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President By Theodore Kalmoukos from his office. His keys were taken and the locks were ARLINGTON, MA – The St. changed. Newly elected at Athanasius parish in Arlington, The parishioners lined up to MA has fallen into deep crisis receive communion from Kas - 95th Convention, due to the sudden dismissal of tanas one last time – he was a its popular priest Fr. Nicholas priest there for the last 28 years. has roots in Ikaria Kastanas by Metropolitan They avoided receiving commu - Methodios of Boston. nion from Assistant Priest Fr. By Demetrios Tsakas On July 30, the church con - Aaron Walker, who also stood gregation booed at Methodios’ there holding a Holy Chalice. ORLANDO, FL – L.M. Kohn & name while Fr. Kastanas tried Kastanas’ removal was an - Company's Executive Vice Pres - to calm them, saying “it is not nounced in a letter on July 27 ident and COO Carl R. Hollister nice, it is not fair.” by Methodios, stating that “for has been elected Supreme Pres - The police presence was vis - the past few years, the Saint ident of AHEPA. ible in front of the church, and Athanasius Parish has been in a His election took place at the there were also law enforce - state of turmoil as result of is - 95th Annual AHEPA Convention ment officers in unmarked cars. sues involving, in large part, Fr. and was among the few in Methodios, who is vacation - Kastanas. The spiritual environ - which the candidate ran unop - ing in Greece, told TNH via tele - ment in the Community has posed. The term of office of both phone that “I have no comment been severely damaged by be - the Supreme President and the other than what is in letter. The havior that is wholly contrary to Supreme Lodge Officers, in ac - decision is aimed for the good Christian values, which has re - cordance with the statute of the of St. Athanasius parish and also sulted in, among other things, organization, is one year and ex - Fr. Kastanas.” the distribution of hurtful and pires at the next conference. Kastanas, Parish Council destructive communications Only one consecutive re-election President Constantinos throughout the Community. is allowed. AP Photo/thAnAssis stAvrAkis Ioakimidis and Paul Tsistopoulos While this turmoil is not totally Outgoing AHEPA Supreme Refugee and Migrant Children Perform at Concert in Athens also did not comment at the Fr. Kastanas’ fault, nevertheless, President Andrew Zachariades, July 30 service. he bears the greatest responsi - spoke to The National Herald, Dozens of children from refugee camps performed at the Herod Atticus theater in the Greek The Metropolis ordered the noting that Hollister is one of capital as part of a global initiative to teach music to children from low-income families. removal Kastanas’ computer Continued on page 3 the dedicated members of the organization, and that his elec - tion was greeted with enthusi - asm by the delegates. On the same day, elected to ND Demands Tsipras Explanation the Supreme Lodge were Chris - tos Argyriou as Canada's AHEPA President, George E. Loucas as TNH Staff tion leader for the Radical Left have a nationalist bent. Vice-President, Jimmy Kokotas SYRIZA, met with Venezuelan THE PAPPAS CONNECTION as Supreme Secretary, George ATHENS – An article claiming officials in Moscow in 2013, to In April, New Democracy G. Horiates Treasurer, and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras discuss the prospect, along with MPs, led by the party leader Kyr - Demetrios Kirkiles as Supreme sought help from Venezuela’s perhaps his closest aide, Nikos iakos Mitsotakis, demanded to Counselor. Elected to the Coun - radical government if Greece Pappas. know why Digital Policy, cil’s Bureau were Nick left the Eurozone led the main New Democracy noted that Telecommunications and Media Aroutzidis, President; Andreas rival New Democracy opposition Pappas had taken a trip to Minister Nikos Pappas had taken Zachariades, Vice-president and to demand an explanation from Venezuela along with a Cypriot a trip to Venezuela in 2013 with Secretary. the coalition government. attorney specializing in offshore a lawyer specializing in offshore Also, the leaders of the The newspaper Eleftheros companies. Although rich in oil, companies, in a question tabled Daughters of Penelope, Sons of Typos said Tsipras, a former Venezuela has been ruled for in Parliament for Pappas and Pericles, and Maids of Athena Communist youth leader who years by essentially dictatorial Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. were elected. followed the ideology of gueril - governments and the populace Citing a report in the news - AHEPA's new leadership was las such as Fidel Castro, dis - has rioted at severe economic paper Eleftheros Typos, cited by sworn in on July 29, the last day cussed the idea in 2013, two conditions. the Athens News Agency, the of the convention. years before taking power and The story comes in the after - main opposition MPs said the “My election to the office of promising to spread a Leftist math of statements from former Greek people had a right to Supreme President is a special revolution across Europe before SYRIZA ministers, including know the real purpose of Pap - MetroPolitAn MuseuM of Art viA AP honor and a privilege for me,” surrendering to Greece’s inter - Yannis Varoufakis, who was fi - pas’ trip in 2013, accompanied Met Turns Ancient Vase over to Prosecutors Hollister said, immediately after national lenders and agreed to nance chief, that a so-called by one of the lawyer’s involved his election. He lives in the Ma - more austerity and brutal mea - Grexit was being considered by in the Panama Papers affair. This undated photo provided by the Metropolitan Museum of son, OH with his wife, Cynthia, sures in return for more finan - the government in 2015, which “It is absolutely certain that Art, shows a terracotta bell-krater dating back to 360-350 BC. and their daughter, Alexandra. cial aid. includes the pro-austerity, far- Messrs Pappas and Artemiou did The vase was surrendered to the New York City Prosecutor's “I thank all the delegates for According to the article, right, marginal, jingoistic Inde - Office on July 25, after warrant was issued questioning the the love and confidence that Tsipras, then the main opposi - pendent Greeks (ANEL) who Continued on page 7 vase's provenance and whether it was looted from Italy. surrounded me and who gave me the reins of the largest and most dynamic organization of Hellenic Americans,” he added. Outgoing President Zachari - UN Says Cyprus’ Rivals Must Resume Talks Vlahos’ ades told TNH that the 95th AHEPA Convention was a suc - cess and noted that it was one TNH Staff time it wanted just as it did in military intervention rights. forts to implement all remaining Dadbot- of the most attended ever. an unlawful 1974 invasion that “For Turkey and the Turkish confidence-building measures He also mentioned that three Following a political debacle split the country. Cypriot side it is not acceptable “to build trust between the com - generations of Greek-Americans which saw United Nations-spon - The UN statement didn’t ex - for troops to be withdrawn,” he munities.” Immortality attended the conference, the sored talks to reunify Cyprus plain how that was progress al - told reporters in Switzerland af - Turkish officials have blamed cultural, sporting, and entertain - collapse, the Security Council though the agency’s outgoing ter the talks ended without Cyprus for collapse of recent has approved a resolution call - Special Envoy, Espen Barth Eide, agreement July 6. unity talks and challenged the TNH Staff Continued on page 4 ing on Cypriots and Turks on said the same for almost two Eide, said after separate European Union to find out. the island “to sustain their com - years and wasn’t right once. meetings with the leaders of the Turkish Foreign Minister NEW YORK – Greek-American mitment” and try yet again. Nevertheless, the statement said Greek Cypriot and Turkish Mevlut Cavusoglu and the coun - writer James Vlahos recently The diplomatically-careful that Anastasiades and Akinci Cypriot communities on July 24 try’s chief negotiator on Euro - wrote an emotional article for document said there had been should try again, adding that, that neither side offered hope pean Union accession Omer Ce - Wired, which detailed his reac - Gr. Licenses progress between Cypriot Pres - “the status quo is unsustainable” for a quick return to negotia - lik accused Cyprus of tion to learning that his father ident Nicos Anastasiades and although it has been for 47 tions, dashing his own constant unilaterally blocking the open - was terminally ill with lung can - Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa years. effervescent optimism. ing of new chapters and being cer and the efforts to keep his Not Valid in Akinci, although there had been Turkish Foreign Minister The Security Council resolu - intransigent in the talks at the father’s memory alive using the virtually none, leading to the ne - Mevlut Cavusoglu said the talks’ tion stressed the need for both Swiss resort of Crans-Montana, available technology. gotiations to collapse after collapsed because Greece and sides to move forward on dis - the Cyprus News Agency said. Realizing time was limited, Canada Turkey refused to remove its Greek Cypriots insisted that cussions of “military confidence- The negotiations between Vlahos recorded conversations 35,000-strong army and said it Ankara pull out all of its troops building measures.” with his dad John James Vlahos would militarily intervene any - from the island and abolish its It also called for renewed ef - Continued on page 7 on everything from family his - By Zois Marinos tory to songs from his alma mater. The resulting tapes, MONTREAL, CANADA – For na - 91,970 words, were then tran - tionals of Korea, Japan, and Tai - scribed professionally and filled wan, and for most European cit - Priebus 203 single-spaced pages, which izens living permanently in Vlahos clipped into black Canada, their national driver’s binders, placing the volumes on license is automatically recog - Ousted as a shelf. But the story does not nized and its conversion to a end there. “By the time I put Canadian one is a simple that tome on the shelf, my am - process, but not for Greek dri - Ch. of Staff bitions already moved beyond vers. it. A bigger plan has been taking The Greek driver’s license is shape in my head. I think I have not recognized in Canada and TNH Staff found a better way to keep my its holders, irrespective of their father alive,” Vlahos wrote in age, must begin the whole WASHINGTON, DC – Reince Wired. process from the beginning, by Priebus, a former Republican Always fascinated by com - taking written examinations and Party chairman, was officially puters that could talk, Vlahos road tests. The only requirement replaced as White House Chief recalls in the article, “it’s 1982, Greek drivers can skip when ap - of Staff by retired Gen. John and I’m 11 years old, sitting at plying for a Canadian driver’s li - Kelly on July 31, with the an - a Commodore PET computer cense is the compulsory driving nouncement made three days terminal in the atrium of a sci - instruction at recognized driving earlier. The move ended months ence museum near my house. schools. of speculation about Priebus' Whenever I come here, I beeline Most of the approximately fate and came among infighting for this machine. The computer 7,000 new immigrants who have and turmoil in the early stages is set up to run a program called of the Trump White House. Eliza—an early chatbot created Continued on page 6 “I think Reince was terribly by MIT computer scientist effective, but was probably a lit - Joseph Weizenbaum in the mid- tle bit more laid-back and inde - 1960s. Designed to mimic a psy - pendent in the way he ran the chotherapist, the bot is surpris - For subscription: office,” White House budget di - ingly mesmerizing. 718.784.5255 rector Mick Mulvaney said. “What I don’t know, sitting [email protected] “And I think the president wants there glued to the screen, is that to go a different direction, Weizenbaum himself took a dim Kos Reopens Sites after Quake wants a little bit more discipline, view of his creation. He re - a little more structure in there.” garded Eliza as little more than The Odeon of Kos, shown above, and the Casa Romana reopened shortly after the earthquake that killed 2 and injured 200. Just days later, the Archeological Museum reopened as well. Continued on page 2 Continued on page 4 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 5-11, 2017 Greek Ambassador in Ottawa Hosts Reception

TNH Staff congratulated them on the ex - her all the teaching staff, and raised in Chania, Crete. He is a cellent academic achievement also the First Counsellor of the graduate of the Theological OTTAWA, CANADA – A recep - at the school and, in general, on Greek Embassy Christodoulos School of the Aristotle Univer - tion for the young graduates this the multifaceted activity of the Margaritis, as well as members sity of Thessaloniki and of the year from the Greek school of Greek community. of the Greek Community. University of Athens. On Sep - Ottawa and the Hellenic com - They also gave advice to the Georgiou and Karagiozis tember 1, he celebrates four munity’s Sunday school was graduates, as Marcantonatos thanked Ambassador Marcanto - years at St. Nicholas Church in hosted by Greek Ambassador said – to continue the systematic natos for his steady interest in Toronto. George Marcantonatos in the study of the Greek language, the Greek school as well as for Lastly, this year's Ottawa garden of the ambassador's which, besides all other things, the help he offers to the Greek Greek Festival, considered the home in the capital of Canada. also allows for the strongest community of the region. largest in Canada, is set for Au - Marcantonatos, along with connection with the homeland, The next day Marcantonatos gust 10-20. Metropolitan of his wife, Vassiliki Tsiro-Marcan - its history and culture. and his wife welcomed Rev. Fr. Toronto and all of Canada His tonatou, who is honorary presi - The reception was attended Fanourios Pappas of the Church Eminence Sotirios will be pre - dent of the Lyceum of Greek by the President of the Greek of St. Nicholas in Toronto to the sent at the festival. More infor - Women of Montreal, welcomed Community of Ottawa Antonis ambassador's home, along with mation on the festival is avail - students, teachers, staff, and Georgiou, the School Director a delegation from the parish. able online at: parents for the second year and Nektaria Karagiozis and with Fr. Pappas was born and ottawagreekfest.com.

