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Five Notable Releases of the Week (7/28)
It's a big week for music, especially here in NYC, where the three-day Panorama festival happens starting today. Tonight's co-headliners are Frank Ocean and Solange, an amazing back-to-back pairing of modern psychedelic soul from two artists whose 2016 albums were among the best of that year. Saturday's headliners are Tame Impala (who made one of the best albums of 2015) and Alt-J (whose latest LP was a Notable Release last month). Sunday's headliners are Nine Inch Nails (who are in the midst of a great new EP trilogy, including last week's Add Violence) and A Tribe Called Quest (whose first album since the '90s was one of the best of last year — rest in peace to Phife Dawg).
Whether or not you're going to Panorama (or Newport Folk Festival or This Is Hardcore or Classic East), there are some major albums out this week. Check out my five picks below. What was your favorite release of the week?
Manchester Orchestra's debut album I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child was released on Canvasback exactly ten years ago yesterday. To celebrate the anniversary, I wrote about why it's such a classic and how it touched so many people. Manchester Orchestra don't need to rely on nostalgia for that album though. They've got a new one out today and it's easily their strongest in years. It's got co-production by John Congleton, whose recent work with Cloud Nothings, Angel Olsen, Swans and St. Vincent has made him one of the best indie rock producers around, plus contributions from Catherine Marks (who engineered/mixed PJ Harvey's Let England Shake, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's Belong, and Death Cab for Cutie's Codes and Keys), and frequent Manchester collaborator Dan Hannon. That production dream team is at least partially responsible for immediately setting A Black Mile to the Surface apart from its recent predecessors. 2011's Simple Math was too polished for Manchester's rawer style and everything felt a little too compressed on 2014's Cope. That album has some of the band's heaviest songs, but the recordings didn't give them enough room to breathe. On A Black Mile to the Surface, Manchester Orchestra sound more natural than they have on any album since their debut.
It's not only the production elevating this new album. Andy Hull & co. have written some of the strongest songs of their career for this one. Manchester have busted out some seriously ass-kicking riffs over the course of their career, but they're at their absolute best when they're playing the kind of impassioned songs that sound like folk songs at their core. That's what they're doing on Black Mile. Strummy lead single "The Gold" and the quiet, under-two-minute "The Sunshine" hold a candle to some of the best explicitly-folky songs in their catalog. When Manchester do get loud on this album, they do it more in the cathartic, towering way of "I Can Barely Breathe" and less like the Sabbathy grunge of "Pride." "Lead, SD," for example, ends in one of the more unrestrained performances they've put to tape. (Fans of Manchester Orchestra associates Brand New should check out this one.)
Andy also successfully finds a new way to get emotional this time around. When he wrote I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child, he was just saying goodbye to his teenage years, a time when autobiographical sadness is just about the only thing you want to write about. Now he's married, has a daughter, and he sounds like he's overall in pretty good shape. "It's hard to write content," Andy told Touche Amore singer Jeremy Bolm a few years ago (which became the basis of a great Touche Amore song), so an album like Virgin would be tough for Andy to pull off right now. Instead of trying — and inspired by working with Manchester Orchestra bandmate Robert McDowell on the score to the Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano-starring film Swiss Army Man — Andy wrote these songs from the perspectives of characters he created. Whether he's meaning to sing about himself or not, these songs pack an emotional punch. Lines about not wanting to die alone ("The Mistake") and falling out of love ("The Gold") have the ability to dig into the hearts and souls of Manchester Orchestra's fans the way the songs on their debut did.
Manchester Orchestra have talked about how approaching this album with films and film scores in mind was new ground for them. They tried to think about songwriting differently than usual, test themselves, push themselves into places where they were less comfortable. That's probably why it feels like such a fresh start. Working in unexplored territory instead of embracing the familiar put them back in a similar place to the one they were in as a hungry, new band.
