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The mosque, the church, and Ground Zero This month’s anniversary of the 9/11 attacks coincides in New York with the roiling controversy (amplified by the :: magazine midterm elections) over the building of an Islamic cultural FOUNDED IN 2005 BY center and mosque just two blocks from Ground Zero. There have been demonstrations on the site pro and con, Demetrios Rhompotis there has been blustering in the press pro and con—outcries that building a mosque on the site is Dimitri Michalakis poking a finger in the eye of the still-wounded citizenry Kyprianos Bazenikas of this country, and outrage that not building a mosque FROM THE EDITOR :: magazine there violates the freedom of worship and sanctity of PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN NEW YORK private property that is a bedrock of this country. Publishing Sharif El-Gamal, the developer of the project, said the building of the center was an Editor in Chief: Committee Chairman effort “to revitalize downtown New York…and demonstrate to all Americans and to Dimitri C. Michalakis Demetrios Rhompotis the rest of the world that the American Muslim community rejects the violence [email protected] (718) 554-0308 perpetrated on September 11 and wants to be a part of the healing and rebuilding process.” Features Editor [email protected] Katerina Georgiou But former American foreign service officer John Burgess (who did two tours in Saudi [email protected] Marketing & Advertising Director Arabia) put the controversy in perspective in his blog, Crossroads Arabia: “That decision may have been ill-considered, though. A lot of people have an emotional Lifestyle Editor Kyprianos Bazenikas attachment to the World Trade Center and what happened there some nine years ago. Maria A. Pardalis [email protected] As it is an emotional attachment, it is not necessarily a rational attachment. Dealing with [email protected] the issues, dealing with history rationally can often be at odds with how people feel ATHENS - GREECE and behave.” Western Region Desk Public Relations & At the same time, he argues, it’s dismaying to hear that the 68% of Americans who - Los Angeles oppose the building of the center do so for reasons such as fear “of the new Caliphate,” Joanna Xipa Marketing Director (760) 805-1691 Margarita Vartholomeou which, in turn, only feeds into the suspicion of Muslims, moderate and otherwise, that Americans will never give them a fair shake, even in America, even if they’re American [email protected] [email protected] citizens themselves, such as El-Gamal. Alexander Mizan Lost in all this noise, of course, is that St. Nicholas is the little church that was destroyed [email protected] at Ground Zero on 9/11 and no one has forcibly taken up its cause in the nine long - San Jose Office NEO Magazine years that the congregation has been left out in the cold. This August the former Andrea Photopoulos is published monthly by governor of New York, George Pataki, and the chancellor of Greek Orthodox Church [email protected] Neocorp Media Inc. of America, Bishop Andonios, met at the site to protest the government officials who P.O. Box 560105 they said were clearing the way for the mosque but blocking the reconstruction of the Baltimore Desk College Point, NY 11356 church. Georgia Vavas Phone: (718) 554-0308 “It’s unfortunate that it took a controversy over a mosque to bring attention to the [email protected] e-Fax: (718) 878-4448 church,” the Bishop said. [email protected] Photo/Fashion The Port Authority has said there is no doubt the church will be built and in 2008 it New York: ETA Press allotted 24,000 square feet for the building and also offered a $20 million subsidy for [email protected] construction. But negotiations broke down and the Bishop says all communications with the Port Authority have since ceased. Los Angeles: Nick Dimitrokalis SUBSCRIPTION CARD (951) 764-5737 Still, being both politic and a man of God, he remains hopeful. [email protected] “To us, this is an opportunity for everyone — to see some progress in our negotiations with the Port Authority,” he told The New York Times. “But also, for the people involved Graphic Design 1 Year Subscription NEOgraphix 10 Issues for $29.95 in the mosque, this controversy is their opportunity to dialogue with the community; to reach a better understanding of people’s sensitivities, perhaps.” Adrian Salescu NAME Perhaps. Athens Desk Konstantinos Rhompotis (01130) 210 51 42 446 (01130) 6937 02 39 94 [email protected] ADDRESS Dimitri C. Michalakis Check our website www.neomagazine.com

