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A few months ago, I saw the horror film Hellraiser for the first time. Impressed and seduced by Clive Barker's twisted tale, I then decided to delve into its many sequels – some of which Barker was involved with, some of which he's pointedly disowned ("If they claim it's from the mind of Clive Barker, it's a lie. It's not even from my butt-hole"). I found a wide variety of quality within the series, ranging from the abjectly awful to the surprisingly complex. Here's my journey into darkness…
SPOILER WARNING: Minor plot points will be revealed.
1. Hellraiser (1987, Clive Barker)
When a married couple move into a new house, wife Julia discovers her missing brother-in-law is in the process of returning from hell…
Produced for under £1m, this British-American horror movie was directed by Clive Barker and based on his own novella The Hellbound Heart. Searing and stylish, it's a compelling watch. Affable American Larry (Andrew Robinson) and his uptight British wife, Julia (Clare Higgins), move into a new home. Then Julia discovers an awful truth. Larry's rebellious younger brother, Frank (Sean Chapman), was recently sucked into hell after toying with dark magic in the hope of an intense pain/pleasure experience. The device that allowed entry to that world is an ornate, cube-shaped puzzle box. Frank is now in the process of escaping, but is being chased by the demonic Cenobites (Doug Bradley and others)… For all its horror elements – intense violence, torture, nightmarish threats, *extremely* graphic gore – this is a story about a twisted love triangle. It's a psycho-sexual drama about Frank and Julia's obsessional affair that almost entirely takes place in one suburban house. (Where that house is, by the way, is difficult to answer. Almost every character is American, yet the filming locations are demonstrably in England.) Added into the mix is Larry's daughter, Kirsty (Ashley Laurence), who becomes the heroine of the story as she uncovers the horror going on…
Nine pet shops out of 10
2. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988, Tony Randel)
Later that night, Kirsty is in hospital – but her doctor is showing an odd fascination in her case…
This sequel – made with only light involvement from Clive Barker – is sometimes appealing and has a certain Gothic strangeness. But it's also often cheesy and hammy and is far less nuanced than the original. Kirsty is in hospital after her experiences in the first film. Her doctor, Channard (Kenneth Cranham), already knows about the Cenobites and is obsessed with them and their mythology. He eventually teams up with Julia (Clare Higgins again, playing her more archly this time) and there's then a lengthy sequence set in hell, which ticks several predictable boxes: eerie music, endless corridors, macabre circus performers, stop-motion animation, wind and smoke. Meanwhile, the lead Cenobite – now officially credited as Pinhead (Doug Bradley) – gets both a music-video entrance and an interesting backstory.
Four bandages out of 10
3. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992, Anthony Hickox)
A TV reporter investigates a violent death and encounters the Cenobites…
Frustrated journalist Joey (Terry Farrell from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) stumbles across a story when she sees a mutilated victim being brought into a hospital. This leads her to an underground nightclub, where the slimy owner has recently bought a strange statue… The first Hellraiser film financed by the Weinstein brothers' Dimension Films company, Hell on Earth is certainly trash. There's a lot of crass dialogue and a parade of bad actors (several of whom sound like they've been dubbed in post-production). Director Anthony Hickox is also a fan of pyrotechnics, Dutched camera angles and early 90s coloured lighting, then gives us a drawn-out, overblown action-movie finale – so subtly is not the order of the day. But there's just enough atmosphere and arresting images to keep you watching and entertained. Especially fun is the sequence where Joey is given a ghostly tour of the backstory by Pinhead's human form (Doug Bradley sans make-up).
Six red roses out of 10
4. Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996, Alan Smithee)
On a space station in the far future, a man tells the story of the demon-summoning puzzle box and says he's set a trap…
Rather joltingly, we start in space. It's the year 2127 and an eccentric man is holed up in a space station he designed himself. The vibe in part Alien, part Babylon 5. Then the man, Paul Merchant (Bruce Ramsay), tells a strange story… We cut back to France, 1796. Merchant's ancestor Phillip (Ramsay again) is a toymaker. He's built an ornate puzzle box for a client, who then uses it in a bizarre ritual that brings a demon called Angelique (Valentina Vargas) from hell to earth… It's creepy if hammy stuff with decent production design, editing and music – and we're also back to the first film's themes of obsession and of pain, violence and torture being aspects of sexual pleasure. The bulk of the film is then set in the modern day (1996) and features another member of the Merchant family, an architect called John (Ramsay for a third time). Angelique is still around and targets him and his family. Pinhead (Doug Bradley) also shows up… which is a shame because as he takes centre stage (on the orders of the studio), the sexy and intriguing Angelique fades into the background and the film becomes less interesting. By the time we eventually return to the space station, the momentum has dropped out of the story.
Six twin security guards out of 10
5. Hellraiser: Inferno (2000, Scott Derrickson)
A police detective is tormented by hellish visions as he attempts to track down a missing child…
LAPD detective Joseph Thorne (the David Boreanaz-alike Craig Sheffer) likes speed chess, wordplay and prostitutes but is trapped in a dour marriage. At a crime scene he finds the puzzle box we've seen in previous films and nabs it for himself. But when he absentmindedly opens it, his life starts to get *weird*: a hooker he's slept with is brutally murdered and he begins to have visions of demons… Rather than the baroque horror of the earlier movies, Inferno – the first straight-to-DVD Hellraiser – feels more like a seedy cop movie. In fact, the connection to the Hellraiser concept is pretty loose and Doug Bradley's Pinhead barely features. Instead, we get clichés such as an angry police captain, a gullible sidekick, and a minor character played by a famous actor who turns out to be the villain. (The production designers were also surely big fans of David Fincher's 1995 film Seven.) Scott Derrickson, who later made the Marvel movie Doctor Strange, directs with a music–video sensibility, so we do get some striking horror images, but the script lacks clarity. There's a gumshoe plot going on about a mysterious man called the Engineer who may have kidnapped a child, but the film doesn't seem that interested in it. There are loose ends, a central performance that doesn't convince, and a final nightmarish third that toys with silliness. Nevertheless the dreamlike weirdness and tough-guy edge make it reasonable watchable.
Six fingers out of 10
6. Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002, Rick Bota)
After his wife dies in a car crash, a man is haunted by hallucinations and other strangeness…
This sixth Hellraiser sees the return of the original film's Kirsty (Ashley Laurence), but in the first scene she drowns after a car accident, and her widower, Trevor (Dean Winters), is left in a bad way. Physically fine, he starts to realise that his memory is not reliable – and because the film is from his point of view we share in his confusion. Did he have an affair? Did he visit a strange warehouse? Was his relationship with Kirsty as happy as it seemed in the opening scene? The film is playing interesting games with perception and reality, presenting us with a puzzle made up of conflicting evidence. (It feels more like a paranoia thriller or an episode of The Twilight Zone than a horror movie. You can also detect the distinct influence of Christopher Nolan's movie Memento.) As with the preceding Hellraiser, Doug Bradley's Pinhead is little more than a cameo – just a few brief glimpses and then an exposition scene at the end where we get a pleasing twist ending. The cast lets the film down, especially Winters, who can't quite convince us of the horrors Trevor is experiencing. However, this is still a surprisingly complex and engaging film.
Seven camcorders out of 10
7. Hellraiser: Deader (2005, Rick Bota)
A journalist is drawn into a terrifying world while investigating Deaders, a group attempting to gain control of the Cenobites' realm…
This is a grimy, putrid film: aside from brief scenes at the proto-hipster offices of UK newspaper The London Underground, the story plays out is decaying, flaking, dark spaces; there are flies and sludge and filth. Journalist Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) is sent to Bucharest to report on a death cult called the Deaders. Her only lead turns out to be a corpse, but she then finds the all-important puzzle box. Opening it, she summons Pinhead – who's engaged in some kind of battle of wills with the Deaders for control of the Underworld – and her life gets more and more bizarre… The film has a few tense scenes and effective scares, as well as some genuinely out-there weirdness (following a lead to a Metro train, Amy finds an entire carriage given over to a steampunk-themed orgy with Hustle's Marc Warren holding court). The longer it goes on, though, the more muddy the storytelling gets.
Three VHS tapes out of 10
8. Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005, Rick Bota)
A group of gamers are invited to a party connected to their favourite game, but can they trust the event's host?
