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E 10 0 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A weekly Greek-AmericAn PublicAtion 1915-2015 VOL. 18, ISSUE 939 October 10-16, 2015 c v $1.50 Onassis Rev. Passias, amid Sex Scandal, Banned by the Arc1hdiocese Cultural Priest of Historic St. Spyridon Community Center’s Caught in Affair with “Spiritual Daughter” By Theodore Kalmoukos teries here, essentially creating a fundamentalist movement Opening NEW YORK – Rev. George Pas - within the Greek Orthodox sias, 68, presiding priest at St. Church. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Passias often organized “pil - “Narcissus Now” Church in the Upper Manhattan grimages” with buses going to neighborhood of Washington Ephraim’s monasteries, filled Launches Its Fall Heights in New York City, is em - with hundreds of parishioners. broiled in a sexual scandal with He publicly appeared wearing 2015 Inaugural Ethel Bouzalas, to whom he has his anteri (inner cassock), with referred as his “spiritual daugh - long hair and a long beard, and By Constantine S. Sirigos ter.” Rev. Passias has impreg - also a kosposhoini, presenting TNH Staff Writer nated Bouzalas, 45, who has himself as spiritual and tradi - been his close associate for tionalist. NEW YORK – The Onassis Cul - years. Both are married and BROOKLYN BEGINNINGS tural Center NY launches its in - with children. Passias met Bouzalas in augural fall season at its newly Bouzalas’ name was first re - Brooklyn while pastoring at the renovated home with the Onas - vealed publicly by the New York Church of the Holy Cross. She sis Festival NY 2015, whose Post in a June 1, 2013 article. was converted to Orthodoxy, theme is Narcissus Now: The TNH has obtained irrefutable and according to the Post article Myth Reimagined. The first an - evidence that Passias has carried “Passias baptized her while she nual festival of arts and ideas on sexual relations with Bouza - wore a bikini,” giving her the will feature four days of talks, las. name Euthalia. presentations, and perfor - Specifically, that they would TNH has learned that Bouza - mances. often frequent the Courtesy Mo - las’ husband is Greek-American, “Through this new initiative, tel in Fort Lee, NJ – as “husband the president of a construction an annual festival of arts and and wife.” Other evidence, in - company, and that as of late he ideas, we take a fresh look into cluding photographs and video has been ill and was hospital - the classical tradition and the footage, shows the couple going ized. complex ways it forms part of to the Countryside Hotel in Cold After huge rifts in the Three our own vocabulary. We invite Spring, NY, and dining at Cliff’s Hierarchs parish during Passias’ the community to join us as we Steak House in Englewood tenure there, the Archdiocese explore how ideas and ancient Cliffs, NJ. transferred him to St. Spyridon, models, such as Narcissus, are The Greek Orthodox Arch - where he has served for almost interpreted today and what we diocese of America has sus - ten years. can learn from them,” says the Rev. George Passias of the St. Spyridon Church in Washington Heights seen here with Ethel pended Passias from every litur - When he arrived at the Center’s Executive and Cultural Bouzalas, whom he calls his "spiritual daughter," has been banned by the Archdiocese after re - gical, pastoral, and Director Amalia Cosmetatou. ports emerged of their affair (they are both married) and her pregnancy as a result. administrative ministry. Continued on page 6 The Center is excited about Archbishop Demetrios of offering “opportunities for America, expressed to TNH his Greek and American artists to “deep sorrow for this grievous work side by side on specially event” and added that “the commissioned works and to ex - Reflections on My Grandson’s Death Church will take all the neces - A 1-Woman plore how Hellenic culture in - sary measures for this case, ac - spires the creative arts and in - cording to the law of God.” forms our lives.” By Harry Mark Petrakis of Dean, the youngest of our their jackets, berets on their Several attempts by TNH to Show for Among the artists whose three sons, embracing his son heads. Nick’s beret is tilted rak - communicate with Passias and work was scheduled to be intro - The houses and apartments Nicholas. The boy is about two ishly over his forehead. He Bouzalas were unsuccessful. We duced to the guests at the grand of our extended family abound or three, his complexion bur - stares at the camera with the called St. Spyridon but we were Anthoula reopening reception on Oct. 8 with photographs. With their nished and his hair dark and somber demeanor befitting a told that neither Passias nor is Angelo Plessas, whose mural entry into this country in 1916 tousled. Father and son are ra - warrior. Bouzalas were there; Parish “I AMness” is the first to grace of my priest father, mother and diantly photogenic, and their It was three weeks ago now Council President Steve Pa - Katsimatides the Center’s new Art Wall, which four of my siblings from the is - smiling faces make the photo a that another son, John, drove padatos did not respond to will exhibit specially commis - land of Crete, followed by the delight. from Chicago to tell my wife TNH’s request for comment. sioned works by contemporary birth of my sister and myself, The second photograph is of and I that Nicholas had killed Rev. Passias was the Arch - By Constantine S. Sirigos artists. the photographs begin. Since Nicholas grown to manhood at himself. He had gone to a shoot - diocesan Chancellor during TNH Staff Writer Plessas was among the artists our family now numbers more age twenty-one, a photo taken ing range near his home in New - Archbishop Spyridon’s tenure, Cosmetatou reached out to, and than one hundred, our photo al - with Zach Poisson, a fellow sol - bury Park, CA and after several and is the beloved spiritual son NEW YORK – From the days of other than informing him of the bums have grown collectively, dier and his best friend during shots at the target, he turned of Ephraim, the priest-monk Aristotle, Greeks have known festival’s theme, he was given as well. basic training in the army. Both the gun on himself. who left Mount Athos to come catharsis is good for the soul. Ac - complete freedom. He created Among these photographs, soldiers are dressed in a pri - to the United States in the early tress Anthoula Katsimatides re - a work that can be experienced two sit on my desk. The first is vate’s dress uniform, tassels on Continued on page 4 1990s and established monas - minded modern Greeks and their both on The Wall and on the in - friends of its power on October ternet at i-amness.com, where 3, evoking laughter and tears in the viewer is immediately pulled her one-woman-show “What Will into the hallucinatory piece. People Think?” at United Solo There was an anthropologi - Ad Wizard 2015, the world’s largest festival cal element in his conception of of solo acts. the piece as “you can almost see All a Greek-American needs some faces” in the array of con - George Lois to know for background is the ti - centric circles…and when you tle. In Greek, English or Gring - roll over with your mouse, lish, it stings: “Ti Tha Pi O Kos - things happen and sounds are Still on Fire mos?” triggered.” The non-Greeks in the audi - It reminds of how people be - ence at Manhattan’s Theater Row come mesmerized during the w/New Book cultural complex were properly huge chunk of their lives spent briefed about such matters looking at devices and computer throughout the show, however, screens and is Plessas’ statement By Constantine S. Sirigos benefitting from skills Katsi - on today’s hyper-connected TNH Staff Writer matides polished when she lifestyles. worked for former New York The work of art that exists NEW YORK – If you can still ex - Governor George Pataki. on the internet expresses the cite young people, you never The other things non-Greeks grow old. And advertising’s leg - needed to grasp were her larger- Continued on page 7 endary George Lois is still on than-life father, Antonios, and the fire. He is a creative force at his tiny island where he was born. son Luke’s firm, Good Karma Like everyone with roots there, Creative, and he is still writing she worships Nisyros, which she books that are must-reads, es - calls Gilligan’s Island. “It’s vol - St Demetrios pecially for young communica - canic – it can blow any time and tions and advertising profession - everyone on the island is nuts” – als. but she adores them all. Honors Its City College of New York And the love that prevailed in (CCNY) President Lisa Coico her family, blended as it was with hosted a special book signing frustration when she was grow - Graduates and reception on October 5 for ing up that she made grist for her Lois to celebrate his career and AP Photo/thAnAssis stAvrAkis strong comedic mill, was palpa - his new book, Lois Logos – The Greek Town Glimpses Mass Transit Future: Driverless Buses ble in the theater. By Demetris Tsakas Creative Punch of Big Idea Her mother, Calliope, bore Branding The tiny CityMobil2 driverless bus takes its route in front of Osman Sah Mosque, in Trikala, and raised four children, George, GREAT NECK, NY – Over five The students who filled the Greece. Trials of the French-built CityMobil2 buses have started in Trikala, a town of some John, Anthoula herself, and hundred graduates from the St. event space of Shepard Hall 80,000 people, chosen to test a driverless bus in real traffic conditions for the first time, as part Michael (Mikey) – but Antonios Demetrios School in Astoria at - were there not only because of a European project to revolutionize mass transport, guided by GPS, lasers, and wireless ruled the roost. tended the Alumni Association their professors told them to at - cameras, and the rides are free. Related story on page 7. “There were lots of rules,” she gathering in October 2 at tend, but also because they were said, especially to be the best at Leonard’s Palazzo in Great fascinated by the man and eager anything you ever do. Second Neck, NY in order to honor two to buy his book. place was not a place you wanted generations of graduates, and After the featured speaker to be. to sustain their support for their and the guests enjoyed becom - Healthy New Age Appetite in Athens “What’s this thing, A minus?” alma mater, the only Greek- ing acquainted during the re - her father would ask. American high school in the ception, a simple video that Females, of course, had a few United States. flashed some of Lois’ most fa - By Alexia Amvrazi have not been exactly loyal to seafood and grains. more rules, especially the re - Alumni Association President mous logos and other works was their ancestor’s nutritive wis - The new awareness emerging quirement be a “kalo koritsi – a Jimmy Hartofilis called the hon - shown, accompanied by Gersh - ATHENS- “Let food be thy med - dom; especially after the WWII, among Greeks opting for smaller good girl.” That meant, among orees “the best of the best.” win’s Rhapsody in Blue. icine and medicine by thy food,” the mentality of a country that quantities and higher quality is a other things, no boyfriends. Each honoree represented a The classic musical evocation said Hippocrates. faced Europe’s worst wartime key reason why many individuals Greek women were their father’s decade of the school’s history. of Manhattan was the perfect Despite being saddled by famine veered toward dietary ex - have woken up to the benefits of property – a deal sealed by gram - 1960s: Philip Christopher, introduction for the quintessen - years of draining financial crisis, cesses that proudly reflected an certified organic foods and ingre - mar and their middle names – President and CEO of American tial New Yorker and the crowd Athenians have a healthy new attitude of survival and renewed dients favored by their ancestors she was Anthoula Antoniou Kat - Network Solutions and Presi - was mesmerized – evidence of age glow about them, and it's affluence. A diversion of the tra - in faraway villages and faraway simatidi – “say that three times dent of the Pancyprian Associa - the enduring power of Lois’ probably something to do with ditional dietary route was times, when millennia before fast. You can’t,” she said. tion and the Committee on Jus - work. the philosophy that “you are strongly encouraged from the Google existed, knowledge on Ideally, they did not leave the President Coico was unable what you eat.” Health food 1970s by an emergent commer - the medicinal benefits of every house until they are married off, Continued on page 7 to attend, and so Professor Ed stores and providers of authen - cial food industry that slowly but fruit and herb was inherent. at which point they become their Keller welcomed the guests on tic, pure, hand-made Greek food surely seduced Greeks with the Things that previously seemed husband’s property. her behalf. Always “on,” Lois products are receiving a substan - ease and modernity of packaged wretched to eat are now quite a Battles over the rules probably called out in the midst of Keller’s tial (and remunerative) follow - and processed foods. Meat, too, la mode, like To paximadi tis ka - paved the way to her political For subscription: long recitation of people to ac - ing, while juice bars and trendy once reserved for religious feasts tochis (the biscuit of occupied work. 718.784.5255 knowledge: “when do you thank vegan/vegetarian restaurants and family meals, and which fea - Greece) which is now being sold Katsimatides told of how she [email protected] me?” are jumping up around the cap - tures right at the narrow peak of in some traditional food stores begged at 19 to go to Nisyros on After the burst of laughter, ital. the food pyramid of the Mediter - because of its high nutritional her own, only to be slammed by CCNY Provost Dr. Maurizio Tre - The Mediterranean Diet may ranean diet, became a common value, but also because ironically, “Ti tha pi o kosmos?” visan introduced Lois by calling continue to be glorified by med - daily staple on the Greek family the fact that it gave essential sus - But by then the sharp-witted ical journals worldwide, but let’s table, surpassing consumption of Continued on page 4 face it, in recent decades Greeks fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, Continued on page 10 Continued on page 7 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015 Coalition Asks Obama to Establish a Museum of the American People

By Constantinos E. Scaros show how people from every American culture based on geog - place on earth helped make this raphy (such as, contrasting the WASHINGTON, DC – In less country the world’s economic, cultures of New Yorkers, Hawai - than a year, the United States military, scientific and cultural ians, and Oklahomans? The will celebrate its 240th birthday. leader. Coalition now seeks the creation The Immigration and Nationality “The museum will showcase of a Presidential Commission to Act (INA) of 1965 – which re - how, when, why and from where study the Museum’s develop - placed the nation’s country-of- we arrived in this land, our ment. Questions like that one will origin preferences for immi - movements across the plains and be considered, and besides the grants with admission based on mountains of the country, what Museum itself, Eskinazi points skills and family relationships – each group encountered and out, “there would be special ex - just celebrated its 50th last week. how each helped to transform hibition spaces where temporary Yet in this country so often re - our nation. exhibits could be displayed.” ferred to as “a nation of immi - “The narrative begins in the The next step, he says, is that grants,” there isn’t a bona fide prehistoric period and progresses U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) museum to celebrate the Ameri - through waves of migration and is leading the way toward intro - can people – all American peo - immigration until today. We ex - ducing such a resolution in Con - ple. pect it to be the best storytelling gress. In the previous Congress, But the Coalition for the Na - museum in the world as it de - Eskinazi says, there were 48 bi - tional Museum of the American picts one of the world’s greatest partisan cosponsors supporting People seeks to change all of stories. such a commission. that. And its Director, Sam Eski - “The National Museum of the HONORING TNH nazi, explained to us that among American People will become a “We envision that there the archives could be a room de - lasting cultural legacy. All Amer - would be a library and archive voted to foreign language publi - icans will come to learn the story associated with the Museum, in - cations, such as The National of their own ethnic, national or cluding links on the Museum’s Herald. minority groups, and to learn website” to honor ethnic litera - On October 3, the date of the about all of the others. Foreign ture, media, television shows, INA’s 50th anniversary, the Coali - visitors will come to better un - movies, and the like. Among tion sent the a letter to President derstand our incredibly diverse those, the oldest foreign lan - Obama proposing a National nation. guage publication in the United Museum of the American People “We seek no appropriated States, The National Herald. (NMAP), to be established in funds to plan, design, build or Eskinazi concludes by reem - Washington, DC. Excerpts from operate the museum. We envi - phasizing some of the main the letter are included here: sion a commission like the one points included in the letter to “On October 3rd, 1965, the that led to the creation of the Museum for the American People: The proposed design of the National Museum of the American President Obama, which was Immigration and Nationality Act United States Holocaust Memo - People, which will honor all Americans (Photo: MTFA Architecture). signed by an array of historians of 1965 opened the door to mil - rial Museum. We look forward and 46 ethnic organizations, in - lions of new Americans and their to working with you to realize Chapter III — The Great In– came in, especially in that major Walking through the museum cluding AHEPA and the American descendants. To help build on the National Museum of the Gathering: 1820 – 1924 period of immigration at the end will be like walking through a Hellenic Institute, both of which the legacy of that landmark law, American People.” Chapter IV — And Still They of the 19th and early 20th cen - documentary film about the Eskinazi refers to as longtime we urge you to create a biparti - Eskinazi was previously the Come: 1924 – present. turies, their stories will be told. making of the American People. supporters of this cause. “The san commission to study estab - Holocaust Museum’s Director of But considering all the vari - “The museum will use mod - “The British and other West - Museum will facilitate learning lishment of the National Mu - Public Information. ous ethnic groups that have set - ern technology and electronic ern Europeans come in the sec - about our history nationwide. seum of the American People. THE VISION tled in the United States, we graphics as well as other tools at ond chapter and into the third. Everyone will come to learn their “The museum will relate the According to the Coalition’s asked Eskinazi, how big must the disposal of the museum de - And at the end of the third chap - own stories and will learn about history of the making of the website nmap2015.com, the pro - this museum be to do justice to signers to help tell these stories ter large numbers come from all of the others. Foreign visitors, American People, a story which posal, still a work in progress, all of them? in a dramatic, inclusive way. Southern and Eastern Europe. including those from Greece, will embodies our original national would tell our nation’s story in “We will do justice to all of Greek-Americans will certainly All of these stories will be told. learn how their countrymen con - motto: E Pluribus Unum (out of four chapters: the stories in the manner of how see their stories about when they Greek-Americans are clearly one tributed to the United States. many, one). This museum will Chapter I — The First Peoples the museum will tell the story,” came, why they left, where they of the significant groups whose The Museum will be the em - celebrate every group from every Come: Prehistoric period – 1607 he explains. “For most Ameri - settled and where they moved story will be told here. bodiment of our original national land who have become Ameri - Chapter II — The Nation cans, their story will begin in the on to. It will also highlight some Would the Museum consider motto: E Pluribus Unum and will cans – “We the People.” It will Takes Form: 1607 – 1820 third chapter. And as the groups of their major accomplishments. devoting space to differences in show that we are all Americans. MacArthur “Genius Grant” Winner Dimitri Nakassis Talks about Archaeology

TNH Staff intense interaction and compe - tition among a broad elite class, Dimitri Nakassis, a recipient then it seems to me that the elite of the prestigious MacArthur may have “opted out” of the sys - “Genius Grant” for 2015, fea - tem: perhaps they no longer tured in last week’s edition considered it necessary?” But, (“Dimitri Nakassis Gets Genius he qualifies, “that explains the Grant”), spoke with Forbes mag - collapse less than the failure to azine about archaeology and an - rebuild the palaces after they cient Greece. were destroyed.” “Politics wasn’t limited to a Could we learn the lessons small group in the palace,” from history to avoid a contem - Nakassis told Forbes, reflecting porary collapse? Nakassis isn’t on his recent book Individuals quite sure, though he says “the and Society in Mycenaean Pylos, worst thing we can do is assume “but was a broader process that that we’re powerless to avoid embraced a large, heteroge - our own fate.” neous, elite class – this elite THE OTHER 99% class is archaeologically visible Nakassis told Forbes that if in houses and tombs, so this there’s one area of archaeology opens up the possibilities of in - As a boy, Dimitri Nakassis hadn't planned on becoming an ar - that needs more attention, it is tegrating archaeological and chaeologist. But once he started taking courses, "I was hooked." focusing on “the other 99%” of textual evidence. Greek civilization. “In economic terms,” he con - palace is more the historical and a generator of demand.” “Most of our texts are written tinues, “I argue that the palatial product of economic activity Asked what he thinks caused by the elite for the elite,” he economy is built on the back of than a producer of it, although the collapse of the Mycenaeans, says, “and so much archaeology a large and flourishing non- of course the palace is still enor - Nakassis said “if I’m right that has focused on urban centers.” palatial economic sector. So the mously important as a consumer the palaces are the product of He thinks it’s time to focus on

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T H D E L N A A R TIO HE Matthew Tollis, a 22-year-old NAL man from Wethersfield, CT was h sentenced to a year and a day 10επ 0έτ ειος in jail, and three years of super - 1 9 1 5 - 2 0 1 5 vised release, after conspiring to partake in malicious conveying of false information, NBC News Connecticut reported. Primarily, there was a bomb THE NATIONAL HERALD 37-10 30th Street, scare hoax and similar fake Long Island City, N.Y. 11101-2614 threats by TCOD, a group to Tel.: (718) 784-5255 • FAX: (718) 472-0510 which Tollis belongs, that in Ονομα: 2014 engaged in various such “Swatting” incidents – false Διεύθυνση: threats that elicit SWAT units Πόλη: Πολιτεία Zip code: and bomb squads to the scene. Τηλέφωνο: e-mail “Swatting is not a schoolboy 22-year-old Matthew Tollis prank, it’s a federal crime,” U.S. q American express q master card q visa q Discover Attorney Deirdre M. Daly said, remainder of his life will deter Aρ. πιστωτικής κάρτας: NBC reported. others from engaging in this im - Ημερομηνία λήξης: “These hoaxes have ex - mature, dangerous and criminal pended critical law enforcement behavior.” resources and caused severe Tollis was arrested on Sep - Υπογραφή: emotional distress for thousands tember 3, 2014 and pleaded of victims. It is our hope that guilty on June 23 of this year. Επιστρέψατε την κάρτα με την επιταγή σας πληρωτέα στο: National Herald, Inc., ή χρεώστε την πιστωτική σας κάρτα. this prosecution and the knowl - He said that during the edge that this defendant will phony phone calls, he never ac - serve time in prison and live tually spoke on the phone, but with a felony conviction for the he laughed as others did. THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015 COMMUNITY 3 Constantinides’ Astoria Initiatives are Appreciated Demacopoulos Installed By Constantine S. Sirigos In 2nd Chair of Fordham TNH Staff Writer

ASTORIA – Greek-American Orthodox Studies Center businesspersons and residents are the heart and soul of Asto - ria, one of New York City’s most By Constantine S. Sirigos against the enemies of the Em - dynamic and desirable neigh - TNH Staff Writer pire overshadowed the soterio - borhoods. Since he was elected logical significance of the cruci - in 2013 City Councilman Costa NEW YORK – The auditorium fixion of Christ. Constantinides and his dedi - of Keating Hall at Fordham Uni - Demacopoulos cited current cated staff have been working versity was filled October 5 for research about the power of mu - hard to keep it that way through the inaugural lecture of Dr. sic, which he said “impacts initiatives, working with civic George E. Demacopoulos as the memory and thought structure organizations and by reaching Fr. John Meyendorff and Patter - more substantially than other out to citizens for input and son Family Chair of Orthodox forms of cognitive input.” keeping them informed. Christian Studies. The most striking example he On a recent rainy Saturday Demacopoulos joins Dr. Aris - cited was the Feast’s dismissal afternoon when citizens turned totle Papanikolaou, who was ap - hymn, “Soson Kyrie ton Lao Sou out at the Othello Deli on 24th pointed Archbishop Demetrios – Save your people, Lord,” with avenue to thank Constantinides Chair in Orthodox Theology and its aggressive phrase “bring vic - for his work to date, and to raise Culture in 2013, as holders of tory to the Emperor over the funds for his 2017 reelection endowed chairs at Fordham, barbarians.” campaign, his neighbors were where they are founding co-di - There was an opportunity to joined by top City officials, in - rectors of the Orthodox Christ - point out Fr. Meyendorff’s great cluding Queens Borough Presi - ian Studies Center. contribution to the study of dent Melinda Katz and New The evening was also the oc - Church-State relations in Byzan - York City Public Advocate Letitia casion for honoring and thank - tium. Despite the trends out - James. tnh/costAs beJ ing Solon and Marianna Patter - lined by Demacopoulos, so James told TNH “It’s my City Councilman Costas Constantinides announces a $200,000 budget allocation that keeps As - son, for their gift of $2 million called Ceasaropapism as a pleasure to be here. I’m always toria clean through the efforts of the Doe Fund, which also helps homeless men. which endowed the chair, and model for those relations, and happy to support Costa and the to honor the memory of Fr. John the ideology of Euseubius, work that he does in the City the Borough President here… York Times reported “City offi - boroughs. “We keep everything Meyendorff, the renowned whom he said was essentially a Council. We do a lot of great she has been a great friend to cials said the projected cost was clean everywhere.” scholar who pioneered Ortho - propagandist for the Emperor projects together and he is set - Astoria on issues like additional in line with the budgets of other OTHELLO DELI dox studies at Fordham. Constantine, was constantly ting the tone for the City.” affordable housing, and projects recently built dog runs.” More information about the His Beatitude Metropolitan challenged Fr. Meyendorff One of the concerns of offi - like the dog run and keeping As - At a nearby location under organization whose slogan is “a Tikhon and clergy and laity of demonstrated. cials and resident alike is bal - toria Park and the area around the bridge on October 2, Con - hand up, not a hand out,” can the OCA were also present for Nevertheless, “short, bold, anced development. “Western it clean.” stantinides announced his FY be found at doe.org. the tribute and the guests were and catchy hymns like Soson Queens is the place to be and PARTICIPATORY 2016 budget allocation of over The councilman was just ap - touched when Fordham Presi - Kyrie” gave authority to notions that is because it is really a BUDGETING PROCESS $200,000 to cleaning services in pointed Chairman of the Envi - dent Fr. Joseph McShane, SJ of “divinely sanctioned vio - neighborhood, and we’d like to BEGINS Astoria. Several groups will pro - ronmental Committee and he asked Matushka Meyendorff to lence,” and “reflects and rein - keep it that way.” New York’s innovative partic - vide street cleaning, weeding, told TNH they are focused on rise after saying “I don’t speak forces an errant political theol - Ted Beninati, the owner of ipatory budgeting process which and graffiti-removal services. alternative energy sources for Russian, but there is a Greek ogy and prompts a dangerous Othello, which provided space gives citizen’s a voice over how KEEPING ASTORIA CLEAN, the City that will lead to cleaner word for your husband in the nostalgia for a bygone era of and tasty food for the guests, a portion of the City’s capital HELPING THE HOMELESS air for Astoria residents. eyes of all who knew him: Ax - idealized, even mythologized told TNH “I am doing this be - budget has begun its 2015-16 Officials and employees of The city is looking at geot - ios.” Christian Empire,” Demacopou - cause he is great for Astoria. He cycle and projects approved last the Doe Fund, which undertakes hermal, biofuel, and wind en - Fordham’s VP for Develop - los said. is out there pushing to get the year are underway. the cleaning, were also present. ergy that will reduce the ment and University Relations “And it’s because the distinc - stuff that we need. On September 25 Constanti - Dereck Bowers explained to amount of time the neighbor - Roger Milici served as Emcee tion between the real and the Beninati said he is most con - nides held a press conference TNH that “the Doe Fund is a hood’s big diesel power plants and invited Archbishop ideal is lost on the political op - cerned about maintaining the beneath the overpass for the nonprofit organization that gives are running. Demetrios of America to offer portunists of the present,” he parks, adequate parking for his RFK Bridge near the future site many homeless men in the City Constantinides said individ - the invocation, a prayer, the lat - noted “that so many traditional customers, traffic flows and of a dog park – Astoria currently the chance to reengage with so - ual homeowners will be able to ter explained that “declares our Orthodox countries have prob - safety. “Costa is on the ball,” he has none – that received ciety and to have the opportu - install geothermal systems that said. $500,000 through participatory nity to have transitional work so will benefit themselves and the Constantinides and his fam - budgeting this year. Constanti - they can move on to a career.” community. “We are working on ily – his son Niko was thrilled nides announced that Borough After beginning with street a regulatory structure that will the Yankee game was on the President Katz also allocated cleaning they receive vocational enable people to actually do it… deli’s TV – were very pleased. $500,000 from her FY16 discre - training. when the process is too com - “They offered to hold a tionary capital funds toward the Wali Manick comes from the plex, people feel uncomfortable fundraiser and I appreciate their project, enhancing the project. Bronx and was assigned to As - about making the change. My support,” Constantinides told Although some people were toria that day, but he could be goal is to make it easier to be TNH, adding “ It’s great to see surprised at the cost, the New send to any of New York’s five green,” he said. Gus Christo: a Superman Story with a Greek Twist

