad at the Open is none other than the Carlyle Hotel. How could we not pick this one? The Carlyle is situated on 76th and Madison, just east of Central Park. While we could write all day about the many amenities Mighty Fed, Mirka and the two gals will have, we'll let the pictures do the talking. Oh, and it's just a measly $3,075 a night. No biggee.
And don't forget the Fed has a nanny (or two) to house now, as well…
(honey duece image via grey goose; carlyle photos by Shravan Vidyarthi of the NY Observer)


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There's talk at work of changing an upcoming's product's schema to use UUIDs as primary keys instead of dual-column integers of the form (userid, per-user-assetid), and I'm not really comfortably with the idea, but I wanted to throw it out for discussion.
The advantages to UUIDs that motivated the discussion are:
create table thingy_relation (
userid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, /* 4 bytes */
thing1 INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, /* 4 bytes */
thing2 INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, /* 4 bytes */
PRIMARY KEY (userid, thing1, thing2), /* 12 bytes */
INDEX (userid, thing2) /* 8 bytes */
create table thingy_relation_uuid (
thing1 CHAR(16) BINARY NOT NULL, /* 16 bytes */
thing2 CHAR(16) BINARY NOT NULL, /* 16 bytes */
PRIMARY KEY (thing1, thing2), /* 32 bytes */
INDEX (thing2) /* 16 bytes */
This hypothetical schema tracks which assets are related to each other in some way, and lets you query either forward or backward from an asset.
And notice in the thingy_relation_uuid table, there's no way to query and just get all relations from a userid.
Counter argument to ease of number allocation: there are lots of ways to do number allocation, several of which LJ has used, several of which other people have done. I don't thing something as drastic as UUIDs should be seriously considered for that reason alone, without considering other approaches to number allocations, and all the potential traps of UUIDs.
It may seem like I'm leaning heavily against UUIDs, and that might be true currently, but I'm really curious what other people's experiences with UUIDs as PKs have been.
Enlighten me? Any other pros/cons?


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Jeb Bush on immigration: 'A lot of hair on fire —Mine isn't'
Immigration is a minefield.
Jeb Bush stepped in it.
Bush's new book, Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution, exploded on the political scene last week and left the former Florida governor uncharacteristically wobbly over how to legalize the status of the undocumented.
The controversy — and perhaps the book itself — summed up the politics of immigration: laden with political peril, nuance, seeming contradiction and complexity.
The book is also a point of departure for Bush's political aspirations. He's neither ruling out nor in a White House bid in 2016.
That invites more political scrutiny than Bush says he realized.
"If I made a mistake, I didn't assume that everything would be viewed through a political lens," Bush told The Miami Herald. "In Washington, it seems, everybody assumes there's a political motivation to everything. And not understanding that, I accept responsibility for it."
"Is it a big deal? No," he said. "When you're governor, you have to deal with real big deals. This is not one of those."
But this is a big deal.
On Sunday, Bush appeared on every major news program, capping a cross-country schedule of interviews that began with an appearance on NBC's Today Show. He stopped at the Reagan National Library on Friday.
Authors of most books — especially policy topics like immigration — usually don't get that sort of wall-to-wall media exposure. If Bush's coauthor, lawyer Clint Bolick, wrote this alone, it probably wouldn't make the news.
But other authors aren't scions of a political dynasty, former governors, the son and brother of former presidents, possible presidential candidates or fathers of possible future presidential candidates.
Bush said they wrote Immigration Wars last year to spur action.
By the time it was printed, however, the debate was well under way in Washington. There, Bush protégé and neighbor, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, of West Miami, plays a leading role among a bipartisan group of eight senators hammering out an immigration bill.
Still, Immigration Wars is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the mind of one of the GOP's top idea men. Its roughly 250 pages move at a surprisingly quick pace.
It's also full of quirky stats: half of all apples are now grown in China; more Americans can name all Three Stooges than a single Supreme Court justice. Eye-opening figures: only 13 percent of the roughly 1 million legal immigrants in 2011 were admitted for work purposes. History: Ben Franklin penned an anti-immigrant pamphlet aimed at Germans who threatened to make the U.S. "a colony of Aliens."
