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Widened By Andy Dabilis gether on terrorism, although TNH Staff Writer U.S. officials privately refer to the Greek network as a Allegations – Following the failure “sieve” because it is so porous of a second convicted terrorist and inadequate. Top Brass in six months – this one from Xeros was let go after a fur - Were Bribed the notorious killer group No - lough board determined he was vember 17 – to return from a not dangerous – although an furlough, the Greek government avowed terrorist with murder TNH Staff said it is moving to clamp down on his record – and was not a on the program that lets prison - flight risk. ATHENS – A widening Defense ers go free on the promise they’ll In the summer of 2012, an - Ministry scandal has led the come back. other convicted terrorist, Nikos Greek government to promise That came in the wake of a Maziotis, also walked away changes to the way contracts are frantic manhunt for Christodou - from a furlough and is now be - let and shocked the Armed Ser - los Xeros, 55, that didn’t begin lieved to be behind the Dec. 30, vices with accusations that two until two days after he failed to 2102 gunfire assault on the former chiefs of staff, of the check in at a police station in Athens home of Germany’s Am - Army and Navy, took bribes as northern Greece on Jan. 6 as a bassador to Greece Wolfgang well. condition of his release on a Dold. A former representative of a nine-day holiday leave. Despite Maziotis’ escape, the German defense systems firm Xeros is serving six life sen - board also let Xeros out with no testified that at least 10 mem - tences for his role in the assas - guarantee he would return. bers of the Armed Forces had sination of six people, including There was no explanation for their hands out asking for five Americans stationed over his release and no reaction from money and received payoffs, me - the years at the U.S. Embassy the officials who granted it dia reports said. AP Photo/thAnAssis stAvrAkis, File in Athens. about his failure to return. The suspect, 83-year-old In this Friday, Dec. 2, 2005 file photo Christodoulos Xiros, a member of November 17 terrorist His escape prompted a wor - According to Mega television Panayiotis Efstathiou, was taken group, sits, during a break in the appeals trial of members of Greece's deadly terrorist group at ried response from the U.S. channel, speaking to the net - into custody after 12 hours of a special court in a top-security Athens jail. Greek authorities say police are seeking the State Department, which urged work’s U.S.-based Michalis Ig - testimony before investigating convicted member of the deadly November 17 terrorist organization who broke the terms of a Greece to recapture him and magistrates Gavriil Mallis and prison furlough. He failed to make an obligatory daily appearance Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. said the two countries work to - Continued on page 11 Yiannis Stavropoulos. Efstathiou, who used to rep - resent the German firm Atlas, said the officers took the bribes from the company and that they Warm Spirit in Tarpon Dive for Cross included top brass and a former head of a Greek defense systems manufacturer, unnamed sources By Stavros Marmarinos Many transplanted Floridi - of St. Barbara. told the newspaper . TNH Staff Writer ans, originally from Upstate “It was a blessed day for me Other reports said Efstathiou New York and New England, say and now I will have God’s spe - allegedly named deceased for - TARPON SPRINGS, FL – The that when it hits 30 in Florida, cial blessing,” for the year Smith mer Chief of the thousands who gathered at the it feels worse than when it is 10 said. “I dived from the cross last General Staff, Giorgos Theodor - Spring Bayou of the Florida’s degrees back home. year too, but I accomplished it oulakis, and former Chief of the heavily-Greek populated City of Those who braved the this year and I thank God,” he General Staff, Tarpon Springs for the 108th weather and attended live were said. Kostas Panayiotakis, as the bribe- annual blessing of the waters inspired and felt blessed. Al - The water was a Florida- takers. There was no reported wore winter clothing this year, though there were visibly less brisk 62 degrees and attracted response to the allegations. but their spirit was not damp - people than usual at the Bayou, 43 boys between the ages of 16 A lawyer representing Efs - ened by the weather. the Cathedral of St. Nicholas and 18, who stood on 10 boats tathiou said graft was “an un - The town expected the usual was jammed with people. arranged in a semicircle in the fortunate and appalling reality” 20-30,000 attendees, but the Po - “I have lived in Florida for Bayou. in Greek military procurements. lar Vortex that has put much of 27 years and it has never been Speaking to reporters after - “The majority of Greek offi - America into a deep freeze this cold, with cloudy skies and wards, Smith said he stood on cers in the armed forces carry prompted many to mark the continuous rain,” Tampa resi - the leftmost boat as seen from out their duties conscientiously,” Feast of the Epiphany indoors. dent Mariza Hiotaki told TNH. the reviewing stand. “The wind AP Photo/thAnAssis stAvrAkis he said. “Unfortunately, how - Many in the Northern states Nevertheless, Archbishop was blowing hard right to left, Patriarch at Ceremony of Greece's EU Presidency ever, a minority of Greek officers might think that temperatures Demetrios blessed the seas by so I wanted to be there, with seeks and demand bribes for in the 20s and 30s are not so tossing the Holy Cross into the the hope the cross would be car - Greece's Foreign Minister (R), welcomes weapons programs to be imple - unbearable, but when Florida small bay, and it was caught ried there.” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during their meeting in mented.” gets that cold – albeit rarely – it within 15 seconds by 18 year- As soon as the Archbishop Athens on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Bartholomew attended the Efstathiou has refused to re - is a particularly stinging cold for old Peter Sotirios Smith from El - tossed the cross into the water, ceremony of Greece's rotating presidency as veal whether any politicians coastal towns like Tarpon lenton, FL which is near Sara - leaders praised Greece's efforts to fix its crisis-hit economy were involved in the scheme to Springs. sota and is home to the Church Continued on page 4 Wednesday (related story on page 13). steal from defense contracts. He also reportedly named three German nationals with ties to Atlas who allegedly provided him with cash to bribe Greek of - Greek-Americans’ Advice, Wishes, to de Blasio Pavlos, GOC ficials. Efstathiou also allegedly ad - mitted setting up three offshore By Constantine S. Sirigos of perceptions that City Hall many mayors, TNH spoke to come groups, the money should Metropolitan, companies, one to launder bribe TNH Staff Writer only cared for the rich and pow - Greek-Americans about their come from cutting back the ed - money and the other two for his erful, they want de Blasio to act hopes, expectations, and con - ucation bureaucracy, he said. own purposes. The first firm was NEW YORK – Some say that on his more progressive agenda, cerns. Catsimatidis is certain that at Steps Down used to channel a total of 1.5 mayor of New York may be the but they also want results. John Catsimatidis, who was some point he will address the million in bribes to armed second-most important office in One of the groups that felt a candidate for mayor in 2013, problems of small businesses forces officials, according to Ef - the United States, after the pres - Republican mayors let them has known de Blasio for more and “I urge him to have heart By Theodore Kalmoukos stathiou’s testimony. ident. Bill de Blasio was elected down is the owners of small than 20 years. “He is a very regarding the plight of small TNH Staff mayor in November in a land - business, who are the backbone smart guy and I hope he makes business people.” Continued on page 11 slide but has his work cut out of both the Greek-American and common sense decisions for all Regarding the union con - ASTORIA – Metropolitan Pavlos for him, being responsible for a the wider community. New Yorkers,” he said. He noted tracts, Catsimatidis, who has primate of the Genuine Ortho - $70 billion budget and facing Numerous community mem - that his selection of Bill Bratton successful run businesses in nu - dox Metropolis of America, many challenges – the need to bers said they would like to see as police commissioner is a pos - merous industries and is a vet - based in Astoria, has resigned negotiate 150 municipal union a de Blasio host a forum where itive step. eran of many labor negotiations, for health reasons. Dispute over contracts not least among them. the concerns and needs of busi - He also believes in the im - advised de Blasio: “be tough, He suffered a severe stroke He is also the first Democrat ness owners can be addressed portance of de Blasio’s universal but be fair.” eight years ago, which left his to reign at City Hall in 20 years early in his administration. Pre-K initiative – “I believe kids Theodore Moschokarfis and right hand incapacitated. Arch - Funds for and most new Yorkers, includ - After de Blasio’s new team can learn a lot in pre K…but I his wife, Koula, owners of Thes - bishop Kallinikos of Athens of ing Greek-Americans, voted for weathered Winter Storm Her - don’t believe in the way he saloniki Jewelers, said “I wish the Genuine Orthodox Church him acting on a powerful urge cules – snowstorms historically wants to fund it.” Rather than of Greece assumed pastoral and Victim for change. After two decades have been thorns in the side of raising taxes on the highest in - Continued on page 5 administrative duties of the U.S. Metropolis temporarily as By Theodore Kalmoukos Locum Tenens. TNH Staff Pavlos told TNH that “I re - signed on my own will because BOSTON, MA – A strong dis - Marinakis, Owner of Olympiacos, Visits Astoria my right hand, which is dedi - pute has erupted between Maria cated to the holy priesthood, is Kotrotsou and the Federation of completely paralyzed.” The the Hellenic American Societies By Constantine S. Sirigos Genuine Orthodox Church of New England (FHASNE) re - TNH Staff Writer (GOC) follows the “Old” (Ju - garding a fund drive that the lian) Calendar rather than the Federation undertook to help ASTORIA – The Greek soccer “New” (Gregorian) Calendar. her 17 year-old daughter, Mirto team Olympiacos, based in Pi - Concerning his successor, Papadomichelakis, who has raeus, is renowned in the soccer Pavlos said that “the Holy synod been hospitalized since June world and has fans throughout will decide. I suggested that 2013 at Spaulding Rehabilita - Greece and the Hellenic Dias - Metropolitan Chrysostomos of tion in Boston. Mirto was bru - pora. On January 3 its owner would be good but he tally attacked in the summer of and president, Greek shipowner doesn’t want to come to Amer - 2012 by an illegal alien from Evangelos Marinakis, visited the ica.” If anybody from the United Pakistan, Ahmed Bakas, while team’s clubhouse in Astoria, States ought to succeed him, vacationing with her mother thanking its fans and sketching Pavlos said “Bishop Demetrios and her older sister on the the team’s plans for the future. is a very good person.” As far as Greek island of Paros. Dozens of fans waited excit - the time frame for the election All of the medical expenses edly in the second floor club - of a new metropolitan, he said in the United States, which house that overlooks 30th Av - “we’ll see, probably in a month amount into hundreds of thou - enue, one of Astoria’s main or two.” Pavlos will continue to sands of dollars, are not covered streets – the Greek and Ameri - reside at St. Markella Cathedral can flags flanking the team’s in Astoria. Continued on page 5 banner with the distinctive red Pavlos is very much loved color – the slogan “Red Believ - and respected by this people ers” crowning the ensemble. and also by the Greek-American Word spreading that Mari - community at large. He an - For subscription: nakis was climbing the stairs nounced his resignation to his 718.784.5255 prompted shout and whistles. congregants at St. Markella as [email protected] He was serenaded with the well as to other 15 parishes of team song when the large but the Metropolis throughout approachable tycoon finally ap - America in an encyclical letter. tnh/CostAs BeJ peared. A few weeks ago he traveled to Olympia cos fan club President Theodore Menis parts the sea of members for the soccer team’s president and owner Evangelos Marinakis during his visit to the clubhouse in Astoria. Continued on page 6 Continued on page 9 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014

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n THRU MARCH 2 check or credit card. We know WASHINGTON, DC – Heaven on you will want to join the cele - Earth: Art of Byzantium from bration and give your personal Greek Collections will be pre - good wishes to our honoree, sented at the National Gallery contact Carmen Demoleas, of Art from Oct. 6 2013-Mar. 2, email: [email protected]. Tele - 2014. In the first exhibition de - phone: (646) 266 0511. voted to at the Gallery, some 170 rare and im - n JANUARY 31 portant works, drawn exclu - ASTORIA – The Hellenic Relief sively from Greek collections, Foundation presents: A boite re - the exhibit will offer a fascinat - vival with tunes we love and ing glimpse of the soul and sing along to on Friday, Jan. 31 splendor of the Byzantine Em - at 8PM at the Stathakion Center, pire. Recognized masterpieces, 22-51 29th Street in Astoria. many never lent before to the Live music with: Eleni Andreou, United States, will be on view Grigoris Maninakis, Tassos Pa - with newly discovered and pre - paioannou, Makaria Psiliteli- viously unpublished objects Kazakos Special Guests: Anna from recent archaeological ex - Eliopoulos, Yanna Katsageorgi, cavations in Greece. The exhi - Athina Krikeli, Elias Makrynos, bition is organized by the Hel - Alexandra Skendrou, Stavroula lenic Ministry of Education and Traitses, Nikitas Tambakis,Elena Religious Affairs, Culture, and Toumaras. Glafkos Konementi - Sports, Athens, with the collab - otis-piano Kostas Psaros- oration of the Benaki Museum, Guitar Megan Gould- Athens, in association with the Violin Baglamas. Donation $50 National Gallery of Art, Wash - includes mezedakia and wine (1 ington, and the J. Paul Getty bottle per 4 persons) Traditional Museum, Los Angeles. After cutting of the will pre - Washington, the exhibition trav - cede the program. For reserva - els to the J. Paul Getty Museum, tions: (347) 201-1821, (718) Los Angeles, where it will be dis - 204-8900 One of the relics found by Paul Koudounaris, who has been 18th century, a gift to a monastery for Maria Theresa. played at the Getty Villa from dubbed “Indiana Bones.” St. Friedrich, Melk, Austria, decor April 9 through August 25, n FEBRUARY 2 2014. WASHINGTON, DC – “SMYRNA: THE DESTRUCTION n JANUARY 24 OF A COSMOPOLITAN CITY, Book on Ornately-Decorated Remains of Saints LOS ANGELES, CA – The Saint 1900-1922” with the kind sup - Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathe - port from the STAVROS NIAR - dral at 1324 South Normandie CHOS FOUNDATION will be By Constantine S. Sirigos gree there and then moved to Avenue in Los Angeles invites featured at Georgetown Univer - TNH Staff Writer California during the Cold War you to our day of Prizes and sity in Washington, DC on Sun - to work during the boom years Surprises! Friday, Jan. 24 at day, Feb. 2, 2014. The idea be - NEW YORK – Books by art his - of the defense industry that had 11:30AM. It's that time of the hind the project is to familiarize torians like Paul Koudounaris its own death dimension. year when we play our favorite students at some of the finest are usually about more than just “Growing up I was interested game. Please join us at 11:30AM universities in the United States works of art. The historical and in the normal things that kids for a delicious lunch for a do - and Canada with the history of social forces and individual lives are interest in Los Angeles,” nation of $10. Following lunch, Smyrna. The that are responsible for the cre - said. He liked to draw and won you can enjoy an afternoon of Studies programs are collabo - ation of objects that seize view - awards for it, and his mother "prizes and surprises" with your rating with the departments of ers’ attention make for fascinat - Fannie, whose roots are Armen - friends. Reservations are re - history, film as well as with ing stories. Sometimes they are ian, thought he would become quired. Please call chairperson other departments so that as cautionary tales about what hu - a fine artist. Jayne Poullos (310)429-3949 or many students as possible have manity is forgetting or ignoring. “Eventually I got in to art his - cochair Irene Mitropetros the opportunity to see the film. Given that Koudounaris was tory because I learned more by (323)346-5223. Many of them are preparing pa - born and raised in Los Angeles, looking rather than talking.” pers on the subject of the de - it is easy to imagine that his There are multiple levels of n JANUARY 25 struction and the history of 2013 book, Heavenly Bodies, is meaning to the objects he stud - STATEN ISLAND – The parish - Smyrna is now being taught at about Hollywood actors and ac - ies and he was drawn to 17th ioners of Holy Trinity-St. various universities. Maria Iliou tresses. His 2011 book, The Em - century Europe because “it was Nicholas Greek Orthodox who wrote and directed the film pire of Death, which is about an age of incredible expansion, Church of Bulls Head, Staten Is - as well as historical consultant the Roman Catholic phenome - not of territory but of vision… land are thrilled to announce Alexander Kitroeff will be pre - non of elaborate ossuaries – a bourgeoning world that doors the upcoming Gala Dance hon - senting the documentary and buildings that house human had just opened upon.” oring New York State Assembly - the screenings will be followed skeletal remains - provides an - Europe had not yet experi - woman Nicole Malliotakis for by a Q&A. For more informa - other hint. enced its “Age of Reason,” and her extraordinary recovery ef - tion, including time and specific Heavenly Bodies is about “a Koudounaris’ taste in art also in - forts following Hurricane Sandy, location, please contact the di - group of skeletons taken from cluded the fantastic. at the newly-restored Vanderbilt rector of the film Maria Iliou at the Roman Catacombs in the “Growing up I was a fan of at 300 Father Capodonno Boule - [email protected]. 17th century and completely Hieronymus Bosch, a fan of all vard in Staten Island on Satur - decorated with jewels by teams his weird, mystic stuff which is day, Jan. 25. Cocktail hour be - n FEBRUARY 6-9 of nuns,” he told TNH. not a big surprise considering gins at 7 PM. The elegant SARASOTA, FL – Come join us Few remain. Most were re - what I wound up writing evening will also include an at our 30th annual Greek festi - moved or destroyed during the about.” The 15th century Bosch open bar and sit-down dinner. val from February 6 through 9, Enlightenment, but did not fit into his PhD research Live entertainment will also 2014, at St. Barbara’s Greek Or - Koudounaris found the surviv - but he always stuck in the mind highlight the music of Interna - thodox Church, 7671 North ing examples and photographed of Koudounaris, who was also tional Sounds and traditional Lockwood Ridge Road, in Sara - them for the book. always interested in the 20th Greek dancing by the Holy Trin - sota. The Festival, which is a cel - It seems macabre today, he century surrealists. ity Hellenic Dancers. The pro - ebration of Hellenic Culture, said, because modern man has And what painters imagined, gram will include speakers from features authentic Greek foods distanced himself from death the official Catholic Church cre - varied fields, friends and family and delicious pastries, Greek and its reminders, perhaps to ated. of Nicole's who will help to rec - music by the band Ellada, Greek our detriment. Koudounaris pointed out ognize and celebrate the folk dancing by our Hellenic Koudounaris earned a PhD in St. Maximus, Burglen Switzerland, decor 17th century, was however that when 21st century uniqueness of this young, hard - Dancers, bargain shopping at Yi - Art History from UCLA in 2004, placed in a suit of armor because the skeleton found in in minds look at earlier art “we re - working legislator. This affair ayia’s Attic, and an Agora in - with a specialty in Baroque-era Rome was believed to belong to an early Christian soldier. ally distort things. Bosch created will be the first time Ms. Mallio - cluding an eclectic variety of Northern European Art required religious images or moralizing takis will be publicly honored jewelry and crafts. The festival extensive knowledge of the re - were rediscovering catacombs cient departed had to be dug up allegories based on Christian and thanked for her efforts and is from 11AM-9PM on February ligious upheaval in Europe at in Rome,” he said. The skeletons and the bones transferred to a teaching…They are so enig - her exceptional dedication to 6 through 8, and from Noon to the time. dated to early Christian times nearby charnel house. Only later matic” that many imagine there the people of Staten Island and 8PM on February 9. Our raffle, He explained to TNH that and the period of persecutions. did they become symbols of hu - are subversive symbols built into Brooklyn. For the entire year sponsored by Alex Karras Lin - when Protestants emptied Since martyrs were considered mility and a locus for contem - them, but that is not likely the after Hurricane Sandy, Nicole coln, features a 2014 MXZ or churches of their early Christian to have died in a blessed state, plating mortality and inspired case. has been the voice and face of MXK (car or hybrid) as the first relics, typically mere bone frag - the bones of martyrs were valu - monks and mystics further west. “All those Bosch paintings the disaster relief push, ever prize! Second prize is $7500 in ments set into beautiful reli - able. His immediate family history were owned by the King of present at devastated locales cash and third prize is a quaries, the leaders of the Decorated with jewels, the did not point him towards his Spain – no one’s more Catholic and ever available to the public roundtrip ticket to Greece and Catholic Counterreformation message was “look at the glory unique field, but his great than that,” he said. in need. Nicole is one of Staten the islands, for two (a $5000 moved to replace them in a tri - that has been bestowed upon grandfather, a Greek of Egypt, He felt there was a gap in Island's own having been raised value). There are daily church umphal fashion. this person for the sacrifice they was involved in the mummia scholarship. “This was once a in Great Kills, educated in the tours, as well as children’s’ ac - The churches of Germany re - made and look at the glory that trade, the once-flourishing mar - huge part of visual culture, en - local public schools and a grad - tivities from February 7 to 9. For covered by Rome were sent not God reserves for you,” if they ket in ground up mummy dust tailing interacting with death, uate of Wagner College's MBA more information, call (941) fragments but entire skeletons return to the Catholic Church. that was a medical preparation and it had never been covered program. As fellow parishioners 355-2616. of what were believed to be Vatican letters described them and that men like Louis XIV because our own relationship of Nicole, the members of Holy saints from the catacombs of as weapons against the Protes - snorted for its supposed rejuve - with the dead had changed so Trinity-St. Nicholas Church are n FEBRUARY 22-23 Rome, and thus candidates for tants. nating effects – perhaps the much in the past two centuries filled with pride for our friend PALM DESERT, CA – Be Greek elaborate artistic treatment. He noted that “A reliquary most bizarre placebo ever in - that we don’t want to think and representative and we are for a Day (or a weekend!) The “They were decorated with had always been a finely vented. about them,” he said, adding honored to stage this tribute to 18th Anniversary Palm Desert jewels by teams of nuns and wrought decorated object, and His paternal grandparents’ that “We have ghettoized ceme - her. A commemorative album 2014 will take sent to Germany as full-bodied now the relic became the reli - roots are in Cyprus but they teries and pushed them away.” will be a keepsake of the event. place on Saturday and Sunday, relics…they were propaganda quary.” lived in Alexandria for a time He recalls the elements in his Friends and associates along February 22nd & 23rd at the St. devises and after the earlier Among the things he has until they left in the 1950s after life which led him to think about with non-attendees may place George relics were attacked by Protes - studied were chapels decorated Gamal Abdel Nasser’s national - death, especially the passing of their best wishes and congratu - of the Desert at 74-109 Larrea tants they were sent north as with human bones. In Empire ist revolution made life for his grandfather when he was lations to Nicole in the volume in Palm Desert. For directions, ‘bigger, better, stronger’ relics. of Death he traced the practice intolerable. His relatives three or four. “It was my first by creating a page or pages of festival hours, and general in - “The Catholic Church back to monasteries in the Or - told him of severe abuse. encounter with death and I tried personal messages. Album in - formation, please contact the wanted to come up with more thodox East, where monks were Koudounaris’ family went to speak with my mother about formation and tickets for the Church office at (760) 568- relics and really outstanding driven by practical necessity: as first to Chicago – his father, An - what I wanted on my tombstone event are available through 9901. relics and around this time they burial space ran out, more an - gelo, earned an engineering de - but she didn’t want to talk about Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek it.” Church at 1641 Richmond Av - Koudounaris believes it is enue, om Staten Island, NY n NOTE TO OUR READERS psychologically healthier for 10314 or by calling the Church This calendar of events section people to have more interaction Office at (718) 494-0658. The is a complimentary service to with death. “Talking about Chairperson of the Gala, Diane the Greek American community. death is now taboo,” and “when Vernados and her Committee All parishes, organizations and someone dies it’s considered a encourage you to call and se - institutions are encouraged to failing, their physical body had cure your tickets early as the oc - e-mail their information regard - failed them, their physicians had casion will be a sold out event. ing the event 3-4 weeks ahead failed,” or perhaps they failed The cost will be $100.00 for of time, and no later than Mon - to take good care of themselves. adults and $45.00 for children day of the week before the He cited a group of urban under twelve years of age. Tick - event, to english.edition@then - planners who worked with psy - ets may be purchase by cash, ationalherald.com chologists. They decided that an ideal city should have cemeter - ies “close at hand with visible reminders of mortality.” QUESTION OF THE WEEK “Psychological studies have shown that when visible re - What do you think of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to eliminate minders of death are removed, horse-drawn carriages in NYC? we are more detached from ac - Please email your response to cepting mortality, and we grow [email protected] up with a greater fear of it.” We may publish some responses as Letters to the Editor in The original if unconscious a future issue. function of Halloween may have been to address that fear in childhood. Koudounaris ac - knowledged a link between the Expa nd your mind... activities of October 31 and the Dia de la Muerte –The Day of The National Herald Bookstore the Dead that is celebrated in (718) 784-5255 St. Munditia, Munich, Germany, decor 17th century, considered the Patron Saint of Spinsters. Mexico and around the world Many of these full-body relics were destroyed or removed during the Enlightenment. on November 2. [email protected] THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014 COMMUNITY 3 Enforcement Co-Director Canellos to Leave Sec. & Exchange Commission

