Wednesday, January 28, 2009

EVA & NICO



Μόλις έφθασαν τα χαρούμενα νέα!
Αρραβωνιάστηκαν η
Ευαγγέλια Σιταρά (του Γιάννη και της Θεανός)
με τον εκλεκτό της καρδιάς της Νίκο Δριβάκο.
Ημερομηνία του γάμου ορίσθει η
20η Σεπτεμβρίου 2009.
Τα Καλλιμασιώτικα Νέα σας εύχονται καλά στέφανα!







Tuesday, January 27, 2009

What is that? Τί είναι αυτό;


Mrs.  Anthie Sarellis wants to share this video with all of us.



Saturday, January 24, 2009

Are we going back to " D r a h m o u l a "


Σήμερα διάβασα αυτό το άρθρο στο New York Times, το βρήκα πολύ ενδιαφέρον και νόμισα ότι θα ήταν καλή η ιδέα να το μοιραστώ μαζί σας
.

Once a Boon, Euro Now Burdens Some Nations

By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
Published: January 23, 2009
ATHENS — “The Italians, the Spaniards, the Greeks, we all have been living in happy land, spending what we did not have,” said George Economou, a Greek shipping magnate, contemplating his country’s economic troubles and others’ from his spacious boardroom. “It was a fantasy world.” For some of the countries on the periphery of the 16-member euro currency zone — Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain — this debt-fired dream of endless consumption has turned into the rudest of nightmares, raising the risk that a euro country may be forced to declare bankruptcy or abandon the currency. The prospect, however unlikely, is a humbling one. The adoption of the euro just a decade ago was meant to pull Europe together economically and politically, ending the sometimes furious battles over who could devalue their currency the fastest and beggar their neighbor. For the Continent, the currency signaled the potential to one day rival the United States. For its poorer countries, winning admission to the euro zone was a point of pride, showing that they had tamed their budget deficits and set their financial houses in order. Now, in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the euro’s birth, a new view is emerging — especially as the creditworthiness of Greece, Spain and Portugal, one after the other, has been downgraded. The view is that the balm of euro membership allowed these countries to gloss over serious economic problems that have now roared to the fore. “Membership is not a panacea for a country’s social and economic problems,” said Simon Tilford, the chief economist at the Center for European Reform in London. “In fact, there has been a huge divergence in competitiveness that shows up in massive trade imbalances,” he said, comparing Greece with the wealthier euro countries. “While Greece may have been insulated from the risk of a currency crisis, there is also the risk of a credit crisis and a collapse of confidence in its solvency.” While sharing a currency with some of the mightiest economies in the world helped Europe’s poorer nations share in the wealth, a boon during boom times, in hard times the rules of membership are keeping them from doing what countries normally do to ride out economic storms, including enormous spending. So Germany, France and the Scandinavian countries are mounting billion-dollar stimulus plans and erecting fences to protect their banks. But the peripheral economies are being left to twist in the market winds. With the need for stimulus to deal with the severe downturn, these countries find themselves caught in an awful policy bind: credit is available, but only at punitive rates; and further borrowing not only breaks with European Commission dictates but raises broader questions about their solvency. Bond and currency speculators have demonstrated that they intend to punish countries with dubious economic prospects, just as they have punished banks. Yields are skyrocketing on the debt of peripheral European economies with growing deficits. The British pound has plummeted because of a lack of confidence in plans to shore up British banks. Few experts expect Greece or the other Mediterranean countries to run out of money or leave the euro. But the widening gap between the interest rate that Greece and larger economies like Germany have to pay to borrow reveals the first cracks in what so far has been a fairly solid fortress Europe. Standard & Poor’s has also downgraded the debt of Spain, another growth stalwart, because of the toll taken by its housing crisis. In Ireland, once the high-growth darling of the European Union, the economy continues to reel from a housing collapse and a defunct banking sector with liabilities that surpass the country’s gross domestic product. As with Greece, bond yields there are diverging from those in Germany. The apparent suicide of a prominent real estate developer, Patrick Rocca, is but the most recent reminder of the fear and shock gripping the country. But Greece’s problems are probably the worst. The country has been an easy target for the vigilantes of the European bond market, and recently it has been shaken by a wave of violent protests. The omnipotent hand of the Greek state produced a public debt of more than 90 percent of Greece’s total economic output. The relentlessly rising demand of its consumers, who were able to put off the day of reckoning because they enjoyed the shelter of the low-inflation euro, has created a current-account deficit of 14 percent of its gross domestic product — estimated to be the highest in Europe. The current account measures the difference between a nation’s exports and imports of all goods and services. Last week, Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greek debt to A—, and the gap between the interest rate it pays on its bonds, versus what richer countries like Germany pay, is nearly 3 percentage points, the widest in the euro zone. Mr. Economou, the Greek shipping company operator, is caught in the crossfire. The stock of his company, DryShips, is down 90 percent; banks in Europe that once clamored for his business no longer do so. "The psychology is shattered,” he said with a rueful smile as he considered the blow to his business and net worth. “I have already cried — now I have dried up.”
While a shock to many Greeks, who had become accustomed to the relatively recent comfort of buoyant economic growth and a strong currency, some others, who lived through the country’s past financial and political crises, say the current shakiness is to be expected.
Related
Times Topics: Credit Crisis -- The Essentials
“We knew this couldn’t last,” Vassilis Karatzas, a fund manager based in Athens, said as he sipped Greek coffee at an outdoor cafe in the city center. “There is fear about the euro zone, but I don’t think the commission will allow its periphery to go down. United we rise, divided we fall.” Yannis Stournaras, an economist who was a top economic adviser to the previous government of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, says that after a long period of convergence, the recent Greek divergence from northern Europe is to be expected. Adding to the pressure, surpluses from countries like Germany are no longer being recycled back to Greece and other less prosperous countries. Moreover, Germany, the largest exporter in the world, tends not to encourage its consumers to buy more from the rest of Europe. But Mr. Stournaras scoffed at the prospect of a bankruptcy like those once common in Latin America. Nor did he accept the idea that Greece might leave the euro zone and try to devalue its way back to recovery. “Bankruptcy? No, no, no,” he said with a vigorous shake of his head. “Since the beginning of the 20th century, we have never had problems with our arrears.” But others are not prepared to rule out such an event, though they concede it is highly unlikely. One of the few politicians in Greece who has not shied from addressing these issues is Stefanos Manos, a gregarious former economic minister who in the early 1990s ushered in a drastic, and ultimately successful, privatization program. He has founded a new party and is considering a return to Parliament in the hope of joining a new government that would heed his longstanding message: Greece needs to stop running deficits and address the issue of global competitiveness. “We need money to finance our deficits and I see difficulty in us attracting such funds from abroad,” he said, as he received a string of admirers in the Old World splendor of the Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens. “I am not sure that this won’t spiral out of control, and that makes me saddened and frustrated.” As for the rest of Europe, particularly its weaker links, he also has doubts. “I don’t think Europe is up to it,” he said. “It expanded too rapidly without fixing its institutions.”

