S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A weekly Greek-AmericAn PublicAtiOn www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 18, ISSUE 909 March 14-20, 2015 $1.50 Over $600K is Brothers in Arms: The Selma March, 50 Years Later Raised for Fr. Greek Leaders Follow Baker’s Wife Archbishop Iakovos' And Children Civil Rights Journey By Constantinos E. Scaros By Theodore Kalmoukos SELMA, AL – Presidents Bush and Obama and their wives, CRANSTON, RI – Hundreds Congressman John Lewis and people of all ages from numerous of his legislative col - many parts of the United leagues, and various clergy, in - States, among them many cluding Greek Orthodox Arch - priests from many Orthodox bishop Demetrios, traveled to Jurisdictions participated in Selma, the Alabama city most the Funeral Service of the famously known for the 1965 late Fr. Matthew Baker at marches that sparked a major the Annunciation Greek Or - turning point in American civil thodox church in Cranston, rights, to commemorate the RI where Fr. Baker was or - 50th anniversary of those tu - dained into the Holy Priest - multuous and transformative hood on January 19 2014. events. Metropolitan Methodios The Selma marches were a of Boston presided at the Fu - turning point for all Americans. neral Service, assisted by Certainly for the millions of Bishop Andonios of African-Americans and other Phasiane, and about 50 persons of color who had been priests. denied the right to vote by prej - Metropolitan Methodios udiced segments of Southern read a letter from His All Society that made that basic Holiness Ecumenical Patri - American principle a practical arch Bartholomew of Con - impossibility because of a com - stantinople, addressed di - bination of Draconian red tape, rectly to Presbytera intimidation, and actual physi - Katherine. “It is with deep cal (sometimes fatal) force. But and sincere sadness that we also for white Americans, most learned of the sudden death of whom felt an increased sense of your precious husband, ABOVE: (LEFT): In of pride to live in a nation where Fr. Matthew. We have March 1965, the basis of their Declaration of learned of his profound love Archbishop Iakovos Independence became more for Christ and the Church, joined Dr. Martin meaningful in deed, not just in which he served so devot - Luther King, Jr. on word, and fewer of them, who edly, albeit so briefly. His a historic civil begrudgingly acknowledged personal quest for the Or - rights march in that the majority of their fellow thodox Church was an at - Selma, AL, that Americans did not equate supe - traction for many to under - captured national riority and inferiority with skin stand the breath of its attention and color. tradition and brought atten - prompted the Also benefitting in 1965 was tion to some of the most em - passing of the the Greek-American community, inent of its teachers, includ - Voting Rights Act. whose members were oppressed (RIGHT) At the in the South as well for decades Continued on page 5 50th anniversary – inspiring the establishment of commemoration, the American Hellenic Educa - Iakovos’ successor, tional Progressive Association Archbishop (AHEPA) in 1922 – the face of Demetrios, is which that year and for many The Latter-day embraced by the years since was Archbishop nation’s first Iakovos, Demetrios’ immediate African-American predecessor. History of the president, Barack After brutal attacks by State Obama. Troopers on civil rights LEFT: AHEPA marchers crossing the Edmund Parthenon Supreme President Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, Phillip Frangos led by John Lewis, whose skull shakes hands with was fractured, a day that lived By Constantine S. Sirigos Congressman John in infamy as “Bloody Sunday,” TNH Staff Writer Lewis as AHEPA Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Supreme Counselor called on fellow clergymen NEW YORK – The auditorium Gregory Stamos across the U.S. to join the cause. of the Zimmerli Art Museum of looks on. Iakovos answered the call, de - Rutgers University was recently filled with people – mainly Continued on page 4 young – who were fascinated by the title of a lecture presented by Dr. Robert Ousterhout of the University of Pennsylvania: “For - gotten History of the Sen. Murphy’s Town Hall Meeting on Greek Issues Demanding Parthenon.” Ousterhout teaches courses in Byzantine art and architec - By Constantine S. Sirigos Reparations, tural history at Penn and serves TNH Staff Writer as the Director of the Center for Ancient Studies. He argued that STAMFORD, CT – Senator Chris Greeks Eye “buildings must be understood Murphy, a high-ranking democ - as the sum of their history, a his - rat on the Senate Foreign Rela - tory that in many ways tran - tions Committee participated in Grm. Assets scends the specificity of its orig - a Town Hall meeting on “Cur - inal context,” and he bemoaned rent Events in Greece and Im - the fact that “the afterlife of the portant Greek Orthodox Com - Greek demands for World Parthenon is nowhere present munity Issues” in Stamford, CT War II reparations for damages on March 8. and atrocities wrought by the Continued on page 6 The meeting, which was pre - Nazis, and threats to seize Ger - sented by the Archons of the Ec - man assets have ired Berlin, just umenical Patriarchate, the Or - as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras der of AHEPA, and Stamford’s is hoping to get additional aid – two parishes, the Church of the much of it from Germany. Greek-American Annunciation and the Church of With Greece about to start a the Archangels, which hosted new round of negotiations with Classic Guitar the event in its hall, was a international lenders, Tsipras model of how the community ramped up the tension with Ger - should engage with its elected many, the biggest contributor to Master Papas representatives. 240 billion euros ($272.5 bil - The young Senator im - lion) in two bailouts, by de - By Steve Frangos pressed the guests who filled the manding payment for the Nazi TNH Staff Writer hall of the Archangels church occupation, and with plans to with his appreciation of the confiscate German assets to pay CHICAGO- For some unknown (L-R) Sharad A. Samy, Dino Kallenekos, Andy Manatos, Nikiforos Matthews, Senator Chris the families of the victims of reason Sophocles Papas, among Continued on page 3 Murphy, John Louizos, William Kambas and Nicholas Nikas in Archangels Church hall. atrocities and for infrastructure modern Greeks, is one of the damage. most overlooked of all Greek German officials said that the master musicians to settle on matter of compensation for the American shores. Without ques - Nazis' World War II occupation tion Sophocles Papas was an in - Onassis Cultural Center: Truth and Lies in Myth of Greece is closed and the gov - ternationally known teacher of ernment isn't prepared to dis - classical guitar. The fact that Pa - cuss the issue further with pas did not play in a traditional NEW YORK – International tural Center as part of the Hel - not kill herself and his Helen “endlessly creating myths.” It Athens. Greek musical genre is certainly bestselling author Daniel lenic Humanities Program at was innocent of the blood of the seems some knowledge or Tsipras, leader of the Radical not the issue. Dozens of Greek Mendelsohn and Simon BAM. Violaine Huisman, BAM’s Trojan war. lessons about life must still be Left SYRIZA, has revived the men and women who per - Critchely, professor of philoso - Director of Humanities wel - That point opened the door conveyed in mythic form. question of war-time debts, formed as vocalists or now play phy at The New School and host comed the guests and intro - to a fascinating discussion about Perhaps so that they can be telling Parliament that his debt- Western style instruments have of the popular NY Times blog duced Mendelsohn, the featured what makes some versions more remembered and sink in more ridden country has never been been and/are now praised by “The Stone” presented “On speaker, and Critchely, the mod - compelling than others. deeply than what is learned in fully compensated by Germany. Greeks across the planet. That Truth (and Lies) in Myth at the erator of the ongoing series of Myth’s primitive function classrooms. Greece believes it is due pay - Papas, as both a musician, Brooklyn Academy of Music talks. seems to be that of explaining There was intriguing talk ments for wrecked infrastruc - (BAM) on March 6. It was interesting to learn the universe, but they are also about the role of celebrities in ture, war crimes and a loan that Continued on page 7 The conversation about the that scholars debate over the de - vehicles for deep truths about society, and the family keeps occupied Greece was forced to roots of ancient mythology and gree to which the ancients saw human nature, explaining why coming up as a context, which make to the Nazis. its meaning in the modern their religious stories as myths. societies retain myths after they was illustrated by the story of The issue has further soured world – Mendelsohn said “the A strong reason for believing are called into question as facts. Oedipus – and the Kennedies. relations between Athens and For subscription: line separating modernity and they were taken lightly, even by Mendelsohn also noted that “We still feel a need to profile Berlin, already fraught amid the 718.784.5255 antiquity is not as hard as we non-intellectuals, is the co-exis - “Much of Greek myth is ob - a limited number of families and ongoing wrangling over [email protected] imagine” – was held in conjunc - tence of many versions of the sessed with the limits of knowl - we keep telling stories about Greece's financial bailout. Ger - tion with the Canadian Opera same story. edge… built into myth is aware - them when their lives seem to many has been at the forefront Company’s production of Han - “Greek myth is much more ness of its own limitations,” an enact the basic problems of life of countries demanding strict del’s Semele. fluid and plastic than our reli - issue that later becomes impor - – what we say about the austerity measures from Greece The event was co-presented gious stories,” Mendelsohn tant in philosophy. by BAM and the Onassis Cul - noted. Euripides’ Jocasta does Mendelsohn said we are still Continued on page 6 Continued on page 11 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015

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n THRU MARCH 27 Drive in Astoria. For more in - Eleventh Annual Pan Hellenic Youth Ball in Chicago MANHATTAN – Under the Aus - formation, please call Tassos pices of the Consul General of Mouzakis at (917) 859-5881 or Greece in New York, the exhibi - email: [email protected]. By Anthe Mitrakos tion, “Photographs of the Cary - atid Hairstyling Project,” will be n MARCH 25 CHICAGO, IL – It’s been 11 on view February 25 through MANHATTAN – Wall Street years since the first Pan Hellenic March 27, Monday-Friday 9AM- Rocks, in conjunction with Mu - Youth Ball inaugurated this an - 2:30PM, at the Consulate Gen - sic Works, invites you to Early nual tradition where Greek- eral of Greece, 69 E. 79th Street Elton, a tribute to the classic El - American students and their in Manhattan. The project be - ton John Trio Tours of 1970- friends get together for a night gan as an experiment in 2009, 1972, featuring Rich Pagano of dining and dancing for a led by Dr. Katherine Schwab, from the Fab Faux and Jeff cause. Organized by members Professor of Art History at Fair - Kazee & John Conte of South - of the Hellenic student associa - field University, to find out if the side Johnny, on Wednesday, tions at the University of Illinois, elegant hairstyles worn by the Mar. 25, 6-10PM at The Cutting and Northwestern, Loyola, and famous Caryatids from the Room, 44 E. 32nd Street in DePaul universities, every year, Erechtheion on the Athenian Manhattan. Please visit wall - the themed celebration serves Acropolis were creative ideal - streetrocks2015.eventbrite.com as a fundraiser for a charity or izations or based in reality. Stu - for tickets. individual in need. dent models from Fairfield Uni - This year’s Pan Hellenic versity had their hair arranged n MARCH 29 Youth Ball was the group’s most by a professional hairstylist and MANHATTAN – The Federation successful of all time as some the results proved that these an - of Hellenic Societies of Greater 400 individuals gathered at the cient hairstyles were based in New York is proud to present the AON Center’s Mid-America Club reality. A short film of the pro - 2015 Greek Parade, celebrating in downtown Chicago on Feb - ject has been screened in Athens the 194th anniversary of Hel - ruary 20th to help raise funds several times, as well as in nu - lenic Independence, on Sunday, for Chris Ellis, a 5-year-old bat - Some 400 students and members of the Midwest's Hellenic youth gathered to celebrate the merous cities in the United Mar. 29 at 1:45PM on Fifth Av - tling stage four neuroblastoma. 11th annual Pan Hellenic Youth Ball in support of Chris Ellis, a five-year-old battling cancer. States. This exhibition, which is enue between 64th and 79th "The event is a time to get free and open to the public, has Streets in Manhattan. Pre-pa - the Hellenic youth of Chicago and music by DJ Pantazis. power of prayer is amazing. The the Pickwick Theater on March been organized by the Art His - rade events include: The Grand and the Midwest together to en - Preparation for the annual event was extremely successful 4th with a presentation by ac - tory Program at Fairfield Uni - Marshal Gala is held on the Sat - joy a night of dinner and danc - youth ball begins months in ad - and I would do if all again,” she claimed comedian Angelo versity. For further information urday before the parade in one ing with one goal in mind - help - vance, bringing together a plan - added. Tsarouchas. about the project, please visit of the great Manhattan Hotels. ing someone in the community,” ning committee of university Chris was diagnosed with Other charities and individ - www.fairfield.edu/caryatid. At the Gala the Federation hon - said Connie Savas, a student Hellenic association student rep - high-risk neuroblastoma last uals that have benefited from ors the Grand Marshals of the representative at Loyola Univer - resentatives who book a venue, summer when an accidental the Pan-Hellenic Youth Ball in n THRU MARCH 29 parade and the Grand benefac - sity. "Chris is a boy that is really sell tickets, secure supporting ad kick to the eye while playing the past include Theofanis ASTORIA – “The Fox and the tors. The Pre-Parade Gala is held in our community, not just in placement, and select a cause with his sister revealed a golf Yianas, Angela Malfas, Asylo Boulder,” is an original stage the Saturday a week before the our spiritual and cultural com - to fund. ball sized tumor. Having spent Aniaton in Sparti, Greece, and play written and directed by Parade at the Terrace on the Park munity, but he lives right here "Although it [planning] was over 100 days in the hospital, Hollywood House Assisted Liv - Ophelia Theatre Group’s Sarah in Queens. At the Pre-Parade in the Chicago area. We like be - extremely stressful, it was well Chris has already completed five ing in Chicago. The annual tra - Bennett. Long ago in an imagi - Gala the Federation honors all ing able to start at home and worth it. I love the cause,” said rounds of intense chemotherapy dition was started by a group of nary kingdom, a beloved water - the volunteers of the parade. work to help those in need that Angelica Kladis, PHYB Commit - and faces a long road ahead of students in 2004 as an effort to ing hole was known for its hos - The Bowling Green Flag raising are around us that we could tee representative at the Univer - him including a stem cell trans - address the lack of a formal pitality and little else. Then one ceremony is held the Friday be - connect to in our everyday sity of Illinois. “Chris is an ex - plant, proton radiation therapy, community event for students night several different travelers fore the Parade at the Bowling lives,” she added. tremely sweet boy and I truly immunotherapy, and many of Greek descent in the Mid - meet together, all with a lofty Green Park in Lower Manhattan. The 60-dollar ticket included believe the more awareness he more hospital days. A second west. dream, only to discover that The Dance Exhibition is held the dinner, a one-hour open bar, gets, he will beat this. The fundraiser for Chris was held at dreams don’t always come true Saturday before the Parade. All the way you expect them to. dance groups are welcome. As At the Ophelia Theater 21-12 the Parade nears, more informa - 30th Road in Astoria. Perfor - tion will become available, so mance Dates: Fridays and Sat - please continue to check in for urdays: March 13, 14, 20, 21, additional details. For informa - 27, 28 at 8PM. Sundays: March tion regarding the Parade and 15, 22, 29 at 6PM. General Ad - Parade-related events, please mission: $18 Sunday Evenings: contact hellenicsocieties.org. Pay What You Can! http://the - Phone: 1-718-204-6500. foxandboulder.bpt.me or http://www.opheliatheatre.com n MARCH 30 MANHATTAN – Hellenic Profe - n MARCH 13-15 sional Women Inc. (HPW) is SUN VALLEY, ID – The Greek In - hosting a Greektini Event, vitational Ski Race and Social where Greek-American profes - Weekend will take place Friday sional women can socialize & through Sunday, March 13-15 network in a relaxed atmos - at Sun Valley, ID Sponsored by phere after work on Monday, AHEPA, Seattle Chapter #177. Mar. 30 6-9PM, at Anassa Tav - Enjoy skiing on Bald Mountain, erna, 200 E. 60th Street in Man - walking around Historic Sun hattan. Light appetizers & cash Valley Village, Ice Skate, Cross- bar. Members: free; Non-mem - Country Ski, Shop, Dine! Please bers: $15. For more informa - see www.eventbrite.com/e/ tion, please visit www.hel - greek-invitational-tickets for lenicprofessionalwomen. PhOtOs: tnh/cOstAs beJ more details, or call the Sun Val - (L-R) Georgia Bolas, Irene Papanikolaou, Anna Maria Miti, Nas - G.I. 2014, unidentified woman, Ioanna Catechis, Diana Diamantis, ley Inn 208-786-8259. n MARCH 31 tasia Loukissas, Petros Galatoulas, Avgerini Catechis, Claudia Gi - Zoe Pantelas, and Maria Mandas at the 2015 Miss Greek Inde - CONCORDVILLE, PA – Paul annakopoulos, Miss G.I. 2015, Sotiria Irene Sotiropoulou. Miss pendence Pageant at NY’s Federation of Hellenic Societies hall. n MARCH 14 Kotrotsios, founder of Hermes MANHATTAN – The Metropoli - Expo International, has invited tan Museum of Art (MMA) with Delaware County and Greater the Axion Estin Foundation pre - Philadelphia businesses special - Miss Greek Independence Contestants All Shine sent: Looking East from Byzan - izing and or targeting in health tium on Saturday, Mar. 14 7PM care and the hospitality indus - at the MMA,1000 Fifth Avenue tries to participate in this year’s By Constantine S. Sirigos in Manhattan. Tickets start at Hermes Expo, a trade show pro - TNH Staff Writer $40. Use code East15 and save viding exceptional networking up to 40% on individual tickets. opportunities for businesses in NEW YORK – The annual Miss Valid online via the Delaware County, Brandy - Greek Independence pageant, a metmuseum.org/tickets, via wine Valley and the Greater happy ritual dating to the early phone 212-570-3949, or at the Philadelphia area. It will be held 1950s, shines a spotlight on some Great Hall Box Office. Bring the Tuesday, Mar. 31 in The Best of the best and brightest young kids for $1: One full-price adult Western Hotel, 675 Conchester women in the Greek-American ticket allows you to purchase up Highway in Concordville, from community, but the contestants to three kids tickets for $1 each. 9:30AM to 5:30PM, and is open represent thousands of high For children ages 7–16. Cele - to Trade and Public and with no achievers across the country. brating the Metropolitan Mu - admission fee. (Just bring your Claudia Giannakopoulos, seum’s recent acquisition of four business card). Hermes Expo In - whose family hails from Patras, Byzantine icons, this perfor - ternational is a leading B2B basked in the applause and ad - mance traces the trajectory of Trade Show and Exhibition net - miration of the audience who on music east from Byzantium. It working company in America, March 7 filled the hall of the also demonstrates the intercon - promoting commerce, commu - Federation of Hellenic Societies nectedness between Byzantine nications and culture. The Expo of Greater New York, which or - and Islamic chant and improvi - enables regional business own - ganizes the Greek Parade which sation traditions through the re - ers to make connections with will take place on Fifth Avenue Claudia Giannakopoulos, Miss Greek Independence 2015 with representatives of Greek Feder - markable playing of Mehmet Ali their counterparts from the on March 29. ations from across America. (L-R) George Horiatis, Milton Athanasopoulos, Vasilis Kafkas, Sanlikol and master chanters Greater Philadelphia Area, Petros Galatoulas, Federation Petros Galatoulas, Stathis Karrantonis and Dimitris Rozanitis. Christos Chalkias and Elefthe - North America, Southeastern president thanked all who rios Eleftheriadis. Event web - Europe and the Eastern Mediter - helped make the event a success Bessie Kalyvas, Freda Tsekerides, The articulate young woman Kassy Loukissas, a Pontian site: http://metmuseum.org/ ranean. This year’s Expo will and Maria Klambani entertained and Stavros Zhongas. finished a master’s degree in ac - from Drama, was both excited events/programs/concerts-and- feature panel discussion on the guests on violin. Sotiria Irene Sotiropoulos counting and has passed the CPA and anxious for her daughter, performances/looking-east- three key areas affecting our The room was filled with Miss Greek Independence 2014 exams. She is now working in and added “I am happy for all from-byzantium?eid=4825. economy: healthcare and the flowers and people brimming was present to help crown her her family’s accounting firm, Gi - the girls because it’s an oppor - hospitality industry. Dr. Con - with joy and pride over what successor. annakopoulos and Gian - tunity to experience something n MARCH 21 stantinos Plestis, System Chief, many believed was an extraor - Catechis was very pleased nakopoulos in Great Neck, NY. new in their lives.” FLUSHING – The Cyprus Chil - Cardiothoracic and Vascular dinary group of candidates, and with the event and the partici - She grew up in Bayside and is Anna Mallis, who was a con - dren's Fund of America invites Surgery at Lankenau Heart In - while only one was crowned, the pants. “I am very proud of my the third of eight children, so testant in the 1970s and was you to its Annual Testimonial stitute, part of Main Line Health remaining contestants were hon - committee …and we are proud she is naturally gregarious. She chosen as Miss Greek Knowl - Dinner 2015 on Saturday, Mar. will be the keynote speaker at ored as worthy representatives of each and every one of the told TNH that she was friends edge, has fond memories of that 21 at 6PM, honoring AHEPA the Hermes Expo dinner. Dr. of their regions. contestants,” but she said their with only one of her fellow con - time in her life, and of Georgia with the Humanitarian & Phil - Nicholas Hadgis, Dean of the Nastasia Loukissis, who has qualities go beyond the women’s testant before the pageant, but Stefanakos who was then in anthropic Award & Eugene T. Hospitality Management School Pontian roots, was the first run - external attractiveness. “They she is looking forward to the in - charge. She was also first runner Rossides with the CCF Recogni - of Widener University will mod - ner up and Ioanna Katehis with were all beautiful, but they all evitable friendships that will de - up in the Miss GAPA contest. tion Award, at Terrace on the erate a panel discussion on roots in Erikousa was the second came in with great self-assur - velop as a result of their com - George Dellis said “I am im - Park 52-11 111th Street in trends in the hospitality indus - runner-up. ance. It’s the first time I’ve seen mon journey. pressed with all the girls. They Flushing. All proceeds will ben - try. The theme this year is Georgia Bolas, whose roots that.” “We are going to be attending are very attractive, they have el - efit the underprivileged children “Greeks and Philhellenes Work - are in Thessaloniki, Naousa, and The contestants are coached a lot of events together,” not to egance and they are very good of Cyprus. Please visit ing Together.” Also, this year Rhodes was named Miss by the dedicated committee mention their thrilling ride on speakers. The great thing about www.cyprus-childrensfund.org will mark the launching of The Rhodes; Diana Diamantis is Miss about how to walk in, to practice the float up Fifth Avenue the Greek community is that it or call (212) 696-4590 for de - Ted Spyropoulos Seminar Se - Sparta, Anna Mittis is Miss in from of a mirror, “but their cheered by thousands. “They are promotes higher education, tails. ries. Mr. Spyropoulos was an in - Epiros – she has roots in North - demeanor comes from inside. all sweet,” she said. which is a top priority for all of spirational leader in the Greek ern Epiros, Zoe Pantelos, who is They had that look – they were This year’s judges, who must the contestants.” n MARCH 22 American community who be - from Cyprus, is Miss Mesogeio – very graceful,” Catechis said. take into account more than the UNITY MEETING A SUCCESS ASTORIA – The Athenians' So - lieved that if we worked to - Mediterranean, Irene Papaniko - Beautiful minds also counted, beauty revealed through the Galatoulas was also excited ciety of New York is organizing gether, we could move moun - laou is Miss Tilos. and Catechis advised the contes - gown competition, include Eleni because the day also saw what the Second Book Exposition on tains. For further info visit The pageant is run by the tants to take a minute before re - Psarra, Avgerini Mouzakiti Fazio, he calls a seminal meeting Sunday, Mar. 22, 3-7PM at the www.hermesexpo.com. Please Federation’s Culture Committee, sponding to questions, and to Christina Kostaki, Nikos Bardis, among leaders of Hellenic fed - Petros G. Patrides Cultural Cen - contact Paul Kotrotsios at 484- whose events are integral parts choose whichever language they Chrysoula Fiotodimitraki, Sofia erations and national associa - ter at The Saint Demetrios 843-4984 or 610-202-4465 or of the Federation’s promotion of are comfortable with - “Above Vasis, Dimitris Filipidis, George tions from across America. “We Cathedral of Astoria, 30-03 30th e-mail: [email protected]. Hellenism. all, we are Greek-Americans” she Galatoulas, George Pantelides talked about the future of Hel - Avgerini Catechis, whose said. and Chris Vournas. lenism and the importance of family is from Erikousa, is chair - Giannakopoulos told The Na - Mandas, a pre-K teacher for uniting Hellenes through the man of the committee and Maria tional Herald that she partici - the Greek American Institute creation of an umbrella organi - QUESTION OF THE WEEK Mandas were the presenters, pated “to show how proud I am whose mother is from Crete and zation. Among those participat - and other member of the com - of Greece. With everything that whose father is from Andros, ing were the federations from How severe do you think it was that Hillary Clinton, in her mittee who were on hand to co - they are going through I appre - was the first runner up in 2004. Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, capacity as Secretary of State, used a private computer server ordinate the event included ciate the ability to represent all She told TNH “I was so honored, and societies representing Cen - and email account? Hara Saridaki, Anna Dritas, the Greeks in America and to it was such a wonderful experi - tral Greece, Pontians, Arcadia, Please email your response to Manolis Christodolakis, Billy show the people of Greece that ence that I wanted to give back” Crete, Macedonia and Cyprus. [email protected] Chrissochos, Christos Psarras, they are not alone, that we stand by being involved on the cultural Northern California participated We may publish some responses as Letters to the Editor in Katerina Belekios, Maria Zaloni, with them.” committee. via Skype. a future issue. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015 COMMUNITY 3 Greek Architects in New York Launch Lecture Series with Elia Zenghelis

