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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, May 11, 2013
David Paul: Beware the Global Consequences of Further Declines in the American Middle Class
If the world is to sustain the momentum of economic development that is essential to Jim Yong Kim's optimism, the companies and countries that have benefitted from expanding free trade have a collective stake in figuring out a path forward that stanches the downward spiral of the American middle class.
Beebe will challenge Reilich for Greece supervisor job
Beebe will challenge Reilich for Greece supervisor job Rochester City Newspaper (blog) Former Monroe County Legislator Dick Beebe is stepping into the race for Greece town supervisor. Beebe, a Democrat, announced his candidacy at a press conference this afternoon. He's already been endorsed by the Greece Democratic Committee. |
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Mother's Day Has Its Roots in Ancient Greece
 NDTV | Mother's Day Has Its Roots in Ancient Greece Greek Reporter In Greece, for instance, it is celebrated on the second Sunday of May. Millions of people across the globe take the day as an opportunity to honor their mothers, thank them for their efforts in giving them life, raising them and being their constant ... Love as the foundation of effective mothering |
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Man convicted in NH decades ago now in Greek prison
 WCVB Boston | Man convicted in NH decades ago now in Greek prison WCVB Boston Kamberidis was arrested in February after extensive work between U.S. and Greek authorities, Ramsey said. Greek authorities retried him in that country for the 1989 killing of his stepson, James Chartier. "Eleven days ago on April 29, the court ... Two decades after escape, Greek man sentenced for US murder Case of NH convicted killer missing since 1991 ends in Greek prison Man who fled state after murdering stepson in Greek jail |
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An encouraging sign for Greek universities
 Kathimerini | An encouraging sign for Greek universities Kathimerini There was some good news for Greek universities this week as five institutions – the National Technical University of Athens, Athens University, the Athens University of Economics and Business, the University of Patra and Thessaloniki's Aristotle ... |
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Greece splits up small troubled lender FBBank
 euronews | Greece splits up small troubled lender FBBank The West Australian ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's small troubled lender FBBank has been split into "good" and "bad" parts, with the healthy business absorbed by Greece's largest lender National Bank (NBG) , the central bank said on Saturday. Hit by rising bad debts and ... Eurobank gets ready for a new consolidation |
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Greece's K-9 'Chip' is now in service
 WXXI News | Greece's K-9 'Chip' is now in service Rochester Democrat and Chronicle K-9 officer named after Webster's Mike Chiapperini: The Greece Police Department on Friday honored a local fallen hero by giving his name to the department's new K-9 officer. Video by Jamie Germano. Greece Police Dept Names K-9 After Fallen Firefighter Lt. Michael Chiapperini Greece Police New K-9 Named "Chip" in Honor of Chiapperini Greece K-9 Named 'Chip' After Lt. Mike Chiapperini, Killed in Webster Ambush |
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Michael Jordan's Greek Honeymoon -- Cigars and Beer? JUST DO IT!
 Daily Mail | Michael Jordan's Greek Honeymoon -- Cigars and Beer? JUST DO IT! TMZ.com Michael Jordan's Greek Honeymoon -- Cigars and Beer? JUST DO IT! Stars In Heat. 5/11/2013 12:45 AM PDT BY Johnny Lopez. Air Jordan's Honeymoon Cigars, Beers, Yachts? Just Do It! 0510_michael_jordan_honeymoon_launch_v2 Michael Jordan is ... Michael Jordan in Greece after Second Wedding (Video) |
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Buying your own island tends to be a rich person's hobby. Which is a shame | Ian Jack
The Scottish island of Tanera Mor could be yours for £2.5m. Better it continues as a tourist business than as a rich person's hobby though, surely?
If selling an island, always advertise it for sale on a bank holiday weekend. Newsrooms are at their quietest then, and what might on a different day have been the lead item in a property column becomes a news event – a story. Last weekend, listening to the Radio 4 news, I was astonished to hear that the small Scottish island of Tanera Mor was up for sale; not surprised by the fact itself – I knew the owners had been trying to part with it – but because the future of 800 acres of rock, heather and bog had been deemed of national interest. It was in several newspapers and even reached the Huffington Post.
