Imagine having to run 155 miles in 1.5 days without sleeping. Chris Chatzis, an electrical contractor in Salt Lake City, took on the challenge posed by the Greek Spartathlon, a 250 km race from Sparta to Athens, finishing in 70th place in just over 33 hours. Chatzis began running in 2006, and in May began training with Karl Meltzer, a local ultrarunner considered one of the best in the country. Chatzis went on to compete in races such as the Snowbird’s Speed Goats (50 km) and the Brazos Bend 100-mile, which he had to run in under 21 hours to…
Author: Ebrahim
A twenty-one-year-old theology student walked in the mid-1970s as part of my JHS 10-night Greek bilingual program. He had a contagious smile. “I wrote religious books,” he said. I asked him to give me copies of these two books with his autograph. I was impressed. A young Greek immigrant to this country wrote books and he was in my class? I told him: “Vikentios, you will become a great man. » He later became a priest, Bishop Vikentios of Apamea, builder of the Church of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou, of Astoria and of the Saints. Anargyroi, Taxiarchis and Gerasimos Greek Orthodox…
WASHINGTON, January 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — According to data compiled by SCORE, the nation’s largest network of volunteer and expert business mentors. This trend is expected to remain strong, with 81% of small businesses planning to continue giving in 2019.How do small businesses support their communities? Small businesses give 250% more than large corporations to local nonprofits and community causes, according to data compiled by SCORE, the nation’s largest network of volunteer and expert business mentors. This trend is expected to remain strong, with 81% of small businesses planning to continue giving in 2019. Donate to local charities: 66% Support…
(Photo contributed.) John P. Vellios, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, brother-in-law, uncle and godfather, fell asleep in the Lord on Sunday, November 6, 2022, at the age of 88, in Manhasset, New York. Born on September 21, 1934 to Lambrini and Panayiotis Vellios in the small village of Diplatanos in the mountains of central Greece, John had to grow up fast. As a young boy, he witnessed poverty and hunger as Greece went through World War II and then the Greek Civil War. During this time, at the age of 8, he also suffered the death of his mother. He…
Clergy and AHEPA leaders organize Hellenic-American Heritage Day proclamation. Photos by Catherine Tsunis By Catherine Tsounis NEW YORK, NY – “General Theodoros Kolokotronis said, ‘When we revolted, we spoke first for our Christian faith, then for the nation,’ said Dean Moskos, governor of the state’s District 6 of New York from the AHEPA Empire. “The Greek Orthodox Church guided and constituted the unifying force of the Greeks. There is no Greek country without FAITH. The unifying symbol is the CROSS. Faith and homeland unify our nation! Nassau County Greek Orthodox Churches and Long Island AHEPA Family Chapters participated in the…
I love being a musical theater majorI love being a musical theater student, if you want to help behind the scenes, if you want to be an assistant director, if you want to be a director, if you want to write, you can do everything in this academy, very supportive, it’s amazing , they are always there to help you. This is their working time. Even after the audition tells you what you did wrong, you can do better, or if you get cast, you know why they cast you, which is awesome.
First, they are programmed for specific tasks. (Examples created by OpenAI include “Creative Writing Coach” and “Mocktail Mixologist,” a bot that suggests recipes for soft drinks.) Second, bots can mine private data, such as a company’s internal HR documents or a database of real estate advertisements. , and incorporate this data into their responses. Third, if you allow them, bots can connect to other parts of your online life – your calendar, your to-do list, your Slack account – and take actions using your credentials.Does this sound scary to you? It is, if you ask some AI security researchers, who…
Elizabeth Stamatina Fey, better known as Tina, and Andrea Martin, executive producer and star, respectively, of NBC’s upcoming Great News (Tuesday, 9 ET/PT), have a lot in common, including solid gold credentials in the comedy, writes USA Today. Martin felt a kinship when the two starred together in Hulu’s Difficult People, produced by Fey’s close friend and fellow comedian Amy Poehler. “The chemistry was so great because we both came from the same place, Second City,” Martin says. “There was an unspoken language, a trust. I just thought there was a certain ease about it. How lucky to be able…
“You learn entrepreneurial skills by doing things practically; while excellent resources exist, they will only give you an overview,” said Peter Davos, 43, an American expat who has lived in Dubai for more than a decade. He recalled his growing up years during which he acquired the best education and life skills by observing and working with his father, a self-made entrepreneur. “My father was a lifelong entrepreneur and it was from him that I learned about financial management, innovation, risk-taking and perseverance. He taught me that you can achieve anything with hard work and vision. Everything I learned during…
ATLANTA — The dance comedy “Step Sisters” won’t hit theaters until next year, but the film is already drawing backlash from the African-American community due to topics some consider racist.The plot centers on a black sorority sister named Jamilah, who, in order to get into law school, must teach the black Greek step to a group of white sisters from a sorority whose charter is about to be chartered. ‘be revoked.On the surface, the story suggests a dubious effort to make fun of racial stereotypes and cultural appropriation. But the participants in the film believe that the public has the…