Greek Ambassador to Canada in Ottawa George courtesy of the Greek DiAsPorA fellowshiP ProGrAM Marcantonatos Dr. Diomedes Logothetis of Northeastern University in Boston hosted a and Dr. Kyriaki Sidiropoulou at the University of Crete. reception for the Greek school and Sunday school SNF-Funded Greek graduates of the Hellenic community. Diaspora Fellowship Program Selects 30 Fellows

TNH Staff tory exodus to the U.S. and Canada. The project will also in - NEW YORK – This summer, 30 corporate graduate student Greek- and Cypriot-born scholars teaching/mentoring and curricu - OCN Announces Winners of First 30 Under 30 hailing from a cross-section of 28 lum co-development. prominent American and Cana - A Fellow from the University dian universities are traveling to of Kentucky, Professor Nikiforos TNH Staff roulakis- physician, and Diony - and invest in this next genera - recognized leader in the Ortho - Greece to conduct academic pro - Stamatiadis, will visit the Na - sios Koroulakis- a fourth-year tion of trailblazers. We heard dox Media field and has sus - jects with their peers at Greek tional Technical University of NEW YORK – The Orthodox medical student who plans to from you about young entrepre - tained consistent growth over universities as part of the Greek Athens to work on graduate stu - Christian Network released its begin a residency in pediatrics neurs and leaders that exem - twenty-two years. More infor - Diaspora Fellowship Program. dent teaching and mentoring and list of winners of the first-ever following graduation. George plify Christian Values in their mation is available online at: They will work in areas that collaborative research in address - 30 Under 30 initiative including Athanasiou, Alyssa Loutsion lives and those lives that they myocn.net. range from medical physics to ing nighttime road safety issues. some of the most inspiring Kyritsis, Anna Gelis, Bethany touch in your own communities. The complete list follows: curriculum co-development in Aristotle University of Thessa - young people of the Orthodox Geleris, Carolyn V. Skaros, Evan - This group of adults is changing Alyssa Kyritsis, Church Min - clinical neurophysiology, and loniki will host a Fellow from Rut - Christian faith from a variety of geline George, Katherine Elia the way of our Orthodox Chris - istry from Anglo-American Modernist gers, the State University of New fields. The list includes Sophia tian Future.” Angelica Spanos Deoudes, Poetry to educational psychology. Jersey, Professor Marianthi Ier - Manatakis, who was profiled in The initiative draws on Or - Journalist Thirteen Greek universities were apetritou, to assist with collabo - The National Herald for her ap - Sophia Manatakis, who thodox leadership in the fields Anna Gelis, Finance selected to host the fellows for rative research and graduate stu - pearance on Food Network’s was profiled in TNH for of medicine, nutrition, science, Anthony Liveris, Technology collaborative projects that meet dent teaching in the area of Chopped, Costas Marafatsos- public policy, social science, hu - Antony Koroulakis, Healthcare specific needs at their institutions process systems engineering. The Founder and President of Blue her appearance on Food manities, arts and law, among Aris Eugene Rogers II, Public and in their communities, based project will focus on product and Sky Capital, an investment bro - Network’s Chopped, is on others. There is a mentorship Relations on proposals submitted by faculty process synthesis and design, kerage and consulting firm aspect that OCN recognizes will Bethany Geleris, Medicine members and administrators at process operations in a dynamic based in the center of the Wash - the list. be a valuable stepping stone to Carolyn V. Skaros, Nonprofits the Greek universities. environment and the modeling ington DC metro region, Angel - career both for the mentee and and Philanthropy With this second round of Fel - and optimization of biological ica Spanos Deoudes- journalist, Pappas, Dr. Konstantinos Myko - their mentor. Christos Marafatsos, Finance lowships, the program has now systems. Anthony Liveris- tech entrepre - niatis, and Peter Vasilion are A luncheon will be held in Dionysios Koroulakis, Medicine selected a total of 51 U.S.- and “One of the main goals of the neur and political consultant, also among the 30 Under 30. honor of the 30 Under 30 on Elana Rose Dandeneau, School Canadian-based academics to Greek Diaspora Fellowship Pro - George Bousis- entrepreneur, As noted on OCN’s website, September 9 at the Hellenic Col - Educator collaborate with universities gram has been to engage produc - Michael Evangelopoulos- bio - “The Orthodox Christian Net - lege Holy Cross in Brookline, Emma Solak, Education throughout Greece to develop tively one of Greece’s most im - medical engineer, Nikoleta Ral - work received some amazing MA with a special concert by Evangeline George, Public Af - curricula, conduct research, and portant assets, its diasporic lis- operatic soprano, Kyra Lim - nominations, which made it Jonathan Jackson, the star of fairs teach and mentor graduate stu - academic community,” said Ste - berakis- Associate Director of quite difficult to only choose 30 Nashville. Tickets are available Gabriel Otte, Technology dents in priority areas identified lios Vasilakis, Director of Pro - the CrossRoad Summer Institute individuals to recognize this online. George Bousis, Technology by the Greek universities. grams and Strategic Initiatives at and Assistant Director of the Of - year. But, we strongly believe The Orthodox Christian Net - George F. Athanasiou, Church The Fellowship Program is de - SNF. “The response and caliber fice of Vocation & Ministry at we have chosen 30 truly out - work (OCN) is a 501(c)3 and Ministry signed to help avert Greece’s of the Fellows selected for this Hellenic College Holy Cross standing young people to rec - an official agency of the Assem - Jason Catanese, Education brain drain and develop long- first iteration of the Program Greek Orthodox School of The - ognize. 30 Under 30 is an op - bly of Canonical Bishops of the Katharine Leigh, Environment term, mutually-beneficial collab - point to the existence of a critical ology, Tony (Antony) Ko - portunity to show support for United States of America. It is a Katherine Elia Pappas, Non - orations between universities in mass of scholars that can con - profits & Philanthropy Greece and the United States and tribute significantly to Greek Uni - Konstantinos Mykoniatis, Engi - Canada. Launched in 2016, the versities at a critical moment in neering Program is managed by the In - modern Greek history. This is a Kyra Limberakis, Church Min - stitute of International Education collaboration that is mutually As Planned, Gigicos Returning to Trump Rallies istry (IIE) in collaboration with the beneficial and carries the poten - Mark Doss, Law & Policy Fulbright Foundation in Greece, tial of long term impact and of Max Ramseyer, Entrepreneur - and funded by the Stavros Niar - changing the means of engage - TNH Staff ministration. “Simply, my depar - campaign side will allow him to ship chos Foundation (SNF). ment between the motherland ture was planned over a month spend more time with his family Michael Evangelopoulos, Engi - Projects supported by this and its extensive Diaspora.” NEW YORK – George Gigicos, ago so that I could get back on while still working on all of the neering round of Fellowships include: “The Stavros Niarchos Foun - who recently stepped down as the road and do rallies, which is political events, he said. He will Michael John Pacurar , Church The University of Crete will dation’s generous support for President Trump’s Director of what I love doing,” he told TNH. continue to assist the president Ministry host a Fellow from St. Mary’s Uni - these Fellowships demonstrates Advance, told The National Her - He has organized Trump’s as needed with official events Michael Mercado, Church Min - versity- Dr. Evangelina Tast - the Foundation’s commitment to ald that his transition from that events for the past two years. from the outside.” istry soglou, and Queens College, City expanding Greece’s human capi - role back to the campaign – i.e., As CNN reported, “Gigicos said Gigicos told TNH that his re - Mikhail Moibenko, Engineer - University of New York, Professor tal and investing in the country’s the president’s ongoing rallies – he will remain in Washington lationship with the president re - ing Nicholas Alexiou. This collabora - long-term economic recovery,” was planned in advance, and and return to his consulting mains strong, that he believes Nikoleta Rallis, Music tive research project will focus said Allan Goodman, President was in no way connected to any business, where he will do work in Trump’s agenda, and believes Peter Vasilion, Technology on the sociology of culture and and CEO of the Institute of Inter - other personnel or substantive for the Trump 2020 campaign. the president will accomplish his Sophia Manatakis, Culinary the sociological study of earlier national Education. issues concerning the Trump Ad - Gigicos' transition back to the goals. Arts and contemporary Greek migra -

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By Demetris Tsakas the Ecumenical Patriarchate of lent attendance of the faithful Constantinople and the message at the religious ceremonies, as ASTORIA – Hundreds of mem - of His All-Holiness Ecumenical well as the reverence with bers of the Greek-American Patriarch Bartholomew was de - which they participated in the community of Astoria and other livered by the Metropolitan of Divine Liturgy and the proces - areas of the New York Metro - Adrianople, Amphilochios, who sion. At the same time, he politan area, as well as from presided over the ceremonies pointed out that many expatri - Boston and Maryland and other that were celebrated July 28-30. ates had arrived by buses from states participated in the pro - This year's celebrations, Baltimore, Boston, and other ar - cession of the miraculous icon some of the best-attended in re - eas, and lit candles for their rel - of St. Irene Chrysovalantou, cent years, were the first after atives who could not attend the which took place on July 30 at the enthronement at the Patri - feast. the eponymous church after the archal Monastery of Ierotheos When asked about the suc - Divine Liturgy. as Bishop of Efkarpia. cess of the festival, he said that The annual procession is Also attending the celebra - it was one of the best in recent held on the Sunday closest to tion was the Consul of Greece years and attributed the success the feast day of Saint Irene and in New York, Manos Koubarakis, to the tremendous self-sacrifice is the highlight event for the Pa - who also conveyed the best with which the volunteers and triarchal Monastery of St. Irene, wishes of the Consul General in members of the community with Greeks from various parts New York, Konstantinos Koutras. worked. of the United States attending The St. Irene's Greek Festival Katsifis told TNH that the fes - each year to pray and venerate was also held July 27-30 night tival is one of the main sources the icon of the Saint for their with the Greek community and of income to cover the educa - own health and for that of their other Astorians enjoying Greek tional, cultural, and charitable loved ones. hospitality, foods, music and projects of the monastery. The National Herald covered dancing. Many attendees noted Michalis Bournias, former the religious events at the the loukoumades that are a fes - president of the Northern Chios church, which began on July 26 tival favorite every year. Society Pelineon Agia Markella, with Vespers and were com - Dr. Spiros Katsifis, member who volunteers at the festival pleted on July 30 with the pro - of the Parish Council of the every year, pointed out that this the PAtriArchAl MonAstery of st. irene chrysovAlAntou cession. Monastery spoke with The Na - year had a great turnout of peo - The St. Irene Chrysovalantou procession in Astoria. The monastery belongs to tional Herald, noted the excel - ple over the weekend. Arlington, MA Parish Devastated over Priest’s Removal, Boos Methodios

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Kastanas of his pastoral respon - and continue to be brothers and Moschos t o sibilities at St. Athanasius effec - sister in the Lord, not be nasty raises a h tive immediately following the with each other and be gracious Greek flag P Divine Liturgy on Sunday, July and hospitable,” he said. with the 30, 2017. Fr. Kastanas has been “When a door closes another words "Fr. notified of this decision. one will open,” he continued, Nick we Parishioners on July 30 “and it is my prayer for all of us need you, openly wept over the impending to move forward united in our we love you, loss of their beloved priest who, parish because St. Athanasius we support over the decades, blessed their will always be my parish. I want you.” weddings, baptized their chil - us to please be united, peaceful dren, and buried their loved and be connected with our Lord ones. In his final sermon, Kas - and Savior Jesus Christ and with tanas spoke of peace among each other. Work diligently for tochos, the Parish Council, and well as numerous television sto - FundMe account. Some told current location in 2005 when members and told them not to all of us to sustain that peace added “everything will continue ries provided extensive cover - TNH this is “the beginning of an entire hill of buildings includ - speak harshly to one another. that Christ talks about being and just renew and refresh. This age. the end” for the parish. ing the church was purchased “It’s important to be passionate peacemakers.” is not a wake or a funeral; this The parish youth spread the The parish consists by more from the Roman Catholic Arch - but peaceful.” Fr. Kastanas thanked all his is an opportunity to give glory story widely on social media, than 800 families and it was diocese of Boston. The parish One member shouted from co-workers, including those at to God and to rededicate and circulated a petition in support considered one of the best has taken a big loan that it re - the back of the church that the Greek School, Sunday recommit our efforts.” of Kastanas that at press time parishes not only of New Eng - pays every month. A year ago, “there is no parish without Fr. School, and the choir, the Boston’s main newspapers, had gathered over 1900 signa - land but in the entire Archdio - Fr. Aaron Walker was assigned Nick” while the congregation chanters, the youth, the Philop - the Globe and the Herald, as tures, and have started a Go - cese. The parish moved to its to the parish as assistant priest. 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 5-11, 2017

