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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. 19, ISSUE 958 February 20-26 , 2016 c v $1.50 Four Distinguished MIT Michael Jaharis, a Great Benefactor, D1ies at 87 Professors Enunciate With Wife Mary, a Lifetime of Support Their Words of Wisdom For the Community

By Aria Socratous tion of skin; Constantinos By Theodore Kalmoukos Daskalakis, Associate Professor Founded in 1861 in Cam - in Computer Science and Engi - NEW YORK – Michael Jaharis, bridge, the Massachusetts Insti - neering, a 2012 Microsoft Re - a man of deep faith, family, in - tute of Technology (MIT), re - search Faculty Fellow and has tegrity, philanthropy, and love plete with an array of alumni solved a problem arising from for Hellenism and Orthodoxy, Nobel Laureates, National John Nash’s work that had re - passed away on February 17. An Medal of Science Winners, and mained unresolved for 60 years; entrepreneur, philanthropist, Rhodes Scholars, among other Gregory Stephanopoulos, Pro - humanitarian and distinguished accolades, consistently in the fessor in Chemical Engineering member of the Greek Orthodox U.S. News & World Report’s and also Director of the Bioin - community died in his home Top-10 Rankings, is universally formatics and Metabolic Engi - with his family by his side. He recognized as one of the finest neering; and Sabine Iatridou, was 87 years old. institutions of higher learning Professor of Linguistics, Syntax Jaharis became a model of in the world. and Semantics, who has served how to offer time, energy, intel - Four distinguished Greek as Director of the MIT Linguis - ligence, love, and wealth in professors at MIT who are tics PhD Program for many making the world a better place. among the highest achievers in years. He took after his is generous fa - their respective fields spoke PROF. YANNAS ther, who landed in Boston as a with The National Herald about TNH: In May you were in - penniless Greek immigrant in their academic and scientific ac - ducted into the National Inven - 1908. Cherishing faith, family, complishments, which are inter - tors Hall of Fame as one of the education, and hard work, the nationally acclaimed: Ioannis highest achievers in your field man known affectionately Yannas, Professor of Polymer recognized for inventing artifi - within the family as “Pappou” Science and Engineering, recog - cial skin. Please tell us about set about to rise and prosper. nized for inventing the first re - that honor. The seed was planted in generation template, a collagen IY: I feel very privileged that Michael’s heart. The son took scaffold that induces regenera - my work is being recognized. his father’s example to heart and The term “artificial skin” was built on its abiding spirit to used in the late 1970s and early achieve even greater things for 1980s to describe a fundamen - Michael Jaharis brought passion and class to every endeavor, whether it was endowing museums, the betterment of human health WITH THIS ISSUE tally new treatment for burned helping feed the hungry in Greece, or as Vice Chairman of the Archdiocesan Council. and intellectual and spiritual patients. However, the Hall of well-being. Michael Jaharis was Fame citation correctly identi - a genuine person, unique and fied the true nature of our dis - certainly successful in every covery: We had discovered a way. method for growing back (re - Iordanou Pancyprians’ Man of Year His Eminence Archbishop generating) an organ. Since Demetrios of America, who was these early days, both skin and very close friends with Jaharis peripheral nerves, as well as the By Constantine S. Sirigos doing business, his thoughts of - Iordanou said. and a colleague – Jaharis was conjunctiva (eye), have been re - TNH Staff Writer ten turn to the island nation of “I believe they are moving in Vice-Chairman of the Archdioce - generated. Our work has de - his birth, and to his friends and the right direction,” he noted “but san Council – proclaimed in a scribed the first treatment in the NEW YORK – When the Pan - family in New York. more importantly we are finding written statement attached to new field of medicine, referred cyprian Association presents the When TNH asked Iordanou that there are a lot of capable the official announcement is - to these days as regenerative Lifetime Achievement Award at how he sees Cyprus’ economic people there, which gives us a sued by the Archdiocese that medicine. its annual gala at the New York situation given recent reports that competitive advantage. The qual - “Archon Michael Jaharis was an TNH: Your resume is full of Hilton on March 9 to Constanti - it is making more progress than ity of the personnel we have extraordinary human being en - publications, awards, and hon - nos “Dinos” Iordanou it will he Greece, he began my noting that hired in Cyprus is exceptional.” dowed by God with inex - ors. In 1987 you became a honoring a man who has soared Arch has expressed its confidence Iordanou and the people he haustible energy, amazing cre - Member of the Institute of Med - high but has not forgotten his by investing in Cyprus through just hired are testaments to the ativity and impressive care and icine of National Academy of roots. the establishment of a back office country’s educational system and love for the people, especially Sciences, in 1988 you received Iordanou is the Chairman, in Nicosia in January. There are the determination of its people. those in sickness, distress and the Doolittle Award of the President, CEO, and one of the currently ten people there doing He came to America from suffering. He was a person fully American Chemical Society and founders of Bermuda-based Arch actuarial and financial work. Cyprus in 1969 to study at NYU dedicated to the Church and its Capital. While he praises that is - “We plan to have 20-30 peo - Continued on page 6 land nation as a terrific place for ple there by the end of 2017,” Continued on page 4 Continued on page 8 Moulinos is IMF’s Thomsen Discusses Bailout and Reforms J. Rangos

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Poul M. Thomsen, Director In Soccer of the International Monetary Doctorate Fund’s (IMF) European Depart - ment, who is in charge of the TNH Staff IMF’s program in Greece and By Evan C. Lambrou Portugal, recently wrote an up - Special to The National Herald NEW YORK – Peter Moulinos date on the IMF’s blog regarding could not be any more excited ongoing discussions by Greek CRESTWOOD, NY – St. and proud of his 12-year-old son Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Christoforos, who will be par - Europe, and the IMF, for the Seminary awarded John G. Ran - ticipating in the 2015 Mundial - purpose of clearing up any mis - gos with an honorary doctorate ito International Cup soccer perceptions. Excerpts from the during a private ceremony this tournament in Portugal in piece, found in its entirety at past February 7 at the retired March, where he will be playing imf.org, follow. industrialist’s home in Florida, against the youth academy IT MUST ADD UP where he was bestowed with a teams of Europe’s top pro teams. “It is argued that the IMF has Doctor of Humane Letters de - He has the skills and the made its participation depen - gree in full regalia for his phil - mindset to take it in stride, as if dent on socially draconian re - anthropy and service to human - he were still scrimmaging with forms, especially of the pension ity. his older brother, 15-year-old system. This is not the case. Ul - Founded in 1938, St. Stefanos, who led him into “the timately a program must add Vladimir’s is now under the beautiful game,” as it is known. up: the combination of reforms omophorion of the Orthodox “I had no interest in soccer,” plus debt relief must give us and Church in America (OCA) the international community which, in turn, began with a Continued on page 4 reasonable assurances that by handful of Russian Orthodox the end of Greece’s next pro - missionaries in Alaska back at gram, after almost a decade of the turn of the 19th Century. For subscription: dependence on European and Rangos, some of whose an - 718.784.5255 IMF assistance, Greece will fi - Sergey Ponomarev for The new york TimeS, world PreSS PhoTo via aP cestors were Greeks from Rus - [email protected] nally be able to stand on its Haunting Refugee Images Dominate 2016 World Press Photo Contest sia, has been a longtime sup - own. This implies an inverse porter of St. Vladimir’s. He has trade-off between ambition of In this image released by World Press Photo titled "Reporting Europe's Refugee Crisis" by pho - made a number of substantial reforms and strength of debt re - tographer Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times which won the first prize in the General contributions to the Seminary News Stories category shows refugees arriving by boat near the village of Skala on Lesbos, Continued on page 11 Greece, 16 November 2015. Continued on page 3

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TNH Staff beginning with “After the Fight” tion. – the Sea or the lover had calmed He told TNH that after ex - NEW YORK – Greek musicians down. hausting what he could accom - and composers first made their Dan Brantigan’s flugelhorn plished in Greece, he came to mark at New York’s famed jazz began smooth and silky before New York in 2011. venues long ago, but Costas Bal - turning wild. Addam Klipple fired Asked about his teaching phi - tazanis’ presentation of music off crystalline notes from the pi - losophy and how he approaches from his CD “End of Seas” at the ano before turning the music children he said “I encourage Blue Note on February 12 was from thrilling to intoxicating with them to play what they love to the latest exclamation point on this arpeggios. Baltazanis’ liquid listen to and perform,” and be - their musical statements. guitar blended with Dan Branti - lieves learning music is like a Perhaps the Aegean Sea, gan’s flugelhorn fluidity, con - game for children, but that even which can greet you with turmoil tributing to a cocktail that would adults should find it enjoyable. or a hint of catastrophe and sud - make the excellent Blue Note He is against the traditional, denly, like a forgiving lover, show bartenders envious had they too sterile approach of sitting down you a serenity you have never not been drunk on the music. students and having them prac - known accounts for Hellenic con - And that was just the begin - tice their scales for two hours. tributions to the genre, or maybe ning. Later Petro Klampanis “It should be a joy,” that is the passion that infuses most played the double bass like no how to motivate children he says. Greek music – especially rebetika one had heard before – with an “I give them songs I think they – is the inspiration. exotic technique and just a hint like, but I tell them ‘if it’s some - Each of the nine pieces from of the mysteries from the East – thing you don’t enjoy let me the CD evoked vivid scenes on from the depths of the millennia- know, we’ll change it right away.’” Friday night after midnight, and old joys and suffering of Asia Mi - He also plays bass guitar, but that was no accident. nor perhaps. he said with excitement that the “When I compose I take a cin - And there were times when Live at the Blue Note with music from Costas Baltazanis’ CD End of Seas. Left to right: Baltazanis, instrument we would also like to ematic approach…like creating a Shlomi Cohen on sax jumped in Keita Ogawa, Dan Brantigan, Petros Klampanis. Not seen: Shlomi Cohen on saxophone. have played is the sax. He loves soundtrack,” reflecting different like the rare subway preacher the way saxophone players can scenes – like forests or social sit - who earns his welcome among Baltazanis was thrilled they “every time it’s different.” musician, but she plays guitar express themselves on their in - uations - said Baltazanis, who in weary commuters by blowing joined him. DEEP LOVE OF MUSIC too. struments. 2002 composed the music for the their minds with ideas they never He explained how it isn’t nec - “My father played a little gui - He came to America to study He is an honorary sax player. movie “Paradise is a Personal Af - considered and taking them to essary that they play together tar. That’s how I met the instru - jazz guitar performance and com - “I don’t play the guitar like a fair” and created the music for unexpected places. regularly, first, because he always ment,” growing up in Athens. His position at Berklee College of guitar player,” he told TNH. “I the LaMaMa production of Drummer Keita Ogawa plays with the top New York mu - family has roots in very musical Music in Boston. He was here for think like a horn player. I always Agamemnon that opens February grounded the melodies and har - sicians, and second because of places – Baltazanis’ father seven years and then returned to have a horn or a voice in mind 18 in New York. monies with rhythm and the en - what he asks of his performers. Thano’s are in Constantinople Athens where he participated in when I play.” His website notes that “End tire ensemble never gave a hint “I don’t tell them they must and his mother Stephania’s in Ke - the city’s Jazz scene. The final piece was “Iasis – of Seas” is inspired by his New that there was very little re - play something exactly as I want falonia. It’s in the genes too be - Baltazanis is also an educator, The Cure” but by then Baltazanis York experiences. hearsal time. it,” and he tells them not to be cause his sister Fay, who is an ex - serving as director at the Nakas and his friends and the bar - In the West Village on the Except for Brantigan, none of shy about presenting their own ecutive with Proctor & Gamble Conservatory in Athens and pub - tenders had everyone feeling no 12th , the show had an ethereal them performed on the CD but personalities. He loves it because in Greece, is not a professional lishing books on music educa - pain. A Night of Music, Passion, and Politics on Cornelia Street in the Village

By Constantine S. Sirigos The evening began with culture remains her strength and Her publisher, Dean Pa - TNH Staff Writer Mozart’s K. 570, a Sonata for Pi - her inspiration.” pademetriou, made a special trip ano in B-flat, with a violin part The effervescent Bita book - from Boston and Dr. Robert NEW YORK – The intimate per - that appeared mysteriously after ended her delightful reading of Valler, who is Bita’s translator formance space of the Cornelia his death. Dr. Dalaveris, who is Fleshfire, a collection of erotic and spouse, also presented a Street Café crackled with music, an ophthalmologist raised in love poems that was just reissued poem. poetry, and politics at the bi - Reading, PA with roots in Myti - by Somerset Hall Press, with im - FROM SUBLIME monthly gathering of the Greek- lene, was joined on violin by Filip passioned messages to the TO EROTIC TO… American Writers Association on Pogady. guests: “First I want to tell you I The guests traveled from high February 13. The intimate space beneath love you all” and “May Eros be culture to the media circus that Poet/actress Lili Bita read the café’s main dining rooms your guide forever.” American politics has become. from her book Flesh Fire, a col - with its fine sound system made Bita does not merely read, she Scaros’ book could be an anti - lection of erotic love poems, TNH the guests feel like they were en - gives a dramatic performance, dote, however. Executive Editor Dino Scaros joying a private concert in their the words receiving their fullest The author of Grumpy Old proposed tough love to the Re - living room with friends and expression only when accompa - Party, 20 Tips On How the Re - publican Party, and pianist Dr. both musicians had their shining nied by energy generated by the publicans Can Shed Their Anger Louis Davaleris offered a pas - moments. flesh. Indeed Anais Nin said of and Win Back the White House, sionate Mozart Sonata. In her introduction of Bita, Bita of Bita, "her words are in addition to his work at TNH, Writer and journalist Pene - Karageorge declared that al - strong, body and soul in bal - is an educator, presidential his - lope Karageorge praised the though she “grew up on Zakyn - ance." torian, political analyst, and at - guests for braving the bitter cold thos, she really discovered her - Bita is the author of 11 poety torney. But it was Scaros as con - and introduced the presenters self in the Unites States. collections and two memoirs. cerned citizen who was who warmed them up. Nevertheless, Bita insists Greek Her website is www.lilibita.com. motivated to write it. “I wanted write this book be - Left to right: Dr. Louis Dalaveris, Lili Bita, Filip Pogady, and cause as soon and the Republi - Penelope Karageorge at the famed Cornelia Street Café before cans nominated Mitt Romney I the Greek-American Writers Association presentation. knew there was no way in the world they would win the elec - tearing down your political op - gained my interest in presidents tion in 2012 – just as I knew Mc - ponents. through him, but my aunts and Cain would not win in 2008. It “Another reason Trump has uncles were very political and I was obvious to me, but I was baf - been successful is that his likely would be entertained by them fled how Republican leaders and opponent on the Democrat side talking about American politics pundits were so convinced Rom - – Hillary Clinton – is even less for hours in a loud, Greek comi - ney would win.” likeable,” and that helps him to cal way.” On election night in 2012 the extent that he is abrasive, His parents were both born they showed “they had no clue Scaros noted. on Nisyros. When his late father what it takes to win an election.” He also said that Hillary and Emmanuel was 36, he followed The book offers the GOP 20 Romney “ooze inauthenticity.” most of his other siblings to tips and number one is “It’s Lik - George W. Bush, notwith - America. He was a professor in ability, Stupid.” standing how he is now per - Athens and then in New York. “It means that at the very ceived, won because he showed He didn’t know his future wife, least your base, your party and “genuineness and likability.” Anthousa, in his youth, but they voters are excited about you. Scaros, who has forecast the met through family. Their only They want to vote for you be - election of the last 10 presidents child, Scaros was born in Man - Michael Dukakis’ endorsement of Constantinos E. Scaros’ latest book, Grumpy Old Party. cause they like you, not merely – though he humbly notes they hattan. because you have the best were not early predictions – Scaros has written five other chance of defeating the other knew that George W. Bush would books, but those were textbooks. party’s candidate, whom they beat Al Gore, which was the This is the first time he has an can’t stand,” he told TNH. case, he says, based on all official opportunity to publicly promote That likeability is not about (and almost all unofficial) counts the book, Grumpy Old Party, and “nice” is starkly illustrated by a and recounts. To likability, Scaros is having fun at the cafes and comparison between Romney pointed to Bush having won the Barnes & Nobles he visits. and Donald Trump. The former first “candidate you would like Personal gain aside, Scaros is a “nicer” guy but Trump’s sup - to have a beer with” contest. also believes the book is a must porters “like” him because his AND THE WINNER IS… for the 2016 election for Repub - challenges to the status quo ex - Who does Scaros think will licans and Democrats alike – cite them. win this time? Though he hasn’t even Michael Dukakis endorsed Trump’s candidacy also shows made an official prediction yet, the book. Having interviewed the DON’T MISS OUR that some of the tips, in this case he thinks Trump has to be the former governor and 1988 De - ANNUAL INSERT: “Lose the Angry Tone” are con - favorite at this point – and knew mocratic presidential nominee ditional. In this year of anger that as early as August 6, the for TNH’s 100th Anniversary against politicians and the estab - night of the first Republican de - commemorative compendium, lishment across the political spec - bate. Scaros said Dukakis is “a great trum, Trump’s tough talk res - Most political junkies feed di - guy.” Dukakis’ quote about the The 50 onates with many voters. rectly off their parents’ attitudes, book appears with other en - Scaros clarified that “I think but that’s not the case with dorsements on the back cover: it’s okay to be angry about the Scaros. “My mother has an aver - “Though I do not agree with way things are. By ‘lose the sion to politicians in general,” everything in this book, I think wealthiest anger’ I mean the name-calling but he did inherit his father’s love it should be required reading for and having an obsession with of political history. “I think I all Republicans.” greeks in america

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By Theodore Kalmoukos Kirill was overheard telling our voice in defense of perse - ple, for the future of Christian - the pope, "Things are easier cuted Christians, we wish to ex - ity, and for the future of human HAVANA, CUBA – His Beatitude now." press our compassion for the civilization itself. It was a con - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and "It is clearer that this is God's suffering experienced by the versation filled with content that All Russia met with Pope Francis will," Pope Francis told him. faithful of other religious tradi - gave us the opportunity to un - of Rome on February 12, in a The meeting took months of tions who have also become vic - derstand and hear the position lounge at Havana's Jose Marti negotiations and more than two tims of civil war, chaos and ter - of the other. And the results of International Airport in Cuba. decades to be arranged. rorist violence. the conversation allow me to as - The two prelates embraced Cuban President Raul Castro "Attempts to justify criminal sure that currently both and exchange the kiss of love hosted. Kirill was paying a pas - acts with religious slogans are churches can cooperate together and peace three times. Pope toral visit to the Russian Ortho - altogether unacceptable. No to defend Christians around the Francis said to Patriarch Kirill dox communities in Cuba while crime may be committed in world; with full responsibility to “we are brothers.” Francis was on his way on a pas - God's name." work together so that there may It was the first between a toral visit to Mexico and the stop They called those who have be no war; so that human life pope and a Russian Orthodox in Havana was announced just died "martyrs of our times" and can be respected in the entire patriarch in some 500 years. a week prior to the meeting. said they helped unite various world; so that the foundations That the media widely reported In the common declaration Churches "by their shared suf - of human, family and social it as the first meeting in 1000 that Pope Francis and Patriarch fering." morality may be strengthened years, since the occurrence of Kirill signed, they emphasized They spoke of the need to be through the participation of the the East-West Schism is histori - the things and concerns the two vigilant against European inte - church in the life of human cally out of context as there was Churches have in common. gration that is "devoid of respect modern society." no Moscow Patriarchate at the Commenting about the situ - for religious identities." They Pope Francis said: "We spoke time; Moscow was a small dio - His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia em - ation in the Middle East and also spoke of extreme poverty, as brothers, we share the same cese, part of the Kiev Metropolis braced with Pope Francis of Rome in Havana Cuba. North Africa, they said that the "millions of migrants and baptism, we are bishops, we which, in turn, was part of the "whole families, villages and refugees knocking on the doors spoke about our churches. We Church of Constantinople. The was rejected by consciences of “May our meeting inspire cities of our brothers and sisters of wealthy nations," and con - agreed that unity is done walk - Ecumenical Patriarchate granted the Orthodox Church. Christians throughout the world in Christ are being completely sumerism. ing (together). We spoke clearly Moscow autocephaly and raised At the end of the February to pray to the Lord with re - exterminated." They called on They also touched upon is - without mincing words. I con - it to patriarchate status 427 12 meeting between Kirill and newed fervor for the full unity the international community "to sues of abortion, euthanasia, fess that I felt the consolation years ago. Francis, the two signed a joint of all His disciples. In a world act urgently in order to prevent new reproductive technologies, of the Spirit in this dialogue. I In 1438, the head Kiev Me - declaration in which they ex - that yearns not only for our the further expulsion" of Chris - and threats against the am grateful for the humility of tropolis Isidoros, while a mem - press their hope that the meet - words but also for tangible ges - tians, to end violence and ter - churches' view of marriage. His Holiness, his fraternal hu - ber of the entourage of the Ecu - ing “may contribute to the tures, may this meeting be a rorism, and to ensure that large Patriarch Kirill said they had mility and his good wishes for menical Patriarch Joseph II the reestablishment of [the] unity sign of hope for all people of amounts of humanitarian aid a two-hour, "open discussion unity. We left with a series of met Pope Eugene II at the Synod willed by God, for which Christ goodwill!” the declaration reach the victims of violence. with full awareness of the re - initiatives that I believe are vi - of Florencia-Ferrara. That Synod prayed.” reads. They also said that "in raising sponsibility we have for our peo - able and can be done." John G. Rangos Receives Honorary Doctorate from Saint Vladimir’s Seminary

