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Reformer By Theodore Kalmoukos is not going anywhere and asked to see Demetrios because ΝEW YORK – Dramatic devel - he was the one who appointed Pantelides tells TNH opments are unfolding at the him. Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Andonios informed Gounaris He’s Poised to Make Cathedral of New York. Cathe - that the archbishop was attend - Faster Improvements dral Dean Rev. Anastasios ing the Leadership 100 confer - Gounaris is being dismissed. ence in Florida and directly trav - Sources close to the Arch - eling from there to By Constantine S. Sirigos bishop Demetrios’ office told Constantinople to participate in TNH Staff Writer TNH that Demetrios is ex - the meeting of the Ecumenical tremely upset with Gounaris but Patriarchate’s Holy Synod. NEW YORK – Mike Pantelides he had not done anything about “I’ll do my job as I do it every is the latest Greek- and Cypriot- it because he didn’t want it to day,” Gounaris told TNH, and American to be elected to public appear as if selecting Gounaris refused to comment about his office. The new Republican to lead the Cathedral had been meeting with Andonios. Mayor of the picturesque city of a mistake in the first place. “I have no comment” about Annapolis, MD has roots in Archdiocese Chancellor, departing the Cathedral, Cyprus, Macedonia, Sparta and Bishop Andonios of Phasiane, Gounaris said, “nobody knows Galaxidi, near Delphi, and he is acting on Demetrios’ behalf, what is happening from day to ready to serve the city he loves summoned Gounaris into his of - day.” and be true to his heritage – and fice on February 10th and told Gounaris’ ministry at the he is only 30 years old. him that his ministry at the Cathedral had been problematic He feels like he is in a rush, Cathedral is ending and he from the start. Despite revela - however, and he had to hit the should depart soon. tions by TNH about Gounaris’ ground running. He was elected Andonios itemized in detail problems at his previous parish, on Tuesday, November 5 and he AP Photo/Petros KArAdjiAs the reasons and all that has the Holy Trinity of Indianapolis, did not know he won until Fri - Privatization Bill Fuels Protests, Trigger Power Outages in Cyprus transpired since Gounaris’ ar - Demetrios proceeded with day – it was very close, a 59 vote rival at the Cathedral in June Gounaris’ appointment. margin. True to Annapolis’ his - An angry electricity authority worker talks with riot police outside the entrance of Parliament 2012 that prompted the Arch - Gounaris’ relationship with tory of early inaugurations, he in Nicosia on February 24 during a strike to protest government plans to privatize the state-run diocese to take this action. was sworn in on December 2. electricity organization and other entities including the port authority. See story on p. 13. Gounaris told Andonios that he Continued on page 8 He is learning many things very quickly, and is pleasantly surprised at how hardworking the folks are at City Hall. “They put a lot of passion and pride Orleans Greek Parish is Oldest in US into their work every day.” He is quickly learning about the day to day operations of the By Constantine S. Sirigos chairs Barbara Stavis Wolf and Easter Picnic. May 23- 25: 150th city. Sometimes the process goes TNH Staff Writer Constandinos Vennis, and Parish Celebration at the 41st Annual more slowly than he would like. Council President Steve Psarel - Greek Festival. June: Holy Trinity Not the people, but the bureau - NEW ORLEANS, LA – The river lis. Pentecost 150th Celebration. cracy and structure; things were of time that flows from the birth The City of New Orleans is July: 4th of July and 150th An - different when he worked in of oldest Greek Orthodox parish also shining its spotlight on the niversary Party. August: Histori - sales. in America, like the noble Mis - community, and so is the Order cal Costumes and Textile Exhibit. He says that the response to sissippi nearby, streamed of AHEPA. The next event is the September: 150th Anniversary some of his queries has been through Sunday January 12 and annual Louisiana Children's Mu - Choir Event; 150th Birthday “this will take two to three years the waters of Bayou St. John, seum Around the World Celebra - Party for children. to get done,” including installing when and where the Dean of tion on March 22. Greece is the 150th Anniversary Weekend more bus shelters. “Having peo - Holy Trinity Cathedral of New featured country and 150th an - will feature an Archives Exhibit ple in the snow for two years,” Orleans, Archimandrite Maximos niversary memorabilia will be and Reception on Friday, a His - Pafilis, cast the Holy Cross in into displayed. torical Tour and Luncheon on Continued on page 9 the Bayou for the Blessing of the AHEPAs annual Supreme Saturday will be followed by a Waters. Convention will be held at the Heritage Night Celebration. The Feast of Epiphany was Sheraton New Orleans July 20- The celebration comes to a the kickoff of a year-long cele - 26 and will include an exhibit of climax on Sunday with a Hierar - WITH THIS ISSUE bration of the parish’s 150th an - items from the Holy Trinity chical Divine Liturgy and the niversary. Great celebrations usu - archives. Grand Banquet Luncheon. AP Photo/thAnAssis stAvrAKis ally have a huge cast, and the There will then be events According to a parish release, Olympiacos Topples Vaunted Manchester United yearlong festivities of Holy Trin - every month until October 10- “The winding waters of New Or - ity is no exception. 12, 150th Anniversary Weekend. leans’ Bayou St. John are steeped Greece got Europe’s attention in a different way when Olympia - The list of too many names April: New Orleans Lakefront in history. A pivotal waterway, cos defeated Manchester 2-0 in a Champions League match. to mention can begin, however, Beautification Project and Plant - Above: Olympiacos' Jose Holebas, fights for the ball with Wayne with Anniversary Committee co- ing Event; 150th Anniversary Continued on page 8 Rooney at Karaiskakis stadium, in the port of Piraeus. If Kiriakou is Muzzled, His Friends Will Shout Americans

By Constantine S. Sirigos caused not only roadblocks to wheels. visitors’ list, told TNH “unfortu - See Greece TNH Staff Writer his quest to get closer to his fam - After Firedoglake editor-in- nately there have been some de - ily – his wife Heather and five chief Jane Hamsher and writer velopments this past week. The NEW YORK – John Kiriakou, children – but the danger uglier Kevin Gosztola visited him re - powers that be, specifically the As Irrelevant who was sentenced to 30 “on the road” scenarios. cently, the later wrote that the warden, don’t like the fact that months in Federal Correctional In his most recent Letter, Kiri - letters “provided the prison with he keeps sending Letters from Institution in Loretto in Western akou wrote: “A senior prison of - excuses for retaliating against Loretto. They told him that the By Constantinos E. Scaros Pennsylvania for violating the ficial told me months ago that him.” Kiriakou is “100 percent earliest he can be released in Intelligence Identities Protection there have been active discus - positive” that the prison sen - next February.” That means that Some Greeks living in Greece Act, is learning that although sions about putting me in tence itself is payback for his instead of the nice months in a believe that Americans have a prisoners in America do not lose “diesel therapy” for the rest of public statements to ABC News halfway house he requested and favorable view of them, whereas the right to free speech, it comes my sentence. Diesel therapy is in 2007 about the U.S. govern - the six months he expected, he others think the opposite. And with a price. when a prisoner is transferred ment’s use of waterboarding, would receive only 86 days. even Greek-Americans often at - His Letters from Loretto, from one prison to another all which human rights groups con - It appears that he is being tribute treatment by, say, a gov - FAITH 2014 which contain his thoughts on across the country via prison sider torture. singled out. “According to Kiri - ernment agency that is subpar various topics, including Ed - van, bus or ‘conair’ plane, never Gosztola reported that “Kiri - akou’s wife they recently re - because of overextension or in - ward Snowden, and also de - staying in any one prison long akou did not necessarily see leased a guard who had as - competence to: “they just have Ion. Village scribe life in prison, are posted enough to receive telephone, himself as a political prisoner saulted a prisoner to a halfway it in for me because I’m Greek – on firedoglake.com, one of the email, mailing or visitation priv - until recently. house after serving only six and we know they’re against the most influential political web - ileges.” Jim Gregorakis, a good Greeks.” Scholarships sites. They appear to have In other words, hell on friend of Kiriakou who is on his Continued on page 10 The latest Gallup Poll, how - ever, when juxtaposed with sim - ilar polls taken over the past 15 NEW YORK – For the eighth or so years, reveals a different consecutive year, FAITH: An En - conclusion: when it comes to dowment for Orthodoxy and Greek Rocker Pleads Guilty to Plot to Murder his Wife Greece, Americans see it not so Hellenism will sponsor a series much as good or bad, but irrel - of travel grants this summer to evant. children participating in the Ion - TNH Staff At least, as compared to a ian Village Summer Camp pro - couple of dozen other countries. gram. FAITH provides full and VISTA, CA – Timothy Lambesis, The 22 countries that Gallup partial scholarships to qualified the Greek-American lead singer asked Americans to rank, in or - participants. of the Grammy Award-nomi - der here by results of most to The travel grants are primar - nated heavy metal band As I Lay least favorable, are: Canada, ily need-based financial assis - Dying has pleaded guilty to at - Great Britain, Germany, Japan, tance: however, each applicant’s tempting to hire a hit man to France, India, Israel, South Ko - academic performance will also kill his wife. rea, Mexico, Egypt, China, be weighed into the evaluation The hit man, an undercover Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Russia, The review process. Priority will be detective, was part of an under - Palestinian Authority, Libya, given to older applicants and cover investigation that began Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, previous scholarship recipients in April after Lambesis allegedly Syria, Iran, and North Korea. are not eligible. told an employee at his gym Only the first nine countries Ionian Village participants that he wanted to get rid of his on the list received favorable will travel across Greece, ven - wife. The agent, Howard ratings that were higher than 50 erating the relics of the Saints, Bradley, said that Lambesis, percent, the United States’ two walking in the footsteps of the thinking him to be a hit man, neighbors, Canada and Mexico, Apostles, and visiting significant met with him in May and said first and ninth, respectively, with he wanted his wife, Meggan, favorability ratings of 93 and 58 Continued on page 8 “gone.” Bradley says when he percent. asked Lambesis specifically The only European countries whether he wanted his wife on the list, Great Britain, Ger - killed, the 32 year-old rock star many, and France, all earned For subscription: said “yes, I do.” high marks, 90, 81, and 78 per - 718.784.5255 As TNH reported upon cent. The majority of the coun - [email protected] Lambesis’ arrest in May, he orig - tries are in the Middle East, or inally pled not guilty, and his at - in the case of North Korea, Rus - torney stated that due to the sia, and Cuba, and to some ex - rocker’s rampant drug use, his tent, China, have had stretches Greek-American rock star Tim Lambesis, show here after his arrest in May, pled guilty on Feb. 25 to attempting to hire a hit man to kill his wife. The hit man was really an undercover FBI agent. Continued on page 8 Continued on page 8 2 THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 1-7, 2014 e c n e l l e c x e

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Sorry lent before to the United States, TORONTO, CAN. – The Greek phone conversation I had with Jamie, I’ll stick to the old Double will be on view with newly dis - Community of Toronto is de - her for the next 12 years always Cheeseburger with a side of covered and previously unpub - lighted to invite you to the Greek ended with the same warning fries”. lished objects from recent archae - National Independence Day about the American hamburger. Owner Dino is proud of his ological excavations in Greece. Gala, which will take place on The truth is I did not follow choice to reimagine his late fa - The exhibition is organized by Saturday, Mar. 22 beginning at my dear grandmother’s advice. ther’s original menu. He wanted the Hellenic Ministry of Educa - 6:30PM, at the Paramount Con - Instead, I have become a huge to stick to his father’s recipe for tion and Religious Affairs, Cul - ference and Event Centre, 22 fan of the hamburger. I travel success and give the people what ture, and Sports, Athens, with the Rowntree Dairy Road in Wood - great distances to try a new they want. Dino felt that people collaboration of the Benaki Mu - bridge, Ontario. The Gala will hamburger joint. What I love The Revolution Burger at Patra’s Charbroiled Burgers is pre - in Los Angeles were looking for seum, Athens, in association with feature dinner, dancing, and en - most about the burger is that I sented on a whole wheat bun and topped with mixed greens, healthy fast food alternatives the National Gallery of Art, Wash - tertainment. Tickets are $100 for could eat one every day and it smashed beans, and potato spread. and he set out to give them that. ington, and the J. Paul Getty Mu - adults, $75 for students, and $50 would not taste the same as the I indulged in both the Revo - seum, Los Angeles. After Wash - for children. On the following last. I am intrigued by the end - great burger. Patra’s Charbroiled the beloved sandwich. Jamie lution Burger and classic Patra’s ington, the exhibition travels to day, Sunday, Mar. 23, the Greek less topping possibilities and Burgers has been specializing in Oliver, the British chef, appar - Burger. Two foreigners putting the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Community of Toronto will cele - how what most believe to be an hamburgers since 1978. ently had the same view of this their own twist on an American Angeles, where it will be dis - brate Greek Independence Day inferior meal can be transformed Demitrios “Jimmy” Perris, American staple and he em - meal. Both were delicious in played at the Getty Villa from with a parade! It begins at 1PM into a culinary masterpiece, if founder of Patra’s, left his home barked on a nation wide journey their own way. I wish my yiayia April 9 through August 25, 2014. at Danforth Avenue (Jones to the right ingredients are used. in Patra to open a restaurant in trying to make American fast could be here with me to enjoy Broadview), and Parade partici - I have had burgers covered the United States. He quickly food healthier. Patra’s was one this meal, I think this would give n FEBRUARY, 28 pants will gather at the Eastern in truffle cheese and then topped discovered that the only way to of the stops on what he calls his her a different view of this mis - TENAFLY, NJ – The Hellenic Fed - High School, 16 Phin Ave. (Dan - with a duck egg, aged angus succeed was to give his cus - Food Revolution Tour. understood dish. She would eration of New Jersey Presents forth and Danlands). For more beef grilled to perfection, piled tomers what they wanted. 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A rendering of 180 Myrtle Street, one of a number of completed Catsimatidis can replace the Red Apple Group’s headquarters Catsimatidis named The Andrea, on Myrtle Street in Brooklyn, and planned buildings in downtown Brooklyn. with a 22-story hotel, or apartment or office building. after his daughter, who has begun to oversee Gristedes. Catsimatidis: NYC Real Estate Market Will Soar if Crime, Taxes Do Not

TNH Staff something that would hurt the tunity arise. Three beachfront towers at just the land by itself is worth Pataki, an ardent supporter, told city. Though his political future Coney Island are a big part of $200 million, he said. TNH last fall, after Catsimatidis’ NEW YORK – The New York The man known as “Cats” for remains undetermined, Catsi - Catsimatidis’ New York ven - Then, there is Manhattan, GOP primary loss, that “John City real estate market will hit short ran for mayor of New York matidis is far more certain about tures, the Times reported. With where Catsimatidis’ office is lo - ran a great race. I was told new highs, says John Catsima - City last year, mounting a strong expanding his real estate ven - the zoning in place, the rentals cated on 11th Avenue and 56th tonight 80 percent of Republi - tidis, as long as crime and taxes Republican primary run but ul - tures. With four-to-six projects will be hot commodities. If you Street, where he has an eye on cans have a favorable impres - do not rise, too. timately falling short to Joe pending, Catsimatidis told the go there on a sunny day, he said, knocking down the building and sion of him. I think that’s how Catsimatidis, the 65 year-old Lhota, who lost the general elec - Times, he has no plans of slow - you fall in love. erecting a 22-story structure in New Yorkers feel. He’s a good self-made billionaire, who was tion to Democrat de Blasio. Cas - ing down. He said retirement Other Brooklyn projects in its stead – that might be a hotel, guy who cares about people and brought as a baby to the United timatidis knows de Blasio for 20 simply means working four days development are in Downtown residential units, an office build - I hope he stays involved in help - States from the tiny island of years and hopes he does a great a week, the New York Times re - Brooklyn, around Myrtle and ing, or some combination ing to make this a better city Nisyros by his parents and has job, he told the Times, but has ported, although he hopes his Flatbush Avenues he said, the thereof. and country.” emerged as one of the wealthi - not ruled out running for mayor children will take larger roles in Times reported, and he is also With his real estate enter - Even closer to home, Catsi - est men in America, has a lot of again. He said he wants to be in their father’s business as they speculating about building ven - prises firmly in expansion mode, matidis’ wife, Margo, recently faith in New York’s future, he a position to make a difference, continue to immerse themselves tures in Florida. He bought the the question remains whether told TNH “I honestly believe told the New York Times, unless and would consider jumping in deeper and deeper into his var - property 30 years ago for ap - he will run for office again. For - that he will do it again.” new Mayor Bill de Blasio does to a race should another oppor - ious enterprises. proximately $400,000, and now mer NY Governor George Hatzichristou Describes Innovative Programs to Community’s Educators

