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Thursday, July 7, 2016
Thriller with Greek vessel ‘Panomaris’ captured off Libya coast
A nine-man Greek vessel with three Russian nationals on board was captured off the coast of Libya, Russian television reported Thursday, citing officials. Five Ukrainians and one Greek national were aboard the captured vessel in addition to the three Russians, the network added.”The Greek ship ‘Panomaris’ was captured off the Libyan coast,” the Zvezda […]
GREEK Television License Law Will Not Be Rescinded Despite EC Concerns
State Minister Nikos Pappas said that the government's shakeup of television licenses is the correct route to follow in response to a question in GREEK ...
Mary Platis’ Baby Beets and Brussels Sprouts Salad
The following recipe is from Cooking Techniques and Recipes with Olive Oil by Mary Platis and Laura Bashar, courtesy of the authors. A first generation Greek-American, Platis is a teacher,...
Happy Birthday Ringo Starr: Playing The Greek With His All-Starr Band In 1989
Richard Starkey was born in Liverpool, England on this date in 1940. The man better known as Ringo Starr would replace Pete Best as drummer in The Beatles in 1962 and go on to reach worldwide popularity and acclaim as one of the Fab Four. For Ringo’s ...
Greek Fest begins Friday
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ERIE, Pa. The Greek Festival starts in less than 24 hours, and preparations are underway. It's a 28-year tradition for Erie that raises thousands of dollars for the Greek Orthodox ...
The Latest: GREEK Protesters Deplore New NATO Deployments
The rally late Thursday was organized by the GREEK Communist Party — the country's fifth largest — joined by senior members including leader ...
Vantaris hotel: Surprise winner among most popular GREEK hotels in Germany
The four-star hotel at Georgioupolis leapt from eighth place in the previous Greece ranking to first in the top ten ranking for the fortnight from June 13 ...
Free GREEK wine tasting today
If, like me, your Thursday is feeling hella long, don't forget the Bar M is hosting a free GREEK wine tasting today at 5:30 p.m. Kolby Jackson from ...
Italian railway company ready to snap up GREEK trains group
The Italian state-owned railway company Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane SpA will have a prominent position in the GREEK railway, as it has made an offer ...
The Telegraph: The 14 best family friendly islands in GREECE
Due to its position on the Ionian and its topography, Lefkada is GREECE'S top water sports destination. Besides having a large marina in Lefkaka Town, ...
No Longer Ancient Greece
The Olympic Games, which originated in ancient Greece as many as 3,000 years ago, were revived in 1896 when the first modern Olympics took place in Athens. The tradition of flag bearer at the opening ceremonies began at the 1906 Summer Games, and 110 years ...
Tied the knot! Million Dollar Listing's Ryan Serhant marries Emilia Bechrakis in Greece
Congratulations are in order for Million Dollar Listing New York's Ryan Serhant and his longtime beau Emilia Bechrakis. The couple married in front of 150 of their closest friends and family on the secluded island of Corfu in Greece on Thursday, People ...
CAS hears appeal of Greek tennis player banned for life for corruption
Greek tennis player Alexandros Jakupovic's appeal against a lifetime ban from the sport for match-fixing has been heard at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today. The 34-year-old was found guilty of five corruption charges by the Tennis Integrity ...
Travel + Leisure: The 5 best resort hotels in GREECE
In fact, though mainland GREECE might have the Acropolis, the islands of the Mediterranean take the laurels for hospitality. The best hotels on these ...
Putting the Jewish back in GREECE'S Salonika
WASHINGTON — “I am proud to be a Vlach,” says Yiannis Boutaris, the mayor of Thessaloniki, GREECE'S second largest city. Ostensibly, we're here at ...
GREECE was once the fast lane to Europe for refugees. Now it's a grim waiting room.
MYTILENE, GREECE — The human traffickers who brought a million desperate asylum seekers through Turkey to the Greek islands have been stopped ...
Greece’s Council of State gives green light for construction of Mosque in Votanikos
The fourth section of Greece’s Council of State (CoE) ruled today that preparatory works for the construction of an Islamic mosque in Votanikos area of Athens Municipality are allowed to proceed. The CoE had picked up the case submitted by 111 residents of neighboring Elaionas area. Citing the status of […]
Rival Parties Squeeze SYRIZA Over Secret Plan B
Greece's rival parties want a probe into an alleged secret plan of the ruling SYRIZA-led coalition to take the country out of the Eurozone.