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S the wisdom of doing so, complicating the successful jihadist conquest while others media began to discuss the phenomenon of situation even further. welcome it as a harbinger for a changed “Islamaphobia” wondering again at the Islam in a country that rejuvenates and repercussions abroad. 9/11 in New York and Earlier, Mayor Bloomberg took his defense of revolutionizes everything, even religion. the constitutional right to build the “Ground Zero Commentators however, who had noted Mosque” when he stood on Governors Island Going back to that tragic day nine years that the Imam had made ambiguous with the Statue of Liberty in the background ago, I was working as a consultant to statements suggesting some American the [Greek) American and representatives of every faith on either L e a d e r s h i p 1 0 0 , a c h a r i t a b l e responsibility for 9/11, called terrorism a side– including the Greek Orthodox Church- organization that supports the Greek complex subject, and refused to term and said: “We’ve come here to Governor’s Orthodox Church, and was asked to devise H a m a s o r H e z b o l l a h t e r ro r i s t Island where the earliest settlers first set foot in an organization plan for a September 11 organizations and opined that the Identity Crisis New Amsterdam, and where the seeds of relief fund to respond to the crisis that had Cordoba project was reclaiming the West religious tolerance were first planted. We come counted Greek Orthodox Americans for Islam, it having been the famous here to see the inspiring symbol of liberty that among its victims and destroyed one of its mosque erected in Cordoba when Islam more than 250 years later would greet millions churches, St. Nicholas. I consciously resisted conquered Spain, continued to stand their of immigrants in this harbor.…. And whether going down to Ground Zero. Months ground. Others, however, noted that he your parents were born here or you came here passed before I went down there when was compromising those positions and yesterday, you are a New Yorker.” He went on serving on the committee planning the other, mostly evangelical Christian to say that being a New Yorker meant living building of the memorial. That is when I met religious leaders around the country with your neighbors in mutual respect and the families of victims of the tragedy and began to counter anti-Muslim sentiment. tolerance and that it was that spirit of openness personally felt moved to extend my By George Schira and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11. No condolences to each one. However I So here are the questions: Are Americans mention was made of the genocide of the couldn’t follow the group’s visit down a nine years after 9/11 obsessed with an New York City marked the ninth anniversary of July of this year, her first visit to the city in 53 enemy that may no longer be the threat it September 11, 2001 this year, a year shy of a years. New York was mired in bureaucracy and Native Americans or the African slaves brought rickety ramp into the deep pit that still held to this free land. remains and half way down scurried back once was as some contend? Do we play decade, at a time at which one may think the competing financial interests played out over into our enemies’ hands if we deny event would have retreated into recent history the terms of three New York governors and up to the top seeking the shelter of a police If only it had ended there, but life is far more trailer. That’s when I felt myself surrounded American Muslims the right to build the crowded out by other concerns like the enduring three governors of New Jersey (the two states complex as is New York and as is America and mosque as Mayor Bloomberg says? Do we economic crisis. The experiences of that tragic control the Port Authority of New York and New by the palpable presence of forms in the today’s world and the media beat the story to air. I was shaken and sat down inside the give a victory to the terrorists as former day are always on my mind and that of all New Jersey which controls construction at the site, and death while new controversy erupted over a Republican Speaker of the House of Yorkers, as well as most Americans. Observers, which had seen a turnover in leadership as trailer when a police officer asked what Florida Christian minister’s threat to burn the had happened. When I told him, he said I Representatives Newt Gingrich believes, politicians and artists still grapple with the full well). Koran, only to relent after criticism from testing the winds for a presidential run, impact of that tragedy in our lives and history. wasn’t the first to experience that. I say this However I didn’t have to wait long for those General David Petraeus facing demonstrations only because I think I understand it when and characterizing the project as part of Having grown up in the aftermath of World in Kabul, Afghanistan and, later, the President, an “Islamist cultural-political offensive” to War 2, I remember talk of the Japanese attack lingering effects to visit New York City and others talk of sensitivities and hallowed America once again as new controversy pleading for tolerance. ground. undermine and destroy our civilization? on Pearl Harbor and the warning of German Has the American imagination been taken submarines off the East Coast of the USA. My gripped New Yorkers and Americans throwing While opposition among New Yorkers to the them into an identity crisis that pulled the current In the latest turn of events, the Greek over by this new intolerance, handing a older sister recalls running to my father for construction of the mosque and Islamic cultural Orthodox Church in America has been victory to the terrorists? consolation, fearing another attack on the and previous Mayors, the current Governors of center (the Cordoba House or Park 51 at 45-47 New York and New Jersey and even the brought into the fray, a religious mainland. Hawaii then was not a state but Park Place which will be a 15-story building community that has stayed below the The mosque dispute may not effect this something of a foreign place to many. My President of the United States of America and rising two city blocks from Ground Zero) either way some say because the threat the Democratic and Republican Parties into a radar of American politics, when Fox News father told her not to worry, that she was safe, hardened by a margin of 63 to 27 in a poll reported that the Port Authority had waxes and wanes regardless due to other and America would never be attacked. vortex of religion and politics, culture and taken in mid-August despite the 64 per cent, factors beyond our control, at home and ethnicity that became known as the “Ground reneged on a deal to rebuild its St. representing every demographic group, stating Nicholas Church in a land swap right at abroad. So it will prove to be neither a Well, on 9/11, America was attacked and, Zero Mosque” controversy. that developers had a constitutional right to triumph nor a defeat but simply tell the what’s more, New York, where my mother was Ground Zero after purportedly having America has been called the great experiment build it. Not only was this a matter of religious offered $60 million in public money. The world America and New York have moved born and my father and both sets of liberty but of local choice as the New York City on. grandparents had settled. And I was living in the and American identity is problematic at best as media put the story in terms of “approval we have gone beyond the melting pot to an ever Landmarks Preservation Commission and 29 of for the mosque on the fast track” and city on that day, a city that had become the de 30 Lower Manhattan community-board If anything, in the aftermath of 9/11, the facto capital of the world, political, financial more diverse society. Sociologists have noted “continued delays on building the church” world has grown confused if not more that Americans change religion every day and members voted to approve construction of the and it was seized on by Greek American and cultural, something of the seat of Empire. building in the former Burlington Coat Factory complex and reactionary in the literal The shock has continued to have reverberations, that now includes all the world’s religions along and other politicians running for office, sense to the polls and the media with the with some new ones begun at home. that had, in fact, been damaged by one of the creating a quandary for the Greek death and destruction, for the 3,000 victims of planes that crashed into the Twin Towers. Internet spreading reactions like wildfire all nationalities, religions and races, but mostly American Community and Greek worldwide. Somehow we all need to get Old Europe is somewhat different as different National politicians, however, mostly Orthodox Church. New Yorkers and Americans, and illness or groups stay longer in their ghettos while others, Republicans facing Congressional elections, back to our moral compass, remember who unending grief for their families, friends and the like the gypsies or “Roma”, remain apart, but with the notable exception of the newly-elected All this was going on while the Kuwaiti- we are as human beings and where we are first responders. But the shock waves went out to even that will change as Europe, in the words of Republican Governor of New Jersey, born 61-year-old Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf going on spaceship earth and truly create encompass all of us, those not on the scene who Romano Prodi when he was President of the Christopher Christie, fanned the flames, whose idea it was to erect the Cordoba a new mythology for the future, one that watched it on television but could see the smoke European Commission, becomes more and more generating opposition to the building of House, a moderate Sufi Moslem who has includes us all. in the air and smell the debris. For me it was like a union of minorities. mosques across the country. Former Mayor Rudy helped teach FBI agents and was touring a rape from which the victim never quite fully In the meantime, I trust New Yorkers will Giuliani, the best known Republican who is most the Middle East under the aegis of the US recover from this and remember the recovers, like post-traumatic stress disorder. President Obama, himself, who one out of five identified with 9/11 having been mayor at the State Department, internationalizing the And this was before those of us not on the scene Americans now believe to be a Muslim, is the son transactions of everyday live that keeps time, weighed in calling the plans for the crisis further since he has not been the city alive and free and open to all. The saw the gruesome pictures of people jumping of a Kenyan father who was agnostic and mosque and cultural center “divisive” breeding transparent about the source of funds to from the towers and the inferno that was soon to rejected the Islamic religion of his father and a restaurants are full again and when the hate rather than healing wounds. build the center that some believe comes theatre let out one recent evening that was envelop them. Christian mother from Kansas who taught him to from Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, respect all religions and all people, professed One irony of history is that pre-World Trade a bit cooler, the streets seemed as packed I was going to center my comments on how a the last engaged in spreading its intolerant with people, New Yorkers and Americans his Christian faith only as an adult when he was Center this area of Lower Manhattan was once brand of Islam, Wahhabism, worldwide. paralysis of will in New York has affected the exposed to the Afro-American community and known as “Little Syria” and was inhabited by and other tourists, as on New Year’s Eve in rebuilding of the site devastated by that attack But this man is a Sufi, the most Times Square. New Yorkers may have lost black church experience in Chicago, but had to Arab Muslim and Christian immigrants from the accommodating denomination of Islam on the 16-acres known as Ground Zero where put out the message during the mosque Ottoman Empire and that two mosques have their innocence and Americans their sense the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center had and he has written What’s Right with Islam of exceptionalism but neither has lost their controversy that he was something of an been in the same neighborhood, one four blocks is What’s Right with America which argues stood. The 8-acre Memorial Plaza with its evangelical Christian who receives daily Bible away and one 12 blocks away for many years, life-affirming optimism. underground museum and the once named that American democracy is the verses – a common ground for most politicians in one since 1970, the very year that the first embodiment of Islam’s ideal society and “Freedom Tower” (now three towers) have not recent times. His troubles started with the tower, the North Tower of the World Trade been built in the nine years since that day while the Cordoba House is to be “open and famous Cairo speech reaching out to the world’s Center, was completed. And next store to “Little accessible to all.” Later he emphasized George Schira was the first Executive 12 memorials have gone up in those other two spots Muslims and grew in intensity when he spoke up Syria’ in those days was “Little Athens.” Director of the Carter Presidential Center. where hijacked planes crashed or that that there would even be “prayer spaces” in defense of constitutional rights at an Iftar for Christians and Jews. He lived in Greece from 1989 to 1991.

