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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Public Lecture at the 2018 Annual Meeting

Building on the discoveries of the GREEK Archaeological Service at the site of Methone in northern Greece (2003-2013), this presentation focuses on the archaeological survey and excavations at ancient Methone, conducted as a collaboration of the Ephorate of Prehistoric & Classical Antiquities of Pieria ...


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Four hazing deaths nationwide lead UK trustees to ask: What's going on here?

Nationwife, four students have died in alleged hazing incidents, leading to the suspension of numerous fraternity and sorority chapters, and in some cases, eliminating GREEK life completely. “It's a vicious cycle,” said UK senior Noah Lewis, president of the UK Interfraternity Council. “I think a lot of people ...


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Bulls-Bucks battle for second time in as many weeks

Giannis Antetokounmpo is probable for the game tonight after missing a game against the Charlotte Hornets on Dec. 23 with a knee injury. Milwaukee head coach Jason Kidd said that sitting him out was a precautionary move and there's no long-term concern about the health of the GREEK Freak's knee.


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Pro-Palestinian anarchists deface Israeli embassy in Athens

(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS) A group of anarchists on Monday vandalized the walls of the Israeli embassy in GREECE'S capital of Athens. A view of Athens, GREECE. Credit: Jan M via Wikimedia Commons. According to Greek media reports, the vandals threw red paint on the entrance to the embassy ...


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18-month-old boy dead in Aegean migrant tragedy

Boy's body was transferred to the Forensic Medicine Institute in İzmir for an autopsy. The coast guard also intercepted 76 undocumented migrants en route to GREECE on a boat off İzmir's Dikili district. Seventy-four of the held migrants were Syrian nationals, including children, while the remaining two were ...


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$565m deal

"The transaction signifies, rather successfully, the achievement of another key milestone in the fund's asset management and development plan, while launching a new era for the Port of Thessaloniki and the prospects of economic growth for Northern GREECE and the country in general," according to ...


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Global Warming Is a Slow-moving Civilization-ending Catastrophe

Unfortunately, modernity sidelined GREEK wisdom for narrow technical achievements like burning fossil fuels (petroleum, coal and natural gas) for energy. In fact, in the twentieth century, “civilized” Europeans and Americans fought WWII with unimagined savagery that culminated in the development and ...


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Choctaw's Williams earns AOTW

… , Kevin Durant at 3, the Greek Freak at 4, and Shaq … join Paul, Durant and the Greek Freak? Russell Westbrook. Who’s … , Kevin Durant at 3, the Greek Freak at 4, and Shaq … join Paul, Durant and the Greek Freak? Russell Westbrook. Who’s …


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Rutgers Greek life supports children in foster care

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Middlesex County partnered with Rutgers sorority Delta Kappa Delta for a holiday toy drive. The gifts will go to local children in Middlesex County foster care. The toys were presented at a holiday wrapping party ...


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China sees Silk Road to European Union going through Greece

For China, the deals are critical to its strategy in its so-called Belt and Road Initiative as some 50 percent of China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and around 90 percent of the EU's external trade depends on shipping – a sector in which GREEK companies are the largest in the world. “The land-sea ...


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SEKAP is on the verge of bankruptcy

GREEK tobacco industry SEKAP is on Thursday likely to decide to go bankrupt at an extraordinary board meeting it called following a court verdict on past ... SEKAP, currently owned by Russian-GREEK investor Ivan Savvidis, announced on Tuesday it has called the extraordinary meeting of its governing ...


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Construction Halted at Church Destroyed in Sept. 11 Attacks

Construction Halted at Church Destroyed in Sept. 11 Attacks. Construction has been temporarily suspended on a GREEK Orthodox church destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks. Dec. 26, 2017, at 1:38 p.m.. Construction Halted at Church Destroyed in Sept. 11 Attacks ...


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Christmas Meal Offered to 1000 Poor Citizens of Athens (photos)

The annual feast has become a tradition in the City of Athens, as well as many municipalities across GREECE, in particular during the seven-year debt crisis which has hit the average household hard, and has fueled poverty rates and needs. People in need who attend the soup kitchens on a daily basis ...