Continued from page 1 and community, and to their solar panels. Oddly enough, the country; and who have thereby Rangos Building isn’t yet, but over the years, including the adhered to the tradition and sa - we’re hoping to place solar pan - lead gift to a $20 million capital cred objectives of the Church. els on all our buildings eventu - campaign drive back in 1998 And Mr. Rangos’ name jumped ally. It’s a gradual process, but which led to, inter alia, con - out immediately,” Rev. Hatfield it’s a process that will bring St. struction of a new library at St. said. Vlad’s in line with the energy Vladimir’s current campus in “He’s very patriotic. He cares needs of the 21st Century, so it’s Crestwood. passionately about military vet - on our to-do list,” he said. The library is housed in what erans. And he has given very “Mr. Rangos’ career certainly is now the John G. Rangos Fam - generously to hospitals, schools, exemplifies genuine commit - ily Building, a 27,000 square- programs and charity. For Or - ment to the environment, and foot facility that was dedicated thodox Christians, his long - being environmentally respon - in 2002 and cost roughly $9 mil - standing commitment to IOCC sible is also part of the Church’s lion to build. Since then, the St. comes chiefly to mind. When he universal mission. Humankind Vladimir’s library has expanded gave his gift to St. Vlad’s almost is charged with, among other by almost 65,000 volumes (from 20 years ago, he requested that things, taking care of the Earth, 121,675 to 186,429), according everyone present make sure we so we need to try and make such to St. Vladimir’s Librarian all do everything we can to sup - efforts whenever and wherever Eleana Silk. port IOCC, which is now one of we can,” Hatfield added. “None of that would have the world’s finest philanthropic For his part, Rangos told been possible without Mr. Ran - agencies,” he pointed out. TNH he felt very humbled that gos’ generosity,” Rev. Dr. Chad “Since its inception, IOCC’s St. Vladimir’s wanted to recog - Hatfield, chancellor and chief good work has reached thou - nize his contributions to the executive officer of St. sands upon thousands of people church and other philanthropic Vladimir’s, told the National in need all over the globe – in causes, as well as his profes - Herald. literally dozens of countries – sional efforts in the field of en - Rangos’ generosity and phil - and everyone knows Mr. Rangos vironmental management: anthropy are well-known not was instrumental in helping ST. vladimir’s orThodoX Theological Seminary “God gives you only so much only within the Greek-American IOCC become the successful or - Holding his honorary doctorate from St. Vladimir’s Seminary, John G. Rangos is flanked by time. I always felt it was impor - community, but also nation - ganization it is today. His sup - Alex Machaskee (L) and Rev. Dr. Chad Hatfield (R) during a private ceremony held at the tant to use that time to help my wide. Whether personally or port has been absolutely critical retired industrialist’s home this past February 7. community, my church and my thru the Rangos Family Founda - to IOCC’s success. That alone country. I’m just glad He has tion, he has given millions to merits an honorary doctorate volvement and devotion to this helped remove millions of tons keeping the environment clean given me an opportunity to give major universities and hospitals from an Orthodox Christian the - great agency, which plays such of industrial and toxic wastes for future generations, our ‘Go back, and to try to do something – e.g., Duquesne University, ological school,” he said. a crucial role in putting the then peppering the country’s Green Initiative’ naturally made good. It’s very important to help Carnegie-Mellon University, Uni - “And IOCC is just one of the Gospel into actual practice, landscape; forge environmen - me think of Mr. Rangos,” Hat - others in constructive ways, and versity of Pittsburgh Medical many noble causes Mr. Rangos thereby elevating the Orthodox tally sound practices at both the field said. to support good causes as much Center, Children’s Hospital of supports. So as a way of thank - Church’s profile worldwide,” he federal and state levels; and cre - First undertaken in 2007, he as you can. I’m happy St. Pittsburgh and the Johns Hop - ing him for everything he’s done said, adding that Rangos also ate thousands of jobs across the explained, the Seminary’s “Go Vladimir’s Seminary is doing so kins University School of Medi - for the Church; for the entire has a strong Pan-Orthodox con - Eastern Seaboard. Green Initiative” sparked an on - well, and I’m very pleased that cine – and he strongly supports Orthodox Christian world; and sciousness and cherishes his “I remember the green and going effort to install solar pan - IOCC has come as far as it has. the nation’s veterans. even beyond Orthodoxy, with all Greek heritage. yellow Waste Management els onto the rooftops of every IOCC brings all Orthodox Chris - A decorated veteran of the his support for veterans, hospi - “I think it’s fair to say that trucks on Kodiak Island very building at Saint Vladimir’s: tians together in a very tangible Korean War himself, Rangos tals and medical research. For Mr. Rangos is encouraged by all well. And because Mr. Rangos’ “Meyendorff Hall and the cam - way, and has strengthened our founded the Congressional all those reasons, we felt it was the good work we’ve done at St. career had so much to do with pus chapel are now both under Church and faith,” he said. Medal of Honor Foundation, appropriate to give him an hon - Vlad’s; all the books we’ve which actively supports the orary doctorate,” Rev. Hatfield turned out over the years; and CMOH Society which, in turn, added. how inspirational that has been recognized him with its presti - TRULY AN ICON to so many people. We have the gious National Patriot Award in Alex Machaskee, executive largest English-language Ortho - 1991. To honor his support for chairman of the St. Vladimir’s dox Christian press in the world, The William Spyropoulos Medal of Honor recipients and Seminary board of directors and and that has played a central his dedication to advancing former publisher of the Cleve - role in helping us spread Ortho - their legacy of courage and sac - land Plain Dealer, echoed those dox Christian teaching to our Greek-American Day School rifice, the CMOH Foundation sentiments: “No one deserves to Orthodox and non-Orthodox unanimously elected him its be honored more than John brethren alike,” Machaskee said. of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church “Chairman Emeritus” during the Rangos. I’m personally well “And Mr. Rangos never for - 43-15 196 St., Flushing, NY 11358 150th anniversary of the Battle aware of his many contributions gets his roots. He deeply loves of Gettysburg on September 18- to the environment, veterans, his Greek Orthodox community, (718) 357-5583 Fax: (718) 428-3051 22, 2013. education and healthcare, as as well as the broader Orthodox Just last summer, Rangos well as to IOCC and the Church, Christian community. And that kick-started “Pittsburgh Hires not only with his material trea - love has helped nurture and fos - Veterans,” a new program de - sure, but also with his compas - ter Pan-Orthodox relations,” he signed to help unemployed or sion and his ideas,” he told said, citing the close cooperation underemployed veterans in TNH. St. Vladimir’s has enjoyed with Western Pennsylvania find work “He’s truly an icon in the Or - Holy Cross Greek Orthodox and receive special training they thodox Christian world, and a School of Theology over the might need to take advantage very good person who has years. Professors from both of new employment opportuni - helped so many people. The schools have taught and con - ties. He also founded Interna - wide scope and range of his tinue to teach at each institu - tional Orthodox Christian Char - philanthropic contributions in tion, and three Greek Orthodox ities back in 1992, which is one general, and specifically in his bishops have served on the St. of the main reasons reason be - capacity as a founder and chair - Vladimir’s Seminary board of di - hind St. Vladimir’s decision to man of IOCC, made our decision rectors: Metropolitan Savas of confer an honorary doctorate on to give him an honorary doctor - Pittsburgh, his predecessor Met - KINDERGARTEN him. ate very easy,” he said. ropolitan Maximos, and the late “When I first came to St. “As a past chairman of IOCC Archbishop Iakovos of North & Vlad’s from Alaska, we looked myself, I witnessed firsthand all South America. O P E N H O U S E at the handful of people who the great work IOCC does in so But Rangos’ public service is have made incredibly significant many different places – Greece, not limited to his patriotism or donations to this institution; Kosovo, Bosnia, Ethiopia and the many philanthropic causes FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2016 at 12:30 p.m. who have supported their own Haiti, just to name a few – and he and his family support. It also church; who have made great so much of that is due to the includes his storied career in contributions to their society early years of Mr. Rangos’ in - solid waste management, dur - ing which he helped pioneer Visit our school many standard environmental practices people take for Learn about our programs granted today. As such, the Church is im - Get to know our educators mensely grateful not only for his generosity to institutions of Visit our classrooms healing and higher learning, but also for his service to the Earth itself as a good steward of God’s Creation, Hatfield told TNH. Give your children the most valuable gift Rangos founded Chambers Development in 1971, and op - of their lives: erated Chambers until 1995, when it merged with USA A Greek-American Education Waste. He continued serving on USA Waste’s board of directors, with cutting edge technology and presided over its merger with Waste Management Inc., and with a foundation in our ST. vladimir’s orThodoX Theological Seminary the country’s largest solid waste The Rangos Family Building at the St. Vladimir’s Seminary management firm, in 1998. He Hellenic Orthodox ideals, values, and principles campus in Crestwood, NY. The building now houses the Semi - retired from the industry after nary’s new library. that. By then, his companies had 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, FEBRUARY 20-26, 2016 Soccer Prodigy Christoforos Moulinos’ Formula: Focus, Family, and Fun

Continued from page 1 Moulinos. Christoforos Moulinos, 12- long distance relationship, they “The little one got better years old, with a trainer at were married. their father, attorney Peter playing with his older brother the Montreal Impact’s elite Moulinos’ mother came from Moulinos told TNH.” I grew up and his friends… so when he camp where he was voted Kefallonia with her family when in New York and Astoria and reached five we put him in a best by the coaches. His she was 15 after the earthquake back then it was all baseball and league…he would score 20 brother Stefanos, who of 1953 and settled on Orchard basketball – he was a pitcher in goals a game and the coach had introduced him to soccer, Street in Manhattan. “My dad baseball and a guard in basket - to take him out to give the other now is an aspiring came over when he was around ball – but my kids started watch - kids a chance.” entrepreneur, but maybe he 20 – to go find my mother. He ing soccer and I started getting He is a striker and in 2014 will be his little brother’s jumped ship and went to go find worn down by baseball games he joined the Pre-Academy of agent. her. True love,” he told TNH. that lasted 3 ½ hours so we the Red Bulls. Moulinos never ceases to be started watching soccer to - Christoforos has also trained amazed with what he sees his gether. It was great.” with the Montreal Impact. “He son do. “This past week I said He is a dad, however, not an made their elite camp last year it is a natural instinct they are ‘wow look at that move!’” impresario. Christoforos was re - and trained in Montreal,” said just born with…and some kids Christoforos had the ball passed cently invited to two tourna - his father. have more mental stamina…are to him “when he had his back ments and his wife warned His raw ability begins with more focused on the game. They to goal, next and he just spun Moulinos against wearing him speed. He is the fastest child in are alert and smart…nothing around like a top and fired a out. “We try to make sure that his class, telling his father “no distracts them.” shot.” doesn’t happen,” but when some one can catch me in races.” He ROOTS, ATHLETIC AND Asked whether soccer has fi - parents of Christoforos’ team - also has the highest vertical leap HELLENIC nally taken root in the United mates alerted Moulinos about – although he is fairly short. Moulinos’ wife Peggy is States, he told TNH “it’s hap - the international tournament In addition to his genes, the Greek-Canadian but with no pening, but it depends on what the family was all in. foundation of Christoforos’ athletes in the family. His older you’re looking for.” From a The boys got into soccer from promise is his ability to focus. sister is a teacher and she is not player development point of school and Moulinos said it was “He wanted to be like his athletic either, so Christoforos you, the United States is still a fun watching them grow up brother – that’s what got him is sports miracle. “He got it from different planet from Europe, playing together, but early on focused…Sometimes the somewhere, I’m not sure where they will identify kids he knew there was something coaches say he’s too serious,” where,” Moulinos said. they believe will be pros at 13, special happening with Christo - Moulinos said, but that is part Somewhere in Kefallonia, no sign and set them up living full foros. of the formula. doubt. Moulinos and his wife time at a training facility where “We would go to games for He said it’s from obvious visited the island every other they go to school and are the oldest one and the little one, watching games that “some kids year, but the wrong years. They trained for soccer all week long. who was three years old, would just have it. Some just have a would always hear about the “In the U.S. the goals is for kids be on the sidelines kicking a ball drive and others just want to other, however, and one year to get a college scholarship. No around, kicking the ball against hang out and eat ice cream and they were invited to the same one is really training to become the fence the whole game,” said watch them game, and part of wedding. After a challenging a pro,” he said. Melissa Thodos Celebrates Dinos Iordanou Began in Aerospace, Soars in Insurance

Ethnic Roots in “Chicago Continued from page 1 when I was young,” he added erations and Iordanou ran the with pride. holding company which owned – Iordanou is the eldest child po - After graduating from NYU he insurance and reinsurance firms, CHICAGO, IL – Greek-American among those explored, but liceman from occupied Kyrenia worked for Pratt & Whitney air - and Clements was the chairman. artist and impresario Melissa “Thodos also explores her own and a stay-at-home mom. “I had craft and then went to AIG, be - Iordanou explained that rein - Thodos studied classical and background with the piece "Thio five brothers and one sister,” he ginning in their engineering de - surance entails the insuring of contemporary dance technique Kosmos," which draws upon the said. One brother died young, partment where he did the insurance companies. Rein - at Skidmore College, then per - choreography and music from two are physicians, one is in the engineering surveys of risks. surance gives them the ability to formed for eight years with the her 2007 work, "Anasa." The Tri - restaurant business and his sister There were limits to high he share risks but it also enables Chicago Repertory Dance En - bune wrote that “The original works in a hospital. could rise in the company. Be - them to manage their capital bet - semble. In 1992 she poured her piece was inspired by a fire in His mother is from near cause he was foreign born, it was ter. “When an insurance firm is - passion and experience into Greece that year and dedicated Nicosia in Free Cyprus. difficult to receive top security sues a policy for a building for founding Thodos Dance Chicago to its victims, using the disaster Iordanou was an engineering clearance, so he moved to finan - $500 million, it doesn’t want to as a place where “Company as a lens for a historical look at major and he always liked engi - cial services, where he was iden - take 100 per cent of the risk. Members…they can develop the country and the rise and fall neering he became an aerospace tified as a young high-potential They syndicate it and reinsurance their own artistic identity.” of civilizations.” engineer. One of his cousins was individual. That landed him in companies take portions of that In the company’s new pro - "You grow up in a Greek an electrical engineer who be - the fast track management pro - risk.” duction, "Chicago Revealed," she household, but you go out into came the head of the electrical gram and he loved learning about He noted that insurance com - and her colleagues examine the world and it's a completely authority of Cyprus. all aspects of the insurance busi - panies have relationships with their ethnic identities, however. different world, but you're in - Perhaps math is the link be - ness. “My career was going so the primary clients while reinsur - They “go home…to Greece” – formed by this deep cultural tween his love of engineering and well, I had no reason to look back Dinos Iordanou. ance firms deal with other insur - as the great Greek Ad Man past…[Thio Kosmos] addresses the insurance business. “It was to engineering,” he told TNH. ance companies and added that George Lois would say – and the nuances of what it means to my best subject and I had phe - Iordanou was at AIG for 10 independent thinker,” which he Arch also writes mortgage insur - other places. be culturally Greek and living nomenal teachers in Cyprus in years, and he was still very young said means making your own de - ance. The production being pre - in America," she said. public school.” when he became a C.V. Star Part - cisions. “You can’t allow yourself TNH also asked Iordanou sented at the North Shore Cen - Thodos was also inspired in When it’s time to get away he ner – C.V.stands for the legendary to be influenced by the mass,” about the situation in Greece. ter for the Performing Arts in discussions with other members comes to New York, spending his Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Iordanou said, but he clarified “They have a lot of structural Skokie began on Feb. 20 and the of the community. summers in Long Island with Founder of AIG. that Buffett “encourages you to issues,” began. “Their tax system performers express the joys and "I interviewed many Greek- friends and family. When he ar - “They put you in the top 40 seek collaboration and to get all is a mess and at the end of the challenges in the lives of “People Americans to get their perspec - rived in America lived in Astoria. executives in the group when you the advice you can, but at the day they lack investment capital. from around the world” who tive on what it means to be a There are things he misses about become a partner,” he explained. end of the day you can’t rely on A lot of people don’t want to in - “have made their homes” in the Greek American, what it means it – his daughter still lives there – GET ADVICE, BUT YOU the advice. You have to make the vest there because of the prevail - great and diverse metropolis. to be American, how life in but he doesn’t like the city con - DECIDE decision and you have to be com - ing socialist attitude. It order to "I think it's a very rich place Greece currently has affected gestion. Iordanou left in 1987 and fortable with the decisions you attract capital you have to em - creatively and to live…Reveal - them," she said. He was active with the Pan - joined Berkshire Hathaway, run - make.” brace capitalism,” he said, but he ing Chicago through dance Thodos hopes "Chicago Re - cyprians since the beginning, ning Warren Buffett’s commercial He also learned from Buffett agrees that the new investment seemed like a very logical thing vealed" will strengthen her helping to found the association insurance cooperation in New to worry about the down side, laws being prepared by the coali - based on my background and neighbors’ respect for their city. in 1975, and he is one of their York five years. not the up side of things. “I made tion are an opportunity for the company's history in "Having grown up here and lifetime trustees, continuing to He met with the legendary fi - it a principle for the rest of my Greece to present a new face to Chicago," said Thodos, and lived in different places in the be active. His brother Michael is nancier about once a month and career: If you take care of the the financial world. Evanston, IL native, to the country and the world I think the head of its athletic division got a lot of good advice from him down side the up side will take “Unless you give confidence Chicago Tribune. it's one of the richest cities in and his brother George is the vice during the five years he was care of itself.” to people who want to invest The African- and Japanese- terms of culture, in terms of president of the soccer club. “I there. After his Berkshire Hathaway funds,” Greece won’t attract in - American experiences are art,” she said. played for their soccer team “He taught me how to be an tenure he became CEO of Zurich vestors,” he insisted. “You can’t Financial Services in North Amer - expect a lot of investments in a ica, and then it was time to go high tax environment. Capital is out on his own. fungible and it will go where it is “It was after September 11 more effective and efficient for and some senior executives and shareholders” – and where it is I,” including Paul Ingrey and the welcome. late Robert Clements, “raised the He pointed out that the capital to establish an insurance United States faces a similar chal - LUXURY TRAVEL • ECOTOURISM • WINE TASTING • RELIGIOUS PILGRIMAGE • ARCHAEOLOGY • CULTURE company in Bermuda in January lenge. It is a “very high tax place MEDICAL• SPA • GASTRONOMY TOURISM 2002.” and companies choose to go else - Ingrey ran the insurance op - where.” Let’s go to Greece this summer! De Blasio Hosts New York’s Don’t miss this unique opportunity to advertise your business in our Ethnic Media at City Hall special tribute to Greek Tourism, to appear in our greek weekly publication, Periodiko. By Constantine S. Sirigos of the initiative is the creation of TNH Staff Writer a media directory that lists 240 media outlets, and a shift of me - NEW YORK – Flanked by City dia spending from mainstream Deadline : February 29th, 2016 Council Speaker Melissa Mark- media. Viverito and Nisha Agarwal, An objective index of the Commissioner of the Mayor’s Of - movement from words to deeds For information on advertising rates contact: fice of Immigrant Affairs, New is the rise in the budget for ad - NEW YORK: Veta Diamataris: (718) 784-5255 ext. 101 • e-mail: [email protected] York City Mayor Bill de Blasio vertising in various city initiatives greeted the representatives of and benefit programs from $2.4 ATHENS: Chrysoula Karamitrou: 011-30-210-3614-598, office hours: 2-9 pm New York’s ethnic media that million in 2014 to $4.7 million, packed the Blue Room in City and in 2016 it will reach more e-mail: [email protected] Hall. than $9 million. De Blasio said, “We under - “We will increase that number stand the community’s ethic me - because there are so many things dia reach a huge percentage of we have to talk to the people The National Herald the people of this city and have about…initiatives like pre-K, af -