By Constantine S. Sirigos school. parking lots, he nevertheless was TNH Staff Writer Much of his work entailed able to create buildings whose breathtaking re-imaginings and curved perimeters and rooflines NEW YORK – The Greek Insti - challenges to the prevailing ur - conjure up the bodies of the tute of Architects in New York, ban and suburban environment murdered hills. an organization established in with provocative projects like History – one could general - 2013 for the purpose of bringing “No Stop City.” ize and say truth – is important together Greek Architects in He is deeply concerned about to Zenghelis. New York, (GIANY) especially the relationship between the He was disappointed when students and young practitioners man-made world and nature, the Germans decided to remove newly arrived from Greece, in - which he insists must be kept all references to the Berlin Wall augurated its lecture series on physically and conceptually dis - – and thus the people who suf - March 4. tinct. “It is a dialectical relation - fered as a result of it and who Elia Zenghelis, distinguished ship, between two opposites, died trying to transgress it – Greek architect and educator, and the differences,” between when the Brandenburg Gate was presented “The Private and the the two necessary elements of restored. Collective Ideas, Principles and human life, “should never be A recently installed row of Projects,” at the Greek Press Of - hidden or dressed up.” lights does evoke the search - fice in Manhattan. On the other hand, urban lights who purpose was to crush The guests, architects and en - and suburban sprawl are for him freedom rather than illuminate. thusiasts who filled the audito - blights on the world and Communication is critical to rium were welcomed by Lam - Zenghelis has become obsessed art and life. He is a critic of the bros Kazis, Press Secretary, and with the idea that cities should state of his profession, which Amb. George Iliopoulos, Consul be given definite limits beyond boasts pluralism, but without vi - General of Greece, expressed his which nothing should be built. tal criticism and debate. excitement about the GIANY ini - His relationship with clients He loves New York – he re - tiative. tnh/c. siriGOs evolved from love to hate, and ferred to the “intoxicating 1970s Members of the GIANY orga - (L-R) Dimitra Tsachrelia, Constantine Bouras, Amb. George Iliopoulos, Professor Elia Zenghelis, he does not miss them at this he experienced - but his urban nizing committee aslo briefly ad - Evita Fanou, Foteinos Soulos, Electra Kontoroupi and Ioannis Oikonomou. stage in his life. paradise is London, with its dressed the guests. Constantine Zenghelis told several infor - wonderful gardens and cos - Bouras spoke about the Lecture Architectural Association School ible artistic ideologies that pre - the English Channel impacted mative and entertaining tales of mopolitanism. Series, Dimitra Tsachrelia intro - of Architecture, London, com - vailed through his schooling and architectural education. promising projects that never In recent years he has be - duced Zenghelis and Evita pleting his studies in 1961. embodied in movements like “The relationship between came to fruition as a result of come enamored with landscapes Fanou moderated the Q&A. The The 1960s, which he said was Team 10. teacher and student was never shortages of funds or client in - and enjoys working with garden - GIANY Organizing Committee dominated by bourgeois con - Rem Koolhaas, with whom he the same,” throughout the West, terference. ers. also includes Electra Kontoroupi, sumerism in the homes and rad - co-founded the Office for Met - but the English students, whom The most amusing story in - Several of the paintings that Ioannis Oikonomou, and icalism in the streets and on cam - ropolitan Architecture (OMA) he said were not as politically volved a project on a Japanese Zenghelis made with his wife to Foteinos Soulos. pus, he remembers as a along with his wife, Zoe Zenghe - sophisticated as their continental island. His firm was commis - illustrate the OMA projects – Zenghelis provided a wonderful decade of parties, ar - lis, and Madelon Vriesendorp counterparts, managed to turn sioned to design a hilltop town such as Hotel Sphinx (1975), panoramic view of a career that chitectural practice and teaching. was one of Zenghelis’ most im - the experience into an excuse to but when he arrived he was in - and Sixteen Villas on the Island spanned revolutionary periods As a prominent teacher at the portant collaborators. not do any work. formed that the landscape was of Antiparos, Greece (1981) - in the architectural and political Architectural he introduced rad - The student uprisings of Zenghelis’ unit, however, at - levelled to facilitate construc - are now included in the Art and realms. ical accent-gardism into the cur - 1968 – he referred to the “delir - tracted the more serious youth tion. Design collection of the MoMA He studied architecture at the riculum in reaction to the inflex - ium of protest” – spilled across and became a school within a Amidst the soccer fields and in New York. Senator Chris Murphy Holds Town Hall Meeting to Address Greek Issues

Continued from page 1 descent of that economy should of Ukraine’s sovereignty with Nicholas Kydes a former Nor - lenic American Leadership it walk away from its commit - the Cyprus conflict. “Decades walk councilman, pointed out Council (HALC), brought up value of Greece as a loyal ally ment to European and Atlantic ago it was the Turks violated the that “Turkey is becoming a Ankara’s violation of Cyprus in the strategically vital East integration,” he said. sovereignty of those living on threat to Greece in the Aegean EEZ, but Murphy acknowledged Mediterranean and his under - That is why “I have been en - the island of Cyprus.” over oil and gas rights,” and al - he needs more detailed infor - standing of the issues regarding couraging the Treasury and “If you ask me, he said “we though Murphy said he did not mation about the matter. U.S. relations with Greece, State Departments to stay very have in general been too easy have the answers all the ques - Fr. George Poulos, the Cyprus, and Turkey. involved and to try to be a me - on the Turks…we need to take tions the issues implies, he beloved pastor emeritus repre - John Louizos, Archangel’s diator if we can between the off the kid gloves on a host of noted they are intertwined with senting Rev. Dr. Harry Pappas, parish council member, was the two sides,” he said, “because issues.” the Cyprus issue in the sense the Archangels’ pastor, blessed moderator and he took the lead this is something that should Nevertheless, while Turkey that “the Turks see dollar signs.” the light buffet that the guest in the well-organized event matter to the U.S. and frankly has been increasingly antago - He emphasized the Cyprus enjoyed. working closely with Andy Man - more now than ever.” nistic on U.S. interests regarding issue, however by reiterating the Among the dignitaries were atos, Founder and President of He agrees that the U.S. must Russia and ISIS, he said “If we U.S. position that the people of David Martin, the Mayor of the Washington-Based Coordi - use every means at its disposal want to have a serious strategy Cyprus mist be the ones making Stamford, Fr. Evan Evangelides, nate Effort of Hellenes, to whom to strengthen U.S.- Greece eco - to degrade and ultimately de - the decisions about their natural pastor of the Annunciation, Alex Murphy expressed his esteem, nomic ties, and noted that “the feat [ISIS]…we cannot do it resources.” Boutsiouklis, AHEPA District Archon Nikiforos Matthews, U.S. understands real world re - without the Turks. That is the Nikolas Katsimpras, adjunct Governor for Connecticut and Nicholas Nikas of AHEPA, and alist politics in the region in reality… but there are non-ne - professor at Columbia Univer - Rhode Island and State Repre - Dino Kallenekos. ways the Europeans often do gotiable items.” sity who is active with the Hel - sentative Caroline Simmons. Louizos, an early supporter not. “It is why we are regularly of Murphy who believed the Senator Chris Murphy sending Treasury Dept. officials community could count on him over to Brussels and to Greece “to listen to our issues and con - Americans he knows, in addi - itself.” cerns and help us in Washing - tion to his appreciation of com - In response to a question by ton,” said the first proof came munity issues, that prompted Elaine Prince, he said “we in 2014 when the community him to call for the meeting. should not rule out bilateral as - reached out to him regarding GREECE-TROIKA sistance to Greece. religious freedom and the Ecu - MEDIATION William Kambas, an interna - menical Patriarchate Murphy provided an infor - tional tax attorney representing Murphy circulated a letter to mative overview of current U.S. the Hellenic Bar Association of President Barack Obama signed – Greece relations. “Our ambas - Connecticut, who also helped by all 18 members of the For - sador met with the new Greek organize the event, noted that eign Relations committee urging government to offer our assis - among the initiatives the U.S. him to personally raise those is - tant in trying to help the Greeks could take is to modify its out- sues with the leaders of Turkey. to undergo the reforms that will of-date income tax treaty with “The latest evidence is that the allow them to get the [Troika] Greece to stimulate investment. Senator reached out on his own to turn back on the spigot of Murphy said he would be happy initiative to come here today,” funding that will allow Greece with work with him on that. Louizos said. to stay afloat and to rebuild.” Regarding the Former Yu - The senator thanked the He admitted there are lim - goslav Republic of Macedonia, guest and the organizers and de - ited levers the U.S. can use but he said “there has been enor - clared, “I have a specific portfo - noted there are important con - mous slippage in the quality of lio…that commands that I be an versations taking place between democracy, civil rights there,” active voice for this community,” the Washington and Europe and which has raised serious ques - he said, and “Given the gravity the new government. “Clearly tions about FYROM’s fitness for of the issues facing Greece to - both sides listen to us. We are membership in NATO and the day…I thought it would be arguing to the Europeans to use EU independent of its intransi - helpful for me to come here and some common sense in terms gence on the name issue. Mur - not just talk at you but listen what they require of the Greek phy said FYROM should join and engage you in a dialogue.” government.” “but not before we settle upon The thoughtful and substan - He said the United States is the right, true internationally tial statements of the Senator trying to convey that “we want acceptable name.” revealed not only that he had the reforms to be paced at a Murphy was frank about his done his homework but that schedule that is realistic…there concern about the agreements members of the community in is no doubt they have to happen Cyprus has signed with Russia, Connecticut and Washington did more quickly…these are re - but he is adamant that the peo - their part to engage and inform forms that are badly needed and ple of Cyprus are the ones that him. long overdue… there also tough must dictate its future. The Senator revealed an - love ahead of us,” regarding “This occupation must be other key to gaining the ear of Greece, but he emphasized that dealt with,” he said, and while public officials when he thanked the Europeans have to be more he noted Recep Tayip Erdogan the people in the room, includ - reasonable. has not changed his stripes on ing Aphrodite Skeadas, the for - “We have to accentuate the the issues, it does appear that a mer president of the National disaster, for Europe and for Turkish leader finally has the Philoptochos for what they give Greece, of any potential actual power to resolve the issue back to the community in civic abrogation of that country’s tie should he decide to do so. and philanthropic work. to the eurozone. There is no He did not shy away, as offi - His remarks left no doubt way to soft peddle how much cial Washington regularly does, that it was his respect for Greek- more quickly you would see a from equating Russia’s violation

tnh/c. siriGOs John Louizos was the moderator and one of the organizers of Sen. Chris Murphy’s Town Hall meeting presented by the Archons, the Order of AHEPA and Stamford’s two churches. 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015 A Pioneering Achievement: Parallel Roads Published by Panchiakos Soc.

By Demetris Tsakas Chios. TNH Staff Writer The book, which is divided into five parts, contains mes - NEW YORK – Three years ago sages from Ecumenical Patriarch the Panchiakos “Korais” Society Bartholomew and Metropolitan of New York celebrated the Markos of Chios. 100th anniversary of its foun - The first part is dedicated to dation and of the 1912 libera - the Panchiakos “Korais” and tion of Chios with a series of other Chian societies, including events in Chios in New York. St. Markella, the United Chian Their events, as The National Societies of America and the Herald reported, were innova - Chian Federation. tive, well-organized and mean - The second part, titled “Chios ingful. – The Island of our Hearts and The organizing committee Minds” is dedicated to the his - headed by Christ Stratakis, tory of the island and the third, prominent attorney and legal “Chios – A Voyage Through the counsel of the society, organized Ages,” highlights the spiritual a symposium to mark the an - life of the island. niversary. He also promised a “Chios – of Scents and Jour - book will be published about the neys” is about myrrh, mastic double anniversary. and the Chian’s relationship The editorial committee was tnh/cOstAs beJ with the sea. headed by Stratakis and Athena Korais Society celebrates its 100th anniversary: Amb. Loucas elists (L-R) listen: Stelios Neamonitis, Peter Papagiannakis, The last part of the book Tsokou-Kromidas, the director Tsilas addresses guests at the Hellenic Cultural Center as pan - Christ Stratakis, and Athena Krommydas. “Chinas in America – Their Sto - of William Spyropoulos day ries” includes thirty families’ sto - school of St. Nicholas in Flush - The book is a notable for a retired Executive Director of the tal values, principles and legacy of the book, which he helped ries, accompanied by photos. ing and the promise was kept. community society because it is Onassis Foundation (USA) pre - of their nations. sponsor, and which he called a Krommydas said the book "is On March 8 Chios on Parallel a substantial work of prose with sented a brief retrospective on Amb. Tsilas said the book is mosaic off the achievements of a deposit of the soul and a sam - Roads – Chios liberated – educational value not only for how the Greeks across American important because it helps pre - Chios, Korais and the Chians. ple of the unlimited love for the Panchinaki “Korais N.Y.” was people with roots in Chios but created communities and soci - serve the immortal values which He added that the book is a island." presented at the Archdiocese’s for all Greek-Americans. eties and emphasized that their united Hellenes. product of his love for the Soci - She noted that the text goes Hellenic Cultural Center in As - Stelios Neamonitis, the pres - foundation was motivated by "The book presents the his - ety and the people of Chios he back to 6000 BC and is a testi - toria. ident of the Society also ex - the desire of many people to torical facts with brevity sim - shares with Krommydas. mony to the greatness of Chian Fr. Paul Palesty, pastor of St. pressed his gratitude to preserve the traditions, lan - plicity and conveys them in a The book is dedicated to two soul and records and highlights Nicholas led the chanting of the Stratakis and Krommydas and guage, ethos and customs of the way that makes you feel proud groups of people, those who mi - the achievements of Chians in hymn Ti Ypermaho which is to Elisavet Tzoumakas who also Hellenic homeland. of our immortal principles, val - grated and settled in America America and pioneering "Korai" dedicated to the Virgin Mary shouldered the difficult task of He associated those endeav - ues and heritage," he said. and those who stayed on the is - society that over the course of and congratulated the Society publishing the book. ors with the human passion to Stratakis explained the ratio - land for whom their common its first century proved to be a and the editorial committee. Ambassador Loucas Tsilas, perpetuate and preserve immor - nale for the Society’s production denominator is their love for lover of literature and culture. Brothers in Arms: Then and Now, Greek Leaders Join Civil Rights Cause

