How the world sees Greece
Greece’s highways have been littered with roadblocks as agriculturalists protest against government measures that threaten their very existence. This week the two parties will sit down for a make-or-break meeting in Athens ‘Everything will depend on ...
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Even after the film Dear White People and the inevitable fallout, one would think that GREEK organizations would cut the racist-themed parties in 2016.
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It has more to do with the emphasis that the GREEK side seems to be placing on increasing taxes and social security contributions to close the fiscal ...
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Addressing the GREEK Parliament, he said that any provocation or attack against the country will not remain unanswered, and criticised the main ...
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In Celebration of Women's History Month the Association of GREEK American Professional Women (A.G.A.P.W.) will honor Atlantic Bank President ...
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Mix everything together in a large bowl. Use wet hands to form mixture into patties and sauté 5 minutes per side over medium heat, until golden. Pour a bit of water in the pan and cover to finish steaming the burgers, until cooked through. Cook in batches ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Olympiakos is closing in on its 18th Greek league title in 20 seasons after a 4-0 victory over Atromitos on Sunday.
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The past month has been characterized by an unprecedented and noteworthy flurry of diplomatic activity between Jerusalem, Athens and Nicosia that suggests the emergence of a new geopolitical bloc in the region. In late January, Defense Minister Moshe Ya ...
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Vehicles are moving both ways through the Bulgaria-Greece border at all crossing points as of Sunday evening, Bulgaria's Interior Ministry has said. The development follow a month of blockades set up by protesting Greek farmers along their country's ...
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GREECE — Newark was originally scheduled to travel into Monroe County Saturday for a Class B1 meeting with Greece Odyssey. A previous commitment by the hosts pushed the date up a day, but the Reds shrugged off the change in grand style. Seventh-seeded ...
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11:15 a.m. Greek police say Macedonia has closed its southern border with Greece to Afghan migrants, allowing entry only for Iraqis and Syrians. Macedonian authorities reportedly said that Serbia has done the same on its southern border with Macedonia.
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GREECE Post · Classifieds · Jobs · Cars · HOMES. FEATURED » ... acurtis@messengerpostmedia.com. GREECE Post ..... GREECE Post. By Aaron Curtis
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“An ecumenical government is not the solution to Greece’s problems,” main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Sunday said in an interview with “VIMAGAZINO.” He also said that he does not trust Alexis Tsipras and he could not co-govern with him. Mitsotakis stated that he is not asking for elections. “I do not participate
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Photographer Antony Penrose remembers his mother’s wild suppers In the years following my mother’s work as a war photographer for _Vogue_, she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, and became an alcoholic and a depressive. Part of her recovery process was to reinvent herself as a gourmet cook. We were living in Farley Farm House in East Sussex, and food was a way for Lee to return to the real world, and be creative, fun and experimental. I was born in 1947; she and I had a very conflicted relationship. For the first 20 years of my life she was a pretty heavy-duty alcoholic, which created a gap between us. But she loved to encourage my curiosity, and one of the main ways she did so was through food. She and her friend Bettina McNulty would hang out in London, discovering new dishes and hunting down Egyptian, Greek, Turkish and Syrian ingredients. In those days food and cooking wasn’t nearly as diverse as it is now. Continue reading...
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Sofia. All checkpoints on the Bulgarian-Greek border are open to all types of vehicles in both directions, Ukrinform reported. The information was confirmed by the press office of the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior. All border checkpoints along the border ...
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George Woloshyn worked in the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. He is a former naval intelligence commander and former director of ...
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The Associated Press reports that FYROM “police started restricting the flow of migrants across the GREEK-FYROM border Saturday, conducting body ...
