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I've always loved make-up but I think I've really got into it the last few years or so – I'm really into experimenting with different colours now and trying out different looks. There are a lot of fun beauty brands now (Urban Decay, Mac, Two Faced) which have lots of cool products to try. I think discovering Mac has really added to my love of make-up, as there are so many amazing colours available!
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I guess the answer is that easy and (fairly) cheap access made me into the addict that I am 🙂
This past summer. I came across a lot of makeup gurus on YouTube and from there fell in love with all things makeup.
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I've been a beauty addict since I was a small child. I received a cheapo make up palette for Christmas when I was like 7. I loved that thing and I had it for years. I was very protective of it [like how I am of my high end make up now!], hence owning it for years. Every time my parents gave me an allowance, I would trek to the drug store up the road and spend it all on Lip Smackers chap stick and gloss, Jordana eye shadows and pencil liners, haha…ahhhh Sweet memories.
When I was very small I'd sit on my mother's bed and watch her do her makeup all the time. When I was about five or six she started letting me look through her makeup supplies, and would give me a tiny drop of foundation to try or give me a little dab of lipstick to wear. I always wanted play makeup for holidays, and then little kid's makeup (Hello Kitty lipstick and Tinkerbelle Brush on Peel off nail polish!), and then I started buying Maybelline and Covergirl with my allowance, and then I moved on to better brands. I love everything to do with makeup. 😀
I've always loved make-up and beauty products since I was about 12. My aunt worked at a beauty store so she always provided me with samples from Dior, Chanel etc….
But the real addiction came about 2 years ago, when Mac came out with the Barbie collection….from there on there was no stopping or getting back!
I've always loved makeup, even as a child. I remember watching my Grandmother apply her super bright pink lipstick, & peeking at my mom's cosmetics as a child, I loved every second of it! I've always had a tendency to collect perfume & toiletries in my twenties, but over the past five yrs. or so my makeup collection has just exploded! It went from casual collecting to all out addiction!!
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I have always loved makeup and have been wearing it every day since age 13. However, I didn't become a true addict until I discovered MAC in 1993. My friend wanted to pick up a lipstick or something at this "new" makeup counter and it was MAC. As soon as I saw their color line and the cool people behind the counter, I was hooked. They have been my fav for a LONG time now and I would say about 80% of the makeup I wear is by MAC. You definitely make my addiction even stronger because I get to see what all the colors actually look like on so it opens my eyes to things I hadn't even thought of! Thanks (but my wallet shrivels up and dies!)!!
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I just recently started loving makeup actually! I'm young and my parents were very supportive of my major hauls! (Urban Decay, MAC, CCO bargains, sephora, Benefit, and mounds of lippies!) In summer 2008, I was looking at the new MAC collections, Cool Heat, and researching swatches and such when I stumbled upon this website and many others, the muse's and vanessa's! I immediately bookmarked them and persued their contents with avid rapture! I really do love this website and credit it with many of the reasons I hoard my collection with such passion! Haha! Although my collection could never rival yours, (I use my parent's funds!) I enjoy immensely the eyecandy your provide so kindly like yor FOTDs, swatches *sigh*, hauls, and reviews! I must say I look to temptalia as a true source of inspiration and guidance to the world of cosmetics. Thank you so much! Keep up the hard work because someone has to!
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My addiction started about 2 years ago when I started working for Clinique. In my teens, well in high school I adored makeup but I never knew how to apply anything so I just wore powder, liner, and mascara. Now I am like my mom who has rubbermaids of stuff lol. Well I only have a couple, but their organized by various things like eyes, face, lips, so it's not that bad…yet!
My mother has never been interested in makeup, but nailpolish has always been part of her routine. I am an only child, ao I think my first makeup-"idol" was my girlfriends older sister. She was really into the 80'style with lightnings on her face and tons of gel and other stuff in her hair LOL. I practiced a lot in the evening, but never wore the makeup to school. In 8th grade I wore makeup in scholl and since the I have worn makeup on an off. When I bought my first bike helmet, I swore to myself that I would never wear that ugly thing without looking fabulous underneath it. Until now I have succeded 😀 and it
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My mom was an Avon lady so she introduced me to makeup. I always admired the way she put on lipstick, after every meal, before leaving the house. It was so glamorous to me, that to have a polished look and be ready for the day you need your lipstick on. Now I have worked in cosmetics for 3 years, and that is when the real obsession started. Its so fun looking at all of the different lines and playing with all the products. I like comparing products from line to line so I feel like I'm getting the best product. I like being friends with the other consultants so I can ask their honest opinion of their products, I like the insiders viewpoint! Now that I've taken my obsession online and look at makeup blogs its made me a much more informed beauty addict. I love this website, Spektra and Makeupalley to look at new collections and get reviews on products. It has helped me become a savvy and smart consumer, so I no longer impulse buy makeup! I can compare swatches and look at upcoming collections so I can plan ahead what I wanna buy! Thanks for such a great website!
Yeah it's fun when you play around with the other lines at work! I love having the insider view!
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Greek Resistance
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National Resistance | |||||||
Part of the Balkans Campaign of World War II | |||||||
Triple Occupation of Greece by the Axis (1941–44) |
Belligerents | |||||||
Germany Secessionist groups |
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Aris Velouchiotis Stefanos Sarafis Georgios Siantos Markos Vafiadis Andreas Tzimas Evripidis Bakirtzis Alexandros Svolos Napoleon Zervas Georgios Kartalis Dimitrios Psarros Komninos Pyromaglou Kostas Perrikos Eddie Myers Chris Woodhouse Patrick Leigh Fermor Bill Stanley Moss |
Günther Altenburg Hermann Neubacher Walter Schimana Alexander Löhr Hellmuth Felmy Pellegrino Ghigi Carlo Geloso Andon Kalchev Georgios Tsolakoglou Konstantinos Logothetopoulos Ioannis Rallis Georgios Poulos |
The Greek Resistance (Greek: Εθνική Αντίσταση Ethnikí Andístasi, i.e., "National Resistance") is the blanket term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis occupation of Greece in the period 1941–1944, during World War II.
- 1 Origins
- 2 First resistance acts
- 3 Establishment of the first resistance groups
- 4 Resistance in the mountains – Andartiko
- 5 Resistance in the islands and Crete
- 6 Resistance in the cities
- 7 Risks involved
- 8 Table of main resistance groups
- 9 Notable Resistance members
- 10 See also
- 11 References
- 12 Sources
- 13 External links
The rise of resistance movements in Greece was precipitated by the invasion and occupation of Greece by Nazi Germany (and its allies Italy and Bulgaria) from 1941–44. Italy led the way with its attempted invasion from Albania in 1940, which was repelled by the Greek Army. After the German invasion, the occupation of Athens and the fall of Crete, King George II and his government escaped to Egypt, where they proclaimed a government-in-exile, recognised by the Western Allies, but not yet by the Soviet Union, which was temporarily friendly to Nazi Germany after the signature of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. The British actively encouraged, even coerced, the King to appoint centrist, moderate ministers; only two of his ministers were members of the dictatorial government that had governed Greece before the German invasion. Despite that some in the left-wing resistance claimed the government to be illegitimate, on account of its roots in the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas from 1936–41.
The Germans set up a Greek collaborationist government, headed by General Georgios Tsolakoglou, before entering Athens. Some high-profile officers of the pre-war Greek regime served the Germans in various posts. This government however, lacked legitimacy and support, being utterly dependent on the German and Italian occupation authorities, and discredited because of its inability to prevent the cession of much of Greek Macedonia and Western Thrace to Bulgaria. Both the collaborationist government and the occupation forces were further undermined due to their failure to prevent the outbreak of the Great Famine, with the mortality rate reaching a peak in the winter of 1941–42, which seriously harmed the Greek civilian population.