Like the immigration issue itself, the book will leave few people at either extreme — the "demagogues" — happy.
Bush tacks right in calling for a residency-path — instead of a citizen-path bashed as more "amnesty" by conservatives. Yet he moves left in criticizing those obsessed with border security.
The book takes shots at "nativists" in the Republican Party and Republican Mitt Romney's tone-deaf campaign when it came to Hispanic outreach and immigration. The authors spare few opportunities to blast President Obama and unions. They refrain from criticism of either Bush presidency and praise Bush's education reforms.
Though it has a chapter on immigration history and rightly blames both sides for the failure of comprehensive immigration reform, it gives short shrift to the fact that it was Republicans and conservatives who were more responsible for killing reform during the presidency of Bush's brother due to concerns about too much "amnesty" and too little border security.
Written by two conservatives, the book leans right.
Despite the media brouhaha over how to legalize an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants, Immigration Wars is about far more.
Bush said the most under-reported concept the book advances: Giving workers, especially high-skilled workers, immigration preference, Right now, the system largely favors what's called family reunification, and the definition of family isn't limited to parents and children.
"The eight-hundred-pound gorilla in immigration policy is 'family reunification.' A sizable majority of visas — nearly two-thirds — are allocated every year for that purpose," they write.
They also advocate for a guest-worker program, scrapping the system that ensures immigrants from no single country can account for more than 7 percent of green cards issued per year.
Immigrants from India, "who have started more U.S. companies than immigrants from the next four countries combined — are limited to the same 9,800 annual green cards as every other country."
By encouraging more high-skilled labor (which brings in young, productive workers) and discouraging so-called "chain migration" (which can encourage retirees and children who use social services more), the authors argue immigration reform will improve the economy and shore up programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which will have net new revenues and slower recipient growth.
"Demography can dictate our destiny — unless we change it," they write.
The book weaves back and forth on immigrants and entitlements.
Though immigrants are limited in receiving Medicare and Social Security, the book says, 37 percent "receive some welfare benefits, compared to 22.5 percent among the native population."
But a 1997 study seems to contradict that, showing immigrants pay a net $1,800 on average more into government than they receive, or in the case of Arizona in 2004, immigrants paid a net $940 million more than they consumed, the book says.
They point to a 2012 study showing the net flow of Mexican immigrants was at zero or had reversed. But they then note a recent dissent from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a case involving Arizona's 2010 immigration law in which he said that "citizens feel themselves under siege by large numbers of illegal immigrants."
The book is silent on one reason people feel that way: Republican politicians like Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who campaigned on the law, sometimes exaggerated problems by falsely claiming, for instance, that there were beheadings at the border.
Bolick, the co-author, also noted he had left the Republican Party a decade before over the "strident" position on immigration in his home state of Arizona.
"There is no avalanche of illegal immigration. To emphasize halting illegal immigration as a cornerstone of immigration reform is fighting yesterday's war," they write. "An enforcement-only or a secure-the-border-first policy is self-defeating… a fence encompassing all the 1,969 miles of our southern border would be enormously costly and not necessarily effective."
Still, they point out, the border needs strong law enforcement to stop the flow of drugs that have destabilized Mexico and Central America.
Perhaps the biggest contradiction is between the book's call for a residency-path and what Bush says is his longstanding support for a more generous pathway to citizenship.
When they were writing the book last year, immigration reform seemed a more-impossible lift in Washington. So he compromised with his own principles.
"We were trying to get people from 'no' to maybe or from no to 'yes.' We wanted the book to play a constructive role," he said.
Bush said a resident-path is an easier way to "delineate" those broke immigration law from those who patiently waited their turn, Bush said.
"We struggled with that. We didn't know what that [pathway to citizenship] would look like," Bush said.
Little did he realize that, by the time the book was printed, Sen. Rubio would help lead national Republicans to embrace a path to citizenship, which Rubio once opposed. Bush's book dropped like military ordnance, it surprised Rubio and fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina who told reporters that Bush was undermining their efforts.
Bush called to explain himself.
