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Cyprus Press Office Director Maria Germanou – Zoupaniotis, 58, Passed Away Maria Germanou – Zoupaniotis, Director of the Press of the Permanent Mission of Cyprus to the United Nations, passed away on Holy Thursday, April 13, 2017, at the age of 58, after a short fight with cancer. She is survived by her husband Apostolos Zoupaniotis, Publisher and Editor of Greek American Weekly Newspaper “Greek News” and UN Correspondent for Cyprus News Agency and Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation; son Evangelos Zoupaniotis, Juror Administrator at the United Stated District Court for the Eastern District of New York; daughter Irene Zoupaniotis – Ebersole and Joshua Ebersole, attorneys at Law; mother Irene Germanou; sisters Annie and Eleni Germanou. Maria Germanou – Zoupaniotis was born in Paphos, Cyprus, in 1958. After she completed her primary and secondary education in her hometown, she studied Economics at the Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki, where she met her husband and 40 years companion. Καλό σου ταξίδι Μαρία
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U.S. Drops Largest Non-Nuclear BombFor The First Time In Afghanistan Perhaps in preparation for upcoming events on the Korean Peninsula, CNN reports the US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission.
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The US military dropped America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday, the first time this type of weapon has been used in battle, according to US officials. A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the "mother of all bombs," was dropped at 7:32 p.m. local time, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission. A MOAB is a 30-foot-long, 21,600-pound, GPS-guided munition. President Donald Trump called it "another successful job" later Thursday. The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, stationed in Afghanistan and operated by Air Force Special Operations Command, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump told CNN. Officials said the target was an ISIS cave and tunnel complex and personnel in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province. “The United States takes the fight against ISIS very seriously and in order to defeat the group we must deny them operational space, which we did,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said later Thursday. The strike “targeted a system of tunnels and cave that ISIS fighters use to move around freely.” However, officials in Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior and Nangarhar provincial government told CNN that, so far, they have no information about the US bomb drop. Trump declined to say whether he personally signed
off on the strike, but did comment, “Everybody knows exactly what happens. So, what I do is I authorize our military.” He continued, “We have given them total authorization and that’s what they’re doing.” The President has granted military commanders broader latitude to act independently on several battlefields where US forces are involved, which Trump touted as making a “tremendous difference” in the fight against ISIS. During the campaign, Trump vowed to eradicate ISIS, saying he would “bomb the s**t” out of the terror group. Gen. John Nicholson, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, signed off on the use of the bomb, according to the sources. The authority to deploy the weapon was granted to Nicholson by the commander of US Central Command, Gen. Joseph Votel, Stump said. This is the first time a MOAB has been used in the battlefield, according to the US officials. This munition was developed during the Iraq War and is a blast-type warhead intended to produce a massive explosion. “As ISIS-K’s losses have mounted, they are using IEDs, bunkers and tunnels to thicken their defense,” Nicholson said in a statement following the strike. “This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against ISIS-K,” Nicholson added. “US forces took every precaution to avoid civilian casualties with this strike. US Forces will continue offensive operations until ISIS-K is destroyed in Afghanistan,” read the statement from US Forces Afghanistan.
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'Journalism is becoming powerless': Inside a nervous Turkish newsroom as the government closes in ISTANBUL — He was anticipating retirement, after nearly half a century as a journalist. Then Aydin Engin, 76, a columnist for the daily Cumhuriyet newspaper, received a frightening visit from the law. Eight policemen arrived at his Istanbul house early one morning last fall and took him into custody on terrorism-related charges. Across the city, police officers swept up a dozen of Engin's colleagues, including the newspaper's cartoonist, its editor in chief, a staff lawyer and Kadri Gursel, another noted columnist — the beginnings of a sudden and startling assault by the authorities on one of Turkey 's oldest newspapers. Now, five months later, 11 members of the Cumhuriyet staff remain locked up, their portraits printed each day on the newspaper's front page and its website in a plaintive protest. Engin and another columnist were released because of their age, but last week they were formally indicted along with their imprisoned colleagues on charges that included publishing propa-
ganda for various terrorist organizations. Some could be sentenced to decades in prison.