T H D www.thenationalherald.com E the ability to help people under - ter school programs and afford - L N A AT ER IONAL H stand where help is available to able housing work to the degree them…and allows people the that we get the word out,” the maximum opportunity to partic - mayor said. ipate in our democratic process.” Addressing the needs of the “We are the ultimate city of media outlets themselves – both immigrants,” he continued. “We the mayor and the speaker were need to communicate with peo - working journalists earlier in ple not only in their language but their careers – de Blasio has in a way they trust…people feel mandated that three seats be al - a special trust for the media they located to ethnic media at press know looks out for their interest conferences and promised to and speaks their language.” work on getting them more and He declared his administra - better quality translations of doc - tion honors that fact, by wanting uments and releases. “to engage in a deeper way than Mark-Viverito echoed the has been done in the past.” mayor’s words, saying “I under - The gathering was a first step stand the importance of the role in attempting to change percep - you play in our communica - tions and build new relationships tion…and there is a genuine in - through the officials’ presenta - terest in deepening that relation - tions of the City’s plans and the ship…we are clearly in new lively Q&A that followed. territory and we need feedback Among the first achievements from you.” THE NATIONAL HERALD, FEBRUARY 20-26, 2016 COMMUNITY 5 George Venizelos Brings His Security Experience to the Private Sector

By Constantine S. Sirigos field offices. Venizelos had re - that terrorists could target. ing company in Manhattan. TNH Staff Writer sponsibility for all FBI opera - “That was one of the reasons The security function began tions and personnel in New York they brought be there. They had as an “add on service” and now NEW YORK – George Venizelos, City and eight counties in New a problem with disorganization there are security operations in vice president and chief security York State, as well as those La the previous year and people told about 40 buildings, which he officer of New York Racing As - Guardia and John F. Kennedy me it was the smoothest in years says is a good foundation to sociation and formerly the As - International airports. and for me it was a great day. build on. sistant Director in charge of the NYRA, which operates Aque - It is the largest sporting The company is not at the Federal Bureau of Investigation's duct Racetrack, Belmont Park, event ion the New York Metro - level of the big firms with inter - New York Division, has resigned and Saratoga Race Course, is a politan Area as no stadium national presences, but they his position and will leave the quasi-state agency currently un - holds more than the 90,000 plan to grow in Manhattan and week of February 15. der control of the state. John people who attended the race. are considering moving into In a conversation with TNH, Durso Jr., NYRA’s director of “Sporting events with a lot Florida where they have clean - Venizelos said “Leaving NYRA communications is also leaving of people in a small area is like ing contracts. was tough because I became at - NYRA and like Venizelos, is a soft target for terrorists,” and At this time the company tached to many people,” but he moving to the private-sector. even at Saratoga there are races provides physical security, but could not ignore a good oppor - “Venizelos was hired by that attract big crowds. Venize - Venizelos says “we have a five tunity that gets him back into NYRA to direct its uniformed los implemented security year plan. We will take things Manhattan – at the Authority he and investigative security force screenings there for the first one step at a time and them pro - spent most of his time in the in activities related to the pro - time last year. vide more protective functions field, mainly at Aqueduct race - tection, conservation, and secu - Now he is ready for what he like investigation and cyber se - track. rity of company assets, employ - called a unique challenge. “The curity.” This week Venizelos began to ees, and guests, NYRA said at sky is the limit” he said, and he Venizelos is also happy be - work as Senior Vice President the time he began there. likes the idea of joining a family cause he believes he can get running operations for Quality His brief tenure was reward - business. more involved with the commu - Protective Services, the sister ing on numerous levels. “I loved He learned about the com - nity. “With the racetrack I was company of Quality Building NYRA. There were great people pany when he was introduced pretty bogged down but I want Services, which is seeking to ex - and I great experience. I witness to the owner, Mirjana Mirjanik to be more active with the Ar - pand. Venizelos’ s FBI and NYRA a Triple Crown winner at Bel - who came to America when she chons” and other Church activi - experience will enable him to mont Park. They had a great was 21. Venizelos was very im - ties. take the company to take it to year at NYRA, a record-breaking pressed with her and the story He is very excited about the the next level. George Venizelos, seen speaking above at Police Athletic League season at Saratoga. of her company, which she rebuilding of St. Nicholas and The FBI’s New York Division event, believes his new job would allow him to do more public It was noted that Belmont founded 15 years ago and has likes the idea of providing any is the largest of the bureau's 56 speaking and mentoring of youth, which he enjoys. Stakes is an international event become the third largest clean - security advice they might need. Manchester NH Mayor Ted Gatsas is Considering Running for Governor

TNH Staff votes to secure a fourth term in alderman and state senator. He Theatre, Gatsas encouraged the office. Following a recount, cer - served as senate president from attendees to ‘believe in the pos - MANCHESTER, NH – Having tified election results show Gat - 2005 to 2006. sibility of tomorrow being better recently won a fourth term in sas won with 10,085 votes to “Gatsas was elected as Man - than today.’ office as mayor of New Hamp - 10,021 for Craig. chester’s 47th mayor on Nov. 3, “‘The citizens of Manchester shire’s largest city, Manchester, “Executive Councilor Chris 2009. He has been re-elected want solutions. They want to Ted Gatsas announced that he Sununu of Newfields and state three times, in 2011, 2013 and live in a community where they is “seriously considering” run - Rep. Frank Edelblut, R-Wilton, 2015.” can inspire and be inspired. We ning for governor in this year’s are running for governor, while Upon winning reelection last have proved it can happen and election, the New Hampshire on the Democratic side Mark year, Gatsas spoke with The Na - I am committed to making sure Union Leader Reported. Connolly, the former New tional Herald in January (Jan. it never stops.’ “I have been approached by Hampshire deputy secretary of 16 edition) at his swearing-in “Titled ‘Inspiration,’ his inau - a number of people asking if I state and director of securities ceremony. “‘I am certainly ex - gural address identified four ar - would run,” said Gatsas, the regulation, and Executive Coun - cited about two more years mov - eas where Manchester has made Leader reported. “I plan on tak - cilor Colin Van Ostern are both ing down the path we can get significant progress the last six ing a vacation next week, and in the running. Portsmouth City things done,’ he told TNH, re - years: infrastructure, public we plan on having some serious Councilor Stefany Shaheen is garding his reelection. ‘Getting safety, economic development, discussions about it.” considering a possible cam - the heroin epidemic that we and city services. He vowed to Gatsas, who is a Republican, paign. have under control” is his biggest dispatch more resources over said he does not plan to decide “Gatsas is a lifelong resident priority, for “the city, the state, the next 60 days to advance whether or not he will enter the of the Queen City, and a product and the country.’ When people those initiatives. race until at least late March. of its public schools. A graduate can no longer obtain prescription “Focusing on the heroin epi - He says that suggestions that he of Smyth Road Elementary drugs, he said, they turn to demic and public safety, Gatsas ought to run have come from School and Manchester High heroin, ‘and that is something said ‘when it comes to public “many corners,” including School Central, he earned a that is truly killing them,’ he said. safety, our emergency respon - friends, family, and well-wishers bachelor’s degree from the Uni - “Gatsas said the Manchester ders are on the front lines and around the city, the Leader re - versity of New Hampshire. economy is ‘doing well. Busi - they are doing their very best. ported. “Everywhere I go it “Gatsas first took elective of - nesses are moving in’ and busi - Ted Gatsas upon being sworn in to his third term as Mayor of However, if we are to end the comes up, and I’m flattered.” fice in 2000 as Ward 2 alderman ness as a whole is growing. Manchester, NH in 2013. Now that he’s won a fourth term, epidemic, we must work to As the Leader reported: “Gat - and served five terms from 2000 Proud of his Greek heritage, he’s considering a run for governor. make our emergency responders sas emerged victorious from a to 2010. He was elected to the which is ‘very important to me, our last line of defense, and we mayoral showdown last fall New Hampshire Senate and rep - as is my Lebanese side (his 2016 filled with ‘prosperity and administered by Manchester do this by making treatment and against Ward 1 Alderman Joyce resented District 16 from 2000 mother’s),’ Gatsas wishes the health.’ Chief of Police Nick Willard dur - rehabilitation easily accessible Craig, winning re-election by 64 to 2009, serving concurrently as Greek-American community a “After the oath of office was ing a ceremony at the Palace and readily available.’” Long Island Univ. Announces 67th Annual George Polk Journalism Awards

BROOKLYN – Long Island Uni - Michael Corkery, and Robert gton Post will be honored with Man on the Operating Table," versity (LIU) announced the Gebeloff of The New York Times the award for Medical Reporting the third and final part of a se - winners of the 67th annual will be honored with the award for "Dying to Be Free," an eight- ries documenting the devastat - George Polk Awards in Journal - for Legal Reporting for "Beware part 21,000-word article reveal - ing effect of an errant U.S. ism today, honoring reporters the Fine Print," a series of arti - ing that many publicly-funded airstrike that destroyed the who advanced vital national cles on how corporations evade centers were forbidden from Médecins Sans Frontières hospi - conversations on race and gen - legal responsibility by adding ar - prescribing effective medication- tal in Kunduz, Afghanistan in der relations with their masterful bitration clauses to tens of mil - assisted therapy for heroin ad - October, killing 42 people. investigative reporting in 2015. lions of consumer and employee diction because of pressure from The award for Radio Report - The George Polk Awards are contracts. 12-step programs that consider ing will go to Nikole Hannah- conferred annually to honor spe - Reporting for The New York patients who use medicine to Jones for "The Problem We All cial achievement in journalism. Times, Nicholas Kulish, Christo - help free them of heroin as less Live With" broadcast on This The awards place a premium on pher Drew, Mark Mazzetti, than truly recovered. American Life. investigative and enterprising re - Matthew Rosenberg, Serge F. Ko - The award for Magazine Re - Correspondent Jim Axelrod porting that gains attention and valeski, Sean D. Naylor, and porting will go to reporters and producer Emily Rand of CBS achieves results. John Ismay will receive the Polk Noreen Malone and Jen Kirby News will be presented with the They were established in award for Military Reporting for and photographer Amanda award for Television Reporting 1949 by Long Island University an investigation showing that Demme, working under Jody for "Compounding Pharmacy to commemorate George Polk, a elite U.S. Navy SEAL teams took Quon, photography director, of Fraud.” CBS correspondent murdered in on far broader roles than ever New York Magazine for "Cosby: Cartel Land is being pre - 1948 while covering the Greek publicly acknowledged and of - The Women, An Unwelcome Sis - sented with the award for Doc - civil war. ten operated with little account - terhood.” umentary Film. "We received a record 580 A stamp commemorating the life of George Polk, heroic CBS ability, even after verifiable ac - Andrew Quilty of Foreign Pol - nominations from news organi - reporter, issued by the US Postal Service. Polk was related to cusations of battlefield abuses. icy Magazine will receive the Material from the Associated zations," said John Darnton, cu - residents James Knox Polk and Andrew Jackson. Jason Cherkis of the Huffin - award for Photography for "The Press was used in this report. rator of the George Polk Awards. "Many were about police killings The award for Foreign Re - and police misconduct across the porting will be shared by a team board." Darnton also noted, "An - of four reporters from the Asso - other striking element common ciated Press, Margie Mason, to several of the winners was Robin McDowell, Martha Men - that the story they came up with doza and Esther Htusan and the was not the one they set out to award for National Reporting find. will go to The Washington Post Simeon Booker, who reported for an exhaustive study of on the U. S. 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Continued from page 1 Equilibrium. That is, no matter CD: I met John Nash in plexity that it seems infeasible how much scientist try, they will Chicago during the 2008 Con - to search over. And even if one in 1992 the Clemson Award for never be able to find such an al - gress of the Game Theory Soci - could search over this space, the Applied Science and Engineer - gorithm, because it simply does ety. Christos Papadimitriou, Paul optimal auction may just be too ing, Society for Biomaterials. not exist. The concept is inher - Goldberg and I were receiving complex to be implementable. What is the secret of your suc - ently incomputable! an award for our work on the To maximize revenue, the auc - cess besides research and study? TNH: How can it be proved computational complexity of the tioneer might have to agree to IY: Luck, number one; my that a mathematical problem is Nash equilibrium, and I was in - sell an item at some fraction of very competent research stu - unsolvable? vited to present our result at the the highest bid, a fraction that dents, number two; and my de - CD: Intuitively speaking, we congress. I was astounded to see could depend on a host of fac - termination to stick with just should be able to solve any John Nash in my talk, and had tors: the difference between the one important research goal for mathematical problem as long the honor of presenting my doc - top two bids, the final price of my professional life. as we try hard enough, right? toral research to the person who the previous item on the docket, TNH: Have Greek culture As it turns out this is not the gave his name to Nash Equilib - the populations from which the and education contributed to case! Some mathematical prob - rium. Afterwards I had a con - bidders are drawn, etc. We show your success? lems are inherently unsolvable! versation with him about the how to overcome this apparent IY: My family taught me to Maybe the most prominent ex - computational intractability of complexity barrier by viewing rely on myself to solve the prob - ample is “squaring the circle,” a Nash equilibria. I was struck by auction design as a geometric lems in my life. My early school problem that bedeviled mathe - his intelligence and clarity of problem. We leverage our geo - education in Athens taught me maticians since at least mind. In the group of extremely metric understanding to identify to compete with my classmates Anaxagoras, but was shown un - smart and talented people I am optimal auctions that are rela - but also to trust the rules of the solvable in the 19th century. Af - blessed to interact with, John tively simple for the auctioneer game. When I arrived in the ter several important problems Nash offered me one of the most and the bidders to keep track United States as a young man were shown unsolvable in the intriguing conversations I have of. of 19 years, I had no idea how 19th century, mathematicians’ ever had. TNH: What are you currently important these simple, basic aesthetic has changed to incor - TNH: In 2012 you solved an - working on? rules would be in my effort to porate tools for establishing the other challenging problem that CD: I am working on prob - adapt to the culture of this coun - insolvability of problems. Such had been unsolved for thirty lems at the interface of Com - try without losing my individu - Prof. Ioannis Yannas mathematical machinery has years. What was that about? puter Science, Economics and ality as a Greek. been sharpened in the 20th cen - CD: As a whole, my research Probability. Besides the prob - TNH: For years, some scien - situations. After all, if Nash tury, and has trickled down into focuses on computational prob - lems we have already discussed, tists did not understand the im - PROF. DASKALAKIS equilibria are computationally Computer Science, which is a lems at the interface of Com - I am fascinated by Machine pact that their discovery would TNH: You were able to solve intractable, then how can they child of Mathematical Logic. For puter Science and Economics, Learning, the subfield of Artifi - have. Was it the same in your a problem that arose from possibly arise in practice? Moti - our proof we develop the appro - particularly those relating to the cial Intelligence exploring the case as well? Nash’s work, which stood unre - vated by this important question priate computational machinery design and study of the Internet. design and analysis of algo - IY: Our discovery of a solved since 1950. Many econ - and inspired by the lack of to show the impossibility of In addition to being a remark - rithms that learn models from method of organ regeneration omists had been trying to find a progress for fifty years, my col - computing Nash equilibrium. able computational system, the data, in order to make reliable still remains to be fully appreci - solution, but with no results. laborators and I took a different Internet is also a complex so - predictions. Automated transla - ated by the larger medical com - What was the secret of your suc - perspective, showing something TNH: When did you meet cioeconomic system that lacks tion, and recommendation sys - munity. You see, regeneration of cess? quite unexpected. We proved John Nash and what was your centralized design or gover - tems, such as those employed an organ can do so much for CD: The contribution of my that there is no computationally first impression of him during nance. To gain a better under - by Netflix, are good example ap - people who have to live with work was to characterize the efficient algorithm for Nash that meeting? standing of its operation, com - plications. Within this field, I’m diseased and dysfunctional or - computational complexity of puter scientists are applying interested in problems arising gans, not only for organs that Nash equilibrium, a concept de - economic principles to its study. in Computational Biology and have been badly injured. These fined by John Nash in 1950. The Through this research, we the interface of Learning and applications appear to emerge purpose of Nash Equilibrium is hope to gain a better under - Probability Theory. somewhere in the future; I wish to predict what may occur in a standing of what is happening TNH: Do you like the Amer - they here with us today. Many non-cooperative game. A game in complex socioeconomic envi - ican lifestyle? How would you problems that cannot be han - is a mathematical abstraction of ronments and how to design compare it to Greece? dled by organ transplantation a strategic conflict between peo - systems that have good proper - CD: As far as my academic (there are very few donors of ple. This may be a representa - ties when economic and com - life is concerned, I really love organs) could be solved by re - tion of some recreational game putational phenomena take being in the States. My students generation treatments. such as rock-paper-scissors, or place at the same time. and colleagues at MIT are amaz - TNH: Describe an ordinary it could model a nuclear conflict My most recent findings have ing and I find it a great pleasure day for you. or an entire market. Nash to do with the design of auc - and privilege to interact with IY: After having breakfast, I showed that any game may find tions. My students and I pre - them. On the other hand, I miss drive to the garage of my uni - itself in a stable state whose sented a new theory for the for - my homeland and some aspects versity, swim for half an hour, characteristics he specified. This merly elusive problem of selling of the Greek lifestyle. While and then have meetings with re - state is called Nash Equilibrium multiple items under differing Greeks do work a lot (unlike search students and giving my in his honor. Following Nash’s market conditions to maximize some stereotypes maintain), classes. At the end of the day I influential theorem, mathemati - revenue, a problem left open by they also know how to enjoy am ready for some opera or the cians and economists alike have Myerson’s celebrated work on their life more. I find that you Boston Symphony. strived to design algorithms for single-item auctions in 1981. should strive for balance in life, TNH: Have you ever thought calculating Nash equilibria, and This problem also has signifi - otherwise you may find yourself about going back to Greece in therefore predicting what hap - cant practical applications in living only through your work. order to lend your expertise? pens in conflicts. Nevertheless, sponsored search, online ad ex - Work, I think, is too much of the IY: A lot of nostalgic imagery all proposed algorithms are changes, and spectrum auctions. focus in the States. Of course, comes to mind when I think computationally inefficient. The difficulty of identifying things get more complex for sci - about working in Greece. In re - What is worse, this has cast optimal multi-item auctions entists like myself, since science ality, I am very happy with my doubt into whether Nash equi - stems from the fact that the de - is not just work, but a passion. life in the United States. libria may truly arise in practical Prof. Constantinos Daskalakis sign space has such a large com - TNH: What is your typical National Herald Εthnikos Kirix Foundation

