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TNH Staff cerns, including a possible viola - Brain Tumor tion of U.S. sanctions against George Papadopoulos, an en - Russia and of the Logan Act, ergy consultant who was an ad - which prohibits U.S. citizens TV personality viser to Donald Trump’s presi - from unauthorized negotiation dential campaign in 2016, has with foreign governments. will help raise funds emerged as a figure tied to the Papadopoulos didn’t give up. ongoing probe into Russian con - Between March, 2016, when he for cancer research nections after emails showed he sent the email, and September, offered to set up a meeting with he sent at least a half dozen TNH Staff Russian officials, including Pres - more requests for Trump or ident Vladimir Putin. members of his team to meet NEW YORK – Maria Menounos The Washington Post said the with Russian officials, an en - is back to work, this time to help little-known Papadopoulos who, treaty said to be rejected by then- raise funds for the battle against despite having little experience Campaign Manager Paul Man - brain cancer. The 39-year-old was named a foreign policy ad - afort, who has since turned out TV personality recently revealed viser later to Trump, sent the to be tied to Russian interests. her own health struggle, under - campaign foreign policy team Papadopoulos appeared out going brain surgery in June to an email three days after he was of nowhere during the campaign remove a cancerous tumor, and appointed that said: “Meeting and said he graduated from De - her mother Litsa’s continue bat - with Russian Leadership – In - Paul University in 2009 with a tle against Stage 4 brain cancer. cluding Putin.” Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sci - Menounos will host the An - Papadopoulos offered to set ence and Government and that gel Ball to raise funds for the up “a meeting between us and he earned master’s degrees from battle against the terrible dis - the Russian leadership to dis - University College London and ease, as reported in the New cuss U.S.-Russia ties under Pres - the London School of Economics. York Daily News. ident Trump,” telling them his After graduating, he said he She will speak at Gabrielle's Russian contacts welcomed the worked from 2011 to 2015 as a Angel Foundation for Cancer opportunity, according to inter - research associate at the Hudson Research's Angel Ball to be held nal campaign emails read to the Institute, a DC-based think tank. on October 23 at New York’s newspaper. The Post said it was unclear Cipriani Wall Street. That set off alarm bells in whether he was acting as an in - Songwriter and philan - Trump campaign headquarters termediary for the Russian gov - thropist Denise Rich founded in Trump Tower in New York ernment as he didn’t claim to Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for City despite later revelations have any ties to Moscow, but he Cancer after her 27-year-old that high-ranking officials were told campaign officials he was a daughter, Gabrielle Rich Aouad, trying to do almost the same, go-between who could broker a lost her battle with Hodgkin’s which has led to the probe by meeting without offering any ev - lymphoma in 1996, as noted on former FBI Director Robert idence. the foundation’s website. Mueller. Three months after Pa - So far $30 million has been Campaign co-chairman Sam padopoulos raised the possibility raised for cancer research by the Clovis wrote that he thought of a meeting between Trump and foundation. Menounos’ partici - NATO allies should be consulted Russian President Vladimir pation will undoubtedly help in - before any plans were made, the Putin, the president’s son Donald crease that amount. paper said and another key ad - Trump Jr. and son-in-law, Jared This year’s Angel Ball will TNH/COSTAS BEJ viser, retired Navy Rear Adm. honor producer and humanitar - The Archieratic Divine Liturgy presided over by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios on the Charles Kubic, cited legal con - Continued on page 2 ian Nikki Cole and Rally Health Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos at the Kimisis tis Theotokou Church in the Hamptons. CEO Grant Verstandig. The chairwomen for the gala include Lorraine Schwartz, Ofira Sand - berg, and Michele Rella. Feast of Dormition, Kimisis tis Theotokou Celebrated Greek- Maria Menounos plans on sharing her own story this year, and her presence at the gala By Eleni Sakellis monastery complex is built grimage in Greece, equal to vices every August 15th. One is Owned highlights her courage in deal - around a miraculous icon which Lourdes in France or Fatima in celebrated at Panagia Spiliani ing with cancer. She is also re - NEW YORK – The Kimisis tis according to tradition was Portugal. and it is the official Divine defining her personal priorities, Theotokou or the Dormition of found after the Virgin appeared In Northern Greece, the Liturgy of the priests, who lead Business posting on Instagram just a few the Theotokos on August 15, is to the nun Pelagia and revealed Church of Panagia Soumela on the procession of the icon of the also known as the Pascha of to her the place where the icon the slopes of Vermio, near the Virgin Mary up to the village to Continued on page 2 Summer, celebrates the Assump - was buried. The icon is widely village of Kastania was built in bless the feast, while the second Robbed tion of the Virgin Mary, when believed to be the source of nu - 1951 by the refugees of Pontus, is a traditional ritual performed the Holy Mother of Jesus Christ merous miracles. in memory of the historic by the black-clad Enniameri - By Demetris Tsakas and therefore, the Mother of all The icon was found in the homonymous monastery, the ru - tisses as the women who have Christians, ascended into early days of the modern Greek ins of which lie on Mount Mela, been dedicated to the Theotokos ASTORIA – Two young men of Dr. Kardaras Heaven. State and was declared the pa - near Trebizond in Pontus. The are called. average height on Friday The greatest pilgrimage is tron saint of the Greek nation. miraculous icon of the Virgin The feast of the Virgin Mary evening, July 28, entered a held on the island of Tinos, at The church, built in the Renais - Mary, the Holy Cross, and the on the island of Pserimo where Greek-owned business in Asto - on the the preeminent Marian shrine sance style, was inaugurated in Gospel are kept at the church. the Church of Virgin Mary of the ria, grabbed two backpacks that in Greece, the Church of Evan - 1830 and since then is a popular On Nisyros, they celebrate contained computers and check - gelistria. The church and destination for Christian pil - not with one, but with two ser - Continued on page 3 books, and then disappeared. Opioid Crisis The robbery, as reported in the police report, was commit - ted at 9:25 pm in a business lo - By Eleni Sakellis cated at 37-01 30th Avenue in Gr. Restaurant the Greek enclave of Astoria. NEW YORK – During a recent The security cameras recorded press conference, President images of the robbers. Trump declared the country’s Sold Winning So far, the police investiga - opioid crisis a “national emer - tion has not led to any arrests gency” and promised to spend and the police decided to re - a lot of “time, a lot of effort, and Lottery Ticket lease the video in a timely man - a lot of money” on the problem. ner and asked the public for The United States has an esti - help to identify the perpetrators mated 2.6 million opioid addicts TNH Staff of the crime. and drug overdoses (of all The National Herald con - types) kill more people than car PALOS HEIGHTS, IL – The Illi - tacted the manager on the crashes and gun homicides com - nois Lottery states that a subur - morning shift at the business, bined; over 140 people a day ban Chicago barbecue restau - but he declined to comment on and over 52,000 people died of rant sold the winning ticket for the event or the ongoing inves - overdoses in 2015—and on the $393 million Mega Millions tigation. pace for 60,000 this year. By lottery jackpot, the Associated Recently, three more rob - comparison, 58,000 American Press reported. On August 12, beries have occurred in Astoria troops died during the entire 10 the Illinois Lottery added that and the police requested the years of the Vietnam War. someone bought the ticket at public’s help in tracking down There are also more pain Nick’s Barbecue in Palos the perpetrators. meds flooding medicine cabi - Heights. Restaurant owner Nick Astoria's Greek-American nets across the country. Accord - Andricopulos will receive a City Council Member Costa ing to the National Institute of $500,000 bonus for selling the Constantinides, responding to Drug Abuse (NIDA), in 1990 ticket. Andricopulos, 60, said he TNH’s question about these rob - there were 75 million opiate learned the news from one of beries, explained that “these are pain med prescriptions written his employees on August 11, the isolated incidents” and that “the Chicago Tribune reported. 114th Precinct is making praise - Continued on page 2 The $393 million jackpot worthy efforts to fight crime.” from August 11’s drawing is the “Astoria is one of New York's largest in Illinois history. It is safest neighborhoods. Crime is the fifth largest in Mega Millions at the lowest levels compared For subscription: history. The estimated cash to other areas of New York City,” 718.784.5255 value is $256 million plus a said Constantinides, attributing [email protected] TNH/COSTAS BEJ $500,000 selling bonus for the the low crime rate to the pro - Malliotakis Holds Press Conference on Mental Illness retailer. fessionalism of police officers Lottery officials are urging and the excellent collaboration New York State Assemblymember and New York City mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis the winner to “immediately sign of the 114th Precinct with the gave a press conference on August 14 on the steps of City Hall, where she presented the Treat - community. At the same time, ment B4 Crisis Plan for New York City's seriously mentally ill population. Story on page 4. Continued on page 4 he urged the public to be alert. 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 19-25, 2017 The 4th Annual National Conference on Orthodox Christian Schools in IL

TNH Staff ing but blessed work of building up Orthodox Christian schools. DES PLAINES, IL – On August The title of the conference, First 11 and 12, St. John the Baptist Things First: The Priority of Or - Greek Orthodox Church and thodox Christian Education, was Guardian Angel Orthodox Day inspired by the recommendation School, both of Des Plaines, of the Chancellor of the Greek hosted the 4th Annual National Orthodox Metropolis of Conference on Orthodox Chris - Chicago, Bishop Demetrios of tian Schools. Mokissos, using the following Over 100 participants from quote from St. John Chrysostom 27 schools located in 11 U.S. to guide their efforts: states and the nations of Albania “With us everything should and Estonia gathered at the con - be secondary compared to our ference to share practical knowl - concern with children and their edge and skills, as well as new upbringing in the instruction energy to continue the challeng - and teaching of the Lord.” After Divine Liturgy, the con - ference began with an Opening Prayer by His Eminence Metro - politan Nicolae of the Americas Dr. Kardaras of the Romanian Orthodox Church and His Grace Bishop Demetrios of Mokissos. Parish Talks to TNH Priest Father John Rallis of the host St. John the Baptist Greek John C. Ackerman Orthodox Church gave a wel - ABOVE: Fr. John Rallis during the Divine Liturgy on the con - about the coming statement followed by ference’s opening day. LEFT: Abby Vlahos, Fr. Athanasios Pa - the Keynote Address “The Or - pagiannis, Fr. John Rallis, and Presbytera Nikolia Hasiakos of thodox Faith Incarnate in the Guardian Angel Orthodox Day School at the conference. Opioid Crisis Schools” by Bryan Smith of Texas. Smith said, “We wish to see ucation—as the best schools who have been nurtured for to incline our students toward In his opening statement, multiple Orthodox schools in academically and culturally for years in the rich soil of the Or - Christ, to prepare them to live Continued from page 1 Smith introduced himself as every major city of this nation students of any background. thodox faith. well in this world, and to share having “been in education now that will support the life of Or - “We have an opportunity to “We hold something precious our faith with a generation look - in the United States. By 2010, for about 30 years, originally as thodox Christians, bring the become the new school option to pass on to another generation ing for stability in the shifting that number had risen to a a teacher, then in a variety of faith to new generations, and for Americans seeking solid aca - of American Christians. We have sands of the American cultural whopping 210 million prescrip - administrative roles, and then engage our culture in all its demics, character formation, something true, unchanging, landscape. tions—an almost three-fold in - as a headmaster. Most of my ca - most profound assumptions. Or - and traditional Christianity. and life-giving to impart to a na - “Let us find our way, to - crease. reer has been in private Christ - thodox schools working to - From such a position we have tion rich with goodwill but im - gether, to preserve the treasures Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, Exec - ian schools- until most recently gether from their own theologi - the real potential to transform poverished by materialism and God has placed in our hands- utive Director of the Dunes in when I joined the group I'm now cal roots and according to best our society by sending countless narcissism. Schools are one of the treasures of truth, and the Easthampton, NY, a former Clin - with which operates charter practices will assume a promi - thousands into the professions the ways that we can leaven the treasures of those darling per - ical Professor at Stony Brook schools in two states.” nent position in the field of ed - and vocations of our society lump of our society. We all hope sons- our children.” Medicine, and a recovering opi - ate addict, spoke with The Na - tional Herald about the opioid crisis, the solution, and the Greek community. FYROM-Canadians Reach as Far as Larissa in Toronto Star Ad He responded to TNH’s re - quest for a comment from Greece where he was speaking By Zois Marinos repeated again this year. With Chronika, based in Montreal, on tech addiction at a University the so-called Canadian “Mace - also contacted TNH in order to in Athens that was attended by MONTREAL, CANADA – A ma - donian” Association – signing the point out the Canadian newspa - several fellow addiction special - jor issue arises instigated by the entry – painting the map of his - per’s acknowledgement of its ists. FYROM-Canadians who, as The tory, international law, and le - mistake two years ago, which He said, “As far as the Greek National Herald reported on July gality in a red color. was repeated again only a few community… I can now say 26, took out an advertisement in Karas wrote in his letter to days ago, in exactly the same with certainly that addiction, the Canadian newspaper Toronto the Toronto Star, “the nonsense way. and opiate addiction, is explod - Star, which includes a counterfeit about Alexander the Great con - On the part of the official ing not only in Greece, but also map of the FYROM reaching into tained in the ad may require far Greek government, there is al - in the Greek-American commu - Thessaly, Epirus, and Thrace. more nuanced knowledge for the ready a first reaction from the nity back in New York, where I On the evening of July 25, advertising department to under - Consulate General of Toronto work.” TNH received correspondence stand it but showing a part of which, however, was not pub - from August, 2015, between the another country as belonging to lished in the Toronto Star cor - Pan-Macedonian Association of ‘Macedonia’ goes over the top.” rection column or in another ar - Ontario and executives of the “And he was right. They will ticle by the morning of July 26. Canadian newspaper after a sim - have to stop at some point all By the time the newspaper ilar issue two years ago. these challenges that only suc - was published, there was no for - In her reply to James Karas, The inaccurate ad for “Macedonian National Day” in the Toronto ceed in jeopardizing the climate mal reaction on the part of the president of the Macedonians of Star blatantly disregards the truth as it did 2 years ago. not only between the two coun - Macedonian organizations in the Canadian province, Sandy tries but also for us, here in Canada or the United States but, Muir, a spokesperson for Star “You are right, of course. The Muir replied after Karas' protest Canada, the Greeks and the peo - as reported by TNH, there have Media, acknowledged the news - map is inaccurate and should not to the newspaper. She also ple of FYROM,” 47-year-old been several phone calls of paper's mistake in publishing the be published. The ad was taken promised at the same time that George Karagiannidis of Toronto, protest from their members to counterfeit map that also accom - and promoted by one of the ad internal procedures will be a mechanic originally from Pella, the newspaper from the Cana - panied the ad for the annual Ilin - managers who did not know the changed to identify such errors told TNH. dian provinces of Ontario and den celebration FYROM-Canadi - map was wrong. Thank you for before publishing any listing. Dimitris Papadopoulos, editor Quebec, and from Northern New ans hold in Toronto. informing us of the mistake,” Nevertheless, the mistake was of the monthly newspaper York. Madness of Hercules Wows Audience at NY Euripides Festival