Clichés abound in this eighth Hellraiser entry, which sees a batch of noughties slackers (one of whom is future Superman Henry Cavill) attend a party but encounter hellish experiences and violent deaths. Let's list a few of the hamfisted, overused tropes: portentous church music and close-ups of Christian iconography to suggest religious overtones; early scenes with clunky expositionary dialogue; a 'real' scene being revealed as a dream; gamers being addicted to an online game that's clearly too basic to engage anyone; a Gothic mansion; a rave where extras dance out of time to the music; a midrange star cast as the villain (Lance Henriksen); a cute female character who wanders off on her own for no reason; sex scenes shot like a music video… It's a dreadful film: slow, stupid and simplistic.
One ultraviolet, 24-hour, wildly popular and yet utterly purposeless, embraced-by-the-masses internet roleplaying game out of 10
9. Hellraiser: Revelations (2011, Victor Garcia)
Two young Americans go on a hedonistic trip to Mexico, where they encounter violence and a mysterious puzzle box…
Shot in just three weeks on a tiny budget – as a cynical ploy by Dimension Films to retain the Hellraiser rights – Revelations should be utter garbage. There are daytime-soap performances among the new characters while Doug Bradley has jumped ship after eight appearances as Pinhead (to be replaced by someone eminently forgettable). The film is also crudely edited and relies too heavily on Blair Witch-style camcorder footage. But despite these limitations, it's just mediocre rather than offensively awful. In the plus column, the movie digs down deep into the same sordid subject matter as the original Hellraiser – it's another story about perverse pleasure and obsession. In fact, there are several visual echoes and plot nods to Clive Barker's 1987 movie, as well as the same love of extreme gore. But it's still mediocre.
Four bullshit genericas out of 10
10. Hellraiser: Judgment (2018, Gary J Tunnicliffe)
Three police detectives hunt down a serial killer called the Preceptor, but the investigation leads to an encounter with hellish denizens…
In an unspecified city, a trio of detectives are on the trail of a macabre murderer who kills ritualistically for religious reasons. It's all very sub-Seven, but then the cops comes across the Cenobites, who are attempting to find new ways of tempting souls into hell… There are several clichés of low-budget filmmaking on show here – shaky camerawork, poor framings, a remarkable lack of people on screen who aren't the lead actors, and a general sense that corners are having to be cut. The design work is decent (check out the Terry Gilliam-esque typewriters!) and gore freaks will love the amount of graphic mutilation on show. But this is grim, pretentious drivel with some really inept storytelling and a fairly rubbish cast.
Two Star Wars quotations ('What an incredible smell you've discovered') out of 10


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Scenarios for Global Drug Use & Policing Practices & HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe/Central Asia.
Brief Update: So here we are in London, Masia and Jason have just joined me at my flat to update readers on the last couple of days their meeting. I was really mad that I couldn't attend but came down with a shocking cold that came on me like a hurricane and that is only just starting to lift! Although you will get a fuller briefing from both Masia and Jason shortly, here is a very brief rundown on what the meeting was about.
Based on a 2 year project, these round table discussions were to examine and identify key factors that will affect the hiv epidemic in the next 25 years, how it relates to drug use and law enforcement issues, as well as what actions should be considered in order to overcome the anticipated problems.
The aim was to envision what universal access – to prevention, treatment, care and support – would mean for postive people who use drugs in 2031. This date is particularly meaningful because it will be 50 years since HIV was first reported – 2031 is supposed to be about not what we should be doing in 2031 – but what we should be doing differently now to change the face of the pandemic by 2031. It is response that involves a whole consortium of partners to create an Agenda for the Future, a document that will be launched late in 2009.
Interestingly, this meeting although quite small, involved a variety of experts from the world of policing, UNODC, UNAIDS, and other areas health, as well as positive people and users of drugs, and focused specifically on global drug use, the policing of groups and certain activities and how this relates to the HIV epidemic.
It was clear, Masia and Jason noted, that we can support INPUD to access and work with these roadmaps to 2031 as we are going to have to start to make law makers and legislators accountable to achieving these goals. Long term inpud can look to 2031 to tie in and support other things we are aiming to achieve such as UNAIDS directives regarding HIV and drug use, plus the UNODC and their drug treatment recommendations/research. It is one more way to find allies, share knowledge and insights, gain skills, lobby and achieve global policy change where its needed.
Jason and Masia leave London today. It was really great to see them. One of the best things about international networks is seeing each other after months or years, and being inspired all over again, and then there's always the chance to party! But I'm Siiiick! You will hear their thoughts and comments on this, following this blog . If you want to know more about the campaign of 2031 click here www.aids2031.org
More updates soon, Erin.

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Arrest made after woman spots stolen bracelet in Stamford store
STAMFORD — Back in June when a Stamford woman went to Peter Suchy Jewelers, she made an interesting discovery.
In a display case she spotted a bracelet worth several thousand dollars that she swore was hers. The bracelet went missing about five years earlier and she knew there was a foolproof way to tell if it belonged to her. The middle-aged woman asked to see the bracelet and after putting it into her hand, she spotted the extra link the bracelet had on it and knew that it was stolen from her, Sgt. Sean Scanlan said.
The woman called the police and told them about the bracelet. Police called the jewelry store and they put it aside for their investigation. Because the bracelet was made of precious metals, a record of where it came from had been made and police were able to trace it to a Bridgeport woman.
On Monday after obtaining an arrest warrant, Barbara Azpiri, 66, of Holland Road, was arrested and charged with third-degree larceny. She was released after her family posted a $30,000 court-appearance bond for her in cash.
Scanlan, who leads the police department's Property Crimes Unit, said that the investigation was headed up by officer Nick Spinella and with the cooperation of Peter Suchy Jewelers they were able to close the case.
Scanlan said police believe that the bracelet may have been taken by someone doing work in the woman's home, but how it came into Azpiri's hands is another question.
"It is still an active, ongoing investigation as to how she got possession of the bracelet," Scanlan said.


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Christopher Mobley, a transport design student from Staffordshire University, was crowned the winner of this year's annual Superyacht UK Young Designer Competition, in partnership with Pendennis Shipyard and Olesinski. As winner Christopher received the prize of a four-week internship at Pendennis Shipyard, and runner up Ashley Scott was awarded a two-week internship at design and naval architecture studio and event sponsor, Olesinski.
The prestigious annual Superyacht UK Young Designer Competition is run by industry representatives, Superyacht UK, an association of British Marine. It is the only competition of its kind in the UK to recognise future design talent and provide them the opportunity to truly grow such talent within the industry. The competition is judged by a world-class panel of designers and superyacht experts, including Peter Brown, Burgess and Chairman of SYUK, Stephen Hills from Pendennis Shipyard, Justin Olesinski from Olesinski, Tony Dixon of RWD, Bill Dixon of Dixon Yacht Design, Dimitris Hadjidimos of D-iD Limited and Dastinas Steponenas, a previous winner of the competition.
This year's design competition was unlike any other. Rather than being greeted with a blank piece of paper, the 10 competing students from Coventry University, Southampton Solent University, Staffordshire University, University of Central Lancashire, University of Plymouth and University of Wales, Trinity St David were tasked to transform a 52.12m ex-navy vessel, the Ocean Star, into a bespoke superyacht.
Featuring innovative ideas such as the launching system of the submersible vessel at the aft end and the extending beach club from the mid ships, Christopher's superyacht design was voted the most imaginative for the client – a proclaimed philanthropist, looking for the ideal vessel to support research into the problem of plastics in our oceans, whilst also offering luxury transport to peruse his passion for adventurous and unique holidays.
Peter Brown, Chairman of Superyacht UK, comments: "Both Christopher and Ashley's designs were sympathetic to the DNA of the original vessel whilst still coming up with innovative designs truly encompassing the character of the brief. It is great to see so much up and coming talent from our British universities and we hope this competition has helped inspire these students with the diversity and wonders of a career in the superyacht sector and the connections and experiences they have gained throughout the competition prove fruitful. We look forward to seeing these students, and many more like them, driving forward Britain's superyacht powerhouses in the future."
Upon being announced as the competition winner, Christopher Mobley remarked: "It's amazing. I am still a bit shocked but over the moon about winning this year's Superyacht UK Young Designer Competition. It is a great opportunity. Already this competition has allowed me to meet a variety market experts and learn from their depth of knowledge. Winning has provided me with a massive confidence boost in my ability and skills as a designer."


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House of Mexica is a new vegan restaurant on Warren Way and Moana Lane in Reno. They specialize in Mexican, American, and Mexican-American dishes. Diners should leave their expectations at the door.
Upon entering the restaurant, the aesthetic is dark and modern. The restaurant is dimly lit with some natural sunlight flowing in. The color scheme is black, grey, white, and mauve. There are a few tall tables and ten or so standard tables. All the chairs and tables look new. A large stone bar with stools sits between the dining area and the partially-open kitchen.
