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From the Publisher"This book constitutes an important contribution to the body of knowledge of modern migration and settlement."
Nina Mistilis, The International History Review
Beginning with an examination of the conditions in Europe that led to migration, this book details the role of the Greeks in Australian settlement, the two large waves of Greek migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the ways in which the Greeks have maintained a solid sense of Greek cultural expression. Numbering approximately half a million, the Greek community in Australia comprises the second largest ethnic minority after the Italians. The contribution of Greek settlers to the large industrial cities and other major urban centers is vital to the economic, social and political life of Australia
Over the last 3000 years Greeks have always perceived themselves as an elect people. Their history of two thousand years under foreign dominion portrays the sufferings of a nation, which attained the highest degree of civilisation in antiquity. Yet, all those years have not eradicated their national character and culture, including their language, nor reduced their national ambitions.
During classical antiquity the Greek identity was established through language, culture and superiority in science, technology and letters. Soon after, via Alexander the Great and the unified Greek army, they established the first real empire of the world spreading Hellenism across three continents and leading the genesis of the Eastern Hellenic world. Later, Greeks appeared as Byzantines in a Christian Empire (330-1453 AD), which alone guarded and disseminated the true faith, the Orthodoxy. Yet in historical and political terms, it was only in 1830 that the Greek people achieved an exclusive sovereign identity through the establishment of a modern Greek state. This was made possible only with the active support of the European Powers, the influence of the utilitarian western tradition and institutional life, and the active moral and financial contribution of the Greek communities scattered throughout Europe since the middle of the fifteenth century. Prior to the foundation of the Greek state, Greeks lived for almost five hundred years as a subject millet (people) in the Ottoman Empire distinguished only by their religious affiliation. The Greek War for Independence (1821-9) represented the first revolution by a Christian oppressed nation against the Ottomans and its successful outcome inspired other Balkan millets to rise against them, thus causing the disintegration of their Empire.
Greek expatriation has also been an intense phenomenon over the last 3000 years, with more than 40 per cent of Greeks residing, at any given time, outside the national borders of Greece. This phenomenon has been the outcome of a national ambition to expand and survive or the consequence of a long period of foreign domination. This massive exodus took initially the form of colonisation from the eighth to fifth century BC, followed by the dispersion of thousands of Greeks precipitated by military campaigns or long term occupations of Greece. This dispersion took the form of a Diaspora and was best manifested during the Hellenistic era (352-160 BC), the Roman conquest of the Greek world (160 BC to 350 AD), and the fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Sultans (1453-1821). The last exodus of the Greeks took the form of migration and commenced in massive numbers during the second last decade of the nineteenth century. Until 1974, they settled in almost 150 countries around the world, carrying with them their heritage together with their homeland's political divisions and national rivalries.
The era of Hellenic colonisation commenced from the eighth century BC, spreading Greeks over colonies around the entire Mediterranean and Black Seas, in search of new ports and fertile lands. Wishing to secure their lives, thousands of Greek colonists 'emigrated' and built over one hundred prosperous colonies, in North Africa, South Europe, especially Sicily and South Italy (Magna Graecia), South Russia and the Crimean peninsula, the Levant and the whole of Asia Minor. These colonies established robust administrations and managed to flourish both financially and socially, even surpassing, in some cases, their metropolis city-states with which they usually maintained amicable relations and to which they turned in times of need. Odessa, Marseilles, Nice, Tripolis and the affluent states of south Italy and Sicily including Catania and Syracuse were some of these colonies. These expatriate Greek colonists brought with them the Hellenic culture and language, influencing the neighbouring foreign peoples and in many instances Hellenising them. Greek sailors and merchants, poets and orators travelled within the Mediterranean Sea, from colony to colony, transforming the entire region into a Greek world.
During the classical years (c. 490-350 BC) Greek expatriation slowed for domestic and external reasons. Following the victorious wars against the Persians (490-479 BC), the Athenian hegemony led Hellas to prosperity and affluence. Greek theatre, schools of thought and art, architecture and poetry, sciences and technology offered to the world unsurpassable knowledge and the ethos of kallos (beauty). The Golden Age of Athens and its cultural and spiritual enhancement attracted many thousands of Greek and foreign immigrants as well as the envy of her opponent city-states. Greek urban centres, especially Athens, were heavily populated and the fruits of classical civilisation were communicated to the entire then known world via the common Greek (Attic) language. The moral obligation of the metropolis cities to support their colonies coupled with unscrupulous greediness, political arrogance and demagogical attitudes led to the downfall of the Athenian hegemony and with it the beginning of the demise of the classical era. Sparta and her allies, following the unwise Sicilian expedition masterminded by the ambitious and imperialist Athenian general and statesman Alcibiades and the eventual destruction of the Athenian army, defeated Athens. Immediately after the Peloponnesian War (431-301 BC), Athens re-emerged ephemerally as the cultural cornerstone of Greece. This was manifested in Platonic philosophy, the appearance of the new comedy and the contribution of many charismatic philosophers, poets, orators and artists. However, Athens was already militarily exhausted; her navy was destroyed; her population was decimated by successive plagues; her income and wealth, produced of her hegemony over other Greek cities, dwindled. Thus the decline was inevitable. This led other Greek city-states to emerge into prominence. The Boetian city of Thebes and her allies rose to power, as did the Macedonian royal dynasty of Philip and his son, Alexander the Great. They shaped the history of Hellas and the entire western world. The ascendant dynasty claimed direct descent from the Greek ancestry and tradition, and became the advocate of the Greek heritage and language, spreading them to three continents.