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bolic Engineering at MIT, which leader and not a follower in in - with a DDS (Doctor of Dental is that I am in one of the top focuses on diverse challenges in novation, or can it be accom - Surgery) degree, I left for the linguistic programs in the world. the fields of Metabolic Engineer - plished without it? University of Chicago to study My colleagues are the very best ing and Bioinformatics. Could GS: There is no question that anthropology. After a little over in their specializations. As a re - you elaborate on that? Greece needs advanced research a year there, I saw a job adver - sult, if I need to learn some - GS: As I mentioned previ - and the innovation that results tised for a Research Assistant at thing, I have the opportunity to ously, we are developing a num - from it in order to maintain the an National Science Foundation learn from the very best. If my ber of methods for the produc - high standard of living that our project on Creole Languages at colleagues were not what they tion of biofuels, chemicals and compatriots have come to ex - the University of Hawaii. Having are, or if I were in a smaller de - pharmaceuticals using microor - pect. It has been proven over been raised in Europe, I had not partment, or isolated some - ganisms. This entails the engi - and over again that funds spent realized that Hawaii is mostly a where and forced to work on neering of microbes using tools on research provide handsome vacation resort and I thought my own, my work would have from modern molecular biology. returns unmatched by any other that I would find all sorts of ad - been much, much poorer. So the In this form, we change the ge - type of investment. Also, I can - ventures there. I did not find short answer is that I have ben - netic makeup of these microbes not think of an advanced coun - any adventures but I did dis - efitted tremendously from the in a targeted manner that mod - try with high standard of living cover linguistics. While I found constant access I have to the top ulates their genes and gene ex - that is not supported by robust anthropology, the study of cul - people in the field. We interact pression. It is these genetic academic institutions that serve tures, interesting, I preferred the a lot, co-teach a lot, and co-au - changes that transform a mi - as economic engines of their de - scientific methodology of lin - thor a lot. Also, our students crobe like a bacterium to a little velopment. Greece’s most im - guistics, its formulation of work - (and when I say “students”, I chemical factory capable of pro - portant asset is her highly edu - ing hypotheses, falsifiability, mean our PhD students) are ducing the antifreeze compound cated and skilled professionals. predictive power. The possibility also among the best. They keep ethylene glycol; or convert They have proven over and of making language the object us on our toes and just the very Prof. Gregory Stephanopoulos baker’s yeast to a different again that they are capable of of scientific inquiry spoke to me. fact that we are supposed to chemical factory that produces the highest achievements and I found the notion of Universal help them with their papers and day like? exams (ranked first) for the a pharmaceutical product, or distinctions when given the op - Grammar in particular intrigu - theses and work overall, pushes CD: Well, one of the things School of Chemical Engineering specialized compounds that are portunity, mainly outside ing. This is the hypothesis that us facilitates us to get better. So that I enjoy about academia is of the National Technical Uni - useful as flavors and fragrances, Greece. I do not see a reason humans are born with an innate in short, the answer to your that every single day is different. versity of Athens (NTUA). He just to name a few examples. that this model cannot be emu - capacity for language and that question is: the people around This is a blessing and a curse at was a great role model for me TNH: What is a typical day lated in Greece proper to fuel languages are not consciously me and the interactive atmos - the same time. It is a blessing and my generation. So, three in your life like? the future economic develop - learned, the way we learn chess, because you are mostly in years later I also succeeded in GS: There is, really, no such ment of the country. People will for example. Universal Gram - charge of your own schedule, the entrance examinations and a thing as a typical day. There just have to set high standards mar in combination with expo - and a curse because you end up matriculated in the same de - are so many things happening, and high expectations for stu - sure to the linguistic environ - accepting too many tasks. In a partment. I graduated five years some planned but many others dents and professors, create a ment in which a child is raised usual weekday, I’ll find myself later, came to the United States totally unexpected. You can plan reward system that recognizes together develop to the final juggling teaching, research for graduate studies, then to a visit, some meetings, regular excellence and high achieve - language state that we call the meetings, and university com - Caltech as Assistant Professor. I lectures or faculty meetin GS: ment and show zero tolerance child’s native language. Univer - mittees. When not doing all stayed in Pasadena, where Cal - But there is no way you can an - to attempts to dilute honest ef - sal Grammar is responsible for that, I love having a cup of cof - tech was located, until 1985 ticipate developments in the lab, forts aspiring to achieve high the many deep commonalities fee and thinking, catching up when I received an offer for a exciting and disappointing, goals. between languages and also de - with my reading, or going to the termines the space of possible movies. languages. The specialization of TNH: What’s your opinion linguistics called “theoretical lin - about the escalating political guistics” aims to explore, model, and economic turmoil in and understand Universal Greece? Have you ever consid - Grammar, as well as the para - ered to get politically engaged meters along which languages in order to help with your ex - can differ. So, finally it seemed Prof. Sabine Iatridou pertise? that I had found what I was CD: I find the situation that looking for as a profession. After phere in the department.” has been unfolding in Greece 2 years in Hawaii, I worked for TNH: Please describe a typi - rather worrisome. It is quite un - a year at the University of Ams - cal day in your life. fortunate that, despite the obvi - terdam, again as research assis - SI: I go to MIT between 8 ous need for change, Greece has tant, and then went to MIT to and 9 in the morning, get home not been able to create an envi - do a PhD in Linguistics. After around 6pm for family dinner ronment for exploiting well its earning my PhD in 1991, I got and then work in the evening remarkable human capital and my first job, which was as As - at home. natural resources. Instead of ad - sistant Professor in the Linguis - This semester I teach six mitting the economy’s structural tics Department at the Univer - hours a week, in four intervals problems, a large part of the sity of Pennsylvania. This was of one and a half hours each. Greek population is still trying an excellent department but Each class takes many hours to to find blame elsewhere, be it when I was offered the position prepare, which I mostly do at the Europeans or the immi - at MIT, the pull to go back to home in the evenin GS: grants. At the same time, Greek my alma mater was irresistible During the day, at MIT, I am governments have been protect - MIT's Building 10 and Great Dome overlooking Killian Court. and I came to back, as faculty mostly in appointments with ing economic interests and at - this time, in January of 1997. I our PhD students, about five tacking the poor and the pen - full professorship from MIT, news from other groups, fund - PROF. IATRIDOU have been here ever since. hours a day, one hour per stu - sioners, creating a negative which I accepted, and I have ing agencies, journals where we TNH: Please tell us about TNH: You served as Director dent. Sometimes, I go to a col - spiral that is shrinking the GDP. been at this institution ever publish our work or the per - your early years and how you of the MIT Linguistics PhD Pro - league’s class or a talk. I also While Greece is perfectly capa - since. I did well at both Caltech sonal lives of students and post - arrived at this point in your life. gram for many years and you have certain administrative du - ble to turn a corner and has a and MIT. I think the reason was docs. They all make for an ex - SI: I was born in Thessa - are the author and co-author of ties as program director but they huge potential, some are work - excellent role models (in family citing life where there is hardly loniki but spent my childhood innovative papers that have can vary a lot, depending on the ing hard to keep the country in and society), strong family sup - a dull moment! All of the above, in Holland, before going back opened up whole new domains time of the semester. The rest misery. port and encouragement for sometimes in an orderly man - to Greece and finishing high- of research for the field. Is hard of the time, is devoted to my re - I have been asked to run for pursuing excellence and distin - ner, sometimes randomly and school and college there. I did work the only secret key to your search. public office several times, but I guishing oneself, and, really, not unexpectedly, are the items that not like what I was studying success? TNH: What is your biggest would only consider it if I were serious viable alternatives (Plan fill the life of an academic re - (dentistry), and I was constantly SI: Well, I guess linguistics is aspiration? inspired that there is potential B) in case my professional aspi - searcher/educator and make it looking for other things that I like many things in life, in that SI: My biggest aspiration is for real change. It would also rations did not materialize. incredibly exciting and very ful - might find exciting and inspir - it requires a combination of not work-related! I hope for a have to be the case that my ex - TNH: A research initiative in filling. ing. I did not want to quit my hard work and talent. What is better world with social justice, pertise is useful, as I have no the Chemical Engineering De - TNH: Do you believe that in - studies, though, because I felt I not like that? But the secret to equal opportunities for every - political aspirations for the sake partment led by you examines stitutions that are research- would always have to explain what you call my success, and body, no wars, and no unhappi - of being a politician. For the a number of current and excit - based are absolutely necessary that I could have, but did not it is actually not a secret at all, ness. time being, I prefer to offer my ing topics in the area of Meta - services to my homeland from bolic Engineering and its indus - where I am, continuing my aca - trial and medical applications. demic career. Can you tell us more about it? TNH: Do you think that the GS: Metabolic engineering is Scalia’s Fascinating Life Included Greek Letters & Spice crisis has affected Greek educa - actually the engineering of the tion as well? metabolism of microbes to con - CD: Let me say first that for vert them into little chemical TNH Staff face of New York City,” Scalia the size of our country it is quite factories that can synthesize nu - said. impressive how much talent we merous chemical and pharma - NEW YORK – Among the ar - “He spent much of his child - have, as witnessed by world ceutical products. They do so ticles providing tribute and crit - hood in a red brick home in class recognition in science, art very efficiently, so that they can icism of the late Supreme Court Elmhurst, a neighborhood of and entrepreneurship. If Greece replace current chemical Justice Antonin Scalia– some in - Queens that is now largely Asian could exploit this remarkable processes employed in the pro - clude both for the complex, bril - and Latino. Ask him where he talent to its benefit, things duction of many chemical prod - liant, and dedicated jurist – are was from — Queens. What was would have been very different. ucts we use in everyday life, some that simply tell the tale of his team? The Yankees. ‘What Unfortunately, Greek academic such as biopolymers, biodiesel, his rise from humble origins in else would I be?” he told the institutions do not function the oils and lipids, detergents, cos - Queens, where his family Times of a childhood that pre - way they are supposed to. Fund - metics, biopolymers and many, moved when he was six. ceded the arrival of the Mets. ing is rather stingy. Classes are many others. These microbes His life experience also has Noting the stronger affinity oversubscribed due to bad plan - can also synthesize complex some Hellenic flavor. In high among people from Brooklyn ning and corruption. Politics in - pharmaceutical molecules more school he studied Ancient Greek and Queens that that between side the universities are quite efficiently than by using tradi - in addition to Latin – which either of those boroughs and disruptive. Faculty hiring is of - tional chemistry. As such, meta - served him well in his future Manhattan, the Times wrote ten questionable. Research often bolic engineering is an enabling studies – and he had Greek “Justice Scalia knew enough to does not meet international technology that can transform neighbors and classmates at Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia not let politics get in the way of standards. What is worse, the the chemical and pharmaceuti - Public School 13 in Elmhurst. a good New York friendship. His Greek government is getting cal industries in the 21st cen - “There are no blacks in the ness, polyglot: There were “We didn’t even know how closest friend on the Supreme ready to bring changes that con - tury. class, and there really weren’t Greeks — one of the girls in the to say it; we called her ‘you’re- Court was the liberal Justice stitute negative progress. With - TNH: What are you currently any in our neighborhood, but class was named Eurydice,” the a-dice.’ There were Irish, Ger - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from out research excellence, Greece working on? other than that it was, my good - New York Times wrote in 2013. man, Jewish, Italian…It was the Brooklyn.” is doomed to lose its talented GS: We do a lot of work in youth to other countries, and the area of biofuels, converting being a follower rather than a carbohydrate renewable feed - leader in innovation. Greece is stocks into lipids for biodiesel capable of having top notch, in - production. Also, we engineer ternationally recognized acade - microbes to synthesize natural mic institutions around which products that are used as phar - POCKET-LESS innovation and entrepreneur - maceuticals. One such example ship will take place. To do this, is to engineer the metabolic PITA BREAD we need funding and changes pathway that synthesizes the an - in governance. This is a high- ticancer drug taxol. A large stakes game for Greece and I number of compounds (actually, hope the government realizes more than 50,000) can be made Kontos Foods this soon. If rumors are true by the same metabolic pathway www.GreekKitchennyc.com The Leading Company in Flat Breads about imminent changes to ed - and many of these compounds ucation, they either seem to have important pharmaceutical Well known for the Pocket-Less Pita have a completely distorted im - properties. As such, our work age about what is needed, or aims at discovering such com - manufacturers of authentic ethnic are working hard to keep the pounds and also providing an hand Stretched flat bread. country behind. efficient method for their cost- kontos the first family in fillo dough and fillo products. TNH: Would you ever go effective manufacturing via fer - back to Greece? mentation. Other examples in - fillo kaTaifi, baklava, SPanakoPiTa, TyroPiTa CD: I miss my family, but as clude compounds that are nuT roll, melomakarona things stand I will stay in the presently used for the produc - and the TradiTional mediTerranean deSSerTS. States. I will continue to help tion of packaging materials, an - my homeland in my current ca - tifreeze, components of the plas - excellent quality and service. pacity. tic bottles we use for water and We distribute in USA and Canada. soft drinks, and others. The ma - Special prices for communities, schools, churches PROF. STEPHANOPOULOS jor advantage for making these TNH: Where were you raised products using microorganisms festivals and other events and how did you become so suc - and fermentation as opposed to cessful and noteworthy? fossil fuels is that their produc - GS: I was born in Kalamata, tion is not associated with the in order for Greece to be a want to finish. After I graduated I went to a public school there release of greenhouse gases. In until the third grade of Gymna - that sense they are truly “green” Kontos Foods, Inc sium (9th grade in the U.S.), products that do not burden the b Follow us on Facebook: box 628, Paterson, nJ 07544 when my family moved to environment with their produc - Athens. My older brother tion. Tel.: (973) 278-2800 fax: (973) 278-7943 Eθνικός Κήρυξ / The National Herald kontos.com

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Pur - pose: Any lawful activity . FUNERAL HOME Inc. flowers, donations be made to 27 4986/19845 5044 Broadway the Rebuilding of St. Nicholas diovascular disease. In 1997, ucts, Jaharis and Mary worked Together with Mary, Jaharis New York, NY 10034 Greek Orthodox Church or the Kos introduced its first product, tirelessly and gave generously was a Benefactor of the Metro - LEGAL NOTICE Cancer Programs at Columbia Niaspan, which raised HDL lev - through their public service and politan Museum of Art, the Art (212) 942-4000 University Medical Center. els and improved the lives of philanthropic endeavors. In Institute of Chicago, and the Notice of formation of TOP RANK REALTY Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE Jaharis was born and raised millions of people. Kos Pharma - 1986, they founded the Jaharis Metropolitan Opera. They also LLC. (DOM. LLC). Articles of Organization CONSTANTINIDES in Evanston, IL. The son of ceuticals was acquired by Ab - Family Foundation, Inc. gave generously as Scholarship filed with the Secretary of State of New York, Michael and Katerina Jaharis, bott Laboratories in 2006. Valuing the importance of Sponsors of DePaul University SSNY on October 09, 2015. Office located in FUNERAL PARLOR Co. Kings County. SSNY has been designated for (718) 745-1010 from the village of Aghia After selling Kos, Jaharis co- education, Jaharis was an active College of Law in Chicago and service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of any Paraskevi on Lesbos. After at - founded Vatera Healthcare Part - board member for several supported the development of process served against the LLC to: Salvatore Services in all localities - tending Evanston Township ners LLC, a New York City-based prominent non-profit and edu - the Mary and Michael Jaharis Ruffo, 1663 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237. Purpose: Any lawful activity . Low cost shipping to Greece Public High School, Jaharis investment group focused on cational institutions, including Center for Health Law at DePaul 27 4982/19843 briefly attended North Park Uni - taking active positions in health - Trustee Emeritus of Tufts Uni - University. At Tufts University versity and then earned a bach - care companies that develop in - versity in Boston, MA, Chairman School of Medicine, they en - LEGAL NOTICE ANTONOPOULOS elor’s degree from Carroll Col - novative products for unmet of the Board of Overseers for dowed the Jaharis Family Cen - FUNERAL HOME, INC. Notice of Qualification of FRONTLINE lege (now Carroll University) in and underserved medical needs the School of Medicine, Tufts ter for Biomedical and Nutrition PERFORMANCE GROUP, LLC Konstantinos Antonopoulos - Wisconsin. Shortly after his col - in a broad range of therapeutic University, Member of the Co - Sciences, the Jaharis Family Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY Funeral Director lege graduation in June, 1950, areas, including chronic obstruc - lumbia University Medical Cen - Chair in Family Medicine, and (SSNY) on 01/14/16. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., Jaharis served in the U.S. Army tive pulmonary disease (Pearl ter Board of Visitors, and Mem - multiple Scholarship Funds. 04/24/15. Princ. office of LLC: None. SSNY during the Korean War and was Therapeutics), cardio-metabolic ber of the Board of Overseers of Through The Jaharis Family designated as agent of LLC upon whom Astoria, New York 11105 eventually deployed to Zell am diseases and cancer (Arisaph the Weill Cornell Medical Col - Foundation, he was also a Bene - process against it may be served. SSNY shall (718) 728-8500 mail process to the FL addr. of LLC, 1075 W. See, Austria to help run the Pharmaceuticals), antibiotic re - lege and Graduate School of factor of Columbia University Morse Blvd., Winter Park, FL 32789. Cert. of Not affiliated with any medical and pharmaceutical sistant bacterial infections Medical Sciences. He also Medical College and Weill Cor - Form. filed with Ken Detzner, Secy. of State, other funeral home. supply. (Melinta Therapeutics), and served as a Director of The nell Medical College. Tufts Uni - FL Dept. of State, RA Gray Bldg., 500 S. Bro - nough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250. After his military service, Ja - celiac disease (ImmusanT). Onassis Public Benefit Founda - versity bestowed upon Michael Purpose: Any lawful activity. haris joined Miles Laboratories Aside from working hard to tion (USA) and was a member an Honorary Doctor of Public 27 4984/1 7976 as a sales representative in the improve the lives of millions of the Carnegie Council for Service degree in May 2015. In Ethical Drug Division (Prescrip - through pharmaceutical prod - Ethics in International Affairs. December, Columbia University tion Drug), covering the area Medical College presented the To Place your claSSified ad, call: (718) 784-5255, north of Chicago’s Loop up to Jaharises with a Crown Award eXT. 106, e-mail: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com the Wisconsin border. While for their service and support to working full time, he earned a the School. Juris Doctorate as an evening As a tribute to his beloved student DePaul University’s law parents, Jaharis supported the school. establishment of the Jaharis Apostle,” one of the highest hon - ity to bring out the best in every - Jaharis rose through the Home for the Elderly in Aghia ors bestowed upon laity on be - one within any context. Equally ranks at Miles to become Vice Paraskevi. Through two gener - half of Patriarch Bartholomew. unparalleled was his excellent President and Executive Legal ous gifts to Hellenic College – He was also awarded an Hon - sense of humor. At the begin - Counsel for Food and Drug Law, Holy Cross Theological Semi - orary Degree from Hellenic Col - ning or end of each day, Jaharis where he also became involved nary, the Jaharises endowed the lege Holy Cross. made a point of stopping by the in marketing for the company. Mary Jaharis Center for Byzan - Most recently, the Jaharises desk of each person in his office In 1972, according to his of - tine Art and Culture and the directed their philanthropic ef - to say hello, catch up, and share ficial biography, Jaharis became Archbishop Demetrios Chair in forts to supporting humanitar - an idea or some advice. He not president and CEO of Key Phar - New Testament Studies. They ian initiatives to provide food, only knew the names of every - maceuticals, which at the time also supported the establish - medical care, and education to one in the office but also the de - of acquisition was essentially an ment of an endowed professor - children and elderly living in tails of people’s families and in - insolvent company known for ship, The Archbishop Demetrios Greece during the ongoing fi - terests and always personally its sustained action technology Chair in Orthodox Theology and nancial crisis. In addition, the expressed his gratitude for each and some cold/cough remedies. Culture at Fordham University. family gave generously to orga - person’s contribution on a pro - As CEO and president, he trans - Proud of his Greek ancestry nizations working to support the ject. If the opportunity for a formed the company by leading and Greek Orthodox faith, Ja - thousands of refugee families quick break between meetings his team to develop pharmaceu - haris’ civic affiliations included fleeing to Greece from Syria and and calls would arise, one tical breakthroughs with drugs Vice Chairman of the Greek Or - the Middle East. would often find Jaharis in his such as sustained-release Theo- thodox Archdiocesan Council, No matter how busy Jaharis’ office catching a quick glimpse Dur, which became the nation’s Founding Member and Director professional and philanthropic of a Chicago Bears, Bulls, or bestselling asthma remedy, and of Faith Endowment for Ortho - commitments kept him, he al - Cubs game (depending on the Nitro-Dur, the first transdermal doxy and Hellenism, and Found - ways made time for his family season). sustained-release product to re - ing Member and Executive and friends. He cherished his Jaharis always credited two lease nitroglycerin through the Committee Member of the family and extensive network of inspirations for his success: his skin. Key Pharmaceuticals was Greek Orthodox Leadership 100 personal and professional parents’ commitment to family, sold to Schering Plough in 1986. Endowment Foundation. friendships above all else. His faith, education and hard work In 1988, Michael founded The Greek Orthodox Arch - genuine love of people was evi - as setting the foundation upon Kos Pharmaceuticals, where he Michael and Mary Jaharis were deeply devoted to each other, diocese of America made Ja - dent in the fact that he always which he built everything upon; led his team to pioneer innova - which was the foundation of their many contributions to phil - haris an “Archon Exarchos of focused each person’s positive and the love and support of his tive drug therapies to treat car - anthropy, culture, Hellenism, and the Orthodox faith. the Order of St. Andrew the attributes and had a unique abil - wife and family. THE NATIONAL HERALD, FEBRUARY 20-26, 2016 COMMUNITY 9