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With green cleaning products field in the use of solar got laid off in ‘66, used his severance money and dishes, for example you can even smell the energy to help power all five of our facilities “Nothing would give us greater satisfaction started off as a one man show mixing chemicals residue of bleach and carcinogens in some of the around the country. Currently, 60% to 70% of in the garage! Now we have over 300 brands that are known to be poisonous to our the energy used by our manufacturing facilities than to provide green jobs for a cleaner employees and worldwide distribution… it’s environment and are choking our lakes and comes from solar power. We plan to increase been really exciting to watch it grow from a small streams. Indoor air pollution is as much as 70 that to 100% in the future. That’s also a great environment and place our next operation in his garage. times higher than outdoor air pollution because business incentive because clean alternative of toxic cleaning products. All of us can do our energy provides us with a great return on our manufacturing facility in our beloved The first facility was opened in IL and has since part to control that and make our homes safer for investment. At the same time, this approach also become Corporate Headquarters. In 1989, people and pets. mirrors our strong belief in helping to protect Greece… We are weighing our options Venus Labs went Green with the help of my people and the environment in every way we brother, John, an avid environmentalist, bringing Has the Greek-American community can. and given the right incentives, we would be something new to the table and steering the embraced the concept of going green? company to a more environmentally responsible Who has been the main inspiration in your delighted to invest in a facility there” direction. We have since opened four other With all communities the awareness is growing. life? locations in NJ, FL, CA, and most recently WA. in As people see more & more loved ones affected with illnesses, they are looking for ways in which That’s easy: my parents. My father is a very God Bless America, the Land of Opportunity, where hard work and order to reduce our carbon footprint, by never having to ship across country, reducing costs, and to protect themselves, their family and their brave man. He came to America with nothing, perseverance really do pay off in the pursuit of happiness, and in our case, the children. Family is number ONE in priority for worked incredibly hard and built a magnificent “Greek-American” Dream! passing that savings onto our customers. That approach has been responsible for making Earth Greeks, who happen to be very loyal as well. So company… one that we are all proud to be with. Friendly Products the lowest priced green our goal was to educate people about the critical It represents the fulfillment of my father’s dream, Did you know that out of all the ethnic groups in the United States, the Greek- cleaning products on the market and I’m proud to importance of using greener cleaning products the Greek-American Dream. He drove himself O: NICK DIMITROKALIS Americans have proven to rise above the rest and become number two in T say we are the number one selling green laundry and to throw out old buying habits and very hard and served as the perfect example of business success? Why is that, do you think? Isn’t it about time we start product in the world. misplaced loyalties to certain brand name the business work ethic to everyone around him, PHO uncovering these Hellenic gems in our society and let their shining glory lead us products that have been harmful to us all for especially me. I love and respect my father. I by example to follow, both locally and in the rest of the world – specifically When did you join the company and how did generations. In the Greek community, the interest am eternally grateful to him and it is an honor for Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks, Vice President of Earth Friendly Products, and most importantly now, in Greece? you prepare for it? has grown dramatically because they could see me to be part of this family. You see, I was the with NEO's Joanna Xipa how it’s affecting their family’s health. new addition to the family. My African American I took a UCLA honors program in college, in The immigrant experience itself, on a personal level, has made us swallow our mother has always been just as big an influence communication studies and history. I put that Naturally, we have a very special interest in the in my life as my father. She always praised him pride and eat our fair share of ‘humble pie’ in our patience and perseverance training to good use when I got my first job out of Greek-American community and we provide over the course of many years while jumping over many hurdles… all the while for being such a great father and wonderful role college as PR director for Bluepoint, a company significant support through financial contributions model that he is. At the same time, my mother staying true to ourselves by holding on tightly to the most valuable intangible possession we could ever have: our Word – not only to each other, but to based in Athens (the swimwear provider for the and our work on behalf of various worthy ourselves, and to our identity! was equally inspirational. Her eternal optimism, Athens Olympics in 2004), travelling back and organizations, including the American Hellenic strength of character and belief in herself forth between L.A. and Greece, handling their Council, Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, provided a strong foundation for me growing up. Luckily, the tradition still holds as there are countless international media campaigns. I’ve also worked National Hellenic Museum and the GABBY I found that I could rely on both cultural heritages examples of Greek-American children who have for the Brown & Dutch public relations agency in Awards, to name just a few. to propel me towards success in life. followed in the footsteps of their courageous parents. Malibu, as well as the Trump Organization Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks, the Vice President of Earth handling publicity for the Miss Universe pageant. Furthermore, we always try and work with other My mother was the true embodiment of Friendly Products (www.ecos.com), a family owned Finally, I became the Executive Director for the Greek-owned companies. Here in Southern unconditional love and support, with 150% and operated business since its inception in 1967 by American Hellenic Council from 2001 to 2003 California, for all of our organic catering (for belief in me… that I can do and be anything that where I learned valuable experience in the company events) we use a company called I wanted in life. When you give that to children it her Greek immigrant father, Eftychios Van Vlahakis, is “Green Event Studios” run by Maria Foscari. For such a case. Ever since I met this young woman, I’ve political arena for topics pertaining both to lifts them and carries them through life. She has Greece as well as the United States. It was all bags and totes, which are 100% hemp, our lived a very difficult life, but she had an been drawn by her genuine warmth and optimistic supplier is “I’m Eco Friendly” by Nicki Orlandou. outlook on life. Even as a young girl, Kelly spent her important in the first five years out of college that indomitable spirit and a belief that nothing was I worked outside the family business to bring The videographer who's filmed all of our impossible. She was diagnosed with breast summers working in her father’s business, doing television footage and archived it on the web for whatever had to be done to make and sell household more to the table, while having already cancer when I was 14 and my younger sister was developed my own work ethic and online streaming is Philip Georgious. And of only 2 at the time. Neither that nor cleaning products. After spending years distinguishing herself in the communications field for several high profile companies, Kelly began working full understanding of how the outside business world course, the architectural firm that has chemotherapy phased her, as determined as she time at Earth Friendly Products as the Director of Media Relations in 2003. Seven years later, she was named Vice President of the entire company. Her works. I was able to hone in on my spearheaded all of our environmentally green, was to raise us both, taking care of our everyday responsibilities involve all areas of the business, from sales and marketing to new product development and manufacturing. Kelly has always been in communication skills as a professional and use sustainable facilities from the grounds up is “REV needs, while raising us through school. She awe of her father, who started his business from scratch. She learned by observing the shining examples provided by both her parents. From their that to raise awareness to the environmental Design” co-wned by Evie Giovanopoulou who eventually beat it by the time I graduated High strength, wisdom and perseverance in the face of adversity, Kelly learned to believe in herself, trust in her judgment and never give up on her dream issue, while creating strong ties with politicians. served as the lead architect on all of our projects. School …but after proudly attending my little and the dream of her family. Becoming green is a universal issue and it is So there are other Greeks working alongside in sister graduation, in June of 2007, she started important to be non-partisan to engage in both our industry… It’s an exciting time to be Greek complaining of fatigue for the first time ever in sides of the dialogue. & Green! her life. Being the strong woman that I’ve always Have you considered expanding to Greece? known her to be, I knew something was wrong. Since joining Earth Friendly Products, I’m proud to Medical tests showed her cancer spread to the say that our company has quadrupled in size! Our products are distributed in Europe as well as liver, and within 3 weeks of chemotherapy, she We finally penetrated mainstream stores like throughout North America and Asia. We have a had passed away at the age of 58. I was 30 at Sam’s Club, Costco, Smart & Final, Ralph’s, bottling operation in the UK and Earth Friendly the time and my sister was 18. Whole Foods, and Mother’s Market, to name a Products are distributed throughout Europe. We few… and as of this August 2010 Wal-mart as are planning to expand our operations in Europe I’m thankful that I’ve had my mother by my side well! In the United States, our ECOS is the in the very near future and are actively looking through the major milestones in my life. She was number one green laundry detergent. We also at manufacturing locations there. We know that able to enjoy my graduation, stand by me at my supply to Canada, from our West, Midwest and to be competitive and sustainable in Europe we wedding and even hold my hand in the delivery Eastern regions. must manufacture our products on the continent. room at the birth of my daughter, Alexia- Eftychia (named in my father’s honor). As a Canada? Nothing would give us greater satisfaction than 14 to provide green jobs for a cleaner environment mother myself, being touched with cancer in the 15 ECOS has become the No. 1 selling laundry and place our next manufacturing facility in our family at such an early stage in my life, I am compelled to be proactive in doing all I can to