Continued from page 1 thirty years ago.” But, he added: walked across the Pettus Bridge, came to be known as Bloody “a more common mistake is to told the press: “Today we re - Sunday. The country's outrage at claring that the Greek Orthodox suggest…that racism is ban - member the fight, the faith, the this senseless violence turned the are dedicated “to continue this ished; that the work that drew persistence and the dream of Dr. tide in the struggle for federal fight against prejudice, bias and men and women to Selma is Martin Luther King, Jr. and we legislation to protect the right to persecution,” and marched now complete, and that what - also remember the courage of vote. Days later, President Lyn - hand-in-hand with King two ever racial tensions remain are Archbishop Iakovos of blessed don Johnson announced he days later, That iconic photo - a consequence of those seeking memory and their time together would bring a Voting Rights Act graph was captured on the to play the ‘race card’ for their here in Selma. It is a very sig - to Congress and four months af - cover of LIFE Magazine (March own purposes.” nificant and moving day, a day ter that, it passed.” 19, 1965). President Bush’s attendance of deep emotions, thankfulness The Congressman expressed President Obama offered bal - of the event, significant as he to God for what was achieved, a heartfelt “thank you to John Lewis, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and all the other foot soldiers of the civil rights movement who refused to back down in Selma. We know that there is one thing above all others we can do to repay the debt we owe you for your bravery and sacri - fice. It is the one thing we must encourage others to do as well. It is the thing that will restore hope and power to our democ - racy.” Sarbanes’ father, Paul, was elected to the Maryland House of delegates and later served in the U.S. House of Representa - tives and then the U.S. Senate. Michael Shikany, who gave an extensive interview to TNH in January (“Selma Shows Arch. Iakovos as Champion of Civil Rights,” Jan. 31), again shared his thoughts, this time about the Michael Papajohn, a Greek-American actor who played Major commemoration: “Naturally, John Cloud in Selma, poses with Michael Shikany, who por - even though I only had a small trayed Archbishop Iakovos in the film. role in the great movie, I feel very close to what's happened there this weekend and even what happened 50 years ago. I tried to learn more about Arch - bishop Iakovos. I found that he is an icon among the Greeks in AP PhOtO/butch dill this country.” Crowds of people move in a symbolic walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL Michael Papajohn told TNH where 50 years earlier Martin Luther King marched hand-in-hand with Archbishop Iakovos. he considered it “an honor to be a part of the film Selma. anced words – though some me - was one of only four other living and fervent prayer for the work Then, to actually watch the dia outlets chose to report only presidents, was only marginally that lies ahead.” 50th anniversary of Bloody Sun - one side of the message – sug - reported by the media. Congressman John Sarbanes day was surreal for me. gesting that while racism has Notably, the Bushes took of Maryland, who attended the It was a defining moment in not been eradicated over the their seats first, followed by the commemoration, described it to history that is appreciated and past half century, a great deal Obamas, consistent with proto - TNH as a “once-in-a lifetime op - will never be forgotten. On that of progress has been made. “If col of a former First Couple en - portunity to participate in a pil - day, Archbishop Iakovos and you think nothing’s changed in tering prior to the current one. grimage to Selma, Alabama for others answered a call to action the past 50 years,” the president In great reverence to Congress - the 50th anniversary of the fa - by Dr. King. A call that we have said, “ask somebody who lived man Lewis, however, he was the mous march from Selma to on a daily basis of bringing us through the Selma or Chicago final person introduced – after Montgomery. In 1965, 25 year- one step closer to the dream." or Los Angeles of the 1950s. Ask the two First Couples. Lewis’ old John Lewis, with whom I Papajohn also said that when the female CEO who once might own address can be summed up now serve in Congress, led that he first met Shikany on the set, have been assigned to the sec - by his statement, which he de - march for voting rights across ArchdiOcese who was dressed as Iakovos, he retarial pool if nothing’s livered with powerful emotion, the Edmund Pettus Bridge. He Martin Luther King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, flanked by approached him and asked: “ti changed. Ask your gay friend if that “there is still work to be and dozens of others were sav - Archbishop Iakovos and Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD), whose kaneis?” (“how are you?”) to it’s easier to be out and proud done.” agely beaten by Alabama State son John, a Maryland Congressman, attended the 50-year com - which Shikany responded “kala” in America now than it was Archbishop Demetrios, who troopers on March 7 in what memoration of the Selma marches. “fine”). Facing Likely Indictment for Corruption, Sen. Menendez Counterattacks

TNH Staff dez called them a “smear cam - Committee when the Democrats paign,” CNN reported. controlled the Senate, Menen - WASHINGTON, DC – Facing a “As we have said before, we dez has sometimes broken ranks possible if not probably grand believe all of Senator’s actions and criticized the Obama Ad - jury indictment for criminal cor - have been appropriate and law - ministration, particularly in its ruption within weeks, U.S. Sen - ful and the facts will ultimately stances on Cuba (lifting the em - ator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) confirm that,” Menendez bargo) and Iran (engaging in di - counterattacked on March 10, spokesperson Tricia Enright said rect negotiations). Menendez blasting the U.S. Department of in a statement Friday. “Any ac - hopes his close ties to Senate Justice (DOJ) for leaking the in - tions taken by Senator Menen - Minority Leader Harry Reid (D- formation to the media, he told dez or his office have been to NV) will help him maintain his Politico. “All I can say is leaks appropriately address public post on the Foreign Relations are in violation of the law,” policy issues and not for any Committee. “Sen. Menendez has Menendez said. “And I hope other reason.” done a stalwart job [on] the there is an investigation as to The government’s case pri - committee,” Reid said, Politico however, whomever is conduct - marily focuses on Florida oph - reported, “and as far as I’m con - ing such leaks.” thalmologist Salomon Melgen, cerned, he’s been an outstand - As CNN reported last week, on whose behalf Menendez ad - ing senator.” the DOJ plans to bring criminal vocated regarding accusations As to why Democrats don’t corruption charges against by Medicare administrators for have their own formal rules to Menendez, charging him with overbilling. When Menendez remove indicted senators from using his position to promote a learned of the probe against top committee posts, as Repub - friend’s business interests in re - him, CNN reported, he paid licans do, Reid simply shrugged turn for gifts. Melgen back $58,000 for value and moved on, Politico re - Attorney General Eric Holder of airplane tickets the latter pro - ported. approved the prosecutors’ re - vided to him, deeming it an “Beats me,” Reid said. “I quest to proceed, CNN learned, “oversight” rather than inappro - don’t know.” and a formal announcement priate quid pro quo. Menendez is a Philhellene may be forthcoming within A high-ranking member of and has consistently supported weeks. Congress who was Chairman of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), a prestigious member of the Foreign Relations Committee Greek causes in Congress. As to the allegations, Menen - the prestigious Foreign Relations and a staunch Philhellene, is expected to be indicted on criminal corruption charges. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015 COMMUNITY 5 The Pancyprians’ Women’s Network Honors Assemblywoman Simotas

By Demetris Tsakas nity. She noted that WIN has en - TNH Staff Writer abled thousands of Greek-Amer - ican to receive free breast cancer FLUSHING – The Pancyprian and uterine cancer screenings. Association of America’s She said that the decision to Women's Issues Network (WIN) honor Simotas as Woman of the honored New York State Assem - Year was and easy one because blywoman Aravella Simotas as she is an inspiration. its "Woman of the Year" on State Senator Michael Gia - March 7 on the occasion of In - naris and City Councilman ternational Women’s Day which Costas Constantinidis expressed was celebrated the following gratitude for the support they day received from the community Nicole Petallides-Tsiolas. who and emphasized that without it had previously received the their election would have been same honor, was the Emcee at impossible. the Terrace on the Park in Flush - After the award ceremony ing. the guests enjoyed a perfor - Expressing her thanks and mance of traditional dances by appreciation, Simotas added, the Pancyprian’s dance troupes. "This is a very important award for me because it comes from ABOVE: Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, honored by the an organization that has done Women's Issues Network, poses for a commemorative photo so much not only or Greek- with officers of the Pancyprian Association and WIN’ and dig - American women but for the en - nitaries. RIGHT: Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas receives tire community.” her plaque from Dr. Florence Christodoulidou as Amb. Vasilios Manos Koubarakis, the Con - Philippou, Consul General of Cyprus and Greek Consul Manos sul of Greece, conveyed the cor - Koubarakis look on. dial greetings Amb. George Il - iopoulos, the Consul General, in the Greek-American commu - He noted that Cyprus this and congratulated the women nity.” year will mark the 40th year on their works. Costas Tsentas, Supreme since Turkey’s illegal invasion Amb. Vasilios Philippou, the President of the Cyprus Federa - and occupation and discussed General Consul of Cyprus, said: tion of America, congratulated the struggle to resolve the "with their multitude of events, WIN’s leadership for their deci - Cyprus problem. He emphasized WIN highlights the important sion to honor Simotas, and for that the Cypriots are not intim - role of Cypriot women, not only the assistance they have pro - idated and they will continue in community affairs, but in so - vided to women with health the struggle until the time ciety as a whole and in behalf problems. comes to return to a free Kyre - of our national issues." Philip Christopher, Founder nia. Addressing the honoree, he and President of the Pancyprian Dr. Florence Christodouli - said “Aravella Simotas is a good Association of America and dou, the president of WIN, said example of love for Hellenic PSEKA, praised WIN as one of that for two decades its mem - ideals, of dedication to the mis - the Pancyprian Association most bers have offered their services sion of her office and of activism dynamic organizations. to the Greek American commu -

The Funeral at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Holy Greek Russian Orthodox Church of Bridgeport, CT, and bury, CT, pay their respects during the wake on Friday for the Cranston Rhode Island. The Rev. Steven Belonick, left, of the Father Vladimir Aleandro of Christ the Savoir Church in South - Rev. Matthew Baker. NorwichBulletlin.com/John Shishmanian As Fr. Matthew Baker is Laid to Rest, over $600K Raised for His Family

Continued from page 1 question found answers after seminary in 2008, I waited on byter (or priest) is to be a ser - much study of Church history ordination and went on to do an - vant of the Gospel of Jesus ing the Church Fathers of the and theology, and comparative other master’s degree, and then Christ and a “steward of the past and Fr. Georges Florovsky experience of the Anglican, Ro - the PhD. Nearly all of my semi - mysteries" the sacraments of Eu - more recently. We had become man Catholic and Orthodox nary classmates were ordained charist, Baptism, Marriage, Con - personally aware of his unique churches. before me and have been priests fession, and so forth - for the and intellectual gifts, which he “As for the second question, I for four or five years now. The building up of the Church, the generously shared in his min - was drawn to the priesthood door to ordination was open to Body of Christ. Through his istry and scholarship. from about the age of eighteen. me years ago, but only now did liturgical service, teaching, per - “Dearest Presbytera, above But I had other interests, too – the time seem right to step for - sonal counsel and care for souls, all and beyond all else, Fr. literature and poetry especially ward in obedience and service. and example, he is to lead oth - Matthew was a loving husband – and it took a long time to work “As for the ordination, the ers to the knowledge of God and and father…On behalf of the itself out. Even after finishing crucial thing is that the pres - salvation through Jesus Christ.” Mother Church of Constantino - ple we convey to you and your beautiful children our whole - hearted condolences and com - Rev. 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“I was essentially an atheist a through most of my teens. I did 6 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015 Brother and Sister Movie Team are Following their Dreams Firms to Take

By Constantine S. Sirigos light. “On the night of Diwali things happen in life, but it’s Part in Global TNH Staff Writer something happens,” and Austin good to laugh at things and see has a life-altering dream. the humor in life,” Pikramenos Technology NEW YORK – Your name is While the movie does not said. Austin, you are 34 years old, have Greek elements – it could, She believes things happen and your life is a shambles. the siblings are proud of their for reasons, “but I also think you Conference What is your next move? It’s ob - Hellenic roots and are Greek have the power to make things vious: Become a movie stunt school survivors – the immi - happen yourself. It’s not just man. grant experience and the Amer - fate, or that things just hap - TNH Staff What follows in Diwali ican dream that permeated their pen…you have to pay attention Dream Garage, the film short lives also informs it. to what happens…you have to AUSTIN, TX – Greek startup created by Johnny Pik and Their father Eleftherios who look at your part in it and what firms will participate in the Chrysa Pikramenos that will be first immigrated to Australia but you do. You are not just an in - SXSW Interactive, a tech confer - screened at the Queens World then decided American was the nocent bystander.” ence within the larger South by Film Festival on March 22, place for him. He is from Kos Going deeper, she said that Southwest festival, March 13-17 promises to be painful, touching and their mother, Catherine, is what happens to people are thanks to the support of The Hel - – and funny. from the village of Prasino, near signs of larger issues in their lenic Initiative (THI). The film’s message is that no Tripoli. lives, “But then you have to do Thirty-one people represent - matter how old or where you They lived with many rela - something about them…to ing 22 promising Greek startups are in your life, follow your tives in a building in Astoria that bring you to the place where will have the opportunity to dreams, and that anything is was purchased by their family. you should be.” demonstrate their products and possible. It is set in Queens in The movie with the theme But obstacles are real, and services on an international the 1980s and many of the char - “life is short” is partly a tribute they go deep. Freud uses an ice - stage. They will be the largest acters have roots in the Indian to their father, who was killed berg metaphor, and Pik, like the group of Greek startups to ever subcontinent. in a hit-and-run accident in former, points to the forgotten participate in an international Pik and Pikramenos – it’s the 2003 at age 56. past. “A lot of times in life, startup event. same name, they are a brother Pik, two years older, is a me - things that happen in the past and sister team who run PikTV chanical engineer for a medical have control over the future, The Hellenic Initiative production – wrote the film to - device company. At the time they can create obstacles. gether. He also directed it and they lost their father his sister Austin’s dream can be seen has made it possible both of them produced it. was a teacher, but seeds planted as psychotherapy and Pik. for SXSW participation Austin, played by Baltsar in childhood seemed to germi - The sibling’s ideas are big, Beckel “is a 34 year-old screw- nate in response to their loss. cOurtesy OF PiktV" and they want to make a big THI’ s donors made it possible up whose childhood dream is to Pikramenos had set aside her Johnny Pik and Chrysa Pikramenos, siblings from Astoria, are movie. They have a finished to fund a portion of the Interna - become a stunt man. He can’t childhood writing dreams but excited about the screening of their short film “Diwali Dream script for a feature-length film tional Accelerator booth and pur - figure out why he is not moving she became inspired to write Garage,” at the Queens World Film Festival on Mar. 22. for which the short is a spring - chase SXSW badges for the par - forward, and that’s where his about the ideas were bubbling board for fundraising. ticipants. In 2014 THI, in Indian friend Reggie, played by up. Pik told TNH his sister loved with the name Johnny Pik.” They chose to make a comedy, Pikramenos freelances while partnership with Libra Group, Ankit Dogra, comes in, who appearing in school plays– he He always loved film but he she said, “because we are just she is hard at work promoting sponsored 16 companies. Three sends him back in time on the remembers her in Guys and never was driven to pursue it as like that…our personalities, and the film on the festival circuit. companies in attendance re - night of Diwali so he can dis - Dolls and Annie. “She always a career. About eight years ago my dad like to joke around a Emmy award winner Sergei ceived more than $6 million in cover what is holding him had a passion for acting and she he felt an urge to develop his lot.” Franklin is the cinematographer funding. back,” Pik told TNH. got involved in all that before I creative side and made an ama - Philosophy and psychology and the movie has also been se - AngelouEconomics, Tommy Howard plays young did.” teur film about a vacation with are personal interests and lected to screen at the Garden Pflugerville CDC, International Austin. Pikramenos added that friends. thought s about life also shape State Film Festival, which gave Accelerator, and the local Austin Pikramenos explained that “Johnny pursed acting for a Diwali Dream Garage,” is ap - the movie. it an award of merit in the Best Chapter of AHEPA, worked with Diwali is a Hindu festival of time. That’s why he came up proximately 15 minutes long. “Another theme is that tragic Shorts Competition. THI to help make the endeavor possible. The Southwest festival, will host more than 30,000 entrepre - neurs, business leaders, in - The Onassis Cultural Center Presents Truth and Lies in Myth vestors, and other technology professionals from around the world. Its “mission is to bring to - Continued from page 1 many characters are also de - gether a varied group of creative structive by trying to squeeze as professionals and innovative Kennedies is completely pre- much as possible out of life, or companies to further develop ca - modern,” Mendelsohn said. their lovers. reers and businesses whether it For example, that fate is not That myth is the form of is through music, film or inter - kind to people who are too suc - tragedy – which is associated active technologies. SXSW Inter - cessful or beautiful. with Semele’s son Dionysus – active has become a go-to con - The opera much of the audi - arose at a particular time and ference for emerging ence was about to attend re - place, is a fact that was explored technologies and a key event to flects another common theme: at BAM. jump-start new business relation - the danger of wanting things “For 100 years in the most ships and ventures,” according too much. important city in the world the to its website. Semele is the mortal mother primary literary acidity was the Google Executive Chairman of Dionysus by Zeus, whom retelling” of the societies myths Eric Schmidt, Irish Prime Minis - Mendelsohn noted had a zest – it did not believe them literally ter Enda Kenny, Alfa Interna - for extracurricular activities that but is kept revisiting them.” tional CEO Princess Reema Bint did not involve his wife, Hera. Why? Bandar Al Saud, United Thera - Some versions have Hera be - Mendelsohn said the re - peutics Chairman & CEO Mar - friending and goading Semele ceived mythology was problem - tine Rothblatt, New York Times to demand that Zeus reveal him - atic for the new Athenian Op-Ed Columnist David Brooks, self in all his divine power – democracy, where everyone is and Special Counsel for External which led to her incineration. supposed to have equal rights Affairs in the Office of FCC Chair - Semele is also said to have and duties. man Tom Wheeler Gigi B. Sohn longed for immortality, but “That the whole mythic sys - will be among the speakers. The five-day event also offers panel discussions, networking events, plus more than 800 edu - cational sessions and workshops covering a variety themes, in - PhOtO cOurtesy OF OnAssis FOundAtiOn (usA) cluding Branding & Marketing, Author Daniel Mendelsohn and philosopher Simon Critchely discuss myths in the ancient and Design & Development, Enter - modern world prior to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s production of Handel’s Semele. tainment & Immersion, Global Impact & Policy, and Social & Pri - tem is about aristocrats,” was a Some citizens become gen - “why does society keep staging vacy. problem, he said. erals and presidents and must the suicides off women?” Among the topics are How to Drawing from “What do you do about char - rise to the occasion. It is the patriarchy putting Remain Relevant in Today’s Dig - an Etruscan acters like Achilles…who is so For all their educative value pushy women in their place he ital Age, What It Really Takes to mirror: selfish and not at all group ori - – the concept of catharsis was suggested. Win in Business, How Innovation Semele embracing ented,” as a democracies re - also addressed – tragedies seem There is another fascinating Happens, and The Art of Social her son Dionysus, quire? to also be a source of sadistic element in the staging of myths. Media. with Apollo looking on “Tragedy is a product of the pleasure. Even when people know the The Hellenic Initiative was and a satyr democratic state,” Mendelsohn There is a touch of “better ending, they seem to hope that founded in 2012 by members of playing an aulos concluded, “a place to question that it should happen to him this time everything will turn the global Greek and philhellene and adapt old myths to the new than to me,” Critchley said, and out right, that they finally make communities in order to respond democratic environment,” but he touched on Freud. the right decision. to the worsening economic crisis where there is still a basic hu - Mendelsohn persisted in his and inspired to help shape man need to admire greatness. sociological approach, asking By Constantine S. Sirigos Greece’s long-term recovery. A Look at the Parthenon’s Fascinating but Neglected Latter-day History

