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An "Evzone" is a Greek soldier who is member of what was the most elite military fighting unit in the Greek military, formed from top members of the military branches. Evzone recruits were required to meet strict standards, both physical and mental, just one of which is that they are required to be at least six feet one inch tall. Until after World War II, the Evzones were for all practical purposes the Special Forces of the Greek army, and also served as the Presidential Guards, which are the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Flag Guards, and at President's residence. Sometime after the war, the elite Special Operations Evzone units were re-designated as Mountain Raiding Companies (i.e. Special Forces), and the Special Forces are no longer designated as Evzones to my understanding. Today, the Evzones are the specialized Presidential Guards wearing the traditional palace guard uniform.
It was an Evzone, at the time when they were still Greece's Special Forces, Konstandinos Koukidis, who was the Guard of Honor of the Greek Flag on the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis when the Germans occupied Athens in 1941.
As the Germans climbed the Acropolis to raise the Nazi swastika flag, Koukidis was forced to lower the Greek flag, but then he wrapped himself in it and jumped off the Acropolis cliff to his death. He refused to allow the Greek Flag to fall into the hands of the enemy. However, many months before this heroic sacrifice by Koukidis and the terrible occupation of Athens by the Nazis, the heroic effort by the Greeks in turning back the invading fascist Italians at the northern border with Albania took place.
Evaggelos Peroulakis was born in the village of Vatolakos, Chania, Crete in 1910. Vatolakos is a small farming village near Alikianou, in the foothills of the White Mountains. It is in an area with lush with productive fruit and olive trees. There, he grew to be a palikari, a term which is hard to translate into in English with one word, but in its truest sense means a young man who is strong, athletic, masculine, God-fearing, honest, brave, patriotic, and of good character.
Like all Cretans, Vaggeli Peroulakis carried the undying desire for freedom permanently engraved inside his soul, burned there by the hundreds of years of continuous struggle by the people of Crete against foreign occupation: by the Muslim Saracens, the Venetians, the Muslim Ottoman Turks and their Egyptian vassals, and the Nazi Germans. He was recruited from the Greek army to be an Evzone around 1928, although records are too scarce to be certain of the date. After undergoing the rigorous Evzone training regimen, he served for two years as a guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens. He returned to Vatolakos around 1930 or 1931.
There, he married his love, Argyro Varypatakis, and they had six children, the oldest of which is Nikos Peroulakis. Nikos is a charter member of the Pancretan Association of America (PAA) Chapter named in honor of his father, the Evaggelos Peroulakis/ Mikis Theodorakis Association of Cretans of the Mahoning Valley, Ohio. Argyro Varypatakis' mother was the sister of PAA President Ted Manousakis' father. President Manousakis knew Vaggeli Peroulakis well, and when he learned that the chapter had been named after him, he sent the following note to this author:
"Congratulations on an excellent choice for the chapter name. Peroulovaggelis, as we used to call him, was a stand-out person in the village; the most dedicated of family men, the hardest of workers, and an example for the community. He was married to my first cousin, Argyro, so we were certainly family. But more so, Vaggeli was my childhood mentor, and the one individual whom I tried to emulate every day of my formative years. It warms me to see that this incredible man is recognized by our PAA community."
–Ted Manousakis, PAA Past President.
When the Italians invaded Greece through Albania on October 28, 1940, Vaggeli was returned to military duty in a Cretan unit, and immediately sent to the Albanian front. The winter of 1940-1941 was bitter cold, and in the high mountains of northern Greece and southern Albania the snow and cold were unbearable. Peroulakis and the Greek soldiers endured frostbite, ragged clothing, wounds and meager supplies. Shoeless, heroic Greek women also suffered frostbite and exhaustion carrying food and supplies on long treks to their hero fighters in the mountains, and suffered again carrying the wounded and dead back down to the villages. In spite of these conditions, they inflicted blow after blow on the invading Italian fascists and won the very first victory of World War II for the Allies against the fascist Axis powers.
Evaggelos Peroulakis was promoted to the rank of sergeant in Albania, because he was a natural leader. To achieve NCO status such as this in the Greek army was a tremendous achievement for a farmer from a small village, who did not have a formal higher education. His fortitude, strength and courage held his unit together, fighting and pushing back the fascists. They rested only when there was a rare lull in the battle, in flimsy tents with little food, enduring the constant, bitter cold winds.
On one occasion, a Cretan soldier, Nikolaos Daskalakis suffered a very severe case of frostbite in his extremities. He told his fellow Greeks to leave him to die there, but Peroulakis refused, and instead, recruited two other soldiers and organized a rescue. Daskalakis was carried to one of the tents, where Sergeant Peroulakis administered first aid, which included warming and rubbing the afflicted extremities and persuading the soldier to sip on cognac to help warm him. In another incident, a horse soldier named Kostis Vounakis, who was delivering food to his fellow Greeks, had his horse literally collapse and die from the cold. Vounakis lay in the snow slowly freezing to death not far from his horse, and was nearly dead when Sergeant Peroulakis found and rescued him.
