Santa Barbara AHEPA Chapter 243

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INTERNATIONAL / EUROPE August 24, 2008 Some Britons Too Unruly for Resorts in Europe By SARAH LYALL Malia, Greece, is the latest in a long list of European resorts full of young British tourists on packaged tours offering cheap alcohol and a license to behave badly.

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ORDER OF AHEPA
SANTA BARBARA CHAPTER #243
Established October 17, 1929
“Promoting the Harmony of Greek Culture, Service, and Community”
“Keeping the Spirit Alive”
http://www.ahepa20.org/`chapter243/
www.ahepa20.org/chapters (easier for some)
** E-mail: ahepa243@gmail.com **
“Let’s Do Something Great in 2008"
General mailng address:
Ahepa Chapter #243 c/o Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church
1205 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93111
(805) 683-4492, Fax (805) 964-2774 www.saintbarbara.net (please note our e-mail address above)
2008-2009 officers
Pres. James Arger, Vice. Pres. George Papazacharioudakis, Treasurers- Steve & Chris Compogiannis, Sec'y & immediatePast President James Brown, Past District Governor Costandino Frangos

Meetings held on the third Monday of the month (12) @ Harry's Plaza Cafe' in the Lorretto Plaza
coner of State St. and Las Positas Rd, 6:30-6:45 start time
We have a wide range of vision and activity. We welcome your visitation.

AHEPA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Steve BetzelosAHEPA is proud to honor this year's Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Steve Betzelos as our Geek of the Week. Betzelos, a lifelong resident of Chicago, served as Supreme President in 1988 and Chairman of the Board from 1999 to 2002. He was instrumental in raising funds for AHEPA's Cooley's Anemia Foundation in the 1980s with a telethon. Moreover, Betzelos served his country in World War II, in the Army Air Corps reserves, and later the Air Force reserves where he retired as a Major.
Most recently, Brother Steve served as General Chairman of the historic Athens Supreme Convention and he played an integral role in the success of the convention. Moreover, he continues to be engaged and interested in Greek American issues. Please join AHEPA in honoring Brother Steve Betzelos as this week's Greeks of the Week!

Basketball has taken Nick Livas to three colleges in three years.But this summer, the game took Livas, a Prairie Ridge graduate, to one of the most remarkable places he ever has visited.Livas, who will be a senior this fall at NAIA University of Illinois at Springfield, was part of a 10-player contingent of Greek-American athletes to travel to Greece as a touring all-star team.“I wasn’t sure whether I was going to go or not,” Livas said. “It’s one of the best decisions I’ve made in my entire life.”The trip, which involved four games in 11 days last month, was sponsored by the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), a Greek-American fraternal organization.The players visited sites in Athens and other cities, played against Greek pro teams and the country’s junior national squad, and enjoyed soaking up the culture.“I learned a lot about my heritage,” said Livas, whose great grandparents were born in Greece before coming to the U.S. in 1909. “They’re very proud people. Every five feet, each building has a Greek flag.”The Greeks’ warm attitude toward visitors also was evident.“Everything is a little more laid back,” said Livas, who never had traveled to Greece. “People aren’t as confrontational. If you bump into somebody in downtown Chicago, there might be a problem. If you bump into somebody in Greece, they might talk to you for a half hour.”There was very little bumping on the basketball court, however, for the American players, who were coached by ESPN analyst and former Villanova coach Steve Lappas.“They’re not very physical,” said Livas, who averaged 12.5 points and a career-high 7.5 rebounds last season at UIS. “In America, you can get hammered and not get a (foul) call. Over in Greece, if you breathe on somebody, they call the foul.”The 6-foot-6, 225-pound Livas added 10 pounds this summer to carry into his second season at UIS, where he has found a home after one season each at fellow NAIA schools Olivet Nazarene and McKendree.Playing in a fast-paced offense guided by 11-year NBA veteran Kevin Gamble, the seventh-year UIS coach, Livas has been a key contributor.“It’s not quite a run-and-gun, but it’s very paced,” Livas said.

Seniors Line Up Overnight for Affordable Housing
A group of approximately 100 elderly people camp out overnight in southwest Houston to pick up applications for affordable senior housing.The applicants will compete for 66 available units.The housing complex will be named Penelope's Place, which is set to open in October 2008. Penelope's Place, a Section 202 senior housing project built by the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association and Daughters of Penelope, Inc., will be located on the 8100 block of Creekbend in southwest Houston.The AHEPA already has four housing complexes located on Rustling Leaves near the intersection of Bissonnet Road and State Highway 6. The last complex built was completed in 2006.There is currently a list of 600 people waiting for Section 202 housing in the Houston area. The flow of evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita into the area has compounded the need for affordable senior housing.The AHEPA-built complexes are funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Greek Real Estate Boom Defies Market DoldrumsATHENS (International Herald Tribune) -- August 19, 2008 -- Increasing numbers of affluent Europeans are buying or building luxury properties on the Greek islands, even as the market for top-end holiday homes in other European destinations like Spain and Bulgaria remains stalled, Greek real estate agents say. ... read more.