Continued from page 1 dressed, and Ousterhout noted Empire to do so, suggesting that despite the anti-pagan de - there was still a close connec - in the present structure. crees of emperors Theodosios tion between Athens and Con - Ousterhout began by noting and Justinian, the Parthenon stantinople through the middle that “the opening of the new was not converted into a Church Byzantine period despite the Acropolis Museum in 2009 until the late 6th century. city’s decline after the Slavic in - sparked new rounds of contro - He explained that part of the vasions. versy over Greece’s most famous reason the Parthenon fared well YES, THE CHRISTIANS monument,” including the ani - as a church was the fact that the PROBABLY DID IT mated film produced for the principle form of Christian As much as the building was museum by Oscar-winning di - houses of worship was the basil - embraced by the devotees of the rector Costa-Gavras. ica, whose rows of columns new faith, the protests of mod - “Depicting the millennial his - found a felicitous echo inside ern Church authorities notwith - tory of the Parthenon, one scene the former temple of Athena. standing, it appears that there shows black-clad Christians de - “With minimal adaptation was a conscious, official pro - facing the sculpture prior to its the Parthenon resembles a stan - gram of to eliminate sculptural conversion to a Church…Greek dard Church of the period.” elements deemed most offensive ecclesiastical officials found the The principle changes was to Christianity. scene offensive and accordingly the insertion of an apse to the Ousterhout said it probably it was cut from the film.” East, and the erection of walls occurred when the building was There was public outcry and between the exterior columns converted to a church rather a promise of restitution, and up to about half their height. than during the barbarian at - Ousterhout said the incident Windows were cut through tacks, as some suggest. During demonstrates that when it parts of the roof and galleries the conversion “there would comes to great national symbols were constructed. have been present scaffolding “it’s difficult to keep everybody Eventually, inevitably, al - and ladders” 40 to 50 feet high, happy.” tnh/c. siriGOs though it is not clear when, the giving access to the sculptures. The Parthenon we see, he ex - Dr. Robert Ousterhout was introduced by Dr. Stephen Reinert, associate professor of Byzantine Parthenon – the name refers to He said 79 of 92 metopes were plained, is the result of decisions history and the director the Rutgers’ fine Modern Greek Studies Program. Reinert called the virginity – became associated defaced, among other elements. to strip away layers of history former “one of the most accomplished and prolific writers worldwide in his fields.” with the Virgin Mary, who was Ousterhout reiterated that so that it could “stand today as given the title Atheniotisa to re - the building was revered by visible testimony to the great - ing the evidence for how the one thousand years as a Church. He might have added that flect her appropriation of Byzantines - Emperor Basil II ness of the Greek past,” but rep - Parthenon lent itself to adaptive Along with literary references, politicians have more say about Athena’s role as the protectress visited the Church after he resenting “a particular set of val - re-use as the cultural and reli - they proved that “the building history than historians. of the city, although, Ousterhout cleared Greece of the Bulgarian ues firmly rooted in a particular gious context changed.” was valued and admired An overview was presented said, the powers associated with armies in 1018 – and westerners moment in Greek history, the Photos and drawings were throughout its later history. of the post-classical history of the Theotokos resemble those after the fall of Constantinople. Golden Age of Pericles…it set presented that showed the All of that was swept away the city and the building, includ - of ancient fertility goddesses Tragically, the building was the standard for what we would buildings that survived until the after 1830 “as the new Greek ing the conquest by Romans rather than Athena. completely intact until as late define as ‘classical.’” establishment of the Modern nation sought to reconnect with who revered them, and sacking One recent interesting dis - as the 17th century, when it suc - But “buildings exist in time Greek state, including Ottoman its classical past…The by the Heruli and the Visigoths covery is that the Parthenon cumbed to Venetian shelling as well as space,” so that what mosques, Frankish towers built Parthenon of the 21st century is who were not impressed. Church followed the Cathedral that ignited gunpowder stored is gained by exposing one pe - after the crusader conquests, as much a construct of the ar - The decline of paganism and rite of Aghia Sophia in Constan - there by the Turks. riod necessitates losses, includ - and elements of the Parthenon’s chaeologist as it is of Pericles.” the rise of Christianity was ad - tinople, one of the few in the THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015 COMMUNITY 7

ALL HISTORY Sophocles Papas: the Greek-American Classical Guitarist Extraordinaire

Continued from page 1 former and teacher of classical ments and original compositions of George Mason University. guitar music but also a dedi - for the guitar. Perhaps best Prominent among these materi - teacher and as someone who lit - cated promoter of this musical known is Papas' Method for the als is his extensive correspon - erally established a legacy of form through his many instruc - Classic Guitar and his revised dence with Andrés Segovia, Carl musical instruction, continues tional publications and sheet edition of Fernando Sor's Sixty Sandburg; and his many guitar to escape the attention of a con - music. Papas is especially re - Short Pieces for Guitar. Addi - friends and students, such as temporary Greek readership and called for his systematic and tional publications include: Pa - Charlie Byrd and Liona Boyd. audience is nothing short of dedicated publication of the mu - pas’s Bach Album: Fourteen Over the years, two of the what can only be labeled a cul - sical compositions of an amaz - Pieces, by J. S. Bach; Arpeggio most active members of the Co - tural crime. While this might ing array of European masters. Studies, edited and fingered by lumbia Music Company’s Board seem an overblown indictment This last activity came out of ne - Sophocles Papas; as well as of Directors were Elisabeth (Liz) even a mere sketch of Papas’ life cessity as much as love of the Eight Lessons, fingered by Papas Smith, the only daughter will not only substantiate such form. Sophocles Papas. Today the of Sophocles Papas, and her a claim but will simultaneously While teaching classical gui - company's catalog includes ad - husband Philip H. Smith, Jr. reveal his family’s steadfast tar in the 1920s, Papas was ini - ditional compositions and From the time that these two maintenance of his work for tially frustrated over the utter arrangements by Segovia, as acquired the company in 1988, nearly 100 years. lack of available sheet music. well as works by Charlie Byrd, they significantly increased the Sophocles Papadopoulos was Never out-done by existing cir - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Carlos Bar - catalog holdings and worked born On December 18, 1893 or cumstances Papas established bosa-Lima, and a range of other diligently to perpetuate the 1894 in Sopiki, Greece, then a the Columbia Music Company, musicians. Papas was a lifelong goals first established by Papas. part of Albania. His father, who a publisher of sheet music and friend of Andrés Segovia, whom In 1998, Elisabeth Papas was a church chanter, a voice instructional methods for the he met at Segovia's 1928 debut Smith published a biography on teacher, and an amateur violin - guitar. Most notable among Pa - performance in North America her father: Sophocles Papas: the ist. Consequently, young Sopho - pas’ own publications is his as well as a close friend to that Guitar, His Life. The book seeks cles was exposed from his earli - to illustrate Papas's contribution est youth to both Byzantine and not only to the classical guitar Western music. At the age of 14, but also to cultural life in Wash - Papas went to live with an uncle ington, D.C., in the 1930s and in Cairo where he attended later. The book presents Papas school, studied piano, and in his roles as teacher, publisher, learned to play both mandolin judge, collector and it contains and the guitar. In 1912, Papas a number of photographs of Pa - returned to Greece where he pas, his family, and his friends. fought as an Albanian guerrilla This volume also includes the against the Turks in the Balkan entire text of Papas’ seminal ar - Wars. Sophocles Papas, a true master of classical guitar, was a gen - ticle "Romance of the Guitar", As published accounts report, uine pioneer in the genre and highly influential throughout which appeared first in The sometime in 1913 or 1914, most of the twentieth century. Given his accomplishments, Etude Music Magazine in 1930. young Papas journeyed to the that he is not better-known remains enigmatic. In June 2006, with the death United States, where he fully in - of Philip H. Smith, Jr., Thea E. tended on studying agriculture. own studio in Washington, D.C. Harris. During this same period Smith, first grandchild of Diverted by the outbreak of For nearly the next 60 years Pa - Papas also taught at American Sophocles Papas, took over as World War I, Papas first fought pas taught classical guitar and University in Washington, D.C. President of the Columbia Music with the United States expedi - in so doing made the city a cen - Papas proved, from the day Company. Elisabeth Papas Smith tionary forces and later joined ter of classical guitar activity in of his arrival, to be one of the continued to serve as Music the Greek army and fought in the United States. Papas’ most prominent figures in the Consultant until her own death the Greco-Turkish wars. Some - school’s location and name Washington music scene and re - in June 2013. Thea E. Smith, time in the very early 1920s, Pa - changed and moved around the mained so for much of his life. Method for the Classic Guitar. other music legend Carlos Mon - aside from her management of pas returned to the United city over this 60 year period: the Papas performed live on radio Given the overall lack of avail - toya. Columbia Music Company is States settling in Washington Papas Studios (1937-1947), the regularly on the Washington able materials initially, many of Sophocles Papas stopped herself a published novelist with D.C. where he began teaching Columbia School of Music D.C. WCAP radio station. Dur - these publications were Papas' teaching only around 1975, She Let Herself Go and Me, My - the ukulele, the banjo, the man - (1947-1956), the Guitar Shop ing this same period Papas or - own transcriptions for his stu - when he was in his early eight - self, and Her being her most dolin, the Hawaiian guitar, and (1956-1968) and finally a pri - ganized and conducted Wash - dents, but the range of com - ies. Right up until his death on known works to date. the classical guitar. It was also vate studio in the DuPont Circle ington's first posers and arrangers whose February 26, 1986, he fostered It is no exaggeration to state at this time that Papas began to Building (1968-1982). Some of guitar/mandolin/banjo orches - works were represented in the dreams of opening a new guitar that Sophocles Papas loved and give solo performances while his better-known students in - tra, and founded the Washing - company's catalog soon grew. studio. Not long after his death lived classical guitar. That he also frequently serving as the cluded Charlie Byrd, Carlos Bar - ton Guitar Society. This company which is devoted the “Sophocles Papas Music Col - was able to effectively share that leader of an orchestra of fretted bosa-Lima, Jim Skinger, Aaron It may be difficult, from our solely to guitar music and is still lection" a vast body of his pri - love with so many others and instruments. Shearer, Dorothy de Goede, vantage point in history, to fully publishing today and is owned vate papers, compositions cor - that he continues to do so is his Like many of his generation Clare Calahan, Sharon Isbin, realize how unique a pioneer and operated by Papas’ family. respondence and other such lasting tribute. Papas’ work ethic was phenom - John Marlow, Alvino Rey, Joe Papas was in the 1920s. Papas Columbia Music Company documents were donated to the enal. In 1922, Papas opened his Breznikar and jazz guitarist Bill was not only a serious per - publishes dozens of arrange - Special Collections & Archives [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES The Good Ol’ Days

