Angry GREEK Anarchists Splash Paint Outside Toy Store CEO's Home. Ευρωκίνηση. Jumbo stores. (Photo by Eurokinissi/ Yiorgos Efstathiou). 12/21/ ...
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How the world sees Greece
Monday, December 21, 2020
Angry GREEK Anarchists Splash Paint Outside Toy Store CEO's Home
GREEK and Turkish Musicians Perform “Songs Without Borders” at Sydney Opera House
Out of the Blue”, the new GREEK-Turkish fusion musical group that plays the music of Asia Minor. Credit: Out of the Blue. The beautiful and evocative ...
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Greek PM pledges to receive COVID-19 vaccine on first day
Athens [Greece], December 21 (ANI/Sputnik): Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Monday that he will receive a COVID-19 vaccine shot on Sunday, the day the mass vaccination campaign rolls out
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Covid-19 Greece – 526 new cases & 85 deaths on Monday
812 patients have been discharged from the ICU
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Greek small businesses to get up to €50,000 with favourable terms
The official decision is scheduled to be announced in January
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New Findings on Santorini Point to “Lost Island of Atlantis” Origins
A new documentary airing on the Discovery Channel says that the ancient lost city of Atlantis may indeed have been located on what is now known as the Greek island of Santorini. Covered by 200 feet of ash from an volcanic explosion, almost unimaginable artistic riches, showing extravagant wealth, that have been unearthed recently in […]
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Greece to Receive 1.2 Million Doses of Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine by Late March
In a press conference on Monday, Maria Theodoridou, president of Greece’s National Vaccinations Committee, announced that the country would receive over 1.2 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine by the end of March. The first inoculations in the country will begin with healthcare workers in five hospitals in Athens and Thessaloniki on December 27, […]
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Seeking Support During COVID-19, GREEK Health Workers Stop Traffic
ATHENS - Their earlier calls ignored, GREEK health care workers stepped up their demand for better working conditions to help cope with the ...
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Better Cotton Initiative Expands Into Greece
Bales of GREEK cotton. CREDIT: Courtesy. Learn what's in store for 2021 related to political and economic issues such as how the upcoming transition ...
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GREEK Activists, Journalists, Lawyers Protest Lockdown Protest Restrictions
GREEK Activists, Journalists, Lawyers Protest Lockdown Protest Restrictions. Αssociated Press. Pedestrians wearing face masks to prevent the spread ...
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GREEK National Vaccination Committee: Pfizer's vaccine safe and effective
... said National Vaccination Committee Chair Maria Theodoridou at Monday's live briefing on the GREEK government's upcoming vaccination program, ...
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The GREEK cloud's little-known, decade-old past
Hidden inside it is an unknown, 10-year-old GREEK story of international success, a pillar of today's extremely rapid digital innovation. The term “cloud” ...
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GREEK Peak Details Safety Protocols for Ski Season
At least a half a dozen ski resorts around Upstate New York were able to open their doors for businesses over the weekend. But for GREEK Peak, they ...
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Greece with GRNET Joins the Leonardo Consortium
… technological progress and modernization of Greece’s infrastructures, through its participation … for scientific purposes in Greece. The benefits of Greece’s participation and …
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First Covid-19 vaccinations to be carried out on December 27 in Greece
… Newsroom | Published: December 21, 2020 Greek authorities announced the decision on … is scheduled to arrive in Greece a day after Christmas on … December 26, while Greece will have received a total …
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Belmont residents found online business importing gourmet items from Greece
Parnon Estates is an online retailer of organic olive oil, balsamic vinegar and honey from Greece founded by Belmont residents.
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Greece concerned over emergence of rapidly-spreading COVID-19 strain, drawing up strategy
Athens [Greece], December 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus, which was recently discovered in parts of the United Kingdom and some other countries, has raised serious ...