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[Greece Greek Pharmacist Drugs]REUTERS/John Kolesidis The drugs you need to treat your asthma or migraines could be at risk of running out or being swapped for another medication. That's because hospitals and pharmacies are facing shortages in drugs that lead them to make tough decisions about how to make the most of what's available. C. Michael White, a pharmacist and professor at the University of Connecticut told Business Insider this problem has become more prevalent in the last decade, driven mainly by a decrease in competition among generic companies. And it's not relegated to one disease area: The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) lists 150 compounds that are currently facing shortages. The list includes everything from antibiotics to vaccines to cancer medications. Last month, The New York Times reported an instance at Johns Hopkins Hospital in which pharmacists were faced with the troubling decision of whether they should give smaller doses of medication to multiple children or give the same amount of medication to one adult. "The discussions became, 'Why are two kids more important than one adult?'" Dr. Kenneth Cohen, the clinical director of pediatric oncology at the hospital, told the Times. If drug shortages continue, the results could become even more intense — and would likely affect far more people, from inaccessible medications to others that will come at a much higher cost. "The result could be disastrous," said White. "There would be more shortages, and generic drug costs would not go down as significantly as they had in the past." THE CULPRIT The ASHP cites a number of reasons for the shortages. Most are related to manufacturing problems. Sometimes, some of the companies who make large portions of the drug simply stop making it. Other times, a drug is only being produced by a single manufacturer. And therein lies the problem: There simply are not enough companies making the drug to keep up with demand. It's all part of a consolidation of the manufacturers who produce generic drugs. US generic companies have had a harder time turning a profit on generic drugs while competing with companies outside the US that are able to make the same drugs at a cheaper cost. That's caused manufacturers to home in on certain generic drugs and discontinue others that don't make as much money. And if a generic manufacturer has a shortage, there's no easy fix — you can't just pass off the job to another company while the first fixes its problems, since getting approval to take on a new drug can take years. "It isn’t like, if you have a home business making cookies, and a competitor goes out of business, you can just bake more cookies," White said. [PILLS MONEY]REUTERS/JOHN KOLESIDISFINDING ALTERNATIVES Pharmacists are facing a mounting dilemma. Instead of stocking up on life-saving medications ahead of time, health care providers are only able to order on a week-to-week basis. They're also having to make tough decisions about how to treat their patients with the amount of a drug that's available. In the event of a shortage, some medications can be substituted with alternatives. These alternatives can either come in the form of another, similar medication or a combination of other, "compounded" formulations of drugs. Compounded drugs, while sometimes safe, aren't always a good idea. Nevertheless, given recent drug shortages, they've become increasingly common. To make a compounded drug, pharmacists make specific combinations for specific patients (for example, if a patient can't swallow, they'll substitute a pill with a liquid version of the same medication by making their own versions of the drugs). And the US government doesn't regulate this process as closely as it does the process for making generic or branded drugs. More than just the safety concerns over how the new versions of the drug are made, White said using compounded pharmaceuticals is "inefficient," and ultimately more expensive. When pharmacists have to make their own versions, it takes more time and energy and can cause more confusion when it's time to give it to a patient, since different versions of the same drug might appear in different packages or colors on the shelf. THE SOLUTION The best chance we have at ending drug shortages, then, is mending the generic drug business. "Generic drugs have saved billions and billions to the US consumer, but we might have to look more carefully at what is a reasonable price point what allows manufacturers to have a level of profitability," White said. By setting up a better infrastructure for generic drugmakers, the US has the potential to kill two birds with one stone: drug shortages AND drug price gouging. "[Overseas competition and consolidation aren't] just bad for drug shortages, it’s also bad for drug prices," White said. When there isn't more than one generic out there, manufacturers don’t have to price it at much less than the original branded drug. "That’s why some of the Wall Street hedge fund people started getting in to business of buying generics where they were the only ones manufacturing." Turning the tide against these practices won't be easy and single-faceted, but being able to pull it off could save health care providers a fair amount of daily strife. NOW WATCH: Pluto and its moon Charon have something that doesn't exist anywhere else in the solar system
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[jack o lantern sun]NASA/SDO From the man in the moon to Greek gods among the stars, humans have long been discovering familiar forms in the heavens. There's a word for this phenomenon of seeing patterns that don't exist: pareidolia. And it's all psychological. While this mind trick may have served some evolutionary purpose, like helping us recognize mountain lions in the bush, it also leads to some pretty crazy interpretations. Here, we offer some of the best examples of pareidolia with help from humanity's most powerful telescopes. THE STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY NEBULA WAS CREATED BY A DYING STAR THAT BECAME EXTREMELY HOT. IT SHINES BRIGHTLY IN ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT HIDDEN FROM VIEW BY A DENSE CLOUD OF DUST THAT RESEMBLES A BUTTERFLY'S WINGS, IN THIS IMAGE TAKEN BY HUBBLE IN 2009. NASA/ESA/Hubble WHEN NASA'S VIKING 1 SPACECRAFT WAS CIRCLING MARS IN 1976, IT SPOTTED THIS UNUSUAL IMAGE OF WHAT LOOKS UNCANNILY LIKE A HUMAN FACE IN A REGION OF THE PLANET CALLED CYDONIA. NASA BUT WHEN NASA'S MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR FLEW OVER THE REGION AGAIN IN 1998 AND 2001, SHARPER IMAGES REVEALED THE FACE TO BE A NATURAL LANDFORM. NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems SEE THE REST OF THE STORY AT BUSINESS INSIDER
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A “Temporary Grexit” a la Schaeuble was a real option for Greece’s Euro-partners after the Referendum on July 5th 2015. German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly brought up the issue in conversation with French President Francois Hollande on July 6th, just one day after the Referendum took place. Hollande rejected Merkel’s […]
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FOLLOWING the smash hit comedy It's All Greek To Me at the Old Mill Theatre in 2014, Perth playwright Noel O'Neill has penned a sequel for even greater hilarity-matched-with-disaster. The Planks, a Greek-English family living in '60s London, return in It's ...