Help AHEPA Widen Our Scope of Disaster Relief Efforts!WASHINGTON, D.C. (AHEPA Relief) -- Recently our nation and world have faced a series of natural disasters which, as Ahepans we can not turn a blinds eye. After the enormous success of our efforts to provide relief to the wild fire victims in Greece, AHEPA asks each of you to join us now, in helping disaster victims, many of whom have been left homeless and severely injured. ... please give generously.

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Oldest New Testament Bible heads into cyberspace
By Dave GrahamMon Jul 21, 12:50 PM ET
More than 1,600 years after it was written in Greek, one of the oldest copies of the Bible will become globally accessible online for the first time this week.
From Thursday, sections of the Codex Sinaiticus, which contains the oldest complete New Testament, will be available on the Internet, said the University of Leipzig, one of the four curators of the ancient text worldwide.
High resolution images of the Gospel of Mark, several Old Testament books, and notes on the work made over centuries will appear on www.codex-sinaiticus.net as a first step towards publishing the entire manuscript online by next July.
Ulrich Johannes Schneider, director of Leipzig University Library, which holds part of the manuscript, said the publication of the Codex online would allow anyone to study a work of "fundamental" importance to Christians.
"A manuscript is going onto the net which is like nothing else online to date," Schneider said. "It's also an enrichment of the virtual world -- and a bit of a change from YouTube."
Selected translations will be available in English and German for those not conversant in ancient Greek, he added.
Dating from around 350, the document is believed by experts to be the oldest known copy of the Bible, along with the Codex Vaticanus, another ancient version of the Bible, Schneider said.
The vellum manuscript came to Europe piece by piece from Saint Catherine's Monastery by Mount Sinai after German biblical scholar Konstantin von Tischendorf found a number of folios there in 1844. He was allowed to take some to Leipzig.
Tischendorf returned to the monastery in 1859 with Russian backing and acquired the biggest section of the Bible for his imperial sponsors. It remained in St. Petersburg until the Soviet Union sold it to the British Museum in 1933.
"The first section was clearly a gift to Tischendorf, but that's not so clear in the case of the second portion. The monks all signed a contract at the time, but the rumor persists that they were given a raw deal," said Schneider.
"And there is probably some truth to this."
Subsequent discoveries meant that the original Codex, missing roughly half the Old Testament, is now housed at four locations in Europe and the Middle East.
The project, launched in cooperation with the Russian National Library, the British Library and Saint Catherine's Monastery, also details the condition of the Bible, believed to have been written by early Christians in Egypt.
"I think it's just fantastic that thanks to technology we can now make the oldest cultural artifacts -- ones that were once so precious you couldn't show them to anyone -- accessible to everyone, in really high quality," said Schneider.
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Robin LloydLiveScience Senior EditorLiveScience.comMon Aug 4, 9:21 AM ET
A mummy of a middle-aged woman dating to Ancient Greek times has been discovered in a lead coffin inside a marble sarcophagus, the first clear indication of embalming in Greece from the era when the Romans ruled there.
A research team co-led by Frank Rühli of the University of Zurich was able to show that various resins, oils and spices were used to embalm the body, dating to A.D. 300. Along with the skeleton, the methods partially preserved some soft tissues from the body, most of which are now brittle, thin and extremely desiccated, including eyebrows, a muscle in the hand, hair and blood cells.
Rühli told LiveScience that this a "unique finding for this temporal and spatial setting."
The body was covered with a gold-embroidered purple silk cloth, indicating that the woman was probably of high social status, Rühli said. Her bones reveal that she was somewhere between 50 and 60 years old. The finding will be detailed in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science.
The mummy currently is held at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Myrrh, fats and resins
The sarcophagus was uncovered initially in 1962 during an archaeological dig in Northern Greece, on the eastern cemetery of Thessaloniki, which was used from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine Periods for burial and other ritual practices.
In addition to macroscopic and anthropological analyses, electron microscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry examinations were also performed on the remains. These showed the presence of various embalming substances including myrrh, fats and resins. The lead coffin encasing the remains might also have assisted in their preservation, though the researchers were uncertain if that was intentional or effective.