House of Mexica Has a Distinct Value System
Before I left the restaurant after dining there on a Saturday afternoon, the owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that I might be interested in learning about the ancient tribe from which the restaurant derives its name. I gladly accepted the invitation to return to the restaurant after closing to learn more about the Mexica (pronounced Meh-Shee-Ka) people.
Upon my return, the owner and I spoke at length about him and his family and the philosophies by which they run their restaurant. He explained that he and his mother primarily run the restaurant.
His mother is from Tenochtitlan. Tenochtitlan was a Mexica city-state located in what is now the heart of Mexico City. Exactly how far back the Mexica people first lived is contested. The owner explained that the common anthropological narrative was written by the Spanish, those that conquered the Mexica. The historical narrative as seen by the Mexica is quite different. It's not difficult to imagine why subjugators and the subjugated can view events and history in different ways.
Elaborating further on his family's roots, the owner referred me to the restaurant's Instagram account. There, I read the following bio, "Meh-Shee-Ka [sun emoji] [moon emoji] A Tribe of plant based Mexica united to create Heaven on Earth through the powers of food, life, love, & light. #HouseOfMexica."
The owner explained that the restaurant's logo is the Mexica symbol for humanity and the elemental forces (earth, wind, fire, water) that work to create it. Purple was chosen for the logo because that color symbolizes spiritual understanding. The Mexica were known for their elevated forms of art, cosmology, knowledge and spirituality. It is the goal of House of Mexica to promote similar values within our community.
The owner went on to say that he personally eats a raw vegan diet, but he and his mother serve dishes that vegans, vegetarians, and meat-eaters alike will enjoy. He recommended the Return of the Mac', a vegan play on the Big Mac, to diners who often prefer meat with their meals. The owner explained that it's Return of the Mac', because the restaurant is bringing it back to diners with no animal products. He likened the dish to a remix that improved upon the original.
The key to the food at House of Mexica, according to the owner, is the love and life that creates it. House of Mexica serves plant-based foods because these foods are believed to possess higher vibrations that are beneficial to those that consume them. The owner said that they don't wish to be a restaurant, but rather a pyramid of sorts that will act as an energy center that disseminates higher consciousness.
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I must admit that when I heard there was a new vegan restaurant in town that specialized in Mexican, American, and Mexican-American dishes, I wasn't sure what that would look like in practice.
In my experience, some vegan restaurants strive to create complex meat and dairy substitutes. Other restaurants rely on fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes to create plant-based dishes that do not strive to imitate meat or dairy products in any way.
The food at House of Mexica, at least the food that I ate, seemed to fall more so into the first category of vegan restaurants that create convincing meat and dairy-like dishes with plant-based ingredients.
I ordered the three al pastor tacos for $8.00 and the '4 the Buffalo Fries' at $8.99.
The restaurant was quite busy the entire time I was there. The owner served each table with speed, patience, and a very welcoming demeanor.
The first of my dishes to arrive was the 4 the Buffalo Fries. The fries themselves seemed to be pretty standard. I suspect that the fries were cut and fried in-house as they were served without that signature crispy fry quality. Despite the somewhat soft delivery, the flavor of the fries was robust. After being fried, it looked as though they were tossed in a house-made buffalo sauce and then drizzled in house-made ranch. Just a reminder, everything on the menu is vegan including the sauces. The buffalo sauce had ample heat and the ranch had a zesty creaminess about it. Despite my love for especially crispy dishes, I enjoyed the fries. The idea of creating vegan comfort / junk / bar food is one that I expect many Reno diners to enjoy.
Next up were the three al pastor tacos. The tacos were composed of pineapple, cilantro, grilled red onions and a heavily spiced soy-based protein served in piping hot doubled up corn tortillas. Served alongside the dish was a lime wedge and fresh tomatillo salsa. The salsa was bright and citric with mild heat.
The fully dressed tacos with lime and salsa were disarmingly delicious. Al pastor tacos made with pork are one of my all-time favorite foods. Suffice to say, I wasn't sure how much I'd enjoy a vegan rendition. My apprehension was shattered to bits after the first bite. However the owner and his mother prepare the soy-based protein, the final result is extremely flavorful and well-textured. The soy, pineapple, cilantro, onions, and fresh tomatillo salsa work together to create one of the best tacos that I've had in town, vegan or otherwise.
Regardless of your personal belief system, eating delicious food prepared by people who give a damn is a worthwhile pursuit. The carefully prepared house-made food may not turn meat-eaters into vegans, but I'm confident that the restaurant will open some minds to the incredible flavors and textures possible with plant-based foods.
House of Mexica is located at 3600 Warren Way #107 in Reno. They are open daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Call in your take-out order at 775-384-1690. Check out the restaurant's Instagram account for specials and possible secret menu items.


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By Dr. Athanasios Ioannis Kyriazis
This article will raise several key points about 20th century history. It makes the point that but for European, Russian, American, EU, UN & League of Nations actions taken negligently and/or intentionally, and in direct abrogation of international law, against Greece and its sovereign interests, Greece would be a far, far larger, far richer, and far more populous country than it is today. Greece today is on the brink of financial crisis not due to its own mistakes, but due to the arrogance and indifference of the larger powers which denied its destiny to be again what it was supposed to be—a second Byzantine-Greek Empire with a capital at Constantinople spanning two continents and five seas as was originally negotiated and settled by Venizelos at the Versailles treaty table after World War I and consummated in the Treaty of Sevres in 1920. That Greek Empire today would have approximately one hundred forty-sixty millions population and would be one of the most powerful countries on earth, as well as one of the richest.
In 1975, Turkey was allowed to invade Cyprus not once but twice, eventually appropriating approximately forty per cent of the land, killing hundreds of thousands, and expropriating billions of dollars in property holdings belonging both to Cypriot and ethnic National Greek citizens in Northern Ethnic Cyprus.
The invasion, and the continued illegal military occupation and Turkish colonization program of settling Turks from the mainland and passing them off as "Turkish Cypriots" for the past thirty-five years, continues to be illegal and condemned repeatedly by international law and United Nations resolutions.
Cyprus was only created as an independent state in 1960 after many years of Greek national lobbying for "enosis" or union of Cyprus with Greece. Cyprus was offered to Greece in 1915 as part of the spoils of World War I by England, but England breached that agreement at the Versailles Treaty table and retained Cyprus as a mandate and colony.
In retaliation for the enosis movement, Turkey forcibly expelled nearly 200,000 ethnic Greeks living in Constantinople lawfully entitled to reside there pursuant to the Treaty of Lausanne, first in a series of purges executed in 1955, and in a second round of purges in 1964, followed by the closing of the Halki school of Theology in 1971 and other acts directed at the Greek minority of Constantinople protected by the International Treaty of Lausanne.
Greece is entitled to damages with interest from 1955. Those are in the billions of dollars. Those are due them from France, England, the US and the UN's failure to act to remedy the Turkish depredations to the Greek minorities of turkey since that date. For this reason alone, Greece is entitled to have not only its debts forgiven, but is entitled to war and treaty reparations and damages in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
This issue was discussed in great detailed in acclaimed novelist Jeffrey Eugenides prize-winning historical novel, MIDDLESEX (2001);
Thus we meet Desdemona Stephanides, who with her husband flees the Turks in Smyrna in 1922 and arrives in Detroit, where she has cousins. Desdemona, a formidable creature, has the habit of fanning herself when she gets angry or excited. "To anyone who never personally experienced it, it's difficult to describe the ominous, storm-gathering quality of my grandmother's fanning," says Calliope, her granddaughter and the book's narrator. And Desdemona's fans, it should be said, are eccentric: "the front of the fan was emblazoned with the words 'Turkish Atrocities.' Below, in smaller print, were the specifics: the 1955 pogrom in Istanbul in which 15 Greeks were killed, 200 Greek women raped, 4,348 stores looted, 59 Orthodox churches destroyed, and even the graves of the Patriarchs desecrated." Again, it is not only the verve of the writing that appeals, but its exactness. The idea of an "atrocity fan" is wonderful enough, but Eugenides's real talent lies in the detailed coda to this passage: "Desdemona had six atrocity fans. They were a collector's set. Each year she sent a contribution to the Patriarchate in Constantinople, and a few weeks later a new fan arrived, making claims of genocide and, in one case, bearing a photograph of Patriarch Athenagoras in the ruins of a looted cathedral." This is the kind of detail that makes narrative.
review at http://www.powells.com/review/2002_10_03.html
England, France and the other great powers of Europe, along with the League of Nations, the predecessor to the UN, are guarantors of the Treaty of Lausanne. As in this treaty has been breached repeatedly by the Turks due to the depredations suffered by the Greeks, and the treaty guarantors have failed to act and are in breach, they owe Greece monetary damages. Greece is entitled to injunctive relief and monetary damages. At a minimum, they are entitled to damages from Turkey, England, the EU, the UN, the US, and a new regime of minority legal rights from Turkey, including a new rider to the Treaty of Lausanne allowing them up to 3 million resident ethnic Greeks and newly expanded Patriarchate rights in Constantinople.
