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The FMCG arm of Wipro Ltd, Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting, has launched 5.5-W LED bulbs that can replace 40-W incandescent lamps. LED lights save energy up to 85% and have 5000 hours life compared to 1000 hours for an incandescent bulb.
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The Fourth of July is just around the corner, are you ready? We don't really celebrate in my household, probably will just take the kids to see some fireworks. Usually we can watch the local fireworks display right in our front yard.
However, any reason to eat is a good one to me, so I rounded up some of my favorite vegan dishes that would be excellent to take to a picnic!
Spicy Vegan Bloody Mary from She Knows
Fireworks Red, White and Blue Daiquiris from Food Network
Red-White-and-Blue Cocktails from Food Network Magazine
Restaurant Style Salsa from The Pioneer Woman
Devilish Potatoes from Post Punk Kitchen
Crunchy Broccoli Cheese Puffs by Apron Strings
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Messy Cheesy BBQ Portobello Burgers from Kathy Patalsky
TLT Sandwich from 101 Cookbooks
Perfect Veggie Burger from Oh She Glows
Sides & Salads
Barbecue Baked Beans with Tempeh from VegNews
Lime & Peanut Coleslaw from 101 Cookbooks
Avocado and Grilled Corn Salad with Cilantro Vinaigrette by Authentic Suburban Gourmet
Grilled Sweet Potato Salad from She Knows
Strawberry Tofu Salad from Vegalicious
Quinoa Salad with Blueberries, Strawberries and Mint from Gluten-Free Goddess
Ice Cream Cake from Bittersweet Blog
Berry Bliss Rocket Pops from Family Fresh Cooking
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Putting a family member in a nursing home is a tough decision many will face at some point in their lifetime.
So, imagine being told without any warning the state is shutting down that nursing home and uprooting your loved one.
The South Dakota Department of Health suspended the license of the Hudson Healthcare Center for repeated deficiencies it said threaten the health and safety of its residents. While the owner and staff said they gave good care, and the residents were like family.
It basically feels like you're losing your grandma and grandpa. It feels like, they're, you know you've had them here for so long. One day, oh, they're gone, and you're never going to see them again said one staff member.
For the staff at Hudson Healthcare Center, this was more than just a job.
Heather, another staff member added "if I didn't like my job, I wouldn't be here and to me, it's all about the residents, the paycheck's just a bonus."
The staff is sad to lose their jobs, and it's sad for them seeing the residents leave.
"A lot of tears, it's very sad to see them go. They're very scared. They don't want to move. People have been here for years, you know, we have to tell them, I'm sorry, you have to leave, so, it's really hard," said dietician Misty Holstein.
For nursing home owner Joe Ward who runs the business with his wife, it was especially difficult.
Hudson Healthcare Center owner Joe Ward said "It's killing us, my wife and I were in the office crying a lot, she's been involved with this place for 18 years. I personally owned it and have been a partial owner for 9 years. It's like, watching our family leave, like a death in our family."
The South Dakota Department of Health ordered an immediate shutdown, citing repeated deficiencies.
Ward says he has dedicated his life to the nursing home and is asking family and friends for support. "We're having friends and family, whoever can send us a letter of support, we're accepting them because basically that help will make our case too," Ward said.
"We're not bad caregivers, it makes us look like, smell like and feel like we gave bad care here, we did not. There was no deficiencies that even granted this," Ward said.
KSFY News spoke with some family members who said they were notified to come and pick up their loved ones, and others who happened to find out only by accident upon visiting the home today. The state asked family members where they would like to move their relatives. It worked with the Department of Social Services to relocate all of the residents to other homes in the area.


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Talk talk have been doing this for a while and it works perfectly. Its a really good option and something when you buy their service you simply have to explain to the telephone operator that you want. Any parent can do that.
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Its like if you buy a pet. What do you do? Just flounder about and get the shop owner to look after it? No, you find out what type of food it needs, what exercise, if it needs a cage etc...
With a child its exactly the same, you find out what you need to do to keep that child safe - including on the computer!
You can add it to your broadband package when you buy it. On top of that you get granular control over the blocking categories if needed via a web interface. Parents can decide what to filter and what to allow if they are indeed technically minded. You can turn it on or off at will, its not mandatory. I expect most parents will simply ask for the adult filter to be applied upon buying the service. That's what really makes it work, its as simple as a phone call.
It really is an excellent system and one I wish more ISPs would adopt.
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The Talk Talk system only works well because so few people use it I'd guess, as the hardware required for mass filtering is expensive to say the least - just look at the kit needed in a school for a 100Mbit connection.
The talk talk filter is free as far as I know and has not added to the cost of their products in any way.
I think this quote sums it up quite well:
'Of course, it's not a silver bullet and it doesn't absolve parents from the responsibility of knowing what their children are up to online. But our research shows parents understand this. They don't want their ISP to control what content they can or can't access online – they just want their ISP to give them the power to implement settings that are right for their family,' said Tristia Clarke, a TalkTalk spokesperson.
Well, according to mumsnet [who represent all parents for some reason] they DO want ISP level filtering. [referenced in the report]But our research shows parents understand this. They don't want their ISP to control what content they can or can't access online
So, either TalkTalk are lying or Mumsnet are trying to force legislation to allow them to keep being lazy.
But, it's proving my point. There are enough things around to do this already. ISP level filtering isn't needed.
Also, TalkTalk not charging for filtering != it's free
It just means they're getting the money for it another way.
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I dont think any legislation is needed as the original article states.
It just needs the optional products from the ISP's to be made available like talk talk have done.
EDIT: I forgot to say that if anything is made mandatory I would be marching up the street with placards with you all
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It's called a proxy server (another thing that any national net filter would need to block to be effective).
The entire ISP responsibility argument is flawed though. Imagine if one of your students used your LA E-Mail system to make phishing attacks and you got nicked for it because it's your network?
