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By Penelope Karageorge you have a love story, you have in Brazil the to have an obstacle. So I decided Worlds Apart, the film that the obstacle would be reality, rocked Greece, breaking box of - the political/social crisis that’s Latest fice records and ranking No. 1 not only in Greece but all over over any film in the last decade, Europe.” is ready to win new audiences Is Worlds Apart a comedy or in the US. a tragedy? “It’s life,” he says. “I Team Sent from It opens Friday January 13 like to laugh. I like to cry. We Greece to investigate at Manhattan’s Village East Cin - have from the moment we are ema, a multiplex on Second Av - born until the end when we and receive a report enue. On January 20, the film leave this world all the colors of will open in Los Angeles at the life. So in this movie you laugh on the crime Arclight Cinema. With the odds a lot but you cry a lot. But don’t against a Greek film finding dis - say what happens!” He adds: ATHENS – A team of Greek po - tribution in the USA, it is excit - “The good thing about this film lice was sent to Rio de Janeiro ing to have Cinema Libre Studio is that that audiences all over to get a report on the murder of bring this exceptional film to the world understand the Greek Ambassador Kyriakos Americans. Writer/Director/Ac - movie. They not only enjoy the Amiridis, with which his wife tor Christopher Papakalaitis will movie – but it stirs their emo - and her boyfriend were be in New York and L.A. for both tions. The film is bilingual be - charged. openings. “It’s scary and excit - cause I wanted to tell the story The two homicide investiga - ing. It is always a big surprise from the Greek side and the for - tors and the head of Europol’s and it makes you feel nice when eign side.” Greece desk traveled to Rio de people enjoy what you have Papakalaitis grew up in Janeiro to meet with the officers been working on and creating,” Athens, part of an extended and heading the investigation into he says. close-knit family, none of them the killing of the Greek envoy, Worlds Apart offers an au - involved in film. “Even as a child the Greek newspaper thentic and heartfelt moviego - I knew what I wanted to do. I Kathimerini said. ing experience, with its three in - was the little kid who would get They will then draft their tertwined love stories coming up to perform. Even if they AP Photo/Yorgos KArAhAlis own report, which will be sub - together in one extraordinarily didn’t put me there, I would go. Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, meets Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiadis in mitted to judicial authorities in moving story set in Greece to - I started working as a teen actor Athens, Friday, Dec. 30, 2016. Anastasiadis is on a one-day working visit to Greece. Greece. Even after the killing, day. The exceptional cast assem - when I was 16. When I was 18, Greece’s government refused to bled from around the world in - I took my SATs and went off to comment other than to say the cludes USA Oscar winner J.K. Boston University. I stayed there Ambassador was on vacation. Simmons, as well as Andrea Os - for a week, but I missed Greece Greece, Cyprus Teaming Up for Talks Brazilian authorities said vort, a leading Hungarian ac - so much and things were going they have arrested Amiridis’ tress, the famous Greek actress, so well for me there – I was liv - Brazilian wife, Francoise De Maria Kavoyianni, and a young ing my dream – that I decided Greek and Cypriot officials Radical Left SYRIZA leader Cyprus Espen Barth Eide, whose Souza Oliveira, 40, and a 29- Israeli actor, Tawfeek Barhom. to return to Greece and go to are putting their heads together Alexis Tsipras was to first meet constant predictions of an im - year-old police officer who is “I’ve been extremely lucky drama school there. I continued to prepare for resumed negoti - with party leaders in his country minent breakthrough have all said to have been the woman’s with this movie because I have working even when I was in ations over whether the island – a guarantor, along with the proved wrong, and British Min - lover and is suspected of mur - these amazing actors,” Pa - school. divided by an unlawful 1974 UK and Turkey, of security on ister of State for Foreign Affairs dering the envoy on her behalf. pakalaitis says. “I actually got “When I was 22, I decided to Turkish invasion will be re - the island. Alan Duncan are both expected They also said that both sus - the idea for the film when we write my own scripts. When I united. The guarantors, along with in Athens this week for talks pects have confessed to the were doing a Q&A here in New was 25, I wanted to direct. I’m The talks are due to start up the United Nations and Euro - with Foreign Minister Nikos crime after initially denying any York for What If. Somebody in 41 now, and I have been work - again in Geneva, Switzerland pean Union are due to join in Kotzias. involvement. the audience asked me if I had ing for 25 years. I have to tell between Cypriot President Nicos on Jan. 12 unless the talks col - Earlier, Tsipras, Kotzias Anas - Amiridis, 59, went missing ever thought of bringing for - you that I have been extremely Anastasiades and Turkish- lapse again, as could happen tasiades, and Cyprus Foreign Dec. 26 and a body believed to eigners to Greece to create a lucky with all of my projects, Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci Anastasiades and Akinci Minister Ioannis Kasoulides met be his was found four days later story. It set me thinking. My ba - and with this movie.” Early on after earlier negotiations at a warned, over whether Turkey to go over the key themes: to in a burnt-out car. sic idea was to combine three in his career, he was constantly Swiss resort fell apart over how will be allowed to keep a stand - ensure that Greece and the Brazilian investigators be - different stories of three gener - being asked what his main goal much property and territory ing 35,000-strong army on the Greek Cypriots do not get the lieve he was stabbed to death ations with foreigners falling in stolen by Turks will be returned. island. in the couple’s holiday home in love with Greeks. But every time Continued on page 4 Greek Prime Minister and UN Special Adviser for Continued on page 9 Nova Iguacu, a city north of Rio, and then burned in the car to destroy forensic evidence. A cousin of the suspected po - lice officer allegedly told inves - Ancient Greek Coin tigators that Oliveira offered him money to act as a lookout during the killing, media reports said. Found in Jerusalem Amiridis went missing on Dec. 26 in Nova Iguacu, a city just north of Rio de Janeiro, Wall- Hanukkah Link where the Ambassador had been vacationing. The couple lived most of the time in the A Greek coin uncovered in Demeter. She was the god of capital of Brasilia. the dig of an ancient wall goes agriculture. And the Greek let - On Dec. 30, police investiga - back to when a Greek, King An - ters here said the name Anti - tor Evaristo Pontes Magalhaes tiochus IV Epiphanes , ruled ochus,” Lieber explained. said that 29-year-old police of - Jerusalem and is connected to “Now try to imagine the peo - ficer Sergio Gomes Moreira the story of Hannukah. ple of Jerusalem, the Jewish Filho had confessed to killing That marks the victory of the people of Jerusalem are holding Amiridis, alleging self-defense. Jewish priestly line known as these coins, are walking every He said the policeman was hav - the Hasmoneans or Maccabees day to the market holding a ing an affair with Oliveira. over the Greek King who was Greek god in their pocket,” she Filho’s cousin, Eduardo Mor - trying to Hellenize the News said. eira de Melo, acknowledged tak - and made it unlawful for them “It was against Jewish cul - ing part in the killing as a look - to possess a bible. ture; as you know, the Jewish out, Magalhaes said. The cousin A report in CBN News re - people are not allowed to show accused Oliveira of offering him vealed the discovery of the or to draw figures,” she added. the equivalent of $25,000 to 2,000-year-old coin –worth That comes from the 10 com - participate. about the equivalent of 25 cents mandments, one of which says A judge ordered the deten - then but some $25,000 now– there should be no “graven im - tion of Oliveira, her lover, and and its religious and historic sig - ages” or “likenesses.” his cousin, and the three were nificance. “So this coin is a symbol of in custody. The amazing find was made Jerrin heller viA AP during routine conservation Continued on page 8 Continued on page 9 An Ideal Time to Visit Athens: Winter work in the Tower’s archaeolog - ical garden, according to a state - In this Dec. 12, 2016 photo, the Temple of Poseidon, an ancient hilltop structure the southern ment from the Tower of David peninsula of Sounion dedicated to the god of the sea, is seen against a backdrop of the Aegean Museum. Orna Cohen, the Sea. For travelers with more than beaches on their minds, there's plenty of upside to a brief Tower of David’s chief conser - winter visit to Athens that avoids the crowds and heat of summer. vation officer, saw a metallic ob - ject flash among the stones of a wall. On close inspection, the ar - chaeologist realized that the Shocking Recovery for Kitty Dukakis coin was a bronze-leaf cent, which was used in Jerusalem during the reign of King Anti - TNH Staff her to champion a technique Her drinking masked a long- ochus IV Epiphanes in the sec - widely poo-poohed after the smoldering depression that ond century B.C. BROOKLINE, MA – Her hus - film One Flew Over The eventually led her to receive It is hard to give an exact band lost the 1988 Presidential Cuckoo’s Nest made it seem like electroconvulsive therapy, also date for the coin, according to election but Kitty Dukakis lost quack therapy and was widely known as electroshock therapy the Tower of David Museum, more, falling into a depression discredited. or ECT, the Times reported. but it is known that the coins and alcoholic haze that wasn't She was undeterred, believ - It took her 13 years, until were minted in the city of Acre. lifted until she found elec - ing it was the antidote to what 2001 at age 64, to turn to the The coin has been dated to troshock therapy. led her into depression and the shock. She said she was sur - sometime between 172 and 168 “An alcoholic can contain bottle, a common secret among prised it helped. B.C. himself for only so long,” Mrs. those who knew her and even After the first treatment, Mrs. The Tower of David Mu - Dukakis would later write. some in the media who had long Dukakis wrote, “I felt alive,” as seum’s Director, Eliat Lieber, “When a crisis hits, the re - known Kitty and her husband, if a cloud had lifted — so much told the news site that the coin straints snap.” Michael, the former Massachu - so that when her husband found in the damaged wall and In a detailed feature, the setts Governor who looked like picked her up at Massachusetts was from that period linked to New York Times wrote about he would be the first Greek- General Hospital, she aston - Hannukah. how the episode changed her American president before his ished him by proposing that The Tower of David is a me - life – saved it, really – and led campaign against George H.W. they go out to dinner. dieval citadel located near the Bush – father of another presi - “I was so shocked I almost Old City of Jerusalem's Jaffa dent later, George W. Bush – drove off Storrow Drive,” he Gate. The citadel, a UNESCO For subscription: spectacularly unraveled. told the paper.“I had left this World Heritage site, is built on 718.784.5255 Her husband has a reputa - wife of mine at the hospital a the remains of an ancient forti - [email protected] tion for being unflappable and basket case just the night be - fication. rock-steady but she wasn’t, and fore.” “On one side of the coin you his loss and other factors drove If the results were instanta - can see the face of King Anti - Happy New Year 2017! her to dive into booze in search neous they need refreshing and ochus with a crown and on the of relief and answers, but find - other side of the coin you can Vasilopita is the traditional cake with the lucky coin inside it ing neither. Continued on page 3 see a Greek god with the name in honor of Saint Basil the Great. See related story on page 7. 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 7-13, 2017

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New Year’s Celebrations in the Community 1. Mediterranean Foods’ owner Vasilis Tentelouris and wife Eleni, on right, at the New Year’s party at Terrace on the Park with family and friends. 2. Dancing at the New Year’s celebration in the Petros G. Patrides Cultural Center of St. Demetrios Cathedral in Astoria. 3. The celebration was well-attended at the St. Demetrios New Year’s party at the Petros G. Patrides Cultural Center. 4. The community of St. Demetrios in Astoria enjoyed food, music and dancing. 5. The Cretan Association Omonia of NY celebrated the New Year with traditional food at their party in Astoria. 6. Partygoers also enjoyed a performance of traditional dancing in costume at the Cretan Association. 7. Chian Federa - tion President John Kontolios and board members Demetris Go - nias, Kyriaki Kalogera, George Almiroudis, and George Doulos were among those at the Chian Federation New Year’s party. 8. 7 8 The Chian Federation New Year’s celebration rang in 2017 with music, dancing, and festive gold and white balloons. Peter Douskalis Talks to TNH about his Music and Upcoming Concert

By Eleni Sakellis yet all share musical common - alities. From harmonic relation - NEW YORK – Musician and ed - ships between Syria and Turkey ucator Peter Douskalis took time or Mexico and Russia; rhythmic out of his busy schedule to talk commonalities between Turkey, with The National Herald about Greece, and Albania, or meter his music and his upcoming con - similarities between China and cert of multicultural songs and India; progression similarities in world music at The Bitter End Armenia and South America, as in New York’s famed and his - well as melodic consonants of toric Greenwich Village. The Ireland and the Philippines, guitarist whose father is from Cyprus and Iran, or Egypt and Piraeus and mother from Japan; music is a universal lan - Cyprus, spoke eloquently about guage that unites us all, as the importance of teaching Douskalis observed. He noted world music and sharing the that this is the first time a rich tradition of folk music from Cypriot folk song has been pub - around the world. As noted in lished by a major music pub - ABOVE: Coup D'Amour Multicultural Songs Peter Douskalis the news release, the name of lisher, giving access to Cypriot poster by Spy Kontarinis. Photo courtesy of Peter Douskalis the concert is a play on words music, and making it main - LEFT: Peter Douskalis on guitar. Photo by Emily Rentz. from “Coup d’etat” – the Coup stream in education where the D’Amour is a coup of love, to focus is usually on Western Eu - share the love of music and mul - ropean classical music and pop. Yusufov on guitar. ence in Glasgow. He currently ticulturalism, and to promote in - Douskalis pointed out that a lot Douskalis performs and performs in New York City, pri - tercultural harmony. of Greek music has been pub - records professionally as well as marily working as Assistant Di - Douskalis told TNH about his lished in the past for educa - teaches music in the New York rector and Guitarist for Pericles book of world music arrange - tional purposes, but Cypriot mu - City Department of Education. Kanaris and Synolon. He also ments entitled Multicultural sic with its distinctive influences Besides authoring the Hal volunteers as the President of Songs in the Essential Elements was overlooked just as so many Leonard Essential Elements for the New York City Chapter of for Guitar series recently pub - other types of world music. Guitar series book Multicultural the charity Guitars Not Guns lished by Hal Leonard Publica - The performance on Jan. 12 Songs, he has published his phi - and also partakes in Olympism tions. The collection was created features music from all over the losophy on multicultural music For Humanity Alliance, Inc. pro - to provide teachers and students world, Douskalis said, re - education curriculum design in jects. His solo jazz guitar CD The of guitar with a repertoire from arranged/orchestrated for this the 30th World Conference Pro - Dance of the Sea has received around the globe and an entry special evening with two gui - ceedings of the International So - national and international ac - point into the vast multicultural tars, a violin, cello, and upright ciety for Music Education claim in Just Jazz Guitar Maga - world of music. The arrange - bass. The Coup D’Amour ensem - (ISME) and has further pre - zine, Los Angeles Jazz Scene, ments presented within the ble includes: Douskalis on gui - sented his philosophies in Thes - Jazz Journal (UK), and Cadence book are all traditional, folk, or tar, Susan Davis on violin, Gjil - saloniki at the 30th ISME World Magazine. popular pieces from a wide berta Lucaj on cello, Luiz Bacchi Conference, a TEDx Talk, and More information is avail - range of countries and regions, on upright bass, and Jacob the 32nd ISME World Confer - able at www.douskalis.com. DGK "Continuing a Tradition of Excellence in Education" Middle School Testing Programs Dimitrios & Georgia Kaloidis H.S. Entrance Exam Test Prep Parochial School SHSAT - TACHS - ISEE Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church ELA & MATH State Exam Test Prep Middle School Open House January 18th, 2017 6:00 P.M. 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ASTORIA – New York State income tenants raises serious this request. ments in New York City. NYSUM Senator Michael Gianaris, Con - concerns about how this tax-ex - Since the inception of this confirmed that they intend to gressman Joseph Crowley, and empt, not-for-profit organiza - problematic situation, in No - remove these tenants in order Assemblywoman Aravella Simo - tion is operating. Because the vember, Gianaris, Crowley, and to operate a homeless shelter on tas called on Attorney General organization's actions towards Simotas have encouraged resi - the site, which these tenants Eric Scheiderman to investigate these residents is so contrary to dents to remain in their homes may very well need due to NY - possible mismanagement of the its stated mission and its plans and work with the Legal Aid So - SUM’s actions. Upon emphasiz - non-profit, the New York School for the building where they are ciety, which will examine all ing our concerns to NYSUM Pas - of Urban Ministry (NYSUM). living are so secretive, I think documents and assist the resi - tor Peter DeArruda, he Senator Gianaris that “claim - it's important to investigate all dents. suggested that NYSUM was los - ing financial hardship to pres - of NYSUM's practices as a so- The letter to General Schnei - ing money on the location at is - sure low-income tenants out of called ‘charity.’” derman follows. sue and is generally facing fi - their homes during the holidays During this holiday season, Dear Attorney General nancial hardships. NYSUM is a new low. Needy residents NYSUM blindsided and misled Schneiderman, claims a net rental income of should not be victimized by current low-income tenants at As representatives of Astoria, $446,881, according to their poor management looking to its Astoria dormitory, demand - Queens, we write regarding the 990 filing from 2014. This in - make more money off of their ing residents vacate by Decem - disturbing situation affecting the come appears to be sufficient to misery.” ber 31. residents at the New York cover operational costs that may Congressman Crowley said NYSUM Executive Director School of Urban Ministry. NY - exist, given the tax status of the that “it is unconscionable that Pastor Peter DeArruda has con - SUM is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. The attached doc - the New York School of Urban firmed his intentions to lease the non-profit Christian ministry ument indicates the property is Ministry would look to evict its building to a third party for and school which, in addition fully paid off and owned by NY - tenants in the midst of the holi - more money, stating that NY - to offering training in “hands on SUM, clear of any mortgage. day season and literally leave SUM is facing financial hard - multicultural urban ministry,” While we will continue to en - families out in the cold. At a ships and can no longer afford rents rooms to low-income resi - courage residents to remain in time, when our city is grappling to pay the existing operational dents and missionaries in a 39- their homes and avail them - with an unprecedented home - costs. The 39-unit dormitory, lo - unit dormitory located at 31-65 selves of their legal rights, we lessness crisis, we need to make cated at 31-65 46th Street in As - 46th Street in Astoria. Specifi - are extremely concerned that sure we’re doing everything pos - toria, is fully paid off and clear cally, NYSUM blindsided tenants these residents are paying the sible to keep people in their courtesY of sen. michAel giAnAris of any mortgage. with a letter close to Thanksgiv - price for the mismanagement of homes and protect them from New York State Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas and Senator The offices of Gianaris, ing demanding residents vacate this 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Ac - unscrupulous landlords or any Michael Gianaris along with Congressman Joseph Crowley, Crowley, and Simotas offered by December 31, 2016. The ma - cordingly, we respectfully re - undue hardship that might re - not pictured, are calling for an investigation of NYSUM. Pastor DeArruda the opportu - jority of NYSUM residents pay quest your investigation of this sult from their poor manage - nity to meet and discuss a po - rent between $400 and $500 a situation. Thank you for your ment.” said that “the abrupt and New York School of Urban Min - tential solution to this disturbing month, and would not be able consideration and attention to Assemblymember Simotas shameful manner in which the istry tried to force out its low- situation. He did not respond to to afford market-rate apart - this important matter. The Shocking Story of Kitty Dukakis’ Recovery from Depression, Alcoholism

