Thebes was one of the major cities of ancient Greece, and for a brief time it was the preeminent power in the Greek world. It first rose to prominence during the late Bronze Age (approx. 1600 – 1100 BCE) as part of the Mycenaean civilization that birthed ...
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Thursday, October 20, 2016
Greek Health ministry slashes prices of diagnostic tests to cut costs
Greek health ministry on Wednesday announced downward revisions in the pricing of a series of diagnostic tests and other medical procedures, in order to cut costs by reducing compensation paid to patients covered by state health insurance funds. In ...
Jewel of the Seas Cruise Review by snoopeedog71: GREEK ISLAND CRUISE
We chose this cruise as we have been with RC 8 times and have always been really happy with the food and service. Looks like this time our luck ran out!!!! - everything that has been said so far in these reviews i.e. food, service, over priced drinks - no ...
Andy Shauf talks about parties, 'The Party' and that dude dancing at his Greek show a few months ago
The Canadian singer/songwriter Andy Shauf didn’t set out to make a concept album when he started work on what would become “The Party,” his thematically linked recent work that details the narrative arc and characters at one particular festive gathering.
No longer rogue, Mudbowl returns to U-M homecoming
Without GREEK affiliation, the event received the blessing of U-M's Interfraternity Council -- who had barred GREEK organizations from participating last ...
'Colgate Conversations' Brown Bag Facilitates Student Dialogue on GREEK Life at Colgate
Over the course of an hour, Badruddin opened the conversation to questions, comments and concerns about GREEK organizations. Specifically, the ...
GREEK State Council accepts injuctions against TV licensing law
The GREEK Council of State plenum will meet on the 24th and 26th October to debate and decide on the constitutionality and legality of the ...
Aid group blames GREECE, EU for poor state of hot spots
The European Union and GREECE have “collectively failed to establish humane and dignified reception conditions,” MSF said in the report, highlighting ...
Security Message for U.S. Citizens: Thessaloniki (Greece), Planned Demonstrations on October 20
Even demonstrations and strikes advertised as being peaceful assemblies have the possibility of turning violent. Consequently, RSO advises employees and family members to be aware of demonstrations and avoid areas where demonstrations are underway.
c. 1835 Greek Revival – Eutaw, AL – $225,000
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Erdogan Doubts Lausanne Treaty Again; Feels Nostalgic for Ottoman Empire
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again referred to the Lausanne Peace Treaty of 1923 stating that his country has been “trapped” in this document that defines borders between Greece and Turkey. He made these comments while a dogfight took place in the Aegean as two Turkish F16 planes entered Greek air space. Erdogan […]
University of Missouri seeks new director of Greek Life
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri wants to hire a full-time director of Greek Life because of the increasing number of fraternity and sorority members on campus. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that Janna Basler, a senior associate of ...
HVS Market Report Greece (PDF Download)
This article constitutes an update on the current state of the Greek Hotel Market featuring the latest news regarding the performance of the Greek tourism industry and highlighting recent and upcoming changes in the country’s hotel supply. In December ...
Refugees living in ‘appalling conditions’ in Greece: Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF)
A woman cleans outside her tent at the municipality-run Souda refugee camp on the island on Chios, Greece, on September 29, 2016. (Photo by AFP) Doctors Without Borders has strongly criticized the European Union and Greece, in particular, for their ...
Beautiful Destinations Will Pay You To Travel The World And Take Pictures (Deadline: October 31)
Video"Wake up at 3:30 AM with the gazelles to catch a golden desert sunrise in Dubai before jet-setting to Greece to sail along towering Santorini cliffs. This is just a typical day for the Beautiful Destinations in-house talent who round out our content creation team. And for the first time [...]
Greek social security funds owed €33.6 billion in contribution arrears
A stratospheric figure of 33.6 billion euros is owed to Greece’s social security funds in terms of withheld contributions, according to the most recent figures recorded by the relevant labor ministry. According to an exclusive report by “Naftemporiki ...