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Turkey Issues Aegean NAVTEX in New Provocation

Turkey has issued a series of Navigational Telexes (NAVTEX) for military exercises, that in essence are excluding large areas of the Aegean Sea from marine traffic throughout 2018. Greek Ministry of Defence sources say that the NAVTEXs constitute a Turkish provocation in the Aegean. On Christmas ...


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FYROM citizens split along ethnic lines on name issue

The citizens of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are split along ethnic lines with regard to the change of the neighboring country's constitutional name in order to reach an agreement with GREECE and secure NATO membership, a local poll has shown, with 49 percent of people rejecting any ...


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Moria Refugee Camp to Return to Normality in January, Vows GREECE'S Migration Minister

The Greek Migration Minister, Yiannis Mouzalas, visited the refugee camp of Moria in Lesvos on Christmas Day, and vowed that the situation will improve by the end of January. Mouzalas said authorities were making huge efforts to improve conditions, while accusing European officials of “hypocrisy” for ...


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GREECE Thanks Albania for Granting Citizenship to Archbishop Anastasios

Pavlopoulos noted that the Albanian president's initiative “is one more significant step in the direction of the further substantial improvement of relations between GREECE and Albania.” The Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias, also called Meta on Christmas Day, regarding the same issue. In a meeting ...


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EU Commission Spokesman: ‘Greece is Turning Page’

Greece is turning page, and EU-Greece’s trust issue was built mostly by the Greek people and their sacrifices in the last years, stated European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas, speaking to television ‘E’ on Sunday. This is a political and ...


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This GREEK Woman Spent Her Christmas Day Cooking Hundreds of Meals for Refugees on Her ...

Over the years, although Maria has fed thousands mostly with her own meager earnings and pension, several individuals and organizations have stepped up to help, including a campaign by the readers of The Pappas Post, and the New York City based GREEK America Foundation, which provided ...


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Here's where Meghan Markle vacations, from the white-sand beaches of St. Barts to New Year's ...

Long before she was taking couple's trips with fiancé Prince Harry, she was already a frequent flyer, writing about her journeys on her now-defunct lifestyle blog, The Tig. From girls trips to Spain and Italy, to attending weddings in GREECE, to plenty of beach destinations, below is where she's vacationed ...


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10 Greek Mythological Characters to Help You Raise Your Crossword Game

Crossword puzzles expect solvers to have a good grasp of general knowledge, but sometimes that know-how is just not in our personal wheelhouses. That’s O.K. We’re here to help you solve … and to help you expand those wheelhouses. Even if you’ve ...


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GREEK anarchists vandalize Israeli embassy in Athens

Illustrative: Police gather outside the Israeli embassy building in Athens on December 12, 2014. (AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki). Members of an anarchist group in Greece vandalized the Israeli embassy in Athens using bottles of red paint. The group, Rubicon, filmed themselves committing the early-morning ...


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Work Stops on St. Nicholas Shrine at World Trade Center Site

Sixteen years after the St. Nicholas GREEK Orthodox Church was destroyed in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, its reopening at the World Trade Center site remains frustratingly out of reach. The latest setback to the project came this month, when Skanska U.S.A., the construction company rebuilding the ...


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This Yazidi family escaped genocide in Iraq. Their next challenge is building a life in France.

At first, the family tried to enter GREECE by land from Turkey thinking it would be safer than going by sea. But crossing the mountains in winter by foot as refugees was harder than they imagined. After facing freezing temperatures and being turned back five times by security forces, they decided to try their ...


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ZIM improves GREECE Turkey Service (TGX)

The change is implemented as part of ZIM's strategy to create synergy with our mainliners through fast connections in Turkish ports. The new rotation is also aimed to overcome congestion problems in Thessaloniki and better serve the Greek market. The change is part of our ongoing efforts to expand ...


