Currently we have late November weather. Some sunny days, some cloudy. Somedays even rain. We start to think again of spring and the coming summer.

But here in Greece, the weather forecast always cheers us up. Even if the weather is awful. That is because of Petroula, Star TV’s weather forecaster.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Format: Demo
Year: 2008
Label: Self-released
Country: Greece
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Official Website

01. Deshumanization by Hellfire
02. Consumed Fucking Humanity

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Back to colour!

Greece Karpathos - September 2009

Φοιτητές του Παν/μίου Βαρσοβίας παρακολουθούν την εκδήλωση για την επέτειο του Πολυτεχνείου

Εκδήλωση για την επέτειο του Πολυτεχνείου πραγματοποιήθηκε στις 17 Νοεμβρίου 2009 στο Εργαστήριο Ελληνικών Σπουδών του Ινστιτούτου Διεπιστημονικών Ερευνών “Artes Liberales” (IBI AL) στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Βαρσοβίας. Για την εξέγερση του Πολυτεχνείου μίλησαν οι διδάσκοντες Γιώργος Κοϊνάς και Μαρία Καραμπάτη, καθώς και ο δημοσιογράφος Νίκος Κομίνης, ακόλουθος τύπου στο Γραφείο Τύπου και Επικοινωνίας Βαρσοβίας. Προβλήθηκε βίντεο με υλικό από την περίοδο των γεγονότων του Πολυτεχνείου και ακολούθησε συζήτηση με τους φοιτητές.
Στην εκδήλωση τιμήθηκε ο Νίκος Κομίνης για την προσφορά του κατά την διάρκεια της υπηρεσίας του στο Γραφείο Τύπου Βαρσοβίας και την συνεργασία του με το Πανεπιστήμιο.

Η καθηγήτρια Μ. Borowska ευχαριστεί τον Ν. Κομίνη

ΟΥΖΟ & OYZO & OUZO

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Ούζο το ελληνικό ποτό με τη παγκόσμια αναγνώριση.
Ούζο το διάσημο ελληνικό απόσταγμα, με εκατομύρια πιστούς θαυμαστές σε ολόκληρο
το κόσμο. Ούζο, μια ευχάριστη συντροφιά στο τραπέζι μας.

The classic Greek drink Ouzo. Ouzo is Greek alcoholic drink.
Ouzo, the best Traditional Greek Alcohol Drink.

Ouzo wird daher auch in Deutschland gern getrunken, als Aperitif,
um die Sinne schon einmal auf ein griechisches Essen einzustimmen,
oder als Digestif, um ein schönes Mahl abzurunden. In Restaurants wird er hierzulandemeist sketo, pur,
ohne Wasser angeboten.
 Ouzo, Griechischen Spirituosen.

ΟΥΖΟ. OYZO. OUZO.

OUZO

Ούζο - Ouzo - Oyzo

 

Ούζο και Τσίπουρο

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The invitation of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to the ministers of Albania and the Republic of Macedonia Sali Berisha and Nikola Gruevski on informal meeting in the region of Lake Prespa is among the main subject sin Greek print media on Tuesday. The idea of the meeting is the three prime ministers to consider possibilities on co-operation in the field of defense and long progress of the region of the Lake Prespa. If the meeting take place it would be held just days after the start of the international conference in Copenhagen on climate changes and two months before the 10-th year anniversary since the then prime ministers of the three countries has worked out a common communiqué on their engagements to co-operate with the aim to save the ecosystem of the Lake Prespa, Eleftherоtypia writes.

Greek government has confirmed that despite the tripartite meeting between the ministers of Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Greece Sali Berisha, Nikola Grievski and George Papandreou bilateral meeting between Grievski and Papandreou will be held,, Imerisia informed. High standing resource of Greek foreign ministry noted the bilateral meeting would not mean parallel talks on name dispute and that the procedure on finding a resolution remains in the UN. According to the same resource Greek Prime Minister would deliver his Macedonian counterpart the message the key for the European perspective of the Republic of Macedonia is the resolution of the name dispute at the basis of Greek “red line” (name with geographical definition for common use).

Greece continues looking openly at its relations with the Republic of Macedonia with an aim to find a solution of the name issue, Vima writes. Greek Prime Minister has taken the initiative to hold informal meeting with the prime ministers of the  Republic of Macedonia and Albania on possibilities on co-operation in the field of defense and long progress of the region of the Lake Prespa.

