Europe is facing, “The real risk for the first uncoordinated state insolvency within the eurozone” if Greece won’t receive further support, warned German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in a letter to the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet and to other Finance Ministers of the eurozone, according to German newspaper Die Welt.
According to the newspaper’s article, it is absolutely necessary that Greece take another aid package.
“The return of Greece to the markets in 2012, as stipulated in the existing program, appears to be unrealistic”, said German Finance Minister Schaeuble.
Citifield attracted more than 36.000 soccer fans for the friendly game of Greece vs Ecuador. Although Tziolis scored for Greece just after 16 minutes after the start of the game, Greece did not won. Ecuador scored a goal and the game ended a tie. The Greek-Americans came from Astoria, while the Ecuadoran fans arrived from Corona and Elmhurst, shelling out an average of nearly $50 per seat.
Chairman and CEO of 20th Century Fox Jim Gianopulos won a GABBY Award for Business and entrepreneurism. The historic event took place on Ellis Island in New York on June 4th. Fashion designer John Varvatos and Chiarman of JPMorgan, Jamie Dimon, were also nominated in the same category.
James N. Gianopulos has served as Chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment since July 2000. In February 2006, he was given the additional title of Chief Executive Officer and in March 2009, he was promoted to oversee all of News Corporation’s Los Angeles-based creative production divisions, including the film and television studios.
Together with his co-Chairman, Tom Rothman, Mr. Gianopulos manages all feature film and television production and marketing, as well as global distribution through all windows and platforms spanning the theatrical, broadcast, cable, home entertainment, digital and mobile markets. He has been involved in the evolution of entertainment and new technologies for more than 25 years, and is considered a leading strategist in the film and media industry.
During his tenure, the studio has released a broad range of successful films including the recent blockbuster Avatar, which has earned more than $2 billion worldwide, breaking both domestic and international box office records to become the highest grossing film of all time. Mr. Gianopulos has had the unique honor of having been involved in the success of the 2 biggest films in history, Titanic and Avatar.
Prior to his current post, Mr. Gianopulos was President of Twentieth Century Fox International, a position he held since 1994. Twentieth Century Fox is one of the leading international distribution operations in the world. Mr. Gianopulos oversaw all international marketing and distribution of theatrical releases, the Home Entertainment division, as well as financing, acquisitions and co-productions of films for Fox throughout the world. Among the many notable successes during Mr. Gianopulos’ tenure at Fox International are the Oscar winners Titanic and Braveheart, in addition to the achievement of simultaneously having four of the five top grossing pictures of all-time internationally: Titanic, Star Wars, Independence Day and Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace.
Mr. Gianopulos is a Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, a member of the Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund, and a trustee of the American Film Institute. He is involved in a number of civic and philanthropic activities including serving on the National Entertainment Advisory Council for the Anti-Defamation League and The Brady Center. He also has served on Honorary Committees for The Fulfillment Fund, The City of Hope and the Multiple Sclerosis Society for which he was the 2001 honoree, The Help Group, which honored him with its Humanitarian Award in 2005, the Alliance for Lupus Research and others.
Mr. Gianopulos attended Boston University (BA, 1973), the Fordham School of Law (Juris Doctor, 1976) and the LLM program at the New York University School of Law. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife Ann and their three daughters.
A great exhibition of modern and contemporary Greek art will be staged in the UK, with over fifty works previously unseen in the nation.
Curated by Nadja Argyropoulou, Ntepti Humanism at Faggionato Fine Arts, brings together twenty artists working in a broad range of mediums, from photography, sculpture, painting, embroidery and performance art.
There will also be exhibits of pieces from the art scene of the 1920s as well as contemporary modern pieces. The show is expected to reveal the extraordinary vibrancy of the Greek art scene.
Ntepti Humanism opens June 9th until August 12, 2011 at Faggionato Fine Arts, London (www.faggionato.com).
On Saturday, June 18, 2011, at 7.00 pm, the Mayor of Akanthou, Mr. Savvas Savvides and members of the Municipal Council will welcome visitors at the opening of a special photo exhibition about the destruction of Akanthou’s cultural heritage and churches by Turkey.
The exhibition will be opened by his Eminence Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain. It will be hosted at the Cypriot Community Center, Earlham Grove, London N22 5HJ and a reception will follow. The whole event is being organized with the support of the High Commission for the Republic of Cyprus.