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n thru october 3 PAWTUCKET, RI – The 90th An - Golden Driller: Oklahoma's State Monument ASTORIA – Greek Nights at nual Grecian Festival at the As - Athens Square Park, 30th Avenue sumption of the Virgin Mary and 30th Street in Astoria, pre - Greek Orthodox Church, 97 Wal - By Steve Frangos state monument of Oklahoma. sents live music every Tuesday cott Street in Pawtucket takes TNH Staff Writer This towering figure has some - at 7 PM, July 11-October 3. place Aug. 18-20. We invite you how entered the cultural sub - Panos Adamopoulos and George to join us at our Greek Village Golden Driller, Oklahoma's conscious. While one would ex - Delis, 2017 Program Directors. Festival for authentic Greek cui - state monument, poses an inter - pect souvenirs such as candy Free admission. Upcoming per - sine, pastries, the agora and kafe - esting problem for Greek-Amer - bars (with the Driller stamped formers: Aug. 8- Andreas Modi - nio. Greek Pride dancers perform ican studies. While much is writ - on the surface), T-shirts, mag - nos with Geminis Orchestra and at designated times throughout ten about the statue and its nets, whiskey decanters, art- dancer Noora; Aug. 15- Tasos Pa - the festival. Hours: Friday, Aug. physical and cultural develop - prints, coffee cups, an annual paioannou and Kostas Psaros; 18, 5-10 PM; Saturday, Aug. 19, ment over more than sixty marathon and many other Aug. 22- Misi Group; Aug. 29- noon-10 PM; and Sunday, Aug. years, little is offered but frag - things all available with/as Laiki Compania; Sept. 5- Grigoris 20, noon-9 PM. More info avail - ments about its creator George replicas of this statue more is at Maninakis, Mikrokosmos; Sept. able by phone: 401-725-3127 and S. Hondronastas. Rather than play. In France an amusement 12- Julie Ziavras and Kostas online: www.greekfestivalri.com. fret over what may or may not ride is named after the Driller Psaros; Sept. 19- Nisafi Band; be readily available in the public and as one would expect a huge Sept. 26- Pancyprian Choir of NY, n auGust 19 record at the moment, we need near-replica of this statue is director Phytos Stratis; and Oct. HOLYOKE, MA – The 100th An - to move ahead with the sure prominently featured as part of 3- Hellenic Voices of Long Island. niversary Family Picnic and Pani - hope that more direct informa - the overall ride. More information is available on - giri of Holy Trinity Greek Ortho - tion on this talented artist will All that said, the artistic cre - line www.athenssquarepark.org. dox Church takes place on reveal itself in time. ator of all three statues, George Saturday, Aug. 19, 11 AM- 4 PM Golden Driller is the fifth- S. Hondronastas (1893-1979) n July 29-auGust 6 at the Summit View Pavilion, 555 largest statue in the United still remains a mystery. All avail - NEWBURYPORT, MA – Annun - Northampton Street (Rt. 5) in States. It stands in front of the able public accounts credit Hon - ciation Greek Orthodox Church Holyoke, phone: 413-538-7431. Tulsa Exposition Center, is 75 dronastas as the artist behind urges all to eat Greek all week! Cash bar is available for purchase feet tall, or almost eight stories the statues but the information The Gyro Food Cart is back and of beers, wine, and mixed drinks. high, and weighs about 43,500 on this individual is slight and will be in two locations this year Free parking, handicap accessible, pounds. The 12-foot shoes alone oft-repeated. So we hear, over during the Newburyport Yankee and young and young at heart weigh a ton apiece. and over, that Hondronastas be - Homecoming Week. Find our fun activities! Live authentic Designed to withstand winds came a naturalized citizen while Annunciation Church food carts Greek music provided by the Hel - up to 100 miles per hour, the serving in the United States serving Gyros, and other Greek lenic Express Orchestra with statue contains about 2.5 miles Army during WW I. Being a cit - delicacies on Inn Street and our Marco. Children 6 years old and of steel, including reinforcement Golden Driller, Oklahoma's state monument izen meant Hondronastas could new 1 Market Square location, under eat for free. Tickets for ages rods and heavy wire mesh over pursue his artistic passion in the adjacent to the previous site for 7 to 12 years old are $12, ages framework of structural steel figure. In this first incarnation opening of the refurbished Tulsa country he had called home for Not Your Average Joe's Restau - 13 to 100 years old are $25) per (Troy [NY] Record November 7, the statue was “a 65-foot tall Expo Center. The newly reap - years. He is also said to have at - rant! More info available by person. Registration is now open. 1968).” ‘golden driller’ and at the time pointed 354,000-square-foot tended the Art Institute of phone: 978-465-5757 and online The Summit View Pavilion policy In the late 1940s to early ‘the largest paper mache figure event center had been made Chicago. Hondronastas was al - at: annunciation.ma. goarch.org. is a minimum of 65 guests. More 1950s, the United States was ever built...valued at $30,000, possible through a $3.5 million ways proud of designing “The info available online at: holytrin - the principal oil producing is mounted on a 70-foot utility bond passed by Tulsa voters Golden Driller,” and would tell n auGust 5 ityholyoke.ma. goarch.org country in the world and Tulsa pole.’ Which meant The three years prior. anyone he met. In 1978, Hon - PORTSMOUTH, NH – Greek Nite was the center of that then- Roustabout figure hung off the This third and final version dronastas underwent surgery Entertainment- Greek Music and CENTERVILLE, MA – St. George seemingly endless, underground side of an oil derrick. “His of the statue, which was then for lung cancer and subse - Dancing at Cafe Nostimo, 72 Greek Orthodox Church of Cape ocean of oil. framework is of welded steel an renamed Golden Driller, was quently died a year later. Mirona Road in Portsmouth, 8- Cod, 1130 Falmouth Road in Tulsa, the period's recognized outline of this body is meshed erected on April 8, 1966. This It was that year, 1979, that 11 PM, with Chuck Koustas and Centerville, presents Greek Com - “Oil Capital of the World,” was wire...A “skin” of two layers, one version consists of a steel frame the Oklahoma State Senate des - Ross Richardson. Reservations edy Night on Saturday, Aug. 19 the location on May 14-23 1953 of cloth and one of paper covered in plaster, painted gold, ignated Golden Driller as the of - recommended, phone: 603-436- with Ellen Karis, the Greek God - for the International Petroleum mache, over which was painted and supported by a concrete ficial state monument. In 2016, 3100. dess of Comedy, featuring Pre - Exposition (IPE). Tulsa's 25-acre golden sheen (Clarion-Ledger foundation. It took three cranes for the 50th Anniversary of ston Simpson. Tickets are $35 exhibition center at 4145 E. 21st [Jackson, MS) May 15, 1953).” to erect the massive 76-foot, Golden Driller, a stunning city- n auGust 17-20 and include mezedakia, cash bar- St. S was under orders that no Overall, this giant's weight 43,500-pound plaster body of wide celebration took place. ST. CLAIR SHORES, MI – As - beer and wine only. Tickets at expense was to be spared. More proved to be four tons. With re - Golden Driller. Given its height Yet regarding Greek-Ameri - sumption Greek Orthodox the door are $40. RSVP by Aug. than 1,500 oil industry manufac - gret at the end of the exposition and mass the figure's gloved can studies, we must ask: why Church, 21800 Marter Road in 15. Reserve tickets by phone: turers, suppliers and service com - this first version of the statue right hand rests on a real Semi - have we not heard more of Hon - St. Clair Shores Hours: Thursday, 508-775-3045. Doors open at 7 panies were scheduled to partic - was discarded. nole, OK oil derrick. A plaque dronastas' favorite creation? Aug. 17, 4-10 PM, Friday Aug. PM, show begins at 8 PM. ipate. A reported $30 million was On May 14, 1959, the Inter - was placed at the base of the While information about the 18, 3-11 PM, Saturday, Aug. 19, spent just to build the exposi - national Petroleum Industry ex - driller then read, in part: “The monument now known as 11 AM - 11 PM, and Sunday, n auGust 19-20 tion's industrial displays. William position opened to some 1,200 Golden Driller, a symbol of the Golden Driller is readily found, Aug. 20, 11 AM - 8 PM. From WINCHESTER, VA – The Annual B. Way, general manager of the dignitaries, 2,000 exhibitors and International Petroleum Indus - the same cannot be said for de - traditional Greek homemade Dormition of the Virgin Mary exposition said that “representa - 30,000 oil men from 37 differ - try. Dedicated to the men of the tailed information concerning food and pastries to live music Greek Orthodox Church Win - tives from 50 oil-producing na - ent countries who mingled daily petroleum industry who by their Hondronastas' sustained role in and dancing, this Festival will be chester Greek Festival, 1700 tions and practically all the among crowds that would ulti - vision and daring have created the creation of this singular one of the best parts of the sum - Amherst Street, will take place states” were scheduled to attend. mately number nearly 500,000. from God's abundance a better work of art. While all contem - mer. Grand raffle drawing at on Saturday, Aug. 19, 11 AM- 7 Overall 750 million dollars was Hondronastas, was once again life for mankind.” porary accounts always credit 7:30 PM on Sunday. More infor - PM, and Sunday, Aug. 20, 12 spent on the event, as what was hired to work on the second ver - Sadly, 1966 was also the last Hondronastas as the artist, only mation is available by phone: noon- 7 PM. Sample our leg - then reportedly the world's sion of the statue which was still year of the IPE in Tulsa – the a small cluster of oft-repeated 586-779-6111 and online at: as - endary Greek cuisine and expe - greatest equipment exposition known as The Roustabout. This city was no longer the boom - details do so. This remains es - sumptionfestival.com. rience our renowned Greek mu - devoted to a single industry. Ap - time, however, his right hand town it once was. In another pecially curious given the ongo - sic and dance. Truly great fun proximately 400,000 people at - waved. city, the statue might have been ing cultural impact of this n auGust 18-20 for the entire family! A large se - tended this 10-day expo. Then, for the opening of the torn down; its purpose had been statue. We can only hope that ANCHORAGE, AK – Holy Trans - lection of tasty Greek food is So in 1953, The Roustabout, May 12, 1966, International served and the reason for its ex - as George Hondronastas' role in figuration Greek Orthodox available. Learn more about the as the statue was first called, expo Hondronastas' third re - istence seemed gone for good. the creation of this statue be - Church, 2800 O’Malley Road in Holy Orthodox Christian Faith was part of the Mid-Continent designed figure was donated by However, even though the oil- comes more widely known Anchorage, holds its 23rd Annual with informal guided tours of the Supply of Fort Worth, TX com - Mid-Continental’s parent com - boom era of Tulsa was long within the Greek-American Alaska Greek Festival Aug. 18- Church given by our Presiding pany's display at the IPE. Hon - pany, oil giant Kendavis Indus - dead, a new era for Golden community that those with 20. Come enjoy the tastes, smells, Priest, Father Panagiotis. Ques - dronastas was hired as the con - tries to the IPE as a permanent Driller as a symbol of Tulsa’s his - knowledge about this artist will sights and sounds of Greece! Ad - tions about the Faith and tradi - ceptual artist while Dallas symbol of Tulsa’s standing as the tory was just beginning. come forward. mission and parking are free. tions are welcome. Also, the Meade Constructors Inc. of “Oil Capital of the World” as Over time, the statue some - Hours: Friday, Aug. 18 and Sat - Book Store will be open offering Tulsa was charged to build the well as to commemorate the how evolved from being just the [email protected] urday, Aug. 19, 11 AM-10 PM, religious items and reading ma - and Sunday, Aug. 20, 11 AM-8 terial of the Orthodox faith. PM. More info is available by Other retail vendors will also dis - phone: 907-344-0190 and online play their various items for pur - at: akgreekfestival.com. chase. Admission is free and am - Vlahos’ Dadbot Offers a Kind of Immortality ple free parking is available. CASTRO VALLEY, CA – Resurrec - More information is available by tion Greek Orthodox Church, phone: 540-667-1416 and online Continued from page 1 hooked.” ing power. Plus Barbie – like and 2015. A Gilbert and Sullivan 20104 Center Street in Castro at: dormition.va.goarch.org. In 2015, Vlahos wrote an ar - Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, fanatic, he has starred in shows Valley, holds its annual Greek a parlor trick (she is one of those ticle for the New York Times and other products in the ‘con - like H.M.S. Pinafore and was Festival Friday, Aug. 18, 5-10 n note to our readers therapists who mainly just about the updated Barbie doll versational computing’ boom – president of the Lamplighters, a PM; Saturday, Aug. 19, 11 AM- This calendar of events section echoes your own thoughts back that could talk. Hello Barbie, can actually speak out loud in a light-opera theater company, for 10 PM; Sunday, Aug. 20, 11:30 is a complimentary service to the to you), and he was appalled by “‘speaks’ via a prewritten voice that sounds human.” 35 years. My dad is interested AM-7 PM. Free admission, free Greek American community. All how easily people were taken in branching script, and she ‘lis - Keeping in touch with Pull - in everything from languages parking, and free dance lessons. parishes, organizations and in - by the illusion of sentience. tens’ via a program of pattern- String, Vlahos noted that “the (fluent in English and Greek, de - Enjoy delicious food, children’s stitutions are encouraged to e- ‘What I had not realized,’ he matching and natural- language company’s CEO Oren Jacob, a cent in Spanish and Italian) to fun zone, live Greek music by mail their information regarding wrote, ‘is that extremely short processing. But where Eliza’s former chief technology officer architecture (volunteer tour Mythos on Saturday and Sunday, the event 3-4 weeks ahead of exposures to a relatively simple script was written by a single at Pixar, tells me that Pull - guide in San Francisco). He’s a and shopping. More information time, and no later than Monday computer program could induce dour German computer scien - String’s ambitions are not lim - grammar nerd. Joke teller. Self - is available by phone: 510-581- of the week before the event, to powerful delusional thinking in tist, Barbie’s script has been con - ited to entertainment. ‘I want to less husband and father.” 8950 and online at: www.greek - english.edition@thenationalher - quite normal people.’ cocted by a whole team of peo - create technology that allows At first, Dadbot conversed in festival.me. ald.com “At age 11, I am one of those ple from Mattel and PullString, people to have conversations text messages only, then voice people. Eliza astounds me with a computer conversation com - with characters who don’t exist recordings could be added and responses that seem genuinely pany founded by alums of Pixar. in the physical world—because though John James Vlahos perceptive (‘Why do you feel And where Eliza’s natural- they’re fictional, like Buzz passed away on February 9, sad?’) and entertains me with language processing abilities Lightyear,’ he says, ‘or because 2017, his son’s efforts and tech - PRINTED EDITION OF THE NATIONAL HERALD replies that obviously aren’t (‘Do were crude at best, Barbie’s they’re dead, like Martin Luther nology have allowed him to con - via the Post-oFFice: you enjoy feeling sad?’). Behind powers rest on vast recent ad - King.’” tinue having conversations with o1 Month $11.00 o3 Months $22.00 that glowing green screen, a vances in machine learning, Vlahos wrote, “My father re - his family about everyday o6 Months $33.00 oone year $66.00 fledgling being is alive. I’m voice recognition, and process - ceived his cancer diagnosis on things, his parents’ lives in April 24, 2016. A few days later, Greece, his mother who was via home delivery (ny, nJ & ct): by happenstance, I find out that born in the village of Kehries on o1 Month for $14.00 o3 Months for $33.00 PullString is planning to publicly the island of Evia and orphaned o6 Months for $48.00 oone year for $88.00 release its software for creating at the age of 3, among them. conversational agents. Soon In his article, Vlahos noted via home delivery anybody will be able to access the strangeness of interacting (new england) the same tool that PullString has with the Dadbot, but his son o 1 Month for $18.00 o 3 Months for $41.00 used to create its talking char - seems to have taken to it easily. o 6 Months for $57.00 o one year for $109.00 acters. The idea pops into my “Back in the fall of 2016, my mind almost immediately. For son Zeke tried out an early ver - one line subscriPtion o one year for $88.99 weeks, amid my dad’s barrage sion of the Dadbot. A 7-year- www.thenationalherald.com of doctor’s appointments, med - old, he grasped the essential ical tests, and treatments, I keep concept faster than adults typi - sPecial PackaGe subscriPtions Mail & Digital: $107.87