TNH Staff ever. This American Thymele East River Park Amphitheatre website, “It depicts Hercules be - rituals and, as a result, required Theatre series attracted unusu - where the festival began nine ing driven insane by Madness a sacrificial altar, or thymele, NEW YORK – In an unusual re - ally large crowds as the New summer seasons ago. The pro - and human beings trapped in a which became the focal point of versal of the traditional staging York Euripides Summer Festival duction photo is from the sold- hostile world, sustained only by the activities. The thymele (pro - of previous New York Euripides was extended for the first time out, closing Stage II Theatre per - their love for one another and nounced ‘timely’ or ‘ty-melee’ luz rOJAS kArdArAS Summer Festival productions, to Brooklyn, at the Elmira formance on August 6. their sense of courage and no - and ‘too-meh-lay’ in ancient Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, Execu - Madness of Hercules thrilled the Kennedy Coursey Amphitheatre, The ancient play is a timely bility that cannot be defeated by Greek) was a circular, raised plat - tive Director of the Dunes in audience in a contemporary set - in addition to the Richard and moving tragedy from circa authoritative forces.” form in the center of the orches - Easthampton, NY. ting approach for the first time Rodgers Amphitheatre and the 422 BCE. As described on the The entertaining annual fes - tra (dancing floor for the chorus) tival brings wonderful ancient used as a sanctuary and, during “In Greece, high-unemploy - plays to the public for free each rehearsals, the director (usually ment, economic instability, and summer. As noted on the festi - the dramatist himself) used it, to proximity to known heroin traf - val’s website, “Just like in an - better observe the overall action ficking routes (Turkey, Maria Menounos Back in the Spotlight tiquity, all performances are free of each given production. For Afghanistan, Russia) have all of charge to the public.” better acoustics, the thymele was contributed to the opioid prob - American Thymele Theatre also used by the flute players and lem. In New York, you have cul - Continued from page 1 day on June 8th. (ATT) was founded in 1993 to other musicians in the perfor - turally displaced Greek immi - The tumor removed was the promote and disseminate Hel - mances. Those who surrounded grants, economic uncertainty, days ago, she said that standing size of a golf ball. Now, Menounos lenic culture in America, and this sacred altar were known as overworked, overstressed, and up for people facing the same urges everyone to listen to their has since produced several plays thymelians and, in the Hellenistic under-rested, notoriously, hard - problem is now “at the top of bodies and get checked out before in Greek and in English, touring era, as thymelici. The dramatic working Greek-American immi - my list.” it is too late. She told People mag - the country and New York City competitions-festivals were a grants seeking some relief from She told NBC that “receiving azine, “We’re caretakers as public schools, and bringing the major component of the religious their daily work and lives. Greek her own diagnosis felt almost women and we put ourselves last. New York Euripides Summer rituals in honor of Dionysus teens and millennials who have surreal,” since her mother had I tell people all the time if your Festival to indoor and outdoor throughout Greek cities. Each the same malaise and ‘failure to been diagnosed with a brain tu - car is making a weird noise, you venues across the city. city had its own amphitheatre. launch’ dynamics of many of mor and also underwent surgery take it to the mechanic. How As noted on the ATT website, Archaeology provides evidence their American counterparts a few months ago with her con - come when our body is making “Theatre, as we know it today, of such amphitheatres and, in have all contributed to their in - dition, as of today, reported as weird noises, we ignore it? I’m so developed in the sixth and fifth certain rare instances, the precise creased opioid addiction,” Dr. stable. lucky that I went to the doctor centuries BC in Greece, as a nat - location where the thymele once Kardaras told TNH. The popular presenter under - and raised the alarm.” ural outgrowth of the annual stood is revealed. Eventually, When asked about a solution stood that something was hap - At the October 23 event, Me - Dionysian festivals, dedicated to thymele was used as a term to to the problem, he said, “I be - pening with her health in Feb - nounos will appear in front of a Dionysus, the god of wine, cele - denote theatre in general and it lieve that we have to reexamine ruary when she started to large audience to share her per - bration and, by extension, the is cognate to the ancient Greek our view of addiction and, by experience dizziness and sonal experience and help raise god of the human subconscious. word themethlon as well as to extension, how we treat it and headaches as well as difficulties money for the battle against The most significant among the modern Greek word theme - all of the misguided notions of in speech and reading. She dealt cancer. “I think that this was a these theatrical festivals was that lion, both words meaning the ‘war on drugs.’ As we are with the diagnosis with great gift because I needed to change of the Great Dionysia, held in ‘groundwork,’ ‘basis,’ and, in an discovering more and more, ad - calmness and eventually under - my life,” she said recently in an Athens. These annual perfor - architectural sense, ‘founda - diction is less about the sub - went surgery on her 39th birth - interview with NBC. mances also contained religious tion.’” stances and more about a per - son’s need for the substances. Thus the opioid epidemic is less about opiates and more a byproduct of certain very com - Trump Adviser Papadopoulos Tied to Russia Probe plex social, cultural, biological, and economic factors that make a person vulnerable to the ad - Continued from page 1 and others a note he received for some time and have been that Russians were looking for ject of a foreign surveillance war - dictive escape of pain pills. Un - from the program head for the reaching out to me to discuss,” entry points and playing upon rant over his connections to Rus - less we address those underly - Kushner, met with a delegation government-funded Russian In - Papadopoulos told Manafort connections with lower-level sia, said the Papadopoulos email ing causal factors, we will never led by a Russian lawyer offering ternational Affairs Council. who told an associate that it aides to penetrate the 2016 cam - exchange was another sign that make a meaningful dent to the to provide damaging information HOLD THE PHONE wouldn’t happen. paign, according to the newspa - the Russian communications opiate crisis because we will on Clinton. Ivan Timofeev, a senior offi - In July, 2016, a few weeks af - per. were inconsequential. have, effectively, been looking After his initial offer was re - cial in the organization, said ter Papadopoulos asked his su - Papadopoulos’ emails were “The entirely benign offer at the telescope through the buffed, Papadopoulos kept at it Russian ministry officials were periors whether other campaign among 20,000 documents the from a volunteer member of the wrong end.” and told then-Campaign Man - open to a Trump visit to Moscow advisers or aides could accept paper said were reviewed. He Trump movement is infinitely Dr. Kardaras is a highly re - ager Corey Lewandowski in an and requested that the campaign some of the Russians’ invitations, was , was on a list of campaign less relevant than the real collu - garded addiction expert and the April email that he was receiving and Russians write a formal let - Carter Page, another foreign pol - volunteers Trump announced as sion in the 2016 election,” said Executive Director of the Dunes, “a lot of calls over the past ter outlining the meeting. icy adviser, spoke at a Russian his foreign policy advisory team Page, who was copied on the first one of the world’s top rehab fa - month” about arranging a Russia Several weeks later, Pa - university in Moscow. Page said during a meeting with The Post’s Papadopoulos email communi - cilities. He was previously fea - meeting. padopoulos forwarded the same he made the trip independently editorial board in March 2016. cation in March, blaming associ - tured in TNH for his book Glow “Putin wants to host the message from Timofeev to Man - of the campaign. Trump called Papadopoulos an ates of former Presidents Bill Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Trump team when the time is afort, who replaced To experts in Russian intelli - “excellent guy” despite his lack Clinton and Barack Obama for Hijacking Our Kids-and How to right,” he wrote on April 27 and Lewandowski. “Russia has been gence gathering, the Papadopou - of experience. allegedly giving false evidence to Break the Trance. a week later sent Lewandowski eager to meet with Mr. Trump los chain offers further evidence Page, who has been the sub - investigators. THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 19-25, 2017 COMMUNITY 3 Panagitsa in Montreal Celebrates Feast Day, Official Opening Set for September

By Zois Marinos ing of the church. Metropolitan according to the estimates of the community associations and vol - Sotirios presided over the Great church leaders. To a large ex - unteer networks, etc. MONTREAL – On the evening Vespers. tent, young people, second-gen - The construction of the new of August 14th, Montreal Hel - “Hellenism and Orthodoxy eration and third-generation ex - church cost about $2.7 million lenism had a double celebration. have always shone, continue to patriates, participated along Canadian and many of the faith - On the one hand, the Feast of shine, and will always shine,” with their children. ful noticed the building has a the Megalochari, the so-called he added, addressing the faith - Following the icon was Met - modern fire detection and fire "Easter of the Summer" for Or - ful. Encouraging them to ropolitan Sotirios and the pre - protection system so that the thodoxy, and on the other hand strengthen - “with what they siding priest of Panagitsa Fr. catastrophe similar to 2015 will the reopening - just after 853 can give, and me first” - the ef - Nikolaos Papageorgiou together not happen again. days - of the Holy Church of the fort to raise money for the com - with other priests, Mayor Montreal Mayor Denis Assumption of the Virgin, also pletion of the church. Coderre and the local govern - Coderre, in his brief communi - known as "Panagitsa" in Parc- Panagitsa is, after all, not yet ment officials, the Consul Gen - cation with Metropolitan Extension. ready. The church opened for eral of Greece in Montreal Nico - Sotirios and with Theodosopou - The Panagitsa was com - the Feast of the Dormition of the las Sigalas, the president of the los and Crilis congratulated pletely destroyed by a fire that Theotokos on Monday evening Hellenic Canadian Congress of them on the new church, but broke out on Easter Monday, - and on Tuesday morning - and Quebec John Theodosopoulos, also for the quick reaction that April 13, 2015. The old church will cose again to complete the the Executive Vice-President of the leaders of the Greek com - was demolished and four last phase of the work. the Hellenic Community of munity of the city and the Holy months later, a completely new “Even so, however, this cor - Greater Montreal - representing Metropolis showed after the fire. building was built using the ner on St. Roche is a sacred President Nikos Pagonis - An - The Panagitsa, according to same architectural plans. place, a great part of the family dreas Crilis, Laval Municipal the plans of the Hellenic Com - Hence, the great thrill for the history of all of us who have Councilor Aglaia Revelakis, Re - munity, will be officially opened thousands of Greeks who had spent most of our lives in gional Council of Laval Chair - in September, after completion crowded the streets around the Canada,” said Chrysoula Apos - man Dennis Marinos, members of work on the central façade church beginning early in the tolopoulou, grandmother to of the board of directors of the and part of the interior of the afternoon. They were reason - nine grandchildren, originally Community, representatives of church. able impatient to see the interior from Nafpaktos, while patiently of the new Holy Church. waiting to worship the flower- It was an important moment decked icon of the Assumption not only for Hellenism but also TNH/zOiS mAriNOS of the Virgin Mary. for the whole city. On Monday The Panagitsa in Montreal celebrated the Feast of the Dormition The waiting time for entering evening, the Montreal mayor of the Theotokos with thousands in attendance. the church exceeded twenty Denis Coderre, accompanied by minutes while the police had the Mayor of Villeray–Saint- remember the fire breaking the tional Herald. Although he does shut down all the roads around Michel–Parc-Extension Anie windows and going up the roof not live in Parc-Extension, Chris - Ogilvy Street from 7 PM on - Samson, the Pierrefonds-Rox - and people crying on the side - togiannis visits the area almost wards to facilitate the faithful. boro Mayor Dimitrios Beis, and walk across the street. The Vir - every day. At 8:25 PM in the evening, the Greek-Canadian Deputy gin Mary blessed me to be here “The Panagia performed a with mild weather, the proces - Mayor of Montreal Mary Deros. today, this brilliant day and ven - miracle,” Metropolitan of sion of the icon of the Virgin “I was here when the church erate the icon again,” Georgios Toronto and All Canada, Sotirios Mary began with the participa - was destroyed by the flames. I Christogiannis, 67, told The Na - said allegorically for the reopen - tion of more than 8,000 faithful,

The Holy Foundation Panagia Soumela Pontion Amerikis & Canada The new iconography in West Milford, NJ. NJ’s Panagia Soumela Pilgrimage and Festival

By Demetris Tsakas such a wide range of projects at once. TNH/COSTAS BEJ WEST MILFORD, NJ – In recent New iconography was added The faithful attended the Archieratical Great Vespers presided over by His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios (right) for the Feast months, a slice of the Pontian to the church, a new gate was of the Dormition of the Theotokos at the Greek Orthodox Church of Kimisis tis Theotokou (Dormition) in Brooklyn. world has been increasingly vis - installed, and great strides were ible in Northern New Jersey. A made on the laying of the floor. couple of dozen Greeks spend The exterior of the Community every weekend working tire - Center is new, and the festival Kimisis tis Theotokou (Dormition) Feast Celebrated lessly to create the Festival of area has doubled in size. Panagia Soumela in West Mil - Asked about the generosity ford, of Pontians in America and Continued from page 1 abroad, local churches celebrate gust 15, the Divine Liturgy is cel - in Astoria. so that members of the Greek Canada, he noted that “it is a the Dormition of the Virgin Mary ebrated in honor of the Panagia. His Eminence Archbishop community from the American given that the works of the last Melanchrini, as the locals call it with the same traditions begin - At Holy Cross in Whitestone, the Demetrios presided over the Northeast, Midwest, and from few months will inspire the Pon - because of the dark color of the ning with the fasting and church church was especially crowded Archieratical Great Vespers for Canada can attend. tians and their friends to make Russian icon style, is unique. services that begin on August 1. this year since in addition to the the Feast of the Dormition of the The President of the Holy donations to repay the loan.” Sailing boats from Kalymnos, The Great Vespers on night be - church’s usual faithful attendees Theotokos at the Greek Ortho - Foundation, Dr. Haralambos Vasiliadis told TNH about a Kos, and Nisyros, bring the faith - fore the holiday were well-at - on such an important holiday, dox Church of Kimisis tis Vasiliadis, told The National Philadelphian who visited and ful to seek the grace of the Vir - tended at many of the New York the faithful from the Transfigu - Theotokou (Dormition) in Herald that the work is proceed - with tears in his eyes and with - gin Mary. tristate area churches. The Enko - ration Church in Corona, which Brooklyn on August 14 and the ing quickly and that everything out solicitation, took out his Unique in Rhodes is Panagia mia for the Theotokos are sung was damaged by fire in May, Archieratical Divine Liturgy at will be ready by August 19. checkbook and donated $2,000. Kalopetra, located at the top of by the entire congregation. At were also present. Fr. George the Greek Orthodox Church of He said that “three genera - “‘You are entitled, you de - the Butterfly Valley and is the end of the service, they ap - Anastasiou of the Transfigura - Kimisis tis Theotokou (Dormi - tions of Pontians are working serve it, and thank you for thought to have been built in proach to venerate the icon of tion Church noted that he had tion), Southampton, NY on Au - together. Antonios Iosifidis, bringing Panagia Soumela to us. 1782 by Alexandros Ypsilantis. the Virgin Mary in the Epitafio not seen a church so crowded gust 15, the Feast of the Dormi - from Connecticut, who is over I pray that the miraculous icon For the Greek community decorated with flowers. On Au - since his days at St. Demetrios tion of the Theotokos. 90, is working with his son, Pe - of the Soumeliotissa will protect ter, with his peers and their chil - and guide you so that the Pon - dren, and with teenagers. So, tian Land will be a reference we're talking about three gen - point for the next generations,’ erations of volunteers.” the man said in tears.” In the eleven years of orga - The Pontian Land in the New nizing the holy pilgrimage, the World was purchased by the weather had always been an ally Greek community, but it is mort - for the duration, and as Dr. gaged to the bank. Vasiliadis said, Panagia Soumela The president of the Holy would take care of it and it will Foundation hopes that the not rain. This year, however, the Greeks will be able to raise the excavation works will rent a remaining $200,000 to repay 50x100 foot tent just in case, the loan so that they can pro - but in any case to protect them ceed with the realization of the from the heat. great plans for the Pontian The goal of the leadership of Land. the Holy Foundation is to create "We call on the readers of the a permanent space that will en - National Herald and by exten - able them to organize and host sion all the Hellenic community events for at least nine months to participate in the 34th Annual of the year. Pilgrimage and Festival in honor EurOkiNiSSi/CHriSTOS BONiS TNH/ElENi SAkElliS The Greeks worked through - of the Dormition of the Mega - His Beatitude, Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Fr. George Anastasiou and Fr. Dionysios Anagnostopoulos at out the summer provided the locharis Our Protectress Panagia Greece celebrated the Dormition of the Theotokos in Thebes the Great Vespers at Holy Cross Church in Whitestone. building materials, their own Soumela and assure them that on August 15. tools, and their own manpower they will experience unique, un - to complete various projects at precedented, and unforgettable the site. Vasiliadis pointed out moments.” that for the first time in the his - The Festival takes place Au - His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios’ Encyclical tory of the Foundation they had gust 18 to 20.

