His work produced the ARGUS-IS or the Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project.

According to DARPA, the mission of ARGUS-IS program is to provide military users a flexible and responsive capability to find, track and monitor events and activities of interest on a continuous basis in areas of interest.

The overall objective is to increase situational awareness and understanding enabling an ability to find and fix critical events in a large area in enough time to influence events. ARGUS – IS provides military users an “eyes-on” persistent wide area surveillance capability to support tactical users in a dynamic battle space or urban environment.

This innovative program consits of a big number of high definition cameras which cover almost 50 square kilometers of territory from a height of 17,500 feet.

The image can be divided in at least 65 windows from which the user can observe in real time and in detail the movements of passer-by and vehicles. The Boeing A160 Hummingbird was to eventually be used as a platform for the airborne video sensor and processor.

The story of the Tipaldos family is the history of Diaspora in Naples. Many members of the family served for almost 100 years as Consuls of Greece in Naples and as leading members of the Greek Brotherhood, since 1861.

Two years ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after a proposal of the Greek community and the Federation of Greek Communities and Brotherhoods of Italy, awarded an honorary Distinction for the contribution of his family and himself to the historic community of Naples and to the Greeks of South Italy.

The Director General of the General Secretariat of Greeks abroad, George Markantonatos sent a condolence letter, stressing that the contribution and the work of Tipaldos to Greece end the ecumenical Hellenism will be an example and a source of inspiration for everyone. The Board of the Federation of Greek Communities and Brotherhoods of Italy expressed its condolences to the family of the deceased with an announcement.

Papandreou, who resigned over Greece’s fall into near-bankruptcy and was forced to resign in 2011 after two years of relentless protests, strikes and riots against his government for imposing harsh austerity measures, is set to speak on June 11  about the “lessons from the Greek debt crisis.” He has taken no blame for it.

Real Democracy characterized Papandreou as “an instrumental piece of the political system responsible for the current situation in Greece,” and added that, “This is an insult to those who have learnt the ‘real lessons’ from the crisis. All those who have been stricken by the rise in unemployment, the reduction in pensions, the collapse of public welfare, those forced to emigrate. We will keep fighting for a life of dignity, against the memoranda and the governments who impose them.”

Although still a sitting Member of Parliament and President of Socialist International, Papandreou spends much of his time outside Greece giving lucrative lectures at American Ivy League colleagues and on the speech circuit telling people what went wrong in Greece.

The incident occurred in the region of the Dolna Dakliya road junction at around 4 a.m. on May 18.

The vehicle has suffered serious material damage. The driver was slightly injured and his life is not at risk.

A possible reason for the accident might be that the driver fell asleep or was distracted.

Due to the road incident traffic the Struma motorway is temporarily obstructed at the Dolna Dakliya junction in the direction Sofia-Kulata.

The international conference ECOWEEK 2013 New Nordic Living in Copenhagen, an initiative of the Greek NGO ECOWEEK and the School KEA Copenhagen School of Design and Technology is the first to take place in Scandinavia.

The international conference is taking place with the cooperation and support of the Municipality of Copenhagen, with 27 ‘green’ design workshops that address real problems in the city. Some of the workshop proposals may be further developed, adopted by the city and some may be implemented.

The conference was greeted by Mayor of the Technical and Environmental Administration of Copenhagen Ayef Baykal, the rector of KEA Ingo Osterskov, and the founding chairman of ECOWEEK Architect and Environmental Consultant Dr. Elias Messinas. The conference was moderated by Jesper Pagh, architect and editor of the Danish Architectural Press, and included lectures by Michael Asgaard Andersen who introduced the New Nordic Living concept from the exhibition in Louiziana Museum of Denmark, and architect Kristian Villadsen associate architect at Gehl Architects.

The opening of the conference included screening of the new film by director Andreas Mol Dalsgaard on the research and work of Danish architect Jan Gehl entitled ‘The Human Scale’.