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OUR EVERYDAY GREEK GREEK GASTRONOMY This Summer We Speak Greek When Greeting Yiayia Fried Eggplant with Flavorful By Dr. Dimitra Pontoporou BASIC VOCABULARY Dips to Enjoy Yiayia and Pappou in the village in Greece will welcome you Greek word Pronunciation Meaning with typical greetings. Learn to recognize and understand the wel - Γιαγιά! yiayiA! Grandma! By Eleni Sakellis such as zucchini or eggplant. come greetings, as well as common phrases to address them in Καλώς kaLOS well Greek. Καλώς την! kaLOS tin! Welcome (for a female)! In the summer, eggplant is in Καλώς τον! kaLOS ton! Welcome (for a male)! season. Stewing the vegetables Skordalia with Bread DIALOGUE Καλώς τους! kaLOS toos! Welcome (for many persons)! with fresh, ripe tomatoes is a and Walnuts This is a typical welcome dialogue between Petros ( Π), Maria Καλώς ήρθες! kaLOS EErthes! Welcome (for one person)! traditional Greek favorite. Fried (Μ) and their yiayia ( Γ). Καλώς ήρθατε! kaLOS EErthate! Welcome (for many persons)! eggplant with skordalia is an - Καλώς όρισες! kaLOS Orises! Welcome (for one person)! other classic way to serve the 4 thick slices bread Greek phrase Pronunciation Meaning Καλώς ορίσατε! kaLOS oREEsate! Welcome (for many persons)! summer vegetables. If frying is 1 cup walnuts Μ: Γιαγιά! yiayiA! Grandma! Καλώς σε βρήκαμε! kaLOS se BREEkame! (nice to see you!) not your favorite cooking 4-5 garlic cloves Γ: Καλώς την! kaLOS tin! Welcome! Τι κάνεις; TEE KAnis? How are you? method, or you are trying to cut ½ tsp salt Καλώς την Μαρία! kaLOS tin maREEa! Welcome, Maria! Καλά kaLA good, well, fine down on the fried foods, try 1 cup Greek extra virgin olive Π: Γιαγιά! yiayiA! Grandma! Είμαι EEme I am grilling the eggplant and serving oil Γ: Καλώς τον! kaLOS ton! Welcome! Είμαι καλά EEme kaLA I am fine them with your favorite dips, in - 1/3 cup red wine vinegar Καλώς τον Πέτρο! kaLOS ton PEtro! Welcome, Petros! Πού; POO? Where? cluding skordalia and tahini Μ: Γιαγιά, yiayiA, Grandma! Είναι EEne is sauce. Soak the bread, crusts cut καλώς σε βρήκαμε! kaLOS se BREEkame! (nice to see you!)* Ο παππούς O papoose grandpa off, in water, then squeeze out Γ: Καλώς ήρθατε! kaLOS EErthate! Welcome! Το καφενείο TO kafeNEEo traditional Greek café the excess so that the amount Καλώς τους! kaLOS toos! Welcome! Στο STO at Fried Eggplant of bread equals about 1 cup. In Π: Τι κάνεις, γιαγιά; TEE KAnis, yiayiA? How are you, grandma? Στο καφενείο STO kafeNEEo at the traditional Greek café the bowl of a food processor, Γ: Καλά είμαι. kaLA EEme. I am fine. pulse the garlic, salt, and about Μ: Ο παππούς τι κάνει; O paPOOS TEE KAni? How is grandpa doing? MAIN PHRASES 2 medium eggplant, sliced half of the olive oil. Add the Γ: Καλά είναι. kaLA EENe. He is fine. Καλώς τον/την, καλώς ήρθες, καλώς όρισες: welcome for one about inch thick vinegar and walnuts. Gradually Είναι στο καφενείο. EENe STO kafeNEEo. He is at the café. person. 1 cup all-purpose, unbleached add olive oil and the bread and Καλώς τους, καλώς ήρθατε, καλώς ορίσατε: welcome for many flour continue pulsing in the food Note that in Greek we have many expressions to welcome a persons. beloved person or a visitor. Without doubt our rich and diverse Καλώς σε βρήκαμε is the answer to welcome, when we meet welcome vocabulary reflects our hospitable traditions. Καλώς means one person. well in ancient Greek. When it is followed by την, it means welcome Καλώς σας βρήκαμε: is the answer to welcome, when we meet her. When it is followed by τον, it means welcome him, and when many persons. it is followed by τους it means welcome them. The exact translation of wel+come would be in Greek καλώς ήρθες for one person and Try to match the phrases in English with their translation in καλώς ήρθατε for many persons. Ήρθα is the past tense of the Greek: verb I come. We also use the expression καλώς όρισες for one 1. Καλώς τη Μαρία! 1. Petros, welcome! person and καλώς ορίσατε for many. Ορίζω means specify and 2. Καλώς τον Πέτρο! 2. Nice to see you! order. Ιt has the meaning of accepting a person’s, the visitor’s, de - 3. Καλώς ήρθατε! 3. Welcome, Maria! cision. 4. Καλώς σας βρήκαμε! 4. Welcome (many persons)! The response to a welcome greeting is καλώς σε βρήκαμε when we address one person and καλώς σας βρήκαμε, when we address PRONUNCIATION KEY many persons. The exact translation of καλώς σε βρήκαμε is nice i (idiom), ee (needle), e (energy), o (organism), oo (boot), y to find you, to meet you, from the verb βρίσκω, which means I (yes), h (helium), th (theory), d (the). The capitalized syllables find someone or something. It means it is nice to see you. are accented.

LITERARY REVIEW Mamatas’ New Book Mixes Up Cocktails and Fiction

By Eleni Sakellis book’s description. The contributors include: Mamatas, of Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash course, Maurice Broaddus, Selena Cham - Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and bers, Jim Nisbet, Jarret Kobek, Benjamin processor un - Reader) compiled by Greek-American Nick Percy, Libby Cudmore, Dominica Phet - til smooth. Serve with Mamatas and Molly Tanzer is a charming teplace, Gina Marie Guadignino, Tim Pratt, 1 hot fried bakaliaro. Store any collection featuring cocktails and fiction. Elizabeth Hand, Robert Swartwood, Cara remaining skordalia tightly cov - The talented Mamatas is perhaps best- Hoffman, Jeff VanderMeer, Carrie Laben, teaspoon Greek ered in the refrigerator. known for his novels, including The Last Will Viharo, and Carmen Machado. sea salt, plus more to taste Weekend and I Am Providence, and an im - Mamatas’ short fiction has appeared in ½ teaspoon freshly ground pressive array of short fiction. One of his Best American Mystery Stories, Year’s Best pepper Tahini Sauce stories is included in Mixed Up. Mamatas, Science Fiction & Fantasy, and many other 1 can (12 oz.) beer whose family hails from Ikaria, took the anthologies and magazines. His previous Olive oil for frying time out from his busy schedule to talk to anthologies include the Bram Stoker Award- 1/2 cup tahini The National Herald about the inspiration winner Haunted Legends (co-edited with Add ½ teaspoon of salt to the 1-2 garlic cloves, crushed for the book. Ellen Datlow) and The Locus Award nomi - eggplant slices and place in a 1 freshly squeezed lemon “My earliest inspiration has to do with nees The Future is Japanese and Hanzai strainer over a bowl to drain the Salt and freshly ground pepper the Greek diners my relatives worked in Japan (both co-edited with Masumi Wash - excess water for 30 minutes to 1-2 tablespoons extra virgin when I was a kid. They weren't feeding me ington). Mamatas’ editorial work has also an hour. Rinse with cool water, olive oil cocktails of course, but the paper place mats been nominated for the Hugo and World pat dry with paper towels, and 1/4 to 1/2 cup water, or more often featured line drawings of cocktail di - Fantasy awards. He resides in Berkeley, Cal - set aside. as needed agrams, and the images intrigued me. Many, ifornia. In a mixing bowl, whisk to - many years later, I bought my friend Molly Molly Tanzer is the author of the novels gether the flour, salt, pepper, In the bowl of a food proces - Tanzer, a writer and cocktail hobbyist, a Creatures of Will and Temper, Vermilion, and beer. Heat the oil in a large sor or in a blender, mix the book of cocktail recipes from San Francisco, and The Pleasure Merchant. Her acclaimed skillet over medium high heat tahini, crushed garlic cloves, as and we had the idea to do one of our own, AMAZon short fiction is collected in two volumes, until it shimmers. Dip the egg - much the juice of the freshly with fiction instead of essays on cocktail ing’s Dr. No in 1958. the British Fantasy Award-nominated A plant slices one at a time and squeezed lemon as preferred, history, and soon enough we got all Mixed “A cocktail is like an excellent story ― Pretty Mouth and the cocktail-themed Rum - fry until golden brown on each and the water until creamy. Add Up!” Mamatas told TNH. bitter and sweet and over too quickly, but bullion & Other Liminal Libations. She co- side, careful not to crowd the salt and pepper to taste. If the When asked about his contribution, he the memory of it stays with you. From the edited the anthology Swords v Cthulhu and pan. Serve immediately with the sauce is too thick, add a little said, “My own story in the book is about Pimm’s Cup to Smoking Bishop, the Man - currently serves as editrix of Congress, the dip of your choice. water to dilute it to the desired the vodka martini and has a cameo appear - hattan to the Moscow Mule, Mixed Up fea - bi-monthly magazine of thoughtful erotica. consistency. Stir in the olive oil ance by Vladimir Putin!” tures not only more than two dozen classic Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash and taste to check the season - The vodka martini is, of course, well- recipes and hot tips on ingredients and Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Skordalia ing. Drizzle with additional olive known as the favorite cocktail of James preparations, but new cocktail-themed short Reader) compiled by Nick Mamatas and oil, if preferred. Serve with Bond who prefers it “shaken and not stories from some of today’s most popular Molly Tanzer will be on sale in early October toasted slices of bread and/or stirred,” as the line appeared in Ian Flem - and acclaimed writers,” as noted in the and is currently available for presale online. 3 large boiled potatoes vegetable sticks as a dip or as a 6 garlic cloves, peeled topping for sandwiches. 1/2 cup Greek extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 teaspoon salt, plus more to Artist Zaharopoulos at Art Basel Thrift Store/Gallery taste 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar

TNH Staff gallery, offering shoppers 1,500 velopment Fund in partnership range in shape and size. In a mixing bowl, mash the square feet of make-¬an-¬offer with the NYC Council, part of Her interdisciplinary, whim - potatoes with a fork. In a food LONG ISLAND CITY – The retail and art. the Queens Council on the Arts sical, and thought-provoking processor, blend the garlic rapidly changing neighborhood Featured in the gallery is Go - (QCA) 2017 Queens Arts Fund. work has appeared at the cloves with the olive oil, salt, of Long Island City is gaining a ing Once, Going Twice: Art Born and raised in Queens, Za - Shanghai Biennale, Flint Public and vinegar. A few pulses new option for shoppers wish - Swap Preview 2017 a group ex - haropoulos now divides her Art Project, Jack NYC, and the should produce a paste. Add to ing to maintain their lifestyle on hibition shaped and inspired by time between New York City Museum of Contemporary Art the mashed potatoes and stir to - an increasingly tight budget a Sotheby’s auction catalog and and Detroit, working on collab - Detroit, among a variety of gether. Serve with hot fried while helping artists in need of abandoned art projects, curated orative and solo projects that venues. bakaliaro and fried vegetables representation. by Ava Ulmer. Art Basel Thrift Store (and Eight artists swapped their Gallery) is opening its first store unfinished projects in January in a former greeting card factory and agreed to complete them at 39¬31 29th Street between just in time for the grand open - The Original Pocket-Less Pita® 39th and 40th Avenues in Long ing. Shoppers of Art Basel Thrift Island City. Store (and Gallery) will have a This new business will truly chance to view and make an of - be an ultra-thrift store and fer on some of these works at the Strictly Business Martini Auction and Potluck to be held on August 10. Participating artists include Olivia Ascione D'Elia, Eliza Kim - www.Greekkitchennyc.com We Are Flatbread TM berly, Madeleine Rojas, Stephanie Routier, Haley Shib - ble, Ava Ulmer, and Greek- American Eleni Theodora Za - FLATBREAD haropoulos. Art Basel Thrift MEDITERRANEAN FOODS Store (and Gallery) opens Au - gust 5 and closes on August 13. • Over 50 Varieties of Flatbreads sPecial The Art Basel Thrift Store • Mediterranean Pastries discounts (and Gallery) grand opening takes place on August 5 in Long • Ethnic Meats & Imported Foods oFFered to: Island City 1-9 PM. Refresh - Communities, ments and snacks provided. Organizations, On August 10, the Strictly Church Festivals Business Martini Auction and and Other Events Potluck will be held. Attendees are invited to bring something to share. On August 12-13, the Going Out Of