TNH Staff exam programs, streamline pro - Ponzi scheme. He oversaw in - Mirroring the networks of co - cedures to expedite investiga - vestigations and fraud charges operation established by govern - NEW YORK – George S. Canel - tions, and better integrate our against 22 individuals and enti - ment agencies fighting the los, Co-director of the Enforce - investigative and trial functions. ties. The SEC noted that “Canel - threat of terrorism, “Canellos ment Division of the Securities Every day, he brought to work los led the implementation of has encouraged strong and ef - and Exchange Commission an intense enthusiasm for our new approaches to examina - fective collaboration with law (SEC) will leave the agency later mission, extraordinary intellect tions of investment advisory enforcement partners, including this month after four-and-a-half and experience, and a total com - firms while more closely inte - criminal authorities as well as years of service. mitment to fairness and the grating the teams responsible other federal and state authori - If there is anything like brain public interest.” for examinations of broker-deal - ties. He has served as co-chair surgery in the practice of law, it Canellos is a slugger by New ers and investment managers. of the RMBS Working Group of might be regulating Wall Street York and Washington DC stan - Mr. Canellos formed a joint the interagency Financial Fraud and the financial industry. Cre - dards. He earned a JD from Co - working group of examination Enforcement Task Force,” ac - ative minds need freedom to lumbia University School of Law and enforcement staff dedicated cording to the SEC. stay on the cutting edge of a and graduated magna cum to investigating participants in Before joining the SEC Canel - competitive industry that is cru - laude from Harvard College. He the penny industry.” los was a litigation partner in cial to New York’s economy, but knows, however, that in order “Mr. Canellos continued to the law firm of Milbank Tweed when regulations are inade - to achieve their goals, star play - lead change in these areas as Hadley & McCloy for six-and-a- quate or officials are asleep at ers must be part of great teams. deputy director, acting director, half years. Prior to that he the switch, events like the 2007 When his departure was an - and co-director of the Enforce - served nine years as a federal financial crisis can wreck the nounced, Canellos said “the un - ment Division in 2012 and 2013 prosecutor with the U.S. Attor - world economy. paralleled skill, judgment, and while serving under SEC chair - ney’s Office for the Southern Canellos’ abilities were trum - sense of fairness that the SEC men Mary Schapiro, Elisse Wal - District of New York. He was peted last year by SEC Chair - staff brings to every examina - ter, and Mary Jo White. Mr. chief of the major crimes unit, man Elisse B. Walter, when he tion, investigation, and case is Canellos helped develop and im - deputy chief of criminal appeals, and Andrew Ceresney were the source of the Commission’s plement the restructuring of and senior trial counsel for its named Co-Directors of the Divi - greatest strength. I have been many aspects of the agency’s en - securities and commodities sion of Enforcement. She said, honored and inspired by the op - forcement program under then- fraud task force. “George’s proven intellectual portunity to work with them enforcement director Robert The Washington Post re - abilities and creative approach and will be forever grateful for Khuzami. In particular, Mr. ported that “Canellos said he to problem-solving have made and proud of the public service Canellos helped create the co - had already overshot his ex - him an extremely effective ad - we have performed as a team.” operation program, streamline pected stay in Washington. He vocate for investors and make He is also aware that moni - internal processes, select leaders had twice renegotiated the tim - him ideally suited to serve as George Canellos, of the SEC Enforcement Division co-director, toring a complex industry of newly created specialized ing with his wife, who lives in Acting Director,” said “As announced he will be leaving the agency in January. whose players do not always re - units, and reorganize staff into New York with their 20-month- Deputy Director, he helped to sist the temptation to cheat re - core and specialized units,” ac - old daughter, Clio. Canellos said oversee a division that brought tions and enforcement actions 2009 as director of the New quires recruiting people from cording to an SEC release. he works four days at SEC head - record numbers of enforcement related to the credit crisis and York Regional Office.” within the within securities in - Among the achievement of quarters, then commutes home actions and some of the most insider trading. He helped lead “George filled an incredibly dustry with a wide array of in - Canellos and Enforcement Co- Thursdays evenings to finish the complex cases in the agency’s the agency’s nationwide en - important leadership role as dustry and academic expertise, Director Andrew Ceresney was rest of the workweek.” history.” forcement efforts during two of head of the New York office and including specialists in struc - the launch of the Financial Re - In order to avoid conflicts of According to the SEC, “Mr. its most productive years in later in the top posts of the En - tured products, derivatives, and porting and Audit Task Force, interest, Canellos did not search Canellos has played a key role 2012 and 2013 while serving as forcement Division,” said SEC applied mathematics. Microcap Fraud Task Force, and for a job while working for the in numerous structural and en - deputy director and co-director Chair Mary Jo White. “He As director of the New York Center for Risk and Quantitative SEC, but he is reportedly seek - forcement policy changes and of the Enforcement Division. Mr. helped to improve coordination office Canellos was part of the Analytics to ferret out risks and ing to return to private law prac - oversaw significant investiga - Canellos came to the SEC in July between the enforcement and response the Bernard Madoff threats to investors. tice. Wonderful Volunteer Vacation: Teaching English to Young Greek Learners

By Lynn Lotkowitcz rental car to visit some local vil - that I changed plans. I skipped sweets. The hospitality and ing evening compliments of The second week of teaching lages. For me it was an opportu - Starbucks for a local spot, sat warmth from everyone I encoun - Matina and her family and some and sightseeing flew by and A granddaughter of one of nity to practice my limited Greek outside and enjoyed the morn - tered was wonderful and heart - new sightseeing experiences we soon it was time to say goodbye. my mother’s dearest friends on the locals. During our excur - ing with Greek coffee, spanako - warming. They were so appre - headed into week two. The chil - It was a great opportunity to live reached out to me in early Oc - sion, we were lucky to see a pita, and people-watching. After ciative of our time and wanted dren were more open and com - side by side with the locals and tober while doing some geneal - Greek Orthodox wedding pro - a short walk in the afternoon, to be sure we also enjoyed our - fortable working with us. We gain an understanding of an an - ogy research. She was trying to cession heading towards the some reading and Greek pizza selves. were told that it’s really helpful cient culture. The people of find out more about family and church, along with, what looked for a quick dinner I was off to Our hotel gave us complete for them to hear English from have modern-day eco - her Greek heritage and sent me like the entire village. our after school program. use of the lobby, two computers native speakers, something they nomic difficulties yet they are some old photos that brought Monday October 7 - Teach - For the first real evening of and wifi. Breakfast, a hot lunch, rarely get to do. This particular warm, welcoming and happy to back great memories about a ing Begins teaching, I was working with and traditional Greek dinners area of Greece gets many share personal stories with a culture and people I hadn't For the next two weeks, we two boys and one girl, both aged were all included. We were tourists from all over Europe and positive attitude. thought about in a long time. It spent our evenings, 6:30 to 14. We practiced vocabulary and treated like family. Russia but few Americans, so lis - We learned a lot from each was the perfect start to my first 10:30PM, at Morfosi School, a I asked them to complete sen - Monday, October 14 – Back tening and having conversations other and so many times during attempt at a volunteer vacation. private school five miles from tences. My student, John, had a to Teaching is a great learning experience. the trip I thought of my father. I Instead of relaxing on a our hotel in the neighboring few struggles but tried hard and After a great weekend of fab - Tuesday – Friday, October know that I’ll return. To put it beach or sightseeing in Athens, town of Gazi. The School’s di - was genuinely interested in ulous Greek food, an entertain - 15-18 – Thinking of My Father simply, I love Crete. I signed up for a two-week stint rector, Matina, is a Greek-Amer - learning English. At the end of helping young students learn ican New Yorker who visited class he asked me if he could English in Crete, a program Crete 20 years ago, fell in love, bring in his mandolin one night sponsored by Global Volunteers. married a local businessman and to show me how well he played. Since 1984, Global never left. I was thrilled he wanted to share Volunteers(globalvolunteers.org To prepare for the first class, his talent with me. We asked ) has been offering a variety of our small group chatted about teacher Matina and she agreed. programs in 19 countries, but of how to make the best possible It was a fun and very rewarding course for me the Crete program impression and learn as much night. had a strong personal appeal. as possible about the students Wednesday, October 9 – A little background: My fa - and their interests. After a won - Loving Crete ther and his family left Crete in derful seafood dinner, we made In the morning I headed back 1917, traveling from Athens on our way to the school and met to Heraklion to spend some time the ship Patris for the 10 to 12- our students. Each of the three at the Historical Museum of week Atlantic crossing to New classes had a half-dozen teens Crete, eat the most amazing York’sEllis Island. Like immi - and pre-teens, ages 9 to 14. We Greek spinach pies and explore grants from across Europe, his introduced ourselves and then the beautiful port. October family was poor and was seeking they used their limited English weather was gorgeous, 70s dry a better life in the U.S. My father to ask us the type of questions and a joy to be outdoors with was seven years old at the time. that teens around the world ask blue sky, mountain backdrop His family settled in New Jer - Americans. “How much are and warm friendly people. sey and he grew up realizing the iPhones in the U.S.?” “What kind Thursday, October 10 American dream, had 4 children, of music do you like?” “Are New In the evening class I experi - an amazing wife, and great suc - Yorkers and Americans mented with my iPad mini and cess in business with The Spin - friendly?” The students were the "Endless Alphabet" app. They ning Wheel Diner & Cocktail genuine, inquisitive, and enthu - were excited to try something Lounge in New Brunswick. My siastic. It was a successful first new and, of course, like all father never forgot his homeland encounter. young people, got the "swipe" and I feel lucky that I have the Tuesday, October 8 – Feel - down instantly. Bright-eyed and opportunity to experience the is - ing Like a Local clearly having fun, the students land myself. Our days were mostly free asked, "Will you be here next Friday - Saturday, October and I was craving a Starbucks week?" 4-5 - Heading Out so decided to venture to the big - Friday, October 11 - Hospi - It was a long two days of ger city, Heraklion. After a 20- tality travel from Tampa to Newark to minute bus ride, 20-minute This morning Matina, the Cypriot Young Professionals in New York Appoint 1st President Brussels and finally to Herak - walk, and a few wrong turns, I school owner, invited me to Her - lion, Crete via Aegean Air. In spotted the familiar green um - aklion, an easy 20-minute bus The Cypriot Young Professionals Group of the Cyprus-U.S.Chamber of Commerce has appointed Tampa, I was lucky to be able to brella. On the way, I passed so ride from our hotel in Laura Neroulias, a public relations executive in Manhattan, as its first president. Neroulias is in use my new U.S. Customs & Bor - many quaint authentic Greek Amadoura, to get a quick tour the above photo with Nicos Anastasiades, the President of Cyprus (4th from L) Seen also are: der Patrol Global Entry Card, a coffee houses with wonderful of the best places for outstand - Constantinos Leontiou, Othonas Argyrou, Dennis Droushiotis Jr., Nicolas Nicolaou, Nicholas picture ID that shows that I’ve aromas of baked local specialties ing , snacks and Gregoriou, Stathis Theodoropoulos and Demetrios Comodromos. been pre-screened and can avoid the long security lines. The high - light of the flight was lunch on the last leg of the trip when Aegean Air provided authentic Greek yogurt with a side of POCKET-LESS holy metroPolis oF new Jersey (spinach pie), the best in-flight meal ever! Crete is Greece’s largest is - PITA BREAD Saint Athanasios land and the fifth largest island in the . The Greek Orthodox Church main industries are agriculture Kontos Foods and tourism. As in the rest of 51 Paramus road, Paramus, nJ 07652 • (201) 368-8881 Greece, the economy is reeling The Leading Company in Flat Breads from budget cuts. Global Volunteer country Well known for the Pocket-Less Pita Feast Day of Saint Athanasios leader “Sam” (short for Saman - tha) met me at the Heraklion In - manufacturers of Authentic ethnic the Great Patron Saint of our Parish ternational Airport and we drove hand stretched Flat bread. to the modest hotel where all kontos the first family in fillo dough and fillo products. volunteers stay. Later in the evening, Sam invited me to din - Fillo kAtAiFi, BAklAvA, sPAnAkoPitA, tyroPitA Friday January 17, 2014 ner with the two other volun - nut roll, melomAkAronA teers participating in the pro - and the trADitionAl meDiterrAneAn Desserts. Great Vesper Service with Arto klasia at 7:00 p.m. gram, a retired couple from excellent quality and service. After the Service the Ladies of our Philoptochos Society will host a reception in our community center. California on their eighth Global Volunteers trip. (The summer We distribute in USA and Canada. Saturday January 18, The Feast of Saint Athanasios programs have 20 or more vol - special prices for communities, schools, churches unteers, but I deliberately festivals and other events 8:30 a.m. Orthros, Divine Liturgy and Artoklasia. choose October for a more per - sonal, authentic experience.) Luncheon will follow in the community center hosted by the Philoptochos Society of our Parish. Sunday, October 6 - Orien - tation After the long day of travel, Protopresbyter Anargyros Stavropoulos and the President it was a relief that our program Kontos Foods, Inc

b of the Parish Council Mr. Demetrios Xanthos cordially invite you to join us orientation was an informal Box 628, Paterson, nJ 07544 gathering by the hotel pool. We tel.: (973) 278-2800 Fax: (973) 278-7943 in celebrating the Feast Day of our Church. introduced ourselves, set goals kontos.com for the two weeks and, after a lunch, took off in a teammate’s 4 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014 Deep Freeze in New York Adjusts, not Stops, the Epiphany Celebration

TNH Staff Father John Romas, the pas - tor of the Church of St. Nicholas ASTORIA – The forecasts for the expressed his regret that the following day called for bitter blessing of the waters off Bat - cold, but it was cold enough by tery Park had to be cancelled for the East River on January 5 for the first time. He said buses the celebration festival of were rented and at least two Epiphany to be modified this boys had undertaken the physi - year. More than 50 brave souls cal and psychological prepara - made it to the river’s edge, but tions to dive for the cross, but the traditional procession the St. Nicholas’ member were through Astoria did not take able to chant the great hymn “In place. the Jordan River you were bap - The combination of the Polar tized, Lord” at the Brooklyn’s Vortex that overtook the North - Cathedral of Sts. Constantine east and inconveniences due to and Helen, which has been their construction at the traditional home since 9/11. The parish site of the Blessing of the Water looks forward to the commence - service of St. Nicholas at Ground ment of construction of their Zero caused the cancellation of new home at the World Trade that event, but 12 Bronx Boys Center in 2014. did take the plunge for the BRAVE BRONX BOYS Church of the Zoodohos Peghe. In the Bronx, 12 boys dove The Very Rev. Fr. Nektarios into the chilly waters of the Papazafiropoulos , the pastor of Long Island Sound during ser - the unique parish with two vices led by Very Rev. Sylvester sanctuaries, the Cathedral of St. Berberis, pastor of Zoodohos Demetrios and the church of St. Peghe. After the Divine Liturgy Catherine and St. George in As - at the church, the congregation toria, assisted by Fr. Vasilios travelled to the Greentree Coun - Louros and Arch chanter Ando - try Club in New Rochelle for the nios Kehagias, was exuberant blessing of the waters. despite the weather. “Today’s The Germanakos family was message is about joy and the re - out in force as cousins Elias N., newal of nature,” which cannot Photos: tnh/CostAs BeJ George N., Elias G., Nicholas, be dampened by drizzle and ABOVE: Fr. Nektarios Pa - George T. and Elias T. Ger - cold.” pazafiropoulos, the Dean of manakos went into the Sound. He noted that the immersion St. Demetrios Cathedral in As - Also among the divers were of the “Holy Cross imparts holi - toria, hurls the Holy Cross Demetri Magriples, Demetri ness to all the water on Earth, into the icy waters of the East Kiskinis, Michael Pantelias, so that in turn we can be made River to celebrate Epiphany Gabriel Papadatos, George F. Holy. The purpose of our life is 2014. LEFT: After the Divine Daskalakis, and Haralambos to become holy, by the grace of Liturgy at the Church of Sts. Bakalis. All the participants en - God through the Holy Spirit, Catherine and George were joyed a complimentary lunch af - which makes our souls holy.” joined by some Astoria neigh - terwards. He expressed the hope that bors by the river in Astoria Father John Romas, the pas - his fellow human beings will Park for the traditional bless - tor of the Church of St. Nicholas transcend their human nature, ing of the waters. expressed his regret that the with its imperfections, and will blessing of the waters off Bat - become holy “through the Grace turned home to Astoria to also tery Park had to be cancelled for of the Holy Spirit in our lives participate in the service. the first time. He said buses and our hearts.” Rene Markakis, whose son were rented and at least two The ancient celebration com - Jim is an altar boy, told TNH, boys had undertaken the physi - memoration of the Baptism of “Despite the bad weather we cal and psychological prepara - Christ in the Jordan River is came here to continue the tra - tions to dive for the cross, but called Epiphany in the West, dition and to send the cross into when he examined the site at which corresponds to Theo - the river.” She wished God’s 7AM he saw the event has to be phaneia – The Manifestation of blessings on the community and cancelled. God – one of two Orthodox a happy new year to its mem - St. Nicholas’ members were Christian characterizations of bers. able to chant the great hymn “In the holiday. Parish councilor Emmanuel the Jordan River you were bap - Greeks also refer to the feast Dritsas echoed Markakis’ tized, Lord” during the Holy Wa - as “Ta Fota – The Lights.” Com - thoughts and good wishes and ter service at the Brooklyn’s bined with the Blessing of the was pleased that people turned Cathedral of Sts. Constantine Waters, the day is replete with happy new year to the commu - holiday of light and conveys a progress and success for the out to continue the tradition. He and Helen, which has been their rich spiritual metaphors. nity and expressed his wish that message of hope, optimism and community and that they “con - thanked Fr. Nektarios for a home since 9/11. The parish The Greek Consul Manos it be “filled with health and hap - strength. I also hope that 2014 tinue to make us proud.” “beautiful service” and already looks forward to the commence - Koumbarakis represented Con - piness for its families, and love with be a year of development, Fotis Papiris, a seminarian at - looked forward to returning in ment of construction of their sul General George Iliopoulos. and peace for all mankind.” prosperity and national recovery tending Holy Cross School of 2015 - “kai tou chronou – and new home at the World Trade He said chronia polla and a He noted Epiphany “is the for Greece.” He also wished Theology in Brookline, MA, re - again next year,” he said. Center in 2014.