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UNHCR Europe Monthly Report (November 2017)

Between 1 January 2017 and 30 November 2017, 171,300 refugees and migrants arrived by sea and land to Europe (GREECE, Italy, Spain and Cyprus only, including arrivals to the Canary Islands and by land to Spain). While sea arrivals to Europe in November were 51% lower than last year, largely due ...


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Lakes in old mines area create stunning Alpine landscape in Evia, GREECE

A former mining complex in Mantoudi, in Northern Evia, GREECE has turned into a magnificent alpine landscape as 12 natural lakes have been created from the mining craters. Mantoudi, only two hours away from the capital of Athens, is like a miracle of natural transformation. Most of the lakes have a ...


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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew urges US to “preserve the status quo of Jerusalem”

Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew expressed his support to the preservation of the current status quo in Jerusalem and urged the United States to reverse its decision to recognize the city as the capital of Israel. Speaking to the group of visitors at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul on Christmas Day, Bartholomew referred to the … The post Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew urges US to “preserve the status quo of Jerusalem” appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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In Parga, Santa came from the sea, in Preveza on horse

Greek children are double blessed as Santa comes twice per year. One time on Christmas Day and on New Year’s Eve. The latter is the original Greek tradition, the first has been adopted in recent years. In Parga, West Greece, it was not one but several Santas who came paddling from  the sea. It was … The post In Parga, Santa came from the sea, in Preveza on horse appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Leyla is excited about her move to GREECE – can Jacob stop her?

Leyla is buzzing with excitement about her imminent move to GREECE however not everyone is sharing her joy. David's sad his ex is packing her bags and Jacob is devastated that she's leaving Emmerdale and comes up with a plan to make her stick around. Elsewhere the police swoop into the village ...


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Turkey increases tensions with GREECE setting out exercise areas in Aegean Sea

Experts note that the Turks can not "bind" regions in the Aegean for such a long time, and their move is more aimed at intensifying the challenges facing GREECE than in the essence of the military exercises themselves. Tensions between the two countries, GREECE and Turkey, have been going on for ...


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Local Greek restaurant brings Greek hospitality to Princeton

My parents were born in GREECE and came here in the early '70s.” He explains that his mother, Chrisanthe, is from the Greek island of Lemnos; Michael, his late father, from Crete. “Most of the time I visit Crete when I travel to GREECE,” Kanterakis says. “My dad's side is all there, his brothers, my cousins, ...


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Most Greeks see no 'clean exit' from bailouts in 2018

An opinion poll by MRB Hellas commissioned by the Real News newspaper has found that 66.3 percent of people in GREECE believe there will be some sort of monitoring and conditions on GREECE after August 18 when the third bailout program ends, while only 17 percent agree with the official line of ...


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How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown

… their cues from the ancient Greeks and tackled burning sociological concerns … sound painfully earnest, but the Greeks understood that our profoundest pleasures … “theater” derives from an Ancient Greek word meaning “behold,” and the …


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Children make up 40 pct of refugees stranded on Greek island Lesbos

… , the MSF medical supervisor for Greece said. "In the field …


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Storm Front and Snow Expected in Greece from Wednesday

… is forecast to deteriorate in Greece during the week as a … country from the northwest, the Greek weather service EMY warned on … northern Ionian sea, Epirus, western Greece and the Peloponnese. Lighter snow …


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Mom From 'My Big Fat GREEK Wedding' Arrested For Shoplifting Groceries On Christmas Eve

The 77-year-old actress who played the hilarious mother Maria Portokalos in the 2002 hit comedy, My Big Fat GREEK Wedding, and the 2016 sequel that followed, was arrested on Sunday, Dec. 24. She was arrested for stealing groceries from a store in Los Angeles. According to TMZ, Kazan entered a ...


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Coptic Pope leads GREEK Orthodox Christmas Mass, visits Catholic church

Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, visited the St Nicolas GREEK Orthodox Church on Monday to show respect to the GREEK Orthodox community while they celebrated Christmas. He also led the mass within the church as a sign of solidarity, reported Ahram Online. During the mass ...