Grievski and Papandreou will hold a bilateral meeting at which they would discuss issues of bilateral interest, probably the name dispute as well.

To: Pythagoras@greece.com

From: plato@greece.com

Subject: New theorem

Dear Pythagoras,

The council has examined your new theorems.  Firstly, let me reiterate that your past contributions to the world of philosophy and mathematics are greatly appreciated.  Perhaps you ought to focus on your continued teaching of these past ideas, rather than obsessing with creating new theorems.

Specifically, you’re contribution – “when it comes to triangles of the right variety, b squared plus a squared is equal to c squared.”  Surely you don’t think we would not notice this as a simple reorganization of your prior theorem.  Ditto for “of the right triangle sort, it is always true that c squared be equal to the sums of a squared and b squared.”  You had a great run, buddy, don’t push it.

Euro membership blocks every plausible way out of the crisis, other than EU beggary. This is what happens when a facile political elite signs up to a currency union for reasons of prestige or to snatch windfall gains without understanding the terms of its Faustian contract.

When the European Central Bank’s Jean-Claude Trichet said last week that certain sinners on the edges of the eurozone were “very close to losing their credibility”, everybody knew he meant Greece.

The interest spread between 10-year Greek bonds and German bunds has jumped to 178 basis points. Greek debt has decoupled from Italian debt. Athens can no longer hide behind others in EMU’s soft South.

“As far as the bond vigilantes are concerned, the Bat-Signal is up for Greece,” said Francesco Garzarelli in a Goldman Sachs client note, Tremors at the EMU Periphery.

The newly-elected Hellenic Socialists (PASOK) of George Papandreou confess that the budget deficit will be more than 12pc of GDP this year, four times the original claim of the last lot. After campaigning on extra spending, it will have to do the exact opposite. “We need to save the country from bankruptcy,” he said.

Good luck. Communist-led shipyard workers have already clashed violently with police. Some 200 anarchists were arrested in Athens last week after they torched streets of cars in a tear gas battle.

Mr Papandreou has mooted a pay freeze for state workers earning more than €2,000 a month. This has already set off an internal party revolt. “There is enormous denial,” said Lars Christensen, emerging markets chief at Danske Bank. “They don’t seem to understand that very serious austerity measures are needed. It is a striking contrast with Ireland,” he said.

Brussels says Greece’s public debt will rise from 99pc of GDP in 2008 to 135pc by 2011, without drastic cuts. Athens has been shortening debt maturities to trim costs, storing up a roll-over crisis next year. Some €18bn comes due in the second quarter of 2010 (IMF).

Modern economies have reached such debt levels before, and survived, but never in the circumstances facing Greece. “They can’t devalue: they can’t print money,” said Mr Christensen.

The tourist trade is withering, down 20pc last season by revenue. Turkey was up. It is hard to pin down how much is a currency effect, but clearly Greece has priced itself out of the Club Med market. Wages rose a staggering 12pc in the 2008-2009 pay-round alone (IMF data), suicidal in a Teutonic currency union. Greece has slipped to 71st in the competitiveness index of the World Economic Forum, behind Egypt and Botswana.

Greece has long been skating on thin ice. The current account deficit hit 14.5pc of GDP in 2008. External debt has reached 144p (IMF). Eurozone creditors – German banks? – hold €200bn of Greek debt.

A warning from Bank of Greece that lenders must wean themselves off the ECB’s emergency funding has brought matters to a head. Default insurance on Greek debt jumped 40 basis points last week.

Greek banks have borrowed €40bn from the ECB at 1pc, playing the “yield curve” by purchasing state bonds. This EU subsidy has made up for losses on property, shipping, and Balkan woes.

The banks insist that they are in rude good health. EFG Eurobank has halved reliance on ECB funding. “Greek banks are very liquid: we maintain billions in extra liquidity,” it said. Yet markets are wary. Recession has come late to Greece, but will bite deep in 2010. It takes three years for defaults to peak once the cycle turns.

David Marsh, author of The Euro: The Politics of The New Global Currency, said the danger for EMU laggards is that the ECB will begin to tighten before they are out of trouble. It is German recovery that threatens to stretch the North-South divide towards breaking point.

Athens squandered its euro windfall. For a decade, EMU let Greece borrow at almost the same cost as Germany. It was a heaven-sent chance to whittle down debt. Instead, the country dug itself deeper into a hole by running budget deficits near 5pc of GDP at the top of the boom.

