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Monday 6th February 2012. Dades Gorge day and we were really looking forward to it. We did wonder how Christina and Dave would cope with the switchback bends but they were wide enough to park up and have a picnic on so no problem. We followed Dave up and Tina got some fab photos on the drive. We stopped at the top at a restaurant with a great view over the road where Tina took the compulsory photo of the road after giving me a heart attack by standing on a chair right at the edge of the wall to get the best shot. We tucked into a tagine of chicken, mixed vegetables with eggs which was the only meal on the menu followed by a cheeky mint tea.
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Jay had been consulting his Rough Guide and found a recommendation for a hotel where you could park in the car park for free and this hotel had an open fire which was what finally seduced us. We parked up as the sun went down behind the gorge walls and we were looking forward to a ‘warm’ dinner at the hotel.
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We had a fab meal at a table very close to the fire but moved in even closer when the other guests had left so we could finish our cheeky bottle of red wine in the warmth of the fire. [Car park, Hotel La Kasbah de la Vallee, Dades Gorge, N31.52107, W5.92985]
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If you’re just tuning in, I and dozens of other bloggers are participating as Guest Participants in the One Room Challenge. If interested in seeing my progress so far, here is the before, as well as Week 1 & Week 2 (& 3?).
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If you already read all of that, then you might remember that my progress on the sunroom was not terribly up to snuff. This was all due to the fact that:
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I was planning a funeral for my Boston Fern (RIP Fernie) and then adopting a new one (let’s take a bet on how long I can keep it alive).
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Falling behind halfway into the challenge isn’t ideal, but I had already kind of expected it. However, with the teensy bit of free time (if you consider painting from 9:00pm until midnight every night my “free time”) that I had this week, I was able to kill it with some actual progress!
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We left off with me having filled, sanded and primed everything up (and having a brief meltdown about possibly breathing in asbestos and getting mesothelioma).
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I chose to paint over all of the trim in white, and hide the ugly yellows and browns underneath. This included painting my door, which first had to be patched because the former owner’s dog had scratched the ever-living shit out of it.
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Then, in an off-characteristic decision, I decided to do an accent wall! This might not sound like a big deal to you, but to me, it was a long-thought-out decision. After having lived in my apartment for years, I had grown sick and tired of the colors my landlord had chosen – beige in the bedrooms, chalky green in the bathroom and kitchen, and yellowy tan (?) in the living room. I swore when I moved that I’d keep everything a neutral color. After some deliberation though, I felt an entirely white sunroom would be too sterile (and perhaps too farmhouse).
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So, David and I totally broke off from my original ideas board and discussed a new theme – navy or royal blue, greenery, and gold accents. I went out and bought the blue and we were ready to go.
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So, in my last post, I asked for opinions on some different blues and received some super insightful answers. So thanks! Luckily Lowes will let you return paint, so I swapped it out for a darker, more subtle blue.
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After painting for what felt like eons, I finally began to notice the transformation. It actually looks like I did some stuff!
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Now that all of the paint was finalized, I could focus on the floor. As mentioned last week, I had been eyeing some peel & stick vinyl from Home Depot but hadn’t made the purchase yet. It was mostly due to the fact that I had a coupon to Lowe’s but not Home Depot. Sadly, Lowe’s options just plain sucked so I splurged and got this highly-rated TrafficMASTER option from HD. The cost was just under $100.00, so still not too shabby.
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Before doing anything, I decided to purchase some floor patch and give it a whirl. I’d mentioned before that I’d filled the chipped tile with a silicone filler but, after it settled, it wasn’t as smooth as I’d hoped. The floor patch was super interesting and fun to use, as it acted like gritty cement. After all of that dried, I coated the floor with a primer made specifically for vinyl flooring.
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When it comes to the floor, slow and steady wins the race. Despite knowing I was going to get irate trying this, I chose to do a herringbone pattern. It is difficult because it requires math and patience, both of which I am bad at.
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I’ll detail how to lay a herringbone style tile in another post because it’s far too long to explain here.