Journalism has been a risky enterprise in any of Turkey 's recent eras, with reporters perennially facing arrest for offending the military or some government official, or facing dismissal by a media boss beholden to powerful political patrons. But since a failed coup attempt last summer sent the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into a frenzied hunt for its enemies, members of the news media have faced exceptional peril, according to press advocates. Prosecutors have focused most of their ire on outlets the government associates with the state's two principal enemies: the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which is classified as a terrorist group by Turkey as well as the United States; and a network loyal to Fethul-
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lah Gulen, an exiled Turkish cleric living in the United States whom the authorities accused of spearheading the coup attempt. A crackdown has shuttered dozens of Kurdish or Gulenrelated outlets and has landed more than 120 journalists in prison, Amnesty International reported. That earned Turkey the distinction last year of being the world's leading jailer of journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Government officials dispute the figures and have repeatedly insisted that many of those arrested should not be considered journalists because of their alleged crimes. But several of the prosecutions, including the decision to pursue Cumhuriyet — which is associated with the mainstream anti-government opposition and frequently attacks the Gulenists — is evidence, press advocates say, that the authorities are seeking to stamp out critical or independent voices altogether. In the background is a referendum set for Sunday that could greatly expand Erdogan's powers and extend his term in office. The government's advocacy for a "yes" vote has dominated the public space, including the airwaves, in a sign of the shifting media landscape. The debate over the referendum, which has captivated Turkey for weeks, has included speculation that a government victory might prompt the authorities to ease their tightening grip, including over journalists. Staff members at Cumhuriyet seemed doubtful, and they frequently used the word "irrational" to describe the campaign of arrests. "I've never seen anything like this before," said Engin, adding that he had worked through military coups and states of emergency and had been in and out of jail for his journalism seven or eight times. He sat at his desk at the paper's offices on a recent afternoon, his plans for retirement postponed
while his newspaper was under siege and as he took on the responsibilities of the now-imprisoned chief executive. "Never before have I seen the law chewed up like it is today," he said. Those left behind in the sullen newsroom shuffle around their comrades' empty desks as uncomfortable new habits and rhythms take hold. Engin said he and others had prepared "prison bags" for themselves, with slippers and sweaters for the feared trips back to jail. Then there were the visits to courtrooms and the families of those behind bars to comfort. As journalists, "these are things we shouldn't know," said Pinar Ogunc, a reporter who covers human rights issues. For the first four months after his colleagues were locked up, Bulent Ozdogan, Cumhuriyet's acting editor in chief, said he worked without a break. There was no time for one. A thicket of legal cases threatened the newspaper and the foundation that runs it. The families of the journalists needed support, including a bus to shuttle them to prison. And the paper was facing a worsening financial crisis. Advertisers, afraid of offending the government, were pulling their accounts, and newsstand sales were plummeting, he said during an interview in his office on a recent morning. It was becoming harder to pay salaries and even to produce the newspaper, he said. When he finally did take a day off, he spent it on his couch, unable to move. The pressure was not unfamiliar at Cumhuriyet, which has been a consistent voice of opposition to Erdogan's government and has seemed to delight, at times, in poking Turkey 's famously sensitive president. Ozdogan as-
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'Journalism is becoming powerless': Inside a nervous Turkish newsroom as the government closes in sumed his post late last year, after his predecessor was imprisoned. A previous editor, Can Dundar, who lives in exile in Germany , was convicted on charges of leaking state secrets after Cumhuriyet published pictures that purported to show Turkish intelligence sending weapons to Syrian rebels. The paper had touched on a sore subject for the government, and its pursuit of Dundar was perhaps predictable. But after the coup attempt, the government's red lines had become much harder to find, Ozdogan said. "Investigations are being launched against us for our news articles, even though other papers are producing articles on the same subjects. I wouldn't say we are selfcensoring," he said. "We are acting a bit more cautiously given what we are facing. If we sacrifice ourselves to self-censorship," we would betray our friends who are in jail right now." Some of Cumhuriyet's reporters said they felt paralyzed as a result of the scrutiny, or had started to question the impact of their work on a public that had become both polarized and inured to Turkey 's incessant political churn. Fear, as well, had made some people withdraw. There was a shooting outside the paper's offices recently that authorities insisted had nothing to do with Cumhuriyet. At one point, rumors surfaced that an Islamic State militant had cased the newspaper's offices as a target, before unleashing a rampage at an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people. For Canan Coskun, Cumhuriyet's 30-year-old court reporter, there was no escape from the realities of Turkey 's post-coupattempt landscape, as she covered the cases of some of