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The month-long mass protests by Greek farmers against pension reform that have paralyzed much of the country appear to have entered a new stage as most of their representatives have opted for talks with the government. However, some unions seem to have no ...
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EU planning GREEK debt relief: report ... GREEK Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Saturday said that differences between the EU and the IMF over ...
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BERLIN – George Katrougalos, Greece’s Labor Minister, said on February 21 that – “We will soon have an agreement that will allow the completion of the first program review” before March 27. He said, however, that the negotiation will be hard, especially regarding the issue of pension reforms. Katrougalos said that the technical staff is expected to arrive […]
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All the blockades that had closed border crossings between Bulgaria and Greece were lifted on the afternoon of February 21 2016. Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry said that the flow of traffic through the Ilinden checkpoint was restored soon after 4pm.
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According to a report in today’s Sunday edition of the Greek daily Kathimerini, it was not only German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble who had lost patience with Greece and proposed in 2015 that Greece withdraw temporarily from the Eurozone, but also ...
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Canandaigua got behind early and couldn't make up the deficit, falling to the No. 1 seed GREECE Athena 61-34 in a Class A1 boys basketball sectional ...
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Sofia. All border checkpoints on the Bulgarian - GREECE border have been open for all types of motor vehicles by 4:45 pm, the press centre of the ...
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It's the battle of the blockades on the GREEK-Bulgarian border. GREEK farmers are intermittently closing roads across the country in protest at pension ...
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Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos in an interview with RealNews newspaper on Sunday sent a message to the IMF to understand that Greece is a European country. He also underlined that the basis for the discussion cannot be other than those agreed on ...
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“We will soon have an agreement that will allow the completion of the first program review” before March 27, the Greek Labor Minister George Katrougalos said on Sunday to ANA-MPA, admitting, however, that the negotiation will be hard. Katrougalos ...
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Greek judges continue to contest the government’s attempts to cut wages and pensions, something they have been doing at least since 2012. According to a report in the Greek daily To Ethnos, a new court ruling challenging the legality of cuts in pensions ...
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It was an unbelievable journey for a cat. Kunkush, a male white beauty, a Turkish Van breed, left the war-battled of Northern Iraq, crossed Turkey, sailed with a boat to the Greek island of Lesvos, flew to Berlin and stayed in a foster home, hoping to find again his family. […]
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Serbian state television says police have stopped more than 100 migrants who tried to walk to Croatia from a refugee center in a Serbian border town. Police say a fire has damaged a former hotel that was being converted into a refugee home in eastern Germany and two people have been detained after hindering firefighters' work. Police said no one was injured, but a group of people gathered outside, some of them "commenting with derogatory remarks or unashamed joy" on the fire. The fire came three days after an incident elsewhere in Saxony in which a mob screaming "Go home!" blocked a bus carrying asylum-seekers outside a refugee home. Greek police say Macedonia has closed its southern border with Greece to Afghan migrants, allowing entry only for Iraqis and Syrians. Macedonian police started restricting the flow of migrants across the Greek-Macedonian border Saturday, conducting body searches and demanding passports.
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GREEK government's "parallel programme" bill was voted by lawmakers late on Saturday aiming to soften the austerity measures agreed under the third ...
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The five columns— ironically distinctively GREEK in architectural style— ... to the ongoing humanitarian crisis unfolding every day on GREEK beaches.
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Greece has the third highest tax rate in Europe, according to a study by the Department of Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The study, reported in one of Greece’s leading daily newspapers Ta Nea, reveals that 40 euros out ...