OUR EVERYDAY GREEK GREEK GASTRONOMY Masculine and Feminine Nouns: It is Not about Gender Oven-Roasted Pork Chops

By Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou ης, and in – ος like: Ήφαιστος are of masculine gender and take the article ο. Words ending in – α like: Ήρ-α, Αθην-ά, Δήμητρ-α And Pligouri (Bulgar Wheat) Gender in Greek is a grammatical category and is not identical and in – η like: Άρτεμ-η, Αφροδίτ-η are of feminine gender and with sex. Usually, however, words that refer to living beings of the take the article η. By Eleni Sakellis and a salad. male sex are of masculine gender, and those which refer to living Let’s add some more well known ancient Greek names. Remem - beings of female sex are of feminine gender. Nouns, which in Eng - ber that Greek feminine names can end in – ω. Traditional everyday Greek lish are neuter, i.e., those referring to non-living things without re - cuisine highlights vegetables Pligouri gard to biological sex, are in Greek of the masculine, feminine or ARTICLE GREEK NAME PRONUNCIATION ENGLISH NAME more often than meat, though neuter grammatical gender. o Αχιλλέ-ας ahiLEas Achilles pork is a popular choice for (Bulgur Wheat) Thus, γύρος (= gyro ) is of masculine gender, πατάτα (= potato ) ο Οδυσσέ-ας odiSEas Odysseus roasts and souvlaki especially. is of feminine gender and σουβλάκι (= souvlaki ) is of neuter gender. ο Πλάτων-ας PLAtonas Plato Grilled pork chops are quick and • 3 cups medium ground In the vocabulary lists the gender is indicated by the appropriate ο Όμηρ-ος Omiros Homer easy to prepare for outdoor bulgur form of the definite article: ο for masculine nouns, η for feminine ο Σωκράτ-ης soCRAtis Socrates cooking in the warmer months. • 3 to 3 and 1/2 cups water nouns and το for neuter nouns. While memorizing the vocabulary, ο Αριστοτέλ-ης aristoTElis Aristotle In winter, braising and oven • Salt to taste it helps to learn each word’s gender and article. Can we guess the ο Περικλ-ής periKLEES Pericles roasting are great ways to pre - • 1 tablespoon butter gender of a Greek noun? η Πανδώρ-α panDOra Pandora pare pork chops. Serve your (optional) USEFUL TIP η Κλυταιμνήστρ-α kliteMNEEstra Clytemnestra pork with a side dish of pligouri In most cases we can guess the gender from the ending of the η Αντιγόν-η antiYOni Antigone (bulgur wheat), a healthy fiber In a saucepan over medium noun. Each Greek noun is divided into two parts: a stem, which η Πηνελόπ-η pineLOpi Penelope and protein packed whole grain high heat, bring the water to a shows the dictionary meaning of the word, and an ending, which η Σαπφ-ώ sapFO Sappho available in fine, medium or boil, add the bulgur and salt to shows the noun’s number and case. i.e., ο γύρ-ος, η πατάτ-α, το η Καλυψ-ώ kaliPSO Calypso coarse grind. As simple to cook taste. If desired, you may also σουβλάκ-ι. The table below will help you guess the gender and the as rice or pasta, bulgur is full of add a tablespoon of butter at correct article from the ending of the word. These are the most EXERCISE vitamins and minerals, and has this point. Allow the pot to re - common endings of the masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns. Separate the stem from the ending in the below Greek names a lower glycemic index than turn to a boil, stirring occasion - and add the correct article. white rice for those watching ally. Reduce the heat to medium GENDER ARTICLE ENDING their sugar levels. Here are the low and simmer until the water Masculine gender ο -ος, -ης, -ας, -ες ARTICLE NAME PRONUNCIATION STEM-ENDING recipes for tasty pork chops and is absorbed and the bulgur is Feminine gender η -α, -η, -ω Μαρία maREEa bulgur wheat to enjoy. tender. Serve warm with pork Neuter gender το -ι, -ο Ελένη eLEni Δημήτρης diMEEtris Let’s apply the above rule in the names of the twelve Ancient Γιώργος yiOrgos Greek gods. You probably know their names in English. This is Πέτρος PEtros how they are written in Greek. Κατερίνα kateREEna Χρήστος HREEstos ARTICLE GREEK NAME PRONUNCIATION ENGLISH NAME Βασίλης vaSEElis o Δί-ας or Ζεύς DEEas or ZEfs Zeus Σταύρος STAvros o Ποσειδών-ας posiDOnas Poseidon Νίκη NEEki o Απόλλων-ας aPOlonas Apollo Σπύρος SPEEros o Ερμ-ής erMEES Hermes Αντώνης aNTOnis o Άρ-ης Aris Ares Κώστας KOstas o Ήφαιστ-ος EEfestos Hephaestus Γιάννης yiAnis η Ήρ-α EEra Hera Αγγελική ageliKEE η Αθην-ά athiNA Athena Βάσω VAso η Δήμητρ-α DEEmitra Dimitra Βασιλική vasiliKEE η Εστί-α eSTEEa Hestia η Άρτεμ-η Artemis Artemis PRONUNCIATION KEY η Αφροδίτ-η afroDEEti Aphrodite i (idiom), ee (needle), e (energy), o (organism), oo (boot), y (yes), h (helium), th (theory), d (the). The capitalized syllables The gender of the Ancient Greek god names can be easily are accented. guessed by their sex. Yet, the endings rule in defining the gender still applies. You can always refer to an example of a god name, if Dimitra Kamarinou, PhD, has studied philology and archaeology at you want to remember which are the appropriate endings that de - the University of Ioannina,Würzburg and Bochum in Germany. She fine the masculine or the feminine gender. Thus words ending in – has been honored with the Academy of Athens Award in ας like: Δί-ας, Ποσειδών-ας, Απόλλων-ας, in – ης like: Ερμ-ής, Άρ- Archaeology and Homeric Philology.

LITERATURE Some Works of World-Renowned Poet Dimitris Lyacos

By Eleni Sakellis the work of James Joyce. The theatricality of the piece, espe - Dimitris Lyacos is a Greek cially in the second installment writer you’ve probably never of the trilogy, With the People heard of, even though he is in - from the Bridge, which centers ternationally renowned. His on a play within the poem, adds work has been published in a remarkable layer of meaning chops. If preferred, add cooked Greek and in translation and has to this extraordinary work. Pork Chops chick peas to your bulgur and appeared in literary journals. The fragmentation in the serve. Store leftovers in the re - The Poena Damni trilogy, an work, seemingly typical of mod - • 4-6 pork chops, 1-2 inches frigerator, and serve as a stir in avant-garde work, blends poetry ernist and postmodernist art also thick, bone in to your traditional chick pea and prose, and has inspired recalls the fragments of classical • 2-3 garlic cloves soup (revithia). The combina - artists in various media with its antiquity that have trickled • 1-2 lemons, depending on tion of revithia and pligouri is a inventiveness, transcending down through history to the pre - the size classic in Greek cuisine. modern poetry with a profound sent day. • Olive oil and complicated artistry. Begin - The spiritual journey brings • Salt ning in 1992, Lyacos took twenty to mind the Bible and other reli - • Pepper Bulgur Salad years to complete his Poena gious texts, both ancient and Damni trilogy. The intellectual modern. Some of the interna - Season the pork chops with weight of all those years is evi - tional artists inspired by the salt and freshly ground pepper • 2 cups cooked bulgur, cooled dent throughout the narrative. work of Dimitris Lyacos include on both sides. Sear the pork slightly The third book of the trilogy, Austrian artist Sylvie Proidl who chops in a large preheated pan, • 1 cup cooked chick peas or O Protos Thanatos, The First created a series of paintings dis - preferably a cast iron skillet, garbanzo beans Death, was the first to be pub - played in Vienna in 2002. Sculp - though any heavy bottom pan • 1 red bell pepper, chopped lished in Greek in 1996. The sec - tor Fritz Unegg created Nyc - will work, until the pork chops • 1 small to medium-sized ond book appeared in 2001 with tivoe, a sound and sculpture are golden brown. Using tongs, cucumber, chopped the title Nyctivoe and has since installation staged in London in turn the pork chops to • 1 medium tomato, chopped been updated and published in 2004. From 2006 to 2009, the caramelize the other side. Make • 1 small to medium-sized red English under the title With the Myia dance company in Greece sure the pork chops are patted onion, chopped People from the Bridge (2014). performed a contemporary dry with paper towels before • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh The first book of the trilogy, dance also based on the second seasoning and searing since any parsley Z213: Exit was the third install - part of the trilogy. water will prevent the surface • 1 tablespoon chopped fresh ment to be published in Greek Born and raised in Athens, of the pork from caramelizing mint in 2009. The English translation Dimitris Lyacos studied law, fol - properly. Sear in batches to • 2-4 tablespoons of extra appeared in 2010. At times lowing in the footsteps of his avoid crowding the pan which virgin olive oil frightening and haunted, the un - lawyer father. He spent years liv - can inhibit the caramelizing • 2 tablespoons red wine settled and unsettling aspects of ing abroad first in Venice, Italy, process as well. Set the seared vinegar the work are not for the faint of and then London. Lyacos cur - pork chops in a large baking pan • Salt and pepper to taste heart. The author challenges the rently divides his time between and add the garlic cloves and reader, and the adventurous po - Athens and Berlin and travels of - lemon juice. Roast in a pre - In a mixing bowl, stir to - etry fans among us will appreci - ten for readings of his work. He heated 375 degree oven for 40 gether the bulgur, chick peas, ate this unique poetic vision. The lated into German, Italian, and this postmodernist, genre-defy - is a Fellow of the International minutes, turning the pork chops chopped red bell pepper, cu - trilogy itself is a literary achieve - Spanish. ing work influenced by ancient Writing Program at the Univer - about 20 minutes through the cumber, tomato, red onion, ment and a testament to the Elemental themes of life and and modern religion, the epic sity of Iowa. Lyacos will be fea - roasting. Add water to the pan parsley, and mint. Season to dedication of the poet to his art. death, loss and the resurrection poetry of Homer and Dante, and tured in the Spring 2016 issue if it seems to be drying out too taste with salt and freshly Translated into English by Shor - of the dead along with the figure the plays of Aeschylus. The sur - of the literary magazine Bitter quickly. Tent with foil and allow ground pepper, then drizzle sha Sullivan, the poems retain of the revenant of Greek and real, nightmarish feeling of dis - Oleander. to rest after roasting for about with olive oil and red wine vine - their strength and impact. Lya - Balkan folklore appear, provok - location in the work is The works of Dimitris Lyacos 15 minutes. Serve with lemon gar. Serve as a side dish or as a cos’ work has also been trans - ing images of vampires within Kafkaesque while also recalling are available online. wedges, if desired, bulgur wheat main dish salad.

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Becoming a Millionaire

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos nis nodded. John reminded, tic. “I have everything – even ways a trouble-maker who’ll that dough was depleted, a fren - table, cinnamon dispenser and Special to The National Herald “You’ll need equipment, ingre - the money. Remember when pretend your stuff caused them zied Yiannis ordered Areti to run his temper, he banged on the dients, oil...” Waving his hand, Barbara had a lemonade stand serious illness.” home, again and make more door. No one answered. But, on “I’ve got an idea!” Yiannis an - Yiannis said, “I know! I know! last summer and she amassed a Yiannis looked doubtful. dough, “And, hurry!” After hav - the door he noticed a note that nounced, stirring his coffee. I’ll have all that.” George nar - few dollars – nearly thirty dol - “That doesn’t happen!” Dimos ing delivered the fourth batch read, “Went to dinner and a “Getting rich can’t be so hard. rowing his eyes, asked, “Who‘ll lars. I’ll use that money and...” said, “I have a clean diner and of dough both women, frazzled movie. Don’t wait up for us. All you need is brains and guts.” make the dough, do the frying - John was surprised. “You it happens. That’s why I have a and exhausted, went home, as Love and kisses, Barbara and George, reaching for a donut, as if I didn’t know.” Furrowing mean you took Barbara’s lemon - lawyer. He takes care of every - ordered by a tyrannical Yiannis, Mom.” said, “We can vouch for your his brows Yiannis shrugged, ade money?” “Of course! thing for me.” Yiannis, still de - to prepare the fifth batch of Next Sunday, he was eagerly guts,” Ignoring him, Yiannis “Areti, of course! She’s a prize Women can’t be trusted with termined on his venture, asked, dough while handing Barbara awaited at Dixon’s. But, George continued. “Look at Onassis, confection maker. Why not? She money.” George imagined Yian - “What do I do when that hap - the money made, telling her to had already filled them in on Rockefeller, Ford! They all had gets home at five, makes dinner, nis as a huge Dipla, frying in pens?” take it home and put it in a safe what happened, Areti having one thing in common.” Kipreos and then has all evening to sit deep oil. “She works part-time Grinning, George told him, place. It grew dark as Yiannis, told his wife. “Well? Did you looked up. “That’s right! They’re around.” as cashier at a diner after school, “Flee to Kurdistan.” As planned standing restlessly at the corner, make your first million, Yian - all dead.” Dimos asked, “What George grew serious, “You sit and then hides her money. But, Yiannis opened his stand on a awaited the next dough ship - nis?” Nervously stirring his cof - do you have in mind, Yiannis?” around longer than anyone.” Di - I have money to put out for this corner near the subway en - ment – that never came. He fee Yiannis told them that, “I Turning serious, he explained mos asked, “What’ll you do venture. I’ll set it up, make sales trance and Areti and Barbara strutted around in the partial was well on the way until...” Di - that everyone starts out small. while she’s frying?” Pausing, and then close before eight – fried and stacked Dipless on a dark, like a prowling lion, mos, trying to look serious, “Most people have a sweet Yiannis said, “I’ll be cashier, of enough time for Barbara to do tray while Yiannis sold to nosh searching for them. But, neither asked, “Until?” “I had trouble tooth. So, I thought of making course.” “Of course!” chorused her homework and get ready for -hungry customers just surfacing dough nor wife nor daughter with the help! That’s what!” Dipless and selling them. Then, the others. Kipreos put in, school next day.” They were all from the train station. An hour seemed to be coming. Grum - John asked, “You mean Barbara with enough capital I’ll open a “You’ll have to get a permit, a doubtful. George spoke his own later, dough depleted, oil run - bling and muttering to himself, and Areti?” Yiannis nodded, stir - store front window.” license for a stand. Then, ...” “I’ll thoughts. “That’s a good idea, ning low, a weary Areti and a he packed it up and headed for ring his coffee like it was syrup. John asked, “You mean, deep get all that!” Yiannis spouted, Yiannis! But, what about when tired Barbara, were ordered to home to investigate why they “AND?” chorused the others. “I frying them and selling them – annoyed. “What about capital?” someone reports getting sick run home to prepare more didn’t return as ordered. Hold - told you women can’t be trusted like hot dogs or pretzels?” Yian - Yiannis’ cheeks got a nervous from one of them? There’s al - dough. Two hours later, when ing a large, oily pot, folding with money!” 10 FEATURE THE NATIONAL HERALD, FEBRUARY 20-26, 2016

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Church (1947), Bible Baptist Orange Pan-Hellenic Association 50 51 52 53 54 Temple (1957), Spanish Seventh Present: A Benefit Concert for n FEBRUARY 27 D a y Adven tist C hu rch ( 1962), the Syrian Refugees Searching MANHATTAN – The Kyrenia 55 56 57 58 59 60 Fu ll Gospel Chur ch of God for a Homeland: Songs of Exile Opera and Orpheus Foundation (1968), and Kingdom Hall/Je - and Displacement. Sunday, Feb. present Stavros Siolas perform - 61 62 63 ho vah’s Witn esses (1970). 21, 4PM at the Taplin Audito - ing the songs of Manos Hadzi - 64 65 66 rium in Fine Hall, Princeton Uni - dakis, Yannis Markopoulos, FEBRUARY 21 versity, Washington Road, in Mikis Theodorakis, Stavros n www.CrosswordWeaver.com MANHATTAN – The Nicholas Princeton. 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(abbrev.) 52 ___ and Fea the r s 58 Extac table Or g. Halogen (abbrev.) 55 Flanked by F and J 60 Perimeter 56 Gardner's n eme sis 59 Waste matter So lu tion to last w eek’s pu zzle Th is Week in Greek History: 61 Org. of American States (abbrev.) F E E P A N T S J O W L S 62 Got up O R R A C O R N E A S E L D r. Ge orge “Pap Smear” Papanicolaou Dies 63 Square root of sixty-four I T I T H A A O S T A R E

64 Train Network Mgmt. (abbrev.) N A C B I A M B U S C O D 65 Lefts or rights on a graph This week in 1962, on Febru - nich in Germany six years later. Dr. Papanicolaou received 66 Condiment E C L N I A ary 19, Dr. George Papanicolaou, He immigrated to the United countless honors throughout his F I B U L A D E C R E E inventor of the “Pap smear” States in 1913 and began work - life and beyond it. His likeness DOWN C A R S E R E R A T L A S passed away in Miami, FL at age ing at New York Hospital, and appeared on a 10,000 Greek 1 6th month (Jewish calendar) H U E S S Y N O D T I R E 78. began his research about early drachma banknote, from 1995- 2 Greek suffix meaning the study of He was the discoverer of the cancer detection in the 1920s, 2001, at which point the 3 Very slow horse I N N E R A D O R E A T E Papanicolaou Test better known which culminated in the publica - drachma was replaced by the 4 Blood type group A E G E A N P A R I S H as the Pap Smear, which can de - tion of Diagnosis of Uterine Can - euro. 5 Bundle of yarn O T B B E A tect cervical cancer and other re - cer by the Vaginal Smear, with The U.S. Post office in 1978 6 Saint honored on December 9 C P S S E A M E N N W B N productive diseases. Herbert Frederick Traut, in 1943. issued a stamp in his honor. 7 Cow sound Born in Kymi on Euboea in He died soon after moving to In its December 25, 2014 is - 8 Wise tree dweller? A L I B I B A T E S R E O 1883, Papanicolaou earned his Miami to oversee the creation of sue, The National Herald fea - 9 Newsman Ernie B E G U N C L A S P I L L medical degree from the Univer - the Papanicolaou Cancer Re - tured Papanicolaou among the 10 2:1, for example S A N T A S I S S Y T A O sity of Athens in 1904, followed search Institute at the University All Time Highly-Influential by a PhD at the University of Mu - of Miami. Greek-Americans.