Florida boys vied for the honor of being the 2014 cross re - Organizers had planned for 20-30,000 people to descend upon Overjoyed Peter Sotirios Smith from Ellenton, FL, holding the triever. Some of them had strategies, some had faith, and oth - Spring Bayou, but the Polar Vortex intervened. Nevertheless, Holy Cross and the commemorative cup, stands with brother ers, like the retriever Peter Sotirios Smith, had both. thousands cheered when the Holy Cross was retrieved. Robert, his mother, Anna, and his grandmother, Nina Assimack. Unseasonably Frosty Florida Does Not Chill Spirit at Tarpon Cross Dive

Continued from page 1 ner.” stage and received blessings Church, he was greeted with she could not believe her eyes and raced to the Church to con - A triumphant reception fol - from the archbishop as honored cries of “axios, axios – worthy, and that her son achieved the gratulate his son. Smith picked up its path and lowed as Smith was surrounded guests stood nearby, including worthy,” but he asked the con - honor of retrieving the cross, Peter’s brother Robert, also dove towards the spot where he by his fellow divers, who es - Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta, gregation to exclaim “axoioi” something about which every brimming with pride declared expected it to go. “I looked corted him back to shore and Bishop Sevastianos of Zela, Fa - the plural form of “worthy,” Greek child in Florida dreams. “my brother is strong and I ad - down and saw a white, shiny lifted him up high so he could ther James Rousakis, the Dean wanting to share the triumph Due to a cold, Smith’s father mire him.” thing, but I was not sure what display the white cross amid the of St. Nicholas, Congressman with his fellow divers. could not go to the Bayou. Afterwards, the community it was, but I swam quickly to - applause of thousands of spec - Gus Bilirakis, Mayor Archie, and His mother, Anna, and his He watched on TV and as enjoyed the annual Epiphany wards it and grasped it. I was tators. various community leaders. grandmother, Nina Assimack, soon as his wife called him party in the Church’s large Com - lucky, and I am this year’s win - All the divers mounted the When Smith returned to the expressed pride but, Anna said about it, he jumped in the car munity Center. It’s Been a Frozen Epiphany through Most of U.S., but Not in California

LONG BEACH, CA – In a year ternoon game but we choose to the way from Jerusalem in order them. Beach. The Register reported memorating Christ’s baptism by marked by frigid weather rent bicycles instead and ride to participate in the dive. The The officiating church of the that Bobbie Soupos, Church St. John the Baptist, by featur - throughout most of the country them along a well-maintained other competitors, however, ceremony is the Assumption spokesperson, said that it was ing the dive for the cross. thus far, including the normally path that leads to the pier. were all teenage boys – nine of Greek Orthodox Church in Long the Church’s 62nd year com - Fittingly, Ninos also made balmy state of Florida, home of Plenty of lunch options are mention of his own local body America’s virtual Greek island, within walking distance to the of water, the Jordan River, the City of Tarpon Springs, beach. We headed to the pier where Christ was baptized, but Epiphany celebrations marked for a gourmet hamburger and said that he preferred diving in by dives for the Cross were at soft serve ice cream. We end the the comparatively warmer Cali - times canceled, postponed, or day by watching the sunset from fornia waters this time of year, otherwise downsized because of the top of the Ferris wheel. A the Register reported. the inclement weather. word of warning this is a very Considering that the theme No such problems in South - popular beach making the park - of most of our Epiphany cross ern California, however. As our ing limited and the beach can dive stories this year was cold Los Angeles correspondent, Jo - get crowded on the weekend weather but warm spirits, this hanna Voutounou, reported last and during holidays.” account from Southern Califor - week, the weather in the Golden As 2014 rolled in, Southern nia at least reveals that not State has been glorious through - California continued to enjoy every dive this year was made out the holiday season, prompt - better weather than most of the more difficult by frigid condi - ing many fortunate Californians, other 49 states, and the tions. And while Greek-Ameri - and lucky vacationers, to spend Epiphany Cross dive in Long cans throughout most of the Christmas on the beach (“Christ - Beach was no exception. Ac - United States might wish they mas in California, Jan. 4). cording to the Orange County enjoyed sunnier weather so far Describing her own holiday Register, 14 year-old Aleko Culp in this new year, they can at beach plans, Voutounou tanta - was the champion, retrieving least feel a little warmer by lized TNH readers huddled in - the cross at an event held on reading about their counterparts doors throughout most of the January 5 and bringing it to in California. The Californians, frosted nation with tidbits such Metropolitan Gerasimos of San in turn, can appreciate the ded - as these: “Our first stop was Francisco, who presided over ication demonstrated not only Santa Monica, the classic stretch the event. by parishioners who stood in the of beach that ends at the famous Unlike cross dives in other cold weather at many outdoor Santa Monica Pier. The vast parts of the country, the Register Epiphany celebrations, but most sand belt offered plenty of space reported, the one in Long Beach of all to the eager and brave for my little ones to make sand is open to people of all ages. In divers – most of them children angels and build snowmen out fact, a man who identified him - or teenagers, who took the of powdery white sand. Volley - self as “Ninos,” the Register re - The Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Long Beach city conducted the annual Diving for plunge into our nation’s numer - ball nets were set up for an af - ported, traveled to California all the Cross at Mother’s Beach. Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco presided over the event. ous icy bodies of water. THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014 COMMUNITY 5 Controversy about Funds for the Medical Care of Girl Attacked on Paros

Continued from page 1 by the Greek government. The Federation offered to organize a fund drive in order to help with the purchase of a special communication device called the Tobii Speech Recognition Device, and also to pay for a ma - jor operation she had on Decem - ber 5 at Boston’s Children Hos - pital, which are not governed by the Greek Government. Bessie Pappas, head of the Hel - lenic Cardiac Fund, which is connected to the Children’s Hos - pital, guaranteed Mitro’s admit - tance into the hospital and the operation, which will cost ap - proximately $50,000. Pappas, considered an icon of philanthropy in Boston for more than three decades, told TNH that “we simply guaran - teed her admittance and the surgery” and she added that “we LEFT: Mary Kotrotsou speaks at the fundraising dinner-dance event to help her Mirto Papadomichelakis, which was part of a $125,000 fundraising drive. Shown are not going to pay, the Feder - daughter in Roslindale. She was introduced by the New England Federation are Kyriakoula Patsaouras, Maria Spyridopoulos, Sophia Lampropulos, Mirto’s ation will.” President Ioannis Rammos. RIGHT: Organizers of the dinner dance to benefit mother Maria Kotrotsou, Ioannis Rammos, Bill Kafkas, and Demetris Mattheos. The drive, along with a suc - cessful dinner dance organized in the memo, the list can reflect ply with her information re - tion. The Federation will then padomichelakis’ contact infor - for the Tobiie device and what - by young girls under the aus - “anonymous” accordingly; 2) an quests and resolve this matter process the information consis - mation, but said that she would ever Mirto will need here or in pices of the Federation, has pro - itemized list of in-cash donations amicably. However, Ms. Kotrot - tent with the scope of the contact him and ask him to do Greece send us the invoice and duced about $125,000. The Fed - to “Friends of Mirto” received at sou is also aware that she has fundraising efforts.” so himself. it will be paid. “We explained to eration had made it clear from the December 7 fundraising the right to file a complaint with Finocche, in turn, replied the Federation’s president Ioan - them clearly that these are our the very beginning that all the event held at the St. Nectarios Dan Furolo, the lead investiga - same day, again: “I can assure nis Rammos told TNH that “the decisions and assurances to - collected funds will go towards Church in Boston as well as any tor at the Massachusetts Attor - you that the tone is not meant funds that have been collected wards our Greek-American com - Mirto’s therapy paid directly other cash donations that have ney General’s Office of Charita - to be threatening. Ms. Kotrotsou for the purchase of the Tobiie munity.” Kotrotsou didn’t ask to upon receipt of the invoices. been received to date. That list ble Fraud Investigations. Given simply wants to clarify things device and Mirto’s medical ex - manage the account. Rammos On December 11 Mirto’s would include: cash amounts, the time that has passed since before she goes back to Greece penses are in the account Feder - said “no she didn’t ask at the mother, Maria Kotrotsou, ac - date received, and location of re - Ms. Kotrotsou information re - and so she has a limited period ation-Mirto Fund, but we have meeting.” He also said that “the companied by attorney, Emmet ceipt; 3) a detailed list of the quests, Ms. Kotrotsou has asked of time in which she'd like to not received any invoices yet.” Federation was disappointed Finocche, attended the Federa - funds received through the me to set a deadline of Tuesday get the information. My expec - He said that “about $ 125,000 with her lawyer’s letter. I per - tion’s Board meeting, where Friends of Mirto, youCaring.com December 31, 2013 by which tation is that there will not be has been collected, we are going sonally understood that she Federation legal advisor website; 4) a copy of the official the information needs to be pro - any problem, but I also think it to give a report at the Board’s threatened the Federation men - Demetris Ioannidis, and Feder - Bank Statement of Account (on vided or Ms. Kotrotsou or she might be helpful for you to un - meeting on Wednesday January tioning the Attorney’s General ation officials, explained that bank stationery) corresponding may feel compelled to take fur - derstand her thinking and the 8.” Rammos said that “the Fed - Office because the lawyer con - the collected funds would be to the bank account in which ther actions in her effort to se - options that she is mulling over. eration made it clear from the veys the will of his client.” used only to pay medical ex - money donated to Mirto is de - cure the information.” Thanks for your efforts; I look beginning when we informed When we asked Rammos to penses and devices for Mirto. posited; and 5) a complete ac - Ioannidis replied the same forward to hearing from you.” our member societies, the com - talk to us openly if the Federa - On December 26, Finocche counting of any expenses or day: “I find the tone of the email Kotrotsou declined TNH’s in - munities, and individuals that tion believes that Kotrotsou asked Ioannidis for: 1) a detailed transactional fees paid in connec - threatening and not in a good vitation for an interview stating the collected funds will be used wants to get the money, he said accountability of the fund, includ - tion with the Fund. spirit. I am not sure the mother that she would grant the inter - only for Mirto’s medical ex - “yes” and he added that “she ing “an itemized list of each Finocche also wrote that “Ms. is legally entitled to any infor - view once her attorney has penses. Mrs. Kotrotsou came to told us at the meeting that in check donation to “Friends of Kotrotsou wants to give mation at this point in time. I cleared her to do so. our Board meeting on December Greece we would need to bribe Mirto,” so as to know the name FHASNE this final opportunity would like to remind you that TNH has attempted to con - 11 with her lawyer and Demetris some doctors in order to take of the donor, the exact amount for FHASNE to meet its legal she can submit medical ex - tact Mirto’s father, Ioannis Pa - Ioannidis, the Federation’s legal care of Mirto, and the Federa - on the check, and the date it was obligations in connection with penses or other expenses she padomichelakis, but he has not advisor, explained to her in tion’s legal advisor told her received. If the donor has marked the Fund. Ms. Kotrotsou’s hope may have directly to me and I responded at press time. Kotrot - Greek and to her lawyer in Eng - these things cannot be done, we their donation as “anonymous” is that FHASNE will finally com - will pass that on to the Federa - sou did not give TNH Pa - lish that the funds will be used don’t pay for such things.” Greek-Americans Offer Advice, Good Wishes to New York’s New Mayor

Continued from page 1 has been up to the challenge… which doubled under ing, fires are being out and out He has proven himself to be a Bloomberg, and fiscal responsi - children are being educated. As him chronia polla, and I wish great leader following the recent bility. She agrees with Catsima - long as he sticks to providing him the best, and for New York storm. I have heard many good tidis that the education system the basic essentials and steers to become an even greater city.” comments about the manage - can be better managed. away from his liberal campaign He wants de Blasio to be as ment and command that his ad - “The mayor’s job is to make rhetoric I think we will get along tough as mayor as he was with ministration has had during the sure that the streets are clear,” fine and it will be a good four Bloomberg as Public Advocate. storm and following recovery ef - she said, “that police are work - years.” “I want him to be a better mayor forts.” than Bloomberg and to imple - New York State Assembly - ment what he talked about.” woman Aravella Simotas told The owner of Mediterranean TNH “I look forward to working Foods, who introduced himself with his administration in focus - simply as Bill, emphasized the ing on the key issues in western need to help all groups in New Queens. We must emphasize an York to do well, but to also focus unwavering commitment to our on small businesses.” He echoed schools.... I also ask the Mayor fellow citizen who are most con - to address the quality of life is - cerned about adequate policing sues facing our local neighbor - and improving municipal ser - hoods…And lastly, as the cost vices. of living in New York City con - Bill Papavgeris, the owner of tinues to rise, it is important the Plaza Meat Market, told that we help those in the middle TNH, “We hope that he will be class who have worked their en - a better mayor than his prede - tire lives to be able to own their cessor,” believing that Early in the mayoral campaign, Bill de Blasio (back row, 5th own homes; we must work to Bloomberg’s policies were dis - from R) joined volunteers from AHEPA and the Church of the ensure that any property tax re - ruptive to businesses. “Delivery Kimisis at the Bowery Mission to feed the homeless. Jimmy lief proposals enacted statewide people could not park any - Kokotas is 4th from R. also extend to city residents.” where… he drowned us with Republican Assemblywoman tickets. We had to send two em - pendence Day celebration at with them for more than 45 Nicole Malliotakis told TNH her ployees to make deliveries in Gracie Mansion,” and she was minutes about politics and his constituents also care most Manhattan.” He hopes de Blasio invited to other functions. She vision for the City and America, about the basics, and she also will make a better effort to un - felt he did support small busi - then he asked the kids about gave the Mayor a passing grade derstand the needs of small nesses and hopes for the same plans for their future.” in week 1, saying that the Aravella Simotas addresses constituents with then-Public Ad - businesses. “I wish him the best. with de Blasio. Kokotas appreciated his sin - streets in the Brooklyn and vocate Bill de Blasio (3rd from L) and then-City Council Candi - He passed the first test; there Sons of Pericles National Ad - cerity and candor about the Staten Island parts of her district date Costa Constantinides (6th from R) standing nearby. were no problems with the visor and restaurateur James challenges faced by the City. were clear. snow,” he said. Kokotas first met de Blasio when “You could get honest answers She wants him to be careful Regina Katopodis, owner of he was serving as AHEPA’s Re - from him,” he said. with his priorities, noting that the Artopolis bakery in Astoria, gion Three Supreme Governor Kokotas brought up commu - “a tremendous number of my told TNH “believe it or not I am and the campaign was begin - nity matters like the rebuilding constituents are still not in their PILGRIMAGE in favor,” of his pro-worker ning. He told de Blasio that of St. Nicholas at ground Zero. homes following hurricane agenda that includes sick pay AHEPANs, along with youth vol - “He knows many Greek-Ameri - Sandy…the City’s Build it Back A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE for employees.” She said she re - unteers from the Church of the cans and as an Italian-American program has been running very MAY 6 - 20, 2014 lies on her workers for her busi - Kimisis, were preparing to feed he understands us,” Kokotas slowly and I am hoping the new ness success, saying, “We are a the homeless at the Bowery Mis - said. Mayor will have a greater sense Exclusively for men family.” sion. Costa Constantinides, newly of urgency. I am hoping to get She said she had positive ex - Impressed, de Blasio asked sworn in as the first ever Greek him out here to see what they For information please contact periences with Mayor to join them. “He came down and Cypriot on the City Council, are experiencing.” Theofilos Russos Bloomberg. “I had the privilege and served food with us and sat said “Mayor DeBlasio's first days The other priority for their at (714) 535-0975 of helping host the Greek inde - down with the kids and spoke have been challenging and he constituent is property taxes,

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TNH Staff nesses but numerous inconsis - very seriously. It potentially af - tencies began to develop in the fects all of the malls.” PARAMUS, NJ – Maria-Eleni case, Ehrenberg said,” according Two days later detectives Eleftheriadou, a 23 year-old to the Record. went to a Ridgefield address Greek citizen claimed she was Ehrenberg said that when the given to police by Eleftheriadou, shot in the chest when walking group pressed by officials at but by then she and her fiancé in the parking lot of the West - Hackensack University Medical had taken an overnight flight to field Garden State Plaza shop - Center, where they took her for Greece. www.GreekKitchennyc.com ping mall on December 31. treatment, about how she sus - George Mihalakis, 35, of Eleftheriadou reported to tained her injury, the group Ridgefield, a cousin of the fi - Paramus, NJ police that she was made up the story. ancé, provided the information, walking with her fiancé and his responsible and that the police “Detectives had worked to police, who later confirmed cousin at 5:15PM on New Year’s department is investigating. throughout New Year’s Eve and it with customs officials. Eve. “Eleftheriadou, of Acharavi New Year’s Day collecting evi - Mihalakis was released with - Police Chief Kenneth Ehren - in Greece, told police she dence and interviewing wit - out bail. The Patch reported that berg said that the story was a was walking east in a lot be - nesses…Numerous inconsisten - “Mihalakis was charged with fil - fabrication. tween Legal Seafood and Macy’s cies began to develop in the case ing a false police report and re - “They were never at the with her two companions when between the report and the evi - leased without bail. Charges mall,” Ehrenberg told the she noticed a small wound dence collected,” Ehrenberg told against Eleftheriadou and her fi - Bergen Record. “The shooting where she was struck. No one the Paramus Patch. ancé are pending and will be happened somewhere else and in her group heard gunfire or The Chief said “Here’s the served upon a return to the they blamed the mall.” saw anything suspicious, police concern of the case…After the United States.” Eleftheriadou was shot with said. Detectives worked shooting of Nov. 4 at the mall Anyone with information a small caliber weapon, but throughout New Year’s Eve and and the Short Hills mall case, about the case should call the Ehrenberg said that they do not New Year’s Day collecting evi - for them to make a claim like Paramus Police Department at know the identity of the person dence and interviewing wit - this, it had to be investigated 201-262-3400, ext. 553. 6 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014

GREEKS IN CANADA Toronto’s Peter Minaki Now Deals with …in a Pot

By Frances Manhattan, and most recently Themeliopoulos Chicago. His experimentation in the blogosphere, as he tells it TORONTO, Canada – Happy began in 2007 and coincided 2014! Some of you may have with a purchase of a new digital big plans for the year ahead that camera. He began providing de - involve achieving career goals – liciously appealing photo evi - or you may even be launching dence of the recipes he was into a long-desired shift that cooking and his blog’s popular - takes you in an altogether dif - ity has been growing steadily ferent career direction. That is ever since. Kalofagas’ readership just what Toronto’s Peter Minaki currently generates approxi - did about three years ago. He mately 70 000 page views per left behind a successful career month. as a financial advisor to cultivate The inextricable link be - his budding secondary career – tween food and Greek hospital - Photos: tnh/CostAs BeJ self-trained chef and blogger. ity, the philoxenia that is diffi - The fans of Greece’s most popular soccer team, Olympiacos, on Jan. 3 as they waited for the team’s president, Evangelos Minaki determined that the cult to define for our non-Greek packed the red-themed clubhouse on 30th Avenue in Astoria Marinakis, and the cutting of the New Year’s Vasilopita. time was right to devote greater friends, factors heavily into the Olympiacos Owner Marinakis Welcomed in Astoria

Continued from page 1 level legal and economic playing playing soccer and Marinakis sity who wants to be a dentist fields in Greece. reached out to them, urging and whose family is from After brief remarks and a “In America you understand them to develop their apprecia - , is a big fan. Inspired Q&A open to all, he chatted that a community moves for - tion of soccer by following and encouraged by his father, with his team’s devotees in the ward when people work hard Olympiacos. They can be seen Tsambikos, who is a member of club and as he walked through and when they see a man or a on cable through Antenna TV. the Club’s Board of Directors, the streets of Astoria. company progress, they con - The owner agreed with TNH also joined the board. “The pres - The guests were first wel - sider it an example to be fol - that Olympiacos is “The Yankees ident wants more young people comed by fan club President lowed and we must do the same of Greece – they own a record and our main focus is to bring Theodore Menis, who is from this in Greece so that things can 40 Greek League titles and 26 people together. If you are an and has been president of get better,” he said. Greek Cups . Olympiacos fan, you are part of the chapter for 18 years. He said He wished everyone a happy The club’s pleasant space is our family,” he said. it is the biggest chapter in the and healthy New Year and said filled with tables where fans can John Kriaras, past president Diaspora, but he thanked Mari - the team is ready for the seasons enjoy coffee, drinks, and food of the Cretans Association Omo - nakis and Olympiacos for the 2nd round and is hopeful re - from the kitchen in the rear just nia, told TNH he was overjoyed cooperation that enables it to garding the European champi - about every day. Volunteers like by Marinakis’ presence not only thrive, and he said the members’ onships, saying “everything is soccer lovers Maria Toubatzi because he is a fan but because “hearts beat for Olympiacos possible with hard work and and Maria Iliopoulos from Naf - they are both from Heraklion, here as in Piraeus.” faith...when you work hard for paktos, along with Haralambos Crete. In response, Marinakis he what you want you have noth - Adamides, a native of Kavalla, Fr. George Anstasiou, the said was overwhelmed by the ing to fear.” make sure the members enjoy pastor of the Church of the love he experiences when he vis - He said the core of his mis - themselves. Transfiguration in Corona and its clubs like that in Astoria. sion will be to attract great Panagiotis Georgiou from a big Olympiacos fan, presided As devoted to winning as any Greek players, but is also proud Athens in New York for the hol - over the prayers for the blessing Steinbrenner and has the cham - of the team’s ability to attract idays visiting his daughter of the Vasilopita New Year’s pionships to prove it, Marinakis talent from all over the world. Dionysia, who is studying ballet, cake, which was donated by the is also proud of the organiza - More and more Greek-Amer - attended. Pavlos Malonoukos, a famous Lefkos Pirgos pastry and tion’s youth and philanthropic icans and their children are biology major at Hofstra Univer - coffee shop. Now His Stocks are Cooked in a Pot. Peter Minaki left a suc - dimensions. The team’s soccer cessful career as a financial advisor to do what he loves best: academy benefits Greek youth cook, and write about it. His first cookbook, recently published, in general and has provided the is titled: The Everything Mediterranean Cookbook. team with players through the years. Proceeds from his teams, attention to his Kalofagas.ca experience Minaki offers the at - as is the case with his shipping blog and expand the scope of his tendees at his events. He enjoys companies, are donated to char - monthly Greek Supper Club providing fun, informative, ity, especially those helping events. His accomplishments shared cooking/dining experi - Greek children during the eco - have been mounting ever since ences. So, what is he currently nomic crisis. but one distinct highlight is the juggling? In addition to his blog, Marinakis was proud to say publication of his first cookbook, he hosts the aforementioned the team’s course is good, and the recently published, The Greek Supper Clubs, provides he emphasized that his company, Everything Mediterranean Cook - personalized catering services, which owns other entities, in - book. You will be treated to a does pop-up dinners upon spe - cluding basketball teams, also wonderful collection of healthy, cial request, and has even begun goes against the current by fight - flavour-filled Mediterranean hosting culinary food tours. He ing against corruption and be - recipes, including family recipes has travelled to almost every haviors “that have ruined teams.” that Minaki trusts anyone can part of Greece, from Thrace to He chose not to comment perfect with a bit of practice. Messinia and to when he was asked by the me - His interest in cooking began and parts in between. His visits dia about his competitors, not - years ago and it was for purely to Mediterranean countries in - ing simply “who is a crook and practical purposes. He pinpoints clude trips to Italy and Turkey. who is involved in illegal busi - it to the earliest of what would What of Minaki’s career re - ness practices those people become his parents’ annual vis - lated goals for 2014? More free - know themselves, but the state its to their summer home in lance culinary endeavours! He must pay attention because he Halkidiki, Greece. The year was looks forward to further experi - live in a society that is being 1989. Minaki and his brother mentation and opportunities to tested every day, and it is wrong initially enjoyed bachelor-ish incorporate his own personal for certain people not to obey cuisine – heavy on grilled meals flair into yet more recipes as he the law and for the law not to and takeout – but his palette works toward a collection for be enforced for them. All of us was soon craving some of the his second cookbook. Don’t be must pay our taxes and other fine Greek dishes to which he surprised to hear of a Kalofagas charges.” was accustomed. It was in - Supper Club event happening He used the English word Olympiakos owner/president, flanked by Fr. George Anastasiou and Theodore Menis, wishes evitable, he explains, in light of near you as Minaki will be trav - “fair” to express the need for fans a happy New Year. He was accompanied by his son, seated to the left of Menis. the fabulous Greek cuisine (and eling to more destinations. Jan - particularly to dishes from uary’s travels took him to some Northern Greece since both of stops in Quebec as well as his parents are originally from Chicago for two very successful towns in Nomo Florinis) that he events at the National Hellenic Gangland-Style Slayer of Gus Boulis Gets Jail for Life enjoyed courtesy of his mentors. Museum and Avli restaurant. He He praises his mother, father, enjoys the opportunity to plan maternal grandmother, and theme-specific events such as FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A struggle over the lucrative Sun - ened by Boulis, witnesses said. icatessen owner. great aunts for teaching him the upcoming Tsiknopempti- mob figure prosecutors said di - Cruz ships. “The facts you need A few months earlier, Boulis Prosecutors say that many traditional recipes and the Greek Carnival season Supper rectly the gangland-style killing to determine this you’ve already had sold the fleet to New York Moscatiello ordered the hit and techniques he has been cultivat - Club event in Toronto on Feb - of Miami Subs founder Konstan - heard,” Rossman told jurors. “Is businessman Adam Kidan — Ferrari conspired to carry out ing over the years. ruary 20th. He has already “Gus” Boulis, is now serv - there any pretense, any imag - who knew Moscatiello and the murder plot in an attempt Minaki’s transition from booked three 2014 culinary ing a life sentence for a murder ined moral justification in the sought him out for his pur - to control the SunCruz Casino blogger to cookbook author was tours in Greece so far and plans described as unusually cruel and mind of the person who com - ported mob ties — and then- boat fleet. Boulis was shot to seamless since he has been to explore another medium by callous. mitted this crime? I submit there powerhouse Washington lobby - death in his car as he left his amassing and refining the filming some cooking demo seg - Anthony “Little Tony” Ferrari, is none.” ist Jack Abramoff. Kidan and Fort Lauderdale office. recipes on his Kalofagas site for ments during his tours. 56, was convicted in the killing Trial evidence showed that Abramoff later pleaded guilty to James “Pudgy” Fiorillo was the past several years and the For more information about of Boulis on Feb. 6, 2001 but es - Boulis, 51, was shot to death by fraud in the $147.5 million Sun - the third man implicated in the prospects just keep on coming. how to purchase Peter Minaki’s caped the death penalty sought a mob hit man as he sat in his Cruz deal and served federal murder and pleaded guilty to Opportunities for some cross- Everything Mediterranean cook - by prosecutor Gregg Rossman al - car on a downtown Fort Laud - prison time. conspiracy in 2012. He testified border culinary adventure arose book, his Greek Supper Clubs, though parole has been ruled out. erdale street. Witnesses testified Moscatiello, 75, is also that he served as a lookout on in recent years, with events in and his Culinary Tours visit: “The justice system wins and the killing was orchestrated by charged with murder and was the night that Boulis was mur - cities ranging from Buffalo to www.kalofagas.ca families don’t ever get their Ferrari and Anthony “Big Tony” on trial with Ferrari until his at - dered. He will be sentenced af - loved one back — we can’t bring Moscatiello, a reputed member torney became ill. Moscatiello, ter Moscatiello’s trial. those back — but we can give of New York’s Gambino crime who has pleaded not guilty, will Prosecutors believe the gun - them some semblance of so - family. Both had well-paying be retried later. The alleged hit man who shot Boulis four times lace,” Rossman said after the contracts with SunCruz under man was later killed himself in was John Gurino, who was later Dec. 17 sentencing, the Ft. its new owners that were threat - a dispute with a Boca Raton del - killed in a dispute two years af - Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel re - ter Boulis was slain. ported. Ferrari was also sen - Testifying in his own defense, tenced to 30 years in prison for Ferrari claimed that another conspiracy to commit murder. conspirator committed the mur - During Ferrari’s sentencing, der and that Kidan was behind Boulis’ sister, Mersina Koumouli - the plot. Kidan, however, testi - did, sat in court while Rossman fied that both Ferrari and read a handwritten letter on her Moscatiello had confessed the behalf in court. crime to him. The other conspir - “We still need prayers, faith ator, James “Pudgy” Fiorillo, ad - and support to overcome the mitted conducting surveillance next trial, Moscatiello, in order of Boulis and getting rid of the to start healing from this tragic murder weapon, but said he did loss,” Rossman read. “Taking not shoot Boulis. Mr. Gus Boulis away in that The main state witness was manner, that great man, is not Spiro Naos, one of Boulis’ easy to overcome. He was and nephews, who said that Boulis “A book is a gift you can open is the example of the American — a Greek immigrant who built dream,” he said. “May his mem - his businesses from scratch — ory be eternal.” frequently hired new immi - ...again and again.” The state offered only two grants, helped them find hous - witnesses in the penalty phase ing and offered other assistance. of the case, relying instead on “Gus was the best living ex - evidence presented during a ample of the American dream nearly month-long trial that also and he was willing to share it,” The National Herald Bookstore centered on Boulis’ role as for - Naos said. “There will never be mer owner of the SunCruz Casi - another Gus Boulis.” (718) 784-5255 nos gambling fleet. [email protected] Rossman said Ferrari was Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari in court in Florida before being (Material from the Associated motivated by money — a power found guilty in the mob-style murder of Gus Boulis in 2001 Press was used in this report) THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014 COMMUNITY 7

