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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – As Greece is dealing with rising domestic violence and at least 14 cases of women being killed this year by their husbands or partners, the reality has been brought home hard with a gripping video sponsored by a popular chocolate company, Lacta.
Called, “Don’t Ever Leave Me,” it has swept across Greece with a love story quickly turned into Greek Tragedy, a happy young couple spending summer on a beach, falling in love, the man telling her passionately: “I want you to be mine, only mine.”
And there’s the rub.
He means it, turning into a control freak who monitors her and her phone calls, becoming more demanding and abusive as the love story deteriorates like film being burned by a projector lamp.
In short time, it becomes a dark tale as he accuses her of lying, although she isn’t, keeps her from seeing friends, talking on the phone or having any outside life other than being attached to his side.
It parallels how these kinds of relationships become toxic, said the site Adweek which follows stories of advertising companies, the video produced by Ad agency Ogilvy Greece, directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos directed it. It was released ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Nov. 25.
Within a few minutes, it tells the whole sad story as they take a drive and his abuse grows and he drags her out of the car and tosses her off a cliff. Just like that.
Since its launch last week it has gone viral in Greece, becoming the number-one YouTube video and being covered by national media, the site noting that some Greek media outlets attributed some of the killings to passion or as “love” crimes, instead of hate.
Lacta is owned by the Chicago-based business Mondelez and Adweek noted that, “Wile most confectionary brands tend to focus on sweet or charming stories in their advertising, Lacta is subverting the genre to raise awareness of the fact that domestic violence cases are on the rise in Greece,” which have become bitter stories.
The video ends with a warning to look out for signs of psychological and physical abuse and provides information from Diotima, an organization devoted to gender rights and to equality.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.
ATHENS - A 35-year-old mother from the western city of Patras was found guilty in the murder of her eldest daughter, who was 9 at the time - with trials pending for the deaths of her other two children.