CF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_S%C3%A8vres
It should be pointed out that in addition to partitioning the Ottoman Empire and Asia Minor proper, the Treaty of Sevres also provided for the holding of the so-called "Malta Tribunals," which were to punish Turkish war criminals for acts of war crimes committed from 1914 onwards, specifically, acts of genocide and war crimes directed at christian minorities, such as Armenians and Greeks.
cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta_Tribunals
These tribunals were, in fact, never held, but the fact of the armenian and greek genocides were recognized and the machinery put in place to try the Turkish war criminals as early as the Treaty of Sevres. Indeed, these provisions were later copied by the US at the Nuremberg trials. However, it was the Allies failure to punish the Turks after WWI that let Hitler famously to comment, "who remembers the Armenians" in pursuing his genocide against the Jews of Eastern Europe. In this, Hitler specifically referred to the failure to carry out the provisions of the Treaty of Sevres regarding the Malta Tribunals.
Greece is owed indemnity for this as well. My own grandmother was witness to the senseless butchery of thousands of armenians in her own village, many of whom were defenseless citizens machine gunned down and buried in mass pits, while she also lost three older sisters to the ravages of the Turks. The Terrible Turks.
The Obama administration opposes the current house resolution declaring the Armenian Genocide of 1915 to have existed. Nancy Pelosi killed it when she was house speaker. Just to show I'm being bipartisan, so too did Speaker Denny Hastert of the Republicans kill it back in the 1990s, allegedly after receiving a suitcase of more than $1 million dollars from a Turkish lobbyist (it may have been from Hill & Knowlton). Nancy Pelosi and several other are also alleged to have received substantial cash bribes to change their votes from the Turkish lobbyists as well, but much of this is urban legend and myth.
Getting back to our narrative, of course, enosis was not granted because Cypriot independence was guaranteed by England in 1960. That independence lasted fifteen years, while Turkish invasion and slavery over half the island of Cyprus has lasted more than 35 years.
Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1975, marking very nearly the 400th anniversary of their original Ottoman invasion and conquest of Cyprus in 1570. This was an outrageous act of aggression and the first sign of the Islamic radical agenda to emerge in the modern era which culminated three years later in the Iranian Revolution, the Iranian funding of Hamas and the eventual destabilization of Lebanon. This was all the beginning of a program to de-Christianize the Middle East and depopulate it of westerners and Christians, a program which has culminated in the 9/11 bombings and the program of renewed neo-pan-Turkism, neo-pan-Islamism and neo-pan-shi'ism, together with the scourge of radical Islam, radical anti-Semitism and radical anti-Americanism/radical anti-European sentiment now dominating not only Turkey but all of the middle east from Lebanon to Palestine to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Malaysia.
Regarding the invasion of Cyprus proper, England, the United States, the major European Powers, the UN and the EU, all owe Greece and Cyprus monetary reparations, damages and injunctive relief for the original invasion and all consequential damages. England, because Cyprus was a Commonwealth nation, and England guaranteed Cypriot independence after 1960 pursuant to treaty, by military means if necessary, and England is in breach of that treaty, owes Cyprus and the Greek Government damages for breach of that treaty.
Those damages are in the trillions of dollars, together with owing Greece, Cyprus and their people land and territorial compensation from the Turkish territories in compensation, along with reparations and damages from Turkey.
The Eastern European nations which conspired actively with the USSR to fund the Greek Civil War from 1944-1948, as well as the funding of the Greek Communist Party and the left-wing Andreas Papandreou movement of the 1980s, which was a pro-Communist USSR-sympathetic government masquerading as a left-wing government (Papandreou was an out and out Marxist-Leninist communist in full sympathy with the USSR and an ardent anti-American) were fully and completely facilitated by the major European nations, the US and the UN.
To some extent, the US and CIA ameliorated these problems thru the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan and active CIA involvement in Greece against the left-wing insurgents, but the root of the problem, the Greek expatriate communists living in the Eastern European Communist countries, propagandizing and funding these communist and left wing movements in sovereign Greece, have never been addressed satisfactorily by Germany, France, England, Italy or any of the major EU powers.
However, the US abandoned Hungary and the Czechs to their fates in 1956 and 1968, and never allowed Yugoslavia to emerge from communism. The US also allowed the pro-US, anti-communist junta to be dissolved and allowed it to intervene in the affairs of Cyprus in 1975, while also green-lighting the Turkish invasion of Cyprus that same year.
To the contrary, the EU has pursued a policy of abandoning Eastern Europe to its communist fate, and not doing anything to resist the advance of leftist and communist parties in Greece, even if they were funded by the USSR or Eastern European nations.
Worse, since the breakup of the USSR, the EU has broken up and balkanized the former Yugoslavia, creating stronger Muslim states in Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia, while also creating issues for Greece with the FYROM, and weakening Serbia, Greece's natural ally of World War I and II (and the only Balkan ally besides Greece of both France and England from both World Wars, incidentally).
Such a policy has been a betrayal not only of Serbia, but also of Greece, and of the Versailles and UN pacts, as well as of the fundamental understandings of the peace accords following World Wars I and II that Greece and Serbia were the winners, and the other countries were the losers.
Greece is owed reparations, land and damages from the EU, the former Eastern European Republics which intervened in her internal affairs, and from the US for the additional issues over Serbia, Yugoslavia and FYROM and Kosovo.
All of these matters have conspired to make Greece economically weaker and to cut Greece off from its natural trading partner, Serbia/Yugoslavia, for an extended period of time.
The damages are in the billions of dollars. And apologies.
At a minimum, Greece is owed Southern Albania (Northern Epirus) as land compensation for the evil deeds done by the Communists for fifty plus years. They are also owed this because of the Albania invasions during World War II and because of Greek claims to the land dating back to the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and World War I prior to the formation of Albania. Also, because Italy owes reparations to Greece and Italy, more than any other country, is responsible for the current drawing of Albania's boundaries.
The land compensation issue is not a minor one.
The other land that should really be awarded to Greece since Yugoslavia cannot hold it is the FYROM. Only Greece has the military, governmental and spiritual resources to hold this land against the Albanian minority.
Likewise, Kosovo should remain part of Serbia. It is holy land to the Serbian Orthodox dating back to the 13th century, and this issue is far more important than who happens to live there now. Besides which, most of the Muslim peasants who reside there are transients, nomads or rebels transplanted there for the purpose of fighting the Serb army and not true residents of Kosovo.
The fact that Albania, Bosnia, FRYOM and Kosovo are becoming breeding grounds for the Albanian mob and Islamic terrorism are only additional reasons for extending Serbian and Greek military and territorial sovereignty and orthodox churches to these regions. This is just compensation.
Greece is owed war reparations on a massive scale by Germany, Albania and Italy (and therefore the entire EU) jointly for depredations during World War II. Not only were more than one million Greek citizens killed by warfare, starvation and occupation by the Nazis and Italy.
The depopulation of Greece and economic damages to Greece due to the Italian invasion of 1940, the Greek Counteroffensive of 1940-41 (capturing Northern Epirus) and the subsequent Italian and German Occupations, and the looting of Greek archeological and art treasures, the theft of Greek farm products, the deliberate starvation of millions of Greeks, the holocaustic killing of Greek gypsies and Greek Sephardic Jewish minorities in Thessalonica and Macedonian Greece in the hundreds of thousands, often against bitter Greek resistance, caused severe economic and population damage to Greece for decades to come.
If you watched the recent Tarantino film INGLORIOUS BASTERDS, which took a few historical liberties, you got the essential idea of what the NAZIS were like–jew-hating, propaganda-wielding zealots, hungry and mad for power. They killed, plundered and exploited their conquered nations with reckless but precise abandon.
First, Greece's population was decimated, probably by a factor of two. Greece today would be twenty million but for the decimations and depredations of World War II.