First resistance acts[edit]
Although there is an unconfirmed incident connected with Evzone Konstantinos Koukidis the day the Germans occupied Athens, the first confirmed resistance act in Greece had taken place on the night of 30 May 1941, even before the end of the Battle of Crete. Two young students, Apostolos Santas, a law student, and Manolis Glezos, a student at the Athens University of Economics and Business, secretly climbed the northwest face of the Acropolis and tore down the swastika banner which had been placed there by the occupation authorities.
The first wider resistance movements occurred in northern Greece, where the Bulgarians annexed Greek territories. The first mass uprising occurred around the town of Drama in eastern Macedonia, in the Bulgarian occupation zone. The Bulgarian authorities had initiated large-scale Bulgarization policies, causing the Greek population's reaction. During the night of 28–29 September 1941 the people of Drama and its outskirts rose up. This badly-organized revolt was suppressed by the Bulgarian Army, which retaliated executing over three thousand people in Drama alone.[citation needed] An estimated fifteen thousand Greeks were killed by the Bulgarian occupational army during the next few weeks and in the countryside entire villages were machine gunned and looted.[citation needed] The town of Doxato and the village of Choristi are officially considered today Martyr Cities.
At the same time, large demonstrations were organized in Greek Macedonian cities by the Defenders of Northern Greece (YVE), a right-wing organization, in protest against the Bulgarian annexation of Greek territories.
Armed groups consisted of andartes - αντάρτες ("guerillas") first appeared in the mountains of Macedonia by October 1941, and the first armed clashes resulted in 488 civilians being murdered in reprisals by the Germans, which succeeded in severely limiting Resistance activity for the next few months.[1] However, these harsh actions, together with the plundering of Greece's natural resources by the Germans, turned Greeks more against the occupiers.
Establishment of the first resistance groups[edit]
The lack of a legitimate government and the inactivity of the established political class created a power vacuum and meant an absence of a rallying point for the Greek people. Most officers and citizens who wanted to continue the fight fled to the British-controlled Middle East, and those who remained behind were unsure of their prospects against the Wehrmacht. This situation resulted in the creation of several new groupings, where the pre-war establishment was largely absent, which assumed the role of resisting the occupation powers.
The first major resistance group to be founded was the National Liberation Front (EAM). EAM was a political movement. By 1944 EAM became a movement with more than 1,800,000 members (the Greek population was around 7,500,000 at that time). EAM was organized by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and other smaller parties, but all major political parties refused to participate either in EAM or in any other resistance movement. On February 16, 1942, EAM gave permission to a communist veteran, called Athanasios (Thanasis) Klaras (later known as Aris Velouchiotis) to examine the possibilities of a victorious armed resistance movement. Soon the first andartes (guerrillas) joined ELAS and many battles were fought and won against both the Italians and Nazis (the sabotage of Gorgopotamos bridge [with the participation of EDES partisans and British commandos of SOE], the battle at Mikro Horio, etc.)
The second to be found was Venizelist-oriented National Republican Greek League (EDES), led by a former army officer, Colonel Napoleon Zervas, with exiled republican General Nikolaos Plastiras as its nominal head. Although its foundation was announced in late 1941, there were no military acts until 1942, when the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), the armed forces of EAM, was born.
Resistance in the mountains – Andartiko[edit]
Greece is a mountainous country, with a long tradition in andartiko (αντάρτικο, "guerrilla warfare"), dating back to the days of the klephts (anti-Turkish bandits) of the Ottoman period, who often enjoyed folk-hero status. In the 1940s, the countryside was poor, the road network not very well developed, and state control outside the cities usually exercised by the Greek Gendarmerie. But by 1942, due to the weakness of the central government in Athens, the countryside was gradually slipping out of its control, while the Resistance groups had acquired a firm and wide-ranging organization, parallel and more effective than that of the official state.
Emergence of the armed resistance[edit]
In February 1942, EAM, an organization controlled by the local Communist Party formed a military corps, ELAS, that would first operate in the mountains of Central Greece, with Aris Velouchiotis, a communist activist, as their chief captain. Later, on 28 July 1942, a centrist ex-army officer, Colonel Napoleon Zervas, announced the foundation of the National Groups of Greek Guerrillas (EOEA), as EDES' military arm, to operate, at first, in the region of Aetolia-Acarnania. National and Social Liberation (EKKA) also formed a military corps, named after the famous 5/42 Evzone Regiment, under Col. Dimitrios Psarros, that was mainly localized in the area of Mount Giona.
Until the summer of 1942, the occupation authorities had been little troubled by the armed Resistance, which was still in its infancy. The Italians in particular, in control of most of the countryside, considered the situation to have been normalized.[2] From that point, however, the Resistance gained pace, with EAM/ELAS in particular expanding rapidly. Armed groups attacked and disarmed local gendarmerie stations and isolated Italian outposts, or toured the villages and gave patriotic speeches. The Italians were forced to re-evaluate their assessment, and take such measures such as the deportation of army officers to camps in Italy and Germany, which naturally only encouraged the latter to join the underground en masse by escaping "to the mountains".[3]
These developments emerged most dramatically as the Greek Resistance announced its presence to the world with one of the war's most spectacular sabotage acts, the blowing up of the Gorgopotamos railway bridge, linking northern and southern Greece, on 25 November 1942. This operation was the result of British mediation between ELAS and EDES (Operation "Harling"), carried out by 12 British Special Operations Executive (SOE) saboteurs and a joint ELAS-EDES force. This was the first and last time that the two major Resistance groups would cooperate, due to the rapidly developing rivalry and ideological retrenchment between them.
The establishment of "Free Greece"[edit]
Nevertheless, constant attacks and acts of sabotage followed against the Italians, such as the Battle of Fardykampos, resulting in the capture of several hundred Italian soldiers and significant amounts of equipment. By the late spring of 1943, the Italians were forced to withdraw from several areas. The towns of Karditsa, Grevena, Trikkala, Metsovon and others were liberated by July. The Axis forces and their collaborators remained in control only of the main towns and the connecting roads, with the interior left to the andartes. This was "Free Greece", stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean and from the borders of the German zone in Macedonia to Boeotia, a territory of 30,000 km² and 750,000 inhabitants.