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P announced in mid June of this year)! Canadians are weighing our options and given the right P E E S can find our products at big names such as incentives, we would be delighted to invest in a S Canadian Tire, Costco Canada and facility in Greece. Cover Photo by Nick Dimitrokalis by Kathy Heine Two years and $3 million worth of timeshare is an impressive record for any salesperson. But for someone who’s a fashion designer by background, never sold timeshare before, and sold it for the first time during the start-up at an urban timeshare where units start at $15,815? The record is nothing short of remarkable, and the most amazing thing is - George Costacos get this - she accomplished it by being nice to people. alk of Hope “I believe that if you’re nice to clients and honest with them, they’re gonna Annual W go for it,” says Manhattan Club's $3 million sales executive, Rania Dante. “It works with high-end clientele. It works with any clientele," she says. The George “Best” Costacos Cultural and Cancer Research Foundation A native of Greece who speaks six languages, Manhattan Club's timeshare is organizing its first Annual Walk of Hope to raise funds and awareness sales dynamo is particularly adept at wooing international and/or affluent for brain cancer research and the Actors’ Equity Foundation. The walk clients. She generates many of these clients herself, often cultivating them will be held on Sunday, October 3, 2010 (Rain or Shine), at the over the phone before they ever set foot in the sales center. Then, if they do beautiful Carl Schurz Park at 86th Street and East End Avenue in not buy the day they visit, she follows up with cards, phone calls - even Manhattan. Registration will begin at 10:00 a.m. and the walk at 11:00 dinners - until she eventually makes the sale. a.m. A musical program featuring young performers will begin at 1:00- 2:00 p.m. Preregistration is encouraged. For more information and to Dante honed her art of the soft sell during the eight years she ran her own register, go to www.georgebestcostacosfoundation.com/events. A fashion business, then again during her stint as a real-estate agent in recognized 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, THE GEORGE “BEST” Beverly Hills and the Big Apple. “When you’re working with Beverly Hills COSTACOS CULTURAL AND CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION was clients, you don’t usually say, ‘You have to buy this $20 million mansion founded in 2009 to honor the memory of the late actor/singer and right now,'” she says. "That’s the biggest difference. In timeshare you have member of the ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, George “Best” to ask for the money that day." Costacos, who died in November 2008 of a malignant brain tumor. The That hasn’t been a problem, however. The Manhattan Club, which offers foundation’s mission is to promote, foster, and advance the professional stunningly decorated one- and two-bedroom suites with all the amenities pursuits of young performers in theater, dance or musical performance, of a five-star hotel, is just across the street from Carnegie Hall and only two to support research to understand the etiology of cancer and to support blocks from Central Park. Fifty Broadway shows are within walking improvement in the management of brain tumors. This year, the distance. The clientele that are attracted to Manhattan Club are highly foundation will support the innovative research of the laboratory of qualified. They enjoy the theater, the arts, and shopping. They come in to David C. Lyden, M.D., Ph.D. Among his notable findings, Dr. Lyden has the city for trade shows. Many are referred by clients who already own a identified two bone marrow-derived progenitor cells that form new unit at the Manhattan Club. All of these factors contribute to a very high blood vessels in tumors and regenerative diseases with clinical closing rate. applications. The ACTORS EQUITY FOUNDATION was created in 1962 Incentives make it worthwhile for clients to buy on the same day. And and serves the purpose of voluntarily aiding and assisting the members because prices do go up - in one year the price went up eight times - it’s of the acting profession and to promote the theater arts. The Actors actually in the client’s best interest to buy the day of the presentation. Still, Equity Foundation was created in 1962 and serves the purpose of Dante does not believe in pushing people to buy. "l like to give people voluntarily aiding and assisting the members of the acting profession options,” she says. “If they like it, they’re welcome to do it. If they don’t, and to promote the theater arts. George Costacos was born in Athens, that’s fine, too." Greece in 1964. An award from the Fulbright Foundation gave him the opportunity to study in New York. His passion for music and theater led Dante continues to cultivate clients even after they purchase. She sends him to receive countless kudos for diverse and prolific creativity as an them thank-you cards, calls them - “whatever has to be done to make them actor and a writer, “carving the steady and significant course of a feel good and wanted,” she says. Happy clients, in turn, give more business dynamic artists who has bewitched with his multifaceted talent, knows to Dante by sending her their friends. Would her approach work how to magnetize the lens of current events and puts his signature on elsewhere? “People are the same everywhere," she says. “They just have every aspect of his work” – to quote a few of the glowing reviews in the nuances. Treat them nicely, and they’ll be wonderful to you.” abundant international press. Esquire Magazine called George Costacos “The most important Greek of Broadway.” From the March-Aprill 1999 Issue of RCI Premier Magazine savings in fuel expenditure for the facility by Peter Shakalis owner. Applied to Greece, this system could create many future-looking Greek jobs paid for, neither by Greek citizens nor the government, but by Euros diverted from the Light at the End of Greece’s pockets of Middle Eastern oil producers.

Prime Minister George Papandreou is taping Difficult Tunnel By Andy Manatos and Andy Athens this pent-up demand for access to the Greek market by successful Hellenes in the three meetings he held with them in recent months. We have seen this demand over the decades as we arranged for various Greek Ministers to get It may be difficult to see now, but there is light, together with America’s top Greek-American businesspeople. Their reaction is similar to the bright light, at the end of the obstacle-filled Diasporas of Ireland and Israel that played a significant role during those counties’ times of economic tunnel through which Greece is now trouble. Learn Where Learning passing. In fact the light at the end of this One might ask if these companies want so badly Manhattan Office to go to Greece what’s stopping them. The Began - Full-Tuition Scholarships tunnel is significantly brighter than at its answer is that these business leaders have seen virtually everyone lose money who tried to take entrance. How can this be? their business to Greece. The various Market Holding corruptions in Greece’s economic and at American College of Greece bureaucratic system, that they didn’t see in other foreign markets where they were successful, stopped them. However, if current reforms are The Greek America Foundation is proud to announce the Hellenic Legacy Steady… Scholarship for students studying abroad in Greece at DEREE - The The answer has two parts. The first fully implemented and Greece becomes a part of the answer involves the fact meritocracy, you will see hundreds of top notch American College of Greece in Athens for the upcoming spring semester, that Greek people prosper in businesspeople, Hellenes and non-Hellenes, which begins in January 2011. As the summer draws to a close and business activity picks up once economies that are based on the merit investing in Greece. again, the opportunities in the office space market for companies In addition to an extensive series of programming and special events looking to lease new space or renew their existing leases are many. of the individual or company – However the doom and gloom that some in the real estate community economies like those in America and If the corruptions disappear, so will Greece’s throughout the nation, the Greek America Foundation recently launched its brain drain. Hellenism’s best and brightest will Hellenic Legacy Scholarship Fund to provide semester-long, full tuition anticipated seems to be on the side lines for now. While the market has Australia. For example, a Pew a long way to go before the return to the pre-recession days, it is Foundation study found that in stay in Greece, and many who left will return scholarships. like a moth to a flame, bringing with them high holding steady. Rents in July of this year were 40% lower that they America, (an economy three times were in July 2008, however this precipitous decline has abated. larger than China’s) Greek Orthodox paying jobs and cutting-edge new Greek The Hellenic Legacy Scholarship is one of the core components of the mission companies. Although rents remain weak, the amount of space that was leased in citizens have higher income and of the Greek America Foundation. Study abroad in Greece provides an the second quarter of 2010, a total of 7.4 million square feet, was education levels than all other Since the “Golden Age”, Greeks linked merit, opportunity for a truly transformative experience in which students have the double the amount recorded in the second quarter 2009. Moreover, it religions, except for members of the chance to learn more about themselves and to develop an understanding of was 42% higher than during the first quarter of 2010. Jewish faith. reward and excellence. With merit of performance in mind, Greeks were the first to the place of Hellenism and Greece in the world. A number of business sectors were active this past quarter with law But, one might ask, is Greece still the create organized athletic competition. firms, finance, non-profits, quasi-government organizations and Additionally, the Greeks were the first to have Candidates must be U.S. or Canadian university students with a commitment government agencies completing some substantial transactions. Law wellspring of such successful people to community building and leadership who wish to spend a semester abroad or did America and Australia train merit and democracy choose their leaders firms were responsible for a large number of lease transactions, and Hellenes to perform so well? rather than brute intimidation or inheritance. in Greece. Ideal candidates are independent-minded students who wish to some of the largest transactions. During the last decade, law firms on Relatively recent Greek immigrants to Alexander the Great expressed Greece’s immerse themselves into the heart of an ancient capital city at an average have accounted for 10 % of space leased in the city (as merit-based criterion when he bequeathed his educational institution comprised of over 3,000 Greek and international measured by square feet), however this past quarter they have America and Australia outperform accounted for over 23% of all space leased. Proskauer Rose L.L.P. took second and third generation Hellenes, kingdom “to the strongest.” students. The deadline for spring semester scholarship applications is George Sakellaris, founder and President of over 400,000 square feet at 11 Times Square; Willkie Farr & proving that Greece is still the November 1, 2010. Gallagher signed for 355,000 square feet at 787 Seventh Avenue; wellspring such performance. Ameresco, the number one American company Converting Greece to a more merit based for improving energy efficiency and reducing economy isn’t easy. But Greeks have never and Kenyon & Kenyon renewed at One Broadway for nearly The Greek America Foundation is also proud to announce Deborah 200,000 square feet. In Greece, historical developments the carbon dioxide footprint of major facilities, shied away from difficult necessities. Mirroring Cunningham as the recipient of its first Hellenic Legacy Scholarship. She will including the US Capitol building. the typical Greek reaction, author Nikos caused the economic system to study abroad during the 2010 fall semester. Leases closed by financial firms constituted just 11 percent of the total become less based on merit and to Kazantzakis said, “Though my teeth clattered in the second quarter, while financial sector firms in recent times have The second part of the reason that there is with fear, I bound my forehead tightly with a become filled with a range of corruptions, Deborah is a senior at Wheaton College in Illinois with a double major in occupied at least 25 percent of the total stock of space in Manhattan. bright light at the end of the tunnel involves red handkerchief to hide the blood, and I It is interesting to note that at least half of the leases in the financial thereby limiting the areas in which Greeks can Ancient Languages and English. Deborah chose to study abroad in Greece in flourish and lead the world. The fact that the decades of pent-up demand for involvement in returned to the assault.” Whether fighting the sector originated in the hedge and equity funds sub-segment of the the Greek market by successful businesses Axis forces in WWII, preparing for the 2004 order to "gain a deeper, more personal understanding of Greek culture." industry. Investment and commercial banks were largely absent from Greek people could achieve a good standard Having studied Ancient Greek, Deborah is now looking forward to of living amid decades of such corruptions is, in owned by Hellenes outside of Greece. And, world-leading Olympic Games or struggling these leasing statistics, however some recent transactions include itself, a testament to their extraordinary once they show that foreign companies can through today’s IMF/EU imposed economic immersing herself in the modern language and culture. At the American Capital Bank One’s expansion to 140,000 square feet at 90 Park abilities. As well, Greece’s ability to have prosper in the Greek economy others will follow. transformation Greeks somehow meet College of Greece she plans to study Modern Greek, Greek Folklore and Avenue, Alliance Global Investors 213,000 square foot deal at 1633 already reduced by 40% its deficit compared Kazantzakis’ challenge to “reach what you Anthropology, and the Archaeology of Greece. Broadway and Piper Jaffray, an international middle market One of many examples of the pent-up demand cannot.” investment bank’s deal in Midtown for nearly 65,000 square feet at to last year is another indication of an ability to 345 Park Avenue. accomplish difficult things. The elimination of for access to the Greek market is the Ameresco The Greek America Foundation is very pleased to be able to support corruptions in the Greek economy will unleash Company, owned by George Sakellaris. It is Deborah in her efforts with a scholarship for a full semester’s tuition to In many cases law firms do appear to have enough clarity about their the country and its people. the number one American company for further her study and experience of diachronic Hellenism. Stay tuned as we future business prospects to fix their occupancy costs now, but are improving energy efficiency and reducing the Andy Manatos – former US Assistant Secretary of follow Deborah on her journey of personal discovery in Greece. She will be taking the same amount or less space in their new leases. Even though There is no doubt in our minds that Greece will carbon dioxide footprint of major facilities, Commerce, President of Manatos & Manatos, and current market conditions favor occupiers, the large investment and including the US Capitol building. Its work costs President of the Coordinated Effort of Hellenes blogging regularly and posting photos from her journeys at 18 soon be one of the world leaders in some http://www.greekamerica.org/hlf/ commercial banks however still perceive too much uncertainty about 19 technologies and other fields. Look what these facilities effectively nothing. The amount (CEH) their occupancy needs to take advantage of the market. of savings in fuel expenditures generated by