Second, Greece became depopulated of Sephardic Jews, its most productive and happy citizens of the North and of Thessaloniki. The economic consequences were incalculable to Thessaloniki. Greece was one of the main theaters of the Holocaust as Thessaloniki was a largely Jewish city prior to 1940. Its Sephardic Jewish community was centuries old. This was true in other parts of Greece as well where the Germans attempted to first quarantine, then liquidate the Greek Sephardic Jewish population.
Third, Greece was split into two armed camps, communist resistance fighters and pro-British royalists working with the American CIA, resulting in a bitter civil war from 1944-48 which further split the country upon the retreat of the Germans, killing off what little wealth and population was left. This war destroyed the wealth and population of the North.
Fourth, a wave of emigration began from Greece to the US, causing further depopulation. Things were so bad in Greece, everyone basically left. Again, net result, Greece's population would have been around twenty million, maybe 25 million if there's no World War II attack by the Italians and Germans, and their GDP in Greece would be about fifty times as large.
Fifth, Greece was looted of antiquities, paintings, ancient art and other valuable objects which were never restored to her. The Elgin Marbles are peanuts compared to what the German Nazis stole, and as we now know, the Russians stole what the Nazis stole, as in the case of the rare Heinrich Schliemann gold jewels of Troy, to give but one famous example of World War II art theft—the so called golden jewels of Sophia Schliemann which were considered lost for more than sixty years, suddenly appeared in a Russian museum once communism fell.
One could go on, but it's clear that the Marshall Plan and US yearly aid does not approach compensation for damages done to Greece by Germany and Italy. Germany owes Greece a permanent stipend in the hundreds of billions of dollars and so does Italy.
Moreover, Germany is now a rich country, while Greece continues to be poor. This is directly a result of Germany's own imperial Nazi policies under the Third Reich, which not only followed prior Prussian imperialism but added to it Hitler's anti-Semitic notions of lebensraum, anti-Semitism and other nutty ideas he had absorbed while living in 1890s Vienna listening to pan-German anti-Semites yearning for the lost years of the German-dominated Habsburg Empire.
Perhaps Germany has moved on, but Greece has been unable to, because it continues to be paralyzed by the left-right splits which were directly created by Germany's interferences in Greece.
Nearly everything that has happened in Greek economic and politics since 1940 is directly a result of World War II, as well as other external events not of Greece's own doing.
Germany and Italy are the main culprits and owe Greece trillions of dollars in reparations.
Greece and Serbia were both on the winning side in World War II. Yugoslavia emerged stronger, but Greece considerably weaker, although it was given the Dodecanese Islands, including Rhodes, from Italy. But this was not a sufficient compensation for the depredations of the War.
Greece and Serbia were on the winning side Under the Treaties of Versailles and Sevres. Serbia was rewarded with the Kingdom of the Croats, Serbs and Slovenes, which later became Yugoslavia.
Because of the events that are described herein, Greece continues to be owed reparations by the old Ottoman Empire, Modern Turkey, England, France, the USSR, modern Russia, the United States, the League of Nations and its successor the UN, as well as the land promised them in those treaties.
Greece by contrast was denied Cyprus and the Dodecanese were given to Italy. Instead under the Treaties of Versailles (1919) and Sevres (1920) (signed by the Turkish Sultan) Greece was given more territory from Bulgaria, as well as Smyrna and a zone in Asia Minor around Smyrna, to be governed by Greece for five years pending a plebiscite. Also, Eastern Thrace, a massive amount of territory largely Greek speaking and Greek populated, flat and fertile and bordering on the Black Sea, up to the borders of Constantinople, was given to Greece. This would have approximately doubled Greece's land area and created the Greece of two continents and five seas envisioned by Venizelos. Finally, the Treaty guaranteed the international freedom of the Straits (the Bosphorus, Dardanelles and Sea of Marmora) as well as the status of Constantinople as an International City, free of any governmental control by any national entity.
In time, it was inevitable that both Constantinople and Smyrna would become wealthy, influential and rich centers of Greek trade and influence.
At this time, in 1919, Asia Minor had approximately five million Turkish, three million Greek, one million Armenian and one million Kurdish citizens. Constantinople was more than fifty per cent Greek, Armenian and Jewish, and had more than thirty newspapers, the majority of which were in French, Greek, or Armenian. Smyrna was at that time the largest, most populous and richest Greek city in the world, and the center of the lucrative Greek tobacco trade, which dominated the world. Aristotle Onassis' father was the richest tobacco merchant in all of Smyrna.
Greek history books refer to what happened next as "the great catastrophe," but the real story is at once more complex and also much simpler.
First, the United States promised to administer the Armenian Mandate, adopt the Treaty of Versailles, and join the League of Nations and guarantee by military means, if necessary, the provisions of the dismemberment of the Ottoman States. The Armenian Mandate included most of Northern and Anatolian Asia Minor, where resided many Christian Armenians and Greek Ottoman Empire citizens, many of whom were seeking protection from Turkish and German oppressions and depredations since 1915 in American missionary schools and camps. An extensive record of German-Turkish brutalities, including the Armenian genocide from 1915 onwards, is to be found in many sources.
This American mandate never happened. First, the US Senate voted down the Armenian Mandate. Second, the US Senate voted down the Versailles Treaty. Third, the US Senate voted down the League of Nations.
Thus, what US History books refer to as "isolationism" is really "refused to get involved in the politics of the Ottoman Empire and the protection of Christians from Turks". And "refused to send us peacekeeping troops to protect Christians from Muslim genocidal race-hating young Turks".
Since this is such a common US peacekeeping mission today, perhaps we have trouble envisioning this, but in 1919, eugenics was so commonly pervasive in the US that Armenians and Greeks were truly thought of as inferior genetically and racially by many learned American intellectuals, and thus not worth saving. It would only be four years later that the same US Senate passed the most sweeping immigration reform bill in history restricting southern European immigration to very low quotas, based on the same bad science and racial notions.
Next, the Russians, who were allies of the Greeks, became communists in 1917. They made a separate peace with the Germans and Turks, and in 1919, Kemal Attaturk who was commanding the rebel forces in the hills of Ankara, but who had no money and no weapons, went to Lenin and made a deal for war loans and weapons, and got both. In return, they agreed to partition Armenia and settle the long-standing disputes over the Caucasus border. At this point they both knew the US wasn't coming with its navy or army.
Next, having sealed off his Northeastern front with the Russians, Attaturk faced an attack from the west by the Greek Army, who was told by British Prime Minister Lloyd George in 1920 that the Greek Army would need to invade Asia Minor to deal with the problem of the rebel Turk army led by Attaturk. They were told they would be supported fully by the French, the Americans, the League of Nations and the British in their endeavor.
The Greek Army invaded, and won major victories, until reaching near Ankara, where they reached a stalemate, trench like position near the Sakarya River near Ankara. There, more than 100,000 seasoned Greek troops faced off against more than 100,000 seasoned Turkish troops (both armies had fought in both the World War and the Balkan Wars) for the next two years, from 1920-1922, without a significant change or advance.
Next, Attaturk made a separate deal with France. France betrayed England and cut a separate treaty of peace with Attaturk, in violation of Sevres and Versailles, and their pledges to the English, the Greeks and everyone else, surrendered all their weapons and artillery to the Turkish rebels, agreeing to recognize Attaturk as the true ruler of Turkey, as well as signing over land to Attaturk's faux regime, including Antioch, a Christian city with a bishop and patriarch.
The reasons for the French betrayal are complex, but essentially boiled down to rivalry in the Middle East with England. For some reason, they felt it would be to their advantage to have an independent Turkey friendly to France on the border of French Syria and French Lebanon than one controlled by Greece.
Of course, as events turned out, this was a huge mistake, since when Germany re-armed, Turkey immediately re-upped with Germany and tossed France over the side leading up to WWII. This led to the dismemberment of the French colonies in the Middle East. This led in turn to the increase in the role of the British and the US in the Middle East after 1945.
In short, France not only made a diplomatic mistake, but it betrayed its two World War I allies and violated numerous treaties as well as insuring Greece's defeat in the War.
The French surrender was a turning point in the Greco-Turkish War of 1920-22. First, it signified a diplomatic recognition of Attaturk's rump regime. Second, it provided Attaturk's fledgling army with needed weapons. Third, and perhaps most critically, it gave Attaturk only one front to fight on. Without a Russian front to the Northeast or a French Front to the South east, Attaturk could concentrate all of his army and newly found money, artillery and weapons from the French and Russians against the Greek Army along their extended defensive lines on the Sakarya River.