Business (Everything Must Go!) b Weekend long blow¬out sale Art Basel Thrift Store (and takes place. Follow us on Facebook: Gallery) opens on August 5. Zaharopoulos recently re - a Greek-American artist Eleni ceived a New Works Grant for Theodora Zaharopoulos is the Individual Artists funded by the The National Herald / Eθνικός Κήρυξ find us on kontos Foods, inc. | Po box 628 Paterson, nJ 07544 Chief Operating Artist for the NYC Department of Cultural Af - / kontos Foods t: 973.278.2800, F: 973.278.7943 | www.kontos.com venture. fairs/ Greater New York Arts De - 6 OBITUARIES/CLASSIFIEDS/ GREECE THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 5-11, 2017 CLASSIFIEDS The 2nd Annual Paneliakos Diaspora Convention

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DEATH NOTICES to PlAce your clAssifieD AD, cAll: (718) 784-5255, ext. 106, e-MAil: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com n Gikas, nikolaos above all, enjoying her family in Church, and was an active vol - thentic Greek dress. His most JERSEY CITY (from the Jersey her role as Matriarch. Marigo was unteer for all church functions. proud artistic accomplishment Journal, published on Jul. 27) – affectionately known as Yiayia by In 2007 he received the "Father was the bronze Soldier Memorial Nikolaos "Nick" Gikas, 78, of Jer - all who knew her, even those of the Year Award" from the Monument, since 2005 situated sey City died on Wednesday, July who were not her grandchildren. church. He is preceded in death in Athens, Greece. 26, 2017. Nick was born in Epi - Marigo is survived by her brother, by his loving parents Alexander davros, Greece and immigrated Moshos Kalivas, her sister-in-law, and Despina (nee Hanakis) Pa - n samPalis, PanaGiotis to Jersey City 50 years ago. He Eftihia Kalivas; her daughters, pazoglou. He is survived by his WARWICK, RI (from The Provi - In Memoriam: retired from the Jersey City Alexandra and her husband devoted wife of 62 years to dence Journal, published on Jul. Board of Education, P.S. 33. Nick Christos Liapopoulos, Zoe Goss - Athena (nee Atsalis) Papazoglou; 27) – Panagiotis "Panos" D. Sam - was the beloved husband of 48 man; her grandchildren, Ted and beloved father of Debbie and her palis, 85, died Tuesday, July 25, Of your loved one years to Zefe Gikas; Devoted fa - KC Liapopoulos, Lee and Lisa Li - husband John Steinert and 2017 at home surrounded by his ther of Thalia and John Gikas; apopoulos, Nina and George Demetra and her husband family. He was the husband of the Loving grandfather of Anastasia. Xixis, Lissy and Michael Evans George Peppe; dear brother of late Maria (Assimakopoulou) and Tim Gossman. She is also Aryero and her husband Michael Sampalis. Born in Filiatra, Greece, n PaPachronis, mariGo survived by her great-grandchil - Patras; adored grandfather of he was a son of the late Dionisios BROCKTON, MA (from The En - dren, Christos, Markos, Kennett, Christopher, Stephanie, Nicolette and Panagiota (Giouzi) Sampalis. commemorate your loved one in the pages of terprise, published on Jul. 12) – Alex, Oskar, Zoe, Charlie and & George; cherished uncle of Panos immigrated to the United Marigo (Kalivas) Papachronis Lola and by many nieces and many nieces. In lieu of flowers, States in 1968 and worked as a the national herald. Announcements may be passed away peacefully on Tues - nephews. In lieu of flowers, do - donations in the memory of Fo - baker for Dunkin' Donuts until day, July 11, 2017 at the age of nations may be made to the An - tios can be made to the St. 1983. After his retirement, he telephoned or e-mailed to the classified Department. 100 at Hellenic Nursing & Reha - nunciation Greek Orthodox Demetrios Greek Orthodox worked with his sons at Sakis bilitation Center in Canton. Church, 457 Oak St., Brockton church, 41- 47 Wisteria Street, Pizza in Providence. Panos was a Marigo was born on September or the Hellenic Nursing and Re - Perth Amboy, NJ 08861. very proud and generous man, 26, 1916, in Northern Epiros, habilitation Center. and loved spending time and en - Greece. She was one of seven n saFFas, andreW G. tertaining family and friends. He children; Nikos, Kostas, Harry, n PaPaZoGlou, Fotios WALNUT CREEK, CA (from the traveled every year to his home - Moshos, Aglaia, and Antigone. PERTH AMBOY, NJ (from the East Bay Times, published on Jul. town in Greece, where he loved She married Sophocles Papachro - Home News Tribune, published 28) – Andrew G. 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TNH Staff where the agency is based. similar cautions from Bank of on more debt now, with political nancial news agency’s editors refuted, Tsipras said Greece The sale in July came at the Greece Governor Yannis rivals saying Tsipras and his who said that while the bond needs growth and investments ATHENS – Undercutting Prime interest rate of 4.625 percent, Stournaras, a former finance SYRIZA party wanted a show - sale was relatively affordable so it can finally recover from a Minister Alexis Tsipras’ boast more than three times the 1.5 chief for the previous ruling boat to offset plummeting rat - there are reasons to worry. seven-year-long economic and that a 3-billion-euro ($3.53 bil - percent being paid to the coun - New Democracy Conservative- ings after he hit Greeks with an The sale was a test before a austerity crisis and pay back 326 lion) bond sale showed he’s put try’s international creditors, also avalanche of tax hikes and more full-blown market return hope billion euros ($381.93 billion) Greece on the path to recovery including the European Union- austerity. can be realized but the news in three international bailouts. after reneging on anti-austerity European Central Bank-Euro - The IMF is reportedly Velculescu said Greece agency, in an editorial, said, “It Addressing the second of his promises, one of the country’s pean Stability Mechanism shouldn’t test markets with doesn’t mean the Eurozone’s government’s regional growth chief lenders said it was a bad Troika. more cautious than the more debt but make sure it can most flattened economy is on conferences, in the central town idea. The IMF, which said it could Troika over the timing of repay the loans to the creditors course for sustained growth. of Lamia, Tsipras said Greece is The International Monetary join the third bailout if the and its other debt, drawing a RED FLAG heading toward prosperity de - Fund, which took part in two Troika gives Greece debt relief the bond sale and warned sharp rebuke from the govern - “The economy is showing spite indicators that show it’s first bailouts of 240 billion euros – the agency wants to be paid against it. ment. signs of life, growing a bit in the not and with the International ($282.05 billion) but has mostly in full – said it favors a return The IMF also said the capital first quarter, and the govern - Monetary Fund warning its debt stayed out of a third for 86 bil - to international markets with from international markets ment has gotten a tighter grip is unsustainable and more re - lion euros ($101.07 billion) the bailout funds due to run out led coalition that also floated a might improperly be used by the on the budget. But Greece’s forms are needed. Tsipras said he would never seek in the middle of 2018. bond, this one in 2014. government to fund social ben - long-term debt position is still “The goal of growth is con - nor accept and them imposed But the IMF reportedly is IMF officials in Washington efit programs, in violation of dire, and its deeper structural nected to the very existence of more austerity, said the sale was more cautious than the Troika also noted Greece still has many bailout deals to help Tsipras reforms have barely begun. our nation, our national sover - counterproductive, the newspa - over the timing and warned undone reforms after its envoy shore up his sagging ratings. Greece hasn’t yet put its prob - eignty, the prosperity of our peo - per Kathimerini said, citing re - against it, saying the country’s for Greece, Delia Velculescu, A cautionary warning was lems behind it,” it added. ple, our children,” Tsipras said, ports from Washington, DC, debt couldn’t be repaid, echoing said the country’s shouldn’t take also issued by the Bloomberg fi - Embracing policies he once according to Kathinerini. ND Demands Tsipras Explanation over Alleged Venezuela Reachout

Continued from page 1 of the visit were also made pub - and Pappas, given that he spe - lic. cializes in offshore firms, who not find themselves in Caracas “After yesterday’s revealing paid the trip to Venezuela, to talk about vegetables, as the report, it is now clear to all that whether SYRIZA received fund - minister had originally claimed Mr. Artemiou travelled with Mr. ing from either the Venezuelan and was later refuted by Pappas to Caracas, and that Mr. government or businesses, Artemiou, but had a series of Tsipras knew this. As if this were whether Pappas met Khalil in meetings with various represen - not enough, the two of them Venezuela, whether the aircraft tatives of the Chavez govern - travelled in the private jet of the he used belonged to Khalil, ment and business people that businessman Majed Khalil – whether Khalil met members of Pappas, for reasons of his own, who according to the report is the Greek government after Jan - attempted to keep secret,” ND involved in very dark affairs and uary 25, 2015 and the links be - said. has privileged ties with the tween Pappas, Artemiou, and The MPs’ question noted that Maduro regime – to the Khalil. the minister was eventually Caribbean island of Margarita forced to admit knowing and stayed in a luxury resort Artemiou, after the release of a that Khalil owns.” photograph showing Artemiou ND demanded to know the i s

exiting the government head - reason for Artemiou’s visit to the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras s i n quarters on October 10, 2016, Maximos Mansion on October with New Democracy leader i k while he only admitted to the 10, 2016, what expertise Kyriakos Mitsotakis o r

Caracas trip after photographs Artemiou provided to Tsipras in parliament. u e Tourists Flock to Greece in Record Numbers, But Why Do They Come?

