S o C V st ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E 101 ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald anniversa ry N www.thenationalherald.com A weeKly GreeK-AMericAn publicAtion 1915-2016 VOL. 19, ISSUE 98 2 August 6-7 , 2016 c v $1.50 Zachariades SYRIZA is New AHEPA Blasted by Supreme Church, President ND Party New Jersey Native Gov’t Coalition Ran Uncontested Assailed for At the 94h Annual Anarchists and Supreme Convention General Disorder

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LAS VEGAS, NV – The delegates ATHENS – The ruling coalition of the American Hellenic Edu - led by The Radical Left SYRIZA cational Progressive Association has allowed disorder that led to (AHEPA), the leading associa - anarchists invading a Thessa - tion for the nation's American loniki cathedral and interrupt - citizens of Greek heritage and ing services, the major opposi - Philhellenes, elected Andrew C. tion New Democracy and Greek Zachariades of Brick, NJ as their Church said. supreme president at the 94th The critics said SYRIZA and Annual Supreme Convention in its partner, the otherwise rival, Las Vegas, NV. Zachariades ran far-right, pro-austerity, jingoistic unopposed in elections that Ap photo/philippos christou Independent Greeks (ANEL) are were held July 28. The formal Turkish Cypriots Protest "Religious" Influence losing a grip on law and order. installation ceremonies were SYRIZA is riddled with anarchist held on July 29. Turkish Cypriots protest in the Turkish-controlled northern Turkish Cypriot parliament to decry the creation of a "coordi - sympathizers and the party con - "It is an honor and privilege part of ethnically divided Cyprus' capital Nicosia against what nation committee" they accuse of having a hidden agenda to demned the eviction of pro- to be elected supreme presi - they say is Turkey's attempt to mold their secular culture into instill a more Islamic way of life by funding cultural and sport - refugee squatters in Thessa - dent," Zachariades said. "I'm sin - one that's more in tune with Islamic norms, on Wednesday, ing projects that will include a religious element. loniki that has to attacks against cerely grateful to the convention Aug. 3 , 2016. Some 1,500 people gathered in front of the government and party build - delegates who placed their sup - ings. port and trust in me to lead this Some 26 people who in - vibrant, venerable, and unique vaded the Thessaloniki cathe - organization." dral on July 31 were arrested He added, "This is a critical What You Don’t Know about Rep. Gus Bilirakis but rapidly acquitted and set year on many fronts. Elections free in court the next day as an - in the United States will provide archist assaults continue to us with an opportunity to work By Constantinos E. Scaros Florida district that also includes unnecessarily, for not having 2006, taking over the seat that grow. with a new administration and Tarpon Springs, the city with gotten back to me regarding a his father, Mike, had held since The Church’s Holy Synod Congress in 2017. Greece con - HOLIDAY, FL – Of all the more Greek-Americans per proposed interview. “It’s fine,” I he was first elected in 1982. slammed the government for tinues to deal with a gripping members of the United States capita than any other in the answered. “I know how busy “Typical nepotism,” one might failing to issue any statement economic crisis amid an un - Congress, who is the most sec - United States, that the reason you must be.” But he insisted: think. “He just inherited his fa - criticizing the protesters al - precedented migratory crisis; ond-most active of them all in hardly anyone knows about this “no, signomi.” ther’s seat.” But as we all though SYRIZA party officials and in Cyprus, challenging is - terms of proposing legislation? amazing statistic regarding That he instantly recognized learned thanks to Hittos, noth - said there should be no action sues such as property, territory Gus Bilirakis. what a prolific legislator Bili - my name without my having to ing could be further from the and security need to be ad - “This is what another Con - rakis is, “is because he is so make an association to this truth. dressed as settlement talks pro - gressman (in the know) told humble.” newspaper, and recalled that he The younger Bilirakis was ceed. In addition, the need for Gus,” Bilirakis’ Chief of Staff And those are not just words; had meant to get in touch with addicted to politics from a very community service around the Elizabeth Hittos told TNH. “He I experienced it firsthand. I had me corroborates what a good young age, Hittos said. “Since world is ceaseless and the pro - didn’t say who’s number one,” never met Rep. Bilirakis face to and humble man he is, as re - age 7.” And while other nine- motion of Hellenic ideals and but out of the entire Congress, face until that day, though we layed to me by Hittos, Tarpon year-olds were playing, he was our Hellenic heritage will al - Bilirakis is number two. had spoken on the phone a few Mayor Chris Alahouzos, and busy watching the 1972 na - ways be priorities for AHEPA. I Hittos told a packed house at times. “I’m Dino Scaros,” I said, many others in the community.” tional conventions. am excited to work with our the grand opening of Bilirakis’ to which he immediately recog - NO NEPOTISM HERE “It was Gus who from a seasoned Supreme Lodge and reelection campaign headquar - nized my name, put his hand on In reading Bilirakis’ biogra - young age pushed his father (a ters on July 30 in Holiday, part my shoulder, and said “signomi phy, one quickly discovers that Continued on page 5 of the congressman’s Western – I’m sorry.” He was apologizing, he was elected to Congress in Continued on page 4 Rep. Maloney Applauds OPIC Policy

TNH Staff ter attending a White House from its economic crisis and this roundtable last August with creative step with OPIC, bene - WASHINGTON, DC – The Over - Greek-American leaders to dis - fiting both investors and the seas Private Investment Corpo - cuss efforts to assist Greece dur - Greek people, will help achieve ration (OPIC) is now open to re - ing its financial crisis, I joined that goal.” Kyriakos Mitsotakis viewing proposals for projects Rep. Gus Bilirakis in a letter to Following an August 6, 2015 in Greece according to a docu - OPIC President and CEO Eliza - roundtable discussion with taken against the anarchists and ment issued by the agency for beth Littlefield inquiring as to Greek-American leaders, White squatters and condemned Prime investors. Rep. Carolyn B. Mal - the agency's capacity to attract House Chief of Staff Denis Mc - Minister and party leader Alexis oney (D-NY) consulted for foreign investment to Greece. I Donough, Deputy National Se - Tsipras for not stopping it. months with OPIC on this issue want to thank President Little - curity Advisor for International “You represent our failure as which could help with the Greek field for her willingness to find Economics Caroline Atkinson, a society, school, family and financial crisis. Congresswoman ways OPIC could support capital and Vice President Joe Biden to democracy,” the Holy Synod Maloney, co-chair of the Con - investment in Greece in light of discuss efforts to assist Greece said in a message to the ac - gressional Caucus on Hellenic the country's extraordinary fi - during its financial crisis, the tivists. Issues, staunchly advocated for nancial circumstances. This doc - Congresswoman released a let - The removal of the squatters this statement and applauds ument will be invaluable to ter co-authored with Hellenic set off arson attacks on SYRIZA OPIC’s work on this important Greek Americans and others Caucus Co-Chair Bilirakis, en - and ANEL offices in Athens early matter. She and Hellenic Caucus who wish to do business in couraging OPIC to explore ways on Aug. 1. Co-Chair Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R- Greece with a focus on eco - in which it can actively encour - Arsonists also attacked the FL) released a letter last year nomic development. I am also age investment in Greece to engineering company that has Ap photo/MAtt DunhAM encouraging OPIC to make such proud to commend the Ameri - stimulate economic growth and been taken on to demolish one Greek Olympians in Rio changes. can Hellenic Institute for bring - stability. of the buildings in Thessaloniki “This OPIC statement of pol - ing this potential opportunity to “Our role as co-chairs of the used as a squat, Kathimerini Members of Greece's synchronized swimming duet begin their icy is a welcomed sign of United the forefront. The U.S. Govern - Hellenic Caucus is to meaning - said in a report on the rising routine as they take part in a training session in the Maria States support for Greece and ment has strongly supported, fully enhance the U.S.-Greece tensions, and with crime levels Lenk Aquatic Center ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics in its economic recovery,” said and must continue to support, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. Congresswoman Maloney. “Af - Greece as it works to rebound Continued on page 4 Continued on page 9 Mayor Alahouzos Seeks to Komninos is Help Boost Greek Economy Running for

TAPRON SPRINGS, FL – He has houzos was committed to stew - Judge in FL only been in office four months, arding the city’s finances respon - but Chris Alahouzos, the first sibly. Greek-born mayor of Tarpon He is also committed to an is - TNH Staff Springs, the Florida city that sue “that is near and dear to my boasts the largest Greek-Ameri - heart, the elderly,” Alahouzos ST. PETERSBURG, FL – First can population per capita in the told TNH. He plans to make generation Greek-American United States, has hit the ground good on his campaign promise Dora Komninos, a veteran pros - running. to create a Senior Center that ecutor, 14-year practicing attor - “For the first time in a very will serve multiple purposes for ney, wife, mother, and commu - long time, we are going to bal - Tarpon’s older citizens. “It will nity leader, is running for ance the budget without having be a place for them to gather, Pinellas County Court Judge in to use our surplus,” he happily and obtain information about Florida. She is the lead trial at - told The National Herald in a re - whatever they might need, such torney for Pinellas-Pasco State cent interview in his office at City as facts about Social Security and Attorney Bernie McCabe's do - Hall. Medicare.” mestic violence unit since 2007. Bringing a business back - BEHIND THE SCENES A good mentor with a half- ground to Tarpon politics, Ala - Famous for its historic Sponge dozen young lawyers in the unit Docks, Tarpon Springs is a tourist under her supervision, Komni - attraction throughout the year, nos has extensive trial experi - with visitors from all over the ence with both misdemeanor For subscription: United States, mostly non-Greeks and felony cases, and beyond 718.784.5255 and from the Heartland of Amer - domestic violence cases she has [email protected] ica, who enjoy strolling along by Arpi pAp, courtesy of oseAK prosecuted other types of cases sponge boat-laden Dodecanese The 66th National OSEAK Convention in Nafpaktos, a Great Success ranging from driving under the Boulevard, frequenting the influence to murder, as reported Greek restaurants and tavernas, Vasilis Seretis- President of the Nafpaktos Brotherhood, Costas Katsanos- OSEAK President, in the Tampa Bay Times. Petros Galatoulas- President of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, Continued on page 4 Giorgos Seretis- President of the Eleftheriani Society. See related story on page 3. Continued on page 5 2 COMMUNITY/INTERNATIONAL THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 6-7, 2016 In Your Own Words: No Excuses for Dishonesty