THE NATIONAL HERALD, FEBRUARY 20-26, 2016 GREECE CYPRUS 11 As Tractors Range, and the EU Rages, New Democracy Soaring in Poll

TNH Staff protest a government-planned The protests that have con - pension reform that will drasti - tinued for almost a month have ATHENS – As Greece’s coalition cally increase their pension con - claimed their first political vic - government struggles with tributions. tim. On February 17 Deputy farmers disrupting its trans - Farmers had been allowing Transport Minister Panayiotis portation system, abuse from its cars and buses through, and had Sgouridis resigned. He seemed EU partners over the refugee been occasionally opening the to hint in a radio interview that and migration crisis, and more border to lorries. But the Bul - the Prime Minister had deliber - disturbing signs of instability in garian truckers say farmers ately lied to farmers. a Turkey led by the unpre - broke an agreement to occasion - “Unfortunately, politicians dictable Prime Minister Recep ally let trucks through, and have are not judged on what they do Tayyip Erdoan, the New been blocking their side since but what they say…If you don’t Democracy Party (ND) has Wednesday. make promises, they don’t vote surged ahead of the SYRIZA While the Greek press is re - for you,” Sgouridis told Maxi - party in the latest poll. porting divisions among protest - mum FM in Alexandroupolis. The survey by MRB pub - ing farmers – Kathimerini notes Sgouridis is a member of the lished on February 18 has ND “some have approached the gov - Independent Greeks (ANEL) leading SYRIZA by 3.3 percent. ernment for talks on tax and party. SYRIZA’s coalition part - The conservative party polled pension reforms” – many roads ner. According to Kathimerini 26.9 percent versus 23.2 percent were still blocked in different he later “Issued a statement say - for the leftists. parts of Greece on February 17. ing he did not intend to give the EU complaints about Roads were blocked at the impression that Tsipras had lied. Greece’s handling of refugees norther border crossings of Pro - However, his comments are and migrants was tempered by machonas and Kipoi, at Tempe thought to have angered ANEL supportive words from Eu - in central Greece and at the leader and Defense Minister rogroup president Jeroen Dijs - eurokiniSSi Corinth Canal. Up to 100 block - Panos Kammenos.” selbloem, who declared this This farmer seems to be enjoying himself as he mans one of the blockades set up all over ages are still place Wednesday, The MRB poll, which sur - week that Greece has made Greece protesting pension reforms. The fallout includes SYRIZA trailing ND in the polls. causing worry about their grow - veyed 2000 people in different progress in the implementation ing economic impact. parts of Greece, placed the of the reform program de - ensure the quality of the reforms 2015 agreement.” garian border, following road “However, splits are appear - Greek Communist Party (KKE) manded by the third memoran - to be implemented. He added Dijsselbloem also spoke blockades by protesting Greek ing among the protesting in third place with 6.6 percent, dum when he addressed the that the first evaluation includes about the condition of the Greek farmers and counterprotests by groups. Not all farmers took and Golden Dawn (6.5 percent) Economic and Monetary Affairs important reforms on the social banks and pointed out that that angry Bulgarian truckers. part in Friday’s protests in in fourth, followed by the PA - Committee of the European Par - security system and fiscal fig - 5.4 billion euros was needed for Police say about 1,300 lorries Athens and it emerged Wednes - SOK-Democratic Left coalition liament. Nevertheless, chal - ures, the operation of the priva - their recapitalization - much less and cars were stuck on the day that three groups have sent (5.7 percent), the Union of Cen - lenges remain he added. tizations fund, the moderniza - than the amount initially esti - Greek side of the main Proma - proposals to Prime Minister trists (4.1 percent), Independent Regarding the first program tion of public administration, mated. "This is also good news honas-Kulata crossing Thursday, Alexis Tsipras on how the dis - Greeks (3 percent), To Potami review that is taking place at the combating of tax evasion for the sustainability of the and about 1,500 in Bulgaria. pute over pension and tax re - (2.6 percent), Popular Unity this time, ANA/MPA noted that and others. He admitted that debt," he added. Scores more are waiting at an - forms could be resolved. This (2.4 percent) and ANTARSYA “Dijsselbloem said that the dis - some reforms are politically and DUELING TRACTORS other three border crossings. has provided encouragement to (1.9 percent). cussions are rather constructive socially difficult, but stressed the Greek authorities say more Greek farmers have been the government that a solution and underlined that the main importance of Greece meeting than 2,800 vehicles are trapped manning highway blockades might be found.” Material from the Associated concern of the institutions is to its commitments based on the at crossings on the Greek-Bul - across Greece for weeks to TENSION YIELDS FALLOUT Press was used in this report. Car Bomb in Ankara Kills 28, Injures 61, Pres. Erdogan Accuses the Kurds

ANKARA – A car bomb went off U.N. Secretary-General Ban German Chancellor Angela in the Turkish capital Wednes - Ki-moon also condemned the Merkel said: "In the battle day near vehicles carrying mili - explosion and "hopes the perpe - against those responsible for tary personnel, killing at least trators of this terrorist attack these inhuman acts we are on 28 people and wounding 61 will be swiftly brought to jus - the side of Turkey." others, officials said. tice," U.N. spokesman Stephane Washington also condemned The explosion occurred dur - Dujarric said. the attack, according to a state - ing evening rush hour in the Wednesday's attack comes at ment by Mark Toner, deputy heart of Ankara, in an area close a tense time when the Turkish spokesman of the U.S. State De - to parliament and armed forces government is facing an array partment. headquarters and lodgings. of challenges. A fragile peace "We reaffirm our strong part - Buses carrying military person - process with Kurdish rebels col - nership with our NATO Ally nel were targeted while waiting lapsed in the summer and re - Turkey in combatting the shared at traffic lights at an intersec - newed fighting has displaced threat of terrorism," Toner said. tion, the Turkish military said tens of thousands of civilians. After the attack, Turkish while condemning the "con - Turkey has also been helping Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto - temptible and dastardly" attack. efforts led by the United States glu canceled a visit to Brussels Turkey's leaders on Thursday to combat the Islamic State Wednesday evening and at - blamed top enemies, including group in neighboring Syria, and tended a security meeting with Kurdish militant groups in has faced several deadly bomb - Erdogan and other officials. Er - Turkey and in Syria as well as ings in the last year that were dogan postponed a trip to Azer - the Syrian government, for the blamed on ISIS. baijan planned for Thursday. suicide bombing in Ankara and NATO Secretary General Jens The government meanwhile, vowed strong retaliation against Stoltenberg strongly con - imposed a gag order which bans the perpetrators, threatening to demned the "terrorist attack" media organizations from further complicate the Syria and offered his condolences to broadcasting or printing graphic conflict. the families of the victims. images of the dead or injured In Ankara at least two mili - Stoltenberg said there can be no from the scene of the explosion tary vehicles caught fire and aP PhoTo/mahmuT bozarSlan justification "for such horrific and also banned reporting on dozens of ambulances were sent Members of Turkish forces gather around a bus that was destroyed in an explosion on the road acts" and that "NATO Allies any details of the investigation. to the scene. Dark smoke could linking the cities of Diyarbakir and Bingol, in southeastern Turkey, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. stand shoulder to shoulder in Turkey has imposed similar bans be seen billowing from a dis - the fight against terrorism." after previous attacks. tance. "well-planned." ple in Turkey's deadliest attack as well as the "forces" behind There was no immediate Kurdish rebels, the Islamic in years. the assailants, he said. claim of responsibility, but Kur - State group and a leftist extrem - Turkish President Recep "Our determination to retaliate tulmus pledged that authorities ist group have carried out at - Tayyip Erdogan condemned the to attacks that aim against our would find those behind the tacks in the country recently. In bombing saying it exceeds all unity and future grows stronger European Union President bombing. He said the govern - October, suicide bombings "moral and humane bound - with every action," Erdogan said. ment had appointed seven pros - blamed on ISIS targeted a peace aries." "It must be known that Turkey ecutors to investigate the attack, rally outside the main train sta - Turkey is determined to fight will not refrain from using its Juncker Takes Control of which he described as being tion in Ankara, killing 102 peo - those who carried out the attack right to self-defense at all times." Turkish-Cypriot Task Force

IMF’s Thomsen Discusses Bailouts, Reforms NICOSIA – The future of the Re - government announced that the public of Cyprus is being ad - third licensing round to search dressed on a number of fronts for potential natural gas de - Continued from page 1 been cut to the bone in an effort for debt relief to Greece are this week as gas exploration posits off the country’s southern to protect pensions and social poorer than Greece, paying moves forward and the Euro - shores will move forward. lief—we can certainly support a payments, while the failure to much less generous pensions to pean Commission “has placed Nicos Christodoulides, the program with less ambitious re - broaden the base and improve their own people. With the euro the `Task Force for the Turkish Government spokesman, said on forms, but this will inevitably compliance has already caused zone still far from being a polit - Cypriot Community` under the February 16 the process will involve more debt relief. too much reliance on high tax ical union, a compromise will direct management of Commis - start as quickly as possible, but “This said, no amount of pen - rates. To reach its ambitious need to reflect such political sion President Jean Claude no details were presented. sion reforms will make Greece’s medium-term target for the pri - constraints. The IMF is willing Juncker and Vice-President Noble Energy, an American debt sustainable without debt mary surplus of 3½ percent of to work with the combination Dombrovskis,” according to company that received an ex - relief, and no amount of debt GDP, Greece will need to take of reforms and debt relief on CNA. ploration license in 2007, dis - relief will make Greece’s pen - measures in the order of some which Greece and its European With the UN talks between covered a field around 100 sion system sustainable without 4-5 percent of GDP. We cannot partners can agree. But again, Greek and Turkish Cypriots at miles (160 kilometers) south of pension reforms. Both need to see how Greece can do so with - it needs to add up.” the community leader level as a Cyprus. It is believe that it con - come about. There is no doubt out major savings on pensions. IMF IS NOT DRACONIAN background, the Technical Com - tains more than four trillion cu - that both Greece and its Euro - “Pension reforms will of “The IMF does not want mittee on Criminal Affairs this bic feet of gas. pean partners will face politi - course be socially challenging Greece to implement draconian week organized a bicommunal France's Total and Italy's Eni cally difficult decisions in the for the Greek people, which fiscal adjustment in an already seminar titled “Policing a federal along with its South Korean coming months to arrive at a have seen exceptional hardship severely depressed economy. In country: challenges and benefits partner KOGAS received li - program that is viable—one that in recent years. In fact, social fact, we have time and again in which four experts from the censes during a second round adds up.” pressures have already forced been the ones arguing for a fis - USA, Britain and Australia, par - in 2012 which have been ex - ACT NOW reversals of course—under both cal adjustment path that is more ticipated according to state - tended by two years. Last year “Such difficult decisions can - the previous and the current supportive of recovery in the ments to CNA by the Greek Eni last year discovered what it not be “kicked down the road” government—and Greece is un - near term and more realistic in Cypriot co-chair of the Commis - declared to be the largest gas through unrealistic assump - fortunately much further away the medium term. We have yet sion, Andros Kapardis. deposit ever found in the tions. While there is much scope from its medium-term goals to see a credible plan for how Kapardis informed that two Mediterranean in Egypt’s Exclu - for increasing productivity The IMF’s Poul Thomsen says than it was in mid-2014, before Greece will reach the very am - of the experts are American, one sive Economic Zone (EEZ) through reforms, the past six reforms and debt relief are a major fiscal relaxation erased bitious medium-term surplus from Britain and one from Aus - TOURISM IS UP years have shown that the scope both necessary. what proved to be only a tem - target that is key to the govern - tralia. They made presentations Meanwhile, more and more and pace of reforms acceptable porary primary surplus. In this ment’s plans for restoring debt based on their experience with tourists are discovering the is - to the Greek society is not com - For instance, the standard pen - regard, the government is right sustainability. This emphasis on the members of the Technical land nation, continuing to cush - mensurate with an early im - sions in nominal Euro terms are to point out that pensions in credibility is crucial for gener - Committee and the staff of the ion its economy as it tries to exit provement of productivity and broadly similar in Greece and Greece have a broader social ating the investor confidence Contact Office in the UN-con - its economic crisis. The Cyprus sustained high growth. Thus, as - Germany, even though Ger - function. But using pensions in that is critical to Greece’s re - trolled buffer zone of Nicosia, Tourism Organization (CTO) suming that Greece can simply many—measured by the aver - this way is not a durable solu - vival. A plan built on over-opti - where the seminar was held. announced figures for arrivals grow out of its debt problem age wage—is twice as rich as tion. What is needed—and what mistic assumptions will soon The EU Commission’s deci - in Cyprus for November 2015 without debt relief—by rapidly Greece. Add to this that Greeks the IMF has argued for—is a cause Grexit fears to resurface sion takes immediate effect and to January 2016. transitioning from the lowest to still retire much earlier than modern social safety net that is once again and stifle the invest - is considered an indication of its “The results show again that the highest productivity growth Germans and that Germany is sustainable over the medium ment climate. support for the peace process. seasonality in the tourist indus - within the euro zone—is not much better at collecting social term. “The overriding objective of The Task Force is “the Commis - try is on track, CTO noted in a credible. Similarly, the very lim - security contributions. The re - “Could a primary surplus tar - the IMF’s engagement with sion`s team in charge of the ap - press release, adding that ‘it is ited success in combating sult is that the Greek budget get well below 3½ percent of Greece is to help the country put plication of the EU Aid Pro - encouraging that during the pe - Greece’s notorious tax evasion— needs to transfer some 10 per - GDP make the necessary pen - itself back on a path of sustain - gramme for the Turkish Cypriot riod from November to January, to make the well-off pay their cent of GDP to cover the gaping sion reform less demanding? able growth that benefits the Community and of assisting the an increasing flow of tourist ar - fair share—means that pension hole in the pension system, com - Perhaps, but that would neces - Greek people. The IMF will sup - Turkish Cypriot to prepare for rivals was recorded.’ According reforms cannot be avoided by pared to a European average of sitate more debt relief. This is port the Greek authorities and the reunification of Cyprus, to to the CTO, tourist arrivals dur - simply assuming higher tax col - some 2½ percent. Clearly, this understandably controversial their European partners in de - the Secretariat General`s Struc - ing November 2013 - January lections in the future.” is unsustainable. among Greece’s European part - veloping a program of reforms tural Reform Support Service 2014 reached 177 thousand, FOCUS ON PENSIONS “But can’t Greece protect pen - ners, in part because several of and debt relief that adds up. (SRSS) which will coordinate all they increased from November “Why the focus on pension sioners by cutting somewhere them are required to run simi - There are difficult choices to be the Commission`s efforts in fa - 2014 – January 2015 by 1,” reforms? Despite the pension re - else or increasing tax rates? larly high surpluses to preserve made, but it is important to cilitating the process for the re - CAN reported. forms of 2010 and 2012, There is some scope for those debt sustainability, and in part make them so that Greece’s ef - unification of Cyprus,” CNA Greece’s pension system re - measures, but it is very limited. because some of the countries forts over the last six years are noted. Material from the Associated mains unaffordably generous. Most other spending has already that would be in effect paying not wasted.” On the energy front, Cyprus' Press was used in this report. 12 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, FEBRUARY 20-26, 2016

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But, why are we george Sarafoglou / SPecial To The naTional herald perhaps a turning point. comparing Greece with Aus - For several decades, he touched the lives of so many, was in - strumental in preserving so much, and made countless contri - butions matched by few others in our community’s history. He reached a level of greatness, and he did in style, but in AGORA – THE ORIGINAL MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS an unassuming, almost humble way. But Michael Jaharis did not act alone. Whatever he did, he did it with his wife, Mary. They were that kind of couple. By Dan Georgakas and the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, Rest assured, anything we write here are And they did so much. They showed extraordinary generosity Constantinos E. Scaros and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire our sincere, heartfelt thoughts. to great museums, like the Met and the Art Institute of Chicago, to continue that tradition. We will share them with you every two and to great universities, like Tufts. From time to time, an issue emerges and We respect one another’s opinion very much, weeks. We hope you enjoy them, and we look But he also supported so many community events, projects, inspires various minds to converge, often at but often times we will disagree on particular forward to your taking part in the discussion and people. odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, issues. We would never fabricate a difference as well – by contributing letters to the editor in As you read his biography, it will be clear that nothing in his collective enlightenment will result from such of opinion for the sake of writing an interesting response, and/or commenting on our website: humble beginnings could foretell the great success and respect conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in column. www.thenationalherald.com in life he achieved. He ascribed his great success to being inspired by his parents’ “commitment to family, faith, education, and hard work.” He made it “the foundation” for everything he built, which was Isn’t there an Immigration/National Security Nexus? “reinforced by the love and support” of his wife and family. Michael Jaharis became a household name in our community not because he set out to become one, but because he was SCAROS PRESENTS HIS right, yet it is shocking that given list, followed by “Obamacare,” refugee strategy designed to get larger than life. He took it upon himself to preserve what there POINT OF VIEW that realization, he does not con - the economy, taxes, jobs, educa - money and concession from the was, and along with few others to build upon it; new founda - Dan, Republican presidential sider reforming the visaless tion, Second Amendment, de - EU. We do nothing to aid an al - tions upon which he hoped the continuity of the community frontrunner Donald Trump has travel process. funding Planned Parenthood, the ready beleaguered Greece deal could be based. built his campaign on multiple That’s like saying: why bother Defense of Marriage Act, emi - with this problem. We expect an It seemed as if it were personal to him. As if he were paying themes, but the two most preva - locking the front door of the nent domain, and a host of other economically distressed EU to back all that his immigrant parents did for him. And more. lent ones have to do with na - house, if the side door is broken issues before they finally rank take care of refugees. He might have felt that if not he, then who? We all should tional security (namely, defeat and burglars can get in from immigration number 15 or so – I You note that refugees in feel that way. ISIS), and immigration (deport there anyway? just don’t get it. Can you make America could end up on the His hard work and generosity at the Archdiocesan level might illegal aliens and build a wall to There are multitudes of any sense of it? public dole. Worse yet would be not be surpassed. But it was not only there. He supported so keep everyone out except those Americans who deem all of this the formation of unstable ghettos many small and large causes and projects in the community permitted to enter legally). reaction to ISIS as mass hysteria. GEORGAKAS RESPONDS such as those seen in Europe. that the names “Mary and Michael Jaharis” were on almost all Although his appeal extends They point out statistics along Much of what you say about These scenarios are not in - of the community ’s lists of contributors. beyond those two issues (he is immigration hysteria is on the evitable if the government takes In the best traditions of our community and of Hellenism, also self-funding and thus in no money. At the same time, the im - time to shape a transitory pro - the Jaharises have set a lofty example for others to follow. one’s pocket, he rails against po - migration issue is a manifesta - gram. Such programs would We hope that the seeds they planted will bear fruit. litical correctness, and he tion of an incredibly inept for - cost far less than military actions In any event, he did his duty. And that is all one can ask promises to bring jobs back to eign policy begun by George W. or uprisings in hostile ethnic from anyone. the United States), national se - Bush and continued through ghettos. May his memory be eternal. curity and immigration are at the Barack Obama and Hillary Clin - Refugees would certainly take core of his message. ton. American jobs and would work That he is the frontrunner As Bernie Sanders has noted, for lower wages. The positive Bravo, Bush Brothers makes sense, then, when looking the invasion of Iraq was the economic impact of any mass im - at how high national security greatest foreign policy blunder in migration usually takes at least ranks among Republican voters’ American history. It has disrupted a decade to materialize and is Jeb Bush is fighting for his political life. most important issues. Paradox - the lives of millions, killed un - not inevitable. If he does not mount a respectable showing in February 20’s ically, though, immigration ranks known numbers, and cost Amer - ISIS would definitely plant South Carolina primary, it will be a struggle for him to continue among the lowest. Do the voters icans trillions of dollars. Sanders “moles” among the refugees. his presidential campaign. not realize the nexus between saw it coming. Clinton did not. That’s a challenge for our secu - And if the polls are any indication, the news is not very en - these two issues, or am I missing Jeb Bush has surrounded himself rity officials who have proven in - couraging. Donald Trump leads the field by double the votes of something? with the same foreign policy ad - ept at handling visa issues and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Bush comes in at fourth or fifth, All of immigration’s advan - visors used by Bush. others means of retaining resi - depending on the poll. tages notwithstanding, there are A fence along the U.S.-Mexico Today’s refugees are the di - dence in the United States. Things were expected to be different for Jeb, touted as the three main drawbacks: 1) an in - border. Voters rank national rect result of the invasion of Iraq All that said, the United smarter Bush son, expected to follow in his father’s footsteps as flux of illegal aliens who poten - security high on the list of and our follies in Syria. Obama, States has a moral obligation to president. But it was George W., the “black sheep” of the family tially would be on the public most important issues. Why, strongly supported by Clinton, deal with the refugee crisis it – whose wild youth and unremarkable professional portfolio dole; 2) an influx of legal aliens then, is immigration ranked has taken stronger aim at Syria’s helped create. A humanistic but rendered it a surprise when he was elected president – and who would complete with Amer - so low? Assad, a wretched dictator to be practical entry program would twice, in fact. ican workers – not to mention sure, than with ISIS. During their set an enviable moral standard From the start of Jeb’s campaign, the word “dynasty” was that both legal and illegal aliens the lines of: “the chances are tenure, ISIS went from being a for others to emulate. That chal - thrown around, unfavorably. Dynasties, after all, are associated add more bodies to our already- higher you’d slip in the bathtub cult to a mini-state with an army lenge appears unlikely to be met. with Europe, not with the United States. Yet, on the other side congested cities; and 3) the pos - and crack your head wide open of tens of thousands and income Dino, your reference to those of the political aisle, the Democrats were poised to nominate sibility of terrorists sneaking in than being beheaded by ISIS,” in the multimillions. who plea that we stop meddling Hillary Clinton, the wife of President Bill. Why, then, not Jeb? through our porous borders from and so they simply consider The support of anti-Assad in so many nations and clearly Unfortunately, Jeb stumbled from the onset. The energy and Canada, Mexico, our airports, deadly terrorism a hazard of life. forces led to retaliatory actions define our national interest is aura of confidence were missing. He spoke slowly, with nervous and our ports, pretending to be After all, if you go to a ballgame that have generated the flow of well taken. Refraining from gun- gestures, and without eloquence. displaced refugees or mild-man - and get hit in the head by a line refugees that had previously ho militarism and schemes for But it was evident that he was the most suitable candidate nered migrants seeking a better drive foul ball, it might kill you been mainly Iraqis and Afghans. regime change is not isolation - of the bunch. Well-versed on the issues, with measured reason life in the Land of Opportunity. – but the chances are so slim, Russia, which has vital naval and ism as often charged. It simply and courage of opinion, and appropriately collegial and conge - Granted, the first two cate - right? air bases in Syria, supports As - means seeing foreign intrigues nial manner; a proper upbringing. gories do not really affect na - For those folks, I can see plac - sad. as risky bets with a very low Who could have predicted the Trump phenomenon? The tional security, but the third one ing immigration so low on the Only Sanders and Trump chance of longtime rewards wor - frontrunner practically monopolized media attention ever since most certainly does. list, because they seem to think among presidential hopefuls thy of the risks. last summer with his often-outrageous comments against indi - Why are the voters – the same our days of worrying about na - have stated working with Russia Regarding campaign financ - viduals and groups of people, including Jeb and his family, with voters who are so concerned tional security are over. Russia is against ISIS has a much higher ing, I prefer the Sanders way to whom there were old scores to settle. In the last debate, Trump’s about national security – so apa - “our enemy from the 1980s,” priority that ousting Assad. Car - that of Trump. Sanders depends attack caused Bush to lose his composure. thetic when it comes to immi - they mock, and “it’s time we stop pet bombing as advocated by on a very large public sending With his poll numbers rising but still far behind, Jeb enlisted gration? meddling in other countries’ Cruz would be highly counter - relatively small sums in response brother George – from his self-imposed post-presidential political President Obama recently ad - business, lay down our arms, and productive and Rubio’s desire to to programs. Trump’s a one-man exile – to reenter the fray and lend a helping hand in a state monished not only Trump but come home. No one will bother deploy American ground troops show accountable to no one but where he remains very popular. several of his Republican cohorts us if we do that,” they tell each would continue the endless war himself. Clinton’s courtship of big It was a touching scene to see the Brothers Bush, side-by- for denouncing the acceptance other reassuringly. that Sanders terms a quagmire. money is like that of the other side on the podium, with wide, affectionate smiles to one an - of Syrian refugees into the Fine. They would rank both In regard to refugees, if you candidates. Recently she stated other, communicating warmly with their eyes. In a recent in - United States, pointing out that illegal immigration and national break dishes in an antique shop, that a $675,000 lecture fee from terview with both of them, Sean Hannity asked the former there is just as much danger of a security quite low on the priority you pay up. We are the prime Goldman Sachs just happened to president why after seven disciplined years of vowing to stay terrorist sneaking in through the list. Makes perfect sense. cause for the number of be “what they were offering.” out of politics he reemerged. “Brother asked, and I love him hordes that arrive daily, courtesy But for those who place na - refugees. We do not demand dearly,” was the answer. of visaless travel. He is absolutely tional security at the top of the Turkey stop its conveyor belt WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? And if they are not identical to John and Bobby Kennedy, as president and attorney general, working side-by-side during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bush Brothers are similar. Bravo, well done. Observations By Antonis H. Diamataris