By Constantine S. Sirigos children, she noted the recent individuals and communities leon Kokkinos, the principal of TNH Staff Writer paradigm shift in among educa - and disseminate the latest St. Demetrios’ afternoon Greek tors from “it’s the child’s fault, knowledge and methods. were present. NEW YORK – The Direct Arch - or, the child has a problem” to Dr. Hatzichristou told TNH it TNH columnist Christopher diocesan District Office of Edu - taking a more systemic perspec - was very important to be able Tripoulas, who is an Assistant cation, whose director is Mary tive and looking closely at class - to meet with Greek-American Adjunct Professor at St. John's Makedon, and the schools of the room and family dynamics. educators – more than 40 peo - University, said “It was a very Cathedral of St. Demetrios – They emphasize the “two C- ple attended from throughout useful and informative presen - Anastasios Koularmanis is their s,” whose importance has the NY Metropolitan Area. One tation…It broadened our hori - supervising principal – pre - emerged from research in the of her aims is to build an inter - zons and it dealt with issues that sented one of Greece’s top edu - United States: “Children want national network of support for are central to the educational cators, Dr. Chryse Hatzichristou to feel competent and con - educators. process, like the emotional state on February 22. Her lecture was nected,” and research also notes The Dean of the Cathedral of of the students.” titled, “Strengthening the emo - the importance of teacher being St. Demetrios, Very Rev. Nektar - He said the methods help tional support for children and supportive. ios Papazafiropoulos and Timo - teachers transmit knowledge in fostering positive climates in COMMUNICATION a way that is not only effective schools and families.” IS THE KEY academically but which will Dr. Hatzichristou introduced In order to help the students, Some pictures are worth help prepare them for life...be - Connecting for Caring, “an in - however, the teachers must more than 1000 words. A St. cause the children are not just novative multilevel project of know what is going on. The pro - Demetrios student asked to spectators but are active partic - prevention, awareness building, grams’ practical principle could compare the life of trees and ipants. training and intervention,” for be “If you talk to them, they will the human heart wrote on For more information in which she is the project director. tell you.” her drawing: “The sun is Greek and English visit: con - It was designed by the Society “With communication, chil - forgiveness.” necting4caring.gr for School & Family Consulta - dren can be helped to solve their tion and Research and the Cen - own problems,” such those in tre for Research and Practice in their relationships with their School Psychology of the Uni - peers and siblings. Hatzichristou versity of Athens, which is sup - said. ported with grants from the She gave examples state - Stavros Niarchos Foundation. ments by children that show The innovative programs, they will tell teachers or school such as We Care, that psychologists everything: “I am Hatzichristou has developed, intelligent, but lazy…I am a serve a dual purpose: integrat - good girl. I am not a good stu - ing the work of teachers, school dent, but I try…I feel stupid, psychiatrists and parents in ugly and worthless because that helping children reach their po - is how they treat me.” tential – especially assisting The programs taps into the families under socioeconomic fact that children can convey stress during the Greek crisis – their feelings and concerns ver - and to establish links between bally and visually. educators and students across “WE CARE” PROGRAM the diaspora through their joints CONNECTS GREEK participation in activities. They CLASSROOMS WORLDWIDE believe their work constitutes an The program that is being important bridge between implanted in places like the St. Greece and Hellenic communi - Demetrios schools is called “We ties around the world. Care.” The programs are based on Anna Zalokostas is a gradu - scientific research on the inter - ate student at Queens College connectedness of personal de - who teaches Sunday School at velopment and learning. St. Athanasios in Paramus, NJ. Makedon introduced She is part of Hatzichristou’s re - Hatzichristou, Professor of search team and is helping to School Psychology. Department present the program to area of Psychology, School of Philos - schools. “I presented it to Mr. ophy, University of Athens. She Koularmanis last year and he has completed graduate studies was very enthusiastic about at Harvard University, University bringing it to St. Demetrios,” she of California, Berkeley, and the said. Max Planck Institute in Berlin Two staffers, art teacher Ari - and she is also co-Chair of the adni Veziroglou and literature Committee on International Re - teacher Augustinos Sicopoulos, lations on Psychology of the have taken the lead but all the American Psychological Associ - teachers are being trained ation (APA). She recently made through publications and par - a presentation in Washington, ticipation in online forums. DC about the programs at the The children are engaged convention of the International through a game called Sailing Association of School Psycholo - for Caring, whose frame of ref - gists. erence is the journey of Hatzichristou explained that Odysseus from one island to an - teachers learn techniques that other. It is also the means by improve learning generally, but which they connect with Greek are especially valuable for chil - children in Greece, Cyprus, Bel - dren undergoing difficulties of gium, Germany, the United any kind. Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, The goal is to engender psy - Norway, and Switzerland. chological resilience and foster Veziroglou gave an example social and emotional skills and of a project. She told the stu - Hatzichristou said that when dents to draw trees and said the family life becomes unstable trees are metaphors for their and parents are no longer seen hearts, and they were told to as their shield and defenders, connect things that are good children naturally turn to teach - and bad for the trees. like water, ers. The classroom becomes the with analogous elements in the only safe and stable place in heart, or emotional life, of the their lives. child. Hatzichristou noted that One 4th grader noted on her “teachers are not supermen,” drawing: “The sun is forgive - but the program enables teach - ness…worms are hatred…vio - ers to create a space and time lence is like fire…fruits are joy.” to express themselves and ask The program’s different mod - questions. ules include: 1) examining the Teachers learn how to help social values, 2) what are the children better face their diffi - positive elements in the class - culties by supporting the good room and what should be factors in their lives, but she em - changed, 3) confronting difficult phasized that working with par - feelings such as anger and social ents is an important element isolation, 4) facing anxiety and “They know the children much 5) diversity. better than we do.” The work is a tribute to the Regarding helping struggling power of the internet to connect 8 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 1-7, 2014 Gounaris Dismissed as Cathedral Dean as Crisis Continues Festering

Continued from page 1 Orthodox or even Christian. to read letters aloud compelling Poll also spoke about the set - the congregation – which was the Parish Council is virtually tlement of a lawsuit that the astonished by the tactic – to as - nonexistent. sexton’s family had brought sist with the funding, with the He and Council President against the Cathedral for unpaid ultimatum that otherwise, they Dean Poll are not on speaking overtime, but did not disclose could not continue. terms, their longstanding dis - the amount. Cathedral School Officials cord exacerbated by an email The sexton continues to work have also dismissed Day Greek Gounaris sent some time ago to at the Cathedral. School Principal Sonia Celestin. Poll – a prominent Greek-Amer - And the crisis at the Cathe - The Holy Trinity Cathedral is ican businessman and owner of dral only deepens. Recently, the the only parish in the entire the famous Boathouse Restau - Council reduced funding for the Archdiocese in which the Coun - rant in Central Park, who was choir and chanter from cil is not elected by parishioners appointed Council President by $275,000 to $150,000 because but handpicked and appointed Demetrios – wishing him “to of financial difficulties. by the archbishop. That practice lose everything and to end up The Cathedral faces a serious was established by the late Arch - homeless on the streets of New financial problem. Sources from bishop Iakovos and it continues York.” the Archdiocese told TNH that with Demetrios. Gounaris’ email followed Gounaris, along with then-Ad - According to the maxims of Poll’s interview in TNH’s Sept. ministrative Assistant Steve theology and ecclesiology, the 14 edition, in which he cited Hantzarides, who was ousted Archdiocesan Cathedral is the problems at the Cathedral, in - earlier this month, had given par excellence church of the cluding dwindling attendance raises to the choir without the archbishop should be present for church services, a mounting Council’s knowledge or consent. every day, early in the morning $250,000 deficit resulting from On February 23, immediately for Matins and in the evening a $1.9 million annual budget – after the dismissal of the Divine for Vespers. a large chunk of which is more Liturgy, Gounaris told the con - Also, it is his primary church than $200,000 toward the choir, gregation from the Royal Door tnh Archives to officiate at the Divine Liturgy which includes expenses to hire about the reduced funding and Archbishop Demetrios of America welcoming Rev. Anastasios Gounaris,selection as priest at and the Feast Days of the Litur - professional singers, many not prompted three choir members the Holy Trinity Archdiocesan Cathedral in New York June of 2012. gical Calendar. Lambesis At 150, New Orleans Oldest Greek Orthodox Parish in U.S.

Pleads Guilty Continued from page 1 Leonidas Spyropoulos, had come flooding from Hurricane Katrina. to America at the turn of the cen - “My heart dropped. I got in - home to Native Americans for tury and like many, returned to volved immediately and fell in Continued from page 1 thousands of years, which later Greece with his family to get his love with what the archives said attracted early 17th century set - elderly father settled, “but he fell about our church, and I discov - thought process had become tlers, Bayou St. John was a com - in love with Greece and his olive ered that I am an amateur histo - “devastatingly affected.” mercial outlet and the key to and fig trees, so he stayed and rian,” she said. Lambesis pleaded guilty to where New Orleans was estab - then got married to my mother, She found that New Orleans one count of solicitation of mur - lished.” Sophia.” was neglected in Greek-Ameri - der, a felony punishable by a The Church which currently He brought his bride back to can history and in her efforts “I maximum of nine years in stands on the Bayou “is the suc - America and settled in a small discovered some amazing prison, NBC News in San Diego cessor to the ‘Little Church,’ Cajun village. They were mem - things.” For example, other than reported. which was built at 1222 North bers of Holy Trinity but were too the unsuccessful New Smyrna The gym employee, personal Dorgenois after worshipers were far away to attend regularly. colony in Florida, the first groups trainer Brett Kimball, testified at able to purchase the land and Maag got involved in the of Greeks who settled the United a pretrial hearing that Lambesis move from their temporary lo - archive project after she was States came to New Orleans in wanted to know if he knew any - cation” in the Greek Consul’s of - shown the damage from the the mid-1700s. one who could carry out the hit, fices. Out of the immigrants NBC reported. “The parish was established emerged the Dragon-Dimitri Bradley said Lambesis pro - in New Orleans in 1864 after clan, whose history she is explor - vided him with $1000 in cash businessman and Royal Consul ing. They were absorbed into the and his wife’s address and secu - of the Royal Government of Roman Catholic community over rity gate entry code, pictures of Greece Nicholas Benachi offered time, but in recent years some her, and dates on which he his personal property for a tem - have returned to the Orthodox would have their children – ages porary church. In 1867, he sold faith. Their descendants are com - 4, 8, and 10 – so that he would a small parcel of property on ing to New Orleans in April to the murder could take place dur - North Dorgenois Street to the rededicate their monument in ing such a date, thereby creating community that included a small the oldest French cemetery in an alibi, NBC reported. church. The community eventu - New Orleans. They have invited The couple filed for divorce ally relocated to the present site the Greek Church and commu - in September 2012. Meggan on Robert E. Lee Boulevard, next nity to participate. Lambesis alleges that her hus - to Bayou St. John. The Hellenic The original church at 1222 North Dorgenois was built on land The church and the neighbor - band had become obsessed with he Hellenic Cultural Center was sold to the community by the Greek Consul Nicholas Benachi. hood were devastated by Hurri - bodybuilding, distracted, irre - built in 1980, and the new cane Katrina and many ex - sponsible with the children – Cathedral was completed in to New Orleans for law school part of commemoration. pressed doubt that the area having fallen asleep while watch - 1985.” and met his wife, whose family Magdalene Spiropoulou would be able to come back. “In ing them – and had spent thou - With a 150-year history, the are parishioners, on vacation in Maag, chair of the Archive Com - large part thanks to John sands of dollars on tattoos, re - community counts Wolf as a rel - Chios. His father-in-law, Captain mittee, said archives and histor - Georges,” businessman and pub - ported NBC, and Lambesis, in ative newcomer. Her father came John Fatsis, was the co-chair of ical treasures of the parish are a Ariadne Makridakis released lisher of the daily newspaper the turn, wanted her dead because to New Orleans in 1940; her the building committee for the vital part of commemoration. the dove that symbolized the Advocate, “we were the first area she was going to get up to 60 grandparents were from Smyrna. current sanctuary that opened in Her ties to the parish go back to Holy Spirit, with Fr. Maximos institution that reopened,” Maag percent of his income and pre - She noted the appropriateness 1985. 1946 when her family escaped Pafilis nearby, Holy Trinity’s told TNH. “People said if the vent the children from going on to TNH of the Epiphany being The archives and historical from the Greek Civil War and 150th anniversary celebration Greek Church can come back we tour with him. celebrated at Bayou St. John. “It treasures of the parish are a vital came to Louisiana. Her father, had an auspicious beginning. can come back.” In September, NBC reported was wonderful. Four young men that dozens of vials containing dove into the waters and young steroids were found in the cou - Ariadne Makridakis was the ple’s home. Dove Bearer.” As I Lay Dying formed in San She said several exhibits will Americans View Greece not Good or Bad, but Irrelevant Diego in 2000 and has released display documents, icons, vest - six albums, including 2007's An ments of the early priests, and Ocean Between Us, which architectural elements from the Continued from page 1 World Poll, “we generally don’t comprise the United Nations as particularly internationally-in - reached No. 8 on Billboard's first church, and even a bap - ask Americans about Greece.” a barometer, Gallup has asked clined, venturing beyond their charts, AP reported. A single tismal font from the 1860s. of foreign policy turbulence It is clear from Esipova’s Americans only about 41 of borders even in their own scope from the album, "Nothing Left," The thriving community of with the United States. comments and supporting them – 21 percent – over the of knowledge in a limited fash - was nominated for a Grammy 400 member families is espe - So, why isn’t Greece on the Gallup data that the organiza - past 15 years. Far from being in ion, concentrating on a small for top metal performance. cially proud of its Greek school list? The polls are based on “ed - tion – arguably the standard- a special category, then, Greece handful of the world’s nations. The band plays in an aggres - and the Hellenic Dancers chil - itorial judgment,” Gallup Media bearer of polling – does not ig - is the very large typically cate - It also underscores what a big sive style that features lightning- dren’s and adult dance troupe, Specialist Stephanie Holgado nore Greece in conducting its gory: the 79 percent of countries world we live in and how it speed metal guitar riffs. The she said. told TNH, mainly focusing on surveys, but has determined around the world that Ameri - would be a wonder for most group's philosophical lyrics have Vennis is very excited about countries “that are consistently that in Americans’ eyes, Greece cans do not seem to pay much people living in whatever area attracted a following of Christian the celebrations. His roots are in relevant to the United States or is simply not nearly as impor - attention to. Neither good nor of the globe to pay much atten - rock fans, AP reported. Kalavrita and Kardamila (Chios), are in the news.” tant as a host of other countries. bad, then, Greece in Americans’ tion to even a quarter of them, Lambesis had carried on nu - and he is an adopted member of Since, 1999, however, Gallup Nations besides the 22 that eyes is, contextually, irrelevant. let alone a majority. merous affairs, Meggan said, the parish family. Now the Parish only asked Americans about comprise the 2014 poll that have Lastly, far from the “irrele - Whatever, then, the reasons Rolling Stone magazine re - Council Vice President, he grew Greece in this poll once, in appeared on similar polls since vant” list being comprised of ob - for Greece being wholly irrele - ported, and he had written her a up working in his father’s restau - 2012, and the favorable rating 1999 follow, the number of scure nations, it also includes: vant in the eyes of Americans, letter stating he no longer loved rant in Long Island and was ac - was 62 percent. The Greek cri - times they were on the list in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, it does not appear to be Greek- her and had lost his faith in God. tive at St. Paul’s Cathedral. sis, however, began long before parentheses: Australia (4), Brazil Bolivia, Denmark, Finland, Hun - specific in any way. Billboard Magazine, in fact, re - He said he is active at Holy that, and Greece was certainly (4), Colombia (3), Indonesia gary, Ireland, the Netherlands, The most accurate answer, ported that he lost some of his Trinity because “I want my front page news in numerous (1), Italy (2), Jordan (6), Kenya New Zealand, Norway, Peru, then, to questions asked of Christian fan base because they daughter to grow up the way I major American newspapers (1), Kuwait (1), The Philippines Portugal, Peru, Sweden, Switzer - Greek-Americans in Greece accused him of having turned to grew up.” and the subject of many prime (4), Poland (1), South Africa land, Venezuela, and the United about the American people as a a Satanic musical direction. A maritime attorney, he went time U.S. newscasts. (4), Spain (2), Taiwan (5), Arab Emirates, among others. whole: “don’t they care about Neli Esipova, a director of the Turkey (3), The Ukraine (1), All in all, it is fair to say that our (insert problem here)?” is: Gallup World Poll, told TNH Venezuela (3), Vietnam (4), Greece is in good company. If “it’s not that they don’t care, that although data about Greece Yemen (1), and Yugoslavia (1). nothing else, the Poll tends to they simply don’t even know is collected regularly for the Using the 193 countries that indicate that Americans are not about it.” POCKET-LESS PITA BREAD FAITH Endowment Heralds Kontos Foods Ionian Village Scholarships The Leading Company in Flat Breads Continued from page 1 premiere program for the young Greek Americans to understand Well known for the Pocket-Less Pita sites of Greek history and cul - their Hellenic heritage and iden - ture. 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Navios Maritime Holdings Inc., a leader in dry bulk shipping, led by its Chairman and CEO An - Luis Almagro, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, and Mario Bergara, Minister of Economy geliki Frangou, celebrated its 60th anniversary at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan. and Finance of Uruguay, joined Angeliki Frangou at the NYSE closing bell ceremony. Navios Maritime Holdings Rings Bell at NYSE, Celebrates 60th Anniversary