By Constantine S. Sirigos movies came out. “It just sprang TNH Staff Writer into my head ‘I wonder what it would be like if superman was a NEW YORK –The real word can real person. It would seem to me be tough to take. “When the his life would be absolutely mis - Dodgers left Brooklyn I gave up erable” – and that was the in - baseball,” says Constantine spiration for writing the book he (Gus) Christo, the author of Su - said. perman, a novel about the “real” Christo’s earlier book, titled man behind the comic book In the Beginning There Was Me, Dr. George Demacopoulos is the founding co-Director, along character. was “self-therapy” for him. with Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou, of the Orthodox Christian But Christo is not a quitter – “I just decided to write…I Studies Center at Fordham University, the only university- and neither was his book’s main asked what if God were to go on based center of Orthodox studies in the Western Hemisphere. character. Christo turned to bas - a rant and He just started talk - ketball, and skill and persever - ing…I just took all the stuff that dependence on God,” in all lems with the kind of religious ance earned him a full college was banging around in my things and for the success of all nationalism that is nostalgic, scholarship. He later became a head” – Christo was a trained great endeavors. rather than genuine, and xeno - restructuring guru, a kind of su - engineer and he studied quan - The Archbishop quoted phobic rather than Christian.” perman of the corporate world. tum physics but determined Psalm 127 spotlighting the Faith “This is precisely what we see “I’m a turnaround guy. I need those could not lead to a job – that motivates Papanikolaou with the rise of the Golden something there to fix,” said and wrote in into that book. and Demacopoulos: “If God Dawn movement in Greece…in Christo, and so does Superman. The author of Superman is doesn’t build the house, the la - my mind the Euseubian model The actual and fictional men listed as Soledad Samson, but borers work in vain.” is ripe for exploitation by figures had a deep need to be useful – that pen name resulted from a Provost Dr. Stephen Freed - like Vladimir Putin…It also fuels and being heroes was the result, mistake. “I like alliteration,” man, Associate VP and Dean Dr. a narrative of victimization and not the motivation behind their Constantine Christo said, but he John Harrington also addressed a hatred of Western Christian - actions. believed Soledad was a word re - the guests, praising the hon - ity,” he said. But heroes can be disappoint - lated to “sun.” orees and echoing Demetrios’ After apologizing to those ing – especially to themselves. Rather, it means solitude, but praise for all who contributed time did not permit him to In Christo’s book, being su - even that reflects Nick Petrakis’ to the Center, which has become name for helping him arrive at perhuman is not what it is Gus Christo in 2011 posing in front of the school his father at - life. a force for deepening Orthodox- this point in his career, he cracked up to be, hence an el - tended in Triglia, on the southern shore of the Sea of Marmara Samson just flowed from Catholic relations and Christian praised Archbishop Demetrios, derly Nick Petrakis finds it hard in Asia Minor. His mother’s foots are in Imbros. Soledad – he never made the unity. colleagues, mentors, and his to forgive himself “one moment connection with the superman- After he was bestowed a graduate students, whom he of emotional weakness,” accord - duction chapter in Christo’s life ment, and the themes of dis - like Old Testament figure – who medal by Fr. McShane, who also said helped sharpen his own ing to the blurb. “Nick confesses closed, he found his sons explor - placement, and absent fathers, also wrecked his life in one mo - presented citations to him and scholarship. his gifts to a stranger who recre - ing the abandoned equipment. and children cut off from their ment of weakness. the Pattersons, Demacopoulos He thanked the Board of Ad - ates his story as an indestructible They made films together and families are also part of his story. The more deeply one looks declared that his appointment visors and the Center’s Director comic book character,” it contin - Paul, a musical prodigy, is a The family ended up in Thes - at Christo’s Superman, the more to the chair “is a profoundly of Development Valery Long - ues, causing his life to tumble working film score composer in saloniki and one day his grand - one finds. humbling honor…because my wood, who helped raise $7 mil - out of control – and sapping his L.A. Alex, two years younger, is mother put a gold coin in his fa - Along with writing, Hel - scholarly achievements will lion for the Center to date, and, usefulness. thriving on the business end of ther’s pocket and told him “go lenism became a passion, but never match the achievements last but not least, “the guiding Although Christo’s story the film industry, but the creative to America and send us money Christo would not have believed of Fr. Meyendorff,” and because influence of my family,” begin - reads like Greek tragedy, it offers life calls strongly: he is an au - so we don’t starve.” it in his youth. the chair bears the Patterson ning with his father George who a chance at redemption. Along thor, jazz guitarist and inventor. He entered the U.S. in South “I was an athlete and I was name. came to America as a foreign the way, the author provides his Eventually the parents fol - Carolina and tracked down an absolutely furious I had to go to He said in the decade he has exchange student, and his late readers with an exciting ride, lowed the Children to California, uncle in New York who worked Greek school twice a week. My known “I have learned more mother Mary Lynn, “who was and he makes them care deeply but Christo’s roots are in New at a restaurant. “He taught him - cousin and I revolted…Now I re - about genuine Christian love first in her class in nursing about his characters. York. self to read and write and became gret not speaking Greek.” and stewardship from the Pat - school and first again” earning It is not action-adventure His mother Efstathia was an American citizen and met my His path to advocate of Hel - terson’s than I have from any a Master’s degree while raising story, like the superman movies, born in Manhattan but was sent mom at a Panlemnian picnic.” lenism included a mentor – other source.” a family. but more a crime drama – dis - to Lemnos when she was two – The strength of both his par - George Koulaxes who was part The inaugural lecture, titled His most profound intellec - turbing at times. It is a journey her parents were previously dis - ents’ characters are reflected in of the team that built the Saturn “War, Violence, and the Feast of tual influence, he said, was his deep into human nature and placed from Imbros to Lemnos Petrakis, but fathers, although V rocket that took humanity to the Holy Cross in Byzantium,” maternal grandfather, a veteri - psychology – with a touch of after the Asia Minor Disaster – often absent, are a powerful the moon. demonstrated how advanced narian who was a voracious Greek history to inspire, because and she didn’t return to America presence in the book. “He would tell me things Orthodox scholarship can illu - reader. He taught Demacopou - – yes, Christo’s Superman was until she was 17. Christo’s father began as cob - about Hellenism that were so in - minate contemporary events los “to love those with whom I raised by good Middle American Christo’s father Pavlos was bler with a shoe repair shop, and credible that he turned me into thereby foster Christian unity. disagree,” which he called a parents, but they were born in born on the shores of the Sea of then became a successful restau - a militant. To me, the only thing Demacopoulos traced the genuine grace. Greece, conveying values Christo Marmara but when the latter’s rateur in an industrial area in that can save the world from the evolution of the Feast of the Ex - He became even more emo - believes grounded Petrakis’ po - father was off on his adventures Jersey City, but his thinking was destruction we are heading to - altation of the Holy Cross tional when he said, “speaking tentially volatile character. – he fought for the recovery of advanced. Christo told TNH “my wards is Hellenism. We must through changes in the content of saints, I’d like to recognize Christo’s passionate Hel - Macedonia with the future mar - father said you beat donkeys, reintroduce Hellenism t the of the Church’s hymns, from the the influence of my father-in- lenism came late in his life. His tyr, Metropolitan Chrysostomos not children” and he always told world.” Fourth Century to its late Byzan - law, Fr. John Orfanakos” of wife Debora, who is actually of Smyrna, and later became his his son he was the smartest per - That’s why he started the tine manifestation. He pointed blessed memory, and continued, French-English, “Became more bodyguard, - another superman son he’d ever met – unlike par - non-profit organization, The to the turbulent reign of the Em - “finally it would be impossible Greek that I am.” element – Christo’s father be - ents who make sport of putting Protognosis Institute - Republic peror Heraclius, when first the for me to stand here without the They have two sons and she came the man of the house. down their children. Of Plato – especially to inspire Persians and Slavs and then the willful sacrifice of my immedi - scolds him for not knowing He later served in the Greek His mother never understood the youth of the community. Arabs threatened the existence ate family, my children Zoe, enough Greek to teach them. army during the Asia Minor why she and her brother were “The Greek diaspora has been of the Empire, as the point when Lizzy, Eli, and Grace, and his Eventually, they all found their campaign that turned into a dis - left behind for 15 years in Lem - going for 3000 years and that is “an emerging sacralization of wife Kathy, about whom he said way back to Hellenism, but aster, but would never answer nos, but the courage that came the foundation – and the Ortho - state-sponsored violence… “without her I could achieve Christo seemed to show them Christo’s questions about the of playing with the unexploded dox Church,” for a better future. which had lasting consequences none of this.” how to be Renaissance men first. harrowing experience. He served WWII bombs on the beach of The name stems from the for Orthodox political theology The program concluded with When they lived in Tulsa, OK, as a medic “Because he said he Lemnos may have made its way profound respect he developed and relations with the West.” a hymn chanted by the St. he operated a video production was not going to kill any Turks to Superman, who feared nei - from Plato after his youngest son After the 7th century, hymns Vladimir’s Seminary Octet and subsidiary. As in the book, the – his father took care of that for ther bullets nor bombs. showed him The Republic. “It associate with the Feast “con - reception made possible by accidental can change lives dra - the both of them,” Christo said. BIRTH OF GREEK SUPERMAN could have been written six spicuously reflected Byzantine Tsantalis Wines and Fantis matically. That kind of humanitarian - Christo got the idea for the months ago,” Christo said of its Imperial concerns.” At times the Cheeses. One day after the video pro - ism is another Superman ele - book when one of the Superman wisdom. Cross as a divine weapon 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015 Advertising Legend Lois Sets Young Minds Afire With Big Ideas at CCNY

Continued from page 1 In 2008, the Museum of on logos, “is controversial, Modern Art installed 38 of his therefore revolutionary.” “one of the most prolific adver - Esquire covers in its permanent He said he considers himself tising communicators of our collection, but Greek-Americans a communicator, however, not time…Running his own market - know Lois best for his spectacu - a designer, because I create big ing agency, George is renowned larly successful Greek tourism ideas, not designs, and shared for dozens of marketing mira - campaign with non-Greek some of the thinking he elabo - cles that triggered innovative celebrities declaring – “I’m going rated upon in his famous book change in American culture… home…to Greece” “What’s the Big Idea?” George popularized brands and After touching on what “A logo should contain an es - made them household name.” causes designs and campaigns sential idea” with a design “that He cited a few: MTV, USA To - to fail, Lois said the way he ap - communicates personality. It day, Jiffy Lube. proaches creating, he focused must have blood running through it…a quickly recogniz - able face,” he said. The face’s bone structure, however, must consist of a solid marketing idea, and “the design must explain the idea.” He challenged the students in the room to dive deeply into their projects. “If you can’t get meaning into everything you de - sign, there is no meaning in your work.” He said that “great graphic design is not the arrangement of lives and shape…It is the George Lois, far right, received the Hellenic Heritage Achievement award at the 2015 AHI transformation of a big idea into dinner in Washington, DC. Also seen above are, Left to right: Aris Melissaratos, Katherine an unforgettable image.” Quinn, Erika Spyropoulos, AHI Founder Eugene T. Rossides, and Mariyana Spyropoulos. He continued: “the mystical blendings of copy, concept and man being in each of them too. the cost.” with, and the movers and art, dramatized by a unique im - “A truly great graphic and Lois’ words are credible. He shaker of the past 60 years.” age in synergy with words… verbal communicator reflects, went through life putting his Guests also learned of Lois’ that can communicate in a understands and adapts to the money where his mouth was, deepening relationship with nanosecond, always ignites an culture, anticipates the culture, regardless of who was in the CCNY, which is near his beloved immediate intellectual and vis - criticizes changes in the culture, room. Some of the stories will alma mater, the High School of ceral human response.” and helps to change it…” soon become better known. Music and Art. He announced Lois said “The result should He concluded by saying as - Keller, who teaches in the ad - he will deposit his archives at be – must be – a creative image piring to the communicators vertising and PR program at CCNY, where he aslo serves as that catches people’s eyes, en - “our mission in life cannot be to CCNY and met Lois as a 25 year an advisor. ters their minds, warms their sedate, but to awaken, disturb , old at his first job in advertising, As some guests got their hearts, and causes them to act.” communicate and command, to told TNH he and Lois are work - books signed, other chatted with George Lois’ “big ideas” have made an impact on every mature After seizing the attention of instigate and even to provoke… ing on a book that will feature Lois’ wife, Rosie, a designer, generation in America, but young people with communications the aspiring professionals, he Now more than even we must “The back stories of the great and his grandson and namesake and advertising aspirations flocked to hear him at CCNY. reached out the developing hu - speak truth to power, whatever campaigns George was involved George, who is a filmmaker. Power and Pathos: a Bronze Exhibition at Getty Center Museum in CA

By Vasilis Papoutsis

LOS ANGELES, CA – ''Power and Pathos: Bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic World,'' an im - pressive international exhibi - tion, is on display at the Getty Center Museum in Brentwood, CA and it features more than 50 rare works of art. Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum in collaboration with Palazzo Strozzi in Florence Italy and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, which will be the next stop. One of the reasons the exhi - bition is because most large- scale bronze sculptures have vanished. Because bronze is a valuable metal, people often melted the sculptures and reused the metal or sold it for cash. And in the case of early Christians, they simply got rid The Museum has created an Getty curator Kenneth Lapatin Part of the Power and Pathos bronze exhibit at the Getty of them because they did not impressive exhibition that is the accurately said, ''No one has Museum in Brentwood, CA, which features more than 50 want nude sculptures of pagan result of an amazing collabora - ever done this before.'' The ex - rare works of art. Seen here, from left to right: Alexander gods. The only reason these tion with loans from 30 institu - hibition, which runs until No - the Great on Horseback, 100-1 BC, bronze and silver. bronzes survived is because they tions and 12 countries. Most of vember 1, was sponsored in part Sleeping Eros, 300-100 BC, bronze (with a modern marble were either buried at the bottom the art has never been seen in by the A.G. Leventis Foundation. base). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, of the sea or underground. the United States before and Additional information is avail - 1943. Weary Herakles, AD 1-100, bronze, copper, and The Hellenistic period lasted never under the same roof! As able at www.getty.edu. silver. nearly 300 years from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC until Augustus Ceasar's tri - umph over Cleopatra and Mark Antony in 31 BC in Egypt. What A Grandson’s Death makes this era remarkable is the fact that even though Greece was no longer the ruling empire, Continued from page 1 fairness isn’t part of life’s equa - laughter. Nicholas had cried for as a child moved with the grace its culture dominated the Ro - tion. The moment we are born, the entire interminable journey. of a dancer she would later be - man Empire. Nicholas had been a troubled we are old enough to die in a “If the passengers could have come. One of the most impressive child. Diagnosed early in his life hundred different ways. voted to throw the three of us When Nicholas was ten, he sculptures is the seated boxer, as being bipolar, his moods were Years ago, visiting parents off the plane, we’d have been and his father traveled with my ''Terme Boxer.'' The facial ex - turbulent, his behavior erratic. who were my friends and who out the door in a flash!” my son wife and me to our family’s pression of exhaustion after a The doctors, counselors along had a child who was ill, I en - said. homeland of Greece. We had brutal fight is clearly evident by with the assorted medications tered Children’s Memorial Hos - Another memory that same upgraded our seats to business the cuts and dripping blood cre - they prescribed proved ineffec - pital in Chicago. I passed room year came when my wife and I class, and it was the first time ated by copper inlays, while his tive. On the advice of therapists, after room occupied by ailing traveled to California. One af - Nick and Dean had not flown body is strong and vibrant. his parents sent him away to re - babies and sick children, their ternoon Dean drove our family coach. Nicholas sat in the seat The ''Head of a Man from De - medial schools, but that did lit - figures making only small lumps to the beach in Santa Monica. before us, luxuriating in the co - los'' is an expressive portrait tle to help. He grew into his under their blankets. Their bod - With Nicholas in his buggy be - pious power of the larger more from the National Museum of teens, and at the age of twenty ies struggled with cancers, heart ing pushed by his mother, we maneuverable seat. I leaned Athens. Found in Italy in 1761, enlisted in the army. For about defects, and assorted diseases. walked along the ocean. While around his seat and asked my ''Alexander the Great on Horse - a year, he was stationed in Ger - Many were destined to die, leav - my wife and I rested on a bench, grandson how he liked it? back'' is believed to be a small- many. His letters home wrote of ing behind families to grieve. Dean and Anna played with “I’m never flying coach scale replica of the original one friendships with fellow soldiers, I believe that Nicholas was a their son on a small hill. again,” was his grave response. created by Alexander's favor one of whom later described casualty of war, not on some for - The day was flawless, the sky The journey was a cornu - sculptor Lysippos. A prolific him as “the guy everyone eign battlefield, but in a war barren of a single cloud. As copia of pleasures. Nick’s awe artist Lysippos created more wanted to hang out with.” Sev - stemming from those tangled, Dean, Anna and Nicholas played as he viewed the illuminated than 1,500 bronze sculptures eral other soldiers who served Parthenon, his delight climbing but unfortunately none has sur - with him spoke of his empathy the rocks at Delphi, splashing vived! Several statue bases bear - and willingness to help when through the surf on a beach in Harry Mark Petrakis ing his name are all that re - they shared their problems with Crete. mains of his work. ''Herakles him. When we visited my father’s moves, pride in my grandson’s Epitrapezios'' is another work To relieve the boredom that village on the island of Crete, skill took precedence over cha - associated with Lysippos based comes with an army at peace, our relatives feted Nicholas as grin at my swift defeat. on ancient descriptions. The col - on weekend passes Nick trav - if he were a visiting prince, Nick’s death leaves our fam - lection also includes two sculp - eled to Munich and to Prague. fondling him, cramming him ily anguished. His father, mother tures of Eros. The ''Sleeping He also intensified his use of al - with pastries. When we left, and sister will carry the sorrow Eros,'' a winged baby sleeping cohol and drugs. He was given they wept for his departure. for as long as they live. For over a rock in contrast to Clas - counseling and treatment and Problems developed within whatever time remains to us, we sical images of a deity as an ado - then a general discharge. He re - my son’s family. A few years his grandparents will mourn lescent; and ''Eros Riding a turned to the U.S. to live at ago, Dean and his wife Anna him, as well. His youth has been Lion,'' which was found in home. He worked hard and held separated. Without apparent bit - stilled, his vigor drained, his Yemen where the ancient king - jobs as a waiter in two different terness, they divorced. They voice silenced, while we who dom of Qataban once stood. restaurants. In his spare time, shared custody of Nicholas and should be dead still live. Even without wings, the small he played video games and par - Adriana, adjusting to their lives At a memorial service held a boy is identifiable as Eros. tied with friends. He developed apart. few weeks after his death, a The exhibition also features some problems with his stomach As the years passed, our fam - number of his friends came for - two works of art believed to that produced occasional bleed - ilies visited between California ward, confessing to their own have been created in the same ing. Several times he had made and the Midwest almost every addictions and relating how workshop: the two herms of visits to the ER. Recently, he had year. We were witness to the Nicholas had helped them in Dionysos, the Mahdia Herm and been making plans to move to stages of Nick’s growth, his tran - their more grievous times. Our the Getty Herm. An exquisite Las Vegas to join friends in a sition from adolescence into grandson, who could not help depiction of a victorious athlete business growing medical mari - tormented forces within him, a together, the sun embraced sturdy, handsome young man - himself, had the gift of being who is about to remove his juana in that state where it is war that he lost. them in an aura of radiance, hood. He was congenial with a able to help others. We find that wreath, the ''Getty Bronze,” was legal. At this point, my grand - Nicholas was less than a year making them resemble a family quick sense of humor. The last consoling. found at the Adriatic sea. The son’s story as well as his life old when his parents brought in a commercial promoting time Nicholas was with us, a Another consolation, meager Getty Museum acquired the ends. him from California to Chicago health, vigor, and happiness. I couple of years ago, we sat warmth though it provides, is sculpture in 1977 but the own - I find it hard to accept what so that we, his grandparents, recall uttering a small prayer across a chessboard as we had that we had this bright and ami - ership title was challenged by has happened. Why should he could see him for the first time. that their lives always retain done since his childhood. While able youth with us for twenty- the Italian Cultural ministry have died so young? How had My wife and I waited for their part of the joy radiating from Nicholas had been improving two years, sharing with him that along with other works of art. his despair become so encom - flight, more than three hours them at that moment. each year as a player, that day loving and sometimes an - The dispute was settled in 2007 passing that he would take his late, to land at O’Hare Airport. A few years later, another he defeated me in a handful of guished interval between birth with the Getty returning 40 own life? His death seems ram - Dean and Anna carrying child was born to our son’s fam - moves and death we call life. The pieces of art to Italy and an op - pantly unfair. But I have lived Nicholas came off the plane ex - ily. A dark, haired lovely girl After he demolished me in a bleakest thought is that we portunity for a new start. long enough to understand that hausted and hysterical with they named Adriana who even second game in even fewer might never have had him at all. THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015 COMMUNITY 5 The Stand with Greece Policy Summit Inspires New Ideas and Solidarity