Indecent Eulogies Cruz-Rubio Comunalidad Both Cruz and Rubio are children of Cuban was founded with the aim of fostering the immigrants. The difference is that Cruz was Americanization of Greek immigrants and born in Canada and raised in Texas, defending them against prejudice. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away last week During the February 13 Republican de - whereas Rubio was born in South Florida, Those conditions, however, largely be - unexpectedly. The Court’s longest-serving justice and the nation’s bate in South Carolina, Ted Cruz accused where Spanish is far more prevalent, and long to the past. leading authority on the judicial philosophy of originalism, Marco Rubio of saying one thing about in some areas, is the primary language (over If two Republican candidates for the which is committed to strict adherence of constitutional lan - amnesty on the Spanish television channel English). presidency competed to demonstrate their guage over the past 30 years, wrote some of the Court’s most Univision and another at the debate. It was a historic moment for someone to knowledge and devotion to the language of forceful opinions. As expected, he was lionized by conservatives The Texas senator was addressing mainly speak a foreign language, considering that their parents as a way of preserving their and assailed by progressives. white, English-speaking Republican voters, doing so, or speaking English with a heavy identity and as a useful tool in life, the same Though most journalists of all ideological stripes were re - and implied that the Florida senator says foreign accent, was considered unpatriotic should certainly apply in our community. spectful in commenting on Justice Scalia’s death, others – like things behind their backs. or inferior in the not-too-distant past. Let the community leaders be good ex - Rolling Stone’s David Erlich and the New Yorker’s Silvia Rubio did not deny the accusation, in - That kind of mentality has placed the amples for the new generations by speaking Killingsworth – tweeted, respectively, how long must we wait stead countering with: “Well first of all I don’t United States far behind other countries in the Greek language and infusing it into all to not appear sad, and that Scalia is now in hell. know how he knows what I said on Univision surveys of adults who speak another lan - who have the will to learn. Let us build a Whatever one’s right to tweet in bad taste might be, journal - because he doesn’t speak Spanish.” guage at a time when it has been shown firm foundation of Greek language educa - ists owe it to their profession to hold themselves to a higher Cruz’ immediate and unexpected re - conclusively that learning a second lan - tion for tomorrow's generations. standard. sponse came in reportedly heavily-accented, guage has beneficial effects on the human We Americans certainly have the right It would behoove them to take a lesson from Scalia’s col - Spanish: "That's how you want it…Right brain. to speak another language. Let's make the league, outspoken progressive Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now, say it — in Spanish, if you want." The Cruz-Rubio dialogue in front of mil - most of it. You never know when and under who despite their ideological differences called Scalia her “best Though fierce combatants for their lions of viewers is particularly relevant for what circumstances knowing how to speak friend on the Court.” party’s presidential nomination, Cruz and us Greek-Americans. It was no accident that Greek (perhaps onstage at a presidential Rubio have a comunalidad (commonalty). it was in the South, in Atlanta, that AHEPA debate?) will come in handy. THE NATIONAL HERALD, FEBRUARY 20-26, 2016 VIEWPOINTS 13 The New Cold War and the Political Establishment Has No One but Itself to Blame

Post-Modern World Order A hilarious cartoon by Matt seas “to make This not only pro - of what he preaches. Trump has Davies in the Washington Post America great vides a target-rich seized the imagination of older sums it all up. Two portly gen - again.” Of course, environment to the people who hate the imaginary The end of the the Second World tlemen sipping martinis stand when those same GOP but also en - “Other” who destroyed the Soviet Union in War was to contain on a balcony marked “Political kids came back sures that univer - imaginary America they remem - 1991 created a the Soviets, Establishment” overlooking a from the last imbe - sity students will ber. Between them the two pop - small window of achieved by main - massive demonstration carrying cilic adventure in segregate them - ulists may well represent more opportunity to es - taining an over - banners supporting Trump and body bags or per - selves into echo than half the electorate. The po - tablish a balanced whelming military Sanders. One says to the other manently crippled, chambers and litical establishment knows that and to a degree, a supremacy, under - “What part of ‘unelectable’ don’t they forgot they learn nothing. Trump is no more a conservative non-confrontational pinned by a flour - these vast crowds of voters un - voted to send them. The bottom than Sanders; they are both two world order – at ishing economy. derstand?” The same opinions Not to let the line: the GOP be - sides of the same coin appealing least for the two Toward this end, page carries several other Democrats off the by AMB. PATRICK N. ginning with to the angry people who see former Cold War NATO was a key equally funny and equally accu - hook. They also THEROS Ronald Reagan dis - themselves not only betrayed adversaries. part of the mecha - rate cartoons. Look it up, the voted overwhelm - covered that nur - but also ignored (which is much The temptation by DR. ANDRE nism and policy of Post of St. Valentines’ Day Eve. ingly to send our Special to turing resentment worse) by people whom they by the Americans to GEROLYMATOS containment. Where have these gentlemen troops to Iraq in or - The National Herald and envy creates voted into office over and over believe that the fall During the pe - been? What reality do they oc - der to game the political power and again. Both represent the of the USSR meant Special to riod of the Cold cupy? Over the last two decades 2004 elections. The Democrats the Democrats never woke up Frankenstein’s Monster of unre - the end of Russia as The National Herald War, the policy the political establishment of are the real “conservatives” if to what was happening. We sponsive politics. a superpower was makers in Wash - both parties has grown increas - you understand that a classic have all allowed ourselves to The establishment politicians too strong, and the United ington addressed each crisis and ingly distant from the people “conservative” is someone who give the same unthinking loyalty may yet succeed in manipulat - States chose to act as if they general grand strategy from the they govern. In fairness, we will change nothing even as the to our political parties that we ing their respective systems to were the only superpower left, standpoint of undermining and were all mesmerized by business world changes around him but give to our football teams. We deny the nomination to their re - with little regard for Moscow’s checking Soviet expansion in as usual and never saw the will double down on the same have substituted demonizing spective populists but it will interests. A more benevolent Europe, Asia, Africa, and the warning signs. It looks like the outdated policies. Bill Clinton’s people who disagree with us for come at great cost to their par - policy in Washington would Middle East. Consequently, people noticed, however. famed triangulation was aimed discussion. Hitler discovered ties. In particular, I am confident have left the former Soviet Washington interpreted each We have seen a perfect more at winning votes rather that this was a good way to win that the GOP will have self-im - Union intact and helped men uprising, civil war, and act of storm, a confluence, of political than improving the lot of the elections eighty years ago, and molated in the cauldron of its such as Gorbachev transition a political violence in the world corruption. Gerrymandering en - majority. Any Wall Streeter who you know what, it still works! own lies and contradictions by corrupt communist system to a within the context of the Soviet- sures 90% of congressmen get opposes Hillary Clinton is an in - Of course, our country is 2017. Nor should the Democrat liberal democracy in gradual U.S. struggle. reelected. A politicized Supreme grate. The Democrats helped nowhere near as bad off as our establishment sleep easy at stages. NATO was a critical element Court rules that corporations make the rich richer by joining politicians say we are. Although night. The White House, Congress, in America’s security strategy as have more rights than humans. the GOP to open the floodgates many weaknesses persist, we and the policy establishment, well as the means by which to The press predicts elections ac - to the banking shenanigans that have more economic growth The Hon. Ambassador Theros is however, wanted instant change protect Europe. NATO, however, cording to how much money led to the worst economic crisis and less unemployment than al - president of the U.S.-Qatar and to grasp opportunities cre - was not only a military entity, candidates get from rich people. since the great Depression. Now most any other advanced coun - Business Council. He served in ated by the Soviet collapse to but also the means by which Bankers commit crimes that de - some “liberals” have added to try. However, both polls and ex - the U.S. Foreign Service for 36 humble the Russians. An An - Washington could influence Eu - stroy the middle class and no political dysfunction by telling perience indicate that we have years, mostly in the Middle cient Greek saying warns, rope. one goes to jail. Accountability coddled youth that they can de - convinced ourselves that we are East, and was American Ambas - “Those whom the Gods wish to On a practical level all the does not apply to the upper cir - mand “safe spaces,” the mind - hell bent for destruction and sador to Qatar from 1995 to destroy, they grant them all their NATO armies use the same cles of power. General Petreaus less insistence that university grasp at demagogues. 1998. He also directed the State wishes.” In a different warning, equipment – all American made. got a slap on the wrist (he didn’t students should be protected Honestly, I have no idea how Department’s Counter- a Soviet official in 1991 told his An end to NATO would be a ma - even lose his pension) for pass - from hearing anything that of - the elections will go. Sanders Terrorism Office, and holds nu - American counterpart “we’re go - jor blow to the U.S. military-in - ing secrets to keep his girlfriend fends them, which is truly po - has seized the imagination of merous U.S. Government deco - ing to do a terrible thing to you; dustrial complex. Collective se - happy while John Kyriakou litical correctness run amok. the youth despite the unreality rations. we’re going to deprive you of curity has given Americans went to jail for blowing the your enemy.” considerable influence over the whistle on torture. The Bush and Clinton Ad - Europeans – a sudden end to The GOP told its constituents ministrations squandered a rare the alliance would terminate that “big government” and high historic opportunity to trans - that influence and with the taxes destroyed working class form or reduce NATO in re - world economy no longer de - jobs while the big shots who fi - sponse to the collapse of the pendent on Wall Street, the nance the party grew obscenely USSR, save billions of dollars, United States would be reduced wealthy under the same oner - as well as alleviate Russian fears to being one of many several ous system they decry. They tell of future American aggression. great powers. us Social Security and Medicare Indeed, when considering These are some of the con - will go broke. Their solution is NATO, the viewpoint from siderations that have influenced to turn those two programs, the Moscow was, and still is, strate - the continuing existence of safety net for so many Ameri - gically claustrophobic. NATO, but they do not necessi - cans, into cash cows for Wall The defense and mainte - tate the undermining of Russia. Street brokers. nance of Russian borders has al - NATO bases recently established Most viciously, they gather ways been a geographic and lo - in the Baltics, Central Europe, votes by blaming the Other: the gistical concern. Hemmed in and the Balkans have served lit - immigrants, the blacks, the “lib - from the north by cold and ice tle purpose in defending the erals” (whoever they might be), with limited access to the sea West. Modern warplanes and the homosexuals, the abortion - leaves little strategic opportu - missiles have the range to strike ists, the gun control activists, as nity. The eastern borders have at the Russians from NATO’s if any of these have any rela - proven vulnerable from the time previously existing Cold War tionship to jobs. They vilify a the Mongols invaded Russia and bases. Indeed, in exchange for president who does not want to The Hillary vs. Jeb race, perpetuating the Clinton-Bush dynasties, probably won’t materialize. occupied the country from the giving the Baltic states a psy - send somebody else’s kids over - The establishment counted their chickens before they hatched. 13th to the 15th centuries. The chological sense of security, the Poles, French, and Germans new NATO bases have only have all attacked from the west, added to the Russian fear of be - inflicting considerable destruc - ing hemmed in and vulnerable LETTER FROM ATHENS tion and loss of life. A major to invasion. consideration of Soviet strategy, American intervention in in addition to the spread of com - Ukraine and opposition to the munism, was to secure the fron - Russian takeover of the Crimean So, How’s That SYRIZA Thing Working out for Greece? tiers of the USSR and establish Peninsula set the stage for the considerable defensive depth on drift towards a new Cold War. its eastern, southern and west - Ukraine has been part of Russia One of the toughest parts of as long as he could only 55 percent of year since his party of rank am - ern frontiers. for centuries, as has been the case leaving Sydney, a serene city of get elected and have the voters, and a ateurs took over. In the aftermath of the Allied for the Crimean Peninsula. In - green and sanity and law-and- some relative poll by the Pro In a kind of mea culpa for victory in 1945, the United deed, during the course of the order after an extended vacation months building an Rata research his party, he said it actually be - States assumed that Stalin was crisis, the United States had no and returning to Athens, is go - empire of dirt. company in De - lieved it could make the lenders committed to Soviet expansion. intention of military intervention, ing back to the Insanityland that It’s different cov - cember found that blink and reverse austerity It is through this prism that which left the country exposed, it has been made by politicians, ering and writing SYRIZA’s popular - which should have had someone Washington interpreted the furthermore alienating the Rus - especially Prime Minister Alexis about the crisis than ity had shrunk to checking to see what they were Greek Civil War from 1946 sians, thus allowing little mea - “Che” Tsipras, and trying to deal just watching it only 20 percent – smoking. Tsipras sold false to1949 and gave great attention sure for a diplomatic solution. with his temple of lies and de - from afar when you still enough to win promises of hope, the cruelest to the so-called Domino Theory The Russians have, as a re - ceit again. get a new perspec - in Greece’s frac - kind of scam for people buried of a cascade of countries falling sult, intervened in Syria both to With talk that there could be tive on really how tured political with pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed under the control of what the secure their only naval base in a third snap election in little crazy these people by ANDY landscape where pensions and broken dreams. US perceived to be an expand - the Mediterranean and to re - more than a year if Greece con - really are, and the DABILIS half a dozen or At a souvlaki restaurant in ing communist bloc. Instead, store their country as a world- tinues to unravel, the Looney pity you feel for the more parties can the Sydney neighborhood of Stalin was facing the reality of class power. In effect they have Left leader has a chance to acolytes who’d be Special to get into Parliament Newtown, Australia’s version of a country devastated by war and succeeded. Russia’s ally, Bashar snooker Greeks yet again, and swell candidates to The National Herald and sit there and Brooklyn Williamsburg hipster - the death of nearly thirty mil - al-Assad and his murderous don’t bet it wouldn’t work given be suicide bombers get paid for doing dom, the talk one night – in lion, aggressive expansion was regime in what is left of Syria how gullible the voters are, because they can be convinced nothing. Greek – was evident those at the not a realistic or viable policy are winning the civil war. Sadly, since that twice they’ve already to do and believe anything. Tsipras and his lackeys have table were young people who under those conditions. America’s half-hearted attempts lined up to be a hot lunch for It’s really just so pathetic to perpetrated a fraud on Greece had fled Greece, the kind that Although Stalin was pre - at intervention and poor choice the SYRIZA sharks. watch these shenanigans being and gotten away with it. He propelled SYRIZA and Tsipras pared to seize any opportunity, of local allies have contributed What else can you say when played out, especially when it’s used the chicanery of calling for to power. defense was the Soviet dictator’s to the emergence of Russia as a he’s broken virtually every by amateurs. As bad as the gov - an anti-austerity referendum in They weren’t even embit - first priority. Stalin’s successors vibrant and successful player in promise and still has his lem - ernments were before SYRIZA July 2015, asking people to back tered, just disillusioned in the followed same strategic para - the Middle East, and no doubt mings ready to follow him off a and its partner, the far-right De - him in negotiations with the way Che Guevara supporters digm, particularly since they internationally. cliff? Fool me once, shame on pendent Greeks took over, at country’s creditors, only to stab would have been if he had sold knew that the Soviet economy you, fool me twice, shame on least Greece seemed to be head - them in the back like he does them out as Tsipras did his be - was weak and proving weaker Andre Gerolymatos is Director me, fool me three times, send ing toward the edge of the road everyone. Just ask the dissidents lievers. in each passing decade until it of the Stavros Niarchos Founda - me to the insane asylum. of the highway to recovery, al - in his party who are no longer He instead closed banks and finally collapsed. tion Centre for Hellenic Studies Tsipras has, in no particular beit on the backs of workers, there. instituted capital controls that Indeed, the focus each White at Simon Fraser University in order, reneged on vows to re - pensioners and the poor, while Now he’s supporting strikes are still in place and now is House has had since the end of Vancouver store pay, cut taxes, hike pen - the rich, politicians and tax against him and his government ready to cut pensions, crossing sions, stop privatizations, raise cheats escaped as they always because, he said – you got it – another fake Red Line he drew the minimum wage back to have and always will. that strengthens his hand in ne - and that he was the first one to what it was, re-implement col - This SYRIZA thing is what gotiations with the country’s step over, like a captain leaving lective bargaining, not to talk to will finally bring down Greece, creditors, and there are still a sinking ship first. That’s how GUEST EDITORIALS the country’s creditors and to a once-proud country with the scores of thousands of Greeks SYRIZA works. The national herald welcomes manuscripts representing a variety of start a revolution that would world’s greatest heritage, now ready to swallow that swill. “Confronted with the cata - views for publication. They should include the writer’s name, address, sweep across Europe before it forced to its knees by its own More SYRIZA officials are strophic results of his strategy, and telephone number, and be addressed to the editor, The national stopped outside his door. people and alleged leaders. gagging on it though. “A year he surrendered abjectly to the herald, 37-10 30th St., long island city, ny 11101. They may also None of it happened and the Tsipras at the helm is asleep at on, the SYRIZA Party is faith - lenders,” Lapavitsas said of the crime is that he knew that’s how the wheel and you know this fully implementing the austerity leader in which he no longer be - be e-mailed to [email protected]. we reserve the right it would play out but – like all ship is going to sink because it’s policies that it once decried,” lieves himself and with more to edit any manuscripts that we publish, and we do not return or politicians including New a mathematical certainty. one of its Members of Parlia - anti-austerity riots likely. Looks otherwise acknowledge unpublished ones. due to considerations of Democracy’s Antonis Samaras Most people have given up, ment, Costas Lapavitsas wrote like Game Over, Man. space we enforce a strict 850-word upper limit. and PASOK’s George Papan - of course, with the September, in the British newspaper The dreou before him – didn’t care 2015 snap elections drawing Guardian in January, marking a [email protected] 14 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, FEBRUARY 20-26, 2016 Call for Establishing One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic American Orthodox Church