By Dr. Constantina that it was. What they don’t get Michalos is the research process itself. Students google everything. There are no excuses for aca - They assume that the first five demic dishonesty. There is no sites that pop up qualify as minimum number of words scholarly research. They also as - reappropriated from another sume that if it appears on the source without attribution that internet, it belongs to everyone. makes plagiarism acceptable. So they have to be reminded No assignment, no presentation, that they must document ideas, no exam is important enough to not just words. Mostly they justify sacrificing one’s integrity know to cite statistics and any - for a grade. thing enclosed within quotation In and of itself, this behavior marks. However, they think that is disappointing. It also makes a paraphrase belongs to them me angry when students think because they used a few words that we don’t recognize plagia - of their own. But ideas? We rism when we see it. But most have now thrust them into an of all, it makes me sad that too existential void. They just don’t many students fail to recognize get it. I ask them if they have that any form of academic dis - jobs. Many say yes. I ask them courtesy of siA pApAtriAntAfyllou honesty – cheating, collusion, if they would consider stealing ABOVE LEFT: Sia Papatriantafyllou -Director of the Greek Press Office, Artist Antonia Papatzanaki, and Greta Kamaterou- data fabrication, plagiarism – di - software from the Apple store Director of the Greek National Tourism Organization, at the opening for Papatzanaki's Stratifications. ABOVE RIGHT: A work minishes them as human beings. where they work or a bag of by sculptor Antonia Papatzanaki from the Exceeding limits series now on display at John Jay College in New York City. BELOW: My syllabus states unambigu - Cheetos from the supermarket One of the works on display from the Cellular series. BELOW RIGHT: One of Antonia Papatzanaki's prints in the Cellular series. ously, in SOLID CAPS and bold, where they sack groceries. They that ANY SUGGESTION OF are appalled at the suggestion. PLAGIARISM WILL BE INVES - When I tell them that stealing TIGATED. ANY PROOF OF PLA - ideas is just as bad, it takes them GIARISM WILL RESULT IN A a while to get the analogy. What FAILING GRADE FOR THE works even better is asking COURSE AND DISCIPLINARY them if they would appreciate ACTION BY THE UNIVERSITY. countless fans downloading When I go through this section, their music without paying for students are struck by the no - it. That they get immediately! ticeable change in my de - They don’t call it “surfing the meanor. My smile disappears, net” for nothing. Students range my body straightens, and my around and have no qualms tone flattens. This is serious about cutting and pasting infor - stuff. No explanation will exon - mation without attribution. erate them. This behavior is an What results is a kind of rhetor - insult to themselves, their class - ical Frankenstein’s monster. mates, their professors, their Some of the language is their parents, and because this is a own and then the idiom changes Catholic university, and there conspicuously for a few para - are crucifixes in every class - graphs, returns briefly to a kind room, it is the greatest affront of “See Dick run” level, and ends with a flourish that Hamlet I asked a student would envy. They don’t even try to create logical transitions. And who plagiarized we’re not supposed to notice. whether he had They fail to comprehend that if Art photos courtesy of AntoniA pApAtzAnAKi they found it on the internet, thanked the author. we can too! Stratifications by Sculptor Antonia Papatzanaki He failed to see the Sometimes students spend more time plagiarizing than they humor in that. He would completing the assign - By Eleni Sakellis passing the material limits of the noted that light has a lot of sym - tions are Refractions, Ekfrasi - also failed the course. ment on their own. You have to work, light saturates the space bolism for Greeks, it carries Υianna Grammatopoulou, wonder. I had a freshman who NEW YORK – “Stratifications: and alludes to the possibility memory, and light is also truth. Athens, 2013; Robust Matter of them all. Even the non- came to our university from Works by Antonia Papatzanaki,” that human consciousness can The curved forms of the sculp - and Image, Museum of Contem - Catholics feel the guilt. West Point. He said the military presented by the President’s transcend material reality.” The tures change as you move porary Art of Crete, Rethymnon, Many students do not under - wasn’t for him. I think he wasn’t Gallery of the John Jay College linear, rigid, organic, and nat - around them, capturing how in 2010; Antonia Papatzanaki, Re - stand what academic dishonesty for the military. Anyway, this stu - of Criminal Justice, opened on ural blend to create visual in - physics light is both matter and cent Works, Tsatsis Projects / means. Too many students un - dent couldn’t write his way out July 25. The acclaimed Greek terest that suggests deeper a wave. Artforum, Thessaloniki, 2008; derstand completely and engage of the proverbial brown paper sculptor Papatzanaki is also a meanings and shifts of con - Born in Chania on the island and Visions of Light, Chashama, in it anyway. So I require a tu - bag. I worked with him on every visiting professor in the Depart - sciousness. The structure of liv - of Crete in Greece, Antonia Pa - 112 Gallery, New York, 2007. torial that explains the different assignment and got him to a re - ment of Art and Music at the ing cells inspired the Cellular se - patzanaki was educated in the She has also participated in nu - types of academic dishonesty. spectable C in the course. That college. The exhibit features a ries created with engraved Athens School of Fine Arts, the merous group exhibitions in Eu - This way they can’t claim igno - is, of course, until the last paper. series of wall reliefs incorporat - Plexiglas and ambient light fo - Vienna Hochschule für Angen - rope, Asia, and the United rance of their unacceptable be - The assignment was to compare ing light called Exceeding Limits cusing the viewer’s attention on wandte Kunst, and earned her States, including Whispers, Mu - havior. Plain old cheating is a hero from The Iliad to a con - and the Cellular series of en - the importance of light for the Master’s degree of Fine Arts seum of Contemporary Art of probably the easiest to commit. temporary superhero, something graved Plexiglas works with artist and for life itself. The lay - from Pratt Institute in New York. Crete, Rethymnon, 2016; His - Contorting one’s body in order like Ajax and the Incredible archival prints. An opening re - ered works reflect and refract She is the recipient of many tory-Irony, Vorres Museum, Pa - to unobtrusively glance at a Hulk. Five pages. I thought it ception was held on July 27. light in dramatic ways. prestigious awards and winner iania, Athens, 2015; Harmony, neighbor’s exam in the hope of would be fun. This young man The artist, faculty members, Stratifications also includes of Panhellenic and international 22nd Seoul International Art seeing an answer would be fun turned in a chapter from a Mas - staff, and John Jay students archival prints from the Cellular competitions for public art in - Festival, Chosunilbo Museum, to watch if it weren’t so infuri - ter’s thesis written by a graduate were among those attending the series in addition to the sculp - stallations. Papatzanaki’s public South Korea, 2014; New: Illu - ating. It’s even more fun when student at Texas Tech. All I had event, as well as Greta Ka - tural works on display. Evoca - light installation Agora was ex - sion or Reality, 4th Biennial, said neighbor is taking a differ - to do was google his first sen - materou, Director of the Greek tively captured light merges hibited at Battery Park during Tashkent, 2007; and Artistic ent exam– a little detail we fail tence and, voila, there it was. National Tourism Organization, technology, science, and art 2000-2001 as part of the Tem - Fragments, Katonah Museum of to mention when we distribute When I asked him if he had and Sia Papatriantafyllou, Direc - through the powerful abstrac - porary Public Art Program of Art, Katonah, New York, 2005. tests. thanked the author, my student tor of the Greek Press Office. tions and color in the remark - New York City. Several of Pap - Further work has been acquired Remember when your class - failed to see the humor in my Exceeding Limits is a series able prints that seem to possess atzanaki’s outdoor public works by the National Museum of Con - mates and perhaps you, dear question. He also failed the of mounted sculptures. As de - deep layers. are permanently installed temporary Art, the Copelouzos reader, wrote answers on course. A graduate student – yes, scribed in the press release, When asked what inspired throughout Greece, including family collection, the Vorres Mu - clammy palms only to find that a graduate student – plagiarized “Plexiglas, metal, and a hidden her sculptures in the Exceeding her sculpture Lighthouse in the seum, the Museum of Contem - they had disappeared in nervous a journal entry. Using any play source of illumination combine Limits series, Papatzanaki said square of the Kato Patisia Metro porary Art of Crete, and the sweat? No one does that any - by Shakespeare as an example, to form graceful conduits that the idea was to give shape to Station, Athens. Papatzanaki has American College of Greece. She more, silly. Now, students students were asked to either allow for the transmission of light, to create luminous forms exhibited widely—notable currently maintains studios in google on their cell phones and agree with or refute Ben Jon - light.” Papatzanaki said, “By sur - since light surpasses all. She among her many solo exhibi - Athens and New York City. even magical watches for an - son’s statement that Shake - swers. So we have to confiscate speare “was not of an age but these items as they walk into for all time.” Clearly not grasp - the classroom. A good friend is ing the concept of a journal, he the testing coordinator for the used the preface to a new edi - Greece Leads Procession largest community college sys - tion of King Lear, verbatim, as tem in Texas. He has resorted his answer. Besides the fact that to using a TSA-like wand to scan he had never read Lear, he defi - For Olympic Games in Rio students for hidden devices be - nitely hadn’t read the sonnets fore they enter his testing cen - cited in the preface. How did I ter. Pathetic. know? Again, the diction did not TNH Staff along with Australia, to have Plagiarism is so easy to com - reflect this student’s writing; if competed in all the summer mit, so ubiquitous, that students he hadn’t read the one play that The Summer Olympics in Rio games since they were reestab - often don’t even realize they’ve had been assigned in the course, de Janeiro, Brazil will kick off lished in the modern era in done it. Unfortunately, many why would he “read” Lear, the on August 5 with the opening 1896. know exactly what they are do - longest play in the canon. Forget ceremony. Greece will again In his article in the New York ing, and they don’t think it’s a the sonnets. When I confronted lead the procession of nations Times, An Olympic Odyssey: problem. There are different lev - him, he had to think a minute into the Olympic stadium, a tra - Where the Games Began, Bill els of plagiarism and different before he remembered that he dition begun in Amsterdam in Hayes wrote about his Olympic causes. First, there’s inadvertent had plagiarized. He never de - 1928 in recognition of Greece’s dream, not to compete in the plagiarism. Students do not doc - nied or excused his behavior. By contributions to sport and the Olympic Games, but to visit an - ument their sources because the way, while we were talking, Olympic movement. The Greek cient Olympia, the site of the they cannot distinguish between he told me he was waiting to Olympic team has a total of 95 first Olympics. He took a solo common knowledge and infor - hear about a job in New York as athletes competing at this year’s road trip to four sites in Greece mation that must be cited. If an education consultant. I asked Olympic Games. With 57 men that once held athletic games they write that George Washing - him if academic integrity was and 38 women competing in 19 which were the precursors of ton is the first president of the part of his portfolio. He also events, the Greek team is plan - the modern Olympics- Isthmia, United States, they don’t have failed to grasp the irony. ning on besting its London 2012 Nemea, Delphi, and Olympia to cite it. Everyone knows that. A new academic year begins medal count total of two and at where the Panhellenic Games Olympia, Greece, the site of the ancient Olympic Games. If, however, they write about the next month. I can’t wait. Really. least matching its Beijing 2008 were held, open to athletes from Battle at Valley Forge, that’s an - As cynical as this piece sounds, total of four. Hopes are high for across the Hellenic world. The the ancient athletes. The games would make it through to actu - other story. They did not wake I do believe that most students several Greek athletes including games at Olympia were the first themselves and the athletes’ vic - ally compete in the games. The up in the morning knowing are well-intentioned and simply Eleftherios Petrounias in gym - to be established in 776 BC, the tories were dedicated to the athletes also pledged to train for Washington’s military strategies. need to be educated on how to nastics, Katerina Stefanidi in the most prestigious, and the last to gods. The distinguished archae - at least ten months of every They had to do some research, avoid plagiarism. But there are pole vault, Katerina Nikolaidou be banned as pagan ritual in ologist, Stephen G. Miller, now year, which was made possible and they have to cite the infor - always going to be those who and Sofia Asoumanaki in row - 393 AD by the Christian Em - a retired professor of classical by the support of their home - mation and its source. try to game the system. I’ll be ing, Byron Kokkalanis in sailing, peror Theodosius. Taking place archaeology at the University of towns. The Pythian Games held Sounds simple enough. Were waiting. Anna Korakaki in shooting, Ilias every four years with the other California, Berkeley, along with at Delphi were founded by the Iliadis in judo and the Greek na - three games in between, the a team of Greek and American god Apollo after slaying Python, tional team in water polo. Sofia games at Olympia were one way colleagues and students exca - the dragon that once terrorized Bekatorou, competing in sailing, for the ancient Greeks to mea - vated the site at Nemea over the area, and gave its name to will carry the Greek flag for the sure time. more than 35 years, uncovering the games. The 5,000-seat am - team, the first woman flag- Though only partially exca - the stadium which measures phitheater was built for the mu - bearer for Greece in the Sum - vated in the 1950s, the site of over 200 yards. sic and dance competition that mer Olympics. The total number the Isthmian Games was also At Olympia, the stadium is also took place along with the of Greek athletes participating the site of an impressive shrine even larger than the one at Ne - athletic competition. Having vis - in the games is down from 152 to Poseidon which was de - mea, with seating for 45,000 ited all four sites, Hayes quoted in the Beijing games in 2008 stroyed by the 5th century AD. people. The remains of the gym - the 5th century BC poet Pindar and 102 in London 2012. The young Plato competed as a nasium and the wrestling arena, who celebrated the athletes in Tasos Papachristou, the wrestler in the Isthmian Games the palestra, are also visible. An - his famous odes, “He who has Greek team’s press officer, noted in the late 5th century BC. Nine cient athletes were required to achieved a new success basks in Subscribe today... the possibility of surprises which Doric columns mark the site of train together at Olympia for 30 the light, soaring from hope to are a part of sports and may re - the Nemean Games where the days before the official start of hope. His deeds of prowess let sult in a higher medal count for remains of the gym and locker the games without considera - him pace the air, while he con - The National Herald Greece than expected. He ob - room impart a sacred feeling tion for differences in weight as ceives plans sweeter to him than (718) 784-5255 • [email protected] served that Greece is one of only since the athletic competition the modern games divide boxers wealth.” two countries in the world, had a religious significance for and wrestlers. 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By Harry Mark Petrakis to magazines. After five to six Road. Across the road, on a rise pledging to do whatever they years of printed rejection slips, of hill, was an old Civil War could to make it livable and of - The photograph I hold in my the next few years brought some cemetery dotted with tomb - fering it to us rent-free. hands shows my wife, Diana, personal notes from editors of - stones marking the graves of Even with that bountiful gen - our three sons, and myself taken fering suggestions and encour - both Union and Confederate erosity, the move was fraught sometime in the years of 1960 agement. After ten years of sub - dead buried side by side. with hazard. There would be no to 1961. Diana is seated in a missions, Christmas of 1956, Our third son Dean was born income except for the writing. cushioned armchair with our when I was working as a real during our residence in Pitts - Falling into debt, I’d have to youngest son Dean on her lap. I estate salesman, I made my first burgh and I recall during his work twice as hard and twice as am perched on the wooden arm sale to the Atlantic Monthly. The first months pushing him in his long to bail us out. of the chair holding John, our sale of that story, Pericles on buggy around the old cemetery. My sons had no choice but middle son, between my knees. 31st Street, after ten arid years My employment with U.S. to go as we decided. What was Mark is standing behind the of submissions was like a cloud - Steel was doomed from the be - needed first of all was support chair. burst on a drought-stricken ginning because my longing, and approval from my wife, Di - Mark is about twelve. He has land. whetted by the sale of one book ana. I understood all her pro - close-cropped hair and a smile In the following year, I sold and several short stories, was tective instincts as a mother that hints at defiance. John, several more stories. I also fin - only to write stories. My posi - mandated she strongly oppose who is about eight, is also smil - ished and then had rejected a tion was also meaningless, in - an action that would endanger ing, but with a conspiratorial half dozen times a novel I had cluding tasks such as making her family. grin, as if he were hiding some been working on with the sure a steel executive had Pelle - Reluctant and frightened, sly thought. Our youngest son lugubrious title of Cry the Black grino water in his hotel room. making a great leap of faith, she Dean, about two, sits on his Tears. Convinced by the unifor - Finally, after a series of extra supported the move I could not mother’s knee. The look on his mity of negative response that long lunch hour breaks while I have made without her agree - face is one of bewilderment. The it was unpublishable, I began browsed in a downtown book - ment. Buoyed by that faith, we three boys, graced with lumi - another novel that I finished in store, I was fired. moved back from Pittsburgh to nous dark eyes, and handsome about a year. That book, Lion at All I wanted to do was write. Chicago and took up residence faces were spared the legacy of My Heart was accepted in 1958 But the prospects of earning any in the old gabled house that the their father’s craggy, uneven fea - by Atlantic Monthly Press with kind of living to support a family stalwart Manta nephews, a ver - tures and inherited their plans to publish the following of five, seemed far out of reach. satile carpenter named Ziggy, mother’s good looks. year. Everyone derided my dream as and I made livable as best we My wife Diana and I were That was where my literary “reckless” and “foolhardy.” My could. The house became our married in 1945, both of us then endeavors stood in mid-1958, agent in New York, my pub - home for the next two years. age 22. We’d agree in later years when my wife became pregnant lisher, my attorney, and several The first year freelancing, my that we were both too young. with our third child. I had just newspaper editor friends income from writing was $1,200 My qualifications for marriage been fired from a job I’d held warned me about making so and the second year $1,600. We and supporting a family were for a year with the Simoniz Wax rash a leap. Then my longing survived by virtue of our rent- dismal. I had dropped out of Company and my prospects for found an additional source of free premises and the bounty of high school in my sophomore courtesy of hArry MArK petrAKis employment were bleak. Then support back in Chicago. our relatives, eating with my sis - year, was unskilled and still L-R: John, Harry, Mark, Diana, and Dean Petrakis. my older brother, Dan, came My sister Barbara’s husband, ter and Diana’s parents multiple struggled with a gambling ad - forward with what everyone John Manta, owned a large old times a week. Relatives donated diction. The first year following coursed through the hallways. tory district lunchroom called else but me thought was a res - house near the lakefront on the clothing. By the third year, our marriage, we lived with my In the first few years of our Art’s Lunch. There had been four cue. Through his position as a South Side of Chicago. The adding teaching and lecturing parents and five siblings in a marriage, my employment owners since the original Art, but senior manager with U.S. Steel, three-story gabled structure had to my employability, we broke bedroom vacated by a brother record only confirmed my futile none of them including myself he obtained for me an interview once known days of gaslight el - the barrier into survival. who had departed. In the sec - prospects. I worked for U.S. Steel had the money or incentive to at U.S. Steel Headquarters in egance but had long since fallen There is a lesson in our story ond year we moved into a stu - writing up production sheets for change the sign. So for the life Pittsburgh, Pa. That led to my upon hard times and was sched - for any family faced with major dio apartment in a five hundred the rolling mills. I held jobs as a and death of the lunchroom (its being offered a job as a junior- uled for demolition so that a decisions and major change. unit housing complex. Our stu - clerk in a liquor store, delivered demise taking place under my level speechwriter/event-assis - motel could be built on its site. Good sense mandates caution. dio flat had a murphy bed that prescriptions for a pharmacist, tenure) the forlorn eatery re - tant in their Pittsburgh office. The Manta sons, our But accomplishment is spawned swung out of the living room pressed clothes for a cleaner mained Art’s Lunch. I drove to Pittsburgh to take nephews Leo, Frank, and Steve from courage. With my wife’s wall. In summer, when our win - (who scolded me for my heavy During this procession of up residency while my pregnant had always been close and lov - faith in me adding wings to my dows overlooking the courtyard foot on the steam pedal) I was a jobs, I nurtured the dream I’d wife and sons traveled by train. ing to my family. Now, hearing soul, I was able to make that gi - were open, the babble of lan - helper on a beer truck and for a had since childhood to write. We rented a small pleasant cot - intimations of my desire to free - ant, audacious leap that has al - guages resounded and the aro - year I called the “Year of the From time to time I managed to tage in the suburb of Whitehall, lance, they offered the old house lowed me to live my last half mas of assorted ethnic cooking Plague,” I co-owned a small fac - write stories and submit them on a rural lane called Provost by the lake as a residence, century as a storyteller. The 66th National OSEAK Convention in Nafpaktos, a Great Success

By Demetris Tsakas den, "was a great success. We expected 450 people and even - NEW YORK – The 66th National tually about a thousand of our Convention of the Federation of compatriots from America, Sterea Hellas USA and Canada Canada, Athens and other Greek (OSEAK) was held in Nafpaktos cities attended," said Seretis. and exceeded all expectations. During the dinner, Petros The well-attended convention Galatoulas, President of the Fed - began on July 29 with a tour of eration of Hellenic Societies of the Rio-Antirrio Bridge and Greater New York, received an ended August 2. award On July 31, elections were On the 31st the Lepanto Met - held for the Federation. Con - ropolitan, His Eminence Ieroth - stantine Katsanos from New Jer - eos presided over the Hierarchi - sey was reelected Supreme Pres - cal Divine Liturgy at the Church ident, George Apostolopoulos of St. Demetrios and celebrated from Charlotte, NC- vice presi - the Artoklasia for the health of dent, Dimitris Paliouras from the Roumelioton of America, New York- secretary, Bob Kotsa - impressing the congregation los from Pennsylvania- trea - with his words on the generosity surer, and youth officer Giorgos and love of expatriates. Seretis from New York. Along - Arpi pAp, courtesy of oseAK The same afternoon a beach side them, leaders John Dancers in traditional costume performed at the 66th OSEAK National Convention dinner dance on July 30 in Nafpaktos. party was held for the young Nikolopoulos for New York and people in Chiliadou beach. Dimitris Kozonis for Chicago as well as Polichronis Koloutsos ond for their timeless contribu - noting that the number of dele - of the convention: "We made the The next day, delegates were also elected. from npress.gr demonstrate the tion to the homeland. gates and observers exceeded best decision two years ago in boarded the bus for a guided After a meeting with Panagi - love of expatriates for the home - "We have to thank our bene - all expectations. Cleveland, OH to hold the con - tour of Galaxidi, Delphi, Dis - otis Loukopoulos, Mayor of Lep - land and their pride in their her - factors. Unlike the common Vasilis Seretis- president of vention in the homeland. The tomo, in Karpenisi, Moni Prous - anto, the Federation and the itage. Rumeli saying "there is no one the Nafpaktos Brotherhood, fact that we have 65 delegates, sos and Thermo. Vasilis Seretis Nafpaktos Brotherhood decided Attending the convention, as ungrateful as those who re - who along with George Seretis- while previous conventions observed what a remarkable to offer $2,000 each to His Eminence Metropolitan ceive the help of benefactors," president of the Eleftheriani So - never exceeded 40 is the proof." time everyone had, enjoying strengthen the Community Mar - Ierotheos of Nafpaktos and St. said the Mayor and noted that ciety, led the organizing com - "The official Federation din - their time at the convention and ket of the Municipality of Naf - Vlasios, and Lepanto mayor expatriates generously helped mittee spoke to the National ner which took place on Satur - seeing the sights. paktos, which recently moved Loukopoulos, praised the expa - Rumeli recover after the Greek Herald, remarked on the success day night in the Xenia Hotel gar - to the city center and distributes triates and praised their gen - Civil War. food and clothing to the resi - erosity. Among the works that bear dents affected by the economic Loukopoulos speaking at the the stamp of expatriates are crisis. convention pointed out that squares, schools, roads, aque - The convention sessions took Nafpaktos gives great thanks to ducts, churches, and libraries, place at Nafpaktos Hotel in Gri - emigrants of the Roumeliotis the Mayor said, observing that bovo on July 30 and 31. 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Continued from page 1 of the country. In the wintertime, though, where it is brutally cold and buying sponges and Greek in so many parts of the country, cultural souvenirs from the nu - people flock to the balmy Florida merous gift shops. But behind climes to escape the freeze. Not the scenes, there is much work least of which, the homeless, to be done, Alahouzos explains. who live on the streets. The Anclote River, on which “The people of Tarpon those sponge boats sit, needs to Springs are very generous,” Ala - be dredged. It has to happen houzos says, regarding how they every 20 years, and it is fast ap - treat the homeless. They reach proaching that point, but the op - out to meet their needs and find timum depth needs to be re - them adequate food and shelter. stored now, so that the sponge Not least of which police officer boats, tourist boasts, and fishing Jose Yourgulas, a Mexican of boats, along with the boat - Greek descent, Alahouzos says. builders who build them for use The mayor also intends to fo - in many other ports, can function cus on other infrastructural properly. needs, such as sewer lines, road Tarpon’s weather in July is repairs, and installation of en - typically tropical: steamy hot ergy-saving solar panels. days with scattered showers. But He is also determined to re - that is the case throughout most duce millage (property taxes) in order to attract more businesses to Tarpon Springs. In helping the city he now tnh/constAntinos e. scAros governs, that has been his home LEFT: Tarpon Springs Mayor Chris Alahouzos (R) tells Constantinos Scaros all about his first four months in office. RIGHT: A Rep. Maloney for over half a century, Ala - gift from its sister city Kalymnos, this ornament sits in the mayor’s office in Tarpon Springs City Hall. houzos also has an eye on a win- win situation, which simultane - lymnos. “The purpose is to en - To that end, Alahouzos is vis - he says, “the problem is quantity. As we continue the interview Praises OPIC ously helps Greece. courage educational and cultural iting Greece later this month and Importers do not want to import over lunch at a Greek restaurant, BUSINESS WITH GREECE exchange, and promote eco - hopes to visit all three of those goods on a small-scale level.” of course, on Dodecanese Boule - Alahouzos is President of the nomic development,” he told sister cities in an effort to create That’s what he hopes to fix on vard, Alahouzos shakes a bunch Change in Tarpon Springs Sister Cities TNH. We’ve been doing a good a business relationship whereby this trip, and grow the of hands of friends and well- Committee, which includes the job with the first two, but now Greek goods would be imported economies not only of Tarpon wishers. “I know I’m the mayor,” Greek Policy capitals of the Greek islands of we need to focus on economic into Tarpon. “There is no doubt but in the process, that of the he says, “but I still feel like I’m Chalki, Symi, and his native Ka - development,” he says. as to the quality” of the products, Dodecanese islands. just Chris.”

