Giannis Antetokounmpo as he finishes with 22 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and a block against a San Antonio Spurs!

The top plays from Giannis Antetokounmpo as he finishes with 22 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and a block against a San Antonio Spurs!

https://www.facebook.com/milwaukeebucks/?fref=nf

Giannis Antetokounmpo returns to his official blog on his birthday and shares his thoughts and his feelings with our readers and his fans!

His strong start to the season, the impressive stats, the recent win over the champions of LeBron James’s Cleveland Cavaliers, the response to the words of Greek – American legend Nikos Galis, and the way he sees everything that’s been happening in his life lately!

Before you enjoy him, let us just wish him a happy birthday and good health, success, and family happiness. Our only wish? For him to stay the same and keep working hard every day. All the rest will follow!

We have a lot to prove

Hello to everyone! The first part of the regular period of the NBA is already behind us and so far we’ve had good moments and bad ones. We pulled off some important wins, some good performances away from home, but we also lost games that we could have and should have won like the last one Vs the San Antonio Spurs.

At the end of the journey we are going to take stock and, personally, I don’t allow myself to dwell too much on one good performance or a bad night. The point is to learn how to win and find a way to have the same level of intensity and energy in defense and offense, like for example we had against the Cavaliers.

This will make us a better and more effective team, the duration at high standards of performance will change our level, bring us more wins, make us a playoff team.

I know that we have a future ahead of us and that we’re building something powerful in Milwaukee. But I am focused on the present and each game individually. I want, when the season ends, to be able to look ourselves in the mirror and say: ‘Yes, we did our best, we gave everything we had.’

We’ve learned to live without Khris Middleton, even though we miss him a lot. We have to stabilize the level of the defense we play, to use our athleticism in the right way, and become even smarter in defense. In offense, we want to create situations on the open court, where we have so many abilities, and improve in the 5-on-5 and in half-court situations.

Owners and front office are doing a great job

The organization is working feverishly with a vision and passion that is… carried over to our team. Great selections were made in the draft with Malcolm Brogdon and Thon Maker! Malcolm has been helping out a lot. The guy is already playing like a veteran! Thon has a lot of talent and he owns the future. The same goes for the free agency.

We signed Dellavedova, who is a great guard, helps out the team a great deal, and has recent experience with… winning the ring! And when Middleton’s injury occurred, we signed Michael Beasley, and you can see how important a role he has and how much he contributes in every aspect of the game.

Once again, the GΜ did an amazing job and our owners have a vision for the Bucks, the present and future of the franchise. All this goes to show that, in Milwaukee, the foundations are already in place to build something big. We all dream of it, we’re all working towards it!

I want my teammates to love me!

With regard to myself, I’m trying hard to do credit to Jason Kidd, who trusts me as a point guard. To place my teammates in the right positions, to provide them with opportunities to score, to improve as a creator and decision maker. I’ve understood well that I’ll contribute more and be who I need to be for the Bucks if I help to ensure that all of my teammates give 100% and not if I score more points!

Besides, isn’t this the job of a playmaker? I’m not interested in making personal records in points and proving that I can be a scorer. I want to earn the respect of my teammates because I’m going to be the one who, every night, will be doing everything it takes to make them feel good and unleash the maximum of their abilities on the court! This is the key, this is my goal for which I strive every day, and the experience of games helps me evolve.

You don’t become a great team or a great player overnight

My dream is not just to have a good career with big numbers in the NBA. My dream is to prove over the years that I’m a winner and to accomplish great things at a team level.

Numbers are good, as are records, as are big wins. But being a winner and proving it with results, does not compare to anything! I know I have what it takes.

I know I can contribute a lot of things in all areas. The point is to do it for the benefit of the Milwaukee Bucks and do my part so that this team that trusted me can one day make history!

We beat the Cavaliers. A big win. But it counts… as a win like all others. It gives us nothing more than confidence and belief in our abilities. You don’t become a great team when you win games like these, but you don’t go very far in the league either. You don’t become a great player if you have good nights against LeBron, Durant, Curry, Carmelo, Westbrook, and in the end your team has achieved nothing important.

My gift is the faith the Bucks have in me and the love of the fans!

I feel that I’m a very lucky guy. I do what I love, I enjoy it, and through it I help my family and my loved ones. Today, I become 22 years of age and I feel truly blessed.