the thousands of people facing trial in a court system that seems barely able to keep up. Her daily routine sometimes bordered on the surreal. Coskun, who joined Cumhuriyet in 2012, is one of many of the newspaper's journalists facing various investigations by the authorities. None of the charges were as serious as those facing her imprisoned colleagues, but they were enough to cast a shadow on a young journalist's career. At the same time, she found herself last month covering the trial of other journalists who worked for publications associated with the Gulen network, including people she knew. One of the defendants was Yakup Cetin, 32, a court reporter for the daily Zaman newspaper who used to sit near Coskun in the pressroom at the Istanbul courthouse. As she covered a session from the crowded gallery on a recent morning, a judge asked the defendants to state their profession. "Former journalist," some replied, with no hint of irony. From time to time, the defendants would turn around, waving at the journalists covering the trial, their erstwhile colleagues, still free. Some of the journalists seemed hesitant to acknowledge the defendants, Coskun said. "It is painful to watch," she said. Cetin, the Zaman court reporter, was "just someone sitting next to us in the pressroom. "He was a correspondent who did the same thing. He is being tried for the same things we wrote — the same trials we covered," she said. A few weeks after the court session, word spread that prosecutors had dropped the charges against the 29 journalists and that a judge had ordered them freed. But the order was reversed, and the judge who had issued the decision to free the journalists was suspended.
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Coskun, who went from covering trials two or three days a week before the attempted coup to spending all her time in the courthouse, said she considering leaving journalism and starting law school in the fall. "After all I have been through," she said, "I would like to be a lawyer for the press." In a recent column, Engin wrote about his fear that the crackdown on journalists would become normalized in Turkey , his concern that he and others at Cumhuriyet were losing the public by constantly writing about the imprisonment of their colleagues. The response was heartening, he said. The column drew more than twice the traffic he normally receives. But it seemed a small comfort to maintain the support of the paper's loyalists, including what is known as the secular Kemalist elite. Journalists in Turkey face a far deeper challenge addressing their broader audience: a polarized society in a country arguing over its identity, the nature of its democracy and the question of who belongs. In that environment, "whose idea can I hope to change?" asked Ogunc, whose reporting often focuses on minorities struggling for recognition in an increasingly rigid society. "Who is going to listen to the stories of the others?" she said by Andonios Neroulias.
TAKE ACTION The Hellenic American Leadership Council and Hellenic advocates around the world condemn Turkish President Erdogan’s claims that Turkey “gave away” Greece’s Aegean islands in the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923. This type of revisionism is not only baseless, but takes Turkish disregard for the rule of law to a new and dangerous level. Mr. Erdogan’s irresponsible words raise the prospect of hostilities in the southeastern flank of NATO as well as the weaponization of refugees by Turkey, and imperils the once promising peace process in Cyprus. Unfortunately, this is not new behavior. For decades Turkey has pursued an aggressive policy to revise the established borders in the Aegean. Over the past five years alone Turkey has violated Greek airspace over 8,500 times, leading to life threatening dogfights as Greek pilots intercept Turkish jets. Ankara uses the threat of war to prevent Greece from claiming its full maritime boundaries in the Aegean as guaranteed under international law. Erdogan’s latest “claims” about the Greek islands and Turkey’s unchecked aggression in the Aegean and Cyprus pose a direct threat to regional stability and peace. Halfhearted critiques of Turkey’s provocations and admonitions to just “get along” no longer suffice. The international community’s failure to unequivocally condemn Turkey’s rhetoric and violations of Greece’s sovereignty can bring NATO members to the brink of war. This type of irredentism and bullying has no place in NATO, in the EU, or in the West. It must be made clear to Turkey that as long as it continues such behavior, it also will have no place there.
