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Cities in GREECE
Prehistory and Bronze Age
The Grave Circle A, and the entrance of the citadel (left), at Mycenae, GreecePhoto: Andreas Trepte CC 2.5 Generic no changes made
As far back as the Paleolithic, the Old Stone Age, Greece was populated by people who made a living from hunting and gathering fruits. From around 8000-7000 BC. agriculture and animal domestication was transferred from the Middle East to Greece.
The most important finds from the Neolithic era (ca. 6000-3000 BC) come from the region of Thessaly, especially from the settlement of Sésklo. What is special is that they have found an octagonal house here. Until then, mainly round houses were built. The hand-formed ceramics found here can also be found in other Greek regions.
With the Bronze Age (ca. 3000 BC) the Helladic culture begins on the Greek mainland. The bronze was imported from Asia Minor and is now found in various places. Around 1900 BC. The formation of the Greek people gets off to a good start when various Indo-European speaking tribes spread all over the Greek territory. Well-known names such as Olympia, Mycenae and Tiryns are among the sites. These immigrants brought with them the oldest phase of the Greek language and other cultural elements that would later become so well known, such as the sky god Zeus.
These peoples were also strongly influenced by the Minoan culture which was causing a furore in Crete at that time. The combination of these two cultures led to a high point in Mycenaean culture in the late Helladic era. The dominance of Mycenaean culture on the mainland was far from constituting political unity; probably at the head of each district was a priest-king who was at the top of a palace bureaucracy.
During this period, the Cyclades archipelago developed between Crete and the Greek mainland as a starting point for the trade connections that were established in both the east and the west.
The dark ages (c. 1200–800 BC)
Ancient Greek pair of terracotta bootsPhoto: Sharon Mollerus CC 2.0 Generic no changes made
Among other things due to the large population movements around 1200 BC. Mycenaean culture had collapsed and the Iron Age began in Greece and the formation of the ancient Greek people was completed. There was a cultural decline and not much is known about the historical developments during this time, hence the term "dark ages". At the end of this era, the world famous epic of Homer, Iliad & Odyssey, was created.
During this period the Dorians invaded Greece and the Ionians migrated to the islands of the Aegean Sea and the coast of Asia Minor. Just like on Crete, the typical Greek form of government, the polis, arose there. This form of government would also be introduced fairly quickly on the Greek mainland. The polis was an aristocratic form of government that relied on large land ownership or what had to pass for it. The nobility did face competition from a class that had made a fortune in trade.
It was also during this time that the alphabetic script was created, more or less taken over from the navigators of the Phoenicians. The social environment was still dominated by the "phyle", the old tribal connections, which date back to the Helladic period.
The colonization era (ca.800 / 750–600 BC)
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During this period a lot changed, including the monarchy, except in Sparta. Trade (the rise of coins) became increasingly important and a form of industry also emerged. The middle class became a new class and would become the core of the army. As a result, people also started to make political demands.
Nevertheless, industry and trade did not develop fast enough and food shortages arose due to the poor soil and this led to overpopulation and great tensions in political and social areas. This created an enormous colonization movement in which the Greeks settled on almost all coasts of the Mediterranean. The rise of Persia, Carthage and Etruria put an end to these movements. Politically and militarily, Sparta developed into the most powerful state and in the cultural field, Ionia predominated.
The sixth century BC.
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Due to social and political tensions, most states were led by a "tyrannos", powerful men of the aristocracy who, with popular support, took over supremacy. Only Sparta, which had united almost all of the Peloponnese in a military league, managed to escape this.
In this century, Athens also became increasingly popular. In the colonization era, the whole of Attica had already united into one big polis and there was therefore no need to participate in the colonization. Solon, who also drafted a large number of laws, tried to solve the economic problems by stimulating trade and industry, but hardly succeeded. As a result, social tensions also arose in Athens and the arrival of a tyrant was inevitable (Pisistratus). In the cultural field, Athens also took the lead and Ionia and the Greek areas in the west, Sicily and southern Italy, remained important.
This was also the heyday of the Olympic and Pythian games in connection with the worship of communal gods. Clisthenes founded at the end of the 5th century BC. democracy in Athens.
The fifth century BC.
Battle of Salamis, GreecePhoto: Public domain
In 500 BC. In Asia Minor a revolt broke out by the Ionians aided by Athens against King Darius' Persian Empire. Darius then sent a punitive expedition to Athens which, however, failed completely at Marathon in 490 BC. This is where the Greco-Persian Wars started, the great battle between East and West. In 480-479 BC. Xerxes, the son of Darius, lost the important battles at Salamis and Plataeae and freedom was saved, among other things, by the exemplary cooperation between Athens and Sparta.
Both Athens and Sparta claimed victory, causing the rivalry between the two cities to return to dangerous proportions. In 431 BC. that tension eventually culminated in a war that divided the entire Greek world. In the second half of the war from 413 to 404 BC. Sparta won the battle with the help of the Persians. However, Athens and Sparta had been so weakened by the war that Thebes plunged into a power vacuum and in 371 BC. even defeated Sparta, considered invincible, on its own soil. The rule was short-lived because the Macedonian Empire was expanding during this time.
The fourth century BC.
Statue of Alexander the Great, Thessaloniki GreecePhoto: Nikolai Karaneschev CC 3.0 Unported no changes made
Athens quickly recovered from defeat, but the great empire developed from the Deli-Attic League was lost. However, Sparta dominated at the time with the help of the crafty Persians. However, the population was not satisfied with this and a series of conflicts arose between the states of which the Corinthian War became well known. The Second Attische Zeebond was also established.
Trade and industrial development increased prosperity, but much of the wealth was wasted on warfare and invested in slave-keeping. Furthermore, a group of displaced persons arose, e.g. exiles who sold themselves to the highest paying as mercenaries. The policy could not solve all these problems, so cooperation was required and a Pan-Hellenic idea gradually emerged with the aim of unity among the Greeks and revenge on the great enemy Persia.
However, the Greeks were trumped by Philip II of Macedon. Under his hegemony, a coalition of Greek city-states, including Athens, was defeated at the Battle of Chaerona in 338 BC. After Philip's murder, his son Alexander the Great followed in his father's footsteps and conquered the Persian Empire. Culturally, it was a period of rhetoric and philosophy and the visual arts were not about the gods but about the human ideal of beauty.
Hellenism and the Roman Period
Winged Nike of Samothrace highlight of the Helenistic period, GreecePhoto: Marie-Lan Nguyen in the public domain
The actions of Alexander the Great pushed the city-states out of their self-imposed seclusion and Greek culture began a triumphal procession. Political power was divided after the so-called "Diadochi Wars" by Alexander the Great's successors.
That battle culminated in the 3rd century BC. into three kingdoms, Ptolemaic Egypt, Seleukian Syria, of which Persia was a part, and Macedonia among the descendants of Antigonus the One-Eyed. The eastern elite in the cities were rapidly Hellenized by the emigration of Greek merchants, settlers and Mecedonisceh garrisons, so that "koiné", a corruption of classical Attic Greek, became the "lingua franca" of the Middle East. This spread of Greek culture is called Hellenism.
The Greeks, meanwhile, had not noticed that a great dangerous power had arisen from the west; the Romans. They soon became involved in the political and military struggles in Macedonia and Greece. From 215 BC. the Romans started military actions which in 196 BC. were completed with the termination of Macedonian rule over Greece.
The Romans soon came into conflict with the Achaean League upon which Corinth in 146 BC. was destroyed, the Achai League dissolved and Greece annexed to the "provincia" Macedonia. Most notably, the upper class of Roman society became Hellenized quite quickly and adopted many Greek ideas and philosophies.
Under Octavian Greece became the independent province of Achaia, but political freedom was lost and the economic situation deteriorated. In the intellectual field, however, great achievements were still being made by philosophers and writers, to which even young Roman intellectuals drew.
The Byzantine Period (330–1204)
Monasteries of Meteors from the Byzantine period, GreecePhoto: Takeaway at english wikipedia CC 3.0 Unported no change made
As in Roman times, the Greek language and culture remained the basis for Byzantine civilization, but as a political and military power it played a subordinate role in the Byzantine Empire. Shortly before 400, Greece was occupied by the Visigoths and in the 6th and 7th centuries, Slavic hordes in Macedonia, Thessaly and Epirus wreaked havoc. They settled in the country and colonized the Peloponnese in the eighth century.
As a result of these invasions, a large Slavic-speaking population settled on Greek soil. At the end of the 7th century, Central Greece was incorporated into a separate administrative unit, a so-called "theme", which was headed by a military governor. Because Byzantium started to lose its grip, themes were created everywhere and from 800 onwards there was again effective rule from Byzantium. In the 9th and 10th centuries, Greece was a country without prominent cities.
The Christianization of Slavs was successful, also because they became part of the entire Greek culture. In 1054, the Eastern or Greek Orthodox Church, led by the Patriarch of Byzantium, seceded from the Church of Rome.
In the 10th to the 12th century, the Walachians settled in, among others, Thessaly and Aetolia. Despite all these strange elements and the Saracen piracy from Crete, the Greek coastal cities remained economically healthy due to the silk industry and the freight transport in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Heavy taxes and feudal abuses brought Greece to the brink of collapse. In addition, Venice had enforced the trade monopoly in the Aegean and Black Sea through the help of Constantinople in the fight against the Normans in southern Italy.
The Latin period and the Turkish advance (1204 – c. 1460)
Ottoman Janissaries And Defending Knights Of St John, Siege Of Rhodes, 1522 Photo: Public domain
After the Fourth Crusade, the Byzantine Empire was defeated in 1204 and Greece fell apart. The Latin Empire of Constantinople ruled until 1261 but was recaptured in 1261 by the Greek Empire of Nica-Byzantium, which had also reclaimed the kingdom of Saloníki. In 1262 the Peloponnese was occupied again by the Palaeologists of Constantinople.
Thessaly followed in 1318 and Epirus in the west in 1336. In 1349 Epirus was lost to the Serbs again. In 1354 the Turks invaded Europe and occupied Thessaly in 1393. Around 1400 the Byzantine Empire only had the capital Constantinople, Saloníki and the Peloponnese. The Duchy of Athens of the Burgundian Othon de la Roche also had many occupiers. In 1311 it was conquered by Catalan mercenaries; In 1388, the Florentine banking family Acciaiuoli came to power until it was conquered by the Turks in 1456. The principality of Achaia-Moreia also fell to the Turks in 1461, who from that time ruled almost all of Greece.
The Greek islands were also occupied by many different powers, including the Turks, the Venetians, the Genoese and the Knights of John. In contrast to the Turkish occupation, the Franco-Italian rule in Greece hardly ever had a strong grip on people, culture or religion.
After the fall of the Byzantine capital Constantinople in 1453, Greece had a new centralistic state system. In this case the Turks ruled from Sofia, but it would take until 1566 before all the islands in the Aegean were conquered. Crete was not even conquered until 1669 and regularly belonged to Venice.
Revolts quickly took place, particularly against the Turkish governors who oppressed and extorted the population. The Sultan of the Turks, on the other hand, left the Greeks a great deal of independence, especially the position of the Greek Church was not affected. With the weakening of the Ottoman Empire, a national movement could emerge, aided moreover by the great powers who opposed the Turks as a constant threat. The French Revolution also stimulated the emergence of a national awareness. The Greeks' aspiration to break free from the disintegrating Turkish Empire was discussed by the great powers at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, but England was reluctant, as it wanted to keep the conquered Ionian Islands for itself.
The War of Freedom
Battle of Navarino, GreecePhoto: Public domain
In 1821, a revolt against the Turks broke out in the Peloponnese, which was to be the start of the war of independence. In this battle, the various parties were regularly winning. The Turks were backed by the Egyptians, and the Greeks were backed by the English and later received military aid from the Russians and the French. In 1827 the Battle of Navarino Bay was lost to the Turks and at the Peace of Adrianople in 1829, Turkey recognized Greece's independence. Nafplion became the capital, but in 1834 Athens was chosen for it.
It was not until 1833 that the Turks left the Acropolis in Athens. The north and most of the islands, including Crete, remained under Turkish or English domination.
Independent Greece
King George (1845-1913) I of GreecePhoto: George E. Koronaios CC 4.0 International no changes made
The brand new state was economically weak and politically very divided and was strongly influenced by the English, French and Russians. In fact, they wanted the restoration of Byzantine Greece with Constantinople and Asia Minor. The first "president", Capodistrias, was appointed president for seven years, but was assassinated as early as 1831. The English then wanted a European prince on the throne, and in 1832, King Louis I of Bavaria accepted the Greek crown for his son Otto, who first entered Greek soil in 1833.
Otto I was a strong supporter of a central authority and thus came into conflict with the aristocracy and the clergy who held much power under the Turks in the region and who were now in danger of losing it.
A rebellion in 1843 - carried out by the "Russian Party" - forced him to promise a constitution to Greece. The king was also forced to replace his Bavarian minister with Greeks. This constitution was passed by the parliament in 1844 and accepted by the king.
Greece suffered a failure during the Crimean War; when it wanted to support revolts in the still Turkish Epirus and Thessaly, an Anglo-French naval squadron occupied Athenes port, Piraeus (1854–1857). In October 1862, King Otto was forced to resign by a revolt. Under the influence of the English, the parliament offered the throne to the Danish Prince William of Denmark, who became king under the name of George I. He accepted his government on October 31, 1863 and would rule until 1913. As a reward and received a kind of wedding gift the Greeks of England in 1864 the Ionian Islands. In 1866 there was a revolt of the Cretans, supported by the Greeks, against the Turks.
At the same time, the Greeks tried to acquire Epirus and Thessaly but were opposed by the great powers. In 1881, provisions from the Congress of Berlin were cashed in, and most of Thessaly and a small portion of southern Epirus were assigned to Greece. In 1896 another revolt on Crete and now Greece sent troops to Macedonia, where the Greeks suffered a great defeat. Even now, the great powers imposed a settlement on the Greeks: Turkey received some border corrections in the north but had to allow Crete to become autonomous with a son of the Greek king as governor.
After a number of revolts, it resigned in 1906 and the great powers once again decided on the fate of Crete. The Greeks considered this interference as a great humiliation and this triggered a wave of nationalism, which in 1910 Venizelos became Prime Minister. It was only after the Balkan Wars that Greece was able to expand its territory with Macedonia, part of Southern Epirus and a number of Aegean islands, including Crete.
After the violent death of George I in 1913, his son and successor Constantine I faced the First World War. Immediately problems arose between the king and Venizelos. The king was a brother-in-law of the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, and he wanted to remain neutral. Venizelos chose the Allies, after which Venizelos was fired by the king in 1915. In 1916 he founded a counter-government in Saloníki. At the same time, the Allies blocked the coast of the central and south of the mainland that remained loyal to Constantine.
In June 1917, Constantine was forced to abdicate in favor of his son Alexander and Athens was occupied by the French. Venizelos now established his authority across the country and declared war on Germany in June 1917. Greece took part in the offensive in the fall of 1918 that led to the capitulation of Bulgaria in 1918.
At the Treaty of Neuilly in November 1919, Greece acquired the Bulgarian western Thrace. The Peace Treaty of Sèvres in 1920 stipulated that the Greeks would receive European Turkey and Smyrna (now: Izmir). The Turks, led by Kemal Atatürk, refused to cooperate. After the death of King Alexander in October 1920 and the return of Constantine, Venizelos was put aside. Only England supported the Greeks in their pursuit of expansion in Asia Minor, which led to a crushing defeat against the Turks in 1922.
George II of Greece, King of the HellenesPhoto: Public domain
The king resigned in favor of his son George II, who was in turn deposed in 1923. At the Peace of Lausanne in 1923, a large-scale Greek-Turkish population swap was decided and Greece had to acquiesce in the annexation of the Dodekánesos by Italy. This part of present-day Greece had already been conquered by Italy from the Turks in 1912. Furthermore, the Greeks had to return Adrianople and Smyrna to Turkey.
In the 1920s Greece remained a country of great political contradictions and in 1924 it officially became a republic with the military Koundouriótis as president. From January to August 1926, there was a brief military dictatorship under General Pángoulos. After the 1928 elections, Venizelos returned to power and reconciled with Turkey. In the period up to World War II, most cabinets were overthrown by the military. In 1935, King George II was recalled from exile after a popular vote, but was soon succeeded by the dictator Metaxas, an admirer of Hitler and Mussolini.
World War II and Civil War
Anti-Communist poster, GreecePhoto: Public domain
Before World War II, Metaxas tried to keep friends with both Germany and England for economic reasons. In October 1940 the Italians invaded Greece but met very fierce resistance and could only conquer Greece in April 1941 with the help of the Germans. In May of the same year, Crete was also conquered by the Germans. Most of the country was occupied by Italy, Germany occupied Piraeus and Saloníki, among others. A small part of Greece was annexed by Bulgaria. The king and the government fled abroad. The board was in the hands of a number of German front men, including Tsolakoglou, Logothetopoulos and Rallis. Soon all kinds of resistance movements arose that even competed with each other, but which did cooperate closely with the British.
Meanwhile, the emigrated king and the government had little more to say and, with the approval of the British, in September 1944 this led to a government of "National Unity" with Prime Minister Papandreou, which settled in Athens on October 18, 1944. The British had already landed in Greece in September and demanded the disbandment of all guerilla groups. One of these groups, the EAM, refused and the ELAS took over most of Greece but was subdued by the British that same year. Papandreou then resigned and the king only wanted to return if the people explicitly asked for it. As a result of this situation, the Archbishop of Athens was proclaimed regent.
The struggle with the ELAS was halted after negotiations in early 1945, but the communists remained militarily active from the north. Elections were held in March 1946 and a popular vote led to the return of the Greek King George II in September.
The Dodekánesos and the territories annexed by Bulgaria got Greece back at the Peace of Paris in 946. Financial compensation by Italy was also arranged here. And on top of that came the help of the United States under President Truman. King George II died in 1946 and was succeeded by his brother Paul I. Under his rule, the communist uprising that had lasted for years came to an end in 1949. In 1947 the civil war was raging at its worst; the loyalist troops were led by Papagos; the well-armed communists, led by the Stalinist "general" Markos, carried out raids through the country and deported 26,000 Greek children to neighboring communist countries. In 1948 the battle ended due to the invasion of an English army, disagreement among the communists, supplies of American weapons to the government forces and due to lack of weapons among the communists.
Also important in these years was the break between Stalin of Russia and Tito of Yugoslavia in 1948, which closed the Yugoslav-Greek border in 1949.
The fifties and sixties
Papagos GreecePhoto: Van Duinen/Anefo in the public domain
In 1952 Greece joined NATO and under Papagos of the new party "Greek Concentration" a more stable time followed and relations with neighboring countries improved. In 1954, an alliance was even concluded between Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey. However, this alliance had little chance of success, partly due to the Cyprus question, which caused relations between Greece and Turkey to explode.
The Cypriot movement seeking affiliation with Greece (enosis) sparked riots in Greece itself in 1954 and the matter was referred by Papagos to the United Nations. In 1955, the conflict on the island under the leadership of Grivas began to escalate, bringing relations between Greece and Turkey to an all-time low. Papagos died in 1955 and was succeeded by Karamanlis, the leader of the new National Radical Zunie (ERE) party. Karamanlis sought to resolve the Cypriot conflict through negotiations and remained loyal to NATO. The Republic of Cyprus was founded in 1960.
In 1963, Karamanlis resigned when the king did not follow government advice to postpone a state visit to England. The constant involvement of the crown in politics had also been a thorn in his side for some time.
In two consecutive general elections, the party of the reformist Papandreou won many seats in parliament.
In May 1965, a secret organization of left-wing army officers was discovered, to which Papandreou's son is said to have supported. Papandreou himself wanted to purge the army of "anti-democratic and fascist figures", in fact his opponents. King Constantine II, the successor of Paul I, who died in 1964, refused to resign the minister of defense, who was an opponent of Papandreou in the cabinet. In July 1965 the Papandreou government resigned and violent pro-Papandreou demonstrations took place all over Greece. After the election, the king tried to form cabinets of anti-Papandreou people. The parliamentary-constitutional crisis continued and on April 21, 1967, a group of ultra-right officers staged a coup d'état, the so-called "colonels".
Military regimes (1967-1974)
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Constantine accepted the situation and appointed the politician Kollias as prime minister of a government controlled by soldiers such as Papadopoulos and Patakos. In December, Constantine made a feeble attempt to overthrow the regime. After this he fled to Italy to go into exile and the military Papadopoulos was appointed president and Zoitakis as regent for the fled king. In his first reign, Papadopoulos took more and more power until he eventually became regent in 1972. Finally, on June 1, 1973, he proclaimed the republic and the monarchy came to an end.
Already on November 25, 1973, the Papadopoulos government was overthrown by a number of generals led by Brigadier General Joannidis, one of his former allies. Due to the bad economic situation and the decline in the Cyprus question (the Turks landed on the north coast of Cyprus in 1974 while the Greek regime was forced to watch impotently), a large number of officers demanded that the military make way for a civilian government.
Restoration of the civilian government
Konstantin Karamanlis GreecePhoto: Institution:Greek State General Archives CC 3.0 no changes made
In July 1974 it was decided to recall former Prime Minister Karamanlis from Paris, and he appointed a "cabinet of national unity". The 1952 constitution was also reinstated and the form of government was to be chosen by referendum.
Negotiations with the Turks over Cyprus failed and in August 1974 the Turks conquered nearly 40% of the island, after which the situation was presented to the United Nations.
On November 17, 1974, the elections were won by a large majority (56%) by Karamanlis' party, the New Democracy (ND). The third Kainet-Karamanlis held a referendum on the form of government and nearly 70% of the voters were against a return of the monarchy. In June 1975 a new constitution was passed and K. Tsatsos became the new president.
In the course of 1976, tensions between Greece and Turkey increased again and the status of the Aegean Sea also became a disagreement. Greece's return to NATO's command structure was also fraught with problems because Turkey was also a member of the alliance. It was not until March 1978 that there was any improvement in relations with Turkey.
Period from 1980
Andreas Papandreou GreecePhoto: Eric Koch/Anefo in the publc domain
The elections of November 20, 1977 were again won by Karamanlis and in his fourth term, Greece joined the European Community and was elected president in 1980. In 1981, the Panhellenic Socialist Party (PASOK) became the country's largest party and Andreas Papandreou became Prime Minister. His proposed reforms, including in the social field, could only partially be realized. In 1985, the non-party Christos Sartzetakis was elected president and PASOK lost the absolute majority in the elections. As the largest party, however, the PASOK was allowed to continue to rule.
The 1989 elections again failed to produce a winner and until April 1990 Greece was ruled by a number of interim cabinets. Konstantinos Mitsotakis managed to form an ND government and Karamanlis was again elected head of state. From 1990 onwards, the many refugees from Albania caused major problems in Greece. Relations with the other EC countries came under pressure due to the Macedonia issue. The Greeks withheld the EC's recognition of the independent republic of Macedonia because of fear that the Macedonians would make claims to the Greek province of the same name.
In 1993 ex-king Constantine was allowed to visit Greece again as a "citizen". That same year, Papandreou's PASOK won the elections and became the new Prime Minister. In March 1995, President Karamanlis resigned and was succeeded by Kostas Stefanopoulos, a non-party politician.
Relations with Turkey reached a low point in January 1996 over a tiny uninhabited Greek island. It even went so far as to nearly start a war between the two countries. Prime Minister Papandreou died in June, who had already been succeeded by Konstantinos Simitis in January. Early elections were held in September and were won by PASOK, which retained its majority in parliament.
The ongoing conflict with Albania over the position of the Greek minority in that country and the Albanians working in Greece appeared to be improving with the signing in March 1996 of a friendship treaty. Papandreou died on June 23, 1996.
Relations with Turkey remained tense. In February 1997, Athens threatened to block the expansion of the European Union to include Eastern European countries, if the Turkish Cypriots were allowed to participate in the negotiations for the accession of Cyprus. The fact that in 1998 Greece defended the controversial Greek-Cypriot decision to purchase Russian anti-aircraft missiles led to very serious tensions.
Greece changed this position when Turkey announced that it regarded the placement as an act of war. In June 1998, the Greek government thwarted an EU proposal for economic aid to Turkey, through which the EU sought to improve relations with Turkey.
In February 1999, Turkish commandos arrested Kurdish PKK leader Öcalan after leaving the Greek embassy in Kenya, where he had taken refuge. Serious mistakes on the part of the Greek side had made the arrest possible and put the Greek government in a difficult position, especially as the Greek population - sympathetic to the Kurdish struggle for independence - interpreted the incident as a humiliation by arch-enemy Turkey. Prime Minister Simitis fired three ministers he held partly responsible for the mistakes, including Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos. This was succeeded by Georgios Papandreou, the son of statesman Andreas Papandreou.
Greece, as a member of NATO, took an ambiguous stance in the Kosovo war in 1999. The Greek people traditionally feel connected to the Serbian, which also adheres to the Orthodox Christian faith. A large majority of Greeks strongly opposed the NATO attacks on Serbia from the end of March. The Greek government initially appealed to NATO to cease the bombing, but had to reconsider its position under pressure from the United States. This put Prime Minister Simitis in a dire situation, as he had to keep the nationalists in his party happy and anti-NATO actions in Greece continued. Cooperation with NATO was therefore not easy.
In early 1999, the Greek-Cypriot decision to abandon the placement of Russian S300 anti-aircraft missiles. This initially eased Greco-Turkish tensions. However, the Greeks did not get out of their contract with Russia. On February 9, Cyprus and Greece signed a treaty on the placement of the missiles in Crete. Turkey reacted as if stung by a wasp. However, relations with Turkey improved significantly after a major earthquake hit this country on August 17. Greece immediately came to the aid of Turkey directly and supported an EU proposal for a large-scale aid program.
Sinitis GreecePhoto: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung CC 2.0 Generic no changes made
On February 8, 2000, the Greek Parliament elected Kostas Stefanopoulos as president for a second five-year term by a large majority.
In the parliamentary elections on April 9, 2000, New Democracy was defeated by PASOK in a tense race. PASOK received 43.8% of the vote, against 42.7% for New Democracy. The election results did not lead to drastic cabinet changes. Immediately after his victory, Prime Minister Simitis stated that he wanted political continuity in connection with the desired Greek accession to the EMU and the rapprochement with Turkey. On April 25, 2000, Parliament approved the new government program, including the key issue of strengthening Greece's position within the European Union.
PASOK's election victory enabled Prime Minister Simitis to continue his successful economic austerity policy. In the spring of 2000 inflation was only 2.9% for the first time in 30 years. Greece thus qualified for participation in the European Monetary Union. The European Parliament adopted a resolution by a large majority on May 18, 2000, calling for Greek accession to the Eurozone as of January 1, 2001. On June 19, the Council of Ministers was officially approved.
Since major earthquakes hit Greece and Turkey in 1999, there has been a cautious rapprochement between the two countries. In 2000, five cooperation treaties were signed in the fields of economy, science, culture, maritime trade and customs. In October, both countries took part in a joint NATO exercise in the Aegean Sea, initially seeing the planned presence of Greek military and equipment on Turkish territory as a breakthrough.
However, the relationship came under pressure again when an old military disagreement over the airspace of two Greek islands surfaced again. Ultimately, Greece withdrew from the exercise. Since March 2004, ND has formed a government headed by Prime Minister Karamanlis. Giorgos Papandreou is now leader of the opposition party PASOK.
In February 2006, Prime Minister Karamanlis reshuffled his government to revitalize his policies. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Petros Molyviatis, has been replaced by Mrs. Dora Bakoyannis.
Greece unfortunately still faces violence perpetrated by extreme left-wing (anarchist) groups. At the end of 2005, attacks were committed on the Ministries of Development and Finance. Anarchists often cause unrest in Athens by setting fire to banks and other buildings with gas bottles.
In September 2007 Karamanlis will receive a mandate for a new period. In March 2008, Greece blocked Macedonia's access to NATO in connection with a dispute over the naming of this former Yugoslav republic. In December 2008, serious disturbances broke out after police shoots dead a 15-year-old boy in Athens. In October 2009, Pasok won the elections and George Papandreou became the new prime minister.
At the end of 2009, the full extent of the Greek debt crisis begins to penetrate. Greece is no longer considered creditworthy because of the excessively high national debt. Papandreou announces substantial cutbacks, which will lead to riots with the population. There is severe action in the public sector and the retirement age is rising sharply. In February 2010, European government leaders pledged to help Greece solve the debt crisis, but on hard terms. A huge amount will be made available in April and May. Greece will have to cut even harder in return for this. The unions are calling for a general strike. At the end of 2011, Papandreo gets into trouble and the technocrat Lucas Papademos becomes interim prime minister. There are elections in May 2012, but there is no clear winner. President Papoulias calls new elections that are won by new democracy, without getting a majority. Antonis Samaras forms a coalition with, among others, the PASOK. In 2013 the employment figures hit new negative records. More than 60% of Greek youth are unemployed. Cuts remain necessary, as a result of this the plug will be pulled from Greek state television in June 2013.
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At the end of 2013, there were problems with the support of the extremely rightwing party Golden Dawn. In December 2013, the budget for 2014 will be approved and six years of recession may come to an end. In May 2014, Syriza, the radical left anti-austerity party, wins the European elections with 26.6% of the vote. In January 2015, Syriza's Alexis Tsipras becomes the new prime minister in a coalition government of nationalists. The years 2015 and 2016 are dominated by the debt crisis and the refugee crisis. The European central bank comes to the aid of the Greeks in exchange for austerity. The Greek islands are flooded by refugees, the flow to the rest of Europe is difficult. In the summer of 2016, there is still much talk about debt relief for the Greek economy. In April 2017, an agreement was reached on the continuation of the support program for Greece. In return, Greece must take new measures in the field of taxes and pensions in 2018. In june 2018 Greece sign an historic agreement resolving a 27-year-long dispute over the official name of Macedonia. Centre-right New Democracy party wins landslide at early elections in July 2019, and leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis becomes prime minister. Katerina Sakellaropoulou was elected president by parliament in January 2020, and took office in March, becoming Greece's first female head of state. The refugee crisis is still a major problem, camp Moira in Lesbos is set fire in September 2020. In 2021, the COVID pandemic and the refugee issue are the main problems to be addressed.
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Koster, D. / Griekenland