Like Labour under Brown, idiot leaders mistook a bubble for their own skill. But the consequences in EMU are more dreadful. Austerity may prove self-defeating, without the cure of devaluation. Greece risks grinding deeper into slump.

The EU can paper over this by transfering large sums of money to Greece. But will Berlin, Paris – and London, also on the hook – feel obliged to bail out a country that has so flagrantly violated the rules of the club, not least by holding Eastern Europe’s EU entry to ransom over Cyprus? That is neither forgotten, nor forgiven.

During the panic last February, German finance minister Peer Steinbruck promised to rescue any eurozone state in dire trouble. He is no longer in office. The pledge was, in any case, a bounced political cheque even when he wrote it. Greece can assume nothing.

€During Mitreva’s term Macedonia became EU candidate country

Macedonia’s Prime Minister has failed to present a platform for resolving the country’s burning row with Greece, leaving a space that is wide-open for speculation, the former Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva said in an interview for local media.

Macedonia urgently needs a national platform regarding this issue, she said. This negotiating platform should be agreed upon by all the political parties, but first Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski must openly explaining his position.

“I would like to hear Gruevski’s stand regarding this key issue for the country,” Mitreva told A1 TV. “He has to tell us whether he is ready for compromise or not, and what that compromise means,” she argued.

Mitreva briefly led the Foreign Ministry in 2001 and later took the same post between 2002 to 2006 when the Social Democrats, SDSM party, were in power. Macedonia became an EU candidate country while she was in office.

To date there has not been an open debate within the country on the name issue, with the public being kept largely in the dark on the content of negotiations between Skopje and Athens.

The European Commission last month gave Macedonia an added incentive to resolve the name dispute by recommending the EU gives Skopje a start date for accession negotiations into the bloc, but left the decision on the date to member states who meet on 7 December.

Greece has threatened to block Macedonia’s accession pending a solution to the name dispute. Media speculate the Commission will make a last ditch attempt to find a mechanism to resolve the dispute ahead of 7 December.

The European Commission hails the initiative for bilateral meeting between Greece and Macedonia on Friday. This is what European Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn said at opening of an exhibition of Macedonian cartoonist Delco Mihailov in Brussels, A1 reported. Rehn shown hope that the EU member states will pass the European Commission recommendation for starting talks for EU accession of Macedonia. In Rehn word’s it is a good courage for solving the name dispute with Greece.

Meteora (Greek: Μετέωρα, “suspended rocks”, “suspended in the air” or “in the heavens above”) is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece.

In the 9th century, an ascetic group of hermit monks moved up to the ancient pinnacles.
They were the first people to inhabit Metéora. They lived in hollows and fissures in the rock towers, some of which reach 1800 ft (550m) above the plain. This great height, combined with the sheerness of the cliff walls, kept away all but the most determined visitors. Initially the hermits led a life of solitude, meeting only on Sundays and special days to worship and pray in a chapel built at the foot of a rock known as Dhoupiani. As early as the 11th century AD hermit monks were believed to be living among the caves and cutouts in the rocks.

Access to the monasteries was originally (and deliberately) difficult, requiring either long ladders lashed together or large nets used to haul up both goods and people. This required quite a leap of faith – the ropes were replaced, so the story goes, only “when the Lord let them break”.[5] In the words of UNESCO, “The net in which intrepid pilgrims were hoisted up vertically alongside the 373 metres (1,220 ft) cliff where the Varlaam monastery dominates the valley symbolizes the fragility of a traditional way of life that is threatened with extinction.

The photos are taken in a recent trip.

Λαμία, 23.11.2009

Η Υπουργός Αγροτικής Ανάπτυξης κα Μπατζελή στην χθεσινή της ομιλία κατά τον γιορτασμό της Εθνικής Αντίστασης στο Γοργοπόταμο αναφέρθηκε στην δυνατότητα να χαρακτηριστεί η Ιστορική Γέφυρα ως “μνημείο υπό την εποπτεία της ΟΥΝΕΣΚΟ“,  προσανατολίζοντας τις επόμενες προσπάθειες προς αυτή την κατεύθυνση, όπως γράφει χαρακτηριστικά σήμερα ο τοπικός τύπος.