Italian collapse and German takeover[edit]
By this time (July 1943), the overall strength of the andartes was around 20[4]-30,000,[5] with most belonging to the ELAS, newly under the command of General Stefanos Sarafis. EDES was limited in operations to Epirus, and EKKA operated in a small area in Central Greece.[5] The Italian capitulation in September 1943 provided a windfall for the Resistance, as the Italian Army in many places simply disintegrated. Most Italian troops were swiftly disarmed and interned by the Germans, but on Cephalonia the Acqui Division resisted for about a week (ELAS fighters joining them) before being forced to surrender and subsequently massacred. In many places significant amounts of weaponry and equipment, as well as men, fell into the hands of the Resistance. The most spectacular case was that of the Pinerolo division and the Aosta Cavalry Regiment, which went completely over to the EAMite andartes.[6]
The Germans now took over the Italian zone, and soon proved to be a totally different opponent from the demoralized, war-weary and far less brutal Italians. Already since the early summer of 1943, German troops had been pouring into Greece, fearing an Allied landing there (in fact falling victims to a grand-scale Allied strategic deception operation, "Operation Barclay"). Soon they became involved in wide-ranging counterguerrilla operations, which they carried out with great ruthlessness, based on their experiences in Yugoslavia. In the course of these operations, mass reprisals were carried out, resulting in war crimes such as at Kommeno on August 16, the Massacre of Kalavryta in December and the Massacre of Distomo in June 1944. At the same time, hundreds of villages were systematically torched and almost one million people left homeless.[7]
Prelude to Civil War: the first conflicts[edit]
Despite the signing of an agreement in July 1943 between the three main Resistance groups (EAM/ELAS, EDES and EKKA) to cooperate and to subject themselves to the Allied Middle East High Command under General Wilson (the "National Bands Agreement"), in the political field, the mutual mistrust between EAM and the other groups escalated. EAM-ELAS was by now the dominant political and military force in Greece, and EDES and EKKA, along with the British and the Greek government-in-exile, feared that after the inevitable German withdrawal, it would try to dominate the country and establish a soviet regime. This prospect was not only linked with the increasing distrust shown by many conservative and traditional liberal members of the Greek society towards the Communists and EAM, but also with British. The British were opposed to an EAM's after-war dominance in Greece due to their political opposition to communism, while on the logic of the spheres of influence they believed that such a development would lead the country, which traditionally considered belongs in their sphere of influence, to that of the Soviet Union. Finally the conflict of interests between them and the USSR settled after British secured Soviet assent to this in the so-called "percentages agreement" between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in October 1944. EAM on its part considered itself "the only true resistance group". Its leadership was intensely distrustful of British policies for Greece, and viewed Zervas' contacts with London and the Greek government with suspicion.[8]
At the same time, EAM found itself under attack by the Germans and their collaborators. Dominated by the old political class, and looking already to the oncoming post-Liberation era, the new Ioannis Rallis government had established the notorious Security Battalions, with the blessing of the German authorities, in order to fight exclusively against ELAS. Other anti-communist resistance groups, such as the royalist Organization "X", were also reinforced, receiving arms and funding by the British.
A virtual civil war was now being waged under the eyes of the Germans. In October 1943, ELAS attacked EDES in Epirus, where the latter organization was the dominant resistance group, by transferring units from the neighbouring regions. This conflict continued until February 1944, when the British mission in Greece succeeded in negotiating a ceasefire (the Plaka agreement) which in the event proved to be only temporary. The attack led to an unofficial truce between EDES and the German forces in Epirus under General Hubert Lanz.[9] But the fight continued amongst ELAS and the other minor resistance groups (like "X"), as well as against the Security Battalions, even in the streets of Athens, until the German withdrawal in October 1944. In March, EAM established its own rival government in Free Greece, the Political Committee of National Liberation, clearly staking its claim to a dominant role in post-war Greece. Consequently, on Easter Monday, 17 April 1944, ELAS forces attacked and destroyed the EKKA's 5/42 Regiment, capturing and executing many of its men, including its leader Colonel Dimitrios Psarros. The event caused a major shock in the Greek political scene, since Psarros was a well-known republican, patriot and anti-royalist. For EAM-ELAS, this act was fatal, as it strengthened suspicion of its intentions for the post-Occupation period, and drove many liberals and moderates, especially in the cities, against it, cementing the emerging rift in Greek society between pro- and anti-EAM segments.
Resistance in the islands and Crete[edit]
The resistance in Crete was centred in the mountainous interior, and despite the heavy presence of German troops, developed significant activity. Notable figures of the Cretan Resistance include Patrick Leigh Fermor, Petrakogiorgis and George Psychoundakis. Resistance operations included the abduction of General Heinrich Kreipe by Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bill Stanley Moss and the battle of Trahili.
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Resistance in the cities[edit]
Resistance in the cities was organized quickly, but of necessity groups were small and fragmented. The cities, and the working-class suburbs of Athens in particular, witnessed appalling suffering in the winter of 1941-42, when food confiscations and disrupted communications caused widespread famine and perhaps hundreds of thousands of deaths. This caused fertile ground for recruitment, but lack of equipment, funds and organization limited the spread of the resistance. The main roles of resistance operatives were intelligence and sabotage, mostly in cooperation with British Intelligence. One of the earliest jobs of the urban resistance was helping stranded Commonwealth soldiers escape. The resistance groups stayed in touch with British handlers through wireless sets, met and helped British spies and saboteurs that parachuted in, provided intelligence, conducted propaganda efforts, and ran escape networks for allied operatives and Greek young men wishing to join the Hellenic forces in exile. Wireless equipment, money, weapons and other support was mainly supplied by British Intelligence, but it was never enough. Fragmentation of groups, the need for secrecy, and emerging conflicts between right and left, monarchists and republicans, did not help. Urban resistance work was very dangerous: operatives were always in danger of arrest and summary execution, and suffered heavy casualties. Captured fighters were routinely tortured by the Abwehr and the Gestapo, and confessions used to roll up networks. The job of wireless operators was perhaps the most dangerous, since the Germans used direction-finding equipment to pinpoint the location of transmitters; operators were often shot on the spot, and those were the lucky ones, since immediate execution prevented torture.
Urban protest[edit]
One of the most important forms of resistance were the mass protest movements. The first such event occurred during the national anniversary of 25 March 1942, when students attempted to lay a wreath at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier. This resulted in clashes with mounted Carabinieri, and marked the awakening of the spirit of Resistance amongst the wider urban population. Soon after, from 12–14 April, the "TTT" (Telecommunications & Postal) workers began a strike in Athens, which spread throughout the country. Initially, the strikers' demands were financial, but it quickly assumed a political aspect, as the strike was encouraged by EAM's labour union organization, EEAM. Finally, the strike ended on April 21, with the full capitulation of the collaborationist government to the strikers' demands, including the immediate release of arrested strike leaders.[10]
In early 1943, rumours spread of a planned mobilization of the labour force by the occupation authorities, with the intent of sending them to work in Germany. The first reactions began amongst students on 7 February, but soon grew in scope and volume. Throughout February, successive strikes and demonstrations paralyzed Athens, culminating in a massive rally on the 24th. The tense climate was amply displayed at the funeral of Greece's national poet, Kostis Palamas, on 28 February, which turned into an anti-Axis demonstration.[11]
Risks involved[edit]
Resisting the Axis occupation was fraught with risks. Foremost among these for the partisans was death in combat as the German military forces were far superior. However, the guerrilla fighters also had to face starvation, brutal environmental conditions in the mountains of Greece, while poorly clothed and shod.