Following the conquest of Persia and her allies by the united Greek armies of Alexander the Great and his successors, thousands of Greeks dispersed and established prosperous centres of the Hellenistic world in Egypt and Asia, including Alexandria, Antioch and Ephesus. These commercial cities emerged culturally in a vacuum, with no local traditions of their own. They were the outcome of the Greek Diaspora and their main language and character was Greek. During the years of the Hellenisation of the eastern world thousands of Greeks were scattered from Macedonia to India and Afghanistan and from Thebes in Egypt to Alexandria Eschate in Russia, disseminating Greek culture and language. This led to the spread of Greek arts and thought to the rest of the known world; to the promotion of the sciences of medicine, politics, mathematics, architecture, philosophy and astronomy; and to the transfer of the centre of Hellas from Athens to Alexandria. The relocation of the centre of Hellas from Greece to Egypt brought the Hellenic civilisation and tradition closer and more accessible to those nations and peoples of the East, including Africa and the Levant.
After the devastation of the Roman conquest, the destruction of Corinth, the obliteration of Macedonia and the massacre of the Athenians many Greeks seeking safety found refuge in other parts of the world. Under the Romans, the Greeks formed only an insignificant portion of a vast empire and did not play any noteworthy political role. Yet, the conquerors were culturally defeated. The Hellenic cultural dispersion continued, spreading the enlightenment of classical Greece within the borders of the Roman Empire. Greek teachers, pedagogues, poets, orators and artisans were in high demand by the Roman rulers to educate their offspring and thus be acculturated. Famous foreign historians and leaders of the time, including Josephus, Appianos, Lucian, Arianus, Tatius Achilleus, Cassius Deion, Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the Evangelists commenced writing in Greek, instead of their native tongue, Latin or Aramaic. In this way their work circulated to a larger readership and became popular and widespread. The most fundamental texts of western civilisation and Christian scripture were formulated and transmitted through the ages via the Greek language. During this period, certain Greek Christian communities were also scattered across the Roman Empire before it adopted Christianity as the state religion.
The rise of the Christian theocratic Eastern Roman Empire (330-1453) in the heart of the Eastern Hellenic world offered the Greek language and culture an important role to play. That the Eastern Roman Empire was also theocratic further enhanced this importance. Yet, official Byzantium, its administration and its Christian Emperor, were the enemies of Hellenism, representing to the Greeks paganism and polytheism. The moral and religious values of the Hellenic antiquity were hostile to Byzantium, God's earthly kingdom. The hostility led to the closure of the philosophical school of Athens by the Emperor Justinian in the sixth century, the termination of the Olympic Games and the devastation of Olympia by Emperor Theodosius. The terms Hellene and ethnos (nation) were treated with distaste, perceived to indicate the heretic, the barbarian and the pagan. Even the first Ecumenical Patriarch after the fall of Byzantium to the Ottomans, the controversial Gennadios (George) Scholarios refused to allow himself to be called Hellene. Yet notwithstanding this official antagonism to Hellenism as a philosophical and moral movement, and in spite of a lack of ethnic identification with the ancient Greeks, the Byzantines maintained a tradition of Hellenic culture while the Greeks were identified with the imperial administration, particularly from the accession of Leo the Isaurian (716). This was implemented via the secular avenues of the Greek language and the Greek literature, which were fully adopted. Classical education and knowledge of the ancient Greek language were indispensable prerequisites for any advancement to the higher ranks of the Byzantine administration. This situation led to the formation of an intellectual aristocracy, admitting only those with a Hellenic education.
