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The new Mini Roadster

True to the brand's principles, the Roadster retains the MINI design and go-kart handling, while the manual fabric roof it incorporates follows the tradition of British roadsters.
On hearing the name MINI ten years ago, two models came to mind. Either the archetype of Sir Alec Issigonis, or Frank Stephenson's retro revival (Mini Cooper New), which when presented the 2001 charmed the public with its retro design, the beautiful curves and go-kart handling.
Yes, in the coming years, the commercial success of the Mini Cooper was so great that it did not leave the people of Mini idle. So, quickly the range of bodies began to be enriched. First with the Convertible, then with the Clubman, Countryman, Coupe and now with the Roadster. It seems, finally, that tactic that wins, you don't change her...
The Roadster is Mini's sixth model and second (after the Cabrio) which features a fabric opening roof. In fact, this is manual, intentionally by the Mini people, so that the open-close is not complicated and at the same time refers to traditional British roadsters.
The process is relatively easy in theory, since to open the roof (which will be available exclusively in black) all you have to do is unlock by turning the relevant lever on the windshield frame and lower it, while to close it press a button in front of the roll bars. Subsequently, it unfolds assisted by gas springs/shock absorbers. Last move is to secure it again. In practice, however, the whole process is relatively difficult to do from the driver's or passenger's seat, so you may have to get out of the car (or find the right technique). And this is a disadvantage in a sudden downpour.
For this, the option of a semi-automatic roof is also available, which opens and closes approx 8 and 10 δλ. respectively, while the whole process can be done with the car moving up to 30 km / h.
Regarding the external dimensions, as is the Coupe, so the Roadster is based on the hatchback version and its length is longer by 35 mm. than the equivalent of the Mini Convertible. More detailed, the length is in 3.734 mm., the width at 1.683 mm. and the height at 1.390 mm., while the wheelbase is set at 2.467 mm.
Nevertheless, unlike the Convertible, the Roadster only has two seats, while the windshield also has a smaller inclination 13 degrees. The overall height is lower by 20 mm. (1.390 mm.), while in terms of spaces, the absence of rear seats, almost doubled the trunk capacity (240 λτ.) So, now two suitcases fit comfortably, even if the luggage compartment is not completely flat.

In fact, in relation to the Convertible, thanks to the lower center of gravity, in improved aerodynamics, in the minimal transfer of the weight to the front axle and in the best rigidity of the frame by 10%, the Mini Roadster has a little more pleasantness, go-kart driving. We had the opportunity to drive it in Lisbon, Portugal and were so pleased with the chassis, as well as from the margins of adhesion and the suspension, which seems to be a bit softer than the hatchback. The steering wheel as always is direct and rich in information, the rimmed wheels on the body give the feel of a kart and so on, combined with the familiar, excellent engine of 184 horsepower of the S version you prefer the provincial network to the National Road. Wherever there is the Mini Roadster is particularly stable, while even at high speeds, the fabric roof does not sound annoying. With the roof down, the air turbulence in the cabin is limited, however you need (as in most convertibles) a hat or cap for the head.
End, in terms of powertrains, these are the same as the Coupe. More specifically, At the base of the Roadster range is the Cooper version of the 122 horses (0-100 The day for the draw of the two lucky ones 9,2 δλ. and final 199 km / h). As known, above we meet their supercharged Cooper S 184 horses (0-100 The day for the draw of the two lucky ones 7 δλ. and final 227 km / h), while at the top is placed the John Cooper Works version of 211 horses. In everything,what about the diesel options, the present will be given by the 2-liter version of the Cooper SD 143 horses (6,5 δλ. – 237 km / h) . A six-speed manual transmission is standard, while the Mini Roadster is optional (except for JCW) also available with a 6-speed automatic transmission.
Source : autotriti.gr
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Dinos Christianopoulos: “Your prizes are too sweet”