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos pany of Arsenia and her two lively conversation filled the doctor who brought a defibula - dress that will never again be Special to The National Herald children who were about our room. In a corner, wedding gifts tor in case of a heart attack worn excepting as the only ages, 8 and 10; off we went to were piled high, wrapped in when the bill is presented to clothing surviving an earth - When I hear, ‘the good ol’ St. George’s church. The church white or silver paper. Inside, him. The cost of food, per per - quake. days’, my memories take me was filled with familiar faces all, toasters, sheet sets, cooking son, could feed twenty people The person sitting beside me back to my childhood in Hell’s anxiously, awaiting the appear - utensils, table cloths and other at a nearby restaurant. No chil - couldn’t communicate due to Kitchen, downtown, New York ance of the bride. The necessities awaited the happy dren are invited. I don’t know the 9 decibels music and be - City where there were many Koumparo stood at the altar; couple. why not. My kids are all house lieves me anti-social, in which Greek families and a small nervously holding on to the It’s all gone! Today, there is broken. case he made no eye contact church, St. George’s, on Fifty rings as a flower girl, about 7, a Wedding-Industrial Complex No gifts, either. A silver tray and refused to dance near me Fourth Street. came down the aisle tossing that is powerful, expensive, is placed for envelopes that, ac - for a Tsamiko. Occasions like weddings and rose petals. stressful and complicated. First, cording to the amount enclosed, Good manners force you to baptisms were really special, Happily, many children my there is the rehearsal dinner decide IF you will be invited to stay awake and stop looking at something everyone enjoyed age were present. That meant given by the groom’s family to the baptism. The cake ‘engineer’ your watch. 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But, it is a day dinner that is served by white vices rendered – that being just send them a check, my best of the approaching wedding of have been about 20 families in that the daughter had been gloved, unsmiling personnel. walking twenty feet to the altar regards and go to a movie. Oh, a beautiful Greek girl named the hall. A table laden with dreaming of since reading Cin - The bride’s father invited his and, reward for wearing an ugly for the Good Ol’ Days! Theoni who had come to Amer - sumptuous food that the church derella. ica not very long before her ladies, neighbors and the bride’s The groom is dreaming of wedding. Blond, blue eyed, hav - relatives prepared for the occa - the Super Bowl. Wedding plan - ing a sweet disposition and sion, consisted of roast beef and ners tell you how everything kinda’ shy she became affianced ham sandwiches, various salads, should be done, or the wedding to a young man named, Fotinos, feta and olives and spinach pie will be a disaster. A professional THE NATIONAL HERALD BOOKSTORE a house painter. squares, all piled high on several florist smothers the church, re - Our neighbor, Arsenia, told large platters. Sodas, beer and ception hall, bridesmaids, ush - Exercise your mind with the latest books from The National Herald Collection my mother and the grape vine wine stood in large pitchers at ers and bride with flowers that spread the news throughout the another table with glasses that the bride’s father is urged to pay neighborhood. The wedding a church worker was assigned before the blooms wilt. The mu - was in May, a day full of sun - to wash at intervals. Greek mu - sic is so loud conversation is im - shine and blue skies. My mother sic from a Victrola filled the air possible. 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Fourna, a small Greek village to 943 President St., Apt. 3R, Brooklyn, NY 07/31/2014. Office location: Kings County. 11215. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom away peacefully surrounded by papou, was born on November Meade (Ret.) of Hampton, NH. surrounded by the Aegean Sea process against the LLC may be served. SSNY 274300/10801 loving family and friends on 30, 1955 in the village of Vouni Cherished aunt to ten nieces and with white jagged cliffs and shall mail process to: c/o United States Corpo - ration Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avnue, March 5, 2015. George was a de - on the island of Andros, Greece. nephews. She is also survived by beautiful flowers that she loved Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any Lawful voted husband, father, grandfa - He entered into heaven on Feb - her cousin Louis Heliotis and his and the home that never left her LEgAL NOTICE Purpose. ther, godfather, brother, uncle, ruary 26, 2015 at his home in wife Suzanne. She received her heart. During WWII her parents 1010 ROKHAM LLC, Arts. of Org. filed 274257/19384 with the SSNY on 02/13/2015. Office loc: cousin, employer, and friend. His Tempe, AZ with the comfort of early education in the Lowell and six siblings fled to Volos, Kings County. SSNY has been designated LEgAL NOTICE final days were marked with the his family. Bill left home at the school system and graduated Greece, to escape the upheaval as agent upon whom process against the Notice of formation of RIO GOODIE LLC. same qualities that defined his age of 14 after World War II to from Lowell High School with of Nazi atrocities. In 1947, at the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail Articles of organization filed with the Secre - life- dignity, humor, respect for work in Athens. At the age of 17 the Class of 1945. During her young age of 27 she arrived in process to: 8119 Flatlands Ave, Brooklyn, tary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/27/14. NY 11236. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY has others, and above all, love for he joined the Greek Merchant high school years, Pat was an ac - the United States for an 274285/16818 been designated as agent of the LLC upon his family. George was born in marines where he sailed the complished baton twirler and led arranged marriage by her sister whom process against it may be served. Chania, Crete, Greece, in 1934, world on two different oil her team to many winning com - and mother- in-law to Dimitri LEgAL NOTICE SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 979 Port Notice of Formation of SURE MEASURE LLC a Washington Blvd., Port Washington, NY the second son of the late Adam tankers, the Sea Thunder and the petitions. Throughout her life, (Jimmy) Antonio Mantzuranis, 11050. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Petros until he was 22 years old. she supported Lowell High and a man whom she had never met. (DOM. LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York, (SSNY) on 274245/19196 He came to the U.S. in 1957 at served on the Reunion Commit - The marriage took place only 10/15/2014. Office location: Kings County. SSNY the Newport News Virginia and tee for each of her class reunions. four days later on December 28. is designated as agent upon whom process made his way to Chicago to be Mrs. Kalergis became affiliated Jimmy had emigrated to the U.S. against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail LEgAL NOTICE process to: Neil Burgess, 1165 E 54 Street, Apt. with his Uncle. He met his wife, with Dennis Office Supply in from Sparta, Greece, via Ellis Is - 3G, Brooklyn, NY 11234. Purpose: Any Lawful Notice of formation of THE MACSTERN Dorothy Andrews and was mar - Lowell as a Salesperson, and land as a 6 year old in 1912. Purpose. GROUP, LLC. (DOM. LLC). Articles of orga - nization filed with the Secretary of State of ried May 24, 1959. Bill and continued with Boise Cascade in Amalia left her family in Greece 274279/19402 N.Y. (SSNY) on 1/07/2015. Office location: Dorothy moved to Phoenix in Burlington after they were ac - and made a home with Jimmy, Kings County. SSNY has been designated as 1959 and had three children, quired by Dennis, until she re - his mother, and his brother in a agent of the LLC upon whom process LEgAL NOTICE against it may be served. SSNY shall mail Nicholas, Anthony (Tony) and tired in 1991. She was a lifelong, small house near Greenville Ave. process to: Kristin MacQuarrie, 39 E 2nd Katina Marie (Tina). He worked active member of the Transfigu - Sadly, she could not return to Notice of Formation of HOME BASE DEVELOP MENT , Str., Brooklyn, NY 11218. Purpose: Any LLC a (DOM. LLC). Articles of Organization filed lawful activity. a the Flame restaurant in down - ration Greek Orthodox Church, Greece until years after her fa - with the Secretary of State of New York, (SSNY) town Phoenix until 1960 when and belonged to the Daughters ther passed away. Jimmy and on 12/29/2014. Office location: Nassau County. 274244/19368 he saved up enough money to of Penelope and the Philoptochos Amalia were married for 55 SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail buy the The Busy Bee Cafe on Society. Pat loved traveling the years until his death in 2003. process to: The LLC, 2632 Yorktown St., Oceanside, LEgAL NOTICE NY 11572. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 1st Avenue and Washington with world with Gregory, especially to Our family remembers her as Notice of formation of COCONUT his Uncle George and Brother Greece, Aruba and Hawaii, and possessing the virtues of a noble COCONUT AND COCONUT, LLC. (DOM. Gust. He moved to Tempe in hosting summer gatherings at woman, a force of nature. "She 274277/19400 LLC). Articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 1978 and retired in 1996 as a the family "compound" at walked in love and lived in faith. LEgAL NOTICE 1/02/2015. Office location: Kings County. Restaurateur after 46 years in the Seabrook Beach. For over 40 Hers was the imperishable Notice of Formation of ADDING SSNY has been designated as agent of the business owning 4 restaurants years, she enjoyed playing poker beauty of a gentle and quiet VALUED ASSESSMENT, LLC a (DOM. LLC). LLC upon whom process against it may be and one nightclub, with his three times a week with the spirit, which in God's eyes is pre - Articles of Organization filed with the Sec - served. SSNY shall mail process to: Yair Ty - retary of State of New York, (SSNY) on giel, 315 Seigel St., Loft 310, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Purpose: Any lawful activity. brothers and sons, throughout same group of great friends. Mrs. cious." She became an exem - 09/19/2014. Office location: Kings County. Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Mesa, Kalergis truly lived life to the plary daughter-in-law, devoted SSNY is designated as agent upon whom 274242/19364 AZ. In retirement he once again fullest. Most of all, she enjoyed wife, aunt, mother, mother-in- process against the LLC may be served. traveled the world visiting spending time with her family law, and a most loving grand - SSNY shall mail process to: c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th LEgAL NOTICE Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, the and friends, who will always re - mother and great-grand-mother Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any Caribbean, Europe, and taking member her larger than life per - known to them as YiaYia. One Lawful Purpose. Notice of formation of 216 PPW REALTY LLC. (DOM. LLC). Articles of organization George Adam Angelakis his entire family to Greece in sonality, and invincible spirit. of the proudest highlights of her 274276/19398 filed with the Secretary of State of N.Y. June of 2014. Bill is preceded in Friends who wish may make life was in 1964, the day she be - LEgAL NOTICE (SSNY) on 1/05/2015. Office location: and Agapi Angelakis. He immi - death by his parents Andonis and memorial donations in her name came a United States citizen. Al - Kings County. SSNY has been designated as IRENE C. PAPANESTOR ART ADVISORY agent of the LLC upon whom process grated in 1955 to the Trenton Katarina Bafaloukos, his eldest to the Transfiguration Greek Or - though raised in poverty, having LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ NY Sec. of State against it may be served. SSNY shall mail area, where he worked various sister Froso Stratis and son, An - thodox Church, 25 Fr. John only a 3rd grade education, and (SSNY) on 2/20/15. Office in NY Co. process to: Robert Panza / 216 PPW REALTY restaurant jobs until 1961, when thony (Tony) Bafaloukos. He is Sarantos Way, Lowell, MA speaking no English when she SSNY designated agent for service of LLC, 205 Rumson Road, Rumson, NJ process. SSNY shall mail process to The 07760. Purpose: Any lawful activity. he joined JB Airline Catering. In survived by his wife of 55 years 01854. arrived in the U.S., she was de - LLC, 200 W 26th St. 7L, NY, NY 10001. 274240/19363 1975, George opened his own Dorothy, son Nicholas (Lisa), termined to live a hard-working Purpose: Any lawful activity. company, Ariston Airline Cater - daughter Katina " Tina" Wilder n KOUBAROULIS, VASILIOS life, dedicated to family and 274275/18796 FUNERAL HOMES ing in Wrightstown, NJ, and be - (Kevin), grandchildren Tyler, BRADENTON, FL (From the faith. She lived an American LEgAL NOTICE came a well-respected leader in Alexa, and Christopher, his eldest Herald Tribune, published on Dream. Amalia learned English Notice of Formation of Sterling Sports, LLC. the airline catering industry. brother Leonard, brother Gust, Mar. 4) – Koubaroulis, Vasilios on her own. She and Jimmy had Art. of Org. filed Sec'y of State (SSNY) APOSTOLOPOULOS With his family, he went on to his twin brother Athanasou Oct. 30, 1943 - Feb. 28, 2015. two sons that they raised and 5/20/14. Principal Office: 105 Stewart Ave Apostle Family - found Colonial Farms Gourmet (Tom), younger sister Olga Sper - Vasilios Koubaroulis, 71, of educated both in the Greek Or - NY, Nassau County. SSNY designated as process agent. Process Service address: 105 Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - Foods in Washington Crossing, tos, and youngest brother Bradenton, Florida passed away thodox Church traditions and Stewart Avenue, Garden City, NY. Purpose: PA, in 1989, and Olives in Prince - Stephanos and many family and on February, 28, 2015, from pan - faith. She insisted that her sons Any lawful activity. Funeral Directors of ton, NJ, in 1995. George was es - friends. He was a 52 member of creatic cancer. Vasilios was born attend not only Greek School to 274261/19386 RIVERDALE pecially committed to his Greek the Order of Ahepa (American on October 30, 1943 in Gas - learn to read, write, and speak FUNERAL HOME Inc. Orthodox faith. His love for the Hellenic Educational Progressive touni, Greece, during WWII, to fluent Greek but also English, LEgAL NOTICE 5044 Broadway church was nurtured as a young Association) and received his Ioannis and Zothoxospigi and practice oratory in both lan - Notice of formation of GLIFN MEDIA LLC, a New York, NY 10034 boy growing up next to a church. lifelong membership status in Koubaroulis. Vasilios was a high guages! Tony and Chris were ed - (DOM. LLC). Ar ticles of Organization filed (212) 942-4000 He served his home parish of St. January 2014 from the Tri-City school athlete who was chosen ucated in the Dallas Public with the Secretary of State of New York Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE George Greek Orthodox Church Chapter 454. He was one of six to run the torch for his village School System and were first (SSNY) on 11/05/2014. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent CONSTANTINIDES of Trenton, NJ, for over 55 years. founding families of St. Kather - in the 1960 Olympic Games. As generation Mantzuranis' to grad - upon whom process against the LLC may be George was on the parish council ine Greek Orthodox Church in a young man, he served in the uate from colleges, UTA and served. SSNY shall mail process to: Legalinc FUNERAL PARLOR Co. for over 40 years, serving in var - Chandler, AZ. In lieu of flowers, coast guard in Pireus, Greece. SMU, respectively, and became Corporate Services Inc., 90 State Street, (718) 745-1010 Suite 700, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: ious positions, including presi - please make donations to St. He later studied at the America successful businessmen in Dal - Any Lawful Purpose. Services in all localities - dent for six years, treasurer, and Katherine Greek Orthodox Language School in Athens, las. She enjoyed days filled with 274264/19390 Low cost shipping to Greece vice president. In his later years, Chuch, 2716 N. Dobson Rd, Greece, where he also worked tasks and simple joys of life and George was an advisor to the sit - Suite 101, Chandler, AZ 85226 for several years until he de - service to her family. Until her LEgAL NOTICE ANTONOPOULOS ting parish council, an occasional in memory of Bill Bafaloukos. parted for America in 1968. One retirement at the age of 75, she FUNERAL HOME, INC. cantor, and a driving force be - of his greatest and most mean - worked alongside her husband Notice of formation of 17LEFT, LLC a (DOM. LLC). Ar ticles of Organization Konstantinos Antonopoulos - hind a successful stewardship n CHIADIS, MARIA ingful days was when he became Jimmy first at their Garden Food filed with the Secretary of State of New committee. In 2008, he became BETHLEHEM, PA (From the Ex - a naturalized citizen of the USA. Store, and later with her hus - York (SSNY) on 01/09/2015. Office loca - Funeral Director Archon Depoutatos of The Great press Times, published on Feb. In 1970, he met Matilda Gian - band and their son, Tony, at his tion: Kings County. SSNY is designated as 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., agent upon whom process against the LLC Church of Christ, an honor be - 28) – Maria Chiadis, 84 of Beth - noutsos, his wife of 42 years. Little Gus' restaurant, 6 days a may be served. SSNY shall mail process Astoria, New York 11105 stowed from The Ecumenical Pa - lehem died on February 26, 2015 They traveled the world together week. Amalia was honored with to: Abigail Kramer, 242 Leferts Ave #1, (718) 728-8500 triarchate, to recognize his com - at home surrounded by her fam - as newlyweds, until they were the title of "D Magazine's Best Brooklyn, NY 11225. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Not affiliated with any mitment to the betterment of the ily. Wife of the late Michael J. blessed with three children. Af - Baklava." Amalia enjoyed her 274256/19383 other funeral home. church, archdiocese, metropolis, Chiadis, who died on May 6, ter leaving the liquor business daily cast of characters at Little and his parish. It was that com - 2007. Maria was born in Nea in 1977, he began working for Gus'; an eclectic mix of news re - mitment that drove George's out - Kios, Greece on August 13, 1930, Eastern Airlines, which allowed porters, politicians, musicians, standing service to the church daughter of the late Nicholas and him to transfer his employment artists and writers. But it was tO PlAce yOur clAssiFied Ad, cAll: (718) 784-5255, and his tireless leadership in the Eleni (Hatzidakis) Tsakiris. She from New York to Norfolk, Vir - also the simple, ordinary-extra - ext. 106, e-mAil: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com Orthodox Christian community. began her working career as an ginia. He was an active member ordinary people, families, and George dedicated himself to the accomplished seamstress in both of the Norfolk church, and was children, whom Amalia, clad in success and expansion of the New York and Bethlehem. She credited for helping to start the her white apron, adopted as her Greek-American community also worked at Mike's Restau - Socrates Club. He participated own "family." Amalia remains through his unselfish acts of ser - rant, Durkee's, and at her hus - in the church theater group, and part of the legend, culture and ancé Tony Vanzant; great grand - 2015 Resident of Walnut Creek. vice. He was a member of AHEPA band's store, the Boulevard Food created a Karagiozi and folklore of Lower Greenville Av - sons, Griffin Wood Helwig, Vail Nikoletta Vlahiotis passed away Chapter 72 in Trenton for over Market in Bethlehem for over 30 Denekethoupouli production for enue's long and rich history. Her Butler Mantzuranis, Cole Collins peacefully in the home of her 50 years and the St. George years. Maria was a devoted the Greek school. After the strong hands throughout her life Mant-zuranis, and Grayson Lee daughter Catherine surrounded Greek Festival Committee for member of St. Nicholas Greek demise of Eastern Airlines in were sculpted as a child while Vanzant; step grandsons, by her loving family. She was 88 over 35 years and was a found - Orthodox Cathedral in Bethle - 1988, Vasilios continued to work working the wheat fields in Michael Alred and Timothy Stu - years old. Yiayia was born in Fi - ing member of "Knossos," the hem and she enjoyed serving in at Norfolk International Airport, Fourna and sewing dolls in a fac - art; beloved nieces and their oliti, Zante, Greece to Haralam - Delaware Valley Chapter of The her church community. She was providing customer service until tory owned by a benevolent families, Mary and Nick Zotos, bos and Antonia Vlahiotis. The Pancretan Association of Amer - a member of the Choir, Senior they retired to Sarasota, Florida Jewish family in Volos during Dr. John Zotos and wife Raquel, eldest of five, growing up she ica. George was a friend of the Citizens and the Ladies Philop - in 2010. They soon joined St. the war. Never did she realize and Nicholas Zotos; Angie and lived through the Great Depres - Greek Orthodox Metropolis of NJ tochos of the Cathedral. Maria Barbara's church, and Vasilios where her hands with strength Nick Eliades, Sophia Cobb and sion, the Nazi occupation, the and many clergy. He is survived was beloved by her family and became a member of the Kali would take her. We will remem - her husband Ken, and Eleni Eli - Greek Civil War, and the Greek by his wife of 50 years, Katina; friends for her caring, giving Parea club, and an avid bowler ber and treasure the image of ades; and many relatives in earthquakes of 1953. She immi - his children, Adam Angelakis spirit and servant heart. She gen - with the Young Spirits. As re - her joy in using her hands, wrin - Greece. Much gratitude to grated to the United States in and his wife, Mina, of Penning - erously shared her time and tal - tirees, they spent four months of kled over time, kneading and Amalia's special guardian angels 1955 with her husband Anasta - ton, NJ; Eve Golfinopoulos and ents whenever a need arose. Her the year in their home in Xy - baking bread and prosforo for on earth, Dr. Neal Sklaver, sios and two boys Yiannis and her husband, Theodore, of Skill - Sunday dinners were legendary lokastro, Greece where he en - communion, cooking in abun - Nancy and Alison for 25 years, Anthony for a better life. Yiayia man, NJ, and Nicholas Angelakis and her original recipes will be joyed making model sailboats. dance the favorite dishes of and in her golden years, Mary was a great inspiration to her and his wife, Mary, of Washing - cherished. Survivors: Daughter Vasilios was a devout Christian, kourambiedes, baklava, Greek Malcolm her beloved companion family. She loved to cook, sew, ton Crossing, PA. A devout family Athene Blow, wife of Paul of exemplified the American turkey and dressing, the New and caretaker, and in the last garden and crocheted blankets man, George leaves a great Coopersburg; son Dr. James M. dream, devoted himself to his Year's cake for God, church and year of her life the caring, com - for all her children and grand - legacy of 12 grandchildren, Chiadis, wife of Anne and their wife and children, and provided family with the coveted silver passionate staff at Arden Courts children. She always had a Katina, Eleni, George A., Manoli, son Michael J. Chiadis all of for his family with the utmost dollar for luck. Her hands softly Memory Care Community as she shiny, happy disposition and a Aristea, Kassiani, Stamatis, Bethlehem; sister Eleftheria Rap - humility, selflessness, and en - blessing her cakes with the sign and our family moved through smile on her face even toward Agapi, George N., Zoe, Maximos, tis of Athens, Greece; sister in durance. He is survived by his of the cross, and those same the challenging journey of the very end of her life when and Evangelos. All services will laws Elisavet Tsakiris of Nea Kios, wife, Matilda Koubaroulis of hands holding and nurturing her Alzheimer's disease. Amalia's re - her body started failing. Her be held at St. George Greek Or - Greece and Virginia Compos of Bradenton, FL.; son, John precious grandchildren for over lationships with God, family, and love for her family was selfless thodox Church, 1200 Klockner Bethlehem, and many nieces and Koubaroulis of Virginia Beach, 32 years. Prov. 31:25-31 "Honor Christ guided her: Prov. 31:26 and unconditional. Yiayia is sur - Road, Trenton, NJ. Funeral ser - nephews. Predeceased by her VA; son, B.J. Koubaroulis, her for all that her hands have "She opens her mouth with wis - vived by her husband of 68 vices will be Monday, March 9, brother Demetri Tsakiris. Service: daughter-in-law, Danielle Mor - done, and let her works bring dom and the teaching of kind - years Anastasios. Loving son at 11:30 a.m. His Eminence Met - Funeral Service on Monday rison Koubaroulis, granddaugh - her praise at the city gate." ness is on her tongue." In lieu of Yiannis and his wife Diana. ropolitan Evangelos will preside March 2, 2015 at 11 AM in St. ters, Penelope and Zoey Everyone who knew her will flowers please consider memo - Grandchildren Nicole Vlahos over the funeral, followed by Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathe - Koubaroulis of Chantilly, VA; miss her sky-blue twinkling eyes rials to the Amalia Mantzuranis Ledo, husband Henry and great burial at Greenwood Cemetery. dral 1607 W. Union Blvd. Beth - daughter, Joyce Anne and her loving smile, that one Scholarship Fund at Holy Trinity granddaughter Pelagia Niko - Funeral arrangements are under lehem. There will be a viewing Koubaroulis of Virginia Beach, relative always commented: "A Academy, or St. Barbara's Ladies letta, and their pets Olive and the direction of the Hamilton on Sunday from 3PM to 5PM VA. Visitation will be held on day without Amalia is a day Philoptochos, both c/o Holy Peso, grandson Anastasios, Brenna-Cellini Funeral Home, and on Monday from 10AM to Thursday, March 5, 2015 at without Sunshine!" She and Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, granddaughter Melina Vlahos 2365 Whitehorse-Mercerville 11 AM in the Cathedral. Entomb - Toale Brothers Funeral Homes, Jimmy spoiled their menagerie 13555 Hillcrest Road, Dallas, TX Christidis and her husband Rd., Hamilton, NJ 08619. Please ment will be in the Mausoleum Colonial Chapel, 40 N. Orange of dogs, pet doves, pigeons, 75240. George, and their pets Nunu and visit George's tribute page at at Bethlehem Memorial Park Avenue, Sarasota from 6:00 PM squirrels, parakeets, and cats, Koko. Loving son Anthony and www.brennacellinifuneral - Cemetery. Funeral arrangements until 8:00 PM with a Trisagion both domestic and those that n VLAHIOTIS, NIKOLETTA his wife Zoe, grandson Nicholas homes.com. In lieu of flowers, are by the John F. Herron Fu - service at 7:00 PM. Funeral ser - came to her back door for a good OAKLAND, CA (From the Contra (deceased), granddaughter the family has requested memo - neral Home in Bethlehem. Con - vices will be held on Friday meal. Her passion for growing Costa Times, published on Feb. Alexandra Joy Delis, husband rial donations be sent to St. tributions: in Maria's memory to March 6, 2015 at 11:00 AM at roses, Greek herbs, fig trees, and 18) – Nikoletta Vlahiotis (Yi - Athanasios and great grandson George Greek Orthodox Church, the Cathedral. St. Barbara Greek Orthodox African violets revealed her great ayia) June 8,1926 - February13, Nicholas Eleftherios. Loving 1200 Klockner Road, Trenton, NJ Church, 7671 N. Lockwood love of nature. The heartbeat of daughter and caretaker Cather - 08619. Hamilton Brenna-Cellini n KALERgIS, POTA Ridge Road, Sarasota. Burial will the Mantzuranis' Family, she this is a service ine Sotiropulos and her husband Funeral Home 2365 Whitehorse- LOWELL, MA (From the Lowell follow in Palms Memorial Park. leaves to carry on her legacy, her to the community. Panagiotis, grandchildren Anas - Mercerville Rd. Hamilton, NJ Sun, published on Feb. 25) – Memorial donations may be two sons, Antonio "Tony" Dimitri Announcements of deaths tasios, Christopher, and Basilios, 08619 (609) 584-8080. Pota "Pat" (Koutros) Kalergis, a made to St. Barbara Greek Or - Mant-zuranis and wife Teresa may be telephoned to the and loving friend, companion, lifelong resident of Lowell, died thodox Church. Gentry, Christos Dimitri Mantzu - classified department of and grand dog Agape. Funeral February 22, 2015, at Lowell ranis and wife Genny; grandchil - the national herald at services will be on Thursday Feb days and dates of funerals, General Hospital, after a brief n MANTzURANIS, AMALIA dren and the loves of her life, (718) 784-5255, 19, at 10 am at St. Demetrios memorials, and other events di - period of declining health, aged DALLAS, TX (From the Dallas Christina Mantzuranis Helwig monday through Friday, Church 1955 Kirker Pass Rd, rectly correspond to the original 88 years. Born in Lowell, Novem - Morning News, published on and her husband, Carter, James 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. est Concord. Burial will be at Oak - publication date, which appears ber 15, 1926, the daughter of the Feb. 15) – MANTZURANIS, Christos Mantzuranis and his or e-mailed to: mont Cemetery in Lafayette. In at the beginning of each notice. late Dionisius and Mary (Helio - Amalia Trahanee Amalia Traha - wife Catherine, and Rachel [email protected] lieu of flowers, donations can be tis) Koutros. Beloved wife of the nee Mantzuranis joined her Lord Amelia Mantzuranis and her fi - made to St. Demetrios Church. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015 FEATURE 9

FROM MY BOOKSHELF… A RECURRING COLUMN OF LITERARY REVIEWS Wingnuts: Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief John Avlon Delivers a Masterpiece

By Constantinos E. Scaros writes about the “tenthers,” who when we realize that those who enact nonpartisan reforms to re - in their absolutist defense of the utter them weren’t trying to be verse gerrymandering and Wingnuts: a Perfect Constitution’s Tenth Amend - funny: among them, the alarm - closed partisan primaries con - Description of the Political ment proclaim that the states ingly-high percentage of Repub - trolled by political hacks; and Problem have a right to secede from the licans who think President 3) the non-extremist majority Wingnuts, 2nd Ed., by John Union, and make no efforts to Obama is the Antichrist, and needs to stop being passive and Avlon (Beast Books, 2014) conceal that possibility is their Keith Olbermann’s rant that the stand up to the wingnuts. But heart’s most ardent desire. Fox News Channel is worse than they do not go far enough. The Wingnuts, by Greek-Ameri - Closely related to that group are al-Qaeda and the Ku Klux Klan. “what” is great, but there should can John Avlon, is a master - the “Three-Percenters,” who in - Avlon provides a much- be more about the “how.” piece. I don’t often use that sist that only three percent of needed chapter on the deterio - One way to go about the how word lightly, but this book cer - American Colonists even fought ration of the American media, is through education. The more tainly deserves it. And the sec - in the War for Independence. and though he doesn’t explicitly people – young and old alike – ond edition, published just a few And the point they glean from call them “ratings whores,” my who understand the problem months ago, is as relevant as that statistic – a dubious one to guess is he would agree with will become intellectually em - ever. begin with – is that somehow that description. powered to bring about the so - Avlon is Editor-in-Chief of being a unified nation is tanta - Finally, Avlon provides reme - lution. To that end, I think the Daily Beast, awarded best mount to government over - Internet News Site in 2012 and reach. 2013 by the International Acad - The main quality of Avlon’s emy of Digital Arts and Sci - book, though, is his evenhand - ences. edness throughout. He writes Over the seven years that I’ve about the wackos on the left been writing a regular column quite a bit, too. 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My the “Bush Derangement Syn - other consistent theme, then, drome” (BDS), coined by con - has been to defend presidents servative columnist and com - rather strongly more often than 2006 or so, the Republicans in First, through a glossary rich mentator Charles Krauthammer Greek-American John Avlon is Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Beast, not. great part simply lost their in content, Avlon introduces the as: “the acute onset of paranoia awarded best Internet News Site in 2012 and 2013 by the In - Of course, considering that minds. Nonetheless, I’m sure reader to some Wingnut termi - in otherwise normal people in ternational Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. the occupier of the White House that will change when the GOP nology: there are the “birthers” reaction to the politics, the pres - over most of the past seven reclaims the White House and – who demand to see the “long idency – nay – the very exis - dies for how to break this spell Wingnuts should be required years has been a Democrat, the the Democrats become the hyp - form” of President Obama’s tence of George W. Bush.” the wingnuts have cast on our reading for every high school preeminent whiners during that ocritical sore losers. birth certificate, as they insist With a chapter on the history nation. If the book could have and college student in America. time have been, by default, the Because Wingnuts is a book that he was really born in Kenya of extremism in America, Avlon been better in any respect, it is That would be a good start. Republicans. For that reason, I and not a newspaper column, and has no legal right to be pres - points out that being a Wingnut in this final segment. Avlon’s Meanwhile, I am looking for - tend to rail against Republicans however, it has the advantage ident. Personally, I am happy to is nothing new – these phases remedies, to be sure, are sound: ward to the third edition, which more often than Democrats of compiling hyperpartisan ex - see Avlon spend so much time of American history come and 1) the majority of Americans are I imagine Avlon would write nowadays. In fact, my forthcom - tremist lunacy from both parties on that preposterous notion – go. He details, in fact, the me - not extremists, and should unite sometime around 2018, if a Re - ing book (to be published this over the past several years, in a because I have long deemed it teoric rise and eventual ebb of across party lines (this speaks publican wins the White House summer), Grumpy Old Party, wonderful compendium that ad - one of the most absurd theories Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. to Avlon’s first book, Indepen - in 2016, at which point the De - which is about the 2016 elec - dresses the epidemic in whole I have ever heard (and that’s Avlon shares quotes that are dent Nation: How Centrists Can mocrats surely will reclaim the tion, devotes a great deal of rather than attributing it to a saying a lot, because there are highly-amusing in their delu - Change American Politics title of most outspoken space to how, around the year specific political party. tons of them out there). Avlon sion, the laughter subsiding only (Three Rivers Press, 2005); 2) wingnuts.