Despite the official hostility of the Byzantines to platonic ideas and the moral values of Hellenism, this intellectual élite became the claimants of the Hellenic heritage and propagators of Greek historical identity and continuity. During the first half of the fifteenth century, this 'Hellenising' movement, led by George Gemistos Pletho, Cardinal Isidorus, Constantinos Laskareos, Ioannis Argyropoulos, Manuel Chrysoloras, Cardinal Bessarion, Antonicus, George of Trapezund, Theodore Gazas and other prominent classical scholars was directed to both the hierarchy of the increasingly frail Byzantium as well as to the 'schismatic' Christian West, the latter demanding, in return for assistance to resist the Turkish insurrection, that Byzantium and the Orthodox Church acknowledge the universal authority of the Pope. Pletho, representing the changing attitudes towards the ancient Greek world, idealistically claimed to Emperor Manuel Ⅱ that the people of mainland Greece were the racial and spiritual descendants of the old Hellenes:
We over whom you rule and hold sway are Hellenes by race, as is demonstrated by our language and ancestral education. And for Hellenes there is no more proper and peculiar land to be found than the Peloponnese, together with the neighbouring part of Europe and the islands that lie near to it. For it appears that the same Hellenes have always inhabited this land, as far as the memory of man reaches back: none lived here before them. Have immigrants occupied it and expelled the others, later to be expelled themselves in the same way? No, on the contrary, the Hellenes themselves appear always to have been its possessors, and never to have left it . . .
The history of the Greek nation demonstrates the degree of human determination and resilience. Neither the Roman Caesars, nor the Frankish princes, any more than the Turkish sultans were able to interrupt the continual broadcast of a political and cultural inheritance by each generation of the Greek race to its successors. As British historian G. Finley (1877: xxii), a contemporary and associate of Lord Byron, wrote in May 1843:
The Greeks are the only existing representatives of the ancient world. They have maintained possession of their country, their language, and their social organization, against physical and moral forces, which have swept from the face of the earth all their contemporaries, friends and enemies. It can hardly be disputed that the preservation of their national existence is to be partly attributed to the institutions that they have received from their ancestors.
Nevertheless, Greek movements in the Diaspora maintained a strong momentum during the third century AD with the ravages of the Teutonic Herules and the ruthless incursions of the Goths and Alaric in the fourth century. The exodus continued with the massive invasions of the Slavs and their subsequent settlement during the sixth and seventh centuries and the raids of the Albanians in the fourteenth century. After the destruction of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 and their conquest of a large portion of Byzantium, the severity of the Latin influence and domination forced many Greeks to flee to Asia. The expatriation of Greeks sustained its momentum following the failure to implement the Council of Ferrara-Florence's agreement 'Laetentur Coeli' (1439) for the union of the Orthodox and the Roman Churches. The notion of orthodoxy of the 'true faith', where the names of Hellene and Plato were still alien, prevailed over the 'schismatic' and Aristotelian Latin and its Pope. After all, the ideas expressed by the Greeks participating in the Council, including Byzantine Emperor Ioannis Ⅷ Paleologos, were shared only by a small section of the Byzantine educated classes and still less among the inhabitants of Hellas, who remained loyal to the Orthodox Christian tradition. Despite the Council's failure, its chief result was to bring many Greeks to Italy and central Europe, thus strengthening the cultural connection between East and West. In any case, the Turkish conquest that followed, reminiscent of the biblical Babylonian captivity, represented for the Byzantine masses a temporary punishment for the sins, which His people committed before God.
Given the aforementioned constraints, until the last decades of the fourteenth century the Hellenic world did not create any substantial contact with the then western European tradition and institutional life, which began to develop mainly in Italy by the early thirteenth century. Greek intellectuals and soldiers began their sporadic dispersion towards the European kingdoms and states around the late thirteenth century in anticipation of employment and a more secure environment. However, larger waves of Greek immigrants began to settle in southern and central Europe during the last seventy years before the fall of Constantinople in 1453. During the Ottoman rule (1453-1821) Greeks suffered degradation and calamities, the imposition of unbearable taxes and hostile attitudes to the rayiades (slaves), leading to a massive exodus of Greeks, initially towards Europe and, later on, to the rest of the world, thus establishing trans-territorial Hellenism or the Hellenic Diaspora.