The Encyclical of His Eminence Arch - she is the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ asking for compassion. We call her a merci - bishop Demetrios for the Feast of the Dor - who revealed to us the grace of God through ful spring, a shelter, covering, and refuge. mition of the Theotokos follows. His ministry and teaching. She carried the We proclaim to the world that she is a pro - “The doors of caring do now open unto Compassionate Savior in her womb. In the tection for the oppressed, food for the hun - us, O most blessed Theotokos…” Holy Scriptures we read how our Lord saw gry, comfort for the estranged and those in (Theotokion of the Small Paraklesis) the physical and spiritual needs of many, pain, a staff to the blind, a visitation for the and He had compassion. They were like sick, and aid for the orphaned. In our time To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Rev - sheep without a shepherd (Mark 6:34). of need, we ask her to come and bring help, erend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and They were hungry, blind, sick, suffering and to lead us compassionately to Christ for Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the rejected. He felt and understood their strug - healing, hope, and salvation. Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Com - gles and needs, and in compassion He As we commemorate the life and Dor - munities, the Distinguished Archons of the blessed their lives through the power of mition of the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin www.GreekKitchennyc.com Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Day, After - grace. Mary, we do so in joy and hope. This is a noon, and Church Schools, the Philoptochos The Virgin Mary shows us compassion feast of compassion. We are inspired by the Sisterhoods, the Youth, the Hellenic Orga - because the holiness of her life led her to witness of her beautiful life. We are em - nizations, and the entire Greek Orthodox experience the abundance of God’s love. boldened by the power of grace through Family in America She was chosen to be the Mother of God her dedication to God. We are comforted Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, because of her holiness; but this was also by her compassion for us and her constant On this blessed Feast of the Dormition the nature of her entire life. In the beautiful intercessions for our needs. She guides us of the Theotokos we commemorate the hymns of this Feast of her Dormition, we through the love of God in showing com - Ever-Virgin Mary for offering her life to God celebrate her holiness and splendor. We give passion to others. as a witness of the power of grace. Through thanks to God for her purity of heart and May the Virgin Mother of our Lord, a her holiness of life and her love of Him, she her tremendous faith that led her to dedi - protection of all Christians, grant you help experienced His grace and became one who cate her life to sharing His grace. We join in your time of need, and may her witness showed compassion to all she encountered. with all generations in calling her blessed! inspire you to live in compassion so that Because of her unique relationship with our We also join together in our services and others may find hope and salvation in Lord, she has and continues to show com - hymns, seeking the compassion and inter - Christ. passion to all in need who seek her inter - cessions of the Theotokos. We ask her to With paternal love in Him, cessions for mercy and salvation from God. hasten quickly to our aid. We fervently pray †DEMETRIOS The Theotokos is compassionate because to her, crying from the depths of our souls, Archbishop of America 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 19-25, 2017 Malliotakis’ Plan to Help Severely Mentally Ill GOINGS ON... n tHru oCtober 3 7431. Cash bar is available for By Demetris Tsakas From the beginning of May, According to Malliotakis, gram, noted that it is workable ASTORIA – Greek Nights at purchase of beers, wine, and when Malliotakis announced “current programs designed to and provides solutions to chronic Athens Square Park, 30th Av - mixed drinks. Free parking, NEW YORK – New York State her candidacy up until this time, help mentally ill individuals do problems and saves lives. enue and 30th Street in Astoria, handicap accessible, and young Assemblymember and New York she avoided attacking her Re - not target the severely mentally Among the points of the pro - presents live music every Tues - and young at heart fun activi - City mayoral candidate Nicole publican co-candidates, and fo - ill who are most likely to be - gram are plans to more robustly day at 7 PM, July 11-October 3. ties! Live authentic Greek music Malliotakis gave a press confer - cused her campaign’s wrath come homeless, hospitalized, in - implement Kendra’s Law, which Panos Adamopoulos and George provided by the Hellenic Ex - ence on August 14 on the steps solidly against the incumbent carcerated and create a danger allows judges to order someone Delis, 2017 Program Directors. press Orchestra with Marco. of City Hall, where she pre - Mayor Bill de Blasio who is run - with serious mental illness and Free admission. Upcoming per - Children 6 years old and under sented the Treatment B4 Crisis ning for reelection. In the pri - “Current programs… do a history of noncompliance lead - formers: Aug. 22- Misi Group; eat for free. Tickets for ages 7 Plan for New York City's seri - mary election, Mayor de Blasio ing to incarceration or needless Aug. 29- Laiki Compania; Sept. to 12 years old are $12, ages 13 ously mentally ill population. will face five candidates chal - not target the severely hospitalization to be transferred 5- Grigoris Maninakis, to 100 years old are $25) per Malliotakis represents Staten lenging him for the Democratic mentally ill who are most to mandated and monitored Mikrokosmos; Sept. 12- Julie Zi - person. Registration is now Island and Brooklyn, and in the Party’s nomination. outpatient treatment, expanding avras and Kostas Psaros; Sept. open. The Summit View Pavilion primary election on September At the press conference, likely to become psychiatric capacity of city hos - 19- Nisafi Band; Sept. 26- Pan - policy is a minimum of 65 10 will take on Walter N. Malliotakis referred to mental homeless, hospitalized…” pitals, validating hospital dis - cyprian Choir of NY, director guests. More information is Iwachiw for the Republican illnesses, focused on de Blasio's charge plans and making a Phytos Stratis; and Oct. 3- Hel - available online at: holytrinity - nomination. policy, and noted that during the for themselves, the public and greater effort to obtain informa - lenic Voices of Long Island. holyoke.ma.goarch.org The Greek-Cuban candidate current mayor’s term, incidents the police. The Malliotakis ad - tion from friends and family, More information is available is the frontrunner for the Re - have increased when mentally ministration will correct the fo - and support for non-profit or - online athenssquarepark.org. CENTERVILLE, MA – St. George publican Party, since most of the ill individuals were lost in the cus of current mental health ganizations that will accept the Greek Orthodox Church of Cape other candidates withdrew from system and their health deteri - programs to rigorously target severely mentally ill such as n auGuSt 17-20 Cod, 1130 Falmouth Road in the race, as Malliotakis’ momen - orates to a point where they be - the seriously mentally ill and Fountain House- an organiza - ST. CLAIR SHORES, MI – As - Centerville, presents Greek tum continued to rise along with come a danger not only to them - will audit ThriveNYC to deter - tion that accepts the most seri - sumption Greek Orthodox Comedy Night on Saturday, her campaign’s fundraising ef - selves but to other New Yorkers mine which of the components ously mentally ill and sees they Church, 21800 Marter Road in Aug. 19 with Ellen Karis, the forts. as well. serving the ‘high functioning’ receive needed treatment. St. Clair Shores Hours: Thurs - Greek Goddess of Comedy, fea - With superior funding for her Her program, she pointed mentally ill should be retained.” Malliotakis noted that her ad - day, Aug. 17, 4-10 PM, Friday turing Preston Simpson. Tickets campaign, Malliotakis is sure to out, includes twelve points to DJ Jaffe, executive director of ministration will work with the Aug. 18, 3-11 PM, Saturday, are $35 and include mezedakia, win the primary election over address the health of mentally the mentalillnesspolicy.org orga - non- profit community to ex - Aug. 19, 11 AM - 11 PM, and cash bar-beer and wine only. her opponent if Iwachiw re - ill people before they reach the nization, congratulated Mallio - pand services for the severely Sunday, Aug. 20, 11 AM - 8 PM. Tickets at the door are $40. mains in the race. critical point. takis on her mental health pro - mentally ill. From traditional Greek home - RSVP by Aug. 15. Reserve tick - made food and pastries to live ets by phone: 508-775-3045. music and dancing, this Festival Doors open at 7 PM, show be - will be one of the best parts of gins at 8 PM. the summer. Grand raffle draw - Rep. Niki Tsongas Not Seeking Reelection ing at 7:30 PM on Sunday. More n auGuSt 19-20 information is available by WINCHESTER, VA – The Annual phone: 586-779-6111 and on - Dormition of the Virgin Mary TNH Staff than a decade, announced on Au - service and a desire to change shock in Massachusetts state line at: assumptionfestival.com. Greek Orthodox Church Win - gust 9 that she will not run for people's lives for the better. I politics, but Tsongas, 71, noted chester Greek Festival, 1700 U.S. Representative Niki reelection in 2018. also felt, as I have often said, that it was time for her to step n auGuSt 18-20 Amherst Street, will take place Tsongas, who followed her late Tsongas said in a statement that women can't win if women away from politics and spend ANCHORAGE, AK – Holy Trans - on Saturday, Aug. 19, 11 AM- 7 husband, Greek-American Paul that “ten years ago, I sought this don't run. I'm proud that my more time with her children and figuration Greek Orthodox PM, and Sunday, Aug. 20, 12 into politics, representing Greater seat because I was motivated by election marked the first time in grandchildren. Church, 2800 O’Malley Road in Noon- 7 PM. Sample our leg - Lowell, MA in Congress for more a lifelong commitment to public a quarter century that Massa - Her late husband was a Anchorage, holds its 23rd An - endary Greek cuisine and expe - chusetts sent a woman to Con - United States Senator from nual Alaska Greek Festival Aug. rience our renowned Greek mu - gress. Since that door cracked Massachusetts from 1979 to 18-20. Come enjoy the tastes, sic and dance. Truly great fun open, the Commonwealth has 1985, who had served as a U.S. smells, sights and sounds of for the entire family! A large se - elected another female member Representative from Massachu - Greece! Admission and parking lection of tasty Greek food is of Congress, our first female setts's 5th congressional district are free. Hours: Friday, Aug. 18 available. Learn more about the U.S. Senator, and in my district, (1975–1979), and in local po - and Saturday, Aug. 19, 11 AM- Holy Orthodox Christian Faith 50 percent of our state legisla - litical office. He won seven 10 PM, and Sunday, Aug. 20, 11 with informal guided tours of tors are now women, paving the states as a candidate in the 1992 AM-8 PM. More information is the Church given by our Presid - way for even more women from Democratic presidential pri - available by phone: 907-344- ing Priest, Father Panagiotis. our state to serve in political of - maries, losing the nomination 0190 and online at: akgreekfes - Questions about the Faith and fice bringing their voices to all to Bill Clinton. Paul Tsongas tival.com. traditions are welcome. Also, we value as a country.” died on January 18, 1997, at the Book Store will be open of - First elected in 2007 in a spe - age 55 of complications from CASTRO VALLEY, CA – Resur - fering religious items and read - cial election, when then-Rep. pneumonia and non-Hodgkin's rection Greek Orthodox Church, ing material of the Orthodox Marty Meehan resigned to be - lymphoma. 20104 Center Street in Castro faith. Other retail vendors will come the chancellor of the Uni - Valley, holds its annual Greek also display their various items versity of Massachusetts Lowell, Festival Friday, Aug. 18, 5-10 for purchase. Admission is free Tsongas emerged as the Demo - PM; Saturday, Aug. 19, 11 AM- and ample free parking is avail - cratic candidate after beating 10 PM; Sunday, Aug. 20, 11:30 able. More information is avail - out several other Democrats in Gr.-American AM-7 PM. Free admission, free able by phone: 540-667-1416 the primary. Among those De - parking, and free dance lessons. and online at: mocrats was now State Sen. Enjoy delicious food, children’s dormition.va.goarch.org. Eileen Donoghue. Tsongas later Restaurant fun zone, live Greek music by beat Republican Jim Ogonowski Mythos on Saturday and Sun - n auGuSt 25 in the general election. Sold Winning day, and shopping. More infor - WATERTOWN, MA – Live Greek u.S. Air FOrCE PHOTO By mArk HErliHy The decision not to seek re- mation is available by phone: Music at Andrea’s House of U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas. election in 2018 came as a 510-581-8950 and online at: Pizza, 620 Mount Auburn Street Ticket www.greekfestival.me. in Watertown, 7:30-10:30 PM. More information is available by Continued from page 1 PAWTUCKET, RI – The 90th An - phone: 617-926-8578. nual Grecian Festival at the As - the back of the ticket and keep sumption of the Virgin Mary n auGuSt 25-27 Books to add to your Reading List it in a safe place” until the win - Greek Orthodox Church, 97 FRESNO, CA – The 57th Annual ner takes it to one of the state’s Walcott Street in Pawtucket Fresno Greek Fest takes place five prize centers. Winners have takes place Aug. 18-20. We in - on the grounds of St. George The National Herald Bookstore one year from the date of the vite you to join us at our Greek Greek Orthodox Church, 2219 drawing to claim their winnings. Village Festival for authentic N. Orchard in Fresno (SW cor - The jackpot started April 28 Greek cuisine, pastries, the ner of First & Clinton) Aug. 25- and rolled over 30 times until agora and kafenio. Greek Pride 27. Enjoy fun, food and enter - the August 11 drawing. dancers perform at designated tainment. There will be over 30 NICHOLAS N PATRICIOS It was “a great day. Two years times throughout the festival. Greek Themed vendors and ex - have passed since the death of Hours: Friday, Aug. 18, 5-10 citing new additions to the Fes - Fr. Byron Papanikolaou, my PM; Saturday, Aug. 19, noon-10 tival: Cooking demonstrations, THE SACRED ARCHITECTURE friend and spiritual father, and PM; and Sunday, Aug. 20, noon- expanded kids’ play area with I believe that Fr. Byron watches 9 PM. More information is avail - water slides, Youth Olympics, OF BYZANTIUM over us from above and shares able by phone: 401-725-3127 art tours with noted art experts, our joy. We’re living unprece - and online: www.greekfesti - convenient handicap parking, ART, LITURGY AND SYMBOLISM IN EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES dented moments since this is the valri.com. shuttle service, and Greek wine first time we sold such a lucky tasting. Admission: $6 for ticket,” Andricopulos told The n auGuSt 19 Adults, Seniors (65+) & Chil - National Herald. HOLYOKE, MA – The 100th An - dren (under 12) are free! Hours: Asked if they know the iden - niversary Family Picnic and Friday, Aug. 25 – 4pm-Midnight, "Architecture takes central stage tity of the lottery winner, he said Panigiri of Holy Trinity Greek Saturday, Aug. 26 – 11am-Mid - in this intriguing take on hugely whoever it was bought a Quick Orthodox Church takes place on night, Sunday, Aug. 27 – 11AM- Pick ticket and it is impossible Saturday, Aug. 19, 11 AM- 4 PM 6PM. More information is avail - important questions around to remember who it was. at the Summit View Pavilion, able by phone: 559-233-0397 the interaction of art, “Our restaurant is also pa - 555 Northampton Street (Rt. 5) and online at: tronized by many Greeks and it in Holyoke, phone: 413-538- fresnogreekfest.com. liturgy and symbolism is possible that the winner is a in the Byzantine church. member of the Greek commu - nity. I pray from the bottom of The book brings together a mass my heart that luck has smiled on one of our own people,” said PRINTED EDITION OF THE NATIONAL HERALD of information and detail Andricopulos, who was born in vIa tHe poSt-oFFICe: to formulate new approaches Chicago. o1 month $11.00 o3 months $22.00 His late parents, Demetris o6 months $33.00 oOne year $66.00 to the classification and Sofia Andricopulos, were and understanding of Byzantine born in Kalavrita and had five vIa Home deLIverY (NY, NJ & Ct): boys, Nikos, Grigoris, Thanassis, o1 month for $14.00 o3 months for $33.00 ecclesiastical architecture Demetris, and Panagiotis. o6 months for $48.00 oOne year for $88.00 in a broad social His grandfather opened his first restaurant in 1940, where vIa Home deLIverY and religious context." his parents worked but the busi - (New england) ness struggled, and in 1970 the o 1 month for $18.00 o 3 months for $41.00 6 months for $57.00 One year for $109.00 Liz James, Professor of Art History, family decided to close the o o restaurant which was called University of Sussex, author and editor Nick's Fat Boy. oNe LINe SubSCrIptIoN o One year for $88.99 b of Light and Colour in Byzantine Art Three of Andricopulos’ broth - www.thenationalherald.com and A Companion to Byzantium ers became certified accoun - SpeCIaL paCKaGe SubSCrIptIoNS