Later, Vaggeli Peroulakis was severely wounded in the forehead and had to be evacuated from the battlefield, first to a makeshift first aide tent, then later to a hospital. While he was recuperating, he saw two of his fellow villagers walk past, George Theodorakis (who had baptized his son Nikos) and Pavlos Galanakis, who were happy to greet him, not having known of his fate after his wound. After they exchanged greetings, Theodorakis and Galanakis left and bought cigarettes back for Sergeant Peroulakis.
Shortly afterward, he was evacuated to Crete, and was present there on May 20, 1941. On that fateful day, the Nazi German Paratroopers began falling from the sky like demons of death upon the Cretan people in Hitler's airborne invasion of Crete. For the first time in the war, however, Hitler's soldiers experienced civilian resistance. The freedom-loving Cretans, along with their British Commonwealth allies, devastated the Nazis by inflicting an unheard of casualty rate on them of over 40% of the initial glider and paratrooper force of about 15,000 Germans (approximately 6,000 casualties, killed and wounded) in just the first two days of the invasion. It was the first and last time Hitler used paratroopers in a mass invasion.
On the day of the invasion, Vaggeli Peroulakis had taken his son Nikos, then age six, with him to the family orchard to work. They were there on May 20th when they heard the German fighters, bombers and transports approaching. Nikos recalls that his father kept him safe by leading him, running and dodging from tree to tree to escape the bombs and strafing of the Germans.
A major battle occurred at the town of Alikianou immediately after the Nazi invasion, in which all the local Cretan soldiers, including Sergeant Peroulakis, took part. In this battle, a small, hastily assembled Greek regiment held off the German army that outnumbered them 7 to 1 for several days, allowing the escape and subsequent evacuation of thousands of British soldiers from the south of the island, who would otherwise had been trapped, killed or captured. Professor Tony Kocolas writes of this epic battle:
"[the British had made the]…mistaken assumption that the location [Alikianou] was not that important and there would be no major German assault in that sector. The 8th Greek Regiment was commanded by Colonel Peter Karkoulas; the battalion officers were Major John Valegrakis and Major George Vamvakis.
"Contrary to British expectations, the Germans concluded that Alikianou was very important, and were going to take the village and the surrounding foothills. A German Battalion was to push aside the Greek resistance and take the position. The Germans suffered a rude awakening. As expected, within a couple of hours the 8th Greek Regiment ran out of ammunition. The brave men of the 8th Regiment, mostly local Cretan recruits, solved their ammunition problem with several fearless bayonet charges against withering fire. The Greeks captured enough German firearms and ammunitions to continue the fight for several days. Additionally, the brave people of Alikinou fell on the German invaders with anything that could be construed as a weapon. The Greek battle cry was 'The German Will Not Pass.'
"…After seven days of epic resistance, the Greek forces at Alikianou were finally dispersed by an overwhelming assault that included the support from the German Air Force. It was not until May 27, 1941 that German forces could advance into positions that had been held by the 8th Greek Regiment."
During the ensuing occupation by the Nazis, Sergeant Peroulakis lived and fought in the mountains with the other resistance fighters. He would only return to his home in the village when his wife would signal to him that the coast was clear by taking down the large white sheet that she kept hanging in the yard when Germans were present. Like many other Cretans, at great risk to themselves, Sergeant Peroulakis and his family provided food, supplies and bedding straw to many British Commonwealth soldiers on the run to escape the Germans,.
The Nazis were infuriated by the heroic Greek resistance at Alikianou, as well as by the strong Cretan civilian resistance, and engaged in mass murder of civilians from the area villages in reprisal. When these Nazi massacres of Cretan civilians took place, Vaggeli Peroulakis was with the resistance fighters in the mountains. Of course, the "brave" Germans only murdered civilian non-combatants: mostly older men and male children too young to fight; a total of 197 were murdered. There were two massacres comprising what are known as the Alikianou massacres. (from Wikipedia):
2 June 1941
On 2 June 1941, Alikianou was surrounded by German forces. 42 male civilians were marched to the church yard and shot in groups of ten in front of their relatives. On the same day and during similar operations, 12 and 25 civilians were respectively executed in the nearby villages of Ayia and Kyrtomado.
1 August 1941
General Alexander Andrae, who succeeded General Kurt Student as the Commander-in-Chief of Fortress Crete, continued Student's campaign of retaliations. Two months after the first executions, the Germans gathered 118 civilians at a bridge over the Keritis River near Alikianou and shot them after forcing them to dig their own graves. Twelve of those killed were from Alikianou whereas the rest came from the nearby villages Fournes, Skines, Vatolakos, Koufo, Prases, Karanou, Lakkoi, Orthouni, Nea Roumata and Hosti.
The father of Sergeant Peroulakis' wife Argyro, George Varypatakis, as well as his brother John Varypatakis, were among those murdered by the Germans on August 1, 1941. They were both in their 60's, and were rounded up by the Germans at gunpoint with other doomed villagers at the Saints Peter and Paul Church at Vatolakos, loaded into the back of a truck and taken to Alikianou to their doom. Peroulovaggelis' cousin Stylianos Peroulakis , age 51, was also among the doomed.