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First, Turkey's president last week lamented the fact that Turkey "gave away" Greek islands to Greece. Now, Ankara’s mayor Melih Gökçek says Turkey "gave" Greece its islands...These islands have been Hellenic for thousands of years and will always be Greek. Add your name to The Hellenic American Leadership Council's statement.
HELLENIC AMERICAN LEADERSHIP COUNCIL The Hellenic American Leadership Council is an organization established to chart a new course for the GreekAmerican community: to ensure the continuity of a distinct and distinguished Greek-American community, to pursue and attain a level of excellence for all Hellenes and Hellenic causes, to strengthen ties between the next generation of Greek-Americans and Greece and Cyprus, and to nurture Hellenic learning and culture.
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ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ ΠΡΕΜΙΕΡΑ ΝΤΟΚΥΜΑΝΤΕΡ “ΕΜΑΚ ΚΛΗΣΗ ΖΩΗΣ” Παραγωγή Ellopia Films USA To τρίτο τεκμηριογράφημα αμερικανικής παραγωγής «ΕΜΑΚ: Κλήση ζωής» της σειράς Mt Olympus the Series, παρουσιάστηκε σε παγκόσμια πρώτη στη Λάρισα και εντυπωσίασε του παρευρισκόμενους.
Κατά την διάρκεια της εκδήλωσης η Διευθύντρια της Ellopia Films USA, Αθηνά Κρικέλη, επιφύλαξε ξεχωριστή έκπληξη και τιμή σε δύο άνδρες της 8ης ΕΜΑΚ που έπαιξαν καταλυτικό ρόλο στην πραγματοποίηση του ντοκιμαντέρ προσφέροντάς τους H παγκόσμια πρεμιέρα πραγματοποιήθηκε στις 24 τιμητική πλακέτα Κοινοβουλευτικής αναγνώρισης του Φεβρουαρίου 2017 στην Δημοτική Πινακοθήκη Αμερικανικού Κογκρέσου, για το έργο που επιτελούν Λάρισας, υπό την αιγίδα του Αρχηγείου στο Πυροσβεστικό Σώμα. Τον διοικητή Λάμπρο Πυροσβεστικού Σώματος της Ελλάδας και του Δήμου Κίτσιο, και τον Πασχάλη Δρομπούρα Λαρισαίων. Στην κατάμεστη, από άνδρες και γυναίκες του Την εκδήλωση παρουσίασε η εκπρόσωπος της Elπυροσβεστικού σώματος αλλά και συγγενών και lopia Films USA στην Ευρώπη, δημοσιογράφος φίλων αυτών, αίθουσα της Δημοτικής Πινακοθήκης Μαρία Χριστίνα Μπακλαβά, αρχισυντάκτρια των της πόλης παρέστη και η δημιουργός του, η συνεργαζόμενων ΜΜΕ aftodioikisinews και Athensπολυβραβευμένη Αθηνά Κρικέλη, σκηνοθέτης και west. ιδρύτρια της τηλεοπτικής εταιρείας Αμερικής Ellopia Films USA. Κατά την διάρκεια της βραδιάς της απονεμήθηκε αναμνηστική πλακέτα της 8ης ΕΜΑΚ Στο ντοκιμαντέρ «ΕΜΑΚ: Κλήση Ζωής» περιγράφεται από τον Διοικητή Λάμπρο Κίτσιο. η σκληρή εκπαίδευση των αντρών της 8ης ΕΜΑΚ, Για την πραγματοποίησή του ντοκιμαντέρ, οι οποίοι καλούνται να σώσουν ανθρώπινες ζωές. απαιτήθηκαν τρεις μήνες τηλεοπτικών γυρισμάτων Μέσα όμως από την καθημερινότητα της δικής κυρίως στην 8η ΕΜΑΚ (Θεσσαλία) ενώ γυρίσματα τους ζωής παρουσιάζεται και το συνολικό έργο της έγινα στην 2η ΕΜΑΚ (Μακεδονία) (ακολουθώντας Πυροσβεστικής Υπηρεσίας της Ελλάδος και της και αληθινά συμβάντα) και στην 1η ΕΜΑΚ (Αθήνα). Αμερικής.