By Constantine S. Sirigos Metropolitan Club. increase in enterprise value.” thanked the senior management emony. Almagro and Bergara lor's degree in mechanical engi - TNH Staff Writer Frangou, who was educated She told the Wall Street Tran - team who joined her at the spoke after Navios presented a neering at Fairleigh Dickinson as an engineer and has distin - script that “our long-term core podium. “These are not only my corporate overview. University, graduating summa NEW YORK – Angeliki Frangou, guished herself as an entrepre - fleet consists of 56 vessels total - business colleagues, these are “Navios is one of the leading cum laude, and she has a mas - Chairman and CEO of Navios neur, acquired Navios, which ing 5.8 million deadweight my family. That has been ex - global brands in seaborne ship - ter's degree in mechanical engi - Maritime Holdings Inc. rang the was incorporated in 1954 as a tons.” tremely important for how we ping, specializing in the world - neering from Columbia Univer - closing bell at the New York wholly owned subsidiary of US The special guests on Wall have developed this company,” wide carriage, trading, storage sity. In 2011, she was named Stock Exchange and hosted a Steel, through a reverse merger Street and at the Uptown club Frangou said. and related logistics of interna - Fortune Magazine's Global Edi - dinner and reception at the Met - in 2004. included Luis Almagro, Minister “Last of not least I want to tional bulk cargoes. For 58 years, tion’s Top 50 Most Powerful ropolitan Club marking the 60th The company which was es - of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, thank the Navios alumni…we raw materials producers, agri - Women in Business. anniversary of the shipping in - tablished to facilitate the trans - and Mario Bergara, Minister of thank you for creating this com - cultural traders and exporters, Nikolas Bornozis, the dustry leader that is listed on the portation of iron ore from South Economy and Finance of pany and keeping the legacy, industrial end users, ship own - founder, President and CEO Cap - New York Stock Exchange under America has experienced a re - Uruguay. and we thank our business part - ers, charterers, ship and deriva - ital Link, whose 8th annual “In - the symbol NYSE: NM. markable expansion since its IPO Frangou welcomed the ners who helped us become who tive brokers, agents, and finan - vest in International Shipping” The orders of the day for in 2005. guests and began her brief pre - we are, starting with our invest - cial business partners have relied will be held in New York on Frangou, who was the first “A new era started shortly af - sentation with a brief overview ment bankers, our lawyers and on Navios' expertise and inno - March 20, was asked about the woman to be honored as Com - ter Navios’ 50th anniversary… of the history of Navios, which our accountants. These are the vation,” according to its website. world-class status of the Greek modore of the Year by the Con - though continuing the legacy of she said means “vessel.” people who stood next to us as The company has offices in shipping industry. “Greeks have necticut Maritime Association, a great company,” she said. Frangou about the Navios we grew our company.” Piraeus, New York, Montevideo, traditionally been powerful in were expressions of pride in the Frangou founded two more core values, emphasizing the Earlier in the day Frangou Antwerp, Buenos Aires, Asun - international shipping. Through - achievement of the company, NYSE-listed companies and one care they take in their relation - was joined by Minister of For - cion. The Navios Group of com - out history they have been great and appreciation and thanks for private logistics company in ships with clients and said “Our eign Affairs Almagro and Minis - panies includes Navios Maritime merchants and seamen.” He those who helped make it possi - Uruguay. Navios reports that is ability to honor our commit - ter of Economy and Finance Partners, LP, listed on the NYSE noted that Greek ships comprise ble. has achieved significant growth ments has made us able to trans - Bergara on a visit to the New under the symbol NYSE: NMM about 20 percent of the world’s “We have achieved an enter - metrics, “including, 581% fleet act business that others cannot.” York Stock Exchange which in - and Navios Maritime Acquisition shipping capacity. “They trans - prise value of $7 billion through capacity growth; $8.7 billion of She said that Navios’ most cluded presentations, a press Corporation, listed on the NYSE port the world’s goods every - the help of a lot of people who debt and equity raised; 1,483% important asset is its human cap - roundtable discussion and par - under the symbol NYSE: NNA. where, properly and on time,” are in this room,” she said at the market cap increase and 915% ital and the introduced and ticipation in the Closing Bell Cer - Frangou earned her bache - he said. Mike Pantelides, New Annapolis Mayor, is Poised to Make Faster Progress

Continued from page 1 but he said they planted the and Archbishop Spalding High can’t get elected to office. “Peo - mayor so I laid out a plan with said. seeds of his success by teaching School. In 2007 he received a ple respond well to young peo - the traditional steps: president “It one of the most stressful is unacceptable. He has been him the value of hard work. B.A. in Philosophy from West ple. You go out and bring them of my community association, things you can do, but definitely “pounding on the doors” to get “They pushed me in school and Virginia University. something new to the table,” he captain of the neighborhood one of the most fun and most things moving more quickly. sports, and they were always Asked about his favorite told TNH. watch, and I joined a nonprofit rewarding. Helping people is Being a very young mayor, supportive, always close.” His philosophers, he said “I’ll begin “I decided I wanted to be board for the school system,” he just an unbelievable feeling.” he knows technology will be a older brother Greg works for the with a shameless plug for the valuable tool. “We will go from state comptroller’s office. Greek ones.” the Flintstones to the Jetsons,” Both his parents began as He enjoyed them all, and in many cases. He is generally teachers and moved on to other turned to some of his old books very open to ideas and expects things, in his dad’s case, politics. after he was elected. to learn best practices from his He is a lobbyist and he ran for “In any subject, anything you The William Spyropoulos Greek-American Day School 156 fellow mayors in Maryland. Congress. “He lost, but it was learn is out of date in five years, But his strength comes from the start of my training, shaking any piece of technology or law, of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church main thing he learned from fa - hands and kissing babies when but philosophy teaches you crit - ther: how to deal with people. I was three years old,” Pan - ical thinking and logic which 43-15 196 St., Flushing, NY 11358 His grandfather Savvas telides said. lasts forever,” he said. poured all his time and energy He learned from his father Pantelides says the logic he (718) 357-5583 Fax: (718) 428-3051 into the Royal Restaurant in that for success in politics, “You learned helps him analyze the Downtown Annapolis, which have to win people over to your issues and opportunities and was the town’s political hot spot. way of thinking.” challenges that face him as a “Judges and other officials had “Whenever you look at any new mayor, just as Plato and their tables,” and his father de - issue, one is preparing people Aristotle hoped it would. veloped an interest in politics with information, but his way His studies probably helped growing up there, eventually was to always give people both him find ground for compromise working for county executives the good and bad of his posi - too. The Annapolis system gives and other offices. tion. ‘Here are the 10 reasons a lot of power to the City Coun - The family’s history in Mary - this development is a good cil, and Democrats outnumber land transcends politics as thing, and here are the five rea - Republicans 7-2, so he must usual, however. “The restaurant sons you are going to hear that work very closely with them to was the first one in Annapolis are bad about it.’ He was always push through his agenda, which to desegregate,” as was the case honest and he worked hard,” he includes streamlining services with Greek establishments in told TNH. and making government more many parts of the country. “The Pantelides said that, “To be business – friendly, a major cam - local newspaper gave him a successful, which I also learned paign theme for him. hard time,” he said. His grand - from my father, you have to also He is beginning with small father’s family’s struggles cause build partnerships. That’s how I things – like temporarily reduc - him to identify with African- won the campaign, by building ing parking costs. “We are trying Americans, “but also, Greek coalitions,” with different to change to culture. I learned people don’t like to be told what groups. from my dad that perception is to do – ‘I’ll do what I want in That probably began for him reality.” my restaurant,’” was probably at Kneseth Israel Kindergarten It’s a busy time now: His first part of the equation. and continued at Germantown budget is due March 10. His mom and dad were very Elementary School, St. Martins A PRODUCT active in his election campaign, Lutheran School in Annapolis OF THE COMMUNITY “Church was a huge part of KINDERGARTEN my life,” he said of the Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Annapolis. - O P E N H O U S E - He was an altar boy with Fr. Cosmas Karavellas, participated in Greek dancing, GOYA basket - FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014 ball and the annual festival. And Pantelides deeply appre - ciates the support he received at 12:30 p.m. from the community. One of the keys to his victory was getting out the Greek vote. His thanks begin with his Visit our school cousin John. “He is the biggest liberal I ever met…but he came Learn about our programs on board and ran my web site and the email servers, and he went door to door with my dad Get to know our educators to Greeks and had them switch their registration to Republican Visit our classrooms so they could vote for me in the primary.” “Most people think it doesn’t, but every vote really counts,” he said, adding, “winning by 59 Give your children the most valuable gift votes, everybody can claim to have helped me win.” of their lives: He has simple advice for young Greek-American inter - A Greek-American Education ested in running for office: “I say go for it. Don’t let people tell you ‘no.’ If I had a dollar for with cutting edge technology every person who told me I was too young, or not good enough and with a foundation in our or smart enough, I’d be a mil - lionaire. You have to believe in Hellenic Orthodox ideals, values, and principles yourself.” At 30 years old, Annapolis’ new Mayor Mike Pantelides, with He says many people in our roots in Cyprus and Greece, is humbled by what Alexander the society postpone things, but Great – and his grandfather Savvas – achieved at his age. there no reason a young person 10 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 1-7, 2014 Rare Indulgence: Enjoying a Greek Afternoon in Central Pennsylvania

By Constantinos E. Scaros leagues, Demetris Tsakas and in Mechanicsburg (near the great personal interaction with Kosta Bej, were heading to state capital, Harrisburg). Close those preparing them for us. Having lived in or around Loretto in Western PA to inter - to the highway for them, less Having a large family, we found Manhattan for most of my life, view ex-CIA officer John Kiri - than an hour away for me (I that the simplicity of the menu it has been easy for me to “be akou, who has been in prison know you urban readers might and service style made our ex - Greek” whenever I felt like it. I for a year for what he considers be thinking “an hour is a long perience more enjoyable overall. lived walking distance from a retaliation for, among other time,” but we rarely have traffic We can make our visit as short Greek Orthodox Church almost things, having been the first out here – and the hourlong dri - or as long as we would like for my entire life, with easy access government official to comment ves after a while begin to feel it to be. We don't have to wait to Greek restaurants and food publicly about waterboarding as if they’re only 15 minutes). for a server for anything. On the stores, and an array of Greek (TNH Lead Story, Feb. 15), I fig - I timed it so we would all ar - occasion I need something and dances and other social gather - ured that I would join them for rive at the same time, but the my server is not to be found, I ings readily at my disposal. dinner at roughly the midway PA Turnpike had been particu - don't need to deal with the But here in Central Pennsyl - point of their long return home. larly kind to them, and they smart comments from other vania, where I’ve lived for the I’ve been to a few Greek made it to the restaurant con - servers who oftentimes remind last four years, it’s not so easy restaurants in Philadelphia, and siderably earlier than expected. you that they are not your being Greek. The nearest church a couple of others scattered By the time I pulled up, they server but will help you anyway. is at least a half hour’s drive, throughout the state, but the were already there, having The result of service that is tip- and that’s considerably closer key was to find one close to the opened the bottles of red and driven rather than guest satis - than any of the other Greek highway, so they wouldn’t have white wine they brought along faction-driven. amenities. to venture too far out of their – I told them it was a BYOB – “The word in Greek is philox - and knew, coming from Astoria, Hellenic Kouzina’s innovative food service system – you order enia,” he continued, “and I be - they had a better selection of it up front but it’s brought to you at the table – allows diners lieve that we have introduced Greek wine at their disposal. to satisfy their hunger right away, but whittle away the hours Central Pennsylvania to what The first sound I heard as I at the table, uninterrupted, in true Greek fashion. philoxenia is. I like to dispense entered Hellenic Kouzina was with the formalities and get to “Mes tou Aigaiou ta Nisia – sampled the saganaki and gi - without money at their disposal, the reason why I go somewhere Among the Aegean Islands,” a gantes plaki, among other quick education was not an option: to eat and that is to be with my song high on my list as far as bites. they had to work – and work friends, family and by all means conjuring fond memories of At the core of the food prepa - hard they did – in York’s facto - enjoying a good plate of food Greece. ration, in an open-kitchen visi - ries and restaurants. together with them. It is about I spotted my Kyrix com - ble to all was owner Lambros “On a return trip to Greece in my parea and our time together padres and down I sat – only to Alexopoulos, who was more the fall of 1969 for the purpose and not about our interaction stand up about a minute later. than happy to talk with us while of marrying off my mother, my with our server that matters. You see, at Hellenic Kouzina, never fully staying still. grandparents made contact with This service style isn't for every - you have to order your food Later on, I contacted him so my father's parents and met in one, and that is not to say a from the main counter, and then he could tell me more about their village, discussed the details server doesn't have a place in it is brought to you by the wait - himself, his family, and the Hel - of the marriage of their daughter restaurants anymore (I waited staff. lenic Kouzina. to their son and in a matter of tables for 15 years) but if the I read rave reviews about Born in the United States, days, they were engaged and same can be achieved without Kouzina’s pièce de résistance en - Alexopoulos’ father is from then married right away (less one and the tip can be spent on trée, the Oven-Baked Lamb Agrinion and his mother’s family than one week!). My father left another food item or drink or Shank, but due to time con - from a small mountain village Greece along with my mother something else later in the day, It was too cold on that early February day to sit in this won - straints, it was a shorter meal called Domnista, near Karpenisi. and returned to York, where they why not?” derful courtyard, but it sure looks inviting for al fresco dining consisting mostly of an array of His Greek is extremely good – began a life's worth of work to And make us feel at home most of the year. mezedes to complement the as if he were a native. His par - make enough to raise us and pro - they did that afternoon. wine. In additions to ample por - ents came to the United States vide a roof over our heads. My How has the restaurant fared So when TNH Senior Writer way. tions of taramosalata and after a short and “arranged” en - father was a building contractor over its first two years, thus far? Dean Sirigos reminded me that A well-placed Google search tzatziki, replete with plenty of gagement that has “worked out by trade in Greece but because “We had many naysayers and he and two of our other col - led me to the Hellenic Kouzina pita bread for dipping, we also for the best,” he said. “My father he couldn't speak a word of Eng - pundits in the beginning, and never had any intentions of lish and could not communicate, some God-awful comments leaving Greece for anything. In his in-laws arranged for him to (some on the Internet) soon af - fact it never even occurred to work as a dishwasher when he ter we opened. For what it is him. It wasn't until he met my came here. A familiar story in worth, by the end of the first mother and was engaged that many families.” year we reached number 1 out THE HERALD SQUARE leaving Greece was only days The notion of ordering food of 160+ restaurants in Mechan - away. My mother and most of at the counter then having it icsburg as rated by TripAdvisor, TNH's Crossword Challenge her family was already in Amer - brought to the table is a bit un - a place we continue to hold as ica for a few years prior to their usual for Greek restaurants, isn’t we come to the end of our sec - engagement/marriage.” it, I wondered. “My wife and I ond year in business. Urbans - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The Hellenic Kouzina, which like the efficiency and personal poon has us at 97% favored by he opened in 2012, is Alexopou - touch of the fast/casual food locals and we just reached num - los’ second restaurant. The first service concept, which is gain - ber 1 on Yelp. We have put our 10 11 12 13 14 was a breakfast-lunch place in ing momentum all over the hearts and souls into this little Downtown York, PA – which he country,” Alexopoulos replied. “I cafe and we love being philox - 15 16 17 18 operated for 14 years. Before say personal because guests are eni. To be Greek is to be philox - that, Alexopoulos virtually grew able to interact with everyone eni and by all accounts, the lo - 19 20 21 22 23 up in restaurants “as most first- involved in their dining experi - cals love Philoxenia.” generation Greek-American chil - ence. The open kitchen and ser - Indeed. On behalf of my dren did. For better or for vice model allows for this and TNH colleagues, thank you, 24 25 26 27 worse, I just never made it out.” it has been a refreshing experi - Lambro, for a great meal, and York is where his mother’s ence for many. Popular in large for providing an outlet for Cen - 28 29 30 family settled in the early-to- cities like NY and Boston, we've tral Pennsylvanians to be Greek mid 1960s for a better life, and enjoyed many great meals and for an afternoon. 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 If Fed. Officials Keep Trying to Muzzle 42 43 44 45