Nikos Peroulakis, then a young boy, recalls his Uncle George waving to him with his sariki ("patseta" as Nikos refers to it), which is the traditional black headband worn by Cretan men, as he was being taken away. Today, a monument stands near the spot where these massacres took place, engraved with the names of the victims, including Vaggeli Peroulakis' brother-in-law, father-in-law, and cousin.
Later, as the Germans realized they were going to lose the war and were preparing to withdraw from Crete, things calmed down somewhat in the village. The Nazis who had been posted in Vatolakos were withdrawn to Chania, and life began to return to normal.
One of Nikos' memories of his father during this particular period was that when he was taking a load of oranges to Chania with a horse and wagon, a German truck ran him off the road causing the cart to overturn and knocking Vaggelis into a river bed. Some local children helped him load the oranges back into the wagon.
Evaggelos Peroulakis was well known in the region for his mantinades, the rhyming four line couplets that Cretans sing or recite to celebrate, or to mourn, or to remember. Many of these mantinades are created spontaneously. Vaggeli was the subject of a magazine article titled "Of Struggle and Romance - The Mantinades of Crete", written by Helen Frangedis-Mondloch, which appeared in the March 1995 issue of The World and I magazine. His son Nikos today knows many of them, and we are privileged to hear him sing them on festive occasions.
After the war, Sergeant Peroulakis was posted in Vatolakos as a guard to prevent any possible trouble by communists. However, for the most part, Crete was spared the brunt of the vicious civil war of Greece. A proud supporter of Eleftherios Venilzelos, he continued to cast write-in votes for the Great Ethnarch for many years after Venizelos' death in 1936.
Evaggelos Peroulakis lived in Vatolakos with his family for the remainder of his life, and passed away there in 1998 at age 88.


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Diego Peretti is an Argentine actor, screenwriter and former psychiatrist. Peretti was born in Buenos Aires, and practiced as a psychiatrist for fourteen years. He took part in several movies and TV series, including the 2004 romantic comedy No sos vos, soy yo, and Los Simuladores a popular TV series aired on Telefé. He starred opposite Carolina Peleritti in ¿Quién dice que es fácil?, and, drawing on his background in psychiatry for a number of roles, has starred in a number of crime dramas, including El fondo del mar, Tiempo de valientes, and La Señal. In 2012, he is starring En terapia, the local adaptation of In Treatment aired on TV Pública, the public channel managed by the National Government.
- Diego Peretti Movies before 2015
- German Doctor (Wakolda) 2014
- No sos vos, soy yo 2004
- Taxi, an Encouter (Taxi, un encuentro) 2001
- La senal
- Mala Epoca
- Music on Hold (Musica en espera)
- Road to Santiago (Al final del camino)
- Music on Hold
- Un amor
- Reconstruction (La reconstruccion)
- Maktub
- En fuera de juego
- No Kids (Sin hijos)
- Showroom
- Papers in the Wind (Papeles en el viento)
- La noche que mi madre mató a mi padre

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My daughter wanted to go to Paris more than anything for her 9th birthday. Of course that was not possible. So I brought a Paris Birthday Party home to her instead. Her guests arrived to experience a crepe fete. After brunch the girls were asked to explore their artistic talents and paint a canvas. While the artwork dried, all of her guests made their own "bottle cap jewelry" displaying their favorite french images along with their initials. Instead of a large birthday cake, I made individual cupcakes for each of the girls. The girls crafted and danced the afternoon away. It was a beautiful Bon Anniversaire. I do wish I would have thought to invite someone to the party that could have taught them a bit of French- I think the girls would have loved it!


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I'm writing in here because I am a victim of constant verbal abuse.
Every time I step out my front door I can count on some type of verbal harassment, whether it's an invitation into a car or the more general "Hey baby, come over here".
This post is not about a specific incident. I seriously need some advice on combatting harassment in a dangerous and overwhelming neighborhood.
Does anyone ever feel like they're endangering themselves yelling back at these people? How do you keep up your stamina when you have to do it every single day?
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I can soo relate to this situation! I'm almost scared to go out by myself because if I say something back, I feel like I'm endangering myself. People say/yell rude remarks at me every freaking time I go out and it's scary and annoying. I think us girls just have to stand up for ourselves as long as we're familiar with our surroundings… otherwise I don't know.
Hi Maren,
In response to your question, I have a few thoughts for you. Responding to street harassment and potentially dangerous encounters is not about yelling back. It is about establishing some sort of control over the situation. Yelling does not provide you with control. It is an emotional reaction that can easily escalate a situation.
One of the major difficulties with SH is that you are uncertain about the intention of the harasser. Therefore, every situation feels like it could be potentially dangerous. What you need is a method that helps you determine which situations are potentially dangerous and which situations are "just" disrespectful.
Having a method you can rely on will help reduce the stress created by your uncertainty. Lack of certainty leads to inaction. Inaction in the face of danger leads to more danger.
The most effective and direct means to determine the intention of a harasser is to assertively tell him to stop his behavior. Assertiveness is not yelling or anger. It is a undeniable statement of your feelings. If the harasser stops then you have gained some control of the situation, if he continues, then now you know you are dealing with a potentially dangerous person. BUT NOW YOU KNOW. And as such you will act with more conviction.
Assertiveness is designed to de-escalate situations. Anger escalates situations.