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relationship in a way that mu - tually benefits both nations. Things That Might Surprise You to Learn about Congressman Bilirakis Greece has always been an im - portant geostrategic ally of the US sitting at a crossroads to the Continued from page 1 UNITY AND GOD Middle East where ongoing hos - Gus Bilirakis spoke to the tilities threaten peace in the re - successful attorney at the time) group, encouraging Republican gion. That is why it all the more to enter politics.” The elder Bili - unity in November. When he ut - important for Greece to remain rakis resisted, but his son con - tered Donald Trump’s name, a a steady and reliable partner in tinued to prod him, as did oth - couple of people groaned, and the Eastern Mediterranean,” ers. “Eventually, I decided to the congressman advised: “Now, said Congressman Bilirakis. He run,” said Mike Bilirakis, who now, we agree with him 90 per - continued, “Encouraging pri - also spoke at the event.” cent of the time, right? So we vate investment in Greece is an But once Gus decided to run, need to stand behind him.” As excellent way to ensure eco - didn’t he win because of Mike’s for his own reelection, Bilirakis nomic stability through job cre - help? Not at all, Hittos told is strongly favored to win re - ation and revenue generation TNH. When the elder Bilirakis election, but is campaigning for a nation in dire need of re - decided to retire, his son was hard. “I’m not taking anything lief. Greece is working to free motivated to take his place. But for granted,” he said. itself from economic volatility, the father was against it, out of His father, also a humble and anything we can do to spur love for his son. Gus was mar - man not craving the limelight, private investment through ried with young children, and spoke only after his son coaxed OPIC will significantly help our his father advised “this is no life him into doing so. Mostly, he re - steadfast ally and well serve the for a man with a young family.” layed the virtues of Republican - United States and our EU al - Of course, he supports his son, ism, explaining how unlike the tnh/constAntinos e. scAros lies.” but he didn’t take an active role Democrats, they don’t give Congressman Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) launches his reelection with the grand opening on July 30 of Many Greek-Americans are in helping him get elected. Ac - things, but rather help people his new campaign headquarters in Holiday, FL. hopeful this step will encourage cording to Hittos’ account, then, help themselves.” investment in Greece and help rather than the father having He spoke about the American poorly-trained, poorly-armed most powerful military in the such as ours” to be the beacon the nation through the financial made the son’s political career, Revolution and explained how bunch of colonists were able to world. “It was God who did it,” of hope and compass for the crisis. it was the other way around. it was that a disorganized, defeat the British, who had the he said. “He wanted a nation world. The National Herald

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Continued from page 1 our membership to address these challenges and keep AHEPA on the steady path set forth by my predecessors in a spirit true to our mission." Zachariades is a 25-year member of Hudson Chapter 108, Jersey City, NJ. He has served AHEPA in numerous leadership positions including most recently as supreme vice president. Among his responsi - bilities as supreme president, Zachariades is also the chief ex - ecutive officer and principal spokesperson of the entire AHEPA domain, which includes the United States, Canada, and chapters in Europe. In addition to his responsi - bilities, the supreme president has dedicated himself to the Fifth District AHEPA Cancer Re - search Foundation, which has raised nearly $1.5 million for cancer research. During his eight-year chairmanship of the foundation, grants were pro - photos: courtesy of AhepA vided to several industry leading LEFT: Outgoing Supreme organizations such as: Rutgers President John Galanis Cancer Institute of New Jersey, addresses the convention. Weill Medical College Cornell ABOVE: Andrew Zachariades University, and Fox Chase Can - is sworn in as AHEPA cer Center. In 2008, Zachariades Supreme President. was awarded the District Five RIGHT: The Installation Ahepan of the Year. Ceremony of newly-elected Zachariades is an executive- officers officially concluded level financial accountant for he earned a degree in Manage - uate School of Business at the 94th most of his career where he has rial Accounting. He also earned William Paterson University, AHEPA Supreme Convention. overseen complex transactions an advanced degree in Financial which is part of the New Jersey and billions of dollars in real es - Accounting from the New York State University system. tate development. For the past Institute of Finance. Zachariades Zachariades and his wife, An - 15 years, he has served as the has distinguished himself in his toinette, are members of Evan - is comprised of: Canadian Pres - CFO and Controller of FBE Lim - field and is an esteemed mem - gelismos Greek Orthodox ident Bill Bakalis, Kitchener, On - ited LLC, a privately held invest - ber of the Hellenic American Church, Jersey City, NJ, and tario; Supreme Vice President ment firm located on Wall Street Bankers Association. Always have three children. Andrew George E. Loucas, Esq., Cleve - in New York City. He is a gradu - looking to give back, Andrew is also currently serves as vice land, OH; Supreme Secretary ate of Rutgers University where a frequent lecturer at the Grad - president of the Cyprus Chil - Carl R. Hollister, Mason, OH; dren's Fund, which was founded Supreme Treasurer James Koko - in 1974 to support the educa - tas, Brooklyn; Supreme Coun - tional pursuits of eager, hard- selor George G. Horiates, Esq., Booras; and Region X: Nicholas Wyckoff, NJ, was elected Sons working and dedicated students Moorestown, NJ; Supreme Ath - C. Papadopoulos. of Pericles Supreme President; after the Turkish invasion of letic Director Louis G. Atsaves, Elected to positions on the and Tria Charnas, North Royal - Cyprus. To honor his many ac - Lake Forest, IL; and Sons of Per - Board of Trustees were: Cos ton, OH, was elected Maids of complishments, the Greek Or - icles National Advisor Sandy Pa - Marandos, who was re-elected, Athena Grand President. thodox Archdiocese awarded padopoulos, Atlanta, GA. and Elias Tskerides. Craig Claw - Friday's Installation Cere - Zachariades with the Medal of The eight Supreme Gover - son was re-elected to the Board mony of newly-elected officers the Order of Saint Paul in 2000. nors are: Region I: Gus Paras; of Auditors. officially concluded the 94th Election of AHEPA Leader - Region II: Anthony Drakos; Re - The organizations that com - AHEPA Supreme Convention, ship for 2016-2017. gion III: Chris Diamantoukis; prise the AHEPA Family also which began Monday, July 25. The AHEPA Supreme Lodge Region IV: Jack Isaac; Region V: held elections. Jan Spanos, The 2017 Supreme Conven - is the international governing George L. Kalantzis; Region VI: Sacramento, CA, was elected tion will convene July 24 to 30 body of the organization. Donald Vanover: Timothy Joan - Daughters of Penelope Grand at Walt Disney World Resort, Or - The 2016-17 Supreme Lodge nides; Region VIII: George President; Nikolas Apostolou, lando, FL. Dora Komninos Running for Pinellas County Court Judge