So 9 out of 10 14-16 year olds access porn regularly at home, well I wonder how much money they spent finding that one out? Of course they look at porn, all teenagers (boy's mainly i'd of thought) have done and will do. It's part of growing up,it's been a while since I was a teen and I didn't have the enjoyment of the internet back then, had to rely on the random finding of a porn mag that had been stashed in a bush, or one passed down from an older brother or older friend. Kids access porn, whether it be on the internet or in a magazine, you can't stop it, why would you want to? It's part of growing up...
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i don't understand your proof, but what i mean is that as the expression stands [tex]\frac{ln(x)}{x}[/tex] goes the the undeterminate form [tex]\frac{\infty}{\infty}[/tex] and that l'hospitale has to be applied to see that the limit is zero. the initial point was that the rewriting of the expression using logs didn't save him any steps because still had to apply l'hospitale to figure out the limit. i then realized that applying l'hospitale to original expression was pointless.
[tex]\frac{ln(x)}{x}[/tex] does in fact go to [tex]\frac{\infty}{\infty}[/tex] when x tend to inf.
this is an indeterminate form. u can use l'hopital's rule to solve this easily.
easier way of doing this can be explained usingthe following example
lim x -->inf (x^5/x^4). lim x--> inf (x^5) is inf and lim x-->inf (x^4) is inf. it is inf because x^5 grows faster than x^4 when x tends to infinity.
so the higher the power of x, the faster it grows. one thing we have to understand is that e^x grows faster than ANY function of x and ln(x) grows slower than ANY function of x when x tends to infinity. so [tex]\frac{ln(x)}{x}[/tex] when x tends to inf is just zero.
so both answers of indeterminate and zero is correct. inf/inf is just a way of expressing two functions are going towards infinity. it is an indeterminate value because we do not know how fast each functions are going towards infinity. and inf/inf is NOT always 1. in the example given by HallsofIvy. "limx->inf (x/x) is not inf/inf but 1." fact is it CAN BE expressed as inf/inf and l'hopital's rule can be used, which would give the answer 1. and this example gives an answer of 1 only because we know the two functions grows at the same rate (simply because they are the same function). so if the example was 2x/x. this would also be inf/inf when x-->inf. but the answer would not be 1 because the two functions are NOT growing at the same rate. and also simple questions like lim x-->inf (2x/x) would not require l'hopital's rule because we can instantly see that 2x grows twice as fast as x, or can easily simplify this with algebra. BUT using l'hopital's rule for this is perfectly fine.
i hope this clears up the argument between the answers of zero and inf/inf. they are both correct.


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As a lifelong Bears fan, I have loved having Brian Urlacher as a linebacker for many years on my team. The guy is tough, plays hard every down, and without a doubt is a future Hall of Famer. But I'm not sure where his head has been at the last few months.
First, "Two of the people I don't care about, fans or the media," Urlacher said. This after the Bears lost to the Packers, when fans and media alike were calling for Coach Lovie Smiths job to be on the chopping block. Urlacher thought this was ridiculous. Yet, here we are 3 months later with a new head coach in Marc Trestman, and an entirely new coaching staff. Guess it was not so ridiculous. And I especially loved the part where he doesn't care about the fans. Nice PR Brian.
Now, Urlacher cannot come to terms with the Chicago Bears over money and is no longer a Bear. Urlacher clearly thinks he is worth a lot more money than what he was being offered. The Bears offered 2 million for a 1 year deal, Urlacher wanted 11.5 million for a 2 year deal, or so the news reports say. I believe he was willing to negotiate, but it seems the Bears were not.
Maybe its the new regime in Chicago, because from my perspective, as a fan, Urlacher got the shaft. There was something to be said for bringing back a future hall of famer to buy in to the new system, new coaching, be the leader that he has always been. But instead of having my sympathies, he turns around and says "Don't get me wrong...$2 million is a lot of money. But I'm not going to put my body through what it goes through during the season for that amount of money. Not for anybody. Not at this point of my career."
So Urlacher feels like the Bears slapped him in the face. And his comment makes me feel like he is slapping every Tom, Dick or Elizabeth in the face. So many of us would have loved to have the physical talents and abilities to be professional athletes. To get paid to do what we love. To get paid to get fit, get cheered on by thousands of fans, become famous doing what we love. And not only to get paid, but to get paid thousands, or in Urlacher's case, millions of dollars over the years. Stop talking Brian Urlacher. Seriously.
2 million dollars is more than many of us will see in a lifetime, some in physically difficult jobs, that also cause strain to a body. Others exercise to stay fit, for no money, but encounter various ailments, injuries and pain as they age especially. But 2 million is insulting?
You are worth that much more? Urlacher himself has said his knee will never be the same. He is not getting any younger. Having never gone through a football season and understanding the price their bodies take day in and day out, I certainly sympathize with Brian Urlacher about his plight. And I am sorry to see him leave the Bears. But the man needs to shut his mouth because all he continues to do is alienate fans and make me more than OK with his goodbyes. Will be interesting to see what you are actually worth.
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Still keeping up with doing the thousand steps every Sunday. Best workout of the week hands down. I'm up to running 25minutes without stopping now, with a bit of walking on either side. Pretty proud of myself. My pushups: 20, 18, 16. My sit ups: 100 army styles, 50 for lower abs and 60 for obliques. I try to run at least 3 times a week. I try to do body pump at least once a week.
I have my army BFA coming up this week: 2.4km in under 13.5 minutes (i did it in 12 minutes 50 yesterday so feeling pretty good) plus over 20 push ups and 100 sit ups. Pretty sure I will pass.
I'm not being very good at sticking to the 5000kj a day thing, which is why i'm maintaining my weight rather than losing. Need to eat less! I still feel that I'm looking toned though :)
Wednesday 25th Cont':
Exercise: a run after lunch, 30minutes (with 20 minutes of actual running), sit ups same as the day before, and the usual muscle contraction excercises before and after food.