46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 Kiriakou, His Friends Will Make Noise

54 55 Continued from page 1 based in Pittsburgh. Before that, goated. They agreed and said he played in a band with John’s they will do everything they 56 57 58 59 months of his sentence,” Gosz - father Chris Kiriakou, whose un - can,” he said tola wrote. cle is from Canonsburg, PA, “Our Metropolitan, Savas of 60 61 62 63 64 65 Notwithstanding the cour - where Gregorakis lives. Pittsburgh, is a good man and tesy experience by The National Gregorakis first met Kiriakou he has developed an interest in 66 67 68 69 70 Herald when it visited him in at the memorial for his father, John’s case and plans to visit January, prison officials seem to and they became friends. “I him sometime in March. Fr. be not making things easy for helped him publicize his book,” Michael Kallaur of Holy Cross 71 72 the media. he said, getting him interviews in Pittsburgh has been a regular When Hamsher and Gosztola with Pittsburgh radio stations, visitor,” Gregorakis said. www.CrosswordWeaver.com arrived for their visit, their press “and we became close through During his January interview visit arrangement was not in or - that. He turned out to be a very with TNH, Kiriakou expressed der, but they were able to see good friend. A very interesting his appreciation for the people ACROSS 7 D ream shotblo cker of NBA? (init. ) Kiri akou because they wer on man I might add.” who visit and write him and 2 Starsky's partner 8 ___ Sp eedwa gon his visitors list. When an official He paused and continued: help him financially. 6 Reagan governed this st. 9 Po litic al cable chan. (init.) “noticed that Hamsher was “He’s done a lot for his country “People really care…I get 8 Col a rival of Coke and Pepsi 11 R eag an and M cD onald wearing camouflage pants and 40, 50 letters a day. That’s what 10 T ype of retir emen t ac ct. (init.) 13 C ity o f shootin g Rockets told her she could not enter kept me going.” Of Metropolitan 12 Int'l Hydropgraphic Org. (abbrev.) 14 Plato and Socrates, for example wearing them…she went into Savas of Pittsburgh, he said, “he 13 "H igh _____" Sina tra hit 16 O ga d en You th Ntwrk. (abbr ev.) the bathroom and turned the has been terrific…He emails me, 1 5 C igar size 17 G ree k fast f ood pants inside out. (Kiriakou had prays for my family and he will 17 Yepremian of football 21 Apartment (slang) never known or heard of such a visit me soon.” Metropolitan 18 Hip-___ 23 Neith er's pa rtner rule.)” Savas acknowledged the spiri - 1 9 Actor G riffith 27 P ope ye's gir lfrie nd Olive 's su rname Gosztola reported that “BBC tual and psychological value of 20 Crystal Peaks Yth. Ranch (abbrev.) 32 Ital. pop star tenor (init.) News came to interview him at visits for both the prisoner and 2 2 Pre fix meaning one 33 B om b ers' Mr . O ctober the prison one morning. They the visitor, citing Christ’s decla - 24 Land s o n an umb rella, maybe 35 P riv. Investig ato r (abbrev .) were supposed to talk to him at ration “I was naked and you 25 Joy, to Stavros? 37 Saint honored on July 26 8:30 am, but they were an hour clothed me, I was sick and you 26 A thenian statesman 40 B arn e s an d Nobl e's versio n of Ki ndle late. He learned that the woman visited me, I was in prison and 2 8 Dig. Le arning Network (abbrev.) 41 W ith once, me ans rig ht a way they had sent to do the inter - you came to me.” He added, 29 Graven image 45 Boxer Snipes view was told she could not en - “Truly everything we do for peo - 30 Helen o f ____ 47 F ath e r and son p residents ter the prison in her skirt. She ple in need is an offering to 3 1 Holy Rom an a rchbishop 49 O ma h a's st. (a bbre v.) had to drive to the nearest town God.” 34 Greek prefix, precedes logy and calypse 51 Cntry Singer of "Delta Dawn" (init.) and buy a pair of pants.” At press time, The National 36 VH S r ecording sp eed (abb rev.) 52 S eco n d G re ek le tter Hamsher and Gosztola Herald is waiting for responses 38 Initials on American sea vessels 56 _ ___ Lisa, Da Vinc i's master piece learned from Kiriakou that “Re - from several congressional of - 39 Jacob's youngest 57 Retract cent weeks have been intense fices and Greek-American orga - 42 Ob ey a green l ight 58 5 01, to Caesar for him with officers ordering nizations, including AHEPA that 43 Plyd. H oward Cu nningham on Happy Days 61 T exa s Telepho ne Assn . (abb rev.) his roommate Dave comes down are interested in Kiriakou’s case. (init.) 62 Egg layer to talk to Special Investigative Andy Manatos, the founder 44 Train co . known as "Pennsy" (init.) 63 O ne , in Greek Service (SIS) to inform on Kiri - Former CIA Officer and president of the National 46 W ord of realization 64 T rop i c. Storm Risk ( abbrev.) akou. They wanted him to tell John Kiriakou Coordinated Effort of Hellenes 48 Gov't. of Norway (abbrev.) 67 "__ I love You" Beatles song them how he was getting his let - told TNH “Our experience with 50 Off Tr ack Bettng. (i nit.) 69 P lay e d Jennifer on TVs Fa mily Ties (TY) ters out of the prison…An offi - and unfortunately this is the John Kiriakou found him to be 53 Happily Ever Aft. (abbrev.) cer also tried to pull his desk thanks he gets from the political first rate. He is a bright, loyal 54 President Eisenhower, informally Solution to last week’s puzzle out from the wall of his housing guys.” and effective American patriot 55 Cypriot Cat Solution: unit in order to “stop” him from His AHEPA chapter, number and public servant.” 56 All in the Family Spinoff R A T S H C A C A O G A writing letters from prison.” 156, had a meeting earlier in Michael Hartigan, Commu - 59 McD's and Padres owner (init.) O U Z O A C B C A B THANK GOD FOR GOOD the week in Canonsburg. “I told nications Director for Represen - 60 All-encompassing prefix? A D M I T L L G U Y E FRIENDS them I am writing a letter to our tative Niki Tsongas, told TNH 61 Eighth Greek letter N L N P L U T A R C H Gregorakis told TNH Kiri - congressman and I want you to “The Congresswoman is aware 65 Europe's Linguist. society (init.) akou is doing well, but he was sign it, and they agreed. The of the case and finds the new 66 Name Serv. Daemon (abbrev.) A E K F A R M L E O feeling a little depressed. “I more signatures we get, the bet - allegations concerning, but does 68 Hamilton's cash? F X O A R I S M O R C think it was due to the weather, ter off we are,” he said, and he not have any additional knowl - 70 Star Wars viillain charact. (init.) T I S N O S C A R P E T but when you are separated encourages other chapters to edge outside of what has been 71 Org. of American States (init.) A A D I N C H A S from your family like that and write their own congressmen reported in the media. She will 72 Saints honored on July 1 R E T S I N A P C you’re thrust into that situation, about John’s plight. continue to monitor the situa - how can you not be depressed.” He also recently spoke to the tion.” DOWN R E A L L Y M C U A A H He tries to visit Kiriakou as local Pan Rhodian society and Kiriakou urges Greek-Ameri - 1 The Mertzes' best friends O D O O H E G E E often as he can. “John’s been a they also agreed to sign. “I told cans to appeal to their Congress 2 President Warren ______B U R G U N D Y I D L E S dear friend for quite a few them we have all-but-forgotten members and ask them to con - 3 Can metal E N I R A N T A T years,” he said. His roots are in this guy. He is a fellow Rhodian, tact the BOP and request that 4 Joanie Loves ______(Happy Days spinoff) R I C A R D O S G E O R G E Rhodes, like Kiriakou’s, and he he is in trouble, he is being his term end with nine months 5 Hawaiian singer Don is a musician – a bouzouki wrongfully accused in some - at a halfway house near his fam - T T A A S A T A N D E R 6 Saint honored on February 10 player with his own band, the thing that is politically moti - ily. Sample letters can be found Greek Company Orchestra vated and he is being scape - on firedoglake.com. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 1-7, 2014 COMMUNITY 11

ALL HISTORY Madame Calliope Charissi and Her Ten Children: Stars of the Vaudeville Stage

By Steve Frangos fer a short summation of never limited herself to Broad - was in Greek has never been TNH Staff Writer Nenette’s career, which after all way but has appeared fre - publicly explained. Nana’s take is a matter of public record that quently in London and else - on the maternal family name is PART 5 anyone wishing to take the time where in Europe. This veteran “I guess someone decided we can locate, I will jump to an en - performer describes herself as a were just visitors here and took CHICAGO- Nenette Charisse tirely different group of individ - “passionate cook, amateur pho - the name.” Nana continues an was a ballet teacher to the stars uals. The creativity and drive so tographer lover of all things nat - active stage and film career. for over 60 years. As yet another evident in Calliope Charissi and ural and healing, loves dogs and Nenette Charisse died on De - of the talented Charisse family, her children did not simply van - can’t live without color.” cember 8, 2000 at 86. Madame Nenette was not simply a rec - ish along with those two gener - Nana Tucker (b. July 26, Calliope Charissi and her ten ognized performer but a dance ations. The extended Charisse 1957) is an actress, known for children performed as a dance instructor of the first order. Family is one filled with ex - playing Kira Nerys in the televi - troupe all across Europe, North Nenette began her career, as a tremely talented and accom - sion series Star Trek: Deep Africa and in vaudeville theaters dance instructor, at her mother plished individuals. As a case in Space Nine and Jean Ritter in throughout the United States of Calliope Charissi’s first New point, we will limit our review York City studio, The Parisian here to Nenette’s children. School of Dancing. As with the Paris Theodore’s (1943- entire extended Charisse family, 2006) talent saw expression as Nenette, never simply worked inventor of innovative firearms, in any one place or fixed loca - gun holsters, and shooting tech - tion. niques. Such was Theodore’s Dance Magazine offered this revolutionary influence that quick overview of Nenette’s pro - government agents and police fessional life: “some of the stu - departments in the United dios where Charisse taught were States and around the world New Dance Group, Harkness adopted his firearms, holsters House, The American Dance and new methods of shooting. Machine, and Steps. She was So pervasive was Theodore’s in - also a professor of ballet at fluence in weaponry that even NYU's Tisch School for the Arts. popular culture figures such as Most recently she taught at the Emblematic of the seemingly endless Charissi Family enter - the fictional James Bond uti - Coupe Theater Dance Studios in tainers, Star Trek fans might know this actress as Nana Visitor lized his new weapons and Nanuet, New York. Among her from Deep Space Nine. Her given name is Nana Tucker, daugh - mimicked his shooting style. dance students were Jerome ter of Robert Tucker and Nenette Charisse, who was one of There is an entire literature sur - Robbins, Doris Duke, Gwen Ver - Madame Calliopi Charissi’s ten children. rounding Theodore’s inventions, don, Jose Limon, Judy Holliday, patents, and new combat tech - Pearl Lang, Mary Martin, Tony Charisse always attracted a Again as with many of the niques. All writers agree that Perkins, Rebekah Harkness, large following of modern other Charisse Family of dancers Paris Theodore forever altered Nora Kaye, and Ann Reinking. dancers to her ballet classes is professional praise and ex - the nature of handguns and Former student Rosalind Pier - that she thought and spoke like tended recollections by students close combat use of firearms. son, an associate professor of a modern dancer. Her images and fellow dancers are all rela - Ian Tucker is a working actor, dance at Ohio State University, were all about getting there.” tively easy to locate. Outlining known especially for his perfor - remembers her first class with As with all the various indi - the exact details of Nenette mances in the films Gypsy Charisse, in which she pro - viduals who comprised the Charisse’s everyday life is, for (1962) and Danger (1950). claimed, ‘I can teach anybody Charisse Family of dancers, the moment, curiously not as Young Tucker began his profes - to dance.’ Charisse ‘had a fabu - choreographers and teachers, readily available. sional stage career in 1954 as lous eye and was a very magical Nenette’s professional life even - We do know that Charisse the smallest of the Lost Boys in teacher,’ Pierson says. ‘She was tually focused on her studio and first married John Theodore a the original Broadway produc - insightful and humorous and students. As we learn: “Nenette sculptor and art professor at Ho - tion of Peter Pan. Mary Martin made class fun.’ taught daily classes in room 404 race Mann School. The couple appeared as Peter and Cyril “Linda Tarnay, assistant chair in the Ed Sullivan Building, had one child, Paris. Charisse Ritchard as Captain Hook with of dance at Tisch, remembers where David Letterman's show divorced Theodore and, in time, both stars earning Tony Awards Charisse’s elegance and refers is now filmed. Room 404 was married Robert Tucker. Tucker for their performances. Live to her as a teacher’s teacher: home to me over the years, be - was a dancer and choreogra - NBC telecasts of this production ‘Nenette taught dancing and tween tours. pher known for his work on The followed in 1955, 1956, and ballet was the vehicle. She was “Nenette's class was like a Sound of Music (1965), My Fair 1960 with the same stars, plus Nana’s older sister, Zan, who used the surname Charisse, is one of the first ballet teachers coffee klatch – chorus kids, Lady (1964) and West Side several rebroadcasts of the 1960 best known for her lead role in Gypsy on Broadway, for which that modern dancers took from. Broadway stars, famous dancers Story (1961). Tucker was nom - telecast. she was nominated for a Tony Award. She taught something much from all over the world dropped inated for Broadway's 1975 Zan Charisse (b. November larger than steps. She taught in. That's how I met Cyd Tony Award as Best Choreogra - 14, 1951) is an actress of stage the television series Wildfire. America. The lasting legacy of [us] how to live life (May 1, Charisse, as well as Alicia pher for Shenandoah. Together and film, who first gained ac - But Nana is known to her fans these Greek performers has yet 2001).’ Nenette Charisse’s pop - Alonso, Vera Ellen, Tommy the couple raised Theodore claim for her performances in around the world not as Tucker to be determined. But there is ularity among modern dancers Tune, Donald O'Connor, and from an early age as well as hav - the Broadway productions of but as Visitor. Early in her career no denying that this extended is a point brought up again and others, including Nenette's hus - ing three of their own children: Gypsy (1974) and The Ameri - Nana chose a stage name. family and their descendants again.” band, Bob Tucker, dancer-chore - Ian, Zan and Nana. can Dance Machine (1978). Tucker was never a name Nana have not only contributed but Daniel Nagrin (1917-2008), ographer. He choreographed the Numerous books, articles, Zan’s appearance, in the title was particularly attached to through their native creativity in his book Choreography and musical ‘Shenandoah,’ the and memoirs testify to the en - role of Gypsy, earned her a The - given that her father was have transformed the world the Specific Image, sums up the Broadway production that during influence Nenette atre World Award and a Tony adopted. As it turns out Visitor around them. general point of view: “One of starred John Cullum, my hus - Charisse has had on a raft of Award nomination for Best Fea - is an old family name from her the reasons that Nenette band (emtalkery.blogspot.com).” modern dancers. Rather than of - tured Actress in a Musical. Zan mother’s side. What this name [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Seeing