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Το κόψιμο της Βασιλόπητας του συλλόγου μας Αγίου Αιμιλιανού


Στο Χιώτικο σπίτι μαζεύτηκαν σήμερα το απόγευμα αρκετοί χωριανοί για να εορτάσουν το καθιερωμένο κόψιμο της Βασιλόπητας του συλλόγου. Προηγείθει ένα θαυμάσιο γεύμα με άφθονο κρασί. Επακολούθησε το κόψιμο της πήτας απο την πρόεδρο κυρία Κίτσα Σταθάκου, 
ο καφές και τα γλυκά (προσφορά των κυριών του συλλόγου μας) και εμοιράσθησαν δώρα στα μικρά παιδιά. 
Η ακαταλληλότης του καιρού δεν επέτρεψε στα μέλη μας απο το New Jersey να παρευρεθούν.
Χρόνια πολλά και καλή χρονιά σε όλους.


Η τετράχρονη Σοφία Στεφανάκη  μας είπε το αρχημηνιά κι´ αρχή χρονιά!

Η πρόεδρος  κυρία Κίτσα Σταθάκου κόβει την πήτα του 2009

         και το μέλλον του συλλόγου μας... τα παιδιά τρίτης και τετάρτης γεννεάς

Photos by Stamos stefanakis

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Ένα ποίημα για τον ΟΜΗΡΟ

Ο Γιώργος Πουλερές απο το Atlantic City μας έστειλε αυτό το ποίημα του Δημήτρη Μπόλια, γραμμένο για την πρωταθλήτρια Χίου ποδοσφαιρική ομάδα του χωριού μας, για να το δημοσιεύσουμε, μαζί με τις ευχές του για μία καλή εμφάνιση στην Δ´Εθνική κατηγορία.