Following the signing of President Trump's Executive order on April 18th, four federal agencies were tasked with reviewing and recommending changes pertaining to employment-based foreign worker programs in order to prevent fraud and abuse and to ensure that visas were being awarded to the most skilled and highest-paid individuals. Naturally, companies known for using these employment-based visa worker programs were concerned.
In response to the Executive Order, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it intends to narrow its targets for site visits and focus particularly on cases where 1) The agency is unable to validate an employer's basic information through "commercially available data", 2) employers have a relatively high ratio of H-1B workers compared to other types of workers, and 3) employers who petition H-1B workers that will work off-site. The Acting Director also noted that USCIS "continues to review all policies related to the H-1B program and is planning to publish an updated H-1B guidance section the USCIS Policy Manual." As always, employers should ensure that their practices related to nonimmigrant visa programs are fully compliant.
On June 6th, the Department of Labor issued a news release noting that the DOL would be ramping up determinations aimed at detecting and preventing visa abuse. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta stated that "the U.S. Department of Labor will focus on preventing visa program abuse and take every available legal action against those who abuse these programs." This move will include increases in both civil investigations and criminal referrals. Labor Department officials announced that these increased efforts will involve not only H-1B visas, but other types of nonimmigrant work visas such as H-2A and H-2B as well.
The Department will also continue working with the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to further investigate and detect visa program fraud and abuse. This announcement clearly signals that the DOL – along with the other federal agencies – will be stepping up efforts at aggressive confrontation and punishment of visa program fraud and abuse. However, the DOL did not speak on the number of foreign workers visas available each year nor did it indicate any intent to address this.
Here at W&O, we continuously monitor developments with respect to the implementation of President Trump's executive orders concerning immigration and will continue to post updates as soon as any new guidance becomes available.