Greek opposition leader: Pappas’s TV law will be abolished either way
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of Greece’s major opposition party New Democracy (ND), underlined that the country was slipping into “an unprecedented institutional degeneration”, during his speech in parliament over the TV licences and the Supreme Court ...
Enterprise bankruptcy legislation changes under way in Greece
Changes to bankruptcy legislation that have been put up for consultation provide for banks to be able to initiate and have the final say on the streamlining of an enterprise, ranging from the restructuring or capitalization of its debts to the company’s ...
Wind Hellas sounds out bond investors
LONDON, Oct 20 (IFR) - GREECE'S Wind Hellas has met with high-yield bond investors to gauge their appetite ahead of a potential return to the debt ...
The Multicultural Greek Council Emerges On Campus
There have been attempts to create a Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) in the past, but these attempts failed to remain consistent. President of the organization, Megan Barbosa has high hopes of bringing this student organization back to the Kean community ...
German Finance Minister Schäuble: Greece Needs Economic Overhauls
BERLIN—German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said Thursday what debt-ridden Greece needs is economic overhauls, and not debt relief, because any easing of the debt burden would reduce the urgently needed willingness to reform the country. His ...
Greece gets economic boost from refugee aid
The challenge of dealing with tens of thousands of refugees could have a silver lining for Greece. The emergency aid money given to the Athens government is boosting the country’s economy. There are an estimated 60,000 refugees in Greece, and so far 500 ...
Clearance of Greek state arrears to private sector at €2.0 billion
Greek officials in negotiations with the top representatives of institutional creditors, the “quartet”, reportedly have the documentation confirming the clearance of state arrears to private sector contractors, suppliers and other businesses.
WWI Centennial: Greece Splits Into Rival Factions
Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 253rd installment in the series. October 18, 1916: Greece Splits Into Rival Factions Like a growing vortex, the First World War sucked in more and more countries ...
A tale of two cities: Eleni Christofi transitions from GREECE to Georgia
Georgia's Eleni Christofi during the Bulldog Classic at Athens Country Club in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. (Photo by John Paul Van Wert).
Young Lancashire couple arrived in Greece to find their hotel was still a BUILDING SITE
Toby Emerson, 19, and his girlfriend Danielle Hutchinson, 20, of Skelton-in-Cleveland, Lancashire, said their week-long stay in Falaraki was ruined by the problems at the resort.
Students at Louvre and British Museum Urging for Return of Greek Antiquities [photos]
Two Greek students decided to show their Greek heritage by photographing themselves with Greek flags in front of artifacts from Greek antiquity at the British Museum in London and the Louvre Museum in Paris. The students, Alexandros Kazakos and Maria ...
ECB keeps ELA ceiling for GREEK banks unchanged
The European Central Bank kept the emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) ceiling for GREEK banks unchanged at 51.8 billion euros on Thursday, the ...
Sigma Delta Tau's GREEK Grind raises over $100000 for charity
The sisters of Sigma Delta Tau hosted their annual Panhellenic Sorority dance competition, SDT GREEK Grind, at the Classic Center, on Wednesday, ...
EU Socialists Call for GREEK Debt Relief, End to Harsh Austerity
"A punitive approach against the GREEK people will not be allowed. The hawks in Europe must understand that the GREEK people have already ...
Tsipras-Shulz Meeting in Brussels Dominated by GREEK Debt
Tsipras raised the issue of the debt and said the GREEK government intended to wrap up the second review of the GREEK program quickly and within ...
GREEKS grapple with housing changes
As Todd and Dupree halls are scheduled to be torn down fall 2017, EKU's GREEK life is scrambling to figure out where their new home will be—and ...
