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Greek Orthodox congregation in Rye celebrates Easter


The Birmingham News - al.com

Greek Orthodox congregation in Rye celebrates Easter
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Joana Kaso and her daughter Khloe light candles for Easter service held at the Greek Orthodox Church of our Savior in Harrison, May 5, 2013. Candles are an important part of the Mass as each lit candle represents the light Jesus' message brought to the ...
Annunciation Greek Orthodox faithful proclaim 'Christ is Risen' (photos)The Birmingham News - al.com
Greek Orthodox Ladies' 'Not Just YiaYia's Cookbook' celebrates Orthodox Easter ...MassLive.com
Greeks determined to celebrate Easter in style despite recessioneuronews
Culinary Backstreets -Reading Eagle
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Greek Antiquities Pillaged By Nazis


Greek Reporter

Greek Antiquities Pillaged By Nazis
Greek Reporter
669B2B82D773AF66863377F9D3C86B25 The pillaging of Greek antiquities during the German Occupation of WWII could surpass more than 8,500, according to the journalist Giorgos Lekakis. If those items were sold today in auction houses, their value ...


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Dendias Says Golden Dawn Could Be Banned


Dendias Says Golden Dawn Could Be Banned
Greek Reporter
After the European Union's human rights chief said that there's enough evidence of violence being perpetrated by the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party that has 18 seats in Parliament to outlaw the group, Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said the government ...


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Fire At Sparling Dr. Home In Greece


Fire At Sparling Dr. Home In Greece
13WHAM-TV
Greece, N.Y. - A home on Sparling Drive was badly damaged by a fire Sunday afternoon. When fire crews arrived on scene around 1:30 p.m., flames and smoke were pouring from the roof and windows. Firefighters initially tried to put out the fire from the ...


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Greece's oldest Facebook user dies at age 105


Kathimerini

Greece's oldest Facebook user dies at age 105
Kathimerini
The oldest Greek to be registered on the social networking website Facebook, died on Thursday at the age of 105, his family wrote on his personal Facebook page on Sunday. Leonidas Panoutsopoulos, a former cobbler, had amassed thousands of friends on ...


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Greece: 'worst is over' before IMF delivers verdict


The Age

Greece: 'worst is over' before IMF delivers verdict - The Age
The Age
Greece's crisis-hit economy is finally beginning to heal, according to the country's finance minister before a crucial report by the International Monetary Fund that is likely to be more positive than in the past. Yannis Stournaras said ''the worst is ...
Stournaras says recovery close as Greece receives 2.8bln euros from March ...Kathimerini
Greece may be able to return to debt markets by this time next year according ...Seeking Alpha
Greek Minister Sees Signs of RecoveryWall Street Journal

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Greek Orthodox church observes Good Friday in Jersey City


Greek Orthodox church observes Good Friday in Jersey City
The Jersey Journal - NJ.com
on May 05, 2013 at 1:15 PM, updated May 05, 2013 at 1:16 PM. View/Post Comments. On Friday, the Evangelismos Greek Orthodox Church in Jersey City observed the church's Good Friday with a processional. Journal photographer Alyssa Ki took in some of ...


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Giannis Adetokunbo: Breaking Down Greek Phenom's 2013 NBA Draft Stock


Bleacher Report

Giannis Adetokunbo: Breaking Down Greek Phenom's 2013 NBA Draft Stock
Bleacher Report
It seems like every year we come across a late-blooming international prospect who graces NBA radars. In 2013, it's 18-year-old Giannis Adetokunbo of Greece. And this one didn't just grace the screen, he splattered his name across it. Scouts and ...


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Step back in time: Walking all the way back to the wonders of Ancient Greece


Step back in time: Walking all the way back to the wonders of Ancient Greece
Daily Mail
My Classical Greek Journey with an eclectic bunch of hikers was a winner from the start; organised but not regimented, as we found at our first stop - magnificent Delphi. The views from this sacred site, backed by majestic Mount Parnassus, are superb.