Three compact, new monochrome Xerox laser printers from Bytes Document Solutions, authorised Xerox distributor to 27 sub-Saharan countries, bring affordably priced productivity and performance to network printing.
The Xerox Phaser 3155, 3160B, and 3160N black-and-white laser printers produce 24 pages per minute (ppm) and offer high-quality output, reliable operations and a deep feature set for printing in small businesses, home offices and personal use.
All three models provide best-in-class monthly duty cycles — 12,000 prints for the Phaser 3155, and 15 000 for the two Phaser 3160 models — to meet the daily printing needs of busy work teams. Yet each is also physically suited to serve as a personal or shared printer, with low noise levels and a compact footprint (360 x 389 mm) to fit easily on a desktop.
To meet a wide range of printing needs, the three models offer choices in their connectivity, image resolutions and controllers. All three models provide USB 2.0 connectivity. An Ethernet 10/100Base-TX connection is standard on the network-ready Phaser 3160N.
Image resolution is 600x600 dots per inch, with software enhancements achieving 1200 x 600 dpi on the Phaser 3155 and 1200 x 1200 dpi on the two Phaser 3160 models. The Phaser 3155 has a powerful 155MHz processor and 8MB of memory. The two 3160 versions offer an even more robust 360MHz processor, 64MB of memory, and broader print language support to include PCL6/PCL5e and Epson/IBM.
All three models are equipped with a fully enclosed paper tray for up to 250 sheets, which keeps paper dust-free and limits interruptions to re-load paper. A second multi-purpose tray feeds special sizes and media, such as envelopes, transparencies and postcards. First-print-out time is as fast as eight seconds.
All three models offer a range of features. Scaling, reduction/ enlargement and fit-to-page provide image sizing options. Toner-saver mode, power-saver mode, multiple-up printing and job cancel can conserve resources and reduce costs. Manual duplexing reduces paper usage and related costs while boosting productivity. Other features include watermark printing, manual booklet-making and poster printing – printing sections of images that can be tiled together into a larger piece.
The new models are easy to set up, maintain and operate in Windows, Mac and Linux environments. The Phaser 3160N also comes with Xerox CentreWare Internet Services, which enables operators to set up, manage and check job status on the 3160N using a Web browser.
All three models are Energy Star-qualified. They can use either high-capacity toner cartridges, which yield 2,500 pages, or standard-capacity cartridges, which yield 1,500 pages. Their consumables are part of Xerox's Green World Alliance, a worldwide initiative to encourage Xerox customers to recycle or dispose of supplies in a manner that minimises impact on the environment.