By Constantine S. Sirigos separate panels on October 1. ropolitan Gabriel “provided very TNH Staff Writer The opening panel discussed the sobering if not alarming testi - challenges and prospects for mony that included the fact that WASHINGTON, DC – Beyond business and administrative re - in 2014 the Church of Greece their votes, citizens have the form in Greece and ways those contributed over 140 Million eu - right to individually and collec - challenges can be alleviated. Dr. ros in humanitarian aid and so - tively work to have an impact Thanos Catsambas, an econo - cial services” in the context of on their government’s policy in mist and longtime IMF em - the general crisis. matters of concern to them by ployee, former Greek Minister “It's an amazing number,” he bringing them to the attention for Culture and Tourism Pavlos said, adding that, “On the of policy makers and providing Geroulanos, and businessman refugee crisis the Church cur - them with relevant information. Ted Diamantis were the pan - rently provides 4000 meals a There are many means to ac - elists. day to the Islands who are over - complish that goal, including The Summit concluded with whelmed at this point. His Emi - last week’s first annual Stand a panel on regional security and nence moved the guests when with Greece Policy Summit the geostrategic importance of he said "when we see a stranger hosted in Washington, DC by Greece as a European country we see Christ and this must be representatives Gus Bilirakis on the border of the volatile our mission". and Carolyn Maloney Sept. 30 Middle East moderated by John HALC Executive Director Ze - to Oct. 1 Sitilides, president of Trilogy menides told TNH that “the Bilirakis and Maloney are co- Advisors. Stand with Greece summit com - Chairs of Congress’ Hellenic What he called a powerhouse bined political advocacy, hu - Caucus, and they kicked off the panel included Robert Kaplan, manitarian aid and business Summit, which was presented Jeff Rathke from CSIS, Euro - help for Greece. There is still a with financial support from the pean MP Eva Kaili, and Atlantic long road to travel for Greece Hellenic American Leadership Council Delegate Nikolas Kat - to get back on its feet, and I am Council (HALC), at a reception simpras. proud that HALC joined the Hel - where other leading Caucus Left to right: (L-R) Michael Karloutsos, Metropolitan Gabriel, Eva Kaili, Congressman Gus Bili - Sitilides told TNH “The panel lenic Caucus in this step to offer members spoke, including Chris rakis, and Endy Zemenides on the balcony of the Speaker of the House. was crafted to specifically ex - assistance at so many levels." Van Hollen, Dina Titus, Illeana plore more realistic, up-to-date “We just have to follow up Ros-Lehtinen, Tim Ryan, John as Greece has always stood with “The purpose is to see how how the Department of Home - assessments of the U.S.-Greece with some of these suggestions,” Larson, Ted Deutch, Mario Diaz- the United States as a strong we can help our ally Greece as land Security can help with the relationship in a new era, where such as helping Greece with Balart, and Dan Donovan. friend and ally…I was especially Congress and to show how im - migration issue – “It’s the least Greece’s political stability is spare parts for the armed forces, Congresswoman Maloney honored to attend a meeting at portant geopolitically Greece is we can do” is already circulat - more important than ever.” a matter that was brought up told TNH that "this summit was the White House with promi - in the middle of East and West,” ing. The middle panel which was by Katsimpras, Bilirakis told a great opportunity for Congress nent Hellenic leaders in August. he said, noting “We had some Bilirakis said the aim is “to led by Amb. Eleni Tsakopoulos TNH. He added “I have spoken to hear from Hellenic leaders, It was hosted by Chief of Staff very capable people that gave cultivate stronger relations be - Kounalakis and include New to Ed Royce, the Chairman of leaders in Greece, and those Denis McDonough and Vice good advice,” on a variety of is - tween Greece and the United York State Assemblywoman the Foreign Affairs committee in who are concerned about the fu - President Biden even attended sues, including how to boost States by bringing a renewed Nicole Malliotakis, and Metro - the past and he was all for it.” ture of Greece…We are commit - to show his support and con - tourism from the U.S.” congressional focus on key politan Gabriel of Nea Ionia and The luncheon on Oct. 1 was ted to making sure that Greece cern.” Bilirakis participants dis - diplomatic, military, and human Philadelphia. underwritten by Angelo stays at the top of the agenda Bilirakis told TNH he was cussed sending teams to provide rights issues in a critical part of Businessman and community Tsakopoulos. Bilirakis told TNH for the U.S. government.” very pleased with the results the Greek government with the world,” according to a press leader Michael Karloutsos, who Amb. Tsakopopulos helped Maloney told participants, and that they will make the technical assistance. He told release. traveled from Philadelphia to spearhead it, and John Sitilides “We are standing with Greece summit an annual event. TNH a letter to colleagues about The Summit featured three participate, told TNH that Met - helped a lot.” Miss America’s Mom, Tassie Cantrell, Speaks with The National Herald

By Constantine Sirigos first pageant she did, someone Theater awards for both classi - Tassie and Mike met as stu - TNH Staff Writer came up to me and said ‘I don’t cal and musical theater – an un - dents at the University of Geor - know you, I have no reason to precedented feat. gia, where they received bache - NEW YORK – “It was wonderful tell you this, but I’m looking at “She can sing the phone lor’s degrees in exercise from start to finish…It was very your daughter and I am telling book. Honest to God that girl physiology and nutrition, re - exciting. We were sitting on the you she has what it takes to go can sing anything,” he proud spectively. They were married edge of our seats” Tassie all the way.” mother declared. in 1984 after Mike finished Cantrell, Miss America’s mom, They encouraged her to do Talent runs in abundance three years of active duty in the told The National Herald about everything she could with her among the Cantrells. Tassie pre - Army. the experience in Atlantic City ability “and let God handle the ferred to talk of their children, They both earned master’s that culminated in Betty rest…it was such a blessing – but the parents built the degrees in physical therapy at Cantrell being crowned Miss oh my God.” Cantrell Center for Physical Emory University and in 1992 America 2016. Faith and spirituality is very Therapy, Wellness, and Sports they moved to Warner Robins, The winner’s mother also important to the family – Medicine, into a highly-re - GA, where Mike spend most of had a heartfelt appreciation for Michael Cantrell became Ortho - spected and successful business. his childhood years and opened all the contestants, saying “of dox – and all the children sang Their eldest son Michael the Center. course there were 51 other in the choir of the Church of the sings and is also pursuing a ca - Mike’s family settled in beautiful and talented girls, but Holy Cross in Macon, GA. “They reer in acting and their Warner Robins after his father I was hoping for the best for one called us the Von Trapp family. youngest, Sophia, is also multi - retired from the military and be - of them.” They know all the hymns in talented, but she excels in soc - gan to work at Robins Air Force The whole process was Greek,” Tassie said. cer. Base. amazing for the family because Betty studied classical ballet, Tassie’s parents Baciliky and Mike continues to practice Betty had not begun to compete jazz, tap and modern dance for Stavros were born in Atlanta, physical therapy and is a faculty until a few years ago. “A friend eight years, but in high school, GA and Waterbury, CT respec - member of the Postural Restora - heard Betty sing and told us once her classical singing train - tively; the earlier generation tion Institute (PRI). He travels Betty could get scholarship ing began at age 14, she had to emigrated from Greece. all over the United States and money.” pull away a bit from dance. She “My yiayia on my father’s now England, teaching PRI Betty has been singing, act - loves dancing, but her passion side was from Vouliotis on the treatment techniques to other ing and dancing her whole life was acting and singing and by island of Samos and my pappou physical therapists. – but she has been trained for then her schedule had become was from Plomari on Lesbos… Moments after being chosen Miss America 2016, Betty Cantrell The family have been active musical theater and opera, so too demanding. My yiayia on my mother’s side is still overwhelmed. Her parents, Tassie and Mike, and her members of Holy Cross in Ma - she is a quadruple threat. And the recognition that val - is from Marathokampos on siblings, Mike and Sophia, were filled with emotion, too. con, GA since they moved there “Her dream is to perform on idated her dreams began to ac - Samos, and my grandfather was in 1992. A trip to Greece is now Broadway, but musical theater cumulate. She won her region from Tripolis,” Tassie said, brim - and call her Betty after my can hold my own. I just did an on the agenda. conservatory is very expensive, and state’s literary award, and ming now with regional pride. mom. interview in Greek…We spoke “I want to take the kids to so the idea of getting scholar - the Golden Eagle Award for mu - When her mother died of Tassie is proud to speak Greek all the time and when I Greece now so badly,” she told ship money for the pageant was sic – for which she competed cancer, Tassie went to live with Greek, which she polished grow - had children I tried to speak TNH before excusing herself to how it all started,” Tassie told against singers and instrumen - her grandparents when she was ing up with her grandparents, Greek to them all the time too. run an errand. I have to bring TNH. talists. eight. who permitted only Greek at They know a few words but can back the car Betty won as Miss The decision was an auspi - In college, Betty won the Na - “I always said if I had a little home. understand more than they can Georgia. The new Miss Georgia cious one from the start. “The tional Association of Teachers of girl I would name her Baciliky “I’m not super fluent, but I speak.” wants it.” Crowd of 40,000-50,000 at Archangel Michael Festival in Port Washington

By Constantinos Vouzakis generations. The festival was a pleasure Tziazas is also president of for young and old alike, enjoying PORT WASHINGTON, NY – the large community soccer club, the food, music, and rides, in Over 40,000 and possibly up to Eleftheria Pancyprian. beautiful early fall weather. 50,000 Greeks and non-Greeks alike attended the Greek Festival of Archangel Michael in Port Washington that ended on Sep - tember 27. Community President Michael Cavounis told TNH the festival – in its 35th year and 7th at North Hempstead Beach Park – was a success. He re - ferred warmly to the 450 enthu - siastic volunteers who helped make the festival successful, talked about the 200 or so youth involved in community sports, and about Father Nikolas Kar - loutsos, who has been there three years. Cavounis expressed his pride to be leader of this vibrant com - munity – comprised by approx - imately 600 families – and that the festival has emerged as one of the major ones on Long Is - land. Cavounis also discussed A good way to start your morning the community’s upcoming gala dinner, planned for November is with a cup of coffee and 13 at Jericho Terrace, the site of the annual New Year’s Eve The National Herald celebration as well. TNH had the opportunity to speak to another distinguished member of the community, Nick Good morning ...every morning! Tziazas, who has been there for The Archangel Michael 18 years, who talked about the Church in Port Washington, hard work that goes into the fes - NY celebrated its 35th tival, and using the proceeds to annual Greek festival with a cover the community’s expenses. Subscribe today... whopping crowd on hand, Tziazas also mentioned that estimated between 40,000 the festival is an opportunity for and 50,000. The festival of young people to meet each other this community, led by through their volunteer work, The National Herald Father Nikolas Carloutsos and to learn the traditions and (718) 784-5255 and President Michael the customs and norms, so that [email protected] Cavounis, is one of the there is continuity and passing www.thenationalherald.com major ones on Long Island. values, traditions, and the sense of volunteerism to the future 6 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015 St. Spyridon PC Pres. Papadatos Says He Had “No Idea” about Passias

By Theodore Kalmoukos TNH: Once you learned SP: About 200. I am not going to throw him un - SP: No, and I don’t want to. about it, how did you react? TNH: How do you sustain der the bus. I am not going to TNH: How many years have NEW YORK – In the aftermath SP: I couldn’t believe it, to the parish with a full-time priest throw them under the bus. I am you been Parish Council Presi - of the sex scandal that rocked be honest. It was very shocking, and with the expenses? not going to slam them. I am dent? the St. Spyridon parish in the I had no idea. I still can’t talk SP: We do it, thank God. Fr. not going to that. I forgive them. SP: Five years, I think. Upper Manhattan neighborhood about it, I couldn’t believe it.” George has a great following I understand they made a mis - TNH: Are you going to run of Washington Heights, after its TNH: Do you believe it now? and people make a lot of dona - take, and I move on and I pray for reelection? priest of the past nine years, SP: I believed it (even when tions. for them and for their families SP: If people vote for me, Rev. George Passias, was sus - I learned about it) but how can TNH: Ms. Bouzalas was the every single day. then yes. If not, well, that’s the pended by the Archdiocese fol - I explain to you? I fell from the Church treasurer. Are there any TNH: This is not a simple democratic process. lowing evidence of his affair sky. I was shocked. What else improprieties regarding the fi - mistake. Fr. Passias was no or - TNH: I understand that the with Ethel Bouzalas, Passias’ as - can I say? nances? dinary person, he was a priest last few years you didn’t have sociate who – like him – is mar - TNH: Did you speak with Fr. SP: No, everything is perfect. of God. election because you didn’t have ried, and to whom he referred Passias ? TNH: All these years you did - SP: I understand, but I don’t enough candidates? as his “spiritual daughter,” SP: Yes, we spoke. n’t sense anything? You didn’t feel betrayed, to answer your SP: That’s correct. We didn’t Parish Council President Efs - TNH: How did he react? smell anything that something question. have enough people to vote. tathios (Steve) Papadatos spoke SP: He was remorseful. He strange was going on? TNH: Did you attempt to call TNH: What do you think will with The National Herald about said “I destroyed my priesthood. SP: No, never. him since he left? If not, why happen to Fr. Passias? the matter, complicated by the I destroyed my life.” That is TNH: Do you remember the not? SP: I don’t know, I don’t fact that Bouzalas is apparently what he told me. New York Post article from two SP: No. Because I want to re - know how that works. The Spir - pregnant with Passias’ child. TNH: What is he going to do years ago describing the affair, spect the man’s time. Like he itual Courts and stuff like that “I couldn’t believe it, to be now? and the letter you sent out de - said in his letter, he needs to are beyond my knowledge. We honest. It was very shocking. I SP: I have no idea. fending Fr. Passias? find peace. The man deserves it have to pray because children had no idea,” he said. TNH: Do you know where he SP: I remember everything, and he should get it. and grandchildren are involved The interview follows: is now? Is he at the monastery sir. But not for one second did I TNH: How is Ms. Bouzalas in this situation. We are talking TNH: What do you have to (of his spiritual leader, the Elder Parish Council President Efs - think (it to be true). doing? Have you talked to her? about destroying and hurting say about this incident? Ephraim), with his presbytera? tathios (Steve) Papadatos. TNH: So, do you feel be - SP: Yes, I have. She is hurt - many people’s lives, a lot of SP: It is an unfortunate situ - SP: I have no idea. trayed? ing, too. Thank God last I spoke damage. He has thousands upon ation and we have to pray for TNH: When did you last phere among the parishioners? SP: No. to her, she is ok. thousands of spiritual children. him his family, for her family, speak with him? SP: The community is hurt, I TNH: How can you say you TNH: Is she going to keep This is something that should and for everyone involved. This SP: I can’t remember exactly, mean, very hurt. The people are don’t feel betrayed, after all that the baby? not be taken lightly. This is a se - is my statement. Very simple. maybe a week ago. angry, they are hurt. They lost happened? SP: I have no idea. rious matter that is affecting TNH: When did you learn TNH: Have any of the other their priest. The community is SP: As Orthodox Christians, TNH: Would you please give thousands of people. about the incident and from parishes called you? sad and we have to pray for the we have to forgive. He made a her my telephone number? TNH: Let me remind you whom? SP: No, only Bishop Ando - people. We have to pray for his mistake, and she made a mis - SP: No, I am not going to do that they (Passias and Bouzalas) SP: I can’t tell you. I cannot nios, the Archdiocesan Chancel - family. take. That is it. We all make mis - that. did what they did. We are only break that person’s confidence. lor. TNH: How many families do takes. Nobody is perfect. I am TNH: Have you seen the the messengers. It’s as simple as that. TNH: What is the atmos - you have at St. Spyridon? not going to jump all over him. videos? SP: I understand. Bay Ridge Man Tells TNH Rev. George Passias Embroiled in Sexual Scandal of Passias’ Holy Cross Days Continued from page 1 God will provide. But you must also do the due diligence by Washington Heights church, seeking another Father, and TNH Staff Writer them realize they’ve been had Passias brought Bouzalas and then after prayer, choosing him by a man of the cloth,” he said. Papadatos along. The latter be - as your spiritual guide and fa - BAY RIDGE – Evans Kotsis, who “I was on the parish council came Parish Council President, ther. owns an ice cream shop in Bay when he was released from Holy a position he holds to this day. Think not that I will forget Ridge and a videography studio Cross, and we were basically Passias appointed Bouzalas you! Never! I have already en - served on the Parish Council of crucified. I was in church and Parish Treasurer and also School tered your names to be com - the Church of the Holy Cross people whom I have known for Principal. No Parish Council memorated every day in the when Fr. George Passias was the years would come up to me and elections took place at St. Spyri - Holy Liturgy forever! pastor there. His experience blast me in the narthex of the don – due to lack of candidates. “I am very grateful to the with Passias is very similar to Church: “Shame on you! You are At Passias’ directive, the Lord for granting me to be a those of others who spoke with one of them! You are the thieves parish undertook loans of $3.5 spiritual father to you, and have TNH but chose not to comment and liars!” million to renovate its buildings. tried to do the best that I could for the record. Kotsis said the issues at Holy Passias, who used the Sacra - to do in that role making myself “I was in shock, but at the Cross were similar to the accu - ment of Confession and his as available as time and health same time I wasn’t in shock,” sations at St. Spyridon. “And we teachings about spirituality for permitted. Kotsis told TNH. “At first, I found out after the fact at St. many years to attract followers “I will always love you thought it was just another ru - Nicholas in Flushing, too,” he who became his “army of spiri - through prayer and in my heart mor or someone with an axe to added. tual children,” has already left together with your family. grind, these accusations are “He wanted to control every - New York, to visit Ephraim at “Please pray for me and pretty harsh, pretty crazy. But thing, no transparency, over - St. Anthony’s Monastery in Flo - Presvytera Mary, and my family, Sunday morning when I went to stepping his pastoral duties and rence, AZ. Abbot Paisios of the I implore you. the supermarket my jaw just taking over the business aspects Monastery did not respond to “In His Abiding Love, dropped because it was on the of the Church, things just not TNH’s request for comment. “Father George G. Passias.” front page of the New York Post.” adding up, question about PASSIAS’ EMAIL He explained “I was not where money was going, cash On September 28, Passias shocked that he was involved in donations being requested, a lot sent the following email to his another scandal, I was shocked of shady stuff,” he said. followers, in which he does not at the [magnitude] of it…if he Asked what advice he had for mention the extramarital affair were just another Joe off the St. Spyridon parishioners, Kotsis and pregnancy, or his where - street you say ‘Whatever – he told TNH that many of them are abouts. did something stupid,’ but the actually transplants from Holy “My Beloved Spiritual Chil - fact that he was a priest and a Cross. “They are his followers dren in Christ Jesus our Lord: high ranking priest, you hold who would make the commute. “Today I share with you a him up to a higher standard.” It goes back to the stranglehold very difficult and trying period Passias has amassed a large he has on people, and that he in my priestly life. following through the years can do no wrong. They will fol - “The time has come for me both from among his congrega - low him anywhere.” to resign from the active min - tions at parishes where he has Kotsis said he hoped “they fi - istry for personal and health rea - served and through his associa - nally realize that you should be sons. Now I will dedicate myself tion with the monasteries estab - going to Church for church and to the repentance that I have my multitudinous sins and what is my lot. lished in North America by Fa - for God, not for any particular tried to preach and share on be - shortcomings, that I should re - “It is immeasurably difficult ther Ephraim. person or any other reason,” half of our Lord. At the direction tire and follow the way of si - for me to direct you to seek Kotsis is familiar with them and expressed the view that of my spiritual father, the Elder lence, prayer, fasting, and utter through prayer and vigilance, and characterized them as “ex - “you should never open yourself Ephraim, I will now fade out of devotion to our Lord. Please do another spiritual father who will treme…almost to the point of up to be so vulnerable to a per - this world for a considerable not ask where I am going and be able to address your needs being fanatical. I wonder if this son, be he a priest or a rock star time according to God’s will. He where I will be. Then, it would with love, truth, and conviction will open their eyes and make or other celebrity.” has chosen for me according to not be possible for me to fulfill for the betterment of your souls. Hippocrates: the Father of Modern Medicine and Most Famous Kos Citizen

By Eleni Sakellis manner. the water temperature of the Hippocrates was the first to baths. Diet and exercise were Hippocrates, the Father of document patients’ case histo - also treatments recommended Medicine is the most famous his - ries, noting symptoms and ob - by Hippocrates for ailments like torical figure from the island of servations that were recorded diabetes. Kos. He was born in about the for posterity. He was the first to Hippocrates may have been year 460 B.C. His parents were recognize that clubbed fingers ahead of his time in some as - Heraclides, a physician who and fingernails, called Hippo - pects of treating patients, but trained his son, and Praxitela. cratic fingers, were a symptom the basis of his medical knowl - Hippocrates had two sons, Thes - of chronic lung and heart dis - edge was inherently flawed be - salus and Draco whom he ease. He used willow bark, the cause it relied on the idea of bal - trained as doctors and a daugh - plant whose salicylic acid is used ancing the four humors and not ter. His son-in-law, Polybus, was to make aspirin, to treat pain on actual knowledge of the way also a student and a doctor, as and reduce fevers. At the Ascle - the human body works. Dissect - well. The first biography of Hip - pio, you can see the soaking ing cadavers was unheard of in pocrates was written by Soranus tubs used for treating different Hippocrates’s day, so how the of Ephesus, a Greek physician ailments and the round stones systems of the body actually writing in the 2nd century A.D. which were heated to control worked remained a mystery for Hippocrates lived in the golden age and was renowned through - out the Greek world for his med - ical expertise and founding the Hippocratic School of Medicine. His teachings survive in books of the Hippocratic Corpus, a col - lection of writings probably writ - ten by his students and follow - ers. Some scholars suggest about nineteen authors in total con - tributed to the Hippocratic Cor - pus which formed the basis of Hippocrates, widely dubbed the Father of Modern Medicine, seen here refusing the gifts of Ar - all medical knowledge for cen - taxerxes. Engraving by Raphael Massard, 1816, after A.L. Girodet-Trioson, 1792. turies in the Western world. Hip - pocrates is mentioned in Plato’s centuries. DNA of the plane tree growing Hippocratic Oath on them in “Protagoras” and “Phaedrus” In Kos town, visitors flock to at the National Library of Medi - every language you can think of and by Aristotle in “Politics.” His see the plane tree under which, cine which was a gift of a cut - in just about every tourist shop most important contribution to according to legend, Hip - ting from the tree in Kos in on Kos. The image of the medicine is his method of obser - pocrates lectured to his stu - 1962. The results determined bearded figure with a kindly vation and relying on science dents. Sticklers for historical ac - the species of the tree as the Ori - bedside manner came to repre - rather than the supernatural for curacy will note that the tree ental plane tree, but technology sent the ideal physician even to treating his patients. though several hundred years is not yet available to determine the present day. Hippocrates The Hippocratic Oath taken old (scholars estimate between more specific detail. Whether or died in Larissa, Thessaly in by doctors today is not exactly 500-700 years old) is unlikely not Hippocrates did indeed about 370 B.C. at an advanced as it was in ancient times. The to be the original tree. Still, even teach his students beneath the age, scholars suggest 85 or 90 references to the gods have been the strictest historian or arborist tree, it is a picturesque historical and perhaps even 100 years old. removed and the focus is more would agree, it very well might site to visit. His contributions to medicine on doing no harm to patients be a seed that grew from the Today, you can buy various- form a remarkable legacy still and how doctors must conduct ancient tree. In 2014, scientists sized statues and busts of Hip - relevant over 2,000 years after themselves in a professional in Washington D.C. sampled the pocrates and t-shirts with the his death. THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015 FEATURE 7 Narcissus Now is Theme of Onassis Fall Inaugural