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'The worst is over' for Greece


Kathimerini

'The worst is over' for Greece - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Greece's crisis-hit economy is finally beginning to heal, the country's finance minister says, before a crucial report by the International Monetary Fund that is likely to be more positive than in the past. The minister, Yannis Stournaras, said ''the ...
Stournaras says recovery close as Greece receives 2.8bln euros from March ...Kathimerini
Greece may be able to return to debt markets by this time next year according ...Seeking Alpha
Greek Minister Sees Signs of RecoveryWall Street Journal

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Battle on for Greek ace


Battle on for Greek ace
EatSleepSport
Battle on for Greek ace. Last Updated: Sun, 05 May 2013 14:10. Chelsea have joined Manchester City in the race to sign Greece international defender Kyriakos Papadopoulos. The 21-year-old has impressed in the Bundesliga with Schalke this season and ...

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Greece's Alpha Bank to trade ex-rights from May 13


Greece's Alpha Bank to trade ex-rights from May 13
Yahoo!7 News
ATHENS (Reuters) - Shares in Greece's Alpha Bank will trade without rights to its planned 457 million euro (385 million pounds) share offering from May 13, the Athens bourse said, as the country's big banks kick off their recapitalisation. Greece's top ...

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Annunciation Greek Orthodox faithful proclaim 'Christ is Risen' (photos)


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Annunciation Greek Orthodox faithful proclaim 'Christ is Risen' (photos)
The Birmingham News - al.com
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Vigil, May 4-5, 2013 At midnight, worshipers at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Mobile, Ala., file outside the S. Ann Street church, led by Rev. Elias Stevens, to proclaim the resurrection of Christ on May 5, 2013.
Greek Orthodox Ladies' 'Not Just YiaYia's Cookbook' celebrates Orthodox Easter ...MassLive.com
St. Matthew's Greek Orthodox Church welcomes a mix of members of all ethnic ...Reading Eagle
Greeks determined to celebrate Easter in style despite recessioneuronews
Culinary Backstreets -New England Business Bulletin
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Ancient Greek Wine Ages Well


Greek Reporter

Ancient Greek Wine Ages Well
Greek Reporter
215px-ASSYRTIKO Assyrtiko wine is made from one of Greece's finest versatile white grape varieties, indigenous to the island of Santorini. Santorini is a wine region located on the archipelago of Santorini in the southern Cyclades islands of the Aegean ...


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Helen Flanagan holidaying in Greece sans beau Scott Sinclair


Helen Flanagan holidaying in Greece sans beau Scott Sinclair - News Track India
Newstrack India
London, May 5 (ANI): Helen Flanagan has fled to a Greek isle without boyfriend Scott Sinclair, it has been revealed. According to the Sunday People, the day after she was crowned the UK's sexiest woman by FHM magazine, she flew off with pals to the ...

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Crisis-stricken Greece observes rise in social inequality


Crisis-stricken Greece observes rise in social inequality
Kathimerini
Battered by the eurozone's three-year debt crisis and four years of austerity, Greece has the highest unemployment rate in the 27-nation European Union, with more than one in four people out of work. And this economic crisis has now transformed into a ...


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Barry Lewis: This Greek yogurt snob savors NY's piece of pie


Barry Lewis: This Greek yogurt snob savors NY's piece of pie
Times Herald-Record
Actually, I'm a connoisseur of Greek yogurt — moving into the ranks of becoming a Greek yogurt snob. Not bad for a kid who grew up having ketchup on spaghetti, thinking sliced tomatoes on a tuna fish sandwich was a delicacy and Jell-O with fruit was ...