"We had a great talk. We're totally in sync on a path forward. We're on the same path," Bush said.
In interviews throughout the week, Bush initially said he supported a citizenship-path but didn't see how it could be done. By week's end, after talking to Graham and Rubio, he said he was confident they were "on the right track."
The reversals and nuanced pragmatic stance was a different side of the former governor who fashioned himself as a bold straight-talker.
Meantime, Republicans like Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz seemed to welcome Bush's stance on legalization.
"A pathway to citizenship won't pass [Congress]," Cruz said. He wouldn't say whether he favored a residency-path, but when asked if he didn't oppose it, Cruz was silent but nodded in assent.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Bush made "a fool of himself" for flip flopping and "devolving" on the issue. Rubio called Reid a "partisan."
When asked why immigration is such a minefield for Republicans, Rubio noted that Democrats had their struggles, pointing out unions have opposed a guest-worker program, which Bush and Rubio want.
The fact that Bush and Rubio, who might run for president in four years as well, have a slight disagreement on legalization set the Washington chattering class ablaze with speculation of fallout between the two friends. Both deny it.Aides say the two are closer to brothers than friends (their homes are less than 4 miles apart) and that if they disagree, no one would know outside of their tight circle.
"Jeb was writing a book. He wasn't writing a bill," Rubio said, echoing Bush and implicitly pointing out the latter is harder.
"Marco's stepped up incredibly well. We're close friends. This whole People Magazine-whatever-you-call it, it's really kind of, you know, childish. It's juvenile, untrue," Bush said.
"There's a lot of hair on fire right now," Bush said of the political tenor in Washington. "Mine isn't."


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The title of Shadowbox Live's latest is Out of Control; the show is anything but. With sly ferocity and slick humor, a solid troupe of performers attacks a quick series of songs and sketches that range from the raunchy to the sharply political, with enough detours into the sheerly goofy to keep the mood light.
The title of Shadowbox Live�s latest is Out of Control; the show is anything but. With sly ferocity and slick humor, a solid troupe of performers attacks a quick series of songs and sketches that range from the raunchy to the sharply political, with enough detours into the sheerly goofy to keep the mood light.
Many of the well-honed sketches make good use of ensembles of players who take advantage of long experience together to fine-tune their comic timing.
In one, a beleaguered anger-management consultant (Edelyn Parker) is driven to distraction by a quartet of reprobates, including Julie Klein�s enthusiastic new feminist and Stacie Boord�s office worker who has honed passive-aggressiveness into a fine art.
In another, an enthusiastic substitute gym teacher (David Whitehouse) tries to conduct a class for a group of fifth-grade boys, only to discover with increasing aggravation that all his suggestions have been deemed either unsafe or politically incorrect.
The evening�s big final sketch puts the women of the troupe on display, as four preteen terrors, including a feisty Klein and a terrifyingly twerking Boord, encouraged by their equally outrageous mothers, compete in Child Idol to the consternation of emcee Jimmy Mak.
Other sketches highlight comic duos. Mak and Whitehouse make a droll couple as the liberal dads of a possibly conservative daughter, while Mak and J.T. Walker III take a briskly diverting look at one of the wonders of technology, and Tom Cardinal and Boord a sardonic one at the aftereffects of reality television.
The usual videos interspersed through the show are spottier than the rest of the evening: Those featuring Jim Andes as �the drunkest man in the world� � in a parody of the Dos Equis man � hit the mark, but rambling behind-the-scenes videos about how over-stretched the Shadowbox Live team is are less amusing.
Although Shadowbox Live has long had a solid group of female singers, in this show, the men give them a run for their money. John Boyd is impressively dynamic at American Idiot, Jamie Barrow appropriately rough-edged in Stoned Drunk & Naked, Brandon Anderson gritty in Fortunate Son, Cardinal nuanced in Driven to Tears and Walker playfully exuberant in All Star, where he is ably supported by Anderson and Boyd.
That is not to say that the women don�t have their moments: Nikki Fagin crafts a powerful narrative out of Pink�s Sober, and Boord, backed by video images, gives stunning clarity to Prince�s Sign O the Times.