The resistance also involved risks for ordinary Greeks. Attacks often incited reprisal killings of civilians by the German occupying forces. Villages were burned and its inhabitants massacred. The Germans also resorted to hostage taking. There were also accusations that many of ELAS' attacks against German soldiers didn't happen for resistance reasons but aiming the destruction of specific villages and the recruitment of their men. Quotas were even introduced determining the number of civilians or hostages to be killed in response to the death or wounding of German soldiers.[12]
Table of main resistance groups[edit]
Group name | Political orientation | Political leadership | Military arm | Military leadership | Estimated peak membership |
National Liberation Front (Ethnikó Apeleftherotikó Métopo/ΕΑΜ) |
Broad leftist front affiliated with the Communist Party of Greece | Georgios Siantos | Greek People's Liberation Army (Ellinikós Laikós Apeleftherotikós Stratós/ELAS) | Aris Velouchiotis, Stefanos Sarafis | 50,000 + 30,000 reserves (October 1944)[13] |
National Republican Greek League (Ethnikós Dimokratikós Ellinikós Sýndesmos/EDES) |
Venizelist, nationalist, republican, socialist, anti-communist | Nikolaos Plastiras (nominal), Komninos Pyromaglou | National Groups of Greek Guerrillas (Ethnikés Omádes Ellínon Antartón/EOEA) |
Napoleon Zervas | 12,000 + ca. 5,000 reserves (October 1944)[14] |
National and Social Liberation (Ethnikí Kai Koinonikí Apelefthérosis/EKKA) |
Venizelist, republican, liberal, anti-communist | Georgios Kartalis | 5/42 Evzone Regiment (5/42 Sýntagma Evzónon) |
Dimitrios Psarros and Evripidis Bakirtzis | 1,000 (spring 1943)[14] |
Notable Resistance members[edit]
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See also[edit]
- Cretan Resistance
- June 1942 Crete airfield raids
- French Resistance
- Armia Krajowa
- Partisans (Yugoslavia)
- ^ Mazower (2001), p. 87-88
- ^ Mazower (2001), pp. 106–7
- ^ Mazower (2001), p. 132–3
- ^ German Antiguerrilla Operations, Ch. 7.II
- ^ a b Mazower (2001), p. 137
- ^ German Antiguerrilla Operations, Ch. 8.III
- ^ Mazower (2001), p. 155
- ^ Mazower (2001), p. 141–43
- ^ Mazower (2001), pp. 148, 178
- ^ Mazower (2001), p.112
- ^ Mazower (2001), pp.120-121
- ^ Mazower, Inside Hitler's Greece p.177
- ^ Shrader (1999), pp. 23, 26
- ^ a b Shrader (1999), p. 31
- R. Capell, Simiomata: A Greek Note Book 1944-45, London 1946
- Clogg, Richard (1986), A Short History of Modern Greece, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-33804-2
- N.G.L. Hammond, Venture into Greece: With the Guerillas, 1943-44, London, 1983. (Like Woodhouse, he was a member of the British Military Mission)
- Howarth, Patrick (1980), Undercover, the men and women of the Special Operations Executive, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-7100-0573-1
- Drez, Ronald J. (2009), Heroes Fight Like Greeks: The Greek Resistance Against the Axis Powers in WWII, Ghost Road Press, ISBN 978-0-9816525-9-7
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by Lori Zimmer, 02/07/12
The greatly anticipated One World Trade Center is now the most expensive new office tower in the world. An additional $700 million in estimated costs is bringing the total cost of 1 WTC to almost $3.8 billion. What's more is that many of these extra millions are being tacked on due to a design flaw. According to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the necessary loading dock for tenants to move in will not be completed on time, so five temporary loading docks must be built, jacking the cost up by millions.
"A temporary station that was built for the Port Authority Trans Hudson subway is blocking access to the underground loading area," reported the Huffington Post. "The station can't be dismantled to make way for underground freight areas until crews finish the permanent station."
The 104-story office building was initially estimated to cost $2 billion, but climbed to $3.1 billion in 2008, a far cry from the most recent $3.8 billion reported by the Wall Street Journal. The additional $700 million is split between construction costs and public leasing expenses. The leasing expenses include money allocated for office build outs for the tower's tenants, as well as brokers fees.
Aside from possibly becoming the most expensive office tower in the world, the World Trade Center complex also will hold the title of being the largest green project in New York City. The LEED Gold building will use modern green technologies, with an emphasis on utilizing day lighting for both energy efficiency and to promote employee health.
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Feeling-Zen Workout
Yoga is an excellent way to energize, relieve stress, and regain the flexibility and strength you had pre-baby. Try this routine from prenatal and postpartum yoga instructor Jennifer Wolfe.
What you need: A flat surface.
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Fitness expert Carla Birnberg, who founded MizFitOnline.com, shows you how you don¹t need a gym to get active.
What you need: Two soup cans or water bottles.
The Moves:
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This routine from Metcalf offers a fun twist on resistance training, using paper plates rather than expensive equipment to slide your way to stronger muscles.
What you need: One paper plate
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On Thursday the Four Queens announced the show would move to the property's Canyon Room from its most recent venue in Trader Vic's at Planet Hollywood.
Comic producer Joaquin Trujillo will bring new comics each week to perform one show each on Wednesday and Thursday and two shows on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
Frontier Airlines plans to increase service to Las Vegas.
On Thursday the Denver-based airline announced it would incease the number of daily flights from Denver to Las Vegas from six to seven on Monday, Wenesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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Dr. William Belan
Director, Chamber Choir
Professor of Choral Studies, emeritus
California State University, Los Angeles
Dr. Belan has served on the music faculties of Cal State LA since 1980, as well as the University of South Dakota, Long Beach State University, the National University of Costa Rica and the University of Costa Rica. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses across the music curriculum. He is now Emeritus Professor of Music at Cal State LA, where he continues to teach in the department.
The joy of choral performance is demonstrated in Dr. Belan's regular concert schedule that includes university presentations, community concerts at Los Angeles Unitarian Church, honor choirs and special invitations.
Dr. Belan recently completed a Fulbright Scholar Award, to teach in Costa Rica for six months (January-June, 2013). He taught choral conducting and presented concerts throughout the country for the purpose of enhancing their level of choral pedagogy and assisting in building their choral community.
At Cal State L.A. Dr. Belan has served as professor of choral studies, director of the Roger Wagner Center for Choral Studies, a chartered center of the university, which provides materials and workshops for choral professionals. He also co-founded one of largest graduate degree programs in the United States for choral conducting, the "Three Summer MM in Choral Conducting." In his tenure at Cal State LA Dr. Belan has taught more than 130 graduate students, guiding their academic performances and research.
Dr. Belan is active in research and publication having more than 150 publications on the subjects of the English Madrigal, Latin American choral music, and historical performance practice. He is the author of three books: Choral Essays: A Tribute to Roger Wagner (1993); A Conductor's Handbook for the Performance of English Madrigals (2007); and A Choral Conductor's Guide for the Performance of Latin American Rhythms (2012). He is the editor of Proceedings of ACDA's National Symposium On American Choral Music: In Search For An American Style (2013). He is general editor for the William Belan Latin American Series (Gentry Publications), the William Belan English Madrigal Series (Gentry Publications), the William Bela Latin-American Choral Series (Twin Elm Publications) and the Roger Wagner Contemporary Choral Series (Gentry Publications).
Degrees and awards:
Dr. Belan holds a DMA in choral conducting from the University of Oklahoma, an M.M. in conducting from the University of Tulsa, and a B.A. in music education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Belan also holds a post-doctoral certificate of executive management from the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.
Belan has been a frequent invited guest, since 1986, of various choral directors associations in Costa Rica, Panama and Chile, where is has performed as a consultant, conductor and lecturer. In the United States he keeps an active schedule as conductor, guest lecturer, adjudicator, and consultant to not-for-profit organizations.
Dr. Belan is currently the national chair for the Research and Publications Committee of the American Choral Directors Association. He is the innovator of a collaborative project between ACDA and the United States' Library of Congress: American Choral Music: 1870-1923. This website at the LOC presents choral music from the Library's vast collection and makes it available for download and public performance.


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Rega is a very decent manufacturer that has done the record industry a tremendous deal of good, not just by it's designs but also by it's attitude. And how this proves to be the smart choice in the end. The Rega arm (+fitting) is a de facto standard, and since copying is the ultimate compliment, it is also good publicity for them. In the end it helps their reputation as well as their sales. Manufacturers (of confectioned goods, not customwares) that allow customers to tweak and upgrade their products to this extent (selling parts and thus service) is a rare thing - in the whole world! I think it is marvelous that a manufacturer generously allows competitors to buy parts and improve their ideas. And in the process helps them get new ideas and feedback on their products.
That all said, Rega is still a UK manufacturer. And that means; reputation. Just like German, Italian or Japanese. Or US.
Warning: sarcastic generalisations ahead! (take with a rock of salt and a sense of humor ).
German often means: sturdy, well designed, no frills. Italian means; "oh look at me" "Oh no it broke". Japanese: this is perfect, you can buy, only this price (until there is a defect, than an executive takes all the blame in a filled pressroom while bending over and crying profoundly and heartfelt). In the US (do I dare say this?) we are biggest, best, strongest and the intelligentest of the whole world. Big bold and cluncky. But it (doesn't) allways work(s). And then there is the English way. They are smart thinkers and bright tinkerers. But shoddy manufacturers and finishers (is the pub open yet?). Oh, and I forgot Chinese: You want this? We can make it for you (and copy your designs and sell them + QC fails on the black market).