In the summer of 1922, Attaturk prepared a counterattack, and manage to split the Greek lines in two. This caused confusion, and ultimately, a rout of the Greek forces, which began a disorganized retreat back to Smyrna in two groups with heavy casualties, losses and mean captured. It is estimated the Greek Army suffered more than 60-80% casualties in this battle and series of retreats.
And yet, military victory was well within the grasp of Greece for many months if not years of the war, for reasons that will be delved into at greater length in a longer work still in progress.
At the end, the Greek Army disembarked on ships, and left Smyrna and the Greek populace of Smyrna to their fate. In September of 1922, Attaturk and his rebel army entered Smyrna, and in the year of the 500th anniversary of the capture of Thessaloniki by the Ottomans in 1422 (an event clearly in Attaturk's mind) Attaturk made sure his soldiers looted, pillaged and raped every Christian home, citizen and girl in the city, and then set fire to the Christian quarters of the city. Much the same fate had befallen Thessaloniki in 1422 when it fell to the Moslem.
Smyrna was utterly destroyed.
The Sack of Smyrna was an awful and terrible event. Smyrna is one of the seven cities of the Revelation, along with Philadelphia and five other cities mentioned in the apocalypsis of the revelation of st. john the divine, written on the island of patmos but revealing the divine word of God. Thus, it must be fated again to be Christian.
cf the NYT 1922. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9905EFD71139EF3ABC4C51DFBF668389639EDE
Eugenides' Middlesex has a long passage on the sack of Smyrna–it is a central event in his book. It is the reason for the exodus of his main character Desdemona Stephanides to America–the sack of Smyrna.
There are several books treating this subject, but the best in english remains Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, http://www.amazon.com/Smyrna-1922-Marjorie-Housepian-Dobkin/dp/0966745108/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269617432&sr=1-2. There is also a newer volume out by a Giles Milton, but by default I still recommend Dobkin's volume. Also, Ernest Hemingway wrote a famous war dispatch in 1923 about the sack of Smyrna which can be found in any volume collecting his war dispatches for newspapers.
The terms of the Treaty of Sevres were renegotiated by force the next year in the Treaty of Lausanne, resulting in the so-called "exchange of populations," whereby all Christian Greeks left Asia Minor for Greece and all Muslim Turks left Greece for Turkey, but the exchange was both lopsided and unfair. First, there were 1.5 million Greeks still living in Asia Minor, and second, the Turks had killed another 1.5 million Greek civilians during the Greco-Turkish War in genocide of their own. Many more would die during the trip and in refugee camps in Greece once they arrived.
Far fewer Muslim Turks made the reverse journey.
Most, if not all, of the Asia Minor Greeks never found a home in Greece. Many moved to other countries, notably America, though some went to Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, Germany and other countries.
Those that did go to Greece did not feel Greek at all. They brought a different sense of culture with them, along with a sense that their land, their history and their past had been taken from them. But this is a story for another time. Their laments are today heard, and were then heard, in the rebetika of the time, the micrasiatika music.
In the final chapter of the War, the British refused to defend independent Constantinople from Turkish advance, and in the Chanak Crisis of late 1922, Lloyd George surrendered Constantinople rather than go to war with Attaturk, even though he himself had encouraged Greece to go to war with the same adversary. His Liberal Government fell soon after, and a Liberal Government has never again been elected in England. Lloyd George's foreign policy can best be characterized as cowardly with regards to the Greeks. He failed to back them up with military and naval support and failed to commit to a total annihilation of the Turkish rebel army with British army and naval means.
That reparations, land and other monetary and equitable damages are due to the Greek Nation from England, France, Russia, etc. is clear. But for these treaty and agreement breaches, Greece would be a far greater, far more populous and far less Diasporic nation and peoples than it is. Also, Greece's largest city, Smyrna, was destroyed at the height of its economic glory, and its largest trade center and Greek cultural center, Constantinople, was taken from it.
All in all, these two blows to the Greek economy were far too much for it to every recover. Sovereign Greece with a healthy Smyrna within it and an independent Constantinople trading freely would have soon become one of the most economically powerful countries on earth. What did happen in history was something far worse.
Greece is owed trillions upon trillions of dollars in reparations, land and two huge cities.
The Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204, and looted and pillaged the city. At that time, Constantinople was the capital of the Greek Empire and the richest city on earth.
To give an idea of what was taken, the St. Sophia alone had 40,000 pounds of gold and 80,000 pounds of silver decorating its walls and dome.
Just the gold alone, assuming 16 ounces per pound, and $1200 per ounce, would yield a value in 1204 of around $786,000,000.
However, in 2010, assuming an interest rate of 5% that investment would have doubled every 14.4 years since then or roughly 56 times.
The net worth of the gold in the St. Sophia, then, in today's dollars would be approximately 5.69 times 10 to the 25th power—or approximately 56.9 billion trillion trillion dollars.
In short, more than the GDP of the entire EU combined, probably.
So, in short, Greece is owed everything owned by Western Europe.
At least that, in short, is the Fourth Crusade Argument.
Oh, and by the way, they stole the Holy Grail, the holy lance, the holy shroud (mistakenly known as the shroud of Turin, it's the shroud of Constantinople), the crown of thorns the true cross, and all the other known relics of Jesus Christ. Is there a value on these? They were gathered in one holy place, a sanctuary, in Constantinople.
This is even more basic than the Fourth Crusade argument. Everything in Western Europe and Western culture derives from Ancient Greece and Byzantine Greece—religion, art, philosophy, politics, science, mathematics, the renaissance, etc.
For this great endowment, the Greek people and the nation of Greece should be forever on stipend from Europe.
Every museum in Berlin, London and Paris has entire halls devoted to collections of Greek Antiquities. The Rosetta Stone and the Greek language were the key to unlocking Egyptology. The Gospels are written in Greek, as are the Septuagint and all of the major works of antiquity on geometry and mathematics which were studied by the Renaissance humanists, not to mention Galileo, Newton and others.
For this great endowment of learning, must we not reward the Greeks and Greece?
Monetarily? In Trillions? Quadrillions? Keep them a free trading zone? Lend to them interest free? Keep their country a kind of permanent museum?
One would think so.
I worked out the number once just for the Fourth Crusade. It's about 1 times ten to the 56th power, even assuming a very low interest rate such as 3%, since 1204. You can work out similar numbers for the gold stolen from the Greeks and land stolen from the Greeks on many other occasions, including notably the sack of Syracuse, the various conquests by the Romans, the conquests by the Arabs, and so on and so forth, but the conquests by the 4th or Latin Crusade are the most galling, because the Catholic Church does not renouce either their spiritual claim or their temporal claim to the lands. In fact, you can go to France or Germany or any of these countries, today, and obtain a dukedom or other royal title appurtaining to Athens or any other city which used to belong to the Eastern Roman Empire. In addition, the Catholic Church appoints Bishops to every eastern city in which there should only be a Patriarch appointed by the Bishop of Constantinople,e.g. the Patriarch, thus not recongizing his full equality in the Christian Church.
It would be silly of me to see the hand of opus dei or some nefarious plot behind all these machinations against the Greek Government, but you have to admit, the Germans have been in league with the Catholic Church before, to be specific, 1938, and that didn't turn out so well for Europe or its then considerable Eastern European Jewish population. Whenever Germany takes an interest in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and you have a sitting German Pope, it's a pretty good bet someone wants to reconstitute the Austro-Hungarian Empire along Germano-Catholic lines. Recreating Croatia as a catholic, independent country was certainly a good first step in that direction. Perhaps isolating Greece, Rumania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Russia, the bastions of Orthodoxy, is the next step in the plan.
Of course, it's not secret that Angela Merkel is unpopular at home. Saber-rattling against some small defenseless country fits her agenda. And, of course, there are millions of foreign Turkish gastarbeiter working in Turkey.
Returning to our main theme,Christianity itself is Judaism plus Platonism==expressed in Hellenistic philosophical terms by the Greek Church fathers.
And to Greek culture and philosophy we owe Islam and Protestantism, and perhaps even Confucianism and Buddhism too, since it was Alexander the Great who brought his Greek Philosophers to the brink of China and India in the 4th century BC.
As the Hollies once sang, "Pay You Back with Interest."
It's a big debt Europe owes the Greeks. Not the other way around, last time I checked, the ledger is still pretty heavily on the Greek side.
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Dungannon Charolais sell to 5200gns
Charolais bulls met a solid demand from commercial producers selling to a top of 5200gns at Dungannon last Friday at the breed's NI Club spring show and sale.