Food: Again I ate around 5000kj, i didn't eat any snacks throughout the day so I could have a bigger dinner.
Thursday 26th Jan:
Weight in the morning before breakfast: 51.5kg. Still losing :) No exercise today other than the muscle contractions before and after food, and some push ups and sit ups. My push up sets are still 19, 17 and 15. I only ate 1550kj during the day and had a pizza for dinner, this was a bad idea in hindsight as i put on weight when i weight myself the next morning. I think it is better to eat smaller regularly than a lot just one time, because even though i still only had about 6000kj during the day, i put on weight.
Friday 27th Jan:
This morning my weight: 52.1kg. Disappointing, definitely won't eat the way I did yesterday. However, My measurements last week were: Around the navel: 87cm, hips: 91.5cm, right thigh:54.5, left thigh:54.5, left bicep: 28cm, right bicep: 26cm. Today I took my measurements because i might have gain a little weight due to more muscle rather than more fat. Today my measurements are: navel: 85cm, hips: 90.5cm, right thigh: 51.5cm, left thigh: 51.5cm, left bicep:26.5cm, right bicep: 27cm. So in total, i lost 9.5cm which I am happy with. I think I have lost more around my thighs than anywhere else because I mostly run for exercise as well as doing the 'thousand steps' once a week. Today so far for exercise I have done Body Pump. I don't mind about the increase in diameter at my biceps because i like my arms, and i don't mind if they get toned, i have to be good at push ups and chin ups anyway because I'm in the army reserves.
For now i'm turning my wedding blog into a bit of a weight loss blog. My wedding diet has started, looking amazing in my dress is my inspiration. My weight at the start was 62kg, my goal weight is between 54 and 50kg depending on how I feel when i get there.
Monday 23rd Jan: I went for a run after breakfast for about 25 minutes (only 15.5minutes of actual running). I did chin ups (assisted) and did push ups (set one:19, set two:17, set three:15) and sit ups (set one:50 set two:50 and then a few different kinds to target lower abs and obliques). I ate around 5000kj, and drank lots of water. Before each meal is when I did the muscle exercises and also 1 hour after. I read in a book called 'The 4 hour Body' by Tim Ferris that this affects the way your body uses the energy, and aids in weight loss.
Tuesday 24th Jan: No run today. Sit ups sames as yesterday. Again before i eat i do muscle contraction exercises straight before and an hour after eating (this includes sit ups, quick squats, and tricep pushes against a wall, altogether only taking about 2-3minutes). I've started taking a supplement suggested in the above mention book before each meal. It's call AGG and PAGG, it contains things like green tea extract and garlic which again affects your body's use of the food it's taking in, aiding in weight loss. I ate a bad dinner (fish and chips) because I was out for a birthday, and i drank about 6 glasses of alcohol. I only ate about 3000kj before this so I decided my daily intake was between 8500 and 9000kj. I did a LOT of dancing. Weight: 62kg
Wednesday 25th Jan: Weighed myself this morning at the same time as yesterday, before breakfast and in underwear. Weight: 61.7! I have lost .3kg so far, even though i ate a bad dinner and drank the night before. I think it's because of the supplements. So far so good :)


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Fewer Turks returned after the Venetian occupation than had lived there before. Whereas before the occupation, Turks had formed one quarter of the population, afterwards they carne to about one tenth. Nevertheless, a small mosque was erected inside the ruins of the Parthenon, mostly out of fallen material. At about this time, a company of whirling dervishes took over the Tower of the Winds as their tekke. Their dances, taking place as they did in this unique building, became one of the sights of the city for foreign visitors, one frequently represented in engravings.
In the eighteenth century Athens began to acquire places of learning once more. In 1721 the Medresse, a Turkish religious seminary was founded by Mehmet Fakhri. It carne to be used as a general meeting hall for the Turks. In 1750 Ioannis Dekas, an Athenian who had fled with the Venetians and made a lot of money in Venice, built and endowed a school for twelve poor Athenian children in what is now Deka Street, near Monastiraki.
In 1759 the voivode Tzistarakis built the mosque which bears his name on the present Monastiraki Square. The workmen dynamited one of the columns of the Temple of Olympian Zeus to obtain high quality lime for the stucco. The Pasha of Chalkis had him banished for this act, even refusing a bribe of 16,000 piastres which the voivode offered him. The people attributed the outbreak of plague that year to the disease being released by the destruction of the column.
Western visitors continued to arrive in significant numbers for the first time, providing valuable information about the city at that time. Edward Gibbon described the inhabitants 'walking with supine indifference among the glorious ruins of antiquity.' The number of travellers increased after Stuart and Revett published their Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These travellers allow us to glimpse life in Athens in some detail. Thus Hans Christian Anderson reported seeing black Ethiopian slaves belonging to the Turks, who lived high in the caves in the side of the rock on the northern slope of the acropolis. Some of the cave entrances would be partially bricked up for added shelter. The Ethiopians used the ruins of the Temple of Olympian Zeus as a mosque. In 1760, Athens became a malikhane, state land belonging to the sultan, which he would lease to a tenant for his lifetime. The tenant would pay the sultan a lump sum based upon ten times the annual revenue of the property and exercise judicial rights over the inhabitants. His first project after appointment would be to recoup the money he had paid for the lease from the townspeople.
In 1772 Hadji Αli Haseki, an Anatolian Turk in the bodyguard of Sultan Abdul Hamid Ι, purchased the malikhane. After three years he was made voivode. Hadji Αli Haseki's general aim, quite simply, was to extort as much money from the Athenians as possible.