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Don't get disheartened if you only have a small space to work with, there's plenty that you can do, even with an area that is just a few feet wide. In fact, it can be far more exciting to work in small spaces, and that final designs can be incredible.
Making the most of the small spaces is all about making space seem more significant than it is, ensuring that every spot is used purposefully and moving upwards rather than horizontally. There's probably more space than you think and there's certainly plenty of possibilities.
The first tip for working in small spaces is to use bright colors that can help to make space seem far more significant than it is. In contrast, dark colors like blacks and charcoals will shrink the area and make it feel considerably smaller.
Stick to using lighter colors on the walls if possible and integrate splashes of color in different parts of the landscape to attract the eye to each spot, making space feel bigger than before. This coloring is particularly compelling if done with plants, but can also work with lighting or even ornaments.
One common mistake that people make when trying to design small landscapes is that they are scared of dividing what little space they have into even smaller segments. This seems logical, but by doing this, you only emphasize how small the single area is.
In fact, by creating individual zones within your small space, you can make space feel much larger because you bring more purpose to the landscape. This method can work exceptionally efficiently with landscapes that try to make their areas livable.
But even if you are trying to create a natural garden landscape rather than space for your family you shouldn't be scared of dividing the space up. Use strong borders like wood or a brick to split up the area into segments, each of which could have a distinct theme or purpose.
While you don't have a huge amount of horizontal space, it's likely that you have near unlimited amounts of vertical space. If this is the case, make sure that you expand vertically and make the most of all of the space that you have.
This could perhaps mean creating a staircase up to a second layer in a tiny garden but could apply to using tall but thin plants rather than wide-reaching shrubs.
Doing this allows you to bring a lot of big elements into your landscape without them hogging excessive amounts of your limited real estate. Evergreen trees are particularly bad because they are wide-reaching at a low level, whereas another type of tree with a thinner trunk would take less space, using the vertical space instead.
Most small spaces will never have the appeal of a large landscape if you try and go the same route of using grass lawns, shrubs, and flower beds. However, small spaces can be incredibly livable.
Most of these tiny areas make perfect seating areas, where you could incorporate a fire, grills and outdoor furniture for you and your friends to enjoy. Trying to force a larger concept yard into a small space often doesn't work, neither does making a humungous livable area.
Firepits can become the centerpiece of your space and having a single element can make the area feel more expansive.
Finally, if you can't beat them, then it's best to join them. Recognize that your space is small and embrace it as much as possible. In a very European fashion, you can add plenty of plants, ornaments, and overreaching vines into a tiny space to make it feel even cozier.
Combining this with a minimalist set of furniture can create a comfortable environment that you can enjoy coffee in with one or two other people.