The house band is in good form throughout the evening, with guitarists Matthew Hahn and Brent Lambert given a real chance to shine in the final number, along with Klein on Molly Hatchet�s Flirtin� with Disaster.
Its language and humor definitely earn the show an adult rating. Fortunately, it�s also adult in its intelligence and sophistication.


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The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) of 2003 requires that federal, state and local correctional facilities maintain and enforce a zero-tolerance policy toward sexual assault for both inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate misconduct.
Since 2003, the Bureau of Justice Statistics has been charged with completing a statistical review and analysis of the incidence and effects of prison rape for each calendar year. In 2011-2012, an estimated 4 percent of state and federal prison inmates and 3.2 percent of jail inmates reported experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization by another inmate or facility staff in the preceding 12 months or since admission to the facility.
In fall 2009, at the request of the Attorney General, a PREA Working Group was convened to address the recommendations proposed by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission. Staff from several Department of Justice (DOJ) components, including NIJ, worked together to review recommendations and draft a final rule.
On May 17, 2012, DOJ issued a final rule adopting national standards to prevent, detect and respond to prison rape, pursuant to PREA. The landmark rule sets national standards for four categories of facilities: adult prisons and jails, lockups, community confinement facilities, and juvenile facilities.
Congress enacted the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA)[2] to address the problem of sexual abuse of persons in the custody of U.S. correctional agencies. PREA calls for Federal, State, and local corrections systems to have a zero-tolerance policy regarding prison rape (as defined by PREA) in prisons, jails, police lock-ups, and other confinement facilities.
Highlights of PREA include:
The Act applies to all public and private institutions that house adult or juvenile offenders and to community-based correctional agencies.
Office of Justice Programs sponsors a
PREA Web page with links to resources.
In response to the Prison Rape Elimination Act, NIJ first awarded a qualitative study to examine inmate perceptions of sexual violence in prisons. The Culture of Prison Sexual Violence study
[3] is the largest ethnographic study of inmates ever conducted. The study examined how inmates perceive sexual relations in prison, including forced sexual misconduct. It covered men's and women's maximum security facilities in 15 States and included more than 600 hours of interviews. Inmates were not questioned about their own personal experiences or whether they were victims or perpetrators. Rather, they were asked questions about their knowledge of sexual violence in their facility and during their own incarcerations.
Overall, inmate reports indicate that they do not define or consider sexual relationships and rape in the same way that persons within free society view them, and, as a result, perceive rape to be a rare occurrence.
Concepts defining coerced and forced sexual behavior may be perceived differently in prison culture, but they are similar across all prisons in the United States. The researchers reported that 66 percent of male inmates and 71 percent of female inmates were aware of inmate-staff sexual relationships. Although no relationship between correctional staff and inmates is legal, these estimates included romantic, mutual relationships, not just rape.
Collectively, 9.1 percent of male and female inmates reported they were aware of an inmate who had been raped by a correctional staff member. Male and female inmates — about 34 percent and 28 percent respectively — reported they knew of an inmate who reported rape to staff members. A high percentage of both male and female inmates indicated that corrections officers try to protect inmates from being victimized.
This research yielded many recommendations for corrections practitioners that can be applied to both prisons and jails. These recommendations apply to staff training, inmate orientation, inmate observation, direct supervision, and policymaking.
[4] Their implementation can contribute to changing both inmate and institutional culture
Another recently completed study funded by NIJ
[6], examined the policies and practices of State corrections departments in response to PREA. From 2004 to 2005, 27 States reported specific written policies related to prison sexual violence, 19 of which comprehensively addressed prevention, investigation, response, and victim services. Several States also reported proactive efforts to involve the medical community in collecting rape kits for evidence, working with local district attorneys to promote prosecution of offenses, and invested in training staff to engage in investigations of allegations.
In addition to examining policies, the researchers in this study identified and conducted case studies on 11 States that might provide other practitioners with "the most informative lessons on addressing sexual violence in prison."
[7] These States were: Connecticut, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah. Synopses of these case studies can be found in the final report.