In advance (for decades…) the attempt to "honor" the Thessalonian poet by the state ended in fiasco
How "honorable" it is to be awarded by the current Greek state, humiliatingly brought to its knees by politics, financial and moral bankruptcy; And how willing one is"twisted man"– as the Thessaloniki poet Dinos Christianopoulos describes himself – to become an occasional media exhibit; Even if our faded European province flourished culturally from Gavdos to Prespes, again, Christianopoulos would playfully stick out his tongue at every award. His prize is his 60-year relationship with readers and art lovers.. However, he already owned it, long before the recipients of the Grand Prize of Letters of the Ministry of Culture sought him out in the Upper Town – and according to the popular saying "eat the door"...
"What can I tell them now?; Why did you reward me?; You didn't know I wouldn't accept; They knew it, but they messed up. They thought I might accept" commented the 82-year-old writer after the announcement (for decades) last Monday's fiasco. In his own words, paraphrased, "What shall I do with your prizes?, they are too sugary, fit for chocolate kids…”and so on, also known with the music of Dionysis Savvopoulos.
By the way, Christianopoulos doesn't like this music. They generally discredit the setting of poems. And he does not stop blasting those contemporaries who are not to his taste. Many lifted up the cursed stone. Who is criticizing Elytis?, Seferis (both Nobel laureates – random;), Richos, Vasilikos, Greek poetry after the 70th anniversary; they say. They don't notice that it weighs the whole of a project: "Ritsos, with all the cheapness he has in his writings, he has written the most amazing verse I have read by a poet and he says: “Heaven begins with bread”».

The cats, Cavafy and Tsitsanis
Child of the Catechist until he sinned by publishing his first poetry collection, herSeason of skinny cows(1950), former librarian at the Municipal Library of Thessaloniki until 1965, meticulous editor of publications, cultural traffic policeman of the city with the magazine "Diagonios" as the 1983 and the "Small Gallery" ("for 25 years I was a slave to painters"), Christianopoulos has dropped anchor on land, almost untraveled. In Cinari, next to the castle, in the company of his cats, on the one hand, loving, the other unacceptable.
Ascetic life, little income, an unequivocal "no" years ago to the suggestion that he do the paperwork to get a "literary pension". And continuous exposure: events, speeches, hundreds of interviews keep him balanced on the wave of publicity.
Pioneer of gay poetry – he himself would simply say "erotic" -, younger declared himself a student of Cavafy: "He was a follower of pleasure, I am a follower of Christian agony".Two large photographs of Alexandrinos and Vassilis Tsitsanis are held firmly by the nails in his house.. Christianopoulos even got on the rebetiko stage to sing, contrasting his genuine inner need with his disturbingly thin interpretation.
The 1979 opposed those who gunpowder him with the coding manifesto "Against": the grants, the state, the newspapers, the cliques, the cultists, ideologies, individual aspirations. And, certainly, the awards:"Getting a prize means admitting spiritual masters – and someday we'll have to kick the bosses out of our lives".
From the 1998 the solitary creator does not publish poems. And he claims"don't want me as their face, just because m’ they love".
Naive or vain;
Just 21 years old was the 1981 Nikos Davvetas, chairman of the state committee that made the risky decision to award Christianopoulos, when he published his first poems. Where; In the magazine "Diagonios"! You say he didn't know the views of the editor of the magazine; Had he not realized the trajectory of the "Against" catapult text that had been unleashed on the public just two years earlier; So what is the old-fashioned obsession for?;
There are two answers to the reasonable question. Either the awardees are bona fide but also amazingly naive, thoughtless, sloppy fans, either they consciously decided to roll the dice: to "remain in History" as the people who "convinced Christianopoulos in his old age" to... be awarded. If the former happens, he is fine – fandom is blinding in the field and literary stands. But if the second happens, the laureates raised a small worthless mound of vanity whose soils quickly overwhelmed them with a related wave in the communication land of the Lotus Eaters.
Perhaps the members of the previous state committee had foreseen something more, as the poet himself now revealed: "And last year, with Mastrodimitris as president, they offered to reward me, but the man understood when I explained to him and did not proceed."They may not have been jealous of the controversial credit of those who allegedly would do it – for a short moon – the Christianopoulos current currency, Neo-Hellenistic "talk of the town".

Cracks in public discourse
* "Since '98 I have been writing poems, I have the impression that God took them and left me like this. And I can't complain. He wanted to cut off my inspiration; Cut it off for me, come on brother!».
* "Thessaloniki was a nightmare. Let's not forget that. But Athens too - sit tight - was Albanian. What we call Hellenism was built on foreign peoples".
* “I live on less than 600 euros without wanting luxuries, cars and houses. And with a few parades I can live".
* "Homosexuality is a pathology that cannot be cured by doctors, is cured by self-awareness".
* "Cavafi had flown 180 poems, which while he considered them rubbish, the philologists came – the great scourge of modern Greek literature –, they found them very great and added them with the good ones".
Source : tovima.gr
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"Madame Soussou", from the State Theater of Northern Greece

Premiere on Friday 10 February
The State Theater of Northern Greece presents the play "Madame Sousou" by Dimitris Psathas, directed by Giorgos Armenis. The unsurpassed comedy of Dimitris Psathas, will be performed at the Royal Theatre, with Fotini Baxevanis in the leading role. The premiere of the show will be given on Friday 10 February.