While men are generally more likely to suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), many more women than previously thought suffer from OSA, and leaving it unchecked can have dire consequences on a woman's cardiovascular health.
A recent women and sleep apnea study conducted by Dr. Francisco Campos-Rodriguez, director of the sleep-disordered breathing unit at Valme University Hospital in Seville, Spain, states that women with untreated severe OSA are three and a half times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than women without OSA. However, the study also showed that women who treat their severe sleep apnea at night with a technique called continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) significantly reduce their risk of heart attack-related deaths to about the same risk level as women without OSA.
Continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, is a treatment that uses mild air pressure to keep the breathing passages open. The mild pressure from CPAP can prevent airways from collapsing or blocking, thus reducing or eliminating snoring and frequent waking during the night.
Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder that causes a person's breathing during sleep to be paused. The pauses generally last 10 to 20 seconds, and in severe cases, can occur hundreds of times a night. With obstructive sleep apnea, the airway is blocked and/or collapses while sleeping. Air obstructed by the blockage can cause loud snoring and interrupted sleep.
As a result of the paused breathing and/or snoring, many sleep apnea sufferers wake throughout the night and spend more time in light sleep, rather than deep, restful REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. This chronic sleep deprivation results in daytime sleepiness, and can negatively affect job performance, mood, reflexes and concentration.
Over time, untreated sleep apnea can also lead to cardiovascular health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, as well as weight gain and diabetes.
So how do you know you may have obstructive sleep apnea? Some common symptoms include snoring, paused breathing during sleep and excessive sleepiness during the day. Increased blood pressure is another sign you may have sleep apnea.
While sleep apnea is more common in men, OSA increases in women after age 50. According to the National Sleep Foundation, one in four women over age 65 have sleep apnea.
Being overweight also increases a woman's risk of having sleep apnea. Menopausal women are three and a half times more likely to get OSA, possible due to reduced amounts of progesterone.
To read a summary of "Risk for Death From Cardiovascular Disease in Women With Obstructive Sleep Apnea," go to the Annals of Internal Medicine.


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Becoming a licensed physician is a huge accomplishment. To become a doctor in Colorado, one must go through years of schooling to earn a medical degree, complete a residency and obtain a license to practice medicine. It is not easy to complete all these steps, but oftentimes one's hard work pays off when they are able to earn a high salary as a practicing physician.


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Gig Harbor Library hosts young apprentice artwork
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There is an exclusive art show coming to Pierce County Library in Gig Harbor next month. So exclusive in fact, that the artworks have never before been seen by the public.
The work represents the talent of the most dedicated students from Apprentice Academy, an art school founded by locally known and internationally recognized artist Mardie Rees. For parents that have ever wondered what their children are capable of artistically, the show is worth a look.
"My son's love for art has turned into a passion due to Mardie's incredible and patient art instruction," said Gig Harbor parent Sarah Larsen in a press statement. "Mardie shares her vast experience and talent in her camps and classes, instructing each child in the fundamental techniques of art through differing mediums. He can't wait till camp begins!"
The show will display a number of finished 2D compositions from last year's summer art camps. Mediums include pen-and-ink patterns, charcoal still lifes, and impressively colorful collages inspired by author Eric Carle.
Rees said her mission is to awaken passion for art in anyone regardless of age or circumstance, though she does pay particular attention to her young students.
"We are all born with a desire to be creative — to let our souls express themselves and to take risks," Rees said. "What we all need is someone to fan the flame. Being a parent is about recognizing who our children are inside and drawing it out of them. Even if art is not their ultimate life path, it can be a wonderful source of self-discovery."
The art show at the library is open to the public from April 2 to June 3.
Apprentice Academy is located just across the Purdy Bridge in Gig Harbor. Painting, drawing and sculpture curriculums this year include "Sculpt your Wild Thing," "Painting a Story," "Edgar Degas' Horses," and "Cartooning and Speech Ballooning: Peanuts."
Summer camps run from June 20 to Sept. 1 for youth ages 5-16. Cost is $170 to $220 per 4-day session. To register, visit www.mardierees.com/apprentice or call 253-279-3244 for information.
Follow Apprentice Academy at www.facebook.com/apprenticeacademy.

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Though this is not specifically happening in Uxbridge, Ruislip is a very close neighbour! We have been to the Christmas railway event at Ruislip Lido a few times, and it really is a lovely treat for the kids.
Ruislip Lido railway is a great day out for the kids during summer, but there is something even more magical about the Christmas event.
You take the train from the stop by the carpark and travel to Santas shack at the end of the line. There you will get to see Santa, receive your gift and have a photo with him.
The route along the track is decorated with Christmas illuminations to make it feel all the more magical. If you have a desire to go, then the ticket booking is already open (yes I know it's only September).


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Q: How do i avoid PHP interfering with HTML output? I have a pretty weird error that I have not been able to find any other information on anywhere else, So I'm hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction.
I am trying to center this table and for some reason when it's run within a PHP file it get's skewed to the right - let me show you what I have got:
Here are live previews of the table being aligned perfectly center in pure HTML and here it is being run with just one PHP tag pushing it to the right
Pure HTML - http://codepen.io/csarsam/pen/wAteD
Here it is with one PHP tag - http://codepad.viper-7.com/1mpN95

A: look at the max-width of #content on both the files !!!
in one its 990px and in other its 660px.
i checked it on localhost and it did solved the problem.
just a minor mistake.

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Lyric Video: Kane Brown "What Ifs" Feat. Lauren Alaina
By: Lauren Hoffman
Kane Brown's rising single, "What Ifs," featuring Lauren Alaina now has a lyric video to go along with it.
Brown recently told us all the details on how it came about working with the "Road Less Traveled" singer in an exclusive interview.
The country singer recently got engaged to his girlfriend, Katelyn Jae. He shared the announcement at a show last month.
You can catch Kane Brown out on the road this summer as a supporting act on Jason Aldean's They Don't Know Tour.
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Private work | How should this be charged?
This will be stated in the written contract. The private fee can either be entirely subsumed within the normal, regular work of the salaried GP, or there could be a provision for private work to be undertaken over and above the their usual work, stating how much of the fee they receive (bearing in mind the practice's overheads.
For locum GPs, there is no issue as to whether or not a freelance GP can perform private work in a GP practice.
The practice and locum will need to agree beforehand whether their normal clinical caseload will contain private as well as NHS patients, with adequate time given for the private work in line with what other GPs in the practice would expect.
The practice and locum will also need to agree between them whether private work is charged at the same rate as NHS work.
NB you can now set your T&Cs online in NASGP's LocumDeck.
If you're doing any sort of locum work as part of your portfolio career, you'll definitely need your own personalised Terms and Conditions to help protect both you and the practice you're working for. NASGP's model T&Cs has been specifically developed for us by a specialist employment law firm, and allows you to not only fully adopt all its recommendations, but also to add any necessary clauses, and tailor it to suit your personal needs.
Set your own cancellation sliding scale from 0 to 100% of your booked fee for 0 to 28 days in advance.
As an NASGP member, go to your T&Cs generator, choose your settings and then save. You'll then be given a unique link "View my TCs" which will automatically be added to your automated invoices, confirmation emails and session request emails, or you can paste the link into your own website.
As an added bonus, you can update your T&Cs as often as you like, with each change being saved in an archive accessible by your practices for extra confidence.
In our experience, if private patients are seen within the usual agreed hours then the locum would not expect to be paid any extra. But if seen outside the usual agreed hours, the locum would expect to be paid the full private fee, with any practice overheads being offset by the additional service being offered by the locum. It makes the paperwork easier too.


The diptyque holiday collection will satisfy home decor lovers, art aficionados, and those in between. In collaboration with artist Julien Columbier, the packaging was designed from pastel and chalk rhythmic patterns of jungles, clouds, and earthy environments. Columbier's technique is more abstract than intentional making the gifts a work of art in itself.
The three holiday scents – Sapin, Liquidambar, and Oliban – are drawn from the earth. Dominant notes like wood, mandarin, and cinnamon evoke holiday cheer. View the entire collection below.


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make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/home/idou/Documents/badpervisor/driver/cpuid_available.o', needed by '/home/idou/Documents/badpervisor/hypervisor.o'.  Stop.