Another important point is that you do not need to response to every single incident of harassment. You get to choose your battles. The power you gain from successfully confronting one harasser will transfer to others regardless of whether you choose to respond or not. What I am saying is that the inner conviction and knowledge that you are confident enough to confront a harasser is almost as good as actually doing it.
Start with baby steps, assertively confront the weakest harasser (you will know which one). If it goes well, try another when YOU WANT TO.
For more detailed information, please refer to my blog and website.
I find that yelling 'UNLUCKY!' really really loudly will help you. It isn't always safe to flip people off, or whatever, but for some reason 'UNLUCKY!' is perversely satisfying. I don't know why. It's also better to yell at people when in a group than alone. I like to think that a response that lets everyone around know that something not okay just happens maybe protects someone else from being verbally harassed. Keep being strong.
I think yelling "UNLUCKY!" makes a lot of sense.
#1. You are effectively saying to the harasser "You are unlucky". Unlucky people are pitied by society. By saying that he is unlucky, you have refuted his power over you.
#2. It doesn't escalate the situation because he doesn't know how to react to it. He might need to ponder it for a while in order to understand the implication.
#3. The reality is that he is "unlucky". If he was "lucky", he would have better things to do, or would have figured out a more effective approach for getting attention from women.
I think it is a great response.


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Art DeMuro, a Portland developer and historic preservationist who served as consultant to the Fort Vancouver National Trust on its purchase of the historic Academy building, died Saturday after a battle with cancer.
DeMuro and his firm, Portland-based Venerable Properties, served as consultants in the Fort Vancouver trust's due diligence for the Academy purchase, said Mike True, the trust's chief operations officer. While the due diligence work is nearly completed, Venerable Properties' staff will continue to consult with the trust on a vision for the Academy's future, True said.
"Art gave specific instruction to his staff to please carry on this project," True said. "That was one of his wishes."
True described DeMuro, who was 57, as "an incredibly inspirational guy, and one who had the true passion for historic preservation."
DeMuro began work on the Academy project in June, and his health problems were not known to the trust's staff until very recently. "It was just an incredible shock to all of us," said Elson Strahan, the Fort Vancouver National Trust's president and chief executive officer.
DeMuro came to Portland in 1991 with formal training as a history teacher and experience with a family real estate business in Phoenix, The Oregonian reported. Venerable, the company he founded, developed the former White Stag building near Portland's Burnside Bridge into the University of Oregon's Portland center, among other Portland projects.
Earlier this year, DeMuro donated $2.8 million to the University of Oregon's historic preservation program, The Oregonian reported.
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There are plenty of reasons the NASWA Resort has been one of the top resorts in New Hampshire since 1935! So many of our guests return summer after summer for their Lake Winnipesaukee vacation. Our Lakes Region location and proximity to activities, attractions and shopping – as well as our restaurant, bar and hospitable staff – make booking one of our rooms on the beach a no-brainer. Read the reviews below to see exactly why we're popular with visitors from all over the country!
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Four years ago, we were looking for a family-friendly vacation spot and were happy to find that the NASWA met our needs. The cottage that we stay at is right on the water, and our grandchildren love being able to play in the sand, row in the kayaks, swim in the water and fish from the docks. … We look forward to this vacation each year.
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Rack is an interface implemented by Passenger which operates between the Apache HTTP Server and web applications developed in the Ruby programming language. Rack boils down the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between (the so-called middleware) into a single method call. Rack is particularly popular as an interface to the Ruby on Rails web framework.
You do not have to install any software to use Rack's interface at Dreamhost. It is implemented automatically as part of Passenger.
Under normal circumstances (e.g. when used to invoke a Ruby on Rails application), Rack provides a light-weight and straightforward pass-through interface. However, Rack has the ability to provided very effective interface features for a variety of web software. (See the links at the end of this page for further information.)
Basic Flow of Control
When a request is made to a domain (or subdomain) with Passenger enabled, the Apache HTTP Server invokes Passenger which in turn invokes the Rack interface module. Rack in turn invokes a file with the name "config.ru" that is located in the domain's root directory (i.e. the parent of the domain's "public" directory.) The Ruby code contained in config.ru in turn invokes the desired web framework or application.
The Ruby code responds with a three element Ruby array containing the return code, header information, and response body respectively.
Hello World! Example
If a domain or subdomain at Dreamhost is configured to use Passenger, then the following single line of Ruby code can be placed in a file named "config.ru" in the domain's root directory to provide a minimally functional example website -
run Proc.new {|env| [200, {"Content-Type" => "text/html"}, "Hello World!<br />"+env.inspect]}
NOTE: "config.ru" is NOT placed in the domain's "public" directory but rather in the directory above (i.e. the parent of) the "public" directory.
Once config.ru is created and Passenger/Rack is reinitialized (see next section), any request to the designated domain/subdomain (except those that map to files that exist in the "public" subdirectory) will be dispatched to the Ruby code contained in config.ru.
See link below to the Passenger documentation for a more complete "Hello World!" example.