It's clear from the grand, soulful opening song on The Autobiography that Vic Mensa intended his debut album to be a Big Statement kind of album. After winning people over with his verse on Chance the Rapper's "Cocoa Butter Kisses" and his own 2013 mixtape Innanetape, Vic dropped a handful of promising pre-album singles, only to later scrap his original plans for a debut album (titled Traffic and set for a 2016 release). He released two EPs instead. In hindsight, it seems like he used the lower pressure and shorter running time of an EP to hone his skills as a rapper, but didn't want to bestow an album upon the world until he crafted one that aims for "classic" status. (Not to judge a book by its cover, but the album artwork literally has him pictured on the floor with pages ripped out of his lyric book and crumpled up around him, which adds fuel to the fire that he's going for a "perfectionist" image. Also, could an album called The Autobiography not be aiming for "classic" status?) From the soul samples to the introspection to the perfectionism to the grandiosity of the hour-long LP, The Autobiography is the kind of album a lot of young rappers have attempted in the wake of Kanye's success. In fact, given Vic and Kanye's past collaborations (on Kanye's "Wolves" and Vic's Yeezus-channelling 2015 single "U Mad"), it's noteworthy that Ye doesn't appear on The Autobiography at all. Especially because his influence is all over it.
It's sort of surprising that Vic took this more traditional, more throwback approach to his album, given the trajectory he had been on since breaking through. After touring with Disclosure, making a song with Skrillex, and appearing on Kaytranada and Flume's guest-filled 2016 albums, it looked like Vic was headed for futuristic, electronic type of rap music. I would've expected him to make the album that fellow Flume collaborator Vince Staples did in fact make this year. (It's also interesting to note that most of The Autobiography was produced by No I.D., who produced most of Vince Staples' storytelling debut Summertime '06.) Given that he instead churned out this type of star-reaching, post-Kanye album, it's tempting to get cynical and read the album as both too safe and too bombastic. You could see it as written to please critics who already love albums like this. You could see the grandiosity as a way to make it seem too big to fail.
Ultimately, though, Vic can only make an album this huge-sounding because he has the chops for it, and that comes through on The Autobiography. The album does indeed read like an autobiography, with stories of Vic as a kid growing up in Chicago ("Memories on 47th St"), his own infidelity ("Homewrecker"), his fast-rising career ("Wings"), and a brush with suicide ("Rage"). (On "Homewrecker," by the way, No I.D. samples the bridge from Weezer's Pinkerton gem "The Good Life" and turns it into a head-nodding hip hop beat — kind of amazing given Rivers Cuomo's awkward relationship with rap over the years.) Vic is talking about dead-serious stuff on this album, and he has the ability to deliver his words in a way that make you pay attention. He spends most of the album proving that he's a gifted rapper, but he reminds you that he's no one trick pony. "Coffee & Cigarettes" shows he can kinda sing too (he sort of sounds like an aspiring Miguel), and he takes a break from all the dead-seriousness to have some fun with "Down For Some Ignorance (Ghetto Lullaby)," complete with an awesome auto-tuned Chief Keef hook. Even if his electronic side is missed, The Autobiography is evidence that Vic is turning into quite the versatile artist and that's worth celebrating.
Margo Price had one of the best albums of last year with her debut, Midwest Farmer's Daughter, and she's spent a lot of her time on the road since its release. A bunch of her shows included some new songs, and now she's recorded four new ones for an EP that should keep us tided over while we wait for a new full-length. Each song on Weakness has a distinct vibe, and all four easily rank with the material on her debut. The opening title track is one of her rowdy, rollicking country songs. It's perfect for a night of drinking and dancing, but as in other Margo Price songs, the drinking quickly turns sour: "Sometimes my weakness is stronger than me," goes the refrain. "Just Like Love" is practically the sonic opposite, a slow, melancholic song with some hints of "Jolene" in the melody. Then there's the lengthy "Paper Cowboy," a song that was surely influenced by Margo's busy touring schedule. She had some real-deal Southern rock on Midwest Farmer's Daughter, but she and her band never jammed on that album the way they do on "Paper Cowboy." For all the Loretta Lynn comparisons Margo gets, "Paper Cowboy" would be more accurately compared to the Allman Brothers. And finally it's the somber country rock of "Good Luck," where Margo reminds you how good a storyteller she is, and, in the chorus, how much her voice can really soar.
