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Monday, May 20, 2013

Supreme Court to weigh in on legislative prayers

Source: www.wnd.com - Monday, May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings. The justices said they will review an appeals court ruling that held that the upstate New York town of Greece, a Rochester suburb, violated the Constitution by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the town should have made a greater effort to invite people from other faiths to open its monthly board meetings.  
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Foreign Ambassadors Visit Ancient Dodona

Thirty ambassadors of foreign states in Greece, from European, Asian and African countries, visited the archaeological site of Dodona, and in particular its internationally renowned ancient theater. During their one-hour visit they were guided through all the Dodona monuments and expressed their admiration for the brilliance of the ancient Greek civilization. The ancient site of Dodona is ...

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Imported Tsipouro Health Danger

More than 20,000,000 liters of tsipouro are illegally imported to Greece from Albania, Bulgaria and other neighboring countries, according to the Greek Federation of Spirits Producers (SEAOP), and after being named Greek they are distributed in the market. This tsipouro is dangerous for the public health, because in most cases hygiene rules are not respected during its production and packaging. ...

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Popular Greek beach evacuated after swimmer discovers WWII artillery

ATHENS, Greece - A surprise shell has caused a big stir at a popular Athens beach. Greek authorities evacuated the seafront Monday after a swimmer found a corroded artillery shell just 10 yards from dry land, fished it out and presented it to a lifeguard. A coast guard statement said army explosives experts were rushed to Vouliagmeni beach and safely disposed of the munition. The 30-centimetre ...

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Three brothers mother and wife found guilty of loan-sharking in Thessaloniki

A Thessaloniki court on Monday handed guilty verdicts to 21 of 24 defendants charged with participating in a usury ring that was one of three exposed during a police crackdown on loan sharks in northern Greece in January 2012.Among those found guilty are three brothers who are also believed to be the brains behind the ring. The ...

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Restaurant Review: Troy?s Kalamata Greek Grill has fast and tasty Mediterranean food

The Troy restaurant scene has just about every chain restaurant imaginable, making the dining options near endless. Those looking for a fast-casual lunch or dinner from an independent restaurant should put Kalamata on their list of restaurants to try.

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Greek week continues: Little Greek Restaurant

The Little Greek Restaurant franchise, which says it offers Greek food with an American touch, is coming to Little Rock, taking over the site that housed Cheeburger Cheeburger in the Pleasant Ridge Town Center . The Little Rock website for the franchise has links to menus in Florida , where the franchise started, and Texas. You got your lamb skewers, mousaka (as LGR spells it), gyros, hummus ...

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Greek Students Being Taught Turkish


Greek Students Being Taught Turkish
Greek Reporter
turkschool Students in Athens who are the children of Turkish-Greek or Greek parents have begun to attend a Turkish course in Athens to learn the language and get to know Turkish culture, the Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman has reported, adding that ...

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Restaurant Review: Troy'The Troy restaurant scene has just about every chain ...


Restaurant Review: Troy'The Troy restaurant scene has just about every chain ...
Oakland Press
A short list of starters includes saganaki, the classic Greek flaming cheese. There's also spinach pie, and pita chips with hummus, tzatziki, or zesty feta dip. The dip platter, which is comprised of all three dips with an ample amount of pita chips ...


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New Greek Cuisine Is Here to Stay


Huffington Post (blog)

New Greek Cuisine Is Here to Stay
Huffington Post (blog)
When you think of Greek food, you usually think of chunky Greek salads, messy but delicious souvlaki, and pungent garlic sauces such as tzatziki and skordalia ready to be smothered on fresh bread. Yes, Greek food is known for its simplicity and ...
Greek Gastronomy Days At Benaki MuseumGreek Reporter

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Ryanair reports record profits but warns growth likely to slow this year

Low-cost airline says profits rose 13% on last year – with revenues from extras such as seat reservations rising 20%

Low-cost airline Ryanair has unveiled record profits but warned growth was likely to slow this year as a result of the backdrop in Europe and rising fuel costs.