Getting Passenger/Rack to Recognize Changes in Application Code/Configuration Files
Whenever the code or configuration files for your application has changed, creating or updating the modification date of the file "tmp/restart.txt" in the domain's root directory tree will tell Passenger to reinitialize the application. Passenger caches many resources and so changes will generally not be recognized unless the modification date of "tmp/restart.txt" is changed. The most common method to make this change is to invoke "touch tmp/restart.txt" from the shell. (Ruby on Rails automatically creates a directory named "tmp". If you are creating non-RoR application, you may need to create the "tmp" directory manually.)
Using Rack with Other Web Frameworks
Passenger is most often used in conjunction with Ruby on Rails. However, it has been known to work with a variety of other Rack-compliant web frameworks including (but not limited to) Camping, Padrino, Sinatra, and Ramaze. However, little or no support is provided by Dreamhost for these other frameworks. It is also possible to write ones own custom Rack-compliant applications and frameworks.
See Also
External Links
- Wikipedia:Rack (Web_server_interface)
- The Passenger documentation on Rack deployment - At Dreamhost, Ruby on Rails applications are reached through the Rack interface. So the relevant Passenger documentation is in the "Rack Deployment" section not the "Ruby on Rails Deployment" section. Also, you do not need to concern yourself with the Apache configuration files. Dreamhost automatically configures those for you. This page also includes a more complete "Hello World!" tutorial.
- The Rack Spec
- Rack at Github
- Rack homepage at Rubyforge
- Rack README at Rubyforge
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Released: Jul 01st, 1993
Running Time: 84
Director: Kim Christy
Company: Sin City Entertainment
Cast: Angel (I), Nick Romano, Dawn Avalon
Critical Rating: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Specialty
A trio of scenarios compose this barely so-so tape which beats the old "Surprise! I have tits and a dick!" premise to death. I mean, after a while, it's obvious and the surprise disappears. The first segment features Angel rescuing a TV in distress on the roadside. Their stilted conversation leads to a sucking marathon and a vibrator wedged up Angel's behind. Bout #2 features Dawn Avalon in a mini-fashion show/dirty-talk solo session. In #3, hunky weightlifter Nick Romano doesn't seem to mind one bit that the blonde he picked up sports a dick. Some wholehearted cocksucking transpires, an anal excavation and a hot mutual jerk-off. Definitely the best bounce of the tape. For fans of the curious.


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Neil Young and Arcade Fire fans in the U.K. have gotten a mega deal on tickets to two Canadian artists' upcoming headline appearances at London's Hyde Park due to an online error. A URL leak allowing the public an offer for discount tickets for both Young and Arcade Fire's headline shows, intended only for staff of ticket agency AXS for staff, went viral on June 27, which fans jumped on.
According to an article posted June 27 at NME.com, tickets for the two headline appearances at Barclaycard presents British Summer Time festival held at London's historic venue were offered for a mere £2.50 (approx $4.25 U.S.) for each of the shows. The tickets have a face value of £66 (approx $112.35 U.S.)
Organizers of the Barclaycard BST festival, which runs from July 3 - July 13, have confirmed that fans who took advantage of the discounted ticket offer will have their tickets honoured. The AXS offer has since been withdrawn.
Arcade Fire with special guests Jake Bugg, Wild Beasts, and Future Islands will kick-off the annual 10-day U.K. summer extravaganza on July 3. Neil Young and Crazy Horse with special guests The National, Tom Odell, as well as Half Moon Run will perform on July 12. Other headliners during the event include: Black Sabbath, McBusted, The Libertines and Tom Jones. For more details, check out AXS.com/UK.
Arcade Fire is currently on world tour in support of their hugely successful 2013 studio album "Reflektor," which topped the charts in the U.K., U.S. and Canada and reached No. 1 on iTunes in 40 countries. They will return to North America for a string of dates beginning July 30 in Mountain View, Calif. at the Shoreline Amphitheatre
Neil Young recently released a new studio album titled A Letter Home, co-produced by Jack White, which contains low-fi acoustic renditions of classic songs by a range of artists which influenced the legendary Canuck singer-songwriter in his formative years. The two time Grammy winner will kick off a summer tour with Crazy Horse on July 7 at Reykjavik, Iceland Laugardalshöllin and be back in North America for his annual appearance at the Bridge School Benefit on Oct. 25 - 26.


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Loulé is an interesting town some 16km (10 miles) to the north of Faro. The beginnings of Loulé are uncertain, some historians putting it as far back as 400BC, but others say it's origins are Roman. It is a fact that when the Arabs invaded the Algarve in 715, Loulé was already an important town. It has been a part of Portugal since 1249 after the Algarve was recaptured from the Moors and in 1291 King Dom Dinis established the Algarve's only medieval fair in Loulé, a sign of the wealth of the region.
Loulé castle (10th century) built on an area previously settled by the Romans, is just a short distance down the road from the market which was one of the best I visited during my time in the Algarve. The castle houses a museum which is worth a look at but to get an idea as to what it once looked like, its best to view it from the west where you can three of its original towers and a large expanse of wall. Other sights worth visiting include the town?s main church located a few hundred metres south of the castle, whose origins go back to the second half of the 13th century.