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Poll, schmoll! Never mind what the CPAC Straw Poll says. For now, keep an eye on these four (L-R): Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, and George Pataki. It’s a long way ‘till 2016. What the CPAC Straw Poll Reveals and Conceals about 2016 Election

By Constantinos E. Scaros wing, though he is less extreme other son’s in-laws are from trunner, Hillary Clinton, is a Twins. He, too, has a puncher’s New York Governor George and divisive than his father, Afghanistan. This is no lily- woman, too, this gives Fiorina chance. Pataki. Since retiring from the The Conservative Political Ron, the former Congressman white redneck cracker, folks – a golden opportunity to Hillary- The two favorites, as I see it, governorship in 2006, Pataki Action Committee (CPAC) Con - and cult favorite perennial pres - and though he is hardly the bash to her heart’s content with - are NJ Governor Chris Christie has not run for office again. But ference, held every year in idential candidate. odds-on favorite, he’s also the out the risk of being seen as a and former Arkansas Governor he has practically no negatives, Washington, is essentially the The big story (according to least likely to be counted out sexist, or an alpha-male bully. If – and more importantly, for na - is a well-seasoned politician, dog-and-pony show of the Re - much of the media, but not to anytime soon. nothing else, Fiorina can expose tional name recognition, long - and has never lost an election. publican Party. It is a beauty this columnist) is the “surge” of Marco Rubio at this juncture the chinks in Hillary’s armor, time Fox News Channel talk Oh – and he’s the one who de - contest for prospective presiden - Wisconsin Governor Scott (to throw in a George H.W. and she might even emerge as show host – Mike Huckabee. throned liberal legend Mario tial candidates to strut their Walker, the latest GOP flavor- Bush-ism), if everyone doesn’t a VP possibility if for some rea - They are the charisma leaders Cuomo to become governor in stuff, and this year’s event took of-the-month. Walker’s novelty realize it yet, is far and away son Rubio doesn’t want the gig. of this bunch, and like cream, the first place. place February 25-28. is that he managed to fight and the most valuable of the group: Lindsey Graham also has one charisma tends to rise to the top. Besides, it’s the candidates Make no mistake, the speak - beat the big unions in Wiscon - not for the top spot, but for vice advantage that most seem to Just give it time, it’s early yet. It we least expect to win the nom - ers there are not being altruistic: sin. Good for him – and I mean president. I cannot think of a overlook: in a year already dom - will just come down to whether ination at this point, who usu - they are there to woo the audi - that sincerely. 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TNH Staff sively consolidated our budget out on a summer evening in a Greece is isolated is entirely in recent years and now have Bouzouki nightclub along the wrong. Throughout the entire In an in-depth interview to primary surpluses instead of coast or if you go to Mykonos. time of the negotiations, we the German publication Der deficits. But we still can't borrow It is the Greece of the tax have experienced solidarity Spiegel, Greek Prime Minister money ourselves on the capital evaders and the cheats. We from all of Europe of a kind we Alexis Tsipras explained why the markets. To do so, we have to know full well that many of haven't seen since the times of “Institutions” are different from win back trust, become compet - these bars and restaurants don't the dictatorship.” the “Troika” in more than just itive and return to growth. Until issue any receipts. We are going CLASH IS POLITICAL, name only, and why even that time, though, we have to to be very strict against this NOT ETHNIC though Greece seeks additional finance ourselves in another Greece. What about the tensions be - loans, they are not “bailouts” way.” “We are forming a task force tween Germany and Greece? this time. But doesn’t that still translate for targeted checks and its They are political, not ethnic, The Troika/Institutions lan - to Eurozone money? “Look, it's staffing is to be changed every Tsipras explains. “There is in guage “is not a question of ter - not about philanthropy for two months so that it doesn't fact an unfair climate towards minology,” Tsipras said. It has Greece, Tsipras insists. “It's become corrupt. We have a min - Greece in Germany. Media like to do with the core of the issue. about joint responsibility and ister who is responsible for com - the Bild newspaper portray all Every country in Europe has to European solidarity. If Greece batting tax evasion, a former Greeks as greedy bums and con work together with these insti - can't service its debt, that also public prosecutor. An indepen - artists. And here in Greece, Ger - tutions. But that is something has an effect on our partners. dent organization is to be set up mans are portrayed as hard- very different than a troika that As such, a safety net for Greece under him that is not influenced nosed people who have enmity is beholden to nobody. Its offi - is necessary and we also have by the political system.” towards us. But it's not about a cials came to Greece to strictly to return to the capital markets But spending all of his time clash between people -- it's one monitor us. Now, we are again as rapidly as possible. But that negotiating is not going to gen - between conservative and leftist speaking directly with the insti - can't be combined with a pro - erate changes any faster, he forces. The one side is pushing tutions. Europe has become gram that has led to a situation From institutions that aren’t Troika to loans that aren’t a says. “During the past 30 days, for austerity and the other more democratic because of this of social distress; we need one bailout, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has an answer for I have spent 90 percent of my wants growth.” change. that brings growth.” all of Der Spiegel’s tough questions. time negotiating how we can Why has Tsipras visited other “The reforms won't be ap - Tsipras says he will succeed meet deadlines in order to se - European leaders, but not Ger - proved by the institutions. They where his predecessors have the past. The needy will also be bailout program. Today, 35 per - cure our financing. That is in no man Chancellor Angela Merkel? have a say in the process and failed “because we are not part able to use it to pay for groceries cent of Greeks live beneath the way productive or creative. The Because “I received an invitation establish a framework that ap - of the old system, as [they] and electricity. Second: the nec - poverty line and 600,000 chil - meeting of the Euro Group on from François Hollande, from plies to all in Europe. Previously, were. In particular, we will re - essary administration reform to dren don't have enough to eat, Feb. 20, when our loan agree - Matteo Renzi, from the Austrian the situation was such that the strict the unrestrained activities make the state more efficient. according to UNICEF. We have ment was extended, was an im - federal chancellor and the Bel - troika would send an email of the oligarchs. They control Third: the introduction of a rate already received EU funding for portant step. A decision was gian prime minister and even telling the Greek government the media and still receive huge payment plan for tax debts. The the fight against the humanitar - made to give us breathing room, from David Cameron, but I have what it had to do. Our planned loans from the banks, in con - fourth reform has to do with tax ian crisis and I will speak to Eu - but the ECB is still holding onto not received an invitation from reforms are necessary, but we trast to normal companies. We administration and the fifth ropean Commission President the rope that is around our Angela Merkel. If I were to re - are deciding on them ourselves. would also like to monitor the aims at the creation of a politi - Jean-Claude Juncker in the necks.” ceive an invitation from the They aren't being forced onto us work of state suppliers, which cally independent tax council. coming days to find out if we DON’T REPEL SYRIZA chancellor, I would accept it im - by anyone. We want to stop have established vast cartels. No The sixth is the creation of a can receive additional funds.” Tsipras emphasized that “the mediately. I have telephoned large-scale tax evasion and tax reasonable person can be op - task force for targeted tax audits Spiegel pointed out that the growing civil movement for a with her and we have spoken fraud more than anybody. Thus posed to such a plan, and we so as to combat tax evasion in rest of Europe is concerned change of course in the south during summits. I think we have far, it has only been the low are determined to tackle it.” the middle classes as well.” about Greece’s plan to allow would then become an anti-Eu - a good relationship and that earners and not the wealthy that Tsipras also explained his six- But how, Spiegel asked, does Greeks to pay back taxes in in - ropean current. By punishing there's good chemistry between paid. We also want to make the point reforms plan: “First: com - he justify more spending? “We stallments lasting as long as 100 SYRIZA in Greece, you do not us. [But] I do not go to places state more efficient.” bating the humanitarian crisis. have already presented a draft months. Wouldn’t that cause slow the dynamic of Podemos where I have not been invited.” As for more loans, “I We want to create an electronic law in parliament. It corre - revenues to dry up completely? in Spain -- instead you compel LEAVE VAROUFAKIS ALONE wouldn’t call [them] a bailout,” Citizen Smart Card that can be sponds with our promise to es - “Quite to the contrary,” Tsipras it to become anti-European. By Spiegel pressed Tsipras on Tsipras explained. Instead, “I used to access public services tablish social justice. The hu - said. “It will create immediate doing so, you strengthen Beppe Yanis Varoufakis, contending would say that Greece has fi - for which applications to seven manitarian crisis is collateral revenues for the state. At the Grillo in Italy, Marine Le Pen in that the outspoken Greek Fi - nancing needs. We have mas - authorities had to be made in damage resulting from the moment, the tax debt owed by France -- and opponents of the nance Minister “provokes” peo - Greeks is increasing by a billion European Union like Nigel ple. “We don't meddle in Ger - euros each month. We want to Farage in Britain will be very, man domestic policy and dictate reverse this development. And very pleased.” to Germany who becomes fi - of course we will not offer this But Greece was isolated dur - nance minister or chancellor,” to people who are capable of ing Eurozone negotiations, even Tsipras replied. “That is why we THE HERALD SQUARE paying but want to cheat.” by Southern Europe, Siegel would prefer our partners to let Tsipras believes his cracking countered. “One cannot speak us decide who we choose as our TNH's Crossword Challenge down on tax evaders will work. of a conflict between countries,” representatives.” Nonetheless, He explains that “there are two the prime minister replied. 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THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015 GREECE CYPRUS 11 Lafazanis is “Radically Opposed” to Energy Privatizations Turkey Wants

ATHENS — Greece’s new gov - the country’s bailout, and to ad - UN to Create ernment is “radically opposed” here to a series of policy re - to the privatization of certain forms. New Plan for businesses, particularly in the It made the pledges in Feb - energy and infrastructure sec - ruary in return for a four-month tors, a senior Cabinet minister extension to the European part Reunification said March 11 as reforms talks of its bailout, which was to have with creditors were due to be - expired at the end of February. gin. But some ministers and party Of Cyprus Selling state-owned enter - members have insisted the gov - prises is one of the actions erning Syriza party’s pre-elec - NEW YORK — Turkey’s prime Greece has been asked to take tion promises must be adhered minister called on U.N. Secretary- to raise funds and reduce debt to, defying Prime Minister and General Ban Ki-moon Thursday in exchange for rescue loans the Radical Left’s leader Alexis to come up with a plan to reunify from the Eurozone and Interna - Tsipras, who had said he, too, Cyprus before he leaves at the tional Monetary Fund. would reject privatizations but end of 2016. Talks between Greece and its has bowed to pressure from in - Ahmet Davutoglu told a U.N. creditors began at a technical ternational lenders and says news conference after meeting level in Brussels later March 11 they will go on, although there Ban that Turkey “will do every - to cement a series of reforms are grey areas. thing possible for a sustainable, Athens must implement in order Lafazanis has frequently re - comprehensive peace in Cyprus.” to get the remaining bailout peated his opposition to priva - Cyprus was split into a Turk - funds released and avoid bank - tizations. Last month, he said ish-speaking north and Greek- ruptcy. the privatization of the country’s speaking south in 1974 when “We are radically opposed to power grid and power utility, Turkey invaded after a coup by the privatization, particularly of DEH, would be halted as final supporters of a union with the strategic sectors and busi - binding bids had not yet been Greece. nesses of our economy, and pri - AP PhOtO/yOrGOs kArAhAlis submitted. Davutoglu recalled the peace marily in the sector of infra - Greece's energy and environment minister Panagiotis Lafazanis addresses the audience during In his speech, Lafazanis said blueprint to reunite the island structure and energy,” said an energy conference in Athens, on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Lafazanis said his new gov - his country wanted diverse en - drafted by U.N. Secretary-Gen - Panagiotis Lafazanis, the energy ernment is "radically opposed" to the privatization of "strategic sectors and businesses," partic - ergy sources but would not be eral Kofi Annan which was ap - and environment minister and ularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors. dependent on “any large power proved by Turkish Cypriots, but a government hardliner, at a and of any coalition of coun - rejected by Greek Cypriots in sep - conference in Athens. occurred particularly during the Fund and European Central it has refused to work with tries.” arate referenda in April 2004. Lafazanis added that “hon - recent (bailout) years with the Bank, who together oversee the again. “Greece is too small a coun - “In 2004 we supported the estly, I haven’t understood why insistence of the (European) 240 billion euro rescue loans Greece’s new radical left gov - try to remain a type of depen - Annan plan and I suggested to for some schools of thought, pri - Commission and the troika” had Greece began receiving in 2010. ernment, voted in on Jan. 25 on dent ‘troikan’ economic protec - Mr. Ban Ki-moon that we need vatizations have become syn - prolonged and exacerbated The new government insists promises to abolish budget aus - torate … with the status of an now a Ban Ki-moon plan before onymous with reforms.” Greece’s financial crisis and en - the word ‘troika’ refers to those terity measures, has pledged not energy banana republic.” the end of his term to end this He argued that what he ergy poverty in the country. institutions’ mid-level officials to take any unilateral action long-surviving crisis,” he said. called the “neoliberal deregula - The Troika refers to the Com - who would visit Greece to carry without consulting its European (Material from the Associated Ban’s second five-year term ends tion in the energy market, which mission, International Monetary out inspections, and with whom creditors and those overseeing Press was used in this report) on Dec. 31, 2016. Talks to reunify the Mediter - ranean island are currently dead - locked after Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades walked away Tsipras Relents Again, Troika Back to Check Greece’s Books from the table – he had kick - started the new negotiations – when Turkey sent a research ves - ATHENS – Greek Prime Minis - vowed to reject during a four- sel and warship into Cypriot wa - ter and Radical Left SYRIZA month bailout extension he said ters to hunt for energy and de - leader Alexis Tsipras, who said he didn’t want. manded a share of whatever the he would never allow envoys Greece has been surviving Cypriots found. from international lenders back since 2010 on two rescue pack - Anastasiades had offered a into the country’s capital, has ages of 240 billion euros sharing plan but said he couldn’t reportedly relented under more ($272.5 billion) from the troika abide the incursion by Turkey, pressure. but those came with big pay which was overlooked by the European Central Bank Pres - cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions United States, United Nations, ident Mario Draghi told Greek and worker firings that Tsipras NATO and the European Union, officials they have no choice but opposed to get elected, and he which Turkey wants to join – to let inspectors from the troika did on Jan. 25, when SYRIZA with the backing of Greece. of the European Union-Interna - trounced the then-ruling New Greece’s previous coalition tional Monetary Fund-European Democracy Conservatives of government, led by the New Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) – Premier Antonis Samaras, who Democracy Conservatives with its which Greece now calls The In - implemented austerity and later otherwise rival the PASOK Social - stitutions – come back to check tried to walk away from it. ists as partners, barked a bit the books or more aid will be Tsipras has already dropped about the Turkish move but did cut off, the Bloomberg news demands for a write-down on nothing about it. agency said, citing two un - Greek debt, abandoned his plan Cyprus’ president suspended named EU officials. to halt privatizations and ac - the U.N.-mediated reunification Draghi told Greek Finance cepted that he won’t get “bridge talks in October after Turkey an - Minister Yanis Varoufakis at a financing” without signing up to nounced plans to search for oil meeting in Brussels the govern - conditions, leaving him almost and gas in waters where the ment’s books needed to be ex - no wriggle room as the troika Cypriot government has already amined to determine its financ - yawned when he threatened to licensed companies to drill. ing shortfall, said the people, default and warned about the In mid-January, the U.N. Spe - who asked not to be named be - consequences if Greece was cial Adviser on Cyprus Espen cause the conversation was pri - forced out of the Eurozone. Barth Eide said the talks were at vate. With no bargaining chips risk of being derailed over the is - Varoufakis got the same AP PhOtO/VirGiniA mAyO left, all Tsipras got was the right sue of the rights to search for oil news from representatives of Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, right, speaks with European Commissioner for the for Greece to write its own re - and gas. He had earlier been con - the EU and IMF but later said Economy Pierre Moscovici, center, and Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan, left, during forms – subject to approval by fident the two sides were getting there was a misunderstanding a meeting of EU finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Tuesday, March 10. the troika, who are keeping on closer together although they and that the envoys would be the pressure. weren’t, allowing him to join a allowed to come back one “The Troika is a cabal of tech - guity,” so far has failed to de - running out of money and needs After giving in to the demand long list of diplomats who’ve agency at a time so that Greece nocrats that used to arrive in liver, apart from a couple of the loans he said he would to let the troika team back, flopped and failed to make an could avoid calling them the Athens and enter the ministries vaguely-outlined memos. never accept. Varoufakis said he and Tsipras inch of progress. Troika – he prefers The Institu - with a kind of power play that It’s impossible for Greece’s THIS MARKET never really opposed it and that Davutoglu urged Greek Cypri - tions. smacked of a Colonial attitude,” creditors to adequately audit the TOO EXPENSIVE it was a misunderstanding, ots to return to the negotiating Greece agreed to allow ex - Varoufakis said at a press con - government’s accounts without Locked out of the markets Bloomberg said. Draghi then table and called for an interna - perts representing the troika to ference after the meeting. sending officials to Athens, a and with the ECB squeezing ac - asked when they could come tional conference “as early as pos - start work in Athens, the “That practice is finished,” he troika official said. The govern - cess to liquidity, with Greek back and Varoufakis reportedly sible — like what we did in Netherlands’s Jeroen Dijssel - said, but adding that Greece ment would need to fly hun - banks teetering and tax rev - said right away. 2004.” That was 11 years ago bloem said, after chairing the would cooperate nonetheless. dreds of Greek officials to Brus - enues falling, Tsipiras has had German Finance Minister and there has been no sign the meeting of Eurozone officials. “That practice is finished. We sels for the work to be done to renege on virtually every Wolfgang Schaeuble, who has Turkish side is ready to drop any Tsipras had asked for further shall endeavor to do whatever there, he added. promise he made to Greeks – been diplomatically ridiculing of its demands or for Turkey to negotiations to take place in it takes to provide The Institu - Spokesmen for the ECB and but still retains soaring popular - Greece’s new government as it remove any of the troops it keeps Brussels to avoid the humilia - tions with whatever information for Varoufakis initially declined ity. constantly retreats from cam - as a standing army in the north - tion of seeing them in Athens they need.” to comment, Bloomberg said. That could change as Greece paign promises, earlier said it ern third of the island it unlaw - again after he said didn’t want Greece won’t get any more Despite his campaign promises reportedly will be out of money was just playing word games. fully occupies. them there. cash from its bailouts until the not to negotiate with the troika, by the end of March unless it “If Greece wants that, one Turkey calls the territory the Varoufakis put on a brave troika is satisfied he has met all to seek debt relief and to keep gets a pending 7.2-billion euro can of course negotiate with the Turkish Republic of Northern face after being forced to accept their demands and carried out them out of Greece, Tsipras has troika installment Tsipras said three institutions which we Cyprus but nobody else does. that the troika’s team would be reforms. Varoufakis, who said been pushed into a corner with he wouldn’t take and as negoti - should no longer call the troika, Instead of aggravating the at - coming back. he practices “constructive ambi - few options as the country is ations continue over reforms he but which is the troika,” he said. mosphere by unilateral actions on natural resources, he said, “It is better to come around the table and discuss in detail” the issues. Greece, Germany Battle Over Bailout, WWII Reparations (Material from the Associated Press was used in this report)