Continued from page 1 mended Komninos for Pinellas Stelios Faitakis' work on display at the 1st Athens Biennial in County Court judge. 2007. Photo: The Breeder gallery Komninos was born in Komninos has been a mem - Somerville, NJ before moving to ber of St. Stefanos Greek Ortho - Florida as an infant. Her mother dox Church in St. Petersburg for Avyi and her late father, Chris over 35 years. She is currently Artist Stelios Faitakis on immigrated to the United States the President of the Parish from Cyprus in 1974 following Council for St. Stefanos. In a coup d’état and military inva - 2006, Dora met Spiro, a prac - His Evocative Artwork sion which left the country, and ticing business, real estate and its citizens, partitioned along a probate lawyer, through a mu - United Nation monitored Green tual friend at a Greek Festival. Inspired by Greece Line, which tragically still di - Born in Athens, though his fam - vides Cyprus to this day. Komni - ily is originally from Ithaka, nos learned the value of hard Spiro and his parents immi - TNH Staff work at an early age by working grated to the United States in her late father’s many restau - when he was a year old. In One of the best known artists working in Athens, Stelios Faitakis rants in Pinellas County includ - 2008, Dora and Spiro married, at age 40 is at the peak of his career. His work combines elements ing: The Townhouse, Smalley’s and in 2012, the couple proudly of street art with the sacred imagery of Greek Orthodox Church Pit BBQ, The Golden Dawn, and welcomed a daughter, Avyi, into iconography. Faitakis began his career as a graffiti artist, though The Manor. their lives. gradually over the years, his work has taken on a more formal as - She continued working while Komninos has received sup - pect, calling to mind the murals of Diego Rivera and the more going to high school at Dixie port for her candidacy from challenging works of German painter Otto Dix and other Weimar Hollins High School where she many prominent leaders, citi - painters, but with the austere faces and figures of Byzantine saints was also active in sports, playing zens, and civic organizations in transported to modern times, commenting on today’s society. basketball and on the track and dora4judge.com Pinellas County, Florida, such as Faitakis tackles dystopian themes of social unrest and inequality field team. Upon graduating Pinellas County Court Judge candidate Dora Komninos and prosecutors, defense attorneys, much like those 20th century artists, but with a strikingly contem - from high school in 1994, Rep. Gus Bilirakis at an event in Florida earlier this year. law enforcement officers, small porary, yet timeless, force. Faitakis’ mural of the French student Komninos continued her educa - business owners, and Pinellas uprisings of May 1968 will be unveiled this month at the Palais de tion at St. Petersburg College jury and criminal defense mestic violence victims and is a County State Attorney Bernie Tokyo in Paris. He spoke about the evolution of his work in an in - earning an associate degree in lawyer in Pinellas Park. Komni - good listener with an even tem - McCabe, Clerk of Court Ken terview with the New York Times. 1996. She then attended the nos earned her law degree from perament, important qualities Burke, School Board Member When asked about Greek Orthodox iconography as a metaphor University of South Florida and St. Thomas University and has for a judge. Komninos' cam - Rene Flowers, St. Pete City for commenting on the current crises in Greece, Faitakis said “we earned a bachelor’s in business spent her legal career in the paign has raised funds from a Councilman Charles Gerdes, the grow up seeing this form of art in churches and everybody knows administration in 1998. After state attorney's office, where she broad group of small contribu - Suncoast Police Benevolent As - it. But it took me many years to fully appreciate it, to understand graduating, Komninos joined has worked since 2002. As tors, a testament to her support sociation, Young Floridians for the depth and strength of this tradition. Now, no matter how many her brother Loui, who is cur - noted in the Tampa Bay Times, within the community. The Opportunity and the Fraternal times I have visited the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens rently a practicing personal in - Komninos works well with do - Tampa Bay Times has recom - Order of Police, Lodge #10. or the collection of Agia Aikaterini of Sinai in Crete, I’m always as - tonished. I like the idea that I am speaking an artistic language that has deep roots; the local people understand it and viewers abroad find it equally interesting. And at the end of the day, it is still a religious art form, and I am using it exactly for this: No matter what the theme is, whether it’s simple or even shallow, the golden background always reminds the viewer that there is another, POCKET-LESS higher level of existence despite the distance we may have from it because of our daily battle for survival. This is one of the elements PITA BREAD that form the very core of my work.” On the transition from graffiti to more studio-based artwork, Faitakis observed, “it takes time to produce these large-scale pieces, not just a day or two. I soon discovered that working in the studio Kontos Foods was equally interesting and joyful to me as the work out in the www.GreekKitchennyc.com The Leading Company in Flat Breads streets. But I owe a lot to the techniques and materials of street artists and I still like to present my work in public spaces, although Well known for the Pocket-Less Pita I do not consider my art as ephemeral as I did in the past. 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Athens police officer for 10 years same for college students and local rotary club for his good 27 5345 /20080 He first thing customers who before coming to the United priests, altar boys and choir deed. The plaque was present at LEGAL NOTICE walked into his OK Cleaners & States. After stops in New Jersey members in the Greek Orthodox his wake Friday. “Axiotes was a LEGAL NOTICE Tailors might hear was “would and Iowa, he married Olympia Church. former military man himself, Notice of formation of BLUE KINGS Notice of formation PSYCHX, LLC. (DOM. you like a highball” even if it B. Fotoplos on Nov. 30, 1958, in “Rogers shared a story of her serving Greece in the 1930s. ENTERTAINMENT, LLC. (DOM. LLC). Ar - LLC). Articles of Or ganization filed with the was in the morning hours, his Omaha. They opened OK Clean - dad’s patriotism. A man came in “He is survived by his four ticles of Organization filed with the Secre - Secretary of State of New York, SSNY on tary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/11/2016. Office located in King County. daughter Katina Rogers said, the ers, which Rogers said became to Axiotes’ shop with a tattered children and 10 grandchildren.” 05/04/2016 Office located in Nassau SSNY has been designated for service of County. SSNY has been designated for process. SSNY shall mail copy of any process service of process. SSNY shall mail copy served against the LLC to: Psychx, LLC 490 of any process against the LLC to: c /o Prospect Ave., Apt. 2L, Brooklyn, NY 11215. United States Corporation Agents , Inc ., Purpose: Any lawful activity . 7014 13 th Avenue , Brooklyn , NY 11228 DEATH NOTICES Purpose : Any lawful activity . 27 5307 /2 0058 27 5335 /20070 n BAZIOTIS, GEORGIA n CHOPPELAS, EUGENE NY. He was the cherished grand - Stanley whom she was married LEGAL NOTICE FAIR LAWN, NJ (from the SAN FRANCISCO, CA (from the father of Gavin Barth, Zachary for 56 wonderful years. Together FUNERAL HOMES Record, published on Jul. 19) – San Francisco Chronicle, pub - Barth, Jr., Jake Boyle, Ella Barth, they had four children whom she Notice of formation ASOR LIFE, LLC. (DOM. LLC). Articles of Or ganization filed Georgia Baziotis, age 102, passed lished on Aug. 1) – Eugene and Derek Boyle. Alan was the loved and was so proud of their with the Secretary of State of New York, APOSTOLOPOULOS away peacefully on July 16, George Choppelas passed away brother of Demitrios Delis of Pa - accomplishments: Vicki (Themis) SSNY on 04/26/2016. Office located in King Apostle Family - 2016, at Shannon Gray Rehabil - peacefully from complications of tras, Greece, and the late George Michalakos, Arthur Ketsios, Dena County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail copy of Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - itation and Recovery Center in vascular dementia. He was a sec - Delis and Angeliki Handziou. In (Lee) Vasilatos and Elizabeth any process served against the LLC to: United Jamestown, NC, in the presence ond generation San Franciscan, lieu of flowers, memorial contri - (Steve) Zweiback. She is also sur - States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7015 13th Av - Funeral Directors of of her daughter. Beloved loved son of the late George and butions may be made to the vived by her sister, Kay (late, Pe - enue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. RIVERDALE FUNERAL HOME Inc. Purpose: Any lawful activity . mother of Kathleen Thompson, Efthimia (Pantazy) Choppelas. American Cancer Society , 931 ter) Manolis and Brother John 27 5329 /2 0010 5044 Broadway married to Jerome, of High Point, He leaves behind many who Jefferson Blvd., Suite 3004, War - (late, Stella) Kintonis. Sister in New York, NY 10034 NC, and John Baziotis, married loved him, his daughter Jean - wick, RI 02886. law to Zoe (late, Kiriaco) Sote - LEGAL NOTICE (212) 942-4000 to Barbara, of Ridgewood N.J; nine, two grandchildren, Justin riou and Koula (late, Stanley) Notice of formation of OWell Health LLC, beloved "Yia Yia" of three grand - & Renee, step-son Arthur, ex-wife n DESPOTIDES, MOSHA Kintonis. Proud Yiayia to 11 Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE daughters, Moira, Kathleen and and lifelong friend Jeannette, sis - NEWPORT NEWS, VA (from the Grandchildren whom loved her (SSNY) on 5/27/16. Office location: CONSTANTINIDES Elizabeth, and four great-grand - ter in law Dr. Jackie Choppelas, Daily Press, published on Jul. 29) very much; Maria Alexandria (M- Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may FUNERAL PARLOR Co. children, Olivia, Sophia, Alexan - nephews Christopher & Jon, – NEWPORT NEWS - Moscha A), Stephen, Matina, Alec, Grif - be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process dra and James; also survived by niece Alison, family in Greece Despotides, 88, passed away on fin, Parker, Maria, Niki, Stacy, to Windsor Publishing, PO Box 8627, Al - (718) 745-1010 her sister-in-law, Helen Boyas of and many wonderful devoted Thursday, July 28, 2016 with her Stephanie and Elena. Dear and bany, NY 12208. Purpose: Any lawful ac - tivity. Services in all localities - Fair Lawn, NJ; three nieces; and friends that lovingly visited him family by her side. She was born fun-loving aunt to many nieces 27 5311 /10834 Low cost shipping to Greece one nephew. She was preceded until the end. Gene grew up in in Sifnos, Greece and moved to and nephews, Grandnieces and in death by her beloved husband, the S.F. Sunset district, attended the United States in 1957. She Grandnephews and a multitude LEGAL NOTICE James, with whom she shared a Lincoln High was a high ranking was the co-owner, with her hus - of dear and loving friends. She is 5521 NEW UTRECHT AVENUE LIM - ANTONOPOULOS loving marriage of 70 years; her bowler on the Bagdad Bowling band, of Despotides Gardens in preceded in death by her parents, ITED PARTNERSHIP. Cert. of Limited Partnership filed with the SSNY on FUNERAL HOME, INC. sister, Agnes Broogos of Newark Team. He was in the Marine Re - Potomac, MD. She made her Christ and Dena Kintonis, Mother 12/31/03. Latest date to dissolve: Konstantinos Antonopoulos - NJ; and brothers, Kerry and serves and was awarded a metal home in Potomac, MD for 54 in law, Bessie Ketsios, her broth - 09/30/2050. Office: Kings County. SSNY des - George Boyas of Fair Lawn, NJ. for expert sharp shooter. As a years before moving to Newport ers; George (late, Ruth) Kintonis, ignated as agent of the LP upon whom Funeral Director process against it may be served. SSNY shall Georgia emigrated to Connecti - young man he worked for the Pa - News, VA to be near her daugh - Tom Kintonis, and Stanley Kin - mail copy of process to the LP, c/o 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., cut from Lemnos, Greece at the cific Telephone Co. when starting ter. She was a founding member tonis. In 1947 as a young girl, Mermelstein Realty LLC, 5521 New Utrecht Astoria, New York 11105 age of five. Shortly thereafter the his family he proudly became a of St George Greek Orthodox she arrived with her family in Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. (718) 728-8500 family moved to Paterson, NJ, sales associate for the American Church in Bethesda, MD where Chicago. She graduated from Bo - 27 5324 /17973 where she lived until 2005 when Automobile Association. For 42 her husband, Rev. Fr. Nicholas gan High school and attended As - Not affiliated with any she then joined her daughter in years he looked forward to his Despotides, was the Assistant sumption Greek Orthodox LEGAL NOTICE other funeral home. High Point, NC. Georgia was an renewal phone calls with his Priest and was a member of the Church in Hegewisch where she Notice of formation GYPSY DAHLIA active member of St. Athanasios clients to chat and catch up with Ladies Philoptochos Society. Mrs. ultimately was married and bap - PRODUCTIONS, LLC. (DOM. LLC). Articles Greek Orthodox Church in Para - their lives. For over a decade he Despotides was preceded in tized her four children. Maria and of Or ganization filed with the Secretary of State of New York, SSNY on 05/18/2016. Of - mus, NJ, and St. George Greek enjoyed spending quality time death by her son, John Nick Stanley owned and operated fice located in King County. SSNY has been to plAce your Orthodox Church of High Point, with his beloved brother the late Despotides and 11 siblings. She South Chicago Florist and she designated for service of process. SSNY shall clAssifieD AD, cAll: NC. She and her husband owned Dr. Nick Choppelas, sailing the is survived by her husband of 60 continued her passion as an avid mail copy of any process served against the LLC to: c/o United States Corporation Agents, (718) 784-5255, ext. 106, and operated a linen supply and San Francisco Bay, Gene loved years, Rev. Fr. Nicholas J. gardner. In 1963, they moved to Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, e-MAil: laundry business for many years driving his Porsche, playing back Despotides; her daughter, Flora San Francisco and opened a NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity . classifieds@ in Paterson, NJ. She was known gammon at Lord Jim's and hav - D. Chioros and her husband, Rev. diner on famous Fisherman’s 27 5286 /2 0046 thenationalherald.com for her extraordinary skill in bak - ing a brandy/coffee while shoot - George Chioros, of Newport Wharf, along with her cousins. ing Greek pastries and for her ing the breeze (for over 40 years) News; her beloved grandson, After a few year, they moved ability to make people laugh and at the Gold Cane Bar on Height Constantine "Dean" George back to Chicago to start the fam - enjoy her company. In lieu of St. He also enjoyed traveling, in - Chioros of Newport News and ily business, E&S Food & Liquor, flowers donations may be made cluding many trips to Greece to many nieces and nephews in where they flourished for 30 everyone he met. Spiros was a credible afghans will always be to St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox visit family and his favorite Greece and the United States. years. In their 30 years of retire - deeply loyal, generous and loving cherished. Easter was always a Church, 51 Paramus Road, Para - cousin Nikos. The family will receive friends on ment, Maria and Stan led an ex - man to his family and friends. He great event at home when she mus, NJ 07652. Saturday, July 30, 2016 at Sts. citing life as passionate world was preceded in death by his par - would make all those colored n DAGADAKIS, EFTIHIA Constantine and Helen Greek Or - travelers, visiting countless coun - ents; brothers John, Tony, eggs so we could celebrate the n BERDANIS, HELEN SEATTLE, WA (from the Seattle thodox Church from 4:00- tries on 5 Continents. They spent Michael, and Paul; and sisters Risen Christ! She is survived by SAN PEDRO, CA (from the Daily Times, published on Jul. 17) – 6:00pm with a Trisagion Service winters at their beautiful beach Poppy and Maroula. Family and her children: John (Irene), Gust, Breeze, published Jul. 25)— He - Eftihia Dagadakis was born in at 5:00pm. A Funeral Service will home in Clearwater, FL and sum - friends will meet Saturday morn - Anastasia, and Jason (Mary Kay) len Panousis Berdanis, who will 1914 at Castle Gate Utah. She be conducted on Monday, Aug. mers in their beloved homeland ing, July 9, at St. Andrew Greek as well as eight grandchildren: always be remembered for her grew up in Vamos, Cania,Crete, 1, 2016 at 11:00am at St. George of Greece where they built a Orthodox Church 5649 N. Sheri - Dmitri, Mace, Nikko, Alex, Jenny, sweet, gentle spirit and delightful Greece and moved to the USA af - Greek Orthodox Church by Rev. home for their children in Ka - dan Road, Chicago, IL 60660 for David, Anna, and Laurisa. She sense of humor, died peacefully ter the end of WWII. She lived Fr. George Chioros and Rev. Fr. mena Vourla. These two places visitation from 9:00am until the was preceded in death by her on July 20, 2016, at home in her independently to March of 2016 Dimitrios J. Antokas with inter - are where they thrived on happi - time of the funeral service at husband Pete, and her sons Peter residence of 54 years in San Pe - and died on 7-9-2016 at the age ment to follow in Gate of Heaven ness. Maria’s generosity is unpar - 10:00am. He will be laid to rest and Milton. Even though age dro, California. Helen was a life of 102. She was preceded in Cemetery, Silver Spring, MD. In alleled. She opened her homes at All Saints Cemetery in Des brings with it pains and chal - long resident of San Pedro, hav - Death by her husband Stamatios lieu of flowers, donations may be to share with so many who vis - Plaines, IL. A memorial service lenges, Afrodite faced it with the ing graduated from San Pedro Dagadakis 9 years ago and her made to St. Helen Greek Ortho - ited, and gave selflessly to those will be held at the Greek Ortho - same determination she had as a High School in 1948. She was sisters Niki Kokkinakis, Ellie dox Philoptochos Society or St. in need. Passionate about family, dox Cathedral of Annunciation in young woman in a world torn by born on February 6, 1931, the Bovos and Vaso Gionotakis. She George Greek Orthodox Philop - friends, animals, nature, a good Atlanta, GA at a date to be deter - war: with hard work, courage, only child of the late John and is survived by her son Christos tochos Society. Arrangements by cup of coffee and a game of mined. Memorial donations can and faith - knowing in the end Anastasia Panousis. Helen mar - (Judy Turner) and her daughter Weymouth Funeral Home. cards, Maria lived life to it’s be made to the American Cancer God is ultimately in control, call - ried John Victor Berdanis in Oc - Zaharenia Dagadakis Neuhauser fullest. Her joyful heart, infec - Society at http://main.acsev - ing you back home in His timing, tober,1953 and together they as well grandchildren Stamatios n DRIZOS, HELEN tious laugh, storytelling, and ents.org/goto/spiroslazos. into His loving arms, where there had three children: Bill, Anasta - and Marissa Dagadakis and Efti - MYAKKA CITY, FL (from the Her - jokes were abundant and leg - is no more pain and suffering. sia and Janet, who all attended hia Gottwald (Daniel). She was ald Tribune, published on Jul. endary. She will be forever n MELONAS, AFRODITE Funeral services will be held on her alma mater, San Pedro High. the happiest when she was with 30) – Helen P. Drizos, 90 of missed and remembered by all HOLLADAY, UT (from the Deseret Saturday July 9, 2016 at 11:00 She is survived by her devoted her family. During the WWII she Myakka City, FL, formerly of Way - whom she has touched in life. News, published on Jul.7) – a.m. at Prophet Elias Greek Or - husband John, and her two worked in the Greek Under - nesburg, PA, died on July 27, Maria’s wish for everyone was to Afrodite Frieda Melonas 1926- thodox Church, 5335 S Highland daughters, Anastasia Gullette, ground helping Allied Troops to 2016 in Sarasota FL. She was always have a smile on your face, 2016. Nothing can separate the Dr, Holladay, UT. Friends and Anastasia's husband Mike, their escape the Germans and received born August 25, 1925 in Clarks - be kind to one another, don’t hold Christian from the love of God in family may call at the church for sons Mikey and Johnny, and an award from Allied Field Mar - burg, WV, daughter of the late grudges, and live life to it’s Christ! Afrodite Frieda Xanthoulis the viewing planned one hour Janet Jones and her husband shall Alexander. In lieu of flowers Peter and Hreso Padais (origi - fullest. “Make the most of your Melonas, Christian, devoted wife, prior to the services. Interment Ron. Her only son, Bill, passed contributions can be made to St. nally from Chios, Greece.) days and make some fun and loving mother, and caring grand - will follow at Elysian Gardens in March, 2006 and was survived Demetrios or the Philanthropia Mrs. Drizos was a member of St. laughs wherever you go, because mother passed away peacefully Cemetery, 1075 East 4580 South. by his wife, Margo. Helen is also Home where she got the best of Barbara Greek Orthodox Church life is but a dream!” A celebration into the loving arms of Jesus survived by her cousin Christine care. in Sarasota, FL and a former of her life took place on Wednes - Christ on the morning of July 5, n ZACHOPOULOS, Haidos, who was like a sister to member of All Saints Greek Or - day, July 13, from 3PM- 9PM, 2016 at the age of 90. A woman STYLIANOS her and, with John, was by her n DELIS, ALAN thodox Church in Canonsburg, Trisagion service 7PM at Hills Fu - of incredible strength and will, CLEVELAND, OH (from The Plain side until the end. Helen was ac - WHITING, NJ (from the Provi - PA. On April 19, 1942, Helen neral Home, Ltd., 10201 S. she touched those around her Dealer, published on Jul. 20)— tive in the Greek community as dence Journal, published on Jul. married Nick Drizos from Way - Roberts Rd. (8000W.), Palos with her caring voice, loving Stylianos Zachopoulos, age 64, a member of Saint Katherine's 30) – Alan Delis, 78, of Whiting, nesburg, PA. Nick was a shoe cob - Hills. The funeral took place at heart, and gentle soul. Born Feb - loving husband of Katherine (nee Greek Orthodox Church in Re - NJ, formerly of Lincoln, passed bler and owner of The City Shoe 10AM on Thursday, July 14, ruary 21, 1926 in the small Hatzis) married for 39 years, dear dondo Beach and an active mem - away peacefully on Wednesday, Shop in Waynesburg from 1942 2016 at St. Spyridon Greek Or - mountain village of Smokov, father of Georgia and Apostolos ber of the Daughters of Penelope July 27, 2016 at Ocean Medical until his retirement in 2004. Both thodox Church, 12307 S. Ridge - Greece, she learned quickly to "Paul," brother of Vangeli (Ellie) for over 60 years. In her later Center, Brick, NJ. He was the Helen and Nick were well loved land Ave., Palos Heights with ser - face the challenges of life head- and Dino, son of Apostolos and years, her ill health prevented beloved husband of forty-three members of the community and vices starting at 11AM. In lieu of on through hard work, sacrifice, Antigoni (both deceased), her from attending the church years to Priscilla (Kyriakakis) lived most of their life in Way - flowers, donations to www.go - and determination. Before she brother-in-law of Harry Hatzis, services at Saint Katherine's. But Delis. Born in Patras Greece, he nesburg. They moved to Myakka fundme.com/2dtwaak was 21 years old, she had strug - passed away unexpectedly in thanks to modern technology, was a son of the late Christopher City, FL upon Nick's retirement gled and lived through a great Greece on July 13, 2016. she was able to enjoy services and Joanna (Andreopoulos) to be close to their son Nick. Sur - n LAZOS, SPIROS depression, a world war, and a Stylianos was born and raised in broadcasted directly from Delis. Mr. Delis was a business viving are three sons, Pete Drizos ATLANTA, GA (from the Atlanta civil war. On January 2, 1949 she Greece and held great pride in Athens, Greece, never missing a and property owner for many of Sioux Falls, SD, Steve Drizos Journal-Constitution, published married Pete Melonas in Athens his Greek heritage. He moved to holiday or a feast day. In lieu of years until his retirement. Besides of Harrisburg, PA and Nick Drizos on Jul. 7) – Spiros Stavros Lazos, who brought her to the United the United States in 1981 at the flowers, please make a donation his wife, he is survived by his lov - of Myakka City, FL; 6 grandchil - 80, of Atlanta, GA and Astypalea, States where they first settled in age of 29 to make a better life for to St. Katherine's Greek Ortho - ing daughters, Melissa D. Barth dren, Nicholas, Jodi, Kristin, Greece, passed away surrounded Murray, Utah and then eventually himself and his family. An accom - dox Church building fund 722 and her husband Zachary of Fair Stephen, Dana and Peter; 9 great by family, Thursday, June 30, in Highland, Utah. They re - plished engineering professional, Knob Hill Ave., Redondo Beach, Haven, NJ and Joanna D. Boyle grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, 2016 at his son's home in mained married for 62 years until he completed studies both abroad CA 90277. and her husband John of Pelham, memorial donations may be Chicago, IL. Spiros is survived by Pete's death in 2011. They raised and locally in Cleveland earning made to: All Saints Greek Ortho - his wife Fotini "Faye" of 45 years, six beautiful children together in his doctorate in civil engineering dox Church, 601 West Murray son Stavros (Tracey) Lazos, a traditional Greek atmosphere. from Cleveland State University. Rd., Canonsburg, PA 15317 or grandchildren Katerina, Cassan - She was always cooking that Well-respected in Northeast Ohio Sarasota Manatee Assoc., for Rid - dra and Spiros, and many loving great Greek food and taking care professionally as an engineer, he Johnstown Loses its Mayor: ing Therapy, 4640 CR 675 E, cousins, nieces, nephews, godchil - of all the needs of her children, held the title of principle engineer Bradenton, FL 34211. dren and extended family. Spiros wanting the best for them. Mem - at MWH Global where he had Michael Julius Passes at 66 was born July 9, 1935 on the is - ories of her maintaining a mani - been employed for near 30 years. n KETSIOS, MARIA land of Astypalea, Greece to cured house, helping with farm Stylianos held interests in sports PALOS HILLS, IL (from the Stavros and Despina Lazos. Leav - chores, keeping us kids all in line, and travel. He was a huge fan of TNH Staff Chicago Sun-Times, published ing home at age 15, Spiros moved making sure dad was fed when soccer and all Cleveland sports Jul. 11) — Maria (Kintonis) Ket - to Piraeus where, at 18, he be - he came home from work, and teams. Furthermore, he always JOHNSTOWN, NY – Michael B. Julius, who took office as Mayor sios, born February 22, 1939 in came the youngest proprietor of finding time to knit all those in - enjoyed his annual summer va - of Johnstown on January 1, 2014, passed away on July 28 after a Agion, Greece. She passed away a dental lab. He moved to New cations to Greece, to which he re - brief illness, the Leader Herald reported. peacefully surrounded by her lov - York City in 1967 where he con - this is a service ferred as his true home. Stylianos He graduated from Johnstown High School in 1967 and from ing family after a brief illness on tinued his career in dental care to the community. is remembered by those who Albany College of Pharmacy in 1972. July 8, in Clearwater, FL. She is and met his wife. Spiros went on Announcements of deaths were close to him as loving, hard- After working as a pharmacist for many years, Julius was elected survived by her beloved husband, to develop a real estate group and may be telephoned to the working, funny, and a loyal hus - Mayor of Johnstown. He was an Ahepan, as well as a member of run many successful restaurants classified Department of band, father and friend. A selfless the Chamber of Commerce, Eccentric Club, Kappa Psi, and a mem - in Atlanta, GA. He retired to man, he strived to care for his Days and dates of funerals, the national herald at ber of St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church in Albany, the Leader Greece where he enjoyed swim - (718) 784-5255, family and put their needs before Herald reported, and also noted that “he is survived by his wife memorials, and other events di - ming in the sea, tavli with friends his. In lieu of flowers, family sug - rectly correspond to the original Monday through friday, Catherine, whom he married on September 23, 1978 and daughter and spending time with his fam - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. est gests contributions to the Annun - Vicki and her fiance Andrew Lakata of Burlington, VT.” publication date, which appears ily. Spiros embraced life to its ciation Greek Orthodox Church, at the beginning of each notice. or e-mailed to: Contributions in Julius’ memory can be made to the Pancreatic fullest, sharing his energy, passion [email protected] 2187 West 14th St., Cleveland, Cancer Action Network at www.pancan.org. and dedication to hard work with OH. THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 6-7, 2016 FEATURE 7

OUR EVERYDAY GREEK GREEK GASTRONOMY Review: Whose Ghenethlia and Yiorti Did You Say it is? Some Recipes for Seasonal