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos “That’s, probably, because you the appointment and in order the outrageous prices on any a pair out of his side pocket. them?” Dimos asked. Sipping Special to The National Herald won’t send her the money to to make Yiannis feel secure they pair, refused to buy any and George pointed out, “They’re his coffee, first, he told them, buy a pair.”Kipreos told him, all made appointments for that they left. At Dixon’s, next Sun - from the drug store! The real “You have to be practical. When George entered “There’s a lot of reasons to wear day, too. day, Dimos explained about cheapies!” Dimos asked, “Cheap Glasses can be an inconve - Dixon’s that Sunday, he saw glasses, Yiannis,” “Like what?” Avgousti was glad to see Yiannis’ reluctance to buy or not, why aren’t you wearing nience. When I see someone I Yiannis, alone, holding a news - asked Yiannis. “Well, you need them. He proved cordial and un - glasses even though he had them?” Yiannis shrugged, saying don’t particularly want to talk paper at arm’s length. Getting to read your prescriptions; in a derstanding. He worked as fast need of them. George grinned, nothing. Kipreos asked,:”Glasses to, I can claim I didn’t see them. his coffee, he approached and restaurant you could be eating and as efficiently as possible un - “He’d better learn Braille.” Yian - make you look smart. Has it to Then...” another long sip, “I sat across from him. “You need a roach.” der the circumstances. After a nis sauntered in glass-less, and do with ego?” read the newspaper well enough glasses, Yiannis,” he told him. Yiannis pulled a face, “I don’t few tests, Yiannis came out of sat down, coffee in hand. “No!” John asked, “Can you now - in private. Then, all those “I do not!” said Yiannis, emphat - eat in restaurants and I don’t the exam room, bleary-eyed, his “I...bought a pair of glasses,” he see through them?” aggravating bills are piling in ically. “Well, then, you either take any medicines!” Dimos had hands stretched out. ”I can’t see told them. John asked, “So? “Yes!” and Areti, usually, does them. have to grow another two feet an idea. a thing! He’s blinded me! I knew Where are they?” Yiannis took “So, why aren’t you wearing Why deprive her of that fun?” to your arms or ask the fellow “Listen! My wife’s nephew, I shouldn’t have come!” George at the next table to hold your Avgousti, is an ophthalmologist saw his queue. newspaper for you.” – and, a good one, too! What’d “You can always get a dog, The others strolled in, got you say we go see him? 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LEgAL NOTICE LEgAL NOTICE ANASTASOPOULOS, ory to: St. Demetrios Greek Or - Dallas Morning News, published dox Church, 25 Fr. John Saran - n BLACK ONYX CAPITAL, LLC. Articles of Organization Notice of formation of ATP & Associates RE Fund, EVANgELOS thodox Church 129 Halifax Av - on Feb. 21) – John Kastanos tos Way, (Clark St.) Lowell, MA. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on LLC . Articles of Organization filed with the Sec - NEW HAVEN, CT (From the enue, Daytona Beach, Florida passed away peacefully on Feb - 01854 Please see www.mcgaffi - 12/09/13. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has retary of State of New York (SSNY) on January been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process 3, 2014. Office location: Kings County. SSNY des - New Haven Register, published 32118. Condolences may be ruary 16, 2014, at the age of 97, ganfuneral.com against it may be served. The post office address to ignated as agent of LLC upon whom process on Feb. 20) – Evangelos “An - shared with the family at surrounded by his family. He which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process gelo” Anastasopoulos, 79, of www.lohmanfuneralhomes.com. lived a simple and humble life, n xALIS, JOHN the LLC served upon him/her is: NEEL KRISHNAN, 48 to: 252 18th Street, Suite 5A, Brooklyn, NY East Haven passed away Feb. 16, Arrangements are under the focused on his family, his faith, PALM DESERT, AZ (From the Whipple Street, Apt. 1B, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Any 11215. Purpose: any lawful purpose. Lawful Purpose. 273250/18950 2014 inThe Connecticut Hos - careful direction of Lohman Fu - and hard-work. These are all Desert Sun, published on Feb. 273568/18968 pice, Branford. He was the hus - neral Home Ormond. traits he learned growing up in 6) – On Christmas Eve, 2013, an band of Maria Varsos Anasta - Andros, Greece, his birthplace. errant reindeer scooped up our LEgAL NOTICE LEgAL NOTICE sopoulos. Mr. Anastasopoulos n FALES, ITEN NOA To support his family, he left beloved brother and uncle, John HYACINTH CAPITAL, LLC. Articles of Organization filed Notice of formation of 950 ST MARKS APTS was born in Evrytania, Greece CAMBRIDGE, MA (From the home at the age of 15 and joined Xalis, and flew him to the north - with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on LLC Articles of Organization filed NY Secre - 12/10/13. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has tary of State (SSNY) 5/24/11 Office in on March 25, 1934, son of the Boston Globe, published on Feb. the Royal Greek Merchant Ma - ern-most pole where he regales been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process Kings Co. SSNY designated Agent of LLC late Anastasios and Vassiliki 9) – Iten Noa Fales, of 11 rine, where he served six years us still with his mellifluous voice against it may be served. The post office address to upon whom process may be served. SSNY which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against shall mail copy of process to: The LLC PO Anastasopoulos. He came to this Hilliard Street, Cambridge, died aboard a ship sailing around the and conductor-like arm dance. OX 300513 Brooklyn, NY 11230. Purpose: the LLC served upon him/her is: NEEL KRISHNAN, 48 B Any awful activity. country in 1971 and was in - on January 6 while on a visit in world. Then, at the age of 21, Tissues, floating from John X's Whipple Street, Apt. 1B, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Any l volved in the restaurant business East Hampton, New York. She like many before him, he sought omnipresent Kleenex box, were Lawful Purpose. 273247/18588 in Falls Church, VA. and in New was 97 years old. Born Ida Ju - a better life and immigrated to mistaken for desert snowflakes 273567/18968 Haven, where he was the owner dith Noa on May 7, 1916, in the United States through famed that special night -and the cough LEgAL NOTICE of Angelo’s Lunch on Orange St. Berlin, Germany, to Hermann Ellis Island in New York City. (that plagued him so) turned LEgAL NOTICE Notice of Formation of AL 66, LLC., a limited and Charlie’s Place in The Cen - and Emilie Frehde Noa, she Then, in 1947, after serving in into a howling wind heard DANIEL DENNIS DUKELSKIY LLC, a domestic liability company (LLC). Arts of Org. (DOM. LLC, filed with the SSNY on 10/15/13. Office LLC) filed with Secy. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on tury Building at Church and came to the United States in the United States Army and later across the hemisphere. Born on location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as 01/17 /2014. Office location: Nassau County. Grove St. He was a member of 1937 when she was forcibly ex - in the United States Merchant May 6,1922, John James Xalis agent upon whom process against the LLC may SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom St. Barbara Greek Orthodox patriated by the German Na - Marines, he became a United was the fifth of seven children be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, process against it may be served. SSNY shall 100 Oceana Dr. W., Unit 1H, Brooklyn, NY mail process to: 1 Sunbeam Rd., Syosset, NY Church. Besides his wife, he is tional Socialist state. She mar - States citizen. Thereafter, he fol - created by James and Fotine 11235. General Purpose. 11354. Purpose: any lawful activity. survived by three sons, Anasta - ried Albert L. Scott, Jr., in 1940 lowed his family to Dallas, Xalis; pioneer movie palace im - 273276/10709 273578/18976 sios “Andy” Anastasopoulos of and raised her family on Texas, where he made his per - presarios (Douglas Arizona's Southington, Dimitrios Anasta - Martha's Vineyard, where she manent home. He began work Grand Theatre) and proud, cre - LEgAL NOTICE sopoulos and his wife, Christina was a year-round and, later, sea - in the restaurant business, work - ative Greeks of the early 20th LEgAL NOTICE Milletti of Buffalo, N. Y. and sonal resident from 1945 to ing his way from simple cook, century west. It was a family Notice of formation of FINKEL ASSOCIATES LLC, 923 PUTNAM MANAGEMENT LLC Articles of Basil Anastasopoulos and his 1986. She is survived by her first to chef, to head chef, and ulti - legacy John X. never forgot. As a domestic LLC. Articles of organization filed Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/28/14 Of - wife, Courtney Garza of West - husband and by 4 children, 9 mately, owner of four fine-dining his intellect blossomed and his with the Secretary of State of NY, (SSNY) on fice in Kings Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC 11/25/2013. Office location: Kings County. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall port; and seven grandchildren, grandchildren, and 10 great- establishments in the Dallas sensibilities grew, he headed his SSNY is designated as agent upon whom mail copy of process to The LLC 5308 13th Ave Khristina, Enjelika, Stefany, grandchildren. She was prede - Metroplex known as "Vincent's class at Phoenix Union H.S. and process against the LLC may be served. Ste. 165 Brooklyn, NY 11219. Purpose: Any Nicholas, Zazie and Xeni Anas - ceased by an infant daughter Seafood." As he fulfilled his own attended Georgetown University SSNY shall mail process to: FELIKS FINKEL, lawful activity. Latest date of dissolution is 15 Prospect Avenue, Ardsley, NY 10502 . 1/1/64. tasopoulos and Sydney Meserve. and by her second husband, De - "American Dream", he inspired in Washington D.C., where he General Purpose: Any lawful act. 273573/18588 He was predeceased by a Coursey Fales, Jr. Mrs. Fales others to work hard and strive completed a masters in foreign 273230/18901 brother, Panos Anastosopoulos worked as a librarian at the for their own greater successes. policy after serving with the LEgAL NOTICE of Athens, Greece and a sister, Boston Athenaeum and for Har - As with his work, he was pas - 104th Infantry at The Battle of LEgAL NOTICE Notice of formation of LAY OF THE LAND, LLC. Articles of Organization (Dom. LLC) Chrysoula Siafakas of New York, vard University libraries. Later sionate about his family. He mar - the Buldge in World II. A Tim - BEAUTIFUL BEAST, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 9/30/13. Office location: filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) N.Y. Friends may call at The Ce - she was the music and drama ried Constantina Stergios Kas - berwolf (104th) to the end, he Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent on 08/08/13. Office location: Kings County. upon whom process against the LLC may be SSNY is designated for service of process. lentano Funeral Home, 424 Elm critic at WGBH-FM, where she tanos in Athens, Greece, in 1951. was never a family man but SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at 364 St. (cor. Dwight), New Haven had her own radio magazine Together they made their home deeply of The Family of Man. served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 549A Halsey St., Brooklyn, NY 11233. Graham Ave #5, Brooklyn NY 11211. Purpose: Thursday (TODAY) from 5 to 8 show, "Iten Scott Presents." After in Dallas, Texas, where they Teaching was both his profession General Purpose. any lawful purpose. pm and are invited to attend fu - moving to Cambridge in 1967, were members of Holy Trinity and his passion; receiving his 273228/1070 273576/18972 neral services at St. Barbara Mrs. Fales became active in civic Greek Orthodox Church. After credential from Arizona State Greek Orthodox Church, 480 affairs and was well known for retiring from the restaurant busi - University after a brief stint with LEgAL NOTICE FUNERAL HOMES Racebrook Road, Orange Friday her advocacy for the preserva - ness, he and his wife moved to the Library of Congress. An in - MOUNTAIN & MCDOWALL REALTY, LLC, a APOSTOLOPOULOS morning at 10:30 am. Interment tion of her neighborhood, which Shreveport and joined St. tellectual odyssey of European domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 12/31/13. Office location: Kings County. Apostle Family - in Orange Center Cemetery. included Harvard Square. She George Greek Orthodox Church. travels (a PASOK activist in SSNY is designated as agent upon whom was an enthusiastic patron of lo - In retirement, he greatly enjoyed Greece) and teaching positions, process against the LLC may be served. SSNY Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - shall mail process to Rugh McDowall, 582 n BOUKAS, EVANgELOS cal cultural institutions such as relishing in the achievements of in his chosen fields of history Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11205. General Funeral Directors of LOWELL, MA (From the Lowell the Cambridge Music Club, the his grandchildren and watching and Spanish, followed …retiring Purpose. RIVERDALE Sun, published on Feb. 16) – Museum of Fine Arts, the BSO, his great-grandchildren grow- in Palm Springs, Calif. By 1992, 273235/10709 Evangelos Boukas, 82, died un - and, most especially, the Greek up. He is preceded in death by where the Greek flag flew next FUNERAL HOME Inc. expectedly on Tuesday, February Institute. Greek history and cul - his parents, three brothers, and to the Stars & Stripes, in his LEgAL NOTICE 5044 Broadway 11th, at his home. He was was ture and the Greek people were three sisters. He is survived by cherished Diplomat condo on Notice of formation of WONDER New York, NY 10034 the beloved husband of the late very dear to Mr. and Mrs. Fales. his wife of 63 years, Constan - East Palm Canyon. As his eagle- PROPERTY LLC Articles of Org. filed NY (212) 942-4000 Merope (Lagoutares) Boukas, They traveled to Greece every tina; his children: Petroula Kas - like intensity expanded with age, Sec. of State (SSNY) 01/17/2014. Office in Kings Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE who passed away on November year and together edited the tanos Anagnostis and husband an ever-shrinking community of whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail 7, 2009. Evangelos was born in journal "Greek, Roman, and Dr. George Anagnostis of Arling - elderly haunts, like Elmer's and copy of process to: Wonder Property LLC, CONSTANTINIDES Tripolis, Greece on March 10, Byzantine Studies." Donations in ton, Texas, Lily Kastanos Mijalis Manhattan Deli, feted his ele - 8606 Flatlands Avenue, Brooklyn, NY FUNERAL PARLOR Co. 1931, a son of the late Christina Iten Noa Fales's memory can be and husband Johnny Alex Mi - gant presence while his biologi - 11236. Purpose: Any lawful activity. 273255/18926 (718) 745-1010 (Koleros) and Nicholas Boukas. made to the Greek Institute, jalis of Shreveport, and John An - cal family comforted him and For many years, Evangelos 1038 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, drew Kastanos and wife Sophia basked in his rich storytelling. Services in all localities - worked as a Shoemaker in the MA 02138. Cosse Kastanos of Shreveport; John X's erudite nature never LEgAL NOTICE Low cost shipping to Greece Lowell Shoe Factories and later his grandchildren: Andrew flagged and all who witnessed Notice of Formation of TRIPLE APP LLC, a do - as a machinist for Prelco Corpo - n gRIVAKIS, VASILIKI Anagnostis and wife Lyndi of his determined yet loving perse - mestic LLC, Articles of Organization filed with the SSNY on 12/20/2013. Office location: LITRAS FUNERAL HOME ration. He is survived by his WORCESTER, MA (From the Dallas, Texas, Constantine Anag - verance were left with a deeper Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent daughters, Christine Boukas of Worcester Telegram & Gazette, nostis of Ft. Worth, Texas, Dim - sense of raw courage in the face upon whom process against the LLC may be ARLINGTON Lowell, and Irene Liakakos and published on Feb. 2) – Vasiliki itri Anagnostis of Ft. Worth, of adversity and waning health. served, SSNY shall mail process to: THE LAW OFFICE OF SERGIO MUNOZ SARMIENTO, 310 BENSON DOWD, INC her husband, George of Nashua, "Valerie" T. (Papadas) Grivakis, Texas, Alexander Mijalis and He will never be forgotten nor Powers St. #3L Brooklyn, NY 11211. Purpose: NH; and step-daughter, Kather - 83, formerly of 46 Beacon St. wife Daphne, Andrew Mijalis, forsaken by: sisters Constance X. Any Lawful Purposes. FUNERAL HOME ine Koumoutseas of Maryland; and 40 Walnut St., died peace - Dean Mijalis and wife Stephanie, Loomos (loving confidante) and 273265/18937 83-15 Parsons Blvd., his siblings, Peter Bookas of fully Friday, January 31, 2014 all of Shreveport, Andrew Kas - Alixe Angeles; brother Frederick Jamaica, NY 11432 Lowell, and Sophia (Boukas) at Holy Trinity Nursing Center, tanos and fiancé Maris Emanuel Xalis; nieces and nephews Timi LEgAL NOTICE and Theodoris Boukas and his Worcester, with her daughters of Dallas, Texas, Jonathan Kas - L. Freshman, Diane X. Miller, Notice of formation of Elenatos Realty, LLC. (718) 858-4434 Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary wife, Afrodite, all of Greece; as by her side. She is survived by tanos and wife Mignon of Dallas, Alexa Palmer, --Dean J. Loomos, of State of New York (SSNY) on April 25, 2013. • (800) 245-4872 well as six cherished grandchil - two daughters: Katherine A. Gri - Texas, and Dena Kastanos Smith Nick Angeles, Ted Angeles and Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it dren. His funeral will take place vakis of Maynard, and Ann V. and husband Nathan of Shreve - Nick Xalis. Marika Tsircou, Caro may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 252 from the funeral home Tuesday, Baird and her husband, David, port; and great-grandchildren: Krissman, Jim Miller and 18th Street, Suite 5A, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Pur - ANTONOPOULOS February 18th at 9 a.m. with his of Clinton; two sons: Col. John Aiden and Lawson Letch, Geor - Damian Miller will also miss pose: any lawful purpose. 273248/18925 FUNERAL HOME, INC. Funeral Service to be held at 10 T. Grivakis, US Air Force, and his gios Anagnostis, Jonathan, their great-uncle as will his faith - Konstantinos Antonopoulos - a.m. at Holy Trinity Greek Or - wife, Mary, stationed at Ram - Mark, and Evie Mijalis, and Jack ful care-giver Isabela Rendun thodox Church, Lowell. Inter - stein Air Base, Germany, and Kastanos. He is further survived and cousin Evangeline Diamos. LEgAL NOTICE Funeral Director ment to follow in Westlawn II Chris T. Grivakis and his wife, by numerous nieces and And from that often forgotten Notice of formation of Tomrick Realty, LLC . Articles 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., Cemetery, Lowell. Donations Betty, of Atlanta, GA; a brother, nephews both here and in network of casual friends to a of Organization filed with the Secretary of Astoria, New York 11105 may be made in Evangelos' Theodoros Papadas of Athens, Greece that he kept in touch single man who loved the Greek State of New York (SSNY) on April 25, 2013. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated (718) 728-8500 memory to the Holy Trinity Greece, a sister, Konstantina with throughout the years. on poet George Cavafy as much as as agent of LLC upon whom process against it Greek Orthodox Church, 62 Mousama of Zacharo, Greece; Saturday, February 22, 2014, at the diplomatic mind-set of may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 252 Not affiliated with any 18th Street, Suite 5A, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Lewis Street, Lowell, MA 01854. seven grandchildren: David, St. George Greek Orthodox Thomas Jefferson; a sad adieu. Purpose: any lawful purpose. other funeral home. To leave an online condolence, John & Rebecca Baird, and Church, followed by burial at Memorial services were held at 273249/18925 story or message, please visit Nicole, Thomas, Athanasios & Greenwood Cemetery on Stoner St. George Greek Orthodox www.dracutfuneralhome.com. Alexis Grivakis; several nieces Avenue. Memorials in his name Church (in Palm Desert). and nephews. She was prede - may be made to the St. George REAL ESTATE n DIMITRAKOPOULOS, ceased by her husband of nearly Greek Orthodox Church Icon n zAHOS, FOTIOS PANAYIOTI 40 years, Thomas F. Grivakis, Fund, 1719 Creswell St., Shreve - WOODBRIDGE, CA (From the DAYTONA BEACH, FL (From the who died in 2000, and their son, port, La 71101. Lowell Sun-Sentinel, published NAPLES FLORIDA REAL ESTATE Daytona Beach News-Journal, Franklin T. Grivakis, who died on Feb. 22) – Born October 29, published on Feb. 12) – Panayi - in 1973. A brother, Elias Pa - n ROUFOS, ANASTASIA 1932 in Argostoli, Kefalonia, oti "Peter" Dimitrakopoulos, 82 padas, also predeceased her. "Yi - GROTON, MA (From the Lowell Greece, Fotios Paul Zahos passed of Daytona Beach, Florida aYia," as she was affectionately Sun, published on Feb. 6) – It is at the age of 81 on Sunday, Feb - passed away Monday, February known, was born and raised in with great regret and sorrow ruary 9, 2014 at 5:54 PM in his Vicky Lewis 10, 2014. The family will receive Krestena, Greece, daughter of that we announce the passing of home in Woodbridge, CA where realtor friends on Wednesday, February Yiannis and Anthoula (Kaguras) our Mother on Feb. 4, 2014. She he lived and raised his family for 12th between the hours of Papadas. She was a graduate of was just shy of celebrating her 37 years. Fotios, Paul as many 6:00~8:30 pm with the Trisa - Krestena High School, Class of 90th birthday. She was the in America knew him, grew up gion Service beginning at 8:00 1950, and went on to graduate daughter of Anthony and Sophia during World War II and the oc - pm at Lohman Funeral Home; from Nursing School in 1953. Mantos and was born on March cupation of his beloved Kefalonia 7