Continued from page 1 They have tried to convince stronger. But, he added, electroconvul - the Department of Veterans Af - By the 1960s it was almost sive therapy can potentially she still undergoes them but she fairs to make the procedure in vogue, drawing such high- cause serious side effects, most said she felt such joy at over - more accessible. Mrs. Dukakis level personalities as the suicidal notably long-term memory coming her ailments that she also gives speeches around the poet Sylvia Plath Senator problems, some of which are has taken to telling everyone country and abroad.“I have lots Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, temporary. Even patients whose and to extol ECT as a treatment to be grateful for,” she said. the 1972 Democratic vice-pres - depression goes into remission some should seek. “And lots to look forward to.” idential candidate, who was almost always need mainte - Doubters, and cynics, persist THE DRINKING LIFE booted off the ticket when his nance treatment, with ECT, an - and there are few in her corner, Alcohol is a potent and in - treatment was made public. tidepressants or both. although the late Carrie Fisher sidious demon, one which too Critics say proponents delib - Mrs. Dukakis receives her tried it and so did talk show host many who have lost the battle erately minimize the dangers — maintenance therapy at McLean with thought they could control. starting with their use of sani - Hospital in suburban Boston, During the 1988 campaign, tizing nomenclature like ECT one of the world’s largest and Mrs. Dukakis said, she generally and that it can cause severe most renowned psychiatric hos - limited herself to one shot of memory problems and be an ir - pitals. McLean does about vodka at night, although she got recoverable shock to the system, 10,000 such treatments a year, so drunk a couple of times she a jarring jolt and cause brain up from 2,500 treatments in canceled appearance. damage, which is in dispute. 1999, Dr. Stephen Seiner, When her husband was Jonathan Cott, a writer and McLean’s Director of ECT, said. thumped bad, she took it worse editor, wrote in his 2005 book, Each patient generally receives and went so deep into liquor On the Sea of Memory: A Jour - eight to 20 treatments. that she spent years trying to re - ney From Forgetting to Remem - For most patients,” said Mrs. cover and had to overcome de - bering, that his shock therapy Dukakis’s psychiatrist, Dr. pression at the same time as the had wiped out 15 years of mem - euroKinissi Charles Welch, “depression is a two fed off each other and ate ories, including of his own Kitty and Michael Dukakis on a recent trip to Greece last Septe - chronic and recurring illness her up, even as she went into books and friends in his address mer. Mrs. Dukakis sharing her struggle and recovery will un - that requires good lifetime man - rehabilitation. book. doubtedly help others. agement.” In the mornings, she would “The pact with the devil that see her husband off to work, is ECT,” he wrote, “requires that then drink, retreat to her room one trade certain memory loss and pass out. Her family some - (short-term, long-term or both), times found her passed out in possible brain damage and cog - her vomit. nitive dysfunction for the tem - VISTA SKY LOUNGE and CATErING “Once I came home and porary relief of depression.” couldn’t find her,” Mr. Dukakis Despite its negative image, recalled. “I finally went up to ECT has remained the go-to op - Kitty and Michael Dukakis on the third floor, and I saw what I tion for severely depressed peo - At the Penthouse of the Four Points by Sheraton the campaign trail in 1988. thought was a bunch of rags on ple who do not respond well to the floor. It was my wife. This antidepressants or other treat - beautiful …” His voice broke off. ments. It is usually fast acting, Long Island City Dick Cavett, who both said their “Jesus,” he said. which can mean the difference results were positive. They had heard about ECT between life and death in pa - Mrs. Dukakis, 80, still re - but were skeptical. Michael tients who are suicidal. ceives maintenance treatment Dukakis’ brother, Stelian, had “Public awareness of the use Ideal for WEDDINGS and All Your Events every seven or eight weeks. She had an ECT session in 1951 and of ECT has waxed and waned, said that she had minor memory was never the same. but in medical practice, we have lapses but that the treatment Her sister’s husband also had continuously used it,” Dr. Sarah had banished her demons and ECT therapy in the 1950s but Lisanby, a specialist in ECT at that she no longer drank, had kept it secret. When he the National Institute of Mental smoked or took antidepressants. learned that Mrs. Dukakis was Health told The Times. She went public with her use considering it, he told her that In the old days, patients con - of electroshock in 2006 in her he had had a positive outcome; vulsed during therapy sessions, book, Shock: The Healing Power he lost some memory, but his sometimes so violently that they of Electroconvulsive Therapy, psychosis was gone. broke their bones or teeth. To - which she wrote with the jour - THE MYSTERY day, with anesthesia and muscle nalist and former Boston Globe No one knows exactly how relaxants, such reactions are Staff Writer Larry Tye. electroshock eases depression, rare. Michael Dukakis, 83, still if only temporarily, in many peo - “ECT is the single most effi - teaches full-time at Boston’s ple. It sends an electrical current cacious treatment that we have Northeastern University but to the brain that triggers a brief and the treatment of choice if when they have time the famous seizure. The result is like reboot - you absolutely had to get some - couple promote ECT, including ing a computer, say those who one out of a severe depression holding support groups at their have had positive results. within a day or two,” said home just outside Boston, man - The Times wrote how shock Steven D. Hollon, a professor of age a website, ecttreatment.org; therapy was developed in 1938 psychology at Vanderbilt Uni - and answer inquiries from peo - when patients weren’t given versity, who has studied the ple seeking guidance. anesthesia and the voltage was treatment of depression. Greek Hospitality

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By Eleni Sakellis A true original, Gasparatos finds his work is often difficult NEW YORK – The prolific, for people to categorize. “That’s award-winning Greek composer the danger of what I do, often and sound artist Stavros Gas - for the classical set I am too ex - paratos is building an impres - perimental and for the experi - sive career with projects around mental set I am too mainstream the world. His family originally and classical, therefore it’s not is from Kefalonia, then moved easy for them to categorize you to Patra where Gasparatos grew and put you on the shelf, but at up and his parents still reside. that moment you say this is me. He now calls Athens and Berlin When I try to stick to one or the home, but his projects take him other, it doesn’t work, I don’t across the globe. Most recently, succeed, and it’s better for me his work was performed at the to do what is natural for me, Brooklyn Academy of Music and it will find its own path.” (BAM) as part of a collaboration Up next for Gasparatos in the with choreographer Jonah spring is a project with director Bokaer. Gasparatos previously Michael Marmarinos in Shang - worked with Bokaer on Triple hai, China with the Shanghai Echo, a piece presented at the Dramatic Arts Center perform - opening of the Onassis Cultural ing an ancient tragedy. Also Foundation Center in New York starting in the spring, he will be in 2015. in charge of a lab in the National In his latest collaborative Opera studying music and tech - project, Gasparatos wrote the nology. Gasparatos will select a score for Recess, one of the team for the project-based lab three parts of Rules of the Composer Stavros Gasparatos performing at the Megaro. to work on discovering new Game, a new work by Bokaer in ways of interacting and commu - collaboration with scenographer the Onassis Center for the open - jects or collaborative ones. He Berlin, the theater is the one I way of speaking is something I nicating between music and Daniel Arsham and pop star and ing after the renovation of the observed, “at times I’ve thought favor, and I believe it is the cap - value highly, it relaxes me and I technology. multi-Grammy Award-winner space because it means the col - I preferred one over the other, ital of theater at this moment think it suits me and my tem - Gasparatos returns to New Pharrell Williams presented at laboration went well and there’s solo projects or collaborative and of experimental music and perament very much. Many peo - York this summer for a residency the BAM Next Wave Festival in an appreciation of the work and projects, but I’ve come to realize I enjoy working there very much ple don’t like New York because at the Watermill Center in the Brooklyn on November 10-12. it’s nice for one project to lead I’m somewhat in the middle. and the people and the life of of the maddening pace of the Hamptons – a laboratory of in - The multidisciplinary work for to the next one.” One feeds and gives inspiration the city. In New York, it’s the city, it suits me very much, be - spiration and performance, eight dancers was the largest Gasparatos then spoke about to the other. My solo work helps level of cooperation, it’s tremen - cause whatever city I am in, I founded by theater and visual collaboration to date between the inspiration for Recess which me move forward, but the col - dous, for how things are done run in that same way…and I’m artist Robert Wilson. Bokaer and Arsham and marked he noted was very different laborative projects bring me into and there’s a cleaner more always searching for a reason to More information about their first collaboration with from the previous collaborative contact with people that I would straightforward way of speaking return and this channel that has Stavros Gasparatos and his work Williams, composing music for project. He said “Triple Echo never meet on my own, in this with your co-workers and col - opened up between New York is available at stavrosgas - the first time for a live dance was a commissioned piece on way, the one feeds the other, laborators. This straightforward and Europe works well for me.” paratos.gr and theater project. the previously selected theme of and in the last few years, I feel Gasparatos spoke with The the festival, the myth of Narcis - I’m happier when I can commu - National Herald about the pro - sus. I wrote a score which was nicate more with the world.” ject, and his upcoming work. then choreographed by Jonah. Working internationally, Gas - He said “it was an amazing With the project at BAM, it was paratos said forces him out of Greece’s No. 1 Film Hit Comes to NYC experience and an honor work - the exact opposite. Recess was his comfort zone and presents ing in the historical space at actually an older piece by Jonah interesting challenges for his Continued from page 1 BAM…it was a great honor to that previously had no music ac - work. He noted that “there are be in New York and in such a companying it, and because we a lot of differences from place was – acting, writing or directing? “I finally real - space. It was a wonderful expe - worked so well together last to place and country to country, ized that you don’t have to choose. The thing is rience, it went very well and I year, Jonah asked me to write I travel a lot so I can happily re - to work hard and to be able to give one hundred think everyone was very satis - the music, so I had to write turn to Greece to work with my percent in all these roles.” fied and it surpassed the public’s based on the inspiration of collaborators at home with For Papakalaitis, his ultimate goal is to “create expectations as well as those of Jonah’s choreography, what I greater joy and I don’t feel stories. To create films. I want to be happy with the people at BAM and the col - could take from it and work trapped, I am free to choose the something I create. I react like an audience when laborators including Jonah with so it was therefore two project I want to do. This year I I write, when I direct. I am the first one to go to Bokaer. I was very moved espe - very different projects in collab - was many months in Greece, buy a ticket to see the movie! I know that theatres cially on that day when I found oration with Jonah. It’s two much more than I had in recent don’t have 10 or 15 seats. They have 200 seats. myself there. It’s a big project sides of the same coin since I years, working on projects and You have to respect the audience. It doesn’t mean with an amazing team, besides often work on solo projects in - I was extremely pleased to be that you sell yourself. It’s like when you tell a the famous Pharrell Williams spired by what I see around me, working in Greece and had so story to someone, you know that someone is hear - and Daniel Arsham, and all of the initiative comes from me, much work to do, but I was also ing you, and you respect them.” Jonah’s team, lighting designer the source of the music is within pleased to leave again now on Does he have any opinion on Greek film’s so- Aaron Copp, all the team is me, but I also work on collabo - this next project.” called Weird Wave? “I don’t have any opinion on amazing, it’s an honor and a rative projects and it’s a pleasure Speaking of the differences waves. When you like the movie, you like the pleasure to work with them. It’s to work with other artists to - working in various cities, Gas - movie. I liked Lobster very much. When you are also a pleasure continuing to wards a common goal.” paratos said “very big differ - an artist you have to be outside the system. You work with Jonah with whom I Gasparatos was asked if he ences exist, in the art in each have to be free. It’s like being a kid. I’m in the Writer, director and actor Christopher Pa - worked on Triple Echo here at preferred working on solo pro - city where I’ve worked. In process of trying to be free. It’s not easy. It’s hard.” pakalaitis. The National Herald Bookstore New Year’s Carols Raise Funds for Charity

Exercise your mind with the latest books TNH Staff from The National Herald’s Collection LONG ISLAND CITY – The New Year’s carols and songs of Α Taste of Greece Epirus were performed by mem - THE PERFECT G bers of the Yannina Cultural As - HRH Princess Tatiana IFT sociation – Georgios Makridis, Diana Farr Louis FOR CHRISTMAS Demetrios Makridis, and Demetrios Xaxiris on Dec. 30. NOT JUST ANOTHER COOKBOOK, The talented trio visited the A Taste of Greece could have been called offices of the National Herald to sing the New Year's carols as For the Love of Greece, as it became a pro - they raise funds for the Doura - ject that brought together well-known per - han Monastery and Orphanage in Ioannina. sonalities from across the world who all Besides helping the orphans share a special bond with this ever-fasci - and elderly in the community, nating Mediterranean country. They gave the facility also hosts patients who are receiving treatment at us their favourite recipes, told us of their the nearby hospital. much-loved foods, and opened their The story of the building of hearts as they shared their memories and the monastery also fascinated the staff of TNH when they revealed what Greece means to them. A asked why a Christian Taste of Greece represents a collaborative monastery has a not-so-Christ - effort between HRH Princess Tatiana, ian-sounding name. Demetrios Makridis ex - who has made Athens her home since plained that Dourahan Pasha of 2013; Diana Farr Louis, a New Yorker Roumeli crossed the frozen lake tnh/eleni sAKellis with his army, thinking it was From the Yannina Cultural Association – Georgios Makridis, who first came to Greece in 1963; and land. He considered it a miracle Demetrios Makridis, and Demetrios Xaxiris visited the offices the Athens-based NGO BOROUME ("We and built the Christian of the National Herald to sing the New Year's carols and raise Can"]. Founded in 2011, BOROUME is monastery which was named funds for the Dourahan Monastery and orphanage in Ioannina. Dourahan. Since then, the the only nonprofit organization in monastery and orphanage serve cult times it is always important wishes for a Happy and Healthy Greece dedicated to reducing food waste those in need and in these diffi - to help as much as we can. Best New Year! and fighting malnutrition at the same $ 35.00 time, by creating networks of food Includes Shipping & Handling donors and receivers throughout the country. Through this book, you will see, feel, and taste a Greece that may be new to you. Most importantly, you Tarpon Springs Receives NEA Grant for will join a global community of active citizens who are eager to support the country they love. All proceeds from this book's sale will support BOROUME in supplying meals Greek Community Documentary b for still more families and building a closer sense of community and solidarity. TNH Staff of communities through the arts. to provide an opportunity for

a “The arts are for all of us, students to learn Greek TARPON SPRINGS, FL – The and by supporting organizations bouzouki, and Night in the Is - National Endowment for the such as the City of Tarpon lands – a series of music and so - order Form Arts (NEA) made its first major Springs, the National Endow - cial dance events similar to tra - funding announcement for fiscal ment for the Arts is providing ditional Greek village Price includes shipping and handling . year 2017, which includes a more opportunities for the pub - celebrations. Please return this form with your check or money order payable to : grant of $10,000 to the City of lic to engage with the arts,” said Project Director Tina Bucu - Tarpon Springs. NEA Chairman Chu. “Whether in a theater, a valas said “we are honored to National Herald, Inc . 37-10 30 th Street , L.I.C, NY 11101-2614 Jane Chu has approved more town square, a museum, or a receive funding from the Na - [email protected] • [email protected] or charge your credit card : than $30 million in grants for hospital, the arts are every - tional Endowment for the Arts fiscal year 2017. where and make our lives for this much-needed project. o American express o master card o visa o Discover The Art Works grant to the richer.” Known primarily for sponge αCCouN t: εxpIr atIoN date : City of Tarpon Springs is for the The Tarpon Springs Center fishing and Epiphany, the Greek Community of Tarpon for Gulf Coast Folklife will work breadth of the community’s rich ναμε : Springs Documentary and Re - with local videography team traditional culture has not pre - lated Programming. This is the Kostas Lekkas and Eleni viously been captured by video - αddreSS : CItY : seventh time in eight years that Christopoulos-Lekkas to plan graphers from within the com - Tarpon Springs has received an and begin filming a documen - munity. The grant will also State : zIp Code : NEA grant to support folk-life tary about life in the distinctive contribute to the continuation pHoNe : Fax : programs. The Art Works cate - Greek community. This is the be - of two important programs that gory focuses on the creation of ginning of a multi-year project. maintain and promote Greek CeLL : e-maIL : art that meets the highest stan - When completed, the video will culture in Tarpon Springs.” dards of excellence, public en - be available for public broadcast More information on projects SIgNature : gagement with diverse and ex - and for visitors in two city gal - included in the NEA grant an - cellent art, lifelong learning in leries. Related programming nouncement, is available at the arts, and the strengthening will include Folklife Workshops arts.gov/news. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 7-13, 2017 COMMUNITY 5

HISTORICAL COMMENTARY The Legends and Lore of Red Ghost and the U.S. Army Camel Corps