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11:15 a.m. Greek police say Macedonia has closed its southern border with Greece to Afghan migrants, allowing entry only for Iraqis and Syrians. Macedonian authorities reportedly said that Serbia has done the same on its southern border with Macedonia.
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Commercial transit trucks are backed up several kilometers at on the Macedonian side of the border with Bulgaria, the Interior Ministry has said. Macedonia is now considered an alternative route as the blockade at the Bulgaria-Greece border continues. Bulgarian authorities earlier made two attempts to talk Greek farmers into lifting the blockade that has been going on for nearly a month and has triggered a "counter-blockade" at all border crossings on the Bulgarian side. Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski, who took part in the talks, and Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov have both described the situation as unacceptable and requiring a response from the EU Commission. Moskovski told the Bulgarian National Radio on Sunday he had been assured by the Greek Ambassador to Bulgaria, Dimosthenis Stoidis, that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras would meet Greek farmers sometime between Monday and Wednesday next week. Earlier reports suggested Tsipras was to talk to protesters on Monday. Farmers are demanding that the government in Athens ditch its proposal for reforms to pension and taxation laws and have repeatedly said they will not retreat from the border crossings, where they have been severely disrupting traffic over the past weeks, unless the cabinet agrees. In response, Bulgarian transit truck drivers, who are incurring losses worth millions of BGN according to their trade unions, set up this week "counter-blockades" at all six checkpoints at the common border, insisting that farmers should lift their blockade. On the Greek side, the protest is affecting the two main border crossings used by a vast part of the haulage vehicles, Kulata-Promachonas and Ilinden-Exochi. Estimates cited by the Bulgarian National Television suggest only up to a third of the transit trucks waiting (some for nearly a week) in long queues at the main crossings are Bulgarian-plated.
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Our writer reduces Dan Fox’s musings about art snobbery to a pithy 700 words, taking in Plato, Hamlet and hipster beards I’ll try to start as unpretentiously as possible. With the basics. The Latin _prae_ – before – and _tendere_ meaning to stretch. That way being pretentiousness doesn’t sound so bad, does it? I’m sorry if I’m losing you already. I’m not being pretentious, trust me, it’s just that you’re a little slow. OK, let’s have another go. Think of pretentiousness as holding something in front of you, like actors wearing masks in ancient Greek tragedy, or medieval knights presenting their escutcheon. With me? Good. Plato hated actors for concealing the authentic and does that not really get to the heart of pretentiousness? For what is pretentiousness, if not the obverse of authenticity? We praise an actor for the authenticity of their Hamlet, yet why are we not angry that he isn’t truly dead at the end of the play? Continue reading...
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They would initially allow lower interest rates and longer maturities on GREECE'S €316bin debt. At a later stage, there would be talks on linking debt ...
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According to public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television, the queue of lorries and cars stretched, on one side, from the border to the GREEK town ...
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Athens, February 21, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Spiros Sideris With the aim to finding a definite solution to the farmers’ issue, Alexis Tsipras meets today with farmers at the Maximos Mansion. Having received the support of the leading powers of Europe for the refugee crisis, the prime minister of Greece will try to clear […]
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According to Clarkson Research Services, the record pace of fleet growth over the last decade and weakening global demand outlook has left many of the major shipping segments facing severe oversupply. Demolition of older ships is one way of easing ...
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The Macedonian authorities shut the border with GREECE on Saturday. Some 4,000 people are currently in temporary camps in GREECE, according to ...
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[Refugees from Afghanistan walk towards Serbia, continuing their journey further north from the transit center for refugees near the northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Austria have agreed that the main screening of the migrants would take place in Macedonia on the border with Greece and that those who pass the control will be transported under police escort all the way to the Austrian border. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)]THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on the massive influx of migrants into Europe (all times local):
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The two leaders met in Paris on July 6, a day after some 61 percent of GREEKS had voted against the bailout deal on offer from the country's lenders.
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In the fall of 2014, the conservative government of Antonis Samaras ran into a deadlock. The review of the GREEK program remained incomplete and ...
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As some of us pointed out about the GREEK debt “deal” there wasn't in fact a deal at all. There was just an agreement to carry on and muddle through ...
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"It is impossible to imagine that you would witness this on a daily basis and not be in some way profoundly changed," writes CBC correspondent Margaret Evans after returning to the Greek island of Lesbos.
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