The Greeks in Diaspora played a key role in the establishment of the modern Greek state (1830) and the post-independence development of Greece, and substantially contributed to the cultural, political, economic and social welfare of the host countries where Greeks had settled. The patriotic role of the Greek communities diminished after the establishment of the Greek state; nevertheless, it remained robust in any international crisis affecting Greece or Cyprus. The term 'Hellenic Diaspora' characterizes those Greeks, who despite their temporary or permanent expatriation to foreign lands for any reason, continue to maintain cultural, political, economic or social relations with their country of ancestry and descent. The total population of those people currently residing outside the boundaries of Greece and Cyprus could be estimated between 4 000 000 to 4 500 000. The Greeks, upon their arrival in the host country, establish their own separate social groups, which they call paroikíes (communities) and identify themselves as different from the mainstream society. These communities do not require the active participation or affiliation of their members. During antiquity the term paroikia (community) was closely linked with the apoikia (colony), the difference being in the distance separating them from the metropolis, rather than the structure of the group. The equivalent commonly accepted term in western European bibliography was colonia. The members of the Greek community in any given host country were organised in distinct ethno-religious entities, called koinotetes (communities). Although most of the Greek communities in Diaspora were united in cases of imminent strife or danger to Greece or Cyprus, nevertheless constant intra-community dissension in times of peace led to schisms and serious rifts. During the initial years of the Hellenic Diaspora the conflicts were mainly religious, between those aspiring to a United Catholic Church under the primacy of the Holy See in Rome and those remaining loyal to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople. Later on, intra-community splits occurred for reasons of political ideology, the preferred type and structure of the organisation or personal animosities. Greek community organisations, upon their establishment, acquired legal status from the host country.
Until the establishment of the world Council for Greeks Abroad (SAE) in 1989, there was no administrative linkage between the organised Greek communities in Diaspora and Greece or Cyprus. Initially, the Church of Greece (1908-23) and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople thereafter, in the absence of the Greek State in Diaspora, played an ethno-religious role, as was the case during the stony years of the Ottoman Rule (1453-1821), often with catastrophic results.
During their initial exodus (1400-1860) Greeks were scattered in well-known ports and commercial cities throughout Europe, where they occupied themselves first with commerce and later on with navigation, banking, insurance and other industries. The settlement in most urban centres was numerically very limited. Greek migration was precipitated by the harsh land occupancy laws introduced by the Ottoman Empire. Demographic pressures followed, exerted on the Greek-speaking Christian population because of massive numbers of Muslim settlers especially in the plains and fertile regions of the empire and the movement of the peasantry to more secure parts. A large portion of those emigrating settled in countries around the Danube River, especially Moldavia, Vlachia and Romania. Earlier (late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries), there was a sizeable exodus of scholars and charismatic intellectuals, experts in classical studies and ardent masters of the ancient Greek language, heading towards central and northern Italy and playing an important role in the Italian Renaissance. A smaller number of Greek soldiers, remnants of Byzantium, left for France and England. During the second half of the fifteenth century the expatriation currents increased and most Greeks settled in southern Italy. Another group of 4000 Greeks sought refuge in the Spanish colonies in Italy. Most of them later crossed to Spain, where they settled in Toledo and from this group many travelled as far as Central and South America. The wave of migration increased dramatically 200 years later with the termination of the Venetian occupation of Euboea and Crete (1645-69), when thousands of islander Greeks fled from Turkish rule to seek refuge in Italy. The constant warfare of the European countries with the Ottoman Empire generated the massive exodus of Greeks towards Europe. Thus, hundreds of Greeks from the Dodekanese fled to Malta (1530) and from Rhodes to Italy (1522), while during the period 1532-4 more than 6000 Greeks from the western Peloponnese sought refuge in Sicily (Palermo, Syracuse and Messina) and Italy (Naples, Brindisi, Regio di Calabria), where they established local Greek communities. Substantial numbers of Greeks emigrated to Europe following the fall of Nafplion and Monemvasia (1540-1) and of Cyprus (1570-1) to the Turks.
Another cause of expatriation was the Russian-Turkish Wars (1768-74) and (1787-92), especially from the Peloponnese and the islands of the Cyclades. Some of the fleeing Greeks moved to the British-occupied Ionian Islands, however, the majority dispersed throughout central Europe, Russia and the cities of Venice, Napoli, Livorno, Trieste and Minorca. During the beginning of the Greek War for Independence (25 March 1821) thousands of Greeks left their ancestral homes from Smyrna, Kydonies (Aivali), Constantinople, Cyprus, the islands of the Aegean, Macedonia and the Peloponnese. However, they repatriated immediately after the establishment of the modern Greek state in 1830.