ALL HISTORY Laughing Greeks: Looking at the Artwork of Greek-American Cartoonists

By Steve Frangos riosity shop and simply a mad Overlap: A BoyPriest and Life - through the urban landscape, puter savvy to listen to Chris TNH Staff Writer gathering of things. In 2000, form the “Cat” Adventure his occasional confusion and his “Zeke” Hand’s long interview Billy Mavreas was invited into (Timeless Books, Kootenay, abiding love for the world with Billy Mavreas on the business and not long after 2008) and Tibonom (Montreal: around him make this book a Youtube.com to get a broader CHICAGO- In surveying those left to his own devices. By 2001, Éditions Trip, 2013) a second charming and enjoyable read sense of his meaning(s). Greek-Americans who work as Mavreas was exhibiting his art collection of the BoyPriest. As (May 17, 2013).” Mavreas’ artwork also sees reg - cartoonists I find it especially as well as the art and publica - interviewer Jeff Miller recently Obsessed as Mavreas is with ular inclusion in Matrix Maga - striking how different each tions of others at the shop. The learned during his exchange the printed word it is perhaps zine, a literary review based in artist’s work is from all the oth - shop gradually evolved into a with Mavreas, Tibonom, “The not too surprising to discover he Montreal. ers. Cartooning as an expressive more formal gallery space while protagonist in this collection of is also a poet, writer, and editor. Mavreas is especially taken genre has come a long distance also taking on more of the out - wordless comic strips is a mod - Aside from his own printed by the fact that there are now from single panels and/or three ward appearance of an uptown ern day spiritual seeker who chapbooks of poems Mavreas so many illustrators working in or four panels of well-intended boutique. So aside from being a spends time meditating, con - has had several articles appear Montreal, in so many diverse whimsy. Billy Mavreas offers a proprietor of the shop Mavreas cocting magical potions in his in Kolaj Magazine. Mavreas has genres and styles, that, unlike fine example of an artist work - is, in effect, also curator and cauldron and having adventures written about collage artists Ja - in the past, they don’t necessar - ing, most often, as a self-de - artist-in-residence at Monasti - ily all interact, professionally as scribed cartoonist whose inter - raki. This is not to say that well as socially. actions with others inevitably Mavreas’ art has not seen dis - Mavreas certainly sees this makes him a public figure—in play outside of his Monastiraki explosion of comic artists as a any number of ways. boutique and gallery. Mavreas’ positive development that he Born August 14, 1968, original work has appeared in strongly supports. Mavreas is a Greek-Canadian venues such as the Helen Pitt Still, he recalls a time when multidisciplinary artist living in Gallery in Vancouver as well as the comic art scene in Montreal Montreal. Mavreas’ mostly silent in over 40 shows in Cuba, Slove - was what he calls “totally or wordless comics revolve nia, Greece, United States, blendered,” e.g. including more around the themes of language, Japan, and elsewhere. collaboration of Anglophone sexuality and spirituality. Around 2009, Mavreas’ life and francophone artists. Mavreas is of Greek descent changed in a number of ways. Mavreas himself has a long- from the region of Mani and is Emilie O'Brien, a Montreal- standing connection to Mon - the nephew of fellow Canadian based artist and writer became treal’s francophone comic scene, artist Iraklis Theodorakopoulos. Mavreas’ life partner as well as first becoming involved in the Mavreas is also a collector of the co- proprietor of Monastiraki. ABOVE: Greek Canadian car - 1990s after his posters for spo - first order. During the mid- Mavreas credits her insight and toonist Billy Mavreas. ken-word events such as 2000s, while taking part in an aid in helping to continue the RIGHT: Tibonom one of YAWP! started getting noticed artist’s workshop, Mavreas be - transformation of the shop into Mavreas' cartoon characters. by young Quebecois cartoonists. cause aware for the first time a curated boutique of curiosities Mavreas features Tibonom in Mavreas continues in this that his daily life with art cen - and original art (http://monas - his book of wordless images “older” tradition of collabora - ters on accumulation and accre - tiraki.blogspot.com). where the spiritual driven tion by having his book Ti - tion. Mavreas’ early poster work, character encounters the bonom published by the Mon - Found objects in the world, featuring otherworldly crea - world around him. treal and Outaouais-based especially fragments of printed tures, especially bunnies, fig - Éditions Trip. material, fascinate Mavreas to ured strongly not only in the lo - the good since Mavreas’ work A select number of studies the point where he saves (and cal music scene but also in the ethic and creative tendencies that include Mavreas art and its endlessly arranges and re - Montreal literary and spoken sees expression in countless influences are Art of Modern arranges) these materials in vast word artist’s work of the 1990s. mini-books, zines, pamphlets Rock: The Poster Explosion by collections. As Kolaj: The Jour - This ‘bunny period’ is credited and assorted ephemera. Paul Grushkin and Dennis King nal of Fine Art Collage has with being influenced by the In 2001, a collection of (2004); Abstract Comics: The noted about Mavreas, his “art” Psychedelic art styling’s of San Mavreas’ short-works entitled, Anthology by Andrei Molotiu really consists of “various per - Francisco artists such as Rick The Overlords Of Glee (Mon - (2010) and It's Only Rock & Roll sonal collections, stacks of Griffin and Victor Moscoso. A treal: Conundrum Press & But I Like It: More Real Rock drawings, various ephemeral selection of these 8” x 10” Crunchy Comics, 2001) was Art for Real Rock Bands by Sal scraps and an assortment of posters have been gathered to - published. Since 2004, Mavreas Canzonieri (2013). found objects that resonate with gether for the book Mutations: has been a regular cartoonist for Billy Mavreas, a self-con - him on an aesthetic and spiri - The Posters of Billy Mavreas Ascent Magazine, a Canadian fessed collected and cartoonist tual level.” Part of this tendency (Conundrum Press, Montreal, yoga magazine. Tales From The continues despite or because of certainly is personal but there 1997) (ConundrumPress.com). Vase, is Mavreas’ quarterly silent all that whirls and gathers have been other factors lending Mavreas' boundless energy has cartoon strip for Ascent that around him. Remember, the their support to this form of self- positioned him as a community showcases his first regular hu - with his adorable headless cat. cob Whibley and Felix Morel, next time you are in Montreal, expression. conduit within many arenas for man character BoyPriest, a Tibonom, originally known as among others. Part of Mavreas don’t forget to visit Monastiraki In 1998, Mavreas’ father and years now. young ceremonial magician, Boypriest when these comics interest in expressing himself in and see for yourself the latest uncle Iraklis opened a shop Among his many endeavors and his headless cat, Lifeform. were being serialized in yoga his feature article work is his in found objects as well as the which they called Monastiraki, Mavreas is the co-founder of Ex - While Mavreas has confessed magazine Ascent, is an innocent own sense of being in what he gallery’s most current exhibi - in the Mile-End neighborhood pozine, one of Canada's largest to a certain degree of overall in a world that can be both dif - jokingly calls “the old guard” of tion. of Montreal. Initially the shop and most well respected Small procrastination in his work two ficult and yet full of joy. The de - Montreal cartoonists. I urge was a cross between an old cu - Press & Zine Fairs. All this is to other books Inside Outside pictions of his wanderings those of you with some com - [email protected]

GREEK AMERICAN STORIES Papa’s Guitar

By Phylis (Kiki) Sembos taverns and it home Special to The National Herald bouzouki joints with me, along Ninth Av - along During the Depression when enue. with his work was either nonexistent or Papa told me time. paintings, tough going when you found it, he was called Kat - Papa’s hobby of painting medals, and photos. my papa, George, went into a saros because he teur sceneries in oils lasted many As I play Katsaros’ record - pawn shop and bought a guitar had a full head of wrestler years; he’d carved ships from ings, an odd sensation clings, a for a couple of dollars money dark, brown, curly – hav - wood, tin, canvas found in vague refrain tells me that the he’d saved for quite a while. He hair. His real ing won dumps or construction sites – music is not lost or forgotten, didn’t know how to play so he name was The - four one was a replica of his father’s completely, but is being whis - picked and played until a tune oloyitis. He de - medals ship, the Evagelistra, that now pered into the ears of other tal - came from it. He got better as scribed him as be - for excel - graces my home. He was in the ented musicians. Somewhere, time passed. And, he had plenty ing very lence in ex - , making the surely, Katsaros and Papa – of time for practice time down-to-earth and hibition rank of sergeant, earning a maybe, even Segovia are strum - evenings and Sundays. He’d rise always happy to talk wrestling – one given him by sharpshooter medal. In later ming and sending silent mes - very early in the morning to hit to fellow Greeks any - Archbishop Athenagoras, an - years, I’d find an article about sages to the next in line. When the trail looking for that elusive where, knowing that that other by the New York Athletic someone he knew, I’d tell him a log is burnt ashes remain, job. He’d strum and sing songs Greeks, at that time, were Segovia, Club. Once, Katsaros came to the latest news of Katsaros or a proof that a log had once ex - like, “Kale Mou File,” or “Ean little welcomed in many places the great in - Stillman’s Gym, in mid-Manhat - fellow wrestler, where they isted; smoke rises and goes - Iha Ekato.” Or, he’d sing melan - in America, being the new guys ternational guitar tan, where my father was work - were, what they’re doing and somewhere. Autumn leaves fade choly songs, like, “Me Tis Tsepes on the block. Of course, all that player who had befriended him ing out with other friends in the he’d listen, avidly, remembering and fall and replicas return for Adianes” – songs he’d learned changed when Greeks were complimented his style. Papa wrestling game, like Jimmy Lon - when… yet another season in the sun. listening to a professional singer seen to be law abiding and mon - wasn’t professional material but dos. Then, they’d lave together, In later years, he hardly Nothing is really lost; neither is and guitar player, George Kat - eymakers. his guitar was a friend that going for coffee where they’d played the guitar. It remained, memory or music. I like to be - saros, an entertainer who trav - He brought nostalgia and voiced his mood when he had a meet other Greeks, exchange leaning against his easy chair in lieve they’ve, surely, received eled from city to city, across hope sincerity and warmth in need for solace. He wasn’t one gossip, have a few laughs and the living room for a long time star billing somewhere in the America, entertaining in Greek his virtuoso playing. It was said to waste time; he was an ama - talk about the politics of the until the time came when I took vastness. Diaspora Journal Publisher Leandro Papathanasiou Ceases Operations

By Penelope Karageorge literary texts and scholarly that emerged from the Center works than Leandros Pap - for Byzantine and Modern Greek After half a century of semi - athanasiou. He was a unique Studies at Queens College. nal and important work, Lean - publisher. The closing of his Along with academia, pub - dro Papathanasiou, the great press is a major loss for Greek lished exquisite poetry books. man of Greek-American publish - America.” Georgakas was a The Charioteer, a literary collec - ing, will close the doors of Pella longtime reader and advisor on tor’s treasure trove, focused on, Publishing. Almost singlehand - the Journal of the Hellenic Di - for instance, poets Nikos Gatsos, edly, he published The Chario - aspora. Because of Papathana - George Seferis and Yannis Rit - teer, a critically-praised cultural siou’s full-time support, the sos. Renowned Kimon Friar was annual, as well as the Journal Journal was that singular acad - the first Charioteer editor. of the Hellenic Diaspora, an aca - emic forum not dependent on Papathanasiou wrote to long - demic publication focused on studies associations and acade - time friends and subscribers: Modern Greek studies with a mic departments. It was the “Our goal these past decades special emphasis on the explo - only journal to focus on the was to publish articles and crit - ration of Greek America. study of Greek America. ical essays regarding Hellenism Papathanasiou’s Athens Pella published important and the Hellenic communities. Printing Company, a bread and academic books including the We endeavored to produce pri - butter operation, made the Modern Greek Research Series mary source documents that we other work possible. Papathana - hope will be useful to future siou’s printing itself was out - scholars and to give voice to standing, the work of a dedi - opinions and ideas which might cated artisan done on rare otherwise have been lost…I linotype machines. The New truly hope that they will con - York Times did a story on Pap - tinue to occupy a special place athanasiou. “Offering old-world in your heart and on your book - printing charm amidst the digi - shelf for many more years to tal revolution, Papathanasiou come.” creates beautiful books sought Papathanasiou told TNH: “I after by aesthetically aware or - Readers and writers across America are mourning the closing of Pella Publishing and the do hope I helped to keep the ganizations including the Athens Printing Company that made it possible by its founder, printer Leandro Papathanasiou. Greek literary spirit alive. Al - Queens Museum of Art and the though I am one hundred per - Brooklyn Academy of Music.” nimble as a kid from “Voukarini, doors permanently, Papathana - gakas, Director of the Greek cent patriotic American, I have Unfortunately, the Internet the smallest town in Macedo - siou, an extraordinarily modest American Studies Project at the always thought of myself as a and digital revolution brought nia,” his hometown, as he man beloved by the many writ - Center for Byzantine & Modern Greek in America.” Pella Pub - Pella, named after the Ancient moves through the book-packed ers and academicians he worked Greek Studies at Queens Col - lishing will be greatly missed by capital of , and offices of Pella on West 36th with, would only say: “It is work lege, said: “No individual in the Greek-American community, Athens Printing to a close. At Street in Manhattan. that I loved.” America has done more to sup - but Papathanasiou has created 80, Papathanasiou appears as Preparing to shutter Pella’s TNH columnist Dan Geor - port quality academic journals, a tremendous legacy. 8 U.S. NEWS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014 Democrat and Republican Hopefuls Ponder the 2016 Presidential Election

WASHINGTON, DC (AP) – centrists. Paul has been among the Many Democrats already view For Democrats, the presiden - most active Republicans explor - Hillary Rodham Clinton as a tial race hinges on whether Clin - ing a presidential campaign, and quasi-incumbent, someone who ton runs again. he could inherit the loyal sup - could take the reins from Presi - The former New York senator porters of his father, libertarian dent Barack Obama. The former and first lady to President Bill hero and former Texas congress - secretary of state has made no Clinton has dominated early man Ron Paul. Texas Sen. Ted decisions about her political fu - polls among Democrats, with Cruz, in office just a year, has ture but has done little to Vice President Joe Biden a dis - built a strong following in con - dampen enthusiasm about an - tant second. There is no obvious servative circles. other presidential campaign, challenger from the left, consid - Many Republicans are watch - traveling the country making ering Massachusetts Sen. Eliza - ing Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, speeches and preparing to re - beth Warren's vow to serve her who impressed as Mitt Romney's lease another book. full six-year term. youthful running mate in 2012 Republicans have no clear Potential candidates like and recently negotiated a bud - front-runner and expect a Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley get deal with Democrats. crowded primary field that and former Gov. Brian Beyond Christie, a large could include fresh-faced candi - Schweitzer of Montana have vis - group of Republican governors dates like New Jersey Gov. Chris ited early voting states but re - may join the field, including Christie, Kentucky Sen. Rand main largely unknown to most Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Ru - voters. Some liberals might en - and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who bio. For a party that typically courage former Vermont Gov. both face re-election in 2014. backs established politicians, Howard Dean to run again, but Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal 2016 could be the most jumbled Clinton has the potential to may also run and has urged Re - GOP White House campaign in unite the party. publicans to develop a strong a generation. Clinton's movements will be policy agenda as an alternative As the Obama era nears its closely watched this year. She to Democrats. final midterm elections, the avoided most political activity Veterans of past presidential campaign to succeed him has al - in 2013 but is expected to be a campaigns like former Pennsyl - ready begun: Prospective candi - top draw at Democratic vania Sen. Rick Santorum and dates on both sides have been fundraisers. The spring release In 2008, then-little-known Democratic challenger Barack Obama upset the heavily-favored former Arkansas Gov. Mike quietly courting donors, taking of her memoir about her State Hillary Clinton. Clinton is the big favorite for 2016, too. Is another unknown ready to emerge Huckabee could compete for so - steps to build an organization Department years will include a this time around? Meanwhile, among Republicans, it is establishment v. Tea Party. cial conservatives if they run and making scouting trips to national book tour, allowing her again. Texas Gov. Rick Perry early voting states like Iowa, to discuss themes that might Cuomo, a fundraising power - Republicans are also weighing donors and party leaders as the chose not to seek re-election, giv - New Hampshire and South Car - precede a presidential cam - house, and Warren, who would significant changes to their brother and son of presidents. ing him ample time to prepare olina. The official starting line, paign. Until she announces her be pressured by progressives to nominating calendar and debate His presidential ambitions are for another presidential race. however, is likely a year away. decision, every word will be run. Other potential candidates schedule. unclear, however, and this year Kaufman suggested Republi - The coming year will be parsed for clues. could include New York Sen. Christie, the new chairman could offer a better indication cans could be helped by a con - about building the foundations "It's maybe an unprecedented Kirsten Gillibrand, Minnesota of the Republican Governors As - of his intentions. tested primary, something that of a campaign, compiling a pol - situation, with Hillary Rodham Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Vir - sociation, boosted his national Bush's decision could weigh helped Democrats in 2008. icy agenda and raising money Clinton being as strong as an in - ginia Sen. Mark Warner. profile in November by easily heavily on his protégé, Rubio, "Running for president is like for House, Senate and guberna - cumbent president running for Republicans face much dif - winning a second term. who tried but failed to get con - nothing else you do in your life," torial candidates who could be - re-election," said Democratic ferent terrain. Christie's team contends he gressional Republicans to sup - he said. "Mrs. Clinton has an ad - come future allies. strategist Tad Devine. "I really During the past half-century, wrote the playbook for GOP suc - port sweeping immigration re - vantage of having gone through And each side faces its own see her in a unique situation." the GOP has rarely nominated cess in 2016 by appealing to forms. Few expect Rubio to the process — once for herself intra-party divisions. If Clinton decides not to run, a candidate who has not previ - strong percentages of women challenge Bush in a presidential and twice with her husband. Republicans are in the mid - the Democratic primary could ously run for president — the and minorities. primary, but the Cuban-Ameri - She doesn't need to go through dle of a feud that pits establish - turn into a free-for-all. exceptions are Gerald Ford in Former Florida Gov. Jeb can senator is expected to travel the gantlet. All the folks on our ment figures against tea party Biden could inherit many 1976 and George W. Bush in Bush, who left office in 2007, the country in 2014 in support side, they need the gantlet. We adherents. Democrats run the Obama and Clinton supporters, 2000. commands attention from of House and Senate candidates. need a primary." risk of souring on Obama's but a Clinton-free race would That could change in 2016. brand — polls have shown a de - open the door to candidates like "More than any other time in cline in his popularity since his O'Malley, who has assembled a my lifetime, things are wide re-election — and face a brew - record admired by many liber - open," said Republican strategist ing split between liberals and als, New York Gov. Andrew Ron Kaufman, who noted that