By Steve Frangos on a southern Arizona ranch of Red Ghost or any of the other TNH Staff Writer near Eagle Creek who was tram - camels is that reference is in - pled to death by, what one wit - evitably made to the United The accounts of the United ness described as a huge red States Army’s camel experiment. States Army’s experiment with beast with a skeletal creature And in such accounts the names camels as pack animals meant riding on its back. Local ranch - of Hi Jolly and the other Greeks to help supply and maintain the ers pursued the beast but only appear regularly. Popular cul - forts, posts and wagon train found cloven hoof prints and ture has never forgotten Red routes of the far west constitute clumps of red animal hair along Ghost. In 1963, the TV show a long established chapter in our the trail. As sightings of the Death Valley Days ran an nation’s history. Active between beast began to emerge from episode called “Red Ghost of Ea - 1856 and 1866, the Army’s ex - southern Arizona, wild tales of gle Creek” (season 12 episode periment with camels included the beast became larger and 10). eight Greeks as drovers. On May more elaborate. The creature Years ago when I first be - 14, 1856, the USS Supply ar - was quickly dubbed, “The Red came aware of Hi Jolly, Greek rived at the Port of Indianola in Ghost.” George and all the rest I also Calhoun County, TX with the Several months later, heard the 1962 Hi Jolly, the first collection of camels gath - prospectors working in the Camel Driver song written by ered from the Middle East. On Verde River, AZ area encoun - Randy Sparks of The New February 10, 1857, the USS tered the Red Ghost. They fired Christy Minstrels. While overall Supply returned with an addi - their rifles at the beast causing the song honors the officers and tional herd of camels. During it to run away. In its retreat, drovers some of the lyrics sug - the second expedition, the Army something fell from the crea - gest the spectral aspects of had hired "nine men and a boy," tures back which would later be wider events: to care for animals and to serve identified as a human skull with “Old timers down in Arizona as drovers. Within this band of flesh and hair still attached. The tell you that it's true foreigners were the Greeks: discovery of the skull only That you can see Hi Jolly's Yiorgos Caralambo (Greek strengthened the tales of the ghost a-ridin' still George), Philip Tedro (Hi Jolly), Red Ghost, although there was When the desert moon is Mimico Teodora (Mico), Hadji - no plausible explanation regard - bright, he comes ridin' into sight atis Yannaco (Long Tom), Anas - Only known surviving photo of the U.S. Camel Corps ing the origin of the skeleton Drivin' four and twenty tasio Coralli (Short Tom), Mich - that seemed to be strapped atop camels over the hill” elo Georgios, Yanni Iliato, and fending, and supplying the the southwest. Among the doc - Bros did not create their first the animal. The sightings of this At the time that I first Giorgios Costi. The newly ac - newly acquired lands fell to the umented reports, tales and out - circus until 1882. Their first huge ill-tempered red camel and learned of the U.S. Camel Corp, quired animals joined the first federal government. right legends told of these men show was on November 27, his dead rider continued for Hi Jolly, Greek George, Red herd at Camp Verde, which had Then, the American Civil War as well as some of the other 1882, in Mazomanie, Wisconsin. nearly a decade. Ghost and all the rest I was sur - been officially designated as the broke out from 1861 to 1865. Greek drovers were those of the The Ringling Bros World's Then in late 1892, Mizoo prised to discover that they were camel station. Again, according to official army camels. Greatest Shows was a circus Hastings, a local rancher along all well-known tales told around The army officers leading the dispatches and reports the Old Douglas, one of the U.S. founded in Baraboo, WI, in the San Francisco river in Ari - the camp fires to innumerable expedition wrote glowing re - camel experiment was a com - Camel experiment male camels 1884. In 1907, Ringling Broth - zona sighted Red Ghost grazing American children at summer ports of the performance of the plete success as the round trip was given to Colonel W. H. ers was acquired by the Barnum in his vegetable patch. Hastings camps around the nation. As the camels as beasts of burden. of these pack animals from Moore of the Confederate 43rd & Bailey Greatest Show on brought the beast down with a tales were told and Hi Jolly, the What must be recognized about Texas to California demon - Mississippi Infantry by 1st Lt. Earth, merging them in 1919 to single shot. Locals gathered Camel Driver was sung. marsh - this entire venture is when and strated. Yet after the war the William Hargrove. The 43rd become Ringling Bros and Bar - from all around to view the mallows were roasted round the where it all took place. After the army lost interest in the entire Mississippi Infantry came to be num & Bailey Circus, promoted dead beast. In close examination campfire. Today, I know that the war with Mexico (1846-1848) venture. In 1864, the camels known as the Camel Regiment. as The Greatest Show on Earth. of the animal, it was determined marshmallow was a confection ended in victory for the United were finally auctioned off in Douglas served in various ca - So, while camels were seen in that the “devilish skeleton” that perfected by the Doumakes fam - States, all the land that now in - Benicia, California and Camp pacities until he was shot by the southwest until the 1940s I had been seen riding the crea - ily. Who would have thought cludes Arizona, California, Verde, TX. snipers at the Battle of Vicks - have been unable to find any ture through the years was, in these different generations of Nevada, Utah and the western Various individuals from the burg. A tombstone for "Douglas documentation linking Long fact, a human skeleton that had Greeks from such distant loca - regions of Colorado and New original Greek drovers stayed in the Camel" is found among his Tom to any version of the Rin - been clearly tied to the animal tions in time and space would Mexico were annexed---an area the American west. Persons such fallen comrades at Cedar Hill gling Bros’ circuses. with thick leather straps many be drawn together to help con - of some 529,000 square miles. as Greek George aka Yiorgos Cemetery in Vicksburg, MS. Undoubtedly the camel given years earlier (Indiana State Sen - stitute an oft-experienced all- Then, in 1849, with the discov - Caralambo, Philip Tedro better It is often said that Hadjiatis the most attention is Red Ghost. tinel March 22, 1893). The ori - American evening of tale-telling, ery of gold in California thou - known by his nickname Hi Jolly, Yannaco (aka Long Tom) took News reports flashed across the gin of the skeletal rider remains singing, and camaraderie? sands of Americans from the and Mimico Teodora (Mico) some of the camels and joined pages of the American daily a mystery. East began settling in the new over the next fifty years became the Ringling Bros circus. While press reporting upon the 1883 What remains a constant in [email protected] western lands. Surveying, de - recognized figures throughout anything is possible the Ringling experiences of a woman living the vast majority of the accounts Leadership 100 Approved $250,000 Grant for Ionian Village Rebuilding

By Theodore Kalmoukos culture. The day ends with a tra - ditional Panygiri, or festival. An NEW YORK – At a special meet - athletic program exists that in - ing on December 20, the Lead - cludes soccer, and there are arts ership 100 Executive Committee and crafts activities. In the unanimously approved a evening, dinner and various re - $250,000 gift for the rebuilding ligious discussions with clergy of the Ionian Village camp - in the amphitheater take place grounds, Leadership 100 and after Vespers. the Greek Archdiocese of Amer - Campers have the opportu - ica reported. nity to visit various religious Ionian Village is the Archdio - sites in addition to historical and cese’s summer camp and is lo - archaeological sites. They visit cated near the town of St. Dionysius of Zakynthos, St. Vartholomio Eleias in Pelopon - Nektarios of Aegina, Delphi, and nesos. It was struck by a tornado naturally the Parthenon, since in early September, which they stay in Athens for a few caused infrastructural damages. days. Numerous Leadership mem - The cost of the two and one bers have been affected by the fAther evAgorAs constAntiniDes half week program amounts to Village’s work over the past 46 LEFT: Ionian Village Tornado Damage. RIGHT: George Council Executive Committee Vice-chairman, with His Emi - $4500, which includes travel ex - years; many children from Lead - Tsandikos, who is Leadership 100 Chairman and Archdiocesan nence Archbishop Demetrios Geron of America. penses. Scholarships are avail - ership families have participated able through the Faith Endow - in the programs. Leadership tion.” in Vartholomio. Rev. George A typical day in the life of ious activities such as the teach - ment for Hellenism and Chairman George S. Tsandikos This gift marks the single Poulos, who served as a presid - the camp includes Morning ing of Orthodox life and Byzan - Orthodoxy for children who said that the Ionian Village “has largest donation to the Village ing priest for more than half a Prayer in the camp chapel, the tine church music. The campers want to go to Ionian Village but been the centerpiece of the Arch - rebuilding fund. Together with century at the Archangels parish service of Matins, cleaning cer - also study the Greek language whose families cannot afford to diocese youth program and has donations from alumni, in Stamford, CT, played a piv - tain areas of the facility, and var - and learn about Greek music send them. introduced generations of Greek parishes, Philoptochos chapters otal role in establishing the Vil - American Orthodox youth to and other organizations within lage. their Faith and Heritage in a hos - the Greek-American community, The Village has inculcated pitable environment.” over $596,000 has been raised, the Orthodox faith and Hellenic His Eminence Archbishop with an ultimate goal of $1.5 culture into young Greek Amer - thing CoNVerSatIoNaL greeK Demetrios stated that “this is million. icans and the camp experience Some one more significant gesture of Hundreds of children will has also contributed to the for - ew: Leadership 100, added to its have an opportunity this sum - mation of relationships which n in 2 months long benevolent assistance to mer to experience firsthand later blossomed into marriages the ministries of our Archdio - their Orthodox faith and Hel - and life-long friendships. cese. I can see it as an example lenic heritage at the Village. Approximately three hun - use speak greek to be followed by our organiza - The camp was established by dred children from America, tions and individuals so that this the late Archbishop Iakovos, from 13 to 18 years of age, par - very vital ministry of Ionian Vil - with substantial help from ticipate in the Ionian Village lage continues without interrup - Greece, which donated the land camping program each summer. in 2 months course