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THE GENERANEWTION of DOCTORS Name: Elias Anthony Iliadis, MD Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Disease; Position: Director, Peripheral Vascular Intervention, Associate Director, Cardiac Cath Lab, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey, Associate Director for Research and Education, Cooper University Cardiology, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Committee Member, Medical Student Policy and Procedure Committee, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University BS Chemistry Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, MD Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, Internal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson Education: University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, Cardiology, Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical center, Chicago, Ill, Interventional Cardiology, University of Michigan Medical Centers, Ann Arbor, MI Where were you born and where did you grow adequately promoted. Overall, despite What qualities do you most admire or value in up? challenges, I still remain optimistic and anticipate others? a healthy discussion among all parties. I was born in Neptune New Jersey and grew up in My parents were focused on interpersonal Freehold New jersey which was during those If you were a patient, what would the ideal interactions and valued mutual respect very years, a blue collar town in which we owned the doctor look to you like? highly as I still do. I believe in our fast paced local American Diner “Tony’s Freehold Grille”. I society the ability to adapt and re-invent oneself was the third child of Greek immigrants and My ideal physician is knowledgeable, personable is valuable. Lastly, I believe true altruism is taught to value education and pursue excellence and my advocate for me in the overall health care missing in modern society and should be cherished while maintaining respect for our peers. system. A Greek American physician would add when observed. an extra dimension to our interaction and would Who or what were the main influences in your help him understand my unique diseases (ie Who are your heroes in real life? life? eating liver soup at 1 am after Easter may contribute to cholesterol and gastric problems…). I would consider individuals of great moral A person most influential in my life was my mother character to be my heroes: Nelson Mandela who and her very strong Christian beliefs. She Has your Hellenic heritage influenced your fought social injustice for 20 years with non- constantly put others before herself and instilled professional conduct and in what ways? violence and prevailed. People who face her values in us. She dreamed of becoming a adversity and respond with greatness: Stephen physician which was very difficult as an My Greek heritage has also been a driving force Hawkins, Phd. Medical breakthroughs which immigrant. She was proud of her parenting of for excellence in my life, both personally and affect millions: Georgios Papanikolaou, MD. her sons as her greatest accomplishment. professionally. I believe our heritage can be manifested in modern life through our drive to Where would you like to be in your Why did you become a doctor? excel professionally and in American society professional and personal life 20 years from while promoting our traditions for our youth. In now? I was always intrigued by the human body and its my field of Cardiology, there are noted Greek ability to heal itself as well as our capacity to experts which have become my role models and Professionally, I would envision myself as chief of alter disease process through medicines or helped focus my career. I believe that our an academic cardiology division of a major procedures. From an early age, I enjoyed the minority status as a European immigrant has teaching university hospital. This would entail scientific method and thought that a medical driven us (the Diaspora) to excel in the American publishing several papers per year and career offered the best opportunity to pursue landscape. contributing to medical science. Personally, I both interests. I volunteered on the local rescue envision 20 more years with a wonderful person, squad to test my endurance in the medical field As a successful American you could and Katherine Dedes Iliadis, and hopefully relishing and found that all those years paid off through perhaps have joined major organizations that the successes of our children and their families. learning to deal with a variety of patrons with are focused more on mainstream society. Why respect and compassion while serving their needs. HMS? How do you spend your time outside of work? Overall, this career fulfills my body and soul. I have been part of the Hellenic Medical Society Our family enjoys our beach home in Bethany As a new generation doctor, how do you in each of the areas I have trained and worked. Beach, Delaware, both summer and off season. I evaluate the state of health care in the US? Similar to the Orthodox Church for some, I have pursue golf and tennis as much as possible. sought out other Greek American organizations The US has the most advanced health care system for acceptance and sense of belonging. I am What is your idea of happiness? in the world with most if not all innovation arising strongly committed to promoting the youth of our from here. However, the cost of health care has society in health care careers with both financial Happiness is loving the person you are or are spiraled out of control and the physicians have and referral support to encourage a stronger becoming. Happiness is making the people 20 been greatest negative impacted by the latest Greek Presence. 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The Hellenic Medical Society of New York (HMS) has its origins in the Greek-American Medical Fraternity, an entity co-founded by the renowned physician George N. Papanicolaou during the First World War. This organization officially registered with the New York State authorities in 1920. photographs that comment on the very nature America, it is not an exaggeration to say that in and culture of photography. the West, the only thing known about Persian In this paradoxical and irreverent spirit, I dressed up in a traditional Persian outfit and explored hiding places. After traveling in the West of the United States, I found the recreated Mormon Pioneer town in Salt Lake City to be an ideal setting for exploring identity, playing roles, being known and unknown, telling and withholding. I never reveal all of me, nor all of the scene. In most of this photographic series, actually, only part of a feature or scene is shown, so as to allow more space for interpretation by showing less. Just as I have had to pick up the pieces of my identity along the way, so too, must the viewers of my exhibition turn the photographs into tales which make sense to them. My aim was to invite people to come and see this real and unreal world, this theater of identities. I tore the edges of all the photographs. I tore away at the straight By Dina Pinos documentary tradition of having to keep everything straight. I tore them to look like torn Greek Iranian American artist and educator Aphrodite Desiree Greek Iranian American artist and educator memories, torn identities–bits and pieces Navab is presenting her latest collection of photography "Between Aphrodite Desiree Navab wanting to be whole. Tattered tales defy the Lines" at Soho20 Chelsea gallery (547 W 27th St., Suite 301, straight paths. Not to become larger straight NY, NY 10001), from September 7 to October 2. There will also be angles, but to take on shapes not yet identified. a live performance of this series at Zora Space (315 4th Ave, Ultimately the tales are ways of a new North Brooklyn, NY 11215) on October 28. American, a Middle Eastern-North American woman trying to write her own myths within the “Through my art I dislocate and relocate my place between Iran, older myths of North America. Greece and the United States,” she states. “Each installation places a foundation stone into a new home that I am building away from How did you come up with the title? home, but always in critical dialogue with the memory of the these new cultures, I discovered photography as an undergraduate in the Visual and I did not know from where in my subconscious I childhood homes. To be ‘unhomed’ as cultural studies theorist Homi had pulled out the title. Two years later, on my Bhabha puts it, does not mean that one is ‘homeless’. Nor does it Environmental Studies program at Harvard University. This was the first time that I was able first trip back in over twenty years to my native mean that one can be accommodated easily. By occupying two country, Iran, I found out. In a closet full of dust places at once, a cultural hybrid becomes difficult to place. This to explore and express through art, what was lost and what was gained from my life’s and disorder, with books stacked desperately in ‘third space’ of working, contesting and reconstructing creates an every direction, in the house we deserted opening for other positions to emerge. My art provides the space of translations. As a result of my own experiences, I have wanted to facilitate other people’s need twenty-one years ago when we ran to the ‘unhomeliness’- a space of trans-national and cross-cultural airport for our lives, on a shelf deep within my initiations.” to understand the world and to be understood beyond the boundaries of language and memory, I found my parents’ book, Tales Worth culture, through the powerful and Retelling. The installation, Re-Collecting Iran Aphrodite’s art has been featured in over 100 exhibitions around (2002-2004), embodies within its fabric both the world and is featured in a number of permanent collections, communicative medium of art. While being a practitioner of art for over twenty years, I the process and product of my trip to Iran. It is a including the Lowe Art Museum and the Harn Museum of Art. She cultural re-collection of objects and memories has also published several scholarly journal articles dealing with sought not only to make art for public exhibition, discussion and debate but also to include the left behind after twenty-two years of exile. It photography, identity and gender exposure. Her creative writing is consists of black and white photographs taken published or forthcoming in five anthologies. artist’s voice in the writing of history and criticism of art through my publications and in Iran along with personal and cultural objects lectures. that I brought back with me to the United States. Tell our readers about yourself and your family background. Each group of objects is organized on a The issues with which I am concerned in art keep pedestal with a group of images relating to I am a Greek Iranian American artist and writer born in Isfahan, Iran, who uses visual art and coming back to the things in my life which I have three themes: Transit, Home, and Visual Cross- writing to investigate transnational issues in art and culture. had to re-define in exile: memory, language, Culture. The installation uses the ethnography My father, Ali Navab, is an Iranian doctor who met my mother, Katina Armenakis, a Greek identity, and culture and the ways in which exhibit aesthetic of a natural history museum, to American, in New York City while he was completing his medical residency there. They married images include certain visions, while excluding challenge this tradition of exhibiting the Other and went to Iran and gave birth to four children. They lived there for seventeen years. My father others. One of my aims in art and teaching, as strange, native, backwards, etc. Because I am was Vice Chancellor of the University of Isfahan and Dean of the Medical School. therefore, is to investigate and debate the exhibiting the self, I am doing auto- images of identity and culture circulating in ethnography, studying a culture as a participant Throughout the first ten years of my life we lived in Athens for several months every summer. mass media, not to supply more narrow and within that culture-- as a passionate, subjective When the revolution came and our family left Iran, my father was not allowed to leave with us. stereotypical images, but rather, to contribute and vulnerable observer, not an objective one. They put him on forbidden passage. For two years we waited in Athens until he was given more sensitive and informed visions to the Thus the objects on display have the look of a permission to leave Iran to seek medical care. My family reunited and settled in New York City. public; where art and education become one. museum exhibit but are priceless only to the Greece was the middle ground and sanctuary for my family’s relocations. Talk to us about your Tales Left Untold series. artist herself: from my first toys, bed sheets, and In 2004, I completed an Ed.D. in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia artwork that my family had deserted in Iran to University. I taught as Assistant Professor of Art at the College of Fine Arts, University of Florida, Through nineteen years of art practice I have contemporary Iranian popular culture items and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. I received my BA magna cum laude in Visual and learned that photography is part myth, part (like movie stars on key chains, photo and Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 1993. reality, part fiction, part truth. But how was I to cinema magazines, etc.) that I brought back to explore this rich paradox within my own art? share with the North American public. You are both an educator and artist. Tell us about your art work and how your background This was the dilemma that motivated me to 22 has influenced your aspirations. conceive of the Tales Left Untold (2000) series. I What about your I Am Not a Persian Carpet 23 had already investigated issues of identity in series? 0 0 1 1 e e