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OUR EVERYDAY GREEK GREEK GASTRONOMY This Summer We Speak Greek with Pappou at the Kafenio A Favorite: Zucchini Fritters

By Dr. Dimitra Pontoporou Καθίστε! kaTHEEste! Have a seat! Φέρνω FErno I bring (Kolokithokeftedes) When visiting your village in Greece, Pappou’s kerasma at the Φέρε FEre bring (imperative) kafenio is a typical ritual. Pappou is always happy to invite his Η καρέκλα EE kaREkla chair By Eleni Sakellis children and grandchildren for a drink and to introduce his family Οι καρέκλες EE kaREkles chairs Place the grated zucchini in to his friends. Αυτός afTOS he, this (male) Zucchini is a versatile veg - a strainer over a bowl, sprinkle Αυτή afTEE she, this (female) etable and is the star ingredient with ½ teaspoon of salt and set DIALOGUE Είναι EEne is in many recipes from tradi - aside for 30 minutes to an hour This is a typical dialogue at a kafenio between Petros ( Π), Maria Ο εγγονός o egoNOS grandson tional, vegetarian main dishes to drain the excess water. (Μ), their pappou ( ΠΑ ) and his friend, Δημήτρης (Δ). Η εγγονή EE egoNEE granddaughter to desserts. Easy to grow in most Squeeze the excess water out of Μου ΜΟΟ my backyards, zucchini are at their the grated and drained zucchini Greek phrase Pronunciation Meaning Η Αμερική EE ameriKEE United States peak in the summer. Zucchini and place in a mixing bowl. Add ΠΑ: Καλώς kaLOS Welcome Από την Αμερική aPO TEEN ameriKEE from the United States flowers can also be enjoyed in the dill, scallions, nutmeg and τα παιδιά! TA pediA guys! Χαίρω πολύ HΕro poLEE Nice to meet you several different recipes, includ - feta, and mix together. Add the Π: Καλημέρα, παππού. kaliMEra paPOO. Good morning, grandpa. Χαίρω Hero I am glad ing stuffed or fried, or even as a beaten eggs, salt and pepper to ΠΑ: Καθίστε! kaTHEESte! Take a seat! Πολύ poLEE much, a lot colorful and edible garnish for taste, and stir. Add the cup of Γιώργο, yiOrgo Giorgo, Ο φίλος O FEElos friend other dishes. The flowers are flour and stir until small patties φέρε καρέκλες. FEre kaREkles. bring some chairs. Τι κάνετε; TEE KAnete? How do you do? considered a delicacy and can can be formed that are not too Δ: Καλημέρα, παιδιά. kaliMera pediA. Good morning, guys. Το καφενείο TO kafeNEEo traditional Greek café be pricey to buy in most markets wet. Add additional flour if the ΠΑ: Δημήτρη, αυτός είναι diMEEtri, afTOS EEne Dimitri, this is Τι TEE what because their shelf life is almost mixture is too wet. Form into ο εγγονός μου o egoNOS moo my grand son Θα THE will (future) non-existent. Plant your own small patties. Heat the olive oil από την Αμερική. aPO TEEn ameriKEE. from the United States. Σε, σας SE, SAS you (singular, plural) and you’ll have plenty of the in a skillet over medium high Δ: Χαίρω πολύ! HEro poLEE! Nice to meet you! Θα σε/σας κεράσω THA SE/SAS keRAso I will buy you a drink flowers to cook and heat and fry the zucchini frit - Π: Πέτρος. PEtros. Petros. Εγώ θέλω eYO THElo I want share with your friends ters until golden brown on ΠΑ: Αυτή είναι afTEE EEne This is Ένα Ena one (masculine grammatical gender) and family. Make sure both sides. Serve with η εγγονή μου EE egoNEE moo my grand daughter Μία MEEa one (female) to shake out any bees skordalia, tzatziki, από την Αμερική. aPO TEEn ameriKEE. from the United States. Η πορτοκαλάδα EE portokaLAda orange juice that might be en - and/or tahini Μ: Μαρία. maREEa. Maria. Ο φραπές O fraPES Greek ice coffee joying the flowers sauce. ΠΑ: Αυτός είναι afTOs EEne He is first since the ο φίλος μου, O FEElos moo my friend MAIN PHRASES zucchini plants ο Δημήτρης. O diMEEtris. Dimitris. Here are common phrases during kafenio dialogues. Try to need bees for polli - Μ: Τι κάνετε; TEE KAnete? How do you do? match the phrases in English with their translation in Greek: ΠΑ: Τι θα σας κεράσω; TEE THA SAS keRAso? What shall I offer you? Π: Εγώ θέλω eYO THElo I want 1. Καλώς τα παιδιά. 1. He is my friend. μία πορτοκαλάδα. MEEa portokaLAda orange juice. 2. Χαίρω πολύ. 2. What shall I offer you? Μ: Εγώ θέλω eYO THElo I want 3. Τι κάνετε; 3. He is my grandson. ένα φραπέ. ENa fraPE. a frappe. 4. Τι θα σας κεράσω; 4. He is my grandpa. 5. Αυτός είναι ο εγγονός μου. 5. Welcome, guys. When we are introduced to someone, we say either χαίρω πολύ 6. Αυτή είναι η εγγονή μου. 6. I will buy you some orange (= nice to meet you ) or τι κάνετε; (= how do you do? ). The exact juice. translation of χαίρω πολύ would be I am very glad. 7. Αυτός είναι ο παππούς μου. 7. Nice to meet you. 8. Αυτός είναι ο φίλος μου. 8. I will buy you a frappe. BASIC VOCABULARY 9. Θα σε κεράσω μία πορτοκαλάδα. 9. How do you do? Greek word Pronunciation Meaning 10. Θα σε κεράσω ένα φραπέ. 10. She is my granddaughter. Καλημέρα kaliMEra good morning Καλώς kaLOS well, welcome PRONUNCIATION KEY Το παιδί TO peDEE child, kid i (idiom), ee (needle), e (energy), o (organism), oo (boot), y Τα παιδιά TA pediA children, kids, guys (yes), h (helium), th (theory), d (the). The capitalized syllables Ο παππούς O papoose grandpa are accented.

LITERARY REVIEW

Philippas’ New Book on Finance Education for Kids nation. When selecting zucchini, Zucchini with choose firm, unblemished ones Mushrooms By Eleni Sakellis ing it to life values and actions about 8 inches in length or of social significance and contri - smaller since the smaller ones The basic knowledge of fi - bution, which develop emotional have soft, immature seeds and • 3-4 medium-sized zucchini nance is an important tool for intelligence and smooth social - the larger ones, some as big as • 1 package (8oz.) mushrooms children everywhere to grow into ization of children. baseball bats, can be tough and of your choice financially responsible adults. Bornozi, transferring the con - fibrous. Low in calories and with • 2-4 tablespoons Greek extra Professor of Finance at Univer - sequences for older adults, talked good amounts of folate, potas - virgin olive oil sity of Piraeus and President of about the gravity of the relation - sium, and vitamin A, zucchini is • 1 medium onion, chopped the Hellenic Financial Literacy ship between retirement literacy a popular vegetable around the • 1/2 teaspoon salt Institute Nikolaos Philippas has and financial prosperity. Retire - world. The variety most familiar • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground written a new book for children ment illiteracy is defined as the to the average person was culti - pepper entitled Planning for Our Future! inability to prepare and under - vated in northern Italy though • 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano published by Papadopoulos Pub - stand the financial, investment, the plant itself originated in the • A pinch of red pepper flakes lishing will help children, parents and insurance obligations and Americas like all members of the (optional) and teachers tackle the finance needs faced by the citizen during squash family. The name zuc - • 2 tablespoons freshly basics. The publication and the his retirement. This is of partic - chini is of Italian origin, based squeezed lemon juice free distribution of the book are ular importance for both finan - on the word for pumpkin. Ital - (optional) supported by Interamerican in cial security and financial pros - ian immigrants most likely the series of relevant corporate Capital link CSrinGreece perity, since the post-retirement brought the vegetable to the Rinse the zucchini and slice responsibility initiatives for the Yannis Rountos, Olga Bornozi, age is now particularly high. She United States in the 1920s and into 1/2 inch rounds, then set development of financial educa - Gina Thanopoulou, Yannis also pointed out that retirement began cultivating it in Califor - aside until ready to use. Clean tion. The book, available in Perlepes, Markos Fran - illiteracy leads to the inability to nia. Yellow summer squash is the mushrooms, brushing off Greek, is a standard tool for in - goulopoulos, and Prof. Niko - prepare - from youth - for the also plentiful this time of year any dirt. White button mush - troducing economic concepts to laos Philippas, the author of needs a person faces after the and can be enjoyed alongside rooms, baby bella (small porto - young people. A presentation for the new book at the presenta - end of his working life. the green zucchini as a colorful bello) mushrooms or a mixture Planning for Our Future was tion in Athens. Perlepes supported the neces - addition. In traditional Greek of both work well in this dish. held on July 27 at the Electra sity of “economic programming” cuisine, zucchini are often fried Slice the mushrooms. In a large Metropolis Athens hotel. tors such as the speed of devel - from the early school age, point - or featured in vegetarian dishes sauté pan or skillet with a cover, In the presentation, Prof. opments brought about by finan - ing to the expansion of informa - stewed with tomatoes and other heat the olive oil until it shim - Philippas, Gina Thanopoulou- cial innovation, individual and tion to parents and teachers and vegetables. mers over medium high heat. Consultant-Educational Psychol - group behaviors illusion of the media’s role and responsibil - Add the chopped onion and ogist from Harvard University, knowledge, herd behavior, etc., ity. “Economic education is a key sauté until translucent. Add the Olga Bornozi- Managing Director contribute to the problem. factor in the development of crit - Zucchini Fritters sliced mushrooms and allow of Capital Link Inc., Yannis Per - In his book, Prof. Philippas il - of financially informed and re - ical thinking, as mathematics (Kolokithokeftedes) them to cook down until their lepes- General Manager of the luminates, in a simple and com - sponsible citizens in order to was once,” he pointed out, ob - water is released and they begin Naftemporiki newspaper, and prehensible way for children, make the best decisions on their serving that “when citizens are to lightly brown. Add the sliced Markos Fragoulopoulos- Vice-Di - concepts such as the budget and financial issues,” said the author, prosperous with broad economic • 3 cups grated zucchini zucchini, salt, pepper, oregano, rector of Sales and Marketing of its usefulness, effective revenue- proposing the introduction of rel - consciousness, including taxes, • 1/3 cup dill, chopped red pepper flakes, if using, and Interamerican, discussed the cost planning, financial goals and evant courses in primary and sec - the state prospers.” • 8 scallions, white and light sauté for 2-3 minutes. Reduce phenomenon of financial igno - how they are achieved, and the ondary education with equal For Interamerican, as green parts finely chopped heat to medium, cover the pan, rance and its consequences, difference between goods and learning opportunities for all Fragoulopoulos noted, fighting • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg and allow to simmer, stirring oc - which affect individual and so - services. Easy answers and inter - children. The professor under - financial ignorance through the • 2 cups crumbled feta casionally until the zucchini is cial well-being. The speakers pretations are supported by ex - lined the importance of digital support of books like Planning • 4 large eggs, beaten tender but not mushy. Drizzle pointed out, among the most se - amples from children's everyday technology in financial educa - for Our Future! is part of its • 1 cup flour (plus more as with additional olive oil, and a rious reasons for the inability to lives with expressive illustration tion, as well as the need of par - broader strategy for creating and needed) squeeze of fresh lemon juice, if understand the financial system by Natalia Kapatsoulia. ents’ parallel training. giving value to society. Inter - • Greek sea salt desired, before serving. Makes and controlling money manage - “The long-term goal of the Thanopoulou focused on the american also sponsored Philip - • Freshly ground pepper a great side dish or serve with ment, the relative gap in com - Hellenic Financial Literacy Insti - psychological and the moral ex - pas’ first book for younger chil - • 4 tablespoons Greek extra your favorite pasta as a pulsory education, as well as fac - tute is to create a new generation tension of financial literacy, link - dren about saving money. virgin olive oil vegan/vegetarian main course.