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Brenton Swartz has been quadreplegic since he was 15.
In 1984 Brenton Swartz and his brother were messing around with a gun their parents kept in the house. It went off and the bullet hit Brenton in the neck.
He was 15 when he became quadriplegic.
So, while other kids his age were out testing the boundaries of youthful independence, Brenton was in and out of hospital learning how to live without the use of his limbs.
Now 38, Brenton lives at the Durbanville Quadriplegic Centre. On Tuesday, he visited Groote Schuur Hospital to share his story on World Spinal Cord Injury Day.
Apart from raising awareness about spinal injuries, the day also honours the achievements of those who have to go through life with less mobility.
Despite his injury, Brenton held on to his dream of becoming an architect and he completed his studies in architecture at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). But finding work proved impossible.
"It was difficult to get a job, and I moved into a house where people painted so I decided to take that up. I now work from home and paint for a Swiss-based company called the The Association of Mouth and Foot Painting (AMFPA). In 2009 I got a bursary from them to study art," he said.
"I love it, very few people can say that their hobby is their day job. They turn the paintings into postcards, calendars and anything."
He uses his mouth to hold the paint brushes and it takes him about two weeks to finish a painting. Some of his work was on display on Tuesday and it drew a lot of attention from passers-by.
QuadPara Association vice chairman, Raven Benny, who organised the event, is also a quadriplegic.
He worked at Groote Schuur Hospital for 10 years before an accident put him in a wheelchair.
"In the year 2000, I was driving in a car with my parents on our way to a wedding, I fell asleep in the back of the car while my dad drove, and when I woke up, my life was literally turned upside down because the car was upside down.
"We were in a car accident and I broke my neck. Luckily no one perished. I worked at the hospital for 10 years before that and after I continued working here for another 17 years," said Raven.
He said spinal cord injuries were the most debilitating injuries one could have and Groote Schuur spinal unit doctor, Johan Sothman agreed.
Car crashes are to blame for almost half of all spinal injuries seen at the hospital. Violence – stabbings, gunshots and assaults – account for the second biggest category.
"We try to get the message out there to avoid risky situations because it is quite a devastating injury which can be prevented.
"Patients are hospitalised for three or four months and after that they stay at the rehabilitation centre for a long time. They're away from their family and many times they're the breadwinners.
"Recovery depends on the extent of the injury, when it is less severe, there is potential for recovery," said Dr Sothmann.
Two artworks created by quadriplegic, Brenton Swartz, using his mouth.
Quadriplegic Brenton Swartz paints a fine art piece using his mouth at Groote Schuur Hospital on Tuesday September 5 during World Spinal Cord Injury Day.
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Jemima's sister Domino has released a new song and music video called "Half-Blood" and it stars Domino and their brother Greg Morris. Spread the word!
Just days away from the release of her debut album, Beyond Waves, Domino Kirke has revealed a truly poignant video for her emotive track "Half-Blood," that discusses the unique dynamic of "half"-siblings.
Featuring her own half-brother along with actor husband Penn Badgley and his half-sister, Kirke's self-directed visual sees half-siblings across many different families come together to address their relationship — primarily how they don't feel having only one parent in common affects their bond. The Brooklyn-based songwriter/singer, who you might also recognize as the sister of Girls' Jemima Kirke, says the record helped her explore and come to terms with the differences between her half-brother and herself.
Watch below and look out for available from August 25.


Cabela's Camera Spade is rated 3.0 out of 5 by 2.
No tree? No problem. The durable, ultracompact powder-coated construction of Cabela's Camera Spade digs into the ground, providing a solid, stable platform in nearly any environment that makes shooting and recording with your trail cam super simple. Easily adjustable, it allows your camera to sit as high as 31", plus it boasts adjustable camera tilt options and a convenient rotating shaft for 360° operation – ensuring you don't miss a moment of the action afield. Additional Add-a-Cam feature allows you to mount a second trail cam for two-times the trail-watching capability. The Cabela's Camera Spade installs quickly for immediate use. 100% steel. Comes with all necessary mounting hardware. Made in USA.
Rated 1 out of 5 by TheCloudX from Good concept, but no delivery I bought this on 7/19/2018. I have a soybean field that the deer visit daily. Wanted to set up my trail cam in field mode. Picked this up to watch the whole field. Soil wasn't to bad, and as mentioned this was going in my soybean field. It bent almost immediately when I tried to place it in the ground. I was able to wiggle it in, but was able to move the mount with one finger. Wind definitely would have been an issue. For the price, I could have just bought a T-Post and adapter (not doing bungie cord business anymore!).
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sam12893475 from Solid compact ground mount! Great adjustability. Very solid. Much better than using a tree. Nice and compact and can get multiple mounts and cams in my pack!


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* Minister Perry Warns: Jerusalem Situation a 'Ticking Time Bomb' Science and Technology Minister warns that the escalation in Jerusalem is on the verge of becoming a third intifada.
* US to investigate claims IS used 'chemical weapons' in Iraq The United States is to investigate whether militant group Islamic State (IS) used chemical weapons in Iraq, Secretary of State John Kerry has said.
* 'Every Successful Attack Strengthens Arab Terror' Former senior Shabak officer says 'weak hand' in Jerusalem has failed, outlines what must be done to take back the capital.
* Ya'alon snub 'should come as no surprise,' US official says During his visit to Washington, Ya'alon unsuccessfully sought meetings with Vice President Joe Biden, US Secretary of State John Kerry and national security advisor Susan Rice.
* One capital, two deeply divided cities As Hamas tries to spark an intifada in East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, Israeli police aren't making matters any better.
* NY axe attack: Islamist link probed Police in New York are investigating whether a man who attacked two officers with an axe before being shot dead was linked to Islamist extremism.
* Putin accuses United States of damaging world order Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Friday of endangering global security by imposing a "unilateral diktat" on the rest of the world and shifted blame for the Ukraine crisis onto the West.
* Egypt: 29 killed as Sinai attacks target security forces A suspected jihadist car bomb has killed at least 26 Egyptian soldiers at a checkpoint in Sinai, officials say.
* Van Rompuy and Barroso leave EU stage with porcelain plates Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso said goodbye to EU leaders on Friday (24 October) after attending their final summit as presidents of the EU council and commission.
* Doctor in New York City Is Sick With Ebola A doctor in New York City who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in Guinea became the first person in the city to test positive for the virus Thursday, setting off a search for anyone who might have come into contact with him.
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Release on 2018-04 | by Charles Dickens
Pip's tale is full of mystery and surprises. What is the nature of Miss Havisham's interest in him? Why does Estella want to break his heart? Why does the dangerous convict return? Most importantly, who has given Pip his great expectations?
Author: Charles Dickens
An escaped convict threatens to eat young Pip's heart for breakfast. The ghostly Miss Havisham invites Pip to her eerie home. A mysterious benefactor makes him suddenly wealthy. Pip's life will never be the same again. Pride, humility, love, loyalty and shame compete for Pip's emotions. Will his quest to become a gentleman enable him to melt the cold heart of the beautiful Estella, or will it destroy his happiness? Pip's tale is full of mystery and surprises. What is the nature of Miss Havisham's interest in him? Why does Estella want to break his heart? Why does the dangerous convict return? Most importantly, who has given Pip his great expectations?
Authors: Charles Dickens
An escaped convict threatens to eat young Pip's heart for breakfast. The ghostly Miss Havisham invites Pip to her eerie home. A mysterious benefactor makes him suddenly wealthy. Pip's life will never be the same again. Pride, humility, love, loyalty and shame compete for Pip's emotions. Will his quest to
One of the finest novels by iconic British author Charles Dickens, this Victorian tale follows the good-natured orphan Pip as he makes his way through life. As a boy, Pip crosses paths with a convict named Magwitch, a man who will heavily influence Pip's adulthood. Meanwhile, the earnest young man
The Originals: Great Expectations
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-05 - Publisher: Om Books International
Charles Dickens' second novel, Oliver Twist, or The Parish Boy's Progress, was first published as a serial (in monthly instalments) in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany from February 1837 to April 1839. The novel was inspired by Robert Blincoe's account of his childhood spent in a cotton mill. Oliver Twist, an
A reissue of the three-volume first book edition (1861) of one of Dickens' greatest novels.
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A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her