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9 [email protected] day at 11:00 a.m., February 13st iaiou Children's Hospital, her siblings to Toronto Canada would often speak about the day- 7 1 / 4 at Saint Demetrios Greek Ortho - Athens, Greece. She met Thomas where she became the anchor to-day struggles of finding food 5 www.VickyLewisNaples.com 4 2 dox Church, 129 N. Halifax Ave. at a beach in Greece, they mar - for her family by providing a lov - and hiding in war torn buildings 7 2 Daytona Beach. Interment will ried, and she immigrated to the ing and nurturing home for her these events permeated his life DOWNINg-FRYE REALTY, INC. follow at Daytona Memorial United States, settling in Clinton siblings. After several years she and strengthened his work ethic. μιλώ ελληνικά Park. Peter was born to the late in 1961. For several years, she joined her brother Bill and his He always remembered what it George and Athanasia Dimi - worked at the former Van Brode family in America where she met was like to feel true hunger. trakopoulos of Kalamata, Greece Co. of Clinton, and later, at In - and married Thomas Roufos. When he turned 18 he joined the where he served as a Police Of - jectronics of Clinton for more They made their home in New Greek military in Athens until the to PlAce your clAssiFied Ad, cAll: (718) 784-5255, ficer. He was a very successful than 20 years until her retire - York for most of their lives be - age of 21. After he left the mili - ext. 106, e-mAil: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com Restaurateur in Montreal, ment. A member of St. Nicholas fore moving to Massachusetts to tary he continued to live in Chicago, and in Daytona Beach Greek Orthodox Church, the spend more time with their Athens where he and a friend with Byron's Grill. He was a Daughters of Penelope, the grandchild. She unfortunately opened and operated a hand - member of St. Demetrios Greek Ladies Philoptochos Society, and lost her husband in 1995 but made shoe store. In March 1964, omy was in shambles and he fort of his home. He will be Orthodox Church, an avid the Clinton Senior Center, she found great comfort that year in he was introduced to Elpida knew they had to leave. In order missed and remembered by reader, especially when it came was also active with the Lan - the birth of her second grand - Gerolimatos, in Kaligata, Kefalo - to make a better life for his fam - everyone he touched and loved to history and politics. He was caster Senior Citizens. Her great - son. She lived the rest of her 18 nia, Greece. They married six ily, Fotios sold his business and by his family forever. He was pre - an outstanding soccer player in est joy was her family; she loved years in Groton with her son and months after they met on August moved to Boston, Massachusetts ceded in death by: Father: Petros his day, and enjoyed the cama - spending time with all of her daughter-in- law. She adored her 24, 1964 and they went to in 1970. After a short stay in Zahos, Mother: Marika Zahos, raderie with his friends. Most of grandchildren, especially grandsons and looked forward Athens where they welcomed the Boston Fotios, moved to Lodi, CA. Brother: Gerasimos Zahos, all his passion was spending babysitting David, John & Re - to the holidays with all the tra - birth to their first son, Petros in In August 1971 he was blessed Granddaughter: Gillian Cordelia time with his three grandchil - becca when they were younger. ditions, great food and company. June 1965 and their daughter with his third child Jerry. In 1977, Paternostro. He is survived by: dren. He will be greatly missed Vasiliki's funeral will be held on She leaves behind her son Marika in September 1967. Fotios purchased his home in Wife: Elpida Zahos, Son: Pete by his son, George (Helen) Dim - Tuesday, February 4, 2014 from Alkiviadis and daughter-in-law Times in Greece were very diffi - Woodbridge, CA where he lived (Petros) Zahos and his wife Kristi, itrakopoulos, Ormond Beach the McNally & Watson Funeral Deborah, her grandsons Thomas cult during this time with most with his wife of nearly 50 years Daughter MarikaZahos – Pater - and his three grandchildren, An - Home, 304 Church St., with a and Anthony, her sister Zozo people struggling to provide for until his passing. He was a hum - nostro and her husband Pat, Son: thanasia, Panayioti, and Petros. service at 12:00 noon in St. Tsillis in Athens Greece, and their families. After the military ble hard workingman that cared Jerry Fotios Zahos and his wife He was preceded in death by his Nicholas Greek Orthodox nieces both in the USA. Visiting juntas in 1967 the Greek econ - deeply about his family and Julie, Grandchildren: Alexander wife of 42 years, Anthanasia Church, 132 School St. Burial Hrs. Friday 5-8 PM at the Hamil - friends. His life lessons have Paul Zahos, Nickolas Scott Zahos, Dimitrakopoulos in 2001 as well will follow in Woodlawn Ceme - ton-McGAFFIGAN Funeral this is a service shaped the lives of everyone he Matthew Petros Zahos and An - as three brothers. The family has tery. In lieu of flowers, the fam - Home, 37 Main St., (113) Pep - to the community. touched and had a profound im - gelo Fotios Paternostro, Karly, requested that memorial contri - ily suggests that memorial do - perell. Funeral Services will be Announcements of deaths pact on shaping the lives of his Jakob, Danyele, Sierra, Cousin: butions be made in Peter's mem - nations be made to The held Saturday at 10 a.m. at the may be telephoned to the children. Greek newspapers and attending from Kefalonia, Greece Prader-Willi Syndrome Associa - Transfiguration Greek Orthodox classified department of books. His favorite sport was soc - Evgenia Bekatorou. A service will tion (USA), 8588 Potter Park Church, 25 Fr. John Sarantos the national herald at cer; he loved his team Olympia - be held on Tuesday, February 18, days and dates of funerals, Drive, Suite 500, Sarasota, FL Way, (Clark St.) Lowell, MA. (718) 784-5255, cos C.F.P., his favorite football at 11:00 a.m. at St. Basil's Greek memorials, and other events di - 34238. Burial to follow in Groton Ceme - monday through Friday, team was the Dallas Cowboys, Orthodox Church at 920 West rectly correspond to the original tery. In lieu of flowers the family 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. est enjoyed watching golf and walk - March Lane, Stockton, CA. com - publication date, which appears n KASTANOS, ANDREW requests memorial contributions or e-mailed to: ing around Lodi Lake. When he memorated by Father Pete Soti - at the beginning of each notice. JOHN in her memory may be made to [email protected] passed he was surrounded by his ras. Committal will follow at SHREVEPORT, LA (From the the Transfiguration Greek Ortho - loving family and was in the com - Cherokee Memorial Park. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 1-7, 2014 GREECE CYPRUS 13 Anastasiades Says Coast Energy Reserves Driving Cyprus Peace Hopes

By Andy Dabilis occupy the Northern third of the vessels violate Nicosia’s exclusive discovery of hydrocarbons in the growing interest in an accord is regional energy cooperation that TNH Staff Writer island, could be ended because economic zone. Southeastern Mediterranean cre - grounded in the potential for re - could heal the strained relations of possible energy reserves off the International companies are ates a new dynamic, especially gional energy cooperation and between Ankara and Tel Aviv. NICOSIA – Four decades of divi - coast, but Cypriot President Nicos searching for oil and gas but if the quantities are such that helping to dampen down insta - The two former allies fell out sion Cyprus, separating Cypriots Anastasiades said he’ll walk away Turkey, which said it wants a they replace existing monopolies bility in a turbulent area. dramatically after Israeli com - from Turks who still unlawfully from new negotiations if Turkish share even if they are found off and the political dependencies He says Israel could also ex - mandos stormed a pro-Palestin - lands it doesn’t occupy, has al - they create,” said Anastasiades. port its offshore gas to Turkey ian ship trying to breach a block - ready sent at least one warship Anastasiades spoke to through a reunified Cyprus and ade of the Gaza Strip in May into the area as an apparent Kathimerini before the executive that Israeli Prime Minister Ben - 2010. The raid killed eight Turks warning. “We have made it clear committee of junior coalition jamin Netanyahu may visit and one Turkish-American. that if violations continue, our partner DIKO voted for the party Cyprus in the spring. That would “A Cyprus settlement, response will be to leave the to leave the government. The re - be a landmark visit as it would reached as quickly as possible, talks,” he said. sults of the vote were made be only the second time since the will assist not only in Israeli (gas The resumption of reunifica - known after DIKO leader Nicolas creation of Israel in 1948 that an export) planning, but also con - tion talks was triggered by the Papadopoulos accused Anastasi - Israeli premier has visited tribute greatly to restoring rela - agreement of a joint commu - ades of already making major Cyprus. tions with Turkey,” Anastasiades nique with Turkish-Cypriot concessions to the Turkish-Cypri - The White House says Presi - said. leader Dervis Eroglu earlier this ots. dent Barack Obama and Turkish Numerous talks over the month. “There are so many important Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Er - decades have failed to resolve Anastasiades identified the concessions, that the Turkish side dogan discussed the elusive pur - one of the world’s most in - transfer of national gas from Is - has achieved most of its aspira - suit of reunification on Cyprus, tractable problems. Earlier this rael and the discovery of hydro - tions even before negotiations especially with Turkey seeking to month, after a hiatus of 20 carbons off Cyprus as the key fac - have actually started,” DIKO’s ex - enter the European Union. Erdo - months and following pressure tor driving a new round of peace ecutive committee said in a state - gan though had said, “There is from the United States, the two talks on the island. ment. The party has four minis - no country called Cyprus,” and sides agreed to talk again. “Hydrocarbons are a decisive ters in the 11-member cabinet, Turkey won’t admit Cypriot ships Anastasiades said a deal factor,” he said. “Turkey has including the Energy and De - and planes even though Cyprus would help Turkey plug its en - needs, Israel has needs, and fense portfolios. is a member of the bloc. ergy needs by allowing the coun - Cyprus has needs. By solving the In an earlier interview with Despite that, Obama thanked try access to a steady supply of Cyprus issue we open up wide The Associated Press, Anastasi - Erdogan for working to restart Cypriot and Israeli natural gas. AP Photo/PhiliPPos christou horizons,” he told the newspaper ades said a deal would allow peace talks in Cyprus even Cyprus and Israel have both High Voltage Reaction to Electricity Policy Kathimerini in an interview. Turkey to be supplied with though Anastasiades accused the found potentially big gas de - He said that energy got the newly-found Cypriot and Israeli Turks of blocking the effort. posits over the past few years, Angry electricity authority workers try to enter parliament as United States, which looked the natural gas and contribute to im - An agreement to end the 40- which they are looking to de - riot police try to stop them during a strike to protest govern - other way during the 1974 inva - proving relations between year division of Cyprus could velop in partnership. ment plans to privatize the state-run electricity organization sion, to suddenly take new in - Ankara and Tel Aviv. give Turkey access to ample sup - Cyprus is also planning to in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. terest in reunification especially Anastasiades said that the plies of gas and reboot its rela - build a liquefied natural gas pro - Protesting workers from the Electricity Authority of Cyprus because American companies United States was instrumental tions with Israel, Anastasiades cessing plant which Israel would gathered outside parliament as lawmakers prepared to discuss want to explore for oil and gas in the resumption of stalled said. He added that the reunifi - use to export its gas — a much a bill on privatizing the EAC as well as the Cyprus Telecommu - off Cyprus. peace talks with breakaway cation of ethnically-divided cheaper alternative to building a nications Authority and the Cyprus Ports authority. “The USA’s interest after the Turkish Cypriots and that the Cyprus could act as a linchpin to pipeline direct to Turkey. With May Elections Approaching, Greek-Troika Negotiations Stalled Again