This is an extremely rare theatrical adaptation made by the author himself for Mrs. Katerina's troupe, (with Emilios Veakis in the role of Panagiotakis) the 1942, and has not reappeared since.

Source : newsbeast.gr
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Dinos Christianopoulos: "Your awards are too sweet"

In advance (for decades…) the attempt to "honor" the Thessalonian poet by the state ended in fiasco
How "honorable" it is to be awarded by the current Greek state, humiliatingly brought to its knees by politics, financial and moral bankruptcy; And how willing one is"twisted man"– as the Thessaloniki poet Dinos Christianopoulos describes himself – to become an occasional media exhibit; Even if our faded European province flourished culturally from Gavdos to Prespes, again, Christianopoulos would playfully stick out his tongue at every award. His prize is his 60-year relationship with readers and art lovers.. However, he already owned it, long before the recipients of the Grand Prize of Letters of the Ministry of Culture sought him out in the Upper Town – and according to the popular saying "eat the door"...
"What can I tell them now?; Why did you reward me?; You didn't know I wouldn't accept; They knew it, but they messed up. They thought I might accept" commented the 82-year-old writer after the announcement (for decades) last Monday's fiasco. In his own words, paraphrased, "What shall I do with your prizes?, they are too sugary, fit for chocolate kids…”and so on, also known with the music of Dionysis Savvopoulos.
By the way, Christianopoulos doesn't like this music. They generally discredit the setting of poems. And he does not stop blasting those contemporaries who are not to his taste. Many lifted up the cursed stone. Who is criticizing Elytis?, Seferis (both Nobel laureates – random;), Richos, Vasilikos, Greek poetry after the 70th anniversary; they say. They don't notice that it weighs the whole of a project: "Ritsos, with all the cheapness he has in his writings, he has written the most amazing verse I have read by a poet and he says: “Heaven begins with bread”».

The cats, Cavafy and Tsitsanis
Child of the Catechist until he sinned by publishing his first poetry collection, herSeason of skinny cows(1950), former librarian at the Municipal Library of Thessaloniki until 1965, meticulous editor of publications, cultural traffic policeman of the city with the magazine "Diagonios" as the 1983 and the "Small Gallery" ("for 25 years I was a slave to painters"), Christianopoulos has dropped anchor on land, almost untraveled. In Cinari, next to the castle, in the company of his cats, on the one hand, loving, the other unacceptable.
Ascetic life, little income, an unequivocal "no" years ago to the suggestion that he do the paperwork to get a "literary pension". And continuous exposure: events, speeches, hundreds of interviews keep him balanced on the wave of publicity.
Pioneer of gay poetry – he himself would simply say "erotic" -, younger declared himself a student of Cavafy: "He was a follower of pleasure, I am a follower of Christian agony".Two large photographs of Alexandrinos and Vassilis Tsitsanis are held firmly by the nails in his house.. Christianopoulos even got on the rebetiko stage to sing, contrasting his genuine inner need with his disturbingly thin interpretation.
The 1979 opposed those who gunpowder him with the coding manifesto "Against": the grants, the state, the newspapers, the cliques, the cultists, ideologies, individual aspirations. And, certainly, the awards:"Getting a prize means admitting spiritual masters – and someday we'll have to kick the bosses out of our lives".
From the 1998 the solitary creator does not publish poems. And he claims"don't want me as their face, just because m’ they love".
Naive or vain;
Just 21 years old was the 1981 Nikos Davvetas, chairman of the state committee that made the risky decision to award Christianopoulos, when he published his first poems. Where; In the magazine "Diagonios"! You say he didn't know the views of the editor of the magazine; Had he not realized the trajectory of the "Against" catapult text that had been unleashed on the public just two years earlier; So what is the old-fashioned obsession for?;
There are two answers to the reasonable question. Either the awardees are bona fide but also amazingly naive, thoughtless, sloppy fans, either they consciously decided to roll the dice: to "remain in History" as the people who "convinced Christianopoulos in his old age" to... be awarded. If the former happens, he is fine – fandom is blinding in the field and literary stands. But if the second happens, the laureates raised a small worthless mound of vanity whose soils quickly overwhelmed them with a related wave in the communication land of the Lotus Eaters.
Perhaps the members of the previous state committee had foreseen something more, as the poet himself now revealed: "And last year, with Mastrodimitris as president, they offered to reward me, but the man understood when I explained to him and did not proceed."They may not have been jealous of the controversial credit of those who allegedly would do it – for a short moon – the Christianopoulos current currency, Neo-Hellenistic "talk of the town".