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However, I will say that I hyped this up in my mind before attempting it and researched extensively, so it isn’t quite as aggravating as I originally thought it’d be. It’s certainly taking a lot less time than stinking painting took! Easy but tedious.
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US primary insurance carrier Allstate has added another $227 million of pre-tax catastrophe losses for the month of July 2021, which is much higher than the prior year's $145 million. Allstate had closed out the second-quarter of 2021 with $952 million of pre-tax catastrophe losses, which was a relatively high quarter read the full article →
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Catastrophe bond losses continue to affect investors in the $300 million Sanders Re II 2019-1 cat bond transaction sponsored by US primary insurance giant Allstate, as loss creep from US winter storm Uri and Texas freeze continued to erode the notes remaining principal in the second-quarter. As we explained earlier this read the full article →
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US primary insurance carrier Allstate reported another $195 million of pre-tax catastrophe losses for the month of June, including some loss creep on prior period events, taking its pre-tax total for the second-quarter of the year to around $952 million. After May, Allstate's Q2 catastrophe losses had reached $757 million pre-tax. This read the full article →
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US primary insurance carrier Allstate has reported $213 million of estimated pre-tax catastrophe losses for the month of May 2021, which takes the insurers second-quarter total to $757 million before tax. Severe weather and hail storms are the key drivers of May's catastrophe toll, with two large hail events responsible for read the full article →
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US primary insurance giant Allstate has reported that its losses from the first-quarter winter storms and freezing weather have now enabled it to recover $195 million from the reinsurance provided by its Sanders Re II 2019-1 cat bond. As we've explained before, Allstate's aggregate losses soared on the impacts of winter read the full article →
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Sveta_sanders via Instagram inspired these for sure! She does the most amazing drag marbles that always just fascinate me. The tutorials are mesmerizing in my opinion, and I just watch in awe. When I didn't know to paint the other night I finally just decided to just try one of them! I actually did it on all four that you see but 2 of them didn't work out that great at all so I put a solid color and left the 2 that were semi ok! Haha!!
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The creme purple is Serendipity Vacation Vibes, and the sparkle is Zoya Aurora. :) It was kinda nerve wrecking to do but fun at the same time in my opinion. I definitely need more practice. I think I need to try and drag the colors with a lighter touch. Sometimes I have the tendency to push a bit too hard.
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Well that's it for today! Hope y'all have liked this! So today I am going to share with you one of my other hobbies. I've always loved writing for as long as I can remember and today I am finally going to start sharing one I've been working on this summer. Its called Be Your Everything and ya'll can read part of it here. I have plans to release a chapter every Friday and share with you guys. Would love to hear what ya'll think and I hope you all enjoy it. Its been so much fun to work on. :)
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In the Archaic period of Greek history, an amphictyony (Greek: ἀμφικτυονία), a "league of neighbors", or Amphictyonic League was an ancient religious[1] association of Greek tribes[2] formed in the dim past, before the rise of the Greek polis. The six Dorian cities of coastal southwest Asia Minor, or the twelve Ionian cities to the north, a dodecapolis forming an Ionian League emerging in the aftermath of a dimly-remembered "Meliac war" in the mid-7th century BC, were already of considerable antiquity when the first written records emerge.
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Ancient historiography 1
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The Delphic Amphictyony 2
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The first Amphictyony 2.1
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Sacred Wars 2.2
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Thucydides made recollection of the Lelantine War, apparently fought in Euboea sometime between the late 8th century BC and the first half of the 7th century BC:
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"The war between Chalcis and Eretria was the one in which most cities belonging to the rest of Greece were divided up into alliances with one side or the other."[3]
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Historians have puzzled over the broader meanings of "alliance" in such early times. "But comparatively large-scale associations lead more readily to contacts, to friendships and enmities at a distance than do little city-like units," George Forrest notes,[4] remarking apropos that Phrygia and Assyria were at war with each other about 720–710 BC, raising tensions among interested Greeks.
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In historic times, an amphictyony might survive as a form of religious organization enjoined to support specific temples or sacred places; traditional amphictyonies coordinated Olympic and Pythian games. Twelve members would meet at specific times in the same sanctuary to keep religious festivals and conduct other matters as well.