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Ηταν μοναδική και άκρως επαγγελματική δουλειά . Η ψυχή του κάθε πυροσβέστη και της οικογένειας του που το έχει δει θεωρώ πως μόνο ένα συναίσθημα αναδεικνύει: Περηφάνια για την δουλειά του. Αυτό που προσπαθούν να του πάρουν και με την βοήθεια σου δεν πρόκειται να γίνει. Ο Θεός να σου χαρίζει πάντα υγεία και δύναμη για να κάνετε εσείς οι Έλληνες της ξενιτιάς εμάς τους Έλληνες της κακομοιρης Πατρίδας μας περήφανους. Μας ένωσες κάτω από ένα κοινό στόχο. Της προσφοράς της ίδιας της ζωής μας για τον συνάνθρωπο. Αυτό είδαμε μέσα από το έργο σου και σε ευγνωμονούμε. Λαμπρος Κιτσιος Διοικητής 8ης ΕΜΑΚ
Επάνω: Λάμπρος Κίτσιος και Πασχάλης Δρουμπούρας. Ελαβαν τιμητικά Κοινοβουλευτική διάκριση του Αμερικανικού Κογκρέσου. Αριστερά: Η Αθηνά Κρικέλη με τη παρουσιάστρια της Πρεμιέρας, Μαρία Χριστίνα Μπακλαβά.
«Η αγωνία, η αυτοθυσία, η γνώση, ο φόβος η εκπαίδευση και η εγρήγορση είναι στοιχεία που χαρακτηρίζουν όλους τους πυροσβέστες, κάθε ειδικότητας! Πρόκειται για μία σημαντική και πολύ όμορφη στιγμή, ένα «μεγάλο ευχαριστώ» με το δικό μας τρόπο, στους ανθρώπους που στέκονται κοντά μας στις πιο δύσκολες στιγμές μας, που δεν τους
δίνουμε πολύ σημασία, παρά μόνο όταν έρθει η στιγμή που θα τους χρειαστούμε Αυτούς τους ανθρώπους τους πρώτο συναντήσαμε στο βουνό του Ολύμπου, τους γνωρίσαμε και τους ζήσαμε. Κάθε μέρα που περνούσε “ψήλωναν” στα μάτια μας» δήλωσε συγκινημένη η κ. Αθηνά Κρικέλη.
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1. Οι “πρωταγωνιστές” του ΕΜΑΚ Κλήση Ζωης (Μέλη της 8ης ΕΜΑΚ) 2. Η Αθηνά Κρικέλη λαμβάνει τιμητική πλακέτα από τον διοικητή της 8ης ΕΜΑΚ Λάμπρο Κίτσιο. 3. Την πρεμιέρα χαιρέτησε και ο Δήμαρχος Λαρισαίων Απόστολος Καλογιάννης, ο οποίος και παραχώρησε την αίθουσα της Δημοτικής Πινακοθήκης για την προβολή. 4. Από αριστερά, ο νέος Περιφεριάρχεις του Πυροσβεστικού Σώματος Θεσσαλίας, ο δήμαρχος Ελασσόνας Νίκος Ευαγγέλου και ο Αντιπεριφερειάρχης Θεσσαλίας Θανάσης Παιδής
“ΕΜΑΚ ΚΛΗΣΗ ΖΩΗΣ” ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ
Την 1η Μαρτίου 2017 πραγματοποιήθηκε δεύτερη προβολή στην Θεσσαλονίκη στην αίθουσα Αιμίλιος Ριάδης της HELEXPO!