The coffin was made specifically for this corpse. The body, with a stature of about 63 inches, or 5 foot, 3 inches, lay on a wooden pallet inside the coffin and was wrapped with cotton and linen bandages.
Writing about corpses
Writings by Homer, Herodotus and Pliny the Elder suggest that the Ancient Greeks wrapped their dead in a funeral garment consisting of a long ankle-length robe. The corpse also might be washed with water and wine and treated with olive oil, but direct evidence for embalming practices and aromatics that might have been mixed into the oil has been less clear, the researchers wrote.
"Never before [have] such embalming substances been shown for this time period in Greece," said Rühli's colleague Christina Papageorgopoulou of the University of Zurich, who did much of the analysis and initiated the study of the mummy after coming upon the sarcophagus two years ago. "Up to now, only written historic sources suggested that selected people were embalmed in Roman Greece."
For instance, Alexander the Great is reported to have been preserved in beeswax, Papageorgopoulou and her colleagues wrote.
The research was done as part of the Swiss Mummy Project, aimed at gaining information about life and death, as well as after-death alterations (e.g. embalming procedures) of historic mummies, by using mainly methods that do not destroy the tissues. The work of the Swiss Mummy Project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Research Fund, University of Zurich.10 Weird Ways We Deal with the Dead Amazing Discoveries of Ancient Egypt Top 10 Ancient Capitals Original Story: Greek Mummy Found in Lead Coffin
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ATHENS (Reuters Life!) - After 50 years of song, Greek singer Nana Mouskouri bids farewell to the stage on Thursday, choosing the country of her birth and one of its most beautiful ancient theatres to say her final goodbye.
A sell out crowd erupted in cheers at the first of two concerts on Wednesday as Mouskouri, in her trademark black glasses and a red dress, stepped onto the marble of the Herod Atticus theatre at the foot of the floodlit Acropolis.
It is the culmination of a remarkable four-year farewell tour which began in 2004 and has taken the 73-year-old singer to 85 cities across Europe, North and South America, and Asia.
"Beautiful things or bad things they always have an end, nothing lasts forever," the singer told Reuters Television in an interview. "I thought it would be about time for me to leave the stage where I have lived for so many years ... All my life has happened through that stage."
One of the biggest female artists of all time, with 300 million records sold in seven languages, Mouskouri on Wednesday revisited songs that began her career in Greece and those that rocketed her to No. 1 in the charts from Germany to Britain.
Among the crowd on Wednesday were the mayors of Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg who came for the performance.
"I have been known to sing in a certain way and my fear is to lose this way of singing which will disappoint a lot of people," said the Cretan-born singer, explaining her retirement.
"It's not that I abandon singing or that I will never sing again in my life anywhere now, but I will not go on tours anymore. I don't want to have this fear all the time when you go on stage, this stagefright."
Born in 1934 as Ioanna Mouskouri, she began singing at a young age after moving to Athens with her family and attending the conservatory there. She sang in her first Greek music festival at 25 and has never looked back since.
She has recorded 1,500 songs and has more than 350 gold and platinum albums from country to folk, jazz, opera, pop and world music. She has toured with Harry Belafonte, recorded with U.S. producer Quincy Jones and Spanish legend Julio Iglesias, and Bob Dylan even wrote a song for her.
"It was like a dream, everything happened like a fairy tale," she said. "So I am really very grateful for what happened and in fact this tour ... was the opportunity to say thank you to the people. I wouldn't really go without saying thank you."
Mouskouri has dabbled in other professions. She presented a series for the Britain's BBC TV in 1968, became a goodwill ambassador for UN child agency UNICEF in 1993 and was elected to the European parliament the following year.
Mouskouri said she now wants to involve herself more closely with humanitarian causes, as well as give advice to young singers, possibly through classes. And she looks forward to spending more time with her family.
(Writing by Daniel Flynn, editing by Paul Casciato)

ORDER OF AHEPA
SANTA BARBARA CHAPTER #243
Established October 17, 1929
“Promoting the Harmony of Greek Culture, Service, and Community”
“Keeping the Spirit Alive”
http://www.ahepa20.org/`chapter243/
www.ahepa20.org/chapters (easier for some)** E-mail: ahepa243@gmail.com **
“Let’s Do Something Great in 2008

MINUTES OF JULY 21, 2008.