In 1777 and 1778, hordes of Muslim Albanians burst into the city. They had been called into Greece by the Turks to aid in the bloody suppression of a revolt in the Peloponnese instigated, but inadequately supported, by empress Catherine of Russia. Afterwards, many of them had remained to rob and pillage. In consequence, Hadji Αli ordered the building of a defensive wall, known as the Serpentzes, around the city. In places it fol1owed the lines of the walls of Themistokles on the north and east. This wall was of poor quality, barely three metres high and one wide, and incorporated much masonry from ruins and monuments The chronicler Dimitrios Kalephronas wrote: 'As soon as the work was completed, Hadji Αli presented the Athenians with a bill of 42,500 piastres for supervisors from outside, and they paid it. But the wall became a prison for the Athenians. He set guards at the gates, and the Athenians suffered much, until by 1784 'the curse of his rule was no longer to be borne.'
In 1785, Haseki was summoned to Constantinople for trial, together with those archons who had collaborated with him Nevertheless, five years later he was able to return. As a result: 'In 1791 and this year 100 there was nothing but oppression, with people fleeing the country and the Athenians fleeing in every direction. The years 1789-92 were the worst in the twenty-year period of Hadji Ali's rule.' The prisons were full as Haseki tried to extort money from the wealthier citizens. This was too much even for the sultan, and he was banished to Chios and beheaded three years later. [Read more about the dreadful career of the tyrant Ali Haseki in Athens.]
During these years, Athens became increasingly a port of call, or even a destination, for foreign travellers. William Rae Wilson was wrote: 'Ι crossed over in a small boat to Athens, the principal city of the Grecian empire, and put up in a small convent al the extremity of it, inhabited by a solitary monk, where, from the crowd of names of Englishmen written and cut on the walls, seems to be a kind of headquarters for Βritish travellers.' He was referring to the monastery of Saint Spyridοn. Near the end of the century John Bacon Sawry Μοrritt exemplified the ruthless attitudes of the aristocratic antiquities collectors of the period: 'It is very pleasant to walk the streets here. Over almost every door is an antique statue or basso-relievo, more or less good though all much broken, so that you are in a perfect gallery of marbles in these lands. Some we steal, some we buy.' Later he wrote: 'We have just breakfasted, and are meditating a walk to the citadel, where our Greek attendant is gone to meet the workmen, and is, Ι hope, hammering down the Centaurs and Lapiths... Nothing like making hay when the sun shines, and when the commandant has felt the pleasure of having our sequins for a few days. Ι think we shall bargain for a good deal of the old temple...'
He did not get what he wanted, but in 1799, Lord Elgin was accredited in Constantinople as British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. His agent, the Neapolitan Giovanni Battista Lusieri arrived in Athens to accomplish Elgin 's project of removing fine examples of ancient sculpture to Britain. The Βritish consul, Logothetis, was instructed to obtain permission from the Dizdar Aga. After six months negotiations permission was given in return for five guineas. Even so, he refused them permission to erect scaffolding, lest the workmen peek into the garden of his harem. Then on receiving news of the approach of a French fleet, foreigners were forbidden access to the acropolis.
Elgin then reportedly went straight to the Ottoman Foreign Ministry to request a firmαn in the name of Sultan Selim II, to override local officials, and obtained one. This was presented to the voivαde of Athens. On the basis of this authority, over the next few years the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Propylaea and the temple of Athena Nike were denuded of their sculptures, which were shipped to England. The painter Edward Dodwell visited Athens during the course of this work and wrote of 'the inexpressible mortification of being present when the Parthenon was despoiled of its finest sculpture, and when some of its architectural members were thrown to the ground.' Edward Clarke reported 'down came the fine masses of the Pentilican marble, scattering their white fragments with thundering noise among the ruins.' In recompense for the marbles, Lord Elgin left a clock to the citizens. Α tower was built to house in the bazaar. [Read about the theft of the Parthenon Marbles in Athens.] [Read also about another contemporary despoiler of ancient monuments, Charles H. Cockerell, mostly famous for 'excavating' and robbing the temples of Aegina and Bassae, who also contrived to be the cause if further damage on the Acropolis of Athens.]
The occupation of Italy by Napoleon in 1796 diverted the young noblemen on the Grand Tour to the friendly Ottoman Empire. Many were lodged by Spyridοn Logothetis. In 1798 he received John Twedell, in 1801 Edward Daniel Clarke. In the same year, Edward Dodwell and William Gell stayed with the Makri family on Ayias Theklas Street, in 1809 Byron and Hobhouse. Hobhouse observed that even the Turks of Athens: 'subdued either by the superior spirit of his subjects, or by the happy influence of a more genial climate, appears to have lost his ferocity, to have conformed to the soil, and to have put on a new character, ornamented by the virtues of humanity, kindness, and an easy affability, to which he attains in no other quarter of the Mahometan world.'
He supposed the number of houses in Athens to be between twelve and thirteen hundred; of these about four hundred were inhabited by Turks, the remainder by Greeks and Albanians, the latter of whom occupied about three hundred houses. There were also seven or eight 'Frankish' families, under the protection of the French Consul. He thought the houses of the more important Athenians inferior to those of the wealthier Greeks at Ioannina or Livadia. The streets were narrow and irregular. Many had a raised causeway on both sides, so broad as to contract the middle of the street into a kind of dirty gutter. The bazaar was at a little distance from the foot of the hill, and had several coffee-houses, which at were crowded by Turks playing draughts and chess. It was formed by one street, rather wider than usual, intersecting another at right angles; and a little above where the two meet was the principal ornamented fountain in the town, supplied by a stream still brought in artificial channels or stone gutters from a reservoir under Mount Hymettus.
There were only four principal mosques with minarets in the city, although there were eleven places of worship for the Turks. The number of Christian churches was out of all proportion to the Greek population. Thirty-six were constantly open, and had services performed in them; but if the chapels which were shut every day except on the days of their particular saints were counted, there would have been nearly two hundred.
Hobhouse recorded that the voivode interfered little with the management of the Christians, and generally contented himself with the receipt of the tribute, collected by the archons. These were formerly eight in number; but at that time there were only five.