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In lieu of flowers please Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE Bettios and her siblings Anna like to express their heartfelt President, Vice President and donate to the Cottonwood Place LegaL NotICe CONSTANTINIDES Lazaris, Bessie Papageorgiou, gratitude to the nurses and staff Secretary. He was also Chair - Staff Holiday Fund/Mary Paulos Notice of formation of H2ocleanse, LLC. FUNERAL PARLOR Co. Athancea Kosmas and Theofanie of Palm Manor for their kind - man of the Interior Committee at 5600 South Highland Dr. Hol - Articles of Organization filed with the Secre - Goutzoulis. The family will re - ness, compassion and care that and led many development and laday, Utah 84121 or to Holy tary of State of New York (SSNY) on (718) 745-1010 August 13, 2015. Office located in Nassau ceive friends on Tuesday from they showed for Persephoni dur - beautification projects for the Trinity Greek Orthodox Commu - County. SSNY has been designated for Services in all localities - 3pm-8pm at McLaughlin Fu - ing her time there. She leaves church. Including large projects nity at the above address. May service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of Low cost shipping to Greece neral Home, 625 Pavonia Av - her son, George Garas, her such as the 14th Century Byzan - her memory be eternal. any process served against the LLC to 405 RXR Plaza Uniondale NY 11556. Purpose: enue, Jersey City. Trisagion will daughter, Koula Rine, both of tine Iconography Beautification any lawful purpose. be at 6:30pm. All are invited to Lowell, MA, and a brother, Eu - Project and the Marble Applica - n pHILLIpS, IoaNNa S. 27 5537/20217 ANTONOPOULOS assemble on Wednesday, De - ripides Nasiopoulos, of Thessa - tions. The results of these large NORFOLK, VA (from The Vir - FUNERAL HOME, INC. cember 28, 2016 at 9:45am at loniki, Greece; seven grandchil - beautification projects are en - ginian Pilot, published on Dec. LegaL NotICe Konstantinos Antonopoulos - St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox dren, Seraphim "Sam" Rine, joyed by all who enter the 20) – Ioanna S. Phillips, 73, Notice of formation of NICO & KHEA Holdings Church in Jersey City prior to Andrea Garibaldi, Charles Rine, Church today. Bill was elevated passed away on December 17, LLC. Arts of Org filed with Secy. Of State of NY Funeral Director the service at 10:00am. Inter - James Rine, Seraphim "Sam" as an Archon of the Order of St. 2016. She was predeceased by (SSNY) on 11/15/2016. Office location: NASSAU 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., County. SSNY designated agent upon whom ment will follow at Hillside Garas, Anthony Garas, and Andrew by his Eminence Arch - her parents, Christopher & process may be served against LLC to: Legalinc Astoria, New York 11105 Cemetery in Lyndhurst, NJ. Pamela Kopsiaftis; 18 great- bishop Lakovos in 1976. This is Stella Stambolidis. Left to cher - Corp. Services, Inc., 1967 Wehrle Dr., Ste 1, #086 McLaughlin Funeral Home 625 grandchildren, Steven, Ryan, a significant honor only be - ish her memory is her loving Buffalo, NY 14221. Principal business address: (718) 728-8500 237 Vincent Ave, Lynbrook, NY 11563. Purpose: Pavonia Ave Jersey City, NJ Kyle, Cassandra, Elizabeth, An - stowed on a select few in the husband, Harry, Phillips; daugh - any lawful act. Not affiliated with any 07306 (201) 798-8700 gelina, Cassidy, Camryn, Katlyn, Orthodox Community. Bill was ter, Mary Jackson (Kelvin) and 27 5540/20208 other funeral home. Autumn, Ian, Luke, Adam, Zoe, a graduate of Boston University, Christina Lowe (Stephen); n dourdIS, peter Andrew, Sophia, Penelope and Class of 1951. He was employed grandchildren, Christopher POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (from the Kleio and several nieces and at Avco and Textron Lycoming Phillips, Joanna Borba, Christina Poughkeepsie Journal, pub - nephews. She is predeceased by for 36 years and retired in 1989. Stevens, Chanel Banks, Caroline to PlAce Your clAssifieD AD, cAll: (718) 784-5255, lished on Dec. 28) – Peter W. two sisters, Olga Nasiopoulos Bill also served on the Monroe Lowe, and Keyon Jackson; ext. 106, e-mAil: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com Dourdis, age 81, of Poughkeep - and Theodora Vasiliades, and Board of Education for 12 years great-grandchildren, Eleni sie, died Saturday, December her daughter-in-law, Catherine with 10 years as their chairman. Maria Stevens; 2 brothers & 2 24, 2016 at home in Poughkeep - Garas. Garas -- Relatives and Calling hours will take place on sisters in Greece. Funeral ser - sie Peter was born November 1, friends will be received at the Monday, December 26, 2016 vices will be conducted on 1935 in Greece. He is the son of M.R. Laurin Funeral Home, 295 from 9:45 to 11am in Holy Trin - Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, 11 Smirniotopoulos is survived by by war, Colonel Smirniotopou - the late Vasili and the late An - Pawtucket St., Lowell on Wed., ity Greek Orthodox Church, a.m. at the Annunciation Greek his wife of 66 years, Panayiota los was reunited with his geliki Dourdis. He married Dec. 28th from 4:00 pm to 7:00 4070 Park Ave. Bridgeport, fol - Orthodox Cathedral in Norfolk Athanasiadou Smirniotopoulos, beloved Panayiota at this time. Georgia Papastrat she prede - pm. Her funeral will take place lowed by services at 11 a.m. by Rev. Fr. George Bessinas and M.D.; three sons, James, Colonel Smirniotopoulos's ceased him. Peter was employed on Thurs. at 11:00 am at the with Fr. Georgios Livaditis Pres - Rev. Fr. Constantine Rogakos. Thomas and Peter; their wives wounds led to his medical trans - by Hudson River State Hospital Funeral Home to be followed by byter officiating in the church. Interment will follow at Forest Frances, Dorothy and Lauren; fer to the United States for treat - as a Cook. Peter was a local res - a service at the Holy Trinity Interment will take place on Lawn Cemetery. The family will and a daughter, Donna and her ment. Panayiota joined him in ident for over 63 years previ - Greek Orthodox Church in Low - Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at receive friends at Hollomon- former husband, Gregory Paul. 1950, and they settled in the ously from Greece. He was a ell at 12:00 pm Noon. Interment 11:45 a.m. in St. John's Ceme - Brown Funeral Home, Tidewa - In addition to his children, Washington, DC area, where member of the Kimisis Greek will follow in Westlawn Ceme - tery, Stratford, with full military ter Dr. Chapel on Tuesday from Colonel Smirniotopoulos is sur - they raised four children, first Orthodox Church and a member tery. In lieu of flowers, memorial honors. The Commerce Hill Fu - 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. followed by a vived by nine loving grandchil - living in Southeast Washington, of AHEPA. He is survived by son donations may be made in her neral Home, 4798 Main St., Trisagion Prayer Service at 6:30 dren, Amalea, James, John, then Oxon Hill, Maryland, and In-law, Jerry Duffy of Pough - memory to the Holy Trinity Bridgeport, has been entrusted p.m. Condolences may be of - Margot, Casey, Nicholas, finally in 1977 moving to their keepsie, NY; his grandson, Church, 62 Lewis St., Lowell, with the arrangements. In lieu fered to the family at www.hol - Thanasi, Iliana and Peter Eleft - home in Alexandria, close to the Christopher Sean Duffy of MA 01854. Funeral arrange - of flowers, donations may be lomon-brown.com. herios; and by a beloved great estate of George Washington at Poughkeepsie, NY; his great ments under the direction of di - made to Holy Trinity Greek Or - grandson, James Joseph Mount Vernon. Colonel grandson, Christopher Jace rectors, Louis M. Fazio III, M. thodox Church in memory of n pSIHogIoS, CHrIStINa H. Smirniotopoulos. He is also sur - Smirniotopoulos took great Duffy of Poughkeepsie, NY and Richard Laurin, and Scott Lau - William. For online condo - HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL (from vived by his sister-in-law, Maro; pride in his proximity to the fa - his nephew William and JoAnn rin. For condolences or direc - lences, to make a donation and the Northwest Indiana Times, nephews Dimitri and Savvas; ther of our country and though Dourdis of Salt Point, NY. Peter tions, please go to www.laurin - light a virtual candle, visit us at published on Dec. 29) – nieces, Amalia daughter of a Greek national throughout his is also survived by several other funeralhome.com commercehillfh.com. May his Christina H. Psihogios, 71, of George, Amalia daughter of life, considered himself a patri - nieces and nephews. Peter was memory be eternal. Hoffman Estates, IL formerly of Nicholas, and Domna, and otic American. During his med - predeceased by his daughter An - n KamBoS, emmaNueL Portage passed away Tuesday, many godchildren. He was pre - ical leave from the Greek Air gela Duffy, his sister, Georgia GREAT KILLS, NY (from the n pauLoS, marY atHaS December 27, 2016. She was ceded in death by his parents; Force, Colonel Smirniotopoulos Karides, and brother, Harry Staten Island Advance, pub - SALT LAKE CITY, UT (from the born on March 4, 1945 in Car - two siblings who died in child - was employed as the Secretary Dourdis. Calling hours will be lished on Dec. 20) – Emmanuel Salt Lake Tribune, published on nation, Greece to Haralambos hood, and three brothers, to the Air Attaché at the Em - Friday, December 30, 2016 from Kambos, 65, of Great Kills died Dec. 25) – Mary passed away and Eleftheria (Tsomis) Prassas. Nicholas, Theodore and George. bassy of Greece starting in 1950 10:30am to 12pm at Timothy P. Dec. 18, 2016. He was the on December 20th at age 95, Christina had co-owned and op - Colonel Smirniotopoulos was until his retirement in 1981. He Doyle Funeral Home Inc., 371 beloved husband of Katherine surrounded by family. She was erated Pantheon Restaurant in born on December 15, 1916 in remained an active duty mem - Hooker Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY. (nee Gerasimou) (married for the consummate lady right to Portage for 23 years and was a the village of Mystras, Greece. ber of the Greek Air Force until The funeral will follow the call - 38 years); loving father of Irene the end. Mary was born in member of St. Iakovos Greek Recruited as a young law stu - his death. His considerable mil - ing hours at 12:00 pm. Burial Kambos (husband Brendan Raf - Magna to Peter E. and Anna Orthodox Church in Valparaiso. dent to join the Royal Hellenic itary accomplishments notwith - will be at the Poughkeepsie ferty), and Fay Kambos; dear Athas, graduating from East She was arguably the best cook, Air Force, Colonel standing, Colonel Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, brother of Kyriakos, George, and High School. She attended LDS the best gardener and the best Smirniotopoulos graduated Smirniotopoulos, known affec - NY. If you would like to leave a Kostas Kambos. He is also sur - Business College and took part mom around, but was inar - from the Air Force Academy at tionately as Lefteris, was a de - online condolence please visit vived by nieces and nephews. in various capacities in support - guably the best YiaYia. On No - the top of his class. He met his voted husband, dedicated fa - www.doylefuneralhome.com Emmanuel was originally from ing her family and friends dur - vember 1, 1970 Christina mar - future wife, Panayiota Athanasi - ther, and loving grandfather and Samos, Greece, and immigrated ing WWII. Her early years were ried Ilias Psihogios, who adou in 1939 in her hometown great-grandfather. As skilled at n droSINIS, pauL with his family to the United full of family and taking part in preceded her in death in Febru - of Thessaloniki. During the Ital - jiggling cranky infants as he was CHARLOTTE, NC (from the States in his teenage years. He her beloved Greek community. ary of 2015. She is survived by ian invasion of Greece in 1940 flying Spitfires, Lefteris derived Charlotte Observer, published graduated from Hunter College Mary married the boy of her her children: Bessie (Rich) (Greco-Italian War), Colonel his greatest pleasure when sur - on Dec. 25) – Pavlos (Paul) Kon - with a B.A. degree in Latin and dreams, Pete G. Paulos, on April Ahlman of Hoffman Estates, IL, Smirniotopoulos participated in rounded by family in the com - stantinos Drosinis was born in Greek Studies and Economics. 28, 1946, after he returned from Freeda Psihogios of Hoffman Es - the air defense of Thessaloniki. fort of his home overlooking the Pavlopoulos, Evrytanias, Greece He worked for 41 years for Mer - his service in WWII. She was a tates, IL and Chris (Autumn) Flying Polish PZLs, Colonel Potomac, drinking a glass of on May 15, 1933. He moved to rill Lynch, working his way up devoted wife and mother to her Psihogios of Crown Point; sib - Smirniotopoulos recorded two wine, and regaling his loved the United States in 1952 at the from a Data Clerk employee, to four children. But she was much lings: George (Popi) Prassas, "kills" during this conflict, and ones with colorful stories. He age of 18. In 1956 he enlisted finally retiring as a Compliance more than that. She was a most Leo (Angie) Prassas, Nick Pras - is credited with an additional could declaim Homer, discuss in the US Air Force. In 1960 he Unit Supervisor. Emmanuel was incredible hostess and cook. sas, and Anthie Skourlis, grand - "kill" in the former Yugoslavia philosophy or crack wise with married his wife of 57 years, a long-term parishioner and for - Mary's life was full of entertain - children: Christina, Niko and Il - also during the Italian invasion. equal vigor. Lefteris, known as Aliki Antonios Balatsias. In ad - mer Parish Council Member at ing. Friends and family were al - ias, nieces and nephews: Harry After German forces invaded, "Pappou" to his grandchildren, dition to his wife he is survived Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek ways welcome in her home and Prassas, George Prassas, Freeda disbanding the military, Colonel was beloved by all who knew by his son, Dino; his daughter, Orthodox Church. He also it seemed like there was a con - Prassas, Pete Prassas, Georgia Smirniotopoulos was recruited him because of the tremendous Maria and her husband, George served as a Soccer Coach in his stant flow of activity. In Mary's Tsendes, Harry Prassas, Stasi by British intelligence (MI5) and vitality of his spirit, the generos - Housiadas and his son Dimitri. younger years. Additionally, he home, you were judged by how Prassas, Argiris Psihogios, Chris escaped occupied Greece to join ity of his heart, and the eternal On December 24, 2016, he was served in various roles in the much you were willing to help Psihogios, Chris Psihogios, the Royal Air Force in North twinkle in his eye. He will be embraced in the arms of our AHEPA organization, including prepare for her dinner parties, George Psihogios, Kostas Rigas Africa. As a lieutenant in the deeply missed. In lieu of flow - Lord, Jesus Christ as he joined President, Vice-President and then how much of her cooking and Vasiliki Rigas and brothers 335th Greek Squadron, ers, donations may be made to his predeceased son, John. He Treasurer. His hobbies included you were willing to consume. and sister-in-law: Stathis (Eleni) Smirniotopoulos flew Spitfires Saint Katherine's Greek Ortho - is also survived by 7 grandchil - being an avid gardener, DIY pro - She and Pete traveled the world, Psihogios, Thanasi (Maria) Psi - and Hawker Hurricanes, partic - dox Church, Falls Church, Vir - dren and 8 great-grandchildren. jects, cooking/grilling, listening from Russia to Greece to hogios, Nikki (Bobby) Rigas. ipating in the decisive battle of ginia or Pantanassa Monastery, Pavlos was a genuinely devoted to Greek music, collecting Na - Hawaii, and she loved every - She was also preceded in death El Alamein against Rommel's Mystras, Greece. A memorial man to his family and faith. He tional Geographic magazines; place she visited. Mary had by her parents, brother, Stavros forces and in the siege of To - service and celebration of his was very vibrant and outspoken, he was a history buff. Em - many interests; she was an avid Prassas, sister, Eugenia Koutrau - bruk. Colonel Smirniotopoulos life will be planned for a later honest and self-educated. He manuel was a skilled linguist, game player, (dominant in manis and nephew, Harry Sk - was also one of two Greek date. was a successful restauranteur being fluent in Greek, English Scrabble). She loved playing ourlis. A visitation will be held fighter pilots selected to partic - and operated the Philadephia and knowledgeable in French. golf and bridge with her many Friday from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 ipate in a secret mission to take n tSIoNgaS, atHaNaSIoS Deli for 47 years. In the eyes of He was also an eloquent letter dear friends and bowled for p.m. at Moeller Funeral Home, out German guns on the island "tom" his loving wife, Aliki and his writer and was great with num - many years. Mary raised four 104 Roosevelt Rd., Valparaiso of Leros. After the Allied victory, CROWN POINT, IN (from the children he was a true hero. bers. He was a proud man, es - successful, independent, dili - with Trisagion service at 6:00 Colonel Smirniotopoulos re - Northwest Indiana Times, pub - May his memory be eternal. Vis - pecially of his Greek heritage, gent children. In her last few p.m. A funeral service will be turned to his homeland, which lished on Dec. 29) – Athanasios itation will be Monday, Decem - and a devoted husband and fa - days, she reinforced what she held Saturday, 10:00 a.m. at St. by that time was embroiled in a "Tom" Tsiongas, age 78, of ber 26, 2016 from 4 to 6 PM at ther. Funeral is from Matthew had told us since we were Iakovos Greek Orthodox bitter civil war, pitting commu - Crown Point, passed away Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Funeral Home and Cremation young; love one another and Church, 36 W. 700 N., Val - nist insurgents against royalists Wednesday December 28, 2016 Cathedral with the Trisagion fol - Services, Inc., 2508 Victory take care of those who can't take paraiso with burial at Memorial and the military. As an active at his home. Tom is survived by lowing at 6PM. Funeral service Blvd., on Thursday at 9:30 a.m., care of themselves. She was a Park Cemetery. Memorial dona - duty Air Force officer, Lieu - his wife, Evangeli; three chil - for Mr. Drosinis will be Tuesday, with a funeral service at 10 a.m. wonderful mother. Demanding, tions may be made to St. tenant Smirniotopoulos was tar - dren: Theodore Tsiongas, Angelo December 27, 2016 at 12 Noon at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox but always loving. Supportive Iakovos Greek Orthodox Church geted by communist fighters in (Georgia) Tsiongas and Maria with interment following in Church. Interment is in Mora - and encouraging of us, but cer - or Alexian Brothers Hospice, 15 a grenade launch, receiving Tsiongas; five grandchildren: Evergreen Cemetery. Memorials vian Cemetery. tainly not one to make excuses E. Lake St., Hanover Park, IL shrapnel wounds, and subse - Athanasios, Evangelia, Sam, may be made to Holy Trinity Friends may visit on Wednesday for us. Her life was full of her 60133 "In Memory of Christina quently losing an eye, and his Evangelia and Haroula; grand - Building and Renovation Fund, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 PM. children, grandchildren and Psihogios". ability to fly, in 1947. Torn apart daughter, Madalyn Alexandra; 600 East Boulevard Charlotte, great-grandchildren. She was in many other relatives in Greece. NC 28203. Arrangements are in n pappaS, WILLIam C. constant contact with her family n SmIrNIotopouLoS, this is a service Tom was a member of Ss. Con - the care of Kenneth Poe Funeral MONROE, CT (from the Con - and watched over us with love, eLeFtHerIoS to the community. stantine & Helen Greek Ortho - & Cremation Services, 1321 necticut Post, published on Dec. concern and kindness. She was ALEXANDRIA, VA (from the Announcements of deaths dox Cathedral. He was currently Berkeley Ave Charlotte, NC 24) – William C. Pappas, age 91, a woman of great dignity. The Washington Post, published on may be telephoned to the employed at Jewel Foods in passed away on Wednesday, De - term "lady" seemed to be in - Dec. 30) – Eleftherios classified Department of Crown Point. Funeral Services cember 21, 2016 in his Monroe vented for her. It was important Smirniotopoulos Lt. Colonel the national herald at will be held on December 30, Days and dates of funerals, residence. He was born in for her to be proper in every Eleftherios D. Smirniotopoulos, (718) 784-5255, 2016 at Ss. Constantine & Helen memorials, and other events di - Newark, NJ but was a resident way; dress, language and behav - a combat veteran of the Second monday through friday, Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 8000 rectly correspond to the original of Bridgeport and Monroe, CT. ior. She set a high standard. World War, died peacefully at 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. est Madison St., Merrillville, IN. In publication date, which appears Bill was the son of the late Mary is survived by her four his home in Alexandria, Virginia or e-mailed to: lieu of flowers, memorial dona - at the beginning of each notice. Christ and Evangeline Pappas, children Pam Paulos-Strike, Con on Sunday, December 25, 2016. [email protected] tions to the family would be ap - both born in Macedonia, (Lisa) Paulos, Ann (Demetri) He was 100 years old. Colonel preciated. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 7-13, 2017 FEATURE 7

OUR EVERYDAY GREEK GREEK GASTRONOMY Τι φοράς; Choose the Right Dress for the Occasion Vasilopita History and Two

By Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou the Plural is - ες and the neuter nouns’ is - α. Write the words below in the Plural. Recipes for the New Year What do you wear? Φοράω means wear and το φόρεμα, a word which derives from this verb, is the dress. Τα ρούχα means the Η φούστα Το κουστούμι By Eleni Sakellis degrees F, then switch it off and clothes, and τα εσώρουχα (έσω= inside + ρούχα) is the underwear. Το παντελόνι Το σορτς set the covered bowl inside until The rest of the dress vocabulary is foreign words, which have been Η μπλούζα Η φόρμα Vasilopita is the traditional the dough doubles in bulk. De - introduced in the Greek language. Chiton (= ο χιτών ), chlamys Η ζακέτα Το παπούτσι sweet bread or cake with a lucky pending on how warm it is, the (= η χλαμύς ) and peplos (= ο πέπλος ) were the ancient Greek Το μπουφάν Το αθλητικό παπούτσι coin baked into it or inserted af - rise could take about 40 minutes clothes. Η φούστα is the skirt and η φουστανέλα is the traditional Το παλτό Η παντόφλα ter baking, depending on the to an hour or two. masculine skirt, which the men in the mainland Greece wore till Το πουκάμισο recipe, honoring Saint Basil the Once risen, punch down the the beginning of the 20th century. Please note that the jacket is Great. Born into a wealthy family, dough and transfer to a lightly called μπουφάν in Greek and η ζακέτα, a word that sounds like St. Basil gave away his earthly floured work surface. Knead the jacket is the cardigan and the sweater. Words that remind sim - 4. Complete riches to the poor and thus be - lightly and shape into a round ilar English ones are: η μπλούζα - blouse, το παντελόνι - pants, το the sentences came associated with the tradi - loaf or the shape of your choice. σορτς - shorts, τα σανδάλια – sandals. with the correct tion of gift giving, delivering pre - Place on a large greased baking Greek words like sents for children on his feast day sheet or in a greased 10-inch VOCABULARY in the given ex - January 1. deep cake pan. Cover with a Greek word Pronunciation Meaning ample. The story of the vasilopita can kitchen towel or plastic wrap and Τα ρούχα TA rOOha clothes Τι φοράς την Κυ - be traced back to stories concern - allow to rise in a warm place un - Τα εσώρουχα TA eSOrooha underwear ριακή; ( dress, ing the payment of taxes or a ran - til doubled for about 1 1/2 to 2 Το φόρεμα TO FOrema dress coat ) som. During a siege, the people hours. After the second rise, Η φούστα EE FOOsta skirt Την Κυριακή φο - were called upon to pay a ran - brush with the beaten egg and Το παντελόνι TO panteLONi pants ράω φόρεμα και som, donating their gold coins decorate with the blanched or Η μπλούζα EE BLOOza T-shirt, blouse παλτό. and jewels, the enemy was slivered almonds, pressing them Η ζακέτα EE zaKEta cardigan, sweater touched by the spirit of the peo - in lightly into the top of the Το μπουφάν TO booFAN jacket 4.1. Τι φοράει η ple and returned the gold and vasilopita with the New Year, if Το παλτό TO paLTO coat μαμά σου το jewels, but it was impossible to preferred. Το σακάκι TO saKAki jacket, blazer πρωί; ( skirt, shirt, return the items to their rightful Bake in a preheated 350-de - Το πουκάμισο TO pooKAmiso shirt coat ) owners. The task fell to St. Basil gree F oven for 45 minutes or Το κουστούμι TO kooSTOOMi suit Η μαμά μου το to redistribute the wealth in an until golden brown and a cake Το σορτς TO S Οrts shorts πρωί φοράει …… equitable manner. tester, toothpick, or skewer, in - Η φόρμα EE F Οrma workout pants ………………………………… The saint baked the jewels serted in the center comes out Οι πιτζάμες EE piTZAmes pajamas 4.2. Τι φοράει ο μπαμπάς σου το πρωί; ( suit, pants ) into loaves of bread and distrib - clean. Τα παπούτσια TA paPOOtsia shoes Ο μπαμπάς μου ……………………………………………………. uted them to each household and If the vasilopita is browning Τα αθλητικά παπούτσια TA athlitiKA paPOOtsia sneakers 4.3. Τι φοράει ο Πέτρος στο σχολείο; ( pants, button-down shirt, miraculously, the items were re - too quickly, tent with foil. If Τα σανδάλια TA saNDAlia sandals blazer, ) turned to their rightful owners. baked in a cake pan, cool the Οι παντόφλες EE paNTOfles slippers Ο Πέτρος …………………………………………………………… Today, the person who finds the 4.4. Τι φοράει η γιαγιά στην εκκλησία; ( skirt, cardigan ) lucky coin in his or her slice of The verb wear falls into the Conjugation B1 verbs category and Η γιαγιά ……………………………………………………………… vasilopita will be lucky for the is conjugated as follows: 4.5. Τι φοράει ο παππούς στο καφενείο; ( pants, T-shirt ) entire new year. The head of the Greek word Pronunciation Meaning Ο παππούς …………………………………………………………… household cuts a cross into the Εγώ φορ-άω eYO forAo I wear 4.6. Τι φοράς το βράδυ; ( pajamas, slippers ) entire vasilopita before cutting a Εσύ φορ-άς eSEE forAS you wear Το βράδυ …………………………………………………………….. piece for each person present, Η Μαρία φορ-άει EE marEEA forai Maria wears 4.7. Τι φοράς στη θάλασσα; ( sandals ) usually cutting the first for Jesus Εμείς φορ-άμε eMEES forAme we wear Στη θάλασσα ………………………………………………………… Christ, then for the Virgin Mary, Εσείς φορ-άτε eSEES forAte you wear 4.8. Τι φοράς στο σπίτι; ( workout pants, sneakers ) Saint Basil, the poor, the house, H Μαρία και ο Πέτρος φοράνε EE marEEA KE O Petros forAne Στο σπίτι ……………………………………………………………… and then from the eldest to the Maria and Petros wear 4.9. Τι φοράς στη δουλειά; ( pants, shirt, suit ) youngest person. Στη δουλειά ………………………………………………………….. There are several different 4.10. Τι φοράς τώρα; recipes for vasilopita from the EXERCISES Τώρα …………………………………………………………………. various regions of Greece, though 1. What do you wear in the winter? T ι ρούχα φοράς το χειμώνα; all feature eggs and sugar and Erase the words that are not right for this season. PRONUNCIATION KEY some decoration on top. Here is Παλτό, παντελόνι, ζακέτα, σανδάλια, σορτς, φούστα, φόρεμα. i (i-diom), ee (n-ee-dle), e (e-nergy), o (o-rganism), oo (b-oo- an easy bread version to make vasilopita for 15 minutes, then 2. What do you wear in the summer? Τι ρούχα φοράς το καλο - t), y (y-es), h (h-elium), th (th-eory), d (th-e), gh (w-olf). The cap - this New Year’s. remove from the pan. Cool com - καίρι; Erase the word that are not right for this season. italized syllables are accented. pletely on a wire rack before Σορτς, μπλούζα, πουκάμισο, μπουφάν, ζακέτα, σανδάλια. Vasilopita making a small incision in the Dimitra Kamarinou, PhD, has studied philology and archaeology at bottom and inserting a thor - 3. The words μπουφάν, παλτό, σόρτς remain the same in the the University of Ioannina,Würzburg and Bochum in Germany. She • 1 package active dry yeast oughly washed, foil-wrapped Plural number and do not change their endings, because they are has been honored with the Academy of Athens Award in • 3/4 cup milk, lukewarm coin into the vasilopita. foreign words. Keep in mind that the feminine nouns’ ending in Archaeology and Homeric Philology. • 3 beaten eggs • 2 teaspoons grated orange Vasilopita (Cake) rind • 3/4 cup sugar • 3 and 1/2 cups unbleached, • 4 1/2 cups all-purpose, all-purpose flour LITERARY REVIEW unbleached flour • 1 cup sugar • 1/4 teaspoon salt • 1 teaspoon baking powder • 1/2 teaspoon ground • 1 teaspoon baking soda The Greeks Responsible for the Italian Renaissance cinnamon • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1/4 teaspoon ground • 1-2 teaspoons orange zest masticha • 1 cup olive oil By Eleni Sakellis student of Theodoros Gazis orig - urging the Venetians and all • 1/4 teaspoon ground • 1 and 1/3 cups orange juice inally from Thessaloniki who “Latins” to help liberate Greece mahlepi • 1/2 cup cognac The rebirth of art, learning, translated Aristotle and was one from Ottoman rule. He viewed • 1/2 cup butter, melted • 3 eggs and humanism called the Re - of the leading scholars of the the aid as a debt that should be • 1 beaten egg, for glaze • Slivered almonds, or sesame naissance was largely the result Renaissance. Eventually, paid for the help the Byzantine • Blanched almonds or slivered seeds, or powdered sugar for of the exodus of Greeks from Chalkokondyles became a tutor Greeks had given during the almonds decoration the fallen Byzantine Empire af - to Lorenzo de Medici’s sons and Gothic Wars in 535-554 AD. He • Coin • Coin ter 1453. The scholars, artists, taught Greek and philosophy for wrote, “Just as she [Greece] had astronomers, architects, philoso - over forty years in Italy. Among empended in their behalf [the Add the yeast to the milk, stir In a large mixing bowl, whisk phers, scientists, politicians, and his most important contribu - Latins] all of her most precious gently to dissolve, then add the together the flour, sugar, baking theologians who left the areas tions to the Renaissance were and outstanding possessions lib - eggs, orange rind, and the sugar. powder, baking soda, salt, and that became part of the Ot - publishing the first printed pub - erally and without any parsi - In a mixing bowl, whisk together orange zest. In another bowl, toman Empire, found new lications of Homer in 1488, mony, and had restored with her 3 cups of the flour, the salt, cin - whisk together the olive oil, or - homes in the Italian city states Isocrates in 1493, and the Suda hand and force of arms the state namon, masticha, and mahlepi. ange juice, cognac and the eggs of Rome, Florence, Milan, and lexicon in 1499. His pupils in - of Italy, long ago oppressed by Make a well in the center and until well combined. Add the wet Venice. cluded Greek scholar Janus Las - the Goths, they [the Latins] then add the yeast mixture. to the dry ingredients and stir un - Those Byzantine Greeks caris, Florentine classical scholar should in the same way now be Stir together and gradually til just combined. Pour the batter brought with them the learning and poet Angelo Ambrogini willing to raise up prostrate and add the warm melted butter. Mix into a greased and floured 10- that had practically disappeared called Poliziano, Pope Leo X afflicted Greece and liberate it until the dough forms and comes inch tube pan, or round pan, and in the West during the time (born Giovanni di Lorenzo de by arms from the hands of the away from sides of the bowl. If sprinkle with slivered almonds or known as the Dark Ages. One Medici), and Italian scholar and barbarians,” quoted in Nancy preferred, use a stand mixer with sesame seeds. Bake in a pre - of those Greeks who settled in The Histories by Laonikos poet Giglio Gregorio Giraldi. In Bisaha’s Creating East and West: the dough hook attachment to heated 350 degree oven for 1 Italy was Demetrios Chalkokondyles 1463, Chalkokondyles became Renaissance Humanists and the knead the dough. Turn the dough hour or until golden brown and Chalkokondyles. Born in Athens a professor at the University of Ottoman Turks published by the out onto a floured work surface a skewer or cake tester inserted in 1423, Chalkokondyles was Greeks had sought help against Padua, and headed the Greek University of Pennsylvania and knead until smooth and elas - in the center comes out clean. from a noble family. His brother the Turks. A complete, two-vol - literature department replacing Press. He also translated Galen’s tic, adding the remaining flour Cool for fifteen minutes in the Laonikos is best known for writ - ume English translation by An - the eminent scholar John Argy - Anatomy from the original as needed, careful not to add too pan on a wire rack and then un - ing The Histories, ten books on thony Kaldellis of The Histories ropoulos. He was summoned to Greek into Latin. Invited by Lu - much or overwork the dough. mold the cake. Cut a slit in the the last 150 years of the Byzan - was published in 2014 by the Florence by Lorenzo de Medici dovico Sforza, Chalkokondyles Place the kneaded dough in a bottom of the cake and insert a tine Empire. In the work, the Harvard University Press as vol - and it was there that moved to Milan where he con - clean bowl brushed with melted coin that has been washed with fall of Constantinople is re - umes 33 and 34 of The Dumb - Chalkokondyles edited Homer tinued teaching until his death butter. Turn the dough over to soap and water, dried, and garded as a historical event of arton Oaks Medieval Library. for publication. Homer’s Iliad on January 9, 1511 at age 78. coat all over with butter and wrapped in tin foil. Turn the cake far-reaching importance and is Demetrios Chalkokondyles and Odyssey in two folio vol - The Histories by Laonikos cover bowl with a kitchen towel right side up and allow to cool compared to the fall of Troy. arrived in Italy in 1447 and set - umes was the first Greek book Chalkokondyles, translated by or plastic wrap. Set aside in a completely before serving. If us - The Histories also provides tled in Rome in 1449 under the to be printed in Florence. Anthony Kaldellis is available warm spot to allow the dough to ing, dust with powdered sugar in sketches of life in England, patronage of Cardinal Bessar - Chalkokondyles wrote sev - online. rise. A warm oven is an ideal a decorative pattern with a sten - France, and Germany, where the ion. Chalkokondyles became a eral treatises and gave speeches place, just heat the oven to 200 cil.

