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Denise is a specialist in International Education and has lived in 13 different cities throughout the globe so far. Her love for different cultures and learning drives her to travel constantly,…
Denise is a specialist in International Education and has lived in 13 different cities throughout the globe so far. Her love for different cultures and learning drives her to travel constantly, always craving to find new ways to communicate, drive, and cook!! She is a firm believer that humans never cease to learn!
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Mitch Woods and his Rocket 88s have been the torchbearers of a great American blues musical heritage for two decades. Woods styles his group after the jumpin' n' jivin' bands of Louis Jordan, Wyonie Harris, Joe and Jimmy Liggins, Amos Milbum, and Roy Milton. The band came up with their own style of music after adding a healthy dose of New Orleans rhythm and blues, piledrivin' piano, and their own lyrics.
Mitch Woods began playing classical piano at eleven, but his real initiation into blues and boogie piano had already been assured at age eight when his mother would hire the superintendent of the building to take him to school and on the way they would stop at the man's cousin's house where someone was playing boogie-woogie piano. That's when it really 'hit him.' By his mid-teens, Woods was putting together bands in Greenwich Village and when he enter the University of Buffalo, he was sitting in at local clubs and discovering records by boogie woogie pioneers. It was during a class on Afro-American music taught by noted jazz sax player Archie Shepp in 1970 that Woods finally realized he was bound to be a piano-man.
San Francisco and New Orleans became his second homes. He met various musicians and released many records throughout his career. On his latest CD/DVD project, Big Easy Boogie, Woods brings together the inner circle of Rock n' Roll royalty. Featuring some of New Orleans' legends including original members of the Fats Domino band, Herb Hardesty and the Blue Monday Horns, and Jimmy Moliere on guitar, the sound is true to the roots New Orleans R&B. In 2007-2008 he appeared at some of the world's most prestigious music festivals, including Jazz A Vienne - France, San Javier International Jazz Festival - Spain, International Boogie Woogie Festival - Lugano, Switzerland, Lionel Hampton Jazz Club at Le Meridien - Paris, Edmonton Blues Festival - Canada, and many more. Mitch Woods & Big Easy Boogie will be at at the Half Note Jazz Club in Mets, Athens until January 8th.
"Welcome to the Carnival of Circus Freaks
The Bleeding Lady the blood from her leaks
Here is a place where you can buy crack
Lobotomised whores who you can slap."
The Freakshow presents the mutation of the Tiger Lillies 1999 cd 'Circus Songs'. New outcasts have their story presented for your listening pleasure.
The Snake Woman, Three Legged Jake, Rosa with 3 Hearts, the Fat Lady, Deathless Man, Normo, Bleeding Lady, Matchstick Man, Flipper Boy, The Bleeding Lady, Ugly Joe, Hairy Man and the Sleeper all cavort for your entertainment. A carnival of oddities, but who is the freak, them or YOU?
They are performing at the Badminton Theater at Alsos Stratou in Goudi, Athens. For tickets please visit ticketnet. Have a freakish time!! http://www.ticketnet.gr/
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has again ruled that Greece must recognise third-level diplomas issued through franchises of recognised European educational institutions. This finding was expressed in two judgements, taken by the European Commission (case number C-84/07) and a private individual (C-151/07) respectively, delivered simultaneously by the European Union's highest court on December 4th. This will place even greater pressure on Education Minister Evrypidis Stylianidis to finally bring Greek law in line with European legislation.
At the root of both cases is the refusal of the Greek authorities to recognise diplomas issued by an Italian educational establishment, the Regional Institute for Optical Studies and Optometry, in Vinci, on the basis of a franchise agreement concluded with two liberal studies centres (EES) in Greece. The commission successfully argued that while the Greek authorities may deliberate on whether the qualification allows the holder to practise the profession concerned, in doing so it may not refer to the fact that the diploma was issued on the basis of a franchise agreement.
In the commission's view, it is immaterial whether a diploma has been obtained by attending a franchise institution in Greece because directive 92/51 provides for no such distinction between diplomas issued directly by foreign educational institutions and those issued through franchises. The commission did concede, however, that the Greek state may request such diploma holders to undergo a "conversion course", which will invariably involve additional exams at a Greek state university in order for their foreign diploma to be compatible with Greek standards. At the same time, however, it insisted that graduates must also be given the option of taking an aptitude test instead, as EU regulations stipulate. In its second argument, the commission put forward the case that as the diplomas in question were "lawfully issued by Italian educational establishments", Greece has no right to dispute them.