By Andy Dabilis lief from the $325 billion owed lump sum payments pensioners as Samaras, buoyed by the pri - trations of New Democracy and don’t agree on further cutting TNH Staff Writer in two bailouts. receive, up to 38 percent and mary surplus, has been digging PASOK hiring hundreds of thou - the country’s debt, he will uni - Samaras had also pledged to more. in his heels after relenting to the sands of needless workers in re - laterally stop servicing it. ATHENS – Greece’s negotiations use 70 percent of the surplus to The court said the govern - lenders since he took office in turn for votes but despite often The debt cutting negotiations with international lenders over return to people most affected ment can’t touch the money be - June, 2012. violent protests over the past will be the subject of an emer - unfinished reforms and a poten - by the pay cuts, tax hikes, and cause it was deducted from He embraced austerity after two years against them, they re - gency EU summit that Tsipras tial 2.4 billion-euro 2014 budget slashed pensions he has im - workers’ salaries over the years previously opposing it but that main the rulers of Greece. will demand if SYRIZA forms a hole have stalled again, six posed on Troika orders and hold for their retirement and belongs has resulted in his party falling Tsipras, the European Left’s government. months after they started, dash - down social and political unrest. to the beneficiaries. That case behind the major opposition candidate for the Presidency of “This summit will not be the ing the government’s hopes of a That has already been under - will now before the high court, Coalition of the Radical Left the European Commission, end of the crisis. But it will be resolution before critical May cut by reports the country’s the Council of State, and, if up - (SYRIZA) whose leader, Alexis pledges to keep Greece in the the start of a well-planned, municipal and European Parlia - highest court will rule unconsti - held, could cost the government Tsipras, has predicted will repu - Eurozone and says he doesn’t level-headed but also tough ne - ment elections. tutional the pay cuts to mem - billions. diate New Democracy and seek special treatment for gotiation in which we will make Two bailouts of $325 billion bers of the military and retroac - Talks also focused on key re - Samaras’ coalition partner, the Greece. He adds, though, that the demands,” he said. from the Troika of the European tive services that were part of forms that auditors are pressing fast-vanishing PASOK Socialists. if Greece’s Eurozone partners Union-International Monetary austerity measures insisted for – the implementation of LEFT HOOK Fund-European Central Bank upon by the lenders. That could market-liberalizing measures set While Samaras said that the (EU-IMF-ECB) will run out this cost the government 500 million out in a report by the Organiza - primary surplus should be the year and Athens is counting on euros ($687.7 million) and has tion for Economic Cooperation trigger for debt relief, the ongo - disbursement of another install - led other public workers to de - and Development (OECD), an ing talks combined with the ment to make a 10 billion euro mand the same treatment. overhaul of the civil service and elections have a lot at stake for ($13.67 billion) May bond pay - The auditors’ questioning of the reduction of employers’ so - Greece and the EU. ment. the surplus figure means the Eu - cial security contributions Tsipras, who is opposed to Almost immediately as soon ropean Commission’s statistics among other reforms. the austerity measures attached as the government predicted a service, Eurostat, will decide Samaras has stressed that the to the bailouts, said he believes deal was at hand, the talks sput - whether certain revenues used OECD’s recommendations, SYRIZA will come to power next tered again, as they have since by Greek officials in their calcu - dubbed “the toolkit” by the year and his first act would be last September. Finance Minis - lations should count toward it Troika, is “not gospel,” and that to get easier terms or walk away. ter Yannis Stournaras is the or be shifted to the 2014 budget they don’t have to followed re - That could leave Greece es - point for Prime Minister Antonis as the government tries to delay ligiously. Some 153 reforms re - sentially broke and out of the Samaras, who is keen to have adverse effects ahead of May main undone. Eurozone, but also undermine them finished. municipal and European Parlia - Some of the Troika’s propos - the whole 18-country economic The big hang-up is the size ment elections. als, including the extension of bloc and Tsipras said EU leaders of a primary surplus which the Another major obstacle now the shelf-life of fresh milk and won’t allow that to happen and government says is as much as for the government is that the giving supermarkets the right to will provide relief. 1.5 billion euros ($2.07 billion) Court of Audit also has deemed sell over-the-counter medicines, Tsipras said Greece’s $430 and a trigger to ask for debt re - unconstitutional giant cuts in are expected to be challenged billion debt is unsustainable de - spite the bailouts. Austerity has worsened a deep recession, now in its seventh year, and created AP Photo/niKolAs GiAKoumidis record unemployment and Cargo ships are docked at the northern port of Thessaloniki on Greece’s Health Care Crisis is Killing People poverty and loss of critical Wednesday. Dock workers across the country walked off the job health care services. in a 24-hour strike to protest plans to sell a stake in the Piraeus The crisis was, in large part, Port Authority, the country's largest port. Privatizing state-held Researchers say they have than 40 percent between 2008 Georgiadis being assailed by caused by alternating adminis - assets is a key part of Greece's international bailout agreement. found new evidence that and 2010. critics who said he doesn’t care Greece’s financial crisis is taking He said that was likely linked about people’s suffering because a toll on the health of its citi - to babies not getting enough to of big cuts in the system, an - zens, including rising rates of eat and fewer medical check- other report showed 2300 HIV, tuberculosis, depression, ups, as families cut off from Greeks every day are losing ac - and even infant deaths. state health care couldn’t afford cess to free or subsidized health - Since the economic crisis hit private treatment. The research care. several years ago, the govern - was published online in the That was the claim from the ment’s health spending has been journal, Lancet. acclaimed non-governmental or - slashed and hundreds of thou - The medical charity Doctors ganization (NGO) Doctors of the sands of people have been left of the World confirmed the World, also known as Medecins without health insurance. As Greek financial crisis has had a du Monde or MdM. cuts have been made to AIDS devastating impact on health. In “About 873,000 people do prevention programs, rates of response, the group has doubled not have access to the national HIV and tuberculosis in drug the number of programs it runs health system and about 2,300 users have spiked. in Greece since the crisis began. more lose access each day,” said Previous studies have found Spanish MdM President Alvaro suicides in Greece have in - Gonzalez. creased by about 45 percent be - The Doctors of the World The head of the organiza - tween 2007 and 2011. The new charity says the Greek tion’s Greek branch, Anna research found the prevalence crisis has had a devastating Mailli, also stressed that a grow - of major depression more than ing number of Greeks, rather doubled from 2008 to 2011, cit - impact on health, and has than migrants, are turning to ing economic hardship as a ma - doubled the number of free MdM medical centers for jor factor. care. Suicides and mental health programs it runs in Greece “Last year, 30 percent of the problems tend to be underre - since the crisis began patients at centers in Athens ported, so “this is probably just were Greek, while in Perama the tip of the iceberg,” Alexan - Though the charity originally [western Athens] the proportion der Kentikelenis of Cambridge started its operations in Greece reached 90 percent,” she said. University, the study’s lead au - mainly to treat vulnerable for - Adonis was also charged thor told the Associated Press. eign populations like refugees, with failing to meet his promise The study’s findings were deputy director Nathalie Simon - to cut the costs of medicines and based mainly on population sur - not said it is increasingly treat - ignoring the plight of people veys and statistics from the gov - ing ordinary Greek citizens with most affected by the country’s ernment and other sources in - no other means of getting health crushing economic crisis. cluding the European care. The major opposition party Commission. Kentikelenis said Simonnot also said they had Coalition of the Radical Left it would take years to measure seen rising numbers of pregnant (SYRIZA) has stepped up its ver - the long-term consequences of women unable to afford hospital bal assaults on Georgiadis just people being without regular ac - visits and diabetics who had to as he ordered the monthlong cess to health care, particularly choose between buying food or shutdown of all the country’s those with chronic conditions insulin. medical clinics until they can be like heart disease. “We see people in conditions reopened under a new system. Kentikelenis and colleagues I’ve never seen in my life,” she SYRIZA and Georgiadis were also observed a 21 percent rise said, referring to patients who involved in a long clash over the in stillbirths, according to fig - have turned up at clinics with cost of drugs, which led to the ures from the Greek National chunks of their flesh missing. minister accusing the leftists of School of Public Health. Simonnot wasn’t very opti - blocking lower medicine costs “Some pregnant women no mistic the Greek government because he said they were paid longer have access to health would be able to reverse the sit - off by drug companies. care, therefore the complica - uation anytime soon, slamming He insisted that a change in tions later on in their pregnancy their 2012 reintroduction of a pricing rules for medicines can be more pronounced,” he law that forces drug users, pros - would result in patients paying said. Kentikelenis and col - titutes and immigrants to be less. The opposition party, how - leagues also found infant tested for infectious diseases un - ever, said that his promises had deaths, which had previously der police supervision. now been proved “misleading been falling, jumped by more With Health Minister Adonis and false.” 14 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 1-7, 2014

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ANALYSIS A few hours after the staff of The National Herald departed from the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto in Western Pennsylvania, where they interviewed former CIA officer John Kiri - akou, who was sentenced to 30 months in prison for leaking to a Here’s What the 42nd Clergy-Laity Congress Should Do journalist the name of an active CIA operative (Lead Story, Feb. 15), he was told by fellow inmates “the cops are tearing up your room.” That happened not once, but twice. By Theodore Kalmoukos United States, or closed down consistency is imperative. spect to Canon Law, the strong The news was posted on the website firedoglake.com, from altogether. Operation in a half- CONTINUING EDUCATION mentality of canonicity and which Kiriakou sends his “Letter from Loretto” on a regular basis. In just four months the 42nd dead condition is unacceptable. Knowledge doesn’t stop at rules and regularities that exist In his latest epistle, Kiriakou wrote that “I spoke at length with biennial Clergy Laity Congress Its mission and its purpose graduation. Bishops and priests in our Church sometimes over - Dean Sirigos and Demetrios Tsakas of The National Herald, the of the Greek Orthodox Archdio - ought to be redefined: no more should be lifelong learners of shadow the spirit and the grace oldest, largest and most highly-respected Greek-American news - cese of America will be con - wasted money on outside ad - the faith. Unfortunately, there of Christ. Accordingly, we can - paper in the country. We spent more than two hours together, and vened in Philadelphia. However, ministrators for the Theology exist throughout our churches not continue to live under the we discussed issues ranging from halfway house time to terrorism, no information has been an - School – let one of the long - numerous examples of medioc - anachronistic dictates of some drones, and Afghanistan. (The journalists had gone through the nounced about what the Con - standing professors, who have rity in theological knowledge, canons written 17 centuries ago formal approval process weeks in advance, were approved and ar - gress will discuss. dedicated their lives to the preaching, teaching, and gov - and in the context of specific rived during normal business hours as instructed.)” It seems the parishes will be School, become the new Dean. erning. historic, cultural, pastoral, and It was the first interview given by Kiriakou after the prison au - unprepared yet again, and the And stop admitting students PRIESTS’ AND BISHOPS’ geographical areas and circum - thorities backed out of a an agreement to end his prison term with only issue they will be called to in their 40s and 50s who have MARRIAGES stances. After all, the flowing of nine rather than six months at a halfway house, which would vote upon will be the financial decided to change careers, look - It is time to discuss the no - the Holy Spirit in the life of the enable him to see his wife and five children more often. In exchange budget for the ensuing two ing for job security and a lavish tion of permitting priests to Church is constant and dy - for that deal, he said he would stop sending letters for publication years. lifestyle. Also, stop accepting so marry for a second time, should namic. and speaking to the media. Other than that, the Con - many Roman Catholic and they become widowers, or even MONASTERIES But there is another important element in play: that Rep. James gress will be filled with semi - The Monasteries established Moran (D-VA), a 12-term Congressman and a member of the House nars, presentations, and by Fr. Ephraim should be dealt Appropriations Committee, which controls the Federal Bureau of speeches; essentially, a glorified with immediately. Actually, the Prisons, has taken a strong interest in the case and has intervened and quite costly Sunday school discussion is long overdue. This in a forceful manner. session. cultish fundamental Monasti - One would have thought – and hoped – that the Greek or Phil - The numerous serious issues cism has already become an hellene Senators and Representatives in Congress would have the Archdioceses faces will be “anti-Church,” which is ruining added their voices to Moran’s and demand that the authorities swept under the rug and thus many parishes, makes some treat Kiriakou more justly and humanely. Because the issue, as the hypocrisy and the withering priests fanatic “Ephraimites,” Kiriakou himself writes, is not whether the authorities have the will continue as they have for and brings confusion to young right to examine his room any time they want. They do. many years. people. This needs to be dealt The issue is retaliation and censorship, which certainly is illegal, Unfortunately, there is no vi - with now, before more damage even when the targets are prisoners. This incident is emblematic sion, no dream, no planning, is done. of how many things we all take for granted. Among them, numerous and no leadership. The only ST. BASIL’S ACADEMY issues related to basic human rights. thing that seems to matter is the The St. Basil’s Academy Even in this day and age, and even here in the great United “myth” of stewardship. Give should be reorganized and uti - States, which Abraham Lincoln called “the last, best hope of earth.” more and more for the suste - lized extensively. Although I cer - nance of ministries, even though tainly respect the Academy’s the majority of them have no mission and the love and the Rondos Reproach impact whatsoever on the life care it provides to children in of the local community. need, the institution has a Slogans and pseudopious ser - greater potential than to serve The name Alex Rondos, the Tanzania-born Greek who as a close monettes take our Church a mere 12 to 16 children. associate of former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou came nowhere. Absent serious discus - FINANCES to exert substantial influence has caught the attention of the Greek sion about the numerous vital is - Last but not least, there is the media several times. sues, it would be best not to have A top priority for the Clergy-Laity Congress should be to recon - issue of finances. Parishes pay Usually, the criticism focused on the fact that Rondos and some a Clergy-Laity Congress at all. ceptualize and revitalize the mission of the Hellenic College an exorbitant fee to the Arch - others in the Foreign Affairs Ministry under Papandreou spoke Eng - Here, then, are some issues Holy Cross School of Theology. diocese. These amounts should lish, giving rise to innuendo about which country's interests he really the Clergy-Laity Congress ought be reduced dramatically. In served. to discuss: Protestant converts. They distort in the case of divorce, and we some instances, parishes can This time, however, the criticism is of an entirely different and HELLENIC COLLEGE the Orthodox ethos and polity should also discuss marriage for barely keep their doors open much more serious nature. The Greek authorities announced that /HOLY CROSS and also our parishes’ Hellenic priests after ordination, not only and are saved only by proceeds they discovered fraud against the government amounting to Both of those schools are in Cultural identity. No matter how before. from Greek festivals. The policy 9,000,000 euros by a group associated indirectly with Rondos’ name, great need of a complete over - “Americanized” some think our Even the issue of marriage shouldn’t be one size (or uni - and by extension, with the name of Papandreou. haul; a well-conceived and parishes are, at the core, they for bishops ought to be ad - form computer program at the The scam is related to the financing of a Non-Governmental Or - properly-executed tune-up. maintain their Hellenic identity. dressed. It is a pressing, and ar - Archdiocese) fits all. Each parish ganization (NGO) called the International Mine Initiative, which It is simply too costly to pro - LITURGICAL CONSISTENCY guably a necessary reality. A cur - should contribute based on its was funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2000-2004. Its vide $12 million for a collective The Congress should discuss rent look at how many own ability. purpose was to help clear dangerous landmines from third countries, student body of 200. Money has the need for a Liturgical aware - applicants there are for posi - Keep in mind, the Archdio - particularly in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon, and Iraq. been poured into those schools ness and cultivation of all the tions of bishop is depressing. It cese would not need to collect However, according to the Greek authorities, rather than spend since 1967, and Hellenic College parishes. In many instances, is one thing to have 500 candi - such outrageous amounts from this money for "demining," the people involved with this initiative continues to be in “infant” stage there is Liturgical anarchy in our dates, and another to have just its parishes if it reduced person - illicitly enriched themselves. The head of the NGO, who lived a life regarding prestige and size of parishes. Each bishop and priest 35. nel and the lofty salaries and of luxury and ostentation, was arrested, among others. the program. It should either be does as he wishes. The Holy I am fully aware of the rele - lavish expenses of some of its As TNH reported, “Rondos has no formal affiliation with the the most distinguished center Week and Christmas Services vant ecclesiastical and canonical officials. Expense accounts? Au - NGO, but he reportedly authorized funding for it when he worked for Hellenic studies in the are prime examples. Liturgical arguments. But with all due re - tomobiles? at YDAS,” an agency of the Greek Foreign Ministry. Papandreou’s press officer issued a statement that said "all these things, including the media’s attempting to indirectly implicate George Papandreou in this case, have nothing to do with truth and Observations By Antonis H. Diamataris reality…and in any case, it is more than obvious, because these peo - ple who call for ‘transparency’ are the ones who trespass against it every day, in word and deed.” Leaderless-ship 100 countries’ serious problems, some African ernment has made a harsh attack through Rondos’ initial statement, however, is not very strong. He merely leaders are battling each other over who the press. said, "I have not been asked by the authorities to testify in this case." It was an idea that was ripe. Archbishop can write the most draconian laws against But, why? Is it a warning? One of many Naturally, we hope it turns out that he is innocent, not only for Iakovos and the people close to him realized homosexuality. to follow? And how dangerous is it for the the sake of his own good name, but in the wider context for the rep - in 1984 that there were at least a hundred The law just signed by the President of country? utation of Hellenes Abroad. people in the community who could each Uganda is so strict that it calls for life im - In view of the critical elections ahead , contribute $100,000 to an organization that prisonment under some circumstances. the government has undertaken a campaign would support the needs of the Church. “We Africans have never imposed our to massage the people’s psyche, claiming Pentagon Pruning Father Alexander Karloutsos imple - views on others. Why don’t they leave us the economy is on the verge of improvement mented the decision with such success, that alone,” he said. – a primary surplus its tangible evidence. it surpassed even the boldest predictions. Why, Mr. Museveni? Can you imagine But if the government accepts the The news that the Pentagon’s leadership proposed a reduction Soon, Leadership 100, which was named what the world would be like if every crazy Troika’s calculations for the recapitalization of the Armed Forces is welcome, no matter what the final outcome for the number of its members, reached man, like you, did whatever he liked? of the banks, then not only will the primary will be. But why the downsizing? Has the United States grown hundreds of participants. Today, they num - And because if we leave you alone you surplus disappear, but most importantly, the tired of war? Does it no longer have the resources to fund a huge ber about 925. might one day reach the level of the “glori - country will need a new bailout and mem - war machine? Or has it become serious about adjusting its focus To what end? ous policy” of a previous president of your orandum when 10.1 billion of the 172 bil - on the new challenges the 21st century presents? You be the judge. That is exactly the point. Despite the country, Idi Amin, who practiced cannibal - lion euro loan package is absorbed by year’s Whatever the reason – probably a combination thereof – the huge amount of $94 million raised, the or - ism of his enemies. That’s why. end. Obama Administration seems ready to clash with the powerful ganization is stagnant. And if the recapitalization issue is not Military Industrial Complex about which President Eisenhower It lacks vision. resolved, the banks will not be able to ex - warned decades ago, and reduce the standing Army to its lowest They distribute just about enough money Attack on the Troika tend loans to businesses, a prerequisite for level since before WW II. to meet IRS requirements about nonprofits, improving the economy. The arms industry and their allies will certainly complain that and then they plan their next annual meet - The recent headlines in two major pro- But the Troika, particularly the IMF, de - the government is dangerously experimenting with the country's ing somewhere in the United States. Greek government newspapers are very re - spite its inclination to help the government security in a perilous world. The reality, however, is that current May I suggest that they hold their next vealing. TA NEA writes: Troika Plays a Dirty is subject to statutory limitations in disburs - military threats require flexible armies using high technology rather meeting in Greece instead, where there is a Game on Banks-Surplus. Ethnos: Stop the ing money to countries that do not have a than huge masses of troops. great need? Dirty Games. year’s worth of reserves. Moreover, even with the cuts, America will still have enough And why not fund, steadily and substan - This attack is the response to the Finan - The government’s offensive against the manpower to fight wars anywhere in the world. tially, Greek education in America? cial Times, which reported that Greek banks Troika satisfies the people’s national pride The United States faces new challenges, particularly in areas such Leadership 100 can be a true leader in need 20 billion euros – or more – in new and anti-outsider fervor. But the IMF has as education, which it must conquer in order for it to remain the shaping the future of the community. capital, and not six billion, as Finance Min - been through this before, whenever it goes dominant economic country this century. But the Military Industrial If it only had the vision. ister Stournaras claims. into a country that asks its help. Complex will not allow its interests to be affected without a fight. It is certainly not the first time that the First, the people welcome the IMF, but Therefore, the Administration’s downsizing proposals, as con - government and the troika have differing over time, the people forget how bad things veyed by the Secretary of Defense, are sure to be diluted by the Craziness Competition views on a serious issue, and it certainly were, grow tired of official’s behavior, and time they are enacted into law. will not be the last. the foreigners become an easy target. Nonetheless, this is a battle that must be fought. Now that they have solved all of their But this is the first time the Samaras gov - As is happening now in Greece. THE NATIONAL HERALD, MARCH 1-7, 2014 VIEWPOINTS 15 Blasted by Left and Right: Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly, Moderates, Centrists, and Me

