It all started when the GREEK Freak was lifting with Bucks teammate Pat Connaughton and Antetokounmpo said they thought they could outlift The ...
Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros
Sunday, January 6, 2019
How many times has the Bible been translated?
Biblical translations were first required around the year 3 BC, as Alexandrian Jews had assumed GREEK, the lingua franca of the day, as their first ...
The Most Covetable GREEK Charms for a Lucky 2019
It' never too late to get lucky, and wearing a beautifully designed GREEK charm around your neck is always a great way to start the year. An ancient ...
Spirituality, sun and souvlaki: GREEKS celebrate Epiphany
The third-generation GREEK-Australian kissed the cross and emerged to hugs from his ecstatic family after his Blessing of the Waters swim off Princes ...
Penticton Greek Orthodox Epiphany Celebration
Join us as we celebrate the Epiphany with our Penticton community at 11:30 am. On January 6, Penticton Greek Orthodox Church will be down at the Peach Bowl beach area. The Blessing of the Waters is co...
Gloves come off as Greek elections loom
ATHENS, Greece – As Greece enters an election year, the two main political parties are deeply polarized setting the stage for a no-holds-barred campaign. With the ballot scheduled for October but expe...
Keeping up with the Kardashians means paying other women to have your babies
If a group of men have their say Britain could soon have its own lucrative surrogate industry Behold the handmaid (#2) of the Kardashians. Or at least, that of Kim, the celebrity, and Kanye, artist and Trump loyalist. The couple have just announced the commissioning of their fourth child, using the womb of a gestational carrier who will, since this is the US, be paid for the rental. In details shared after their previous carrier delivered, last year, Kim Kardashian explained to her millions of fans that she was the first person to have “skin on skin” contact with her baby and that the experience, from carrier vetting to the carrier’s organic diet to delivery, had gone so brilliantly she “would recommend surrogacy to anybody” (presumably as the purchaser rather than the provider). One of the few problems was remembering she was having a baby: “I’m totally gonna forget and then a month before I’m gonna be like holy shit, we need to get a nursery.” For the surrogacy industry, then, this ongoing Kimye promotion may be the most valuable publicity since Elton John and his partner acquired two delightful sons via a similar route – far more so, in fact, since Kardashian, though it could be risky for her to give birth again, at least had the not entirely tragic alternative to gestational assistance of remaining a mother of two healthy children. Conventionally, the attribution of desperation to infertile or gay would-be parents has been critical in eclipsing the other sorts of desperation that might make impoverished Indian, Greek or Ukrainian women consider becoming incubators for rich couples they are unlikely, post baby handover, to see again. Continue reading...