Euro hits four-month low as Mario Draghi hints at more stimulus – as it happened
Mario Draghi suggests ECB could extend its QE programme in December, and suggests ECB might taper its asset-purchase scheme * Draghi: Committed to doing more if needed * Draghi: We didn’t discuss extending QE * Draghi: Not likely to abruptly end QE * Earlier: Eurozone interest rates and QE unchanged 5.54pm BST With nothing much in the European Central Bank latest deliberations to rock the boat, stock markets managed to end the day in positive territory, even as the euro was put under pressure. The banking sector was boosted by this week’s positive results from US financial businesses, with BNY Mellon being the latest to report better than expected figures. So the final scores showed: 5.10pm BST MEANWHILE OVER IN GREEC, MARIO DRAGHI’S STATEMENTS TODAY ARE NOT GOING DOWN WELL. Helena Smith reports from Athens: The ECB president’s assertion this afternoon that it is premature to contemplate Greece being included in the bank’s quantitative easing program before its debt is made sustainable has landed with the force of a lead balloon in Athens. “It effectively kills any prospect of debt forgiveness any time soon,” said one well-placed source in the governing Syriza party. “How, in God’s name, is the economy ever to recover after seven years of recession and internal deflation?” Both investors and government officials say inclusion in the program would be a mood changer for a country enduring its worst slump in modern times. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras, who has spent the day pushing for debt relief in meetings with top EU officials in Brussels, says inclusion in the program is essential if the debt-stricken nation is to return to capital markets and finally get some form of primary debt relief. Greece has been excluded from QE because of its low credit rating. Tsipras has called for a debt deal to be concluded by December when Athens hopes to have completed its second review of the economy with international inspectors representing the EU and IMF. The audit begins in earnest tomorrow when Tsipras will also be pressing the point in talks with German chancellor Angela Merkel. Continue reading...
Greek comedy set in New Berlin for Oct. 26 fundraiser
West Thespian Society presents Laugh and Dine fundraiser. The event features dinner of manicotti pasta with a hilarious show featuring "The Iliad, The Odyssey and Other Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less." In this reader's theater format, six actors ...
Greece and institutions start talks over 2nd programme review on Friday
The new, 'improved' privatisation fund for Greece, the Hellenic Holdings and Property Company, will be the first item on the agenda on Friday, during the start of negotiations between Greek authorities and the institutions representing its creditors on the ...
Californians should be embarrassed by how much they hype overrated In-N-Out Burger
[InNOut3.11 1024x733]Yelp Hillary Clinton's campaign staff treated themselves to a hearty meal of West Coast favorite In-N-Out before their red eye trip back to New York. I can't blame them for choosing the burger chain to celebrate what most outlets, including Business Insider's Josh Barro, called a Clinton win. If I were in that neck of the woods, I would certainly choose In-N-Out Burger over other options. But I have to wonder — why is this? In-N-Out makes a good burger, to be sure. It's flavorful, tasty, and fresh. But I've had much better burgers. In fact, in a face-off I conducted, Shake Shack clearly beat out In-N-Out in the burger category. It wasn't even close. So what is it that would keep me coming back to In-N-Out when there are objectively (in my mind) better options? It can only come down to one thing: psychology. Namely, the scarcity effect and the bandwagon effect. And the two are intertwined. In-N-Out has plenty of locations, but its 313 restaurants are densely concentrated on the West Coast. This regional scarcity has played with the minds of burger fans and West Coasters, realizing they can't get their precious burgers when they travel to other areas. This has tricked them into thinking In-N-Out is somehow special because it is relatively rare. Even if the actual product doesn't deserve the hype, more join as the bandwagon without even realizing it, falling for the monster this hype has become. Things like the secret menu feed into this, creating a cult around the brand. Tweet Embed: https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/788968727362404352 Clinton staffers' post-debate, meal of choice on their red-eye back to NY: @innoutburger pic.twitter.com/tLjWem4OTJ Californians should be embrassed that they fell for this psychological trick hook, line, and sinker, and have even gone as far as to integrate it into the regional identity. There's no economic reason that In-N-Out can't expand faster and farther than it is now. Plenty of other fast food chains and restaurants have done so and maintained quality. It are just aware that it will loose some of the Cali cultural cache that it's built up along its 67-year history. Don't get me wrong — In-N-Out makes a good burger. But no burger can possibly live up to the hype surrounding In-N-Out. NOW WATCH: We tried the trendy restaurant that could become the Chipotle of Greek food
Recipe Corner: Greek Chicken Salad Pitas with Red Pepper Hummus
Combine the hummus, roasted red peppers, Feta cheese, parsley, lemon juice and garlic powder in a medium bowl and set aside until ready to assemble. Garnish with olive oil before serving. Combine the chicken salad ingredients in a medium bowl and toss ...