During the long period between 1390 and 1821, those Greek immigrants living in Europe had better cultural, social and political opportunities to realise the political problem of their country, if compared with those living under the Ottoman yoke. The former understood that a compromise between the values of the Greek Orthodox tradition and the need to modernise their society with the prevailing western concepts was the ideal situation. The influence exerted on Greek immigrants by the societies of European countries (primarily France and Italy) via the Renaissance was also based on the culture and thought of the ancient Greek world. The Greek manuscripts were initially translated into Latin during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries from Arabic, whereas Greek literature began to spread to the West during the fourteenth century with the arrival of Byzantine scholars and the visits of Italian humanists to Constantinople. Thus for the Greek immigrants living in the Diaspora of Europe this was not a foreign influence but rather a repatriation of the ancient Greek cultural tradition. This time the idealisation of the classical golden age of ancient Greece was not emerging from the Greeks and their bibliography. The European intellectuals themselves, including the divine Petrarch, argued that only Greek and Latin authors should be studied for guidance on how to live, how to enjoy nature, how to cultivate friendship and so on. The whole pattern of education for citizenship, the thoughts about civil and social order, the norms of a rationalistic interpretation of life were concepts well known to the Greek intellectuals, students and merchants residing in European countries. The educational reorientation in Europe had been an intellectual revolt replacing the theocratic doctrine of the universe with the capacity of the human individual. The humanist ideology emerging amongst those Greek immigrants scattered in Europe, as merchants in large commercial centres, as students in the Venetian Republic's University of Padua and the University of Bologna was based now on the dogma that the Greek political problem could only be resolved with the implementation of western type of administration. To implement this it was necessary to expel the Turks from the Greek regions with the military assistance of the Christian European countries. These ideas were not isolated to within the European Greek communities but were also spread throughout Greece, via those Greek students studying abroad, Greek merchants, sailors, and shipping agents, and via the circulation of printed material. Following a number of commercial treaties and the signing of charters of privileges between the Ottomans and France and England (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) the Greek lands and in particular the Greek islands received the enlightened visit of a large number of scholars and well educated merchants carrying with them the dream of the liberation of Hellas.
The exposure of the Greeks to the 'Hellenised' western ideals was paying back. The Greeks were re-emerging as the first 'westernised' ethnic group in eastern Europe inspired by the concepts of liberalism and humanism. The Greeks of the Diaspora undertook also the important role of infiltrating the various regions under Ottoman rule with a large Greek population, involving diplomats, merchants, missionaries and intellectuals, and thus they were breaking their cultural and political isolation. During the centuries of the Turkish occupation, the Christian Orthodox Church in Greek lands, from the Peloponnese to Macedonia, remained idle, as it had been in Byzantine times, unable to produce any radical thought. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople was proclaimed by the ruling Sultans not simply the spiritual but also the temporal ruler milletbashi (national leader) and enjoyed privileges for the entire civil and ecclesiastical administration of the Christian millet (nation). Thus, the Greeks under Turkish rule remained as anti-western as they used to be when they were masters of their own empire, Byzantium. Conservative ecclesiastic attitudes, portraying western Europe as apostates from the 'true faith' coupled with the collective memory of the Crusaders of 1204, who sacked Constantinople and imposed their long occupation, continued to generate legacies of extreme suspicion and rejection. This hostile sentiment against the Franks was further augmented by Venetian and Genoese trading activities, which deprived Byzantium of its financial means, and led to its demise and to the proselytising religious orders of the Jesuits (1645), the French Capuchins (1658) and the Evangelist missionaries. These activities continued to generate ill feelings amongst the Greeks even into the twenty-first century, necessitating Pope John Paul Ⅱ to publicly apologise 'for the crimes committed by the Roman Catholic Church against the Orthodox' as a preconditions of his pilgrimage to Athens in 2002.
1. Greek emigration; 2. The history of settlement; 3. Demographic characteristics; 4. The social composition; 5. The economic composition; 6. The culture and civilisation; 7. The political intervention.


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Obama's Demagogic UN Address
U.S President Obama didn't surprise. His address lasted a mind-numbing 45 minutes. He made it painful listening.
U.S President Obama didn't surprise. His address lasted a mind-numbing 45 minutes. He made it painful listening.
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Obama's address didn't surprise. It was beginning-to-end demagogic boilerplate. It featured imperial mumbo jumbo. He turned truth on its head like he always does.
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Combine and Stir Gently
By BROATCH, Mark
APRON STRINGS (M – violence and offensive language) starring Scott Wills, Jennifer Ludlam, Jodie Rimmer, Laila Rouass. Directed by Sima Urale. 90 mins. Showing now * * * ——————– MICHAEL (NATHAN Whitaker), has returned from the UK with his TV chef mother Anita (Laila Rouass), a kind of Indian Nigella Lawson or Kiwi Padma Lakshmi, all sensuous ethnic glamour and Bollywood backing track. He's desperate to connect with his Indian side so heads to Auckland's possibly most multicultural suburb of Otahuhu and inveigles his way into a curry house with a family connection where he is soon making jalebi sweets and hearing the old stories without revealing who he is.