Capitol & Main: Will Growers' Demand for Wage Cuts Get Help From U.S. Government?
California growers have complained of a tight labor market for years. And President Trump's dispatch of military units to the border, along with a decade of deportations, have tightened that market even more by restricting the flow of migrants into the fields. This recipe for confrontation has produced an escalating legal battle in Washington, D.C., and a walkout by hundreds of tangerine pickers in the Central Valley.
Growers have increasingly turned to H-2A visas for guest workers as a remedy, with the decade ending in 2018 seeing a more than 370 percent increase, with no decline in sight. Although some growers have signed union contracts and provided better wages and benefits in order to attract a stable workforce, others are not happy with the federally mandated pay rates for guest workers — and are actively seeking to hold wages down.
The National Council of Agricultural Employers, a growers' lobby, filed suit this month against the U.S. Department of Labor to freeze the wages of H-2A workers at a level barely above the minimum wage. Growers recruit guest workers every year from other countries, mainly Mexico. They're given visas for less than a year, requiring them to work for the employer who contracts them. They must leave the country when their work is done. Growers have to advertise for local workers first, and can only bring in guest workers if no local workers are available.
Companies using the H-2A program must apply to the Labor Department, specifying the work, the living conditions and wages workers will receive. Each year the federal government sets the wage that growers must pay H-2A workers on a state-by-state basis. This wage, called the Adverse Effect Wage Rate, is set at a level that supposedly won't undermine the wages of local workers, but it's usually just slightly above the minimum wage. In 2019 the wage in California, for example, is set to increase from $13.18 per hour to $13.92. California's minimum wage, for employers with more than 25 workers, will go to $12.00.
On January 8, the day before the new H-2A wages were to go into effect, the growers' lobby was denied a temporary injunction to halt the increases. The organization then filed its suit to roll back guest worker wages to last year's levels. Michael Marsh, president of the growers' lobby, said the increases were "unsustainable" and would cost growers "hundreds of millions of dollars." Agribusiness is being "hammered by unfair retaliatory tariffs," he charged, in a dig directed against Trump's trade war with China.
The wage increases directly affect a sizeable chunk of the farm labor workforce. The Department of Labor's National Agricultural Workers Survey, the best analysis of farm worker demographics for over two decades, says there are about 2.5 million farm workers in the U.S., with about three-quarters of them born outside the U.S., and half undocumented. Last year growers were certified to bring in 242,762 H-2A workers – a tenth of the total workforce and a rapidly rising number. Holding down their wages would save growers a lot of money.Farmworker Justice, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy coalition, says the average annual income for farm worker families is between $17,500 and $19,999. A quarter of all farm worker families earn below the federal poverty line of $19,790, the coalition says.
While the suit would have a national impact, it is closely connected to California growers. President Tom Nassif of the California-based Western Growers Association belongs to President Trump's agricultural advisory board, and prominent WGA member Dennis Nuxoll sits on the NCEA executive committee. NCEA President Michael Marsh was CEO of Western United Dairymen and an officer of the Almond Board of California, both headquartered in Modesto.
Farm worker advocates worry that the Trump administration's Labor Department may not vigorously defend the wage increase against the growers' legal challenge.
The suit is one of a number of moves growers have made in the past two years to roll back H-2A wages and protections. At the behest of the Washington state Farm Labor Association, one of the largest H-2A labor contractors, the state and federal labor departments effectively slashed the AEWR wage for H-2A farm workers by up to $6 per hour. The two agencies agreed with the labor contractors to remove a piece-rate minimum for picking apples, the state's largest harvest, effectively lowering the harvest wage by as much as a third.
The assault on farm worker wages has also surfaced in Congress as Republicans in the House and Senate introduced bills in the last two years to end protections for H-2A workers and expand their recruitment. Republicans representing California's San Joaquin Valley in the House supported these bills, which failed, but two of those representatives were turned out of office in the midterm elections. What attitude their new Democratic replacements will take has yet to be seen. Some California Democrats, however, especially Senator Diane Feinstein, have a record of supporting growers' use of the H-2A program.
Senator Feinstein and Democratic Representative Zoe Lofgren, however, have reintroduced a bill, the Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2019, which would allow undocumented farm workers to gain legal status by working a minimum number of days, pass security checks, and meet other requirements. "The bill would minimize the need for employers' use of the H-2A guest worker program by providing a meaningful opportunity for immigration status for the hard-working undocumented farmworkers who put food on our table," said a statement from Farmworker Justice.
Grower efforts to cut wages have affected workers who are not H-2A visa holders as well. Low wages for farm workers have already provoked a strike this year at one of California's largest agribusiness corporations, the Wonderful Company. On January 11 an estimated 1,800 field hands refused to go to work harvesting tangerines in Kern County orchards, after the piece rate they were being paid was lowered from $53 to $48 per bin.
Striking pickers told reporters that a fast worker could harvest two bins a day. Assuming an eught-hour day, they would earn about $12 per hour. Some workers told UFW organizers that they often made less than the $12 per hour legal minimum, a violation of state law.
Wonderful spokesman Mark T. Carmel said in a statement the company was "disappointed that some of our third-party labor contractors decided to protest at one of our fields." A month ago, however, the company said it was raising its wages to a $15 per hour minimum in all its subsidiaries.
The Wonderful Company was known as Paramount Farms until it changed its name in 2015.
Paramount Farms had a long history of labor conflict. In 1999 it broke an effort by a thousand workers to join the Laborers Union in its huge packing plant near Lost Hills on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. At the time the company issued a press release saying that "employees are doing well and do not need a union," and that its pay and benefits "are superior to most employers in the area." In 2002, however, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that it had illegally threatened workers with firing, and had illegally fired two workers, Margarita Aviso and Leticia Ortiz, for supporting the union.
UFW secretary-treasurer Armando Elenes felt workers had taken a big step. "They came out of the strike with real leaders and a good organization," he said. The strikers are mostly indigenous Mixteco migrants from Oaxaca. Two years ago workers from the same indigenous farm worker community struck the Gourmet Trading Company's grape vineyards, also over a cut in wages. They then voted for the UFW in a union election, and the company agreed to a union contract covering over 500 employees.


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Pavel Svojanovský (* 12. srpna 1943, Baťov) je český veslař, reprezentant Československa, olympionik, který získal stříbrnou a bronzovou medaili z Olympijských her.

V Mnichově 1972 získal stříbro ve veslování, ve dvojce s kormidelníkem společně se svým bratrem Oldřichem Svojanovským a kormidelníkem Vladimírem Petříčkem. Na LOH 1968 skončili s bratrem na pátém místě.

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International Women's Day: Hijabistan by Sabyn Javeri will help you navigate the complex Hijab
On International Women's Day, Hijabistan by Sabyn Javeriis a must read!
Almas Khateeb March 07 2019, 8.00 pm
An important and intriguing collection of short stories is what Sabyn Javeri offers to you in her collection - Hijabistan - a book you need to pick up for International Women's Day 2019. As the name suggests, Hijabistan navigates the complex lives of women living in the Hijab. Some embrace it as a part of themselves and some are thrust with it. Some feel sheltered by it while some are crushed under the weight of the Hijab. For Women's Day, we got our hands on a copy of Hijabistan and a chance to talk to the author, Sabyn Javeri. She was kind enough to answer some questions.
We know you hate the term 'Woman Writer', but as a woman writer, what are the challenges you've faced when it comes to getting your work published?
"Yes, I hate it because no one ever says male writer! Fortunately, in our part of the world, we have a very rich history of women's writing starting from Ismat Chugtai to Mahasweta Devi to Arundhati Roy. Not to mention that publishing is no longer a male-dominated field in India or in Pakistan. So the publishing journey was not too traumatic, however, the bias or prejudice came through from readers and reviewers who questioned my ability to write about politics, being the male domain that it is. My imagination was discounted, I felt. No one ever says to a man-writer about how can they write about a woman's world but when a woman tries to write about things other than romance or arranged marriage, her credibility is often challenged."
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Hijabistan is quite a shift from Nobody Killed Her. The former is a collection of short stories of regular women and the latter is about a woman in power, yet both books are born out of helplessness that women face. What prompted you to write about these women?
"I wrote Nobody Killed Her when I was living in the UK and was looking back with a macro lens. I wrote Hijabistan while living in Pakistan and observing everyday life with a microscope. I realised that these purdah observing women, however oppressed, were not victims but survivors. There were two sides to a story. The domestic help, the sex workers, no matter how destitute they seemed - all were fiery women who were fighting back. My view of the subaltern changed when I saw them up and close and I knew I had to write about these women who in some way were far more powerful than those born to power and privilege."
The veiled women in Hijabistan are not the average ones. They are complex in their own ways - even empowering to a point. Are these stories based on women you've met?
"These are based on true stories although I have dramatised and fictionalised to make them more interesting and protect identities. You are right - they are complex beings. Too often we (especially male writers through their male gaze) oversimplify female characters making them one dimensional by putting them at either ends of a saint-or-sinner spectrum. They are either the heroines or the vamps, never grey, never human. It's this complexity that makes us all human that I wanted to explore in Hijabistan."
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Since this is going to be a Women's Day feature, could you tell us some of your favourite authors from the same gender? Your favourite pieces of literature from these authors?
"I love The Quilt by Ismat Chugtai and cannot believe that she was writing about female sexuality back in the early twentieth century when, even today, we are afraid to touch taboo topics. I also admire Arundhati Roy for her courage to take on the world, to stand up for her beliefs and give voice to our deepest concerns with her words. Lorriane Moore's Self-Help, a short story collection, helped me greatly when I was going through a tough phase in my life recently and it made me understand why women write: to start a debate about issues that snag at our heart but we are too afraid to voice. More power to them!"
Reading women-centric literature is one of the most powerful ways in which the world can change. The onus of women's literature is to characterise a group of people marginalised by history and to explore, through their writing, their lives as they maintain a unique sociopolitical space within a culture. If you're looking to pick up a book that'll help you understand the complexities of women on International Women's Day, Hijabistan by Sabyn Javeri it is.
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The Win2k.Stream virus was not found in the wild at the moment of creation of this description.The Win2k.Stream is the first known Windows virus using a "stream companion" infection method. This method is based on NTFS feature that allows a creation of multiple data streams associated with a file.
While infecting the file, the virus creates a new stream associated with the victim file. That stream has "STR" name, i.e. complete stream name is "FileName:STR". The virus then moves the STR stream to the victim file body (default stream, see above) and then overwrites the victim file body (default stream) with its (virus) code.As a result, when the infected file is executed Windows reads the default stream (that is overwritten by the virus code) and executes it. Also, Windows reports the same file size for all infected files - which is the virus length.The virus creates a new process by accessing the original file program with "FileName:STR" name to release control to host program.This infection method should work on any NTFS system, but the virus checks system version and runs only under Win2000.