The regular tax transmitted from Attica to Constantinople was between seven hundred and seven hundred and fifty purses; but the archons, under various pretences, exacted twice as much; and as they never gave any account to the people of the manner in which their money had been disposed of, they did not fail to enrich themselves out of the difference. Threats, and sometimes punishments, were employed to wring from the peasants their hard-earned pittances.
The archbishop of Athens exercised absolute authority over the clergy, and had a prisοn near his house for the confinement of offenders, whom he might punish with the bastinado, a beating on the soles of the feet with rods, to any extent short of death. His place was purchased from the Patriarch, the cost later being recouped by exactions from the people. [Read about the Orthodox Church under Ottoman rule in Between Heaven and Earth.]
The families of Westerners settled at Athens chiefly supported themselves by lending money, at an interest of from twenty to thirty per cent to Greeks merchants. They held balls and parties in the winter and spring in their own small circle, to which the leading Greeks were invited.
He reported that until within a few years previously, a journey to Athens was reckoned a considerable undertaking, fraught with difficulties and dangers; and that only 'a few desperate scholars and artists ventured to trust themselves amongst the barbarians, to contemplate the ruins of Greece.' But in recent years Attica swarmed with travellers' to the extent that 'several women had ascended the Acropolis' and that the city was soon to be provided with a tavern.
The region immediately to the north and north-west of the city, Hobhouse described as interspersed with small villages, hidden in shady groves. The Athenians were fond of the luxury of a summer retreat, had constructed kiosks, or summer houses, the lower part of mud and the upper of wooden planks, 'affording agreeable shelter during the intolerable heat of summer.'
'Some of these gardens were near villages such as Kemsha, the ancient Cephisia, at the foot of Mount Pentelicus, and Calandri, in the same quarter; but the large tract of them was in the long line of olive-groves which form the western boundary of the plain of Athens. This district, watered by the Cephisus, in the neighbourhood of the site of the Academy, and the Colonus Ηίppius, about twenty minutes' walk from the gale leading to Thebes, was to the south called Sepolia, and to the north Patisia, and was divided into extensive grounds allotted for supplying the city with fruit and vegetables, and are for the most part not cultivated by their owners, but let out to the peasants of the villages.'
The Κifissos, he described as a sort of ditch-stream, almost dry in summer, and in winter only a torrent passing through the olive-groves and gardens, each of which is watered. irrigation was 'effected by raising a low mound round eight or nine trees, and then introducing the stream through dykes, so as to keep the roots and part of the trunks under water for the necessary length of time. Each owner watered his grove for thirty or forty hours, and paid so much a tree to the voivode, or to someone who had leased the revenue from that officer. 'During that period the peasants constructed huts with boughs, and watched each other day and night, so as not to lose their own portion, or to allow to others an unfair abundance of the valuable water.' He several limes observed their fires among the trees; and, as they watched in parties, and heard the sound of their voices, and the tinkling music of their guitars, on returning to Athens from an evening's ride
The village of Κifissia was then the favourite resort of the Turks of Athens during the summer and autumnal months. The only village in Attica adorned with a mosque: it contained about two hundred houses. In the middle of it was an open space, where there were two fountains, and a large plane-tree, beneath whose overhanging branches was a flat stone, which was carved into squares so as to serve as a draught board, around which the Turks could be seen sedately smoking, or playing.
At Piraeus there was a monastery, dedicated to St. Spiridion, and inhabited by three or four friars; a summer retreat and warehouses belonging to a Frenchman, who resided in the city in the double capacity of physician and merchant; and a custom-house, the collector belonging to which was a dealer in fruit and Greek spirits. While he was there he saw in the harbour two ships at anchor. One of them was destined to receive the spoils of the Parthenon; and the other had recently arrived with a cargo of human beings from the coast of Africa. There were between two and three hundred slaves in the city: chiefly females, the servants of the Turks, who had the reputation, he said, of being indulgent and kind-hearted masters. He asked a black girl who brought a duck to the Capuchin convent for sale, how she came to be made a slave She said that she was born in Egypt, and caught in the neighbourhood of Alexandria while she was at the well drawing water. The only other trade at Piraeus was the exportation of the productions of Attica, the chief of which was olive oil.
Α survey of the many engravings of the period shows that, although many were drawn unseen from descriptions and contain gross inaccuracies, it is clear that at this time, with the exception of the olive groves of the Kifissos Valley, the tree cover had already virtually disappeared from around Athens and from most parts of Mount Hymettos. Although large timber had disappeared in classical times, so that it was necessary for the city to resort to the forests of Macedonia and Thrace for the wood for shipbuilding, records from the period of Florentine rule suggest that at that time the hills around Athens were wooded. Thus significant deforestation occurred under Ottoman rule. Engravings from this period also frequently show camels. Although not a major trading centre, Athens was connected with the rest of the empire by the camel caravan routes which criss-crossed the Middle East and North Africa, and which once had their European terminus at Belgrade. [Read reports of other travellers to Athens during this period in Travellers' Greece: Memories of an Enchanted Land.]
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Well, I attended my first game the season, and enjoyed doing the wave. I didn't get a chance to chant "MVP" to LaMarcus because I was going to wait near the end, but... I should have remembered we were playing the Wizards.Was a great game. I loved Nicolas' effort. He's really starting to get a feel for the game. I don't think he took even one jumpshot in this game besides the and-1. He attacked the basket very well and made it look easy. He did the same against the Lakers. I also loved his rebounding effort.Wallace... well... what can I say. We know LaMarcus was the biggest All-Star snub of all time... but is Gerald Wallace the biggest steal of all time? I think one of the most amazing stats in this game was that the Blazers scored 111 points. The highest scorer scored 28. LaMarcus Aldridge and Brandon Roy scored a combined 23 points.Back in the day, if we said that those two only scored 23 points, it normally was a result of a blowout loss. To say it was in a blowout win... now that's something.Next up is friday. Hanging with my bros and a Spurs fan that day. So, as much as I like to talk on these blogs, it's almost double in reality. Let's win!I predict the Blazers to win these next 5 games. Yes, I am crazy. But that's because I have BLAZERMANIA.Only game I'm nervous about, really, is the game at New Orleans. We just better beat OKC. That's my 21st Birthday and I've been waiting for that day for ages. It's finally here. I want a win!