I don’t want a gift, I’ve already gotten it, I receive it every day. It’s the faith the Bucks have in me, the love that the organization gives me, my teammates, the people of our city, and of course my family.

I am the one who is obliged to give back these gifts and this is the promise I make to myself every day. ‘Giannis, don’t stop working. Giannis, give back to the Bucks this joy and this faith, make the people that trusted you and who are supporting you happy, do right by them!’ It’s not easy, it’s not going to happen from one day to the next, but by giving everything I have every day for this goal, I feel like I’m on the right track, that I’m doing the right thing.

Thank you Mr. Galis!

I was very happy when I read what Nikos Galis said about me. I was disappointed that we didn’t manage to see him up close in the Antetokounbros in Thessaloniki, but I continue to hope that some day we’ll find ourselves on the same court!

I’m very flattered by your words and I thank you from the bottom of my heart! Thank you so much Mr. Galis! I’ve only enjoyed you through videos, but from what I’ve seen, I know that I’ll never be able to score baskets like you did! I understand, though, your enormous value and contribution to Greek basketball! When I was a boy or a teenager and I went to practice, I tried to emulate and think like Papaloukas, Diamantidis, Spanoulis, and other great Greek players.

They influenced and shaped my basketball DNA and the way I approach the sport. I’ve read in their interviews that you urged them to get out on the open courts and play basketball. And that says it all!

This is a dream of mine. To realize, when I will have stopped playing, that I was a motivating force and a model for the next Greek generations to play basketball and, first to become better people through it and then good players. That would make me very proud.

I was happy about Barack Obama’s reference

Barack Obama’s mention of my name in his speech while he was in Athens also made me very happy. I met him when we visited the White House and we all know that he’s a man who really loves basketball. The fact that when the president of the USA thought of Greece, he had my name in mind too, is a big honor for me. I haven’t hidden the fact that one of my biggest dreams is to represent and advertise my country whenever I have the chance. It’s something that makes me happy and gives me a great amount of joy.

The extra motivation

Fortunately, I am one of those athletes who know how to refuel themselves with motivation and I judge myself very harshly. But I can’t lie, though. The love and support of the fans is something special and a very powerful extra incentive.

To the Bucks fans I just want to say a big thank you. All together, we can reach very high. We lack nothing and time is on our side! We only need to have faith in one another and positive energy.

To the Greek fans, even though I don’t have the time to read all the messages or to respond, I owe a big thank you for their support, which has to be… double. Because, to watch me, they have to stay up all night and that is very hard! Believe me, I understand that well and I really appreciate it. I’m a guy who, after the practices and the exhaustion of the whole day, after 12 at night I… nod off!

Be well everyone! Take advantage of every day like it deserves and chase your dreams in the way that you feel and not the way that others might often want to impose on you!

Giannis

LIVE 6 Οι επιζώντες από την αεροπορική τραγωδία της Σαπεκοένσε

6 άτομα κατάφεραν να ανασυρθούν ζωντανά από τα συντρίμμια του αεροσκάφους τύπου Avro RJ85 που συνετρίβη στην πόλη Αντιόκια της Κολομβίας.


Από τους έξι επιβαίνοντας, οι τρεις είναι ποδοσφαιριστές της Σαπεκοένσε, οι οποίοι μαζί με ακόμα εννέα παίκτες που δεν έκαναν ποτέ το ταξίδι για την Κολομβία, αποτελούν ό,τι απέμεινε από το ρόστερ του βραζιλιάνικου συλλόγου.

Ο τερματοφύλακας της ομάδας, Ντανίλο, ανασύρθηκε κι αυτός ζωντανός τις πρώτες πρωινές ώρες, ωστόσο εξέπνευσε στο νοσοκομείο λόγω των σοβαρών τραυμάτων του.
Η λίστα με τους τρεις διασωθέντες ποδοσφαιριστές της Σαπεκοένσε