During the week ECOWEEK 2013 New Nordic Living will also host lectures by the Minister of Education of Denmark Morten Ostergaard and the Commissioner for Climate Change Connie Hedegaard.

The ECOWEEK ‘green’ design workshops will take place until May 17, and will be presented on Saturday May 18, with the participation of Canadian architect Daniel Pearl, the urban ecologist Salvador Rueda founder of the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona, Marianna Lubanski, director of the Cluster Dept. of Copenhagen at Clean Tech Cluster, Jesper Pagh, architect and editor of the Danish Architectural Press and Alex Heick Chairman of the Local Committee Bispebjerg.

ECOWEEK 2013 New Nordic Living workshops in Copenhagen are attended by architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects and students from Denmark, Greece, Israel, Brazil, Canada, Poland, Italy, Sweden, China, England, Germany and Serbia.

ECOWEEK is a non profit organization established in Greece in 2005 with the mission to raise environmental awareness, awareness on Climate Change and to promote the principles of sustainability. ECOWEEK founding chairman is architect and environmental consultant Dr. Elias Messinas. ECOWEEK is based in Athens, Aegina and Jerusalem, and is organized by the ECOWEEK Associates in 15 countries. The ECOWEEK network has members in 43 countries.

More information at www.ecoweek.org

The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM- Musée des Civilisations de l`Europe et de la Mediterannée), which will open its doors on June 7 in Marseille, France, will host an exhibition on the cultural identity of Sarakatsani, a group of Greek transhumant shepherds.The center of the exhibition will be the “konaki”, the pastoralists’ traditional hut.

Everything began two years ago, at the meeting (antamoma) of the Brotherhood of Sarakatsani of Epirus which took place at Gyftokampos, in the Zagori region. Many specialists participated in the meeting and collected useful information on the traditions of sheep and goat breeding and the pastoral life in the past. Scientists were looking for specific information on the nomads of Greece, their movements and settlements. The Sarakatsani traditionally spent the summer months in the mountains and returned to the lower plains in the winter.

As Dimitris Tagas, secretary of the Brotherhood of Sarakatsani of Epirus who live in Athens, told ANAmpa, the cooperation with a university and an institution for the implementation of the project was fruitful. Eduard de Labrie, a French researcher who participated in the project, undertook to organize the issues related to agriculture and animal husbandry. Eduard de Labrie was the one that suggested Sarakatsani as the most typical example of pastoralism in Europe.

According to records from the Electoral Commission, it is the first time that the 78-year-old has given money to a political party.

Marchessini gave UKIP 5,000 GBP in February and another 5,000 in March as the party was getting ready for local elections. He said that women who wear pants instead of skirts are “deliberately” making themselves unattractive to men.

He is the author of a book which goes under the title Women In Trousers: A Rear View, in which he took photos of clothed women’s rear ends and commented on them and said that he found that the ratio Britain of women wearing trousers to skirts is 10 to 1.

He said, “’Trousers are made for men’s bodies, which are mostly straight up and down. Women’s bodies on the other hand consist of curves. Women have big bottoms – they are meant to have big bottoms.”

He said he believes there are so many women who would look lovely in dresses or skirts but choose to look unattractive wearing trousers but he didn’t explain why.

The newspaper said that in an interview over the promotion of his book, Marchessini was asked if he was pleased at the rise of curvy stars such as Jennifer Lopez. But, he was quoted as saying to The Guardian that “She looks like a Mexican tart.” His ex-wife Lucinda told reporters that he is deeply sexist.

The Greek beer Volkan “born in Santorini” was awarded Product Innovation of the Year at the International Beer Awards of the Canadean’s 9th Annual International Beer Strategy Conference 2013 that took place from 14^th to 15^th May 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Volkan competed with famous brewing industry labels, but the juries chose it for the beer’s unique recipe and quality. Petros Nomikos, creator of Volkan, stated: “We are very happy to receive this special award. Our goal is to support “act locally, think globally,” promoting the best Greek flavors and traditions around the world. Every Volkan beer represents our rich agricultural heritage and thousandsof years history, while supporting our islands’ agricultural traditions. Volkan’s three main ingredients are local, original and innovative at the same time as they have never before been used in a beer”.