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An early amphictyony centered on Kalaureia, an island close to the coast of Troezen in the Peloponnesus sacred to Poseidon, was noted by Strabo. Archaeology of the site suggested to Thomas Kelly that the sacred league was founded in the second quarter of the 7th century BC, ca 680-650;[5] before that date there were virtually no remains at the site, which could not have been used more than sporadically.[6] The island was known at one time as Eirene (Εἰρήνη) ("Peace"), clearly in reference to the amphictiony.[7] Strabo[8] lists the poleis that belonged:
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"And there was also a kind of Amphictyonic League connected with this temple, a league of seven cities which shared in the sacrifice; they were Hermione, Epidaurus, Aegina, Athens, Prasïeis, Nauplïeis, and Orchomenus Minyeius;[9] however, the Argives paid dues for the Nauplians,[10] and the Lacedaemonians for the Prasians."[11]
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The Delphic Amphictyony
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Amphictyonic law of Delphi (4th century BC, marble, from Aegina, now in the Louvre)
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Silver stater from Delphi, 336 BCE, issued in the name of Amphictyonic Council of Delphi
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The least obscure and longest-lasting amphictyony was the Delphic or Great Amphictyonic League that was organized to support the greater temples of Apollo and Demeter. The League council had religious authority and the power to pronounce punishments against offenders. Punishments could range from fines to expulsion and to conduct sacred wars. The Amphictyonic League also set the rules of battle as to protect sanctuaries and/or impose sentences on those who molested sanctuaries.
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Based on legend, the Great Amphictyonic League was founded somewhat after the Trojan War, for the protection and administration of the temple of Apollo in Delphi and temple of Demeter in Anthele (Ἀνθήλη), near Thermopylae. The founding myth claimed that it had been founded in the most distant past by an eponymous founder Amphictyon, brother of Hellen, the common ancestor of all Hellenes. Representatives of the twelve members (called hieromnemones) met in Thermopylae in spring and in Delphi in autumn.
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The twelve founders enumerated by Aeschines[12] were the Aenianes or Oetaeans (Αἰνιᾶνες, Οἰταῖοι), the Boeotians (Βοιωτοί) of Thebes, the Dolopes (Δόλοπες), the Dorians (Δωριείς) of Sparta, the Ionians (Ἴωνες) of Athens, the Phthian Achaeans (Ἀχαιοί), the Locrians (Λοκροί) [Opuntians (Ὀπούντιοι) and Ozolians (Ὀζολοί)], the Magnesians (Μάγνητες), the Malians (Μαλιεῖς), the Perrhaebians (Περραιβοί), the Phocians (Φωκεῖς), the Pythians (Πύθιοι) of Delphi, and the Thessalians (Θεσσαλοί). The League doctrine required that no member would be entirely wiped out in war and no water supply of any member would be cut even in wartime. It did not prevent members from fighting about the dominance over the temples.
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The first Amphictyony
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The oldest religious Amphictyonic League was known as Anthelian, because it was centered on the cult of the chthonic goddess Demeter at Anthela. The twelve delegates were entitled Pylagorai (gate- assemblers), perhaps a reference to the local Gates of Hades, since Demeter was a chthonic goddess in her older local cults. The immediate dwellers-round were some small states and also Achaea-Phthiotis that probably paved the way for the entry of the body of the rest Boeotian tribes which were living around Thessaly (perioikoi). Boeotia and Phocis the remotest may have joined only during or after the "First Sacred War", which led to the defeat of the old priesthood and to a new control of the prosperity of the oracle at Delphi.[13]
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As a result of the war the Anthelan body was known thenceforth as the Delphic Amphictyony and became the official overseer and military defender of the Delphic cult. A strange and revealing anti-Thessalian feeling appeared and a wall was built across the narrow defile at Thermopylae to keep the Thessalians out.