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Just when you thought the season four trailer for Game of Thrones was a delightful enough gift, HBO has given us another appetizer for what's to come this spring. On Sunday, a 90-second "On the Set" featurette was released, giving us a glimpse into how producers are continuing the story.
The featurette gives us a look at nearly every major character returning to the show and offers a great look at what's going on around Westeros and beyond, plus a peek at production going on behind the scenes. For those familiar with the A Song of Ice and Fire series, there are also several glimpses of how some of the events from A Storm of Swords (the third book in the series) will be realized onscreen.
We also get to hear from some fan favorites like Peter Dinklage (Tyrion), Gwendoline Christie (Brienne), and Charles Dance (Tywin) about what it's like to work on a show of such grand scale and what we can expect.
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The Long Shadow of Incorporation: the further education sector in devolved Wales
Published in a special issue of this journal, this is one of a collection of papers that consider different aspects of education policies and their impacts since devolution in Wales. This paper drew on empirical work conducted in 1994 and 2005, the latter funded by the ESRC, to assert the embedded nature of existing structures and the need for a more distinctive policy regime in Wales.
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The summary below is from the full report titled "Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin versus Compression Stockings for Thromboprophylaxis after Knee Arthroscopy. A Randomized Trial." It is in the 15 July 2008 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 149, pages 73-82). The authors are G. Camporese, E. Bernardi, P. Prandoni, F. Noventa, F. Verlato, P. Simioni, K. Ntita, G. Salmistraro, C, Frangos, F. Rossi, R. Cordova, F. Franz, P. Zucchetta, D. Kontothanassis, and G.M. Andreozzi, for the KANT (Knee Arthroscopy Nadroparin Thromboprophylaxis) Study Group.
Some orthopedic surgical procedures, such as hip and total knee replacements, carry a high risk for blood clots in the veins of the legs (deep venous thrombosis). Pieces of these clots can travel through the bloodstream and cause blockages of arteries in the lungs (pulmonary embolism). Doctors usually give patients who have had high-risk orthopedic procedures a blood thinner after surgery to prevent leg clots and pulmonary embolism.
Knee arthroscopy is a commonly performed, low-risk orthopedic procedure. Surgeons use it to diagnose and treat problems inside the knee joint. To perform the procedure, the surgeon inserts a pencil-sized tube with a camera through a small incision. The surgeon also may insert other surgical tools through other small incisions to remove or repair damaged tissues. Most patients who have arthroscopy are home several hours after surgery. Because it is a relatively minor surgery, many experts do not routinely use blood thinners to prevent leg clots after the procedure. However, few studies have tested whether blood thinners provide more benefit than harm in patients who are having knee arthroscopy.
To find out whether giving patients low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) after arthroscopy better prevents blood clots than does wearing a support stocking.
1761 adults undergoing knee arthroscopy; average age was 42 years.
All patients had arthroscopy at a knee surgery clinic and returned home the same day. On that day, they were randomly assigned to receive a daily injection of LMWH for either 7 days or 14 days or to wear special support hose (a graduated compression stocking) on the operated leg for 7 days. The surgeons followed patients for several days to check for any bleeding problems. At the end of treatment, patients had leg scans (ultrasounds) on both legs to check for blood clots and answered questions about symptoms that might be related to blood clots. The researchers then followed patients with normal scans for 3 months of treatment to see if any developed symptoms or clots or died. Finally, the researchers compared the numbers of patients in each group who had died or had any of the following: pulmonary embolism, clots in the proximal deep veins of the legs, or clots in the distal deep veins of the legs that caused symptoms.
Fewer than 1% of the patients in any of the groups had important bleeding complications. No patients died. Fewer patients who received LMWH developed clots than did those assigned to wear a compression stocking (0.9% vs. 3.2%). All of the clots the researchers found were detected in the operated leg at the initial leg scan after treatment. About half of the clots were in distal leg veins. Patients taking LMWH for 14 days did not have fewer clots than those taking LMWH for 7 days.
The patients knew whether they received LMWH or wore a stocking. The stocking was stronger and tighter at the ankle than most surgical support hose. Many leg clots were in distal veins, although all of these were symptomatic.
Daily injections of LMWH for 1 week may prevent some blood clots after knee arthroscopy.
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Just bought my first ar this week. For those of you with red dot optics could you please point me in the right direction of a quality unit with some first hand experiance. Thank you in advance
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Just bought my first ar this week. For those of you with red dot optics could you please point me in the right direction of a quality unit with some first hand experiance. Thank you in advance
I have an Aimpoint Comp ML2 on my AR. I would recommend it with no hesitation.
I have a DeltaPoint on my Glock, and have been very happy with it.
Any Aimpoint, Trijicon or EOTech would be the best quality though they come at a premium price. The Aimpoint PRO may be the best value of these.
Primary Arms offers several low cost clones that have a pretty good track record. Nowhere near the quality of the BigBoys but nowhere near the price either.
Stay away from any Chicom clones on fleabay. They're all complete junk.
I have an Aimpoint Comp M3 on my primary AR and a PA M4 clone on a Colt M4 OPS 22lr AR style plinker. Neither will see any combat(hopefully). Both do their job perfectly.
I'd repeat what luvmy40 said. Aimpoint and Eotech are top notch. I don't have any experience with Trijicon.