Barry (Scott Wills), aged 35, also lives with his mother Lorna (Jennifer Ludlam), who runs a traditional cake shop nearby and administers litres of the whitest and pinkest frosting. The Vietnamese neighbours are keen to buy her business, but pride, fear of change and a morsel of racism keep her batting away their offers.
Barry, a feckless, hapless individual, wants to run a business funded by the sale of his mother's shop but is prevented by his low quotient of intelligence, work ethic and moral fibre. Other than that, he's ready to go. He feels he just needs a bit of luck – the luck his neighbours suggest is down to 16-hour days – and to persuade his old-fashioned and mollycoddling mum that it is time to retire. Oh, and he doesn't like her mash and overboiled veges and would rather eat after boozing it
up at the local Indian. Every night.
These parallels – food, family, work – are interesting enough, but in Apron Strings they are contrasted a mite too conveniently. Whereas Barry is unsuited to his ambition, Michael is unsuited to his culture. He has secrets, ones of which the local Sikh community might be less accepting than his urbane mother and her chilled partner (the dependable Peter Elliot, with quality facial hair). Lorna and Barry battle in a working-class Pakeha way as Michael and Anita cross swords in a middle-class expat way (Barcelona chairs, Annie Proulx on the bedside table). Elliot's character and Anita also have a bit of a tiff and he unfortunately disappears from view.
Wills, a gifted actor, makes Barry's lazy gambling drunk look easy, although the script, by Shuchi Kothari and Dianne Taylor, doesn't give him quite enough chance to layer his performance. Barry is supposed to be a fool but he is also hard to sympathise with. Because of his and the experienced Ludlam's skill, however, their inevitable showdown, complete with slopped food, holds your attention completely and creates a rare moment on screen. Yet somehow it also feels a little stagey. Lorna's smothering, unswerving ways are driven by her own deep fears, having lost her husband some years back, something her independent- minded daughter Virginia (the always good Jodie Rimmer) confronts in an appropriately uncompromising manner. Virginia's own big surprise is handled as if with welding gloves, but perhaps the light-drama genre does sometimes demand oversized signposts.
Among the universally good acting, Rouass more than holds her own. She is an English professional who has been on Footballers' Wives and Casualty. The fact that she looks too young to be the mother of Michael (she's 33) is slightly distracting, although my partner gave her the benefit of the Indians-look-younger doubt.
It's a pity the elements of light relief – the Vietnamese bakers and Barry's no- nonsense grandmother – are so infrequent. On that note, there's a montage of scenes near the end that have incredible life and colour – more of this was needed in the film's centre.
Apron Strings is incredibly well finished, which we might call the Peter Jackson effect. Rarely does a New Zealand film now appear that doesn't look and sound the part and this one looks and sounds a lot like Auckland. It's not quite our Monsoon Wedding or Bend it Like Beckham, but it's well worth catching on the big screen.
THE PITCH: Watch this spice.
WATCH OUT FOR: Preparing the food.
(c) 2008 Sunday Star – Times; Wellington, New Zealand. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.


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Nicholson is known for its "Daisy Festival" and several famous residents, including singer Kenny Rogers and Actress Tammy Luthi Retzlaff. Ronnie Maxwell is the Mayor of Nicholson.
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- ^ a b "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
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Melvin I. Urofsky; Oscar Handlin.
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Alpheus Thomas Mason.
The Viking Press, 1946
Alexander M. Bickel; Louis Dembitz Brandeis.
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1957
Paul D. Carrington.
Westview Press, 1999
Wayne V. McIntosh; Cynthia L. Cates.
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Stefano Scoglio.
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Bobertz, Bradley C.
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Spillenger, Clyde.
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Sellars, Nigel Anthony.
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The street date is a bunch of advertising bullshit and I think pretty much everyone has accepted that at this point. It's just a way for advertising campaigns to be dramatic and to give consumers a date on which they can definitely get the game at local retail outlets(because sometimes they ship to different places at different speeds and such). Honestly complaining about this seems kind of akin to complaining about non-gameplay content being in a trailer. Not everything in an advertisement will be faithful to reality.
So yeah I don't think you're justified in thinking that release dates are supposed to be special or magical(they aren't even consistent across countries) and in fact I think you're kinda crazy for having your experience ruined by people playing the game before you. Did you know reviewers get their copies of games weeks in advance sometimes?
i hope they buy it and get rid of every single piece of content currently on G4. They should not have any video game content on the channel. I want there to be an obviously empty space for someone to fill in terms of video game media so we can start over and maybe not get something as bad as G4.