By George E. Matsoukas called to move beyond what is Some bishops live and work a “mine” and what is ‘yours” to few blocks apart with limited in - Year 2016 is a momentous what is “ours.” From now on, teraction. historic time for Orthodoxy this is how we should conceive The transition toward an ad - throughout the world. After and conduct all of our ministries ministratively united Church 1,200 years, Orthodox Chris - and resources, all of our depart - would strengthen Christian out - tianity is on the verge of a sem - ments and initiatives. Other - reach. Imagine the effectiveness inal event, a meeting of the Holy wise, we do not practice what of a unified Orthodox Church and Great Council of the Ortho - we preach. It is really up to us actively embracing internal and dox Church, to be held in Crete, to accept the challenge or to worldwide evangelism; in uni - Greece, during the week of Pen - refuse the call. fied rather than competing tecost this June. This important and insightful parishes in small towns; and in This event will provide a piv - statement by the “First among raising a single bold voice at the otal opportunity for hierarchs to Equals” Patriarch resonates his - highest levels of government officially recognize a unified torically since the Holy and and media to decry the prose - American Orthodox Church that Great Council will be meeting cution of Orthodox brethren! selects its own hierarchs. It is soon in Crete. Adaptation, modification and an idea whose time has come. A HISTORICAL infusion of cultural distinctive - Moreover, it is properly based PERSPECTIVE ness are essential characteristics on the canonical precedents of The forthcoming Council is for Orthodox viability in Amer - the Church. enormously significant and con - ica. One way to describe the Indeed, it is a clarion call for sequential. The historic impor - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew similarity of common ideals that action-a firm declaration-for the tance of this event needs to be bind people together is Amer - appropriate hierarchs to make understood in chronological events of (1054, 1204 and arch Bartholomew after 20 lowed the Church to adapt to ica’s motto of national unity: E sure that the subject of unity in context. This will be the first 1453), the Orthodox world be - years of contemplative activity the culture of its local people on Pluribus Unum – from many the United States is on the offi - such Council in the Church’s came increasingly under the by these mother churches. At a selective basis, including the one. cial agenda of the forthcoming long history. All seven ancient captivity of Islamic rule. When Chambesy, the Patriarchs signed liturgical language and tradi - PROCLAMATION Holy Council. There is an ur - Ecumenical Councils (325-787) Islamic rule ended, Communist protocols establishing Assem - tions. FOR LEADERSHIP gency to reach a pragmatic con - were meetings of bishops of the control enslaved the Church in blies of Bishops throughout the In the past 60 years, there Amid a rapidly changing in - sensus among the church lead - single unified Christian Church Russia and nations of Eastern world in order to restore canon - has been extensive ethnic re - terconnected world, Year 2016 ers, for the world is changing that included Rome, hundreds Europe until the last few ical order. The largest group was search which offers valuable in - is at an enormous crossroad for rapidly, with dire consequences of years before the Great Schism decades. in the United States with 54 sight on the complexity of as - Orthodoxy everywhere. It neces - to traditional faith and Christian between East and West in 1054. These far-reaching and pro - bishops. similation within a culturally sitates a call to action – a procla - virtues. Over 300 Church represen - found political occurrences had In response to the Chambesy pluralistic society. For the mation for leadership – among The necessity for ecclesiasti - tatives are expected to attend horrific impact on the Patriar - protocol, the United States bish - preservation of ethnic/cultural the Orthodox prelates in order cal teamwork was made explic - from the Patriarchates of Con - chates and national Churches in ops have been meeting for six practices to survive, there needs to resolve the canonical issue of itly clear when Ecumenical Pa - stantinople, Alexandria, Anti - the Old World. After such trau - years as a group and in commit - to be ongoing modifications unity. As stated earlier, the sub - triarch Bartholomew addressed och, Jerusalem, Russia, Serbia, matic upheavals, they found tees. They recognize that the ex - among identifiable community ject needs to be on the Holy the American Assembly of Bish - Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, themselves weary but freer to isting parochial arrangements institutions, especially the Council’s agenda in Crete. Fur - ops in Dallas, TX in 2014. His and the autonomous and auto - resume their legitimate func - are impractical, counterproduc - church affiliation. Studies also thermore, the Assembly of Bish - video message unmistakably cephalous Churches of Cyprus, tions which were interrupted tive and uncanonical with loss concur that there is a lessening ops from the United States is in sounded the call for unity Greece, Poland, Albania the over a millennium of Islamic of members, fragmentation and of ethnic bonds with each suc - a unique position to take con - among them: move beyond Czech lands, and Slovakia. It is and Communist oppression. overlapping of functions. cessive generation, especially crete steps to transform the call words to actions. We know not widely known that attempts Some Orthodox centers con - The convener of the Assem - past the sixth generation. Unlike for unity into reality. The laity much better than what we ac - to unify the Church have been tinue to tragically struggle to bly is Archbishop Demetrios of the misinformation of some, no must be enlisted to assist in the tually do. We are called to put an integral component of the survive. the Greek Orthodox Archdio - organization is asking for an implementation of a workable our theory and theology into 2000 year history of Orthodoxy. During the same epic time, cese. He has been a driving eventual abandonment of one’s blueprint. It can become the policy and practice. We are After the tragic and decisive newly formed Church commu - force in asserting his leadership heritage and ethnic identity. Just “best of times” for Orthodoxy. nities became a central link for in favor of Orthodox unity, re - the opposite is true! Without a unified Orthodox the wave of immigrants that im - flecting the vision of the Other reports show when Church in the United States, the migrated to the New World. Fi - Chambesy Protocols. He contin - American-born offspring of im - consequences are regressive for nally by 1960, after years of de - ues to face the challenge of has - migrants completely abandon Church survival and sustainable An ex-priest Marries a Man? liberations, a framework to tening the Assembly’s deliberate their original church affiliation, growth. A healthy viable Church achieve a unified Orthodox but uneven progress. A few ju - their ethnic identity is quickly guarantees a multicultural adap - Church in the United States was risdictions, for a variety of rea - diminished. Compelling statisti - tation and appreciation for con - It’s Theologically Impossible established. The Pan-Orthodox sons, believe it is better to delay cal data of Orthodoxy in Amer - tinued customs and traditions; jurisdictions were called SCOBA the unification of Orthodoxy in ica reveal a serious decline of not the other way around. (The Standing Conference of America for 10 or more years. active and marginal supporters It is a decisive mission and By Fr. John E. Artemas nesses? Canonical Orthodox Bishops in However, their reluctance in in recent decades. With the pre - monumental moment whose Do we repent with contrition the Americas). SCOBA was re - overcoming obstacles does not sent church structure Orthodox time has come. Pray that the Regarding “Ex-Priest of heart? Do we struggle against placed in 2010, at the direction reflect the urgent commitment authenticity is weakened and bishops attending the Holy and Heropoulos Marries Man” (Jan. "the flesh," as St. Paul would say, of the Mother Churches, as the toward unity and collegiality as confusing, especially for con - Great Council capture the Spirit 23), no! He didn't get married. and entreat God's mercy and Assembly of Canonical Ortho - expressed in Protocols’ official verts. of hope and courage and take I don't care what the courts say. forgiveness? dox Bishops in the United States statements. One of the causes of confu - bold action now. Above all, it The secular world has given in It is a good thing for John's of America. ETHNIC AND CULTURAL sion is due to the varying waves can become a landmark legacy to militant homosexual pres - family and friends to love him The importance of singular - FACTORS of early, and then later immi - for the future of Orthodoxy in sures. and wish him well; I love him, ity of purpose became the man - The American Orthodox gration to the New World which America. Amen! But Nature itself, and Na - too. But we should all stop short date of the Assembly of Bishops, Church’s ethnic and cultural di - resulted in multiple “ethnic” ju - ture's Creator, continue to de - of congratulating him and thus by the firm directive from a versity reflects global Orthodoxy risdictions, with different assim - George E. Matsoukas is fine marriage as a relationship validating, and even glamoriz - 2009 meeting in Chambesy, in microcosm. Its essence is a ilation rates. Today, there are 14 Executive Director of Orthodox between a man and a woman. ing, the homosexual lifestyle. Switzerland. All Orthodox Patri - doctrinal church of diversity jurisdictions, with the majority Christian Laity, and author of A As our Western World, more There is an old Greek adage: archs were represented. The with local ethnic and cultural of bishops located in a few big Church in Captivity: The Greek and more, is rejecting God's au - "Plato is beloved; but truth is meeting was called and variations. The cardinal princi - cities. A few jurisdictions have Orthodox Archdiocese of Amer - thority, and even human "com - more beloved." presided by Ecumenical Patri - ple of decentralization has al - one bishop for all 50 states. ica. mon sense," it is necessary to I'm also starting to be con - continue proclaiming the Truth, cerned about The National Her - as God has established and re - ald. It seems to me that this, our vealed it to us. The Modern beloved newspaper, is siding World may try to ignore God, more and more with the politi - but God will not allow Himself cally correct (and corrupt) sec - to be ignored, and He will hold ular and humanistic culture: us accountable. "God doesn't fit in the picture With much sadness, I read any more. If the courts say so, the article about ex-priest, John or the majority of people accept Heropoulos. I am not writing something, then it is ok. We hu - these comments to condemn mans make the rules, we can him. I came to know him, years change them." I appeal to the ago, for a short time, and I ad - National Herald: Yes, give us the mired his competence and news, but don't favor or glam - priestly devotion. I sincerely orize behavior or trends that are commend him, and I believe contrary to our Greek Orthodox him, that he "was faithful to his Christian Heritage. vow of celibacy" while he was a Years ago I wrote: "Hellenism priest. I also commend him for and Orthodox Christianity is a having the integrity and courage marriage made in Heaven. Last month’s Synaxis in Chambesy was supposed to finalize preparations for the Holy and Great Council, but did not rise to the to leave the priesthood, when There will never be a divorce." occasion. he felt he could no longer honor True, Hellenism is "married" to that vow. our Orthodox Christian Faith. It I will continue to pray for cannot and must not espouse him. I wish him well. But I can - secular humanism, or any be - Needed: Greater Orthodox Unity, Fewer Power Plays not and do not congratulate havior or trends, contrary to our him. He has surrendered to the Christian Faith. If it does, it is pressures and temptations of no longer authentic Hellenism. By Dennis Menos tremely difficult to rationalize. of Saint Irene in Constantinople, Bartholomew be kept informed? our "fallen human nature." Or, to put it another way, it is The setback in Chambesy as originally planned, would If reconciliation with Rome (a Loneliness is a terrible thing, committing "spiritual and cul - No amount of sugar coating was clearly attributable to two have greatly enhanced the im - priority goal of both East and and love is a beautiful God- tural adultery." If TNH is to con - can conceal the fact that the Ec - factors: the parochialism that af - age of the Ecumenical Patriarch West) was to be the purpose of given gift. But two people, any tinue faithfully serving our umenical Patriarchate is facing flicts many of the 14 Auto - as the ‘first among equals’, a role the encounter, why was it being two people, can share love and Greek Orthodox Community, it hard times. Its endeavor to re - cephalous Orthodox Churches, that Patriarch Kirill is known to conducted by one of the 14 Or - companionship in a relationship must continue to favor and pro - solve the major issues con - and the opposition on the part contest. thodox Primates and not by the of "friendship." This does not re - mote our Orthodox Christian fronting the Church in the mod - of the Moscow Patriarchate to Several other compromises ‘first among equals?’ The last quire or allow a sexual relation - Faith, inseparably with our Hel - ern era by hosting a Holy and the plans and modus operandi were also agreed to by the Ecu - question became even more ship. For a faithful Christian ho - lenic culture. Great Council, is beginning to for the proposed Council sub - menical Patriarch to allow the worrisome when the joint dec - mosexual, this is a cross, and a Because the issue of homo - stall; and an old rival, the Patri - mitted by Constantinople. The Synaxis and the Holy and Great laration signed by Pope Francis lifelong struggle. sexuality vis a vis the Church is archate of Moscow, with designs opposition should not come as Council to go forth. He agreed, and Patriarch Kirill was pub - Marriage, true marriage, as so important, I, too, respectfully of its own is challenging the ex - a surprise; the challenge by the for instance, that all decisions lished, which referred to the it has been instituted by God and publically request of His isting order in the Orthodox Moscow Patriarchate to the pri - at the Council would be by con - readiness of the two leaders “to and defined for thousands of Eminence Archbishop East. macy of the Ecumenical Patriar - sensus, a position insisted upon take all measures necessary to years in every culture, continues Demetrios that he prepare a de - The recent Synaxis of the 14 chate is hardly new. It has its by Moscow, which in effect gives overcome their historical differ - to be a relationship of a man tailed encyclical on the topic, Primates of the Orthodox origins in the Ottoman and a veto power to any Primate ences.” and a woman, with at least the and send it to all the parishes Church, held at Chambesy in Tsarist days, and though dor - bent on defeating an agenda By undertaking to convene potential of procreation. of our Archdiocese, to be shared Switzerland, provides ample mant during the years of com - item not to his liking. On a pos - the Great and Holy Council of John Heropoulos has strug - with all our communicants. The proof of the difficulties that the munist rule, seems to have re - itive note, the Russian Patriarch the Church, and in the process gled, and continues to struggle, world is rapidly changing in so Ecumenical Patriarchate is ex - turned with renewed potency responded to the Patriarchal strengthen his hand for the fu - with a moral dilemma: How to many ways, many of them not periencing. since the collapse of the Soviet overtures in kind, by attending ture and much anticipated dia - live an active homosexual way good. We need to remind our Convened by Patriarch Union and the ascendance to the Synaxis and also agreeing logue with Rome, Ecumenical of life, while remaining an ac - people that "Jesus Christ is the Bartholomew to finalize the power of President Vladimir to the convening of the Council Patriarch is attempting the near tive and faithful Orthodox Chris - same, yesterday, today, and for - preparations for the Holy and Putin, and of his loyal religious in Crete. One condition, how - impossible. The opposition that tian. He did the right thing in ever" (Hebrews 13:8). Great Council, scheduled for leader, Kirill, the Patriarch of ever, that is nonnegotiable as far he is encountering from his fel - leaving the priesthood. To add an important word of Pentecost 2016, the Synaxis re - Moscow and all of Russia. as Patriarch Kirill is concerned, low Orthodox Primates and es - But, if it is wrong to be a warning: "If Hellenism chooses grettably did not rise to the oc - It would be unfair to at - is his insistence that the Ukrain - pecially Russian Patriarch Kirill, priest and live an active homo - to be divorced from Orthodox casion. Of the ten major issues tribute to our Ecumenical Patri - ian Orthodox Church that re - was to be expected. Under the sexual life style, it continues to Christianity, Hellenism will die; that ultimately will be consid - arch responsibility for the cur - ports to the Moscow Patriar - present structure of the Church, be wrong, even if you are a lay - Orthodox Christianity will live ered by the Council, it only re - rent difficulties with Russia. chate is recognized by all getting unanimity by 14 au - man. This observation does not on." viewed and approved the easiest Throughout the months prior to branches of Orthodoxy as the tonomous and independent re - apply only to homosexuals. But, whether you are a priest five. Contentious issues, such as the convening of the Synaxis only canonical Orthodox Church ligious leaders is extremely dif - Adultery, murder, and any other or a "laikos," if you have surren - the rules for Autocephaly, the and during its course, Patriarch on the territory of the Ukraine. ficult. It will only be possible sin, is wrong, whether you are dered yourself to an active ho - rank order of the Orthodox Bartholomew made repeated ef - A power play of sorts, attest - when the Orthodox Church a priest or not. He says he goes mosexual lifestyle, and do not Churches, the need for a com - forts to accommodate the de - ing to the Russian Patriarch’s ris - modernizes its structure and re - to church and allows himself to at least struggle against it. mon Calendar, and the future of sires of his Russian colleague, ing stature came days only after moves the obstacles that make receive Communion. Has he Years ago in a lecture I said Orthodoxy in the Diaspora, and in the process eliminate fu - the conclusion of the Chambesy “change” difficult. In the gone to Confession? Does a re - that "we are all dysfunctional in were deferred. Regrettably, con - ture areas of contention. He Synaxis, with the announce - process, hopefully, it will also sponsible Orthodox Confessor various ways, and will be saved vening the Synaxis surfaced also agreed, for instance, to the ment of a pending meeting be - find a way to speak with one allow him to be an avowed and only by the Grace of God; but disputes between individual Or - change of the venue of the Holy tween Pope Francis and Patri - voice. active homosexual, and still re - we do need to struggle to be thodox Primates, resulting in 3 and Great Council from Con - arch Kirill, in Havana, Cuba. The ceive Communion? What does faithful to our Christian values out of the 14 not attending the stantinople to Chania, Crete, to announcement was greeted by Dennis Menos is the author of the Bible say, and what has the and God's commandments." proceedings. In an era when the accommodate Patriarch Kirill’s the Orthodox clergy and laity The Justinian Diaries, a Church taught through the cen - Church is confronted by a mul - claim that travelling to Turkey alike with several as yet unan - historical novel that focuses on turies? Do we respect the com - Fr. John E. Artemas, is Proto - titude of threats, the absences would be unsafe for the Russian swered questions. Did the Hagia Sophia in mandments that God has given presbyter of the St. George of the Patriarch of Antioch and delegation. The argument was planned meeting, possibly relate Constantinople. He can be us? Do we acknowledge and feel Greek Orthodox Church in the Archbishop of Greece from of course only partly true. Hold - to the work of the Synaxis? Had reached at [email protected]. sorrow for our moral weak - Dekalb, IL. the major Church conclave is ex - ing the Council at the Church Ecumenical Patriarch