The commission took issue with the Greek authorities' insistence that the applicants seeking to have their degrees recognised undergo a "conversion course". For its part, the Greek state argued that EC articles 149 and 150 give each member state exclusive responsibility over education. It also justified its stance on Article 16 of the Greek constitution, which prohibits the establishment of private universities.
The court rejected these arguments.
Around the World in 80 Days is in Athens from the 12th until the 21st of December 12th - 21st at the Tae Kwon Doe Stadium, in Paleo Faliro. This free adaptation is an exhilarating adventure which takes the young audience into a journey of discovery across the globe as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck compete in a wacky race. Bugs and his classic Looney Tunes friends hit the ice running in a fun-filled parody of Jules Verne's novel.
The show is based on the Jules Verne (1828-1905) best seller Around the World in 80 Days published for the first time in 1872. Since then, the book has become one of the most translated stories of all time and one of the most popular novels in the world. Holiday on Ice is successfully adapting Jules Verne's masterpiece, with a Looney Tunes' touch. The show will tour under the title "Around the World in 80 Minutes" and will feature Phileas Fogg and Passepartout visiting different countries as they race around the globe. But this time they will also meet up with Bugs Bunny and all the favourite Looney Tunes characters - Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzales, Granny, and the Tasmanian Devil - all of which are having a competition of their own. The result is a zany, whacky adventure, with all the fun of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons, with music, explosions, laughs and of course the world class skating that is the trademark of Holiday on Ice.
"Around the World in 80 Minutes" is sure to delight fans young and old alike. TRAM Lines : Aristoteles 4 : Syntagma Square - SEF and Thucydides 3 : SEF - Asklipio Boulas, Station: Aghia Skepi. Tickets range from 4 - 48 Euros, depending on day and zone. For more information and booking, please call 210 88 40 600 or ticketnet.
"Today we honour the return of an architectural part of the Acropolis... It is a very symbolic return," Greek Culture Minister Michalis Liapis said. Greece in recent years has stepped up its campaign to recover ancient artefacts, and especially large sections of the decorative frieze removed from the Parthenon in 1801 by Lord Elgin, the then-British ambassador to the Ottoman empire.
This marble fragment, returned on December 2nd, from a frieze decorating the Parthenon temple which an Austrian soldier removed during World War Two, but renewed a call for all its stolen treasures to be returned. Martha Dahlgren inherited the piece, broken from the frieze adorning the Parthenon's inner colonnade, from her grandfather and decided to return it to Greece.
An inscription on the fragment, measuring 7-by-30cm, 2.8 by 12 inches, says it was taken from the Acropolis in Athens on February 16th, 1943 - in the midst of the three-year occupation of Greece by the Axis powers, led by Germany.
Athens has various shopping areas. The outskirts and some suburbs have shops worth visiting as well. For example, Glyfada is the seaside neighborhood always crowded with people in the expensive shops of all kinds. Paleo Faliro, an other seaside neighborhood, also has a busy street called Agiou Alexandrou that is filled with people shopping in the shops and pausing at cafes for a quick coffee or snack. Patission Street is an incredibly long street with clothes, shoes, and accessory shops. The prices are usually really affordable and the choices seem unending. Stadiou Street is the other street in the center, leading from Syntagma to Omonia Square, which is filled with luxurious gold jewelry from Greek designers. Kolonaki, the high class district of central Athens, has some of the most stylish and expensive shops, where one can find clothes from Greek and international designers. Ermou Street is the most famous pedestrian street leading from Syntagma to Monastiraki. It is also the biggest commercial street in Athens and attracts hundreds customers daily. The shops are filled with house furniture, clothes and shoes. Monastiraki and Plaka are the areas with the touristy shops, which sell souvenirs. They also have some cheap shops selling stuff as labeled shoes, hand made leather shoes, clothes, jewelry, traditional instruments and more. And the Sunday morning flea market there offers a huge quantity of diverse items.