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES A Lexicon of Stupidity

By Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos ployment last month resulted lives easier. Sign in Lakewood, NCR: Fuel rods mistakenly Special to The National Herald from workers losing their jobs. Colorado: Parking for Blind only. stored in safe place (Sure you Here’s one that the dead did - Sign on carton of eggs: To can trust our alert nuclear work - People have managed to say n’t like, either. Spokesman for a avoid breakage, please keep bot - ers to keep things safe?) stupid things. No one is exempt! National Funeral Directors As - tom on top. Top marked bottom Sometimes it’s hard to follow Not even me! I know that’s hard sociation: We were disturbed by to avoid confusion. orders: U.S. Army official for to believe, but it’s true. How - the ridicule because death, es - Some instructions could be a preventing typhoid epidemic: ever, I’ve collected a few really pecially to the person who has little confusing. Instructions on All ice cubes will be boiled be - obviously stupid remarks that I just experienced it, is not funny. back of immigration form: Fill fore using. want to share with you. After Assistant Public Relations in the card clearly in the follow - U.S. Army personnel depart - reading them, you may get a Manager of the Jakarta Hilton, ing languages: Chinese, English, ment, Fort Baker: The document sense of your own brilliancy; un - after a death at the hotel: Please use side en - Hanukkah. French or Spanish. did not concern you. Please less, if you don’t detect the stu - tell the public not to kill them - trance.) President Nuclear Regulatory Commis - erase your initials and initial pidity within the words said – selves on hotel property if they Arthur Levine, George W, Bush sion Inspector: Were the two your erasure. and some by famous people. want to die. It only confounds President of teacher’s in a speech about Dresden nuclear plant operators President of Springfield Golf Some listed below are from us. They can do it in the river college, Columbia Univer - fighting terrorism: And, sleeping on the job? John Club on why a black applicant signs printed for the public by for example. sity: The fundamental problem there is no doubt in my mind – Hogan, Commonwealth Edison was rejected: We didn’t turn him officials; others are said by peo - Harewood Christian Discus - with being poor is that you don’t not one doubt in my mind – that supervisor: It depends on your down. We didn’t accept him. ple who believed themselves sion Group’s Parish magazine: have enough money. (Profound we will fail. definition of asleep. They were Job announcement by U.S. quite efficient enough to speak We shall be meeting on Wednes - deduction?) Another from our illustrious stretched out, their eyes were Department of Interior, National in public. Anyway, these were day, 11th April when the subject Secretary Donald Rumsfeld former president, George W, closed, and they were seated at Biological survey: Minorities, meant to entertain you – and will be: “Heaven. How do we on expectations that the U.S. Bush: Remember Lincoln, going their desks with their heads in women and the mentally chal - me. get there?” Transport is avail - would soon capture Osama Ben to his knees in times of trial in a nodding position. (I’d call that lenged are strongly encouraged Ohio Eagle Gazette: The able at 7:55 PM from the bus Laden: Until you have him – you the Civil War and all that stuff. relaxed, no?) to apply. health department says death stop opposite the Harewood don’t have him. You can’t be. And we are Treasury secretary Paul Major General Charles F. certificates are to be ordered Arms. How do we get there? President George W. Bush, blessed. So don’t feel sorry for – O’Neill: If you set aside Three Kuyk Jr.: The air force is pleased one week in advance of death. This was on the church door: speaking at a Menorah Lighting don’t cry for me Argentina. Mile Island and Chernobyl, the with the performance of the C- Keystone Heights Florida This is the gate of Heaven. Enter ceremony in the White House: We live in a world of rules safety record of nuclear is really 5A cargo plane, although having newspaper: The Labor Depart - ye all by this door. (This door is Osama Bin Laden would never and regulations and instruc - good. (So, whad ‘re you worried the wings fall off at 8,000 hours ment said the increase in unem - kept locked due to draft. Please understand the joys of tions, all designed to make our about, huh?) is a problem. (That’s all, folks.) 8 COMMUNITY GREECE THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 7-13, 2017 Biometric Greek Passports Rank 6th in World GOINGS ON... n JaNuarY 7 feature the annual cutting of the ATHENS – Breaking a long-standing needed a visa to travel to the United Germans can travel to 158 countries CHICAGO, IL – The National Hel - vasilopita breads with the pro - reputation for being insecure, Greek States – which ranks only two spots freely, followed by the Swedes with 157 lenic Museum, 333 S Halsted St. ceeds of the vasilopita going to biometric passports now are safe enough ahead ahead, in a fourth-place tie with countries. in Chicago, is celebrating the Saint Basil’s Academy from our to be ranked sixth in the world for travel, Singapore, Denmark, Italy, the In the 3rd position are Finland, New Year with the annual bless - Ladies Philoptochos group. The letting holders visit 153 countries Netherlands, Belgium, Malaysia, Norway, Switzerland, France, Spain, South Korea ing and cutting of the Vasilopita, event also includes music by DJ- without needing a visa. and Japan. and the UK. while at fifth are Austria, a popular tradition in Greek and Salonica Boys and a live auction Greece is tied with Ireland, Canada The Passport Index is an indicator of Luxembourg and Portugal. Greek American homes. Join us of a bike and two iPads. Tickets and New Zealand. the strength of the passports of all In last, in 95th place, is the war-ridden at 1:30 PM on Saturday, Jan. 7 for the event go on sale after That was the finding of the Passport countries based on the number of terrorist haven of Afghanistan, where the to experience this special holiday Christmas – Adults: $20, Chil - Index annual report showing a huge countries they can travel to without visa. holder of the countries passport can event. Find the hidden coin for dren: $5, with a maximum family improvement from the days when Greeks At the top of the list is Germany as travel to only 24 countries without a visa. good luck and a surprise gift. This cost of $50. Please join us at our year, the Museum will feature Woburn Hellenic Community traditional Greek folk songs and Center for a fun and affordable New Year’s carols by two musi - family night! Reservations may cians from the Odeion School of be made by contacting Georgiann SNF Invites Greek State to Accept Delivery of SNFCC Music- Eftihia Papageorgiou vo - Koutrouba phone 978-658-8170 calist, pianist, director of Odeion, or email [email protected] or TNH Staff and lecturer of Music at Wright Wilma Thomas 781-935-0143 or College. Petros Dragoumis plays email [email protected]. bass and guitar, teaches music at Snow day will be the next day, ATHENS – Ten years after the Odeion, and is the author of sev - Sunday, Jan. 15 after church. Stavros Niarchos Foundation eral music books. The music is (SNF) initially announced its in - sponsored by the Hellenic Amer - n JaNuarY 15 tention to proceed with a large- ican Women’s Council. This fam - NASHUA, NH – Joy Scavenger scale grant for the creation of the ily-friendly event is free with mu - Hunt at St. Philip Greek Ortho - Stavros Niarchos Foundation seum admission and no RSVP is dox Church, 500 West Hollis Cultural Center (SNFCC), the required. Street in Nashua, on Sunday, Jan. moment has finally arrived: the 15 “Mission: Possible—The Se - SNF invites the Greek State (GS) n JaNuarY 8 quel!” Last year’s Joy (grades 3 – to accept delivery of the project MANHATTAN – Annunciation 6) scavenger hunt was truly awe - and begin operating it for the Greek Orthodox Church, 302 some. Now, it’s time for the se - benefit of society at large. West 91st Street in Manhattan, quel—another adventurous hunt On December 29, SNF was set invites all to attend the annual with some fun and inspirational to extend the official invitation Blessing of the Hudson River on new twists. The activity takes to the GS, in order for the latter Sunday, Jan. 8. Orthros 8:45 AM, place after Sunday School and a to certify the completion of the Divine Liturgy 10 AM with the quick bite at Fellowship Hour. construction works and to initi - Blessing of the Hudson immedi - Younger siblings are more than ate the delivery process of the ately after the Divine Liturgy. Our welcome to come, too. Contact SNFCC to its final owner, the Yiorgis YerolYmbos community will process down to Brandy Chetsas for details or to Greek society, through the enti - Night view of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center the Hudson River where we will help out: ties representing it. The official hold a service, blessing the wa - [email protected]. delivery ceremony is set for Feb - their actions at the SNFCC and grants, totaling €5 million each, been realized by visitors who ters of the historic body of water. ruary 23. will also continue to be super - towards the NLG and the GNO, visit the SNFCC daily and help More information is available by CAMBRIDGE, MA – Boston By February, the staffing of vised by the competent Min - for supporting the transition to make this enormous enterprise phone 212-724-2070 or email Lykeion Ellinidon and the Greek the organization SNFCC SA will istries of Education and Culture, their new facilities. better day-by-day with their en - [email protected] American Political Club Vasilopita be complete, and the new Board respectively. Throughout the creation of thusiastic and constructive feed - Event at the Greek American Po - of Directors will be determined. The SNF officially will with - the SNFCC, thousands of people back. PORT WASHINGTON, NY – litical Club, 288 Green Street in In summation, the SNFCC SA is draw fully from the project’s contributed – employees in every On February 23, when the of - Archangel Michael Greek Ortho - Cambridge at 7:30 PM on Sun - responsible for the management management and will have no specialty, construction, and or - ficial delivery ceremony is sched - dox Church located at 100 Fair - day, Jan. 15. Our annual Greek of all facilities, the operation of involvement in the management ganization/operation consul - uled to take place, the SNFCC – way Drive in Port Washington, New Year’s celebration, with the Stavros Niarchos Park and of SNFCC SA or administration tants, the Special Advisory Com - a contemporary and lively space continues the tradition on Sun - vasilopita for all, kalanta, music the organization of cultural, ed - of any other involved organiza - mittee of the GS (which open to all – will hand over the day, Jan. 8 with the Blessing of and dancing. No cover charge. ucational, and sports events at tion. However, the Foundation monitored the project’s progress keys to its real owners, its pre - the Waters at North Hempstead To reserve a table, call Dionysia the SNFCC. The SNFCC SA or - intends to continue to actively consistently, despite the changes sent and future visitors. Beach Park, following the Divine at 857-930-8086. ganization is supervised by the support the SNFCC, at least for in government), participants in SNF co-President Andreas Liturgy. More information is Ministry of Finance. The SNFCC’s the next five years, with grants apprenticeship programs, and Dracopoulos stated: “We are available by phone 516-944-3180 TARPON SPRINGS, FL – Pavlo in Board of Directors will have of up to €50 million. These many others. proud to deliver the SNFCC to or online www. Concert at the Tarpon Springs seven members, with two or grants will cover operating ex - The synergies developed be - its final owner, the Greek society, archangelmichaelchurch.org. Performing Arts Center, 324 Pine three members originating from penses for SNFCC SA, as well as tween experts in a multitude of with the highest standards and Street (Inside City Hall) in Tarpon the Greek National Opera and programming and event costs for projects, both in Greece and expectations. With the start of NASHUA, NH – Vasilopita Cele - Springs, presents Mediterranean the National Library of Greece, the SNFCC. Furthermore, the abroad, and the partnerships the New Year, a new era begins, bration at St. Philip Greek Ortho - Music Wrapped in Contemporary while the mayor of Kallithea will SNF intends to continue organiz - built between all the people who both for the project and for all dox Church, 500 West Hollis Pop on Sunday, Jan. 15 at 7PM. always be represented on the ing—through exclusive grants— handled day-to-day tasks con - of us at the Foundation. Street in Nashua on Sunday, Jan. Born in Toronto to Greek parents, Board. The remaining members free to the public, one-week-long cerning the creation of the We will now be able to re - 8 11AM- 2PM. Agape will once Pavlo has made a name for him - will be appointed by the Ministry events at the SNFCC, every June. SNFCC, also constitute a signifi - motely witness the growth of the again sponsor our parish Vasilo - self by offering a musical amal - of Finance. As noted in the SNF news re - cant part of the project’s legacy. SNFCC and contribute to it, to pita Celebration. At the close of gam he simply calls “Mediter - Along with the delivery to the lease, the SNFCC creation These dynamic, durable and in - the best of our abilities, along - Liturgy, Fr. Alex will lead us in ranean music” – a blend of Greek, GS, the relocation process of the process was long, though ex - novative synergies connected side our other grantmaking the Vasilopita Service, and then flamenco, Latin, and even Balkan National Library of Greece (NLG) tremely concentrated for a pro - people from various countries around the world. Apart from be - several of our parish leaders will flavors, wrapped in contemporary and the Greek National Opera ject of such magnitude and com - and many different backgrounds, ing the Foundation’s largest sin - be invited to come forth and re - pop. Currently on tour promoting (GNO) to the SNFCC also begins. plexity. So far, the Foundation’s promoting the central philoso - gle grant, the SNFCC is a dream ceive a piece on behalf of their his second PBS special “Live in Under the current timetable, the total grant for the construction phy of the SNFCC, that of a com - come true, something we wish ministry or program committee Kastoria” Greece, Pavlo is still dri - process is expected to be com - and equipping of the SNFCC has munity which is open and recep - to share with all those already members and those they serve. ven by his father’s famous words: pleted by October. The two in - reached €617 million, a sum tive to all. embracing it with their pres - This is always an uplifting event. “Have the courage to do what you stitutions will continue to expand which includes two individual This spirited synergy has also ence.” Don’t miss it! Contact Sia Juris if love, and the drive to do it well.” you would like to offer a Vasilo - Tickets are $25 for General Ad - pita on this special day for our mission. For groups of 10 people parish by phone: 603-888-4681. or more, tickets are $24. Member and student tickets are $23. Tick - Ancient Greek Coin Found in Jerusalem Wall n JaNuarY 14 ets and more information are MANHATTAN – Rebetiko Night available online www.tar - with Rebet Asker at Drom, lo - ponarts.org/event/pavlo-in-con - Continued from page 1 cated at 85 Avenue A between cert. 5th and 6th Streets in Manhat - the power of the Greeks,” said tan. Doors open at 10PM, show n JaNuarY 19-22 Lieber. After the Maccabees begins at 10:30. Among the per - HOBE SOUND, FL – St. John overthrew the Greek empire formers scheduled are Christos Chrysostom Greek Orthodox their new coins bore the image Papadopoulos on bouzouki and Church Festival, 10605 SE Fed - of the menorah – the candelabra vocals, Rena Tsapelas vocals, eral Hwy (US1) in Hobe Sound. prescribed in the Bible and Mavrothis Kontanis on oud and Folk dancing and live entertain - found in the Jewish Temple in vocals, and Costas Baltazanis on ment, Greek food and pastries, Jerusalem. guitar. Special Menu: Kofte or vendors, games and rides. Free “More than 2,000 years after, chicken souvlaki, mezze plate- admission on Thursday Jan. 19 it’s so exciting to see that the dolmadakia, tzatziki, feta, and and on Friday Jan. 20 until 4 PM. ancient clues are here still wait - hummus, glass of wine, beer, or Friday-Sunday admission is $3, ing for us to find them,” Lieber raki/ouzo. Advance ticket price kids 12 and under free. More in - said. is $35 with dinner. Online tickets formation is available online will be on sale until 5PM on the www.saintjohn.fl.goarch.org and day of the show. If available, by phone: 772-546-8180. some tickets may be purchased at the door. Table reservations n Note to our readerS can be made online at This calendar of events section is dromnyc.com or by phone: 212- a complimentary service to the 777-1157. Greek American community. All parishes, organizations and insti - WOBURN, MA – 100th Anniver - tutions are encouraged to e-mail sary Family Celebration at An - their information regarding the nunciation Greek Church 70 event 3-4 weeks ahead of time, Montvale Avenue in Woburn on and no later than Monday of the Saturday Jan. 14 5PM-10PM. A week before the event, to eng - family dinner dance to celebrate [email protected] our 100th Anniversary will also om

