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Ντέιβιντ Ντουκόβνι και Γκίλιαν Άντερσον έχουν δηλώσει την επιθυμία τους να επαναλάβουν τους ρόλους τους

Οι πιθανότητες να επιστρέψει στην αμερικανική τηλεόραση η διάσημη σειρά επιστημονικής φαντασίας που καθόρισε τα ’90s είναι κάτι παραπάνω από μεγάλη. «Η αλήθεια είναι εκεί έξω» και οι βασικοί συντελεστές δηλώνουν ενθουσιασμένοι ότι επιθυμούν να επιστρέψουν στις θέσεις τους.

Πριν από λίγες ημέρες, το τηλεοπτικό δίκτυο Fox ανακοίνωσε ότι εξετάζει την επιστροφή της σειράς στη μικρή οθόνη.

Οι επικεφαλής του δικτύου δήλωσαν ότι βρίσκονται ήδη σε συζητήσεις με τον δημιουργό της σειράς, Κρις Κάρτερ, ο οποίος -όπως είπαν- εμφανίζεται θετικός στην προοπτική και ότι βρίσκονταν σε επαφή και με τους πρωταγωνιστές της σειράς Ντέιβιντ Ντουκόβνι και Γκίλιαν Άντερσον, προκειμένου να τους πείσουν να επαναλάβουν τους ρόλους του Μόλντερ και της Σκάλι.

Λίγες ημέρες αργότερα, ο Ντουκόβνι, σε συνέντευξή του στην USA Today, δήλωσε ότι θα επιθυμούσε να επαναλάβει τον ρόλο του πράκτορα του FBI που ερευνά υποθέσεις που έχουν σχέση με μεταφυσικά φαινόμενα. Εξέφρασε, μάλιστα, την πεποίθησή του ότι η νέα σειρά X-Files δεν θα αργήσει να γίνει πραγματικότητα.

Πάντως, έσπευσε να δηλώσει ότι δεν θα τον ενδιέφερε να γυριστεί ολόκληρος κύκλος X-Files, αλλά μόνο κάποια επεισόδια. «Θα είναι σε κάποιου είδους περιορισμένης μορφής» είπε. «Είμαστε πολύ γέροι και δεν έχουμε την ενέργεια για μία ολόκληρη σεζόν».

Αυτή που φαίνεται ότι κίνησε όλη τη διαδικασία για την επιστροφή του X-Files, ήταν η πρωταγωνίστριά του, Γκίλιαν Άντερσον. Μιλώντας νωρίτερα τον Ιανουάριο στο The Nerdist, η Άντερσον είπε ότι θα ήταν «ενθουσιασμένη» εάν μπορούσε να γυρίσει περισσότερα επεισόδια από τη σειρά στην οποία οφείλει την καριέρα της.

Η αντίδραση των θαυμαστών της σειράς που διήρκεσε από το 1993 έως το 2002 ήταν κάτι παραπάνω από ενθουσιώδης και φαίνεται ότι ενθάρρυνε τα στελέχη του Fox να σκεφτούν σοβαρά την αναβίωσή της.

Το πρόβλημα είναι το φορτωμένο πρόγραμμα των συντελεστών. Τόσο η Άντερσον, όσο και ο Ντουκόβνι πρωταγωνιστούν σε άλλες σειρές, ενώ ο Κρις Κάρτερ δεν έχει λάβει ακόμα επισήμως θέση.

Πολλοί εκτιμούν, πάντως, ότι μετά την αποτυχημένη απόπειρα να προβληθεί η σειρά που ετοίμαζε (με τίτλο The After) και με την ενθουσιώδη αντίδραση των θαυμαστών των X-Files, ο Κάρτερ δεν θα αργήσει να πει το ναι.

Εάν η απόφαση αυτή θα είναι και η σωστή, μένει να φανεί.

Πηγή:in.gr

Περισσότερα από 2.600 αρχαία νομίσματα επέστρεψαν στην ΕλλάδαΤα νομίσματα είχαν κατασχεθεί στις 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011 στις αποσκευές Έλληνα πολίτη που ταξίδευε οδικώς προς το Μόναχο

Επαναπατρίστηκαν από τη Γερμανία 2.607 αρχαία νομίσματα, που είχαν κατασχεθεί στις 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2011 στις αποσκευές Έλληνα πολίτη που ταξίδευε οδικώς προς το Μόναχο.

Σύμφωνα με ανακοίνωση του υπουργείου Πολιτισμού, στην υπόθεση εμπλέκονται άτομα τα οποία συμμετείχαν στην εγκληματική οργάνωση αρχαιοκάπηλων που εξαρθρώθηκε τον Μάρτιο του 2012 από την Αστυνομική Διεύθυνση Χαλκιδικής.

Όπως αναφέρει η ανακοίνωση, στην πλειονότητά τους πρόκειται για χάλκινα νομίσματα κλασικών, ελληνιστικών, ρωμαϊκών και υστερορωμαϊκών χρόνων.