Οι Οικολόγοι Πράσινοι χαιρετίζουμε αυτή την αναφορά – δέσμευση της κυρίας Υπουργού και θυμίζουμε παρακάτω την περυσινή μας ανακοίνωση για “την ανακήρυξη της ιστορικής Γέφυρας του Γοργοποτάμου ως στοιχείου της Παγκόσμιας Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς της UNESCO”, η οποία δυστυχώς, παρά την προβολή που είχε από τα τοπικά Μέσα Ενημέρωσης, δεν έτυχε του ανάλογου ενδιαφέροντος από τις τοπικές αρχές, τη Νομαρχιακή Αυτοδιοίκηση, την ΤΕΔΚ και τους τοπικούς Δήμους, όπως θα περίμενε κανείς. Ας ελπίσουμε αυτή τη φορά να ετοιμαστεί ο φάκελος και να προωθηθεί αρμοδίως.

Γέφυρα Γοργοποτάμου

Δείτε την περυσινή ανακοίνωση των Οικολόγων Πράσινων:

ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΚΙΝΗΣΗ ΦΘΙΩΤΙΔΑΣ

ΝΑ ΑΝΑΚΗΡΥΧΘΕΙ Η ΓΕΦΥΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΓΟΡΓΟΠΟΤΑΜΟΥ ΩΣ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΟ

ΤΗΣ ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ UNESCO

Η ανατίναξη της Γέφυρας του Γοργοποτάμου (25 Νοέμβρη 1942) ήταν μια από τις μεγαλύτερες πράξεις δολιοφθοράς, το μεγαλύτερο σαμποτάζ σε όλη τη σκλαβωμένη Ευρώπη, κατά τον Β΄ Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο. Καθυστέρησε τους Γερμανούς να μεταφέρουν εφόδια στο εκστρατευτικό τους σώμα, το οποίο πίεζε τους Συμμάχους στη βόρεια Αφρική. Έδωσε κουράγιο στον δοκιμαζόμενο ελληνικό λαό, σε μία κρίσιμη φάση του συμμαχικού αγώνα και προκάλεσε το θαυμασμό όλης της κατεχόμενης Ευρώπης.

Το 1982, με απόφαση της τότε κυβέρνησης του ΠΑΣΟΚ, καθιερώθηκε η επέτειος της ανατίναξης της Γέφυρας ως επίσημη γιορτή της Εθνικής Αντίστασης στην Ελλάδα. Όμως αυτό δεν αρκεί. Είναι καιρός, και υποχρέωση της τοπικής κοινωνίας, να προωθήσει την πρόταση για την ανακήρυξη της ιστορικής Γέφυρας του Γοργοποτάμου ως στοιχείου της Παγκόσμιας Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς της UNESCO, διότι η ανατίναξή της συνέβαλε τα μέγιστα στον τερματισμό του Δευτέρου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου.

Και, επιπλέον, διότι ο «Γοργοπόταμος» ανταποκρίνεται στα κριτήρια που θέτει η  Έκθεση 2000/2036(ΙΝΙ) του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου για την προστασία της παγκόσμιας πολιτιστικής και φυσικής κληρονομιάς στα Ευρωπαϊκά κράτη: «να αποτελεί σημαντικό παράδειγμα τύπου κτηρίου, αρχιτεκτονικού ή τεχνολογικού συνόλου ή τοπίου που απεικονίζει σημαντική ή σημαντικές φάσεις της ανθρώπινης ιστορίας» και επίσης «να συνδέεται άμεσα ή διακριτά με γεγονότα κ.λ.π. εξέχουσας παγκόσμιας σημασίας»

Στη σύγχρονη εποχή δεν θέλουμε η γέφυρα του Γοργοποτάμου να θυμίζει απλώς τον πόνο και την καταστροφή, που προκάλεσε ο Β’ Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος και ο φασισμός, αλλά να λειτουργήσει και ως σύμβολο για έναν ειρηνικό κόσμο και ως πρόσκληση για την προετοιμασία όλων μας για την ειρήνη, καθώς και ως γέφυρα διαλόγου μεταξύ των πολιτισμών. Ως γέφυρα, επίσης, μεταξύ της κοινωνίας και της φύσης, ιδιαίτερα σήμερα που η ανθρωπότητα οδηγεί το κλίμα και τα οικοσυστήματα σε μια πρωτοφανή κρίση, η οποία θα πλήξει πρώτα από όλα τις ανθρώπινες κοινότητες.