I attended an analyst briefing earlier today with Jakob Freund, CEO of Camunda, on the latest release of their product, Camunda BPM 7.5. This includes both the open source version available for free download, and the commercial version with the same code base plus a few additional features and professional support. Camunda won the "Best in Show" award at the recent bpmNEXT conference, where they demonstrated combining DMN with BPMN and CMMN; the addition of the DMN decision modeling standard to BPMN and CMMN modeling environments is starting to catch on, and Camunda has been at the front edge of the wave to push that beyond modeling into implementation.
They are managing to keep their semi-annual release schedule since they forked from Activiti in 2013: version 7.0 (September 2013) reworked the engine for scalability, redid the REST API and integrated their Cockpit administration module; 7.1 (March 2014) focused on completing the stack with performance improvements and more BPMN 2.0 support; 7.2 (November 2014) added CMMN execution support and a new tasklist; 7.3 (May 2015) added process instance modification, improved authorization models and tasklist plugins; and 7.4 (November 2015) debuted the free downloadable Camunda Modeler based on the bpmn.io web application, and added DMN modeling and execution. Pretty impressive progression of features for a small company with only 18 core developers, and they maintain their focus on providing developer-friendly BPM rather than a user-oriented low-code environment. They support their enterprise editions for 18 months; of their 85-90 enterprise customers, 25-30% are on 7.4 with most of the rest on 7.3. I suspect that a customer base of mostly developers means that customers are accustomed to the cycle of regression testing and upgrades, and far fewer lag behind on old versions than would be common with products aimed at a less technical market.
Today's 7.5 release marches forward with improvements in CMMN and BPMN modeling, migration of process instances, performance and user interface.
Oddly (to some), Camunda has included Case Management Model & Notation (CMMN) execution in their engine since version 7.2, but has only just added CMMN modeling in 7.5: previously, you would have used another CMMN-compliant modeler such as Trisotech's then imported the model into Camunda. Of course, that's how modeling standards are supposed to work, but a bit awkward. Their implementation of the CMMN modeler isn't fully complete; they are still missing certain connector types and some of the properties required to link to the execution engine, so you might want to wait for the next version if you're modeling executable CMMN. They're seeing a pretty modest adoption rate for CMMN amongst their customers; the messaging from BPMS vendors in general is causing a lot of confusion, since some claim that CMMN isn't necessary ("just use ad hoc tasks in BPMN"), others claim it's required but have incomplete implementations, and some think that CMMN and BPMN should just be merged.
On the BPMN modeling side, Camunda BPM 7.5 includes "element templates", which are configurable BPMN elements to create additional functionality such as a "send email" activity. Although it looks like Camunda will only create a few of these as samples, this is really a framework for their customers who want to enable low-code development or encapsulate certain process-based functionality: a more technical developer creates a JSON file that acts as an extension to the modeler, plus a Java class to be invoked when it is executed; a less technical developer/analyst can then add an element of that type in the modeler and configure it using the properties without writing code. The examples I saw were for sending email and tweets from an activity; the JSON hooked the modeler so that if a standard BPMN Send Task was created, there was an option to make it an Email Task or Tweet Task, then specify the payload in the additional properties that appeared in the modeler (including passed variables). Although many vendors provide a similar functionality by offering things such as Send Email tasks directly in their modeling palettes, this appears to be a more standards-based approach that also allows developers to create their own extensions to standard activities. A telco customer is using Camunda BPM to create their own customized environments for in-house citizen developers, and element templates can significantly add to that functionality.
The process instance migration feature, which is a plugin to the enterprise Cockpit administration module but also available to open source customers via the underlying RESET and Java APIs, helps to solve the problem of what to do with long-running processes when the process model changes. A number of vendors have solutions for this, some semi-automated and some completely manual. Camunda's take on it is to compare the existing process model (with live instances) against the new model, attempt to match current steps to new steps automatically, then allow any step to be manually remapped onto a different step in the new model. Once that migration plan is defined, all running instances can be migrated at once, or only a filtered (or hand-selected) subset. Assuming that the models are fairly similar, such as the addition or deletion of a few steps, this should work well; if there are a lot of topology changes, it might be more of a challenge since there could need to roll back instance property values if instances are migrated to an earlier step in the process.
They have also improved multi-tenancy capabilities for customers who use Camunda BPM as a component within a SaaS platform, primarily by adding tenant identifier fields to their database tables. If those customers' customers – the SaaS users – log in to Cockpit or a similar admin UI, they will only see their own instances and related objects, without the developers having to create a custom restricted view of the database.
They've released a simple process instance duration report that provides a visual interface as well a downloadable data. There's not a lot here, but I assume this means that they are starting to build out a more robust and accessible reporting platform to play catch-up with other vendors.
Lastly, I saw their implementation of external task handling, another improvement based on customer requests. You can see more of the technical details here and here: instead of a system task calling an external task asynchronously then wait for a response, this creates a queue that an external service can poll for work. There are some advantages to this method of external task handling, including easier support for different environments: for example, it's easier to call a Camunda REST API from a .NET client than to put a REST API on top of .NET; or to call a cloud-based Camunda server from behind a firewall than to let Camunda call through your firewall. It also provides isolation from any scaling issues of the external task handlers, and avoids service call timeouts.


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(1694) Kaiser es el asteroide número 1694 situado en el cinturón principal. Fue descubierto por el astrónomo Hendrik van Gent desde la estación meridional de Leiden en Johannesburgo, República Sudaficana, el 29 de septiembre de 1934. Su designación alternativa es 1934 SB. Está nombrado en honor del astrónomo neerlandés Frederik Kaiser (1808-1872).

Véase también
 Lista de asteroides del (1601) al (1700)
 Cuerpo menor del sistema solar

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Asteroides del cinturón principal
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos por Hendrik van Gent
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos desde la Estación Meridional de Leiden
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos en 1934
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Beveled glass is an elegant and beautiful way to add privacy to a room or to add that extra special touch. In sunlight, the bevels, or angles cut into the glass, act as prisms that create interesting light patterns and a beautiful spectrum of colors. If you are interested in adding beveled glass to your home, contact us to set up an appointment.


Not too long ago, Tortoise reminded everyone why we love their distinct blend of post-rock with A Lazarus Taxon, a three disc box set of rare material. That retracted the rekindling of their timeless albums TNT and Millions Now Living Will Never Die, where Tortoise essentially grew to what they are today. Now we find Tortoise stepping away from their marimba set and welcome a new wave of synthesized hooks. Abrasive, yet melodic, Tortoise's approach is straightforward, but the execution is questionable.
Beacons Of Ancestorship begins with a high frequency pitch, as "High Class Slim Came Floatin' In" moseys listeners with aural, spacey synth melodies. Awkward, intentional transitions trudge "High Class Slim Came Floatin' In" until more than halfway through when a thick, distorted bass riff hastily takes the song in another direction. This is the start of what has become a never-ending love-hate relationship with Beacons of Ancestorship. Listening to "Prepare Your Coffin" and "Minors" unfolds an appreciation of their changing style, until one considers what that song could have been ten years ago. Yet Tortoise insists on a heavy rock mantra, with an ever dissipating jazz undertone. Once again, acknowledging the change is one thing, but adapting and mastering the change is a completely different task.
One of the brighter moments comes with "de Chelly" and "Penumbra." The ambient "de Chelly" is a natural interlude for "Charteroak Foundation" while the thumping "Penumbra" shifts and slides gracefully. Meanwhile, "The Fall Of Seven Diamonds Plus One" could easily be the next build-up theme for Western shootout or a scene reminiscent of a hazy, sweltering summer journey. With a chain keeping a steady beat and two guitars slowly keeping pace, it becomes a perfect serenade (but perhaps too similar to their Millions Now Living Will Never Die, closer "Along the Banks of Rivers"). With that, "The Fall of Seven Diamonds Plus One" succeeds by separating and removing the somewhat monotonous dense distortions that can suffocate the albums beauty.
Unfortunately, Beacons Of Ancestorship may leave listeners concussed; as there are only a handful of memorable musical fragments. There seems to be a sense of overlapping, preventing any distinct showcasing without revisiting a track. Tortoise have changed dramatically since their blast into musical recognition and Beacons of Ancestorship is a setback. After all, living in the shadows of a famous, successful relative may be an impossible act to follow, and that is, metaphorically, what has plagued Tortoise.
I'm going to check this out despite you, so ha!
oddly enough, one of my teachers is a huge Tortoise fan, he'll be disappointed.
everyone will be disappointed if ryan flatley doesn't like it!
This actually isnt that bad so far.
its not too bad, Im thinking somewhere between a 3 and 3.5.
I'm obsessed with Standards and TNT, however the one track I heard off of this was absolutely awful.


Graduates seeking their first job often complain that a certificate, diploma or degree isn't enough. Employers want to hire someone who also has work experience.
The following methods can help you gain valuable experience while you complete your education.
Job experience in the "real world" certainly looks good on a resume. If you would like to work while completing your education, the Student Success Center maintains a current list of jobs on the Jobs at a Glance web page. These jobs are listed by employers looking for workers who are current PTC students or recent graduates.
Can't find a job, or can't commit to a certain number of hours a week and keep your grades up? Volunteering at a local not-for-profit organization can give you valuable work experience, and you can usually set your own schedule as well as retain the flexibility you need while going to school full time. If you volunteer in a field that you plan to seek employment in, you also gain important references and contacts for the future. Follow the link above for a list of local not-for-profit organizations.
All experience does not have to be work-related. Being active in student clubs and organizations also gives you experience that can be transferred into work-related skills.


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