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Why Obama Cannot Match Germany's Jobs Miracle

  In 2002, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder appointed a jobs council headed by Volkswagen’s Peter Hartz to solve Germany’s high unemployment. In 2011, President Barack Obama similarly appointed a jobs commission headed by General Electric’s Jeffrey Immelt to achieve the same goal.  (At the time, Schroeder headed the SPD, the equivalent of America’s Democratic Party.)  Germany’s labor market turned around in a dramatic fashion after Schroeder implemented the Hartz Commission’s sweeping reforms between 2002 and 2005. In contrast, Obama’s Immelt Council quietly disbanded without making substantive proposals, and America’s worst jobs recovery of the postwar period continued. Obama cannot duplicate the German reforms. They reject his Keynesian belief that jobs are created by government stimulus.  Instead, the Hartz reforms rest on the common sense notion that people take jobs when work, rather than welfare, pays. Such an approach violates Obama’s core beliefs. Government must make the lives of the unemployed as comfortable as possible. No, the Germans say. If the state gives too much, the unemployed will have no incentive to take jobs, even when they are available. Just as Germany alone pushed back against the anti-austerity complaints of Southern Europe, so it rejects the Keynesian blame of deficient demand for unemployment.  Instead of stimulus, the Germans raise incentives for unemployed workers to take jobs.  They believe that welfare programs must be calibrated to “make work pay.” Otherwise able-bodied persons will be tempted to take the easy way out of pay without work. The Germans would characterize President Obama’s “jobs program” of fiscal stimulus and generous and extended unemployment benefits as well-intentioned medicine that kills rather than cures the patient. They would laugh off the Obama team’s odd notion that higher unemployment benefits create jobs by putting money in the pockets of the unemployed. Surely, Obama can’t be serious. Germany’s labor market reforms have made Germany’s economy  a rare bright spot in a troubled world:  While German newspapers headline:  “Germany on the Way to New Full Employment,”  the rest of Europe records  a 12 percent unemployment rate, and the United States settles for a “new normal” of high unemployment.  Posters in German subways are full of job offers, while Spanish, Italian, and Greek workers take to the streets to protest the lack of jobs. A German political cartoon shows a well-groomed executive sweeping the factory grounds for lack of employees. The origins of Germany’s labor-market turnaround dates back to the mid-1990s, when its ruling class decided that things could not continue to go on this way.  A humiliated Germany, of “Wirtschaftswunder” fame, had joined the rest of Europe in recording double digit unemployment rates, peaking at 13 percent in early 2005.  The fabled German engineering machine was sputtering and needed new life. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called for labor market reforms in his 1995 “Agenda 2010.”  He appointed a reform commission, headed by Peter Hartz, the head of personnel at Volkswagen. Hartz and his fellow commissioners were ordered to devise a plan for reducing unemployment and restoring German competitiveness. Unlike the United States where grand bargains are talked about and then forgotten, the Hartz reforms were actually implemented first by Schroeder and then by his successor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrat Party. The fourth and final phase of the Hartz reforms went into effect in 2005 under Merkel. Within less than a decade, Germany halved its unemployment rate, while the rest of the Euro Zone remained stuck with double-digit unemployment. Prior to “Hartz IV” – as the Germans call it -- Germany was noted for its generosity to those without jobs. Unemployment benefits preserved as much of former earnings as possible. Unemployed workers could turn down jobs that did not correspond to their specific qualifications without losing benefits. (Taxi drivers could refuse jobs as truck drivers). The unemployed could refuse jobs that required a change of location. Unemployed workers received unemployment checks alongside generous welfare benefits. The unemployed even received money for their vacations. “Hartz IV” turned Germany from one of the most generous welfare and unemployment systems into one of the stingiest. Workers who lose their jobs receive unemployment benefits based on their previous earnings and time on the job for six months to two years. Once unemployed workers exhaust their regular unemployment benefits, they enter the Hartz IV program. (Germans use “Hartz IV” to describe the long-term unemployed who are in the program, often derisively, as well as the program itself.)  If you have never been employed, such as a graduating student, you go immediately into the Hartz IV program. Hartz IV recipients receive about $400 per month for living expenses. Their rent and health insurance are paid directly by the state, subject to limitations on square meters of living space. If a “Hartz IV” turns down job offers, he or she stand to lose part or all their benefits. In addition to the $220 per month of “children’s money” that all families receive, a “Hartz IV” receives a monthly supplement of about $130 per child.  With these benefits, a single unemployed woman with one child has less than $750 per month for expenses, after the state directly pays her rent and health insurance. Unlike other unemployment insurance programs, the Labor Office (renamed the “Jobs Center”) considers the Hartz IV recipient’s “need community” (Bedarfsgemeinschaft in bureaucratic German).  A spouse or a partner with earnings reduces benefits according to a published formula. A recipient sharing a common refrigerator also can experience reduced benefits because basic needs are being met by others. Hartz IV recipients must go through a complicated bureaucratic procedure to replace essential household items such as a refrigerator or television set. The Labor Office conducts unannounced inspections to check for the presence of other adults or other signs of unreported earnings. The Germans devised the Hartz IV system to limit benefits to a subsistence level of living. The only way to rise above subsistence is to work. Once the chronic unemployed reach retirement age, they switch from Hartz IV to a state pension. In effect, Hartz IV recipients put their lives in receivership to the omnipresent Jobs Center. Hartz IV recipients are allowed to keep a maximum of $13,000 in savings. Any savings over that amount must go to pay their expenses before they can receive Hartz IV money. The Hartz IV program increases jobs and “makes work pay” for the low-skilled by taking advantage of Germany’s lack of a minimum wage. Hartz IV recipients who take “Ein Euro jobs” that pay one Euro per hour keep their entire earnings without losing benefits. They can also take so-called mini jobs earning $530 per month or more with a graduated loss of benefits. Of course, the Hartz IV reforms are not universally popular. The labor unions hate them as does the “Party of the Left.”  A female Jobs Center employee became a folk hero, when she refused to reduce the benefits of a Hartz IV recipient who had broken its “barbaric” rules. The most remarkable feature of the Hartz reforms is that the German political class had the courage to make hard choices. Gerhard Schroeder’s support for labor market reform was the equivalent of Nixon going to China. Only a Social Democrat could push through such a reform. It cost his party two elections as his angry left wing (including Germany’s Teddy Kennedy, Oskar Lafontaine) split from the Social Democrats to join splinter parties. The American political class should look to Germany for two reasons: First, Germany provides a natural experiment of Keynesian versus Non-Keynesian labor market policy. I would challenge those continuing to push stimulus in the United States as an answer to unemployment (versus raising incentives to take jobs) to explain the halving of Germany’s unemployment rate in such a short time. Second Germany is a lesson in political courage – to do the right thing regardless of the political consequences. Such courage is sorely lacking on both sides of the aisle in the United States. Few if any American politicians have the courage to risk the demagoguery that would accompany their support for lower welfare or unemployment checks. For Obama to support such a program would be selling his soul to the devil.