This Week in Greek History

Compiled by Eraklis Diamataris

JaNuarY 2: On this day in 1897, Greek- American professional wrestler Christos Theofilou or better known as Jim Londos was born in Argos, Greece. Jim Londos (1897-1975) was one of the most popular professional wrestlers of the 1930s and 40s. Londos’ career highlight was when he www.greekKitchennyc.com won the very first title that the National Wrestling Asso - ciation awarded on June 6, 1930. Due to his early domi - nance in the sport and being a pioneer for wrestling in America, Jim “The Golden Greek” Londos was inducted ister of Education and Religious Affairs from 2011-2012 and as into the Professional the rector of Athens University from 2000-2006. Georgios Babionitis Wrestling Hall of Fame. In is probably best know to the linguistic world and Greeks around addition to his wrestling ex - the world best as author of the Dictionary of Modern Greek which ploits, Londos never forgot was published in 1998 which achieved great commercial success his Greek roots and fre - and is sometimes referred colloquially as the “Babiniotis dictio - quently donated a charity nary”. that helped Greek orphans of WWII, consequently getting JaNuarY 7: On this day in 1904, Emmanuel Roides died in award recognition from U.S. Athens, Greece. Roides was born in Hermoupolis, Syros on June President Richard Nixon and 28 1836 and would go on to become one of Greece’s most important King Paul of Greece. journalists, writers and translators. It was Roides who first trans - lated the celebrated works of Edgar Allan Poe into Greek. In 1866 JaNuarY 6: On this day Roides who regularly wrote scathing satire wrote his most contro - Follow us on Facebook: in 1939, Georgios Babiniotis versial novel. Pappissa Ioanna, which investigated the existence of was born in Athens, Greece. a female Catholic Pope in the 9th century. The scathing attacks on Eθνικός Κήρυξ / The National Herald Babiniotis is a linguist and the Catholic church in the book were perceived by the Greek Or - philologist who also served thodox Church as really a critique on them and so excommunicated as Loukas Papademos’ Min - Emmanuel Roides from the church. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 7-13, 2017 GREECE CYPRUS 9

Photos: AP Photo/Yorgos KArAhAlis AnD euroKinissi New Year in Greece Fireworks explode over the temple of the Parthenon at the Acropolis hill during the New Year celebrations in Athens, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017. The raising of the Greek flag at the Acropolis by members of the Greek military. The traditionally-dressed Evzones march by the Parthenon on the Acropolis. These symbols of Greece and the connection to the glorious past inspire hopes for the future and a healthy and Happy New Year 2017. Tsipras Still Seeking Political Solution to Bailout

TNH Staff whether to put back into place a Chancellor Angela Merkel, They were included in con - debt relief plan they agreed in whose country is putting up the ditions as part of a staggered ATHENS – Seeing enemies December, only to see Tsipras bulk of three bailouts of 326 bil - third bailout of 86 billion euros everywhere, Prime Minister prove critics right when he im - lion euros ($339.91 million) ($89.3 billion), most of which Alexis Tsipras is still hoping for mediately handed out 617 mil - saw him return to Athens hasn’t been yet paid out as renewed debt relief and some lion euros ($643.32 million) in empty-handed but the newspa - Tsipras, plummeting in the polls, way to escape imposing more holiday pension bonuses in a bid per Kathimerini said he’s still tells Greeks he will resist aus - austerity. to halt his slide in polls for reneg - confident he can turn around terity while imposing it simul - Eurozone officials are due to ing on anti-austerity promises. his freefall – or blame outside taneously and hasn’t agreed to meet next week to discuss His meeting with German forces if he doesn’t. implement some of the condi - The paper said if he’s forced tions so far. to call snap elections if negotia - Taxes and surcharges are tions with the country’s lenders now in effect on everything over terms of a long-stalled from fuels to tobacco, including third bailout of 86 billion euros on electronic cigarettes as well ($89.67 billion) fail that he as a staple of Greek life: coffee. would have an excuse for it. NEW DEMOCRACY LEADS AP Photo Finance Minister Euclid After a government handout A burned vehicle sits in the parking lot of the police station in Tsakalotos is due to meet EU of - to pensioners, SYRIZA closed a Belford Roxo, Brazil, Dec. 30, 2016, matching the description ficials this month in an attempt gap with the New Democracy of the car rented by Greece's ambassador to Brazil Amiridis. to win their support . Conservatives to 6.3 percent. New Democracy spokesman The lead had been 15 per - Vassilis Kikilias accused the gov - cent and more in earlier polls ernment of “giving everything before Prime Minister Alexis Greek Police Team in Brazil to the creditors in exchange for Tsipras, defying international staying in power. It also admits creditors, gave out 617 million that it’s discussing a new, fourth euros ($649.36 million) to for Briefing on Ambassador memorandum, but it calls it a lower-income pensioners whose ‘fiscal path.’” benefits he had slashed far more Continued from page 1 Greek ministers will be asked than that before. to sign a memorandum agreeing The poll by Kappa Research Oliveira has denied any role to cooperate in holding down published Dec. 31 gave New in the alleged plot. According to spending to meet 2017 fiscal Democracy 22.8 percent to 16.5 Magalhaes, Francoise said she targets. percent for SYRIZA. couldn’t stop Filho from killing TAX WAVE Asked which party they be - her husband and insisted she AP Photo/Yorgos KArAhAlis The government, reneging lieved more likely to win if snap was not at home at the time of Fugitive Domestic Terrorist Captured on anti-austerity promises, im - polls were called in the near fu - the crime. posed a new wave of taxes that ture, 61 percent responded New But the police investigator Pola Roupa, 48, center, is led by anti-terrorist officers to a began Jan. 1. The so-called Democracy and 21 percent said in a press conference that prosecutor's office in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Greek SYRIZA “Tax Tsunami” is part SYRIZA, while 23.5 percent be - the “evidence clearly puts the police on Thursday recaptured a convicted far-left militant of Tsipras’ surrender to interna - lieve conservative leader Kyri - Ambassador’s wife as a co-au - wanted for more than four years after she absconded during tional creditors whom he vowed akos Mitsotakis preferable to thor of the crime.” her trial on domestic terrorism charges. to battle. Tsipras, who got 18 percent. He said she started plotting with her lover to kill the ambas - sador after the couple had a se - rious fight three days before Christmas. Greece, Cyprus Teaming Up for Divided Island Talks “All our evidence suggests that her motivation was to use the financial resources left by Continued from page 1 unity hopes are in the news the ambassador so she could en - The murdered Greek Ambas - again even though a deal has joy life with Sergio,” the police sador Kyriakos Amiridis. blame if the summit fails to pro - foiled two dozen diplomats for officer, Magalhaes said. duce a result, and what would more than 40 years, including a The first signs that Amiridis a physical fight with the ambas - happen if there is a settlement, line of his UN predecessors who had been murdered emerged sador, and he had no choice other Kathimerini reported. all failed to make an inch of late Dec. 29, when police found than to hit the ambassador and Kotzias is due to go to New progress. blood spots believed to be his kill him,” Pontes said, according York for talks with new UN Sec - Eide, the UN Secretary Gen - on a sofa inside the house the to CNN. retary-General Antonio Guterres eral’s Special Adviser on Cyprus, couple kept in Nova Iguacu, “He says he was in despera - about Cyprus ahead of the wrote in the Cyprus Weekly where the wife’s family lives. tion and didn’t know what to do, Geneva summit. newspaper that Anastasiades Filho told police that he given what had happened, so he Guterres replaced Ban Ki- and Akinci had demonstrated strangled the ambassador dur - asked a cousin for help and they moon, whose 10-year term political will and leadership to ing a fight, but the blood evi - went to make the ambassador’s ended in outright failure to end the conflict even as they dence found on the scene makes body disappear.” bring a deal he said was right squabble endlessly and the talks his claim unlikely, Magalhaes Besides Moreira, the ambas - around the corner repeatedly as collapsed earlier in December. said. Neighbors said they did sador’s widow and the officer’s he joins a long list of diplomats “They recognize that the sta - not hear any shots, leading po - cousin are also being questioned, who couldn’t make it happen. tus quo is unacceptable and un - lice to believe the policeman Pontes said. Tsipras was to hold meetings sustainable, and that the current stabbed Amiridis. Pontes said investigators think separately with rival party lead - talks offer the best opportunity The investigation showed Oliveira ordered the killing. No ers in a bid to show Greek con - for a solution,” said Eide. Amiridis’ body was removed charges have been filed. sensus, including major opposi - “The island stands on the from the house in a carpet at “She only told us that her tion leader and New Democracy cusp of reaping real political and the same time that Oliveira ar - lover - let’s call him that-- the mil - Conservative leader Kyriakos economic benefits not only for rived with their 10 year-old itary policeman, was the author Mitsotakis; Democratic Align - AP Photo/Yorgos KArAhAlis Cypriots, but also beyond the is - daughter, who did not see the of the crime, executed this crime ment (former PASOK) chief Fofi Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias (L ), escorts UN envoy land across the wider region,” body of her dead father, Magal - against her husband,” Pontes Genimata; Communist Party Espen Barth Eide, ahead of their talks in Athens, Jan. 4. he added. haes said. said. “She denies taking part.” (KKE) General Secretary Dim - “The peaceful reunification Police believe a body found Agencia Brasil reported the of - itris Koutsoumbas, To Potami strate whether its public rhetoric himself, Akinci, the United of the island next year could of - in a burned-out car that ficer killed Amiridis inside the leader Stavros Theodorakis, about wanting a solution to the States, and the UN. fer a historic opportunity to fi - Amiridis had rented on Dec. 21 Amiridis’ home in Nova Iguaçu. Union of Centrists President Cyprus problem will be trans - Turkish-Cypriots made up nally turn the page of history in belongs to the ambassador, but Pontes said the cousin told po - Vassilis Leventis, and the head formed into a specific proposal,” just 18 percent of the island’s Cyprus.” If it does, it will be the forensics experts are still work - lice Moreira offered “to pay him of Independent Greeks (ANEL), he said. population in 1974, but they first time he’s been right about ing to confirm that it is him. 80,000 reals (about $24,574) 30 Panos Kammenos, Tsipras’ coali - Any such proposal must “re - control more than a third of its it. Brazil’s government has of - days after the crime, a period af - tion partner. spect international legality and territory. While both sides have made fered its condolences to Greece ter which they thought there TALKING TURKEY be consistent with the status of UPBEAT EIDE some concessions the biggest is - over his death. wouldn’t be any more problems.” Anastasiades said Turkey the Republic of Cyprus as an EU Eide has been predicting im - suers – property return and se - The Greek Embassy website “All are under temporary ar - must now show it really wants member state.” minent deals since 2015 and curity among them – prevented in Brazil says Amiridis started rest for 30 days for the ambas - the divided island to finally be Akinci said the Turkish army been relentlessly optimistic de - any significant advances at the his career as diplomat in 1985 sador’s death,” Pontes said.” As reunited. will stay even at the risk of be - spite constantly dashed hopes same they said they were. in Athens and became Greece’s we said before, this was a tragic, The talks “will be the first ing a deal-breaker. Anastasi - and his prognostications failing. There also remains the ques - top diplomat in Brazil in 2016. cowardly act.” Brazil’s President time that Turkey will be brought ades said, “There remain signif - Eide said with the resump - tion of whether any prospective He was Greece’s Ambassador to said the police would conduct a face to face with its own respon - icant differences on substantive tion of talks that this could be deal would get past referenda Libya and worked as consul in complete investigation. sibilities,” Anastasiades said in issues fundamental to a Cyprus an “historic opportunity.” put before Cypriots and Turks Rio from 2001-2004. a televised New Year’s message. solution,”undercutting the opti - That essentially repeats what on the other side of the long-di - WHAT THEY SAID (Material from the Associated Turkey “will have to demon - mism expressed repeatedly by he says almost every time the vided island. “He (Moreira) says he got into Press was used in this report) 10 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 7-13, 2017