By Dr. Dimitra Kamarinou Πότε είναι η γιορτή του; (Σωτήρης, 06.08) ...... Πότε είναι η γιορτή του; (Κώστας, 21.05) ...... Vegetables of the Summer 1. A GREEK FAMILY GATHERING VOCABULARY Πότε είναι η γιορτή του; (Βασίλης, 01.01) ...... Cover the Greek words and try to write them down. Beware of Πότε είναι η γιορτή του; (Σταύρος, 14.09) ...... By Eleni Sakellis heat to medium, cover the pan, the spelling. Πότε είναι η γιορτή της; (Ελένη, 21.05) ...... and allow to simmer, stirring oc - Πότε είναι η γιορτή της; (Μαρία, 15.08) ...... In summer, we are blessed casionally until the zucchini is Greek word Pronunciation Meaning Πότε είναι η γιορτή της; (Κατερίνα, 25.11) ...... with an abundance of fresh, lo - tender but not mushy. Drizzle Ο μπαμπάς O baBAS daddy Πότε είναι η γιορτή της; (Δήμητρα, 25.10) ...... cal produce at the peak of flavor. with additional olive oil, and a Η μαμά EE maMA mom Πότε είναι η γιορτή της; (Βασιλική, 01.01) ...... Tomatoes, green beans, and zuc - squeeze of fresh lemon juice, if Ο παππούς O paPOOS grandfather chini are among the vegetables desired, before serving. Makes Η γιαγιά EE yiayiA grandmother 4. REVIEW THE SPELLING OF THE MONTHS to enjoy this time of year. As the a great side dish or serve with Ο αδελφός O adeLFOS brother Cover the Greek words and try to say and write the months in fasting period begins on August your favorite pasta as a Η αδελφή EE adeLFEE sister Greek. 1before the Dormition of the vegan/vegetarian main course. Ο ξάδελφος O XAdelfos cousin male Virgin Mary on August 15, there Η ξαδέλφη EE xaDEElfi cousin female Greek word Pronunciation Translation are plenty of tasty, meat-free Ο θείος O THEEos uncle Ο Ιανουάριος O ianooArios January recipes using the vegetables Stewed Green Beans Η θεία EE THEEa aunt Ο Φεβρουάριος O fevrooArios February from your garden if you’re lucky Ο νονός O noNOS godfather Ο Μάρτιος O MArtios March enough to have one, or those with Potatoes Η νονά EE noNA godmother Ο Απρίλιος O aPREElios April from your local farmers’ markets Ο ανιψιός O anipsiOS nephew Ο Μάιος O MAios May and greengrocers. Here are two • 2 pounds green beans, Η ανιψιά EE anipsiA niece Ο Ιούνιος O iOOnios June recipes with the seasonal sum - trimmed and cut in two inch Ο Ιούλιος O iOOlios July mertime vegetables to try. pieces 2. WHEN DOES ΓΙΑΓΙΑ CELEBRATE HER BIRTHDAY? Ο Αύγουστος O Avghoostos August • 1 medium to large onion, Answer the questions like in the given example. Ο Σεπτέμβριος O sePTEmvrios September chopped Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια του μπαμπά σου; (20.06) Ο Οκτώβριος O oCTOvrios October Zucchini with • 2-3 medium potatoes, peeled Τα γενέθλια του μπαμπά μου είναι στις είκοσι Ιουνίου. Ο Νοέμβριος O noEmvrios November and cut into cubes Beware of the genitive endings and articles. Ο Δεκέμβριος O deKEmvrios December Mushrooms • 1 cup tomato passata or Masculine Feminine Neuter puree ο, του η, της το, του 5. REVIEW THE NUMBERS FOR THE DATES, 1-30 • 3-4 medium-sized zucchini • 2-3 large fresh tomatoes, -ος, –ου -α, -ας -ι, -ου Cover the Greek words and try to say and write the numbers in • 1 package (8oz.) mushrooms chopped -ης, -η -η, -ης -ο, -ου Greek. -ας, -α Number Greek word Pronunciation -ες, -ε 1 ένα Ena -ους, -ου 2 δύο DEEo 3 τρία TREEa Examples 4 τέσσερα TEsera Masculine gender: ο Βασίλ-ης / του Βασίλ-η, ο μπαμπ-άς / του 5 πέντε PEnte μπαμπ-ά, ο παππ-ούς / του παππ-ού, but o θεί-ος / του θεί-ου, o 6 έξι Exi Ιανουάριος / του Ιανουαρίου. 7 επτά ePTA Feminine gender: Η μαμ-ά / της μαμ-άς, η αδελφ-ή / της αδελφ- 8 οκτώ oKTO ής. 9 εννέα eNEa Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια του παππού; (28.02) ...... 10 δέκα DEka Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια του θείου σου; (07.03) ...... 11 έντεκα EΝteka Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια του νονού σου; (18.12) ...... 12 δώδεκα DOdeka Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια του αδελφού σου; (28.03) ...... 13 δεκατρία dekaTREEa Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια του ξαδελφού σου; (01.01) ...... 14 δεκατέσσερα dekaTEsera Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια του ανιψιού σου; (25.10) ...... 15 δεκαπέντε dekaPEnte Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια της μαμάς ; (06.04) ...... 16 δεκαέξι dekaExi Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια της γιαγιάς; (08.10) ...... 17 δεκαεπτά dekaePTA Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια της θείας σου; (09.09) ...... 18 δεκαοκτώ dekaoKTO Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια της αδελφής σου; (12.07) ...... 19 δεκαεννέα dekaeNEa Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια της ξαδέλφης σου; (15.08) ...... 20 είκοσι EEkosi Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια της ανιψιάς σου; (03.11) ...... 21 είκοσι ένα EEkosi Ena Πότε είναι τα γενέθλια της νονάς σου; (02.10) ...... 29 είκοσι εννέα EEkosi eNEa photos: tnh/eleni sAKellis 30 τριάντα triAnta 3. WHEN DOES ΕΛΕΝΗ CELEBRATE HER NAMEDAY? Answer the questions like in the given example. Πότε είναι η γιορτή του; (Πέτρος, 29.06) Dimitra Kamarinou, PhD, has studied philology and archaeology at Η γιορτή του Πέτρου είναι στις είκοσι εννέα Ιουνίου. the University of Ioannina,Würzburg and Bochum in Germany. She has been honored with the Academy of Athens Award in Πότε είναι η γιορτή του; (Γιάννης, 07.01) ...... Archaeology and Homeric Philology.

LITERARY REVIEW Hellenistic History to Add to the Summer Reading List

By Eleni Sakellis debt look at the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s death As the dog days of summer which as the subtitle mentions, set in, and your summer reading was wracked by war among of your choice • 4 tablespoons Greek extra list may be growing thin, add a those who would called them - • 2-4 tablespoons Greek extra virgin olive oil few volumes of history to the selves his successors. Romm virgin olive oil • 1 teaspoon salt mix. In recent years, scholars notes that Alexander’s empire • 1 medium onion, chopped • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground have begun reappraising the reached its height in 325 BC af - • 1/2 teaspoon salt pepper years after Alexander the Great, ter ten years of conquest in Eu - • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground • Water the Hellenistic era, in well-writ - rope, North Africa, and Asia, but pepper ten and researched histories. it lasted only two years. The • 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano Prepare the vegetables and Fans of history will enjoy the fol - Successors, or Diadochs in • A pinch of red pepper flakes set aside until ready to use. Place lowing two books on the Hel - Greek, were Alexander’s top (optional) the peeled, cubed potatoes in a lenistic period for the rest of the military officers, some of them • 2 tablespoons freshly bowl and cover with cold water summer and beyond. his close friends who were in - squeezed lemon juice to prevent discoloration. In a The Hellenistic Age by Peter spired by Alexander’s own life (optional) large pot or dutch oven, heat the Thonemann takes a look at the and deeds to prove their su - olive oil over medium high heat time after the death of Alexan - premacy in battle rather than Rinse the zucchini and slice until it shimmers. Add the der the Great through a few rep - work out some compromise that into 1/2 inch rounds, then set chopped onion and sauté until resentative issues to illustrate could have held the fragile em - aside until ready to use. Clean translucent. Add the tomato pas - the major themes of the time. pire together for longer than it the mushrooms, brushing off sata or puree, the fresh chopped The book manages in its 152 he ended his days in obscurity, the scale of the earth to be real - eventually lasted. The most in - any dirt. White button mush - tomatoes, and a cup of water to pages to bring to life the turbu - eventually losing his throne. Er - ized by human beings. The Hel - triguing historical figure to rooms, baby bella (small porto - the pot. Bring to a boil, then re - lent post-Alexander world. In atosthenes of Cyrene is the fig - lenistic period is also known for emerge from the pages of this bello) mushrooms or a mixture duce heat to medium and allow terms of politics, the figure of ure from the era Thonemann scientific breakthroughs like the history is Eumenes, Alexander’s of both work well in this dish. to simmer for about 15 to 20 the young, handsome Demetrius chose to represent the intellec - Antikythera mechanism, the former secretary who became a Slice the mushrooms. In a large minutes until the sauce reduces the Besieger provides a striking tual aspects of the Hellenistic world’s first analog computer, general and early on supported sauté pan or skillet with a cover, down slightly. Add the salt, pep - portrait of one of the Successor Age which were dynamic in discovered underwater from a the claim of Alexander’s infant heat the olive oil until it shim - per, and the green beans and kings who fought his way to his terms of inventions and innova - shipwreck. Thonemann’s enthu - son to the throne. Eumenes was mers over medium high heat. simmer, stirring occasionally. Af - throne, leading his troops on tions. Eratosthenes managed to siasm for the time period is in - given Cappadocia and Paphlag - Add the chopped onion and ter about 10-12 minutes, drain horseback, sponsoring the build - measure the earth’s circumfer - fectious and reader’s of this short onia, ancient regions of Anato - sauté until translucent. Add the the potatoes, discarding the ing of a siege tower, and also be - ence pretty accurately, only history of the Hellenistic Age will lia, to rule when the empire was sliced mushrooms and allow soaking water, and add the pota - stowing magnificent gifts on the about 15% off the actual mea - undoubtedly be impressed with divided among the Successors. them to cook down until their toes to the pot with the green people which led to his nearly surement, without any high tech the writing and the era. Unfortunately, those areas were water is released and they begin beans. Continue simmering until being declared a god. The dash - equipment. He used the angles Ghost on the Throne: The not subdued and Eumenes to lightly brown. Add the sliced the green beans and the pota - ing figure of Demetrius came to of the sun’s rays, measured at Death of Alexander and the never gained the full support of zucchini, salt, pepper, oregano, toes are tender, stirring occasion - represent the image of all kings two points a known distance Bloody Fight for His Empire by his own soldiers which eventu - red pepper flakes, if using, and ally. Serve with fresh bread for of the Hellenistic Age, though apart, allowing for the first time James Romm takes a more in ally led to his demise. sauté for 2-3 minutes. Reduce dipping in the sauce.

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Vacations Anyone?

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos their friends about. ing. In August, the good ol’ guys solutely stunned - speechless. I Special to The National Herald Minnesota! That state has get together and have a water - could tell they were in awe. more oddities and off-the-wall melon spitting contest. Piles of Who wouldn’t be! Then, as I was Well, its summer and that exhibits. The brochures were re - watermelons are stacked in a making lemonade for everyone, means vacation time. Time to ally dynamite! I figured our first corner and knives get busy split - Sebastian and Alexandra ran pack a small suitcase, water bot - stop would be Eveleth, Min - ting open the melons, removing outside to where their Pappou tles and money and hit the road. nesota. Now, my grandson, Se - the seeds and then the men was reading his newspaper. I intended taking my two bastian, should get a real thrill stand at a red line and – SPIT! They looked frantic; Sebastian youngest grandkids this time. at seeing the Hockey Hall of It just sends flutters in my stom - was grabbing his wrist, plead - But, not to the usual tourist Fame where a building in the ach thinking about it. ingly. I figured he was begging traps. Somewhere different! Dis - middle of a field features the Now, in Plano, Texas, there’s Pappou to let him drive the ney World, 6 Flags Adventure, world’s largest hockey stick and a tourist stop where the hugest Honda SUV since he got his dri - Bronx Zoo, Radio City Music puck. The photo in the brochure collection of Cockroaches are on ver’s license. Later, when they Hall and the aquarium in Mys - shows that it takes up an entire exhibit. Some are from Florida left, my husband came in, tic, Connecticut – we’d done all wall in height. Where else will where those critters really grow scratched his head and told me, that. It’s hard to find places you see such a thing? The puck, b-i-g; so big some of them have “You’ll never guess! Sebastian Alexandra, 14, and Sebastian, alone, looked like a gigantic miniature saddles. The brochure begged me to let him mow the 17 had never seen. They’ve been skating rink. Imagine it! him 29 years to wind all that wore back then. He’s on one says that they have exciting lawn all summer. Said, ‘Pappou, to some really cool places like Then, we’ll travel a few miles yarn. And, what’s great is that bended knee and is holding an roach races, too. You place your I’ll do it for free! Please!’ Said Aruba, Puerto Rico, Germany, to Darwin, Minnesota. There – next to the farm is a gift shop ax. Now, there’s a piece of Amer - bet on one of them and – he’ll trim the hedges and paint Italy and, often, Greece. So, af - according to the pamphlet I re - where we could buy a yarn icana not to miss. Right? I mean, THEY’RE OFF! In another cor - the fence, too! Alexandra fought ter extensive research, I sent for ceived, just off the main route starter kit. Gracious me! Wait it’s something to tell your Amer - ner some roaches are trained to with him for the same work. She and received pamphlets and where we make a sharp right, till I tell Alexandra who loves ican history teacher about. I’d do performing acts. But, my said, ‘don’t take him, Pappou. brochures to help me find dif - we will see the world’s largest projects. be sure to take a photo of my granddaughter, Alexandra, Take me! I’ll work all night!’ ferent, yet, fascinating places. ball of twine ever twined. In Akeley, Minnesota, are you two grandkids sitting on his doesn’t like bugs. So, we may What’s got them so motivated?” But, two things I insisted on 17,400lb whopper of a ball. It’s ready? There is a 60-foot statue knee. have to skip that place. A shame I shrugged, mystified, and without argument; we’re trav - located on farmer Johnson’s of Paul Bunyan, made of 4.5 Then, before returning to have to miss a, ‘once in a life asked, “When did they want to eling by car and it has to be farm. Farmer Johnson’s, wife tons of steel, rebar (whatever home, I thought to swing up to time’, exhibit. Anyway, when I start?” Still baffled, he an - somewhere off the well-worn hands you a brochure at the en - that is) and fiber glass. He’s Lubing, Texas. You’ll never be - told them and showed them the swered, “Said, ‘While Yiayia track, something they could tell trance, where it says that it took painted to resemble what he lieve this. But, seeing is believ - brochures, they stood there, ab - goes on vacation.’” 8 FEATURE THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 6-7, 2016