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Senior Meetings

By Phyllis (Kiki) Sembos “I’m sure this group will want disabled for work since then.” looked up, explaining, “That Special to The National Herald dues, too. All clubs and associa - It was a well known fact that means you have to withdraw tions have to thrive on payments Yiannis shot himself in the foot from the Marousanakislaki so - Yiannis came into Dixon’s, of some kind from their mem - when in basic training in the ciety, forever.” Yiannis paled. armed with a pamphlet and a bers, Yiannis,” John informed army. Whether it was an acci - “What? That’s discrimination! booklet that he showed the guys him. Shrugging, Yiannis asked, dent or a ploy to get out of being That’s not right! Isn’t there a law sitting round the table that Sun - “But, this one offers something shipped to Korea remained a that says...” day. “What’s it for?” asked Di - more. But, I can’t understand mystery. Unperturbed, Yiannis “That’s their law, Yiannis,” mos, flipping open the booklet. why they expect dues when of - blinked repeatedly, then asked, shrugged Dimos. “Take it or “There’s an application inside fer so many discounts?” After a “Anything else?” Dimos, fully leave it!” Yiannis fell into a deep that I need to fill out. It’s for se - moment’s thought, he said, aware that Yiannis was not a silence, his thoughts mulling nior citizens membership.” The “Maybe I could hand in some of good candidate for any associa - over what Dimos revealed. application was torn out and the discounts in exchange for trying to choose one.” Then, he George reminded, “You’re over tion, being uncooperative, re - Then, lifting his head and snap - placed on the table. “Yiannis, dues. In fact, I’ll bring that up said, “Write this one down. I weight. You have trouble with fusing to follow rules, became ping his fingers, he said, “Forget you have to attend their meet - at one of the meetings.” George have never gotten a parking or your feet and you’re always obnoxious when he didn’t agree about that association! I’ve got ings. You already go to your grinned. “That should make you moving violation ticket. My complaining about your back – with something, tried to find a a better idea. I’m going to create Marousanakislaki meetings popular at the meetings.” Taking record as driver is immaculate!” for starters.” “Everybody’s got way to dissuade him from join - my own association? I’ll call it twice a month. Can you attend in a deep breath, Dimos gave Confused, John said, “But, those problems, Mr. Atlas. Mine ing. He knew that the others ‘Yiannis’ Great Society’. I could more meetings?” “I’ll find the the application a quick glance. you never drove a car or ever are minor compared with ...ah, shared his outlook. Reviewing get a few members, promise a time. There are advantages in “Asks here, ‘what one qualifica - had a driver’s license.” Yiannis what others have.” Yiannis the questionnaire carefully, he good time – play cards in the joining this one. They offer big tion do you have that you are waved his hand. “That’s not im - waved his hand about. Turning found one that might do the church hall, have bingo games discounts at certain eating especially proud of and wish to portant! What’s important is back to Dimos, ”What else does trick with a little adjustment to and – stuff. The women can places, clothing stores and they tell us about?” A lengthy time that I’m telling the truth on that it ask?” Dimos turned the page. the wordage. Assuming a seri - bring in goodies. No applica - send repairmen and painters at of silence followed. George, im - one. What else?” “Let’s see. What was your occu - ous expression, he said, “Yian - tions, either. I know I can count great discounts to your home. patient, asked, “We can under - Looking down the list, Dimos pation when employed?” nis, it says here that in joining on you guys – for starters.” They There are no advantages in my stand the delay, Yiannis. It’s a read, “What are your medical All heads turned toward the this association you must show nodded simultaneously, humor - meetings – except the treasurer tough question! Is there any - issues? Please list them below.” chronically unemployed Yiannis. complete loyalty by relinquish - ing him. Then, leaning back, hounding me for dues – that I thing you’re proud of, Yiannis?” Grimacing, Yiannis instantly With pride, he announced, ing all ties with other clubs or looking speculatively, he an - have to get around to paying – His head jerking around, Yiannis replied, “What medical issues? “write that I was wounded when societies – especially, those with nounced, “Dues payable imme - one day.” sputtered, “There’s plenty! I’m Nothing wrong with me.” I was in the army and became foreign connotations.” He diately.” 6 OBITUARIES/CLASSIFIEDS/ GREECE THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 19-25, 2017 CLASSIFIEDS Greek Vacation Turns to Tragedy for Young Couple Legal Notice/Liquor License LeGaL NotICe "Notice is hereby given that a license, Notice of formation of PERSONS PRO - TNH Staff her 23-year-old sister Valerie, number 1302827 for an Eating Beer has DUCTIONS, LLC. ( DOM . LLC ). Articles of according to journaldemon - been applied for by the undersigned* to sell Organization filed with the Secretary of Beer at the Eating Place under the Alcoholic State of New York (SSNY) 05/02/2017 . MONTREAL , CANADA – A va - treal.com. Beverage Control Law located at 1617 Ori - Location King County. 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SSNY has been designated as process and shall mail to: 230 Park Ave. agent of the LLC upon whom process against it Ste. 1000, New York , NY 10169. Purpose: Christodoulou, her close friend. may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of Any lawful activity. He said, “Arleta was a person worked with many well-known process to: Mr. Steven Russell, 1578 E 29th 27 5892/18796 who always remembered her Greek composers including Street, #2, Brooklyn, NY 11229. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. LeGaL NotICe teachers and what they taught Manos Hatzidakis, Spanos, and her. I met her in 1986, she had Mikis Theodorakis. Success fol - 275942/20490 Notice of formation of Bulldog LeGaL NotICe Distribution, LLC. Articles of no reason to give any attention lowed with songs written by Organization filed with the Secretary of to a child in elementary school, be cremated). There, outside the Penny Xenakis, and Kristi Lakis Papadopoulos and lyrics State of New York (SSNY) on 6/6/11. and the first thing she told me, cemetery, another touching Stassinopoulou, the writer by Marianina Kriezi. In 1997 her Notice of Formation of ACADIA Formed in MD on 2/18/2009. Office loca - PROFESSIONAL, LLC. Articles of the Orga - tion: Bronx County. SSNY is designated as and repeated it over and over, “brushstroke” was added. Zyranna Zateli, the poet and book, Apo Pou Pane Yia tin nization were filed with the Secretary of agent of the LLC upon whom process was that sometimes our family The singer Giota Gianna said lyricist Manos Eleftheriou, the Anixi? (Where do they Go to State of New York (SSNY) on 07/10/17. Of - against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy to: 4343 De Reimer Ave, Bronx, NY is not the one written on our the last goodbye to the famous actor Spiros Bibilas, the presi - Get to Spring?) was released fice location: Nassau County. LLC formed in papers.” singer with her harmonica. dent of “To Potami" political and included her own illustra - NJ on 04/11/17. SSNY has been designated 10466. MD address of LLC: 10610 Rhode as agent of the LLC upon whom process Island Ave, Ste 301, Beltsville, MD 20705. “Our culture has your brush - When asked, she explained that party Stavros Theodorakis, the tions. Purpose: any lawful purpose. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a 27 5897/20457 strokes on its canvas. Your col - two years ago, when Arleta had presenter Alexis Kostalas and On February 11, 2008, just copy of process to: The LLC, 55 leagues, singers, composers, visited her home to sing, she the criminologist Alexandros moments before a performance Headquarters Plaza, Morristown, NJ 07960. Certificate of Formation on file with NJ lyricists, and our people are say - had asked her next time to bring Lykourezos. 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He was joined by Pavlos A fourth day that damaged taking a huge toll on the coun - Kolokotsas, the Mayor of the several dozen homes. try. Ionian island of Zakynthos, a TSIPRAS SURVEYS popular tourist destination, who THE SCENE said a number of simultaneous recorded from Aug. 13-4, the With rivals snipping that his fires there were deliberately set, worst near Athens, in the Pelo - government responded too without explaining why. ponnese, in Zakynthos and its slowly to dozens of fires that There were “clear indications Ionian neighbor Kefalonia. spread across the country, that fires were caused by an or - The General Secretariat for Tsipras on Aug. 16 flew over the ganized campaign of arson,” the Civil Protection on Aug. 14 de - scene of one of the worst, north - mayor said, without giving any clared Zakynthos to be in a State east of the capital city. details. of Emergency over the series of Tsipras, who was on holiday That came after Kontonis fires. Kolokotsas asked for the while firefighters were battling said: “we had 15 fronts at the declaration to last six months the blaze there for three days, same time on Zakynthos. If this and told the Athens News and more than a week at other is not an organized plan of ar - Agency that the island had been hot spots, came under blistering son, then what is?” Kathimerini targeted by arsonists, noting criticism for his absence before said. that on Aug. 15 alone 12 fires heading off on a military heli - Some 90 forest fires were were burning simultaneously. copter to survey the blaze scene. Kontonis said that the multi - The blaze, which started in ple fronts on Zakynthos were the coastal holiday resort of “planned” to create social disar - Kalamos on August 13, was ray, while Greece’s fire service brought under control only on If UN Brokers Cyprus Unity Talks, Anastasiades said there were “well-founded the15th, but it required the ef - suspicions of foul play.” forts of more than 300 firefight - Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ ers, five water-dropping aircraft TNH Staff 27 months, with steadfast dedi - rameters,” he said, adding that exclusive economic zone (EEZ) office scrambled to play down and six helicopters while he was cation, commitment and creativ - Ankara will continue efforts to but the United States, appar - the idea of conspiracy theories on vacation. NICOSIA – With the collapse ity, Mr. Eide helped the two lead - find a resolution “under differ - ently trying to balance interests that were also mocked by the There were no reports of in - of negotiations aimed at reuni - ers make unprecedented ent parameters,” which put a between Greece, Turkey and major rival New Democracy juries in the fire, but at least 20 fying Cyprus seeming to signal progress towards reaching a vi - stop to hopes of reunification. Cyprus, which is marginal in its Conservatives even as damage homes have been damaged. The an end to the process for now, able and sustainable solution to Greece’s Minister of Foreign interests, denied it. from fires grew, including near area has been declared a State President Nicos Anastasiades the decades old dispute,” UN Affairs Nikos Kotzias recently Turkey said it will reserve Athens where 20 homes were of Emergency. said he’d consider returning but spokesman Farhan Haq said in a told EURACTIV in an interview waters off Cyprus’ EEZ for a mil - damaged and north of the city Officials ordered an urgent only if talks are conducted statement, according to Reuters. that Turkey has not identified itary exercise on Aug. 17, coin - in the popular beach area of investigation into the fires on within boundaries set by the Anastasiades said Eide fa - what it means when it says pa - ciding with plans by Turkish Kalamos, a heavily-wooded area Zakynthos, some 66 which have United Nations. vored Turkey, but showed a will - rameters outside the UN. President Recep Tayyip Erdo - that was seared. broken out since May, mostly in His head-to-head with Turk - ingness to resume but only “I think that any solution to gan, who refuses to recognize It is common in Greece for rural sites with brush, the busi - ish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Ak - within parameters set by UN the Cyprus problem must be Cyprus and bars its ships and fires to be deliberately set so ness newspaper Naftemporiki inci broke down in July at the Secretary-General Antonio within the framework of the UN planes at the same time he that developers can then build said. Swiss resort of Crans-Montana Guterres, the news site EURAC - and more generally, within the wants to get Turkey into the EU on the razed land because A total of 53 wildfires broke after Turkey said it wouldn’t TIV reported. Guterres had in - framework of international law. – of which Cyprus is a member there’s no law against building out in Greece on Aug. 12-13, in - agree to remove its 35,000- tervened in the Swiss talks but There can be no solution to the – sent an energy research vessel on burned forests. cluding on a beach resort near strong standing army or the also failed. Cyprus problem by imposing into Cypriot waters where inter - New Democracy leader Kyri - Athens. Authorities earlier shut right to militarily intervene. Anastasiades also said Turkey mechanisms and procedures national companies have been akos Mitsotakis tweeted it was down part of a local road net - That stopped the talks dead didn’t want to find a solution that are outside the interna - licensed to drill. time for “decisive and coordi - work near Athens as a fire in their tracks and also saw UN within the UN framework tional context,” Kotzias said. Turkey doesn’t recognize nated action and not conspiracy spread in several directions, and Special Envoy Espen Barth Eide and “prefers to act outside Just as the British Royal Navy Cyprus’ right to drill for energy theories,” and that SYRIZA was they evacuated two children’s throw in the towel to return to the UN parameters,” the report reportedly canceled a scheduled and demanded a share of any trying to shift attention away campgrounds. his native Norway to run for of - added. military drill near the Greek is - potentially lucrative finds. from the real causes of fires, fice, the latest in a long line of Turkish Foreign Minister land of Karpathos, close to the That ended negotiations and which were not given. (Material from the Associated diplomats who’ve failed to make Mevlut Çavu şoğlu said last Turkish coast, Turkey said it Erdogan has stepped up provo - Democratic Alignment, the Press was used in this report) progress since Turkey unlaw - month that the failure of the would conduct naval exercises cations against Cyprus, as well fully invaded in 1974 and as it talks showed the “impossibility off the coast of Cyprus. as Greece, which, along with the occupies the northern third of of a solution within the parame - In late July, Turkey issued a United Kingdom, is a guarantor the island. ters of the UN Good Offices Mis - NAVTEX announcing an Ameri - of security for the divided is - Eide was lauded by the UN sion. There is no meaning left can military vessel would con - land, which seems set for per - The Last Front Page of despite his failure. “Over the last in continuing within these pa - duct activities within Cyprus’s manent partition. Greek Newspaper Ta Nea