Cracks in public discourse
* "Since '98 I have been writing poems, I have the impression that God took them and left me like this. And I can't complain. He wanted to cut off my inspiration; Cut it off for me, come on brother!».
* "Thessaloniki was a nightmare. Let's not forget that. But Athens too - sit tight - was Albanian. What we call Hellenism was built on foreign peoples".
* “I live on less than 600 euros without wanting luxuries, cars and houses. And with a few parades I can live".
* "Homosexuality is a pathology that cannot be cured by doctors, is cured by self-awareness".
* "Cavafi had flown 180 poems, which while he considered them rubbish, the philologists came – the great scourge of modern Greek literature –, they found them very great and added them with the good ones".
Source : tovima.gr
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"Madame Soussou", from the State Theater of Northern Greece

Premiere on Friday 10 February
The State Theater of Northern Greece presents the play "Madame Sousou" by Dimitris Psathas, directed by Giorgos Armenis. The unsurpassed comedy of Dimitris Psathas, will be performed at the Royal Theatre, with Fotini Baxevanis in the leading role. The premiere of the show will be given on Friday 10 February.

This is an extremely rare theatrical adaptation made by the author himself for Mrs. Katerina's troupe, (with Emilios Veakis in the role of Panagiotakis) the 1942, and has not reappeared since.

Source : newsbeast.gr
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Fran Drescher : "I was abducted by aliens"

Famous small screen actress Fran Drescher, which we got to know in Greece from the successful series "Live Action Nanny", she claims that at some point in her life she was abducted by aliens and had a chip implanted in her hand, scheduling her for a mission.
The 54-year-old star made this statement-revelation to the Huffington Post and even insists that her story is completely true. She also showed her wrist where the mark is and says that is where the chip was implanted.
As her ex-husband reported, producer and screenwriter Peter Marc Jacobson had a similar experience: “You know, it's funny but peter and i also saw aliens before we even met, while it happened to us in the same way, as we were in the car with our father", she reported in support of her alien theory.
The actress added: “We were both in high school. A few years later, we met and found we had the same experience. I believe somehow we were meant to meet. We both have this mark. It's the exact same sign in the exact same spot.", said Drescher, although her ex-husband added that he is not convinced 100% that she has the mark from the aliens. In essence, Jacobson believes this came from either a burn or some wound, though Fran voices her disagreement: “I told him that's what the aliens programmed us to believe! But here I have a chip!».
Drescher and Jacobson co-created the Nanny series from 1993 up to 1999, where last season was. Now starring in the series "Happily divorced".
Source : real.gr
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Makis Tselios : His unknown past

Back in the 70s, fashion gets mixed up with music, youth movements, the flower power, the punk, kitsch. The Studio opens in New York 54, people discover disco, the lycra, the stretch, the vinyl. And in Greece, Makis Tselios and Vassilis Kourkoumeli create the Billy Bo house and start a fashion revolution. Almost four decades later, Makis has not stopped counting. "You really want to know; I have done a hundred and twenty demonstrations in my life…».
He was born in Ithaca, grew up in Athens and declares "Myconian by transfer". It suits him. Like the air of the island that "adopted" him, is constantly moving. He speaks, he laughs, he serves me coffee, answers phones, gives instructions to associates, he poses – almost – professionally in his office and studio, a place of high aesthetics, with "hard" black and red decoration. Everything around him "screams" beauty - to the last detail. And yet, he didn't always want to be a designer. He earned his first salary at Mercedes! "I started as an usher at 16 and at the same time I also went to night school. They were difficult years and I had to work". He went on to become a successful salesman, with prizes and bonuses. After, says, this cycle also closed and another one opened. Catalyst, a "fateful" meeting: "We met by chance on the street with Vassilis (s.s. Kurkoumeli). We've known each other for a long time, we were neighbors in Piraeus - of course he was younger. Basil had plans, concerns, I wanted to make a new beginning. We worked together".
Source : yupi.gr

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