HELLENIC HAPPENINGS FROM COAST TO COAST

TNH Staff children, which along with the tradition to the Journal. Athena, told New York Times re - help of Papaliou’s son Andreas, "The word icon means im - porter Robert Draper on July 27, HOLLYWOOD, FL installed them at the Holy Trin - age,” he said, “and the image de - the day before Hillary Clinton Though thirteen years passed ity Greek Orthodox Church in picts a specific scene from the Or - was about to make history in between the iconic My Big Fat Sioux City, IA, for the official thodox Christian scripture. While becoming the first woman to ac - Greek Wedding film and its unveiling during the Church’s iconographers can devise their cept a major party (Democratic) eponymous sequel, the film’s 16th annual Greek fest, July 29- own interpretation in scenes, presidential nomination, that writer and star Nia Vardalos said 31, the Sioux City Journal re - there is no creative license in the she had waited on the then-U.S. it felt like six months, Xpose re - ported. depiction of God or Jesus." Senator in 2008, the Times re - ported. When people see the murals, Rev. Tobias added that “cen - ported. Vardalos told Now magazine “they will weep,” said Rev. Dim - turies ago, few people could “She is a very nice and intel - that she felt as if no time had itri Tobias, “not just because of read. They learned stories about ligent lady,” Athena said, “but passed, Xpose reported, and felt the beauty but because of what the Bible through iconography. after eight years of Obama, she comfortable and warmly wel - this will represent for our Iconography is authentic and would just be a continuation.” comed by the familiar costars, church, our community, and the that keeps us grounded. "It also Does that mean Athena plans which include John Corbett who people of Sioux City,” the Jour - brings us great joy." to vote for Trump? She stopped plays her on-screen non-Greek nal reported. just short of saying so, the Times husband, Ian Miller, and Papakou, who is Director of HARRISBURG, PA reported, but strongly hinted as Michael and Lanie Kazan, who the Byzantine Iconography A server at the Capitol Diner such, stating: “I’m from a family play her parents, Gus and Toula School of the Holy Metropolis in Harrisburg, PA, identified as of immigrants, but we need to Portokalos. of Ilia in Greece, explained the a Greek-American named take care of America first.” "The night John Corbett and I walked over to the car parked on the street to do the making- out scene, we looked at each GOINGS ON... other and said: 'Weren't we here six months ago?'" she said, Xpose reported. n THRU SEPT. 10 Greek cheeses, olives, olive oil, Weekend at Custom House Plaza But why did it take so long TARPON SPRINGS, FL– Tarpon grape leaves, halva, pasta, herbs, near Fisherman’s Wharf in beau - to make the sequel in the first Springs’ annual Night in the Is - cookies and candy. Plus, get tiful Monterey, California! Sat - place, considering the smashing lands tradition continues on the Greek food to go: Moussaka and urday and Sunday 11AM- success of the original? Vardalos historic Sponge Docks once a Pastitsio are available frozen for 7:30PM and Sunday said she wanted to find the right month from 6-11PM on the you to bake at home, along with 11AM-3PM. For more informa - idea, Xpose reported, and it City’s historic Sponge Docks, Galaktoboureko, one of our tion, please call (831) 424-4434. wasn’t until she became a along Dodecanese Boulevard. most popular Kafenion treats. mother herself that she was Food, drinks, and the street is Orthodox Christian n SEPTEMBER 8-11 ready to make it. The sequel fo - closed off for live dancing: 6- Bookstore/Gift Shop: Please visit NORWICH, CT– The Holy Trin - cuses on her teenage daughter, Nia Vardalos says the 13 years in between Greek Wedding 1 11PM on Saturdays August 6 our bookstore and gift shop in - ity Greek Orthodox Church, 247 Paris, Elena Kampouris, who and 2 felt more like six months, and she hasn’t ruled out cre - and September 10. Sponsoring side the new building for Ortho - Washington Street in Norwich, seeks to go away to college, as ating a Part 3. restaurants include Costa’s Hel - dox Christian books and gifts, invites you to its annual Greek Vardalos (Toula) struggles with las, Mama’s and Mykonos. icons and devotional items. For festival, Thursday, Sept. 8 the thought of her baby leaving nearly the box office success of unoriginal – than the fans. Now more information, please visit through Sunday, Sept. 11. It will the nest. its predecessor, the negative re - available on DVD and Blue Ray, n AUGUST 12-15 our website: take place 11AM-9PM each day Although the film released views came more from film crit - the film may not be the end of WINDHAM, NY— The Church akgreekfestival.com. except Sunday, 12 Noon-4PM. this spring, did not achieve ics – who found it harmless but the Big Fat series. According to of the Assumption in Windham, In addition to partaking in food Vardalos, she hasn’t ruled out 4752 State Rt. 23, in the beauti - n AUGUST 19-21 and drink and enjoying the mu - part three: she just wants to ful northern Catskill Mountains CASTRO VALLEY, CA— The Cas - sic, the Church invites you to ex - wait to come up with the right is holding its Greek festival on tro Valley Greek Festival at Res - plore its rich history, which is idea. Friday, Aug. 12 through Monday, urrection Greek Orthodox over 100 years old! The Nor - QUESTION OF THE WEEK Aug.15. Hours: Friday 6PM-12 Church, 20104 Center St., Cas - wich Orthodox Community was SIOUX CITY, IA midnight, Saturday 12 noon-12 tro Valley, CA takes place Aug founded in the 1890’s by Greek What do you think of Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s Iconographers Christos midnight, Sunday after liturgy 19-21. Enjoy a weekend of au - immigrants coming to this coun - vice presidential picks? Chrysopathis and Nikos Pa - to 12 midnight, Monday after thentic Greek cuisine at the Cas - try with high hopes and dreams Please email your response to paliou created two large murals, liturgy to 5PM. We will have live tro Valley Greek Festival at Res - of health, wealth and happiness. [email protected] We may publish some re - one depicting the Nativity and music to dance the night away At this time in history, the Nor - sponses as Letters to the Editor in a future issue. another Jesus Christ blessing with Bouzouki Fantasy and wich area was a large textile George Stathis on the clarinet. manufacturing area of the New There will be every type of de - England states. Most of our new lectable Greek dish including Greek citizens were employed lamb on the spit, souvlakia, by them. As the Greek Commu - gyro, pastitchio, moussaka, and nity grew, many of these citizens THE HERALD SQUARE all types of homemade desserts. decided to start their own busi - Come visit the Greek mountains nesses, such as restaurants, TNH's Crossword Challenge and celebrate the Theotokos candy kitchens, bakeries and with us! For more information, soda shops. As the Greek com - call 518-734-4631or visit the munity grew, there came a need 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Ch u r ch of the Assumption in to have a church established. Windham, NY Facebook page. The first Holy Trinity Greek Or - 13 14 15 thodox church was housed in n AU GUST 19-21 the former Buckingham Chapel 16 17 18 ANCHORAGE, AK – The Holy at 140 Boswell Avenue in Nor - Trans figuration G reek Orthodox wich. As the years went by and 19 20 21 22 Ch u r ch, 28 00 O’Malley Road in the community outgrew the Anchorage, will hold its annual Boswell Avenue location, the 23 24 25 26 27 28 Gr ee k Festival F riday, Aug. 1 9 u rrection Greek Orthodox parishioners established a build - throu gh Sunday, A ug. 21, Noon Church! Free admission, free ing committee and began a fund 29 30 31 until 7PM. Mu sic will be pr o - parking, free dance lessons, de - raising campaign to purchase vid e d by Peter Deneff and Danny licious food, live Greek music, land and start construction on 32 33 34 Pa pa kalos of Synthesi. C ome shopping, dancing and a Chil - their new church to be located downstairs in the new church dren’s Fun Zone are all available at 247 Washington Street a few 35 36 37 38 39 40 building and watch as Laurie at the festival. Visit the KKIQ miles away from the Boswell Av - 41 42 43 44 C on s tantino (a uthor of our booth on Saturday August 20 to enue church. All the hard work p ari s h cookb ook a nd her food play games and win prizes! Plus by the parishioners and volun - 45 46 47 48 49 blog, laurieconstantino.com) register to win tickets to Califor - teers paid off and, on April 7, p rep a res famous Greek recipes . nia’s Great America! The festival 1974, we were blessed to have 50 51 52 53 C om e see o ur nearly finished begins on Friday, Aug 19 from Archbishop Iakovos dedicate new church and listen as Father 5PM to 10PM, Saturday Aug 20 and open the doors of the 54 55 56 V asi li explains th e history, tradi - from 12 noon to 10PM and ends church to a new generation of t ion s and worship of the Greek on Sunday, Aug 21 from 12 worshippers. For more informa - 57 58 59 60 61 62 Orthodox Faith. Our two danc - noon to 7PM. More information tion about the festival, please i ng g roups p erf orm tradit ional is available online at call: (860) 887-1458. 63 64 65 Gree k dances, dre sse d in re - www.greekfestival.me gional costumes. (This perfor - n SEPTEMBER 16-18 66 67 68 m an c e is on Satu rday and Su n - n SEPTEMBER 3-5 VALPARAISO, IN – “For a man d ay only.) Als o, we w ill be MONTEREY, CA – St. John the whose kinship with Jesus Christ www.CrosswordWeaver.com featuring: Bouncy House: Lots Baptist Greek Orthodox Church was so close that he was referred o f fu n for the kids! A fee will be in Salinas will hold its annual to as the Brother of the Lord, ACROSS 10 Baseball stat. (abbrev.) c har g ed to bo unce . Si lent Auc - festival at 250 Scott Street Next when actually it is generally be - 1 Constricto r snake 11 New ly _ __, Nearly Dead tion: Come inside the new to Old Fisherman's Wharf in lieved that he was a cousin to 4 Europ. Clearing House (abbrev.) 12 Follo wed HST ( init.) c hur c h buildin g to bid on a wide M ont erey, on Labor Day Week - the Savior, surprisingly little is 7 Slick 14 Rule r varie ty of gre at items including end, Saturday, Sept. 3 through known to detail a full account 13 Licensed practical nurse 20 Concrete jewelry, housewares, gift bas - Monday, Sept. 5. The Monterey of his life.” Such begins the de - 14 Decorative n e edle case 22 Whic hev e r k ets , artw ork , an d gift certifi - Bay Greek Festival has been a scription of St Iakovos, the pa - 15 Furred 24 Mod e of Trans p. from Ma n hattan to Nassau c ate s for loc al restau rants and staple of the peninsula’s for 30 tron saint of the St. Iakovos 16 Relief 26 Listening devices? services. The Agora: Our Agora years now. Established and Greek Orthodox Church, 36 W. 17 Roman An to n y 27 Chic ken p roduct (mar ket) has gifts and souvenirs maintained by Saint John the 700 N., in Valparaiso, which cor - 18 Where v ideo games are kept 28 Leg e xte n sions f rom Gr eece, novelty T-shirts Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, dially invites you to its Greek 19 Nattily-dressed detective on Barney Miller 30 Greek god of war and Greek music. Plus, the sec - the festival aims to serve up a festival Friday, Sept. 16 through 21 Tenth Gr eek letter 31 Greek pre fix meaning air or space o nd edition of our o wn parish helping of Greek culture along Sunday, Sept. 18. The festival 23 Bovine 33 Put o n _ _ c ook book, Tas tes Like Home: with authentic cuisine, wine, begins Friday evening, 5-9PM 24 Only 34 Girls' Iceless Hockey Assn. (abbrev.) Mediterranean Cooking in and pastries. As a small parish, and continues over the week - 25 Shallow area 35 I'll h omo nym Alask a, is also a vailable. Many our goal with the festival is to end, 12Noon-9PM on both Sat - 29 Europ. A ssn. of Archae ologists (a bbrev.) 36 Acto r Sh a rif o f o u r festival rec ipes a re in - preserve Greek culture and urday and Sunday. For more up - 30 Ethereal 37 Former House Speaker Gingrich c lud e d in this fa bulous cook - share it with the Monterey dates and information, please 31 Expressio n 3 9 Alph abe t 's first four book. The Deli: Find imported Peninsula. Join us Labor Day call: (219) 462-4052. 32 Seinfeld crea tor David 42 Newsman Erni e 34 A Beatle 43 Greek friend? 35 Greek chocol ate brand 44 Fury 38 Inst. for Ene r gy Rese arch (ab brev.) 46 Gilla n o f Deep Pu rple Th is Week in Greek History: 39 Michael Jordan's nickname 48 Rushed in 40 Superson ic t r ansport 49 Feed 41 Blurs 51 Sign al Ar gyro Strataki – Greek Hepthathlete 43 Detest 52 Maintain 45 Grassy a reas 53 Man -ma d e fiber 46 S.A. Indi an 55 Bean o T h is week, on August 3, 47 Abdominal muscles (abbr.) 56 Dueling sword 1 975 , Olympian a thlete Argyro 50 Econ. Recove ry Tax Act (abbrev.) 57 Say wha t ? Strataki was born on the island 51 "He ____ , sh e said" 58 Eurasian Nat'l. Uni versity (abbrev.) o f C r ete. 52 Do over 59 Put together S h e compet ed in th e historic 54 Furs 61 Tool used to punc h holes in a belt 2004 Olympics in Athens, fin - 56 Brothers wh o sang "Bye Bye Love" i shin g 15th overall in the Hep - 57 Warming dev ice Solu tion to last week’s puzzle t ath lo n. The follo wing y ear, she 60 Sticky fa sten er finished second overall in that 62 Guy's cou nte r part G U I D E J A G S H U H even t in the M editerranean 63 Unfasten ed A S S A I L A F R O E N U G am e s in Almeria, S pain. 64 Person in debt G E O R G E G R I D A D D The women’s heptathlon 65 Precedes cen tric or mani ac c ons i sts of the fol low ing seve n W H I Z A N A S T O S 66 River ab ove w hich the event s: 100-m eter hurdles, High George Washington Bridge spans B A I T I B I D L E N O jump, Shotput, 200 meters, 67 Nat'l Library of Educ. D A R N O N I D L A D E N Long jump, Javelin throw, and 68 Lair E B B A B C D B A S 800 meters. DOWN There is a specific points sys - H A I R D O S A R M H O L E 1 Boredom tem, created by mathematician 2 Narcotic E S E I D E A B U D Dr. Karl Ulbrich, used to calcu - 3 Signor Bocelli E R A S E D E A D O A K S late the results. Strataki’s per - 4 Est.Times of Arrival (abbrev.) S O R E F A R M L I K E sonal best is 6235 points, which 5 Mutt is a Greek record, which she C O N T R O L S O I L 6 Seventh president, "Old ______." achieved in 2006. 7 Square, for example U F O O N L Y F A C I A L Though best known as a hep - fAcebooK 8 Angel's instrument D E L A D A R F R A P P E tathlete, Strataki has also won of 60-meter hurdles, High in that competition is 4550 9 Lucy's and Ricky's surname O D D N A S A S N O R E the Greek women’s pentathlon Jump, Shotput, Long Jump, and points, which she achieved in five times. That event consists 800 meters. Her personal best 2007.

THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 6-7, 2016 GREECE CYPRUS 9 Tsipras is Warned Turkey May Unleash More Refugees on Greece, EU

TNH Staff grants and refugees toward the its side of an EU-Turkey agree - islands of the northern Aegean,” ment on migration, saying that The Mayor of Kos Giorgos she wrote, noting that the maxi - promised funds and visa-free Kyritsis has written to Prime mum capacity of state reception travel for Turks to the EU Minister Alexis Tsipras saying he centers has been exceeded on all haven’t been delivered. fears Turkey will unleash more the islands. The agreement earlier this refugees and migrants on Greek A representative of an aid year was instrumental in stem - islands. agency working on Lesvos said ming the flow of people heading Turkish President Recep that the increase in migrant ar - from Turkey to nearby Greece, Tayyip Erdogan has threatened rivals hasn’t sparked tension yet from where they hope to head to do just that unless the Euro - but there are worries. northward into the European pean Union, as part of a refugee “If they keep arriving at the heartland. swap deal, gives Turkish citizens same rate, we’ll have a problem Erdogan said Turkey was visa-free travel in the bloc as soon,” according to the worker sheltering 3 million Syrians and well as six billion euros and fast- who asked not to be identified, Iraqis, yet 3 billion euros ($3.35 track entry. the newspaper said. billion) promised by the EU had Kyritsis indicated that Turkey, Meanwhile, representatives of not arrived, and the visa issue which allowed human smug - the Association of Hellenic had not been settled. glers to operate to send more Tourism Enterprises (SETE) and Erdogan said the steps on than a million refugees through the Hellenic Confederation of both sides must be “taken simul - Greece, isn’t living up to its part Professionals, Craftsmen and taneously.” He said: “You cannot of the deal that has been sus - Merchants (GSEVEE) met with demand the refugee return pended because Greece can’t officials from the affected islands agreement without fulfilling handle an overwhelming num - to discuss the impact of increased your obligations. Sorry but we ber of asylum applications. migrant arrivals on tourism. are not a country that you can In his letter, the Mayor writes According to figures supplied boss about.” that authorities on Kos have by local airports, foreign charter He had warned previously made major efforts to offset the flights to Lesbos and Chios were that refugees could be allowed impact of an unprecedented in - down by 65 percent and 40 per - to go to Greece unless Turkey flux of migrants on tourism and Ap photo/petros GiAnnAKouris, file cent this month compared to July got six billion euros, the visa- have managed to limit losses. In this Thursday, July 14, 2016 file photo a Syrian woman fries eggs in front of her tent at last year, respectively. free travel and fast-track entry A new crisis would set the is - Ritsona refugee camp north of Athens, which hosts more than 600 refugees and migrants. Representatives of businesses into the EU even though Turkey land back immeasurably, he on the islands have asked the won’t recognize Cyprus, which said. “It would be disastrous, at refugees and migrants have Union swap deal with Turkey was now trying to deal with 9,313 government for “offsetting mea - is a member. this stage, that we are continu - been stranded in Greece and suspended because of an over - refugees and migrants in camps. sures” to boost businesses that Only 178 asylum applica - ing our efforts to minimize the fewer than 200 asylum applica - whelming number of asylum ap - In a letter to Migration Policy have been hit by a slump in tions had been granted so far, a losses, if we were to face an - tions approved. plications and after the failed Minister Yiannis Mouzalas and tourism and to help employees fraction of those being sought, other uncontrolled wave of mi - ISLANDS ASK HELP coup attempt in Turkey which Alternate Defense Minister Dim - with less summer work by low - hindering the resumption of the grants,” he wrote, according to Buried under thousands of has sent more scurrying to Greek itris Vitsas, the Governor of the ering the number of social secu - swap deal and as more are con - Kathimerini. refugees and migrants for islands. northern Aegean region, Chris - rity stamps they need to qualify tinuing to come to Greece, al - He noted that other Euro - months, Greek island leaders In recent days, more than tiana Kalogirou, asked for imme - for unemployment benefits in the though a trickle compared to pean countries, which have want the government do do more 1,000 migrants landed on the five diate steps, Kathimerini re - winter. the numbers before the agree - closed their borders to migrants, to help them. so-called hot spots: Lesbos, Chios, ported. ERDOGAN’S DEMANDS ment when Turkey allowed hu - have left Greece to handle the There are more than 57,000 Kos, Samos, and Leros since the “We are seeing a constant and Erdogan is accusing the Eu - man traffickers to operate at will crisis alone. More than 57,000 stuck in Greece after a European coup attempt. Those islands are apparently increasing flow of mi - ropean Union of not upholding and carry the refugees. Failed Turkish Coup Roils Talks of Cyprus Unity, but They Will Resume

TNH Staff litical equality, legitimate rights mainland Turkish settlers who is the President of the occupied Only Turkey recognizes the to the benefit of the Turkish and security of the Cypriot support Erdogan, the Irish Times territories, Mustafa Akinci, who administration on the one-third Cypriots, the benefit of the Greek NICOSIA – With Turkey crack - Turks,” and called this a “na - said. conducts the talks with Cypriot of the island it unlawfully occu - Cypriots, the benefit of Europe, ing down in the wake of a failed tional case,” the Irish Times re - Generally secular and liberal, President Nicos Anastasiades. pies. it would be to the benefit of coup attempt, unity talks on ported in a feature. Turkish Cypriots have become “This is the last chance for the The international community peace in the region in general,” Cyprus have been sidelined and Trkish Cypriots have insisted increasingly concerned over Er - Greek Cypriot side, which has al - regards the Greek Cypriot gov - he said for Turkey be more con - face a major test. on both a Turkish guarantee and dogan’s authoritarianism and his ways acted as the game spoiler. ernment in the south of the is - structive, the Cyprus Mail re - Negotiations will resume be - the deployment of Turkish efforts to replace the Turkish sec - We recommend they use this land as the legitimate authority ported he said. tween Cypriot President Nicos troops, demands rejected by ular system with a sectarian re - chance wisely,” Yildirim added, for the whole island, which has “I must say that, through dia - Anastasiades and Turkish- Greek Cypriots, which remains ligious state. according to Reuters. been split along ethnic lines since logue, the concerns of each com - Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, a major sticking point. ANKARA SOUNDS ALARM Like Ozgurun, Yildirim has no the 1974 invasion. munity are being understood who must answer to Turkish Cypriot Foreign Minister BELL power and it is Turkish President Anastasiades later said he was better, and improvements and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ioannis Kasoulides has said a set - The worries continued, espe - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who said unhappy with Yildirim’s state - progress are achieved through target of the coup plot. tlement must “make all Cypriot cially after Yildirim, blaming he barely survived assassination, ments, which came as the the creative contribution of each Cyprus has been divided citizens safe. Cypriots, said this is the last who has the last word on what Cypriot President was resuming side,” Anastasiades said, adding since an unlawful Turkish inva - “In such a system there is no chance for a unity deal to be his country will accept in the ne - talks with Akinci. he was disappointed at the pace sion in 1974 and a parade of room for treaties of guarantee struck on the divided island. gotiations. “It would be to their benefit, of talks. diplomats have failed for (involving Britain, Greece and He said Turkey wants UN- decades to make any progress in Turkey or the presence of Turk - backed reunification talks on negotiations to bring it back to - ish troops,” he said. Cyprus to continue but cautioned gether again. Turkey refuses to remove its that Turkey is running out of pa - Anastasiades and Akinci have 30,000-man standing army in tience, 42 years after it unlaw - talked so far about a proposed the northern third it unlawfully fully invaded and as it still keeps Federal state, security and ex - occupies and will not recognize a standing army there and won’t ternal guarantees but gotten Cyprus – a member of the Euro - recognize Cyprus – a member of nowhere on thornier issues such pean Union which Turkey wants the European Union – and bars as compensating Cypriots whose to join – and as Cypriot ships its ships and planes. homes were occupied by Turks. and planes are still barred. Turkey, now in chaos after a Anastasiades said optimism Greek Cypriots also demand failed coup, wants to join the EU the previous months was “poi - the adjustment of the boundary and has said a refugee swap deal soned” by Turkey’s Prime Minis - between the Greek Cypriot-ma - with the bloc could be off unless ter Benali Yildirim who blamed jority south and the Turkish it gets all it wants. With the tur - the Greek Cypriots for the failure Cypriot north, repatriation of a moil, there is fear that the Cyprus of previous negotiations and proportion of mainland settlers, negotiations could be scuttled. warned that the current UN-me - and Ankara’s write-off of €17 bil - “The Turkish Cypriot side has, diated effort is the “last chance” lion spent to subsidize the north. with full sincerity, acted con - for a settlement. Both sides fear Ankara could structively,” Yildirim told a joint Tugrul Turkes, the Turkish unilaterally annex the northern news conference with the mostly Deputy Prime minister, restated breakaway state by conducting symbolic Prime Minister of the Ankara’s position that any agree - a referendum, which would be breakaway Turkish Cypriot state, ment “should guarantee the po - decided by devout, conservative Huseyin Ozgurgun, although it