All over the world there are dreamers, thinkers, artists, craftsmen, merchants and conmen. Unfortunately one can't do without the other. And don't forget transport...
Most of the time I must agree with analogsurviver. Like up^
Just, a few posts back where he commented on belts... that was kind of a booboo. The belt has nothing to do with the right speed. You can use a rubberband, a fishingline, a rope or a cable, the speed is determined only by the speed of the motor devided by the ratio of the two wheelsizes ((sub)platter / pulleysize).
Pulleysize x motorspeed == plattersize x platterspeed. No strings attached. :P


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When Fantasies Crumble, the Effect is Real (7.03.11)
First of all, we don't have any idea how Obama, whose privileged life as a leftist mascot has shielded him from any accurate feedback about himself, will react to the impingement of reality. With anger? Depression? Vindictiveness? There is simply no way of predicting how such an emotionally immature person will react under stress, and this should be cause for concern to us all. Suffice it to say that he will not be able to handle it with the grace and dignity that President Bush did for eight years.
And equally importantly, the President is not just the leader, but the fantasy leader, and when people feel their organizing fantasies slip away, they experience a tidal wave of irrational anxiety -- the very anxiety that had been "contained" by the strong fantasy leader. Again, despite his economically destructive and self-defeating policies, one must nevertheless give FDR credit for remaining a strong fantasy leader who kept the nation from crumbling into psychotic anxiety. Suffice it to say, Obama is not this kind of man.
In 1994, President Clinton had the good sense to bring in a "group therapist," Dick Morris, who was able to help him make sense of reality and to adjust his policies accordingly. But Obama may be too proud and too brittle -- not to mention, too ideological -- to make this adjustment. But if he fails to do so, it will only ensure further crumbling, and at some point the collective anxiety will turn to rage. Again, the rage may feel empowering to those who harbor it, but few people make good decisions when angry.
In order to understand the depth of Obama's fall, one must reexamine the absurd heights to which he was elevated. Remember, when a man falls, he only falls back to the ground. But if he was absurdly elevated through primitive fantasy, this tends to create a "snap-back" phenomenon, through which the person crashes through the ground. For example, let's say that the person is up in the rarified world of +12 fantasy (which one might think of as a "positive mind parasite"). When he crumbles, he will snap down into -12 anti-fantasy.
This is because the narcissist specifically develops his narcissistic defenses to shield himself from the unconscious belief that he is worthless. This is why the narcissist's defenses are so brittle, and why they so easily cast people under their ever-ready bus. With even a hint that you are not propping them up with idealization, under the bus you go.
Anyway, this post from last year looks at the idealization of Obama, which I said at the time was a measure of his (and the nation's) distance from reality. Will the ground hold, or will Obama crash through it?
Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. They enmesh you in a grander moment, as if history has stopped flowing passively by, and, just for an instant, contracted around you, made you aware of its presence, and your role in it. He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair.... The tens of thousands of new voters Obama brought to the polls tonight came because he wrapped them in that experience, because he let them touch politics as it could be, rather than merely as it is. --Ezra Klein
A black man with a white mother became a savior to us. A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.... This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better.... If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed. --Calypso Louis
Continuing with our analysis of the Devil Card, our Unknown Friend (UF) writes that the excesses of the left are always "owing to an intoxication of the will and imagination which engenders demons."
For example, if Marx and Engels had merely behaved as good Jews or Christians and "simply defended the interests of the industrial workers without having let themselves be carried away by their intoxicated imagination," then their ideas wouldn't have been so apocalyptically destructive. After all, every spiritually normal person wants to help the deserving poor and needy, but it is axiomatic that helping the human animal while killing the human soul renders any spiritual benefit inoperative for both parties.
Further, as Schuon commented, "Progressivism is the wish to eliminate effects without wishing to eliminate their causes..." To paraphrase him, the leftist wishes to make himself as useful as possible to a collectivity which renders the individual as useless as possible in the process. But,
"one must never lose sight of the fact that there exists no higher usefulness than that which envisages the final ends of man. By its divorce from traditional truth... society forfeits its own justification, doubtless not in a perfunctorily animal sense, but in the human sense. This human quality implies that the collectivity, as such, cannot be the aim and purpose of the individual but that, on the contrary, it is the individual who, in his 'solitary stand' before the Absolute and in the exercise of his supreme function, is the aim of purpose of collectivity. Man, whether he be conceived in the plural or the singular, or whether his function be direct or indirect, stands like 'a fragment of absoluteness' and is made for the Absolute.... In any case, one can define the social in terms of truth, but one cannot define truth in terms of the social."
Moreover, the left always couches their supposed empathy for the downtrodden in fantastically broad and sweeping generalizations of historical "and even cosmic significance, such as the statement that God does not exist, that all religion is is only the 'opium of the people,' [and] that all ideology is only a superstructure on the basis of material interests." UF wrote that in the early '60s, but it is no different today, with the intoxication that fuels and pervades the Obama campaign:
"What we hear from Obama is the eternal mantra of the socialists; America is broken, millions have no health care, families cannot afford necessities, the rich are evil, we are selfish, we are unhappy, unfulfilled, without hope, desperate, poverty stricken, morally desolate, corrupt and racist. This nihilism is the lifeblood of all the democrat candidates.... When Michelle Obama claims she is only newly proud of her country, she does not exaggerate. In her world as in Obama's, they believe we are a mess, a land filled with the ignorant and unenlightened, filled with despair" (Fairchok).
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic. --Pope Benedict XVI
As UF writes, it is always a "matter of excess -- a going beyond the limits of competence and sober and honest knowledge," which the left never doubts, "having been carried away by the intoxicating impulse of radicalism, i.e., by a fever of the will and imagination to change everything utterly at a single stroke."
It is this fever dream of sweeping existential change that animates the left no less than the Islamists, since both deny the possibility of real spiritual change, which is an individual matter; in contrast, man's existential situation cannot be altered, only transcended.
As Lee Harris has written, a fantasy ideology such as Islamism is obviously not a rational response to the world arrived at in a logical, sober manner. Rather, it is a transformative belief, meaning that its primary purpose is to psychologically transform the person who believes the fantasy. And believing the fantasy is an end in itself -- it has no purpose other than to make the fantasy seem like reality -- like it might actually be true. Therefore, the real reason for 9-11 wasn't actually to bring down western civilization. Rather, it was for the Islamists to deepen their trance.
Likewise, anyone with a basic familiarity with economics knows that leftist ideas don't just fail, but backfire. They cause all sorts of unintended consequences that the leftist never connects to the original policy -- e.g., how the welfare state eroded the structure of the black family, how racial quotas inevitably harm blacks, how rent control causes housing shortages, how subsidizing higher education simply drives up the cost, how socialized medicine leads to rationing, and how the government forcing banks to make bad loans to unqualified people is at the epicenter of today's economic problems.
Now, UF explains that the virtue of temperence protects us from the intoxicating counter-inspiration of radical fantasies -- including religious fantasies, which are not actually religious but manmade. As such, it is foolish to blame God or religion for things that emanate from the lower vertical in man.
UF makes the subtle point that one cannot engender a positive collective mind parasite. This is related to the principle that the mind parasite is an effect of "congealed" or "coagulated" psychic energy. As a result, it always "enfolds," whereas the good radiates. The former is an inward, contracting movement, whereas the latter is an expansive, radiant movement. This may sound overly abstract, but we are all familiar with the ontologically closed world of the left, whether it is their elite university campuses or the myop-ed page of the New York Times. If you approach these things with your activated cʘʘnvision, you can literally experience them as a sort of dense, black hole of "inverse radiation."