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festival’s theme. “The internet now, with all the social media, is a reinforcement of narcissism and the ego,” he told TNH. Plessas explores the many ways people’s personalities as shaped by the web, including the good elements, such as the creativity that is spurred among young people. Budding artists can now share with society what in the past would have lived lonely existences on their scrap paper and notebooks. The web is a window on the world for the artist, and the world’s window into the artist’s reality – sometimes the two in - tersect. Plessas met his partner in a chat room when it was a revolutionary medium. He grew up in Athens, the son of a Greek father and an Italian woman whose family moved there as a child who were not artists, but they are creative people and cultivated Anthoula Katsimatides delights in the flowers she received his artistic energies. after her one woman show. Offstage she works on projects for “I never consciously wanted her Johnny and Mikey Katsimatides Foundation for Life. to be an artist, but I was always unconsciously an artist. I was always doing things like making my own MTV-inspired videos.” Anthoula Katsimatides: He was drawn to technology, but would give it a creative twist. a One Woman Show Through his time of compul - sory military service, Plessas still had not decided on a career Continued from page 1 Acting, however, turned from path, but he was drawn to the an interest, to kind of therapy, clubs and lounges of the Rave Katsimatides – she is a serial vale - to a full-blown profession. culture that was thriving in dictorian – learned a thing or two Before the completion of the Greece in the late 1990s. and turned the weapon on her transition, she was devoted to At one point he found one of dad: “What would people say if the work she did with Lower the then-rare internet cafés “and it seems that Antonios Katsi - Manhattan Development Corpo - I started browsing the internet matides doesn’t care enough ration (LMDC) as a liaison to like crazy.” about Nisyros to send his daugh - families who lost relatives on He decided that was the ter there?” she asked. 9/11. medium for his work, not can - She was on her way, and then The next dose of pain was no vases. After enrolling in school she had the time of her life, in - more bearable for coming in for learning computerized in - cluding her first romance: Vas - more conventional form. Her fa - dustrial design, he worked for sili. ther, despite a heroic comeback his father’s company, which de - Angelo Plessas’ mural “I AMness,” at right, is the inaugural art work displayed on the Center’s It seems every Greek-Ameri - from a potentially crippling in - signed pharmaceutical industry new Art Wall. Bottom photo: The stairway that connects the Olympic Tower’s lobby with the can girl had a Vassili, or a NIki - jury, succumbed to a staph infec - components, where he devel - lower Atrium and exhibition hall serves to integrate the Center’s new spaces. foro, or a Spiro, never to be for - tion he picked up in the hospital. oped his skills. gotten. Brothers tended not to Katsimatides mourned him Playing with “some really know that it was art,” until his Plessas, who lives in Greece ment, just before September remember the names of the girls too, once again, as with her cool software” Plessas was doing partner, artist and curator An - again, arrived in New York “at 11,” but by the time he got there, who stole their hearts. brothers, hearing posthumous interesting things. “But I didn’t dreas Angelidakis told him. what was not very good mo - he was a professional artist. But then her father heard praise, but there were some sur - about the strolls and motorcycle prises. rides. “Katsika! – you goat!” he When a man she met learned roared over the phone. about her father’s passing, he Painful as it was then, she couldn’t contain himself, pouring Greek Town Glimpses Mass Transit Future: Driverless Buses laughs about it now. Later in life, out his appreciation for Antonios’ she realized the significance of generosity. In time, she heard the birthday she shared with her many testimonials, but this first TRIKALA, Greece (AP) — Greek government had to city's digital project department, tery-powered vehicles will even - father that made them both was the most touching. There'll be no arguing with the amend its laws to allow the test - e-Trikala. "We have a 2.4-kilo - tually be used in this farming Capricorns. “He’s a goat, too!” “I worked for him. He gave driver on this bus: the rides are ing and the city had to build a meter (1.5-mile) route, the bus town of 80,000 that has become The high expectations were me my first job – he made the free and there's no driver any - dedicated bus lane that de - route. It's mixed with traffic, with hooked on high-tech. accompanied by pride and love. down payment on our house!” way. prived residents of downtown pedestrians, with bicycles, with Trikala already has already When Katsimatides was The thrilling performance – Trikala, a rural town in north - parking spaces. cars ... That hasn't been done be - tested EU-funded pilot medical crowned Miss AHEPA in 1992 Katsimatides did not skip a beat, ern Greece, has been chosen to The robot buses don't look fore." programs, including schemes to “my father was so proud you despite her personal pain – be - test a driverless bus in real traffic like science fiction vehicles — Vasilis Karavidas, chief tech - relay heart test data from home could see the light beam from came incandescent when she conditions for the first time, part more like golf cart meets ice- nician for the project in Greece, to the doctor's office and use his eyes.” shifted to an entirely different of a European project to revolu - cream truck. Still, heads turn as trained with Robosoft, the com - tracker devices for Alzheimer pa - But great love only heightens persona, a woman drowning in tionize mass transport and wean the skinny, battery-powered pany that developed the bus, in tients. In the center of the city, a pain when tragedy strikes. First obligations of the family way – its cities off oil dependency over buses hum through the streets. the southwest French town of "digital tree" with solar panels al - there was the phone call that in - the female version on Zorba’s the next 30 years. They seat only 10 people and are Bidart. lows benches to carry phone- formed her about Mikey’s death. “full catastrophe.” Trials of the French-built guided by GPS and supplemen - Although the driverless buses charging outlets. “I don’t know how I survived Pregnant again, the woman CityMobil2 buses started last tary sensors, including lasers and are fully automated with on - The 28-nation European that year,” she said, notwith - went on and on about her frus - week and will last through late cameras, that send live data to a board navigation and obstacle Union is targeting gasoline use standing the help she received tration and regrets over not shar - February. control center. detection systems, each vehicle for city transport as one area from therapists and suicide sur - ing the more glamorous parts of Over the past year, CityMo - The buses go no faster than will be monitored by a driver in where it wants to reduce carbon vivor groups. Katsimatides’ life. bil2 has been tried out near its 20 kph (12 1/2 mph), but the the control center who can over - emissions. With oil prices and “But I did,” she continued. “And who met the Pope last base in La Rochelle in western trials in Trikala (pronounced ride the system, Karavidas said. city populations expected to rise By the end of the day on Sep - week,” she moaned – It wasn’t France, on a campus in Lau - TREE-kah-lah) potentially repre - "It's as if they are in here and in the coming decades, a major tember 11, 2001, her brother me! sanne, Switzerland, and near sent a major advance for auto - they can stop the bus if they shift to battery power and more John, an employee with Cantor “The grass is always greener Helsinki, Finland, all in con - mated transport. want to, if something goes shared transport could blur the Fitzgerald, was also gone. on the other side of the fence,” trolled conditions that produced "There were cities bidding for wrong," he said. line between private and public He had helped her get she noted about the person she no accidents. this project all over Europe. They The buses are currently run - vehicles. through “that year.” The man actually knows. “All the charac - But in Greece, a country of offered relatively restricted ur - ning without passengers, with Senior transport analyst she calls the Greek John Travolta ters are real,” she told TNH. “The narrow, winding, hilly streets, ban areas. But we said we could full testing to start later this Philippe Crist at the International eased her pain by taking her names are changed to protect the stray dogs, bicycle riders and make it happen in a downtown month when a fiber-optic net - Transport Forum, an OECD dancing – one of her talents that innocent” – “and the guilty,” one impatient drivers, the buses are environment and we won," said work allowing faster data trans - think-tank based in Paris, says she did not develop. man added. up against real traffic. The Odisseas Raptis, who heads the mission is completed. Six bat - transport trends are hard to pre - dict as the world moves more to - ward automation. "We too often look at techno - logical changes in isolation," said Crist. "There is a good chance that these technologies will cre - ate entirely new uses that we can only poorly grasp today. The re - ality is that everything is chang - ing around these technologies and it is plausible that society may lose interest in owning cars or using fixed-service public transport — especially if these technologies allow better alter - natives to emerge." Models run by the think tank suggest that city transport could be made massively more effi - cient. Crist said researchers looked at "shared and route-optimized on-call taxi-like services replac - ing all car and bus trips in a mid- sized European city. We found Left to right: Anthony Sideris, Agnes Tzikas Kyriakopoulos, Hartofilis, Very Rev. Nektarios Pa - that these systems could deliver pazafiropoulos, Metropolitan Alexios, Dr. Rany Condos, Philip Christopher, Nick Tavantzis, and Dr. Rany Condos, Acting Nassau County DA (and current DA almost the same mobility as to - Nick Andriotis. Association President Jimmy Hartofilis called the alums: "the best of the best." candidate) Madeline Singas, and Philip Christopher. day but with 95 percent fewer vehicles." Driverless cars and buses offer an easier way to optimize traffic The St. Demetrios Alumni Association Pays Tribute to its Grads flow while aiming to eliminate human error. That has transport developers working at both ends: Continued from page 1 ation and of Bridgehampton Na - called upon them to be proud statewide offices: himself to the Singas added that “St. adding automatic features to tional Bank Nick Tavantzis wel - of the school and the commu - City Council, and two col - Demetrios is our home and a conventional vehicles while rais - tice for Cyprus (PSEKA), Class comed the alumni and ex - nity and always keep in mind leagues, whose best wishes he source of inspiration to pursue ing the bar for those that will of 1962. pressed his joy over the that they are “brothers and sis - conveyed, NY State Senator excellence with every step we have no driver at all. 1970s: Dr. Rany Kontos, a attendees, including Metropoli - ters,” united by a school that in - Michael Gianaris and Assembly - take.” So far, the CityMobile2 has pulmonologist, Class of 1976. tan Alexios of Atlanta, St. stilled in them “the best virtues woman Aravella Simotas. Hartofilis called the School had mixed reviews on the streets 1980’s: Madeline Singas, Demetrios Church Parish Coun - of our heritage.” In accepting his award, and community “the bastion of Trikala. Not everyone is happy Nassau County Acting District cil Member Archimandrite Nec - Papazafiropoulos congratu - Christopher said he shared it and beacon of Hellenism in to lose parking spots or replace Attorney (DA) and DA candidate tarios Papazafiropoulos, School lated the Association’s leader - with all of you and all those who America. human jobs with machines. Still, (Democrat) for 2016, Class of Committee President Nick An - ship for ensuring a large couldn’t be with us tonight” “Astoria is the place where retiree Michalis Pantelis said he 1980. driotis, Principal Dr. Anastasios turnout, and invited them to be mentioned Mr. Christopher, re - we started and at the same time was proud that his city was se - 1990s: Agnes Tzikas-Kyri - Koularmanis, Afternoon School part of the Church and the com - minding that St. Demetrios, the place that brings us together lected for the testing. akopoulou, teacher, Class of Principal Timoleon Kokkinos, munity, as it “will always wel - now with almost 3,000 gradu - and gives us the possibility to "I think it's wonderful. Think 1990. Archdiocesan Cathedral School come you with open arms.” ates, was and remains one of feel that we belong to a big fam - how many people will come to 2000s: Anthony Sideris, rep - Principal Theodoros Kousoulas Constantinides added that the greatest Greek communities ily,” he said, inviting those who Trikala to see this. It's new and resenting the twenty-first cen - and New York City Councilman without St. Demetrios, the com - in the United States. are able to be part of the com - innovative," he said, moments af - tury’s first decade of graduates, Costas Constantinides. munity would not have been Kontos thanked the associa - munity and “give back,” and ter a driverless bus passed by. "It Class of 2008. Alexios told the alumni: “this successful in electing three tion and praised the School and those who cannot to contribute reminds me of the toy cars my Vice President of the Associ - is your night and our night,” and Greek-Americans to city and the community. in other ways. grandchildren play with." 8 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015

DEATH NOTICES CLASSIFIEDS n ADAMOPOULOS, home repair. No project was too She will now be joining her par - Sunday, Sept. 27. Born in Dafni, LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE FILOTHEI big or too small. He was always ents, her beloved husband Greece in 1929, George immi - Blanco’s Pro Movers LLC. Art. of Org. filed BL 62 WEST 9TH ST LLC. Art. of Org. filed CLEARWATER, FL (from the prepared to volunteer his time Joseph, her brother William, sis - grated to Great Falls, Montana w/ SSNY 10/5/15. Office in Kings Co. SSNY w/ SSNY 6/16/15. Office in Kings Co. designated for service of process and shall SSNY designated for service of process Dignity Memorial, published on and experience with a home im - ters Helen, Irene and Katherine, in 1955. He had a tumultuous mail to: The LLC, 310 Himrod St, Brooklyn, and shall mail to The LLC, 122 Congress Sept. 29) – Filothei Adamopou - provement project; family and and son-in-law Dr. Paul Clark, on again/off again lifelong re - NY 11237. Purpose: Any lawful activity. St, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: Any lawful activity. los nee Karavitis, 97, of Clear - friends have many reminders of where she will be watching over lationship with his wife Donna 27 4685 /118796 water, Florida and formerly of his good work. He left a mark all of us. Friends will be received Maria Geranios. When Donna 274659/1 8796 LEGAL NOTICE Chicago, Illinois, passed away on many homes and families. from 5PM to 7PM, Thursday was in her last months of life, LEGAL NOTICE Thursday, Sept. 24, with family Mr. Alexander was also an avid Oct. 1 at Walton's Funeral George served as her personal "Notice of formation of BKNYC HAIR by her side. Beloved wife of the gardener and lifelong Red Sox Home, 875 W. 2nd Street, Reno, care attendant and one man DEPOT, LLC. (FOR LLC). Articles of Organi - Arbor Gentry LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ SSNY zation filed with the Secretary of State of 3/11/15. Office in NY Co. SSNY designated for late Kleomenis Adamopoulos; fan. Adjectives to describe him and Trisagion prayers will be re - hospice care agency. It was a New York (SSNY) on 05/12/2015. Office service of process and shall mail to Reg. Agent: Devoted mother of George include generous, patient, tire - cited at 7PM. Services will be at long, difficult duty and he did it Location: Kings County. SSNY designated for US Corp. Agents, Inc, 7014 13th Ave. Ste. 202, (Faye) Adams; Proud Yiayia of less, faithful and loving. He re - St. Anthony Greek Orthodox with love, compassion and not service of process to: Ms. Ursula Powell, P.O. Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful ac - Box 360112, Brooklyn, NY 11236. tivity . Alexander and Christina Adams. married, later in life, to the for - Church, 4795 Lakeside Drive, a single complaint. In 2003, Purpose: Any lawful activity." 27 4652 /18796 Filothei also leaves behind many mer Maria Kourtidis. Maria Reno, on Friday Oct. 2 at George's granddaughter Sophia 27 4672 /1 9692 family and friends in Chicago, passed away in 2013. Family 1:30PM, followed by the burial was born. Never has a grandfa - LEGAL NOTICE Florida and Greece. A visitation and friends will gather to re - at Mountain View Cemetery. ther loved a granddaughter LEGAL NOTICE Maple Health Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ will be held at Holy Apostles member him on Sunday, Oct. 4 The Makaria meal will take more than George loved Sophia. "Notice of formation of AVARIA VERSUS, SSNY 7/22/15. Office in NY Co. SSNY desig - Greek Orthodox Church, 2501 from 5PM to 8PM in O'CON - place in the church hall after the He doted on her every molecule LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the nated for service of process and shall mail S. Wolf Road, Westchester, at NOR BROTHERS FUNERAL burial. and his face lit up like a Christ - Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on to:Legalinc Corp Services Inc, 134 Vintage 09/17/2015. Office Location: Kings County. Park Blvd. Ste. A50, Houston, TX 77070. Pur - 9:30AM on Friday, Oct. 2. Ser - HOME, 592 Park Avenue, mas tree every time he looked SSNY designated for service of process to: pose: Any lawful activity. vices for Filothei will begin at Worcester. His funeral will be DEMAS, MARIA at her. George was well known The LLC, Mr. Andrew Linde, 319 Hooper n St., Apt. 1F, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Purpose: 27 4648 /18796 10:00AM. Interment at Ever - held Monday, Oct. 5 with a ser - SACRAMENTO, CA (from the for his delicious Greek salads Any lawful activity." green Cemetery. In lieu of flow - vice at 10:00AM in St. Spyridon Sacramento Bee, published on and mustard greens. He was a 274677 /19696 LEGAL NOTICE ers, memorial donations in Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 102 Sept. 29) – Maria was born on hard worker and never shirked Flare LLC. Fic. name FindFlare LLC. App for honor of Filothei Adamopoulos Russell Street, Worcester. Burial Dec. 15, 1927 in Dunsmuir, Cal - duty, big or small. He and his LEGAL NOTICE Auth filed w/ SSNY 8/13/15. Formed in DE may be made to Holy Apostles will follow in Hope Cemetery. ifornia to Gus and Lula Harris. brothers owned Hussman's Pool 7/6/15. Office in NY Co. SSNY designated for "Notice of Application for Authority of Right service of process and shall mail to: The LLC, At School, LLC, a foreign limited liability Philoptochos, 2501 S. Wolf In lieu of flowers, contributions She passed into the loving arms Hall, a restaurant, several bars, 154 Grand St, New York, NY 10013. Auth Offi - Road, Westchester, IL 60154. in his memory may be made to of her Lord and Savior Jesus and apartment buildings in company (LLC). Application for Authority filed with Secy. of State of New York (SSNY) cer: DE Div of Corps, PO Box 898, Dover, DE St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Christ on Sept. 24, in Roseville. Great Falls. After moving to Mis - on 7/8/2015. LLC organized in Delware on 19903. Purpose: Any lawful activity. n AGRETELIS, MARIA Cathedral, 102 Russell Street, Her life had a profoundly beau - soula, he and his wife Donna 9/27/2010. NY office location: Kings 27 4642 /18796 ALLISTON, MA (from the Worcester, MA 01609. tiful impact on everyone who owned Greek Gyros in South - County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be LEGAL NOTICE Boston Globe, published on knew her. She leaves a rich gate Mall for over 30 years. He served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Sept. 28) – Maria (Arvanitis) n BAKOLAS, VASILIKI legacy of love, compassion, had a green thumb and loved The LLC 990 St Ste 500 Evanston, IL OpenTent, LLC. Art. of Org. filed w/ SSNY Agretelis of Allston died on MANCHESTER, NH (from the kindness, generosity and faith. being outdoors as much as pos - 60201. Office address in jurisdiction of or - 9/8/15. Office in Kings Co. SSNY designated ganization: National Registered Agents, for service of process and shall mail to: The Sept. 25. Beloved wife of the Union Leader, published on Oct. She triumphantly overcame ad - sible, going for long walks or Inc., 160 Greentree Drive, Suite 101, Dover, LLC, 786 Washington Ave. Ste. 2RL, Brooklyn, late Peter Agretelis, she was the 2) – Vasiliki Bakolas, 88, of versity and hardship with for - working in his yard. He loved Delaware 19904, County of Kent. Copy of NY 11238. Purpose: Any lawful activity. Articles of Organization on file with Secy. of 91 year old matriarch of a large Manchester, passed away Sept. giveness and tender hearted - animals of every kind and did State of Delaware, Division of Corporations, 27 4639 /18796 Greek extended family to whom 30, 2015, in Manchester.Vasiliki ness. Maria was taken to the everything he could for home - John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal Street, she was devoted. Mrs. Agretelis was born Dec. 1, 1926, in village of Karyes, Greece when less cats and dogs, as well as Suite 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose of LLC: LEGAL NOTICE Any lawful act or activity ." was born in Mytilene, Lesvos, Avgerinos, Greece, a daughter she was eight years old and was squirrels, birds, and raccoons - Notice of Formation of AriZona De Mexico II, 274679/19698 Greece on Nov. 12, 1923, a of Christos and Soultana (Mi - raised there by her step- often to the dismay of his neigh - LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/12/2015. Office in Nassau daughter of the late Ioannis and toulis) Tsekaris, and had been a mother's family. She experi - bors. Short in stature, but enor - LEGAL NOTICE County. SSNY has been designated as agent of Paraskeve (Karantoni) Arvanitis. Manchester resident for many enced much love and kindness mous in personality, George was the LLC upon whom process against it may be "Notice of formation of MOMAR CLEMONS served, SSNY shall mail process to: 60 Growing up in post World War years.Prior to retirement, Vasi - but also much suffering and a mischievous man, preferring GLOBAL, LLC. Articles of Organization II Greece, early on she played a liki was employed with the Pan - many difficulties. She married to take "alternate" paths filed with the Secretary of State of New Crossways Park Drive West, Woodbury, NY York (SSNY) on June 02, 2015. Office Lo - 11797. Purpose: any lawful activity. crucial role in the life of her dora Company.Vasiliki was a Matthew Demas in 1945 with throughout his life, rather than cation: Kings County. SSNY designated 27 4627 /19662 family. Her talents as a seam - longtime active member of the whom she had five children. the typical staid ones. While his for service of process to: The LLC, 456 stress allowed her to serve as Assumption Greek Orthodox They came to the United States choices often resulted in mael - Myrtle Ave., Apt. 2, Brooklyn, NY 11205. LEGAL NOTICE one of the family's breadwin - Church and the Ladies Philop - in 1955 and eventually settled stroms of controversy, in the Purpose: Any lawful activity." 274680/19699 Notice of formation of The Christopher T. Martin ners, exchanging sewing work tochos Society of the church.A in the Sacramento area. Her end, and despite everything, Group, LLC, a domestic LLC. Articles of Organiza - for the family's needs, including loving wife, mother and Yiayia, beloved husband of 31 years you could not help but love and tion filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/14/2015. Office location: Nassau making dresses for the wives of Vasiliki very much enjoyed cro - passed away in 1977. She is sur - appreciate charming little County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom doctors caring for her ailing fa - cheting as well as cooking for vived by her children John (De - George. He always had a twin - LEGAL NOTICE process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2707 Fortesque ther. Mrs. Agretelis followed her family and friends; however her spina), Connie (Chuck), Geor - kle in his eye and something "Notice of formation of BETTER EATING husband to the U.S. in 1956, at grandchildren were at the cen - gia, (Bob), Gus (Helen) and funny, yet slightly off-color to Ave., Oceanside, N.Y. 11572. Purpose: Any lawful NUTRITION CONSULTING, LLC. Articles of purpose. the age of 33 and took it upon ter of her life.Family includes Andy, her nine grandchildren say. George took fashion cues Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 27 4616 /19660 herself to bring her mother, five her husband of 60 years, Dim - Matthew, Kyriako, Maria from no one. Sometimes he 07/10/2015. Office Location: Kings siblings and their families to set - itrios Bakolas; one son, Arthur (Aleko), Chuck, Christina, dressed like a character from County. SSNY designated for service of LEGAL NOTICE tle in the Boston area, where Bakolas, and his wife, Stavroula; Maria, Maria (Parker), Anna The Sopranos and other times process to: Better Eating Nutrition Con - sulting, LLC, 6 John Avenue, Elmont, NY Notice of Formation of 351 NEW LOTS she would lead them as integral one daughter, Mariana Gasis, and Matthew and her two great- he dressed like a frontiersman. 11003. Purpose: Any lawful activity." REALTY LLC (DOM. LLC). Articles of Or gani - members of the Sts. Constantine and her busband, George; four grandchildren Vasiliki and Ioan - He liked hats of all kinds and 27 46 81/19700 zation filed with the Secretary of State of New & Helen parish of Cambridge, grandchildren, Demetrios Bako - nis, her brother Tom (Carol- often personalized his own York (“SSNY”) on 08/18/2015. NY office loca - tion: Kings County. The SSNY has been desig - and the local Greek American las, Christiana Bakolas, Polixeni Lynn), her sisters Tresa and clothing by adding pockets or nated as agent of the LLC upon whom process community. Noted women's de - Gasis and Stergiani Gasis; as Soteria, her step-brother Angelo zippers where no one expected LEGAL NOTICE against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail signer clothing retailer Sara well as many nieces and (Koula) and numerous nephews them to be. He was known for copy of process to: 351 NEW LOTS REALTY LLC, 351 New Lots Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11207. Fredericks recognized Mrs. nephews both here and in and nieces. A Trisagion service having a sprig of fresh Basil in "Notice of formation of Gui Williams, LLC. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. Agretelis' gift as a women's Greece. Calling hours will be will be held on Tues, Sept. 29 his shirt pocket which he would Articles of Organization filed with the 27 4611 /19652 dressmaker, hiring her for the Sunday, Oct. 4, from 3PM to at 7:00PM and a funeral service often take out and smell and of - Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/19/2015. Office Location: Nassau glamorous Newbury Street sa - 6PM, at Cate & Johnson Funeral will be on Wed., Sept. 30 at fer it to you to do the same. County. SSNY designated as agent of the lon where she would fit celebri - Home, 573 Pine St., corner of 10:00AM. Both services will be George's spirit is carried on by LLC upon whom process against it may be ties, including Marilyn Monroe, Harrison Street, Manchester. A at the Annunciation Greek Or - his son and daughter-in-law, served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o FUNERAL HOMES Rosenthal & Curry, 1600 Front Street, East Judy Garland and others over Trisagion prayer service will be thodox Church, 600 Alhambra Nikolaos and Kate Geranios, his Meadow, NY 11554. Purpose: Any lawful APOSTOLOPOULOS more than two decades. Mrs. offered at 5PM in Cate & John - Blvd, Sacramento. Burial will be granddaughter Sophia Geranios, activity ." Agretelis was the cherished son Funeral Home Chapel.Fu - at East Lawn Sierra Hills Memo - five surviving siblings (brothers 274668/1 9689 Apostle Family - mother of Stacey Agretelis and neral service will be conducted rial Park, Citrus Heights. Maria's Andreas, Theodore, and Arge - Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - her husband, Harry Vlachos; on Monday at 11AM at Assump - greatest desire was to help the rios, and sisters Theoni, and LEGAL NOTICE Funeral Directors of beloved grandmother of Alexan - tion Greek Orthodox Church in poor and disadvantaged. To Maria), as well as numerous "Notice of formation of MOTHER dra Maria Agretelis and Ariana Manchester. Burial will follow honor her memory, a fund has nieces, nephews, extended fam - KNOWS BEST, LLC. (DOM. LLC). RIVERDALE Articles of Organ ization filed with the Vlachos; sister of Stratis Arvani - at Pine Grove Cemetery in Man - been established through the ily members and friends. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) FUNERAL HOME Inc. tis, George and his wife Klean - chester.Memorial contributions non-profit agency, Christ Cen - George's wife Donna, brother on 09/09/2015. Office Location: Nassau the Arvanitis, Panagiotis and his may be sent to the Ladies tered Counseling to help the Konstantinos, and sister Eleni County. SSNY designated for service of 5044 Broadway process to: c/o United States Corporation wife Popi Arvanitis, James Ar - Philoptochos Society of the As - poor of her village in Karyes, La - preceded him in death. In lieu Agents Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Ste 202, New York, NY 10034 vanitis and the late Evangelia sumption Church, 111 Island conias, Greece. In lieu of flow - of flowers, everyone who re - Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any Girginis. She is also survived by Pond Road, Manchester, NH ers, donations may be made to members him is asked to cele - lawful activity. " (212) 942-4000 her special caregivers, her niece 03109. Cate & Johnson Funeral the Karyes Fund by sending a brate George's life in their own 274666 /19684 Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE Mary Vouthourellis and Doreen Service of Manchester is direct - check to Christ Centered Coun - way, whether by raising a glass, LEGAL NOTICE CONSTANTINIDES Keyes, and many nieces, ing arrangements. seling, 2140 Professional Dr., donating to an animal charity, nephews and cousins, by whom Suite 205, Roseville, CA 95661. or simply performing an unso - "Notice of formation of IT’S A DATE LLC Arti - FUNERAL PARLOR Co. she was adored. Funeral service COREY, VIOLET Write Karyes Fund on the memo licited act of kindness. There cles of Organization filed with the Secretary n of State of New York (SSNY) on September (718) 745-1010 will be held Wednesday, RENO, NV (from the Reno- line of the check. Donations are will be a short service followed 22, 2015. Office Location: Nassau County. Sept.30, at Sts. Constantine and Gazette Journal, published on tax deductible. by a reception at Garden City SSNY designated for service of process to: Services in all localities - IT’S A DATE LLC, 3280 Sunrise Highway, Helen Greek Orthodox Church, Sept. 27) – Violet (McKale) Funeral Home on Tuesday, Oct. #236, Wantagh, NY 11793. Purpose: Any Low cost shipping to Greece 14 Magazine St., Cambridge, at Corey, 98, passed away peace - n DERMAS, ISMINI A. 6 at 2:00PM. lawful activity." 10AM. Relatives and friends are fully on Sept. 21. She was born ASHEVILLE, TN (from the 274660/1 9678 invited. Those wishing to attend on Mar. 8, 1917, in New Kens - Asheville Citizen- Times, pub - n KOUMPARAKIS, CHRIS S. ANTONOPOULOS the funeral are kindly asked to ington, Pennsylvania, the lished on Sept. 30) – Ismini A. DANVILLE, VA (from the Dignity LEGAL NOTICE FUNERAL HOME, INC. go directly to the church. Visit - daughter of George and Jenny Dermas, age 76, departed us at Memorial online, published on Notice of formation of MANZO-DOREN ing hours at the Lehman Reen Pappas McKale from Sparta, 9:30AM on Monday, Sept. 28, Sept. 30) – Chris Speros ORGANIZATION OF HEMPSTEAD NY LLC (DOM. Konstantinos Antonopoulos - LLC). Articles of Organization filed with the & McNamara Funeral Home, 63 Greece. Violet was born and at Memorial Mission Hospital. Koumparakis, 78, died peace - Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on Funeral Director Chestnut Hill Ave., BRIGHTON, raised in New Kensington and She was born Dec. 22, 1938 in fully on Monday, Sept. 28, at 8/26/2015. Office location: Nassau County. SSNY (Nr. Brighton courthouse), Tues - graduated from New Kensington Karpenisi, Greece a sister city of Wake Forest University Baptist is designated as agent upon whom process 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., day, Sept. 29, 5PM to 8PM. In - High School in 1935. She mar - Asheville. A resident of Asheville Medical Center in Winston against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: THE LLC, 351 West Broadway, Astoria, New York 11105 terment at Mt. Auburn Ceme - ried Joseph Corey in 1943 and for the past 50 years, Mrs. Der - Salem, NC. He was born in Mar - Paterson, NJ 07522-1978. Purpose: Any lawful tery, Cambridge. Expression of they continued to live in New mas was a member of Holy Trin - tinsville, VA on Dec. 22, 1936. purpose. (718) 728-8500 sympathy may be made to the Kensington, until their move to ity Greek Orthodox Church. She He spent his first nine years in 27 4653 /19677 Not affiliated with any above named church in her Reno in 2005, in order to be is survived by her husband of Karpenisi, Greece. He attended other funeral home. memory. closer to their daughter and 50 years, Gus J. Dermas; two Pallicary-Vedova School in Tar - young grandchildren. When sons, John G. Dermas and his rytown, NY, Hargrave Military n ALEXANDER, JOHN T. Jospeh returned from World wife, Lauren and Yotty Dermas Academy in Chatham, VA and WORCESTER, MA (from the War II they had two children, all of Asheville; two grand - North Carolina State University to PlAce your clAssifieD AD, cAll: (718) 784-5255, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Robert Joseph and Jeannine daughters, Nicole and Maria; in Raleigh, NC. He majored in ext. 106, e-mAil: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com published on Sept. 30) – John Bee. Violet was employed by two sisters, Pipitsa and her hus - civil engineering and worked as T. Alexander, 88, died on Thurs - Hart's Department Store for 25 band, Nikitas and Victoria Kas - a professional land surveyor for day, Sept. 24 at Mease Country - years as a clerk and buyer for trinakis (late husband, 50 years. He was an avid sup - side Hospital in Safety Harbor, the Men's and Boy's Depart - Theodore) all of Easton, PA; porter of Martinsville High Florida. Family surrounded him ments. "Sittoo" was a loving three brothers, John Apos - School athletics, especially foot - copal Church. Father Demetri Greece, he was the son of the at the time of his passing. His wife, devoted mother, grand - tolopoulos and his wife, Bessie ball and wrestling. He attended Kangelaris will officiate. Visita - late Aristotle J. and Alexandria son, Ted Alexander of Holiday, mother, great-grandmother, and of Easton, PA, Constantine Apos - St. Peter Greek Orthodox tion will be Friday, Oct. 2, from Kratsas. John was a U.S. Army Florida; his sister Pashalia Yant - loyal friend to many. Violet en - tolopoulos and his wife, Zozo of Church in Danville, VA and 6:00PM to 8:00PM at McKee veteran of WWII and was taken sidis of Worcester; his brother joyed playing cards, telling sto - Volos, Greece and George Apos - served as Chanter and choir Stone Funeral Home. In lieu of as a POW in 1944 during the James Alexander of Palm Har - ries, and bowling. She loved tolopoulos (late wife, Eleni) of member. He was preceded in flowers the family asked contri - Battle of the Bulge. He retired bor, Florida; and many relatives meeting new people and could Athens, Greece. A devoted wife, death by his parents Speros butions be made to the Saint Pe - from the Pennsylvania Railroad and close friends survive him. strike up a conversation any - wonderful mother and a fantas - John Koumparakis and Mary ter Greek Orthodox Church, P.O. as an engineer. John was a Born in Hrisohorafa, Greece on where, with anyone. After her tic Yia Yia who loved her family, Gallos Koumparakis, his brother, Box 3392, Danville, VA 24541 member of the Greek Orthodox February 5, 1927, John came to move to Reno she continued to she was a God fearing person John Speros Koumparakis and in memory of Chris Koumpara - Church of the Annunciation for America in 1955, with his wife be active in the Classic Resi - who was loved and admired by sister, Eoanna Koumparakis kis. the past eleven years and a for - Sophie Papadopoulos Alexander dence/Five Star community many for her personality, good- Casey. He is survived by his wife mer member of the St. Nicholas and his young son. John was where she regularly played hearted kindness and selfless - of 49 years, Jannie Batayias n KRATSAS, JOHN A. Cathedral in Oakland, Pitts - married to his devoted wife So - bunko, chair volleyball, pinochle ness. She will be dearly missed. Koumparakis, son, USMC Lt. YORK, PA (from the York Daily burgh. He was also a member phie close to 50 years, before and attended holiday concerts. The family will receive friends Colonel Speros Chris Koumpara - Record & York Dispatch, pub - of the Pan-Ikarian Brotherhood. Sophie's untimely death in Violet was an active member of at 6:00PM at Holy Trinity Greek kis and his wife, Bree of Twen - lished on Sept. 29) – John A. He is survived by two sons, Aris - 2000. He was a chef and a St. Nicholas Syrian Orthodox Orthodox Church on Wednes - tynine Palms, CA; daughters, Kratsas, 99, died at Susque - totle Kratsas and James Kratsas, restaurant owner by trade; Most Church and their Myrrh Bearing day, Sept. 30. A Trisagion will Maria Koumparakis Fentress hanna Valley Nursing and Rehab both of Florence, Ala.; two notably, the Eden Garden Society during her time in New then follow at 7PM. Funeral ser - and husband, Kevin of Lithia, Center in Columbia on Sept. 27. daughters, Alexandria Condemi restaurant here in Worcester. He Kensington. She carried the vices will be held 12:00 Noon, FL, Elaine Koumparakis Botbol He was the husband of the late and Maria Carrieri, both of later owned and operated Heav - same enthusiasm when she Thursday, Oct.1, at the church of Wilmington, NC and Edie Artemis (Huffstutler) Kratsas Wrightsville; six grandchildren; enly Pizza in Yarmouth, MA, be - joined St. Anthony's Greek Or - with Father Michael Diavatis of - Chris Koumparakis of Fayet - who died in 2011. Born May 7, four great-grandchildren; and fore he retired to Holiday, thodox Church in Reno. Violet ficiating. Interment will follow teville, NC; grandson, Mason 1916, on the Island of Ikaria, many nieces and nephews. A fu - Florida. While he had a success - is survived by her son Robert at Lewis Memorial Park. In lieu Botbol and granddaughters, neral service will be held at ful and fulfilling career in Jospeh Corey, and daughter of flowers, memorials may be McKenzie Botbol and Helen Fen - this is a service 1:30PM on Wednesday, Sept. restaurant management, his Jeannine Corey Clark; grand - made to Holy Trinity Greek Or - tress; sisters, Elaine Moss of St. to the community. 30, at the Greek Orthodox passion involved carpentry, children Lisa Snow, Jeffrey thodox Church, 227 Cumber - Louis, MO, Krysa Szabo and hus - Announcements of deaths Church of the Annunciation, building and all manner of Corey, Jennifer Horan (Jed), land Avenue, Asheville, NC band Edward of Raleigh NC, may be telephoned to the 2500 Pine Grove Road, York, Brian Haslem (Heather), Paul J. 28801. Demetria Costas and husband classified Department of with the Rev. Father Andrew N. Clark (Yanin), Jennifer Clark Gus of Springfield, VA, Phyllisc - the national herald at Tsikitas, officiating. Memorial Days and dates of funerals, (Alan), and Tamara Medley n GERANIOS, GEORGE ity Oliff and husband John, of (718) 784-5255, contributions may be made to memorials, and other events di - (Grant); great-grandchildren MISSOULA, MT (from the Great Alexandria, VA; brothers, John monday through friday, the SPCA of York County, 3159 rectly correspond to the original Ashlee, Daniel, Zeke, Zach, An - Falls Tribune, published on Sept. and George Koumparakis of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. est Susquehanna Trail North, York, publication date, which appears drew, Max, Everett, Esme, 30) – George Nikolaos Geranios, Greece.The funeral service will or e-mailed to: PA 17406. Arrangements by the at the beginning of each notice. Blake, Sam and Ryann; as well father, grandfather and self-de - be held on Saturday, Oct. 3, [email protected] Etzweiler Funeral Homes and as many nieces and nephews. scribed ladies' man, died on 2015 at 1:00PM at Christ Epis - Cremation Service. 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GOINGS ON... HELLENIC HAPPENINGS FROM COAST TO COAST n THRU OCT. 11 Constantine and Helen Greek TNH Staff them I ordered 30 pounds of ASTORIA – The ninth annual Orthodox Church for their an - rice. The whole board was New York City Greek Film Festi - nual Greek Festival and food HOLLYWOOD, CA – Greek- laughing. They couldn't stop val runs through Sunday, Oct. 11 bazaar, October 16, 17, and 18. American actress/comedienne laughing,” he said. Thanks to at the Museum of the Moving Come and enjoy authentic Greek TINA FEY, best known for her Mancy, it is now in its 45th year. Image, 36-01 35th Avenue in As - Food, Greek Pastries & Greek bits on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE toria, with five new feature films Dancing. Enjoy authentic Greek (SNL), particularly her uncanny PATERSON, NJ – KONTOS that reflect the current renais - food and pastries. There will be imitation of SARAH PALIN dur - FOODS is giving kids and even sance in Greek cinema. 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Mancy paired site, it is the Kontos family’s sec - val.com. [email protected]. will indeed, play sisters, KATIE of the bazaar, the Toledo Blade with his brother GEORGE and ond baked goods company. In and MAURA ELLIS. reports: “The church bazaar, it fellow restaurateur STEVE 1968, Evripides founded the n THRU OCT. 31 BOSTON, MA – An evening of was in the recreation room and EVDEMON to ensure that the first, APOLLO FILLO, in Du - CHICAGO, IL – The National Hel - beautiful Greek music with TOLEDO, OH – Over the years they had games, and the board festival would be amazing. mont, NJ. In 1971, the company lenic Museum, 33 S Halsted St., Oinos and Revma at Athan’s Bak - Greek festivals around the members gave it to me. And I Decades later Mancy can still re - designed the first machine that in Chicago, pays tribute to the ery, 407 Washington Street in United States have grown in said ‘No, we are going to do call the reactions he received would mass-produce fillo legendary actor and artist An - Boston, 7-10PM. The music size, frequency and even delica - what the Germans are doing.’ from the board members, the dough, emulating the hand- thony Quinn, who brought to life group OINOS, named after the cies. In Toledo, OH the festival There was a German-American Blade wrote: “When I went to stretching process that produced one of the greatest and most life- ancient Greek word for wine, in - at the HOLY TRINITY GREEK festival that was doing well over one of the board meetings, and high quality paper-thin dough affirming literary characters of tends to be fun and “light” while ORTHODOX CHURCH is in its the years.” And that’s how the we were doing it for two nights, while maintaining its flexibility our time – Zorba the Greek. Vis - encouraging their audiences to 45th year. JOHN MANCY recalls Greek-American Festival started, Saturday and Sunday, I told and durability. itors will see reflections of sing along and participate.The Quinn’s life experiences and the motto of the group says it all: impact of his long friendship “The more YOU drink, the better with the Greek people. WE sound; and as a matter of fact, the more WE drink, the bet - How Spinning n THRU NOV. 30 ter YOU sound.” THE HERALD SQUARE CHICAGO, IL – In partnership Wheel Diner from November 2015 to April n OCTOBER 19 TNH's Crossword Challenge 2016, the National Hellenic Mu - MANHATTAN – Please join us on seum and the Field Museum are Monday, Oct. 19 for Actions Not Turned into a presenting a new exhibition en - Words, at the Tribeca Performing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 titled “The Greeks-Agamemnon Arts Center, 199 Chambers St. in to Alexander the Great” at the Manhattan. Love the child in Wedding Gift Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake front of you. Give this special 14 15 16 Shore Drive, in Chicago. Pre - child your love, encourage his By Lynn (Paitakes) sented at the 14th International and her strengths and celebrate Lotkowicz 17 18 19 Architecture Exhibition - La Bi - any quirks. Be there for the peo - ennale di Venezia, “Tourism ple with autism at the 1st Inter - My dad's restaurant, The 20 21 22 23 24 Landscapes: Remaking Greece” national Symposium for chil - Spinning Wheel Diner in New presents examples of modern dren.Tickets are available online Brunswick, NJ was more than a Greek architectural projects as and through the theater box of - way to make a living. It was a 25 26 27 28 tools for the modernization of fice at 212-220-1460. Luminary place to bring family together. the country and the re-shaping University Keynote speaker: Ed In 1958 my cousin Penny 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 of the Greek national identity. Tronick PhD, Distinguished Pro - eloped with her boyfriend, fessor UMass Boston, Research Terry, on Halloween night. They 36 37 38 39 40 n THRU DEC. 18 Associate, Harvard Medical tied the knot in a quick, private FAIRFIELD, CT – Fairfield Uni - School. Singing are members of ceremony at the office of the versity’s Bellarmine Museum of the Kyrenia Opera Chorus and mayor of Plainfield, NJ. Terry 41 42 43 Art, 1073 Benson Road in Fair - Children Chorus, Directed by was a college student and Penny field presents its new exhibition, Constantinos Yiannoudes. People had just started teaching third 44 45 46 47 48