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Continued from page 1 and condemnation of Tsipras by cused him of “criminalizing” his party. acts of solidarity, in reference to rising in the pro-anarchist SYRIZA’s makeup includes activists who claim their sit-ins hotbed neighborhood of anarchist sympathizers who are are done in allegiance with the Exarchia in Athens. furious that, as he did when he refugees stranded in Greece. New Democracy leader Kyri - reneged on anti-austerity SYRIZA’s hardline Group of akos Mitsotakis met Athens promises, has gone back on his 53 faction denounced the gov - Mayor Giorgos Kaminis and said word not to act against party ernment and pledged to oppose if the Conservatives win the next principles in dealing with squat - its “law and order” tactics, urg - elections – with polls showing ters. ing it not to take legal action them pulling away after Tsipras BOMBS AWAY against those arrested even has reneged on anti-austerity The evacuation of pro- though they voted for austerity promises – that the city would refugee protesters set off a series measures they allegedly oppose. have “full support” in restoring of firebombings, including the Stepping up assaults in the law and order. house of Minister of State Alekis wake of squatter evictions, van - “The new New Democracy Flambouraris, and the smashing dals attacked the offices of the government will make this a top of office windows at ruling ruling SYRIZA and its coalition priority,” he added. “Citizens SYRIZA offices around the coun - partner the Independent Greeks have to feel safe again. Security try, a profound embarrassment (ANEL). is a necessary prerequisite for for Tsipras. Actions against the govern - s i