Sale topper at 5200gns was the senior male and overall champion, Blossom Eoghan a rising Doonally New son out of a Knockanbawn dam by Enfield Plexus. Consigned by L Richardson and Sons, Maguiresbridge, Fermanagh, he was knocked down sold to G Wallace, Enniskillen.The day's second top call of 4500gns was paid by K Farrell, Filemiletown for Corryglass Excel, a 16 month old first prize winner from Trevor Phair, Letterbreen, Enniskillen. Excel was by Pirate and out of a homebred dam going back to Doonally New.The Richardsons were in the money again at 4200gns when they sold their first class prize winner, Hillviewfarm Egbert to S and M Black, Carnlough. Sired by Allanfauld Vagabond, this one is out of a Coolnaslee cow going back to Derrygiff Mills.
Earlier on Trevor Phair collected the intermediate championship with Brogher Echo, a bull with a TSI of +34 and an SRI +37. He sold for 4200gns to A Wilson, Ballymena. This 18 month old was by Pirate and out of Brogher bred cow by Doonally New.
Two lots sold for 4000gns each. First to go was Lisnadill Egbert, a rising two year old from G C King, Lisnadill, Armagh, which was knocked down to to L Buchanan, Strabane. A Nelson son, he was out of a Mullagh bred cow by Brampton Justwilliam.
John McGrath, Dromore, Omagh offered the second 4000gns entry, Drumconnis Edward which went to R Watters, Stewartstown. This 19 month old was by 25,000gns sire Goldies Unbeatable and out of a homebred cow by Roundshill Taurus.
A pair then shared the next best call of 3800gns too. First to make this was Hillviewfarm Evis from the Richardsons. This one is by Killadeas Jack and sold to W McCloskey, Dungiven.
Brantry, Dungannon based breeder, M McVeigh then sold Gort Eoin for the same money to M McLaughlin, Cushendall. Sired by Fieldview Budd, he was out of a Roxtown bred dam by Doonally New.
The day's supreme female champion went to Brownhill Ellen, a Shaen Topper daughter out of a homebred dam going back to Simpsons Gregg. Bred and exhibited by the Devine Brothers, Strabane, Tyrone, she sold to E Johnston, Cookstown for 3500gns.
Averages: 44 bulls £2906; 10 heifers £1911 (Dungannon Farmers' Mart)


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Meeting point: Slovenia
Best time: Summer (June – September) – depending on the tour
Duration: one or more days
Difficulty: Easy – medium – hard
Terrain: grass, woods and rocks
Join us hiking in Slovenia. The land full of mountains (Alps) are your perfect location for hiking holidays in Slovenia. Hiking equipment is essential. Please consult with a mountain walking leader about the equipment, physical state/ experience and the rest in advance. In case of bad weather or any other dangerous conditions the hiking trip can be cancelled or rescheduled.
Hiking in Slovenia suggestions:
More difficult hiking in Slovenia (via ferrata):
- Triglav 2864m – the highest Slovenian mountain
- Jalovec – the symbol of Slovenian mountaineers
- Škrlatica – Queen of Triglav
- Špik – with amazing silhouette
- Mangart
- Grintavec – the highest mountain of Kamnik and Savinja Alps
- Matkovo okno or Račka vrata – natural window
- Bavški Grintavec
- Kanin
- Mrzla gora
- Via ferratas in Slovenia on request
Easy hiking in Slovenia:
- Golica – kingdom of narcissus
- Velika planina – amazing alpine pasture
- Bled Vintgar Gorge – jewels of nature
- Triglav lakes valley
- Pohorje
- Raduha
- Krn and Krnska lake
- Stol – the highest mountain of Karavanke ridge
- Hiking in wine regions (Haloze or Slovenske gorice)
- Hiking on Karst
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By-law No. 11-080, To Prohibit Smoking within City Parks and Recreation Properties
Smoking prohibited in parks, including playgrounds, recreation centre property, arena and stadium property, sports or playing fields, skateboard parks, beaches, outdoor pools and leash-free dog parks.
Products IncludedCigarettes, Cigars, Pipes, Waterpipes
"Smoking tobacco" includes the holding of tobacco while the product is alight or emitting smoke, and the verb "smoke" shall include a similar meaning. "Tobacco" includes pipe tobacco, water-pipe tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos or any similar product made with or containing tobacco.
Places Smoking ProhibitedBeaches
Playgrounds, which may include Splash Pads and Wading Pools
Sports and Recreational Fields and Facilities
Waterpipes (outdoors)
Policy Analysis
This is leading edge because it bans smoking on beaches and trails. This was the first municipality in Ontario to specifically mention waterpipes in its bylaw, although the bylaw does not extend to the smoking of other weeds or substances.
The Medical Officer of Health is responsible for administration and enforcement of the By-law, and may appoint delegates or assign duties to City staff under this By-law. Hamilton spent the first year of the bylaw educating people about it and issuing warnings. As of spring 2013, started issuing tickets, where required.
Date Passed: March 9, 2011
Date in Force: May 31, 2012
Date Last Amended:
Leading Edge: Yes
Level of Government: Municipal
Smoke-free Ontario Act Status: Exceeds Smoke-free Ontario Act
Bylaw Under Development? No
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The most centrally located hotels in Medellín with the best ratings are: Affinity Aparta Hotel, Leblón Suites Hotel and Hotel Four Points by Sheraton Medellin.
It depends on the category of the hotel. If you want to stay at a 4-star hotel in Medellín, the average price per night is €18, while you will pay an average of €12 for a 3-star hotel, and in a more luxurious 5-star hotel, you"ll pay around €39.
You can make reservations at Hotel Poblado Alejandría, Leblón Suites Hotel and Hotel Porton Medellin if you"re looking for a hotel with valet service for your visit to Medellín.
If you need a hotel with disabled access in Medellín, we recommend Hotel Park 10, Hotel Poblado Plaza and Hotel NH Collection Medellin Royal.
If you´re looking for peace and quiet and want to stay at an adult-only hotel in Medellín, we recommend Hotel Casa Asturias Medellin.
According to our clients, if you´re travelling with children, the best hotels in Medellín are Hotel InterContinental Medellin, Hotel Poblado Alejandría and Hotel Poblado Plaza.
If you want to save time, the hotels in Medellín with express check-in and check-out are Hotel Park 10, La Campana Hotel Boutique and Hotel Mediterraneo.
Some of the options for hotels with non-smoking rooms in Medellín are Hotel Park 10, Hotel Poblado Plaza and Hotel Poblado Alejandría.
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Contact the store you bought the TV from or contact samsung directly. They will send out a technician and sort it out. The technician told me personally that the TV does not support fibre. He also said that the 5ghz and 2ghz signal confuses the TV. They fix it though with a work around. I havnt had any problems since.
Hello, I installed computer systems for most of my career and learned that eventually the only solution for some problems is a hard reboot. I took the advice of another contributor and switched off the power. I then switched it on and re-entered the required data and the internet connection was restored. We live in a small rural community with a weak internet signal so I am amazed that we have so few problems. We use signal boosters in the kitchen and in the bedroom.
Best of luck,
John Woods
yes thats what we did but woited a few seconds not minutes and problem resolved
Same for me man...but not all my Samsung TV have this problem...the q led I have it's working perfectly,connected at the same wifi...for this one that I have problem il concetto to lan.
Try disabling (or renaming) the 5Ghz network (you'll have to log into router and change settings),.. this has worked for many of us, including me.
Hi I have exact the same issue with my tv and. We tried everything and nothin works! What to do ???
I bought my Samsung TV in November 2017 and just past the 1 year warranty now (it is now late Dec 2018). My WIFI connection problem started a while a go while still under warranty but I wasn't getting quick solutions or any good results and time just went by... so here I am now with a TV that does not connect to my WIFI Internet.
Model: UNMU658000 - 4k UHD 65" Smart TV
Comcast Internet Connection:
I have checked all internet settings on my router and with all other home devices (computers, cell phones, etc.) and the connection is just fine. Comcast even came over to install a fresh new router of the box for me to ensure no issues. I also have an Amazon Firestick connected to my Samsung TV and the Firestick is picking up the WIFI signal just fine. The TV and the router are on oppposite ends/floors of the house by the way... dual network (2.4 and 5) that appear as two seperate names, even though both have the same password.
Samsung Troubleshooting:
Comcast did their part, so I spent a good chunk of my day today troubleshooting with Samsung on the phone from:
1) unplugging the TV and the router and replugging after 5-10 minutes
2) manually changing the DNS Server (18.104.22.168 / 18.104.22.168 / 126.96.36.199 / 126.96.36.199)
3) a full factory reset
4) downloading the latest Firmware software upgrade file onto a USB pen drive and loaded it onto the TV, and finally,
5) connecting via my cell phone hotspot.
