Young entrepreneurs in Nova Scotia will continue to benefit from the support of Futurpreneur thanks to a new investment of $600,000 from the province. The non-profit organization provides unsecured funding, mentorship, and resources to diverse young entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 39. “Entrepreneurs with new ideas and a drive to succeed are transforming our economic landscape here in Nova Scotia,” said Economic Development Minister Susan Corkum-Greek. “As a government, we strive to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship, and this funding will help us achieve that by allowing Futurpreneur to continue to support and mentor aspiring business…
Author: Ebrahim
Some governments seek to cushion the blow for customers and businesses, either through direct aid or by capping prices for consumers and then paying the difference to energy providers. But with inflation in many countries well above target and already large budget deficits due to emergency spending during the Covid-19 pandemic, the possibility of cushioning the impact is more limited than early in 2020. Rising inflation triggered increases in short-term interest rates in many countries, slowing economic growth.Europeans have rushed to increase gas imports from alternative producers such as Algeria, Norway and Azerbaijan. Several countries have resumed or extended the…
The 17th Annual Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF) featured outstanding films and documentaries, a masterclass for budding filmmakers by George Pelecanos, a workshop on guidelines for filmmakers interested in exploring international markets by entertainment lawyer Carol T. Contes, and a panel discussion with cinematographers working primarily in Greece to compare working conditions with their American colleagues. However, the breakthrough event of the 17th LAGFF was a new collaboration between The Hellenic Initiative (THI) and Global Greek Film Initiative (GGFI) that will literally bring Hollywood industry professionals to Greece! The significance of this partnership is that the newly created GGFI…
Four major fires were raging in Greece on Monday night, fire department spokesman Lt. Col. Yiannis Artopios said during the first of two special Monday night ANA briefings. Two of the four major fires broke out in Attica – in Kouvaras (South-East Attica) and Dervenoxoria (North Attica) -, one in the Kallithea forest area (south-east of Loutraki, Corinth ), and a fourth at Kaparelli in Boeotia (Boeotia). Police again halted traffic on the Athens-Sounion highway due to the spread of the fire. Specifically, traffic is closed from the Athens-Sounion and Kalyvia highways to Sounion; the Athens-Sounion and Saronia highways to…
Nicholas Burns, the US Ambassador to China, has been the victim of a brazen cyberattack orchestrated by Beijing-linked hackers. According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Thursday, this plot potentially compromised hundreds of thousands of sensitive US government emails. But the drama does not end there. The WSJ report also revealed that Daniel Kritenbrink, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia, was also caught up in this broader spying operation recently uncovered by Microsoft. With such high-profile targets falling prey to this cyberattack, the stakes couldn’t be higher. The US State Department, always attentive…
About a thousand people gathered on a beautiful morning on the National Mall the Saturday before Thanksgiving for what has become an American tradition: mourning a death on the road. With the Capitol in the background and the melody of an ice cream truck looping nearby, the crowd had gathered to remember Sarah Debbink Langenkamp, who was cycling home from her sons’ elementary school. when it was run over by a tractor-trailer.Ms. Langenkamp was, improbably, the third State Department Foreign Service officer to die while walking or riding a bicycle in the Washington area this year. She was killed in…
August 21, 2023 September brings theatrical performances, gallery exhibit, reading, concert, and unique lecture to the Susquehanna University campus. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise stated. The gallery opens the season with To flow exposure THE Lore Degenstein Gallery will kick off its 2023-24 season with an opening reception at 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 2 to celebrate the exhibition To flow. Artists sTo Len, Stacy Levy and Allie Wist will be in attendance and provide remarks. The exhibition continues until October 13. Student-led tours will take place September 26, September 28, October 3, and…
Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture was once colorful, vibrantly painted, and lavishly adorned with detailed ornamentation. Chroma: ancient sculpture in color reveals the colorful background of polychromy – meaning “many colors” in Greek – and features new discoveries of surviving ancient colors on artwork from the Met’s world-class collection. Exploring the practices and materials used in ancient polychromy, the exhibition highlights cutting-edge scientific methods used to identify ancient color and examines how color helped convey meaning in antiquity, and how ancient polychromy was seen and understood in later periods.The exhibition presents a series of reconstructions of ancient sculptures in color…
Padilla called the claimants to the front of the room. At first they stood uncertain on the stage, like teenagers auditioning for a play. Then, slowly, they moved towards the rows of wooden desks. I saw one of them, a young man in an army green football t-shirt that said ‘Support our troops’, offered a group of legionnaires. “I will take land from non-Romans and give it to you, grant you citizenship,” he promised them. As more and more students left their seats and began to negotiate, offers and counter-offers reverberated against the stone walls. Not everyone took him seriously.…
US greenlight for arms purchase for Greek Cypriots in the divided island of Cyprus, in a move that has angered Türkiye, the main supporter of the island’s Turkish Cypriot community. The Biden administration on Friday extended its decision to lift the US arms embargo imposed on the Greek Cypriot administration until September 2024. Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed Congress “that the Republic of Cyprus has fulfilled the conditions necessary under applicable law to enable the Department to approve exports, re-exports and transfers of defense articles to the Republic of Cyprus for fiscal year 2024,” the Department of State said…