One way NIJ has responded to practitioners' needs is through research to develop risk assessment instruments to help identify potential victims or perpetrators of prison sexual violence. In one study, the researcher developed such a tool from analysis of official reports of incidents in Texas over a 4-year period. Although Texas has one of the highest incidence rates in the United States, it also has one of the lowest rates of substantiated cases. The extremely low base rate made construction of a validated risk-assessment instrument impossible, but the researcher identified potential victim characteristics and developed a checklist. He also identified best practices used by the Texas Safe Prison Program.
[note 1] Beck, Allen, Marcus Berzofsky, Rachel Caspar, and Christopher Krebs,
Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011-12. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2013.
[note 2] Content on this page was excerpted from the National Institute of Corrections Online Clearinghouse on PREA, (accessed December 21, 2006). See
PREA, Public Law 108–79, Sept. 4, 2003.
[note 3],
[note 5] Fleisher, M.G., and J.L. Krienert,
The Culture of Prison Sexual Violence, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2006, NCJ 216515.
[note 4] Recommendations are summarized on pages 261–267 of the report. See
Fleisher and Krienert, 2006.
[note 6],
[note 7] Zweig, J.M., R.L. Naser, J. Blackmore, and M. Schaffer,
Addressing Sexual Violence in Prisons: A National Snapshot of Approaches and Highlights of Innovative Strategies, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2007, NCJ 216856.
[note 8] Austin, J., T. Fabelo, A. Gunter, and K. McGinnis,
Sexual Violence in the Texas Prison System, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 2006, NCJ 215774. The checklist is on pp. 24–25 of the report and the list of best practices is on page 26.
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Cheese and mushroom casserole with chicken
This casserole is simple and delicious, and makes a perfect snack during a picnic (bento anyone?)—you should use it as a basic idea for a casserole, since the pasta sauce is the stable and the most important piece of the meal. It's also a very tweak-able recipe! :-)
Sushi-like rolls
Can you imagine, there was the time I didn't want to eat sushi, because of the raw fish?! Well, that's true, shame on me. Lots of shame. On me. Agreed...
Knowing that, I decided to make a recipe for sushi-like rolls, that look and taste close to sushi, but... are not raw! Nothing in this recipe is raw, and that also means that you can keep them safe longer at the room temperature, place in your bento, take for a picnic or just offer them as a healthy snack for people didn't discover yet the ingenuity of Japanese cuisine! ;-)
Red bean and pepper meatballs
This is my favorite meatballs recipe to date. It's spicy, it's rich, it's deliciously thick and serves as a complete meal on it's own. It's one of my never failed meals, because it's impossible to make it taste bad, it can even survive burning (a bit :P), wrong order of cooking, missing ingredients and virtually any cooking disaster you can imagine ;-)
Creamy red-pepper chicken
This is my favorite chicken recipe, which is both simple and delicious! You can easily adjust it to your liking with your favorite spices and herbs, and it's virtually impossible to fail making this recipe.
Tuna and egg bento
The bare tuna-paste bento was a great success, but with the arrival of my new bento container, I was left with some extra unused space. I decided to fill the space with easy to make and very tasty iri tamago, which is basically a Japanese kind of scrambled eggs! You can definitely use iri tamago in onigiri, or as a small side dish.


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Shelm Lustig of Estes Park carries off a double-fistful of flowers at Thursday's Estes Valley Farmers' Market. "Best move we've ever made," said Lustig of her familie's migration to Estes Park.
Alex Wieser and her small-batch nut butters have become a staple of the Estes Valley Farmers' Market.
Kylie Gibbs, 4, of Erie enjoys a pastry treat at the Estes Valley Farmers' Market on Thursday. Visitors make the trip even from the Plains to enjoy the market.
In case rolls, cookies, and candy aren't enough, the Estes Valley Farmers' Market also has kettle corn.
Annalice Basch sells lemonade at the Estes Valley Farmers Market.
Pastries and bread are popular enough that the farmers' market is able to support several stands selling the goodies.
Long-time vendors, Styria Bakery, are a summertime treat atthe market.
A hunter-jumper rider studies the goodies at the farmers' market.