NONE of these solutions have worked. I went to Best Buy to see if a WIFI Range Extender will work (will try it tomorrow), but have very little expectation that it will work. The last resort option will be to call a local Samsung-Authorized technician for a home visit to evaluate, but since I am now out of warranty, I expect the cost of this visit and any followup labor/parts to be expensive.
I can get to basic apps like Netflix, Pandora, etc through the Amazone Firestick, but this is more about principle that I want my TV internet connection to be functional after paying so much money for a "top of the line" TV.
Are there any other solutions I can try which I havent mentioned above or by others in this thread?
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Did you ever find a fix to this problem? For the past week i have been having to reset the network settings and re-enter my password everytime i turn the tv on. Its making me crazy!
A quicker way for me is to turn it off at the wall plug for 5 seconds. I'd go crazy too if I went the reset network settings update every time!
Mine seems to be behaving itself lately so fingers crossed.
That's all I did. Just pulled the power plug from the back of the unit.


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ProspeCtive, nOn-randoMized, MulticENter Clinical Evaluation of Edwards Pericardial Aortic and Mitral Bioprostheses (Models 11000A and 11000M) With a New Tissue Treatment Platform (COMMENCE)
Brief SummaryThe objective of this trial is to confirm that the modifications to tissue processing, valve sterilization and packaging do not raise any new questions of safety and effectiveness in subjects who require replacement of their native or prosthetic aortic or mitral valve.
Detailed DescriptionMulticenter, prospective, single arm trial - Up to seven hundred (700) aortic valve replacement (AVR) subjects and up to three hundred twenty-five (325) mitral valve replacement (MVR) subjects at up to forty (40) clinical sites will be enrolled. The trial will include male and female patients, 18 years or older, requiring replacement for a diseased, damaged, or malfunctioning native or prosthetic aortic or mitral valve. Patients will be followed and assessed after implant for up to 5 years.
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
- Is 18 years or older
- Provides written informed consent prior to trial procedures
- Agrees to attend all follow-up assessments for up to 5 years and is willing to comply with specified follow-up evaluations at clinical investigational sites that are participating in the COMMENCE trial and/or obtain the protocol-specified diagnostic tests at centers that are under the same IRB or the same healthcare system
- Diagnosed with aortic or mitral valve disease requiring valve replacement based on pre- operative evaluation
- Scheduled to undergo planned aortic or mitral valve replacement with or without concomitant bypass surgery
- Scheduled to undergo planned aortic valve replacement with or without resection and replacement of the ascending aorta from the sinotubular junction and without the need for circulatory arrest for hemi arch or arch replacement
- A subject meeting any of the following criteria shall be excluded:
- Requires emergency surgery
- Requires multiple valve replacement/ repair (with the exception of mitral valve replacement with tricuspid valve repair)
- Has prior valve surgery, which included implant of a bioprosthetic valve, mechanical valve, or annuloplasty ring that will remain in situ
- Requires a surgical procedure outside of the cardiac area (e.g. vascular bypass)
- Requires surgical replacement of the aortic root
- Has active endocarditis/myocarditis or endocarditis/myocarditis within 3 months to the scheduled aortic or mitral valve replacement surgery
- Has renal insufficiency as determined by creatinine (S-Cr) level ≥ 2.5 mg/dL or end -stage renal disease requiring chronic dialysis at screening visit
- Has MRI or CT scan confirmed stroke, cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or transient ischemic attack (TIA) within 6 months (180 days) prior to planned valve surgery
- Has acute myocardial infarction (MI) within 30 days prior to planned valve surgery
- Has presence of non-cardiac disease limiting life expectancy to less than 12 months
- Diagnosed with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM)
- Diagnosed with abnormal calcium metabolism and hyperparathyroidism
- Exhibits left ventricular ejection fraction ≤ 20% as validated by diagnostic procedure prior to planned valve surgery
- Echocardiographic evidence of an intra-cardiac mass, thrombus, or vegetation
- Hemodynamic or respiratory instability requiring inotropic support, mechanical circulatory support, or mechanical ventilation within 30 days prior to planned valve surgery
- Documented leukopenia (WBC < 3.5x 10³/
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 90033
- Oklahoma Heart Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73135
- University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, 66160
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 77030
- St. Vincent Medical Group, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46290
- Spectrum Health Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49503
- Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia, 30308


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Yesterday (2012-01-20), Maxim, also volunteer in VCS and me decided to go to Tetovo and try to ski. More or less, early in the morning we went to take the bus (you can find one bus to Tetovo every half hour) to Tetovo. When we arrived to Tetovo we didn't know how to get in the ski station, but we saw one cartel with a picture of a chairlift and we followed it. We walked but we didn't find anything, so we decided to stop a car, but no one stopped. So finally we took a taxi to the lift that goes to the ski station. It was very near from we were so we didn't have to pay almost nothing. Unfortunately the lift was closed, so we decided to hitchhike. We took one car to half way and another until the end. When finally we were there, we rent the skis, and we started to go up and down. We eat some sandwiches in the top of the mountain, and we enjoyed as much as we could the snow. To go back, the same two guys that took us to the station brought us back to Tetovo.
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Everybody wants to be successful. Depending on what your idea of success means to you, you would do whatever is necessary to achieve that. The thing is, there is no easy way to reach your achievement without putting in the necessary effort.
RELATED: 5 Reasons You May Not Be As Successful As You Want
Here are 10 habits that ultra successful people have that you can follow to help with you accomplish your goals.
1. Take risks
If you choose to play safe and never take a calculated risk, attaining success will be less likely to happen. It is completely understandable why people are so scared of taking risks because we are all afraid of failure. The great thing that failure teaches us is that you can learn and adapt accordingly so that you don't find yourself in the same failed spot again.
Taking risks can take you to places you never though imaginable both career wise and in your personal life. Think big, imagine success, always take risks!
2. Go the extra mile
Do more than what is required. You will find that putting in extra effort in your work will force you to want to do things in an excellent manner. It is true what they say, you do need to work harder than your opponents if you want to be the first to finish or to be the winner.
Overnight success is not going to happen, but if you put in the long hours well into the night, you will most likely attain the goals and dreams you have set out for yourself. Sacrifice is required, but in the end, you will be grateful for the effort you have put in.
3. Get organised
Try to form a strategic plan to your day and stick to it. We know that life is filled with the unexpected, but try to arrange your daily tasks in order of priority. Do not lose focus of what needs to be done, that is why being organised is so important in your quest for ultra success.
4. Never procrastinate
Do what needs to be done now! We live such busy lives and it usually feels like one task fuses into another without the former getting completed and that leads to piled up incomplete work.
The mentality of "I will finish later" is detrimental to your flow of work and you will start getting lax. This is why organisation is so important, if you know what you need to do and have a list of priorities, you can get more work done properly and efficiently.
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In the same way we all fear failure, hating criticism is another thing we all do. There are two types of criticism; negative and constructive. Spiteful and negative criticism will bother you but you need to just ignore it and move on from what has been said.
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You opinion and ideas matter, but so do the ideas and opinions of others. You learn so much more by listening to what your partner, co-workers and peers have to say and you can make mental notes of things that you may not have thought of before.
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You need to know how to say NO. This is an extremely valuable skill to learn as it will only serve to be in the best interest of personal life or for the work you do for others. If you say yes to all things presented to you, you risk over working or not fully committing to one thing at a time resulting in poorly produced work.
Let people know that your time is precious and that you have things to do.
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You will never know the answers to anything without asking questions. The greatest minds asked plenty of questions about everything before coming to answers and gaining the recognition they received today.
10. Be honest in all things.
Don't be delusional, it is fine to admit that you are limited in certain aspects of your work. Talking up the world sounds great, but when you are presented a situation where you are expected to deliver and you can't, you only make yourself a fool to those around you.
You know not to make promises you cannot keep in your personal life, so you should not do so in your career either. To be successful, you need to build strong relationships with those you work with. Strong relationships are rooted in trust and trust can only be gained by honesty.
Remember the decision to be a successful person ultimately lies with you. You need to trust your intuition and have the utmost self-belief in your talents and instincts. The road to success is always a challenge and there is not one perfect way to get there, the key is taking what other successful people have done and try to mould it to your own specific traits and strengths. The journey is a long one so stay committed and ready for the long haul.