Let's not, however, give all the credit to the estate agent's timing; a sheikh or an oligarch could buy a hundred times that acreage on the Scottish mainland and barely raise a ripple outside the Aberdeen Press and Journal. Simply by being an island, Tanera Mor stakes a far bigger claim to our sentiment. The agencies of foreign governments cause little fuss when they buy up tracts of agricultural land in Africa the size of small countries; but when a Russian buys a Greek rock, everybody gets to know. Of course, as Europeans we may be naturally more interested in Greece than in Africa, but there is also this question of island-ness, with its suggestion of isolation and natural sovereignty as well as of romance and – in Tanera Mor's case – cheapness. With the 800 acres come nine houses, three jetties, a cafe and post office, a workboat to cross the mile-and-a-half to the mainland, three fresh-water lochans and enough dinghies and kayaks to satisfy an Inuit village. What is on offer is a tourist business as well as a home. The guide price is £2.5m. In an inner London suburb or central Edinburgh, that might buy you a terraced house or two. On the one hand, sole ownership of an island – a whole island! – offends in us some vague sense of equity; and on the other, how marvellous it would be!
Tanera Mor provides interesting insights into the question of island-lure. The only inhabited island in the Summer Isles, it lies about 25 miles from Ullapool at the mouth of Loch Broom. It has no roads and no cars. You get about via a cliff-top path or by boat across the bay on the sheltered eastern side, where the island's few houses are scattered. Nobody, it seems, has ever lived on the west – too wild and windy compared to the eastern bay, which has a safe anchorage and wonderful views of Scotland's most striking mountains: Stac Pollaidh, Suilven and Ben More Coigach. It was the anchorage rather than the view that introduced Tanera Mor to the world economy, when in 1784 a London business syndicate saw its potential as a haven for fishing boats and built a pier and a curing factory, where the herring catch was dried and salted for export – often to the West Indies, where it fed the slaves on sugar plantations. The industry collapsed when the herring shoals deserted Loch Broom in the 19th century: the factory and the pier fell to ruin, and the families of fisher-crofters began to move elsewhere. The school closed and the graveyard accepted its last corpse in the years before the first world war. In 1931, the last islander left.
The government had evacuated the last inhabitants of St Kilda the year before. A mood of fatalism prevailed throughout Scotland's western islands over their economic purpose and future. Now that the herring had gone, how could livelihoods be sustained? The naturalist Frank Fraser Darling, a passionate optimist, believed that traditional agriculture might be the answer even when the land was poor and wind-beaten, and in 1938 he bought the old herring station and moved in with his wife and small son. Man and wife rebuilt the house and the pier with their own hands. They dug boulders from fields and planted saplings to shelter fruit bushes. They grew kale and potatoes and imported a cow. Running down the cliff path to milk this cow one morning, Darling slipped and broke a leg, but within a few weeks he was up and digging, planting and building again. He believed what he called "the ardent labour of our hands" would drive away Tanera's "long sleep of doom".
It didn't, or not at least for long. Darling's account of his Tanera experiment is given in a book of hard-earned wisdom, Island Farm, which anyone who has ever wondered about depopulated islands should read. "When the male population of an island falls below a fishing-boat's crew, it is as good as dead," he wrote, "for … their power to work for export has gone." He confessed that without his research fellowships and writing fees, he and his family could never have survived on Tanera. As it was, he left after four or five years, convinced that "one family is too small a unit to live alone on a small island" and that north-west Scotland needed new blood if it was to avoid "social nullity". He had modern despairs – that all the bread came hundreds of miles from Glasgow, that crofters had forgotten how to make cheese – and doubted tourism could ever provide an answer because "for the West Highlander to live off the proceeds of taking in lodgers would degrade him".