The Liege Waffle Factory, based on a 250-year-old recipe, is a sweet new addition this year.
Allison Springer of Morton's Organic Orchard in Palasade Colorado, helps out at the orchard's stand at the Estes Valley Farmers' Market. Springer has grown up working for the orchard, since 1995.
Piper Lasota, 14, of Estes Park shows off jewelry of her own at the Estes Valley Farmers' Market on Thursday. Many local children have jobs for the summer, but few work for themselves.
A curious puppy investigates the photographer at the farmers' market.
Heather Morton-Burtness reaches for cards at her booth at te Farmers' Market. Her family has grown peaches since 1976.


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Written by Gradye Parsons
Each month the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Moderator or Vice Moderator of the 220th General Assembly write a column of general interest for the church-at-large.
October 15, 2012, marked the 60th anniversary of Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, one of the classics of children's literature. National Public Radio reported on the struggle E. B. White had recording the audio version of the book. When it came to describing Charlotte's death, it took the author seventeen takes before he could get through it without showing emotion in his voice.


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Qualitative Math: Counting Stars
This is a wonderful activity that allows children to discover the order and beauty of the multiplication table–and it's very simple! First, draw or have children draw a circle in a lighter color of crayon (orange, a darker shade of yellow). Then, show them how to write the sequence of numbers from zero to nine along the circumference of the circle, making sure to keep the numbers evenly spaced. Then, according to whatever "times table" you want to start with, have them "connect the numbers" according to the last digit in the number. For instance, if using the 6s, the sequence would proceed as follows: 6, 2, 8, 4, 0, then back to 6 (corresponding of course, to 6, 12, 18, 24, 36. Do this for the other tables, and the children will discover beautiful patterns. It makes math an aesthetic experience. How fun!


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Geezer wrote:TheHammer24 wrote:Yeah, the ruling was incredible, and Cowher looked like a buffoon for suggesting that it was correct. In accordance with Mikey and Gary above, accepting the officials' explanation meant that if the RB would have caught the ball as it came forward, it would have been a fumble recovery instead of a completion -- ludicrous. What if the RB then threw the ball (because he was behind the line and there wasn't a forward pass yet)? According to the officials, that would have been legal.
Just a terrible, terrible, terrible call.
I think cowher's bitter that the Rooney's wouldn't give him mega bucks,that Tomlin's a better coach and that Ben's a better QB with Cowher gone. He was okay but was a consistent playoff failure as a coach.
Thats what it comes down to doesnt it? EVERYONE, no matter who, is jealous of the Steelers.


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The start of 2013 marks a significant milestone for the internet, as it is 30 years ago that Arpanet, precursor of the modern day internet, was switched to running on the TCP/IP protocol stack, a move that paved the way for the global internet as we know it today.
Arpanet, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, was itself the world's first operational packet-switched network, and a product of the Cold War era. It was developed to link together the numerous computer systems and sites operated by the US military, to make it easier to access resources at one location from any other on the network.
However, a major hurdle that the scientists and engineers faced was that the equipment at different sites was sourced from different vendors, and hence a host of incompatible communications technologies and protocols were in use.
One engineer involved in the Arpanet project was Vint Cerf, who in commemoration has posted an article to Google's official blog. Cerf outlines the situation back then, and the need for a common protocol that could be used to join the disparate networks together.
"There was no common language. Each network had its own communications protocol using different conventions and formatting standards to send and receive packets, so there was no way to transmit anything between networks," he wrote.
Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, was developed by Cerf and others to meet this requirement, and evolved gradually, eventually being split into two separate parts – TCP and the Internet Protocol (IP) – before settling into a stable implementation with IPv4, the version which is still largely in use today.
The official Arpanet switchover to TCP/IP was performed on 1 January, 1983, and went relatively smoothly, according to reports, with just a few sites experiencing difficulties as other protocols were turned off.
In 1984, the US Department of Defense made TCP/IP the standard for all military computer networks, which led to its increased adoption in research facilities and educational establishments, and also set it on the path to becoming a standard for commercial IT products.