@Mike & Mike... During Flip's .20 time out at the 7:25 mark of the 3rd, props to you guys for showing the Hustle Board. The Hustle stat is something all my friends (and I'm sure others do as well) pay attention to, every game. It's shows just how hard our guys are out there, wanting the win, defending their asses off!!! Let's make it a regular addition to the television and radio broadcasts please and thank you?!RIP CITY FOREVER!!!
Nice the Blazers are taking care of the teams they should take care of. I think they are going to do well down the stretch. 8-3 the rest of the way! Make me real happy if they go 10-1 to win 51 like I predicted, but that's not very realistic any more.GO BLAZERS!!
Great game by GW! Yes, nice to see Nic with the 12 boards as well. All I can say is it's good to see these performances as the season winds down. IF we get to the playoffs (just to share Mike's sentiment of having to get there first rather than talk about match-ups), I hope GW and Nic can make the same sort of contributions then as well. Anyways, nice to get a comfortable win again, against a team we should take care of, as Mr. Rice said on chalk talk, there should be no let-downs the rest of the way, as we can't afford it. GO BLAZERS!-Anees, from Prague
It was nice to have another stress-free game, but there were a few spots for a pessimist to pick at. Our starting front line, which was very good against the Lakers was even better, as you'd expect against a weak team. But only one of our guards really improved his play. Rudy, Wesley and Brandon all shot badly again. Andre was deadly efficient in limited minutes; 2-2, 11 assists with zero turnovers says it all. But what on earth has happened to Nate's commitment to Patty Mills? He held him out so long this time it felt like he was sending him a message along the lines of "Don't think for a moment you'll get a meaningful minute in the playoffs." Rice said, "he'll be in there in a minute" but it was a painfully long wait before Nate finally let him on the floor. Is there something happening I don't know about? Did Nate catch him sneaking out of his wife's bedroom, or is he suspected of smuggling koala pelts to black-marketeers? Against the Lakers I figured it was about match-ups, but why would he snub Mills that badly in a blow-out?
Good post Mike . Glad we got GW on the team. Well the eastern confrence teams are over its all about the wild west. with games coming up above .500 enjoy the 2 days off see you and Mike R on tv Friday. Go Blazers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mike: As you know, bowling night.I didn't get any score updates or radio reports, but did get through bowling to listen to the whole fourth quarter. By that time the opportunity time as Tone said opposed to garbage time of Wheels. Therefore in my brief time Chris Johnson was the hero. So I thank you for the update of the rest of the game.The answer to Islander question IMO was Mills height and he wanted to do more experimenting with Rudy and BRoy in the backcourt at the same time, opposed to BRoy playing the 3. Remember most teams are pretty much set in their rotations, but Portland is just getting theirs with Wallace, and BRoy and with Camby going in and out of the teams active roster.Thanks for the update Mike and fellow Posters, I have a pretty clear picture of what went down.With the 9Th seed team 5 wins behind us all we need is a combination 6 wins by us and or 6 losses by Phoenix. That at least makes it sound better.
It's nice we are finally blowing the teams that we should beat.Couple of points. The last 14 seconds of the 1st quarter were reminiscient of a recent game that we lost. What's wih Rudy - 5 turnovers and 1/7 on 3 pointers. Roy goes 0/6. Good thing we didn't need them.
This was a game of a good team taking care of business of a bad team. I'm looking forward to this tough final stretch. It should give us a good idea of how ready we are for the playoffs.Go Blazers!
Islander,interesting point about Patty.All I can say is ,look how fast The Armonizer fell out of favor with Sarge .He is hard on young players.Always has been.Great win for us.Enuff of playing down to lesser teams.MB,I would NOT be suprised if Crash is being an influence in the locker room as well as on the court.MGB,10-1,Man you are the king of all optimists,brotha. BLAZERSROCK
Love a blowout..... GO BLAZERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Game! Wallace has deffinantly anchored out defense! We do have to make it to the playoff first but heres a *GREAT* article over at the bleacher report you guys need to check out! http://bleacherreport.com/articles/641111-portland-trail-blazers-best-non-elite-team-with-a-shot-at-the-nba-championship
AK Blazer,Thanks for the link. I found this interesting:"""The aforementioned Batum, who is probably the defensive weak link on the starting lineup right now is still reliable on the other side of the floor, as he can easily score 10-15 points a game, and gives the team a second threat from three-point land."""Batum is the weak link on D? He is known for his D and being inconsistent on O.
If we don't make the playoffs, we don't deserve it.
MGB: I was wondering about that too. The author may have got mixed up.I will take his aggressive D and 10-15 points to the bank any night.