Από την αρχαιολογική τεκμηρίωση που έγινε στο Νομισματικό Μουσείο αναγνωρίστηκαν εκδόσεις νομισματοκοπείων πόλεων της Μακεδονίας (Πέλλα, Φίλιπποι, Αμφίπολη, Θεσσαλονίκη, Τράγιλος κ.α.), λιγοστές εκδόσεις πόλεων Αιγαιακής Θράκης (Μαρώνεια, Άβδηρα, ένα νόμισμα Αίνου), όπως και εκδόσεις βασιλέων Μακεδονίας (Αμύντας Γ΄, Φίλιππος Β΄, Αλέξανδρος Γ΄, Δημήτριος Πολιορκητής, Φίλιππος Ε΄, Περσεύς).

Επιπλέον, ανάμεσά τους εντοπίστηκαν τέσσερα αργυρά δηνάρια 2ου αι. μ.Χ. και δεκαπέντε ρωμαϊκοί αντωνινιανοί από κράμα 3ου αι. μ.Χ.

Αναγνωρίστηκαν, τέλος, ιδιαίτερες κοπές νομισματοκοπείου Θεσσαλονίκης πρώιμης βυζαντινής περιόδου (16νούμμια, 8νούμμια και ένα δυνούμμιον) και χάλκινο παλαιολόγειο torneze του Ιωάννη Ε΄ Παλαιολόγου, 2ου μισού 14ου αι.

Όπως επισημαίνεται, η επιτυχής εξέλιξη υπήρξε αποτέλεσμα της συντονισμένης προσπάθειας της Εισαγγελίας Θεσσαλονίκης με την αρμόδια Διεύθυνση Διαχείρισης Εθνικού Αρχείου Μνημείων, Τεκμηρίωσης και Προστασίας Πολιτιστικών Αγαθών της Γενικής Διεύθυνσης Αρχαιοτήτων και Πολιτιστικής Κληρονομιάς του υπουργείου Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού, οι οποίες κατόπιν χρονοβόρων διαδικασιών εντόπισαν τα νομίσματα στο Κεντρικό Τελωνείο Μονάχου και επετεύχθη ο επαναπατρισμός τους, ως προϊόντα παράνομης διακίνησης.

Στην ολοκλήρωση του επαναπατρισμού ήταν επίσης καθοριστική η συμβολή της γενικής προξένου Μονάχου κας Σοφίας Γραμματά.
Τα νομίσματα αποτελούν πλέον πρόσκτημα του Τμήματος νομισμάτων του Επιγραφικού και Νομισματικού Μουσείου, στο οποίο και φυλάσσονται.

Πηγή: in.gr

As the campaigning for Greece’s parliamentary elections enters its final hours ahead of the vote tomorrow, the last shots are being fired across the bows.
Last night, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras of the ruling New Democracy party – behind the upstart radical-left Syriza party in the polls – made his last stand at the party’s final campaign rally with a plea to resist the advances of the would-be victors.

In the Athens seaside suburb of Palaio Faliro, party officials were welcomed by cheering crowds in a former Olympic stadium, youth groups building up the atmosphere by waving Greek flags, beating drums, singing slogans and setting orange flares off in anticipation of the arrival of the embattled Mr Samaras.

He declared that he would not allow Syriza and its leader, Alexis Tsipras – more than 20 years his junior – to take Greece “back to the past” with its anti-austerity platform and threats to renegotiate a European bailout on Greece’s debts, after his party had worked to keep the country “standing”.

In trying to rectify the Greek financial mess, New Democracy has seen the country take massive sums in international bailouts and put into practice the stringent austerity measures that came with them. It is these measures that appear to have ensured that many voters will look for a new direction with Syriza, who are leading by between 4 and 6 percentage points in most polls.

Party officials are now banking on the undecided vote to overturn New Democracy’s poor prognostics. At current estimates between 8 and 10 per cent of voters are still unsure.

“I do believe we’ll be able to convince the undecided and win the election: things can change in an instant and when Greeks wake up on Sunday and go to the ballot they will think hard of their future,” New Democracy candidate Vasileios Foivos Axiotis told The Independent.

After a seven-year recession and widespread unemployment, Greece’s economy is finally starting to show feeble signs of recovery. Pointing to conservative New Democracy’s electoral pledges, Mr Axiotis, a civil engineer who owns two large companies in construction and renewable energy says: “Syriza has nothing to offer Greece or the business world.”

Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for unity – saying that Greece should remain part of the “story” of the eurozone, with a potential Syriza win raising fears for Greece’s future in the bloc. “I want Greece, despite the difficulties, to remain part of our story,” she said.

Europe’s fears were not eased by Mr Tsipras yesterday, who insisted that his party, if it won, would have until the summer to conduct a review of the bailout, despite the agreement with the EU set to end on 28 February. Eurozone officials have said that Greece would likely need to seek an extension beyond then.

Workers put up polling station signs at a school in Athens Workers put up signs that indicate the polling stations in a school (EPA)
Lawyer Pavlos Marinakis, 26, sees New Democracy as a party of stability which would protect the country’s place in the eurozone. Syriza’s anti-bailout agreement has spooked markets and European officials. In spite of its unwavering austerity policies, its supporters say New Democracy has adopted a “reasonable” position by aiming to repay the country’s debts.