Couch Slut – Contempt
Brooklyn's Couch Slut are, in some ways, your classic hardcore band. From the sarcastic, illustrated album artwork to the lyrical fuck-yous, they could pass as today's answer to Black Flag. But there's way more to them than that. They've taken in the filthy noise rock of hometown heroes Swans and Sonic Youth, and they've got a little black metal in them too. Vocalist Megan Osztrosits is an absolute monster, both lyrically and delivery-wise. On Couch Slut's 2014 debut My Life As A Woman, she lashed out at the people who deserve it, and Contempt is no different. You can hear genuine rage in her voice as she screams her goddamn head off, but she has a more accessible side too. On the nine-and-a-half minute Swans-y closer "Won't Come," her delivery is cleaner and clearer (but still covered in anguish), and that song could easily gain them crossover with people who don't usually listen to metal and hardcore. Hopefully the move to Gilead Media (which has released music by mewithoutYou, Thou, Krallice, and more) helps with that. Couch Slut are too good to stay underground for long.
Arcade Fire's new album is out this week and it's the first album in their career that lacks ambition and excitement. My review of the album is HERE. Read an excerpt:
On Everything Now, hardly anything is exciting. The lyrics range from predictable to self-parody. On the chorus of "Peter Pan," they rhyme "we can walk if we don't feel like flying" with "we can live if we don't feel like dying." You can guess the second line before they even sing it — not something you'd expect from a band who rhymed the title of their album Reflektor with "thought you were praying to the resurrector."
The characters on this album are "some boys" and "some girls," they're "a thousand boys that look like you" and "a thousand girls that look like me," they're "those cool kids stuck in the past." It sounds like they're channelling the every-suburban-kid approach that they emerged with, but without the big-hearted sincerity that caused so many actual suburban kids to latch on to their music. On "Creature Comfort," they sing about the impact Funeral had on people, but fail to come out with a song that could cause that type of impact again.
On Everything Now, the only people who sound "stuck in the past" are Arcade Fire. A move towards dance music could be seen as an attempt to stay modern, but the musical direction of Everything Now has the opposite effect.
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THURSDAY 26th March, 2015. KEITH TURNER CUP FINAL: Austin Ex Apprentices 2 Black Horse 2 (AET) Black Horse won 6-5 on penalties.
SUNDAY 29th March, 2015
BSA CUP SEMI FINAL: Black Horse 4 (Dave Edwards 2, Hicks, Agar) Rocklands 2 (Poulson, Ward) AET; Wychbold RBL 2 (Carter, Sheehan) South Redditch 5 (ASHLEY PARKER 3, Smith, Harvey)
STEVEN TROTH CUP SEMI FINAL: OKH Sporting Dynamo p-p Abbeydale
DIVISION ONE: Alvechurch Sunday 5 (Carter, Call, Gittings Nick Smith 2) Mayfly 1 (Towler); Beoley Village 1 (Obiakor) CBH Fasteners 6 (Simon, Nash 2, Parish 2, Wheatcroft); Lodge Park RA 1 (OG) Alcester Town 1 (Hughes); SHTP 2 (Brough 2) Dagnell End Rovers 3 (Thomas, Robinson, Rippington)
DIVISION TWO: New Woodland Cottage 8 (STUART BYNG 3, Thorpe, Benton, Stringer, Somner, Hawtin) Redditch Cross 2 (Swain, Morris); VKL United 2 (Spencer, Bennett) Evesham United Sunday 3 (Coe, Ashby, Chadham)
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While visiting a friend in the Fl Lauderdale area, I accepted an invite to try the new menu at Big City Tavern. I am so glad I did.
With our cocktails, we indulged in their a few starters. Do try the unusual Asian honey-glazed chicken wings ($12.50). What's not to like about truffle parmesan hand-cut French fries? ($10.50) And, so that we could sample more than one pizza variety, we asked for half Margherita (San Marzano sauce, fresh basil, mozzarella $15) and half Salsicce (with sausage, $16) all covered in fresh arugula (+$3.75). Not NY pizza, but still good.