Weary of ANEL, SYRIZA’s Reach to PASOK Rejected TNH Staff Excerpts from Ta Nea’s final front page article follow: ATHENS – The end of an era has “After a long and painful or - TNH Staff Church is a kind of Taliban-like ternational creditors but now winning the 2009 elections, is come for the newspapers Ta Nea deal, the Lambrakis Press Orga - authority. that’s behind them the Leftists seeking partners of its own, in - and To Vima, at least as we knew nization is turning the page to ATHENS – The former PASOK Tsipras, and other members are returning to their roots in cluding the centrist and fast-fad - them, since from now on they move as quickly as possible into Socialist party, now Democratic of SYRIZA, are atheists but the backing anarchists and going af - ing To Potami, in creating a formally belong to the group a new era with certainty and con - Alignment, has reportedly Premier has stopped short of his ter Capitalist symbols they moderate center-left front. owned by businessman Vangelis fidence. The signing of the trans - turned down an overture from campaign suggestions he would backed. Earlier, Kammenos defended Marinakis who will reopen them fer contracts by the Special Man - the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA seek separation of Church and That led Merchant Marine staying in a coalition with in the near future. agement to the new company to replace the far-right Indepen - State and indeed has even ceded Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis SYRIZA and said while he’s Ta Nea’s final issue was pub - Evangelos Marinakis ends a dent Greeks (ANEL) in a coali - authority to the Church in set - to call on the former PASOK to strongly opposed to the Leftists’ lished on August 10, and both whole circle of life that has left tion. ting the curricula for religion join ranks with SYRIZA and form policies - except for imposing newspapers’ websites were inac - an indelible mark on the history ANEL, like SYRIZA, is pro- classes in schools and prohibit - a far-left center-left alliance more austerity - that he’d keep tive as of August 9. of publishing. austerity but is marginal, giving ing the teaching of any religion against the major rival New giving Tsipras his votes. Other - Ta Nea’s final front page high - “The new era for Ta Nea, To its nine seats in Parliament so other than Greek Orthodoxy. Democracy Conservatives, with wise, he would be out of power. lighted the controversy between Vima, and the other media of the that the government can have a Even though Kammenos said polls showing Tsipras has fallen What cranked Kammenos up Panos Kammenos and Nikos organization will begin within a scant three-seat majority. he would have his tiny party to about 10 percent support. were the comments from Vout - Voutsis. few days so that it can move But the party of Defense Min - continue to vote for whatever PASOK had served New sis, who told SKAI TV that “Or - For months, the Lambrakis safely into the future. This nec - ister Panos Kammenos, elevated Tsipras tells him to do, the news - Democracy in a previous pro- thodoxy concerns 90 percent of Press Group (LPG) was not the essary sabbatical will allow us to after he agreed to the alliance paper Kathimerini said some austerity coalition. “The (PA - the population” and that Greece owner of the two newspapers solve practical and technical is - between the far-left and far- SYRIZA stalwarts and far-lefties SOK) party that was founded by is “not a fundamentalist Ortho - and the workers kept up the pub - sues that are absolutely essential. right, has a strong nationalist, are weary of his shenanigans Andreas Papandreou cannot be - dox state,” a swipe at ANEL’s lications though they remained “A great deal of recognition pro-NATO, pro-American, and provocations and want him come a crutch of the harsh ne - strong religious stance. unpaid. Some expect to be rein - and appreciation is due for those strongly religious stance that is out. oliberal policies of (New Democ - “In Greece, Orthodoxy con - stated. who have raised LPG up and ideologically opposite SYRIZA, SYRIZA party secretary racy leader) Kyriakos cerns 90 percent of the popula - The new management is re - there are many, but above all, the a motley collection of various Panayiotis Rigas said that a “line Mitsotakis,” Kouroublis said, tion… We are a modern state. portedly expected to pay its earn - honor belongs to the thousands Communists and anarchist and must be drawn” and that every - adding that the only choice for We are not a fundamentalist Or - ings by the end of October. Also, of our readers who supported us terrorist sympathizers. one must decide on which side PASOK is to “form a radical anti- thodox state, nor the Taliban of employees will receive as com - all this time. We look forward Kammenos, who is allowed of the line they will stand, a di - neoliberal front in cooperation the Orthodox,” Voutsis added. pensation a percentage of the as - with optimism to the new era to speak out and even vote rect inference that Kammenos, with SYRIZA.” Kammenos snapped that, sets that were liquidated. that will soon begin its long jour - against the government when it besides voting the SYRIZA party That offer was turned down “We are not the Taliban of the The Union of Newspaper ney into the future.” has enough votes from rival par - line in betrayal of ANEL’s alleged as Democratic Alignment, with Orthodox,” but said Voutsis was Journalists of Athens in its an - ties on minor issues, has stepped principles, needs to shut up. leader Fofi Gennimata facing a only expressing a personal opin - nouncement calls on the new up his attack on some SYRIZA Tsipras needed ANEL to vote leadership challenge as she’s ion and not that of SYRIZA owner to commit to ensuring the positions though and went after for austerity measures the last failed to gain popular support without explaining why then he jobs of all the employees who Parliament Speaker Nikos Vout - two years that SYRIZA had op - for the party which, as PASOK, was so upset about it if the have kept the LPG publications this Week in Greek History sis for suggesting the Orthodox posed before surrendering to in - got 44 percent of the vote in words carried no weight. open these months, as well as the immediate payment of their ac - Our weekly column “This week crued income. They have re - in Greek History” will not be quested a meeting with the new published this week due to owners so that the Board of Di - technical reasons. it will appear New FYROM Team Eyes End to Name Game with Greece rectors of the Union is informed again next week. in detail of their plans.

TNH Staff 17 handball team took to the line of his nationalist predeces - FYROM’s Foreign Minister court with uniforms bearing the sors, AFP noted. Nikola Dimitrov was in Athens A new government in the name Macedonia, causing its “With a FYROM reference we in mid-June and Greek counter - Former Yugoslav Republic (FY - Greek opponents to walk off and can become a member of part Nikos Kotzias is going to Greece’s Legions of Smokers ROM) – unlike its hardline, forfeit. NATO,” Zaev said on a visit to Skopje later this month. bombastic predecessors – is qui - FYROM also claims Alexan - the NATO headquarters in Brus - There is a “certain mobiliza - etly planning a strategy to end der the Great and named its air - sels, seeming willing to give up tion,” a Greek diplomatic source Littering Beaches with Butts a 26-year-long dispute over its port Skopje after him and built the insistence his country be ad - told AFP, noting “some signs” of official name with Greece. a giant statue, poking its nose mitted as Macedonia, the name good will in Skopje, but cau - The two countries have been at Greece and creating a sore the news agency along with oth - tioned against any break - TNH Staff to any mass movement to follow at loggerheads since 1991, spot that remains along with ers, uses, further irritating throughs. the law or put them where they when the breakup of Yugoslavia claims on Greece’s second- Greece. A top official in Zaev’s SDSM ATHENS – There are too many won’t hurt anyone. led to creation of new states, in - largest city of Thessaloniki and In everyday conversation, party, who also asked not to be butts on Greek beaches. Not “Dear smokers, if you cannot cluding FYROM – the name maps showing it belongs to FY - Greeks usually refer to the named, warned that Greece those in bikinis or Speedos, but avoid smoking, at least make agreed with Greece at that time ROM. neighboring country as “could keep the same position the cigarettes they leave behind sure that you put your butts into as a temporary solution, even Greeks have cited concerns “Skopje,” the name of its capital for two centuries. We should after smoking, the Greek Cancer some kind of makeshift ash - though it included the word about historical appropriation – city. find a solution to deblock the Society said, pleading for the tray… and then dispose of them “Macedonia” – the name of an both sides, for example, claim Greece’s migration minister process of integration with residue to be properly disposed in a garbage bin,” the society abutting Northern Greek Alexander the Great as their Yiannis Mouzalas last year faced NATO and the EU”. of. asked nicely. province. own – and that the name Mace - calls to resign after referring to The official warned it would The group said 22 billion cig - According to estimates by Greece, which otherwise en - donia implies a broader territo - the country as “Macedonia” in - be necessary to reach a political arette butts are thrown on conservation groups, cigarette joys normal relations and trade rial claim. stead of “FYROM” during a tele - “consensus” and to back up any streets and beaches everywhere butts account for nearly 40 per - with FYROM, has nevertheless Athens and the EU recognize vision interview about the mi - decision with a referendum. in an orgy of tobacco litter as cent of the garbage removed blocked its neighbor’s entry the small landlocked country by grant crisis and was forced to Possibilities include Northern Greece has largely given up try - from beaches. hopes for the European Union its provisional name, the former quickly apologize. Macedonia, New Macedonia or ing to enforce the No Smoking The society also called on the and NATO over the logjam. Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Zaev has spoken on the even “Vardarska” after a river laws. Deputy Health Minister government and local authori - Now, said the Agence France (FYROM), under which it was phone to Greek Prime Minister that runs through the country. Pavlos Polakis proved that point ties to launch awareness cam - Presse news agency in a report also admitted to the United Na - Alexis Tsipras, whose ruling Greek governments have been when, in violation of the unen - paigns so that swimmers take on FYROM’s new government tions. Radical Left SYRIZA party iron - trying furiously to end the dis - forced law, he lit up during a greater care of the country’s talking with its Greek counter - FYROM has long insisted this ically has anti-nationalist ele - pute that began after the admin - No Smoking Day event and no beaches but it wasn’t explained parts, there seems to be a new designation was only provi - ments so strong it’s not even istration of New Democracy in one told him to put it out. how, if laws with tough penal - determination to end the im - sional, but in June, new Social seeking return of the Parthenon 1991, agreed to FYROM – and The society said the butts are ties aren’t working, why asking passe, despite a recent setback Democratic Prime Minister Zo - Marbles from the British Mu - the word Macedonia. a risk to public health and the for smokers to comply would when FYROM’s women’s under- ran Zaev seemed to relax the seum. environment, which hasn’t led work. 8 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 19-25, 2017