Now, why did people respond to, say, Ronald Reagan? For the opposite reason -- the radiant positive energy of which he was a mere vehicle. This only became more apparent when placed side by side with Jimmy Carter's withered and constipated presence.
I suppose the novel thing about Obama is that he is selling the same constipation, but with a kind of cheap and meretricious radiation that one must be intoxicated to appreciate. Indeed, as Fairchok writes,
"That is his appeal; he is [ironically] an actor, a performer, a cinematic presence that stirs simple emotions, emotions that have little grounding in truth. His speeches are the inane lyrics to a popular song that endures only because it has a great beat. One must not think too deeply on what Obama says, for it turns to smoke and disappears in the light of day. Ezra Klein is correct, Obama's speeches do not inform, they pander, they propagandize, they harmonize with the mythology of despair and the chimera of entitlement. As his hagiographies proclaim, he represents a new Camelot, but one that does not hold America quite so precious, a Camelot of globalists, moral relativists and communitarians."
Now, how to drive out a demon? Easy. As UF explains, "Light drives out darkness. This simple truth is the practical key to the problem of how to combat demons. A demon perceived, i.e. on whom the light of consciousness is thrown, is already a demon rendered impotent.... A demon rendered impotent is a deflated balloon." And the most recent Rasmussen survey indicates that this balloony tune is on a flaccid trip from omnipotence to impotence in record time.
As the farcical Marx taught us, history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. But what comes after that? We're still dealing with the tragedy of the New Deal and the farce of the Great Society. No doubt Obama is a farce to be reckoned with, but I see two possibilities. If we divide history into Petey's descending stages of Gods, Kings, Men, Weasels, Beasts, and Chaos, I think FDR would be the king, LBJ the man. Clinton was the weasel. This would suggest that we are about to enter a beastly chaos, from which the only solution would be the return to a new age of gods, or, more properly, God. God or chaos. Vertical Man or horizontal beast. Sounds about right.


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Me and my wife just got married a month ago. Well we have been together for almost 3 years. Me and her friends have become pretty good friends and we talk and hangout all the time. Her best friend is gorgeous and she is the coolest girl I have met besides my wife. My wife knows I am attracted to her because she told me "I know you think she is hot" and I wasn't disagreeing. Well her best friend is always really flirty with me and we joke with each other all the time about having an affair its funny and my wife is in on it but its been a joke the whole time. I started feeling myself slowly fall in love with her more and more tho and everything she does makes it worse. We have been talking on the phone together and texting or on Facebook. It used to be my wife was a kind of a buffer between us and we would only talk or hangout thru her. Now we are doing stuff together without my wife and its not like its hidden because she knows. My wife must have a lot of trust for me and her friend because the chances and signs of an affair are all there but there really isn't one. I just don't know what to do. I am newly married and I should be into my wife right now but the feeling I get with her friend is like a new relationship. You know that feeling? It feels like the day me and my wife first got together. What am I supposed to do? I'm starting to think that I am with the wrong woman.
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What Girls Said 5
- blahh224mho 4%
wow... you should have never gotten married if you have been having these feelings even before you did... you need to really figure out what these feelings are... are you solely sexually attracted to her or do you really think you guys have an emotional bond.. also, are you having these feelings because you are married and were never really ready for this kind of a commitment or is it really true love... honestly I would stay away from this other girl, she's most likely leading you on, I mean her best friend is your wife and not many girls would think its okay to mess around with their BEST FRIENDS HUSBAND! my advice... stop hanging out with her alone and stop the texting and all that, then you need to decide why the hell you married your wife when you obviously aren't too into it...
10|10|0 - valentinevmho 0%
i get it. you like her.
but honestly? if its like what it was like with your wife
you oughtta know
its just a phase
let it pass
coz you can't let go on a woman like the type of your wife
you need to just cut off contact and be just social with the best friend if an obligation
A LOT of times we look for something new as its that new romance all over again and it excites us
but you need to know
that maybe this is lucid
maybe its just as temporary as anything because you don't really know this girl
stick to the one you have
atleast try
and then it really depends on yourself at the end of the day
love and care
00|00|0 - itzzxhypnotikmho 12%
thats what you get for getting married so young. no but how bout you STOP hanging out with her best friend so an affair DOESNT happen. this could be completely avoidable if you weren't suck a jackass.
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I don't think so, he's purposefully trying to ruin a three+ year relationship (and MARRIAGE) over some chick he's probably not going to get and its his wifes best friend. if this isn't a jackass I don't know what else is dear.
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thats messed up! stop hanging out with her its considered cheating! may be you're just infatuated with the best friend, its natural to be attracted to members of opposite sex even after marriage, but it doesn't mean you should stop loving your partner, and it certainly doesn't mean you continue to hang out with them in order to achieve certain planned motives. that's where you cross the line.
you know what you're doing is wrong, and you should stop and change that.
you need to figure out what you want and what you really feel about the woman you really love, or if you love either of them at all.20|20|0 - Anonymous
*shakes head* Where do I start...? Well, for one, I don't think you were ever ready for marriage and I don't think you are ready for it now. Marriage is a big commitment. When people get married, they are totally and utterly committed to each other and it should take A LOT to break that sort of bond. But you are starting to stray at the sight of the first attractive and cool female to pay you any attention other than your wife. You don't sound like you care about your wife all that much and my suggestion is to break it off before you do some serious damage. You got married young and it seems like you still have a lot of "play" in you.
What Guys Said 6
- Lacutismho 32%
"What am I supposed to do?"
Quit being an idiot. That's what you are supposed to do. You are with a woman you love. You have been with her 3 years and you finally married her and now you want to go and f*** it all up over someone who will probably not want to have anything to do with you after you destroy her best friend?
Seriously, if you really love this woman like you say you do then quit trying to screw up your relationship with her and do the right thing. Keep it in your pants.
43|10|0 - authenticmho 40%
"What am I supposed to do?"
To be your wife's bestfriend, she would share many similarities with your wife. But that is not an excuse to betray your wife's trust, nor to prove to yourself your lack of personal integrity and self-control.
Trust, once broken, is often for life.
If you are thinking of getting an "extra pair of shoes" to wear, you are about to cause two women some serious trauma. The third party, what kind of emotions do you think she would have when she stares at the ceiling every night, knowing you are sleeping with your wife? Answer : Anger, jeolousy, resentment, ...etc. Can you anticipate what such a woman can do? I can't. But if you want to, you can try figure out what your "angel" would become because you know her a lot better.
Think of the consequences before you create a hell for all three of you, all because of your lust (in your answer -- gorgeous), greed (one more "pair of shoes" for a change) and lack of self-control.11|00|0 - l-hedonistemho 17%
First things first:
"My wife must have a lot of trust for me and her friend because the chances and signs of an affair are all there but there really isn't one. I just don't know what to do."
This simply isn't true, and you know it. And your wife knows it, and her best friend knows it. Except what your wife is feeling probably isn't trust--believe me, she knows better--more like desperate hope. She hopes that, once dragged across an altar, you won't be crazy enough to destroy your marriage at the very beginning.
Not to cry over spilt milk, but you might have gotten married too soon.(Note to dudes: if you're in love with another girl, don't get married.) What's done is done, however, and fortunately, your choice is simple: lose the girl, or lose the wife.
On some level, you know this already, and you're fishing around for a way that you can end up having it all. Stop it. There isn't. Plus, this fishing expedition can end up costing you everything.