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Περισσότεροι από 300 άτομα μέλη της Πυροσβεστικής, συγγενείς και εκπρόσωποι εθελοντικών ομάδων παρακολούθησαν την “Κλήση Ζωής”. Την εκδήλωση παρουσίασε ο σύμβουλος Μάρκετινγκ της Εllopia Films USA Κλεόβουλος Θεοτόκης και η δημοσιογράφος Ελίνα Διαμαντοπούλου. Μετά το τέλος της προβολής η διευθύντρια της Ellopia και σκηνοθέτης της σειράς Mt Olympus the Series, επέδωσε αναμνηστικά πιστοποιητικά στον Διοικητή κ Τετενέ και την 2η ΕΜΑΚ ενώ αναμνηστικές πλακέτες επέδωσε και σε τρία μέλη της 2ης ΕΜΑΚ, τιμώντας στο πρόσωπό τους όπως ανέφερε χαρακτηριστικά, όλους τους πυροσβέστες της Ελλάδας. Πρόκειται για τον Νικόλαο Βυθούλκα, Παναγιώτη Aποστολίδη και Από την απονομή των αναμνηστικών πιστοποιητικών στα μέλη της 2ης ΕΜΑΚ
Επάνω: Η διευθύντρια της Ellopia, Aθηνά Κρικέλη με την δημοσιογράφο και παρουσιάστρια της εκδήλωσης στην Θεσσαλονίκη, Ελίνα Διαμαντοπούλου Αριστερά: Στιγμιότυπο από την προβολή
“Hταν ένα ρεαλιστικό ντοκυμαντέρ που αποτύπωσε όχι μόνο τον επιχειρησιακό σχηματισμό των ΕΜΑΚ και των πυροσβεστικών υπηρεσιών του Σώματος, αλλά και το ηθικό την ψυχολογία την ετοιμότητα και επαγγελματική κατάρτιση που έχει το πυροσβεστικό σώμα καθώς και την εξειδίκευση της ΕΜΑΚ Ηταν όλοι έκπληκτοι, μετά την λήξη της προβολής, ενθουσιασμένοι (εκπρόσωποι των Σωμάτων Ασφαλείας, του Στρατού της Πολιτικής Ηγεσίας, και εθελοντικών σωμάτων. Δεν έχουμε ξαναδεί κάτι τέτοιο! Ηταν μια καταπληκτική προσέγγιση.Η κα Κρικέλη μας εντυπωσίασε. Το “ΕΜΑΚ Κλήση Ζωής” θα αποτελέσει ένα διαμάντι , κάτι ξεχωριστό στην κατηγορία του. Ηταν μια καθαρά επαγγελματική, επιστημονική και ανθρώπινη προσέγγιση, συγχαίρω όλο το επιτελείο της Εllopia για αυτό. Kατάφεραν με τα γυρίσματα αλλά και την παραμονή τους μέσα στις υπηρεσίες που ζήσατε από κοντά να μεταφέρετε την καθημερινότητά μας. Το πως βιώνουμε όλοι εμείς οι πυροσβέστες τα συμβάντα, πως χαιρόμαστε με τις χαρές των συνανθρώπων που διασώζουμε και πως συμμεριζόμαστε την λύπη τους” Τετενές Μιλτιάδης Διοικητής 2ης ΕΜΑΚ
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ΜΑΡΙΟΣ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΥ “Ζυγιάζει τις δυνάμεις του για προκρίσεις στην Αμερική Ο ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΤΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΝΟΚ (Ντάουν Kyokushin Karate) Από την ηλικία των 5 ετών, ο πατέρας και δάσκαλός του Ιωάννης Στεφάνου Αρχηγός – Εκπρόσωπος της Παγκόσμιας Οργάνωσης I.K.O στην Ελλάδα. ξεκινά ενα πολύχρονο ταξίδι προετοιμασίας και διδαχής της τέχνης του Καράτε. Παράλληλα όμως διδάσκει πειθαρχία, σεβασμό, αγάπη και αφοσίωση. Στοιχεία που σήμερα έχουν δημιουργήσει έναν ισσοροπημένο αθλητή, με στόχους πολύ προπόνηση και αγάπη για την Ελλάδα. Από 8 ετών που άρχισε να αγωνίζεται στα Εθνικά Πανελλήνια Πρωταθλήματα δηλ. από το έτος 2000 έως και σήμερα είναι Πρωταθλητής Ελλάδας ,στις κατηγορίες που αγωνίζεται είναι επίσης 4 φορές Βαλκανιονίκης με την Εθνική ομάδα του Καράτε της Χώρας μας και Ευρωπαϊκός Πρωταθλητής το 2009 στο Παρίσι στην κατηγορία των Νέων Ανδρών -76 κιλών με την Εθνική Ομάδα της Χώρας μας. Από το 2011 αγωνίζεται στην κατηγορία Ανδρών