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we categorically condemn. hardest job in the world, partic - G The rest of it – and there is a lot to digest – is subject to de - gree and debate. Did President Trump do enough to condemn neo-Nazis and the KKK? He did denounce them by name, but COMMENTARY only after initially – and subsequently – blaming “many sides.” Did that mean he gave white supremacists a pass, or did he think a blanket statement anathematizing hate and violence was sufficient and being more specific was unnecessary? Lessons of Slavery Lost on Today’s Political Mudslingers Also, is there indeed an “emboldening” of white racists be - cause of rhetoric Trump used on the campaign trail? To that point, this page has often been critical of Trump – as candidate Bashing the incumbent presi - considering that all for a while – and it out loud.” and president – largely for his tone. We did not endorse him for dent of the United States is an but the most un - this column blasted Perhaps saddest of all and president, but when he won, we hoped that the presidency awful practice which, sadly, is yielding Trump sup - him for it over the most amazing is that some who would bring out the best in him. consistent enough to qualify as porter would ac - years – but he has read this will continue to make The president of the United States – no matter who he or an American tradition. Granted, knowledge that the since reversed him - the case for condemning one of she might be – is unquestionably the most powerful person in it is not nearly as horrific as the president’s delivery self, as has the these presidents, but not the oth - the nation if not because of constitutional authority then by practice of slavery which, thank - could stand some idea’s originator, ers, in some way rationalizing virtue of sheer name recognition. Far too many Americans don’t fully, was eradicated from Amer - improvement. But Greek-American their hateful bashing. We can know their members of Congress by name or by face. But they ican society over 150 years ago. the explanation falls Andy Martin – also only hope, though, that most all know Trump, Obama, Bush, etc. Because of an immensely Yet, slavery and political mud - apart when we con - interviewed by this who read will realize – if they do high profile, the president has a great deal of influence. His slinging are linked insofar as the sider that for almost columnist for this not already – the inconsistency, words matter a great deal. lessons of the former have been the entirety of his newspaper. as well as the link to notions Accordingly, President Trump needs to put that influence to lost on far too many Americans eight years in office by CoNStaNtINoS e. Just when we about slavery. good use by overtly opposing racism even more. Particularly today, leading to their continued (the exception was SCaroS thought disrespect The institution of slavery was because there are large pockets of the American population practice of the latter. a short post-9/11 for the presidency wrong, period, in any and all who believe that either he is a racist himself, or that he was If you are reading this column honeymoon, when Special to had reached an all- cases. As is the practice of presi - elected largely on the backs of racists, and is therefore beholden – no matter who you are – your almost the whole The National Herald time high in the dent-bashing. There is nothing to them and needs their support, especially if he runs again in ancestors at one point in time country stood with case of Bush, it was Bush, Obama, or Trump could 2020. When he categorically condemned white supremacists were slaves. Also, at one time him), President Bush was called eclipsed by the haters’ treatment have said to appease the haters, on August 14, it was a good start. We hope to see more of that. they were slaveowners. Yes, every name in the book by these of Obama. And now, the level of because they would have found In fairness, however, we would be remiss not to point out that’s right, no matter who you same haters – even though Bush disrespect has shattered all of the something else wrong with it. that his predecessor, Barack Obama, whose tone was above re - are and from where your people never had a tone problem. He modern records in the case of Finally, it is important to make proach, was not able to temper the flames of racial tensions ei - hail. was the quintessential gentle - Trump. the distinction between valid, sin - ther. That is because the words of a president – any president – You see, slavery is almost as man. Respectful to the press, po - A very recent example is the cere criticism of a president – alone, are not going to eradicate racism. To hate another person old as the human race itself. Typ - lite to his critics as well as his president’s comments following which is not only acceptable, but – another one of God’s children – because of skin color, nation - ically, one group of people would supporters, and often railing violence in Charlottesville, VA, is also healthy in a free society – ality, or other equally illogical reason is the epitome of ignorance. enslave another, and at some between white supremacy pro - and attacks based on a predeter - And the best cure for ignorance is education. point the slaves would find a way testers and counterprotesters. mined goal to destroy a presi - We have come a long way in this country in terms of com - to gain their independence. Hav - If you are reading this The president rightfully con - dent’s image. There is a big dif - batting racism, most notably with the abolition of slavery, pas - ing been victims of that horrible column – no matter who demned all hatred, and blamed ference between criticizing sage of the Civil Rights Act, and election of the first president practice, you’d think the newly you are – your ancestors “many sides” for the violence. President So-and-So in a specific of African-American heritage. Not coincidentally, the more ed - freed slaves would condemn Not good enough, insisted the instance, and the practice of ucated our nation became, the more enlightened it grew, and slavery once and for all, right? at one point in time were haters. He should have made a wanting to destroy that president learned to accept and even embrace others who looked “differ - Not so. In many cases, what they slaves. Also, at one time point of specifically singling out politically, and waking up every ent.” chose to do instead was to en - neo-Nazism and White Su - day trying to jam square current Only a sliver of Americans would consider themselves white slave their former owners. They they were slaveowners. premacy for condemnation. events into a round hole in order supremacists. So, instead of the rest of us pointing fingers at turned the tables on them; their If many of Trump’s defenders to make that happen. one another, let us unite insofar as we are not among them, former owners were now their against oppression of others think this type of president-bash - One of the reasons America is and let us focus on curing future generations of the racism dis - slaves, and they were the own - based on race, religion, and na - ing seems familiar, they can just the most decent superpower ever ease, by way of a first-rate education. ers! tionality. take a look in the mirror and is because slavery was eradicated Apparently, they didn’t have Bush supporters were ab - make the connection. Because by the people in power. Granted, a problem with slavery as a con - solutely right to condemn those when Obama was president and the Southern slaves fought in the As Greece Burned, Nero cept, they simply didn’t want to who did not give the president a routinely spoke out against terror, Civil War directly for their own be the ones who were the slaves. fair shake, intolerably and hate - it wasn’t good enough for them. cause, but the cause was led by If they got to be the owners, they fully besmirching him every He had to say the magic words President Lincoln and the Aboli - Tsipras Fiddled Up Excuses had no problem with slavery. chance they got. But then, many “radical Islamic terrorism” – oth - tionists. Thankfully, at some point, indi - of those same Bush supporters – erwise, in their minds, it didn’t Similarly, it is up to today’s Since he didn’t want to get his suit wet when he drove past viduals and groups evolved in private citizens and public figures count. Going as far as attributing Trump supporters, who find it refugees off Lesbos who were desperately trying to get their their thinking and realized that alike – lost their credibility be - Obama’s lack of specificity to abominable to criticize a sitting sinking dinghies to shore and what they thought was a better it is simply not okay to own an - cause they spewed the same un - sympathy for the terrorists was president in such a hateful man - place, you couldn’t really expect Greek Premier and Radical Left other human being, even if you just, unwarranted hate onto Pres - no big deal to them; accusing the ner, not to have conveniently Alexis Tsipras to get soot on his suit by visiting any of the dozens are allowed to get away with it. ident Obama. president, in effect, of treasonous short memories the next time of fires raging across the country during the holiday period. Nowadays, the same hypo - When Bush went to war, it support for individuals set on they find themselves under a Three days after one of the biggest conflagrations, in the pop - critical behavior that once kept was justified, they said – but causing harm to Americans be - president whom they do not sup - ular heavily-wooded beach area of Kalamos, about 30 miles north slavery going for centuries ap - when Obama did the same thing, came commonplace. port. If, for example, Elizabeth of Athens, he finally decided to go there – by helicopter and with - plies to political mudslinging he was just a secret Kenyan Mus - Similarly, because Trump Warren, Nancy Pelosi, or Bill de out allowing any media so reporters wouldn’t see him shedding and, more specifically concern - lim strongman socialist Marxist dared to condemn all hate, to say Blasio was elected president in crocodile tears as he said about the European Union’s response to ing the examples at hand, to Christian liberation theologist that this country is for all Ameri - 2020. The challenge would be the refugee crisis overwhelming Greece. president-bashing. Let us con - (how can anyone be all those cans, and to use other general for the people not to do to any of Adding to his shame, the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA leader sider the treatment of our three things at the same time?) sent language, those who so strongly them what the current haters are said – after Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis and other party most recent presidents – George here as a modern-day defended Obama against the doing to President Trump. lemmings suggested the fires were a conspiracy to discredit the W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Manchurian Candidate to destroy false accusations now have no already-disgraced Leftists who had surrendered to international Donald Trump): America from within. problem accusing Trump of ei - Constantinos E. Scaros' latest creditors in reneging on anti-austerity promises – that no one had In the case of President One of their favorite and long- ther being a white supremacist book, Grumpy Old Party (about died, unlike the horrendous infernos of 2007 that killed 84 people Trump, critics are quick to point used accusations was that Obama himself, or blowing that silent the 2016 presidential election), when his arch-rival New Democracy was in power. out that they simply cannot was not even born in the United “dog whistle” to signal to the is available for purchase on ama - No one died in fires on our watch but more than 10,000 acres stand his tone. At first glance, States. Yes, I know Donald Trump white racists “hey don’t worry, zon.com and in bookstores na - were destroyed along with homes and businesses? All that was that seems to be a valid point, himself perpetuated that theory I’m on your side, I just can’t say tionwide. missing from that fourth-grader retort was “yanna nanna nanna na” in fake mockery. It’s beyond pathetic to watch his response to crises affecting lives, not including those of workers, pensioners and the poor he has decimated with more cuts to their benefits piled on top of an On Cyprus- Greeks Caught Napping…Again! avalanche of taxes and as his government has raided 930,000 bank accounts electronically and seized savings of people who couldn’t pay their taxes and debts to the state at the same time By Andreas C Chrysafis Greeks – albeit its own kind of a ment would respond favorably Under the current develop - the tax cheats he vowed to round up have laughed in his face and solution. and return back to their ances - ments, shutting all the crossings the rich continue with impunity to hide their wealth in secret for - No sooner did the Crans- As a first step of the plan, the tral homes and properties lost between the two sectors and the eign bank accounts. Montana fiasco come to an in - Cypriot Maronites community during the Turkish military in - revocation of EU-Cyprus citizen - When the fires came he was nowhere to be seen until he could glorious end that the Cyprus was offered to take possession vasion 43 years ago. This is the ship of the Turkish Cypriots – get a photo opportunity next to firefighters who risked their lives government entered into a nasty of their villages and properties first time Turkey has ever made among other groundbreaking to protect land and homes while he was trying to resurrect himself blame game and has chosen to back in the occupied area. The such an offer. One’s own loyalty measures – would be a good and SYRIZA from the ashes of what’s left of their phony Leftist ignore the danger signs from invitation was also extended to to the Republic would certainly start in putting strong political party. that conference. now be tested! and economic pressure on the Like Nero, he fiddled away although he, too, would prefer to The political parties criticized Outfoxed and outmaneu - Turkish Cypriot administration be an Emperor or a dictator like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro who the president and each other like There has never been a vered, the Cyprus foreign min - including Ankara to start nego - has run into the ground that country Tsipras sees as a role model rabid hyenas, sniffing the pun - long-term strategy carved ister announced that “he could tiating in good faith and not play for Greece, if only he could find a way to do away with democracy. gent scent of blood in a game of in stone in the interest of not stop anyone from returning” games with people’s lives. The excuse for not being around during the fires, his puppet political point-scoring during the but he “would launch a com - However, to the dismay of spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, who could put a spin on the current election fever. A pathetic the nation. plaint to the United Nations.” most people and political par - Holocaust, said was that the Premier was in constant phone con - lot indeed! Unbelievable - that’s the best ties, the government has chosen tact with Citizens’ Protection Minister Nikos Toskas who was In contrast, Erdogan was Greek Cypriots (only 16,000 so he could come up with. to continue its existing submis - giving him updates. more explicit: “it’s too bad the far) from the fenced off town of This demonstrates a political sive and flawed policy that has Reporters who’ve been to fires know there’s no substitute like Greek side did not want a set - Varoshia – on a condition that vacuum without a powerful na - failed to bring about reconcilia - being there and it’s hard to cover them or understand the severity tlement,” he announced publicly, both groups would be under tional policy in place to deal tion results between the two if they’re being described to you on the phone. “Whoa, there goes “Turkey will now proceed with Turkish administration. This with Turkey. Normally, an in - sides. another house!” its plan B and C for Cyprus.” clearly indicates Turkey’s plans; cumbent president would draft In the next while, Greek Rival parties said the slow response allowed the Kalamos fire And so he did! As always, the segregation but also total control a plan, which suits his own Cypriots will soon discover what to flare up and that the government hadn’t done enough to update Greeks were caught napping… over the entire island. party-dogma, and dropped by Erdogan’s Plan B and C is all the fire services and their equipment, which has led to scenes of again. A very clever tactical move; the next president in office. Sad about. What a mess –from one volunteers with branches trying to put out firestorms. No politi - Erdogan’s announcement a move the Greek side stub - situation indeed – a rollercoaster frying pan straight into another cians were among them because mid-August is the time when and his introduction of Plan B bornly refused to consider or to of failures one after the other. because of ineptitude. they disappear to their country or beach homes to rest up for was not only a propaganda suc - encourage Turkish Cypriots to There has never been a long- being told how to vote in Parliament when they return, the place cess for Turkey but also a cun - do the same in the past. For sure term strategy carved in stone in Andreas C. Chrysafis is an artist where consciences are checked at the door, except for Tsipras, ning political maneuver; it sent a number of Greek Cypriot the interests of the nation. That and author originally from who doesn’t have one. a signal to the world that Turkey refugees and Maronites feeling is the problem facing the island; Cyprus. He lives in London and wants a solution and not the betrayed by their own govern - lack of a strong leadership! Cyprus. THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 19-25, 2017 VIEWPOINTS 9 The Value of One’s Cultural Ottoman/Turkish Culture: Anglo Fantasies