Show Preview: Norah Jones @ The Greek Theatre
Legendary pop-jazz artist Norah Jones is on a world tour promoting her newly released album, Day Breaks. I was thrilled to hear that the nine-time GRAMMY winner, who first made her mark with the critically acclaimed debut record, Come Away With Me, will be ...
Greek PM to meet Juncker, Hollande and Schulz in Brussels
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has arranged a series of critical bilateral meetings in Brussels, on the sidelines of the European Council meeting. The first meeting was with the President of Cyprus, Nikos Anastasiades, who informed the Greek PM on the ...
Greek Statistics Authority Lowers Primary Surplus
The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announced a lower 2015 primary surplus and higher debt than the one initial figures had indicated in data released for the second Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP) notification of 2016. These figures have been ...
Football Game Preview: Irondequoit vs. GREECE Athena
GREECE Athena and Irondequoit are set to face off this Saturday at 2:00 PM. So far, GREECE Athena has not lost a single game. GREECE Athena crushed ...
Form 6-K NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE For: Oct 20
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50000 refugees stuck in 'open-air prison' in GREECE: MSF
Tens of thousands of vulnerable asylum seekers are trapped in the “open-air prison” of GREECE seven months after a landmark – and costly – deal ...
ECB Draghi: First analysis of Greek debt sustainability, then QE
Head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi expressed concern about the sustainability of the Greek debt and said that assessment on the debt was necessary before Greece could participate in the Quantitative Easing Program. “Discussions on the sustainability of the Greek debt continued. We expressed concern, and steps should […]
Fraport Greece unveils plans for upgrading Macedonia airport in Thessaloniki
The plans envisage that by 2020 Thessaloniki will have one of the best airports in the world, with passenger traffic expected to increase by 48 pct by 2026, signalling a new era for tourism in the city and the wider region. The airport will be double in ...
Greek State Minister to Bring Back Amendment to Shut Down TV Stations
Greek State Minister Nikos Pappas said he will bring back to parliament his amendment that existing television stations will shut down five days after the new broadcasting licenses will be published in the Government Gazette. Speaking to Parapolitika radio ...
ECB’s Draghi Wants Debt Relief for Greece, States Concern
European Central Bank Chief Maria Draghi expressed concern about the sustainability of the Greek debt and said that assessment on the debt was necessary before Greece could participate in the Quantitative Easing Program. “Discussions on the ...
SIU Divine Nine Greek organizations hosting fish fry on Friday
CARBONDALE — Southern Illinois University's Black Graduate Greek Council of Carbondale is hosting a fundraising fish fry and social during the university's homecoming celebration this Friday. The event will run from 5:30 to 11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, at ...
Taking root into Greece
The Greek gastronomy wins a place at the top of contemporary world gastronomies. The Greek diet is healthy and recommended by most expert top dietitians. Tourist want to taste good food prepared only with the best-quality virgin olive oil, the particular ...
FINANCIAL TIMES: TSIPRAS IS OPENLY TRYING TO BRIBE AND INTIMIDATE GREEK JUDGES
“Syriza has openly tried to bribe and intimidate senior members of the judiciary, shamelessly disregarding the separation of powers,” Aris Hatzis, a Greek law professor, has said to the Financial Times. Hatzis was referring to a meeting last week ...