Even better are the entrees we sampled. The rich and hearty duck parpardelle with an abundance of wild mushrooms and duck confit ($24.50); a meal in itself. What really shone is the pan-roasted pork chop, something I don't traditionally order, but the manager highly recommended it. We were so glad that we followed his suggestion and accepted his offer to slice it after presenting it to us. The tender ginger-glazed 12-ounce pork chop ($26) was cooked to perfection, still pink and oh, so tender, served with roasted plantains, charred pineapple and steamed cauliflower. It's not to be missed.
Our limoncello cheesecake ($7.50) and chocolate tavern cake (layered cake with chocolate cream and chocolate ganache, $7.50) were flavorful, but not worth the calories, especially after such a rich and satisfying meal.
– bonnie
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609 E Las Olas Blvd
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The Liar - is launching their Fall 2010 issue "Dark Matter" on Monday, December 13, 2010 at The Railway Club in Vancouver.
I once helped start a Creative writing club at my alma mater Brock University and in our first year we published a journal called The General, so I know exactly how much under-appreciated effort goes into making these things happen. I also know how sweet it is when you sell all the copies of your print run, and not just to your parents, but to people who actually care about the writing.
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Last night, the three of us went to the birthday party of the daughter of my wife's co-worker. Normally, I pass on these types of events, as most of the time, I am the only one who speaks English, and my wife and son are the only people who I actually know. But when I saw that Flor had gotten all dressed up (with makeup and everything!), I decided that I should probably tag along, at least for the sake of appearances. I threw on a suit, and was ready to go when our ride arrived. Years ago, when I started working mornings, I had the perfect excuse of needing to get up early, and normally Mexican birthday parties keep rocking until well after midnight. Actually, based on my experiences, they don't even really get going until the sun's gone down. I'm not implying that Latinos are some sort of vampiric entities, but I've never seen a birthday party happen in direct sunlight. Putting aside all of my misgivings, I hopped up into the car which came for us, ready for the evening, and knowing that I had a decent chance of getting enough sleep. There are always bouncy houses at these parties, and I knew that if David played hard enough, he might be so exhausted upon our arrival back at home, that he'd sleep a proper number of hours, and perhaps not wake up at the crack of dawn. Sadly, he did, but that is nothing new.
For those of you not intimately familiar with children's birthday parties in Latino culture, let me run them down for you:
First, the mother spends an ungodly amount of money on the rental of the bouncy house, chairs and tables, and a DJ (This is not because the fathers do not care, or feel that it is women's work, but rather, they have made the argument (and lost) that there is no need to spend upwards of $200 just to set the stage for a party for a toddler).
The mother then spends most of the day of the event preparing enough food to feed upwards of fifty people, and calling on her friends to make and brings several other dishes as well.
She will begin to grow agitated when no one shows up at the time she has announced, fretting about social standing until her guests begin to trickle in, in what I can only assume is an attempt to arrive fashionably late… to a children's party.
The mother will then proceed to not sit down for the remainder of the evening, flitting here and there, always rotating through the crowd in an attempt to make sure that everyone is having a good time. Just like small child to whom the party is ostensibly dedicated, she will not remember anything about it.
There will always be too much food left over at the party's conclusion, so everyone will have a doggy bag thrust upon them.
There is a disturbing trend toward alcoholism at these events. The budget for beverages is usually around $10 for sodas, and $40 for beer, and there's always that one dude who drinks an entire box of Corona all by himself. The first time I ever came to one of these, I was shocked at how much alcohol was being consumed. At a party for a kid.
No matter how exhausted the hosts have become, they are honor bound to keep the party going until the final guest has finally found a clue, and decided to depart.
The mother will then look out upon the chaos that once was her backyard, and suffer a moment of paralysis at the sheer magnitude of work facing her when she wakes up in the morning.