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Greek Orthodox Church of Prescott continues Holy Week services Saturday ...


Greek Orthodox Church of Prescott continues Holy Week services Saturday ...
Prescott Daily Courier
Greek Orthodox Church of Prescott continues Holy Week services Saturday, Sunday. St. George Greek Orthodox Church of Prescott concludes its Holy Week services that lead to its Easter observance this weekend with services both today and Sunday. Today ...


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Crisis-hit Greece sees rise in social inequality


Economic Times

Crisis-hit Greece sees rise in social inequality
Economic Times
Battered by the eurozone's three-year debt crisis and four years of austerity, Greece has the highest unemployment rate in the 27-nation European Union, with more than one in four people out of work. And this economic crisis has now transformed into a ...

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Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church celebrates Pascha


Lancaster Newspapers

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church celebrates Pascha
Lancaster Newspapers
For many members of the Greek Orthodox Church, the earliest memories of church are from Holy Week. "I know a man who remembers when he was 4 years old and the church was completely darkened and the priest carried Christ on the cross and the ...
Greek Orthodox Ladies' 'Not Just YiaYia's Cookbook' celebrates Orthodox Easter ...MassLive.com
St. Matthew's Greek Orthodox Church welcomes a mix of members of all ethnic ...Reading Eagle
Greeks determined to celebrate Easter in style despite recessioneuronews
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