Continued from page 1 the focus of debate back to "suddenly naive" in matters of Greece's present-day debt. communication. in return for financial aid. "Germany is very aware of its Schaeuble is keeping up the "We won't be conducting any moral obligation to keep alive pressure on Tsipras and Varo - Golden Dawn talks or negotiations with the the memory of Germany's guilt ufakis to implement more re - Greek side" about World War II for World War II and the suffer - forms, with the threat of having Trial on 4/20, compensation, German Finance ing it caused in many countries. any more aid cut off. Greece was Ministry spokesman Martin That doesn't change anything forced to accept a four-month Jaeger told reporters in Berlin about the legal and political as - bailout extension and told to Hitler’s B-day after being asked about Tsipras' sessment of the question of com - prepare its own list of reforms, comments. pensation and reparations," he but a 7.2-billion euro install - ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Jaeger said the German gov - said. ment is being held up until the leaders of Greece's Nazi-inspired ernment believes the issue of "The Eurozone and Greece troika signs off and is satisfied. Golden Dawn party will go on reparations was resolved in a together have a difficult path Greece was also irked by a trial for allegedly running a 1960 accord requiring West Ger - ahead of them on which we statement by a spokeswoman criminal organization on April many to pay 115 million should concentrate." for the German foreign ministry 20 — the birthday of Adolf Deutschmarks to Greece. Tensions increased too after which suggested that Greek For - Hitler. The radical left-led govern - more provocative comments eign Minister Nikos Kotzias did The trial will be held in a ment in Greece argues that the from German Finance Wolfgang not broach the issue of war special courtroom inside a max - accord postponed a final agree - Schaeuble, who has been almost reparations during his recent imum-security Athens prison. ment until Germany concluded taunting Tsipras and Greek Fi - visit to Berlin. The 70 defendants include all a comprehensive peace treaty. nance Minister Yanis Varoufakis The spokesman for Greece's 18 lawmakers Golden Dawn When Britain, France, the So - for backing down on their de - foreign ministry, Constantinos elected in 2012, who face sen - viet Union and the U.S. signed mands for debt relief and for re - AP PhOtO/PetrOs GiAnnAkOuris Koutras, said he understood that tences of up to 20 years in an accord restoring Germany's lenting to the troika of the Eu - Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arranges his papers after Kotzias had done so, disputing prison if convicted. sovereignty in 1990, West Ger - ropean Union-International his speech at a parliament session in Athens, on Tuesday, March it. Authorities cracked down on man diplomats worked to pre - Monetary-European Central 10. Tsipras spoke during a special debate on whether to revive In Germany, Bavarian conser - the extreme right-wing party — vent it being called a peace Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) which de - a parliamentary committee that would seek German World War vative Hans Michelbach said in which has neo-Nazi origins and treaty, to avoid triggering repa - manded harsh austerity mea - II reparations that Greece says were never fully paid. response to suggestions by still plays Nazi Germany's an - ration claims. sures and got them. Greek Justice Minister Nikos them at its public gatherings — "We should look forward to - Tension peaked after Tsipras official complaint with Ger - Schaeuble's comments to Ger - Paraskevopoulos that German after the 2013 murder of a rap gether," Jaeger said. "Making renewed Greek demands for many's Foreign Ministry in man reporters after the Eu - assets in Greece could be seized singer, allegedly by a party vol - these emotional and backward- war reparations from Berlin for protest at comments by Schaeu - rogroup, which did the rounds that, "If it came to Greek viola - unteer. The party, Greece's third- looking allegations doesn't help Nazi war crimes and statements ble after a March 9 Eurozone of the Greek media, the German tions of German property, Ger - largest, has been repeatedly in the context of the work we by German Finance Minister meeting said to be prompted by official can be heard saying that many would know how to de - linked with attacks on foreign - need to tackle together with the Wolfgang Schaeuble were per - the phrase "foolishly naive" he had discussed bad coverage fend itself." ers. Greeks." ceived by Greece as offensive. which was attributed to Schaeu - of developments by some media Monday's choice of Hitler's Government spokesman Stef - Kathimerini said the Greek ble. but that Germans were far from (Material from the Associated birthday for the opening date fen Seibert, too, sought to steer Foreign Ministry had lodged an However in a video of thinking that Varoufakis was Press was used in this report) was apparently unintentional. 12 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The National Herald A weekly publication of the NATIONAL HERALD, INC. TNH Editorial Emboldens But the Herald's editorial Dokos personally. To me and my There are two types of LTEs (ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΗΡΥΞ), Greek anti-Semitism takes the cake for chutzpah, and family he was always courteous that we publish: those that were reporting the news and addressing the issues of paramount interest sets the Greek population back and helpful in any way that he sent directly to us for publica - to the Greek-American community of the United States of America. To the Editor: several notches in respect and could be. When there was illness tion, and those that are com - Your editorial “Netanyahu’s dignity they must learn to ac - or death in my family he was ments taken from our website, Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris Pyrrhic Victory” (Feb. 7) is most cord to our adopted nation and always there for us. Like all hu - thenationalherald.com, which Assistant to the Publisher, Advertising Veta H. Diamataris Papadopoulos egregious, because it empowers the small minority constituting man beings he was not perfect we share from time to time with and emboldens anti-Semites the Jews, whom they perceive and had frailties. For whatever our readers in the print edition. Executive Editor Constantinos E. Scaros everywhere, particularly in the all-powerfully. wrongs he may have committed, In all cases, we know the au - Religion Editor Theodore Kalmoukos ill- informed Greek community! This editorial marks a sad I feel he has suffered more than thor’s identity: (name, city, Senior Writer Constantine S. Sirigos This intemperate editorial by day for Greeks and Greece. Let enough. state, etc.). However, we only On line Managing Editor Andy Dabilis a respected publication deeply Greek media do a better job to What I did not like about Fr. disclose those regarding letters Production Manager Chrysoula Karametros offends Jews in Israel and inform and educate. Dokos was his authoritarian submitted specifically for publi - Marketing & Design Director Anna Angelidakis around the world. Asher Matathias manner in controlling church af - cation. In the case of the web - That Israeli Prime Minister Woodmere, NY fairs and also the lack of trans - site, we respect authors’ wishes The National Herald (USPS 016864) is published weekly by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Congres - parency concerning the church’s to remain anonymous, even The National Herald Inc. at 37-10 30th Street, LIC, NY 11101-2614 sional address “humiliates” Pres - Comments on Bishop financial matters. 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Although I gener - to the Editor (LTEs) anony - Thank you for raising this plan to so crassly and politically ally agree with the gist of the mously. It is a question to which point and thank you for your make an end run on the presi - three letters, I think anyone who all of our readers should hear continued readership dent he was not able to best sends letters to the editor should the answer, and so I am re - Constantinos E. Scaros twice at the polls. be willing to use his or her real sponding publicly. Executive Editor Greek Nukes name. I sympathize with Fr. Angelo Artemas and for what he is go - Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s Minister of Finance, is flirting with TO OUR READERS ing through. He has been an as - the nuclear option. During an interview with the Italian newspaper the national herald welcomes set to Annunciation Church in Corriere della Sera, he warned the Europeans that Greece may letters from its readers in - Milwaukee and is greatly ad - hold a referendum on the bailout package. tended for publication. they mired here, but Bishop “Either help us,” he allegedly said, “to pay our bills – to Greeks should include the writer’s Mokissos did a great injustice and foreigners – through June, or we will hold a referendum on name, address, and telephone to him and to his family in forc - the question of whether we remain in the Eurozone.” number and be addressed to: ing him out of St. Peter and Paul Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' office was quick to issue a denial, the editor, the national her - Church in Glenview, IL where saying that there is no such thinking in the government, while the he was greatly loved by the con - ald, 37-10 30th street, long Finance Ministry accused the newspaper of yellow journalism. gregation. Fr. Artemas is correct island city, ny 11101. letters Of course, no one believed the denial. But inexperienced as in calling for the retirement of can also be faxed to (718) 472- they are, Greece’s new leaders took the easy way out, as damaging the Metropolitan and the re - as it was to their credibility. 0510 or e-mailed to moval of the Bishop. Clearly, the government launched the “nuclear missile,” first to [email protected] . Of course, all this came test the reactions of their interlocutors, but also to show that it we reserve the right to edit about as a result of Fr. James exists as an invisible threat, a sword of Damocles – they believe – letters for publication and re - Dokos and his handling of looming over the negotiating table. gret that we are unable to ac - money from a trust fund. Since But truth be told, Yanis Varoufakis said nothing new. Consider knowledge or return those left this is all being litigated, I will unpublished. what Tsipras told the German newspaper Der Spiegel: not venture an opinion on this GeOrGe sArAFOGlOu / sPeciAl tO the nAtiOnAl herAld Der Spiegel: Some in Germany, including people in the federal matter. However, I knew Fr. government, believe that the euro is stronger without Greece. In your party, those who want a return to the drachma are a minor - ity. Prime Minister Tsipras: If we were to hold a referendum to - morrow on the question “do you want dignity or the continuation ECONOMY & POLITICS of this unworthy policy?” everyone would prefer dignity, regardless of the problems that would accompany such a decision.” Where then, is the difference? Markets and Currencies on Both Sides of the Atlantic One would think, however, that the government would not brandish the nuclear weapon if its situation were not very difficult. But you can only use your nuclear weapon once. After that, the Time and time again over the every correction, close lower than ble-type circumstances: the cur - impact fades. Do not forget that George Papandreou tried it, with past few years we have seen con - are less clear. Nev - where they started rent price-over-earnings ratio for consequences all-too-well-known. flicting financial headlines ertheless, the price the year. the S&P 500 is 19, which is not We would suggest to Tsipras that he consider holding new elec - emerging from Europe and the action on Tuesday is There is of too far removed from the long- tions, instead. Provided, however, that he wishes to remain in the United States: the Eurozone is quite telling. After a course some circu - term average of circa 15. Rather, Eurozone. on the verge of a breakup, and blockbuster increase lar logic to all of the disproportional increase in Because if you hold a referendum and the people say “no” to the New York Stock Exchange is in February non- this. For example, if stock market valuations repre - the euro, then what happens? But if he wins a majority in the elec - reaching new all-time highs. farm payrolls a the U.S. dollar sents the greater share of Na - tion, he will be able to cleanse the party and govern the country. During this time, Europe has week ago, U.S. strength causes an tional Income that goes to capi - If he does not win a majority but still comes in first, then he largely confronted its problems, yields have started unexpected flight of tal as opposed to labor, a might be able to create a national salvation government, which despite the recent Greece-related rising in anticipa - capital from the de - percentage that has increased would allow him to implement the reforms that are needed to re - turmoil. As I have written before, tion of an impend - veloping world and from 35% to 43%. Consistent move the noose from Greece’s neck. the European authorities have ing Federal Reserve by STEFANOS thus a greater-than- with this trend, the rate of share created mechanisms to ring- interest rate hike KASSELAKIS anticipated slow - repurchases has exploded as fence the fallout of a Greek de - come June. There is down of growth CEO compensation has been tied Innocent until Proven Guilty fault, so the systemic risk that no doubt that mon - Special to rates, that will to price appreciation; repur - Greece can pose, if any, is politi - etary policy has The National Herald cause the European chases were negligible twenty cal and not financial. been the greatest exporting machine, years ago, whereas now they United States Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) is accused The bigger problem with Eu - driver of market fluctuations now boosted by a weaker Euro, sometimes eclipse dividend pay - by the authorities of corruption, which is a felony. Specifically, rope is lackluster growth and the over the past five years, and it to encounter a weaker demand outs. A side effect of these de - he is accused of helping his friend, an ophthalmologist from Mi - accompanying deflation trap, will not cede that role easily. As than what it would have hoped velopments is that the stock ami, collect a large sum of money from government services in which has prompted the Euro - U.S.-based multinationals, many for. Slower global growth will market now plays a much more return for trips on his private plane. pean Central Bank to embark on of which are publicly traded, also affect the United States, per - important role in the daily func - Menendez vehemently declares he is innocent, and cites the its recently-announced and just- start seeing foreign earnings haps pausing rate hikes and re - tions of the economy, making lapse of not reporting the flights as gifts from a friend – allowed initiated quantitative easing pro - squeezed by the strength of the versing some of the market the “wealth effect” of a low in - under Senate rules with an Ethics Committee waiver – as an gram. In other words, Europe dollar, their profitability outlooks forces in effect up to that point. terest policy an effective lever oversight. has made significant progress in In this scenario, the price of gold for the Fed to use. A child of Cuban immigrants, the senator rose to the promi - addressing its structural prob - In the global dynamic will slowly trickle down to lower The rise of interest rates later nent position of Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lems and is now actively looking levels (perhaps toward $800 an this year may indeed be the start and he does not give up easily. "I'm not going anywhere," he to improve its near-term future. shift, it is hard to keep ounce). All this ultimately stems of a much-needed correction that says, and we have no doubt that he means it. The collapse of the Euro since track of where things are from the dollar’s role as the goes as far back as the “irrational We neither take lightly the charges against him nor do we ig - the start of the easing program global reserve currency. exuberance” years of Alan nore the possibility that they might amount to White House vin - is indicative of the sharp turn - headed, as the NYSE It is sometimes hard to rec - Greenspan. But rising short-term dictiveness: a desire by President Obama to punish a member of around Europe is trying to make. sets new records while ognize in the midst of shifting and long-term interest rates may his party who has gone against him on a number of serious It is probably a matter of weeks global dynamics where we stand also represent a greater normal - issues, such as relations with Cuba and Iran. now until the U.S. dollar is more the Eurozone is on the in the big picture – the truly big ization that extends to the past Moreover, we cannot overlook the fact that Senator Menendez valuable than the common cur - verge of a breakup. picture. What you have to con - twenty-five years. Add to that a is, to our Greek-American community, one of our best-ever allies rency, marking a reversal span - sider, as my friend, economist recalibration of the capital-labor in the Senate. ning almost a decade-and-a-half. are going to change. The policy Woody Brock, notes, is that the dynamics and a reduction of So, at the very least, we owe him this much: not to rush to Perhaps now is a good time for rate divergence – not just be - true bull market does not span share repurchases to satisfy div - judgment before the courts have rendered a verdict. foreign investors to buy Euro - tween the U.S. and Europe but just the past six years but rather idend-seeking baby-boomers, pean stock market indexes (ad - also between the U.S. and sev - the entire twenty-five year pe - and you may be reminded that justing for the currency exposure eral emerging markets that are riod since 1981, whose run is frequent “all time highs” are not Body Language Matters of course). already affected by the reversal unmatched in over a century. to be taken for granted. So the first part of the con - of the so-called U.S. dollar “carry Adjusting for inflation, the real flicting headlines, the European trade” – will only accelerate the value of stock market has risen Follow me on Twitter: The biggest story surrounding the 2016 presidential election part, is well positioned to re - stock market headwinds. I would 700% during this time, com - @StefanosNY over the past several days is about an individual who has not verse. The prospects for the sec - not be surprised if 2015 marks pared to only 270% for the real Stefanos Kasselakis has traded even formally entered the race: former First Lady, Senator, and ond part, regarding American the first time in seven years that level of GDP. This “overval - commodities at Goldman Sachs Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. On March 10 she gave a press stocks reaching new highs after the broad stock market indexes uation” is not because of bub - and founded cvfromgreece.com. conference about the brewing scandal concerning her use of a private computer server while she was Secretary of State, rather than a government account. The legitimate concerns are: 1) if her server was as secure as the federal government’s in preventing Observations By Antonis H. Diamataris hackers from obtaining national security secrets; and 2) whether she deleted emails that should have been part of the public record. The political motive for making this an issue is that Hillary Iakovos: Leadership Personified go? I often visited him at his home in Rye, support of the people, and offer different Clinton remains the odds-on favorite to win the White House; if NY, sometimes with a small group, some - solutions from what the polls preferred. she were to decline to run, that would give the Republicans an in - Iakovos, Archbishop of North and South times on my own. It was a time of great leaders: Karaman - credible boost heading into 2016. America, stood as straight and tall as a cy - “I did it,” he said, “because as a Greek lis, Makarios, Iakovos, Papandreou, Mitso - Her responses at the press conference were: yes the server, press tree, determinedly, impressively, with in Turkey I, too, was oppressed. I lived like takis. guarded by the U.S. Secret Service at all times, was secure, and his episcopal headgear and his pastoral rod, a second-class citizen. I did not feel free. They were not infallible. But they were any emails she deleted were purely of a personal nature. She said walking to the right of the Rev. Martin Once I was free, how could I ignore those leaders. that rather than use two devices (a government one and a personal Luther King, Jr. in the city of Selma, AL. who lived in similar circumstances to what Now, I wonder if the lack of exemplary one), she thought it easier to use one, and apparently, in hindsight As is well known during a peaceful mine had been?” men and women, teachers, leaders, deprives – given the inquiries she now faces – realizes that was not the demonstration there on March 7, 1965, the “But a part of the community strongly the youth of mentors, of good examples to case. police ferociously attacked 600 protesters disagreed with you,” I remember telling emulate, and creates a void of worthy com - At this point, to do anything other than take Clinton at her causing outcry and eventually the interven - him. petition in which contemporaries can strive word would be pure speculation. But the problem is not what she tion of the federal government. He smiled. And then said “so what?” to better themselves even more. said, but how she said it. Why did Iakovos travel to the second waving his hand in that familiar way. A leader of such caliber, who would Throughout the press conference, Clinton’s tone of voice and march there two days later? What was a When I saw that photo of him in Selma make the big decisions and would impose body language was one of irritation, exasperation – as if there is Greek hierarch doing there? What did he on the New York Times’ website – there was them, through his stature, on his country - no legitimate concern at hand, and as if she is incredibly annoyed have in common with the protesters? a typo and his name appeared as “Lakovos” men, and foreigners would act to redeem by all the pestering questions. Many Greek-Americans asked that ques - – I said to myself: this is what is missing the people and the nation. In 2000, Al Gore’s incessant sighing in his first presidential de - tion. Indeed, he had received several threat - from Hellenism today. Iakovos was criticized in his time, but bate against George W. Bush caused him to lose his lead in the ening phone calls that compelled him to We are missing a leader of such stature he knew he was doing the right thing. polls, and ultimately lose the election. Hillary would be wise to hire bodyguards. who would say: “so what?” A leader who And now he is recognized not only by take a note from her husband’s – not her husband’s vice president’s Years later, when Iakovos was free from would lead, who would tell the truth, and the Greek-American community but – page on how to talk to people. the burden of the responsibility of office, I place the affairs of the nation on his shoul - throughout America. asked him that same question: why did he ders. Who would win the hearts if not the That is what makes a leader. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015 VIEWPOINTS 13 Regaining Philokalia: Needs The Washington Times: It’s Repulsive, but it’s Necessary