I ran an Eotech on my AR for awhile. Now I use an Aimpoint. I prefer the Aimpoint, but Eotech's are great. I put the Eotech on my 10/22 :smile: I use a Primary Arms micro dot (Aimpoint T1 clone) on my AK. Compared to the Aimpoint, The build quality of the Aimpoint is superior. The dot itself looks just as nice on the PA red dot as the Aimpoint. Using the optics, I can't really tell a difference between an Aimpoint and a PA. However, battery life on an Aimpoint is the best in the business (5 years of constant on (depending on the model).... I haven't turned mine off since I bought it earlier this spring). And while I think the PA RDS's are pretty durable and have been proven to be durable, Aimpoint is once again superior.
For a simple range/fun gun, honestly, I wouldn't waste my money on an Aimpoint. A PA red dot is plenty for a simple range gun. But I'd prefer the Aimpoint if you're setting up a rifle to be a life saver.
A Primary Arms RDS is $100. The cheapest NEW Aimpoint you can get is right around $400. The Micro's can be as high as $600 and the M4s can be as high as $800
I've got an EOTech 552 on one AR and an Aimpoint Micro H-1 on the other. I like 'em both, but the long battery life, compact size, and one-knob control makes me favor the Aimpoint. The EOTech has a lot going for it, including that 65 MOA circle and a lower price, plus you won't need to buy a separate mount as was necessary with the H-1.
I also just put a Bushnell TRS-25 on my 10/22 that I use for Tac 22 matches. I don't know how it would hold up on a centerfire gun, but for rimfire use it's a dandy.
Nut up and get a good one.
I'm glad I took the advice on some AR nerd friends who know their stuff and got an Aimpoint PRO.
There may be better mounts out there, but the Aimpoint mount on the PRO remains zero'ed no matter how many times I mount and unmount and remount this optic.
I'd go with the AimPoint PRO (Patrol Rifle Optic)
Advice. Buy only from an established trusted source. There are lots of fakes floating around out there.
The AimPoint optics are not cheap but, they hold their value as pre-owned very well and you'll never lose much $$$ on it should you ever decide to sell it.
Just got a Aimpoint Pro with a Larue lower 1/3 riser. The pro is pretty reasonable and a great optic. Easy to mount and very easy to zero. You will not be disappointed with any of the Aimpoints, Eotchs, Tijicons. All respected brands. Really just depends on what you like. Take your time and do some research.
I think im going to go with a EO tech. Thanks for the reviews
Something to take into account is battery life with all Red Dots.
You leave these things on all the time. Is a set of batteries good for 2 years? 4 years?
Does it use an odd-ball battery the local drug store or walmart does not stock, made from unobtaineum?
The Aimpoints win the prize for battery life, which is freat because they don't have an 'off' switch. Battery life will vary, depending on brightness. I crank mine down to minimum when I put the gun away.
The EOTech does have on/off functions, and will even turn itself off after a couple of hours, but I believe that function can be managed with the switch sequence. Battery life is a fraction of the Aimpoint's.
Fighter pilots have been using the EO TECH reticle for years i prefer it over just a dot. I feel i can index to target faster than the aimpoint. To each his own though they are both great sites.
The EOTechs keep getting better with every new generation of them.
Folks looking for smaller and lighter AimPoint should check out the AimPoint Micros which shooters seem extremely pleased with.
There are shooters still using the very first AimPoint optics and they are almost legitimate antiques already. :biggrin2:
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Has anyone had a quilt professionally made from old t-shirts? There are a million sites on the web that advertise this, but I'd rather give my precious t-shirts to someone who's recommended. If you had this done, how much did it cost? Thanks!
That said, New Pieces does everything from design work, to meticulous and beautiful construction, to really top notch free arm machine quilting. I've seen many quilts that they have designed and many more that they have finished for folks, quilters and nonquilters alike. I generally hand quilt my quilts, but have taken them a number of my quilts recently to have them machine quilted, and I have been very happy with the work that my fellow quilters at New Pieces have done.
I spoke with Sharona, the owner of New Pieces, and she advises that ''Each quilt is unique, and priced according to work involved...a twin would cost around $1000, a double: up to $1400, a queen, up to $2400.'' You should allow 3-4 months for the completion of a whole quilt.
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am interested in having a quilt made from my son's baby clothes. I have found several websites online that offer this, but I would prefer to find someone locally that I can meet with in person. Does anyone know of a person/company in the Bay Area that will make a quilt from baby clothes? anon
Sometime in the past month someone posted a website to order beautiful handmade quilts by a cooperative of women (Nicaraguan or Guatemalan???) and I've lost the website and can't remember the name. If anyone has this info, please email me. Thanks. Dylyn
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Arizona women's basketball (12-15, 4-12) fell in a 59-58 thriller to rival Arizona State (13-15, 5-11) on Sunday at Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe, Ariz.
Senior Davellyn Whyte (Phoenix, Ariz.) scored 18 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and posted seven assists after recording the first triple-double in Arizona women's basketball history on Tuesday night.
Junior Kama Griffitts (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) also scored in double figures for the Wildcats with 11 points, while junior Erica Barnes (Sacramento, Calif.) added 10.