του Νοκ – Ντάουν Kyokushin Karate και έχει φέρει διακρίσεις στα Ευρωπαικά Πρωταθλήματα Ανδρών στην Σαραγόσα της Ισπανίας, το 2014 αγωνίστηκε στο Διεθνές Πρωτάθλημα του Kyokushinkai Karate που διεξήχθη στην Ελλάδα στον Βόλο (9-10 Μαΐου) . Οι επιτυχημένες παρουσίες του Μάριου Στεφάνου και ιδιαίτερα αυτή του Παγκοσμίου Πρωταθλήματος συνετέλεσαν ώστε να τον επιλέξει η τεχνική επιτροπή της Παγκόσμιας Οργάνωσης του Kyokushinkai karate μέσω του Παγκόσμιου Γραμματέα Shihan Katsuhito Gorai. Με προσωπική πρόσκληση για εκπαίδευση μαζί του βρίσκεται σήμερα ο Μάριος Στεφάνου στην Νέα Υόρκη, για σκληρή εκπαίδευση και προπόνηση. Κατά την διάρκεια της 6μηνης παραμονής του θα εκπροσωπήσει την Ελλάδα σε αγωνιστικές διοργανώσεις της Αμερικής με κορυφαία αυτή του All American Open 2017 στην Νέα Υόρκη στις 24 Ιουνίου
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The Original Founding Fathers
In the above picture is a tribute to the “Original Founding Fathers”. My father’s business is to print these out as posters, T-shirts, hoodies, bags, hats, etcetera (I will provide the link to his website at the end) and I have been exposed to this picture for as long as I can remember. I have asked father multiple times the meaning behind this profound image: in this blog, I will write about this visual art. This picture is accessible to all of those who wish to have it, it just simply belongs to the public, much like the very famous Che Guevara logo, peace sign, the smiley face and many world wide known symbols. In the picture above, you have four important figures of our history, from left to right: Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Geronimo and Red Cloud whom resisted to United States government (foreign) policies. But you also have the other fathers of the United States who were political leaders who are known for participating in the American Revolution, for signing the United States Declaration, and establishing the United States Constitution like (from left to right) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, whom represent the first 130 years of history of the United States. Chief Joseph was the leader of the Wallowa band of Nex
Perce, a Native American indigenous tribe to in northeastern region that is known today as Oregon. Sitting Bull was Hunkpapa Lakota who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies. Geronimo was a leader of the Apache who fought against Spain and Texas for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars and last but not least Red Cloud, a war leader and a chief of the Oglala Lakota. These are the men that resisted foreign diplomacy, who protected their beloved land from foreigners, from the what we now refer to as “aliens” or “immigrants.” Many people generally assume that U.S History begins in the year of 1492. The rich history of this country is not several hundreds of years but thousands, millions before the colonization of foreign powers. Laws were enacted for the removal of the indigenous tribes in this continent such as the Indian Removal Act, the Manifest Destiny, Yamasee War and tons of other events that led Native Americans to merge into reservation areas throughout the country. PS. Here is my father’s link to his website, make sure to check it out as he also updates his webpage with political news regarding all of the Americas: http://intiarts.com/
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