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My Perfect Greek …Melomakarona: Traditional, Step by Step pictures
My Perfect Greek Melomakarona: mellow sweet bites full of Christmas aromas soaked in light honey syrup. Cinnamon, cloves, orange and cognac, sprinkled with crushed walnuts. There is no festive days without a plate full of these sweets on the table. The original recipe comes from my mother and she had it from her own mother. … The post My Perfect Greek …Melomakarona: Traditional, Step by Step pictures appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Greece’s “First Kitten” Calypso joins meeting of President with Prime Minister
A simple and clear “meow” interrupted the meeting between President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday. It was Calypso, the rescue kitten the President adopted after a visit to the island of Karpathos two months ago. Calypso walked into the room and meowed the moment Mitsotakis was saying … The post Greece’s “First Kitten” Calypso joins meeting of President with Prime Minister appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Fragments of energy – not waves or particles – may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe
Matter is what makes up the universe, but what makes up matter? This question has long been tricky for those who think about it – especially for the physicists. Reflecting recent trends in physics, my colleague Jeffrey Eischen and I have described an updated way to think about matter. We propose that matter is not made of particles or waves, as was long thought, but – more fundamentally – that matter is made of fragments of energy. [A graphic showing images representing earth, air, fire, water and aether.] In ancient times, five elements were thought to be the building blocks of reality. IkonStudio/iStock via Getty Images FROM FIVE TO ONE The ancient Greeks conceived of five building blocks of matter – from bottom to top: earth, water, air, fire and aether. Aether was the matter that filled the heavens and explained the rotation of the stars, as observed from the Earth vantage point. These were the first most basic elements from which one could build up a world. Their conceptions of the physical elements did not change dramatically for nearly 2,000 years. Then, about 300 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton introduced the idea that all matter exists at points called particles. One hundred fifty years after that, James Clerk Maxwell introduced the electromagnetic wave – the underlying and often invisible form of magnetism, electricity and light. The particle served as the building block for mechanics and the wave for electromagnetism – and the public settled on the particle and the wave as the two building blocks of matter. Together, the particles and waves became the building blocks of all kinds of matter. [A drawing of Issac Newton next to a tree and the moon.] Sir Issac Newton, credited with developing the particle theory. Christopher Terrell, CC BY-ND This was a vast improvement over the ancient Greeks' five elements, but was still flawed. In a famous series of experiments, known as the double-slit experiments, light sometimes acts like a particle and at other times acts like a wave. And while the theories and math of waves and particles allow scientists to make incredibly accurate predictions about the universe, the rules break down at the largest and tiniest scales. Einstein proposed a remedy in his theory of general relativity. Using the mathematical tools available to him at the time, Einstein was able to better explain certain physical phenomena and also resolve a longstanding paradox relating to inertia and gravity. But instead of improving on particles or waves, he eliminated them as he proposed the warping of space and time. Using newer mathematical tools, my colleague and I have demonstrated a new theory that may accurately describe the universe. Instead of basing the theory on the warping of space and time, we considered that there could be a building block that is more fundamental than the particle and the wave. Scientists understand that particles and waves are existential opposites: A particle is a source of matter that exists at a single point, and waves exist everywhere except at the points that create them. My colleague and I thought it made logical sense for there to be an underlying connection between them. [A painting of a child staring up at the stars] A new building block of matter can model both the largest and smallest of things – from stars to light. Christopher Terrell, CC BY-ND FLOW AND FRAGMENTS OF ENERGY Our theory begins with a new fundamental idea – that energy always “flows" through regions of space and time. Think of energy as made up of lines that fill up a region of space and time, flowing into and out of that region, never beginning, never ending and never crossing one another. Working from the idea of a universe of flowing energy lines, we looked for a single building block for the flowing energy. If we could find and define such a thing, we hoped we could use it to accurately make predictions about the universe at the largest and tiniest scales. There were many building blocks