You may have noticed that I was only writing about the mothers. This is because most of the fathers I have spoken to, would rather spend the money on gifts for their children, instead of competing to win the title of Event of the Season. I've had this argument with my wife, every year that my son has been alive. Every year, she almost kills herself making everything absolutely perfect, just to see an underwhelming turnout, an overwhelming mess, and a checkbook that is reduced to whimpering for mercy. And every year she tells me that she finally sees what I was going on about, and how next year, she's going to do something smaller, for just the family. But I know that her convictions will begin to fade by April of the next year, as the weather warms, and she begins to feel that she needs to show the other moms just how much better of a mother she is. I've learned my lesson, after all these years, and now just shut my mouth, and offer what help I may provide. There is nothing that I can say which could possibly change her mind, so I've decided that I'd rather not get into a fight with her when passions are running that high.
For me, I'd rather just buy a cake and a goodly amount of toys, and tell my son that I loved him, and then hit the sack at a reasonable hour. I'm trying to learn all the ins and outs of the culture which I've married into, but there are so many levels to everything they do, that I feel like watching telenovelas is a form of basic training. I am not cut out for all of this political posturing, as anyone who's ever worked with me will readily attest. I have neither the time nor patience to play politics, especially when dealing with the nebulous dance of social status. I appreciate the family aspect to the Latin culture, but I also like small, non-mandatory events which end on the same day in which they began. I like getting dressed up and going out with my wife, but not if it's only to hang out in someone's backyard to be bitten by mosquitoes.
I don't know if I will ever truly understand where my wife is coming from. As she is so fond of saying, we are from completely different worlds. But I love her, and every time we do something, it's an opportunity to learn something new. I moved two states away from my family, and enjoy the distance, but Flor is an entire country distant, and I can see that these little get-togethers are her way of beating back despair. And showing all her friends just how a party should be done. Oh, and if you will be in the Bay Area this summer, please drop me a line. I have a feeling that the Event of the Season may be happening toward the end of June, at least that what my instincts tell me.


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Amid heated controversies following the removal of Mahatma Gandhi's picture from the KVIC calendar and diary, replacing it with the picture of PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee, has, today, slammed the Prime Minister, all over again.
Amid heated controversies following the removal of Mahatma Gandhi's picture from the Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC) calendar and diary, replacing it with the picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has, today, slammed the Prime Minister, all over again. Criticizing the KVIC move, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo, who had been at loggerheads with PM Modi since the implementation of the demonetisation policy, questioned that while Mahatma Gandhi is the Father of Nation, what is PM Modi.
"The great symbol of charka and Mahatma Gandhi now gets replaced by Modi babu. In the calendar and diary of Khadi (KVIC) 2017 Modi replaced Mahatma Gandhi ji. Gandhiji is the Father of the Nation. Modi ji what???" tweeted Mamata Banerjee.
In what came as a shock for many, Mahatma Gandhi's picture weaving khadi on a simple charkha, wearing his trademark cloth has been replaced by Prime Minister Modi's picture in the same classic pose as that of the former.
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While, a section of the KVIC workers staged a protest and sought to know as to why Mahatma Gandhi's image was removed, Mahatma Gandhi's great grandson Tushar Gandhi today said that the government's decision to replace the picture of Father of the Nation was a well-planned strategy to gain credibility.
"This government is very prone in making mistakes, but this doesn't seem to be a mistake. This seems to be like very thought out and well-planned strategy to gain credibility," Tushar told ANI.
Emphasizing on the significance of charkha and Mahatma Gandhi's picture, he said: "The charkha that Bapu used to spin was the instrument for the production, empowerment of weak and poor and a weapon in the fight for our freedom. Bapu's khadi was the yarn of peace."
However, sources close to KVIC, stating that the calendar never featured the picture of Father of the Nation, said, ""There was no picture of Mahatma Gandhi on KVIC diary or calendar in the year 1996 , 2002 , 2005 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2016, so there is no question of replacing his picture with that of Modi," said sources.
Sources asserted that those igniting the controversy should understand that the sale of khadi was limited to two to seven percent during the 50 years of Congress rule while there can be seen an unprecedented growth of 34 percent in the sales of khadi products during the last two years of Prime Minister Modi-led government.
(With inputs from agencies)
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The Wedmore burial transcripts covering the period 1561-1611 are now available for society members to view online.