Assessment of Community A few months ago, political networks chose to But you won’t hear readers. Nowhere was Obama’s comedian/commentator Bill ignore. much about it from loud, ringing criticism of the no - Maher had a guest whose name Even MSNBC, sources purporting tion that “nothing has changed” You can learn a tained excellence.” escapes me on his HBO show whose anchor Chris to uphold the since Selma. Nowhere was there lot about a culture (Excerpt from “The Real Time, who referred to a re - Matthews was in - Canons of Journal - mention of Obama’s praise not and the per capita Public and the Pri - port in the Washington Times. cessantly mocked ism, particularly only for Democrats but also for cultivation of its vate”). In his trademark condescending for his heart-on-his- ones who still Republicans. That wouldn’t fit people by studying Elytis alludes to manner toward comments he sleeve adulation for haven’t let go of into the neatly-orchestrated its “hierarchy of an era when the finds ridiculous, Maher chuck - Barack Obama in their obsessive script of hate. needs” – the impor - poorest Greek led and responded to the guest: 2008, confessing Bush-bashing ten - The Washington Times surely tance that they household was still “the Washington Times is not that he felt “a thrill dencies. I won’t counts on its readers not to place on particular capable of cultivat - the Washington Post, you do re - up my leg” when mention any watch any speech President aspects of life, ing culture and dis - alize that, don’t you?” Indeed, he heard him by CONSTANTINOS E. names, but the one Obama makes. Obviously, he goods, and social playing its it is not. If ever there was an speak, had far too SCAROS that most readily turns their stomach so violently organization. For “philokalia” (love understatement… many commercials comes to mind that they can’t bring themselves instance, in An - by Christopher of beauty). Even an I spent the afternoon of Sat - in between the ac - Special to rhymes with Few to look at his face or listen to cient Athens, al - TRIPOULAS ordinary tin case urday, Mar. 7 watching the 50th tivities. I guess it’s The National Herald Pork Dimes. his voice, and so they count on though there is Special to that would be anniversary commemoration of about squeezing in But let us revisit getting “the news” from a pub - overwhelming evi - The National Herald thrown away – or the Martin Luther King-led civil as many commercials as you can the object of this column’s first lication whose agenda is obvi - dence of the tech - at best recycled – in rights march in Selma Alabama – the endless pursuit of that paragraph – the Washington ously to perpetuate the stereo - nological, architectural, and en - our consumeristic culture could on CNN. I had to watch it on almighty dollar – whether you Times – for that is the publica - type of Obama being a gineering capabilities of the be turned into the ideal flower CNN, by the way, because no are in the tank for the party that tion that deserves the harshest race-baiting, America-hating, citizenry, the homes of the local pot for a sunflower that would other network broadcast the en - pretends not to care about criticism of all. Not moments af - Muslim-sympathizing, foreign- Athenians were quite humble easily outdo the creations of the tire proceedings. That, in itself, growing rich, or the party that ter Obama’s speech concluded, born Marxist. and unassuming. Clearly, for the highest paid decorators money was a shame. doesn’t. I received a “Breaking News” Why, then, you might ask, citizens of the City on a Hill with could buy. It’s not as if I expected Fox Then there was George W. alert on my phone, from the would I even taint my email the Acropolis as its citadel, to People’s relationship with News to devote the entire after - Bush, the president who was Washington Times. The head - with alerts from the Washington live in small, modest housing symbols was a lot deeper and noon to the ceremony, but they maligned more than any other line read: “Obama in Selma: Times? Because while it may in was a matter of choice, not ne - truer, and this manifested itself, waited to roll the cameras only in recent memory, all until the America’s Racial Past ‘Still Casts fact have been the most distaste - cessity. The most plausible an - from the simplest cups in which as soon as President Obama current one. Obama, in fact, has its Long Shadow.’” Let me put ful American publication on swer for this decision was that they drank their coffee, to the spoke, and rushed to turn them done the unthinkable: he sur - this into perspective for you, in March 7 – that’s only one day the home occupied a rather low most sacred part of the house, off and cut to something else passed Bush as the modern-day case you didn’t watch Obama’s out of the year, and they have position on the average Athen - their icon stand, where an oil immediately after he was done preeminent Scapegoat-in-Chief. speech or read the transcript plenty of competition. And in - ian’s hierarchy of needs. lamp burned faithfully night in – as if to say “oh well, we’ll Bush and his wife, Laura were later on: That headline captures cluded in that competition are The agora, the theater, the and night out. cover this thing, if we must – there, with Barack and Michelle the spirit of Obama’s speech publications gunshy to criticize temple, and other public places The Greek immigrants who but just enough so we don’t look Obama, side-by-side, commem - about as accurately as this head - the president, or the Democratic commanded a much higher pri - came to America during the like we completely ignored it.” orating the civil rights triumph. line would reflect Christ’s walk - Party. In fact, the day before ority because these were the early 20th century exhibited a But it wasn’t just Fox that Where are the accolades for ing on water: “Jesus Shows Poor March 7, I received an alert that venues where he spent the ma - similar unique hierarchy of downplayed the event. Not by a Bush? He has nothing to prove. Form as Swimmer; Would Never the Attorney General’s office jority of his time and most qual - needs, albeit not as clear-cut as longshot. The major networks He barely cared about polls and Make Olympic Team.” plans to indict U.S. Senator ity hours of his day, “giving other Greek communities opted instead to feature college image when he was president, In other words, the “journal - Robert Menendez, a Democrat. judgment and holding office,” abroad where the initial sense sports, substantially if not so he sure as heck doesn’t give ist” who wrote the piece obvi - That Menendez, who has been of permanent residency may mostly comprised of African- a hoot now. True to his charac - ously had an agenda – to make publicly critical of the Obama have affected their choices for American athletes, undoubtedly ter, Bush was there because he the president look bad, and Administration, was targeted by Ironically, as we keep an organizational model. the beneficiaries of far better felt it was the right thing to do. though he did not lie, he cer - fellow Democrats might be the prospering individually, Nonetheless, once the first gen - treatment in American society “The decider” always trusted his tainly misled. He cherrypicked angle this publication was aim - eration of immigrants began to than they would have experi - gut, right or wrong. And this exactly the portions of Obama’s ing for: that Obama is a dictator we’re stifled communally see America as their second enced a half century ago, thanks time, his gut was absolutely speech that would satisfy the ap - who abuses his power and goes home, the sacrifices put forth to in great part to the event the right – it told him to be there. petites of his Obama-hating after anyone who dares criticize which are the two components overcome necessity and serve him. But the alert also happened set forth by Aristotle in his defi - community were astounding. A to be true. And it came first, be - nition of a citizen. On the con - simple quantitative review of fore any other, from the Wash - trary, the home, unless it was the fundraising efforts of first ington Times. serving as a venue to host a and second generation Greek- That’s why until we can trust symposium, was merely a place Americans, who were likely still the media to adhere to journal - to attend to individual needs struggling to find the better life istic integrity above all else, (sleep, shelter, storage, etc.). they came here in search of is even the petty haters with a And perhaps the most distinc - enough to reveal this: monies printing press are useful, if for tive trait of Hellenism through - raised to build spiritual temples no other reason, than to give us out its heralded history is its dis - – churches, monies raised to a few facts ahead of anyone else dain for necessity. The very build temples of wisdom – when those facts happen coin - “need” to do something is what schools (in the traditional Hel - cide with their agenda. constitutes the act so tyrannical. lenic model, being challenged On the contrary, the ability to of late by “heretics,” you can’t Constantinos E. Scaros’ latest overcome “necessity” and act have one without the other), book, about the 2016 presiden - contrary to, or free from, the op - monies raised to help family tial race, will be published this pressiveness of your “needs” is members back in the mother summer. It is titled Grumpy Old what makes life worthwhile, country, staggering amounts Party: 20 Tips on How the Re - leads to freedom, and in its Or - raised to help Hellas during publicans Can Shed their Anger, thodox Christian context, allow times of war and extreme Reclaim their Respectability, someone to emulate the manner poverty! You cross an entire and Win Back the White House. in which God exists. ocean in search of the American The Hellenes carried with dream, but to keep from allow - them their per capita cultivation ing materialism get the better and maintained their unique hi - of you, you spend a lifetime giv - LETTER FROM ATHENS erarchy of needs, which made ing back. That was the model their culture so distinct, upon which the foundations of throughout their history. This is Greek America were laid. as evident in Byzantine-era art Ironically, as the years have Go Easy on “Die Easy” Varoufakis – His Job is Tough and architecture, as it is in the gone by, the more we’ve pros - theology of icons or the teaching pered individually, the more on Christ’s uncreated energies. we’ve been stifled communally. Much ridicule has been taxes, on his secret Papaconstanti - if Schaeuble gets his way, which Even during the dark centuries Instead of opening more heaped on Greek Shadow Fi - deposits for two nou is facing a long seems likely. of Ottoman rule, the subjugated schools, we’re seeing several of nance Minister Yanis “Die Easy” years. jail sentence if con - Let’s give Varoufakis some Greek people still managed to them close down. Parish officials Varoufakis for his innovative Smells Like Tax victed of breach of props for street cred and for manifest their “archontia” (no - who once pleaded with the com - way of thinking and speaking. Cheat from here but duty on charges of thinking outside the box and bility). Greek Nobel laureate munity-at-large to donate funds Nonsense. He’s a double vision - nothing will happen erasing the names pushing the envelope with rad - Odysseas Elytis puts it beauti - to help build schools and serve ary: he can see twice as far into to him because of three relatives ical thinking, as it’s pretty hard fully when he writes that “in the noble cause of Paideia now the future as anyone else, which Greek politicians are from a list of 2,062 to do all three at the same time. short, if only they could count hasten to rent those schools out will come in handy now that allowed retroactive Greeks with 1.5 Do you think Papaconstantinou the importance of nations not for a quick profit, berating any - March Madness is upon us and immunity, as well as billion euros in se - or Venizelos or Stournaras or by the number of heads they can one who would try and stand in I’m going to ask him to fill out preemptive immu - cret Swiss bank ac - Hardouvelis would have send to slaughter, as is the case their way…like the notorious my brackets. nity, current immu - counts in the HSBC thought of going after Internet today, but by how much nobility villagers stigmatized by General The Marxist faux econo - nity, future immu - by ANDY branch of Geneva. gamblers? they produce, even under the Makryiannis in his "Memoirs" mist/blogger (he’s a rebel too) nity for anything DABILIS He’s walking True, you’d have to find 325 most unfortunate and brutal who used to destroy antiquities may not last too long now that they may do wrong, the plank alone billion of them and fine them a conditions, like our people dur - and use them for building sup - Greece’s real Finance Minister, and even imaginary Special to because Venizelos euro each to get out from under ing the period of Turkish rule, plies. Wolfgang Schaeuble, who runs immunity just for The National Herald – who had a copy the Greek debt. But under Varo - when the simplest knit shirt, the And if they’ve been deceived the Greek economy from Ger - thinking of bad of the list but ufakis’ Deconstructive Ambigu - cheapest little boat, the hum - by avarice, what can you say many, wants him fired because things. never acted on it – had better ity, he can oppose and reject his blest little church, the icon about people who willfully turn he’s an impudent, preening pea - In the last five years, Greece political protection. Former Pre - own plans and support and re - screen, the jar, the rug... all of their backs on Paideia for no cock who can’t balance a check - has also had George Papacon - mier George Papandreou, who ject his own ideas, claiming they them gave off an air of nobility profit whatsoever? Surely, at book, never mind count to 325 stantinou of the PASOK Anti-So - appointed both, said he knew were his and somebody else’s at slightly greater than the Bour - this year’s Greek parades in Me - billion. cialists; his successor Evangelos nothing of the list which shows the same time. bons. What stopped these spiri - tropolises all over the nation, Too bad. Having Varoufakis Venizelos, who’s about to soon you why he lasted about as long Wasn’t it he who made the tual movements that were wor - there will be Greek School stu - as a kind of finance chief is a step down as party chief after as the Chicago Cubs in August. Troika of international lenders thy enough of forming dents marching at the end, with lot more fun than watching his leading it into last place in Par - So let’s rejoice in Varoufakis. vanish? Well, alright they’re still communities? Who covered a no one but the cleaning crews string of sappy predecessors. liament; and Yannis Stournaras, Who can’t love the Ted Williams here so they have a different virtue of this sort, which could to cheer them on. The phony just before him, a pretty capable guy at a presti - of Finance Ministers, a guy who name: The Institutions. They’re have one day led us to a singu - Talk about your vicious cy - Gikas Hardouvelis, admitted he gious think tank who went into won’t wear a tie, rides motorcy - the same people but they don’t lar polity tailor made to fit our cles… had secret foreign bank ac - the tank for then-Premier and cles and stands up to his peers really exist under that rule. nation? Where the common sen - counts because he feared Greece New Democracy Capitalist chief in the Eurozone, the stuffed old But his best idea was to hire timent would coincide with that Follow me on Twitter was going to be forced out of Antonis Samaras and was re - white shirts with ties. Sure, they students and tourists, among belonging to those who have at - @CTripoulas the Eurozone. warded with being made Gov - crushed him like Chuckles the others, as tax spies and have It was a tidy argument, ex - ernor of the Bank of Greece, Clown , but at least he yelled them maybe wired for video and cept at the time he was financial where he sounds like a Three loud while they were doing it. sound as they went on the hunt adviser to an interim Prime Min - Card Monty card shark telling And where real economists for tax cheats, which is a great gUEST EDITORIALS ister, Lucas Papademos, and the people their deposits are safe. tasked with preparing fiscal re - idea unless they confront a government was urging Greeks We know Hardouvelis’ are, forms to save a country might restaurant owner in Crete where the national herald welcomes manuscripts representing a variety of to be patriots and keep their wherever they are. have actually done the math they have short tempers and no views for publication. they should include the writer’s name, address, money in Greek banks, which He’s in company along with and presented at least an Excel regard for authority and already and telephone number, and be addressed to the editor, the national are just as safe as those in just about every rich Greek or spread sheet, Varoufakis showed threatened real tax inspectors. herald, 37-10 30th st., long island city, ny 11101. they may also Cyprus. those who’ve wised up and sent up in Brussels with some Cliff When he’s gone, he’ll be be e-mailed to [email protected]. we reserve the right Okay, bad example, except their money elsewhere with Notes and a list of platitudes missed and they’ll build statues to edit any manuscripts that we publish, and we do not return or that Hardouvelis, as his ministry Greek banks teetering as the that had the other finance min - of Yanis Varoufakis, although otherwise acknowledge unpublished ones. due to considerations of was hunting down tax cheats new Radical Left Wing Nut isters laughing out loud. See, he they’ll need a lot of clay for his who owed 10 euros but not SYRIZA Prime Minister Alexis didn’t bomb as a comic, which feet. space we enforce a strict 850-word upper limit. those who owed 10 million, ap - Tsipras is taking the country he can now add to his resume, parently didn’t declare, nor pay down faster than the Titanic. which he’ll need to update soon [email protected] 14 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 14-20, 2015 The Economics of Turmoil and Finance of Dysfunctionalities Amid Volatile Markets

Lorenzo the Magnificent (the prospects of the dysfunctionali - corporations to the tech bubble. able to meet its €110 billion rule of law will no longer apply scion of the Medici banking fam - ties and uncertainties that GDP ratio in the The fact that fi - obligations to the Eurosystem, to debt repayments, leading to ily) whose lending institution emerge in global markets, and US. As graph #1 nancial repression which may cause a significant political disarray in the midst of dominated not only Florence especially of European ones shows that percent - via low interest earthquake to European finan - a leaderless continent. but much of Europe, was also a given the fetish mentality of age stands now at rates is still going cial institutions. When you add to the above poet influenced by Horace and worshipping at the altar of the about 126.2%, hav - on - so that govern - We live in an age where the geopolitical tensions from Catullus. This Latin phrase re - Euro, which has become an end ing exceeded the ments do not go thoughtful execution is disap - Ukraine to the Middle East, one flects the first two lines of one in itself, and thus defeating the equivalent percent - bankrupt – gives a pearing for the sake of impres - can think that if a major crisis is of his sonnets: “Quanto Sia Vana purpose of its birth. The con - age prior to the fi - boost to the ratio sions and artificial thinking that to be averted, then the global Ogni, Quanto Fallace cerns expressed in this commen - nancial crisis. that might have says a common fiat currency can economy needs a major bang in Ciaschedum Disegno, ”Here is a tary have a perspective of 18 The ratio is con - some room also to translation of the beginning of months, without however im - sidered an anchor grow given the tur - Graph #2 that sonnet: plying that an implosion could regarding long- by JOHN moil in Europe, “How vain is every hope, not happen sooner than that, es - term valuations CHARALAMBAKIS Asia, South Amer - each breath. pecially if Greece runs out of and Warren Buffett ica, and the Middle How false is every single cash in the next 8-12 weeks has said that “it is Special to East. plan. (given that their revenues are probably the best The National Herald The breakdown How full of ignorance is man expected to be around €6 billion single measure of of models and nar - Against the monstrous mis - and their nondiscretionary where valuations stand at any ratives is characteristic of tress, Death” obligations around € 19 billion). given moment”. Based on this emerging dysfunctionalities I do not know if better lines But, first take a look at the measure, valuations seem to be whether those are found in the can be found for the long-term total market cap of non financial lofty. However, given the easy EU (where the German machine money policies around the dumps its products to less com - world, we may still have some petitive nations that get accus - room to grow. tomed to easy credit policies), Having said that, when we in Asia (where the Chinese survive without political and fis - order for dormant capital to be take into account the cyclically growth model levels off), or in cal union. awaken through radical reforms adjusted price-earnings ratio Latin and S. America where the The problem of course is that that free up assets, innovations, (CAPE), we discover that it has commodities cycle has revealed the economics of collapse have and resources in order for small also reached levels not seen the nakedness of the emperor. become very complex given the and medium size enterprises to since the 2008 crisis, and hence Of course, such breakdown over-extension of credits, the create and sustain jobs and prof - the run up of the ratio since could be magnified if Greece is overblown deficits, the complex its. 2009 may also point out that a forced to issue its own currency world of derivatives, the enor - turning point could be ap - and in the process repudiates its mous unfunded liabilities, and Dr. Charalambakis is Chief Econ - proaching. As graph #2 shows debts to the ECB, and to the the co-dependency of nations. omist, Blacksummit Financial the only other two times when EFSF (totaling over €173 bil - If a country (such as Greece) Group Inc.,and Adjunct Professor the ratio was higher was just lion). ends up repudiating its debts of Economics, Patterson School Graph #1 prior to the 1929 crash and also Even worse, if Greece runs the whole European structure of Diplomacy, University of Ken - prior to the 2000 bursting of the out of cash, then it will be un - will shake badly given that the tucky. Hillary’s Watergate: Why the Email Scandal Will End Mrs. Clinton’s Presidential Bid By Constantinos E. Scaros Hillary and Mitt, despite a con - deals going on with foreign both. The last time she got any sym - siderable following, at the end heads of state that they want to To put it another way, when pathy was when Bill’s extramar - There is a very good chance of the day exhibit far too much keep out of the public eye. Sure, Hillary Clinton’s first reaction to ital affairs were confirmed. that Hillary Clinton’s email prob - insincerity to be president. they like to operate in secrecy, this was “Colin Powell did it, So, again, there is wishful lem is not going to go away. Not Sure, the Bush-bashers and but I do think that despite their too,” I imagine that she is right. thinking here on my part. If I soon, and not ever. It may very Obama-haters would say the numerous flaws, in the long run Maybe Condoleezza Rice did it did not put my cards on the well turn out to be her Water - same about those two guys – but they have America’s best inter - as well, and John Kerry, too. table, I might be, well…Clinton - gate – a clump of snow that rolls it’s not the same. I don’t believe ests at heart (as does Romney – That’s not the point. Because ian. But some wishful thinking downhill, picks up steam, and that Bush “lied” about Iraq any but I just don’t like liars). none of them are running for is but a mere daydream. Like before you know it – it’s an more than Obama “lied” about The reason, though, that this president in 2016, and none of Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich avalanche. The type of “if you like your doctor, you can email debacle will be Hillary’s them will have an army of moti - running in 2016. I don’t think avalanche that will ruin her po - keep your doctor.” I think they undoing is because the Republi - vated soldiers with Spartan-like that’s likely, so I’m not going to litical career and send her into jumped the gun and gave hasty cans will not let it go. They will intensity, ready to work ‘round waste your time to speculate on permanent retirement. explanations in their exuberance go through the thousands of the clock if need be to bring that type of longshot. Hillary’s Sounds like a lot of “wishful to advance their initiatives. emails Hillary is releasing with down the Clinton Machine once Watergate is different. thinking” on my part, doesn’t it? Hillary and Romney, however, a fine tooth comb, with ten times and for all. Moreover wishful thinking It is, I won’t deny it. are pathological tall-tale tellers. the intensity with which they The ferocity with which they does not make something un - Anyone who reads my col - My desire to keep the White desperately tried to link Barack go about their job will make likely. For instance, I think the umn even on a semi-regular ba - House Hillary-free notwithstand - Obama to radical leftwing anti- Woodward and Bernstein seem Mets actually have a decent sis knows it’s no secret that I do ing, I don’t think she did any - American terrorists. Think they like cub reporters by compari - chance to make the playoffs this not want Hillary to become pres - thing horrible regarding the hate Obama? Their contempt for publicans will uncover: 1) an son. year. Seven months from now, ident of the United States. But it emails. I doubt that she and hus - Hillary makes their attacks on email containing privileged na - Moreover, Hillary will not do we’ll see if I’m right. But there’s is not a matter of politics or ide - band President Bill created the Obama seem like a slumber tional security matters on which herself any good. Her default a better chance I’ll be wrong ology – it is a matter of charac - Clinton server as a way to con - party pillow fight. a person who lacked clearance mood is abrasiveness – her knee- about that than about Hillary’s ter. I didn’t want Mitt Romney trol the levers of the universe In their Herculean efforts to was inadvertently copied; 2) ev - jerk reaction is to be defensive. email problem being swept un - to be president either, for the without government oversight. uncover the smoking gun, there idence that the Clinton server None of those will win her any der the rug and causing her no same reasons. I think both I don’t think they have secret is a very good chance the Re - was hacked at least once; or 3) supporters among the doubters. further damage.

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