to choose from mathematically, but we sought one that had the features of both the particle and wave – concentrated like the particle but also spread out over space and time like the wave. The answer was a building block that looks like a concentration of energy – kind of like a star – having energy that is highest at the center and that gets smaller farther away from the center. Much to our surprise, we discovered that there were only a limited number of ways to describe a concentration of energy that flows. Of those, we found just one that works in accordance with our mathematical definition of flow. We named it a fragment of energy. For the math and physics aficionados, it is defined as A = -⍺/_r_ where ⍺ is intensity and _r_ is the distance function. Using the fragment of energy as a building block of matter, we then constructed the math necessary to solve physics problems. The final step was to test it out. BACK TO EINSTEIN, ADDING UNIVERSALITY [A graphic showing the orbit of mercury shifting over time.] General relativity was the first theory to accurately predict the slight rotation of Mercury's orbit. Rainer Zenz via Wikimedia Commons More than 100 years ago, Einstein had turned to two legendary problems in physics to validate general relativity: the ever-so-slight yearly shift – or precession – in Mercury's orbit, and the tiny bending of light as it passes the Sun. These problems were at the two extremes of the size spectrum. Neither wave nor particle theories of matter could solve them, but general relativity did. The theory of general relativity warped space and time in such way as to cause the trajectory of Mercury to shift and light to bend in precisely the amounts seen in astronomical observations. If our new theory was to have a chance at replacing the particle and the wave with the presumably more fundamental fragment, we would have to be able to solve these problems with our theory, too. [_Deep knowledge, daily._ Sign up for The Conversation's newsletter.] For the precession-of-Mercury problem, we modeled the Sun as an enormous stationary fragment of energy and Mercury as a smaller but still enormous slow-moving fragment of energy. For the bending-of-light problem, the Sun was modeled the same way, but the photon was modeled as a minuscule fragment of energy moving at the speed of light. In both problems, we calculated the trajectories of the moving fragments and got the same answers as those predicted by the theory of general relativity. We were stunned. Our initial work demonstrated how a new building block is capable of accurately modeling bodies from the enormous to the minuscule. Where particles and waves break down, the fragment of energy building block held strong. The fragment could be a single potentially universal building block from which to model reality mathematically – and update the way people think about the building blocks of the universe.[The Conversation] Larry M. Silverberg, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, _North Carolina State University_ This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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GREEK Banks Extend €50 Contactless Transactions Until End March 2021
GREEK Banks Extend €50 Contactless Transactions Until End March 2021. Ευρωκίνηση. (Photo by Eurokinissi). 12/21/2020. Athens News Agency.
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GREEK-Canadian Merck Mercuriadis on Buying Rights to Popular Songs
LONDON – GREEK-Canadian music industry executive and entrepreneur Merck Mercuriadis, founder and CEO of Hipgnosis Songs Fund, was featured ...
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Greece updates it's non-EU citizens acceptance list
Greece updates it's non-EU citizens acceptance list. Search for: GREEK City Times. Search for: GREEK NEWS · WORLD · TRAVEL NEWS · CYPRUS ...
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Dendias hits back at Çavuşoğlu's ridiculous tweet that he “injures GREEK peoples dignity”
There has been a bit of a back and forth between GREEK Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. It all began ...
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GREEK Gift Baskets Available for the Holiday Season
The GREEK Wine & Gourmet Food Basket offers the experience of the essence of Greece through this curated wine and gourmet food collection. Each ...
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GREEK Mezzo-Soprano in Handel's Messiah Presented by Teatro Grattacielo
GREEK-American Stefanos Koroneos, General and Artistic Director of Teatro Grattacielo and Artistic Director of the Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy, ...
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Doctors confirm rape of 3-year-old girl at Kara Tepe migrant camp
GREEK minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi defended the safety conditions at Kara Tepe. He insisted the tent camp was a massive ...
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The GREEK Teacher Bridging the Cultural Divide in China
Rania Katavouta, a 39-year-old GREEK woman, is devoted to teaching GREEK in Shanghai and traveling in the world of literature. Katavouta has worked ...
