24/12/14

[Maik]

A German company that specializes in eyewear has offered to buy customers a Greek island if they buy 420,000 frames from the company.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_23/12/2014_545700

[Maik]

Paliki police have arrested a 35 year old local for theft on Saturday of 325€ from a local business.

[Maik]

The total number of foreign visitors to Greece broke the barrier of 20 million in the first 10 months of 2014, reaching 20.8 million according to data released on Tuesday by the Bank of Greece.

The figure includes cruise visitors and accounts for a 21.9 percent annual increase.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_23/12/2014_545707

[Maik]

Greece has third largest decline in real estate prices worldwide

http://en.protothema.gr/greece-has-third-largest-decline-in-real-estate-prices-worldwide/

[Maik]

E-books 'damage sleep and health,' doctors warn

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30574260

[Maik]

The dogs looked like dogs.

Then, after a lick of paint and a splash of dye, they looked like pandas. So much so that visitors to a travelling circus near the Italian town of Brescia had believed the Chow Chow dogs were a rare example of the Chinese bear. The white dogs, originally shipped from Hungary, were seized from the circus by authorities in Italy after a tip-off.

Hsin Ch’en, a pet shop owner in the southwest province of Sichuan claims he started the craze for these decorated dogs in China which sell for considerably more than the average Chow Chow.

“Ten years ago the natural instinct of a Chinese person was to eat a dog. Now we are like westerners and want one as a companion.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dogs-painted-to-look-like-pandas-in-italian-circus-seized-by-police-9943143.html

[TonyKath]

E-books 'damage sleep and health,' doctors warn

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30574260

Only the "light-emitting" type though.  It's been known for some time that TVs and PC screens inhibited melatonin.

Tony