The Dublin-based carrier said profits after tax rose 13% to €569m (£481m) in the year to the end of March, while revenue also rose by 13% to €4.9bn.

Growth in ancillary revenues – extras on top of ticket prices including paying to reserve a seat – outpaced both profit and traffic growth, rising 20% to €1.06bn, or 22% of total revenue.

Michael O'Leary, the chief executive, said that in the context of high oil prices during a European recession, the results were "testimony to the strength of Ryanair's ultra-low cost model".

He warned however that growth this year was likely to slow, predicting full-year profit of between €570m and €600m. "With almost zero yield visibility into the second half and the EU-wide recession, we expect that there will continue to be downward pressure on yields which will dampen full-year profit growth," he said.

Ryanair's fuel bill rose by more than €290m last year and represents 45% of total costs, but the company felt sufficiently confident to say that further shareholder returns were "possible" by the end of the 2015 financial year, having returned almost €500m to shareholders in November through a special dividend.

Ryanair's deputy chief executive, Howard Millar, said the airline was "very pleased" with the figures for customer seat reservations, which he said were particularly popular on its longer flights to destinations like the Canary Islands, and among business passengers.

He added that it was unlikely Ryanair would move to fully reserved seating because it might slow turnaround times as boarding customers feel less inclined to rush for a seat.

The airline carried 79.3 million passengers last year, up 5%, and expects that to increase to 81.5 million passengers this year and 100 million over the next five years, giving it a 20% share of the European short-haul market.

The airline operates more than 1,600 routes, and is targeting further expansion including growth in Greece and possibly flights to Israel. It is now the number one carrier in Ireland, Spain, Italy and Poland, and number three in the UK.

It opened seven new bases over the year, including Chania in Greece, Krakow in Poland, and Marrakech in Morocco.

Despite forecasting slower growth this year, Ryanair said it stood to benefit from the difficulties facing some of its rivals in Europe who are cutting short-haul capacity.

"Most of our competitors are either in retreat or not growing significantly," said Millar.

The company said there were significant gains to be made in Germany, Scandinavia and central Europe in particular, where Air Berlin, SAS and LOT continue to restructure, while it is also in discussion about expanding its bases at Stansted and Dublin airports as early as this September.

Ryanair expects to ground around 60 aircraft in the coming winter, fewer than the 80 grounded last winter.

Ryanair has 175 new Boeing 737 aircraft on order for delivery between 2014 and 2018, providing "controlled and profitable growth" of around 5% a year, according to Millar.

O'Leary said in the results statement that the European commission's decision in February to block Ryanair's third offer for Irish airline Aer Lingus was "politically motivated" and inexplicable. He described a UK Competition Commission inquiry into its six-and-a-half year-old minority stake in Aer Lingus as "even more bizarre".


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Greeces National Bank sets rights issue price after reverse split

ATHENS | Mon May 20, 2013 10:49am EDT
ATHENS May 20 (Reuters) - Greece's biggest lender National Bank said on Monday it would sell 2.27 billion new shares at a price of 4.29 euros ($5.50) each, as part of its recapitalisation plan.
The price is calculated after a 1-for-10 reverse stock split.
($1 = 0.7798 euros) (Reporting by George Georgiopoulos; writing by Harry ...

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Greeces Piraeus Bank posts Q1 profit on accounting gain

ATHENS | Mon May 20, 2013 10:36am EDT
ATHENS May 20 (Reuters) - Greece's second-largest lender Piraeus Bank on Monday reported sharply higher profit in the first quarter after booking an accounting gain for its acquisition of the Greek units of Cypriot banks.
The bank reported a net profit of 3.62 billion euros ($4.65 billion) compared to earnings of 46 million euros in the same ...

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Greek beach evacuated after artillery discovery

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A surprise shell has caused a big stir at a popular Athens beach.        