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THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014 COMMUNITY 9 St. George Antiochian Church in Lowell and its Priest Lead by Example

By Theodore Kalmoukos are the Church that has never though the Civil War is between deviated from the teachings of the two Muslim sects it has LOWELL, MA – The city of Low - Christ of the Fathers of the taken a toll on the Christian pop - ell has the privilege to have a Church since it was established ulation. Many have fled the small in numbers but big in over 2000 years ago. Even country and are living in refugee spirit and faith House of wor - though our Church is an Anti - camps in neighboring countries ship the historic St. George An - ochian Orthodox Church we like Lebanon, Jordan, and tiochian Orthodox Church on 61 have people from other jurisdic - Turkey; they long to go back to Bowers St. having as its presid - tions, namely Greek Orthodox, the Syria they once knew. It ing priest a true man of God and Ethiopian Orthodox, and Russ - seems that Christians are sys - of man, Archimandrite Leonard ian Orthodox attending our tematically being run out of the Faris. church from time to time. They Middle East where Christianity St. George’s history is identi - are very supportive of our mis - first began. We must do all we cal to that of many Greek Or - sionary work. can to help this part of the world thodox parishes in the United In Lowell, we have four other maintain its Christian presence.” States. It was stated by Immi - Orthodox Churches. They are of He also said “for me, who has grants who came from the Mid - the Greek Metropolis of Boston. relatives still living in Lebanon, dle East to start a better life for Since coming to Lowell 12 years I have a vested interest in their their families. The Church was ago I have had a wonderful re - safety. I am in constant contact purchased in 1917 from a lationship with these parishes with them to make sure they are Protestant Congregation for and we con-celebrate many ser - all safe and free from any vio - $1000 and a mortgage of vices together and work together lence that might spill over from $1,000. It took those men who for the Glory of God and His the Syrian conflict. Let us all bought the church two years to Holy Orthodox Church. We co - pray for a peaceful resolution to renovate it into an Orthodox ordinate many activities this terrible Civil War. We are re - Church. It finally opened for Ser - Fr. Leonard Faris presides over services at the St. George Antiochian in Lowell, MA, an historic throughout the year to benefit ceiving much support from other vices in 1919. It has been a parish that opened in 1919 and which includes Greek-Americans among its members. all our people.” Orthodox Jurisdictions who haven for all those coming from Faris strongly believes in the have raised millions of dollars the Middle East ever since. The the people of God in a loving though he has earned his eternal that we have many immigrants Orthodox unity in the United in humanitarian aid to help Parish is made up of people com - and humble way. Since the priest reward.” coming to worship and so we States into one Orthodox those in need. We have now ing from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, is the Image of Christ, we must Speaking about today’s diffi - also use Arabic so that we can Church. “This has been on the started a clothes drive to help Palestine, and Egypt, as well as never forget who Christ was and culties he said “as with every perpetuate our culture and tra - table for many years. In 1992 alleviate the suffering of people those born in the United States. how He ministered to all the parish today, we face many chal - ditions. I try to blend both lan - our Beloved Metropolitan Philip in refugee camps.” Many Greek Orthodox form people of His time. Christ said lenges, the main ones being sec - guages so that everyone is satis - Saliba gathered all the Orthodox The Antiochian Archdiocese the worship at St. George’s since that ‘I have come to serve and ularism and the lack of moral fied. A couple of years ago we Hierarchs at the Antiochian Vil - is the fastest growing Orthodox Metropolitan Methodios re - not to be served,’ and that is my and family values. It seems that began an Arabic Class on Fridays lage in Pennsylvania to get to Denomination in America. He moved the entire parish council motto. I am a spiritual father in today's society everything to teach our children how to know each other and to speak said “our Antiochian Orthodox of the Transfiguration Greek Or - who leads his spiritual children goes and we must follow the read and write in Arabic and to about Orthodox Unity. Since Christian Archdiocese since His thodox parish six years ago, by example. Growing up in a times. The Church must always learn the hymns of the Church then, there has been a strong Eminence, Metropolitan Philip, which is not even 500 feet away very religious family and being be a beacon of light in a dark - in Arabic. Surprisingly, we not movement in the church to bring became its Primate has grown from St. George. heavily involved in the Church ened world. We must never con - only have children coming to this about. What we need today from 66 parishes to over 250 Rev. Faris told TNH that “I from early childhood led me to form to the world but to follow class but also American-born is for the Ecumenical Patriarch parishes and missions through - have had the pleasure of leading answer the Lord's call to become the teachings of Christ and to adults who want to learn the to convene an Ecumenical Coun - out the United States and this parish as their pastor for the a priest. As a former IRS em - never be afraid of speaking out language. We even have a cou - cil to address all the issues facing Canada. We are growing by last twelve years. We are truly a ployee, I loved working with against the evils of the world. ple of non-Arabic people want - the Church today. There hasn't leaps and bounds with converts parish that loves each other and people and helping people with This we must do in love and hu - ing to learn the Arabic language been an Ecumenical Council in coming from all Christian De - works well together for the their challenges, so after a career mility.” and culture. I am very proud of the last 1300 years.” nominations seeking the One, Glory of God and the Holy Or - of 15 years I decided after con - Along with English, Faris uses the teachers who established this St. George parish and Faris Holy, Catholic and Apostolic thodox Church. Since coming sultation with my spiritual fa - Arabic in the Liturgy and in class. For us to keep our cultural are doing everything humanly Faith.” here in August 2001, we have ther, the late Fr. Philip Gialopsos, other ecclesial services, and identity is very important.” possible to help the people in been a welcoming community to of blessed memory to pursue my everybody loves it. The young He believes that “the Ortho - Syria. He said “the tragedy that anyone who walks through our God given vocation. Fr. Philip generations do not resent it; on dox Church today has a very im - is unfolding in Syria today is af - doors. Many Orthodox and non- was a great example of how a the contrary, they enjoy it. He portant message to convey to the fecting all the Christian People Orthodox find comfort upon en - priest should behave and how I said that “the fact that St. world and that is that we are the living in that country. For cen - tering our Church.” should conduct myself after be - George is a parish of the Anti - best held secret and that our turies the Muslim and Christian He also said “as a priest, my ing ordained. He will always be ochian Orthodox Christian Arch - Church was established by Our people have lived in peace and main goal is to serve God and my hero and mentor even diocese of North America and Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We harmony, however, today even Pavlos of GOC of America Has Resigned for Health Reasons

Continued from page 1 the American Community School in Chalandri. In 1974 he Greece after eight years because entered the Theological School his illness prevented him from of the University of Athens, from traveling. which he graduated in 1978. On He wrote in his encyclical November 17, 1978 he joined that “glory be to God who re - the monastic brotherhood of St. cently deemed me worthy to Markella, and on Pentecost of visit our fatherland of Greece 1979 he was tonsured a monk for the first time in eight years by Bishop Petros, who gave him and to be present at various ec - the name Pavlos. A year later, clesiastical events there, such as on Pentecost 1980, he was or - Ecumenical Patriarch the transfer of the remains of dained deacon, and in 1985, Bartholomew our ever-memorable elders and also on Pentecost, he was or - predecessors Metropolitan Pet - dained priest and elevated to ros of Astoria and Archiman - the rank of Archimandrite. He drite Niphon Astyfides, and the took active part in the teaching Bartholomew celebration of the memory of St. ministry at St. Markella's and Pachomios of († 1905). participated in the pastoral “While in Greece I also took work of the Diocese of Astoria. Hospitalized part in the convocation of the In 1981, with the blessing of Holy Synod of the GOC of Bishop Petros, he began giving For 4 Days Greece under the presidency of theological lectures every Mon - His Beatitude Archbishop day night after Vespers, which Kallinikos of Athens and all- have continued uninterrupted By Theodore Kalmoukos Greece. During the meeting of to this day. For many years he the Holy Synod on October was a preacher for the Diocese BOSTON, MA – Ecumenical Pa - 10/23, 2013, I once again ex - of Astoria, and for twelve years triarch Bartholomew was hospi - pressed my inability to smoothly he had a weekly television pro - talized for almost four days at exercise my pastoral responsi - gram that reached the Greeks the American Hospital of Con - of the diaspora in America. stantinople, widely considered Metropolitan Pavlos, primate On Feb. 6, 1998 he was the best hospital in Turkey, fight - of the Genuine Orthodox Me - elected Metropolitan of the Me - ing a terrible cold the last week tropolis of America, has re - tropolis of the G.O.C. of North or so. signed for health reasons. He & South America by the Holy The patriarch was admitted is seen at left with Fr. Synod in Greece under the pres - into the hospital “for preventive Theodore Giannakopoulos at idency of His Beatitude, purposes” on January 2 and he the Cathedral of St. Markella Chrysostomos II of Athens and was discharged on January 6. in Astoria, which is also seen All Greece. He was ordained in Bartholomew did not offici - in the above photo decorated Greece on Feb. 13. In 1999, he ate at the Great Feast Day of the for Christmas. founded the Monastery of the Holy Theophany or at the bless - Holy Ascension in Bearsville, NY ings of the waters at the Kera - parents, Panagiotis and Maria, and served as the abbot. tion Bay near the Patriarchate, were devout people with great On Sept. 15, 2000 at his re - but he stayed in the Holy Altar. faith in God and deep spirituality. quest, the Holy Synod unani - No official announcement From his youth he lived in the mously elected Archimandrite was issued about the patriarch’s bosom of the Church, where he Christodoulos as Bishop of admittance into the hospital, was raised in Christian piety by Theoupolis to serve as his aux - and not even his associates at his uncle, Bishop Petros of Asto - iliary bishop. His Grace was con - the Phanar’s offices were aware. ria, who baptized him in 1956 secrated on Sept. 20, 2000 by Bartholomew was scheduled in the newly-founded church of Metropolitan Pavlos in St. to travel to Athens to be present Saint Markella. His spiritual fa - Menas Monastery in Attica, at the inauguration of the ther was his other uncle, Arch - Greece. Greece’s taking over the presi - mandrite Niphon (Astyfides). In September 2012, His Em - dency of the European Union. He completed elementary inence resigned as abbot of the He was invited to attend by school in New York, after which Holy Ascension Monastery in Prime Minister Antonis Sama - he moved to Greece to study at Bearsville. ras.

Don’t miss... Coming bilities in the Holy Metropolis wrote that “my decision to re - He also wrote to his flock of America given the unfavor - sign from the administration of that “I am still with you and I The National Herald ’s in February able condition of my health, be - the Holy Metropolis of America call upon you to support His ing plagued by illness due to a was not one I took lightly, but it Beatitude, Archbishop stroke I suffered eight years ago, has become abundantly clear to Kallinikos, and those hierarchs The 50 Wealthiest I asked that my resignation from me that being loaded down with whom he has appointed to assist the administration of the Holy jurisdictional responsibilities him in the administration of the Metropolis of America be ac - was extremely burdensome to Metropolis, just as you have cepted. The Holy Synod ac - me. I felt that the Metropolis of faithfully supported me all these Greeks cepted my resignation and…ap - America could be better admin - years. pointed His Beatitude istered by His Beatitude and the “Exhorting you in the Holy Archbishop Kallinikos to be the Holy Synod around him.” Spirit to remain steadfast in Or - in America Locum Tenens of the Holy Me - Pavlos clarified that “in re - thodoxy, I ask you to pray for tropolis of America. Archbishop signing from the position of me, that being delivered from Kallinikos, as Locum Tenens, Metropolitan of America, I have the onerous burden of pastoral annual special issue shall administer the Metropolis not ceased to be a hierarch of responsibilities I will able to find until the election of a new Met - the Church, I have simply the peace of soul which I so de - ropolitan; he possess all of the ceased to exercise administra - sire. Pray that my resignation rights and responsibilities of the tive functions within the Me - may be for the salvation of my ruling Metropolitan during the tropolis. I have not abandoned soul and for the benefit of the interim, and as such he is com - you, rather, I have handed the Holy Metropolis of America.” memorated in the Divine Ser - reins of the Holy Metropolis of Metropolitan Pavlos, (in the To advertise call: (718) 784-5255 ext. 101, vices.” America to those better world, Peter Stratigeas) was born Metropolitan Pavlos also equipped to administer it.” on Sept. 26, 1955 in Astoria. His e-mail: [email protected] 10 OBITUARIES CLASSIFIEDS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014

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Principal Knoxville, passed away on Fri - on N. Main St. in Mansfield. noisseur of good food, for his ing World War II. After experi - location, in a private home. Fully business location: 158 Withers St., Brooklyn, NY day, December 27, 2013. She Jimmy went on to own and op - hospitality and his love of family encing the ravages of war, renovated, large rooms, eat in 11211 . 273161/10801 was born in Ditiki Fragista, erate Jimmy's Lounge on Main and Greek dance. He was pre - twelve-year-old Angelo arrived kitchen. No dogs, washing ma - Greece. Nitsa was a member of Street in Mansfield, from 1963 ceded in death by his parents to the United States in 1947, chines or satellite dish permitted. LEGAL NOTICE Saint George Greek Orthodox to 2013. Though proud of his Dimitrios and Alexandra (Bil - and later became an American For more information please call LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Church, the Philoptochos Soci - Greek heritage, he loved Amer - lios) Karageorge; his brother, citizen. He attended Ensley High Markos or James at (718) 259- Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company ety, St. George Senior Citizens ica as the land of opportunity. Spiro Karros; a sister, Maria School, University of Alabama, 7800 (LLC)Name: TOBY'S ESTATE COFFEE RETAIL LLC and the Evrytanian Association. Jimmy was a member of Sts. Fakonas, nephew, George Karros Birmingham Southern and later 417558/7258 Articles of Organization filed by the Department of State of New York on: 10/16/2013 Office location: She was preceded in death by Constantine and Helen Greek and his wife, Vasiliki "Betty" served two years in the U.S. LEGAL NOTICE County of Kings Purpose: any and all lawful her parents, George and Oura - Orthodox Church and also of (Deligiannis) Karageorge. Left Army. He was stationed in Ger - activities. Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) Sozo Consulting LLC Arts of Org filed nia Peroulas; her beloved hus - the order of AHEPA. Surviving behind to cherish his memory many from 1958 to 1960. In designated as agent of LLC upon whom process with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of band, George; brothers, Paul are his wife of 55 years, Annette are his four children, Thomas 1961, Angelo married the love 8/13/13. Office: Kings County. SSNY process to: 125 North 6th Street Brooklyn, NY designated as agent of LLC upon whom 11249. and Arthur Peroulas; and sister, (Ioannidou) George, a longtime Karageorge, Dr. Alexis Kara - of his life, beautiful Catherine process may be served. SSNY shall mail Martha Chakos. She is survived Mansfield resident; son, John george (Richard Buono), Kantargis, and they were hap - process to: 414 Albemarle Rd, #3A, 273167/18737 by her loving and devoted (Olga) Stavridis of Columbus; Rhonda Karageorge and Dimitri pily married for fifty-two years. Brooklyn, NY 11218. General Purposes. 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A funeral service will ter, Eleftheria Karayiannis of at Ratterman Funeral Home Nicholas died suddenly, leaving County. LLC formed in FL on 01/16/2013. Purpose: Any lawful activity. be at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday at , Greece; brothers in- 3800 Bardstown Road from 4- behind his mother without any SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY 273200/18588 St George Greek Orthodox law and sisters in-law, James 8p.m. with Trisagion Services at means of support. Despite all shall mail process to: Judy Karniewicz, Esq. Church with Fr. Anthony Stratis Pappas, Louie and Penelope Kat - 7:30p.m. Funeral will be Satur - the hardships Angelo endured, 1406 W Fletcher Ave., Tampa, FL 33612. Address required to be maintained in FL: 1406 LEGAL NOTICE officiating. Interment will follow saounis, and Vasiliki Stavridis, day, December 28, 2013, 10a.m. he remained hopeful, optimistic, W Fletcher Ave. Tampa FL 33612. Cert of For - at Lynnhurst Cemetery. The fam - all of Mansfield, and a host of at St. Michael Orthodox Church and faithful to God. He had a mation filed with FL Dept. of State, Div. of BRUTAL HONESTY LLC . ily will receive friends from 5:00 other in-laws abroad; and nu - (corner of Hikes Lane and Fur - hearty laugh, sparkling eyes, an Corps, P.O. Box 6327, Tallahassee, FL 32314. Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. Name: Brutal Honesty LLC. Articles of Organization - 7:00 p.m. on Monday at St merous nieces, nephews, and man Boulevard), Louisville, outgoing personality and a gen - filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on George Greek Orthodox Church other dear relatives, too numer - with burial to follow at uine desire to help others. He 273198/16818 8/26/10. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process with a Trisagion Service to fol - ous to name. Jimmy was pre - Resthaven Memorial Park Ceme - endeared himself to his church against it may be served. The post office address to low. Special thanks to Parkwest ceded in death by his parents; tery. In lieu of flowers, memorial family, community, and nation. LEGAL NOTICE which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against Medical Center, Dr Thomas An - brothers, George, Athanasios, donations may be made to St. Angelo became a successful con - the LLC served upon him/her is The LLC 1424 E 89th St. VASCO REALTY HOLDINGS LLC Articles of Brooklyn, NY, 11236. Purpose/character of LLC: Any derson and Dr Michael Under - Nick, Petros and Angelo; sister, Michael Orthodox Church, As - tractor in Birmingham for over Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/31/13 Lawful Purpose. wood and their respective staff Alexandra; and uncle, John sumption Greek Orthodox 50 years. He maintained a com - Office in Kings Co. SSNY design. Agent of 273213/18891 for their excellent care and com - (Dorothy) George, who spon - Church. mercial pilot's license and was LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC passion. In lieu of flowers, sored him as an immigrant to a member of the Civil Air Patrol, 1503 E 14th St Brooklyn, NY 11230. FUNERAL HOMES memorials may be made to St the United States. Funeral ser - n PANAS, JOHN an auxiliary of the US Air Force, Purpose: Any lawful activity. APOSTOLOPOULOS George Greek Orthodox Church, vices, conducted by Father HARRISON, NY (From the Jour - where he led rescue missions for 273197/18588 Apostle Family - 4070 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, Michael Ellis, will be held Thurs - nal News, published on Nov. 21) downed planes. He served as TN 37919. Arrangements pro - day, January 2, 2014 at – John Panas, a longtime resi - the Commander of the Alabama Gregory, Nicholas, Andrew - vided by Rose Mortuary Mann 11:00a.m. at Sts. Constantine dent of Harrison, passed away Wing of the CAP from 1993- LEGAL NOTICE Funeral Directors of NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 1Serv Realty, LLC. RIVERDALE Heritage Chapel. Online condo - and Helen Greek Orthodox on Wednesday morning, No - 1998. Proud of his heritage, An - Arts of Org filed with the Secy of State of NY, (SS - lences may be extended at Church, 265 West Third Street, vember 20th, 2013. He was 95 gelo was past president of NY) on 11/14/13. Office location: Nassau FUNERAL HOME Inc. www.rosemortuary.com. Mansfield. Family and friends years old. John was born in New AHEPA Chapter 420, a charita - County. SSNY designated agent upon whom 5044 Broadway process against it may be served and shall mail are invited to call from 9- York City on October 5, 1918 to ble Greek-American men's soci - copy of the process against LLC to principal New York, NY 10034 n DAIOPOULOS, MARY 10:30a.m. at the church. Burial Nicholas Panagiotopoulos and ety that helps those in need. He business address: 35 Debevoise Ave., Roosevelt, (212) 942-4000 NY 11575. Purpose: any lawful act . READING, MA (From the Lowell will follow in Mansfield Ceme - Sofia Karagias. He was pre-de - was also a Shriner and member Toll Free 1-888-GAPOSTLE Sun, published on Dec. 20) – tery. In lieu of flowers, memorial ceased by his wife of 39 years, of GROTTOES of North Al - 273188/18876 CONSTANTINIDES Mrs. Mary (Pappadopoulos) contributions may be made to Georgianna Tsalos, his brother abama. He won many awards FUNERAL PARLOR Co. Daiopulos, 77, of Reading, Sts. Constantine and Helen Constantine Panas, his sister for his extensive work with the LEGAL NOTICE Massachusetts, a well-known Greek Orthodox Church. Mary Pani, brother-in-law Harry March of Dimes. A life-long (718) 745-1010 MOVE IN BLACK LLC Articles of Org. filed NY and admired early childhood Pani and sister-in-law Hope member of Birmingham's Holy Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/11/13 Office in Kings Services in all localities - education teacher in the Wake - n KAKIAS, LINDA Panas. John is survived by his Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Ortho - Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom Low cost shipping to Greece field school system for 42 years, ELDORADO, OH (From the Day - brother George Panas, sister-in- dox Cathedral of Alabama, An - process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 308 Eckford St Apt. 3E passed away December 18th, at ton Daily News, published on law Constantina Panas, son gelo was involved in virtually Brooklyn, NY 11222. Purpose: Any lawful LITRAS FUNERAL HOME Lahey Clinic, after a brief illness. Jan. 2) – Kakias, Linda (Rose) Nicholas Panas, daughter every ministry of the parish. He activity. ARLINGTON She leaves her husband of 51 65, of Eldorado, Ohio passed Joanne Panas Lehmkuhl, son-in- served on the parish council for 273184/18588 years, Arthur C. Daiopulos. away suddenly on December 31, law Thomas Lehmkuhl, grand - many years and helped with the BENSON DOWD, INC Mary was born in Sparta, 2013 at her residence. She was daughters Kelly and Gina annual food festival. A natural LEGAL NOTICE FUNERAL HOME Greece on October 7, 1936, born February 15, 1948 in Lehmkuhl, niece Pennee athlete, he participated in the 83-15 Parsons Blvd., daughter of the late Speros and Greenville, Ohio to Stanley & Tsoukas and her husband Elias sports ministry of the church THERASKILLS SLP PLLC, a domestic PLLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 9/5/13. Jamaica, NY 11432 Helen (Aliferopoulos) Pap - Lucy (Shiverdecker) Rose, and Tsoukas and nephew Nicholas and played softball for years. Office location: Kings County. SSNY is desig - padopoulos. She was prede - was a graduate of Monroe High Pani. After graduating from As - Moreover, Angelo was best nated as agent upon whom process against the (718) 858-4434 PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process • (800) 245-4872 ceased by her sister, Edith (Pap - School, West Manchester, Oh. bury Park High School in NJ, known for his contagious smile to: Shayndle Kleinkaufman, 1405 Ave. L, padopoulos) Christopulos and She worked for many years at John studied accounting at and lilting voice. Never missing Brooklyn, NY 11230. Purpose: Speech Language her late husband, Andrew, and Baxter Industries, and retired Syracuse and Columbia Univer - a Sunday, he served as church Pathology. ANTONOPOULOS 273180/10709 her brothers, Christos Pap - from Green Tokai about 4 years sities. He also attended The Uni - cantor for decades and during FUNERAL HOME, INC. padopoulos and Nicholas Pap - ago. On June 1, 1991, she mar - versity of Athens until his stud - the liturgy, chanted ancient LEGAL NOTICE Konstantinos Antonopoulos - padopoulos. Mrs. Daiopulos ried the love of her life, Thomas ies were interrupted by World Byzantine hymns with ease and Notice of formation of FABRIC AND STEEL, LLC Funeral Director came to this country with her Kakias. They traveled through - War II. Upon returning home sincerity. For his years of dedi - (DOM LLC). Articles of organization filed with the family as a child and lived in out many states, including from Greece, John enlisted in cated service to the church, An - NY Secretary of State (SSNY) on 10/30/213. 38-08 Ditmars Blvd., the Acre section of Lowell for Hawaii, and went to Tom's na - the Army Air Corp. He served gelo was bestowed the highest Office location. Kings County. SSNY is designated Astoria, New York 11105 as Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. many years. A graduate of tive country of Greece. Linda at - as a Radar Navigator Bom - honor of the diocese: the SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Michele Dopp, (718) 728-8500 Bartlett Junior High and Lowell tended many Greek festivals bardier, flying 34 missions in the Archangel Michael Award, given 30 Washigton Street #5F, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Not affiliated with any Purpose: Any lawful activity. High School (class of 1955), she with Tom, and liked learning Mediterranean Theater. John annually in Atlanta to one adult other funeral home. later received a bachelor's de - about other cultures. She en - was awarded The Distinguished parishioner, who had spent a 273162/18860 gree from the former Lowell joyed reading, especially about Flying Cross, The Presidential lifetime serving Orthodox min - REAL ESTATE State Teachers College. In 1980, the Amish way of life. Her Unit Citation, The Air Medal istries and helping others. An - she earned a master's degree hobby was working crossword with Two Oak Leaf Clusters and gelo was preceded in death by from Fitchburg State College. puzzles. She was a lover of ani - The Theater Ribbon with Eight his parents, Nicholas and Irene NAPLES FLORIDA REAL ESTATE She was a member of the Mass - mals, but even more, she loved Battle Stars. John married Geor - Petelos and beloved daughter achusetts Teachers Association her family. The one trait that giana Tsalos of New York City, Rena Marie Petelos. He is sur - and a member of the Hellenic Tom loved most about her was upon returning home from the vived by his loving and ever- Orthodox Church of the Holy that she was always searching war, in 1946. John was a life - supportive wife, Catherine Kan - Trinity in Lowell. Mary and for the truth in everything. She long member of The Holy Trin - targis Petelos; son Nicholas Vicky Lewis Arthur shared a love for nature, was a wonderful, loving wife. ity Greek Orthodox Church in Angelos Petelos (Yvonne); two realtor history, children and family. Linda was preceded in death by New Rochelle, NY. His many ser - grandsons: Angelos Nicholas Pe - Mary enchanted all who met her father, Stanley Rose. Sur - vices to the church include 50 telos and James Nicholas Pete - her, especially the little ones. vivors include her husband, year member of The Order of los; siblings Pauline Lovoy Her unconditional love illumi - Thomas Kakias; mother, Lucy Ahepa; Treasurer, Vice President (Jack), of Alhambra, California; nated many and will be missed Rose of Eldorado; brother, Stan and President of the Parish Maria Latto (Tim), of 7