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Emmanuel Caravanos, Treasurer of the Hellenic American Bankers Association, Tina Handras, Stelios Takentzis of Cosmos FM with Markos Papadatos, Senior Vice President Marathon Bank, and Nikolas Demetrios Rhompotis of NEO George Michelis and Anthony DeRosa Kathy DeRosa and Ana Tuminello Kostakos, Vice President Marathon Bank magazine and AKTINA FM

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NEO's Kyprianos Bazenikas and Demetrios Rhompotis, Honorary Guest Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, the evening's Paul Makropoulos, Spyro Paliuras From left, Myrto Charamis, John Dimitrakakis of HBN Hosts Dr. John Frankis and Nick Katopodis and John Levas, President of the Adelina, Maria Zoitas, Kati Paliuras Vasso and Taki Katsoulis with Joanna Kyriakou and Eleni with Alexis Glenn of HBN Women and NEO's Los Angeles Desk Director Joanna Xipa AHEPA 456 Chapter and Marilena Katopodis Lawrence and Marilyn Levy Avgousti Friends gather in support of NEO

When Dr. John Frankis and Nick Katopodis from Manhasset, New York, came up with the idea of organizing a Welcome the Summer event in support of NEO magazine – the first of its kind for this publication – given that it was late May, they Emmanuel Stefanakis of concluded that a maximum of 50 friends, for a last-minute notice, was the best they could hope for. Well, they were Coco-Mat USA with HBN Dr. John Frankis, the evening's host, Adelina of Adelina's Hair Design in wrong! When the night of the event came, a beautiful June evening with a majestic sunset, over 100 people--double Founder and President John Dimitrakakis and John Petras, Katherine Tedesco, Manhasset, Kali and Spyro Paliuras Rev. Gerasimos Ballas Helen Petras and Maria Frankis what they expected--showed up at Roslyn’s super-elegant Limani Restaurant to share a few hours of each other’s Steve Spucces and Peter Sanoulis of CSPN Inc. with Dino Ralis company, to meet new people, enjoy the wonderful Greek wine offered for the occasion by Dimitris Ziozis from Georgia Vavas Wonderful Ethnic Imports, and to savor the mouth-watering appetizers of Chef Peter Spyropoulos. Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, NEO’s Man of the Year for 2010, joined the attendees and received a framed cover of the June issue, featuring himself and his achievements in his half year on the job (in which he cut the County’s deficit by half). Rev. Gerasimos Ballas, Dean at St. Anargyroi and Taxiarhes Church in Greenport, was there as well, John Levas, President of the area’s AHEPA Gold Coast Chapter 456, Eleftheria Ikouta, Principal of the Greek School of Plato, in Brooklyn, Tina Handras, Senior Vice President of Marathon Bank, with Nikolas Kostakos, head of the local branch, Emmanuel Caravanos, Treasurer of the Hellenic American Bankers Association, Kathy DeRosa, founder and President of the DeRosa Foundation, and John Dimitrakakis, founder and President of the Hellenic Business Network. Socialite and Producer George Sarafoglou, Peter Mamais, Peter Mamais and Stefano Ziozis John Kouros Lawrence Levy and Anthony Roccia George Patilis Indeed, everybody was special that evening and that was reflected in the people’s festive mood. “We gathered here to recognize the work this wonderful magazine is doing for the community and to ensure that it will continue to do so,” said 27 Dr. John Frankis welcoming the guests. “I thank you all for coming – indeed in such a short notice. It shows your sensitivity 0 1 0

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This October, NEO magazine marks five years of uninterrupted publication. It also marks the beginning of a new 24/7 P E radio station, RadioNEO, which will be on the air in New York and Chicago and all over the US online (radioneo.us). S Details to follow. Dr. John and Marilena Katopodis and Ana Tuminello Vilma Martinez Maria Frankis Maria Elena Palau-Rompotis

“Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations” to Open at By Maria A. Pardalis Smithsonian Fresh Fig and Toasted Walnut Bread Cyprus, the eastern-most island in the Mediterranean Sea, situated Figs are undeniably summer’s golden fruit. An emblem of the elegance of ancient Greek trees, but I can incorporate them into my daily at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, has been a meeting Luckily, for those of us in the tri-state area, they cuisine, figs are delicious whether eaten simply diet and happily reminisce. I especially love to point for many of the world’s great civilizations. From its 11,000- are still in season till the end of September. raw or heavily macerated and layered over a pair them with goat cheese, drizzle with dark year history, Cyprus has woven its own distinctive history and culture. Whether you are a fruit aficionado or not, I rich Roquefort mousse tart. The Greek poet honey, stuff into a tender pork loin and roast to urge you to go out and buy this exceptionally Alexis of Thurii referred to the fig as “that god- perfection; now that to me is pure culinary bliss. “Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations” will be on view at the nutritious treat before its heartbreakingly short given inheritance of our mother country” and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History from Sept. 29 season quickly fleets away! Though dried figs “darling of my heart”. Darling to my heart Figs are versatile and excellent over Greek through May 1, 2011. The exhibition is presented on the occasion of are available year-round, they certainly do not indeed they are, as I associate them with my yogurt, in pancake mix or even made into the 50th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Cyprus. hold a candle to the juicy flavor of fresh figs, nor carefree childhood summers spent in Greece preserves, which will enable you to savor the do they evoke the taste of summer as and Cyprus surrounded by beautiful fig trees, flavor of summer for months to come. Celebrate The exhibition will feature more than 200 artifacts—covering nearly poignantly. fig tarts and even fig ice cream. I may no the fig this weekend and try my recipe for a 11,000 years of history—which range from items from the earliest longer be able to spend months basking in the quick bread filled with toasted walnuts and ripe villages to masterpieces of medieval religious art, give an overview Mediterranean sun while eating a plethora of figs. of the island’s unique culture. Among the objects on display will be for plump figs freshly cut from my grandmother’s the first time in this country: A pygmy hippopotamus skull (10,000 to 8,500 B.C.), gold jewelry and sphinx sculptures from the Cypro- Archaic period (750 to 480 B.C.), vases, bowls and sculptures, including an Aphrodite marble, from the Hellenistic (325 to 50 B.C.) Yields: 2 small loaves, and Roman (50 B.C. to A.D. 330) periods, bronze and copper items, including lamps and jugs, from the Byzantine period (330 to 1191), religious icons, paintings and vases from the medieval period (13th Prep time: 20 minutes to 16th century). The exhibition also will feature nearly 100 coins from different eras in Cypriot history, starting from the Hellenistic period through the Venetian period. Bake time: 50 - 60 minutes

“Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilizations” was made possible by the Cyprus Department of Antiquities, the Cultural Foundation of the Bank of Cyprus, the Byzantine Museum of the Archbishop Makarios Preparation: III Foundation, the Holy Bishopric of Morfou, the Pierides Marfin Bank 1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees place the oven rack in the middle position. Museum, the Thalassa Museum of the Municipality of Agia Napa and the National Museum of Natural History. 2. Next place chopped figs in a medium bowl and top with orange juice. Allow to sit for 15 minutes. 3. In a large bowl, combine applesauce, honey, sugar and eggs; stir with a whisk until well blended. Add yogurt, vanilla, orange zest, and mix well. 4. Stir in flours, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Gently fold in prepared figs and walnuts. 5. Spoon batter into 2 medium greased 8-by-4-inch loaf pans. Sprinkle tops with raw can sugar and cinnamon mixture. Bake at 350 for 50 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Transfer to wire rack to cool completely before slicing.

Ingredients: A slice of fig and walnut Ÿ 2 cups ripe fresh figs, stemmed and quartered Ÿ 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon bread makes for a well Ÿ ½ cup fresh orange juice Ÿ ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg rounded hearty and portable Ÿ 2 large eggs, at room temperature Ÿ Pinch ground cloves breakfast, especially when Ÿ 1 cup applesauce, unsweetened Ÿ 1 ½ cups all purpose flour topped with a tablespoon of Ÿ 1 cup toasted walnuts, coarsely chopped Ÿ 1 ½ cups whole wheat flour natural nut butter for added Ÿ 1 tablespoon freshly grated orange zest Ÿ 1 teaspoon baking powder protein. It is also delectable Ÿ 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract Ÿ 1 teaspoon baking soda served warm and topped with Ÿ ¾ cup honey Ÿ 1 teaspoon salt vanilla ice cream for dessert! Ÿ ½ cup light brown sugar Ÿ ¼ cup raw cane sugar mixed with 1 teaspoon ground Ÿ 1 cup plain low fat yogurt cinnamon (optional – for topping) Ÿ 2 (8X4 inch) loaf pans Kali Orexi!!

Early Olympian athletes feasted on figs as training food and were also Did you know... presented figs as laurels to the winners as the first Olympic “metal”?

It was a beautiful evening in the Southampton on August 28th, for the engagement party of Andrea Catsimatidis, daughter of John and Margo Catsimatidis, and Mr. Chris Cox, son of Trisia Nixon and Edward C. Cox, grandson of Richard Nixon. The party took place on the grounds of the local Greek Orthodox Church and it Maria Garozi (Photographer/Vogue Contributor) and Anna Badavas of Condenast The hostess, Eleni Delibaltadaki (left) and Olga Alexacos was a very elegant affair with music legend Jay Black From left, Chris Cox, Andrea Catsimatidis, performing for the newly Trisia Nixon and Edward C. Cox, John and Margo Catsimatidis and John Catsimatidis Junior engaged couple. Fr. Alex Karloutsos was on hand to bless the engagement. Andrea, 19, is a member of NYU’s class of 2012 and Chris Cox, 31, is running as a Republican in Long Island.

Among the famous guests in attendance was Mr. Peter Arnett, the former CNN correspondent. Olga Alexakos, Esther Lainis and Fran Gretes Mari Carras with Anthoula Katsimatidis Annie Badavas and Eleni Delibaltadaki NEO magazine was on hand to wish the couple and their parents congratulations. The newly engaged: Andrea Catsimatidis and Chris Cox Jay Black performing for the newly engaged couple and their guests

Efie Lekkas, Olga Alexakos and Professor From left, Elena Kyriakides, Koula Sofianou (Counsul Vasilis Katsikiotis of Bank of America General of Cyprus) Olga Alexakou and Leslie Kabrin An Evening of Conversation and Art in Manhattan

the entire world will be watching," emphasized Dr. Katsikiotis. His The Association of Greek American presentation was followed by a lively discussion. Professional Women (AGAPW) The evening also featured a photography exhibit by a young artist, Maria Garozi, entitled "Would we be America if not for...? The American recently held an event entitled "An Superwoman and Immigrants on the Streets of New York", which was enthusiastically received by all present. Ms. Garozi gave a brief Evening of Conversation and Art" introduction of her work, which is part of a greater photopoetry project she is working on, focused on immigrants in New York City.

in Manhattan. The gathering was Dr. Olga Alexakos, the president of AGAPW, gave welcoming remarks and introduced the speakers and special guests, who included Ms. Koula hosted by Eleni Delimbaltadakis Sophianou, Consul General of Cyprus, Ms. Polyxeni Mastroperrou, Director of the Greek Press and Information Office and numerous and Spencer Janis at their loft in members of the Greek American community and press.

Flatiron. The guests had the chance to enjoy fine Greek wine provided by Mr. Konstantine Drougos of Wonderful Ethnic, and complementary meze The capacity crowd had the opportunity to hear a first-rate presentation tasting provided by Mr. Christos Valtzoglou of Pylos restaurant. on the state of the Greek and global economy by Dr. Vasilis Katsikiotis, Ph.D., Managing Director and Head of Insurance Linked Products Trading AGAPW is planning a series of events starting in September. For further 34 Global Markets and Investment Banking at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. information on upcoming events and on the organization please visit their "If history can even serve as a distant guide, Greeks have always risen to website, www.agapw.org or call Dr. Alexakos at 917-405-6833. 0