By Andy Dabilis Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Pericles and treasures around the country. such as Exarchia – an anarchist TNH Staff and the giants of ancient times “I really liked Olympia, the set - haven filled with philosopher and who brought the world math, ting,” Elizabeth Proust said. leftist coffee shops and cafes – ATHENS - Greece is expecting a medicine, theater, science and so Another Australian, a 22-year- and the techno-area of Gazi, record 30 million tourists this much more, the history that old who gave only his name as booming at night with clubs and year and some of these summer draws people as much as frolick - Ben, a welder, traveling with a fe - the young. nights it seems like they’re all on ing on the beaches, even if Athens male companion, Jess, 20, was Ben said he was aware of the the Acropolis walkway, passing for many tourists is a quick hit on his second visit, while she was protest and riots and troubles but by the Acropolis Museum, passing before heading off to the islands. on her first. “I love it,” she said of said, “We just stay vigilant. under the Acropolis, walking Tourism brings in as much as Athens, “I love the vibe.” There’s a lot here not up to our through the nearby Plaka and just 18 percent of the country’s Gross Indeed, Athens, while not a standards, kind of ghetto-like,” he enjoying the magic that keeps Domestic Product (GDP) of some charming place with so many added. But they, too, were passing them coming year after year, crisis 167.07 billion euros ($194.6 bil - grey, cement buildings, graffiti, through Athens on the way to or no economic crisis. lion) and is the biggest revenue unkempt sites and with little pub - Greece’s main attraction: the is - The usual lures are there: engine, along with the world’s lic art, still has a buzz for the lands. They went to Santorini, many of the world’s best beaches, biggest shipping fleet, which pays young in funky neighborhoods Mykonos and Ios. “I wanted to islands that attract celebrities and Mary Proust (L) has come to Greece from Perth, Australia three almost no taxes. such as Exarchia – an anarchist see something different,” he said. the rich and famous for azure- times and this year took her daughter, Elizabeth, as part of a There’s some worry too haven filled with philosopher and A pair of 18-year-old Okla - blue clear waters and remote cruise package. Here in front of the Acropolis Museum. among tourism officials, hotels, leftist coffee shops and cafes – homans, John Stacey and his places of serenity as well as party- restaurants and other businesses and the techno-area of Gazi, friend Austin Douglah, were on hardy places like Mykonos and from Perth, Australia, was outside She said they weren’t deterred that depend on visitors spending, booming at night with clubs and their first visit, a trip courtesy of Zakynthos, which is trying to live the museum with her daughter, by the country’s crisis nor images which last year showed disap - the young. a gift from Douglah’s father, who down a reputation for hooligan - Elizabeth, 30, a public servant, of protests and riots, even though pointing results, a trend continu - Ben said he was aware of the was with them. ism and violence and drunken passing through Greece as part of their visit coincided with an an - ing this year so far, some data protest and riots and troubles but Stacey, a student at the Uni - brawling, or the cliffs of Santorini, a cruise that also took them to archist rampage down Athens’ showed. said, “We just stay vigilant. versity of Oklahoma, said he was the world’s favorite island this Rhodes, Corfu, Crete and most popular shopping street, a Adding to the anxiety is that There’s a lot here not up to our wowed by what he saw. “The his - year. Mykonos. demonstration against a court re - the numbers from January-May standards, kind of ghetto-like,” he tory is amazing … Delphi was But they come for other rea - Mary was on her third visit, jecting release of a woman linked – before the summer bump – added. But they, too, were passing beautiful,” he said. “I like Greek sons too: Adam Bridges, 29, from having come 40 years earlier and to a terrorist group. showed an increase of only 2.4 through Athens on the way to history.” Doughlan, who was a town outside Boston, came with then five years ago, and said she “Somehow Greece is trying to percent, the Bank of Greece re - Greece’s main attraction: the is - taken by Greek history when he his wife and volunteers from the is drawn by the history unfolding recover and Greeks have so much ported, with Americans dropping lands. They went to Santorini, was young, said “I loved the mu - Salvation Army to help at a before her. “We don’t have any,” pride in where they come from, 18.2 percent and their spending Mykonos and Ios. “I wanted to seums,” which are far from danc - refugee camp before taking time she joked, noting Australia’s you can see it in them, they are down 30.8 percent. see something different,” he said. ing college girls on bar tops on to see the sights of Athens. “There young life span. so proud to be Greeks.” That’s all math gibberish to That’s all math gibberish to Mykonos. are people we know who came The world owes so much to It was twilight and flocks of people looking for a good time, people looking for a good time, Nearby, Kimon Doukoumet - here to work with refugees and Greece, she said. “There’s so tourists were silhouetted by a fad - or to see archaeological sites like or to see archaeological sites like zidis, 40, and Effie Gian - we wanted to,” he told The Na - much of what we are and what ing sun under the Parthenon, glid - Ancient Olympia, Delphi, or Ancient Olympia, Delphi, or nakopoulou, 28, both molecular tional Herald. we do that came from here. It’s ing past the Herod Atticus The - places such as the National Ar - places such as the National Ar - scientists working for a Greek Mary Proust, 60, a teacher been brilliant.” ater and places where once stood chaeological Museum in Athens chaeological Museum in Athens pharmaceutical company said the and treasures around the country. tourists are enjoying a side of “I really liked Olympia, the set - Greece many Greeks can’t be - ting,” Elizabeth Proust said. cause they don’t have the money. This Week in Greek History Another Australian, a 22-year- “It’s great to walk around the old who gave only his name as Acropolis but not 365 days a By Eraklis Diamataris basketball team representing his country at with his guidance the team repeated as Ben, a welder, traveling with a fe - year,” said Doukoumetzidis, who the 2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games. champions in 2013. In his seven years with male companion, Jess, 20, was has worked in Germany and auGust 7: On this day in 1982, Greek Spanoulis never turned out for the Maver - the club, Spanoulis has become Olympiacos’ on his second visit, while she was Switzerland. He and his partner basketball player Vassilis Spanoulis was icks and returned to Maroussi for one last greatest ever player and has cemented his on her first. “I love it,” she said of may not see the sights of their born in Larissa. The point guard/shooting season in 2004-05 and guided Maroussi to place as Greece’s greatest point guard since Athens, “I love the vibe.” homeland too much longer. guard began his career in Larissa with Gym - having the second-best record in the regular the legendary Nick Galis retired in 1995. Indeed, Athens, while not a “We’re strongly thinking of nastikos Larissas and Keravnos Larissas, season. He is married to model Olympia Chop - charming place with so many leaving the country,” he said, with where he was featured in the Larissa junior His eye-popping performances for sonidou and they have four children to - grey, cement buildings, graffiti, opportunities so much better for league from 1994 until 1999. In 1999 Maroussi and leading them to new heights gether, with a fifth on the way. The best unkempt sites and with little pub - young, educated Greeks else - Spanoulis signed a professional contract and brought Spanoulis a transfer offer from man at his wedding was fellow Greek bas - lic art, still has a buzz for the where. “We see no way out of the turned out for the men’s senior team of Panathinaikos Athens BC that he accepted, ketball player Nikos Zisis. young in funky neighborhoods crisis.” Gymnastikos Larissas for the 1999-00 and where he played for the 2005-06 season. In 2000-01 seasons in Greece’s A2 League. Fol - his contract, Spanoulis put a low buyout auGust 10: On this day in 1913, the clause and that figure was met by the Hous - Treaty of Bucharest was signed in Bucharest, ton Rockets, who wanted to compliment Romania, thus formally closing the Second veterans Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming with Balkan War. The treaty was signed by Bul - UN Says Cyprus’ Rivals a young point guard. He took a severe pay garia, Romania, Serbia, Greece, and Mon - cut to go to the Rockets instead of continu - tenegro. Bulgaria felt that they were not ing with Panathinaikos. In his rookie season adequately compensated for their victories Must Return to Bargaining with the Rockets, Spanoulis averaged only in the First Balkan War. The Greeks acquired 8.8 minutes per game and appeared off of Thessaloniki, Macedonia as a whole, and the bench 31 times. During the first season, Thrace, something that did not sit well with Continued from page 1 “hostage” while criticizing EU Spanoulis had a falling out with his head the Bulgarians. Resenting the ¬¬¬¬al - member states for supporting coach, Jeff Van Gundy, over his low game liance of Greece and Serbia, the Bulgarians Cypriot President Nicos Anas - each other over his country – time. After one season with the Rockets, declared war on them to begin the Second tasiades and Turkish-Cypriot which refuses to recognize Spanoulis was traded to the San Antonio Balkan War. The Bulgarians were soundly leader Mustafa Akinci fell apart Cyprus, a member of the bloc Spurs on July 12, 2007 for a second-round repelled by Greek and Serbian forces and when Turkey refused to remove that Ankara has been trying to draft pick and the rights to Luis Scola of the Greeks and Serbs launched successful its standing 35,000-strong army join for more than a decade. He Argentina. counterattacks against Bulgaria, claiming under condition and said it said the EU had “double stan - Spanoulis was never featured for the much of its territory. Concurrently, the Ot - wanted the right to militarily in - dards” against non-members. Spurs and his contract was terminated fol - toman Empire sought to regain lost territo - tervene when it wanted, and as Mogherini did not comment lowing his desire to return to Greece to look ries from the First Balkan War and repelled it did in an unlawful 1974 inva - on the Crans-Montana confer - after his ill mother and to play for Panathi - the Bulgarians from the East and retook the sion which split the island. ence but told the Turkish minis - naikos. Spanoulis with Panathinaikos would key city of Adrianople, which today is still GOING NOWHERE FAST ters that “the European Union lowing the completion of the ’00-’01 season, win the Greek League four times, the Greek a part of Turkey and is known as Edirne. Celik and Cavusoglu, in Brus - is a family and member states Spanoulis signed a four-year deal with Cup three times, the Triple Crown, and the Greece, which was under the leadership sels for high-level talks with EU do well to show solidarity,” slap - Maroussi, of the A1 division, where he EuroLeague. Despite all the successes and of Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos, in - Foreign Affairs Commissioner ping him down. played from 2001-2005. In his first season fame he achieved at Panathinaikos, on July creased its geographical area from 64,790 Federica Mogherini and En - “It is not only the Cyprus is - with the club, Spanoulis lead Maroussi to 11, 2010 Spanoulis stunned the Greek and km2 to 108,610 km2 and doubled its pop - largement Chief Johannes sue that makes it difficult to their first ever Greek Cup final, where they European basketball community by officially ulation from 2.6 to 4.6 million people as a Hahn, blamed Cyprus and called imagine an opening of further lost. Spanoulis won the Greek League’s Best signing for Panathinaikos’ eternal enemy, result of its victory in the Second Balkan on reporters to ask the Italian chapters,” she said in another Young Player award for the 2002-03 season. Olympiacos BC on a 7.2 million euro con - War. Greece annexed most parts of Epirus commissioner “who was produc - swipe at Turkey, where Presi - Due to his outstanding performances for tract over three years. At Olympiacos, and to the northwest and Macedonia (including tive and who was unproductive dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan Maroussi and his clear upward trajectory, out of Dimitris Diamantidis’ shadow at Thessaloniki and Kavala). This essentially at Crans-Montana”. gained near-dictatorial powers Spanoulis was selected in the second round Panathinaikos, Spanoulis became captain closed off the Aegean Sea to the Bulgarians He said the Greek Cypriot in the wake of a failed coup of the 2004 NBA Draft by the Dallas Mav - and guided the then-young and inexperi - and would assure Greek dominance of the side had been “unproductive” against him in July 2016 and ericks. Later that summer Spanoulis was enced team to the EuroLeague title in 2012 Aegean Sea. Crete was also notably annexed and that it can no longer hold wants the death penalty, which able to secure a place on the Greek national in a massive upset of the odds. Furthermore, and formally brought into Greece. Turkey’s accession talks is forbidden in the EU. 8 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 5-11, 2017

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unpublished. As a Greek-American I want e It’s a wonder Greece wasn’t invaded when Nikos Toskas – to thank you for keeping us in - G now the Citizens Protection Minister – was a General in the Hellenic Army because he is rather soft when it comes to dealing with tough guys, or those who think they are. COMMENTARY It is, as Greeks say, a common secret that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ ruling SYRIZA Party is riddled with anarchist and terrorist sympathizers who are even more dangerous than the 144 Parliament Members he orders around. Two Wishes: a Staggering People & an Unknown Future With his popularity plummeting after repeatedly reneging on anti-austerity promises he made, to the detriment of the workers, pensioners, and poor, Tsipras is trying to reel back in By Nic os A. Rolandis the dangerous elements that backed SYRIZA in some fashion Special to The National Herald before turning on him: the hooded anarchists and terror groups who actually target the establishment symbols he embraced. On January 28, 1956, the U.N. Secre - The last line of defense, after riot police in Athens who reg - British Government proposed to tary-Gen - ularly have skirmishes with Molotov Cocktail-tossing anarchists, Archbishop Makarios, through eral Anto - is Toskas, who has the authority to go after them but didn’t, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox- nio despite repeated incidents – including the trashing of 67 store - Boyd, the “Harding Plan,” which Guterres, at fronts on Athens’ main shopping boulevard of Ermou Street in provided for self-determination Crans Mon - protest of a court that wouldn’t release a 29-year-old woman in 10 years, with a minimal in - tana, said tied to terror groups. volvement of the Turkish Cypri - Switzer - Toskas said he was “systematically identifying” them, but ots. It was a unique opportunity land, told didn’t explain why if that’s so none have been arrested or for Cyprus. Makarios, however leaders charged. It is because they’re not being identified and won’t be rejected it, he wanted to im - Anastasi - prosecuted because they are the stray children of SYRIZA whom prove it. Lennox-Boyd stood up ades and the party backs to carry out an agenda Tsipras won’t, in a po - and told him tersely: “God save Akinci after litical fashion. your people.” the collapse Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis said the government was ig - Sixty-one years on, in the of the noring “lawlessness” in the city and the major rival New Democ - early hours of the July 7 of this Cyprus racy Conservatives said SYRIZA was giving cover to Rouvikonas, year, after Cyprus had gone in talks: “I a group which got into the courtyard of Parliament but none of the meantime through very hard wish the whom were arrested even though they were standing right times, adventures, a coup d’état, best to all o