Santorini Honey -at the end of the summer, the bees of Santorini indulge on the sucrose of wine grapes left out in the sun to mature. This grape honey, with its uniquely and intensely local flavor is added near the end of the brewing process, to ensure that its flavor is fully preserved.

Citrus Medica - is the oldest known variety of citrus. The citron’s flavour can be obtained from the fruit’s thick pith and skin, but he said the company’s supplier, Promponas of Naxos (est. 1913), meticulously extracts it from the leaves of the tree itself. They boil the leaves in alcohol and distil the essence several times in a 100-year-old still, a process similar to the art of perfumery. Promponas supplies Volkan with their unique citron essence on an exclusive basis.

Lava Rock Filter-The water with which a beer is brewed lends a lot to the taste of the beer itself. However, Santorini ground water is scarce and no longer suitable for brewing, due to its high salinity. Thus, in order to create authentic Santorini style water, he said, “We have taken basalt from the eruption of 1600 BC, rich in native minerals and created a special filter, developed exclusively for Volkan, through which all of our brew water is passed. The aim was to create water that simulates the ancient Santorini spring water and what it may have tasted like some 3000 years ago.”

A Guardian report from Athens sheds light on how extensive the problem really is: “The drug of preference for thousands of homeless Greeks forced onto the streets by poverty and despair, shisha is described by both addicts and officials as a variant of crystal meth whose potential to send users into a state of mindless violence is underpinned by the substances with which the synthetic drug is frequently mixed: battery acid, engine oil and even shampoo.”

The deadly drug is a favorite among poor substance abusers and homeless costing only two euros per shot. It is an easy to make drug, which allows it to spread like wildfire. Expensive drugs including heroine and cocaine are hard to find nowadays in Greece due to the ongoing crisis, which made dealers turn to synthetic and cheaper forms of addiction products that can be sniffed or injected.

The UK daily also refers to other side effects of the crisis, such as the increased rates of alcoholism, depression, suicides, crime, prostitution and HIV infections. The crisis and austerity measures imposed by the EU/IMF/ECB leave little hope that such problems can be mastered without funds and staff.

Evgeny Pisarevsky, Deputy Head of Rostourism organization, welcomed the forum and expressed his surprise that Greece was absent up till now from the market of medical services in Russia. He estimated that Greece, thanks to its exceptional climate, its gastronomy and the historic-cultural adjacency with Russia, can substantially upgrade its position in the Russian market within the next years, as shown by the constantly increasing number of Russian tourists visiting Greece.

Maya Lomidze, Head of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR), among the organizers along with Tourism Today, welcomed the fact that Greece has enriched its tourism product, indicating in this way the interest of prolonging the tourist season and the attraction of higher budget tourists. She pointed out that the Russian market related to medical tourism comes up to 300,000 tourists, with an annual growth rate up to 20 percent.

This first effort, under the auspices of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Tourism, was supported with grants and the active presence of the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO), the Public Properties Company SA (ETAD), the Greek Embassy in Moscow, and the Russian-language magazine Ellada.

Gerasimos Davaris, Chargé d’Affaires of the Greek Embassy, Ioannis Plotas, Consul General of Greece, Elias Thanassas, Head of the Embassy’s Office of Economic and Commercial Affairs, Polikarpos Efstathiou, Head of GNTO’s Office and Gregory Sarafianos, President of the Panhellenic Association of Private Clinics (PEIK) attended the event.

Fyodor Yurchikhin, a cosmonaut of Greek descent, welcomed the work of this first forum, just 24 hours before leaving for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, from where he will be launched into space for the fourth time on May 28.