@Tanikaze: It's true that we're all video game enthusiasts. It's probably true that we are predominantly white males. But don't make assumptions about this forum until you've been around a little more, this is a place where people have widely different views about video games. This is not a forum where you can't take the road less traveled. If you think Chrono Trigger sucks, feel free to tell us why. I'm not sure where you're getting off, implying that someone is wrong because they are gamers.That's not the point. The point is that he's basing his argument off of the idea that western gamers are somehow interested in the wrong games. As someone bewitched by his personal experience, he is making the assumption that the game he likes is the right one, and people on gaming forums are almost universally uncritical of this game, so it's very rarely challenged. If it's not clear which games he or his brother "should" be playing, the blog loses its thrust.
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"I was dissapointed that he wouldn't even give the game an hour of his time because I know that if he had, he wouldn't want to put the game down. Chrono Trigger is still that engaging, even today. But I think the problem lies with the average Western game developer and what US gamers expect from their games now."
This is your assumption. It sounds fine on this forum, because, to be perfectly honest, this forum isn't a convergence of disparate perspectives. It's an echo chamber for niche demographic. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this forum is literally 90% white males within whatever age range, say 16-24, in a certain middle class income bracket, who are pretty much all gaming enthusiasts and probably all got into video games the same way. That's not a criticism of the site(or gamers), it's just the reality of the probable demographics. They do, without a doubt, echo each other's thoughts and feelings about who the best characters are, what the best franchises are, and so on. You'll never receive any legitimate criticism if you decide to pass off Chrono Trigger as good without justifying it on a gaming enthusiast forum because on these forums, Chrono Trigger is beyond criticism. Hardly anyone would think of telling you they didn't like it. I didn't like it that much. There's shocked gasps when I say that, seriously, and i don't even hate it. I think it's alright. It's my favorite JRPG, but I don't really like JRPGs as such(this is kind of an unfair way to brand Japanese games, but that's a discussion for another time).
"And most FPS titles have the same type of fast, frenetic gameplay. You get in, get out, and get your entertainment in 7 to 12 minute increments. Most of the stories in the games are quite forgettable. Even Halo, a series I've really had a lot of fun playing since it's first iteration, is lacking in the content department. Sure, the games look pretty and they are fun to play, but what kind of content are we getting? Most of the time, it's shit. No character development or proper story-telling. It's just here are few characters, go run and do this, here's some plot-twist that doesn't really fit the story at all, and then BAM! an explosion. I have no problem with FPS titles, though. For example, I love the Battlefield series. It's fun and different every time I play a game. However, many people still favor the arcade style of Call of Duty over the the realism of Battlefield because COD gives you 8 minutes of action-packed gameplay. It's like watching a Michael Bay movie every time you start a game. Whereas Battlefield has loads of realism and quality gameplay, but it's not as frinetic."
Firstly, many, many people play Call of Duty for huge amounts of hours. There's Call of Duty esports. People will play it a ton and grind out all kinds of bullshit. 7-12 minute increments is for Angry Birds. A round might take 7-12 minutes, but that's no more a fair way to measure this kind of thing than distance between save points. I think 12 minutes sounds about right for the distance between save points in Radiant Historia, and I doubt you'd seriously tell me you think that game is anything less than brilliant if you loved Chrono Trigger that much.
Next, this passage equates story with content. That's absolutely not what video games have become and it's really not what they started as. Many of the most popular and influential games in history have barely contained a story at all. I'm not talking Pong here; I'm talking direct inspirations for Squaresoft. I can tell you right now that the first batch of Wizardry games are definitely less plot-oriented than Call of Duty. Any Call of Duty.
I think you're trying to get on this David Jaffe train of Battlefield having better gameplay than Call of Duty but you left out the part where he thinks that Call of Duty fails as a game because it's straight up not fun and only exists to be a progression treadmill. That's literally the only way I can see this argument working and frankly while I kind of agree on a personal level I don't think it stands on its own as a criticism. You have to tell me why this shit is bad. You've given me "it's frenetic! it's arcadey!" as criticisms of this game. Geometry Wars is frenetic and arcadey. Chrono Trigger isn't methodical or realistic at all.
Fuckin' the whole JRPG genre as it stands originated from designers toning down western-made D&D dungeon crawlers and stripping out huge sections of the gameplay "depth"(I hate calling it that, even when these are the games I actually like) so that regular people could appreciate them more. That's where games like Final Fantasy came from, and it is ultimately the lineage of Chrono Trigger and any other JRPG you care to name.
"t's hard for me to believe that the average gamer in the States wouldn't love a game like Chrono Trigger. It has all the elements of a great video game: good story, good characters, good music, good gameplay. It's hard to beat a game like that. Yet, my brother will never experience it's greatness. And that actually makes me kind of sad."