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Because no matter how much you search, By Stavros T. Stavridis Entente (Britain, France, and George, and French Premier gust 1922. In September 1922, you cannot find anything positive to point out. Russia) stance of Venizelos and Georges Clemenceau gave the Kemalists defeated the Greek Not due to the lack of isolated individual actions that fill Asia Minor (also known as King Constantine's policy of Venizelos permission to land Army and the result for Greece your soul with pride – such as the grandmothers on Lesbos Anatolia and Turkey) is a region benevolent neutrality. These two Greek troops at Smyrna. On May was huge refugee problem re - who gave milk to the refugees. that was once inhabited by opposing foreign policies polar - 15, Greek troops disembarked quiring massive international Or the wonderful Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Cen - Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian ized Greek society into two rival in Smyrna. The streets of aid. The American relief organi - ter, which was completed and will be handed over to the public Christians along with Muslim camps, the Venizelists and Roy - Smyrna were lined with happy zations played an important role in about two months – more on that to follow. Turks, Kurds and Arabs. It was a alists. Such differences led to the cheering Greeks who hailed the in feeding, clothing and provid - What is missing is the collective national effort, and most of region of major European power formation of two rival adminis - arrival of the Greek contingents ing accommodation for the all the leadership necessary to inspire, design, and implement rivalries. The Christians were ei - trations in 1916. In Venizelos' as heroes and liberators. The Greek and Armenian refugees. a plan that will at least provide the conditions to give hope to ther massacred or forced to flee three memoranda addressed to signing of the Treaty of Sevres LAUSANNE TREATY, the people – and the lenders – that Greece is indeed a European by the Ottoman State and Ke - the King in early 1915, he sug - on August 10, 1920, was the THEN AND NOW country with the necessary forces that will bring it out of the malists during the years 1894- gested that Greece had a unique closest Greece got into achieving The Treaty of Lausanne signed crisis. 1923. Some of these refugees opportunity to fulfil her territo - its Great Idea. on July 24, 1923, established What is missing, then, is a capable, qualified, and responsible started new lives in the United rial aspirations in Asia Minor by peace between Greece and the leadership. Not only at the top, from where everything starts, States. Only a small number of bringing in some 800,000 new For 90 years, the Great Turkey. This treaty still governs but also insofar as the ministers and the few thousand senior Greeks reside in the Turkish Re - inhabitants into a Greater their relations in 2016 despite officials who "run" the country. public that was established by Greece. There were further op - Idea served as a tool of Turkish President Erdogan who Thus, almost every day we hear the most incredible things Mustapha Kemal (Ataturk) in portunities in being “a party at Greek foreign policy. wants to tear up it and reclaim from people who are unworthy and unfit to have any role in October 1923. the end of the war to decisions lost territories. There was a com - governing the country, no matter the situation, not least under RISE OF GREEK regarding the final settlement of Young King Alexander died pulsory exchange of populations the present circumstances. NATIONALISM Constantinople and the Straits from a monkey bite in October between these two countries How, then, can one expect to tackle such a serious crisis In the early part of the 19th question." He was prepared to 1920 and the electoral defeat of which excluded the great major - with this kind of leadership? How can one ask that Greece be century, Velestinlis Rigas (1757- sacrifice Kavala to Bulgaria to Venizelos in November opened ity of Greeks who lived in Con - respected abroad when its representatives cannot compare to 98) and Adamantios Korais keep her neutral in return for the door for the return of Con - stantinople (Istanbul) and on Im - their foreign counterparts? (1748-1833) were imbued with the great riches of Asia Minor. stantine to reclaim his throne. bros and Tenedos. The issue for us was never ideological or personal. It is a the ideas of the French revolu - However, King Constantine was The king continued with Venize - The Turkish government vio - matter of our country and its people. We think, for example, in tion. Both of them used the writ - unmoved which lead to the dis - los’ Asia Minor policy by main - lated Greek minority rights un - snow-covered Athens, about how many of our fellow Greeks ten word as a way of raising the missal of Venizelos in March taining a large Greek army in der articles 37-45 of the Treaty will freeze from the lack of heating and how many children national consciousness of their 1915 and again in October 1915 Asia Minor. For the Entente- of Lausanne during the pogrom will go to sleep hungry and in the cold. Greek compatriots to liberate over the landing of Anglo-French Britain, France and Italy-Con - of September 1955 and expul - But we also think about the soldier, from Evros to the Aegean themselves from Ottoman rule. forces in Salonika. stantine’s return signaled a sions in 1964 over the Cyprus islands and all the way to Cyprus, who has no idea of what to - The Greek Kingdom came into Finally, Constantine was de - change of direction in Allied pol - issue. It is estimated that around morrow may bring. existence with the assistance of throned by the Entente on June icy towards Greece and offered 1,500-2,500 Greeks still remain Nonetheless, as we enter the New Year, I feel that the end Great Britain, France, and Russia 14, 1917, and Venizelos re - the opportunity to open discus - in Istanbul in the early part of of being ruled by unsuitable individuals is near. That since the in 1830. There were many turned to Athens to form a new sions with the Turkish national - the 21st century compared to people have tried and retried the demagogues, they will also Greeks who lived outside the government. Venizelos finally ist leader, Mustapha Kemal. Con - the 120,000 that lived in 1922- want to try people with education and experience, people who boundaries of the small Greek declared war on the Central stantine was distrusted by the 23. speak the "language" of the lenders as well as that of the mar - Kingdom. It should be noted the Powers: Germany, Austro-Hun - Allies because of his known sup - The islands of Imbros and kets: proud Greeks who cannot stand to see the country drag - three Powers nominated to the gary, Bulgaria and Ottoman Em - port and sympathy for the Cen - Tenedos located near the en - ging its feet and being vilified internationally. Greek throne, Otto, the King of pire on 27 June 1917. tral Powers during the First trance to the Dardanelles (Turk - I refer, naturally, to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a man whom I have Greece 1833-62, and King PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE World War. ish Straits) once had a popula - known for many years and therefore believe he is the person George I, who reigned from Eleftherios Venizelos outlined In July 1921, the Greeks tion of 9,000 Greek inhabitants. who will bring back hope and lost dignity to Greece and its 1863-1913, and in essence, the Greece’s territorial claims in launched its summer offensive During the Balkan Wars 1912- people. Greeks had no say in the choice Paris on February 3 and 4, 1919. capturing the towns of Esk - 13, Greece occupied these two As long as he selects the right officers – even among Hellenes of sovereign. Some of the Greek claims in - ishehr, Afion Karahissar and Ku - islands but Turkey regained abroad – which is something I believe he will do. Over the next ninety years, cluded: Smyrna, (Izmir) North - tahia in Asia Minor. From mid- them under the Lausanne treaty. the Great idea served as a tool ern Epirus (Southern Albania), August, they began the long trek Only a few hundred old men of Greek foreign policy which re - Thrace, Imbros, and Tenedos. across the central Anatolian and women live on the two is - sulted in an expansion of its ter - Britain and France supported the plateau with the objective of oc - lands today, with the great ma - Positive Signs from Trump ritory and population made pos - Greek claim to Smyrna whereas cupying the Turkish nationalists’ jority of the Greek inhabitants sible by victories in the Balkan Italy and the United States op - capital, Angora (Ankara). The having migrated to the United Wars of 1912-13 at the expense posed it. Greek and Kemalist armies were States, Canada, Australia, and The American Year of Trump has started off on the right of the Ottoman Empire and Bul - The Allied and Associated engaged in fierce combat on the Greece. foot. We hope it continues that way. garia. Powers (United States) were Sakaria River September 4-13, The concern with President-elect Donald Trump is that we GREECE AND WWI concerned at the Italian push with both sides suffering heavy Stavros T. Stavridis is a do not know what to expect. He is completely unpredictable, During the period of 1914- into Asia Minor and on May 5-6 losses. By late September, the historical author, history pro - which he considers a positive thing, but that is not always the 1917, Greece pursued two op - in Paris, President Wilson, Greeks retreated and a long fessor, and historical consul - case. He exudes the image of a revolutionary (which is not posing foreign policies: the pro- British Prime Minister Lloyd stalemate ensued until late Au - tant. such a bad idea, since the system needs a strong jolt) who wants to overturn everything and rebuild it overnight, according to his standards. Specifically, he recently opposed the move of Republicans in the House of Representatives to curtail the powers of the Did the Greek Experience Help Facilitate the Brexit? Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent body created ten years ago by the Democrats to review allegations of mis - conduct. In his tweet, although he characterizes this office as By Tom P. Avramis Greece, the refugee fiasco ex - values are not aligned with their the frontline of failed policies at “unfair”, he reprimands the House Republicans for having the ploded upon the EU, with Greece own and witness rapid change, a time when Greece could least wrong “priorities.” And just a few hours later, they put their The fallout from Brexit has left being caught at the vanguard of the popular sentiment "we are afford it. It also lay bare to the tails between their legs. millions stunned and searching the problem, with hundreds of losing our own country" has be - citizens of the EU the perception Though we do not think that Office is “unfair,” starting the for answers. How could such a thousands of refugees pouring come increasingly widespread. that neither the EU nor the U.S. legislative session by diminishing it is certainly the wrong pri - relatively young and novel con - into the already cash-strapped Many EU countries - especially can be depended upon. ority. And it raises a disturbing question: what were the House cept – the EU – start to unravel country through Turkey. And Britain - have been plagued with The inevitability of Brexit as a Republicans seeking to accomplish and what do they really so soon? While the answers to what was Greece's response? the challenges of receiving pri - result, it is little surprise that the fear? such a question may be varied, They marshaled their thin re - marily Muslim refugees and the people of Britain have had The second message is the news about Ford, which decided one need only look to Greece to sources and humanely re - associated problems of non-as - enough of the perils of globalism, to cancel its plans to build a new $1.6 billion assembly plant in understand what, arguably, is a sponded, both as a member EU similation that has resulted. as brought on by EU leadership Mexico, and instead create approximately 700 jobs in Michigan. key psychological component in state and a nation of charity and America, where art thou? There and American indifference, and As a candidate, Trump repeatedly accused Ford, among other the Brexit results. When the eco - hospitality; things for which was a time European countries decided to take matters into their companies, of not supporting the American market and Amer - nomic problems of EU member Greece has been famously known could look to America for lead - own hands in the voting booth in ican workers. And now, under his pressure, Ford backed out of Greece became a full-blown cri - for centuries. What was the EU ership. Not now. President order to control their own des - its plans. sis, the response – led by Ger - response to Greece? Obama long ago squandered any tinies. Greece has shown its part - That is certainly joyous news for the 700 employees and many (the biggest economic win - Do more! Never mind that credibility in foreign affairs as al - ner countries that the EU cannot their families. But is it also good news for the American econ - ner in the EU experiment) – was Greece was already treading wa - lies have been marginalized and be depended upon nor trusted in omy, as well as the global economy, with which it is so inextri - to impose what eventually in - ter. As Greece was struggling in hostile states rewarded. And re - their time of need, and America cably connected? volved these three stages: auster - the midst of its overwhelming hu - cently, almost as if on cue, Secre - showed them only empty rhetoric The danger is that it may result in a repeat of what happened ity, crippling austerity, and near- manitarian response, the EU tary of State, John Kerry, dou - (had Obama actually been serious in the 1920s: namely, a trade war in which one country imposes fatal austerity. pledged billions of Euros to bled-down and told a college about his "red line," it's doubtful retaliatory tariffs on another country’s products, which ulti - As we now know, all three of Turkey to please, pretty please, graduating class in the U.S. to the refugee crisis would have ever mately hurts international trade and facilitates wars. these stages failed, as most of the help. Greece was up to its elbows prepare to live in a world without developed as it did). The Brits - In today's global market it is impossible to control every world's foremost economists pre - actually doing something while borders. thanks in measure to the Greek business decision. dicted, because they did nothing the EU was pledging billions of What comforting words this experience - assessed the current On the other hand, Trump is behaving as any experienced to grow the economy, but instead Euros to Turkey for the hope of must have been to the people of landscape and voted accordingly. trader would: he is trying to reduce job losses and avoid weak - were punitive measures. help. Yet Turkey itself has been EU countries being overrun by Will other EU nations be far be - ening his tax base. Thus, he is correct in doing so. At each stage Greece was part of the problem and complicit refugees, and after having wit - hind? Immediately following the And, in that respect, it is a good example to follow. forced to succumb to the Ger - in helping create the crisis to be - nessed the treatment of Greece Brexit vote Italian ministers sent man-led EU agenda. At one point gin with. Turkey is not generally at German-led EU hands. Let's an ominous message to EU lead - the German Finance Minister a sacrificial country and, histori - not forget to add Obama's infa - ership: change or collapse. proclaimed that Greece must be cally, has not acted in the interest mous "red line" proclamation to Finally, following the Brexit gueSt edItorIaLS "taught a lesson." The signal to of any alliance it may be a mem - the mix, which opened the door vote – and to add insult to in - in last week’s commentary section, “greek orthodoxy: on the brink? other EU members was stay in ber of unless there is enough en - to the Russians intervening in jury and confirm the detach - some suggestions” was written by chris Andreas, a prominent econ - line and obey or you're dead, ticement to do so. NATO has of - Syria on Bashar al-Assad’s side - ment of EU leadership from both economically and possibly ten struggled to deal with an which revealed Obama as a straw their own populations – the EU omist who has worked at the greek orthodox Archdiocese for many as an EU member. While many often stubborn and overly-politi - man - and in turn led to the Syr - announced that talks with years. EU governments may have been cally motivated Turkey – unless ian refugee crisis reaching the Turkey on joining the EU were silent throughout these events - there is a pot to be sweetened. shores of Greece, and then to the to proceed on June 30th. France among the notable excep - Appeasement with Turkey does rest of the EU. The perception of Britain in return for Turkey? book · worm. - noun tions – the citizens of the EU were not a sound policy make, espe - America under Obama as a de - Good luck with that. EU leaders 1. One who spends much time reading or studying. certainly watching and taking in cially now as Turkey is led by a tached and withdrawn observer appear to have learned nothing 2. Any of various insects, especially booklice and what was unfolding in their dictatorial ruler with a dismal hu - has been sealed (the numerous and it’s business as usual. The silverfish, that infest books and feed on the paste "union." The message they were man rights record who doesn’t vacuums created by this presi - citizens of Britain may have be - in the bindings. getting was clear: when you're in think twice about jailing journal - dent have been gladly filled by gun a process that other EU Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English trouble don't expect assistance in ists and filing charges against unsavory players). The EU's mis - countries will carry forward. Language, 4th Edition recovering, rather prepare to be anyone who “insults” him (a guided and punitive actions Listening Germany? Who’s be - punished for your mistakes. As study of Turkish history would against Greece, coupled with ing taught a lesson now? The National Herald Bookstore the saying goes, with friends like be most enlightening to objective Obama's inaction in the Middle (718) 784-5255 this who needs enemies? minds). As citizens of EU coun - East at a time when some posi - Tom P. 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There was much more “qual - eral loans and other support half of the public or the eco - jections is not clear. has one every day. broadcasts and newspaper arti - ity relationship time” to have went to institutions judged “too nomic elite from which they The President-elect has sur - Pruitt has opined that “global cles, much like some might say been had with him. big to fail” while enterprises not come remains to be seen. prised many with his hard-boiled warming is a hoax.” He opposes about a departed pet: “it was All that said, here is a short in that category had to fend for Trump has promised to cut critique of gargantuan military the historic Paris agreement to only a dog.” tribute (in alphabetical order) to themselves. Obama also pro - corporate taxes, to simplify the boondoggles such as the F-35 reduce greenhouse gases and But the manner in which we some of the “B-list” celebrities vided massive federal assistance tax code, to ease or lift regula - fighter program. If this becomes other human byproducts that af - mourn the passing of specific who didn’t quite make the big to the auto industry. Not aided tions on business imposed after a serious goal and not just a me - fect the climate. The Paris agree - celebrities provides a glimpse headlines with their deaths this were citizens with foreclosed the Great Recession, to bargain dia sideshow, Trump will achieve ment signed by the United States into the unique prioritization of year, but whose passing made a homes and left undone was the better international trade agree - a reform memorably suggested and almost 200 other nations, importance we place on the phe - bigger impact on me than many task of rebuilding the nation’s ments, and to arrange for bil - by President Eisenhower over including China, India, and Rus - nomena in our world, which oc - of the “A-list” names: decaying infrastructure. sia, was possible only after years cupy space in our thoughts, and • Ron Glass (71): Best known Over the course of two of negotiations. hearts. as the witty, nattily-dressed Sgt. Obama administrations, those Obama has been a cautious For instance, consider the in - Ron Harris on the sitcom Barney institutions judged too big to fail president using traditional ternationally renowned musical Miller. Harris wrote books; he in - got even bigger and more pow - means to rebuild an economy in - impresario Prince Rogers Nelson spired me (as a kid watching erful, and a revived auto indus - herited in shambles. The new – commonly known as Prince – him) to do the same. try regained its status as an eco - president is far less traditional, who died in April at age 57. I • Pat Harrington, Jr. (86): nomic powerhouse. Economic a temperament apparent in his can absolutely understand how Played the lovable building su - growth reached 2.5% heading choices to head key federal so many people were crushed by perintendent Dwayne Schneider for 4% in 2017 with no inflation agencies. How Trump actually Prince’s passing, because on One Day at a Time. A unique of note. Unemployment fell to governs once he moves from through his music, he meant so and memorable character. under 5% while the Dow Jones campaign rhetoric to presiden - much to so many. But he meant • Gwen Ifill (61): Ifill was a Average rose to an all-time high tial action will become evident nothing to me. Absolutely noth - journalist best known for mod - of nearly $20,000, a sensational in the first hundred days of his ing. I never liked his music (I erating two general election vice improvement from its low of administration. Two years from even saw him in concert once, presidential debates (in 2004 $7,000. now, Americans will pass judg - having gone with a friend of and 2008). Having pored Obama forged a laudable ment on Trumponomics based mine – a huge fan – many years through those debates dozens of record on environmental protec - on results rather than promises. ago, and couldn’t wait for it to times in writing my dissertation, tion. He prohibited oil drilling be over). To me, my reaction to I felt as if she was almost a mem - on public land, off shore, and in Prof. Georgakas is Director of Prince’s death was little more ber of the household. the Artic. Responding to mass the Greek American Studies Pro - than it might have been to that • George Kennedy (91): Best- protests, he finally rejected the ject at Queens College – CUNY known for his Oscar-winning Keystone Pipeline. He also gave AP Photo/PAblo mArtinez monsivAis, file and Consulting Editor of role in Cool Hand Luke, but for substantial support to the solar President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama. CINEASTE magazine. The manner in which we me, he’ll always be JR’s nemesis mourn the passing of Carter McKay, on Dallas. specific celebrities • Joseph Mascolo (87): A ver - satile actor mostly known for his LETTER FROM ATHENS provides a glimpse into role as the perennial villain Ste - the unique prioritization fano Di Mera on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. His character of importance… revolutionized the “likable” bad Unsolicited Advice for Greece’s Next Prime Minister guy on soaps, and exemplified of any 57-year-old random the concept of killing off charac - stranger: “It’s a shame he died ters and later bringing them back Unless Greeks are gullible when they had to ace up his sleeve: stolen public art and non-exis - so young.” There was something to life. Stefano’s nickname, after enough to fall for Prime Minister eat their words and • Take the tent public art, of dirty streets sad about thinking back to Prince all, was the “Phoenix.” and Looney Left Alexis “Che” say they had no metro to work and unkempt lots. Then give the prancing around in his purple • John McLaughlin (89): The Tsipras’ deceit and lies for a choice but to obey, once in a while Mayor some money to do some - outfits, singing “1999,” “Kiss,” or political commentator hosted the third time (don’t bet against it) even while squawk - and listen to peo - thing “Raspberry Beret,” and now he’s McLaughlin Group TV show, not the next Prime Minister, and ing they weren’t. ple’s laments and • Make a deal with some dead. But for me, that was it. No having missed a week since even likely this year, New He also has a lot complaints and paint companies to give every - devastation. This is nothing 1982; he missed only one Democracy’s youthful Kyriakos going for him: he’s take the criticism one who wants it some paint to against Prince, mind you – just episode, while battling cancer, in Mitsotakis – son of a former only 48, has the with a grain of change the grey, concrete of the reality of how his life did not August. He died four days later. Greek leader – will be the next pedigree of his fam - salt. Listen. Listen. Athens and other cities into pas - affect me at all. • Theresa Saldana (61): An - Prime Minister, taking over the ily, was graduated • With your tels and colors On the other hand, I was other one who died far too sovereign equivalent of the Ti - summa cum laude bodyguards, walk • Subsidize rooftop solar much more saddened by the young, Saldana was the quintes - tanic. from Harvard – by aNdY down to a souvlaki panels for all buildings, along 2012 passing of Jon Lord, the sential “good gal” B-movie lead - And, unless he wants to add where he won a daBILIS stand to grab a with green roofs to cut down original keyboardist of my all- ing lady, starring in films like his name to that of Tsipras, for - Hoopes Prize for bite and hear an - cooling costs and add oxygen to time favorite band, Deep Purple. Nunzio and Defiance, among mer Premier and then-New scholarly work on Special to other earful of the air over the capital city, Far more people – particularly in others. Democracy leader Antonis research – was an The National Herald people telling you Thessaloniki, Patra and other the United States, know Prince • Alan Thicke (69): Techni - Samaras and half-term Prime economic analyst at what this country communities than know Jon Lord – and that cally, Alan Thicke shouldn’t be Minister and then-leader of the Chase Manhattan Bank in Lon - needs even if they have less of a • Bring in Greek-American is precisely my point. Mourning on this list, as his death received former PASOK Anti-Socialists don, fulfilled his military duty clue than you IRS agents to audit tax returns is in the eye of the beholder. enough “A-list” headlines. But George Papandreou to that of in Greece – unlike some celebri - • Take a taxi and talk to the and have a rich professional sit Then, there are celebrities though he is best known as the deposed leaders of the Eco - ties and rich kids who duck it – driver and ask him to show you across from them and be told: who have faded from the spot - Dr. Jason Seaver, the dad on the nomic Occupation Era, Mitso - got a Master’s Degree in Busi - where the poor people live and “You have three cars, two light, and therefore effectively sitcom Growing Pains, I will for - takis will have to do something ness Administration from Har - identify a couple for you houses, a boat, and live a luxu - “ended their relationship” with ever remember him as host of other than spout platitudes. vard and a Master’s in Interna - • Put the young to work rious life and declare an income us, even while they’re still alive. Thicke of the Night, a fleeting, That will just get him get tional Relations at Stanford, and • Have Easter in the home of 15,000 euros. One – you’re So, as for the pleasure we de - early 1980s late night rival to steamrolled as well by the coun - worked as a bank venture capi - of a poor family and have your going to jail. Two – all those as - rived from their existence, that Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. try’s owners, the Quartet of the talist in Athens. chef prepare their dinner so they sets now belong to the Greek had long faded before their lives The show propelled Arsenio Hall European Union-European Cen - What he doesn’t have is can, just once, eat the way you people.” That’s what’s called an ended. One such example is – Thicke’s sidekick – to stardom. tral Bank-European Stability knowing what it’s like to live and your people do incentive for other cheats who Muhammad Ali, who also died • Abe Vigoda (94): Vigoda Mechanism-International Mon - without, having to scrape to - • Walk around Athens and will pay up instead of having earlier this year. Ali is unques - played Detective Phil Fish, also etary Fund. gether pennies for a souvlaki; look at the disgrace you see, of the same happen to them tionably one of my all-time fa - on Barney Miller, and Sal Tessio He's got a lot deal with, start - getting on a bus or the metro to • File a measure to cut the vorite sports figures. Though he in The Godfather. He lived to the ing with trying to explain a dou - slog to work; living from check- Parliament from 300 to 200 rose to stardom even before I ripe old age of 94, though People ble-reverse on his own role as to-check (or without one); wait - members. Cut the size of the was born, I lived as a child magazine mistakenly bumped Administrative Reform Minister ing for four hours in a public Cabinet in half and hire minis - through the latter part of his him off at 60, in 1982. I once in a New Democracy-PASOK hospital emergency ward to see ters with actual experience in championship years. The back saw him jogging around the coalition when he directed the an underpaid, overworked doc - their portfolio, and tell them to page of the New York Daily reservoir in Central Park. firing thousands of workers. tor; living in a cold apartment ride the bus, metro, go to a sou - News, featuring Ali standing over • Alan Young (96): Though He said he’d do it on merit because you can’t afford to buy vlaki stand and follow your ex - George Foreman, whom he had his last name was “Young,” he after evaluating them but didn’t, oil with jacked-up taxes and cut ample just knocked out, to regain the lived to be very old. Young was preferring to toss bodies off a subsidies, or worrying about be - • Take away the privileges of heavyweight championship of the lovable straight man, Wilbur cliff without looking or caring ing fired. Parliament workers and the ex - the world, with the banner head - Post, owner of that famous talk - if some people who were com - SLUM DUNK tra pay MPs get for allegedly at - line “How Ali Did It,” adorned ing horse on the eponymous sit - petent and actually worked Those are serious detriments, tending committee meetings the wall of my room for years. com, Mister Ed. were thrown away to protect his the kind that can skew your that are part of their job After losing the title to Leon party’s favorites. thinking when you’re making • Hike the pay of doctors and Spinks early in 1978, I cheered Thanks for the memories. He helped impose austerity policies affecting the lives of nurses and provide free contin - wildly as he regained it that Sep - measures then but now says he’s millions of people who are de - uing career courses tember. Constantinos E. Scaros' latest opposed to them – kind of – but pending on your decisions to • Make shipping tycoons – Yet when he passed away in book, Grumpy Old Party (about he’s also told the Quartet he’s make their fate. your people – pay taxes June, it wasn’t such a shocker. the 2016 presidential election), reform-friendly and willing to So here’s some thoughts for And don’t promise you’ll re - He had been retired for 35 years. is available for purchase on do it again: to save the country, the incoming Premier, unless verse austerity. Try the truth. The many blows he took to the amazon.com and in bookstores the same reasons given by Pa - Tsipras pulls another dead rab - head over his long and illustrious nationwide. pandreou, Samaras and Tsipras bit out of the hat or has a fixed Kyriakos Mitsotakis [email protected] 12 TRAVEL THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 7-13, 2017 Kardamyli: Agamemnon’s Gift to Achilles and the Muses’ Gift to Us