Hair in the Classical World, on with autism deserve to walk on grade. Both were 24 years old. view through Friday, Dec. 18. As the same path. Get your ticket When Penny became preg - 49 50 51 52 the first exhibition of its kind in and walk with us all; do your nant the following year, our Yi - the United States, Hair in the part of magic. ayia, from the village of Kefala Classical World will take you on in rural Crete, was furious. "In 53 54 55 56 57 a cultural journey through an - ALEXANDRIA, VA – Come and the eyes of God this child will cient Greece, Cyprus, and Rome, enjoy a day out on the course for not have a father." No wedding 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 and will examine the role of hair AHI 12th Annual Golf Classic sacrament meant "you aren't re - in each through three thematic Tournament, at Belle Haven ally married." She asked, "Why 65 66 67 68 69 lenses: Arrangement and Adorn - Country Club, 6023 Fort Hunt you not get married in the ment; Rituals and Rites of Pas - Road in Alexandria. The event is Greek Orthodox Church?" sage; and Divine and Royal sponsored by Calamos. Registra - 70 71 72 Iconography. tion and breakfast starts at 9AM. At 9:30 there will be a sports 73 74 75 n OCTOBER 11 panel discussion with USA Today LOS ANGELES, CA – By popular Sports Journalist Christine Bren - www.CrosswordWeaver.com demand, Peggy Zina is coming nan, WTOP Radio sports director to Los Angeles for a special en - George Wallace and former MLB gagement. Peggy will be per - pitcher and Philadelphia Phillies forming live at Club Nokia, 800 Analyst Tommy Greene. Practice ACROSS (abbrev.)

West Olympic Blvd, in Los Ange - range at 10:30, 11:15 shot gun 1 Healthy 11 Carry les. Peggy has a career, which start. The awards dinner will be - 5 Expires 12 C an a dian Song writer Ro lla has lasted over 20 years with gin at 4:30. Please contact Nick 9 Vehicle s ___ _ many hits going multi-platinum. Larigakis at 202-785-8430 or at 14 Alack's partner 13 Fill

We are excited to present her his email nlarigakis@ 15 Eng. a s a Non-Native 21 N ot even along with her band directly ahiworld.org if you have any Langua ge ( a bbrev.) 23 A gr e ement from Greece for the only west questions. 16 ____ _ G a y 26 G re e k soc cer tm . (init.) coast performance! Peggy will be 17 Upper part of shoe 28 Admiral (abbr.) here Sun, Oct. 11 at 7PM and n OCTOBER 30 This all sounded so desperate 18 Right 30 Helen of ____ Mon, Oct. 12 at 12 Noon. To get BALTIMORE, MD – Axion Con - and terrifying when coming 19 Acce ss ( 2 wds.) 31 1 8th Greek le tte r tickets call (877) 639-9715. certs presents Thanos Petrelis from our grandmother, a 20 Oute r M ongolia Allin ce . 33 F ur y returns to Baltimore, featuring staunch, old school dictator! At (abbrev.) 34 Kicker Jason of the Broncos n OCTOBER 15 Christina Miiou, for one night the time, family struggles pre - 21 Rock co ntaining metal 35 Multinational Ins. Org. BOSTON, MA – Come to the only. Petrelis is considered to be vented Penny's parents from of - 22 Follo we d HST (in it. ) 36 D ou b le-ree d inst rum ent Berklee Performance Center, 136 one of the most entertaining fering a wedding. 24 Stre tch t o make do 37 S ma ll brook Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, and crowd pleasing performer So, my dad and mom 25 DC Activist Ruby 39 Swiss mountains and enjoy The Musical Odyssey of the last decade. All proceeds arranged a wedding at St. 27 Europ. A ssn. of 41 F lan ked by E and I III: Manos and Mikis. The concert to benefit the Ministries/ Facili - George Greek Orthodox Church Archaeologists (abbrev.) 45 Second month (abbr.) by the Greek Music Ensemble ties of the Greek Orthodox in Piscataway, NJ. Cousin Penny 29 Revi ses 46 N at 'l Ass n. of Coll ege will feature the music of the two Church of the Annunciation. walked up the aisle in a mater - 32 Signor Bocelli Broadcasters (abbrev.) most important Greek composers Doors open at 8PM, and the nity dress. Terry, who was 36 Mor k's p lanet 47 S ev e nth p resid ent, "Old of the 20th century, Manos Had - show starts at 9PM. There will quickly baptized the night be - 38 Lega l pr o cee ding ______." jidakis and Mikis Theodorakis. be free parking and mezedakia fore the ceremony, went along 40 African country 48 Hair goop

The performance will include from 8-9PM. There will be a joyfully. 41 U.S. int elligence agcy. (init.) 50 B vi tamin multimedia, interactive moments cash bar. Tickets available at Following the ceremony, my 42 Office of Greek Life (abbre v.) 52 D ol p hin Aq uatic Resrv. where live sound blends with DCGreeks.com. dad closed the Spinning Wheel 43 Quip 55 " Sta r War s" creato r recorded speech, movie clips, and Diner to paying customers. The 44 Business person's game 56 Where you were at crime time other resources related to the life n NOVEMBER 4 night was for family. The diner 46 Dryad 57 Faces and work of these two com - CHICAGO, IL – Panel discussion, became the center of celebration 48 Pear l 58 S yri a n bish op posers. Both Hadjidakis and "The Greeks: Ancient and Mod - and love for invited guests. The 49 Capi tal o f Mon tana 59 B on e up Theodorakis are internationally ern, a Global 21st Century Dia - reception, compliments of my 51 Side note 60 Fewer than all known figures, Hadjidakis partly logue" on Wednesday, Nov. 4, father, John Paitakes, was a spe - 53 Pen bra n d 62 Chun k due to his Oscar for his music in from 4-6PM. UIC classics events cial event that reunited the fam - 54 Char lie o r Ma ria 63 Traced the movie Never on Sunday. The panel discussion with Paul Car - ily with great fanfare. "That day 58 American Cancer Society 66 Lebron's Lge. (abbrev.) type of music that they have com - tledge at the National Hellenic the Spinning Wheel Diner was (abbr.) 68 First lady? posed belongs to the genre gen - Museum, 333 South Halsted the most beautiful place on 61 "___ easy as 123" 69 American Bankruptcy Institute erally called Greek art music of Street, in Chicago. The panel will earth," says Penny. "Terry and I 63 Danish krone (abbr.) (init.) the 20th century. Much of this consist of Professors Paul Car - were dirt poor. Being pregnant 64 __ Jon Roth of the Scorpions music uses lyrics that come from tledge (U of Cambridge), and walking up the aisle in 65 Mustang the greatest Greek poets of the Johnathan (U of Chicago), church in maternity clothes was 67 An Ancient Celtic god century, including two Nobel lau - William Patterson (Field Mu - very stressful. In addition, I had 69 Bad rain reates: Odysseus Elytis and Gior - seum), and Nanno Marinatos (U just been fired from my teaching 70 Deer gos Seferis. The show is from of Illinois Chicago). The moder - job. They didn't want a pregnant 71 Under's opposite Solution to last week’s puzzle 8:00PM to 10:00PM. Tickets are ator will be Dr. Paris Papmichos woman in the classroom with 72 Infant available advanced for $8 and Chronakis (U of Illinois Chicago). small children," she recalls, 73 "He throws _ ____ curveball" U G H A F T P R E A D S $12 at the door. The panelists will discuss the adding, "Your parents and the (2 words) https://www.berklee.edu/events place of Ancient Greece and the Spinning Wheel will always 74 Moist S E A D O E A S L I D A /musical-odyssey-iii-manos- role of archeology in today's have a special place in my heart, 75 Egyptian goddess worshipped E E R A T E S T A R R E D mikis. globalized and digital world. I will never forget this act of by Ancient Greeks D E M I S O M A Tickets are $10 and are available kindness. This October we cel - E M I R U P L G A R Y n OCTOBER 16 online www.nationalhellenicmu - ebrate our 57th Anniversary." DOWN READING, PA – OPA! Join Sts. seum.org For many proprietors, a 1 "wreak __" L E N T U S A T U P A C restaurant is not just a business. 2 “Remember the __” I N G A A N D R E W E P A It's the center of family life. And 3 Tennessee Senator Alexander A L I N R A you never know what small 4 Ment. Telepathy (abbrev) C O O B O S T O N A C T S QUESTION OF THE WEEK kindness will create a lifetime 5 City of Tigers and Lions, but memory for someone else, fam - not Bears A G O R A H A L R O O T Does the media provide too much, too little, or just the ily or customer. 6 Pertaining to (two wrds.) A D S E C D T T R O Y right amount of coverage to mass shooting sprees, such as the 7 Eurasian Nat'l. University P U P A H A T E recent one in Oregon? Lynn (Eleni Paitakes) (abbrev.) A N A S T O S D A H L B I Please email your response to Lotkowictz works with Global 8 Sliding toy R U B A L A M A O L O A [email protected] Volunteers Crete Greece pro - 9 Greek airline We may publish some responses as Letters to the Editor in gram, a nonprofit, NGO agency 10 Univ. in Armidale, Australia I N C H O P S O T I O N a future issue. based in Minnesota.