With TCP/IP, Arpanet formed the core of the fledgling internet, although the Arpanet itself was formally decommissioned in 1990.
Afterwards, the internet's growth into a global phenomenon was kick-started by the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee at the start of the 1990s, but this development built on the existence of TCP/IP, which makes it possible for anyone with a compatible device to reach any other connected system around the world.
It is sobering to think that despite the introduction of IPv6, the vast majority of sites and systems on the internet are still using IPv4 – the same version of the protocol that was used when the switchover happened 30 years ago.
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With your feet 3 to 4 feet apart and slightly turned out, extend arms to the sides at shoulder level. Take a breath; on the exhalation twist your torso to the left, and then reach down and across to your left foot. Inhale as you return to center and repeat on the other side, being careful not to round your back. Alternate right and left. Repeat sequence 10 times (five on each side).
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Hokitika's Best Kept Secret! Simply Stunning...
Hokitika Gorge - Stunning scenery with its gorgeous glacial water and unusual cliffs, quintessentially New Zealand - the Hokitika Gorge is worth a visit.
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Just 33 kms inland from Hokitika is the beautiful Hokitika Gorge – a glacial river with gorgeous turquoise-blue-green water and amazing rock formations, which form the steep sides of the gorge.
The road is well sign-posted from the Lake Kaniere turn-off and although you may feel you are never going to get there, the drive and the distance are well worth the effort. The gravelled section brings you to the extensive car-parking area, the entrance to the walking track and the information board. Some friendly wekas will be waiting for a morsel or two!
The easy track is lined with podocarp and hardwood forest and other typical New Zealand native flora and fauna. And at only 650m long it is not long till the swing bridge comes into view and provides extensive photo opportunities of not only the bridge, the gorgeous turquoise water and the cliffs but also well up the gorge.
Through the gate at the end of the bridge, the track becomes more obscure and the more adventurous will not find it difficult to pick their way over the rocks and down to the water's edge. However, those not seeking to test the adrenalin levels will be content to admire the view and magnificence of the sheer rock walls of the gorge and the serene milky-blue water below.
The ambience created by the gorgeous views, the cliffs and glacial water make for a truly wondrous "New Zealand" experience with a little adventure thrown in. For those with little ones at foot, do take note of the signs though and keep a very firm hold on your children as although tranquil and inviting, one does not know what lies beneath the milky surface of the water.


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Let me guess, you have been playing Universal crossword and got stuck on the clue Animal's home. Well, you have come to the right place to find the answer to this clue.
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"Under the Glacier" by Halldor Laxness [Icelandic Literature]
In addition to featuring various Icelandic tunes this week, I also want to highlight a number of works of Icelandic literature that are available in English translation. And since Halldor Laxness is Iceland's one and only Nobel Prize winner, he seems like the perfect author to start with.
Laxness was born in 1902 and died in 1998, and wrote dozens of novels, story collection, and volumes of poetry during that time. His most well-known book is probably Independent People, a novel about Icelandic farmers in the early part of the twentieth century. But rather than focus on that particular book, I'd rather highlight Under the Glacier, translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson, and which is available in a pretty Vintage edition with an introduction from the late Susan Sontag.
First, check out the jacket copy:
Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness's Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn?fells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress.
What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced "ooh-a," which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept? Piling improbability on top of improbability, Under the Glacier overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound.
And if that isn't compelling enough, here's the opening of Sontag's introduction:
The long prose fiction called the novel, for want of a better name, has yet to shake off the mandate of its own normality as promulgated int he nineteenth century: to tell a story peopled by characters whose opinions and destinies are those of ordinary, so-called real life. Narratives that deviate from this artificial norm and tell other kinds of stories, or appear not to tell much of a story at all, draw on traditions that are more venerable than those of the nineteenth century, but still, to this day, seem innovative or ultra-literary or bizarre. I am thinking of novels that proceed largely through dialogue; novels that are relentlessly jocular (and therefore seem exaggerated) or didactic; novels whose characters spend most of their time musing to themselves or debating with a captive interlocutor about spiritual and intellectual issues; novels that tell of the initiation of an ingenuous young person into mystifying wisdom or revelatory abjection; novels with characters who have supernatural options, like shape-shifting and resurrection; novels that evoke imaginary geography. It seems odd to describe Gulliver's Travels or Candide or Tristram Shandy or Jacques the Fatalist and His Master or Alice in Wonderland or Gershenzon and Ivanov's Correspondence from Two Corners or Kafka's The Castle or Hesse's Steppenwolf or Woolf's The Waves or Olaf Stapledon's Odd John or Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke or Calvino's Invisible Cities or, for that matter, prono narratives simply as novels. To make the point that these occupy the outlying precincts of the novel's main tradition, special labels are invoked.