Ο ΟΜΗΡΟΣ 

Την ιστορία σου Όμηρε
  πρέπει να σεβαστούμε 
και την φανέλα σου κι´εμείς 
πολύ να εκτιμούμε 
Θα τρέχω μαζί στο γήπεδο 
θα την υπολογίζω 
χαμόγελα στους φίλαθλους 
κι´εγώ να τους χαρίζω
 Και αυτός που αγωνίστηκε
 και εάν έχει πιά γεράσει
 με την νίκη σου αυτήν
 και εκείνος θα γελάση 
Είχες φτερά στα πόδια σου
 στο γήπεδο πετούσες
 πρωταθλητής πώς θα έβγενες
 πίστεψες και μπορούσες

 Δημήτρης Μπόλιας

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Αφιερωμένω στούς φίλους ψαράδες του Αϊ Γιάννη.


ΑΪ ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ

Θεέ μου τι μεγάλη ησυχία
τι ομορφιά και τι γαλήνη,
είνε αληθινή ευτυχία,
αυτός ο τόπος που σου δίνει.

Βγήκαν πάλι τα βαρκάκια
για να ρίξουν παραγάδι,
να μας φέρουν τα ψαράκια
σαν γυρίσουνε το βράδι.

Καπετάνιοι δίχως μούτσους
με παρέα το φεγγάρι,
ρίχνουνε συρτή για λούτσους,
και ψαρεύουν καλαμάρι.

Στου Άϊ Γιάννη το λιμανάκι
δίχως έγνιες και σκοτούρες,
κατεβάζουμε το ουζάκι
με μεζέ μας τις τσιπούρες.

Στάμος Στεφανάκης

Saturday, January 10, 2009

40ήμερον Μνημόσυνον του ΓΙΑΝΝΗ ΑΝΤΟΚΑ

Εις τον Ιερόν Ναόν του Αγίου Γεωργίου της Bethesda Maryland, όπου και πρωτοπρεσβυτερεύει ο πατέρας Δημήτριος Αντόκας, θα ψαλούν οι σαρανταήμερες προσευχές εις μνύμην του αειμνύστου πατρός του Γιάννη Αντόκα, την  Κυριακή 1/11/2009. 
Αιωνία σου η μνύμη Γιάννη.

Friday, January 9, 2009

At age 96 is he the oldest Kallimasiotis?


Ο Κος Μιχαήλ Θληβίτης (Κουρκούτης) τον Δεκέμβριο του  2008 γιόρτασε τα 96 του γεννέθλεια.
Είναι κάτοικος του Lancaster Pennsylvania απο το έτος 1964 και χαίρει άκρας υγείας!
Πιστεύουμε ότι είναι ο γηρεώτερος των Καλλιμασιωτών. (μήπως κάποιος ξέρει να μας πεί;)
Χρόνια πολλά Θείε, και στα 100!

Photo by Stamos Stefanakis

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

ΚΑΛΟΚΑΙΡΙ 2008









Απο την κυρία Καλιόπη Χατζηπαναγιώτου σύζυγο του Κώστα Κουμελά έλαβα σήμερα αυτό το μήνυμα: 
 Στα όμορφα μέρη που πήγαμε το καλοκαίρι δυστυχώς σήμερα γίνεται πόλεμος. Μακάρι να σταματήσουν οι βομβαρδισμοί και να επικρατήσει ειρήνη σε όλο τον κόσμο.
Πϊτσα και Κώστας Κουμελάς

ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣ  2008 
7 ήμερος εκδρομή του συλλόγου Καλλιμασιωτών Αττικής στις πυραμίδες και το Κάϊρο της Αιγύπτου, την Βηθλεέμ της Παλαιστίνης, την Ιερουσαλήμ και τους Αγίους τόπους
του Ισραήλ, την Πάφο της Κύπρου, την Αντάλια της Τουρκίας, την Σαντορίνη και
την Μύκονο της Ελλάδος. Είχα την τύχη κι᾽εγώ να πάω μαζί. Θα μου μείνει αξέχαστη!
 

Saturday, January 3, 2009

HAPPY 94th BIRTHDAY !


Τα 94 γεννέθλειά της γιόρτασε σήμερα στο σπίτι της στο Whitestone New York,
 η Κα Αμαλία Στεφανάκη μαζί με τα παιδιά , τα εγγόνια , και τα δισέγγονά της. Χρόνια Πολλά, Happy Birthday σου ευχόμεθα και μέσα απο τα Καλλιμασιώτικα Νέα.