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E historical heritage and they will rise to the occasion once again. This time, T P E S there is a better future for them individually or collectively. All they know is that more suffering is in the offing and there is no leadership or some other kind of Greece: guidance that could convince them that, through hard work and sacrifice, something better will come. It’s as if they reached the end of a path that instead peri scope of the Promised Land brought them to the beginning of another dessert. X From PIG to Guinea pig In the meantime, Greeks are not alone in this, even within their country. About There is a saying in Greek--which might have come from another two million immigrants, legal and illegal, face even worse challenges and Gus Sverkos language, I don’t know--that the best defense is going on the offense, in nobody knows how they will react as even the little they could make becomes Coming soon this September, on behalf of RadioNEO, stay tuned for "Kalimera L.A. other words: don’t fall back and wait for the enemy to take the first step scarce. Hundreds of thousands have nowhere else to go: their countries, with Joanna Xipa & Friends”, a new and exciting Greek-American online radio and only then try to repel the attack. The Greek way is to attack first, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, don’t want them back as Greece found out Call-In show, with your chance to have your voices, ideas and events heard (both grab the bull by the horns, and either drop him to his knees or jump over when it attempted to repatriate some of them. Turkey, unable herself to cope locally & around the world)! him--as they did in the ancient Cretan bull fighting--and let him run in with the influx of those illegal immigrants, facilitates their entry into Greece, the opposite direction, snuffling with rage. In these modern times the taking advantage of the impossible-to-guard Aegean Sea. All the while, With a dash of the hottest Greek hits, a pinch of my lighthearted humor paired with bull has come to Greece in the form of the out-of-state control, supra- Greece keeps requesting EU aid, but to no avail. It would take a government my entertaining co-hosts, Gus Sverkos and Elias Ladas, and of course a daily dose national financial institutions that have imposed on the country an with unusual nerve and guts to play a radical card and perhaps grant all illegal of Greek-American guest speakers as well, you're also welcome to call in and add asphyxiating set of rules and regulations with the sole aim to immigrants Greek citizenship overnight and buy them an one-way airline ticket guarantee that they will get their money back that was lent at usurious to a European country of their choice a breath of fresh air to the mix! rates. The less explicit goal is to ensure that Greece doesn’t default (helping at the same time the Greek airline because such a prospect would trigger a chain reaction with Portugal, companies), but you can’t hope for In sharing with you a little bit about my co-hosts, you will surely appreciate the long- Spain, and even England following suit, and with consequences to the something like that! Had such a time commitment DJ/Promoter/Restaurateur Gus Sverkos of Goodtime Productions world financial order that will be both unpredictable and government been in place, no so much has made to the local Greek communities in Southern California. He was featured unprecedented. precious time would have been wasted in the June issue of NEO magazine in my “West Coast Beat” column and you may Small Greece is being used as a guinea pig (up to a few months ago from last October until last February, the Yours truly, Joanna Xipa look it up online via the archives if you haven’t read about him already. she was just …a pig: a member of the contemptuously-named group of country could have found less expensive countries whose initials form the acronym PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, money in the free market (China and Russia Elias Ladas, is another Greek-American who you may have already heard about Greece, Spain) for the array of therapies being applied that even if indeed made offers. In fact tiny Moldova recently placing third with his Celebrity Partner, Eugenia Manolidou, in Greece’s they prove successful, most likely will kill the patient--or the pig, in this got loans with half the interest rate Greece case! That is what has driven the people hopeless, as I had the chance to was paying at about the same time), and “Dancing With The Stars” this year, broadcast here via Antenna Satellite on Sunday even the agreement with the IMF and the A breathtaking view of the village of evenings. American born and raised in Athens, with a passion for dance that witness firsthand during my recent three week vacation there: even if “they behave” and follow the rules religiously (with all the misery they other European financial institutions could Aghios Petros, in Lefkas Island, where started out as a hobby 20 years ago, it has since blossomed into a full blown career entail, because they brought on series of salary and pension cuts) doom have been struck in different terms (as did I grew up. Despite the economic crisis here in Southern California, where he is ranked amongst the top 20 out of 2,500 most likely won’t be allayed, because the economy will collapse under Turkey in the ‘90s). that hit Greece, land prices remain professional dance instructors in America! the weight of the therapy. While this measures onslaught is being All these missed opportunities have high, with properties selling for applied, new packages of measures are in the offing, even harsher, exasperated Greeks even further and €250,000 (about $400,000) a piece I’m so excited to bring together this love of music and dance for you, with the leaving no illusion that things will go better. Instead it’s certain that the made them cynical, distrustful and Elias Ladas passion of my hometown Greek spirit that I will forever carry with me from the situation will get only worse. At the same time, much needed state ultimately unwilling to move forward just when the opposite is sine qua non if the world famous Danforth Aveue of Toronto! If the three of us can come together from investment in order for the economy to move forward is non-existent country is to escape certain death. Let us hope that the ignition to the much different corners of the world and bring smiles and good cheers your way every (last year, however, just before the crisis started full course, the previous needed renaissance will not come in the form of another national tragedy day, then no mountains are too big for crossing over to unite us now! government could secure more that 25 billion € for the banks – just like (shock therapy), after a prolonged dark ages period into which the country has here, by the way) while the banks are still unwilling to make loans easier just entered. Since the political party system has failed in its entirety, hope can Our L.A. morning show will air 9am PST, 11am Central, 12pm EST. It will give you for businesses to start or expand. Whatever remains from the middle only come from entities and individuals who having stayed out of the “party” all a chance to shout out to your loved ones with birthday wishes, wedding class business sector is relentlessly taxed and attacked and as a result a have long realized that there is another path to life and success. From them real huge--for such a small country--number of shops, small scale guidance, inspiration, faith and hope can emanate and spark a wider announcements, or even last minute reminders or sharing of your events going on the manufacturing or other free enterprises are shuttering one after the movement which in turn will make our brethren there to react in a positive very same evening! other. manner and put their wit into action. PHOTO: NICK DIMITROKALIS People in Greece have been through major crises before: in the last 60 Throughout modern Greek history great So, don’t be shy... Feel free to speak in Greek, or English... or even Grenglish! Won’t years only they went through world wars, a foreign occupation, a civil deeds were ac hieved despite that be interesting, eh? So, fire up the ‘mbriki’ if you will, make mine a ‘metrio’, sit DEMETRIOS RHOMPOTIS war, a military dictatorship and a national tragedy (Cyprus). And yet, governments or other official forms of [email protected] down with us and enjoy ‘enan elliniko kafe’! according to those who went through all that, it’s the first time that leadership and the Herculian task of Greeks are so dispirited, so hopeless, unwilling to seriously believe that getting out of this mess is no exception. Manatos Family Celebrates 100th Anniversary in America

(L to R) Tina and Andy Manatos (Mike's parents), Fox 5 DC News Anchor Laura Evans Manatos and Mike Manatos, Kathleen Matthews and Host of MSNCB "Harball" Chris Matthews The Manatos family recently celebrated three important milestones, including the 100th anniversary of the arrival of their family in the United States. The celebration was covered by US News & World Report, Politico, The Hill, Roll Call and NBC Washington. Members of Congress, White House staff, current and former senior State Department officials, and members of the media including Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball, joined the Manatos family at a reception on Monday evening at Kellari Taverna on K Street.

(L to R) Andy Manatos, American University President Neil Kerwin, Mike Manatos, former Sen. (L to R) Mike Manatos, Deputy Assistant Secretary (L to R) Vice President Biden's Social Secretary Carlos Paul Sarbanes (D-MD), former Bush Administration of State Marcie Ries, former US Ambassador to Elizondo, Laura Evans Manatos and Mike Manatos, Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman Greece Charlie Ries, former Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Congressman John Sarbanes (D-MD) The Manatos family celebrated the arrival of Richter, chief of staff to Sen. Olympia Snowe (R- of MSNBC's "Hardball," made an appearance Nick A. Manatos (originally Manatakis - Maine); Julia Frifield, chief of staff to Sen. with his wife, former ABC 7 anchor Kathleen Μανατάκης) 100 years ago (on July 27, 1910) Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.); and McMahon chief Matthews.” at Ellis Island from Crete, Greece. They also of staff and former lobbyist Chris McCannell.” celebrated the 75th anniversary of the arrival “The Manatos family's Washington, D.C., ties of Mike N. Manatos in Washington, DC, where “The guest list showed the party to be a run deep. Mike Manatos' grandfather was the he began the family's uninterrupted work on US convergence of Washington's Greek Senate liaison to presidents John F. Kennedy public policy development from the public and community, lobbyists, and members of Congress and Lyndon B. Johnson. His father was President private sector, as well as the 20th anniversary and staffers, as well as a contingent of local Jimmy Carter's assistant secretary of Commerce of Mike A. Manatos joining the firm of Manatos news personalities. It also went a long way to for legislation before starting the family's lobby & Manatos. show that Manatos & Manatos is a key player shop with his father in 1983,” Roll Call wrote. on K Street and in Congress, even if some of the “The firm still represents several clients, 38 According to Roll Call, “Reps. Gus Bilirakis (R- party chatter wasn't focused on cap-and-trade, including Ameresco, Cubicorp, the Pancyprian

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E Sarbanes (D-Md.). Several top Capitol Hill attention between the couple's three children S aides also joined in the festivities, including John and her Fox 5 colleagues. Chris Matthews, host