Λαμία, 19.11.2008

Κείμενο: Στέφανος Σταμέλλος

Στην τρίτη σελίδα αυτού του blog ο επισκέπτης μπορει να βρεί ανέκδοτα ποιήματα …Νετρίνα και Αχινούς! Κάνοντας κλικ πάνω στο… ΑΝΈΚΔΟΤΗ ΠΟΙΗΣΗ
diaskronos

A celebration at Zapio’s Cultural Center ,folowing the 2006 Olympic Day Run in Athens,Greece with ‘The Kids from Ant1 Tv station’s Fame Story’ :

On our return from Drama , driving through Tembi Valley with my ambulance partner….a long trip that originated in Athens . This was renamed ’ the  killer valley ‘  after a deadly accident with a school bus  took the lifes of 21 young students, on April 13th 2003 !!!…my sympathies to all the families…a true tragedy …may they all rest in peace and God bless them…!!!

Gruevski (left) and Papandreou (right) at their previous meeting

The prime ministers of neighboring Macedonia and Greece, Nikola Gruevski and George Papandreou, will convene on Friday to talk about ways of resolving their 18 years long name row.

The two will convene at the sidelines of a trilateral climate change meeting between Albania, Macedonia and Greece which will take place on Greek territory near the Prespa Lake, a focal point where the three countries borders intersect, the A1 TV reports, citing unnamed sources.

After the trilateral, Papandreou and Gruevski will have a tête-à-tête to try to find a modality to overcome their differences on the name issue.

The meeting will take place some ten days before EU member states are due to meet on 7 December, where they are expected to decide whether to give a date for Macedonia’s accession talks with the bloc. Athens has threatened to block the giving of a date, pending a solution to the name dispute.

Media speculate that given the short period prior to the EU Council meeting, Gruevski and Papandreou can only focus on finding a mutually acceptable name, leaving discussions about its span of use and other details for later.

Last year Athens blocked Skopje’s NATO accession arguing that the country’s constitutional name, Republic of Macedonia implies territorial claims towards its own northern province which is also called Macedonia.

The European Commission last month gave Macedonia an added incentive to resolve the name dispute by recommending the EU gives Skopje a start date for accession negotiations into the bloc, but left the decision on the date to member states.

EU officials have repeatedly urged Macedonia to seize the moment, keeping in mind also that there has been a change of government in Greece with the election of Papandreou – who is seen as less hawkish regarding the name issue than his predecessor Kostas Karamanlis.

Gruevski and Papandreou recently had a short courtesy meeting in Brussels to break the diplomatic ice between the two countries that has lasted for almost four years.

Media have been citing unnamed Brussels diplomats as saying that Commission will make a last ditch attempt to find a mechanism to resolve the dispute ahead of 7 December.

They say that some version of the name Northern Macedonia may be on the table.

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) Professor Dimitris Pandermalis, President of the Acropolis Museum delivered the Irish Museums Association Annual James White Lecture: “Collections present and absent at the new Acropolis Museum on November 18 at the National Museum of Ireland.

Every year, the Irish Museums Association invites a key figure from the international museums community to deliver the annual November lecture.In his speech, Pandermalis highlighted that the Museum offers “a realistic idea” of what classicism is really about.”Many have a confused idea of classical art and culture.”"A close look at the artworks on display reveals the original classical view of humanity”.

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) The 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival closing ceremony was celebrated yesterday. The highest honour was bestowed on the Israeli-German production “Crossroads of life” (Ajami). The “Golden Alexander” award – which is accompanied by a €40,000 cash prize – was presented to the winners by German director Werner Herzog, who will also head the critics committee in the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.

The “Silver Alexander” (€25,000 euros) was awarded to the Romanian film “Medal of honour.”Its leading actor Viktor Rebencuk won the award for best male performance, while the award for Best Actress went to Ruth Nyrere for her performance in the film “The Day God Walked Away” (Belgium). The award for best direction was received by the Mexican Rigoberto Perezcano for his film “Northless.”

Secretariat General for Information: About Brand Greece- Festivals and Cultural Events & Cinema & Thessaloniki; Greek Film Centre: www.gfc.gr; Hellenic Film Commission Office: www.hfco.gr

Odysseus, (called Ulysses in Latin) one of the greatest Greek heroes during the Trojan war, was born in Ithaka…He became its King and his return form the war was known as the Odyssey , written by Homer, a poem … ” Σα βγεις στον πηγαιμό για την Ιθάκη, να εύχεσαι νάναι μακρύς ο δρόμος ”… Well, I went to Elementary School in this island and here I am again video taping old memories from my childhood….!!!

This video was recorded in Pafos - Cyprus , a place called ” H petra tu Romiu”, the birth location of Aphrodite , the goddess of beauty! I have been traveling here back and forth from Greece , for about 3 years during my ” Medevac Days “