Getting married does not, cannot, require that you never fall in love with another woman, only that you abandon them all for your wife. It's why the vow is solemn, and why if you're going to sacrifice even love for this girl, that you be really damn sure she's the right one.00|00|0 - SuperDudemho 0%
I know what you are going through bro. I have been married for two years. About 5 months into our marriage my wife's best friend moved in with us. At first I wasn't really attracted to her. However, she is very good looking and has a very nice body. After almost a year of living with us I can't stop thinking about having sex with her. I try to hint around to my wife that her friend needs to go her own way. But she gets very defensive about her friend. I defiantly can't come out and say I think she needs to leave ASAP because I don't want to mess up our great marriage due to the fact that I want to bang the hell out of her friend. Before she moved in I told my mom about what was about to go down and she told me that it was not a good idea for another women to move in. Even if it's her best friend. At the time I didn't think I would feel this way. I also didn't think she would be here this long.
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You're a drama queen.
You like chaos in your life. Once things start to feel stable and normal, you stir up trouble.
How to fix it?
You learn to be bored. Because what feels "boring" to you is actually normal and healthy.
You avoid this other woman. You're never alone with her, you keep your relationship with her as businesslike as possible.00|00|0 - Anonymous
All I can say is you made a promise to your wife in the name of God
be a man and stand by her but don't waste her time
dont you think she deserves better than this,
it seems to me that your brains are in your pants and not on your shoulders
Do your self a favour put up or shut up but don't muck your wife around
because you are only going to break her heart.
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Jeff Rude's "Hate To Be Rude" column appears on Golfweek.com on Wednesday.
Your correspondent has emphatically said for years that golf performance should not be evaluated by 10-minute intervals. That notion tends to get lost in these days of Internet immediacy, in these days of the hole-by-hole Tiger Tracker, when one hole of tweeted play-by-play carries too much word weight and lacks big-picture perspective.
Yes, Tiger Woods visited some ice plant after a hooked drive and went 4 over par on Nos. 14-17 Monday at the Farmers Insurance Open. There's your little snippet, devoid of context.
The big picture is this: Woods had built an eight-stroke lead, the sign of rare command, and won by four strokes. Had, say, Rickie Fowler won by four, some probably would have annointed him as the Next Whatever.
Woods wins by four and critics focus on his sloppy, impatient, anticlimactic play down an overly slow stretch. Please. Let's focus on what did matter (the eight-shot cushion) and not on what didn't.
"He said he got frustrated and lost his patience and concentration when it got slow," said Sean Foley, Woods' instructor since summer 2010. "You can be Ben Hogan, but if you lose all three of those, you're not going to play well."
If you want the truth about Woods' game, look at his last four PGA Tour victories, not those four holes. The biggest takeaway from his eighth Tour victory at Torrey Pines was this: Woods has now won four of his past 16 Tour starts.
That focuses on the last 10 months, not the last 10 minutes.
That 4-of-16 stretch, of course, follows a victory drought of about 30 months, a dry spell that coincided with all those expensive personal problems he brought upon himself. The 4-of-16 is significant because it suggests Woods has become a Woods we recognize. It suggests he has transitioned from the emotional (personal life) and mechanical (new swing) mess he often was in 2010-11.
The 4-of-16 is in line with his career tendency, for he has won 27 percent of his Tour starts.
That would seem to answer the question of whether Tiger Woods is back. The answer would seem to be this: It appears so.
He's certainly back to becoming a familiar figure. He's certainly back in the conversation about breaking Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 major-championship victories. First, though, the legend in focus is Sam Snead. And while we're on the subject, clearly it will be easier for Woods to pass Snead than Nicklaus, for Woods' 75 Tour titles trail the Slammer by only seven.
Woods' primary next hurdle, though, is to re-establish himself on major weekends. He used to own weekends more than Bernie ever did. Lately they have owned him. Last year, when he co-led twice midway, he shot 146, 148, 143 and 146 on major weekends.
Tiger Woods.
We lay psychologists can chalk that up to swing transition issues or Nicklaus record pressure. Perhaps it doesn't matter. What matters is that it happened and he needs to fix it.
It's highly improbable that Woods, at 37, will ever resemble the dominator of 2000 or the pre-scandal player who won 51 percent of his Tour starts from July 2006 to that day he hit the fire hydrant in November 2009.
That said, he just ran off to an eight-shot lead, a feat probably only he and Rory McIlroy are capable of. Most significant is the way he ran away. He did so hitting driver after driver, again with confidence.
It seemed he has played away from the big stick the last few years. At Torrey, where his ballstriking and short game were superb, he clearly embraced it.
"He hit drive over and over and got in a groove," Foley said. "That became a huge advantage."
The numbers indicate why Woods was loving it. He not only ranked eighth in driving distance, he tied for 17th in driving accuracy. Throw in excellent putting (T-11) and you have easy victory.
All those numbers pleased Foley, who like Woods' past two instructors, Butch Harmon and Hank Haney, can't help but notice that pundits nitpick while holding Woods to a far different standard.
"Because he didn't push the eight-shot lead, people come up with conspiracy theories that he doesn't have what (dominance) he had in 2000," Foley said. "I don't care what he did the last day. To keep that level for four days is hard."
Foley, too, has bristled at 2012 suggestions that Woods has lost his nerve around the greens – particularly with regard to putts in the 5- to 8-foot range, putts he seemed to routinely make a few years ago.
"People said his nerves were gone last year," Foley said. "Did anyone stop to think that maybe he didn't practice it as much (as the new full swing)? He dedicated time to it after Christmas, maybe 3-4 hours a day, and his feel and confidence came back. He's proving people wrong."
So it will be interesting to see where Woods goes from here, and how his performance stacks up against that of McIlroy, this year and for a few calendars to come.
At the moment, it appears Woods is rising.
"I think he's still climbing, and he's trying to understand his system," Foley said. "It's starting to have a lot less cognition. He's a lot more quiet because of rhythm and alignment."
His swing might be quiet, but he's making familiar noise with it again.


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Cog wrote:At a certain level its understandable. The benefits of fixing a road system or bridge that services hundreds of thousands of commuters a day outweighs the needs of a few hundred who are serviced in a rural area. But what I have seen is perfectly serviceable urban roads and bridges that just need repair versus a complete new build or other expensive option.
Financial leaders of the world's biggest economies dropped a pledge to keep global trade free and open, acquiescing to an increasingly protectionist United States after a two-day meeting failed to yield a compromise.
Breaking a decade-long tradition of endorsing open trade, G20 finance ministers and central bankers made only a token reference to trade in their communique on Saturday, a clear defeat for host nation Germany, which fought the new U.S. government's attempts to water down past commitments.
In the new U.S. administration's biggest clash yet with the international community, G20 finance chiefs also removed from their statement a pledge to finance the fight against climate change, an anticipated outcome after U.S. President Donald Trump called global warming a "hoax".
Revi wrote:Here is an interesting article about the Debt Ceiling. It looks like it might be a mess!
Outcast_Searcher wrote:Revi wrote:Here is an interesting article about the Debt Ceiling. It looks like it might be a mess!
The main surprise would be if it WEREN'T a mess, given the irresponsibility and inability to compromise for the common good endemic to Capitol Hill in recent years. And this is a problem definitely owned by both sides of the aisle.
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NFL's Super Bowl generates 24.1 million tweets
The finale of the American football season generated more than 24 million tweets, Twitter said today.
The 47th Super Bowl was won by the Baltimore Ravens and featured a half-time performance from Beyonce as well as a floodlight failure.
Michelle Obama tweeted about Beyonce's half-time show, which Twitter said saw the peak in activity at 268,000 tweets-per-minute.
Basketball star Kobe Bryant tweeted about the the blackout, which sparked 231,500 tweets-per-minute.
The game's conclusion, which saw the Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers, generated 183,000 tweets-per-minute.