this was a great game. offensively, we stepped it up the entire game and defensively, Nate's adjustments really worked. it was great to see guys like Gerald and Nicolas to step up again. the funny thing is that if you look only at LaMarcus' point total, then you might think he had an average or sub-par game, until you realize he only played 33 minutes. any time we can get him a few extra minutes of rest, it's going to help. i know it was garbage time, but Chris Johnson did some very nice things when he was on the court. sure, playing against the wizards' deep bench isn't going to get you the best experience possible. however, now that he's tasted some success, i think he's getting hungry for more playing time.mgb: you're correct. Nicolas is a defensive specialist who is developing some offensive moves. it's exciting to watch. he definitely has earned a couple new berets the past couple of games!Vinnie: Crash went all LTP on the wizards last night! it wouldn't surprise me if he's becoming a postive influence in the locker room at all.Ancientone: good point. we should have beaten the wizards big, and we did. we took care of business.thedanman: i think these last 11 games will really give us an idea of what we may be able to do in the playoffs. well said.Hg: seriously, you're going to have to start fluxuating your bowling nights around the blazers!Herr: i hope we have better luck on your birthday than on mine when we lost to atlanta at home.~ Kassandra
Kassandra: only 5 more weeks of bowling, but four weeks of Blazers regular season. We only have two more tueday night games. Golden State and Memphis. With any luck those two games won't be as big a factor as they are right now. I can record the games and watch them later, or listen to them on the radio. The owner of the Bowling lanes is a blazer fan and watches the continueing update's on the game, but he was out of town last night, I couldn't get my little radio to work, so I had to wait until I got to my car on the way home. So I did listen to the whole fourth quarter. OBTW. Tone informed Wheels that at the end of a blow out game isn't garbage time, but opportunity time because he often had to play at that time and he wasn't garbage LOL.I am already convenced that we will be a team to be reckoned with in the play-offs, we have not yet reached our potential with the Addition of Wallace and BRoy. In my opinion only, I think BRoy is holding out a little bit and saving it for the play-offs. Then he will earn his title of the sandman, lull them to sleep and then explode on them.I missed you on Up and Adam show.
Hg Im sorry to bother you. you bowl so do I a 165 averege bowler . go blazers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jyp:No bother at all, I love hearing my fella Blazer fans. I have a 185 average and falling as I get older my aggressiveness is harder to keep. As teams gets physical with Blazers with no fouls called it has a tendency to make them lose their aggressiveness.
That game last night, aside from the first 6 minutes or so, was EXACTLY what I was hoping and expecting to see from this team. I thought perhaps Cleveland was a fluke, so I was very relieved that we did not play down to our competition for a second time. To me, this is a very good sign.The loose locker room atmosphere and increasing chemistry among the team is also a very good sign :)My only concern at any time was BRoy's ineffectiveness over the last 4 games. I assume he is just still adjusting, finding his role and getting used to playing less minutes. He doesn't seem to be hurt at all, so it must be something else :) I feel confident he will work it out though!
Just so folks are aware, I noticed LaMarcus dominating when I was at the game. Being in the 300 section (THIS IS SPARTA!... okay going too far) I was able to get a good look at the hustle board at halftime.LaMarcus had 22 points, 1 assists, 3 rebounds. He didn't take a single shot in the second half of the game, he only grabbed a bit of boards.My thoughts are that LaMarcus was there to secure the win early (which they did) and to build on court chemistry, just like why there were starters so late against Cleveland. Great choice by Nate. I'm sick of the NBA media bashing him for that thinking there truly is an "injury curse" in Portland.
EowynAmarie:Glad to see you smiling again :).
thats right Hg same with me. Good averege . I bowl on wednesdays nights only and I try to watch the games from the bowling alley and its hard to see the scores . But Im looking foward to Friday night play the spurs......... Good luck bowling tonight .....:)
Sometime, when we really need to get defensive, here's a group I'd like to see on the court:Marcus Camby (or LaMarcus) - CGerald Wallace - FNicolas Batum - FRudy Fernandez - GWes Mathews - GTurn this bunch loose to wreak havoc on the opponents offense and score off turnovers. Could be wrong, but I don't think this group of five great defenders have all been on the court at the same time yet. Nate?
I think we need to see patty mills in the line up fast player. That guy can run.
jvp:As a bowler, I can see where rhythm and timing is so important to BB players. I can go down to bowl one night and get one strike after another with an occasional 7 pin (lefty). and it seems I've got it all figured out and it is easy. Then on the next night, I couldn't get a strike if my life depended on it. So, I say it is easy to get strikes when you are on, but when you struggle is when you work the hardest, and the more you do the worst you get. the the stress takes over and the game is over. I feel this is the same with BB players, if the defense knocks them out of balance, or interrupts their rhythm then the shots won't fall. Of course if I had the answer to the problem I could be a 300 bowlers and the Blazers would be champions.
Don, I think for an all defensive team Armon would be better then Rudy.If you took your line-up of:Marcus for reboundingLMA for being able to switch on pick and rollsWallace MatthewsBatum because he can guard the point guards.Him and LMA can switch on picks and not lose anything. going back on offense off turn-overs any of the five, even Camby, Remember when he drove the full length of the court, could handle the ball off the dribbleThat would leave us without a true point guard, but boy would we have stopping power.
Ya, I would drop Rudy for LA in a sec. Rudy isn't really the best defender though he does get steals and disrupts because he gambles a lot.
I think Rudy's defense is underrated. Granted he's not the best on-the-ball defender (although lately he's been better at that) but he is so disruptive by getting in the passing lanes and his ability to anticipate passes is among the best.I feel the group I named could be to the NBA what the old UCLA zone press was to college ball, a way to change the complexion of a game in a hurry.Granted the Armonizer can fit that role also and maybe he should be in that unit if the other team has smaller guards. --don
I just like LA's length and speed. Not really a knock against Rudy.
Hate to see it, and hate to say this, but David West is likely done for the season, which is bitter sweet news for the Blazers if there was any concern.Watching that game, he screamed in agony for awhile, repeating "oww" like a man that just got hit by a cannon ball. Seeing both Oden's and Joel's injuries, I can tell you that West is done. He had to leave on a wheel chair. Was sad to see. Killed the moment since he scored a game tying dunk with 6.8 seconds left. Milsap got fouled with 1.3 seconds left, and was an idiot that made the 2nd free throw, putting the Jazz up by 2. A long inbound pass to Paul, who tipped it to Okafor who threw a circus shot went in.The good news is the Jazz are likely out of the playoffs. I honestly think that if any team doesn't make the playoffs, it would be New Orleans (thats in it now). This was before the West injury. Utah, in a depressing season for them, is likely gone.The Bad news is we're now only a half game ahead of New Orleans, who should have lost today, but you can thank Milsap for sacrificing his teams chances in the playoffs for scoring one more point on his impressive statline.