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Here's The Problem That Made The New Alleged Bitcoin Inventor A Mathematical Rock Star

Shinichi Mochizuki

This weekend, computer scientist Ted Nelson claimed that mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki was the man behind Bitcoin. 

See, while the digital currency has moved markets and attracted major investors, nobody actually knows who came up with it.

The paper describing the system was published under a pseudonym, Satoshi Nakamoto, and people are clamoring to find out who the genius behind the Bitcoin system actually is. 

And while there is a mountain of compelling evidence demonstrating that Mochizuki probably isn't Nakamoto, this is still an excellent opportunity to revisit why people are obsessed with the Japanese mathematician — namely, his rock-star status achieved after publishing a bold proof of one of the thorniest problems in Diophantine analysis: the abc conjecture. 

In short, the abc conjecture explores the relationships between prime numbers.

It's been described as the most important unsolved problem in Diophantine Analysis.

Diophantine analysis is a branch of mathematics that works with some of the most simple number systems (like ax + by = 1 or xn + yn = zn) and in doing so explores some of the deepest relationships in math.

Some of the earliest work with mathematics — we're talking ancient Greek number-crunching here — was with prime numbers, especially the relationships and frequency between them. 

The abc conjecture — a younger problem in the field, originally proposed in 1985 — is as follows.

Take three positive integers that have no common factor and where a + b = c. For instance, 5, 8, and 13.

Now take the distinct prime factors of these integers—in this case 2, 5, and 13—and multiply them to get a new number, d.

In most cases, like this one, d is larger than c. The conjecture states that in rare instances where d is smaller than c, it is usually very close to c. Most importantly, the conjecture also shows that there are a finite number of instances of a, b, and c where d is smaller than c. 

Mochizuki claims to have cracked this conjecture in a 500-page proof.

Even if you didn't catch all of that, solving this would be the necessary missing link for a dozen different, more advanced problems in Diophantine Analysis, and is also linked  to the legendary mathematical problem, Fermat's Last Theorem.

So it's not unreasonable to expect that Mochizuki — an exceedingly intelligent mathematician whom Nelson thinks had time to complete such an undertaking — has the brains to be the guy behind Bitcoin. 

But even if the evidence doesn't come together, Mochizuki should still he hailed as the guy who potentially cracked one of the most difficult problems in his field, still a huge achievement. 

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Supreme Court To Take Up Greece Prayer Case


Bloomberg

Supreme Court To Take Up Greece Prayer Case
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The justices said Monday they will review an appeals court ruling that held that the town of Greece violated the Constitution by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of ...
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Evan Turner's Greek pop-ups may turn into a restaurant


Houston Chronicle (blog)

Evan Turner's Greek pop-ups may turn into a restaurant
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Sommelier Evan Turner hopes to bring modern Greek food and wine to the Houston restaurant scene. When sommelier Evan Turner announced his June 9 Greek-style crawfish boil on Facebook last week, he did so under the name of Helen: Greek Food ...


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Homemade lamb ragu recipe: A not so Greek dinner


Homemade lamb ragu recipe: A not so Greek dinner - Voxxi
VOXXI
The Greeks eat a variety of meat, but beef, unlike the Americans, is not there first choice. Pork and lamb seem to be the major meats consumed and if you've never tried souvlaki or a gyro then you don't know what you are missing. Both are typically ...


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Greek banks to be sold


euronews

Greek banks to be sold
euronews
Two of Greece's banks are set to be sold under the country's plans to revive the finance sector. Smaller lenders Hellenic Postbank and Proton currently owned by The Hellenic Financial stability fund have been split into good and bad parts. The country ...
Greece Will Sell Troubled Proton, PostbankGreek Reporter

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Greek neo-Nazis threaten to mobilize against mosque


Greek neo-Nazis threaten to mobilize against mosque
Al-Arabiya
Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn has threatened to mobilize 100,000 people against plans to build a mosque in Athens, state television reported on Monday. “If a mosque is constructed for Islamist criminals in Greece, a front of 100,000 Greeks headed by ...

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