For information or reservations please call: 02088812329
Well-known Greek artist, Dimitris Koukos will exhibit his post-modern landscape paintings, invariably of Greece and the islands, at Gallery K in Hampstead, London from June 12 – July 17. It will be his first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Koukos, who was born in Athens in 1948, has delighted art enthusiasts for over 30 years and his paintings are the result of meditations on the way light and color react to forms and images in nature. His energy and love of painting outdoors is clearly seen in the conceptual, sometimes abstract images he creates. The gifted artist has been compared to an illusionist, using light and color as source of inspiration.
After studying painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts with Nikos Nikolaou and Ionnis Moralis, Koukos went on to study scene painting under Vassilis Vassiliadis and did his postgraduate studies on a scholarship granted by the EOEX at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, with Gustav Sengiers.
Since 1978, Koukos has lived and worked in Athens. He teaches at the Athens School of Fine Arts and exhibits his private collections in the USA, France, Italy, the UK, also in galleries and musuems in Greece. He doesn’t restrict his painting to the confines of a studio, preferring instead, to experience the light and life from the seashore or from the roof of his home.
In fact, you can usually find the successful impressionist on a sandy beach with a roll of canvas and acrylic paint, creating his beautiful paintings with a sheet of canvas placed flat on the ground and weighed down with large pebbles. He then….. simply paints what he sees and brings mother nature to life.
For more information about the Light & Life exhibition: +44 (0)20 7794 4949
Greek feta is a favorite cheese around the world and one of Greece’s most popular foods. Feta and bread with a little olive oil is a very delicious snack that Greek people can be very proud of having. However, building a career rapping about it? That’s another level of obsession.
Here’s a video of Greek-American rapper So Tiri (a.k.a. Billy Anastasiou), paying tribute to feta and to feta cheese with bread in his recent video, “Feta kai Psomi.” So Tiri raps about the virtues of cheese bread over a beat by Jerimiah & 50 Cent while wearing a bulletproof vest. Kalo orexi (Enjoy your meal)! [youtube]uNiba26dehc&feature[/youtube]
Kite surfing is a sport gaining popularity over the years and is a major factor of tourism on Greek islands. Its reputation is growing rapidly worldwide and it gained a large following in Greece. It is a sport embraced by the International Sailing Federation and is under assessment and evaluation for its participation at the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.
A few days ago the Coast Guard banned the sport in order to protect the swimmers, the sport and the athletes.
In fact, it allows those who want to do the activity to find a legitimate school of water sports rental on a 600 meter beach with defined corridors and without bathers so that the athlete exercises calmly. The Gazette does not allow two or more athletes into the water at the same time. Even though The Gazette article indicates an appropriate place for the exercise of the sport, the majority of its paragraphs refute it.
The Greek government failed on Tuesday to persuade doubters in the ruling Socialist party to back a new bailout deal with the EU and IMF, after the fund said the country could not afford to slacken the pace of reforms.
Addressing the meeting, Finance Minister Yiorgos Papakonstantinou denied that the government’s economic policy had “failed” but admitted to delays and some mistakes. He noted that in order to receive the fifth tranche of the loans agreed with the IMF and European Union countries, Greece had to show “that it is doing something” and also referred to pressures to carry out privatizations.
Vasso Papandreou, who chairs parliament’s economic affairs committee, evoked French revolutionary Mirabeau in recounting what she had told Papaconstantinou at the meeting.
“When parliament is blackmailed, then democracy is blackmailed, according to Mirabeau,” she told reporters.
Another former minister, Costas Geitonas, said the prime minister and president had not tried hard enough to push for a consensus between the political parties on the measures to be adopted and said the government “appears to have lost the communications game”.
Tuesday’s committee meeting went on for so long that a meeting of the PASOK political council due later in the day was postponed until Wednesday, and a cabinet meeting supposed to sign off on the plan and send it to parliament was likewise put back by a day from Wednesday to Thursday. (source: ana, Reuters)
The 28-year old Fencing Athlete Apostolos Diafonidis tested positive in a doping control during the recent National Greek Championships.
The athlete was tested by the National Council for Combating Doping (ΕSKAN). The Greek Federation had an urgent meeting and referred the matter to the judicial committee. Diafonidis risks being disqualified for up to two years.
Europe is facing, “The real risk for the first uncoordinated state insolvency within the eurozone” if Greece won’t receive further support, warned German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in a letter to the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet and to other Finance Ministers of the eurozone, according to German newspaper Die Welt.