Greece-China want Cyprus solution based on UN resolution
China and Russia to launch Mediterranean Sea... Greece and China favour a just solution to the Cyprus problem on the basis of UN Security Council resolutions, reports said on Thursday, about meetings Chinese Presdent Xi Jinping and Greek Prime Minister ...
Roots: Tiny fieldstone house sheltered Greece pioneers
A former home in front of Unity Hospital on Long Pond Road stands as testament to a bygone era in Greece. The building at 1563 Long Pond Road is known as the Logan-Reynolds-Wagner House, said Gina DiBella of the Greece Historic Preservation Commission.
Turks cross Cyprus divide for Eid prayers
[Turkish Cypriot Muslims pray in the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque, or the Mosque of Umm Haram, in the Cypriot southeastern port city of Larnaca on July 7, 2016, during a prayer service organised for pilgrims who reside in the northern part of the island]Hundreds of Turks crossed the "Green Line" dividing Cyprus on Thursday to pray at a mosque in the Greek-majority south, a rare pilgrimage made possible by a 2014 accord.
Tragic end for GREEK oil figure
Mamidakis, a well-respected figure and major GREEK fuel business player over the past decades, was found dead in his home with a single, fatal bullet ...
Explore GREECE'S beauty in these often-overlooked regions
For walking and hiking enthusiasts, the Vikos Gorge and the Ottoman-style villages of the Zagorohoria make for some of the best walking in GREECE.
Lagarde: IMF financing not essential for GREECE
“The International Monetary Fund is a convenient scapegoat in GREECE. We would financially engage if under a reasonable hypothesis of growth, there ...
There are just six different types of emotional arcs in every story
[Inside Out Joy Memories]Pixar Every story has an arc, which is its defining shape. Kurt Vonnegut once described one of the shapes as "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl." In other words, the arc goes up, down, then up again. To create an emotional journey, every story must have a form. Researchers at the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont in Burlington analyzed the arcs of 1,700 different public domain stories and found out that they all break down into six different basic shapes. As reported by the MIT Technology Review, the study analyzed the emotional sentiment of different words. By measuring the emotional of those words from moment to moment, they created shapes for each story. Here are the six different types of stories they found with examples, per the Review: * A steady, ongoing rise in emotional valence as in a rags-to-riches story such as _Alice’s Adventures Underground_ by Lewis Carroll. * A steady ongoing fall in emotional valence as in a tragedy such as _Romeo and Juliet_. * A fall then a rise, such as the man-in-a-hole story, discussed by Vonnegut. * A rise then a fall, such as the Greek myth of _Icarus_. * A rise then a fall, such as the Greek myth of _Icarus_. Rise-fall-rise, such as _Cinderella_. * Fall-rise-fall, such as _Oedipus_. The most popular stories, according to the researchers, are _Icarus_ (rise then fall) and _Oedipus_ (fall, then rise, then fall again). But it turns out that readers and writers also like books that are made of complex sequences of these different story arcs. So if you're worried that complex multigenerational novel you're working on may not be simple enough, there's no need to worry. NOW WATCH: Tom Hanks tries to land a plane on the Hudson River in the trailer for 'Sully'
Bryan Adams rocks the Greek on his way to Irvine
Bryan Adams couldn’t have picked a better title for latest studio album “Get Up.” The engaging Jeff Lynne-produced effort includes several quick rockers with the same trademark chugging sound as the ELO main man’s previous projects by Tom Petty ...
CMP to probe missing Greek Cypriots report
… Cypriot newspaper Afrika, saying that Greek Cypriot prisoners had been buried … Varnavas containing the bodies of Greek Cypriots from surrounding villages. Nestoros … ,” Afrika reported on Thursday that Greek Cypriots taken prisoner were brutally …
Chinese investment not a panacea for Greek economy
When Alexis Tsipras, the leader of a country that has experienced the most severe peacetime economic recession ever, visits China, the world's largest economy in purchasing power parity terms, expectations about relieving economic agreements are set high.
Economic and Security Challenges, Plus Foreign Financial Interests, To Cause Early Greek Elections
Early elections will be held in Greece by October 2016, Balkanalysis.com can predict. This is due to factors such as the sustained economic downturn, multiple private sector defaults, rising security issues, political tensions and some high-profile recent ...
Croatia's Bogdanovic ready to pull out all stops against GREECE
Bogdanovic, who will have to be at his best on Friday when Croatia go up against GREECE in the Semi-Finals of the OQT, spoke to FIBA.com. FIBA.com: ...