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GREEK Tourism Professionals Expect Slow post-Covid-19 Recovery, Says MRB
According to MRB's survey, GREEK professionals are relatively pessimistic about the pace of recovery of GREEK tourism and expect that it will take time for ...
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From GREEK Meatballs to Holiday Stuffing: Our Top Eight Vegan Recipes of the Day!
... in the oven helps to lock in the moisture and flavor in this GREEK Meatballs by Megan Sadd. Save time by using store-bought feta, or make your own.
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More spies uncovered by the GREEK Coast Guard
Four of the suspects, which include GREEK, Turkish and Lebanese nationals, were allegedly gathering information on the movement of Greece's Navy ...
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The 20 Best GREEK Mythology Movies and Where To Stream
Taking chronicles of GREEK mythology and putting them to life on the big screen is quite difficult. Hollywood has had the option to exemplify these old ...
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Special Vaccine Refrigerators Arrive in Greece; Greek PM to be Vaccinated December 27
Greece received a number of specialty vaccine refrigerator/freezers, designed to keep the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at a frigid -70 degrees Celsius (-94 degrees Fahrenheit), on Sunday. The refrigerator/freezers — which are currently being stored at an undisclosed location — have the capacity to hold 80,000 doses of the vaccine. They will remain empty until December […]
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It was proven in the Caucasus that drones win wars – Greek City Times
… /drones) in warfare, the Greek City Times reports, adding they …
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Tourists from Serbia, Greece and Turkey make reservations in Bulgarian ski resorts
… already have reservations from Serbian, Greek, Turkish and Macedonian tourists. According …
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Adepty
Cork native Ciaran O'Herlihy created a platform to help Irish sole traders while sitting out the pandemic in Greece.
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Vaccine refrigerators arrive in Greece, Armed Forces mobilized
The first refrigerators for storage of Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Greece that will use Police, Coast Guard and the Armed Forces for transfer and safeguarding. The COVID-19 vaccines that must be kept at ultra-deep freeze temperatures of -72 Celsius (-161.6 Fahrenheit) for safety and efficacy. The first vaccines from the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and … The post Vaccine refrigerators arrive in Greece, Armed Forces mobilized appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Greek Coast Guard Steps Up Checks on Ferries and Travelers
The Hellenic Coast Guard is stepping up checks on ferries and passengers to ensure that safety protocols against Covid-19 are being adhered to.
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Myrrh mystery: how did Balthasar, one of the three kings, become black?
They are a Christmas card staple – the three kings who followed a star to the baby Jesus. But one of them caused a revolution in art. We unravel the mystery of the Magi They came bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. This description of the Magi, the three kings or wise men who followed a star to the newborn Jesus, has always given artists plenty of scope to depict ornate boxes, cups and vessels. Paintings show them followed by pages, servants, soldiers and pack animals – an entire royal retinue. Dressed in their finest, making their way across deserts and over mountains guided by a light, these pilgrims to the lowly stable always look magnificent. Although the Gospel of Matthew does not give individual names to this regal trio, we know them as Balthasar, Caspar and Melchior, thanks to a Greek manuscript from AD500. It was in the middle ages, too, that they were promoted from astronomers to kings. And a text attributed to the Venerable Bede, the historian monk from Northumbria, makes Balthasar black. Despite Bede’s assertion, there are very few images of a black Balthasar before 1400, possibly because medieval Europeans had so little concept of Africans. It was only with the dawning of the Renaissance that Balthasar’s colour began to be emphatically depicted. In fact, the trumpeting, joyous festive subject of “the adoration” inspired some of the richest portrayals of black people in European art. Continue reading...
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Holidays: FCDO advice for France, Spain, Italy, Greece & Portugal as UK travel blocked
HOLIDAYS were already a fraught topic this year but now Britons are faced with the horrible reality of being banned from a huge number of countries due to a new strain of covid identified in the UK.