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French’s name not only gained little traction, but he immediately squashed Veepicks: Making Sense out of Pence and Praising Kaine any speculation that he intended to pursue the presidency. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist and the only member of the U.S. Senate to SCAROS PRESENTS HIS and is highly supportive of the be an independent, mounted a surprisingly strong nomination POINT OF VIEW National Rifle Association. challenge to Hillary Clinton from the left. Much like in 2008, Dan, a presidential party Pence’s political views have when Clinton was expected to coast to the nomination but was nominee’s first important task is little appeal for Latinos, blacks, halted by Barack Obama’s sweeping momentum, for a while it to select a running mate, and students in the Sanders camp, or appeared the same thing might happen in 2016, as an unex - that choice often – though not independents. On the plus side, pectedly large number of millennials, some old enough to vote always – speaks volumes about Pence has executive experience, only for the first time, turned out in droves at Sanders rallies, the frontrunner’s decisionmaking some foreign policy credentials, enthusiastically proclaiming they were “feeling the Bern.” ability. and a competent speaking style. But in the end, Clinton prevailed over Sanders not only in If we look back to our ten His mild-mannered personality terms of holding her tremendous advantage of superdelegates most recent presidents, I think and political experience offer a – of which the Democratic Party has plenty, and who are not we’ve had two great ones: John balance against Trump’s personal bound to follow the wishes of the people who chose them – but F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. style and lack of governmental also in terms of pledged delegates. Sanders eventually relented, And both made excellent choices experience. and at the Democratic Convention directed his supporters to in running mates. Kennedy Keane likely clinches Virginia, nominate Clinton by acclamation. picked Lyndon Johnson and Rea - a swing state, for the Democrats. For all the talk of a revival of the heated convention floor gan selected George H.W. Bush. That he speaks Spanish fluently fights of yesteryear, there was ultimately very little resistance. Both Johnson and Bush were is a major asset, especially in Other than Ted Cruz being booed off the stage when in his Texans, which provided impor - Florida, another swing state. GOP Convention speech he refused to endorse Trump outright, tant geographical balance for the That his son is a marine on active and choruses of “Ber-nie! Ber-nie” challenging the sounds of Bostonian Kennedy and Californ - Constantinos Scaros thinks Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton duty helps with the large military “Hill-a-ry! Hill-a-ry!” on the Democratic side, both conventions ian Reagan. But there were other both played it far too safe in choosing running mates Mike vote in neighboring North Car - were rather mild. important reasons. Pence (L) and Tim Kaine, respectively, but Dan Georgakas olina, another battleground In years past, conventions were much livelier. There was Johnson was a lion in the thinks Clinton made the better selection. state. drama to the very end, with nominees rarely selected on the Senate. From Capitol Hill, he Keane, who has never lost an first ballot. Sometimes, there were a dozen or so ballots, even would’ve given Kennedy fits. Bet - able). vice presidential choices under - election, is a dynamic speaker. more, before a candidate emerged. Some of the nominees that ter to get him out of the seat of Neither was a bad pick, but scores how the selecting of a run - He is a devout Irish Catholic with ultimately emerged from contested conventions – Abraham Lin - power, Kennedy thought, and also neither was a great one. I ning mate reveals a great deal working class roots, factors that coln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt – turned out to be have him on his side in the White think Trump should have doubled about a presidential candidate. may resonate with white work - some of our most acclaimed presidents. House. down and gone with Newt Gin - Who you believe would have ing class males who have not What remained unmistakably distinctive about this year’s As for Bush, he represented grich, whom I often describe as been the best pick for Trump and been very supportive of Clinton. conventions, however, was that we have to go back several the Country Club Republican. A being so smart that Google uses Clinton is arguable but ably ex - His religious convictions, which decades to recall an election in which there was so much resis - more moderate, “kinder, and him as a search engine. Or, Trump plores what each candidate pur - could appeal to people of various tance to both major party nominees. Trump was undoubtedly gentler” (later a slogan during could have found a way to swal - ports to stand for. I will focus on faiths, are reflected in his politi - the people’s choice, winning more Republican primary votes his own presidency) candidate, low his pride and mend fences their actual choices of Governor cal life. Upon graduating Har - than anyone in history. and one with important ties to with Marco Rubio, who would Michael Pence (IN) and Senator vard Law School, he spent a year As we recently reminded, that means even more than Ronald Washington to balance the West - have balanced him brilliantly, or Tim Keane (VA). in Honduras serving in a human Reagan. Which makes it all the more compelling that Trump is ern horseman. John Kasich, who would have de - There was a sharp contrast in rights program. He mastered also the least-supported nominee by a party’s establishment in There have been other very livered Ohio and probably neigh - how the VP choices were pre - Spanish and gained considerable a very long time. good picks during the past 50 or boring Pennsylvania. sented. Trump opted for a press first-hand insight into the prob - On the other hand, Clinton was and remains her party es - so years. Dick Cheney and Joe As for Hillary, the obvious conference setting with some of lems of Latin America. tablishment’s darling. But it seems that although it was Cruz Biden come to mind. Neither pick should have been Cory his staff as the only popular au - During his career as a lawyer, who craved a “Ronald Reagan moment” (a reference to Reagan’s brought flash, nor electoral Booker, currently a U.S. Senator dience. He mainly spoke about Keane took on pro-bono cases in - rousing address at the 1976 Republican Convention, where in - votes, and could have easily been from New Jersey and former himself for 20 minutes, had an volving discrimination against cumbent president Gerald Ford was the nominee but Reagan the ticket headliner. The same mayor of Newark. Young (47), awkward embrace with Pence, the disabled, African-Americans, was the crowd favorite, and which firmly established Reagan holds true for Lloyd Bentsen. energetic, well-spoken, quite lik - and promptly left the room. and immigrants. On most issues, as the party’s inevitable nominee in 1980), it was Sanders who And there were a few bad picks. able, centrist, and African-Amer - Clinton made her announce - Keane is a congenial centrist who was this year’s Reagan – even though he would be 78 years old Few would argue that the least ican, Booker would have added ment at a student rally at a major underscores the need for bipar - in 2020 and not likely to run. sensible pick of all in recent much flavor to Clinton’s bland Florida university. She used her tisan consensus. His strong ad - Then again, this election thus far has been all about rewriting memory was Dan Quayle. Even candidacy. I also thought she speaking time to talk about vocacy for common sense gun the rules and throwing conventional wisdom out of the window. Sarah Palin, who became a na - might have gone the route of Keane, greeted him warmly, and control has earned him a failed Thus, if a 74-year-old self-avowed socialist can mount a strong tional joke for the left, became a California Lieutenant Governor remained on stage while he rating from the NRA. Although effort for president, why not a 78-year-old one? heroic hockey mom for the right Gavin Newsom – an overrated spoke. When the speech ended, personally opposed to abortion, As we head into the final 100 days of the election, keep in and injected life into John Mc - slick Mitt Romney type who they again embraced and he respects a woman’s right to mind that this year more than any other perhaps in our entire Cain’s lackluster campaign. If would be the darling of the lib - worked the crowd as a team. control her own body and is en - lifetimes, anything can happen. Johnson and Bush were the eral Hollywood crowd. Trump’s choice of arch-con - dorsed by Planned Parenthood. zenith, Quayle was the nadir. She also could have gone re - servative Pence indicates Trump’s His views appeal to established Turning to this year’s veep - ally bold and brought Al Gore need to nail down the hardcore Democrats and might win the stakes, Donald Trump and out of retirement. He’s still bitter Evangelical vote even at the risk vote of Republican women ap - Expatriate Patriots Hillary Clinton both decided to at his old boss, her husband, but of further alienating other elec - palled by gun violence and play it safe, selecting Indiana a nostalgic “Clinton-Gore” ticket toral blocks. Pence is governor Trump’s statements regarding Governor Mike Pence and U.S. might have done the trick. of an extremely conservative women We have long encouraged Greek-American leaders to use Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, But that would have been the state that is reliably Republican Trump’s choice for vice-presi - their abilities – whether through direct financial contributions, respectively. Both are “gee wil - longshot of longshots. As would in presidential elections. He has dent is designed to nail down a entrepreneurial knowhow, high-profile positions, or other at - likers” nice guys – Pence in par - have Trump’s attempt to cajole little influence in neighboring critical voting block while Clin - tributes – to help Greece help itself out of its nearly decade- ticular – and both are at least a Condoleezza Rice out of acade - Illinois and Ohio. ton’s combines strengthening ex - long economic crisis and place it on a longterm path of sustained decade younger than the presi - mia. Pence is anti-abortion, against isting support groups with out - growth and prosperity. dential candidates. So as it stands, in their first raising the minimum wage, reach to other electoral sectors, We do not hesitate to commend those who do, and we con - Pence went from Congress to big presidential test, the two against funding Planned Parent - including centrist Republicans. tinue to remind the remainder that they really ought to do the governor’s mansion, Kaine bombastic, polarizing, and vili - hood, and against renewal en - Ultimately, people vote for the more – to “pay forward” the blessings that our great country – did the opposite. But both have fied nominees made rational, ergy projects. He advocates a flat top of the ticket, but to the de - the United States – has bestowed upon them by helping those considerably more legislative reasonable, and reserved tax, which results in substantial gree that vice-presidents matter, in their ancestral homeland. and executive experience than choices. What do you think? tax cuts for the wealthy, and Clinton has bested Trump. We are happy, then, to share with you an initiative being either Trump (who has none) or slashed funding for public edu - taken by one Greek-American, Chris Alahouzos, a Kalymnian- Clinton (whose eight-year stint GEORGAKAS RESPONDS cation. He strongly endorses WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? born immigrant who in March became the first person born in in the Senate was unremark - Dino, your summary of past Trump’s views on immigration Greece to be elected mayor of Tarpon Springs, the city with the highest Greek-American population per capita in the United States. 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Lone Wolf, and the Law Visiting Greece for the first lization and race. Last week I captains of industry equally de - time in the early 1960s, I heard They cheered watched the Re - luded themselves that once my uncle Nickolas Kontoleon wildly as Hitler pro - publican National Hitler came to power he would On July 29, ditional attacks on (who later became a world- claimed German Convention, the be clay in their hands. Many Canada Supreme behalf of ISIS have renowned expert on Cycladic civilization as the anointment of disgruntled Bernie Sanders sup - Court Justice been carried out Culture, the Dean of Archeology perfect and final Donald Trump as porters have said that they pre - Catherine Bruce since then: A sui - at the University of Athens and development of the the Leader and the fer Trump as President because overturned the cide bombing on 24 head of Greece’s formidable Ar - Western Civiliza - terrifying thunder he would “shake up the system.” guilty verdicts July injured fifteen chaeological Service) recount tion that had begun of “Lock Her Up!” They should have met the Ger - found last year people Ansbach, the days of his PhD studies at in Greece. He said that greeted every man socialists and communists against John Nut - Germany and on 26 the University of Munich from that the old news - sentence of his ac - who, in 1933, went along with tall and Amanda July, two terrorists 1938 to 1941. reels of the Rallies ceptance speech. I the Nazis because they would Korody, a pair of claiming allegiance He did reminisce about stu - (now you can see by AMB. PATRICK N. watched the partic - bring the Revolution that they meth addicts who to ISIS entered a dent life in prewar Munich, beer them on YouTube) THEROS ipants, educated themselves had failed so signally had embraced ter - church in the gardens, philosophy, pretty girls, did not begin to and privileged as to achieve. Unfortunately, they rorism as their delu - by DR. ANDRE French city of and discussion. But he talked convey the raw pas - Special to well as underclass, ended up in the death camps sional contribution GEROLYMATOS Rouen, slit the most seriously about Hitler’s sion and hatred The National Herald allow Trump to with the Jews. Many Republi - to Islam. throat of an eighty- 1938 Nurnberg Rally, the last of that ran through reach into the cans, trying to rationalize their Some Canadians Special to four year-old priest the annual Nazi Party rallies be - the participants. darkest parts of their souls and support of Trump, insist that our applauded the The National Herald as well as and tak - fore the slaughter of World War Riding the train back to Mu - drag the same hatred of the system of checks and balances judge’s decision, ing hostages. II commenced. nich, my uncle’s fellow students Other, the same apotheosis of will not permit him to exercise others were appalled. But the These were all individuals A few weeks after arriving in talked excitedly about the Rally national culture and racial pu - too much power. Apparently, case is more about the insidious with deep psychological prob - Munich, his classmates per - and discussed how to deal with rity posing as “exceptionalism.” they slept through every Presi - threat of terrorism than over civil lems who had turned to ISIS for suaded my uncle to come with the threats to German Civiliza - The pageantry, the music, and dent since Richard Nixon who rights. The trial and subsequent reasons that are difficult to them to Nurnberg. He returned tion. They debated the Jewish the nationalist symbolism re - arrogated more and more pow - appeal has brought into focus the fathom. Some have hallucina - with the Rally forever etched in threat to the German race and flected today’s norms but in my ers to the President and created challenges facing societies in tions, others hear voices and his memory. The choreography, theeven Jewish seduction of eyes mimicked, the efficient and the “imperial Presidency” while fighting terrorism. many are driven by a lust for vi - the audio-visual arrangements, “pure” German women. None, effective assault on the senses a spineless and polarized Con - For a considerable period of olence – a substantial number are the thunderous Wagnerian mu - that the Nazis pioneered at gress stood idly by. What time, under cover Royal Cana - misogynists and child molesters sic, the discipline and the hyp - Many Bernie supporters Nurnberg. makes them believe that a GOP dian Mounted Police (RCMP) of - as well as sadists. Furthermore, notic rhetoric of Nazi leaders One can argue that the sen - leadership rushing to kiss up to ficers had maintained contact a great many ISIS terrorists fight - culminating in a crowd-stirring say they’ll now turn sory overload was little different a successful candidate would with Nuttall and Korody in an ing in Iraq and Syria as well as speech by the Leader himself to Trump because at the Democratic National Con - stand up to an empowered Pres - effort to prevent them from un - their followers elsewhere have left him speechless. Hitler ex - vention a week later, but the ident? dertaking a terrorist attack. become dependent on drugs for ploited the sense-bending he’ll shake up the message was not the same mes - Finally let us stipulate that In effect, the RCMP had set stimulation or to sustain their il - pageantry to deliver an inspired system. They should sage of hate and fear. I do not Trump may sincerely believe up a sting operation after warn - lusion of the caliphate. paean to the superiority of Ger - exaggerate in saying that Trump that he is coming to save the na - ings about the couple from the On the battlefields of Syria man culture, scapegoating the read about Germany has absorbed the lesson enunci - tion. Canadian Security and Intelli - and Iraq it is relatively easy to Other (Jews in this case), race- in 1933. ated during the Nurnberg trials I would also stipulate that gence Service. Accordingly, identify and destroy the mem - based nationalism and resent - by Harman Goering, Hitler’s Putin and Erdogan also started RCMP officers pretended to be bers of ISIS, but incredibly diffi - ment of the rich elite. He re - he said, were card-carrying closest confidante, who told their administrations with the jihadists in order to draw out cult to pick them out in Europe, membered thinking that members of the Nazi Party. As prosecutors: same patriotic goals in mind. Nuttall and Korody into attempt - Africa, North America, and in the Greece’s fascist dictator, Ioannis part of the elite, they held the “Voice or no voice, the peo - But Power corrupts and both ing to set off handmade pres - Middle East. This is the dilemma Metaxas, couldn’t hold a candle lower middle class Party leader - ple can always be brought to the those worthies now stand in tes - sure-cooker bombs at British Co - that confronts civil society – how to Hitler’s ability to bring a ship in contempt but they were bidding of the leaders. That is timony to that truth. lumbia’s Provincial Legislature do the security services fight the crowd to its feet. inspired by itis message and its easy. All you have to do is tell Let us complete the lesson of on Canada’s national day, July 1. lone wolf who may also be a But, beyond the pageantry messenger. The way he de - them they are being attacked the title: sentence of the title: The bombs were duds and smoke screen for a more sophis - my uncle came away dumb - scribed it, Hitler had found a and denounce the pacifists for “He who fails to learn from his - throughout the planning stage ticated attack. founded by the reaction of his way to reach down into the lack of patriotism and exposing tory… is doomed to repeat it.” the RCMP had control of the cou - In April 2015, Sid Ahmed Gh - classmates. They were the elite blackness that is part of every the country to danger. It works ple. In repealing the conviction lam, an Algerian national study - of the elite, the best educated man’s soul and drag it to the top. the same way in any country.” The Hon. Ambassador Theros is Justice Bruce castigated the ing in France, was hospitalized youth of the best educated My uncle told me that he Senator Mitch McConnell, president of the U.S.-Qatar RCMP for entrapment and ar - after accidentally shooting him - country in Europe, the product could count on his fingers those Representative Ryan and many Business Council. He served in gued that the undercover officers self in the leg. The resulting in - of a country which produced the Germans who did not know and others in the GOP elite justify the U.S. Foreign Service for 36 had convinced the couple to un - vestigation revealed that Ghlam, most important political did not approve of what Hitler their capitulation to a man they years, mostly in the Middle dertake a terrorist attack. who was in possession of several philosophers, the most famous and his Nazi party created. For fear and detest by saying that East, and was American Ambas - The conundrum facing Cana - weapons, had planned to attack composers and scientists and that reason, when he did return Trump will surround himself sador to Qatar from 1995 to dians is this: was Justice Bruce churches around Paris. In August they were all shouting them - to Germany after the War, he with men of quality and intellect 1998. He also directed the State right or has she unwittingly freed 2015, three Americans re - selves hoarse at every word the told me that the Germans and who will steer him in the right Department’s Counter- two potential terrorists? Another strained Ayoub El-Khazzani, a Leader uttered. They lapped up Germany did not suffer enough direction as if he would be their Terrorism Office, and holds nu - critical consideration is if the 25-year-old Moroccan, before he his condemnation of Jews as for the crimes in which they all puppet. merous U.S. Government deco - RCMP officers were able to con - could shoot passengers on a train corruptors of the German civi - knowingly participated. The German aristocracy and rations. vince the couple to plant bombs, from Amsterdam to Paris. so could have ISIS or its affili - The authorities assumed that ates. the two attacks were not con - Certainly, according to the nected, and Khazzani was identi - LETTER FROM ATHENS recordings between the couple fied as a lone wolf. The apparent and the undercover officers, Nut - incompetence of the perpetrators tall and Korody were more than in both incidents indicated that it willing to kill as many people as was the work of amateurs. At the The State of Decay that is Allowed to Exist in Greece possible and even dreamt of same time, ISIS created the im - achieving a body count higher pression that it was primarily in - than that of 9/11. Indeed, they terested in inspiring lone wolf at - The greatest gift the gener - million) master - and other facilities tory, with eventual space for up had the desire, and once shown tacks rather than guiding them. ous Stavros Niarchos Founda - piece that will or those critics to two million books, organizers the means, both were prepared Accordingly, ISIS produced a pro - tion (SNF) has given to Greece house a 1400-seat said got licenses said. to inflict as much death and de - paganda video shortly after Khaz - – apart from how many poor home of the opera under dubious cir - The opera has an adjoining struction against innocent men, zani’s terrorist attempt encourag - and children and deserving it and national library cumstances. 450-seat stage, numerous re - women, and children. Justice ing “lone lions” to kill the enemies has helped during a crushing fi - along the capital’s The center hearsal facilities and a recording Bruce claims that the RCMP of the caliphate. nancial crisis – is a cultural cen - southern coast with opened late June studio. should have directed the couple However, after the November ter that will be a crowning jewel a rolling and center - 25 for a brief four- Despite the fanfare, there is to Islamic scholars so that they 2015 attacks in Paris, it became and source of pride for all. piece designed by day series of worry already that the Greek could have guided the couple evident that initial assessments The biggest mistake it made famed Italian archi - events but will state, crushed by an economic away from jihadist influence. had been wrong. A March article was turning it over to the state, tect Renzo Piano. close again for a crisis and overrun by refugees Perhaps this should have been in the New York Times written which has allowed what little It took nearly process to transfer while facing a volatile political the case if the couple had been by Rukmini Callimachi described public art there is in Greece, eight years to con - by ANDY ownership and op - landscape, will not be able to incarcerated long enough to suc - how Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the particularly Athens, decay and struct and is de - DABILIS erations to the maintain the facility or run the ceed with drug rehabilitation leader of the Paris terror strikes, crumble and become target signed to fully open state. project. and counseling, which they had directed Ghlam, Khazzani, practice for graffiti practitioners, in mid-2017 as the Special to “It should be There was no word on could only get in prison. As it and several others to carry out those with talent who call them - new cultural show - The National Herald governed by the whether jobs there would go to stands, and pending another ap - individual acts in Europe, while selves street artists but deface piece of the city and state for the peo - backers of the ruling Radical peal by the prosecution, Justice he was preparing the Paris oper - buildings, and amateur hacks country, already drawing rave ple … we know nothing about Left SYRIZA and its partner, the Bruce is prepared to release two ation. with spray cans and goofy slo - reviews for its design and inte - libraries or opera,” Dracopoulos pro-austerity, tiny, far-right, jin - jihadist hooked on meth and Regardless of the failure of gans they think is philosophical gration into the land and gulf said. Neither does the state goistic Independent Greeks heroine with delusions of murder these small-scale plots, they di - proselytizing on someone else’s near it. charged with running it – any (ANEL) who have only nine and suicidal into society. verted attention from ISIS’ more property. “We thought it was very im - government of any political per - seats in Parliament but power Others will argue that Nuttall elaborate plan against Paris. The country that created portant to give hope,” Andreas suasion because Athens has thanks to backing Prime Minis - and Korody are delusional drug Sadly, because French countert - public art has precious little and Dracopoulos, co-President of crumbled under four decades of ter Alexis Tsipras. addicts who do not have the errorism officers had assumed what’s left that hasn’t been cov - New Democracy Conservatives Greece has shown itself un - wherewithal to plan and execute that Ghlam, Khazzani, and other ered in graffiti is being stolen and PASOK Socialists who did able to maintain even gems, tak - an attack, and that without the attackers were unrelated, they right from under the noses of What a great idea nothing to bring some beauty ing 16 years to open a contem - RCMP undercover officers show - failed to detect the ISIS plots in police, guards, the public and to create the Center. and hope to blocks of dirty ce - porary art museum and letting ing them how to make pressure France and Belgium and could people who just don’t care, in - ment buildings. most of the 2004 Olympic cooker bombs, they would not not prevent the ensuing carnage. cluding busts of artists and writ - But why on earth turn But in a gesture of generosity, venues become abandoned eye - have be able to do so. Sadly, Consequently, there is a direct ers and statues so big it took it over to the state? the center is being turned over sores. bombs are not the only means correlation between the erratic crews and cranes to remove to the Looney Left SYRIZA There is also rampant theft by which a disturbed person can behavior of lone wolves and the them. which has proved itself unable and vandalism of public prop - kill. potential of well-coordinate ter - The anarchist hotbed neigh - SNF, which funded the project, to prevent anarchists from run - erty, including giant statues and On 14 July in Nice, Mohamed rorist strike. borhood of Exarchia in Athens told a news conference, Agence ning wild – nor does it want to busts being ripped off their Lahouaij-Bouhlel used a truck to Yet, the problem remains, is graffiti heaven for the admir - France Presse reported. given its sympathies for guerilla moorings in public parks. kill eighty people and wounded does the state have the right to ers and hell for those who be - Piano, an honorary Italian groups and even terrorists. “The state should fulfill its hundreds more celebrating trap and arrest individuals on the lieve public art should be in Senator who co-designed the Coupled with its screaming obligation and run it properly. France’s national holiday. Ac - basis of a hypothetical threat? public spaces and not on public modernist Pompidou Centre in incompetence – these guys And the people should show cording to his father, the Do the security and police au - and private buildings. Too much Paris in the 1970s, said he couldn’t run a hot dog stand that they respect it,” Dracopou - Tunisian born Lahouaij-Bouhlel thorities try to anticipate violent of Athens looks like a misbegot - wanted to evoke “the poetry of outside Yankee Stadium – and los said, according to AFP. was psychological problems as a behavior and bring matters to a ten Blade Runner inside-out city. the Mediterranean” in the pro - SYRIZA’s fabled self-righteous “If you can’t run those things child and exhibited violent ten - head by trapping the future ter - Greeks take pride in the ject with both buildings open to disdain for law and order, you as a state, as a country, let’s lock dencies, which were controlled rorist? An alternative is ongoing beauty of the country for much abundant sunshine and a sea could too soon seen graffiti on up everything and jump in the with medication. When La - observation. This will require, good reason but a walk through canal close by. the walls of the cultural center Mediterranean,” he added. houaij-Bouhlel immigrated to however, a small army of security downtown Athens is a bleak vi - “Cities need these institu - and its buildings, grass uncut, Founded in 1996 by one of France, however, he became in - officers shadowing fanatics and sion of a bad future world tions…beauty is something trees withered, debris scattered Greece’s leading ship owning creasingly violent and joined unhinged persons in the hope of where a government has given everybody needs, especially in around – you know, just like the families, the Niarchos founda - ISIS. catching those who make the fa - up even pretending to care difficult moments,” the 78-year- abandoned Olympic centers, the tion has also donated some 300 A few days after the Nice tal decision to resort to terrorism. about what the city looks like. old award-winning architect areas around museums and million ($333.54 million) euros massacre, a 17-year-old Afghan It’s a disgrace really but no one said. tourist sites. It’s a miracle there’s to Greek non-government orga - migrant seeking asylum in Ger - André Gerolymatos is Director cares so this little outrage will The new SNF Cultural Center no graffiti on the Parthenon. nizations fighting poverty dur - many attacked passengers on a of the Stavros Niarchos Founda - do nothing to change anything. occupies 20 hectares (50 acres) The new national library has ing the country’s six-year eco - train in Würzburg with an axe tion Centre for Hellenic Studies Still, a crime in the making overall near the coast of Faliro, even more room than the nomic crisis. and a knife, wounding four peo - at Simon Fraser University in is what will happen to the stun - much of which is blocked off to 700,000 volumes that currently ple before police killed him. 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By Dennis Menos In this Monday, June 20, 2016 clined to attend, as did the Pa - voice, and advance with the long photo released by Holy and triarchate of Antioch, and the overdue reconciliation process In the aftermath of the Holy Great Council, Ecumenical Pa - Churches of Georgia and Bul - with Rome and the other Christ - and Great Pan-Orthodox Council triarch Bartholomew I, second garia. Their absence inflicted a ian Churches. (HGC), the Orthodox Church has left and the Patriarchs take major trauma to the concept of A number of initiatives come two options. It can take credit part in the opening session of Orthodox unity. It also under - to mind for bringing about the for the reasonably successful the Orthodox Synod at Ortho - mined the acceptance of the doc - needed improvements. Ortho - Council held in Crete, publicize dox Academy of the Greek is - uments referred to above, be - doxy could introduce, for in - its results, and then continue land of Crete. The leaders of cause by prior agreement all stance, within its organizational conveniently with the status quo. the world's Orthodox Christ - Council decisions were to be by structure a permanent mecha - Or, alternatively, it can learn ian churches have gathered on “consensus” of all fourteen nism for the explicit purpose of from the experience of Crete, the Greek island of Crete for Churches, which in this case promoting pan-Orthodox unity. identify the areas that require a landmark meeting, despite were not. Additionally, approval The “mechanism,” perhaps in the improvement, and proceed a boycott by the Russian of three of the six documents, form of a Conclave of senior hi - swiftly to rectify them. church — the most populous encountered strong opposition erarchs from all fourteen The HGC in Crete was not a in a religion of some 300 mil - from hierarchs with intense Or - Churches, would meet regularly stunning success, but neither was lion people — and three other thodox traditionalist or “funda - (semi-annually, or even more of - it a failure. It brought together churches. (Sean Hawkey/Holy mentalist” views. ten) to address and seek solu - about 300 hierarchs of the and Great Council via AP) The challenge that confronts tions to issues common to all Or - Church from ten Orthodox juris - the Orthodox Church today is to thodox Churches. The benefits dictions in a modest (if not im - learn from the experiences in to Orthodox unity that would ac - pressive) demonstration of Or - that – a grand council of all Or - Crete, especially the problems crue from such regular interac - thodox unity, debated six major thodox jurisdictions meeting in that impaired unity in the days tions between senior primates of issues that confront the Church harmony and unity for the first leading to the convening of the the Church could be enormous. today, and published for each a time after 1,000 years. Sadly, it Council and also during its de - Concurrently, senior hierarchs thoughtful document for the did not turn out to be that. Four liberations. The need should be of the Church will need to insti - guidance of the Orthodox faith - of the fourteen autocephalous obvious: Orthodoxy worldwide tute a theological dialogue, in ful, worldwide. Churches that comprise the Or - must be united; act and speak patience and humility, with lay Crete had been intended, of thodox East, including the most with a single voice, not project and religious leaders of the course, to be much more than populous Russian Church de - the image of a confederation of Church who hold strong “tradi - independent Churches, each tionalist” views; emphasize to singing its own tune. The indi - them the urgent need to reunite vidual Churches should also be Christ’s Church, and the adverse supportive of each other and re - effect that their views have on Don’t Just Think About Retirement - Start Planning For It frain from actions designed to al - this worthwhile endeavor. Dia - ter existing lines of responsibility, logue between senior hierarchs By John Chris Kamkutis years?” might forgo the purchase of a cial needs for the future. such as the current “turf war” be - needs to be pursued also on a By planning now and plan - second home. If you retire at 60, 5. Develop Your Retire - tween the Patriarchates of Anti - priority basis on the issue of the Just a generation ago, plan - ning wisely, you can take the that second home might be in - ment Savings Plan. och and Jerusalem over the Me - Diaspora. Continuing the status ning for retirement was simple. steps necessary to finance your cluded in your retirement goals. To develop a plan, start by tropolis of Qatar, and actions by quo of creating redundant ethnic By adding together company retirement. The following six- 3. Estimate Your Current estimating how much the retire - the Patriarchate of Moscow de - Orthodox churches and jurisdic - pensions and Social Security step process can help you plan Retirement Benefits. ment lifestyle you envision signed to challenge the leader - tions, worldwide, is not only benefits, most employees could for a secure, comfortable retire - By analyzing your current re - would cost today. Now, adjust ship role of the Ecumenical Pa - wasteful but uncanonical. The figure out how and when they ment. tirement benefits, you can esti - these amounts for inflation. This triarchate over the Orthodox appropriate canons of the could retire comfortably. Today, 1. Determine Your Retire - mate how much income you will should give you an idea of your East. Church must be applied. Finally, retirement planning is more ment Needs and Goals. receive from Social Security and total capital needs at retirement. A call for a follow-up Council the Orthodox East needs also to complex. It’s also more challeng - Whether it’s financial secu - company pension plans. Such Next, determine how much you has not been issued as yet, but become more democratic in its ing. For example, we are all rity or realizing lifelong dreams, income will help offset the need to save on a monthly, quar - indications are that a second decision making. The require - keenly aware of the well-docu - attaining your retirement objec - amount of money you need to terly, or annual basis. HGC will be convened in the not ment for decisions to be made mented shortfalls in Social Se - tives requires a bit of foresight. save for retirement. Of course, 6. Review Your Retirement too distant future. In this con - by “consensus” of all fourteen curity and the disappearance of Perhaps you hope to travel. On you should make sure your es - Plan. nection, the question logically Churches needs to be aban - company pensions. As we look the other hand, perhaps you’re timates are reasonable and not By reviewing your retirement arises: without first bringing doned, for it allows any Church, forward to retirement, we must happy to stay at home, spending based simply on current benefit plan annually, you can evaluate about changes in the structure regardless of size, to veto the also consider longer life ex - time with family and friends. levels. your progress. This process also and modus operandi of our views of all others. Decisions by pectancies and a rising cost of Depending on your plans, your 4. Review Your Current Re - will allow you to make any Church, how can a future Coun - majority rule, rather than by living. For these and other rea - financial needs could range tirement Savings. needed changes to your plan. cil be different from the one just “consensus” should become the sons, many of us are compelled from 70 to 100 percent of your Preparing a net worth state - For more information, I can held in Crete? Without positive norm. to assume more and more re - current income to support your ment can help you adequately be reached at Stifel, Nicolaus & change, the very difficulties en - The recently-completed sponsibility when it comes to lifestyle. assess how much you’ve already Company, 2605 Enterprise Road countered during the recent Council in Crete provides ample ensuring our own retirement 2. Choose the Right Time saved for retirement. 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