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Toskas promises to have Israeli embassy attackers arrested

Alternate Minister for Public Order Nikos Toskas has personally pledged to the Israeli ambassador in GREECE to have the Rouvikonas members who attacked it on Monday arrested. Extreme left group Rouvikonas made the Embassy of Israel its latest target, hurling paint against the building in northern ...


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Incident Photos: Panama-Flagged Cargo Ship Wrecks in Greece

A Panama-flagged cargo ship wrecked on the Greek island of Traganisi near Mykonos on Friday during a voyage from Russia to Cyprus. The Hellenic Coast Guard says all 12 foreign nationals on board the MV Little Seyma were able to abandon ship in a life raft ...


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Mouzalas Says Filth-Strewn Lesbos Refugee Camp Will be Fixed

ATHENS – Facing intense pressure even within the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA for his lagging response to a growing refugee and migrant crisis, Greek Migration […] The post Mouzalas Says Filth-Strewn Lesbos Refugee Camp Will be Fixed appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greece’s Economy Shows Tiny Signs of Recovery, Warning Signs Remain

ATHENS – While Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is seeking debt relief, Greece’s economy expanded slightly for a third straight quarter this year for the first […] The post Greece’s Economy Shows Tiny Signs of Recovery, Warning Signs Remain appeared first on The National Herald.


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China Sees Silk Road to EU Going Through Greece

With Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras frantically wooing foreign investors to offset a crushing economic crisis, China is more and more looking toward Greece to create […] The post China Sees Silk Road to EU Going Through Greece appeared first on The National Herald.


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Christmas Eve Lottery by Greek Finance Ministry blesses more than 10K taxpayers with unexpected money

10.963 Greek taxpayers were lucky to have their receipts win in the Christmas Eve lottery of the Finance Ministry that awards payment transactions with credit and debit cards. The lottery was based on purchases or payments made by taxpayers electronically or through cards for the months January – September and November 2017.  there were 10 … The post Christmas Eve Lottery by Greek Finance Ministry blesses more than 10K taxpayers with unexpected money appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Greek Anarchists Hit Supermarket Chain for Firing Worker

… group among the many in Greece has struck, causing severe damage … early morning hours of Christmas, Kathimerini said. A group named “Anarchists … earlier this month roared into Greece’s public electric central offices …


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Bulgarians Eat as much as Slovaks Drink as much as Britons and Smoke as much as Greeks

… data. Our southern neighbors, the Greeks, are ahead of us by …


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IGN GREECE: Οι καλύτερες νέες σεζόν του 2017

Το... υπερταϊσμένο "TV Junkie" μέσα μας, απελευθερώνεται και δημόσια για να διαλέξει τις καλύτερες σεζόν που είδαμε τη χρονιά που μας φεύγει, μια επιλογή καθόλου εύκολη, δεδομένου ότι ο όγκος και η ποικιλία των σειρών είναι πλέον εξωφρενικός. Οι θέσεις είναι 20, οι ενοχές μόνο δύο, οπότε πάμε να ...


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Schenectady Labor Temple to become apartments

Having St. George GREEK Orthodox church next door was an extra selling point for his wife, Helen, who is of GREEK descent. Rasizzi said eating dinner at Mexican Radio and watching the crowds come out for the holiday parade this year were extra selling points for him. “These are the kind of reasons I ...


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MEHWAR: Pregnant Women Are The Most Vulnerable Refugees In GREECE

A pregnant Afghan woman, who has just been allowed to go to Athens from a refugee camp, says it's very difficult in camps for pregnant women. Meanwhile hundreds of Afghan migrants are waiting to go to other parts of Europe in camps in GREECE'S border areas. In this episode of Mehwar host Masoud ...


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Bank of GREECE asks for clarity after the bailout program

Bank of GREECE The foreign creditors of GREECE have to specify whether the country will benefit from a utility after the rescue plan expires next August. GREECE has relied on financial aid from the international lenders since 2010, but said it wanted to get out of the program when the current bailout package ...


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