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GREEK GASTRONOMY Fava and Halva – Sometimes, the Simple Recipes are the Best of Them All

By Eleni Sakellis to make dessert that requires no fer colors lightly or as golden as you baking. •Ground cinnamon for dusting prefer. Add the almonds and Sometimes the simplest •2 cups “simigdali hondro” •Sliced almonds for decorating cook until they too are toasted things in life are the best. Eating semolina (coarse ground du - and lightly colored. Remove the the foods our grandparents or rum wheat) For the syrup, in a large, cinnamon stick, whole cloves great-grandparents ate can be a •5 cups water deep pot, boil the water, sugar, and the peel from the syrup and step towards better eating •2 cups sugar honey, cinnamon stick, whole add the toasted semolina and habits and better overall health. •2 tablespoons honey cloves and orange peel for about nuts to the pot. Stir until the A good rule for all eating •1 cinnamon stick five minutes, reduce heat. syrup is absorbed and the mix - choices is whether or not your •5-7 whole cloves Meanwhile, heat the cup of oil ture no longer sticks to the sides great-grandparents would rec - •Two inch strip orange peel in a large sauté pan until it of the pot or to the wooden ognize the item as food. If not, •1 cup olive oil or vegetable shimmers, reduce heat to spoon. Switch off the heat and steer clear of it. The Mediter - oil medium. Add the semolina, stir - cover the pot with a clean ranean Diet with its known •1/2 cup blanched almonds, ring with a wooden spoon and kitchen towel and the lid of the health benefits is only healthy chopped or sliced as you pre - cook until it absorbs the oil and pot. Let stand for 15-20 min - if we actually follow it. Here are utes. two recipes Yiayia and Pappou Remove the lid and the would approve of. kitchen towel and transfer the halva to a tube pan or Bundt cake mold and press in with a Fava (Split Pea Soup) rubber spatula. Unmold onto a serving plate and sprinkle with •1 pound package green split a little ground cinnamon and peas on the stove and bring to a boil. may also use an immersion decorate with additional sliced •1 onion, peeled and Be mindful of the pot since the blender to purée the favas if almonds. Alternatively, after the quartered split peas can boil over. Once you’d like an even smoother tex - halva has rested in the pot, it •1 potato, peeled and the pot comes to a boil reduce ture to the split pea soup. Serve may be transferred to custard quartered the heat to a simmer and stir in hot with a drizzle of olive oil, a cups and unmolded onto dessert •Salt a tablespoon of salt. Add the squeeze of fresh lemon juice, the plates for individual servings •Olive oil onion and the potato, and con - olives of your choice and some dusted with cinnamon and dec - •Lemon tinue simmering, stirring occa - bread. orated with sliced almonds as sionally until the favas absorbs above. Allow the halva to cool Rinse and sort the split peas. most of the water. You may need completely before slicing and Place them in a large deep pot, to add boiling water to the favas Halva (with semolina) serving. Pine nuts or a mixture fill with fresh, cold water, cov - if you prefer a thinner consis - of walnuts or almonds and pine ering the split peas by at least tency. Once the fava is ready Usually a treat during peri - nuts can be substituted for the two inches in depth. Set the pot and the potato is tender, you ods of fasting, halva is an easy almonds.

A Healthy New Age Appetite Trending in Athens GREEK AMERICAN STORIES

Continued from page 1 Being 40, 50, 60... tenance to a starving people holds great allure to younger By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos Kipreos just entered the cafete - generations. Special to The National Herald ria. Dimos reminded, “Don’t for - Shoppers in traditional stores get, guys! No word about birth - are also buying hand-made, Just before Kipreos entered days.” Coffee in hand, Kipreos home-style produce and concoc - Dixon’s Dimos informed the oth - sat down, looking at everyone’s tions based on old Greek recipes, ers that it was Kipreos’ birthday. face, anxiously. The others pre - all made by small producers “That’s nice! We’ll all wish tended not to notice. Then, rather than big factories that him a happy birthday,” said Yiannis said, “How are you, drum to the beat of global cor - John, sipping his coffee. “That’s Kipreos? You’re looking good to - porations. Nutritionist/Dietician just it! I don’t think he wants to day – you look not a day older and specialist on the Mediter - be reminded. Yesterday, he than 35.” Dimos kicked him un - ranean Diet, Elena Partavantes, looked, kinda, sad. Said, he der the table. George intervened says yiayia’s cooking was always wished tomorrow would come with, “We were just having a healthy and there are plenty of and go. Guess he feels old be - meeting. We’ve formed the Over veggie options at the local tavern, coming 40. So, act like it’s just Fifties Club. You can’t join yet, but the plethora of such new food another day.” Yiannis shrugged. I’m afraid, Kipreos. Too young!” stores are a very welcome at - “Forty? How should we feel? Kipreos looked up and tribute nonetheless: “I’m really We’re all past 50.” George, rais - shrugged. “That’s O.K. I can excited by how Greek producers ing a dark brow, “Closer to six - wait.” are providing all these great tra - ties, Yiannis.” Yiannis consid - Yiannis, in an attempt to ditional products from all corners store since 2004, formerly known ered George’s words. “I’ve make him feel that he should be of the country, many of which we as Four Seasons and since their always had a youngish look. The feeling sprite, said, “A rule in weren’t familiar with before; they recent renovation, as GR-Eatings, other day someone told me I our club says that we must live definitely add a specialty says: “We have developed a don’t look a day older than 49. every day like it may be our gourmet aspect to Greek cuisine. strong rapport with our cus - Look at my face!” George bent last.” Kipreos nodded. Yiannis Also, a lot of these products are tomers, an interactive relation - closer, studying Yiannis’ face. continued. “One never knows now being sold abroad in spe - ship, where we offer what we “Your skin...has…has...” Yiannis when the end comes, you know. cialty stores, so the rest of the constantly learn about (we’re al - grinned. “Youthful and shiny, Live! That’s the club’s motto! world is also learning about these ways travelling around the coun - right?” George continued. The end could come at any time. wonderful foods.” try meeting small organic pro - “Has a chocolate sprinkle It doesn’t matter if you’re On the other hand is the shiny ducers) foods, and with their from that donut you’re eating.” twenty, or even forty.” new allure of the trendy, New demands we have succeeded in Yiannis ignored him, then, sug - Kipreos’ coffee cup dropped, Age scene that Greeks have providing a rich variety of 3.500 gested, “Let’s form a club! The noisily, onto the saucer. “Forty?” caught up with today. It all began products. Nowadays, people are Over Fifties Club. Let’s tell Dimos intervened, quickly. “He with the opening of few schools searching for quality foods.» He Kipreos he can’t join because means, at any age. But, in the offering yoga and Pilates classes adds: «The demanding audience he’s too young yet. He’ll feel re - meantime we must all never (now something you find around generated a new scene in Greece lief that he’s too young for think of – the end.” Kipreos nod - every corner), relatively new (to with natural and organic prod - something. It might cheer him ded. His long silence troubled Greeks) forms of exercise that put ucts as a leading factor in con - up!” Dimos grinned. “Not a bad George. He asked him, “Do you emphasis on body and spiritual sumer goods. We don’t believe idea! Let’s think about it. Gotta have life insurance?” Kipreos awareness both, and which thus that organic food is an ‘alterna - have rules, though.” answered, “My work insures make students more conscious of tive’ way of living – instead we what they eat. Haris Lyroni, who sustain that it’s a way of showing owns and teaches at Shakti Yoga respect to our body and also gain - Studio, says: “It’s a fact that even tices, such as meditation, reflex - less questioning of the modern, ing leverage on what nature has in the middle of a crisis like no ology, acupuncture, and home - post-industrial Western diet.” to offer.” other many Greek people are opathy, also goes hand in hand The new age “consciousness” One of the very first restau - switching to a healthier way of with better eating habits. Adrian has begun more recently to evi - rants serving superfood-based eating and living, because it Vrettos, who has worked as an dently reveal itself via food es - recipes was Healthy Ecologists in makes them feel much better. In accomplished reflexologist in tablishments, from DIY health Omonia Square, which since the my experience, yoga students are Greece for 15 years, has wit - grocery stores selling a plethora late 1980s served vegetarian turning more and more towards nessed a change in how his pa - of local and international or - homestyle food and fresh juices, bio markets and health stores, as tients think about their diet. He ganic, raw and vegetarian/vegan with a well-stocked health food yoga makes one more health con - says: “It’s interesting how in re - health foods, to affordable, ur - market next door, but perhaps scious. Even if it’s more expen - cent years many clients have be - bane restaurants serving flavor - because of its degenerate location sive, it’s well worth it for most gun discussing their healthier eat - some meals to satisfy even the and unspectacular ambiance it people.” ing habits with me, talking about most cultivated health afi - never managed to draw in the Meanwhile, the notable in - it as something that they feel has cionado. Vassilis Souvatzoglou, crowds. The arena was glamor - crease in popularity of alterna - a direct impact on their wellbe - whose family has been running ized decades later with the arrival tive/complementary health prac - ing; in the past, people were far a highly popular health-food of Avocado in Syntagma, which catered exclusively to non meat- eaters via delicious, exotically in - spired, bio dishes served in a styl - ish minimalist restaurant. For a Law Firm few years it seemed like Avocado was one of a kind, but fashion - G. Dimitriadis & Associates able Rosebud in Kolonaki, an al - ready established spot that made a vegan/veggie turnaround in its kitchen, soon followed by the sin - gular, still pioneering Yi Cafe in John agreed, making the first me, I think.” Yiannis asked, “Do Glyfada, which serves almost ex - rule. “Rule one: Don’t talk about you have an heir?” Kipreos clusively raw cuisine snacks and your aches and pains. Who paled. “Yes! My mother!” John desserts – meanwhile, numerous wants to hear about them, any - said, “But, your mother is very other restaurants around town way?” George contributed, old. She could go at any mo - have added vegan dishes to their “Rule two: get lots of sleep. ment. That’s not practical!” menu. Look at Yiannis – sleeps all day Kipreos paled to a gray color. Like most capitals, Athens has and is youthful and shiny.” Yian - “I...I have a cousin in Cyprus. our company aims to provide high quality services, adapted to the seen a boom of shops selling only nis, serious, said, “Rule three: He’s Forty five.” Yiannis waved doughnuts, then muffins, then don’t bottle up any stress! It his hands up. “That means noth - specific needs of our clients. frozen yogurt, many of which causes harm. Speak out to ing, Kipreos! You could go be - the main areas of our activities include: closed less than a year after set - someone.” George followed fore him.” Dimos, noticing ting up. The latest such “trend” with, “And, cause harm to some - Kipreos’ forlorn demeanor, in - • Legal services establishments have however one else.” John told them that terrupted. “Ahh, must I remind • Financial managerial services turned their nose up to empty the medical profession is an - all of you that we were talking calories and preservatives and other aging factor. “Whenever I about our club?” All fell silent. • Real Estate are riding the wellness wave: go for a checkup the doctor will Then, George, thinking that the our wide network of contacts in Greece guarantees the immediate juices and smoothies extracted always find something wrong. I club needed a little more clari - and unified handling of our clients’ matters. from roots, herbs, fruit, seeds, say, don’t go – unless you’ve got fication, said, “You’re still too vegetables and nut “mylks” are something really serious – like young for our club, Kipreos, but, now all the rage and can be a pit bull dog is attached to your we’d let you join even if you’re Phone : 01130 210 3390080 • cell .: 01130 6977 469888 found every few blocks in central leg.” “Right!” agreed George. only...what? Thirty? Thirty- Athens. With the logo: “drink “Next thing you know you’re be - five?” Kipreos, head lowered, fax : 01130 210 3390044 your meal.” always-busy No - ing rushed into the emergency his thoughts sinking another vagea vitamin bar in Plaka has a room at fifty miles an hour notch, said, “Nice of all of you menu so large and detailed that where a team of doctors detach to want me in your club. But, I e-mail: [email protected] it takes up an entire wall. So the dog while someone’s waiting don’t think I’d want to join a www.dimitriadislawfirm.gr clearly, the writing’s on the wall: to claim the dog because there’s club where no one knows my Athens has entered a new era, a reward for his return.” age or...remembered that today and it makes you feel really good. Dimos gave a signal that is my birthday.” THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015 GREECE CYPRUS 11 Greece Cracks Human Smuggler Ring, but the Refugees Keep Piling In

ATHENS – Greek Police said porary solution. naming Hungary, Italy, Slovakia that had broken up an interna - But there has been little in - and Greece. tional criminal organization terest in offering help, possibly “We have to respect com - smuggling migrants and because others who have of - monly agreed rules,” he said, refugees through Greece as hun - fered their services for free on adding that when countries say dreds of thousands of them have the understanding that they they intend to flout the laws poured into the country, a key would be subsidized haven’t “they undermine the essence of gateway to the European Union. been paid and as the SYRIZA- solidarity and our community.” Officers arrested 12 people led coalition government still Turkish President Recep from Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq, and hasn’t even set up an office to Tayyip Erdogan held talks with Syria in raids on apartments and get 540 million euros ($608.86 senior officials in Brussels on other locations across Athens million) in available European Oct. 5, and the EU’s executive early on Oct. 4 and confiscated Union funds. Commission was due to unveil hundreds of fake identity cards, WAVES OF PEOPLE later Oct. 6 a memorandum de - passports and other documents, Meanwhile, Turkey has tailing the way the bloc and the force said according to the warned the European Union Turkey plan to cooperate on mi - Reuters news agency. that 3 million more refugees gration. The smugglers were divided could flee fighting in Syria as Erdogan has sought Euro - into six units which helped mi - the EU struggles to manage its pean backing for the creation of grants travel from Turkey via biggest migration emergency in a safe haven and no-fly zone in the Greek island of Kos on to decades. Northern Syria, saying that such Former Yugoslav Republic of Around two million refugees moves are key to ending the Macedonia (FYROM) and Italy from Syria are currently in refugee crisis. on planes, buses and trains, the Turkey, and tens of thousands Meanwhile, Austrian Chan - statement said. of others have entered the EU cellor Werner Faymann is head - Police attached an organiza - via Greece this year, overwhelm - ing to the eastern Aegean island tion chart of at least 30 suspects, ing coast guards and reception of Lesbos with Greece’s Prime plus an unknown number of as - AP Photo/muhAmmeD muheisen facilities. Minister to view the impact of sociates in Turkey, drawn up af - Lifeguards from Barcelona, Spain, working as volunteers, help a disembarking dinghy as EU Council President Donald the refugee crisis and tour the ter what they called one of their refugees arrive on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos. Tusk told lawmakers Oct. 6 that facilities set up to handle the biggest operations against peo - “according to Turkish estimates, new arrivals. ple smugglers. in Greece this year, the U.N. with great loss of life. Kathimerini there are sites another three million potential Faymann and Greece’s Alexis The gang gave fake asylum refugee agency UNHCR said. Thousands of the newcom - where makeshift camps could refugees may come from Aleppo Tsipras were due to tour the re - registration documents to mi - PRICE TOO HIGH ers, most heading to other Eu - be set up so that migrants can and its neighborhood.” ception center set up to register grants arriving on Kos in ex - Greece has the space to host ropean Union countries, have be relocated from central “Today millions of potential and process refugees and mi - change for about 3,000 euros hundreds of thousands of overfilled parks and central squares, including a temporary refugees and migrants are grants. ($3,400) each, the police added. refugees and immigrants flood - Athens squares even as officials facility for migrants that was set dreaming about Europe,” Tusk About 400,000 people have Hundreds of thousands of mi - ing the country but not the move as many as they can to up in Elaionas over the summer. said at the European Parliament arrived in Greece so far this grants and refugees – mostly money to care for them, govern - temporary facilities, including But to make the new site opera - in Strasbourg, France. year, most in small overcrowded from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan ment officials said. prefabricated housing, gymna - tional, authorities would need He warned that “the world boats from the nearby Turkish and Iraq – have crossed the Despite the advent of au - siums and soccer stadiums. Al - to make costly investments, in - around us does not intend to coast. Aegean Sea this year from tumn, they are still coming, though there are several venues cluding plumbing. help Europe” and that some of The vast majority don’t want Turkey, attempting a perilous trip mostly by overcrowded rickety that could be transformed into There are many empty hotels the EU’s neighbors “look with to stay in the financially trou - on overcrowded rickety craft or boats and rubber dinghies from temporary accommodation, and other unused buildings that satisfaction at our troubles.” bled country and head north rubber dinghies with scores dy - Turkey supplied by human traf - there is no money for such pro - could be transformed into stop - Tusk also lashed out at coun - through the Balkans to more ing in the process. Almost fickers, and trying to reach jects, local authorities say. gap reception centers if private tries for failing to fully respect prosperous EU states that are 400,000 migrants have arrived nearby eastern Aegean islands, A City of Athens official told funding were offered as a tem - EU asylum and border rules, tolerant of them. Tsipras Wins Confidence Vote from his Coalition

ATHENS – As expected, Greek some way to help the country's gain) investor confidence and, at Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' most vulnerable and workers, the beginning of 2017, regain ac - coalition government won a con - pensioners and the poor who are cess to international markets," he fidence vote early in the morning paying the price for the crisis and said. hours of Oct. 8, but only with decades of wild overspending With a brief exception last the Members of Parliament from and runaway patronage from its year Greece has been unable to his Radical Left SYRIZA party former rulers, the New Democ - borrow from markets since it lost and its partner, the nationalistic racy Conservatives and PASOK investor confidence in 2010 after Independent Greeks (ANEL), af - Socialists he unseated with anti- under-reporting its budget ter promising to impose reforms austerity promises before reneg - deficit. To avoid bankruptcy and and austerity they used to op - ing and doing as they did. a disastrous exit from the Euro - pose. Tsipras needs the debt re - zone, it has been kept alive for Tsipras, beginning a second structuring to convince Greeks the past five years on bailouts, term this year after winning after seven years of economic delivered on condition of tough Sept. 20 elections and shedding hardship that he achieved some - spending cuts, income reductions his party of dissidents angry that thing in return for performing a and tax hikes. he reneged on anti-austerity spectacular U-turn and accepting These deepened a recession campaign promises after being austerity conditions he had re - that wiped out a quarter of the elected a first time in January, jected in June. Greek economy and has left 25 Tax Hike on Tsipouro Threatens Town's Future got SYRIZA's 145 votes plus the BACK TO THE MARKETS percent of the workforce jobless. 10 the tiny ANEL holds to get a Earlier, Tsipras told lawmak - Tsipras was initially elected in Customers at a tavern clink glasses filled with tsipouro in Tir - five-vote majority in the 300- ers that his newly-elected gov - January on pledges to drastically navos, central Greece. The European Union has given Greece member Parliament. eurokinissi ernment expects to be able to tap curb the resented austerity, but two months to double taxes on tsipouro, arguing it does not The vote came ahead of a crit - Greek Prime Minister Alexis bond markets in early 2017 — a was forced to accept the new have the right to keep a reduced duty that is reserved for some ical first review of the pace of re - Tsipras during his speech be - key condition for Greece to make bailout — on condition of further traditionally made products. It also wants Athens to crack forms the government promised fore the vote. ends meet without further rescue belt-tightening — to keep the down on small independent producers who pay a low tax rate to implement with envoys from loans from its European partners country in the Eurozone. that is aimed at helping small producers but is now widely international lenders coming to ting more loans to pay previous and the International Monetary RIVALS WALK AWAY abused for bulk supply to small restaurants nationally. Athens to check progress. loans while simultaneously slash - Fund. New Democracy leader Evan - Tsipras, reversing himself on vir - ing pay, pensions, health care Tsipras' speech concluded a gelos Meimarakis, who went tually everything he pledged, and social services. three-day debate on his policy along with austerity to make sure agreed to whack Greeks with MORE OBSTACLES platform and as he said he ex - Greece would get a third bailout more of the tough measures he “We will quickly pass the hur - pects the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition of 86 billion euros ($96.65 bil - Turkish-Cypriots Envision used to say were unconscionable dle of the first review, we will to serve a full four-year term al - lion), said he won't give Tsipras so that the country could get an conclude the big issues of the though no government has since his backing again. “Go ahead on 86-billion euro ($97.14 billion) bank recapitalization and the 2009 when PASOK won and your own, you have a very good Reunification Deal Coming third bailout from the Quartet of debt and we will proceed at a then-Premier George Papan - majority,” he said. the European Union-Interna - measured pace to change dreou asked for the first bailout. Meimarakis accused Tsipras tional Monetary Fund-European Greece,” Tsipras said in a speech "We want this four-year pe - of undergoing a “transformation” UNITED NATIONS – Turkish commitment to intensify nego - Central Bank-European Stability before the vote. ”I'm convinced riod to go down in history as the – a reference to his shift from Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci tiations to reach a settlement as Mechanism (EU-IMF-ECB-ESM). that we will make it,” he said time when the crisis ended," battling austerity to signing said that an agreement on re - soon as possible and pledged his He had said he would never adding that the government aims Tsipras said. "Our main concern Greece’s third bailout. “I don’t unifying the divided Mediter - personal support “and the seek nor accept the money or to conclude the review within will be to support the weakest." recognize you,” he said without ranean island can be reached in United Nations’ steadfast com - tough conditions it came with November. He didn't explain why cutting mentioning that the Conserva - months rather than years if talks mitment of continuing to facili - but did both after he said he re - His parliamentary group will pensions would help them. tives too reneged on a pledge not with the Greek Cypriot presi - tate the efforts,” U.N. alized Greece was broke. He con - be tested in the coming weeks The country soon faces an in - to agree to any more austerity. dent continue at the same pace, spokesman Stephane Dujarric tinues to say, however, that the during votes on reforms, tax spection of its reform progress The ND leader also slammed with the same determination said. bailout won't work but that he hikes and pension cuts that by its creditors, and Tsipras said Tsipras for declaring war on the and political will, as they have Government Spokesman had no choice but to implement Greece must enact to qualify for he hopes to have the process country’s oligarchs but making in recent months. Nikos Christodoulides said on it. While visiting New York, how - 3 billion euros of bailout aid and completed next month. Once the little headway. “I say to you: Give Akinci told reporters after October 5 that “Cyprus is ever, he praised the bailout as to unlock 25 billion euros to re - review is out of the way, the gov - names and addresses,” he said, meeting Secretary-General Ban preparing for another bond is - the key to Greece's recovery. capitalize its teetering banks and ernment can open crucial talks ridiculing Tsipras' failure to cor - Ki-moon that he and Greek sue before the end of 2015 con - Tsipras moved swiftly to im - while capital controls remain in on reducing Greece's crippling ral a single major tax cheat or Cypriot President Nicos Anas - firmed, invited by the Cyprus plement the program so that he place, stifling businesses. Tsipras debt load — through easier re - rich wrongdoer. tasiades have agreed to intensify News Agency to comment on a can plead for debt relief from the said he wants to woo foreign in - payment terms — and oversee As for Tsipras’s policy pro - negotiations starting in Novem - Financial Times report that now 346-billion euros ($390.82 vestors but didn't say why they capital injections of up to 25 bil - gram, Meimarakis called it “po - ber, and “if we work hard during Cyprus will seek €1.5 bn in a billion) Greece owes the credi - would come if they can't access lion euros to its battered banks. litical fraud,” noting that Tsipras November and December, then 10-year bond sale,” according tors, far more than its Gross Do - money in Greece Tsipras said success in these had promised a different agenda January, I believe we can to CNA. mestic Product (GDP) of 242.2 The first set of 48 reforms ventures will help revive the re - before the Sept. 20 elections that achieve this goal.” “If conditions permit it we billion euros, some $273.57 bil - needs to be turned into law by cession-hammered economy, SYRIZA won handily. Cyprus was divided in 1974 will issue a new bond in the in - lion. The debt-to-GDP ratio is ex - Oct. 15, including more pension which he expects to start grow - Interrupting him at one point, when Turkey invaded after a ternational capital markets in pected to soar to 201 percent, a cuts that Tsipras said were "Red ing again by July 2016. Tsipras accused Meimarakis of coup by supporters of a union 2015…such moves will indicate figure Tsipras and many eco - Lines" and would never cross but "This will allow us to gradu - still being in pre-election mode, with Greece. that the economy`s credibility nomic analysts is unsustainable did to appease the Quartet. ally restore the long-term stabil - a reference to plans for an ND Only Turkey recognizes a is restored at international as Greece forges ahead with get - He said he'll try to figure out ity of the Greek economy ... (re - party leadership contest. “The Turkish Cypriot declaration of level,” said Christodoulides. country needs vision and a plan,” independence and maintains Cyprus’ top Muslim cleric Tsipras said. “Not pre-election more than 30,000 troops in the says Christians and Muslims can rhetoric.” north. Cyprus is a European again live together peacefully This Week in Greek History: “Let me remind you that elec - Union member, but only the in - on ethnically divided Cyprus as tions were held on September 20 ternationally recognized south they did for hundreds of years. and the people decided,” Tsipras enjoys benefits. Turkish Cypriot Grand Mufti Ioannis Kapodistrias is Assassinated said. “You lost by 7.5 points.” A peace deal would unlock Talip Atalay says Muslims In her speech to Parliament co-operation on the eastern should emulate the “good ex - ahead of the confidence vote, PA - Mediterranean’s energy poten - ample of our ancestors” and “we This week in 1831, on Octo - in Nafplion – even as his servants SOK leader Fofi Gennimata also tial and bring some stability to should build on the good mem - ber 9, Ioannis Kapodistrias was advised him to stay home for his said her party won't go along a conflict-wracked region. Ak - ories.” assassinated. own safety, he was confronted by with Tsipras' appeal to the oppo - inci said the hydrocarbon issue Atalay was speaking Sept. 30 Considered a founder of the Mavromichalis’ brothers, Kon - sition parties to join him in can and should be “a catalyst” at the Hala Sultan Tekke, an im - Modern Greek state and instru - stantis and George. Konstantis agreeing to more austerity he to solve the Cyprus problem. portant holy place in Islam, mental in Greece’s independence, fired at Kapodistrias and missed, swore to oppose. He said he He said his vision is to see where tradition says the Prophet he served as Governor of Greece hitting the Church wall instead. wanted a “progressive front Cypriot gas, combined with Is - Muhammad’s foster mother is from 1827 until his death. Then, with his dagger, Konstantis against neoliberalism,” although raeli gas, be channeled to buried. Kapodistrias established re - stabbed Kapodistrias in the chest Tsipras brought them into his Turkey via Cyprus, and from Hundreds of Muslims from forms within Greece, including a while George shot him in the coalition with the Independent Turkey to European Union coun - Cyprus’ breakaway Turkish revamping of the military and the head. Konstantis was fatally shot Greeks. tries. Cypriot north made the pilgrim - implementation of a quarantine at the scene while George es - Accusing Tsipras of having The Turkish Cypriot leader age to the shrine in the interna - system against typhoid fever, caped and was later appre - shown zero signs of progressive - said that since a likely peace tionally recognized Greek cholera, and other contagious hended, tried, and put to death ness in his policies, Gennimata deal will include compensation Cypriot south on the feast of Eid diseases. He also introduced the by firing squad. lashed out at him for co-ruling for private property lost during al-Adha or Kurban Bayram. phoenix, Greece’s first modern Kapodistrias’ younger brother, with “a far-right excrescence of the invasion and other issues, Talks are taking place to re - currency, and the drachma’s pre - Augustinos, assumed the Gover - the political system.” Her party upcoming negotiations need to unify Cyprus, which was split in cursor. turn, ordered the imprisonment norship, but his unstable rule would offer the government “nei - focus on where the money will 1974 when Turkey invaded after Various factions with Greece, of Petrobey Mavromichalis, a Ma - caused the government to fail ther willing reserves nor naive come from. He said that during a coup by supporters of union including the strongly-indepen - niati rebel. within six months, replaced by a accomplices,” she said. his talks at the U.N., “I am with Greece. dent Maniates, objected to As Kapodistrias arose on the monarchy, of which Otto of happy to see the eagerness to Kapodistrias’ forceful rule, con - morning of October 9 to go to Bavaria became the first modern (Material from the Associated assist in this respect.” (Material from the Associated sidering him a despot. He, in church – the St. Spyridon Church King of Greece, in 1832. Press was used in this report) Ban welcomed the leaders’ Press was used in this report) 12 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015