I've thought for two weeks now that you could stick a fork in Utah, they're done. I'm so glad they matched our offer for Milsap, he's no Carlos Boozer by a long shot.West being out really helps us against the Hornets next week. West usually plays very well against the Blazers. A win there will be a big step toward the playoffs and staying out of 7th place. No way we want to face the Lakers in the first round.
mgb: I understand and would certainly not disapprove of putting LA on our all-defensive team. It depends a lot on who's on the floor for the other team.
Really terrible about West. He's a great ball player and a significant threat, especially to us. The Hornets have done well this season and I sincerely hope they make it in, regardless of West's status.Going to the game tonight. Down to my last two for the season. Anybody else going to be there?Out of curiosity, how does one get down to the floor to say hello to Mike and Mike? I would really like to do that either tonight or at my last game. I likely won't have any games next season, so this may be my last chance for awhile to meet the them :)
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The "wrong-way driver" was heading south in the northbound lanes, between 111th and 115th streets, around 4:30 a.m. The car avoided some oncoming traffic, but then while traveling at "highway speeds" hit another vehicle.
One person was killed, and two people - perhaps including the person who later died - were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
Coincidentally, another "wrong-way driver" was stopped by the Illinois State Police on the Bishop Ford half an hour later. This car was driving south in the northbound lanes at 130th Street. No collision occurred during this incident.
In an unrelated accident on the inbound Bishop Ford, near 152nd Street in Dolton, a man was killed when his car exited the expressway and struck a tree. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
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What I will always wonder about is how long the Saudis and the Bushes will go along with the charade that each family is repelled socially and religiously by the other.
The Saudis as devout Muslims are required to loathe infidel dogs and wealthy WASPS regard everyone else as wogs. Truly, a testament to the power of money to make even stranger bedfellows than politics. Oy!
I believe 9/11 was a bunch of disgruntled Saudi youth recruited by the "Old Man of the Mountain" to slaughter Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Twin Towers. However, I will always find it curious that all the bin Laden relatives were flown out on planes when all other flights had been grounded, as were members of the House of Saud. The latter have been close friends of the Bush Family for generations.
I appreciate the welcome. One small thing. The diminutives of my Hebrew name "Mordekhai" are "Motkha" which is hard for many Anglophones to say, or "Motti". "Mord" sounds to me too much like Latin-derived "death".
I haven't used my Hebrew name in years. I like it! ;-)
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Nearly all the American "aristocracy" realized that an interruption of the flow of profits from Europe was a worse catastrophe than finding ways to trade with the enemy in wartime. Ever drunk a Fanta?
Thanks, James. I've always considered you a good friend. We see eye to eye so often.
What's your view on 9/11? I'm not a conspiracy theory type, but for the hellame I can't figure out how Building #7 went down two blocks away.
And how did the towers fall so fast? faster than dropping a coin off the roof. Less than 11 seconds. And the fukkin' Florida election? I get mad just thinking about it. How could this imbecile get elected twice?
I assure Mord knows whereof he speaketh. If you have read one of the many "Bush Dynasty" books you know why George W. was the way he was, how he got there, partly by currying the favor of the religious right. But the books show just how true it is that W's pedigree is from plutocratic thievery (robber barons). I donno about the traitors part. Chumminess with the House of Saud? What's traitorous about that?
I just totally agree with Richard re: John Hagee. He HAS to be the most repulsive creature to ever, EVER crawl out from under a rock. I wish I had taped the time John McCain appeared on a raised platform for a photo op with Hagee, whose other elbow rubbed Tex. Senator John Cornyn. Cornyn is Mr. Opportunist in person. He got elected to the Texas Supreme Court by insurance company money and he left the law to politic for senate, again on Big Money. While in D.C. he has lined his pockets so heavily it is amazing he move around with all that coinage. After McCain realized who Hagee really was (I think his own daughter told him Hagee is to homophobia what Freud was to psychoanalysis and McCain at least has a conscience), McCain threw Hagee under the bus. Not that shithead John Cornyn: he knew that Hagee's mega-church would be important in any reelection bid. So he panders to this base element. What I want to know is, when is the Southern Poverty Law Center going to put Hagee's church on its hate list?
@ Richard A cena eh? I am headed for Isla Mujeres shortly and miss my meals in Mexico. I will try to get back to the capital next year, if only passing through. The City is a gourmet paradise: on my previous 10-day trip, I ate at a Pakistani restaurant that had the best tandori chicken I've eaten. Another place had authentic Norteno style birria de chivo. Like the guy on TV, "I'm here for the food."
There's a special kick for me in seeing Spanish-speaking atheists. Cristianismo has such deep roots in the culture that you forget that thousands of Jews and freethinkers also use it as their mother tongue.
When atheism makes serious inroads in Ibero-America we will have a vast reservoir of people declaring that they, too, will not be told what to think, say, or do on account of some celestial devil. And high time, too!
Mord, wonderful. Good for you. Languages are part of the good life. I feel great just ordering la cena in a Mexican reastaurant.
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Thanks a ton, Catspaws and TaLins! SO happy you guys like it :) I would LOVE if this piece could make it to the front page~
Didi, I am giving it to her for Christmas, so she hasn't seen it yet! :D And I am not worried about her seeing it here, since online shopping isn't her "thing" Hehe. I sure hope she enjoys it.
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2008-12-10 / People/Social
St. David's men's club holds luncheon meeting
The Men's Club of St. David's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Massapequa Park held its first meeting after the summer recess, Tues., Sept. 9. The lunch meeting is held on the first Tuesday of the month, at noon at the Corner Galley Restaurant, 5411 Merrick Rd., Massapequa.
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