Αλάν Ρουσέλ, 27χρονος αμυντικός, δανεικός από την Ιντερνασιονάλ






Ζάκσον Φόλμαν, 24χρονος τερματοφύλακας, υπέστη ακρωτηριασμό σε ένα πόδι






Νέτο, 31χρονος κεντρικός αμυντικός





Οι εννέα ποδοσφαιριστές που δεν ταξίδεψαν στην Κολομβία

Αλεχάντρο Μαρτινούτσιο, 28χρονος Αργεντινός εξτρέμ, ήταν τραυματίας






Ραφαέλ Λίμα, 30χρονος αμυντικός, έμεινε εκτός αποστολής






Νενέμ, 34χρονος μέσος, έμεινε εκτός αποστολής






Ντέμερσον, 30χρονος αμυντικός, έμεινε εκτός αποστολής






Μαρσέλο Μποέκ, 32χρονος τρίτος τερματοφύλακας, ζήτησε να μην ταξιδέψει λόγω των γενεθλίων του στις 28/11






Αντρέι, 21χρονος μέσος, έμεινε εκτός αποστολής






Ιοράν, 23χρονος μέσος, δανεικός από την Παλμέιρας, ήταν τραυματίας στο γόνατο






Μοϊσές, 25χρονος μέσος, έμεινε εκτός αποστολής






Νιβάλντο, 42χρονος τερματοφύλακας, έμεινε εκτός αποστολής





Οι υπόλοιποι τρεις επιζώντες

Ραφαέλ Ένζέλ, δημοσιογράφος του "Rádio Oeste"






Τσιμένα Σουάρες, αεροσυνοδός






Έργουιν Τουμίρι, τεχνικός πτήσης

Συριακος στρατος υποστηριζη την έξοδο χιλιάδων πολιτών από τις ανατολικές συνοικίες του Χαλεπίου που απελευθερώθηκε(video)

Ο ΥΕΘΑ Πάνος Καμμένος στην άσκηση του Πολεμικού Ναυτικού «Περισκόπιο»(photo)

Ο Υπουργός Εθνικής Άμυνας Πάνος Καμμένος, συνοδευόμενος από τον Αρχηγό ΓΕΝ Αντιναύαρχο Γεώργιο Γιακουμάκη ΠΝ και τον Αρχηγό Στόλου Αντιναύαρχο Κωνσταντίνο Καραγεώργη ΠΝ, παρακολούθησε την άσκηση του Πολεμικού Ναυτικού «Περισκόπιο» μέσα από το υποβρύχιο «ΜΑΤΡΩΖΟΣ», το οποίο στο πλαίσιο της άσκησης καταδύθηκε και μεταξύ άλλων εκτέλεσε εικονική βολή τορπίλης κατά στόχου.

Στο χαιρετισμό που απηύθυνε στο πλήρωμα του Υ/Β «ΜΑΤΡΩΖΟΣ» είπε μεταξύ άλλων τα εξής:

«Είναι ιδιαίτερη τιμή και χαρά που βρίσκομαι σήμερα εδώ, κοντά σας, με τα πληρώματα των υποβρυχίων του Πολεμικού μας Ναυτικού. Εσείς είστε οι αντάξιοι συνεχιστές του έργου του Παπανικολή, του Πιπίνου, του Ματρώζου, του Κατσώνη. Η ναυτική παράδοση μένει αναλλοίωτη, καθώς τα υποβρύχιά μας φέρουν τα ιστορικά ονόματα ναυμάχων ηρώων της ναυτικής ιστορίας της πατρίδας μας.

Η πατρίδα μας, όπως γνωρίζετε, βρίσκεται σε μια θαλάσσια περιοχή με τεράστια γεωπολιτική και γεωστρατηγική σημασία. Υπό αυτό το πρίσμα και λόγω των συνεχών αναταραχών και της αστάθειας στην ευρύτερη Νοτιοανατολική Μεσόγειο, είναι αναγκαία η διατήρηση ισχυρού Πολεμικού Ναυτικού. Ιδιαίτερα τώρα, που όλα αλλάζουν στην περιοχή μας, η Ελλάδα, κάθε μέρα που περνά, αποκτά σημαντικότερο ρόλο. Μέλος του ΝΑΤΟ και της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης και παράλληλα μία χώρα που μπορεί να συνομιλεί ταυτόχρονα με τους μεγάλους «παίκτες» της περιοχής, με το Ισραήλ και της αραβικές χώρες. Με άριστες διμερείς σχέσεις, τις οποίες χτίζουμε μαζί σε στρατιωτικό, διπλωματικό και πολιτικό επίπεδο με χώρες όπως το Ισραήλ, η Αίγυπτος, η Ιορδανία, τα Ηνωμένα Αραβικά Εμιράτα.