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Vasiliades) of Brighton, MA, her The Funeral Service for Linda ferred the title of Archon Depu - of Birmingham; and Gracie Dal - 7 2 sister-in-law, Eileen Pap - Kakias will be Friday, January tatos, a District Governor for lair (Richard) of Fishersville, DOWNING-FRYE REALTY, INC. padopoulos of Andover, MA; her 3rd, 2014 at the Eldorado The Sons of Pericles, and a Virginia; numerous cousins, Μιλώ Ελληνικά nephew, Charles Vasiliades of United Methodist Church, 341 member of the National Council nieces, and nephews. Visitation Brighton, MA; her niece, Athena Main St., at 2:00 P.M. Condo - of The Order of St. Andrew. for family and friends will be Mazerall and her husband, lences may be sent via the web - John was also a member of the held Thursday, December 5th, James of Brighton, MA; her site at www.barnesfuneral - Lions Club and the Masonic Or - at Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek to PlACe your ClAssiFieD AD, CAll: (718) 784-5255, niece, Elaine (Christopulos) home.com. ganization. John's achievements Orthodox Cathedral, 307 19th ext. 106, e-mAil: classifieds@ thenationalherald.com Otto and her husband, Greg of in the business community were Street South, from 5:00- Germantown, TN; her nephew, n KARAGEORGE, GEORGE numerous. He started in the fi - 7:00pm, followed by the Trisa - George Christopulos and his DIMITRI nance department for his father- gion, a traditional prayer ser - wife, Donna of Andover, MA; LOUISVILLE, KY (From the in-law at Mother's Pie Company vice. In lieu of flowers, MA. In lieu of flowers donations adise with his first wife Athana - her nephew, Spiro Christopulos Courier-Journal, published on in the Bronx. From there, he memorial donations can be in her memory may be made to sia Loizou Vastardis, his parents and his wife, Demetra of An - Dec. 25) – George Dimitri Kara - went on to finance and operate made to Holy Trinity-Holy Cross the above named church, the Anthony and Maria, brother dover, MA; her nephew, Spiro george, 92, passed away peace - the following businesses: Play - Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Hellenic Cardiac Fund for Chil - Leonidas, sister Anna, and Pappadopoulos and his wife, fully Sunday, December 22, land Sweet Shop in Playland dren, c/o Childrens Hospital, granddaughter Ashley. Left to Megan of Boston, MA; her 2013 at Episcopal Church Amusement Park (over 46 n ROUMELIOTIS, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, cherish and celebrate his mem - niece, Adrienne Schlow and her Home. He was born October 12, years); Milk Maid Ice Cream CATHERINE MA, The Philoxenia House, 162 ory are: his sons - John Vastardis, husband, Michael of Boston, 1921 in the mountainous village and Hamburgers in White WATERTOWN, MA (From The Goddard Ave., Brookline, MA wife Andriani, & their children MA; and her grand nieces and of Vinianni, Greece and immi - Plains, NY and Queens, NY; Pier Boston Globe, published on Dec. 02445 or the St. Taxiarchi Christiana and Anna Athanasia; nephews Maria, Madeline, grated to the United States at Six Restaurant in Elmsford, NY; 13) - Catherine (Mamakos) Monastery, Lesvos, Greece. Louis Vastardis, wife Lisa, & their Kanella, Alexandra, Andreas, age 21 with $8 in his pocket and Uncle John's Restaurant in Har - Roumeliotis of Watertown, MA, children Louie (Amy), Nicholas Nikki, Georgina, Evan, Petra and the dream of starting a business rison, NY; two Burger Chef passed away suddenly on De - n VASTARDIS, EFSTRATIOUS (Verna), Andrew and (Au - Axelle. In lieu of flowers, memo - and a family. Upon arrival to the Hamburger Stores in New York cember 9, 2013. Daughter of the PORTSMOUTH, VA (From the rora); and Tony Vastardis, wife rial donations may be made in United States, he attended Shir - and New Jersey and Oscar's Salt late Peter and Maria (Haldezos) Virginian Pilot, published on Patty, & their children Stephen, her memory to Boston Chil - cliff College in Illinois before of the Sea Restaurant on 67th Mamakos. Beloved wife of John Dec. 22) – Efstratious (Steve) Angie and Patty; his daughters - dren's Hospital, Cardiology joining the military. He served Street in New York City. A wake Roumeliotis. Loving mother of Anthony Vastardis, 83, peace - Christy Jones, husband John, & Dept., 300 Longwood Ave. in the United States Air Force will be held at Holy Trinity Maria Koutroubis and her hus - fully fell asleep in the Lord on their children Amanda (Justin) Boston, MA 02115. For condo - as an aircraft crew chief during Greek Orthodox Church, 10 Mill band Louis, Peter Coutlis, An - Friday, December 20, 2013. He and Chad; and Mary Holly Vas - lences or directions, please go World War II. On June 20, 1949, Road, New Rochelle, NY on Fri - thony Coutlis and his wife An - was born in , Greece in tardis, husband Dr. Joseph to he married the former Vasiliki day, November 22nd, from 4:00- gela, Irene Coutlis, Constantine 1930. He immigrated to the U.S. McGinn, & her mother, Garnet. www.laurinfuneralhome.com. "Betty" Deligiannis and located 8:00 PM. A funeral service will Coutlis and Paula Coutlis. Sister in 1950. He famously owned and Steve is also survived by his to the Louisville area in 1950. be held on Saturday, November of Tony Mamakos and his wife operated Steve's Restaurant, first brother, Nicholas Vastardis of An - n GEORGE, JAMES S. While starting his own family, 23rd, at Holy Trinity Greek Or - Penelope, Persephone Ververis on High Street and then at Gate dros, Greece. As an unforgettable MANSFIELD, OH (From the he adopted his two orphaned thodox Church in New Rochelle and her husband Demetris, 10 of Norfolk Naval Shipyard, "Papou", he leaves behind his News Journal, published on nephews, James and George at 10:00 am. In lieu of flowers, Maxine Klidaras and her hus - until his retirement. He was a beloved grandchildren and Dec. 31) – James S. "Jimmy" Karros. Early on, he worked as donations may be made in his band Anthony, Angela Christofe - member of the Annunciation great-grandchildren who George, 81, of Mansfield, OH a professional sports promoter. memory to The John and Geor - lis and the late Amesutha and Greek Orthodox Cathedral in brought pure joy to his life. A died December 29, 2013 after a He subsequently owned a vari - giana Panas Scholarship Fund Anthony Vounatsos and the late Norfolk. 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By Andy Dabilis of the European Parliament. with 74 percent losses in a des - dency or after it,” the minister TNH Staff Writer Greece’s major opposition perate failed bid to reduce the said. Any debt relief is expected Coalition of the Radical Left staggering debt, still at some to comprise a reduction in inter - ATHENS – With praise heaped (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tspiras, $430 billion, an amount critics est rates and an extension on the on crisis-battered Greece as it as - who boycotted the ceremony, has said can never be repaid. maturities of Greece’s loans, not sumed the symbolic, essentially predicted that the ruling parties Addressing a press confer - a new write-down of the coun - powerless European Union Pres - will be repudiated and his party, ence, Stournaras told reporters try’s debt, although the IMF said idency, looming in the back - which opposes austerity and the that Greece’s economic reform ef - even that would violate its regu - ground were unresolved issues terms of the bailouts, will come forts had gone “better than ex - lations and not be allowed. with its international lenders. to power and renounce them. pected” in 2013 and that the im - The Troika envoys are due Addressing a joint press con - Noting the elections, Samaras pact of the recession had been back in Athens next week and ference with European Commis - said that, Voters will choose blunted. the busy Stournaras is also sion President Jose Manuel Bar - whether they want Europe or Responding to reporters’ ques - preparing for upcoming meetings roso, Prime Minister Antonis not,” another shot at SYRIZA tions, Stournaras said the discus - of his counterparts in Samaras declared that “Greece, which he said would bring down sion on possible debt relief for Brussels on Jan. 27-28, although after great sacrifices, is leaving the country if it takes power one Greece could start as soon as the discussions there are not ex - the crisis behind it.” day. April, when the European Com - pected to concentrate on Greece’s Apart from economic recov - ALL ABOUT THE MONEY mission’s statistics service, - lingering troubles. The Greek ery, he said Greece would focus While the politicians were stat, is expected to confirm esti - woes, though, are expected to during the presidency on battling conducting the pomp-and-cir - mates that Greece will post a continue all year. unemployment and tackling se - cumstances, Greek Finance Min - primary surplus in 2013. curity issues, including the prob - ister Yannis Stournaras was al - “The discussion can be com - (Material from the Associated lem of unchecked immigration, ready preparing for the return of pleted either during the presi - Press was used in this report.) even as critics said illegal immi - AP Photo/Aris messinis, Pool Troika envoys and more battles grants in Greece were being held Greek PM (R), and over unresolved reforms and how in inhumane conditions in deten - President Jose Manuel Barroso smile during the take over cer - to close a 1.4 billion euro hole in tion centers. emony of the 6-month rotation of the Greek EU Presidency. the 2014 budget – and a bigger Barroso urged the Greek gov - one beyond that. The Defense Scandal in ernment and people to adhere to crisis,” he said. Greeks, he said, “I would like to The last of the bailout monies austerity. “This is not the time to He noted that “the challenges pay tribute to the Greek people runs out this year and Samaras slow down the pace of reforms,” are still immense, social condi - for the courage and dignity they and Stournaras have predicted a Greece Has Worsened he said. “My point is very clear: tions are still demanding, and un - have shown. Greek history and return to the markets and an eco - programs work, so we should not employment remains at unac - literature is a tale of heroes and nomic recovery although many waste the efforts so far.” ceptable levels. But important prowesses, many of them of a di - analysts say the numbers are Continued from page 1 In testimony, a copy of which He stressed that Greece was progress was achieved. Greece is vine or semi-divine nature. working against Greece and it was seen by the Associated expected to emerge from its re - turning around its economy, it “But these days, what we see won’t happen. A similar-sized sum is said to Press, Kantas claimed he re - cession this year and noted that will emerge from recession this is a tale of human heroes. The The ever-upbeat Stournaras have been given to Antonis Kan - ceived the bribes from local rep - early talk of a “Grexit” had year, is expected to reach a pri - real heroes are the Greek people. said he believed he could get the tas, a former procurements man - resentatives of foreign arms slowed recovery. mary budget surplus, and is re - It is now important that the ef - Troika to agree how to close the ager at the Defense Ministry manufacturers, including Ger - Barroso said that, “Greece has ducing its current account forts made are not wasted, that funding gap without restoring to who has implicated several al - man, French and Russian firms. faced an unprecedented chal - deficit.” the success of the program is not more austerity and agree to a leged mediators, including Efs - The deals allegedly included lenge these last years. Two years Barroso noted the risk of a rise put at risk. Because the adjust - debt cut. tathiou in a broadening probe. submarine, tank, fighter jet and ago, many were betting on a in “extremism and populism” due ment programs do work if they That would force taxpayers in Defense Minister Dimitris missile purchases. Greek exit of the euro, an implo - to citizens protesting austerity are properly implemented.” the other 17 Eurozone countries Avramopoulos said the ministry Two of the Greek contract ne - sion of our common currency, but said, “I don’t expect these Samaras’ uneasy coalition of to pick up the tab for decades of was working on plans to place gotiators named by Kantas have and possible disintegration of the forces to win.” his New Democracy Conserva - wild overspending and corruption arms contracts under increased been arrested and charged with EU. He referred to austerity mea - tives and their partner, the PA - in Greece, an unsettling political parliamentary oversight to corruption and money launder - “The European Commission sures demanded by the Troika of SOK Socialists, face other chal - dilemma that has already been “guarantee the reputation of the ing. Sources briefed on the case has always stood by the side of the European Union-Interna - lenges during the six-month ruled out by German Chancellor armed forces.” said both have admitted to giv - the Greek Government and peo - tional Monetary Fund-European tenure Greece will have the EU Angela Merkel, whose country is Prosecutors are investigating ing bribes — but not to politi - ple. I always said that the success Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) in helm. putting up much of the bailout, the alleged payment of bribes cians. of Greece is the success of the return for $325 billion in two That includes surviving the demanding big pay cuts, tax hikes worth millions of euros to for - Papachristos, 78, who repre - EU. And thanks to EU support bailouts had caused hardship. May European Parliament elec - and slashed pensions in return. mer senior defense officials to sented German arms manufac - and solidarity, Greece has with - Ignoring almost four years of tions where the citizens of the 28 A previous Greek government secure weapons deals under PA - turer now known as Kraus-Maf - stood the hardest period of the protests, strikes, and riots by EU countries will elect Members in 2011 stiffed private investors SOK Socialist governments in fei Wegmann (KMW,) was jailed the late 1990s and early 2000s pending trial after testifying be - following tension with regional fore an investigating judge. Of - rival Turkey. ficials at the German company The Socialists are currently could not be immediately Cyprus Hopes Reunification Talks Will Resume the minority party supporting reached for comment. the rickety, conservative-led In his testimony, Kantas coalition government. claimed to have been given Although Cypriot President Cyprus Lisa Buttenheim will sis of the settlement to be Ioannis Kasoulides has ex - ALL ABOUT THE MONEY 750,000 euros by Papachristos Nicos Anastasiades said he be - brief the Security Council on reached and the projection of pressed hope that 2014 will Greece is struggling through to secure the sale of 24 self-pro - lieves there's no longer a chance UNFICYP (UN peace-keeping the notion of separate sovereign mark the island's reunification its worst financial crisis in more pelled howitzers. Lawyers rep - of reaching a solution with force in Cyprus) according to states,” he said. and rid the country of Turkish than half a century, and has been resenting Papachristos, 78, have Turkey, which has unlawfully The Financial Mirror. “If the process is to stand any occupation troops. kept from bankruptcy by inter - said their client is willing to co - occupied the northern third of The latest report of the UN chance of success, the goal posts Kasoulides referred to the national bailouts. Harsh auster - operate with judicial authorities the island since 1974, to reunify Secretary General, which was cannot be in constant motion. challenges Cyprus will have to ity measures imposed in return but that he suffers from amne - the island, the United Nations given to the members of the Se - It must start with a basic com - face in the New Year, both at a for the money have led to a pub - sia. is going to try yet again. curity Council on New Year’s mon understanding of where we national and international level, lic backlash against alleged cor - BERLIN REACTS While a resolution has Eve, does not include anything want to go and how we can best stressing that with determina - ruption in public office and German investigators said evaded everyone for decades, about his good offices mission. get there,” he said, according to tion and persistence, “We will spurred multiple investigations they will review contracts be - Alexander Downer, UN Secre - The Security Council later the Cyprus Mail. achieve the objectives of our for - by the judiciary. tween the arms manufacturer tary General’s Special Advisor this month will talk about a res - The Greek Cypriots’ last draft eign policy”. The procurements probe fol - KMW to see if it paid bribes to on Cyprus, is due back on Jan. olution on the renewal of the proposal on a joint declaration Cyprus was divided in 1974 lows the arrest of former Social - Greek defense ministry officials. 12 to try to get the two sides to - UNFICYP mandate with expec - submitted on December 18, was when Turkey invaded and occu - ist Defense Minister Akis The probe is being launched gether again. tations it will be approved on “tangible proof” of his resolve pied its northern third. Previous Tsochadzopoulos, who in Octo - after Apostolos Kantas, deputy He's hoping for a joint decla - Jan. 29. and determination to start the UN led efforts to reunify the is - ber was sentenced to 20 years head of procurements at ration for the resumption of di - Downer is expected to meet peace talks “despite the serious land under a federal roof have in prison following a related cor - Greece’s Defense Ministry be - rect talks although Turkish- with Anastasiades and Eroglu apprehensions and strong reser - failed. ruption investigation. tween 1996 and 2002, admitted Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu for jaw-boning diplomacy in an vations raised by the majority A renewed effort began in Last month, Kantas, a former that he accepted about $16 mil - said he doesn't want any condi - attempt to defuse the tension. of the leaders of political parties September last year, with meet - senior procurement official at lion in kickbacks from a number tions and broke off discussions Anastasiades, giving in slightly, and at the expense of serious ings between the two negotia - the Defense Ministry, who served of suppliers during his time in with Anastasiades after one in - said that the logjam could be bro - political capital,” tors of the two sides as well as from 1997-2002 — mostly un - office. formal dinner sitting with him. ken if the two sides agree instead He added: “While I was as - a meeting between the leaders der Tsochatzopoulos — was ar - According to Deutsche Welle, Downer is expected to also of a joint communique on a “sub - piring to a meaningful negotia - of the two communities, with rested and admitted to taking KMW has also launched its own meet the negotiators of the two stantial, simple and significantly tion in order to reunite the the aim to finalize a joint decla - some $15 million in bribes to internal probe into the Leopard sides, Andreas Mavroyiannis shorter” declaration. country, the Turkish Cypriot side ration that would pave the way back costly weapons purchases. 2 deal but the company has so and Osman Ertug. In a letter sent to UN Secre - was elaborating the terms of an for the resumption of talks. His lawyer said he would return far rejected allegations that A close aide to Downer has tary-General Ban Ki-moon on eventual separation.” Anastasiades had hoped to the money that was stashed in bribes were paid as part of the revealed that the UN envoy will January 2, as reported by Sig - Speaking during a gathering get the negotiations going again bank accounts in Singapore and agreement. It also points out the stay in Cyprus for a few days malive, he said that he has at the ministry on Tuesday to after being distracted since his Switzerland. sale of the tanks was agreed in and then he will depart for New shown good will despite oppo - mark the New Year, Kasoulides election last February with a According to Efstathiou’s tes - 2003, after Kantas had left his York in order to brief Secretary sition from most of the country's said that the Turkish side should growing economic crisis that timony, Kantas demanded the position. General Ban ki-Moon, who has political parties. exhibit the necessary will for a forced him to seek an interna - cash to secure the contract for Reports also suggested that repeatedly said he expected an STICK AND A CARROT lasting, viable and functional so - tional bailout that came with Atlas which related to the instal - prosecutors in Berne, Switzer - agreement only to be wrong While reaching out to Eroglu, lution that will reunite the coun - hard austerity measures and lation of sonar on German U- land, have located two bank ac - every time. he also slammed him. “Regret - try, in accordance with UN Se - confiscation of nearly half the 214 submarines and the pur - counts belonging to Kantas and On the same day, the UN fully, I have been faced with a curity Council resolutions. amount of bank accounts over chase of the anti-aircraft system are due to fine the lenders in - SG’s Special Representative in constant effort to erode the ba - Cyprus Foreign Minister 100,000 euros, about $137,000. Asrad. volved for money laundering. After Terrorist’s Escape, Greece Rethinks Furloughs, U.S. is Concerned