**LATE BREAKING NEWS**

July is the warmest month of the year-indeed, this starts the “Dog Days “of summer. This also begins the second half of the calendar year. We dealt with these hot days by changing our meeting place for July-we went to McKenzie’s Market where our hosts and Brother Ahepans Peter, Katina, and John P. Demourkas provided a sample of the dinner that will be served at our Glendi in November. As usual the food was delicious. Our “Thanks” go to the Demoukas family for their courtesy and work in responding to our requests. This change of venue by brought about by President Arger wishing to reach a consensus on the Glendi meal in response to a complaint by Brother Bill Poulis who felt that the meat supplied by Shaloob was not tender or tasty. So John prepared the meal and as you will read in the minutes there were not any complaints-just compliments.. Meeting at McKenzie’s Market is always unique. It suggests to me what meeting at a Kafenio in a Greek village would be like-with friends in a nice atmosphere. It is a nice feeling.

Bill Cosby has said-“I don’t know the way to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

NOTICE OUR E-MAIL ADDRESS IN THE HEADER. Gregory Pantages suggested this idea so that as we pursue or goals of membership, and events we have a way for people to communicate with us. Please put this address in your address books.

It was nice to see Thanasis Batalas and Costa Gastouniotis who have just returned from Greece. Bill Pertsulakes also was with us-welcome back.

Our next meeting is scheduled for August 18th at Harry’s Plaza Café. Hopefully the remodeling will be almost completed.

HAVE YOU VISITED OUR WEB SITE RECENTLY?

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President Arger called our meeting to order at 6:45 PM. We began our meeting with thirteen members present.

The opening prayer was led by Bill Poulis.

This weeks Happy Dollars container was a heavy large glass container which tested our muscles as we attempted to move it around the table. Our crystal-cut container still in a safe place, (where is a secret.) There were many glad tidings which were shared and appreciated by all of us.

We were told of illnesses in our community and Chris Compogiannis will send a card to Bill Chachakos, Connie Kallis. We also heard later of Katina Demoukas’ injury sustained during Holy Week which now may require surgery to her shoulder and possibly elbow. Brother John Laury is still in the convalescent hospital and I am sure would appreciate a visitation. Our thoughts of well wishes and speedy recovery go to all.

The minutes of June 16, 2008 were approved as read.

Our Treasurers and fiduciary advisors-Steve and Chris Compogiannis gave the treasury report: Smith Barney acct=$9201.79 + $ 259 (Happy Dollars) =$9450.79. Our checking acct has $1723.51. We have yet to receive from the DOP their share of $114.00 for the Ahepa Sunday coffee hour. We paid Carol Stathopolos our half of the $33.33 koliva cost and to Jim Brown $21.00 for the icon of St. Demetrious presented to Brother Jim Angelos and the sign-in ledger which will be used for a few years.

Old Business:
Greek Heritage Society request for funds-No action was taken. Chris Compogiannis will converse with Gregory Pantages and review DVD and check for info. from the Society.
Crab Fest Fundraiser for the Church-Bill Pertsulakes gave clarity to the proposal and we assured him of our support-see the minutes of the last meeting.
Festival Advertising-We will wait to see if our adv. will be in the festival brochure as we have not heard from Terry Kerimanis who is in charge of adv. Gregory Pantages reported that he was able to create our banner with our logo and e-mail address to be placed over a festival booth-(Gyro booth?), and since it is ours we can use it at other events and promotions. He also established our e-mail address which gives the public a way of reaching us. We all appreciated his work. (See all this on our web site.)

We all agreed that the Glendi meal as presented was terrific. We then discussed side dishes and variations of the main meal and subsequent costs involved. After much discussion wee agreed on the prices for the Glendi as: $45.00/adult and $25.00/ 22 years and younger.




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President Arger will create the Glendi flyer. We will discuss complimentary seating at our next meeting. Possible net profit will depend on final costs and the number of paid guests. We all anticipate a great time. Steve Compogiannis will handle the fiduciary aspects of this endeavor.

Good of the Order:

Jim Brown reported that the committee established at our last meeting to suggest to the chapter ideas for events (social and fund raisers), and membership drives met on June 17th at the offices of Chris Compogiannis. Two members were not present. This was a preliminary meeting to get established and we hope to present a more complete report and suggestions for the Chapter’s consideration in the near future.

The closing prayer was led by Brother Bill Poulis. (We are not sure how he stands on the celibate issue.) We will practice watchful waiting.

Happy Birthday to John P. Demourkas (8/31), Gregory P. Brown (9/25). Costantinos Frangos (9/21) and Constatine Gastouniotis (9/25) WOW! Two on the same date!

See you at Harry’s on August 18, 2008.


Respectfully Submitted,
James P. Brown, D.C.
Chapter Secretary.