Science fiction.
Tale, fable, allegory.
Philosophical novel.
Dream novel.
Visionary novel.
Literature of fantasy.
Wisdom lit.
Sexual turn-on.
Convention dictates that we slot many of the last centuries' perdurable literary achievements into one or another of these categories.
The only novel I know that fits into all of them is Halldor Laxness's wildly original, morose, uproarious Under the Glacier.
Sontag loved a lot of books, and is quoted on a ton of them, but regardless, this is some pretty high praise. And her introduction carries on for a number of pages, explaining how Under the Glacier fits into several of these categories—"Science Fiction," "Philosophical novel," "Dream novel," "Comic novel," and "Visionary novel." In many ways, Laxness is the one Icelandic author everyone should read, and if you're going to start anywhere, why not start with a fairly wild 240-page novel that blew away Susan Sontag?
Just to give you a taste, here's an extended quote from the beginning of the novel:
The bishop summoned the undersigned to his presence yesterday evening. He offered me snuff. Thanks all the same, but it makes me sneeze, I said.
Bishop: Good gracious! Well I never! In the old days all young theologians took snuff.
Undersigned: Oh, I'm not much of a theologian. Hardly more than in name, really.
Bishop: I can't offer you coffee, I'm afraid, because madam is not at home. Even bishops' wives don't stay home in the evenings any more: society's going to pieces nowadays. Well now, my boy, you seem to be a nice young fellow. I've had my eye on you since last year, when you wrote up the minutes of the synod for us. It was a masterpiece, the way you got all their drivel down, word for word. We've never had a theologian who knew shorthand before. And you also know how to handle that phonograph or whatever it's called.
Undersigned: We call it a tape recorder. Phonograph is better.
Bishop: All this gramophone business nowadays, heavens above! Can you also do television? That's even more fantastic! Just like the cinema—after two minutes I'm sound asleep. [. . .]
Bishop: What do you say to putting your best foot forward and going to Snaefellsjokull to conduct the most important investigation at that world-famous mountain since the days of Jules Verne? I pay civil service rates.
Undersigned: Don't ask me to perform any heroic deeds. Besides, I've heard that heroic deeds are never performed on civil service rates. I'm not cut out for derring-do. But if I could deliver a letter for your Grace out at Glacier or something of that sort, that shouldn't be beyond my capacities.
Bishop: I want to send you on a three-day journey or so on my behalf. I'll be giving you a written brief for the mission. I'm going to ask you to call on the minister there, pastor Jon Primus, for me, and tell him he is to put you up. There's something that needs investigating out there in the west.
Undersigned: What's to be investigated, if I may ask?
Bishop: we need to investigate Christianity at Glacier. [. . .]
What I want to know, because I happen to be the office boy at the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs, is first of all why doesn't the man keep the church in good repair? And why doesn't he hold divine service? Why doesn't he baptise the children? Why doesn't he bury the dead? why hasn't he drawn his stipend for ten or twenty years? Does that mean he's perhaps a better believer than the rest of us? And what does the congregation say? On three successive visitations I have instructed the old fellow to put these matters right. The office has written him all of fifty letters. And never a word in reply, of course. But you can't warn a man more than three times, let alone threaten him—the fourth time the threat just lulls him to sleep; after that there's nothing for it but summary defrocking. But where are the crimes? That's the whole point! An investigation is called for. There are some cock-and-bull stories going around just now that he has allowed a corpse to be deposited int the glacier. What corpse? It's an absolute scandal! Kindly check it!