You need to take a step back from all this. That may not even be possible; we're all gaming enthusiasts here with personal, emotional connections with these games. That automatically impugns our ability to declare games like Chrono Trigger as being timeless or even good. For what it's worth, as someone who reads a hell of a lot of books, I think Chrono trigger's story is bad pulp. It's "good story" and "good characters" only in the context of other video games. The bare minimum for a video game story is nothing and the maximum right now for the average "good story" game is Dan Brown with few exceptions. Chrono Trigger is not one of these exceptions, in my opinion.
I do not think the majority of games take four years to make. Additionally Portal 2 was Episode 3, sorry you missed it
Why do people keep comparing this to Duke Nukem Forever? It's been what, 4 years? A huge majority of games take longer then that to make.
As far as I know the EU and Clone Wars stuff focusing on Boba Fett was at least in part because of his (yes, baffling) pre-existing fanbase. Dude does nothing and then dies like a bitch. The only thing he does right is have a cool outfit.
To be honest it seems like since Jedi Outcast people have had a really, really hard time coming up with a better-than-mediocre Star Wars game, Lego Star Wars not withstanding. Maybe it's time to just forget the AAA titles and license it to indie developers who can make sequels to Rebellion and Yoda Stories(the best games, obviously) for the rest of the series' relevance. I'd play them anyway
I guess this is just one of those things I won't understand? It sounds like muzak went dubstep. A worse combination of things I cannot think of.
Dunno if they were actually announced at this E3 but Bastion and From Dust look cool. Part of my point is that you can't look at E3 keynotes and then go "yeah that's all the games coming out". There's other venues, other developers, and things not mentioned in those press conferences. Maybe a lot of indie games and whatever else is out there aren't for you either but you kinda just seem like you're being a drama queen over press conferences.


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Speaking at the curtain-raiser of Bangalore India Bio, 2011 on Monday, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairperson, Karnataka Vision group on Biotechnology and chairperson and managing director, Biocon, said name of the bidder will be announced during the conference to be held from May 4 to May 6 at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre.
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"Quality is never an accident. It is the result of intelligent and sustained efforts," says W. Daya Shyamala, Principal, SBOA Matriculation Higher Secondary School. "We have QCs engaging primary and middle school students who take up various issues and prepare case studies," she adds.
Through QCs, students identify issues on campus and carry out a thorough case study by applying the 'Plan-Do-Check-and-Act' method. "Students function with QC tools and techniques to carry out their case studies which can be used to measure social impact," explains Selvi Santosham, Coordinator of QCs at TVS group of institutions.Projects on campus
Thiagarajar College of Engineering, which has eight departments that make up the QC, has chalked out an elaborate plan. "While we have classroom committees which focus on core academic issues, the QC works on issues related to infrastructure, teaching and research activities," says Emil Selvan, Professor, Department of Computer Science, and QC Coordinator.
Recalling one of the first successful case studies of a QC, M. Palaninatha Raja, Registrar, says the low placement rate of engineers in core companies was analysed by students. "When we made qualitative changes based on the findings, there was a drastic improvement in the number of placements in core companies in the following years," he notes.
At school level, the TVS schools and SBOA schools have worked on QC case studies which have resulted in the campuses becoming a plastic-free zone. And there was a dip in sale of junk food. "School libraries were also given focus. A 'book review' system was implemented in our libraries after a QC case study. Students are given a review form when they return a book and the reviews help other students in choosing books," Ms. Santosham says.Point of view
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When Beyonce revealed her baby bump to the world at the MTV Video Music Awards last month, fans were thrilled that the singer and her husband, Jay Z, were finally going to become new parents. But sensational new claims may well overshadowed some of the excitement.
The 41-year-old rapper, who has been married to the Crazy In Love singer for three years, allegedly has a secret child. The 99 Problems singer reportedly fathered a young boy nine years ago with Trinidad model Shenelle Scott, according to Star magazine.
Jerard Andrews says his son Malik Sayeed was wrongly identified as the father, and DNA tests prove that Jay-Z is the boy's biological dad.
"At the time [he] was born, my son Malik thought he was his child, but they did DNA tests," he told the publication.
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Confirmation that Sayeed was not the father reportedly came two weeks later, when paternity test results allegedly determined the boy was Jay-Z's.
"Maybe two weeks later, he called me and said, 'Daddy, I got some bad news. [He's] not my son,'" Andrews told the publication.
"I said, 'How do you know, Malik?' He said, 'He doesn't look anything like me!'"
A source told the magazine that the child posses many of Jay-Z's features, and that the rap mogul is currently paying Scott child support.
He is said to have even helped the new mother set up a home in Trinidad to raise the child.
"Shenelle told me that Jay-Z gave her $1 million to keep her mouth shut," Jerald told Star.
"My understanding is that he's paying her child support.
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