The Super Bowl's female stars - who worked for free
The tense Super Bowl game was punctuated by stellar performances from female entertainers.
Destiny's Child reunited for the first time since 2007, Jennifer Hudson joined a choir of children from tragedy-stricken Sandy Hook Elementary and Alicia Keys performed the National Anthem live from the middle of the field.
While many of the stars can earn millions for their performances, the Super Bowl does not pay its entertainers.
"We do not pay," NFL spokesperson Greg McCarthy told Forbes.com. "We cover all expenses associated with the performance."
With more than 150 million people worldwide expected to watch the game, the exposure the entertainers gain is deemed payment enough.
Keys posted pictures from backstage at the event to her 11.2 million Twitter followers and wrote: "3 sista's at the superbowl! ;-) Me, @beyonce & @iamjhud! Cheers!! What an unforgettable day!!"
Jennifer Hudson tweeted: "@Beyonce@aliciakeys @kellyrowland u know I love n have n always will admire u ladies . So honored to be amongst u all. Love u guys!!"
The singer then hastily added: "Yes Michelle too!! Just don't know her handle!! All of these ladies make me proud!"
Baltimore Ravens celebrate taking Super Bowl title
The Ravens rejoiced in a confetti-covered Superdrome after narrowly snatching the title from the San Francisco 49ers, who had staged a remarkable second-half comeback following the stadium's 34-minute power cut.
The 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh slammed key decisions made by the referees after his team lost 34-31.
He questioned two non-calls in the final series when the 49ers failed to convert with a first and goal as they looked to find receiver Michael Crabtree with the game on the line.
"There's no question in my mind that there was a pass interference and then a hold on Crabtree on the last one," he said.
He was also unhappy officials did not call holding as Ravens punter Sam Koch took a safety and protested the decision to penalise cornerback Chris Culliver for pass interference.
Unusually, Harbaugh's older brother John is the head coach of the Ravens, and the siblings - whose parents attended the game together - shared an awkward hug after the tense game.
Victor John paid tribute to his younger brother after the game:
"There is no greater coach or competitor in the National Football League than Jim Harbaugh. The way the team played proves it. What they have done the last two years is unprecedented."
He went on: "They showed it today, the way they battled back and fought right to the end. That is who he is and who they are. I could not be more proud of him and what he has done."
- ITV Report
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The Baltimore Ravens have beaten the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in the Super Bowl XLVII at the New Orleans Superdome.
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My parents just got a new Mac Mini and are having problems with the screensaver. I set it all up for them and have it set for "flurry" to start after 10 minutes. I have to computer set to never sleep (they do it manually at night) and the display to sleep after 20 minutes. So what's happening is that the screensaver comes on and is normal but at some point the picture freezes. In order to get back to the desktop, you have to click the mouse, you can't just move it like you usually would to stop the screensaver. Does anyone else have this problem or know if there is something we have set up wrong?
I am encountering the same issue. My screensaver is set to "sliding panels" pulling from a custom photo folder. What I have noticed is that it appears to always stop on the same images. Now that could just be a coincidence with timing as those are images typically displayed first in the series and I don't have it set to random. So it could just be freezing on the second or third run through. I plan to record how long it takes till it freezes when I get back to my mac mini.
This has been happening to me for a while. I use the "Shell" screensaver and I'll frequently come back to find my Macbook Pro locked up. I've discovered what I think is the cause for this, although I don't know what the solution is. Yesterday, after waking my macbook up from the screensaver I received a system notification telling me that my hard drive was running low on space. I checked and I had 80MB of space left when there should have been 30GB at least. After rebooting I had all of my space back. I just left my screensaver running for 40 minutes and noticed that my available HD space dropped from 47GB to 22GB while the screensaver was running. I'm guessing the freezing occurs when the HD becomes completely full. I'm running a Samsung 256GB 830 SSD. I get the same results whether TRIM is on or off.
I was hoping 10.8.3 would fix this but it's still happening. I started my screensaver before lunch and when I came back my disk space had decreased from 47GB to 18GB. It's slowly increasing now that I'm logged in (up to 25GB now after 3 minutes or so) Can anyone else confirm this behavior?
maybe it has to do with SSD? I just upgraded to a mac mini and added a fusion drive, and I am experiencing the same thing. I never had this problem on my macbook pro (didn't have SSD on there either). Can everyone having this problem confirm they have an SSD? or some sort of fusion setup?
I'm not using a Fusion drive at all, just a Samsung SSD 830. I took my MBP to the Genius Bar and they booted it from the network and started running some sort of Apple diagnostic program. The diagnostic test failed on the Hard Drive portion almost immediately. I'm not having any other issues and after plugging the SSD into a Windows machine and running the Samsung Magician software there were no S.M.A.R.T warnings. Also, on my MBP this only happens with the "Shell" screensaver. I can run any of the other ones without issue. I've just switched to a different screensaver and everything works now, but I don't like the fact that there is still an issue that hasn't been resolved. I've considered RMA'ing my SSD as well, but I'm not convinced there is something wrong with it.
I completed some further testing on this issue this weekend and here are the results. 1.)Replaced RAM. Same lock-ups. 2.)Reinstalled Mountain Lion. Shell screensaver still freezes. 3.)Replaced Samsung SSD with a Crucial SSD. Booted to Internet recovery and install Lion. Shell screensaver does not eat hard drive space resulting in a hard lock-up of my MBP. Everything is good at this point. 4.)Updated to Mountain Lion via the App Store. Shell screensaver now locks-up my MBP. 5.)Swapped out the Crucial SSD with the original Samsung SSD and I repeated steps 3-4. Same behavior. Shell screensaver will eventually consume all available disk space and lock-up my MBP. It appears to be an issue with Mountain Lion. I'm wondering if this might be an issue with AMD GPU drivers (I have an Early 2011 model with the 1GB 6750m.) Hopefully Mavericks will fix this.
I was able to make this stop happening by downloading gfxCardStatus and setting the GPU to "Discrete Only". As long as my 6750m is being used the Shell screen saver doesn't lock up. When I set my MBP to use the integrated (Intel HD 3000) GPU the hard drive space slowly disappears (about 2GB per 30 minutes) and eventually locks up the computer.
I'm encountering the same issue on my Mac mini (late 2012). 1. Screen saver runs after 5 minutes (doesn't matter which one). 2. Screen goes to sleep after 15 minutes. 3. Wake up monitor -> Mac freezes. When I bought the mini in May (2013) I believe it came with 10.8.2 (or 10.8.3, can't remember). In those times the screen saver just froze while it was running. But I was still able to stop it by just moving the mouse. As I was upgrading to 10.8.4 and now 10.8.5 the symptoms are worse. Now the screensaver doesn't freeze while it is running, and the monitor goes to sleep fine, but now the Mac just freezes (almost) every time after I wake up the monitor. I have an ADATA S510 120G SSD as the boot drive (not using fusion). First I thought it's the drive. But the hardware test came out OK. No issues with the drive or the RAM (8G). Just a day ago I figured out, if I turn off the screensaver and only use the monitor to go to sleep, then I don't have freezes. It's gotta be some system issue since the symptoms were changing (getting worse) from 10.8.2 to 10.8.5. I have reset the NVRAM (PRAM); reinstalled the system (and didn't install any software after that for testing); reset the SMC. None helped. So I'm just running without screensaver. Mac mini (late 2012) OS X 10.8.5 ADATA S510 120G SSD (not using fusion drive) Samsung S27B970D monitor via DisplayPort cable


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I was getting ready to print last week when I heard that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos had found the Apollo 11 booster rockets and was planning to recover them. I couldn't believe that the timing of his announcement coincided with my latest art print. I'm glad that private individuals like Bezos are able to pick up the mantle held by NASA for so long and continue to try and explore space.
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