Continued from page 1 1975 and 2000. It was broken “This proves that convicted agencies, and diplomatic mis - after a string of arrests in 2002. terrorists should not be treated sions. EKAM will be placing sur - natiou, the State Department Police were scouring the as regular prisoners,” veillance equipment around spokesperson noted there was country for Xeros, a musical in - Kedikoglou said. “If they con - buildings that are believed to be grave concern about the release strument maker whose sentence sider it their duty to escape and at risk. of man whose group murdered also includes an additional 25 attack society, then society Officers of the five U.S. Embassy staffers in years in prison for his terrorist needs to take measures.” said that during the attack on Greece over the years before it activities. He did not say why the gov - the residence of the German was disbanded. The conditions of his fur - ernment allowed Xeros, a con - Ambassador, the guard who was President Karolos Papoulias lough were that he had to report victed terrorist, to be treated in a protected bulletproof cubi - and Public Order Minister Nikos to his local police precinct in like a regular prisoner and cle, did not react immediately Dendias called for stricter pro - Nea Kallikrateia in Halkidiki hasn’t barred furloughs for ex - as he feared for his safety. cedures with Dendias warning every day, which authorities said treme cases. In the wake of the incident, that because of lax furloughs he did until Jan. 5. When he ON GUARD police increased security for the that dangerous criminals and didn’t the next day either, police Greek police, now fearful transfer of Xeros’ brother, an - terrorists are roaming Greece. decided it was time to look for that two convicted terrorists are other Nov. 17 terrorist, Savvas “The Greek Police have led him, although by then he had a at large, are bolstering security Xeros, from Korydallos Prison dozens of terrorists to justice in two-day head start. for potential targets. Late last near Athens to Univer - the past few years,” Dendias Speaking on SKAI TV on Jan. year, terrorist groups warned sity Hospital in . said. “Unfortunately, I must say, 7, Xeros’ lawyer said that he had they were collaborating and Savvas Xeros was admitted a number of them are free right eurokinissi had no contact with his client would go after politicians, busi - to the hospital on Jan. 7 on the now. And today we had this very Christodoulos Xiros, a member of November 17, during the and had no idea of his where - nessmen, journalists, judges, orders of a prosecutor who ap - unfortunate incident with a con - appeals trial of members of Greece's terrorist group in 2005. abouts. “Mr. Xeros does not like and other enemies of theirs. proved his petition to undergo victed terrorist who was on being interpreted by anyone but It was also reported that medical treatment for multiple leave,” he added, referring to to fear that there may be new before Greece was to assume I’ve known him for years and members of the Greek Special sclerosis. Heightened security Xeros. assaults in the planning. the symbolic, rotating six-month think he made a political deci - Anti-Terrorist Unit (EKAM) will measures were implemented at Papoulias, talking about the The Greek Police (ELAS) European Union Presidency sion,” Frangiskos Ragousis said. be placed on rooftops and other the hospital, with the patient as - country’s crushing economic cri - squad is examining evidence with a gala ceremony expected “He has always been consis - locations close to potential tar - signed a permanent guard over sis, said that “the terrorists’ bul - from the scene of the attack to bring dozens of European of - tent with his beliefs,” the lawyer gets, who are being identified the course of this treatment. lets are actually aimed at the amid speculation that it may be ficials. added. by the authorities. Savvas Xeros is serving five unemployed” and calling for linked to Maziotis. Public Administration Minis - The government didn’t ex - Police said they would in - consecutive life sentences plus measures to combat domestic The two incidents have ter said he plain why someone who was a crease patrols and begin regular an additional 25 years for taking terrorism. raised concerns regarding the believed that Xeros would be re - self-avowed convicted terrorist stops and searches of pedestri - part in five assassinations and Dendias told reporters that judicial procedures for people captured, but said authorities who wouldn’t repudiate those ans and vehicles. The number robberies, among other criminal Xeros’ leave was granted by a convicted of terrorist acts and should reconsider furloughs pol - beliefs was allowed to leave jail of motorcycle patrols (DIAS) activities. council that had deemed he was prompted calls for stricter terms icy for those convicted of severe under any conditions. has been increased from 25 to A third brother, Vassilis Xe - not a flight risk nor posed a dan - to their incarceration. crimes. There was no informa - Responding to Ragousis’ 40 and will be active from mid - ros, also involved in November ger to society. “The terms of re - A DANGEROUS MAN tion on whether officials be - statements later in the day, gov - night to 5AM. 17, was released from prison in lease or furlough are a matter The embarrassment for the lieved he was even still in the ernment spokesman Simos The list of potential targets 2011 after serving two-fifths of of the law,” Dendias said. government of Prime Minister country. Kedikoglou called them “chill - includes embassies, the resi - his 25-year sentence. The escape came only days Antonis Samaras, who cam - November 17, which mixed ing” and assured that an inves - dences of diplomats and other after the terrorist attack on the paigned on a law-and-order Marxist ideology with national - tigation will be conducted into officials, public buildings, min - (Material from the Associated home of Dold, which led police platform last year, came a day ism, killed 23 people between the convict’s escape. istries, government and police Press was used in this report.) 12 EDITORIALS LETTERS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014

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In theory, George Provopoulos, the Governor of the , should not have an ounce of credibility left after recent re - Sublime Arises from Ridiculous: Duck Dynasty and Gays ports in the New York Times, let alone his questionable relationship with Michael Sallas of . Just a glance at his words, however, show how a bad situation CONSTANTINOS E. SCAROS Amid furious backlash riage, means that any homosex - in the news. is being made even more unbearable. SHARES HIS POINT OF VIEW against the network from con - uality – even between a legally I will go beyond your disdain To be fair, he is not the only banker whose predictions about Antoni, nice to exchange servative groups, including married gay couple – is a sin. of most reality shows, however, the course of the economy stray far from reality. Both the president ideas with you here in Agora for high-profile politicians-turned Leviticus, of course, goes much and say that I think most televi - of the and the EU’s Commissioner for Eco - this edition – it’s been a while. commentators Mike Huckabee further, also declaring sinful ac - sion programs are an utter nomic and Monetary Affairs, are declaring – once again – that the Though I am not beyond watch - and Sarah Palin (former Gover - tivities such as wearing wool waste of time. Now, I am not Eurozone crisis has passed, that a systematic improvement of the ing the occasional “trash TV” re - nors of Arkansas and Alaska, re - and cotton clothing, and touch - claiming to have a better taste economy has already begun, and that there is no possibility that ality series – Amish Mafia and spectively), A&E reversed ing the skin of a dead pig. The for shows, but with very few ex - any of the 17 member countries will exit the Eurozone. Mob Wives come to mind, the Robertson’s suspension, prompt - latter means playing football is ceptions – 60 Minutes comes to Maybe those officials believe that this is only way they can earn former because I currently live ing some critics to conclude that a sin, too, if we are to be ab - mind – I think my time – and their salary, by making encouraging statements so obviously con - close to where it is filmed, the the network couldn’t risk losing solute Biblical literalists. To that everyone’s time, for that matter trary to facts. latter because I’ll give virtually a fortune (by sabotaging a end, Robertson responded to the – can be far better spent doing In essence, however, the only thing that would accomplish – a any mob-related show a chance wildly popular show) to stand criticism by stating that “Jesus other things than watching tele - very negative accomplishment, mind you – is to increase the cyni - – I find virtually all of them to on principle, while others will take sins away, if you're a vision. Particularly program like cism of the people of Europe, thereby exacerbating the situation. be ridiculously contrived, even thought it was a publicity stunt homosexual he'll take it away, Duck Dynasty and others found Let’s take a closer look at the pronouncements of our own as they purport to be sponta - from the get-go. And though, if if you're an adulterer, if you're a on that network – and to think, Provopoulos and consider whether he is the right man for the right neous and genuine, and the vast I had a dime for every time I’ve liar, what's the difference?” That they call themselves the Arts & job. majority of them, Duck Dynasty torn apart a conspiracy theory, clearly indicates that this is not Entertainment channel (A&E)! In late October 2010 in an interview with Reuters, he foresaw included, dreadfully dull and my bank account might rival about being gay. Now I happen to know a economic recovery by the end of 2011. Wrong. therefore utterly unwatchable. Robertson’s, I tend to agree on Again, to illustrate, consider thing or two about the role ad - In July 2011, he predicted "positive growth rates below one Most of America disagrees this occasion, that it might have the example of the remarks cir - vertising plays for the media, percent in 2012 and more than two percent in 2013.” Wrong again. And in December 2012 he stated that the recovery might start in 2013. And wrong yet again. If he keeps repeating those forecasts… sooner or later he will be right. But when? Franklin D. Roosevelt declared in his inaugural address in March 1933 that "the only thing we have to fear is, fear itself." And so it is. Nothing drives the economy more powerfully than mass psy - chology, especially fear, as former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently said. The power of symbolism notwithstanding, fear cannot be coun - tered by words alone. Action is needed, like those taken by Presi - dent Roosevelt, for which, incidentally, he was accused of being a traitor to his class. He is the only president to be elected to four terms (that practice was permissible, Constitutionally, until 1951), but each time he won by fewer and fewer votes – no coincidence, considering he made difficult but often politically unpopular deci - sions. Ultimately, the country emerged from the Great Depression stronger than ever. Only strong actions lend credence to words. That is the only way there will be economic growth. And that is the only way public officials will deserve to stay in power. Only a Nightmare?

In recent days, the stress and loneliness of the holidays have amplified people’s perceptions of the problems related to the Greek crisis. For example, there was the suicide of a hotelier who was drowning in debt, and the dive of desperation of a woman into with me, however. We have been a well-orchestrated gim - culating when then-President but come on, this is outrageous. Rhodes harbor who sought to retrieve the Cross in order to draw gone from a nation of ordinary mick to generate more interest Bill Clinton had an affair with Worse yet, is this obsessiveness public attention to her economic problems and her husband’s ill - people tuning in to watch ex - in the show. Monica Lewinsky: “as president, by the media and, to a wider ness. traordinary talent on TV – Nonetheless, the topic I think he can have any woman he extent, by society, to spend so But aren’t we tired of hearing about the crisis? So what if it has Sammy Davis, Jr., for example, more worthy of our discussion wants. Why did he sleep with much time discussing sex. destroyed the middle class, the backbone of the country, what if it who could sing, dance, and play is the substance of the com - that fat pig?” The remark, of We consume tons upon tons has generated a new stream of migrants, and what if it reveals in - the piano more effortlessly than ments rather than the specific course, is offensive to all over - of ink on homosexuality judging credible things, like bribery among senior officers of the Armed most people can tie their shoes commentator. First of all, as a weight people in general, the other people’s business as if Forces of Greece? Haven’t we heard enough about it already? – to watching unrealistic “real - privately-owned business, A&E women in particular. If Robert - though we are all experts on the Oh how we wish that these horrors were merely nightmares, ity” shows comprised of quin - has every right to set its own son had made a remark like that topic or possess some sort of su - dreams in the night, rather than reality. That in actuality all of us, tessentially ordinary people standards of propriety and sus - while starring in a TV series, I’d perior level of morality and in Greece and in the Diaspora, continue living a normal life, with who, by comparison, render the pend any employee for not mea - have no problem with the net - ethics. There are far more seri - normal problems and joys, like many other people in many other viewers the extraordinary subset suring up accordingly. Advertis - work suspending him for that, ous matters going on in the nations. of the equation. ers and viewers, in turn, have either. But to use this uncouth world that we as a society Moreover, would it not be nice if the international media, which Be that as it may (and pardon every right to criticize, and boy - TV star’s dumb choice of words should be talking about – rather are considered more impartial than our own, did not constantly the long opening rant about real - cott, any network’s policy deci - as an excuse to proclaim that than feeding an irresistible im - remind us of the tragedy of the situation? ity shows), Duck Dynasty has sion. That said, I agree that quoting from the Bible is now pulse to comment about other For example, the economist Carmen M. Reinhart, who along emerged as a favorite throughout some of Robertson’s remarks, offensive is what I object to people’s sex lives. with Kenneth S. Rogoff wrote the monumental book, This time is the country, but its star, Phil particularly the coarse language most vehemently. In fact, the more someone – Different, recently said: Robertson, found himself in a and the apoplexy about the ob - In closing, I will add that I’m usually politicians – rail against “Why would any politician in their right mind undertake the heap of trouble when in a Gen - ject of another person’s sexual sure the politically correct a particular topic, ranting and kinds of austerity measures Greece has done? Because no one will tleman’s Quarterly (GQ) inter - attraction are offensive, indeed. crowd would have not known screaming about it endlessly, the lend to them, and existing creditors want full repayment…When view he responded to the ques - I have no problem about back - how to respond if, say a Muslim more suspicious I become. the rest of the world is unwilling to lend, you do things that are tion of “what is sinful?” by lash against Robertson in that celebrity said that homosexuals Quite often, the overt screaming driven by necessity.” beginning with homosexuality, respect. If his long, straggly should be executed (as they are about the nature of topic mas - Unfortunately, the state of emergency for the country will con - and following with bestiality and beard merely renders him a cu - some nations that follow Islamic querades the real screams – the tinue because the Germans are determined not to make new con - multiple sexual partners. Robert - riosity, his words make him ugly. laws). “Should we support the hidden ones – which are cessions in favor of Greece, faithful to their philosophy that it son continued by wondering The point with which I take gay person, or the Muslim,” they screams of political oppor - would send the wrong message to the Greeks, but also to other what the appeal is to a man to be great issue, however, is the ob - would wonder. And by that, I tunism. Southern European nations who would then claim similar treat - attracted to another man, when jection to a general statement am bashing neither homosexu - Mr. Robinson can have his ment. a woman “has more to offer,” and that homosexuality is sinful. I ality, nor Islam. Just political views on any subject he wants, The reforms, therefore, that are being imposed on Greece, are using coarse (though not pro - am not necessarily taking the correctness. including homosexuality. Even undertaken in the form of austerity measures, internal devaluation fane) language to describe male position that it is or is not. ANTONIS H. DIAMATARIS the pope does not deserve so to reduce labor costs and the price of goods so that Greek products and female body parts. Rather, I am suggesting that RESPONDS much media attention about the will be more competitive. Duck Dynasty’s network, the Christianity, the religion prac - Dino, I must confess to you topic, much less the star of a And debt reduction will occur through repayment and not with Arts & Entertainment channel ticed by the overwhelming ma - that I had no idea who this per - show called Duck Dynasty. another "haircut" as Wolfgang Münchau wrote this week in the Fi - (A&E), suspended Robertson jority of Americans, unequivo - son was until this “controversy” nancial Times. from the show, stating that "we cally states that it is. Though the seemed to appear everywhere WHAT’S YOUR OPINION? These statements, however, are based on a crucial premise: that are extremely disappointed to Bible is far from being crystal- the people of Greece will continue to tolerate this situation. have read Phil Robertson's com - clear in every instance, there is We have argued for years that the solution to the crisis will be ments in GQ, which are based not much doubt about this one: political rather than economic. That the people will ultimately turn on his own personal beliefs and Leviticus condemns homosexu - CORRECTION against the Eurozone in whose name they are suffering. are not reflected in the series ality, and in Matthew, Jesus And this is already happening. Only 31 percent of the people in Duck Dynasty. His personal specifies that marriage is two in the article “yvette manessis Corporon Pens Premier novel” (Jan. Europe still have faith in the EU. How long will this crisis of confi - views in no way reflect those of people “male and female,” who 4), we wrote of “the risks undertaken by the people of erikousa dur - dence allow things to continue as they have been? If this were A&E Networks, who have al - God created, and that fornica - ing wwii to save the lives of 200 of their Jewish neighbors.” the only a nightmare, then, of course, anything could happen. The sit - ways been strong supporters tion (sex outside of wedlock) is book is about one Jewish family that was saved in erikousa, while uation could persist in its current state indefinitely, and the cast of and champions of the LGBT forbidden. characters would remain inert. As we will continue to emphasize, [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and According to the Bible, then, others helped save 200 Jews in Corfu. Also, the name of the manessis however, this is not a nightmare from which we can make in the Transgender] community. The Jesus explicitly spoke against Family restaurant is the Delegate and mannesis Corporon is the morning and thank God that it was only a bad dream. This is real. network has placed Phil under any sex outside of marriage senior Producer of the tv news program extra. Very, very real. hiatus from filming indefinitely." which, by His definition of mar - THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014 VIEWPOINTS 13 A Scorecard on Whom We Muslim Milieu: the War within the War, within the War