Με την ενίσχυση του Στόλου μας με τα υποβρύχια τύπου «Παπανικολής» και τον εκσυγχρονισμό των αεροσκαφών ναυτικής συνεργασίας P-3 που βρίσκεται σε εξέλιξη, αναβαθμίστηκε και αυξήθηκε η μαχητική ισχύς του Πολεμικού μας Ναυτικού. Μέσα σε λίγους μήνες, με την ενσωμάτωση των P-3, θα υπάρξει η δυνατότητα να έχουμε μία πλήρη εικόνα της περιοχής και το δικό σας έργο θα γίνει πιο εύκολο.

Η συμβολή σας λοιπόν, στην υπεράσπιση της εθνικής ανεξαρτησίας και τη διατήρηση του «status quo» του Αιγαίου είναι καίρια και υψίστης εθνικής σημασίας. Γνωρίζετε ότι όλο το Αιγαίο και η Νοτιοανατολική Μεσόγειος είναι στην εμβέλειά σας και η συνεχής παρουσία σας, συμβάλλει στην ενίσχυση της αμυντικής διπλωματίας μας και ενδυναμώνει τη θέση της Ελλάδας στο διεθνές περιβάλλον.

Η αποστολή σας αντικατοπτρίζει και αποσκοπεί στην προβολή και την ενίσχυση του ρόλου της χώρας μας, για τη διατήρηση και εμπέδωση της ειρήνης και της ασφάλειας. Στο σημείο αυτό θέλω να σας συγχαρώ ιδιαίτερα για τις επιτυχίες που είχατε το τελευταίο διάστημα, ιδίως τον προηγούμενο μήνα.

Κλείνοντας, θέλω να εκφράσω για μια ακόμα φορά, την πλήρη ευαρέσκεια στην ηγεσία και τα στελέχη του Πολεμικού μας Ναυτικού που έφεραν σε πέρας με απόλυτη επιτυχία την ενσωμάτωση των σύγχρονων υποβρυχίων στον Στόλο μας, μετά τις περιπέτειες τις οποίες περάσαμε στο Υπουργείο Εθνικής Άμυνας και στο Πολεμικό Ναυτικό. Χάρη σε εσάς αποδείξαμε ότι οι Αξιωματικοί, οι Υπαξιωματικοί, οι άνδρες και οι γυναίκες, το πολιτικό προσωπικό του Πολεμικού Ναυτικού μπορούν να επιτύχουν το ακατόρθωτο. Χάρη σε εσάς έχουμε σήμερα τα υποβρύχιά μας.

Κρατείστε ψηλά τη Σημαία και να έχετε πάντα τη βοήθεια του Προστάτη του Πολεμικού μας Ναυτικού Αγίου Νικολάου. Από την πλευρά της πολιτικής και στρατιωτικής ηγεσίας έχετε την πλήρη και απόλυτη στήριξή μας. Είμαστε περήφανοι για εσάς. Εύχομαι σε όλους σας υγεία, οικογενειακή ευτυχία και να πλέετε με ασφάλεια, διαφυλάττοντας τα όσια και ιερά του έθνους μας.

Καλή δύναμη στην αποστολή σας. Σας ευχαριστούμε για ό,τι κάνετε».

Wrong way driver head-on crash

Wrong way driver head-on crash
Taiwan - Li Shunchang (21) ran about 7-8 km on the wrong side before crashing head-on into Wu Huier (46). Both drivers died. 

Royal Dutch Navy frigate HNLMS De Ruyter F804 arrives at Piraeus Port on 25.11.2016 .She is the flagship of SNMG2 NATO force that is controlling the refugee crisis in Aegean Sea

Ιαπωνία: Σεισμός 7,3 βαθμών ανοικτά του Ιουάκι- αναμένεται τσουνάμι μετέδωσε η κρατική τηλεόραση

 

Ιαπωνία: Σεισμός 7,3 βαθμών ανοικτά του Ιουάκι- αναμένεται τσουνάμι μετέδωσε η κρατική τηλεόραση

REUTERS, AFP, ΑΠΕ-MΠΕ

• 

ΕΤΙΚΕΤΕΣ:

Σεισμική δόνηση 7,3 βαθμών καταγράφηκε τις πρώτες πρωινές ώρες της Τρίτης (τοπική ώρα) στα ανοικτά των ακτών της Ιαπωνίας, περίπου 67 χλμ. βορειοανατολικά του Ιουάκι, ανακοίνωσε πριν από λίγο το Γεωλογικό Ινστιτούτο των ΗΠΑ (USGS).