“I’ll support New Democracy because all my efforts and sacrifices need to lead to results… I need stability and to know what will come next but there will be no security for our future with Mr Tsipras – he just makes empty promises about everything to everyone.”

Mr Marinakis echoes the voices of those voters who fear the repercussions of the anti-austerity rhetoric of the left wing Syriza party. In a speech on Thursday night, Mr Tsipras warned thousands of supporters of looming “major clashes” as his party would seek easing of the country’s huge and “unsustainable” debts. Despite their support, Syriza’s anti-austerity measures have some Greeks worrying about the country’s fate, especially when it comes to negotiating with its international lenders.

Greece is scheduled to repay billions of euros this year. New Democracy’s campaign has also focused on dissuading voters from backing its left wing opponent. “Greeks think that bankruptcy is what they are living now, but bankruptcy is when fuel, raw materials and medical imports cease immediately, like what we’ve seen in Cyprus, Venezuela and Argentina,” New Democracy candidate Sophie Voultepsi said yesterday.

Withdrawals from banks have significantly escalated in recent days though nowhere near the capital flight ahead of the 2012 election. “Right now it’s the doom and gloom scenario,” says finance professional Michail Kougioulis. He said his vote is split between New Democracy and a newly created pro-European party, To Potami, or River, who are third in the polls and could act as kingmaker if neither of the other the two can claim a majority.

“We’re six months ahead of a likely and gradual rebounding of the economy but we’re stepping back six months, with the risk of going back entire generations

Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras: described as a warm, talkative and witty personality, who likes being around people. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki

Should Alexis Tsipras lead his leftist Syriza party – as is widely expected – to victory in Sunday’s general election in Greece, it could herald the end of 40-year history in which power in the financially troubled Mediterranean country has alternated between the conservative New Democracy and socialist Pasok parties.

Very much a child of the post-dictatorship era – he was born four days after the collapse of the seven-year junta in July 1974 – Tsipras will also stand a chance to become the country’s youngest prime minister in living memory and its first leftist leader.

His and his party’s meteoric rise to prominence is no small feat considering he was a relatively unknown entity to most Greeks a decade ago, when he was a member of the leadership of Syriza’s forerunner, Synaspismos, a party that generally found itself struggling to cross the parliamentary threshold.

Tsipras’s first flirtation with politics was at secondary school, where he played a prominent role in a wave of student sit-ins of school buildings. Interviewed on state television as one of the leaders of the occupations, Tsipras, almost Elvis-like with his large crop of gelled-up black hair, explained how he thought political goals were best achieved.

“Without protest there can be no achievements,” the 16-year-old said, adding that it was the right of students to skip class and demonstrate whether their parents agreed or not.

Around the same time, he became involved in the youth wing of the communist KKE party, then the country’s third political force and more dependent on the Soviet Union than the country’s Eurocommunist party that would develop into Syriza.

When those two communist parties forged an alliance in 1990, and briefly formed a historic coalition with the conservatives to oust the socialist prime minister Andreas Papandreou from power, Tsipras ended up remaining with the reformist left after hardline KKE members went back to their own party.

New generation
But it was a run for mayor of Athens in 2006 that propelled the civil engineering graduate into the spotlight and attracted a new generation into Synaspismos. Compared to his main fellow contenders, well-known ministers from the conservative and socialist parties, Tsipras capitalised on his youthful appeal and good looks, which he’s managed to retain pretty intact as he’s progressed into middle age. Despite a strong showing in the opinion polls ahead of the vote, Tsipras came in third place on 10 per cent.

Now with nationwide recognition, he was subsequently groomed to take over at the helm of Synaspismos, which by then was morphing into Syriza, a wider coalition of diverse left-wing groups. In 2008 he eventually became leader, at the age of 33.

Elected to parliament in 2009, a year after he became Syriza leader, Tsipras saw his party’s popularity explode as the financial crisis hit the country, transforming Syriza in less than three years from a minor party that took less than 5 per cent in elections to one of 27 per cent.

Not short of confidence, he was viewed by his many detractors as an upstart, too smart for his own boots. Through hard work and experience, Tsipras and his close associates developed his image, in an effort to present him as a leader and prime minister material.

Examples include his efforts to improve his English as well as his overtures to church leaders, in a clear attempt to assuage voters in the relatively religious country that they have nothing to fear from his being an atheist.

But his detractors within Greece remain numerous. A common view, one shared by incumbent prime minister Antonis Samaras and other European leaders, is that he’s a dangerous populist who simply doesn’t understand how the real world works.

Warm and witty
People who know him describe him as a warm, talkative and witty personality, who likes being around people. Some wish that the Tsipras they know could be more publicly open about himself. “They’ve made him into a politician now, but it would be great if he could speak his mind and say what he really believes,” one said.

A father of two young boys, one of whom has the middle name Ernesto (after Latin American revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara), Tsipras lives with his partner, who was his childhood sweetheart, in central Athens.

Asked recently whether he would start wearing a tie if he became prime minister, Tsipras replied that if he could meet the pope in the Vatican without one – as he did last September – then he probably didn’t need one.

source:irishtimes.com