As a team, the Wildcats outrebounded the Sun Devils, 36-34.
The Sun Devils came out strong in the first half, scoring the first six points and following up with short 4-0 and 6-0 runs. Barnes had 10 points, but the Wildcats were outrebounded by six and ASU took a 35-27 lead going into halftime.
Arizona was the team to come out strong in the second half, starting the half on a 7-2 run to narrow the score to within three, but the Sun Devils would not let up and maintained the lead. The Wildcats went on an 8-0 run to tie the score and take their first lead of the game, 49-50. The teams traded points until ASU tied the score at 56 with a minute left in the game.
In the final minute, Gloyd iced two free throws to put Arizona up, 58-56, but ASU's Haley Videckis hit a three to give the Sun Devils a 59-58 advantage with 22 seconds left. The Widlcats could not score on the ultimate possession and ASU took the game, 59-58.
The Wildcats will close their regular season when they host USC and No. 16 UCLA next weekend. They will host the Trojans at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 1 and the Bruins for senior day at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 3.
For complete results and continued coverage of Arizona women's basketball, please visit www.ArizonaWildcats.com, or follow @ArizonaWBBall on Twitter.


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Williams Out, Calder In
Posted February 26, 2007 - 08:27 PM
Jason Williams heads to Chicago, Lasse Kukkonen & a #3 go to the Flyers, Kyle Calder comes to Detroit.
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Seems like a lateral move. Calder's stats are quite a bit worse this year but I remember liking him when he was with Chicago. His deal only runs through this season and Williams' was for another year, maybe more financially-motivated? Making another move for someone who wants an extension before accepting a trade?
Too early to tell. At this point I'm thinking a 5'11" nobody isn't exactly the man I was dreaming of. I hope he is a transaction player the bigger package. Although, I'm not quite familiar with him, honestly I'm thinking... what the f*ck ever!
Well, looks as though Wings have around 2Mil to play with monetarily at this point. I really am having a hard time believing that we would give up Williams for a Minus 31 player with only 21 points this season. Just doesn't add up!
Go Wings.
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Let $P$ and $P'$ two polynomials in $k[[\pi]][t]$ for an algebraically closed field $k$ and let $A=k[[\pi]]$. We consider $ X'=Spec (A[t]/(P'))$ and $X=Spec (A[t]/(P)$.
Let $d=val(\Delta(P))$ where $\Delta(P)$ is the discriminant of $P$.
If the reductions of $P$ and $P'$ are equal modulo $\pi^{2d+1}$, do we have that $X$ is isomorhic to $X'$?
More generally if we replace $k[[\pi]]$ by $R[[\pi]]$ for an artinian ring $R$ and we suppose that $P=P' [\Delta(P)^{2}\pi]$ do we have the same result?


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Learning to Pay Attention
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Stop living life for what's around the corner and start enjoying the walk down the street.
- Grant L. Miller, motivational guru
This topic today made me think about my goofy leg, which still hurts today.
I was so excited to still lose 1.2 pounds last night. BUT, in my head, I went right to next week. How am I gonna work out around my leg, will I lose a point a day since I lost weight, how soon before I will see Onederland again. All these questions went thru my head.
NOT, Hey, I have now lost a little over 25 pounds, or good job Alice. No moment to enjoy victory, just an immediate venture into the roadblocks for the next week.
Mooosa,,,,,I know, probably spelled wrong. But it is what we used to tell each other at work when things were going crazy & someone was stressing. Relaaaax. It will be ok.
Maybe this hamstring giving me grief is my body's way of saying, HEY! Take it one step at a time. Pay Attention this time around, so you don't gain a bunch back again. See how the small, every day things I am doing is what will make the long term difference.
So, for today, I promise to appreciate the fact I am wearing pants I could not wear 2 months ago. I am playing golf without being wore out at the end of 9 holes. I am eating healthier, with more conciousness toward not only my own body's health, but the planet's.
In other words, I am going to enjoy my walk today & not worry about the destination.
Breathe my friends, that is the true essence of life. Be as gentle with yourselves as you would be with a good friend or loved family member.
Namaste (to myself as well)
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Hey Alice.
I pop in on SP occasionally to see how old friends are doing. So happy to see you are on the path.
Having put on SO much weight when I broke my leg in early 2008 (went to my all-time high of 202.8), I have spent the last few years bouncing around in the 190's and occasionally the upper 180's. Finally, in the last 3 months, I am on a solid path down and just hit 179.
One of the things I have realized, in retrospect, relates to what you are saying. Before, when I was in the lower 170's routinely, I wasted every minute by wishing I was in the 160's. NO appreciation for where I was at. Having then put back on so much weight I promised myself that if I could get a handle on it, I would rejoice in every single stage I was in. Regardless! And I have. I am THRILLED to be 179. I praised myself when I was 189.
I am right there with you girl. Enjoy every step of the journey and don't lose the value of the moment by having your head tied up in some future, unrealized moment.
Keep up the great work. Sending healing energy to your leg.
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Namaste indeed. Those are truly valuable insights!
My spiritual teacher advises us to live in the golden present. So much fear and overwhelm can vanish just by reminding ourselves of that one concept.
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