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A weekly publication of the NATIONAL HERALD, INC. Substance, Not Form, to me featuring the headline to living a life and helping oth - small church like ours, and one (ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ ΚΗΡΥΞ), Dishonors Greeks “Kinky Orthodox Priest Brought ers to live a life according to the in which priests enjoy the bene - reporting the news and addressing the issues of paramount interest down by ‘Cake Porn’ sex tape,” teachings of Christ. fit of being married – thank God to the Greek-American community of the United States of America. To the Editor: and the accompanying disgust - And so, “father” George Pas - – we seem to have more scan - You have given much ing story with photographs, con - sias does not fall in that cate - dals engulfing priests than Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris thought to and have written cerning Rev. George Passias, gory. would be considered normal for Assistant to the Publisher, Advertising Veta H. Diamataris Papadopoulos many articles about Greece’s printed in the New York Post. Our church does not have the our size. election, reelection, and the William P. Vafakos problems of other churches, like Why is that? Executive Editor Constantinos E. Scaros conduct of Prime Minister Alexis New York, NY for instance the Catholic church. George Filos Religion Editor Theodore Kalmoukos Tsipras, but you often appear to Nonetheless, for a relatively New Haven, CT Senior Writer Constantine S. Sirigos go apoplectic over his not wear - On line Managing Editor Andy Dabilis ing a necktie and worry that “maybe he doesn’t care. But his Priests Should be Held TO OUR READERS Production Manager Chrysoula Karametros choice does not exactly honor To Higher Standards the rest of us Greeks.” the national herald welcomes letters from its readers intended for The National Herald (USPS 016864) is published weekly by Please concentrate on sub - publication. they should include the writer’s name, address, and The National Herald Inc. at 37-10 30th Street, LIC, NY 11101-2614 stance, not on form. Form never To the Editor: telephone number and be addressed to: the editor, the national Tel: (718)784-5255, Fax: (718)472-0510, trumps substance. I accept that as human be - herald, 37-10 30th street, l ic , ny 11101. letters can also be faxed e-mail: [email protected] The Greek community is not ings we are all prone to making to (718) 472-0510 or e-mailed to [email protected] . dishonored by Tsipras’ not wear - mistakes, even serious ones. we reserve the right to edit letters for publication and regret that Democritou 1 and Academias Sts, Athens, 10671, Greece ing a tie, but it is violently dis - A priest, however, is not just we are unable to acknowledge or return those left unpublished. Tel: 011.30.210.3614.598, Fax: 011.30.210.3643.776, e-mail: honored by a recent email sent any person; he is one dedicated [email protected]

Subscriptions by mail : 1 year $66.00, 6 months $33.00, 3 months $22.00, 1 month $11.00 COMMENTARY Home delivery NY, NJ, CT: 1 year $88.00, 6 months $48.00, 3 months $33.00, 1 month $14.00 Home delivery New England States : 1 year $109.00, 6 months $57.00, 3 months $41.00, 1 month $18.00 As a Child of St. Spyridon, I am Appalled by All of This On line subscription : Subscribers to the print edition: 1 year $57.60, 6 months $39.50, 3 months $25.00; Non subscribers : 1 year $90.00, 6 months $45.50 , 3 months $22.50 By Constantinos E. Scaros have been baffled by countless Periodical postage paid at L.I.C., N.Y. and additional mailing offices. times that clergy, embroiled in Postmaster send change of address to: I begin this piece by saying scandal, instead of being THE NATIONAL HERALD, 37-10 30th Street, LIC, NY 11101-2614 something complimentary about shunned – as Fr. George now George Passias, who was presid - has been – have been cast off to ing priest at the St. Spyridon other parishes. A variation of Greek Orthodox Church in sweeping the problem “under Washington Heights (in Upper the rug” – they just swept it to Manhattan, NYC) until very re - another parish, far, far away No More Free Passias cently, when he was relieved of from the scene of the crime. his duties and banned by the To date, I have not heard a It was well documented that (father) George Passias was a Archdiocese: in all my years of credible answer about why such deeply troubled man. attending Greek Orthodox things happened. In fact, some We ran a number of stories over the years exposing some of Church services, I have never elders would say to me: “paidi his misdeeds. heard the Holy Friday Engomia mou, einai i Ekklisia, min milas As the presiding priest at the Saint Nicholas Church in Flush - – Lamentations chanted so ex - – my child, this is the Church, ing, Passias was accused of numerous financial and other trans - quisitely by anyone as by Fr. you shouldn’t speak this way.” gressions. He almost split that big community apart. George. Of course, I found that rationale He was transferred to the Holy Cross in Brooklyn, where he If nothing else, from a selfish even less credible. was accused of repeating at least some of the same offenses. perspective I will miss not hav - I am pleasantly surprised, Subsequently, he was chosen by then-Archbishop Spyridon ing another opportunity to visit then, that instead of farming Fr. as his chancellor, a powerful position. Again, that created quite the church of my childhood for George and his entourage to a few problems. Holy Friday Vespers with Fr. some cushy gig in some unas - Upon Spyridon’s forced resignation, father Passias was trans - George conducting the liturgy. suming parish in say, the warm ferred to the historic community of Saint Spyridon, in Upper The thought of such a prospect Southwest, they altogether gave Manhattan’s Washington Heights, where again he was accused was so appealing that I actually him the boot. Wow! I hope this of financial improprieties, and womanizing. contemplated figuring out a way wasn’t just a fluke and it’s really And then, this latest scandal broke wide open. to celebrate Easter in New York going to be the norm from now On a recent morning, we received an envelope from an City (from three hours away in on. (What next, the Greek gov - anonymous source. Upon opening it, we found a memory stick. Central Pennsylvania), just so I ernment will start prosecuting The content shocked us. could hear Fr. George at that tax cheats?) We did not rush to print. We had to absorb the impact of it Holy Friday service. THE PEOPLE’S CHURCH and make sure it was authentic. That, of course, won’t be Over the past few days, sev - In the process, we realized that we were not the only recip - happening, because if you eral current and former St. ients of it. haven’t heard by now, Fr. Spyridon parishioners have We had no choice but to run the story, trying very hard to George has been accused of Once home to the largest Greek Orthodox parish in the United called me about the Fr. George phrase it in such a way so as not to offend our readers’ sensi - sleeping with and impregnating States, the St. Spyridon Church in Washington Heights deserves scandal. Knowing that I am a tivities unnecessarily. After all, we are a traditional newspaper. Ethel Bouzalas, a married better. What's done is done; the future is what matters now. writer and editor for the Herald, We are not a newsletter, not a blog, and not a tabloid. We still woman he calls a “spiritual they figured I’d know what was practice the lost art of reporting even lewd news in a manner daughter.” We have reported them. So, as far as I know, I Even if that were true – even if going on. Some told me that that tempers the lewdness. To that end, we did not post the this information, as has the New don’t. there really were no funds to they’ve asked all around, before video online, of course. York Post, which on October 4 I have no reason to accuse keep the School afloat, I had a the story broke – when they The story ran on our English language website the next day, included pictures of the two, al - them of any wrongdoing. I solution. I knew enough well- went to church and saw that Fr. Saturday, Oct. 4, as soon as it was translated. The next day, it legedly still shots from “kinky learned through articles by our qualified individuals who would George was not there. “He’s on ran in the New York Post. sex tapes,” as the Post describes Religion Editor, Theodore volunteer their time to serve as vacation,” or “he’s sick,” or “I We are pleased to say that the reaction of Archbishop them, which the couple presum - Kalmoukos, in this issue, that teachers and administrators – really don’t know” were some Demetrios was what it should have been. He stated right away ably made during their clandes - the Parish Council President’s including me – to keep the of the answers they received that he would defrock Passias. tine meetings at a New Jersey name is Efstathios (Steve) Pa - School running. In the long run, from Church employees. Now, Still, one has to wonder why our church leaders wait until a motel – a few minutes’ drive padatos, and that he is close to I outlined a plan designed to re - these people are angry they scandal comes to light before they take action. Not only in this from St. Spyridon. Passias, as Passias brought him verse the School’s woeful enroll - were lied to – and rightfully so. case, but in many other cases over the years. I am not seeking to condemn along from Brooklyn, along with ment within two years, and Moreover, they are furious Why, when there are so many indications, serious and mul - Passias or Bouzalas. Mind you, Bouzalas, when Passias took place it on track for long-term that they gave so much money tiple accusations and even proof of inappropriate action, they I am certainly not defending over at St. Spyridon nine years success. In short, the problem to St. Spyridon over the years, wait only until after a scandal breaks – if at all – before they do them, but they are now both out ago. I definitely don’t know who was one of quality: my plan, partly because of longstanding something about it? of the picture. No different than, Mr. Papadatos is. If he was really which was never adopted, loyalty, and partly because of Is that right? Is it wise? say, Nixon resigning after Wa - in the dark about these appar - would have made the school their affection for Fr. George. tergate. What concerns me is ently evident atrocities that Pas - competitive, insofar as parents Some tell me they’re going that the same mistakes must sias and Bouzalas committed, would gladly have sent their stu - to find another church to attend, never again be repeated in that then I genuinely feel bad for dents there instead of the New as they can no longer go where By TNH Publisher-Editor Antonis H. Diamataris, from his church that I so love: to which I him. But if he knew, and he cov - York City public school system, they feel they’ve been betrayed. recent trip to Greece. was brought as a 40-day-old ered it up, then he should be not only because the environ - What I told them, and what I baby (and many years later, tossed out onto Wadsworth Av - ment at St. Spyridon would would tell anyone else who says brought my own daughter there enue, and the same goes for all have been safer, but also be - that, is: I Am Not (Yet) Losing My Spirit at 40 days – to be blessed, by of the other Parish Council cause the education would have “I understand that you’re up - Fr. George, in fact!). In which I members: if they didn’t know, been top-notch. set. You feel as if you’ve been was baptized. In which I served then they should stay and help Because of my personal his - sucker-punched. But no matter Recently, after landing at Venizelos Airport in Athens, I took as an altar boy under the emi - pick up the pieces. But if they tory with that School, I hope how much of this story is true a cab. The cabbie’s words are still ringing in my ears like a nently wonderful Fr. John Psil - did know – throw the whole that moving forward, whoever or not, and no matter if anyone hammer: “my son is a mechanical/electrical engineer. What las. In which I baptized one of bunch of them out. is in charge of it will be a bona still at the Church there is guilty can he do (here in Greece)? I see him taking over the taxi.” my four godchildren. From THE SCHOOL fide educator with the requisite as well, St. Spyridon has been a Through my airplane window, I saw the sweet, brilliant whose Greek Afternoon School I also read that Bouzalas has skills to lead and motivate. part of your life long before any Mediterranean light shining down on the Greek islands, dis - I graduated. And in which I can no experience or qualifications Again, I don’t know what Ms. of those people got there. And persed throughout the beautiful blue sea, and I wondered: are still picture countless images of in educational administration, Bouzalas’ qualifications were, the St. Spyridon physical build - they inhabited? And are people living them able to enjoy them? my very large extended family, but that nonetheless, Passias ap - and so I’m only going by what ing, as well as the celestial be - A trip back to the homeland is always a sweet experience. knowing exactly in what spots pointed her Principal of the St. I’ve read. But if in fact, she was ings it represents, will be there Nostalgia is the best part of it – the time when everything in the Church they sat or stood Spyridon Parochial School as vastly unqualified as is de - long after those people are seems so perfect, molded by time and distance. There is the – who was there every Sunday which, as far as I know, contin - scribed, then my advice to St. gone. Don’t let a few bad apples desire for everything to be perfect. That is how we Hellenes without fail, and who showed ues to provide classes from pre- Spyridon moving forward is spoil your wonderful relation - abroad want Greece to be – perfect. up sporadically. To that end, school through the eighth grade. this: just because you are a ship with such a truly special We compare ourselves to other ethnic groups that populate here are my concerns: Again, if that is true, I am es - Greek Orthodox Church doesn’t and historic parish.” these multicultural American cities in which we live. We become PARISH COUNCIL pecially appalled. You see, I mean you have to be “Greek” competitive; happy when we excel, and sad when we lag be - I do not know the current have been an educational ad - about the way you staff your po - hind. members of the St. Spyridon ministrator for over twenty sitions (i.e., cronyism over My conversation with the cabbie continues. He is from North - Parish Council. Make that: as far years. In fact, the St. Spyridon merit: for more details, take a ern Epirus – a true patriot to the bone. A former building con - as I know, I don’t know them. I Parish Council in the mid-1990s gander at the Greek government Correction: tractor, “but now that business is dead; thank God I bought say “as far as I know,” because invited me to consult them, and and how it has filled public po - in our october 3 edition on this taxi.” He voted for Alexis Tsipras for prime minister the one would think their names the School’s principal at the sitions for the past umpteen pages 1 and 6, the correct first time, but not the second. would appear on St. Spyridon’s time, in order to help save the years). I observe that traffic is sparse. “I guess it’s still too early in website. But they do not, and School from permanently clos - THE ARCHDIOCESE spellings of the names of two the morning,” I comment. He gives me a strange look, as if I’m so I’m not really sure who’s on ing. The short-term problems, I’ve got to give credit where individuals is: George yan - nuts for thinking that’s the reason. there, and if I know any of as explained to me, were funds. credit is due. Over the years, I copoulos and P. roy vagelos. The new Parliament was sworn in on October 3, with Arch - bishop Ieronymos presiding. But half the Members did not take their oath on the Bible. I really wonder how this humble cler - gyman feels when he watches their deprecation of religion and Observations By Antonis H. Diamataris contempt for him. Perhaps it would be best to have two swear - ing-in segments next time: one religious and one secular. In what other country – Greece is likely the only one – do Athens, We Have a Problem release, and from what this newspaper has a coincidence that everyone but Tsipras was elected officials overtly ignore a direct constitutional mandate: learned from other sources, the key issue wearing a tie? recognition Christianity as the official religion? Now that recently-reelected Greek Prime they emphasized was reforms. Maybe he doesn’t care. But his choice Moreover, the two leading vote-getters in the Sept. 20 elec - Minister Alexis Tsipras has concluded his On the other hand, I don’t see why the does not exactly honor the rest of us Greeks. tions – the winner, SYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras and New Democ - visit to New York, let’s take account of his prime minister of Greece had to use a state What about his last-minute visit to racy’s Evangelos Meimarakis – avoided one another altogether; trip. jet for a weeklong trip when his country is Ground Zero and snub toward the St. they didn’t even say hello. On the one hand, his meetings with Chi - so strapped for funds; this is not just about Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which It was late afternoon when I stumbled upon the book exhi - nese Premier Xi Jinping and U.S. Secretary cost, but about Greece’s image in the world. was on his way? The new St. Nicholas, ex - bition at Zappeion. A lot of kiosks and people, but very few of State John Kerry are very important. Such Moreover, Tsipras avoided contact with pected to be completed next year, is a Greek sales. meetings are always substantial and held ordinary Greek-Americans – no open forum, asset of which Tsipras should be proud. Most of the books were translations of their “radical” origi - for good reason; none of these officials has not even a visit to a Greek school – save for As for the THI Gala, he had ample op - nals – written in the decades of the glorious past. any time to waste, not least of all during a his appearance at The Hellenic Initiative portunity amid an audience of serious in - That cabbie reminded me of another one, who told me with UN Conference. (THI) Gala. More on that to follow. vestors to say a few words about Greek- absolute certainty and equally absolute disappointment that Unfortunately, very little was disclosed Unfortunately, he managed to embarrass Americans investing in Greece. Instead, he he still supported Tsipras, “although he is not going to fulfill about the meetings’ substance, thereby himself in public conversation with former reiterated the same old rhetoric we’ve all the leftist revolution as he should have done.” Maybe he was probably rendering them even more impor - President Bill Clinton, before a demanding heard before, ignoring how investment- at that book expo, too. tant. audience. More painful was his tieless pose savvy the audience was, and insulting their We Greeks surely gab too much about politics and too little Just as important was Greek Finance with President and Mrs. Obama. Notice the intelligence accordingly. about work. Minister Euclid Tsakalotos’ meeting with irony on her face – incredible. The problem, then, with Tsipras, is both As for me, I’m going to listen to the sage advice of that IMF Executive Director Christine Lagarde Dress code is very important, especially ideological and attitudinal. cabbie from the airport, who told me: “I’m not losing my spirit.” and her staff, in Washington. Certainly both on such occasions. It’s the message and the I am also afraid that he is well-advanced Neither am I (not yet, at least). sides had the opportunity to exchange im - mindset – a respect for others – that proper on a collision course with at least a good portant points. According to the IMF’s press attire represents. Do you think it is merely portion of Greek-Americans. THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015 VIEWPOINTS 13 Lamenting the Elimination of Thucydides: on Expecting Aid of Allies During a Negotiation