WSJ: Tsipras Doesn’t Believe Greece Will Reach Budget Targets After 2018
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that Greece won’t be able to achieve its primary surplus budget target when the current bailout program expires in 2018, reports the Wall Street Journal. “We guarantee that we are going to reach the (3.5 percent ...
Greece’s Finance Ministry uploads names of 13,730 debtors on its website. But…
They said it and they did it! Greece’s General Secretariat of Public Revenues uploaded the names of 13,730 big debtors on the official website of the Finance ministry. The names refer to natural persons and legal entities owing to the state more than 150,000 euro and are in payment delays […]
St. Nicholas Greek Festival to celebrate 40 years
PORTSMOUTH – Members of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church will hold their 40th annual Greek Festival next weekend, July 15-17. The public is encouraged to come and enjoy traditional Greek food, dancing and musical performances. Nancy Notis, a ...
Greek tourism under pressure
With tourism key to the recovery of Greece’s ailing economy, this summer’s holiday season is crucial;but according to people working in the industry things are not looking good. This was supposed to be another record year, with travel to Greece boosted ...
Big pot format for Tims Dairy Greek Style Yogurt
Tims Dairy has unveiled a new big pot 450g size version of its award-winning Bio-Live Greek Style Yogurt with Blackcurrants. Made with fresh British milk and cream, the blackcurrant flavour joins Greek Style with Honey, Greek Style with Raspberry, Greek ...
PASOK MP Says SYRIZA Wants Only Propaganda TV Stations
PASOK lawmaker Andreas Loverdos said SYRIZA wants to cut the number of TV licenses to four so that it can control the airwaves in Greece.
“Luxury Striker” Greek Workers Paid During Walkout
Greek transport workers who struck to protest austerity measures were paid while off the job, continuing a drain on public coffers.
Unemployment in Greece Drops to 23.3% in April
Unemployment in Greece stood at 23.3% in April, exactly two percentage points down from the April 2015 figure, according to ELSTAT figures released on Thursday. The Greek statistical authority data also shows that unemployment also dropped compared to last ...
Orexi GREEK American Grill opens in Bellmore
Orexi GREEK American Grill has opened in the former home of GREEK Delight in Bellmore. First-time restaurant owner Nick Amarantinis had his first ...
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Greece Won’t Reach Budget Targets After 2018, Tsipras Says
Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the country won't be able to reach its primary surplus budget target after its current bailout program expires in 2018 and called on the creditors to renegotiate for lower goals. “We guarantee that we are ...
GREEK unemployment hits four-year low in April
However the report came as two economic institutes released studies predicting that the GREEK economy would continue on a negative course as a ...
GREECE ETF Needs A Shot Of Confidence
In some cases, the losses incurred by these single-country ETFs are severe, but none are as bad as the Global X MSCI GREECE ET (Global X Funds ...
The A Word Being Remade in GREECE
TEL AVIV: Keshet International (KI) has licensed the hit scripted series The A Word to be adapted in GREECE. The local Greek version, titled Η λέξη που ...
RIO 2016: Sailing champion Bekatorou, first female athlete to bear the flag in Greece’s Olympic history
Greek sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou was named Greece’s flag bearer for the upcoming 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games, the Hellenic Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday in Athens. With this decision, Bekatorou becomes the first female athlete in Greek Olympic history to have the honor of carrying the Greek national flag […]
Greek joblessness edges down
Greek unemployment fell to its lowest level in more than a year in April, figures issued by the national statistics agency showed Thursday. Greece’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate in April fell to 23.3 per cent, compared with a downwardly revised 23.7 ...
Greek-American Man Orders Parthenon-replica Coffin
Homesick for Greece and thinking of his eternal resting place, a Greek-American man ordered a coffin in a special design reflecting his Hellenic heritage—replicating one of the most iconic Greek...
Return of the Repressed: Europe's Unresolved Banking Crisis
The conventional narrative has it backward. It worries about the threats to stability emanating from the periphery in Europe. Policymakers, investors, and economists still refer to the "Greek, Irish, Portugal and Cyprus' bailouts. The biggest threats don't come from the periphery but the core. The
Oldest known Greek vase with bitumen discovered in Taman Peninsula
The scientists used mass spectrometry to date the bitumenMIPT Russian archaeologists have discovered an ancient Greek urn full of dense bitumen in the Taman Peninsula on the Black Sea. A sophisticated mass spectrometry method allowed them to date it back ...