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explaining why no crackdown is being conducted, despite re - Antonio Guterres, at Crans Mon - A South.” peated attacks, with even riot police being targeted with Molo - tana, Switzerland, told leaders tov Cocktails and other objects. In an unconvincing excuse, he Anastasiades and Akinci after eral solution or one of the other I set forth here below, in a velvet divorce between Greek said they weren’t prosecuted because no one got hurt. the collapse of the Cyprus talks: eventualities, Turkey will insist raw and realistic language, the Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, “There was no violence from either side, which is why the “I wish the best to all Cypriots, and will have a role in Cyprus. various eventualities, in case the including the return of territory order to release them was given, with the agreement of the North and South.” On account of our sins and blun - last efforts for a federal solution to the Greek Cypriots. In such a parliamentary spokesman,” Toskas said, referring to another So, we have two wishes ad - ders of the 1960-1974 era, with are doomed to failure. What will case, the existence of two states SYRIZA “yes” man, Nikos Voutsis, who ordered them released. dressed to the people of Cyprus. the coup d’état at the pinnacle, follow after the lapse of some on the island of Cyprus will be These crazy shenanigans go on because they are allowed to The difference is that in the sec - Turkey has managed to justify time, once a revolution for free - agreed and the hydrocarbon re - and Toskas’ and Tsipras’ and SYRIZA’s mollycoddling of crimi - ond wish, “North” and “South” its own sins and so nobody ever dom has been excluded because serves will also be equitably di - nals is empowering the political bandits to go on the rampage appears, which was not there in condemned her. it will clearly lead to disaster vided. Such a solution will of when they want, knowing they have immunity for prosecution, the first wish. The reason for • Greece: It wants to help and the so-called campaigns for course cause very big confronta - even if they destroy half of downtown Athens and put shop - this addition is a sad story of but for the past 60 years it can - enlightenment of the interna - tions and objections on the keepers and Greek workers on the bricks. the Greeks and Turks of Cyprus, not effectively deliver. At times, tional community are, in prac - Greek Cypriot side, because a We fear that an anarchist incident in which someone does who during all these years, had its advice was constructive but tical terms, tantamount to a big Greek signature will be used to get hurt or killed on Toskas’ watch may come soon. Toskas has been chasing what would be on other occasions its guidance zero? divide Cyprus into two parts. to go. better for their own benefit, but or intervention was unproduc - 1st Eventuality: Partition 4th Eventuality: This may eventually they achieved the op - tive. The coup d’état of 1974 is and strong efforts for recogni - one day occur if we are not ex - posite. Until they reached “the also debited to it. In the remote tion. Ankara will speed up its tremely cautious, even if one of Ronald and Donald bottom of the ladder of evil,” as part of the Eastern Mediter - political and diplomatic engines the other solutions is initially Greek poet Costis Palamas had ranean where Cyprus lies, to this direction. The effort will adopted. It is nightmarish. It is put it. Greece can exercise some influ - be to partition Cyprus and cre - highly unlikely but not impossi - Perhaps the most commonly used word to describe the Many Cypriots wonder what ence not of real substance. Fur - ate a new recognized state on ble, because Turkey was proven Trump Administration nowadays – not only by gleeful detractors today's position is. In which di - thermore, it cannot cover the basis of today’s occupation to be a domineering, unpre - but also by sympathetic supporters – is “chaos.” rection are we sailing? Could we Cyprus in an effective manner line. There will be additional dictable and dangerous country. Derived from the Ancient Greek “haos” – the word chaos as recommence a dialogue for the in the military field. large Turkish and other invest - It is the possible intention of used in our society today refers to a state of utter disarray. reunification of the country? • Israel and the Arab Coun - ments and Famagusta will be re- Turkey to occupy the whole of Considering the frenetic pace at which the Administration And if we do so, what could be tries: I shall be very brief. No erected. Turkey will be the Big Cyprus in the remote future, by has proceeded since Inauguration Day a little over six months the outcome? How can one ad - country in the world, irrespec - Brother. I believe that in such a using its strong military ma - ago, exhibiting the unpredictability on which the president dress issues like security, the tive of friendships, is prepared case Ankara will claim, possibly chine. Such a detestable out - prides himself, it is difficult to counter the argument that life Turkish army, guarantees, the to sacrifice its own children for through military means, a large come will probably cause a in and around the Oval Office these days is chaotic. territorial adjustments (Mor - the sake of another country. It stake in the hydrocarbons. Greco Turkish war, a collapse of Not least of which fortifying that argument is last week’s phou), properties, settlers, the cannot justify such a sacrifice to The Greek Cypriots will of the Southeastern wing of NATO, events: the arrival of Anthony Scaramucci as director of com - “large” and “small” vetoes of the its own people. Unless a major course react strongly with the an earthquake in Europe, a re - munications, which escalated his longstanding feud with Chief Turkish Cypriots, the four free - national interest is involved. help of Greece and other coun - action by Israel and other coun - of Staff Reince Priebus, promptly resulting in the latter’s ouster. doms for the Turkish citizens, • Europe: It can offer some tries, in order to avert the defi - tries. However, a great lot of Then, incoming Chief of Staff John Kelly, unequivocally rejecting virgin birth and many others. institutional assistance but its nite partition, which will result wisdom and caution is needed. previous arrangements whereby Scaramucci reported directly There may be another at - effective involvement is doubt - in a Turkish political, military What Turkey did back in 1974 to the president, established his authority as the individual to tempt after the presidential elec - ful. After all, Europe has proved and economic hegemony over was also impermissible. But it whom all staff reports. That, in turn, resulted in Scaramucci’s tions – before the elections any time and again, through its de - 37% of Cyprus. It is difficult to did it, taking advantage of the departure as well. efforts will be aborted by the cisions, that its interests with predict the outcome. prevailing circumstances, our It is true that for the most part, at least to this point, Trump’s many ambitions for the top job. Turkey are predominantly taken 2nd Eventuality: Annexa - many mistakes and the weak - presidency has been more erratic in terms of personnel changes Of course, the question remains: into account. It should also be tion of the occupied territory by ness of Hellenism at that time. than those of his predecessors of recent memory, such as Barack Can national issues be resolved noted that Cyprus can block the Turkey (37% of Cyprus). Turkey The two wishes, that of Alan Obama and George W. Bush. But if we delve back a little further, after the lapse of half a century? accession of Turkey to Europe, annexed in 1939 the district of Lennox Boyd and the other of to the presidency of Ronald Reagan, it might surprise some to When the train for a solution as long as Turkey wishes such Alexandretta (Iskenderun), Guterres are floating at present recall that his administration was rather chaotic too. was at our station we refused an accession. which used to belong to Syria. in the blue seas of Cyprus. I pray The chaos back then began even before Reagan took office. to embark, because some people • The British will be the Other annexations took place in that the God of Cyprus and at In the summer of 1980, after Reagan had shored up the Re - did not want it. Now we are des - masters of what goes on behind our area in recent years: The the same time our wise actions publican nomination, President Ford approached him about perately running after it. the scenes. They will supervise Golan Heights of Syria and the (The God alone is not enough) being his running mate, but in an expanded role that would ef - But anyway, what will hap - and follow up everything, with West Bank of Jordan (by Israel) will lead to peace and prosperity fectively render them “co-presidents.” As the Republican Con - pen if a federal solution proves their military bases and their and Crimea of Ukraine (by Rus - and avert any negative out - vention proceeded, en route to formalizing Reagan’s nomina - unachievable? What will be the wider interests in the area as sia). Turkey has sent out many come. tion, upon further reflection of the former president’s proposal, future of this beautiful island? the main objectives. signals towards this direction in Reagan rejected it. On the convention floor, Reagan surprised How will the main players re - • And Cyprus? The island recent years. In such a case, the Mr. Rolandis was the Cypriot the world by declaring his running mate to be none other than act? with a history and civilization whole occupied Cyprus territory Government’s Foreign his strongest primary rival, George H.W. Bush. • Turkey: My opinion has of 10,000 years, which has re - will be incorporated into the Minister (1978-83) and Min - President Nixon and his secretary of state Henry Kissinger, been and still is, that in the af - cently acquired a potential trunk and become part of ister of Commerce, Industry & who with Ford were remnants of the Watergate-era Republicans, termath of the 1960 treaties dowry of billions of dollars due Turkey. It will end up as one of Tourism (1998-2003). He was visited Reagan at the White House. He greeted them politely (Turkish army in Cyprus, guar - to natural gas? (which may its districts, probably with a spe - also a member of the Cyprus and heard them out, but did not infuse them into his perennial antees) and especially after prove a blessing or a curse). cial status. Turkey will also House of Representatives think tank. Reagan did appoint a Nixon man, General Alexander Turkey won the war in 1974, What will happen to our coun - claim part of the hydrocarbons. (1991-96) and chairman of Haig, as secretary of state, but within a year, Haig was gone, whether we end up with a fed - try? 3rd Eventuality: An agreed the Liberal Party (1986-98). replaced by George Shultz. Reagan’s first secretary of the interior, James Watt, was plagued with controversy and scandal. He was not long for the administration. Only 69 days into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot. • Mail Delivery service is available from • Classified services available with a wide The bullet, as we learned much later, missed his heart by only Services to our readers: coast to coast. 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Climate Change Recently the Greek-American turn of any of these of His Beatitude Pa - and edits, adds the occasional media picked up a story from properties to the Pa - triarch Theophilos fabrication and passes it on as some Israeli newspapers that the triarchate. As by circulating a news to support its agenda. The With the torrid inhabited since Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of noted, many Israeli forged letter claim - mainstream media, e.g., the ma - American summer colonial times had Jerusalem “secretly” sold land. politicians periodi - ing Theophilos jor broadcast networks, Reuters, in full stride, most to be abandoned as The Greek- American media not cally demand their would repossess the UPI, BBC and even the hated Al - Americans think they will disappear only repeated the articles with - outright confisca - Knesset if he were Jazeera employ tens of thou - about climate in the next major out any effort to verify their ac - tion. Accordingly, elected. The same sands of reporters who gather change in terms of storm. In Arizona, curacy but added gratuitous neg - the Patriarchate Israel Times news - the news where it happens, of - a trip to a lake or for days, the tem - ative and false comments about made the decision paper published the ten at great personal risk, and ocean to cool off. perature was so Patriarch Theophilos. to sell its legal letter; the New York report it straight. When they Few of us bother to high that air travel A little bit of research, a few claims to powerful Post republished (rarely) get it wrong, they own differentiate be - had to be sus - questions that any responsible business interests by amb. Patrick n. and then wrote a up and apologize. The “new me - tween climate pended. Earth - journalist should have asked, who had the politi - theros truly vicious editor - dia” feed off the mainstream change and a quakes, though still would have shown that the orig - cal clout and the ial accusing the Pa - press, print what they want and change in the by ProF. dan of low intensity, inal articles were plants by deep pockets to win Special to triarch of anti-Semi - never apologize for their fake weather. GeorGakas have become more crooked financial interests in Is - in court. In effect, it The National Herald tism. Some news. A change in the frequent. rael which had attempted to sell was selling a claim Greek-American We should all know that weather, however Special to A major, new properties they did not own and that the Patriarchate could never media, again without checking, tweets and blogs or the rantings severe, is tempo - The National Herald factor in the climate had been foiled by the Patriar - win and at least recover some joined the mob. of talk show hosts are rarely rary. Weather change at hand is chate’s legal team. The plots of value rather than nothing. We In fairness, it is not just the news. We are often, as in the changes are linked to the four the ever-expanding human pop - land in question had been seized should note that these business Greek-American media who al - case of the Patriarchate, duped seasons and certain regions ulation. The planet must now by force from the Patriarchate by interests believed the Patriar - low themselves to be duped; we by malicious false stories that in - have predictable periods of in - feed, clothe, and house 7.5 bil - the Israeli Government over the chate’s legal case to be so solid all do. Virtually all the famous tend harm or seek material gain. creased hurricanes, torrential lion human beings. In 1900, the years since 1948. To avoid inter - that they were prepared to pay “new media” such as Breitbart Even national governments are rains, or fierce winds. These are total world population was national criticism over expropri - the full amount asked and take and Counterpunch on the right not above the practice – in fact, recurring phenomena primarily “only” 1 billion. At the time of ation of Church property, the Is - on the claims without recourse. and Buzzfeed and the Colbert many are the worst offenders. based on geographic location the European discovery of the raeli authorities forced the The losers then planted a re - Report on left do no original Russia attempted to manipulate and local peculiarities. Americas, the number was 112 Patriarchate to agree to 100 port in the Israel Times to em - sourcing. Wikileaks, at least, American public opinion by Climate change occurs when million. The only debatable year+ leases for the land. Pow - barrass the Patriarchate into ac - makes no secret of their sources; spreading hacked emails inter - established patterns are perma - question is not if, but to what erless, the Church acquiesced. quiescing with the fraud. the they steal the information. They spersed with fake news, timing nently altered. Temperatures degree, humans are contributors Today many important structures New York Post republished the have no actual reporters cover - the release for maximum effect. and ocean levels may rise or fall to the climate change now in of the Israeli State such as the Times story and Greek-American ing stories. They only gather sto - Recently, Saudi Arabia set up a dramatically. Numerous species progress. Knesset, the King David Hotel, media then reported the story as ries from the unfairly maligned “PAC” that runs a 30-second ad disappear. The shapes of conti - The depletion of the ozone the Israeli Prime Minister’s office fact without checking it and in - “mainstream” media, sift them every 15 minutes 18 hours a day nents alter. layer was caused by chlorofluo - and the National Museum sit on sinuating corruption on the part for the articles that provoke the on MSNBC and several internet Contemporary events rocarbons, chemicals mainly Church “leaseholds.” Israeli of the Patriarch. Readers may re - most drooling from their self-se - providers that trashes its neigh - strongly suggest we are in the used for refrigeration. Once the politicians frequently demand member an almost identical in - lected readers and repeat them. bor Qatar. A friend in the busi - process of climate change. The world stopped wholesale use of that the Israeli State simply con - cident in 2005. Israeli settler in - Even Fox News mostly gathers ness estimates those must cost past ten years have been the these chemicals, the ozone layer fiscate these landmark proper - terests tried to block the election news from other sources, crops more than $10 million a month. warmest in recorded history. began to fill in. Although it will ties. Mindful of international op - There are thousands of other ex - This July, a trillion-ton iceberg take another 50 years to return probrium, the Israeli amples, too many for this short broke off the Antarctic ice ledge. to normal, the ozone experience Government continues to regard article. About the size of Delaware with exemplifies a climate problem them legally as leaseholds but We had expected that the volume twice that of Lake Erie, generated by humans that is be - treats them as if it owned them. new media, made possible by the breakaway iceberg is one of ing solved by humans. In like However, recent events up - the explosive advances in com - the largest on record. Coral reefs manner, the London smog, still ended this injustice. The Jewish munications technology, would around the world are dying and murderous in the 1940s, was National Fund (a quasi-state en - bring knowledge and informa - the balance of marine life is eliminated by a change in fuel. tity) decided to sell the land it tion to better the lives of mil - shifting significantly. Our de - Carbon dioxide in America’s air controlled under leasehold but lions. Instead, the bad guys have pleted ozone layer dilutes less was reduced by altering the not title. The Patriarchate sued figured out how to use it destroy of the sun’s potentially danger - chemistry of gasoline. to prevent the sale. In the the lives of millions. Those who ous ultraviolet rays. The number Many present climatic nega - process, it appears that the JNF deliberately pick up the fake of endangered species is rapidly tives were caused by fossil-fuel sale turned out to be a fraudu - news and exploit it for fun or multiplying. technologies rooted in the In - lent transaction. The details are profit should consider the con - The magnitude and nature of dustrial Revolution. To continue a bit murky but suffice it to say sequences of their actions. any climate change varies. The to support this harmful mode of that the buyers defrauded the five massive changes in the past production is suicidal. Innova - JNF to the tune of $40 million. The Hon. Ambassador Theros is The JNF (i.e., the Israeli govern - president of the U.S.-Qatar Busi - ment) then demanded the Patri - ness Council. He served in the archate sell the land to the JNF U.S. Foreign Service for 36 for only $4.5 million, i.e., the years, mostly in the Middle East, amount left over from the failed and was American Ambassador deal. to Qatar from 1995 to 1998. He At that point, the Patriarchate also directed the State Depart - considered its options. Under no ment’s Counter-Terrorism set of circumstances would the Office, and holds numerous U.S. Israeli state ever permit the re - His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos Government decorations.