Difference in Greek Politics By Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou striking the demonstration of but do not envy your folly. The do not adopt the view that ex - the Athenian power’s weakness Lacedaemonians, when their pediency goes with security, [From Thucydides’ would be. own interests or their country's while justice and honour cannot After yet an - might somehow Melian Dialogue] The debate goes on address - laws are in question, are the be followed without danger; other round of elec - sweeten the poiso - ing the issue of how much worthiest men alive.” The Athe - and danger the Lacedaemonians tions in Greece, so nous pills she is “How can you avoid making should a city in danger shape nians define what characterizes generally court as little as pos - much has changed, nonetheless force- enemies of all existing neutrals the policy and decisions count - the Spartans’ attitude towards sible.” and yet so much feeding the popula - who shall look at case from it ing on the expectation for an - the cities who ask for their aid, The Melians argue that their has remained the tion while fully that one day or another you will other power’s aid. which is quite often the case in expectation has a valid point. same. The country cognizant that the attack them?” asked the Melians “And that what we want in international politics even today. The Spartan expedition is preparing to en - medicine will not the Athenians who threatened power will be made up by the “Of all the men we know they shouldn’t be a difficult and risky ter into its seventh remedy the malady. to destroy their island, if they alliance of the Lacedaemonians, are most conspicuous in consid - one due to the proximity of the year in the reviled Of course, there don’t submit to the Delian who are bound, if only for very ering what is agreeable hon - island of Melos to Peloponnesus. memorandum-era. have been many ar - League. It seems common that Additionally the fact that they The new govern - guments regarding the weak partner in a negotia - are both of Dorian origin en - ment that was cho - by Christopher the similarity of tion develops the argument and sures the Melians’ fidelity. The sen by the record- TRIPOULAS various political even the expectation that he will Athenians counter that what an low number of Special to systems and sup - find allies among other mem - intending ally trusts to is not the Greek voters has The National Herald posed opponents in bers of the League and most goodwill of those who ask his actually opted to the past (i.e., major probably decisive support from aid, but a decided superiority of cast their ballot turned out to conglomerates in Western an external ideologically related power for action. The Spartans be the same one that was se - economies implementing the power. Though in politics gen - don’t possess superiority in the lected this past January, only same form of economic plan - eralizations are risky, there are seas. The Melians continue their now, having renounced the anti- ning as in communist societies, lessons to be taught and insights train of expectations saying that memorandum platform that led etc.). to be gained from this part of they would have others to send, the two coalition parties consti - The more supposed ideolog - Thucydides’ Melian dialogue, probably from Crete. Should the tuting it out of obscurity and ical opponents converge on fi - which examines a common is - Lacedaemonians miscarry in into positions of prominence in nancial and administrative is - sue in a negotiation: the weak - this, they would fall upon the first place. sues, the more likely they will ers’ expectation for aid from po - Athenian land. Gone are the promises that be to overcompensate and seek tential allies. The Athenians now depart - resounded so brashly and opti - divergence where logic would “And what is this but to make ing from the conference re - mistically just a few short call for harmony. The question greater the enemies that you quired the Melians to reach a months ago about “tearing up now remains to what extend have already, and to force others conclusion on the basis of pre - the memorandum” or abolishing will those in power go to pre - to become so who would other - sent facts, not suppositions it with one single law, or at - tend that they are not posers. wise have never thought of it?” about the future. "Well, you tempts to declare the national For instance, no matter how The Melians discuss the impact alone, as it seems to us, judging debt odious. The new “old gov - hard SYRIZA (the Coalition of that the exercise of the Atheni - from these resolutions, regard ernment” has now done a 180- the Radical Left), the senior ans’ illegitimate force upon their what is future as more certain degree U-turn, much like it’s partner in the Greek Govern - city would have on their allies. than what is before your eyes, now washed up predecessors, ment, may try to convince oth - To their opinion it will result to and what is out of sight, in your and has adopted the irrational erwise, it’s pretty evident that a hostile wave against the hege - eagerness, as already coming to rationale of Greece’s creditors, there is nothing radically left mony of the Delian League. The pass; and as you have staked arguing that it can restart the about their economic policies. Athenians disagree: “The fact is most on, and trusted most in, economy and lead Greece out On the contrary, they will be that continentals generally give the Lacedaemonians, your for - of de facto default through aus - quite neoliberal if the 3rd Mem - us but little alarm; the liberty tune, and your hopes, so will terity, overtaxation, and fire orandum is to be implemented. which they enjoy will long pre - you be most completely de - sales (all while handling the It would be most unfortunate if vent their taking precautions ceived." biggest refugee crisis since the it opted to gauchely prove its against us; it is rather islanders The Spartans did not aid Me - Asia Minor Catastrophe almost commitment to a leftist agenda like yourselves, outside our em - los. The Athenians forced the re - one century before!). by implementing programs and pire, and subjects smarting un - sisting inhabitants into surren - The election results were not policies that had traditionally der the yoke, who would be the der, then slaughtered all men of in themselves all that important, relegated it to a party hovering most likely to take a rash step military age, and enslaved the considering whichever party around the 3 percent threshold, and lead themselves and us into women and children. Ten years won, the end result would have as it was prior to the memoran - obvious danger.” The Athenians later, in 405 BC, with Athens been more or less the same, dum. reply that the example of an in - losing the war, the Spartans ex - since German hegemony and Prime Minister Tsipras’ dependent Melos will encourage shame, to come to the aid of ourable, and what is expedient pelled the Athenian settlers complicity on behalf of the Eu - choice of ministers was inaus - their subject-allies to believe their kindred. Our confidence, just.” from Melos and restored the ropean Union institutions have picious. For instance, his three that it is possible for an island therefore, after all is not so ut - The Melians express strong Melian survivors to their island. more or less relegated Greek ministers in the Ministry of Ed - to stay outside Athens’ thalas - terly irrational”, insist the objections. Taking into account politicians to water boys on the ucation, Research, and Religion, socracy. This would then gener - Melians. On the other hand the that Athens was already sixteen Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou, PhD, sidelines of a game where they include Nikos Filis, who man - ate revolt. Thus there emerges Athenians argue that the Spar - years in war with Sparta – the has studied philology and ar - have no shot of calling any aged to insult the beliefs of Or - a paradox: precisely because the tans have nothing to gain and a Peloponnesian War – they ex - chaeology at the University of plays. The two striking out - thodox Christians representing Melians are weaker than other lot to lose by helping them. pect that the Spartans would Ioannina, Würzburg and comes of these latest polls are the majority of the population subjects and precisely because “When we come to your notion most probably prefer to help Bochum in Germany. She has the record low voter turnout, when he scoffed at the venera - their resistance is irrational, about the Lacedaemonians, one of their former colonies, been honored with the with 45 percent of the citizens tion of the relics of St. Barbara, they must be destroyed. The which leads you to believe that than indirectly assist the Athe - Academy of Athens Award in turning their back on the as well deny that the massacre weaker the city that remains in - shame will make them help you, nians by not interfering in the Archaeology and Homeric process, in a likely show of no of the Greeks of Pontus by the dependent of Athens the more here we bless your simplicity conflict. ”Athenians: Then you Philology. confidence in any of the parties, Turks represents a genocide, Sia and the ever increasing similar - Anagnostopoulou, an expert in ity of platforms between the ma - Turkish Studies, who began her jor parties vying to govern the tenure by sparking a contro - LETTER FROM ATHENS land. versy over the teaching of reli - From that standpoint, the big gion classes (as if this was the winner in last month’s election underlying problem of the was abstention, and all that it Greek education system), and Greece and Tsipras Both Learn that Resistance is Futile may entail down the road when Theodosis Pelegrinis, whose frustrated citizens no longer most famous quote might have have a legitimate political appa - been purportedly justifying the There's an old axiom every - his first failed and and rich with their tough draft budget for 2016, ratus to absorb their anger. decision to reject world famous one should remember if they abbreviated admin - hands on the heralding a series of tax in - As philosopher/theologian Greek-American physicist Dim - want to live a happier life: never istration in partner - money tap made creases and spending cuts to Prof. Christos Yannaras noted on itris Nanopoulos’ appointment interfere with the politicians and ship with the three- him submit for comply with creditors’ demands the day of the elections, “differ - to a Greek university by arguing the rich – especially the rich – bricks-shy-of-a-load standing up to for a third bailout. ence does not necessarily mean that he “did not have the essen - because they're going to win al - far-right Dependent him. Spartacus got Tsipras is now mouthing opposition or enmity. However, tial qualifications.” most every time and grind you Greeks he stood on crushed too, he some feeble talk of more resis - the deliberate elimination of dif - If the European crisis has up if you get in the way. the ramparts should have re - tance in trying to seek debt re - ference is a crime that deprives shown anything, it is that those To that you can add bankers screaming resis - membered. lief, which means only that humanity of the opportunities who feign “piety” on the basis who get bonuses even if their tance. Greeks tried re - Greece would have lower inter - arising from vital choices; the of the ideological purity of their institutions fail because of their Now the Com - sisting too, taking est rates and a longer time to invaluable wealth of possibilities views (be they leftists or neolib - ineptitude or greed. They are munist has become to the streets in repay because the Quartet is that allow it to maneuver itself erals), end up becoming the bullet-proof, you are not. a Capitalist, and by ANDY massive numbers never going to allow an outright however it pleases. The Greek greatest poster boys for Greek Prime Minister Alexis even his Marxist DABILIS in 2010-11 when debt cut because that would way of life was always centered hypocrisy – as yet another bil - “U-Turn” Tsipras learned the economist Finance then-Premier and force taxpayers in the other 18 on community, while the West - lion dollar German corruption hard way the difference be - Minister Euclid Special to PASOK leader Eurozone countries to foot the ern model safeguarded individ - scandal (Volkswagen) has tween the real world and the Tsakalotos is tasked The National Herald George “The bill for four decades of wild ualism. plainly illustrated. Greeks have people who control it and the with the embarrass - Money is There” Greek overspending and run - The priority of the relation - had their fill of empty ideology. cafes and classrooms where his ing chore of implementing a Papandreou buried them with away patronage under New ship (the feat and risk) is Greek, Whether a new generation of Communist-fed Che Guevara program both believe is doomed austerity. Democracy and PASOK who while the certainty of the con - citizens can forge viable rela - idolatry and leanings made him to fail but they're going to do it Their strikes and protests have no regard for their country. tract is Western. For the Hellene, tionships and pursue truth think he could create a Leftist anyway, and 86-billion euro and riots brought him down but For all the loans and scream - truth was empirical – a certainty through empirical knowledge revolution in Europe and topple ($96.81 billion) third bailout did nothing to slow the on - ing and fighting and foot-drag - that was communed, while for remains to be seen. the people with the money. Tsipras said he didn't want nor slaught of austerity and nothing ging have done is worsen the Westerner, it was a substan - Only when the crisis is com - Before he won the Jan. 25 would accept but did both. will even though an internal Greece's plight. tiated intellectual ‘belief.’” bated by the creative boldness snap elections and even after Why? Because the alternative IMF report found the agency The country was showing That dilemma did not exist of a leader who can manifest the Sept. 20 second elections, was the end of Greece. was too Draconian in insisting signs of a slight recovery before in these elections, or in the the popular demand for reform he called to rid his Looney Left Their crime wasn't in going on harsh measures to insure it Tsipras took over in January and many that preceded them – and through divergence from the SYRIZA party of dissidents an - along with the austerity that will and the banks would get their he's still speaking out of both perhaps that is where the heart system that brought Greece to gry he lied about resisting aus - destroy Greece in order to save money back. sides of his mouth, promising of the problem truly lies. The where it is today (including the terity demanded by interna - it but to pretend otherwise and Cut to 2015 and Greece now the Quartet he will fulfill their only thing that the citizens who criminally negligent EU) will tional lenders, Tsipras deluded cruelly give worn-down Greek owing the Quartet 346 billion every demand while telling Par - voted for the majority of the light ever begin to appear at the himself into thinking he could workers, pensioners and the euros ($389.08 billion) with liament he won't. Which is it? parties in Parliament could hope end of the tunnel. stand up to the people and in - poor the illusion that their lives projections the debt-to-Gross So instead of moving to im - to do was to choose a better ad - stitutions who crushed his pre - would get better under SYRIZA. Domestic Product (GDP) will plement the conditions he said ministrator, a more compassion - Follow me on Twitter decessors, the New Democracy Most reprehensible was that surpass 201 percent, not the won't work, Tsipras will turn ate or comelier nurse, who @CTripoulas Capitalists and PASOK Anti-So - Tsipras took a blood oath that rosy 122 percent the govern - once again to mock resistance cialists who paid a heavy price he wouldn't harm society's most ment and creditors pretended in a faux struggle he knows he for imposing big pay cuts, tax vulnerable but is about to do so could be met. can't win, putting up a good GUEST EDITORIALS hikes, slashed pensions, worker in a 2016 draft budget that The Tsipras Budget for 2016 show for those in the cheap firings, and privatizations. showed the SYRIZA cuts will be is chock-a-block with more of seats. the national herald welcomes manuscripts representing a variety of Perhaps Tsipras believed he every bit as hard as those im - the measures he said would un - Fighting back has its place as views for publication. they should include the writer’s name, address, could save Greece without the plemented by New Democracy pardonable but which he now Greeks well know and it's better and telephone number, and be addressed to the editor, the national money from the bailouts being and PASOK which at least didn't said were unavoidable, to live one hour as a free man herald, 37-10 30th st., long island city, ny 11101. they may also put up by the Quartet of the Eu - even pretend to care about the mouthing the same words as than 40 years as a slave which be e-mailed to [email protected]. we reserve the right ropean Union-International victims that would be left in aus - previous New Democracy leader they now are but nothing can to edit any manuscripts that we publish, and we do not return or Monetary Fund-European Cen - terity's wake. Antonis Samaras and Papan - be done about it. otherwise acknowledge unpublished ones. Due to considerations of tral Bank-European Stability Now Tsipras knows the price dreou. Mechanism (EU-IMF-ECB-ESM). of defiance is humiliation with As Greece’s economy remains space we enforce a strict 850-word upper limit. He could not, of course, even his face rubbed in his own on shaky ground, its govern - [email protected] if during the seven months of words, the way the politicians ment unveiled on Monday a 14 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, OCTOBER 10-16, 2015 The Climate Change Discussion: a Look at Converging Views of Science and Religion

By Dr. Leonidas Petrakis, religious leaders (Ecumenical disaster. The Pope (a chemist by PhD Patriarch Bartholomew, Dalai training) declares that the eco - Lama, Archbishop of Canter - logical crisis is “a small sign of In December an international bury, Bishop Tutu), concerned the ethical, cultural and spiritual conference sponsored by the about the existential threat that crisis of modernity”; insists on United Nations will be held in climate change poses, have been the moral case for caring for the Paris to seek legally binding calling for action. Recently Pope Earth (“our common home”); agreements for specific actions Francis issued his encyclical on distances himself from the ad - by all nations that will finally the environment, “Laudato Si’,“ versarial view of man’s relation limit greenhouse gas emissions thereby joining the other spiri - to nature; recognizes the an - and stem the environmental dis - tual leaders, and greatly ex - thropogenic origin of climate aster that is rapidly unfolding. panding their calls to save the change; focuses on specific is - Agreed upon policies at previous planet. sues (water, transportation, loss international conferences have The energy for the Industrial of biodiversity, global inequal - not been implemented. The Revolution has been provided ity); advocates a new partner - Paris Conference is seen as the primarily by fossil fuels, the ship between science and reli - last chance for action before the remnants of earlier luxuriant gion to combat the planet approaches the “tipping plant and animal life. The ex - human-driven climate change; point” for major and irreversible traction of these fuels, their use and he is particularly mindful damage to its human and nat - and conversion to various prod - of the poor and disadvantaged ural systems. ucts (agricultural chemicals, peoples who are bearing the Scientists have compiled co - pharmaceuticals, and countless brunt of the adverse effects of pious amounts of compelling ev - consumer goods) have greatly climate change. His encyclical is idence for the causes and effects increased polluting and climate- an astonishing document. Inci - of climate change, documenting affecting byproducts, including dentally, in it he also pays trib - the widespread harm already the so-called greenhouse gases. ute to Patriarch Bartholomew’s being done and validating Carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide pioneering efforts for the envi - model projections that the dam - and methane (natural gas) are ronment. age will worsen significantly if the most important climate- The obstacles to a Paris Con - there are no policies put in place changing chemicals. Methane (a ference agreement for meaning - in time to curtail the use of fossil cleaner fossil fuel but highly po - (NY City plans for hugely ex - science, and it is in this context and natural systems wrought by ful policies appear almost insur - fuels, chief culprit of climate tent greenhouse gas) is rapidly pensive sea walls to prevent that the massive scientific evi - man’s extreme attempts to “sub - mountable: the huge investment change. increasing in the atmosphere be - such flooding as caused by the dence on the cause and effects due” nature. in infrastructure that the fossil Scientists have been trying cause of the melting of the per - 2012 hurricane Sandy); grow - of climate change has been This chasm between science fuels industry has in place as also to inform the public of the mafrost and the aggressive use ing frequency and intensity of amassed and presented, most and religion is what Patriarch well as its political power; the potential catastrophe, and to en - of “fracking” by the fossil fuels extreme weather events (Kat - eminently by the Intergovern - Bartholomew and the other re - deep divide between developed courage policy makers to ad - industry. rina and the extended California mental Panel on Climate ligious leaders are attempting and developing nations; the co- dress the issue with the requisite The evidence that climate and Midwest droughts); increas - Change, under the aegis of the to bridge in the case of climate opting of “environmental” and seriousness instead of pious gen - change due to anthropogenic ing temperature on land and United Nations. The validity of change. Patriarch Bartholomew “green” as concepts even by eralities and commitments that greenhouse gases is ubiquitous oceans (permafrost melting, the scientific evidence is ac - speaks of course in religious egregious environmental of - remain unimplemented. Many and compelling: rising sea levels Arctic sea ice and Greenland cepted by over ninety five per - terms even as he addresses spe - fenders; and the puzzling and and Antarctic ice sheets declin - cent of scientists. cific environmental issues, such stubborn denial of the very ex - ing, glaciers retreating, and the In sharp contrast to the as the degradation of water re - istence of climate change by a diminished snow cover in the Greeks, Genesis provides a dif - sources, the stuff of life. He con - cadre of influential politicians. Northern Hemisphere melting ferent view of the world and siders that caring for the envi - This is an almost uniquely Russia’s Foray into Syria: earlier than usual); increasing man’s relation to it: “And God ronment is a religious American phenomenon -the acidification of oceans (as more blessed them, and God said unto imperative, declaring, “to com - Chair of the U.S. Senate Com - carbon dioxide is being ab - them, Be fruitful, and multiply, mit a crime against the natural mittee on the Environment, What Shall We Make of it? sorbed by the oceans from the and replenish the earth, and world is a sin. For human beings James Inhofe of Oklahoma, has atmosphere carbonic acid is subdue it: and have dominion to cause species to become ex - penned a book on climate formed and dissolves corals); over the fish of the sea, and over tinct and to destroy the biologi - change titled The Greatest By Theodore G. Karakostas that what the Middle East needs and massive people migrations the fowl of the air, and over cal diversity of God's creation; Hoax, and has invoked Genesis is stability with governments in due to drought and food short - every living thing that moveth for human beings to degrade the 8:22 as the basis of his denial. During the centuries of the Syria and Iraq being able to con - ages (and wars, of course). upon the earth.” integrity of the Earth by causing Notwithstanding these im - existence of the Ottoman Em - trol their territory and to pro - Different cultures and epochs This adversarial relationship changes in its climate, by strip - pediments the threat posed by pire, the Russians sought to lib - vide basic services to their pop - have provided varying attitudes between man and nature found ping the earth of its natural climate change is so high that it erate the Greek, Armenian, and ulations. The brutality of ISIS towards the world and man’s re - colorful expression in the works forests, or by destroying its wet - may force political leaders to fi - Slavic Christians. and the continued wars with lation to it, with the distrust be - of Francis Bacon (in language lands; for human beings to in - nally move towards meaningful They were repeatedly under - Iraq and Syria have greatly con - tween science and religion hav - offensive to modern sensibili - jure other human beings with agreements at the Paris Confer - mined by Great Britain and tributed to the refugee crisis in ing played a significant role in ties, nature is “a strong woman disease by contaminating the ence. The timely convergence of France, who propped up the Ot - Greece and Europe, so it is en - shaping their views. that needs to be subdued”!) His Earth's waters, its land, its air, views between modern science tomans and went to war for tirely logical to work to stop the The Greeks, as Erwin famous treatise “Novum Or - and its life, with poisonous sub - and religious positions that do them during the Crimean War refugee crisis by stabilizing the Schrödinger points out in his de - ganum“ (titled to signal his stances – all of these are sins.” not deny scientific evidence may which broke out in 1853. Ac - region by supporting their legit - lightful and insightful book Na - break with Aristotle and the rest He has preached widely to sen - prove a key for the success of cording to the great book, The imate governments in both ture and the Greeks, were free of the Greeks) played a signifi - sitize not only his Orthodox this crucial meeting. Crimean War by Orlando Figis, Damascus and Baghdad. from this mutual distrust. He cant role in shaping Western at - flock but also influence peoples there was a popular song in The Syrian government has writes, “never before or since, titudes towards science. The no - of all faiths; has undertaken pil - Leonidas Petrakis holds a PhD Great Britain with the words not only traditionally tolerated anywhere in the world, has any - tion of man subduing nature for grimages and field trips; and has in physical chemistry from the joyously exclaiming that "the Christianity, but the Christian thing like their highly advanced his own aggrandizement char - organized conferences bringing University of California, Russians shall not have Constan - faith has long prospered under and articulated system of knowl - acterized the Industrial Revolu - together theologians and scien - Berkeley, was Chairman and Se - tinople." Previous to this in the Assad family. When Chris - edge and speculation been es - tion, with science the means of tists. For his untiring efforts he nior Scientist of the Department 1774, the Armies of Catherine tians were fleeing Iraq, they tablished without the fateful di - conquering her. This view has has been recognized with the of Applied Sciences at the Great won a great victory were all headed toward Syria vision which has hampered us led to the rapacious plundering US Congressional Gold Medal, Brookhaven National over the Ottoman Empire and where they knew Christians for centuries and has become of resources by applying brutal Norway’s Sophie Prize, hon - Laboratory, has taught at the subsequent Treaty of were safe. Whatever the faults unendurable in our days.” To technologies, their conse - orary degrees from many uni - various universities in the US, Kuchuk-Kanarji forced the Ot - of Damascus, it is a secular the Greeks the world around quences rationalized and dis - versities, and has gained the France, and Greece, did tomans to give equal rights to regime much preferable to ISIS them was big and beautiful, “a missed by economists as mere nickname of “Green Patriarch.” research in the private sector, Christians within the Ottoman which currently occupies one rather complicated mechanism, “externalities.” The ongoing ex - Pope Francis in May 2015 is - and is the author of several Empire. third of Syrian and Iraqi terri - acting according to eternal in - traction of fossil fuels from the sued his environment encyclical, books and of more than 150 The Ottomans, of course, tory. Reasonable people must nate laws, which they were cu - North Dakota oil shale and the a powerful and moving call for peer-reviewed scientific publi - never kept their agreements and accept that Christians, Muslims, rious to find out.” Of course this Alberta tar sands are examples urgent actions needed to halt cations. He now resides in Oak - the oppression of Christians women, and secularists alike are is the central tenet of modern of the terrible damage to human the developing environmental land, CA. gradually became more bloody much better off under the secu - until the early twentieth century lar Syrian government than ISIS saw the genocide of Armenian, whose barbarism has become notorious. As such, the Russians by How about a Having a Mediterranean Common Market? When taking all the backing Damascus have made variables into account, an effort to badly stabilize the it is entirely accurate region. President Putin is acting By Dr. Dean C. Lomis sures placed upon the suffering pending upon their industrial try -- and mostly a southern-Eu - like a genuine statesman who southern tier nations have cre - capabilities, of course quite dif - ropean country -- in every as - to think that Russia has put forward his case and has Perhaps it is time for the ge - ated conditions of social disar - ferent from those of the north - pect of its society other than its is the best hope for quite reasonably asked the ographically lower European ray as well. Although the south - ern tier. Certainly one of their geographical location in the West, "Do you realize what countries, the southern tier of erners seek the north’s industrial capacities will be Middle East. Israelis have been Eastern Christianity you've done?" The Russian gov - the European Union, to look assistance, they also disdain the tourism to their beautiful and throughout the Northern in the Middle East. ernment seems to have a far bet - elsewhere for a way out of their fact that the measures imposed sunny lands, along with their Mediterranean for eons. Their ter understanding of the region financial dilemma by abandon - upon them are punitive, while fine agricultural products of modern scientifically-oriented Greek Orthodox, and Assyrian than both the Obama adminis - ing the Eurozone and create at the same time enriching the fruits and vegetables scarcely society is of high level and can Christians in Anatolia. The ex - tration as well as the Republican their own economic market. enforcers. Their attitudes bring growing in the cold North. Also, be a very favorable partner to a termination of the Christians be - Presidential Candidates. The Their current dependence upon back memories of past injus - light manufacturing not compet - Mediterranean Common Mar - tween 1914 and 1923 are a re - Russians absolutely have a the euro has not been a positive tices, creating social anomalies ing with the heavy North, ket, and vice versa. The very minder of the genocide under greater commitment to the sur - economic panacea. to the level of Nazi reminis - should enhance industrializa - large energy deposit discoveries way by ISIS against the Chris - vival of Christianity in the Mid - The northern European cence. tion and their productivity of in its exclusive economic zone, tians of Syria and Iraq. The in - dle East. Last year, Senator Ted countries are nations of heavy Current indicators suggest other unique goods. connecting to those of Cyprus terest of Russia in the Middle Cruz (a Presidential Candidate) industries, whereas the southern that the southern tier will need The value of the southern- which connect to those of East is greatly motivated by con - insulted Arab Christians in tier has been of light manufac - several decades of austerity to tier currencies would be a major Greece, can provide a working cern for the survival of Chris - Washington by giving a speech turing, with the somewhat ex - return to better conditions. factor in the reconstruction of relationship of immense oppor - tianity, an interest that is not about Israel that was off topic ception of Italy primarily due to There is also the concern that their economies. Perhaps the tunities, and develop closer ties shared by either the United and erroneous with regard to its automotive works. Added to at least some might not make it safest route would be for all the of all aspects for social interac - States or Europe whose policies the genocide under way against the condition is the economic regardless of aid; might declare members to revert to their own tion as well with its Mediter - triggered the ongoing horrors Middle Eastern Christians. strength of modern Germany, bankruptcy; might be expelled currencies, but through their ranean Common Market part - against Christians as well as Given the historical indiffer - due almost exclusively to the or leave the euro on their own; common market to establish ners. Israel will have much Muslims, Kurds, and Yazidis. ence to the plight of Greek Or - fact that throughout the Cold all conditions that will make their values on an equivalent better success with the northern The Republican Presidential thodox, Armenian, and Assyrian War it was the United States matters even worse. rate. Mediterranean countries than it Candidates and their historical Christians under the Turks, the which supported Germany’s de - What might be a situation if There is also the recent ele - would have with the Obama ill- and political ignorance should Turkish invasion and occupation fense against the Soviet Union the ‘light-industries’ southern ment of fossils energy discov - forced, supposed re-rapproche - be a cause for concern and fear. of Christian Cyprus, and the de - fear totally, providing it the op - European nations decided to ered in the Mediterranean wa - ment of Israel with Turkey. Many of them have taken public struction of Serbian Orthodoxy portunity to develop itself with - abandon the euro and seek a ters. Greece and Cyprus, along Turkey can never be trusted to positions denouncing Russian in Kosovo which the West has out the heavy expenditures of different route? Yes, such tumul - with non-European Union Is - deal fairly with any dealings intervention in Syria without countenanced, it is entirely ac - defense costs. tuous approach will have heavy rael, are found to possess huge that it makes. Its record of bro - having any sort of understand - curate to assert that the Rus - The unevenness of light man - repercussions, at least initially, amounts. If the Eastern tier of ken accords is laden in the an - ing of history or the disastrous sians represent the best hope for ufacturing versus heavy indus - but in the long run it should the Mediterranean has such nals of history, not to disregard consequences of trying to im - Eastern Christianity in the Mid - tries has been detrimental to the prove less stressful than the cur - wealth, the Western might need Turkey’s disdain of and for Ju - pose "regime change" even after dle East. When the Republican economies of the Southern Eu - rent ‘no light at end of the tun - to be explored as well. Just like daism, due to its own Islamist the disastrous Iraq War. Chris - Candidates are not showing ropean countries from Portugal nel’ predicament, especially the Arab peninsula works its religious orientation and social tians have been driven out of their ignorance on Middle East - across the Mediterranean to when no tunnel is even in sight. valuable wealth, so can the mores of Muslim tenets. Iraq (when they have not been ern affairs, they are aiming to Cyprus. All these partners are Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, Mediterranean basin. Doris Day’s famous song of massacred as with the twenty- appeal to the religious right, suffering from the same eco - Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and There is also an additional the fabulous 1950s – “Que Sera, one Coptic Christians decapi - which openly speaks about nomic disease, the inability to Cyprus can form a “Mediter - ‘trump card’ that might be exer - Sera” (‘What Will Be, Will Be’) tated by ISIS in Libya) and bringing about the end of days compete evenly with their ranean Common Market,” de - cised. Israel is a European coun - is most appropriate here. Cer - Syria. Two Christian Bishops by supporting the extreme set - northern associates. Added to tainly no one knows “what the (Orthodox and Coptic) were tlers movement in Israel and the dilemma is German domi - future will bring.” But to sit by kidnapped in April 2013 and sabotaging an Arab-Israeli peace nance and heavy pressure on idly, suffering under intense their fates remain unknown. deal even at the expense of these countries, resulting in Ger - conditions without considering The Syrian "rebels" who Sen - Palestinian Christians which in - many’s economic favor. Ger - and trying something new is not ator McCain and several of the clude the faithful of the Greek many’s labor force is expound - a viable solution either. Republican Presidential Candi - Orthodox and Roman Catholic ing that current economic As the Ancient Greek advice dates support have long since Patriarchates of Jerusalem. conditions are very favorable, provided: “Syn Athena kai heira been connected to al-Qaeda. The Middle East needs less resulting in enormous opportu - kinei – Pray to the goddess Yet, both Republicans and war and more stability with se - nities to its workers. One of its Athena to save you from drown - Democrats alike believe in the cure borders and stable govern - major successes is that Germany ing, but use your arms to swim, myth that there are rebels in ments in Iraq and Syria. It needs does not have an unemploy - too,” so should the Mediter - Syria that are not connected to a two state solution for the ment situation, at least not yet. ranean European countries con - al-Qaeda and/or ISIS. Even if Arab-Israeli conflict. It needs However, given that the jobless sider alternatives in a united this were true, it would still be greater Russian influence and of the southern tier seek work manner to locate that tunnel a mistake to attempt to over - less Saudi influence. In the af - in Germany, under their right as and see the light at its end. throw the Assad government in termath of the horrors of ISIS European Union citizens, Ger - Damascus. and the horrible refugee crisis, many itself might begin to falter Dean C. Lomis, PhD, was Profes - I am not a supporter of any there should be no more talk of from a greater job-seekers num - sor of Modern Greek and Direc - authoritarian governments or attacking Iran, and instigating ber than needed. tor of International Center at political systems, but the fact is even more human suffering. The severe austerity mea - the University of Delaware.