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It has been suggested that the Shield of Heracles may reflect anti-Thessalian feeling after the First Sacred War: in this epic, a Thessalian hero interfering with the Phocian sanctuary is killed by a Boeotian hero (Heracles), whose mortal father Amphitryon had for allies Locrians and Phocians. This was a pastiche made to be sung at a Boeotian festival at midsummer at the hottest time of the dogstar Sirios.[14]
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The name Hellenes, may be related to the members of the league and may have been broadened to refer to all Greeks when the myth of their patriarch Hellen was invented. In Greek mythology Amphictyon was brother of Hellen, and Graecus was son of his sister Pandora. According to the Parian Chronicle, the previously named Graeces were named Hellenes.[15]
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Originally a religious organization, the Amphictyonic League became politically important in the 6th century BC, when larger city-states began to use it to apply pressure to the lesser ones.
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The Oracle managed to become independent from the city of Krissa, to which the temple originally belonged to. The people of Krissa then imposed a tax on those who were passing through their area to go to Delphi, causing strong complaints and reducing the resources of the Oracle. The Amphictyony, having exhausted all other means to peacefully resolve the crisis, declared the First Sacred War (or Cirrhean War)[16] against Krissa that lasted a decade, from 596 to 585 BC. The result was the destruction of Krissa and the dedication of this country to Apollo, Leto, Artemis and Athena Pronaia. Since then the Pythian Games were held every four years, under the direction of the Amphictyons.
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In 449-448 BCE the Phocians, wanting to become masters of the sanctuary, marched against Delphi, but the Spartans sent army and restored things, thus causing the second Sacred War. After the Spartans' departure, the Athenians, led by Pericles, gave back to the Phocians the rule of Delphi and the management of the Pythian Games. In 421 BC, after the Peace of Nicias, Delphi became autonomous again. (It is unlikely, however, that Phocis remained in control of Delphi after Sparta defeated Athens at the Battle of Coronea (447 BC).[17]
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In 356 BC Phocians captured and sacked Delphi, and sacred war was declared against them. After a ten-year war the Phocians were expelled from the League in 346 BC and their two votes were given to Macedonians who had helped to defeat them. Philip II of Macedonia used its power to further his expansionistic conquests in Greece.
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In 279, the Phocians were readmitted after they defended Delphi against an attack by the Gauls, and Aetolians – who already dominated the Delphi sanctuary – were admitted as new members. In the 3rd century BC the Soteria (festival) was held in honour to the Greek victory against the Gauls. By 191 BC the League had 17 members but only the most dominant one had the two votes, when others had only one. The league continued to exist under the Roman Empire but its authority was limited to the care of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. The Roman emperor Augustus incorporated the Aenianes, Malians, Magnetians and Pythians with Thessalians. Since Dolopes had vanished, he gave their position to the city of Nicopolis.
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The Amphictyonic League vanished some time in the 2nd century AD.
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Kalaureian amphictiony
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^ Definition. "Amphictiony". 2014. Dictionary.com. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
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^ History.com;Encarta. Archived 2009-10-31.
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^ Thucydides, I 15, 3.
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^ Forrest, "Greece: The history of the archaic Period", in John Boardman, Jasper Griffin and Oswyn Murray, Greece and the Hellenistic World (Oxford University Press, 1986) 1988:14f.
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^ Thomas Kelly, "The Calaurian Amphictiony" American Journal of Archaeology 70.2 (April 1966:113-121).
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^ Some Mycenaean objects found at the site related to a few ancient burials without connection to Poseidon. (Kelly 1966:115, 116).
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^ In a fragment of Aristotle and in the Suidas, s.v. "Kalaunia" (Kelly 1966:118 note 45).
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^ Strabo, Geography viii.6.14
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^ That is, "Minyan Orchomenus, in Boeotia; the eighth-century date of Orchomenus' last access to the sea and the general agreement, following Strabo, that the league was a sea league, have affected the dating of the league.
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^ That is, Argos took the place of Nauplia; the Argives destroyed Nauplia shortly after the Second Messenian War, of uncertain date in the mid-seventh century.
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^ That is, Sparta took the place of Prasïeis, which was conquered by Sparta shortly after the middle of the sixth century (Kelly 1966:119, noting Herodotus, i.82)
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