LETTER FROM ATHENS Modern Greek Theater Gone Bad: Varoufakis vs. Tsipras

Having already proved him - guys and he went bond sale, Varo - the insulting celebrations.” self embarrassment-proof after after them with a ufakis was there Varoufakis has been a buga - are instructive. Approximately tive technologies and new bio - reneging on virtually every anti- vengeance when again, a bete noire boo for Tsipras, with his book 443 million years ago at the logical research have provided austerity promise and pledges SYRIZA won. and one-man belittling the Premier for reneg - End-Ordovician Period, a severe us an impressive tool bag for a to protect the most vulnerable Tsipras didn’t. He Greek Chorus in ing on anti-austerity promises ice age killed 60-70% of all ex - more productive environment in Greek society and “Crush the wimped out after the wings remind - and betraying SYRIZA’s alleged isting species and reshaped the free of dangerous chemical Oligarchy!” Prime Minister and six months of tough ing the Premier of principles with all 144 of the geography of all continents. In emissions and production styles Looney Left leader Alexis “The talks that concluded his hypocrisy. party’s Members of Parliament the Late Devonian period, 350 that feed climate change. Why Great Reneger” Tsipras isn’t with the lenders Varoufakis pointed following the Premier’s orders million years ago, 70% of all liv - resurrect the coal industry, likely to be very damaged by forcing him to take out that Tsipras how to vote in opposition to the ing species again perished. Even when you can fund solar power? caustic missives from his former a third bailout, for had condemned platform that got them elected. more devastating for the planet That’s like using wax candles or finance chief, Yanis “Die Hard” 86 billion euros and New Democracy Varoufakis’ post added: “Why was the climate change 250 mil - gas for light when electricity is Varoufakis, who, essentially, in more austerity, and by andy premier Antonis do I refuse to be impressed by the lion years ago in the Permian- available. a new book, describes his for - squeeze out Varo - dabilis Samaras for doing news of Greece’s return to the Triassic age. Massive volcanic Climate change does not oc - mer boss as a lying, backstab - ufakis, who had put the same and markets? It is because the Greek eruptions in Siberia produced cur in a matter of years or even bing, hypocritical, power-mad, together a nutty Special to claiming at the state and the Greek banks remain severe global warming that decades, but at a certain point, delusionary. With all due disre - plan for a parallel The National Herald time that the move deeply insolvent. And, their re - wiped out 95% of all living unchecked change becomes ir - spect. currency and take would only benefit turn to the money markets is a species, including insects. reversible. That doesn’t mean Tsipras was enamored of the Greece out of the Eurozone, and foreign banks and investors. harbinger of the next terrible Two hundred million years the end of the planet, only life economist/blogger before win - into certain destruction. But he “The Tsipras government to - phase of Greece’s crisis, rather ago, in the Triassic-Jurassic age, as we know it. Our national and ning election in January, 2015 had flair. day is simply rolling over pre - than a cause for celebration”. 75% of all species were lost due international agenda on climate and brought him on board to In his book, Adults in the cisely the same bond that the Varoufakis said before win - to multiple massive volcanic change can take a page from wrangle with the country’s own - Room, Varoufakis has been Samaras-Venizelos-Stournaras ning power Tsipras was schem - eruptions. Some 65 million Hippocrates. First, we must do ers, the European Union, Euro - throwing sand in Tsipras’ face government issued in 2014,” ing to get rid of Stournaras, who years ago, during the Creta - not harm. Then, we must at - pean Central Bank, European and the Prime Minister, who Varoufakis wrote, referring to served Samaras as finance chief ceous-Tertiary age, after a giant tempt to cure what harm we Stability Mechanism, and Inter - likes to hide behind ministers former PASOK leader Evangelos and was on the SYRIZA hit list. asteroid landed in Mexico, there have already done. Finally, we national Monetary Fund. who do the talking for him, was Venizelos and then finance min - Varoufakis claimed Tsipras was a wave of volcanic erup - must seek means to prevent They’d put the screws to for - being mocked at every turn be - ister Yannis Stournaras, who is said he would get rid of tions in India. Dinosaurs and harm. mer governments, forcing harsh fore he finally decided to speak now the Bank of Greece Gover - Stournaras one way or the other many other species were wiped Climate control is not simply austerity measures in return for out, albeit obliquely, against the nor. even it meant “kicking and out. The planet as we know it a national challenge. It’s a plan - two bailouts of 240 billion euros man he ordained to lead the “This is a remarkable U-turn shouting” to oust him without emerged from that change. etary concern. A modest but ($282.05 billion) to prop up an fight against the enemies of by Mr. Tsipras and his minis - revealing how that would hap - Although we have not had positive step of international co - economy brought to ruin by SYRIZA. ters,” Varoufakis cracked a few pen since the Premier didn’t catastrophic volcanic activity, el - operation regarding climate is generations of New Democracy Tsipras is in a fix now that hours after Tsipras said some of have the power to remove the ements common to past epochs the Paris Agreement of last year Capitalists and PASOK Anti-So - even Ray Donovan couldn’t get his initial hirings, in a shot at bank leader. of climate change are visible in ratified by 153 nations. All of cialists going wild on spending him out of. Varoufakis has Varoufakis, were a “big mis - New Democracy wants an in - today’s world. Already rising them pledged to fight climate and packing payrolls with charged the parallel currency take.” vestigation of this lunacy it water levels will result in pre - change by means appropriate to flunkies in return for votes. plan he devised to take Greece Varoufakis replied: “Either I won’t get and how it affected dictable storms virtually drown - their nation. President Trump Tsipras and his SYRIZA party out of the Eurozone was pre - was the right choice to spear - negotiations with the Troika and ing numerous islands world - withdrawing us from that agree - were going to end that and sented to the Premier, who said head the ‘collision’ with the how close Greece came to leav - wide. Inland states like ment has lowered American spread a Leftist revolution it wasn’t before it turned out it Troika of Greece’s lenders be - ing the Eurozone. Bangladesh that are in a flood prestige and influence. The throughout Europe (they didn’t was, courtesy of another cause my plans were convinc - Varoufakis, tongue firmly in plain may be obliterated. Respi - United States should be leading get the memo even Cuba was SYRIZA minister verifying what ing, or my plans were not con - cheek, said he wouldn’t mind a ratory diseases are skyrocketing. efforts to combat negative cli - turning toward Capitalism). Varoufakis was saying. vincing and, thus, I was the probe and suggested a special The long-term effects of oil spills mate change, not dropping out. Varoufakis, who’s never This could be a miniseries wrong choice,” he wrote in a let - court or committee or even a and uranium accidents plague passed a mirror he didn’t look once The Walking Dead, which ter to The Guardian. military court so that “papers many regions. Prof. Georgakas is Director of into to admire himself and was is the other name for SYRIZA, The Greek business newspa - can be placed on the table.” A glimpse of future problems the Greek American Studies a self-proclaimed game theory finally ends, and even more ex - per Naftemporiki said that Varo - Then he can write a sequel: became visible in the United Project at Queens College – expert – it should have been citing than the Hatfields vs. Mc - ufakis also called on Tsipras to No Adults in the Room. States this year. Small islands in CUNY and Consulting Editor of Game of Thrones – was the Coys. “Either apologize to Mr. Sama - Louisiana and South Carolina, CINEASTE magazine. point man to take on the bad After Tsipras approved a ras and Mr. Stournaras or cease [email protected] 10 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 5-11, 2017 A Primer: it’s Been Six Months, What Has President Trump Accomplished Thus Far?

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A wall by itself is not a the long run, we not have any fund - eral agency heads responsible nationwide. you might want to cut out this panacea, but taken together column if you are reading it in with other measures is a good our print edition, or print it from start. Besides, any logical person your computer if you’re reading should be able to conclude that ANALYSIS it on our website. In fact, you a wall is not a KEEP OUT! sign can fold the piece of paper in to all foreigners, just to tres - your pocket and keep it with passers. you, ready to use as a counter - Even more importantly, With Priebus Gone, is that Better or Worse for Trump? argument to the bile spewed by Trump signed another immigra - the haters. tion EO, one that focuses on NEIL GORSUCH stronger vetting before visas of By Dr. Constantinos E. portunity to exploit an oppo - duty to serve his country. But he power to keep him from winning Even if all Donald Trump had any kind can be issued. Let’s not Scaros nent’s weakness, anyone in such is not a Trump guy “ap’ ta the party’s nomination, and many managed to accomplish in his forget: most of the terrorists a high-profile position who es - kokkala vgalmenos (from the shied away from him even in the first six months as president (it’s who flew the planes on 9/11 A Reince Priebus supporter capes the media’s looming mi - bone).” Cut him open and he general election. not) was to secure Neil Gor - were issued visas to enter the recently lamented the abrupt croscope must be something spe - does not unequivocally bleed Greek-Americans are often such’s seat on the U.S. Supreme United States legally. Perhaps ouster of Priebus as President cial” (“E Priebus Unum: Reince “Trump orange.” asked: “if Greece and the United Court, that by itself would have under Trump, the vetting will Trump’s chief of staff. It was ap - Rewarded for Steering Ship,” Again, this is not to suggest States go to war, which side been something great. Gorsuch be stricter without self-con - parently a forced resignation that Nov. 26, 2016). For these rea - that Priebus did anything to di - would you be on? Which country is an eminently qualified legal sciousness about hurting any - was in the making for weeks if sons, it would seem that Priebus’ minish the president or his would you fight for?” After a scholar who understands that one’s feelings. not months, with conditions ex - exit is a net loss for the adminis - agenda, but it is really difficult good deal of hemming and haw - the role of the Court is to serve Along those lines, Trump also acerbated by the arrival of An - tration. Or is it? to completely immerse yourself ing and trying to skate a direct as the umpire in a baseball game signed an EO to end the practice thony Scaramucci as Trump’s di - First, it is important to remem - in Trumpism if you’re more of a answer with: “oh, that’s never who cannot change the rules – of handing out multiyear-em - rector of communications. The ber that Priebus’ replacement as Mitt Romney/Jeb Bush/Marco going to happen” or “I’d stay for example, allow the batter ployment H1B visas like candy. supporter, who appreciated chief of staff, was not Scaramucci, Rubio kinda guy. neutral,” a gut-wrenching, bru - four strikes for the sake of “social FOREIGN POLICY Priebus’ calm and measured dis - but General John Kelly, who is As the former Chair of the Re - tally honest revelation would ul - justice” – during the game. If we strip away the histrion - position, noted that some (un - moving to the West Wing after a publican National Committee, timately reveal whether the an - Moreover, while Gorsuch ics that “Trump is alienating our named) individual who knows short and widely lauded reign as Priebus has impeccable establish - swerer is more Greek or more shares the textualist/originalist allies around the world,” what Scaramucci personally described secretary of Homeland Security. ment pedigree. While that may American. judicial philosophy of the justice the president actually did was him as a “whack job.” That Scaramucci and Priebus be an attractive commodity on Analogously, also quite un - whose shoes he filled, Antonin direct other NATO members to I don’t know enough about dominated the headlines is more Capitol Hill, it tends not to bode likely (though less so) is the pos - Scalia, he does not share Scalia’s pay their fair share. Even Trump Scaramucci to draw that conclu - a result of their infamous con - as well in serving an anti-estab - sibility of Trump making a clean lethal sarcasm, which often cre - detractors in the know cede that sion, and now that his departure tentious feud than of the impor - lishment populist president who and drastic break from the Re - ated polarization. Ironically, the it worked, and those nations as director of communications is tance of General Kelly’s new role. in both style and substance is publicans. In that case, on whose impeccably mannered Gorsuch have started to pay up. as abrupt as his meteoric ascen - In fact, if Kelly adopts a method - strikingly unorthodox. side would Priebus be? Never was appointed by Trump him - Trump’s consistent theme is sion to that role, we may never ical, efficient approach to running WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON? mind that he undoubtedly would self, whose own brashness ren - that the United States will no know. But because it is Priebus the White House and generally As I have written many times, do everything in his power to pre - ders him more similar to Scalia longer be suckered. That’s why who is the last person in the stays out of the headlines, it as much as the president might vent such a thing from happen - than to Gorsuch in that respect. he pulled us out of the Paris Cli - world anyone could call a “whack would give the administration a call himself a Republican on pa - ing, if there was no plausible way IMMIGRATION mate Agreement. Not because job” – in fact, he arguably can be much-needed boost. per, he is the most apartisan to save both the Trump presi - President Trump has taken a he doesn’t believe in clean air described as the exact opposite Second, while Priebus pos - president we’ve had since John dency and the Republican Party, harder line on PHIs (Persons and water, but because he insists of a whack job – some would sesses diplomatic, organiza - Tyler assumed the office after now that he’s out of the White Here Illegally) than any presi - on conditions that apply equally contend that his departure causes tional, and even visionary gifts President William Henry Harri - House and has no formal duty to dent in over 100 years. But his to all. That is also why he with - the president of a chaotic admin - that catapulted him to great suc - son died after a record-short align with the president, in which opponents have been relentless drew the United States from the istration to lose one of his pre - cess at a rather young age, what term of only 32 days. That was camp would Priebus stand? in trying to thwart his attempts Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), cious few voices of reason. he lacks, and what the president way back in 1841. I cannot claim to know the to enforce the law. Nonetheless, and why he is against the Iran As I wrote when Priebus was needs, is unconditional support Trump had a vision and answer for sure, but I do know he has managed to sign Execu - Nuclear Agreement and NAFTA, first appointed, “there has been for Trump – the man and his needed to get to the White House that because Trump is the first tive Orders (EOs) that restrict and why he won’t embrace free nothing bad said about Priebus. message. There is every indica - to ply it, and the Republican path president since Tyler without a entry into the United States of trade unless it takes place on a Not a word. And that is a reason tion that Priebus is professional was the easier way of getting single component of the estab - individuals from countries that level playing field. to commend him. In these con - enough to remain absolutely there. He has been openly critical lishment supporting him, he were deemed as threats not by What a lot of people don’t re - tentious times, with a 24/7 con - loyal to his boss – whoever that of Republicans, and quite harshly needs all the “ap’ ta kokkala vgal - Trump himself, but by the alize is how vital energy is to ventional and social media blitz, may be – and patriotic enough at times. Many of them, in turn, menoi” true believers by his side Obama Administration. 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