Want to Fight in the Mideast The Revolution of the Aya - that the Syrian op - Outside of the Muslim visitors. Saudi Arabia tollah Khomeini in 1979 fol - position has re - Middle East terror - has a religious policy who en - lowed almost immediately by jected as too ex - ism is still a potent force, often with public beat - The appalling magne supported the Mujahedeen movement in treme. The fighting threat and in part it ings, anyone, man or woman bloodshed in the the Pope’s claim to Afghanistan inspired an Islamic that began recently is driven by the dif - from non-Muslim countries, Middle East has led rule all Christianity. awakening that has unfolded in spread from parts ficulty some small who is caught not properly many generally The conflict that a variety of manifestations. of northern Syria number of Muslims dressed. And Saudi Arabia is an well-meaning followed, high - There are the extreme strains into Raqqa, the have as minorities ally of the West. Even so-called Americans to de - lighted by the Cru - that surfaced after 9/11, repre - largest city in East - in European and moderate Turkey the Ecumeni - mand that we “do sader sack of Con - senting the austere desert Wah - ern Syria, that had North American cal Patriarchate has historically something” about stantinople in habi form of Islam favored by been under the cities. Traditional suffered persecution at the it. Many, and not 1204, continues to - Al-Qaeda, the Salafists – a vari - group’s control. Muslim theological hands of the authorities; which just Republicans day. The Yugoslav ation of Wahhabism; the Muslim Some activists by DR. ANDRE schools did not would be intolerable if similar and neoconserva - civil war was Brotherhood, a less fanatical or - said the group, the GEROLYMATOS foresee the possibil - abuse was given to Muslims in tives, have con - mostly about ganization but equally extreme Islamic State of ity of Muslims liv - the West there would be world- demned President by AMB. PATRICK N. Catholic Croatians and committed to absolutist in - Iraq and Syria, had Special to ing as minorities. wide outrage. Obama for his inac - THEROS supported by Ger - terpretations of Islam; and, of been largely The National Herald Association, inter - Certainly, in the past and in tion while thou - many, France and course, conservative Shia Islam, evicted from action or coopera - the present, Christians and Jews sands die and our Special to Italy fighting Or - as imposed on the Iranian peo - Raqqa, which it had ruled for tion with non-Muslims is not have adjusted to coping with the allies come under The National Herald thodox Serbs sup - ple by the country’s theological months. The Islamic State of favoured in the Koran; a Muslim needs of the majority Muslims threat. The press, ported by Russia, establishment. Iraq and Syria is affiliated with should always prefer Muslims in Islamic countries and the the - ranging from the “liberal” Wash - Greece, and Romania. The Mus - These versions of Islam are Al Qaeda’s branch in Iraq, but to non-Muslims. ological leadership of these mi - ington Post to the “conservative” lim Bosnians were also collat - followed by millions of Muslims separated from the Nusra Front, This is a reality that may not norities have helped their fol - Wall Street Journal, has had a eral damage. yet millions more do not sub - another Qaeda-linked insurgent apply to Muslims living as good lowers adjust to a religious and field day demanding that the As Orthodox Christians we scribe to the extreme elements group in Syria, and the Nusra citizens in the West but it is part social alien environment. In the United States destroy jihadist share some characteristics with of the Islamic faith. The Islamic Front has now joined the fight of how Islamic scholars see the same vein, there is a need for terrorists – including Hamas in the Shi’a. Orthodoxy teaches awaking is increasingly associ - against ISIS in many areas. The world. Islamic theologians to realign Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon free will and puts the burden of ated with fanaticism but also, at tragedy is that Islamists and Ji - Another example is the Muslim thinking under the new under that rubric – and stop the being a good Christian on each the very least the more conser - hadists are fighting over the de - shabby treatment that is meted circumstances that immigrants expansion of the infamous “Shia of us. The Catholic Church lays vative movements of Muslim gree of extremism they can out to non-Muslims in Islamic face as minorities in Europe. Crescent” from Iran across Iraq down rules that its adherents theology. The fundamental am - agree and accept. Any deviation countries. In Egypt at the fist On the positive side, Muslim and Syria to Lebanon. Bipartisan must obey. (I recommend Sir bition and fixation of these Mus - results in violence and death. sign of trouble the reflexive re - thinkers have been seeking to voices on Capitol Hill complain Stephen Runciman’s The Great lim extremists is to create a new The Jihadists are driving Iraq action for the Muslim Brother - develop and refine a formula - that Secretary Kerry’s attempt Church in Captivity for those in - Caliphate that would cover the into becoming a failed state but hood is to attack Coptic Chris - tion of Muslim jurisprudence on to bring peace between Pales - terested further on this subject.) Middle East, North Africa, and perhaps with US support the tians – burn their churches, minorities, the Fiqh al-Aqal - tinians and Israel poses an exis - Similarly, Shi’a Islam teaches all of the lands that had once Government in Baghdad can de - while mobs kill any Copt they liyyat, since the mid-1990s. tential threat to the latter while that Muslims have the right to been under Islamic rule. In ef - feat the al-Qaeda groups com - get their hands on since the lo - confusing it with the existential not only interpret the Quran but fect, this could include: all of peting over which one will com - cal police rarely intervene. An - André Gerolymatos is the Direc - threat posed by Kerry’s efforts to draw novel conclusions. the Balkans, Hungary, and the mit the greatest number of other interesting, and often qui - tor of the Stavros Niarchos to rein in Iran’s nuclear pro - Sunni Islam has much more in Crimean region to as far west atrocities and inflict the most etly overlooked factor, is that Foundation Centre for Hellenic grams. common with fundamentalist as Spain, including parts of destruction on the unfortunate Muslim states do not accept the Studies at Simon Fraser Univer - Were it not so serious, the Protestant literalism. Africa. country. customs and traditions of non- sity in Vancouver. degree of ignorance among sup - Foreign policy choices re - Once Al-Qaeda affiliates, the posedly well-informed Ameri - garding terrorism also require Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, cans, let alone the general pub - knowledge. We have labeled actually established a mini ver - lic, would be a fit subject for a Hezbollah in Lebanon a terrorist sion of an Islamic state in parts Saturday Night Live skit. Unfor - organization to satisfy a domes - of Syria and Iraq. In the short tunately, in the United States tic constituency. Hezbollah has time that it has ruled this small foreign policy remains largely a never attacked American or part of the region it clearly has residual of domestic policy and other Western targets. Hezbol - demonstrated the fate awaiting thus ignorance becomes a pre - lah has fought Israelis attacking both Christians and moderate lude to disaster. This ignorance Lebanon and in the process both Muslims who have the misfor - enabled the Bush-Cheney-Rums - sides have killed civilians, citing tune to come under their feld cabal to suck us into a self- them as collateral damage. Al - clutches. Once they established destructive war in Iraq, an ac - though Hezbollah shares a com - control the Jihadists closed tion that had the side effect of mon enemy, Israel, with Hamas, churches, arrested hundreds of snatching defeat from the jaws only the latter can be fairly clas - Syrians who disagreed with its of victory in Afghanistan. sified as a terrorist organization goals and even executed some The Obama Administration, for targeting Israeli civilians. On perceived offenders of strictly to be fair, has not covered itself the other hand, both Hamas and interpreted Shariah law, the with glory in Syria. It made the Hezbollah have scrupulously code of Islamic behavior it had mistake of conflating public re - protected the Orthodox Church imposed. vulsion to any new military in - and other Christians in territo - Fortunately, fighting broke terventions in the region with a ries they control. out between the Syrian insur - desire to avoid any admixture Iran presents an even more gents and their onetime allies, that, in classic American fash - interesting case. The Iranian the Islamic State of Iraq and ion, would “mission creep” into Revolution overthrew the Shah, Syria, and with even some other boots on the ground. If any - a corrupt and oppressive ruler, fighters affiliated with Al Qaeda thing, the Administration de - imposed by the United States by serves criticism for doing what overthrowing a democratically the American public wants. elected government. Taking 52 And here lies the rub: American diplomats hostage at LETTER FROM ATHENS nowhere more than in the our Embassy in 1979 in an emo - United States do domestic poli - tional reaction to our giving asy - tics determine foreign policy. lum to the Shah permanently Yet, the American public knows poisoned the relationship. Be - Arms Scandal Mires Defenseless Greek Defense Ministry little about reality other than yond the emotions, however, we what domestic interest groups do have real differences with feed it. Nowhere is this truer Iran, an ancient country with a Corruption is not a victimless raveling as thieves mated that corrup - ber of people, including Tsochat - than in the Middle East. Few highly nationalistic but rational crime, and it’s costly. When fall out. tion is costing zopoulos, while two other wit - Americans know that al-Qaeda and intelligent population politicians or civil servants steal Antonis Kantas, Greece some 20 nesses, Dimitris Papachristos, 78 hates Shi’a Muslims and secular whose vital strategic interests from the state, the cost is passed who was the pro - billion euros – said to be suffering from am - Sunni regimes far more than it impinge on ours. The descrip - on to taxpayers one way or an - curements chief at ($26.7 billion) nesia – and Panagiotis Efs - hates the United States. The at - tion of Iran as a messianic state other, who wind up footing the the ministry from which, combined tathiou, 83, are spilling the tacks on American interests are seeking nuclear Armageddon is bill for the thieves luxurious 1997-2002, serving with lost revenues beans about how corrupt offi - collateral damage. The jihadists a creation of those who want to lifestyle. Tsochatzopoulos from the country’s cials at the agency and military represent an extreme form of influence American policy. Reli - Witness the growing scandal and his successor as notoriously tan - really were. Sunni Islam, somewhat akin to gion is also the favorite tool of in the Greek Defense Ministry, defense minister, gled and ineffi - Kantas claimed he received fundamentalist Protestants who hardliners on both sides, as well which should be renamed the Yiannis Papantoniou cient bureaucracy, the bribes from local represen - consider the Pope the Antichrist. as regional states with a better ATM Ministry because that’s – being prosecuted is crippling efforts tatives of foreign arms manufac - The origins of the split be - grasp of diplomacy than our po - what a lot of the people who for failing to report by ANDY to reform the debt- turers, including German, tween Sunni and Shia, similar litical leaders, to keep the bilat - worked there – now reportedly the source of his DABILIS crunched econ - French, and Russian firms. The to the origins of the Schism be - eral relationship toxic. However, including some top former mili - wealth – has testi - omy. deals allegedly included subma - tween Orthodox and the Vati - why would “messianic” Iran tary leaders – used it for, a re - fied that almost Special to The General In - rine, tank, fighter jet and missile can, lie in politics, not religion. support Christian Armenia volving cash register they rang everyone had their The National Herald spector of Public purchases. After the death of the Prophet against Shi’a Azerbaijan and up whenever they needed a cou - hand out looking for Adminstration Le - While everyone in Greece Muhammad, his followers em - help us against the Taliban until ple of million euros of someone bribes. andros Rakintzis said, “Both knows and expects that politi - barked on a civil war between Cheney-Rumsfeld slapped them else’s money. Now that he’s singing like a combined make up about 30-32 cians and mid-level managers in those who believed that his de - in the face? And it’s not just money that canary, Kantas is showing the de - billion ($40-$42 billion). If for ministries have their hands in scendants should lead Islam American foreign policy re - was the shame, but that by de - fense ministry to be really just 10 years, we could this or part the till, the idea that military of - (the Shi’a) and those who flects domestic policy more than manding bribes from arms man - an excuse for people to steal as of this, we might not have had ficers were involved has actually wanted an elected leader (the any other major country in the ufacturers, inflating the cost of much as they could, including all this public debt or all this cri - produced some gasps, along Sunni). The power struggle con - world; an uninformed electorate contracts, the crooks took money him. He admitted taking $16 sis.” with a sinking feeling that peo - tinues with Sunni jihadists fight - can lead to disaster. away from social programs that million which he stashed away That’s nearly equivalent to 10 ple charged with defending ing Shia and other minorities in were more important than an - in banks in Singapore and percent of the country’s Gross Greece were betraying it. Syria and Iraq, just as brutal as The Hon. Ambassador Theros is other submarine or fighter jet, Switzerland and has been re - Domestic Product (GDP) leaving The Defense Ministry, which the Catholic-Protestant struggle president of the U.S.-Qatar useless commodities really in the turning it, apparently hoping to Greece to have to borrow $325 now has a reputation as bad as in Ireland and the recent conflict Business Council. He served in 21st Century when Greece get a Stay Out of Jail Free card. billion from international Afghanistan, has pledged to in Yugoslavia. the U.S. Foreign Service for 36 wouldn’t last 10 minutes if The hundreds of millions of lenders, who demanded auster - overhaul arms procurement pro - In 1054, the Pope of Rome years, mostly in the Middle Turkey decided to attack. euros that Kantas and his co - ity measures in return. cedures following the arrest of cut a deal with the Frankish East, and was American Ambas - That’s not going to happen horts stole could have gone a Greek defense and military those former weapons contract King Charlemagne, both of sador to Qatar from 1995 to since both countries are in NATO long way toward keeping some officials – which may have in - negotiators accused of paying whom resented the religious 1998. He also directed the State and even the United States and social programs that have been cluded the former chiefs of staff bribes for major government and political ascendancy of the Department’s Counter- Great Britain, which allowed cut the last 3 ½ years during a of the army and navy according contracts, although what’s really Greeks in . The Terrorism Office, and holds nu - Turkey to invade Cyprus unlaw - crushing economic crisis. And to testimony being given by mid - surprising is that they haven’t Pope crowned Charlemagne merous U.S. Government deco - fully in 1974 and side with the you can bet that the greed didn’t dlemen who arranged the bribes named any more politicians or Emperor and, in return, Charle - rations. Turks against the Greeks behind stop in 2002 and that those – used the excuse 20 years ago big shot. closed doors, would stand by working at or connected to the that Greece had to beef up its Defense Minister Dimitris this time and let the countries ministry and defense contracts defenses against Turkey. Avramopoulos said the ministry GUEST EDITORIALS come to war. have been siphoning off plenty It was a False War and what was working on plans to place the national herald welcomes manuscripts representing a variety of It was the arrest of former de - since then. Greece really needed was an arms contracts under increased views for publication. they should include the writer’s name, address, fense minister Akis “Mr. Arro - Alternate Finance Minister early warning defense system parliamentary oversight to and telephone number, and be addressed to the editor, the national gant” Tsochatzopoulos in 2012 said the against the defense and military “guarantee the reputation of the that exposed the agency for money Kantas is returning officials who left their own coun - armed forces.” herald, 37-10 30th st., long island City, ny 11101. they may also what it was. Now that he’s been would go toward “covering try defenseless, leading arms It’s too late for that, although be e-mailed to [email protected]. we reserve the right sentenced to 20 years in jail for shortfalls in the health and edu - dealers to cut corners on the cor - Papachristos raised the specter to edit any manuscripts that we publish, and we do not return or money laundering and stealing cation sectors.” ners, jeopardizing the lives of of the perfect defense for crooks: otherwise acknowledge unpublished ones. Due to considerations of perhaps a billion euros from de - A year ago, the Washington, real soldiers and sailors and pi - I forgot I stole the money. space we enforce a strict 850-word upper limit. fense contracts, the whole sad DC-based prestigious think tank lots trying to protect the country. scheme of runaway greed is un - the Brookings Institution esti - Kantas has implicated a num - [email protected] 14 VIEWPOINTS THE NATIONAL HERALD, JANUARY 11-17, 2014 Maintaining the Greatness of Hellenes

By Andy and Mike Manatos counted more with mankind Jews and risked certain death ern medicine, the theater, orga - and son in the history of Prince - man who was blessed with the than Athens and Jerusalem. by submitting a list of only two nized athletic competition, phi - ton University to win the Pyne things believed to bring happi - Those of us who cherish our They have…left us their genius names – their own; losophy, mathematics, Prize, the highest undergradu - ness said, “The Greeks had it heritage should follow the re - and wisdom. The passage of 5. Greece had the only na - trigonometry, biology; zoology, ate award; and right when they said that hap - cent example of Bono, Nobel several thousand years sees no tional religious leader in a Nazi- botany, astronomy, abstract 10. Greek-Americans are the piness is the full use of your Laureates, and top American change in their characteristics.” occupied country to publicly op - geometry, recorded history, only nationality, other than the powers along lines of excel - leaders who are reminding the EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE pose the Holocaust as it was maps with latitude and longi - Irish (who are 12% of the pop - lence.” world of Greek greatness in the IN THE FACE OF occurring; and tude, atomic theory, the theory ulation), invited to meet with Preserving Hellenism in the modern world, listed below. INSURMOUNTABLE ODDS 6. Greece is the only country that the earth is round, measur - the president of the United lives of our families today is Their actions are helping restore 1. Hitler’s Nazis met their other than the big three – Amer - ing the earth’s circumference States each year, even though more important and more diffi - the Greek “brand,” tarnished by first civilian counterattack in ica, Great Britain, and Russia – within 10% accuracy, the cata - we are only .5% of the US pop - cult than ever. One of the sim - publicity of recent years. And WWII at the Battle of Crete. that is credited by both Axis and pult, and civilization-spawning ulation. plest but most profound things they are also reminding us of More Nazis lost their lives in one Allied leaders as being essential implements like the wheel bar - MOVING FORWARD we can do to preserve it involves the standard to which all human day on Crete than in any previ - to Hitler’s defeat. rel, the crane, the pulley, the By an accident of birth or cir - sharing the ten examples above beings, but particularly Hel - ous day of the war; UNCEASING PURSUIT OF lever, indoor heating and cumstance, you have been of Greek greatness. The retelling lenes, should aspire. The work 2. The Greek Jews launched KNOWLEDGE AND plumbing, the thermometer, the blessed with this heritage. We of Greek epic stories sustained of these individuals with the the only revolt in the Auschwitz EXCELLENCE odometer, and the alarm clock, are descendants of profound Hellenism for, as Churchill said, Washington Oxi Day Foundation concentration camp blowing up 7. (then only to name a few. thinkers and people of great “several thousands of years.” has communicated to over half- a crematorium. As they were be - .4% of the world’s population) 8. Only the Greeks in Amer - honor and courage, in both an - We can familiarize our fami - a-million people the story of ing killed, they sang the Greek created for humankind (fifteen ica rose, in one generation, from cient and modern times. Under - lies, friends and most impor - modern history’s most conse - National Anthem; centuries before the wheel came universal poverty in the early standing, sharing and promot - tantly ourselves with these ten quential David vs. Goliath act of 3. Hitler’s Axis Forces had to the Americas): the first com - 20th Century to among the ing what makes Hellenism and points that document the extra - courage – the Greek people’s no - crushed 15 countries and left puter (the Antikythera mecha - wealthiest and most well-edu - Hellenes exceptional is impor - ordinariness of being Greek. By ble and courageous response to the world cowering in fear until nism), democracy, constitutional cated Americans; tant. After all, Isocrates noted, doing so, we will help sustain a Hitler and the Holocaust. the outnumbered Greeks government, free speech, indi - 9. Hellenes: among the 400 “being Greek is not so much a standard and image of excel - As demonstrated in the in - handed them their first defeat; vidual rights, civilian control wealthiest Americans are five term of birth as a mentality.” lence that all people, but par - credible list below, Hellenes 4. When the Mayor and Met - over the military, separation be - times greater in number than Being Greek is a way of life. ticularly Hellenes, will strive to have a history of greatness. ropolitan of , Greece tween religious and political au - their population would suggest; Greeks pursued their highest po - live up to. And by doing so, we British Prime Minister Winston were told by their Nazi occu - thority, middle-class egalitarian - made up 66% of the Rhodes tential and in doing so found can help preserve this magnifi - Churchill recognized this when piers to submit a list of their ism, private property, trial by Scholars in Congress in the both greatness and happiness. cent, cherished heritage for he wrote, “No two cities have Jewish citizens, they hid the jury, free scientific inquiry, mod - 1970s; and are the only father President John F. Kennedy, a many years into the future. Beards, Bikes, and Frozen Yogurt: Trends I Saw, up Close, Firsthand, at the Greek Crisis

By Angelike Contis familiar concrete features of the question: “How do you see fashions) to her friend as they city. We strained and squinted, things here?” We were their mir - teetered over a Monastiraki As our plane landed in looking for scars of national ruin ror and they wanted to see what sidewalk. “Everybody’s in that Athens in September, we and personal catastrophe. Yes, we saw. All I could think about situation,” her equally spiffed- weren’t sure what to expect. We there were some “closed” and was how I would have made up friend answered. had moved from Greece to the “for rent” signs, and Hellenic ends meet if I had stayed. Well, maybe not everyone, United States nearly five years Radio Television (ERT) looked A BLOW FOR JOURNALISM we observed, while visiting Hy - earlier – before the crisis had hit like a castle under siege, but the For one, my bread-and-butter dra, the car-free island known – and hadn’t returned since. We urban jumble looked mostly as job, working for the Athens for its wealthy patrons and don - wondered what would await us. we had left it. News, the long-running English- keys. There were plenty of Would the Greece we knew My aunt was in the village, language paper, would have yachts flying Greek flags on dis - from living there for over a so no one greeted us at her evaporated. The paper had been play in the harbor when we decade be dramatically differ - apartment in the densely-popu - “rescued” from closing before I spent a few blissful days there ent? Just how bad were things, lated neighborhood of Ambe - left by a businessman who – ac - at the end of our journey. really? lokipoi, but we let ourselves in. cording to former colleagues Perhaps the most alarming Unlike the scrutinizing re - Though in a very different place and media reports – stopped trend of the crisis – the rise of porters from around the world from his native Vermont, our paying the staff and was wanted neo-Nazi group – who had descended on Athens three-year-old quickly embraced by the government for money was felt during our trip when for the 2004 Olympics and then one aspect of Athens living that laundering. Apparently, he had musician/activist Pavlos Fyssas again, more recently, to cover we had dearly missed – the bal - escaped to Latin America dis - was killed at the hands of a man economic woes, our mission was cony. Watering the countless guised as a priest. associated with that organiza - frivolous. My husband and I plants and hanging hand-wash - Things had clearly changed tion. There were protests in re - wanted a fun vacation. We ing out to dry with plastic clips for the worse in my field. If the sponse, including the usual needed to catch up with friends became two favorite games. profession had been under senseless destruction of small and family, to revisit our favorite CRISIS TRENDS strain worldwide, in Greece, it shopowners’ property. At the spots. The Mediterranean Sea Before long our son fell in was reeling. There had been same time, this bad news was beckoned. And I needed to show love too with the still-fresh mass layoffs. Many people who counter-balanced by real immi - my Greek-American-English son , buses and… had previously led a comfort - grant success stories and visible the Greece beyond Yiayia and UFOs, or the omnipresent, able way of life writing for big cultural integration, even in un - Pappou alone. cheap plastic toys sold at tourist papers were now barely getting expected places. An Albanian The breathtaking aerial view hubs. These 5 euro objects are by, writing for websites for a acquaintance in the Argolid, for of arid, sea-hugging Attica projected up into the air and portion of their previous in - instance, who had arrived in hadn’t changed. As for El. swirl down to earth, colored come, often being paid late or Greece virtually barefoot to Venizelos Airport, it still gleamed lights flashing. We first encoun - not at all. I bumped into a for - work in the fields, reported that – and seemed possibly im - tered UFOs near an Acropolis mer colleague in Syntagma his youngest daughter was now proved, at least when it came to subway stop that had many Square, who was wheeling a studying medicine in Paris. Life the bus service. There was a new more cafes and restaurants than suitcase during a protest. She is – thankfully – more compli - electronic sign listing times of it did five years ago. gasoline, or driven by a growing the Greek tradition of not shav - had finally retired after years of cated than the headlines. buses into town. And the worker The last few years, our ecological consciousness, I no - ing when in mourning. Would working at a prestigious finan - In our two-week tour of selling tickets didn’t scowl, mut - friends in Greece observed, had ticed a lot of young men sport - all the young men shave en cial newspaper. However, her Athens, the and ter, or even blink, when I handed produced plenty of new ing ample hipster beards, and masse some day when Greece pension had been halved. “I get Hydra – we didn’t just find ex - him a fifty euro note. (My time joints and cafes. Frozen yogurt people bravely cycling in greater was resurrected? When their by. It’s OK,” she smiled, noting amples of Greece’s current in Greece has trained me to – a trend that I seem to remem - numbers in more parts of the friends stopped heading abroad that she is keeping busy with poverty, but reminders of its apologize profusely for large ber hitting the US in the 1980s- city than ever. Friends agreed for better prospects? book projects and grandchil - ageless wealth. An American notes and fumble for exact was huge. In times of crisis, bicycle riders were growing in But it wasn’t just about us dren, but travels less. colleague wondered if it would change in coins– even in the US, would the motto be: “Let them numbers – even if car drivers scrutinizing the surface of “So what?” you might ask. be too depressing to vacation in where cashiers don’t care.) eat frozen yogurt?” had not visibly altered their sui - Greece for signs of change. In Who will really miss the Greece at a time like this. From At first sight, Athens didn’t Two other trends, in Athens cidal habits. There were even hard times, visitors become mir - plethora of DVD-stuffed news - my experience, it wasn’t. It was look too different. Coasting past at least, were visible: bushy “flash mob” cycling events, rors. At each meeting with papers and magazines at the good to walk Athens’ streets. It the vineyards of Spata, our beards and bicycles. Whether someone reported. As for the friends and family, it seemed kiosk? The press and media are was incredible to feel the sun travel-bleary eyes sought out the due to the cost of razors and beards, they made me think of someone would ask the same mirrors of a country, too. And warming our bones. We needed when you lose your own reflec - to spend those hours at tion, it’s easy to get confused. with friends, and to revisit our But we learned that job inse - old apartment buildings (with curity wasn’t confined to the our names remarkably still on media. A relative had been laid the buzzers). I had to introduce off from his job, only to be em - my son to relatives – and to visit ployed by the same company as my ancestors’ graves in . a freelancer, just as his first baby And along the way, we spent eu - was on its way. Even those with ros. More than budgeted – Knowledge without boundaries! solid jobs are waging a battle Greece isn’t cheap, even in cri - against mass depression. “We sis. But if Greece needed cash, I avoid going into town,” a friend couldn’t think of a better, more remarked, “as it’s just too mis - mutually beneficial way to help Subscribe today to our online edition erable to see all the closed out. I enjoyed shopping for shops.” Many suburban com - Made in Greece shoes on Ermou www.thenationalherald.com mercial areas have been emp - Street. In a sentimental turn we tied. Friends who were known bought a case of wine from the and stay informed throughout the year. for barhopping were trans - Nemea winery that had supplied formed into homebodies. our wedding. No regrets there. Yet some forces clearly were The shoes were unique and the 12 weeks at 30% off! stronger than economics – and was better than we lots of babies had been born to remembered. our circle of friends; we de - I was left with the hope that lighted in introducing our son this crisis would finally offer the Give a gift subscription to a friend to them. And no one we knew impetus for Greece to reinvigo - and take another 10% off. was in dire straits. Most had rate its problematic tourism in - family to fall back on and prop - dustry. At least one friend of Offer expires Januray 31 , 2014. erty of their own. But even those mine is counting on this– as she who were most secure, working has recently put her savings into for foreign employers, or Greek renovating the restaurant of her companies that relied on busi - family’s hotel in Parga, a popu - ness abroad, complained of im - lar tourist destination in North - possible, ever-mounting taxa - ern Greece. tion. “Can you believe that we One sad fact of the crisis, get taxed more, not less, be - however, is that – for a while at cause we have children?” a least – it looks like we’ll be the friend asked who had grown up ones traveling to Greece and not in England. vice-versa. I have a friend who A former neighbor, who is a is a gifted author and translator. lawyer, observed: “Most people He and his wife finally fulfilled will be OK. It’s those on the their dream of leaving Athens edge, such as disabled children, for the countryside, just as the whose programs have been crisis descended. With their two slashed, who will really feel the small children, they live in what brunt of it all.” Many legal firms, looks like an Ionian paradise on she added, had suffered. She the isle of . It was nice had responded to the crisis with to catch up by phone while I some changes, including enter - was in Greece. But when I ing the new – for Greece- field tossed out the idea that they of mediation, but she lamented visit us, he somberly noted: “An - the protective and not-so-trans - gelike, I’m not so sure about parent nature of her industry. that. We have to really think For information contact us at: 718-784-5255, ext 108, or email: [email protected] EVERYONE’S TALKING hard before visiting , and ABOUT MONEY that’s right next door.” But if our It’s never been impolite to visit confirmed that jet setting discuss money in Greece – but may not be part of the Greek people seem to be doing it more equation today, I also know my The National Herald than ever. “I have no money, my friends will be OK.

T H D E L Mom has no money…” said a N A www.thenationalherald.com AT ER IONAL H young woman dressed to the T Angelike Contis was Special Is - (and the crisis has not put a sues Editor of The National Her - dent in Greek women’s feminine ald from 2010 to 2011.