Οι ιαπωνικές αρχές κάλεσαν τους κατοίκους της περιφέρειας Φουκουσίμα να σπεύσουν να απομακρυνθούν, καθώς η ιαπωνική δημόσια τηλεόραση μετέδωσε ότι αναμένεται τσουνάμι.

Σύμφωνα με τις πρώτες πληροφορίες του USGS, το εστιακό βάθος της ισχυρής σεισμικής δόνησης είναι μόλις 10 χιλιόμετρα.

Μέχρι στιγμής δεν έχει υπάρξει καμιά πληροφορία για σοβαρές υλικές ζημιές ή θύματα.

Bright Radio Bursts Probe Universe's Hidden Matter

Bright Radio Bursts Probe Universe's Hidden Matter


Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are mysterious flashes of radio waves originating outside our Milky Way galaxy. A team of scientists, jointly led by Caltech postdoctoral scholar Vikram Ravi and Curtin University research fellow Ryan Shannon, has now observed the most luminous FRB to date, called FRB 150807.

Though astronomers still do not know what kinds of events or objects produce FRBs, the discovery is a stepping stone for astronomers to understand the diffuse, faint web of material that exists between galaxies, called the cosmic web. The findings are described in a paper appearing in Science on November 17.

"Because FRBs like the one we discovered occur billions of light-years away, they help us study the universe between us and them," says Ravi, who is the R A and G B Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy. "Nearly half of all visible matter is thought to be thinly spread throughout intergalactic space. Although this matter is not normally visible to telescopes, it can be studied using FRBs."

When FRBs travel through space, they pass through intergalactic material and are distorted, similar to the apparent twinkling of a star because its light is distorted by Earth's atmosphere. By observing these bursts, astronomers can learn details about the regions of the universe through which the bursts traveled on their way to Earth.

FRB 150807 appears to only be weakly distorted by material within its host galaxy, which shows that the intergalactic medium in this direction is no more turbulent than theorists originally predicted. This is the first direct insight into turbulence in intergalactic medium.

The researchers observed FRB 150807 while monitoring a nearby pulsar—a rotating neutron star that emits a beam of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation—in our galaxy using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia. "Thanks to a real-time detection system developed by the Swinburne University of Technology, we found that although the FRB is a million times further away than the pulsar, the magnetic fields in their directions appear identical," says Ryan Shannon, research fellow at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Astronomy and Space Science and at Curtin University in Australia, and colead author of the study. This refutes some claims that FRBs are produced in dense environments with strong magnetic fields. The result provides a measure of the magnetism in the space between galaxies, an essential step in determining how cosmic magnetic fields are produced.

Only 18 FRBs have been detected to date. Mysteriously, most give off only a single burst and do not flash repeatedly. Additionally, most FRBs have been detected with telescopes that observe large swaths of the sky but with poor resolution, making it difficult to pinpoint the exact location of a given burst. The unprecedented brightness of FRB 150807 allowed Ravi and his team to localize it much more accurately, making it the best-localized FRB to date.

In February 2017, pinpointing the locations of FRBs will become much easier for astronomers with the commissioning of the Deep Synoptic Array prototype, an array of 10 radio dishes at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California.

"We estimate that there are between 2,000 and 10,000 FRBs occurring in the sky every day," Ravi says. "One in 10 of these are as bright as FRB 150807, and the Deep Synoptic Array prototype will be able to pinpoint their locations to individual galaxies. Measuring the distances to these galaxies enables us to use FRBs to weigh the tenuous intergalactic material."

Ravi is the project scientist for the Deep Synoptic Array prototype, which is being constructed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the JPL President's and Director's Fund Program.

The paper is titled "The magnetic field and turbulence of the cosmic web measured using a brilliant fast radio burst." The Parkes radio telescope is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility, which is funded by the Commonwealth of Australia for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO.
Written by Lori Dajose




The intensity of FRB 150807 at different radio frequencies or colors—red corresponds to lower frequencies and blue to higher frequencies. The x-axis is time. The fine structure in the burst is the scintillation or twinkling—the rays interfere constructively and destructively differently at different frequencies. This pattern provides insights into the turbulence in plasma towards the burst.
Credit: Courtesy of V. Ravi/Caltech