By Aurelia Smeltz by approximately 500 people; cialties, fine arts and crafts, bric- the central area, or agora, with a-brac, glass beads, antiques, at - “Seven well-peopled cities will I shops and tavernas side by side, tire, and accessories. Many of give him, is compact and one can walk the garments are made of the The first of which is Kardamyli from one end to the other in a softest and finest pure cotton, Neigh to the sea…” little more than ten minutes. A difficult to find in the States. You Homer, The Iliad local resident told me that what will find the ubiquitous news distinguishes Kardamyli from stand, where one can buy the There are many ways a land - other places where tourist flock International New York Times, scape can seduce a person and in the summer is that it is a Vil - all the major papers printed in one of the most subtle, yet pow - lage first and a tourist destina - the UK, and newspapers and erful, is by its innocence. When tion second. He believes its magazines in a number of for - one first steps on certain “sacred uniqueness as a sleepy, tradi - eign languages. ground,” as the author Lawrence tional Village will prevail be - One of my favorite antique Durrell referred to the soils of cause those who live here will and clothing store shops is Greece, the senses appear to be have it no other way. All estab - owned and operated by sleeping. lishments are family owned Mariekaty Athanasea Georgota, And then, slowly, there is an (many owners are women) and who is a treasure trove of infor - awareness that something is local artists and craftsmen are mation about the history and missing. The eyes and ears are the creators of the arts and crafts culture of Kardamyli. She and alert because they are no longer sold. There is not a MacDonalds her friend, Professor Emeritus being assaulted with raucous or Starbucks in sight. The bus Frederick Osmand Gearing, an sights and sounds. Air is fresh provides service to nearby vil - anthropologist at the University with the scent of rosemary and lages and to Athens, but only of Buffalo, co-authored “From thyme and fragrance of the ole - one taxi serves tourists. The the Edge of Greek Space,” an ex - anders. One can almost taste the Bank of Piraeus has an ATM ma - amination of Kardamyli and the salt of the sea. The baby-blanket chine; one can enter the bank fifty villages and surrounding blue sky and pillow-soft clouds itself, however, only on Wednes - countryside comprising the “Ex - linger lightly above, almost beg - days, the one day of the week it oMani.” Mariekaty Georgota has ging to be touched. is open for business. roots in Kardamyli, was a Ful - for the outdoor adventures and serve them for my dinner. The festival is the brainchild Welcome to the idyllic, very I was guided in my initial ex - bright Scholar, and the recipient I will be writing a separate arti - Other very popular and most of Bjarne S. Aaserod, a repre - traditional village of Kardamyli, ploration of the Village by the of the Ipetski Award for her cle on all that is offered by 2407. desirable hotels, and where sentative of Lilleput Reiser travel first mentioned in writing 3000 personable Alexandros Koutsos, book, “The Other Turkey.” She There is also a “Dive Center” that many visitors from the UK and agency, who has been organizing years ago by Homer in The Iliad a travel professional who is Man - is a serious student of biological is very popular. The Messenia Scandinavia choose to stay, are concerts in Norway for thirty and offered as a gift by King ager of View Travel and a repre - sciences and literature and Bay, beloved by swimmers and the Anniska and Liakoto years. He ran a jazz club there Agamemnon to Achilles. It snorkelers, is beautiful and un - (www.aniska-Liakoto.com); they and promoted concerts, and seemed that the king coveted a polluted with deep vistas.. are owned and operated by the when he came to Kardamyli in maiden seduced by Achilles and Visitors have a choice of stay - Paliatseas family. Liakoto fea - 2011 he brought his talents with to make her his own, he offered ing in apartments, studios, ho - tures a swimming pool and An - him. Mr. Aaserod is a brilliant his daughter in marriage to the tels, maisonettes, and villas. niska has a beautiful sea front organizer who arranged free warrior. To sweeten the offer, he There are approximately fifty terrace—perfect for morning travel and accommodations for added a dowry of seven cities, choices. I choose Marina’s Stu - breakfasts and enjoying a glass the musicians from Norway. Ex - the first of which was Kardamyli. dios, situated above the bay. My of wine in the evening as you penses were covered by two The village is on the main - studio is clean and comfortable, watch the sun set over the methods: a raffle and passing land of Greece in an area known with wifi, a refrigerator, hot Messinian Bay. These hotels are the plate. Mr. Aaserod praised as the Peloponnese, or Pelo - plate, television, and cleaning excellent choices for stays in Kar - the people and business people ponessos. In the southern part service every day. I have a spa - damyli. of Kardamyli for the hospitality is the Mani, crowned by the cious patio where I have my Opening in 1992, the An - they offered to make the festival Taygetus Mountains, and morning breakfast and watch niska offers twelve one bedroom a huge success. As musicians washed by both the Aegean and the drama of the rising sun. Ma - apartments and ten studios, from places other than Norway Ionian seas. Maniouts will tell rina’s is next door to Les Sirenes, three of which are absolute sea hear about the festival and ask you the mountains stretch over another superb studio, and to views and the rest offering dis - to participate, they are wel - a hundred miles “as the crow me, these are among the most tant sea views and comed, and have no objections flies.” In the north are the desirable places to stay in Kar - garden/mountain views. . The to paying their own expenses. (I foothills of Morea and the south - damyli. (Send an email to re - Liakoto, which opened in 2002, find prices for accommodations ern end is called Teharon (Cape [email protected] for has nine one bedroom apart - and dining here to be very mod - Matapan). both). The wise visitor who ments, three two bedroom est.) Slim towers of rugged rocks, wants to return to either Ma - suites, and twelve studios; all Most visitors who come here stripped naked by the burning rina’s or Les Sirenes knows to the rooms at Liakoto have ab - are from the UK (there is a direct sun, shoot upward, punctuating make her reservation before she solute front sea views (there are flight that takes only three and the landscape. In centuries past, Stone houses in Kardamyli village. leaves (my reservation for next three rooms that have distance a half hours), from Norway, Ger - each family of prominence and year is set in stone). sea views). The hotels are open many, Switzerland, and of influence had a tower (pyrgo in sentative of Lilliput Register earned her degree from The For the past fifteen years, Ma - from the beginning of April until course, from other areas of Greek) as a means of protection travel agency. His agency spe - American College in Athens. rina’s Studios have been owned mid-November. Greece. Visitors from the States against invaders. The towers cializes in arranging travel and Stop in her shop to browse and operated by the husband Most of the guests are those are few, and that may be be - were unoccupied except in times accommodations for tourists among the antiques, chose your and wife team of Marina and Ed - who have been returning year cause one has to take several of invasions; the ancient remains from Norway, but he offers these purchases from the distinctive die Haralambeas,. Les Sirenes, after year. News of these extra - flights to get here. The most di - of many of these fortresses stand same services, including , travel array of unique, jewelry, an - which translates as “Mermaids,” ordinary desirable studios and rect route from the US is to fly today, as immovable as frozen to and from Kardamyli, and ex - tiques, and designer clothing has been owned and operated apartments spread by word of from London to Kalamata, and sentries. The powerful families cursions throughout the Mani from Athens, and engage by Mrs. Semiramis Villoti for the mouth. Guests who come during then take a taxi (the ride is in the Mani were those who for anyone. Mr. Koutsos is fluent Mariekaty in conversation about past three years. Both Marina’s the off season are here for olive about 45 minutes) to Kardamy - owned and controlled large ar - in Greek, English, and German, her fascinating life. Another and Les Sirenes offer four fully picking, walking, photography, ili. Or, take a direct flight from eas of land; the towers, stormed and manages well in Norwegian; shop I stopped in almost every equipped studios with free wifi or to see the flowers in bloom. New York to Athens and then to and occupied by armed sentries he can communicate in other time I passed is simply called and are open year-round. Situ - Winters in Kardamyli are mild. Kalamata. at the slightest hint of intrusion, languages as well. I highly rec - “The Bead Shop,” owned and ated directly on the bay, they are The very accommodating, A major attraction that draws were the means of protecting the ommend him to travelers from operated by Gill Rochelle, for - renovated in a light and cozy warm, and personable Stephen people from all over the world land. American who want to visit Kar - merly from the UK. She makes style and have sea views with Manley-Clark serves as the Duty here is the home of Patrick Leigh The strength of individual damyli and other areas in the a wide variety of colorful jewelry balconies. Plenty of free parking Manager and has been there Fermor, the renowned author, clans could be seen in the height Mani. For tourists from the and sells swimwear and bags spaces adjoin the establish - since 2014. A former resident of travel writer, and war hero who and armament of the structures, States, Mr. Koutsos should be decorated with beads of every ments. the UK, Mr. Manley-Clark was joined with the ragtag fighters as it required amble resources your first stop in the village to color. Below both is the very popu - in the travel business, worked on Crete to fight the Germans to build and maintain them. receive an orientation and plan One of the most popular lar Harilaos Restaurant, serving for a touring company, and was when they invaded the island They were tall and slender and excursions. stores for outdoor enthusiasts is delicious traditional Greek and the cabin crew manager for an during World War II. Fermor, designed for protection, not for ([email protected]) 2407, selling bicycles and hiking Mediterranean cuisine and also airline before assuming his po - who was in his early twenties, living. Historians point out that There are more than twenty gear. The shop’s owner plans ex - fish caught that morning by local sition at the hotels. His enthusi - famously captured a German after 1830, larger, wider towers shops selling handmade gifts, or - cursions and hikes and helps fishermen. Word spread quickly asm for The Mani in general and general and put him on a boat were built, but were occupied ganic beauty cosmetics, local tourists organize their own wa - yesterday when fishermen ar - Kardamyli in particular is infec - for Egypt, causing a sensation only by the leader of the clan. products, such as honey and ter and hiking adventures. Many rived with a catch of red mullet tious. “Mani is magical,” he says, and giving birth to the legend of Kardamyli today is inhabited olive oil, village sweets and spe - athletes of all ages come here and I hurried to Harilaos to re - adding “it drew me here like a his exploits as a fearless adven - magnet.” He says it is perfect for turer. Prior to the war, he walked “writers, artists, and painters,” from the Horn of Holland to and says he chose to live here to Constantinople and wrote a tril - enjoy “the simple, unspoiled ogy describing his adventure. In life.” middle age, Fermor and his wife, Kardamyli is an excellent base Joan, built a stone home in to explore the rest of the Mani. Kalamitsi, near Kardamyli, There are very enjoyable events where he wrote and offered hos - in nearby communities, such as pitality to many visitors who Kalamata, which hosts a contem - came to see the famous man. It porary dance festival, and is now a shrine. Fermor, who Stoupa, the place for concerts of died in 2011, willed it to the Be - classical music. Entertain your - naki Museum, stipulating that it self with a Google search to dis - should be offered for short peri - Celebrate 2017 with cover what attracts your fancy. ods to writers. (I have added my All the beaches in Kardamyli name to the list of writers who are pebble and one has to travel long to spend time in this pre - The National Herald! to nearby Stoup a (a drive of fif - cious place, and I am hoping we teen minutes) where there are are selected in alphabetical or - two lovely sand beaches. One der). The Fermor is visited yearly beach, Kalogria, is where Nikos by a growing number of pil - Kazantzakis wrote his master - grims. Arrangements for visits piece, Zorba the Greek. The must be made through the Be - give a gift Subscription other beach, called the “Main nakI; you will find a link for Beach,” is larger, but both fea - reservations on the Museum’s (online or print) ture many sun beds and umbrel - website. las and there are numerous Kardamyli is as beautiful to - shops, tavernas, and even a large day as it must have been in an - to Your Loved ones! supermarket. cient times, for why else would Traditional Greek food and it be first on the list of seven grilled fish, caught that day, are cities offered to Achilles for the served in the Villages’ very fine maiden (of all the maidens, she restaurants. Harilaos, Gialos, must have been the fairest, en - Lelas and Elies have sea views vied by Aphrodite herself. a perfect gift for the New Year and are among the most popu - Some say the fates have lar, but excellent home made, watched over Kardamyli from traditional dishes can be found Homer’s time until now and that that they’ll enjoy all year long! in the smaller tavernas as well. they protected its singular Next year will mark the beauty. They say nothing has fourth Annual Jazz Festival, fea - changed about its landscape and turing more than fifty musicians its innocence. As proof they offer from Norway. It will begin May the fact that the names of the 13 and last a week. The entire six other villages presented to Village participates and offers Achilles changed over the cen - venues for the sessions, which turies, and only Kardamyli has The National Herald last until the early morning kept the same name. And the

T H hours. This year there were 54 same innocence. D E L N A AT ER www.thenationalherald.com IONAL H concerts in 31 separate places. It is now time to take my It is growing every year and for leave and it is difficult. The this year’s concert, jazz musi - Muses, knowing how the Village cians from New Orleans joined has seduced me, have given me For more information contact: [email protected] the motley crew from Norway. a golden voice. I will now share or call: 718-784-5255, ext. 108 As word spreads about this my song with you. With a nod event, it is becoming more diffi - to Lord Byron and his “Ode to cult to get accommodations. I the Maid of Athens,” I offer my have booked my studio for next “Ode to Kardamyli”: May and urged my friends to do “Kardamyli, ‘ere we part the same. I am promising them Give, or give me back my heart.” a Greek version of Woodstock and telling them it cannot be Philhellene author Aurelia missed. Shall we call it “Manis - Smeltz specializes in writing tock?” (Just floating this idea.) about Greece