When my colleagues and I When I write in this space, thing is averaged them all together, He was either “too rude” to can't do it in a way that deni - write news stories our aim is to therefore, my thoughts and together. and they fall some - the president or “too easy” on grates him, that makes him look inform as completely, accurately, words are unfettered and unfil - This brings us to where close to him, the critics said, depending bad. Now, this is my third inter - and objectively as possible, not tered. And if I were to choose a two famous cen - right square in the on their political affiliation. view with Barack Obama. I to persuade. And that’s the way word that best describes me po - trists – far better- middle. O’Reilly recently appeared on think I know him pretty well. it ought to be with news stories. litically – to the extent that a known than me Take Obama, Jimmy Kimmel Live and talked So I know where I can get in. Feature stories are a different single word can do such a thing, and most other for instance: his about that interview: “My job is and before the interview, I say matter – there, we can direct that is – it would be “centrist.” people – Bill support for same to get information. I’m an old to him, ‘You know it's me, okay? the content to suit our druthers A centrist is quite different O’Reilly and Barack sex marriage made time journalist. I’m going to ask This isn't – I’m going to ask you (if we choose to write a piece from a moderate, even though Obama. liberals giddy with him a certain amount of ques - one question and you're going about a standup comic, for in - they might agree on a great deal O’Reilly proba - delight, whereas tions. I only had ten minutes to fly with your spin. That’s not stance, we don’t have to give and wind up voting for the same bly needs no intro - his policy of “drone live. It was live. which is really going to happen. This is more equal time to a Shakespearean candidate a great deal of the duction, but just in by CONSTANTINOS E. first and ask ques - tough. The interview I did this of a conversation.’ And to his actor, an orchestra leader, or a time. case, he is the host SCAROS tions later” made year with President Obama is credit, he said okay. And he de - mime). And op-ed pieces in par - A moderate, for example, of the O’Reilly Fac - them cringe the toughest interview of my livered." ticular, such as this one, and the might say that we should have tor the top-rated Special to (though they pre - life. I’ve never done anything And speaking about Obama ones by Andy Dabilis, Dan Geor - moderate deficit reduction, prime-time The National Herald tend not to notice). more difficult. You’re up against and Bush, O’Reilly said: “I like gakas, Dr. Andre Gerolymatos, moderate border security, mod - news/commentary Conservatives, too, the clock from day one. All Barack Obama as I liked George Amb. Patrick Theros, Chris erate abortion regulations, and show on cable television (Fox rail against Obama’s acceptance right? From second one. And W. Bush,” O’Reilly said. “I think Tripoulas, and our various guest a moderate stance on gun con - News Channel). And who of gays, but conveniently ignore President Obama can do 20 they're both patriots, OK? Now, columnists, reflect our own – trol. A centrist, however, may Barack Obama is goes without Obama’s drone policies, which minutes on your socks. I mean, you may not agree with their and often impassioned – points be unequivocally against gun saying. they applauded when George W. the guy is very eloquent and he policies, you may think they're of view. control and in favor of deficit Both of these men are called Bush was president and Dick can just take it where he wants not managing well. That’s fine. The National Herald as a reduction but not give a hoot “leftists” by the rightwing ex - Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld to take it. But my job is to not Everybody has an opinion. But whole maintains a certain tone, about abortion or border secu - tremists and “radical were the de facto foreign policy have him do that, to answer a as human beings, I think they're and we as individual columnists rity. rightwingers” by the extreme heads. series of questions. both trying to do what's best for maintain that tone when reflect - A moderate will fall in the left. They are often the objects As for O’Reilly, his Super “So therefore I have to inter - their country. So I admire that. ing the Herald’s voice, and our political center on virtually all of truly twisted and hateful dia - Bowl interview with Obama rupt the most powerful man in I respect that.” own tone when reflecting our issues, whereas a centrist might tribes. And, like all centrists, brought him grief from the left the world. Which I did because Well said, Bill – thanks for own views. And that is the very be all over the chart and only they have some views to the left, and the right – as is a centrist’s I’m obnoxious, that's what I do hoisting and waving that cen - essence of good journalism. land in the center when every - and some to the right – average lot in life. – part of my charm. But you trist flag proudly!

Efharisto, George Clooney, LETTER FROM ATHENS For Your Voice on Marbles The Real Danger of Electing Tsipras as the Prime Minister

Greece received to look at the UN - As far as we know, former de - is now somewhere Greece can re - has a secret plan to save Greece, a much-needed ESCO rulings that fense minister and all-around around the 3-5 per - cover. electing him and SYRIZA would voice of support have been agreed bad guy and the former King of cent mark. That’s what finish the country’s ruination. from Berlin last to by all parties. An Arrogance, Akis Tsochatzopoulos Tsipras is taking Tsipras wants too, One of his party’s most emi - month. No, it occupying nation – he of the eternal sneer – is the political advantage but he wants a lot nent members, World War II wasn’t a kind word can't sell off the biggest crook in Greece, at least of Samaras’ more. He said that hero Manolis Glezos, who, with from those tyranni - national heritage convicted. hypocrisy but here’s unless the Troika his late friend Apostolos Santas, cal Teutons who of the country it Serving 20 years in jail for the problem for the agrees to take a hit tore down the Swastika from the have multiplied occupies. More rel - money laundering and corrup - loony lefty: he does - – which would Acropolis, said his party leader Hellas’ misery with evant is the fact tion for plundering defense con - n’t have any idea force the taxpayers is “clueless” about how to save their insistence on that the Parthenon tracts at the cost of the taxpayers what to do about it in the 17 other Eu - Greece if he wins. financial domina - marbles were and bad submarines and if he wins office. rozone countries So while the likes of low-life tion of Europe un - by Christopher chipped away from weapons that didn’t work, pros - He said that New to pay for genera - like Tsochatzopoulos, formerly TRIPOULAS by ANDY der the guise of Eu - the Parthenon by ecutors weren’t able to pin down Democracy and PA - DABILIS tions of wild over - of PASOK and former Thessa - ropean monetary Special to the occupying exactly how much he spirited SOK will be repudi - spending by New loniki Mayor Vassilis Papageor - policy. Rather, it The National Herald Turks and sold. It away, but it could be close to a ated in May elec - Special to Democracy and gopoulos, previously of New was cinema star was a single mon - billion euros, or about $1.37 bil - tions for Greek The National Herald PASOK – that he’d Democracy and who is serving George Clooney, who deserves ument broken into bits. It would lion. municipalities and renege outright on a life sentence after being con - the appreciation of Hellenes and be as if the statue of David's As the late Senator from Illi - the European Parliament and paying back the money. victed of embezzling 51.4 mil - Philhellenes everywhere for his head were sold to England, his nois, Everett Dirksen, said: “A that he’ll come to power next That’s a nice ploy if you have lion euros ($70.64 million) think support of the repatriation of arm to the Vatican and his torso billion here and a billion there year, although even if he does $325 billion hanging around to they were big-time, they’re pik - the Parthenon Marbles. to the Met.” and pretty soon you’re talking it’s doubtful he could win a ma - operate the country and at least ers next to Tsipras, who wants Speaking at a press confer - He added: "There are many about real money.” jority of the Parliament, but pretend you want to get back to steal $325 billion. ence in Berlin for the interna - pieces in nearly every country That’s why even the Thieves that’s another story. into the markets, but not so That’s in the name of the peo - tional premiere of his latest that this conversation should of Greece such as Tsochatzopou - The bailout monies run out good if you’re broke, which ple, of course, but just wait until movie The Monuments Men – a take place. The best place to los, or a raft of bankers and this year, and Samaras, after say - Greece is. Greeks find out that they just story about a group of soldiers start would be at the most obvi - cronies using Greek banks as ing he wouldn’t, now wants debt Unless Tspiras, so enamored elected Che Guevara and they’ll whose mission it is to recover ous object. When polled the personal ATMs haven’t done as relief from the Troika even while of Communist ideology that his suffer the same fate. stolen artwork from the Nazis – British people are overwhelm - much to damage to Greece as he’s touting a primary surplus son’s middle name is Ernesto in he fielded a question from a re - ingly in favor of their return. could Alexis Tsipras, leader of and alleged “success story,” that honor of his hero, Che Guevara, [email protected] porter about the Parthenon Mar - The rest of the world follows the major opposition party bles (aka Elgin Marbles), which suit. If you want to deal in facts. Coalition of the Radical Left Those are the facts. But maybe (SYRIZA). In obtaining the marbles, it's just easier to compare me to Tsipras, 39, studied engineer - Hitler." ing in college but the only real Lord Elgin, despicably, Clooney’s comments served job he’s had is engineering peo - vandalized the Parthenon as a ray of sunlight in a peren - ple to believe he has a clue how nially gloomy Berlin day. Of to govern a country. SYRIZA, a in order to acquire this booty, course, much like the truth, not motley collection of Communists and thereby defaced Western everyone can withstand the rays (Tsipras’ first calling); anar - of the sun. Like Boris Johnson chists, Maoists, Stalinists, Lenin - Civilization's perhaps most or those blokes at the British ists, Trotskyites, and a sprinkling seminal monument. Museum, they seek to shield of ecologists, has never had real themselves under a covering of standing in Greece but now is are located in the British Mu - lies and misdirection. leading the polls. seum. According to the Associ - Perhaps more importantly, Why? It’s because the ruling ated Press, “Clooney called for these newsworthy statements by party of Prime Minister Antonis ‘an open discussion’ on the fate internationally acclaimed actors Samaras, the New Democracy of the ancient friezes, which Clooney and Murray illustrate Capitalists, and his fast-fading were taken by British diplomat the power of cultural diplomacy. partner, the PASOK Anti-Social - Lord Elgin 200 years ago. Both Like the marvelous speech given ists of Evangelos Venizelos have the Vatican and the J. Paul Getty by Stephen Fry a few months taken turns packing public pay - Museum had sent parts back, earlier in support of the repatri - rolls with hundreds of thousands Clooney said, raising the ques - ation of the Parthenon Marbles, of needless workers in return for tion ‘of whether or not one piece Clooney and Murray’s public votes. of art should be, as best as pos - display illustrates the timeless - That’s largely responsible for sible, put back together.’ ‘There ness of the Hellenic legacy and Greece’s crushing economic cri - are certain pieces that you look its lasting effect. sis and a major reason why for - at and think, that actually is The same case could be mer PASOK leader and previous probably the right thing to do,’ made for other masterpieces of premier, the now-disgraced Clooney said.” the Hellenic culture and civiliza - George Papandreou who was Bill Murray, another star of the tion as well, both new and old. hounded out of office, had to movie, came out even stronger From the Hagia Sophia to the ask international lenders for in his support for the cause. "It's Church of St. Nicholas at help in what became two had a very nice stay here, cer - Ground Zero, Greece has a bailouts of $325 billion. tainly," Murray said. "But Lon - world of history to offer and a There’s no way – none, zero, don's gotten crowded. There's cultural product that can engage nada, nanu nanu, tipota – plenty of room back there in a global audience. Now, regard - Greece can pay it back and even Greece… If [the marbles] were ing the last example, it is highly that’s not the real total debt, Pictured: Joseph R. Ficalora (left), President & CEO of New York Community all together, the Greeks are noth - debatable whether architect which despite the rescue pack - Bancorp, Inc. and Spiros J. Voutsinas (right), President & CEO, Atlantic Bank. ing but generous – they'd loan it Santiago Calatrava should be ages and Greece stiffing private back every once in a while … like the person chosen to craft this investors for 74 percent losses, people do with art." message, considering the lack of is still hovering somewhere The Parthenon Marbles (or inspiration his 2004 Athens around $430 billion for a coun - sculptures, to be more precise) Olympics projects have on the try of 11 million people. A TRADITIONTRADITION OF STRENGTH, were looted by the 7th Earl of local populace only a decade The money came with tough Elgin Lord Thomas Bruce, who later, but that’s another story. conditions to insure the Troika STABILITY AND SERVICE. served as British Ambassador to Back to the Parthenon Mar - of the European Union-Interna - the Ottoman Empire. Systemat - bles, one of the most despicable tional Monetary Fund-European ically looted during the first things about how Lord Elgin ob - Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) decade of the 19th century, the tained them was the fact that would get paid back: harsh aus - sculptures, which date back he vandalized the Parthenon in terity measures affecting only 2,500 years, were subsequently order to acquire this booty. In workers, pensioners and the purchased by the British govern - doing so, he defaced Western poor, not the government’s ment in 1816 and displayed in Civilization's perhaps most sem - friends in high places. the British Museum ever since. inal monument. But Samaras boxed himself Shocked perhaps by the un - The words civilization and in. After opposing pay cuts, tax Your partner for success. expected support for Europe’s culture, which are so closely re - hikes, and slashed pensions favorite punching bag of late – lated, can be distinguished by when he was out office and said or perhaps inebriated, as labeling all tangible artifacts they wouldn’t work, he em - NEW YORK COMMUNITY BANCORP, INC. Clooney politely suggested, in produced by a culture as part of braced them to join a temporary Ranked #1 in overall financial performance among peers.* one of the classiest responses to its “civilization,” while classify - coalition when Papandreou quit political mudslinging that you ing all intangible manifestations in November, 2011 and contin - can find – London Mayor Boris (language, religion, polity and ued to impose them when he Accommodating large account relationships as a member of the Johnson accused Clooney of social organization, etc.) as “cul - was elected seven months later. $45.8 billion New York Community Bancorp, Inc.** "advocating nothing less than ture.” Since then, Tsipras has sniped the Hitlerian agenda for Lon - This then begs the question, away – with some good reason don's cultural treasures." if Elgin’s defacing of a tangible – at the memoranda Greece For additional information call: 1.800.535.2269 • www.abny.com Clooney told the Huffington masterpiece of civilization is to signed with the Troika, not be - Post "I'm a great fan of the be denounced as deplorable, cause Greece doesn’t need the Eighteen convenient locations: mayor, and I'm sure my right what are we to say about the de - money but because the wrong Brooklyn • Long Island • Manhattan • Queens • Westchester honorable friend had no real in - facing of intangible cultural mas - people are paying for it. tention of comparing me to terpieces taking place around us, So are Samaras and Venize - Hitler. I'd chalk it up to a little within our Community and on a los. The New Democracy leader’s *New*New York Community Bancorp, Inc. has been rated the Top Performing Thrift in the nation for 2012 among tthriftshrifts with $3.0 billion or more in assets, asas reported by SNL Financial. New York too much hyperbole washed larger scale in general? Perhaps party has now fallen consistently Commercial Bank is a subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp, Inc. **Assets as of 12/31/13. down with a few whiskies. I've there are a lot more Elgins’ out behind SYRIZA in recent polls Bank is not responsible for typographical errors. Equal Opportunity Lender found myself in the same spot a there than we thought… at the same time PASOK, which time or two so I hold no ill will. got 44 percent of the vote in When it comes to real facts, not Follow me on Twitter 2009 when Papandreou won by imagined history, you need only @CTripoulas lying that, “The money is there,”

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