As it turned out, it was tourism, not agriculture, that repopulated Tanera, and few West Highlanders were ever involved. Bill and Jean Wilder, a Wiltshire farmer and his wife, bought the island and went to live there in 1996. Like Fraser Darling, Bill planted trees – more than 160,000, some of which have flourished to soften the landscape – but unlike him enjoyed the advantages of electricity, TV and the telephone. Old cottages were renovated for holiday lets, a cafe opened to serve the excursion boats that come in the summer from Ullapool, and sailing lessons started in the bay. When the Wilders retired to the mainland, their daughter, Lizzie, and her husband, Richard, took over and successfully ran the business, but with a new baby, they too have found island life difficult. As Darling discovered, one family is too small a unit.
This is why the island is for sale. The family had hoped the neighbouring mainland community would buy it under the Scottish government's "buy-out" scheme that has enabled several island settlements to purchase their islands from absentee landowners. But here the people of Coigach would have been buying an island none of them lived on; in any case, they had enough on their plate without buying islands.
So who will buy it? Tanera lacks the castle that could endear it to billionaires and a fish farm in the bay might be thought to be a blight, aesthetically. The island-buying rich could remedy both – build a Quinlan Terry castle and pay off the farmed salmon company. But it would be far better, I think, if a family or some other social group were to live there and carry on renting the cottages and hiring out the boats. Otherwise it becomes no more than a rich person's hobby, an occasional venue for individual escape. And for anyone who's stayed for a while on Tanera and looked over at the mountains, the thought that this would become an exclusive pleasure seems a great shame.
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NH man captured in Greece after 2 decades on the run
 WHDH-TV | NH man captured in Greece after 2 decades on the run WHDH-TV NASHUA, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire man who fled a day before being convicted in 1991 of killing his 2-year-old stepson has been tried and convicted again in Greece, where he is serving an 18-year sentence for the boy's death, authorities said Friday. |
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Greek federation calls for strike action
 Press TV | Greek federation calls for strike action Press TV The Greek government has said that it will take any required action to ensure that the exams will go ahead smoothly, including the civil mobilization order, which would force staff to go back to work. Greece has been at the epicenter of the eurozone ... Greek Teachers To Strike During Panhellenics |
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Gentle giant: Micheal Jordan and his petite bride celebrate their first days ...
Daily Mail | Gentle giant: Micheal Jordan and his petite bride celebrate their first days ... Daily Mail He's big, their wedding was big, so - you guessed it - their honeymoon is even bigger. Michael Jordan and his new bride Yvette Prieto surfaced in Greece on Thursday as they enjoyed their honeymoon. The basketballer treated his wife to some shopping in ... Michael Jordan Wedding: Newlyweds Spotted Honeymooning In Greece (VIDEO) Michael Jordan & Yvette Prieto Spotted On Honeymoon In Greece Michael Jordan, New Wife Yvette Prieto Honeymoon in Greece After Wedding ... |
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Greece drafting case on antiquities looted by Nazis
Greece drafting case on antiquities looted by Nazis - GlobalPost GlobalPost Greece is preparing a case for the return of antiquities looted by the Nazis during World War II, officials said on Friday. "The entirety of the archaeological service's archives is under investigation" in a search for photographs and sketches of lost ... |
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More people are having facelifts and breast implants in crisis-wracked Greece than in any other country in the world
In 2011, 142,394 cosmetic procedures were performed in the country of 11 million people - meaning an average of one in 79 Greeks has had procedures such as liposuction, eyelid corrections and Botox injections.
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Art review: The body, seen through ancient Greek eyes, at Dallas Museum of Art
 Dallas Morning News | Art review: The body, seen through ancient Greek eyes, at Dallas Museum of Art Dallas Morning News The Dallas Museum of Art recently opened a show titled, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece in Dallas, Texas. This is a Pentelic marble grave relief from the Greek 4th century BC, probably from Athens. Shot on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. |
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Two decades after escape, Greek man sentenced for US murder
 cw56.com | Two decades after escape, Greek man sentenced for US murder Yahoo! News LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A 45-year-old Greek citizen who fled the United States more than two decades ago, the day before he was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old stepson, has been retried in his home country and sentenced to 18 ... Case of NH convicted killer missing since 1991 ends in Greek prison Kamberidis Will Serve 18 Years in Greek Prison Case of convicted US killer missing since 1991 ends in Greek prison |
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