“Brand Name” English and American media and politics. The the persecution of joint celebrations with the Nazis have a chronic problem dealing Ottomans also Armenians predated during the course of the war. with the reality of Modern were wary of Russ - World War I. Equat - Turkey only issued a last-minute In today’s glob - Thucydides re - Turkey. Many naively assume ian support for the ing genocidal at - declaration of war on Germany alized world, the minds us that “the that as Turkey becomes more new Balkan states. tacks on one’s own in February 1945. This was primary exporter of strong do what engaged with the values of Moreover, the Ot - population with partly due to a desire to be in - the dominant cul - they can and the mainstream European culture, tomans were losses on the battle - cluded in the UN organization tural model is un - weak suffer what the more Turkey will embrace acutely aware of field to hostile coming into existence. Not one deniably the West. they must.” Europe’s better aspects. This the desire of armies is intellec - Turkish soldier was lost fighting The mindblowing Therefore, the perspective ignores the reality Britain and France tual bankruptcy. the Germans. technological West’s age-old at - that the Ottomans were in Eu - to extend their Just as outra - What is extremely troubling achievements, tempt to brand it - rope for four hundred years colonial empires geous as mischarac - about the Economist essay is that seemingly unlim - self as the sole heir without becoming Euro - through North by proF. daN terizing the Armen - many journalists, think tank ited choices avail - of classical peanized. Africa and the GeorGaKaS ian genocide is the scholars, and Congressional aides able in markets Greece’s legacy is The Ottomans were present Middle East, lack of any reference consider this journal to be highly catering to all pref - by Christopher understandable for the French Enlightenment, where the Ot - Special to to genocidal assaults reliable. Policy shapers and police erences and the trIpouLaS from a strategic the Darwinian revolution, the tomans had long The National Herald on Greeks and Assyr - markers often recycle the Econo - preeminence of in - Special to standpoint. On the American revolution, and other been dominant. ians. These also took mist’s explicit and implicit dividual rights have The National Herald contrary, the lack transformative moments. The Leaving that reality check millions of lives. Like the attacks premises without doing much, if influenced societies of commitment on effect on their culture and be - aside, the Economist posits that on Armenians, some of these per - any independent research. In this across the planet, however, they behalf of not only the modern havior was minimal. Comments after the war an Ottoman Em - secutions predate World War I. instance, the assumptions under - have also created a unique set Greek state, but the Hellenic by Turkish diplomats were often pire associated with the Triple The Economist again em - lying the Economist’s specula - of impasses; insurmountable Community of the Diaspora as contemptuous of the West. Entente would have miracu - braces delusionary fantasy when tions reinforce an already flawed problems erupting ever more in - well, to adequately mount a de - Of late, revisionist scholars lously recognized its Greek, Ar - it posits a victorious Ottoman sense of Turkish political culture creasingly which threaten to fense against this attempted have judged the late Ottoman menian, and Kurdish subjects as sultan would have stayed allied and its ambitions. undo many of the accomplish - usurping of Hellenism’s cultural Empire to be a multiethnic belonging “to individual nations with the western democracies. The Economist’s what-if sce - ments attained by this model. legacy is deeply troubling. While realm with many virtues. The united under the Ottoman sov - Somehow the centuries-long Eu - nario is yet another wake-up call As a bearer of cultural pro - France’s new National Educa - latest rewrite of Ottoman/Turk - ereign.” This is like asserting ropean desire to created colo - for Greek America. Although posals once recognized as “ecu - tion Minister Jean-Michel Blan - ish history has appeared in the that if the South had won the nial empires, now fed by the lust numerous organizations have menical” – meaning that they quer said that he wants to pro - July 15 issue of the prestigious American Civil war, it would for oil riches would have evap - worked diligently to expose the could engage people from all mote Latin and Ancient Greek Economist, a bastion of conser - have immediately freed its orated to allow the Ottomans to actual history of Turkey and its across the world and serve their in schools, successive Greek Ed - vative economic thought. slaves. Left unsaid is that efforts retain control of its Middle East long-term objectives, much needs, regardless of geographi - ucation Ministers from all across The Economist editors em - at the turn of the twentieth cen - territories. clearly remains to be done. cal positioning, race, or DNA – the political spectrum have ri - barked on a what-if speculation tury by Ottoman reformers to The reality is that the Euro - Turkey daily violates the air Hellenism/Romanity has the valed each other at eliminating about World War I. They asked establish equal rights for all Ot - pean nation with which Turkey space of Greece, its NATO ally. distinct privilege of being able the instruction of ancient Greek what if the fading Ottoman Em - toman subjects had been continued to have the most rap - Turkey threatens to unilaterally to conduct discourse with global in schools, ensuring that most pire had allied with the Triple soundly defeated by nationalist port was Germany. Hitler pub - upend the international treaties citizens and cast light upon vi - high school graduates will have Entente forces led by Britain, fanatics who supported genoci - licly lauded Kemal Ataturk as a establishing the present bound - able alternative routes or vastly less literacy not only in France, and Russia rather than dal pogroms against the Christ - model national leader and ex - aries in the Aegean. Turkey counter-proposals that can ad - classical but also pre 20th cen - the Central Powers led by Ger - ian minorities. pressed his admiration for keeps an occupying army of dress modern challenges facing tury texts than their grandpar - many and the Austro-Hungari - The Economist plays word Turkey’s massacres of the Arme - 30,000+ in Cyprus and prevents humanity. ents, who were armed with only ans. If that had happened, they games to whitewash nians. The Nazis even assisted reunification. None of that will To put it contemporary the bare essentials of an elemen - posit favorable gains for the re - Ottoman/Turkish crimes. the Turkish campaign of alter until national and political terms, its cultural “brand” is a tary school education. gion. Such flights of fancy can Turkey is said to have war “ca - squelching international efforts discourse acknowledges the na - truly prized commodity. Sadly, Not to be outdone, however, only be instructive when based sualties” numbering three to five to expose that genocide. The ture of Turkish political culture. in most instances its “competi - the Diaspora has also grossly on core realities. Otherwise, the million persons. This number Turkish and German military The Economist’s contribution is tors” seem to grasp this realiza - overlooked the importance of fantasy becomes self-delusion. admittedly includes the Armen - continued their close relation - a minus, not a plus in that un - tion much more firmly than Paideia in restoring Hellenism’s The only major European na - ian genocide, but that is ex - ship. derstanding. modern Greeks (domestically rightful claim to its legacy, tion with which Turkey had any plained as caused by a fear that During World War II, Turkey and abroad). After all, that is which has a very real and pro - rapport was Germany. The Ot - Armenians constituted a fifth was a pro-Nazi neutral that pro - Prof. Georgakas is Director of the primary reason why the found effect on developments in toman military, in particular, ad - column for a hostile Russia. vided chromite, a key ingredient the Greek American Studies the world around us, as events mired the Prussian militarists Thus, suppression was a result in military hardware, from the Project at Queens College – continue to prove. In the United and thought the Sultanate of military need rather than cul - onset of the war through to CUNY and Consulting Editor of The West has engaged in States –the most affluent region should emulate their methods tural warfare. Unnoted is that, April 1944. Turkish officials had CINEASTE magazine. of the Diaspora – the recent “copyright infringement” domino effect of Greek for centuries – a little over parochial school closures cou - a millennium. pled by the failure to open new LETTER FROM ATHENS ones in accordance with a more viable model represents a real West has engaged in “copyright threat to ethnic vitality, but has infringement” for centuries – a also warped the mission of the Kotzias is Not, Repeat, NOT! A Fanatical Stalinist! little over a millennium. It ex - traditional grass roots unit of plains why Pope Leo III crowned Greek-American community or - the Frankish king Charlemagne ganization – the parish commu - Given that Joseph Vissari - If Stalin was The unholy alliance but, to crush the oligarchy, but not in (leader of a medieval Germanic nity. In each of the instances of onovich Stalin killed 20 million Bear, Kotzias is the what the hell, a fanatical Stalinist way of tribe whose territory covered school closings over the past five people, give a take a couple of Puppy Dog and as a whatever keeps you course. modern-day Belgium, France, years, not even symbolic reme - million the way Communist dic - Communist was said in power as long as Kotzias has written books, al - the Netherlands, Luxemburg, dial steps were taken to engage tators think, it’s hard to be a fol - to be often praised it’s not fanatical though a listing of his memorable and western Germany) emperor in some sort of “damage con - lower of his preachings, teach for his masterful Stalinism, a term quotes would be the world’s of the Romans(sic) in 800 AD trol.” No administrative shake - them and not be a fanatic, but rhetoric and his which can’t be ap - thinnest. One of his unreadable to challenge the authority of the ups occurred, no committees Greek Foreign Minister Nikos knowledge of Marx - plied to him. treatises is called Colony of Debt, true Roman emperor in Con - were appointed to investigate Kotzias says he’s not, and he got ist philosophy, al - In SYRIZA, it’s which says the European Union stantinople (as well as keep him the causes of the organizational a Greek court to believe him. though judging from hard to keep track is is developing empire charac - from adjudicating serious breakdown and suggest solu - Kotzias drives the train wreck his work so far it of who’s a Stalinist, teristics, as it perceives markets, charges facing Rome’s bishop). tions, and certainly no monetary of Greek foreign policy for the seems to be Groucho a Leninist, a Maoist, the bureaucracy in Brussels and It explains why the German his - contributions imposed on the Looney Left SYRIZA government, Marxist, but he by aNdY a Castroite, a Gue - Germany as focal elements of its torian Hieronymus Wolf coined significant revenues generated which is riddled with Commu - seems happy to be - dabILIS varian, or a Marxist structure and is rendering in a the term “Byzantine” in the 16th from the leasing of these erst - nists and people who adore long to a party that (we’ll include Chico two-tier region of a rich North century to refer to the Eastern while “temples of knowledge” Stalin (but not Kotzias, who is would have him as a Special to and Harpo because and poor South, not an original Roman Empire, which was syn - to support the current schools not – repeat – NOT – a fanatical member. The National Herald they had more prin - thought so maybe someone can onymous with the continuation that still remain in operation. Stalinist! – but apparently a re - That is, until he ciples than anyone sue him for for plagiarism philo - of the Hellenic tradition – an at - On the contrary, the main per - form Stalinist with a kinder, gen - left the Communists after they in the Looney Left) which rolled sophic doublespeak babblespeak tempt at “rebranding” that re - petrators of this folly were af - tler machine gun hand. joined with the Conservatives to over for Capitalists faster than the Jabberwocky. mains largely uncorrected until forded extreme license in reap - He sued the Athens Review bring then-PASOK Socialist leader French threw down their It would seem, according to today, obfuscating history. It ex - ing the rewards of their of Books over a letter published and Prime Minister Andreas Pa - weapons when the Nazis showed writers of letters to magazines, plains why the Latins came up self-styled business acumen and in 2010 from a reader who said pandreou to trial for corruption up. that someone who taught Stalin with their own interpretations allowed to pompously parade he was, in the letter’s words, in 1989. Kotzias said that was an Since Kotzias is not, repeat would, by definition, have to be of Aristotle, derived from ques - around as little more than mod - “The most extreme and fanatical, “unholy alliance” and quit, along NOT!, a fanatical Stalinist, what a fanatic but Greek courts are tionable translations not even ern-day “medizers.” cruel and relentless communist with other Commies (not re - is he then, a soft Stalinist? He easily swayed by illogic even if based on the original text (Latin As the excesses of the post- of our generation, a veritable ported whether they were fanati - was a founding member of the someone sued a magazine claim - translators used the Arabic ver - modern world continue to erode Gauleiter (a political official gov - cal Stalinists), which led to cre - Nikos Poulantzas Leftist think ing they were not “a fanatical Sci - sion of the Greek original), lay - many of the social institutions erning a district under Nazi rule, ation of a new Leftist group. tank, named for a Franco-Greek, entologist!” ing the groundwork for the sys - once considered foregone con - i.e. an overbearing official) of But that was the old Kotzias, Marxist oriented sociologist and Too bad he wasn’t a fanatical tem of scholasticism, which clusions, all levels of the Hel - Stalinism.” the one who was not - repeat, political philosopher who argued Marxist. Groucho, because as Irv - exercised an immense influence lenic Community worldwide Wish I’d said that but can’t NOT! - a fanatical Stalinist be - that repressing movements of the ing Berlin said, “If Marx had been on the development of the West, must try to reengage society at because it seems to be an incor - cause the new Kotzias happily oppressed is not the sole function Groucho instead of Karl, the and combated any attempts by large with authentic counterpro - rect interpretation of Kotzias, serves a coalition government of of the state but that state power world would be in less of a snarl" Hellenic scholars to challenge posals that can serve as vital who was a member of the Com - the Looney Left, which has sur - must also obtain the consent of although not better off than if their “expertise” with character pathways to solutions for many munist Youth of Greece, got his rendered to Capitalists and the oppressed. Stalin and his idolators hadn’t assassinations, like the publica - problems plaguing the world to - post-graduate education in Ger - bankers in reneging on anti-aus - But Kotzias seemed to miss been born because 20 million tion of libelous texts entitled day. However, in order to do many, and specialized in issues terity promises, and whose part - and that seems to be what he people, give or take a couple of “Contra errores Graecorum.” It this, the approach to handling of policy and political systems, ner is the marginal, irrelevant, jin - wants as SYRIZA has been ham - million, would have had lived. probably also explains why most Hellenic cultural capital must societies and foreign policy of goistic Independent Greeks mering workers, pensioners and See you in court. native Greek speakers taking a seriously be retooled. The teach - Brazil, India and Russia. Just not (ANEL). the poor, the people they should course in classics taught by non- ing of the Greek language must Greece, which is too bad as the Holy Pow Batman! That’s an be saving, but they were trying [email protected] native speakers will likely face become much more closely country needs a Foreign Minister immense psychological pressure linked to content instruction who will concentrate on foreign to espouse the “Erasmic” pro - (abroad), as well as critical policy and not suing magazines nunciation – contrived in the thinking – something sorely for defamation. 16th century – and disparage - missing from education every - Upset over the letter, which ment if they refuse. where. The success of this un - was published five years before Of course, opportunism is dertaking will largely depend on SYRIZA came to power, he sued not an exclusively Western trait. leaders not becoming side - the ARB for insulting his person - Even in ancient times, it was tracked with dilemmas foreign ality, which is hard to do since practiced by rivaling city-states to Hellenism, (i.e., wannabe he doesn’t have one, and de - who wanted to increase their leftists enacting neocon policies, manded 250,000 euros power, glory, or finances. pietists vs. ecumenists, although ($295,480). Socrates clearly asserts that the each relegates Orthodoxy to The court, with the reversal Athenians took jabs at the Mi - some sort of an Orthodoxism in of a prosecutor’s recommenda - noan civilization after its decline their own way, etc.). Simply put, tion, awarded him 22,000 euros Greek Foreign Minister by making lewd references to Hellenism must rediscover itself ($25,922), although the publish - Nikos Kotzias King Minos and his queen if it hopes to make any seminal ers, Manolis and Maria Vasilakis, Pasiphae in order to steal some contribution to a world that said his intention was to shut of their glory. Likewise, Athens needs its message and spirit them down. That’s the SYRIZA snatched the Delian League more than ever before. way, to muzzle the media and treasury and appropriated its stifle dissent, although not the funds for state projects. In his Follow me on Twitter Stalin way which was to execute account of the Melian Dialogue, @CTripoulas or imprison them. 10 FEATURE THE NATIONAL HERALD, AUGUST 19-25, 2017 This Small Greek Town Knows Who to Blame for Crisis

By Andy Dabilis TNH Staff

THERMO, GREECE – Petros Kokkotos deftly slices away fat from a slab of meat on his wooden block the same way Greek governments have cut the meat from social services bud - gets in imposing austerity mea - sures he said hurt consumer pocketbooks so much some weeks his sales are off as much as 70 percent. But he blames people who benefited from government giveaways and jobs for decades as much as politicians who went on wild spending sprees that forced the country in 2010 to seek what turned into three in - ternational bailouts of 326 bil - lion euros that came with big pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pen - Thermo butcher Petros Kokkotos says lazy people Jeweler Socrates Yfantis offers installment plans to Mayor Spyros Konstantaras has the tough and thank - sions and worker firings. are part of Greece's problem lure customers. less job of running the town. “It’s those people under the plain trees drinking coffee. They riods and people looking for slice of cake,” for example she just want to get a pension, it’s jewelry aren’t as many as those said. Sweets are a tradition in laziness,” Kokkotos, 51, snick - carefully looking at supermarket many Greek customs too and it ered as he cut away, pointing prices for food stuffs. would be unseemly not to con - his head toward giant trees in “People don’t have money to tinue that at any cost for many the main square of this charm - spend they are so tight finan - people. ing town of 1,769 people in the cially. Jewelry is not a basic The tough and thankless job mountains of western Greece. commodity they come to shop of running the town goes to His wife, Sofia, 38, has little here only when they really need Konstantaras who, in a political compassion for people who something and they ask to buy landscape dominated by major wanted lifetime jobs and now in installments,” he said. parties most people blame for are seeing their pension cuts but Indeed, a customer had come the country’s state, somehow added: “I blame every govern - in recently wanting to buy a won in 2014 as an Independent. ment. We have to pay for the cross that cost 350 euros but He said the state has cut the mistakes they made.” only had 250 euros and, like town’s budget from 11 million The little downtown looks many others, wanted to pay to 4 million euros. “The salaries like 1950s small town America over time too. of clerks have been cut and somewhere in the Midwest, lit - He said he can hang on only works are much more difficult,” tle stores and tavernas and cof - because he owns the shop and he said. “Construction and real fee shops, bakeries and hair - his wife works at the town’s estate have been hard hit,” he dressers and half a dozen biggest supermarket. added. supermarkets of varying size, The tree-filled square in Thermo is a gathering A charming traditional balcony in Thermo. Yfantis’ six-year-old daugh - There haven’t been big some open for decades and still spot by a creek, offering cool comfort. ter, Angeliki, sat at her father’s protests here like the kind peo - trying to hang on during the cri - desk, eyes never wavering from ple in Thermo see on their TV sis, classical stone homes and the leading military powers in In Thermo, people it under their home town. a cell phone, watching kid stuff. screens as they sit at outdoor buildings, but streets – like the country and took part in the those plain trees, next to a creek Across the street from the Her dad empathized, with TV cafes under those trees, many those in the cities – dotted with expedition against Syracuse. running past with water you can butcher shop, jeweler Socrates filled with one bad story after indeed drinking coffee and Kon - empty storefronts and for rent The remnants of its quiet side drink right from a tap that’s set Yfantis said his sales have the other about the seven-year- stantaras said he believes his signs. remain in a calm countryside of up and runs behind a church tanked too but the sensibilities long-and-counting crisis. town will come back from cri - It’s the capital of a prefec - greenery and fields outside the and a parking lot with recre - in Thermo aren’t, as you might “I’ve stopped watching the sis. ture, embracing smaller towns town, which is near Lake Tri - ational facilities where young expect, aimed at governments news,” he said. He said he didn’t shy away and villages around in an area honida, the largest freshwater people play basketball and soc - who imposed brutal conditions, “I’d rather watch children’s from running for office during filled with olive trees, corn fields body in Greece. cer and ride bikes. but also at people who took programs,” he added. a time when austerity was cut - and farming. You are as likely The pace of life is slower, of Under those trees, young what they could get. At her sweets shop, Lina ting as deep into town budgets to see a tractor tearing through course, than Athens, where teens gather in flocks to stare at “I blame the people too be - Drellia, who has been in busi - as Kokkotos’ cleaver whacking streets in the town so narrow scenes of violent protests, anar - their cell phones and gaze wist - cause all they try to do is grab,” ness for 26 years, said residents away at a side of pork or beef. that side view mirrors some - chist riots and anti-austerity fully at each other, boys at girls Greek slang for people who are haven’t abandoned setting aside “I like to take risks and I times have to pulled in to avoid protests, the last couple of years and girls at boys in coy glances, crooked and try to get what they a little money for cakes, wanted to turn this (crisis) into hiding an oncoming vehicle. against the ruling Radical Left repeating a ritual that seems can on the sly without working spanakopita, cheese pies and ice opportunity,” he said, especially It’s an important part of SYRIZA-led coalition of Prime more innocent in this setting, for it, which often seems like a cream but are selective. because Thermo is so crucial to Greek history too, to prehistoric Minister Alexis Tsipras who re - although so many young adults national sport people talk about “It hasn’t fallen in sales but the region. times actually, as a center of the neged on virtually every haves left that Mayor Spyros it so much. the financial potential has nar - “Some of the villages around Aetolian League, a powerful promise he made and doubled Konstantaras said he wants to His sales too are off as much rowed. 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