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Dendia’s answer to Cavusoglu: “My friend Mevlüt … Abandon your threats of war … Happy 2021!”
Mr. Cavusoglu had called on the Greek FM to stop asking for help from others "insulting the Greek people’s dignity"
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Greek, Turkish Foreign Ministers Conduct Twitter Diplomacy
The Greek and Turkish foreign ministers exchanged tweets over the future of their countries’ bilateral relations in an unusual case of diplomacy through social media over the weekend. Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu started the surreal exchange by providing unsolicited advice to his Greek counterpart. “Dear Niko, here’s some friendly advice for the new year,” Cavusoglu […]
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Milos Catacombs Mark the Rich History of the Island
Milos, one of the most beautiful islands of the Cyclades, has a very long history, like all other Greek islands. Being most famous for the discovery of the ancient Venus de Milo statue, the island is also the site of catacombs which tell the tragic story of early Christians in Greece. According to archaeologists and historians, […]
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UNHCR Greece Factsheet
… the determination of the Greek Government and joint efforts … UNHCR supports the Government of Greece which leads the refugee … and Response UNHCR assists the Greek Government’s prevention and … (WHO). In November, the Greek Government re-introduced a country …
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50% of hospital doctors, 60% nurses reluctant to get Covid-19 vaccine
Not all health professionals in Greece’s hospitals intent to get the vaccination against Covid-19 expected to be launched in the country at the end of the month. 6 out of 10 nurses do no want the vaccine, while the rate of doctors is at 50%. hospitals across the country. Already last week, health professionals started … The post 50% of hospital doctors, 60% nurses reluctant to get Covid-19 vaccine appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Maltese-flagged tanker in distress after mechanical failure
A Maltese-flagged tanker on Monday issued a distress call, saying that it was floating adrift after a mechanical breakdown 1.5 nautical miles northwest of Cape Kafireas, Cavo D’ Oro, on the southeastern tip of the island of Evia in the Aegean Sea. . The tanker, which is without cargo, has 17 crew members and one … The post Maltese-flagged tanker in distress after mechanical failure appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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A meta-masterpiece: why The Muppet Christmas Carol is the perfect festive film
With songs written by a former addict, the tale of redemption is sincere. And its heartfelt goofiness awakens your inner child Forget It’s a Wonderful Life. Forget Miracle on 34th Street. Forget (please God, forget) The Holiday. There is only one definitive Christmas movie, and that is The Muppet Christmas Carol. Not only is it the best Christmas film, but it is the best screen adaptation of the Charles Dickens novella – though this has had the unfortunate side-effect of convincing a generation of children that Marley had a brother called Robert. “The Marleys were dead, to begin with,” that’s how Gonzo, our self-professed “omniscient” narrator (this film really doesn’t talk down to children), begins the metanarrative. His companion Rizzo the rat, meanwhile, is mainly “here for the food”, and says what we are all thinking: “A blue, furry Charles Dickens who hangs out with a rat?” Yes, indeed, that is the setup. In a postmodern stroke of genius, Rizzo acts as a sort of Greek chorus with a New York accent, enduring a series of slapstick mishaps that include being set on fire, thrown from windowsills, and falling down a chimney on to a red-hot goose. Continue reading...
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Strictly winner Bill Bailey's London home belongs on a Greek island
After weeks of dance rehearsals and winning the Strictly Come Dancing Glitterball trophy, we imagine Bill Bailey is keen to return home for Christmas. The comedian, 55, tends to keep his home life ...
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The Greek Alphabet Makes For a Plethora of Puzzle Clues
Four of the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet don't appear in standard crosswords because they're too short (MU, NU, PI, XI), while others are too long to pop up more than occasionally (OMICRON, ...
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Christmas carols sung proudly by the GREEK community in Sydney and Adelaide
Here's a list of what happened over the weekend: Sydney: In Sydney, the main kalanta event was held virtually by the GREEK Orthodox Archdiocese of ...
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