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June will end with the SWAG Family History Fair – to be held this year in Swindon on Saturday 30th June 2018 from 10am to 3:30pm at STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway. There will be over 40 exhibitors including Family History Societies not only from the South West of England, Societies and Commercial enterprises supporting our interests. A full list of contributors can be seen here and there are also some free talks during the day.
The 1939 Register
The 1939 Register and the GRO index were two of the most helpful resources which came our way last year. As the 1939 Register is now available on Ancestry, My Heritage as well as FindmyPast and can therefore be found free of charge in most Libraries it is time that you checked out where all your relations were living in 1939. Not only your direct ancestors but also their siblings and offspring. There is an informative webinar on FindmyPast which you may find helpful if you haven't used it before or even if you have but want to know more about it.
My parents were living with my mother's widowed father in 1939 (and I am the blacked-out entry with them!) My paternal grandparents had my father's sister living with them and because this document was updated it tells me that she later married someone called PUDDY. It also allows me to look up and down the street where they lived, and I can recognise names of people I can still remember. The 1939 Register showed me a sister of my grandfather living with her uncle who was born in 1858 and who I can remember meeting when he was about 90. Although this is all relatively recent family history it can confirm half remembered facts and family stories.
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Even if you do not have a subscription to Ancestry, Findmypast or The Genealogist, to name but a few, you can always access their sites to see what is newly available online.
Society News
A new addition to our transcriptions is "Notes and extracts from the minutes of the vestry meetings at St Paul's Church, Kewstoke 1835-1920" compiled by Grace Rubery. These vestry minutes give an insight into life in the parish during this time and what was concerning the Parish Officials. These can be seen by full members with the other transcriptions of Kewstoke Church Records where you can also see, under Kewstoke MIs, photographs of the tomb stones in Kewstoke Church yard together with an transcription of the Memorials engraved on them. There are similar photographs and Memorial Inscriptions of many of the Churches on our web site and are a valuable resource.
June will see the last free help sessions in Worle, Portishead and at the Healthy Living Centre in Weston but they will continue at the Library in Weston Town Hall every Saturday afternoon from 2.00 – 3.30 pm. You don't have to be a member to come in and we like a challenge so if you are new to family history or have started your research but got stuck why not give us a try. It doesn't have to be about people who were at some time in North Somerset.
If you have any queries about any aspect of Family History Research, whether about people, places or methodology why not use the Research Forum on our Web Site? We have some very knowledgeable members who may be able to answer your questions or at least point you in the right direction.
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We have received this information from the Catholic Family History Society regarding their small Research Award. The Catholic Family History Society offers annually a small research award and an application should be made as indicated in the details attached. Please click on the link below for more information and a copy of the Application Form. Catholic Family History Society Research Award Information Posted by Debbie Bradley, Administrator FFHS
The Wedmore Parish marriage transcripts covering the period 1561-1610 are now available for society members to view online.
Please report any transcript errors to the author of this news article.
Worle, Portishead and Healthy Living Centre
The committee has decided with regret that the Library Help Sessions at the above locations will cease at the end of June. Unfortunately, the numbers attending at these locations no longer make them viable. We are willing to try again if sufficient people show interest.
Weston Library Help Sessions
These are continuing to be held from 2.00pm until 3.30pm each Saturday at the North Somerset Studies Library in Weston-super-Mare Town Hall. This library contains fiche of parish records for North Somerset, local newspapers on film, maps, street directories, Electoral Rolls and many other interesting local history books and files of information about people and places in the area including Brian Austin's Family Trees of local families. For those who are not researching local families we have free access to Ancestry and other useful sites via the Library's computers. You do not have to be a member to come to these sessions and benefit from the expertise of our volunteers.
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My passion for Greek food is in the blood. My maternal grandfather (papou) Spiros was an acclaimed cook in the 50's & 60's in Alexandroupolis, Greece. My mother inherited her father's love for food and I then from her. Mum has a great reputation for her cooking having worked in various restaurants, running her own catering business and being head cook for the Greek nursing home "Pronia" for a number of years. Her loukoumathes are legendary!
I haven't received any "formal" training. My training comes from my grandmother (giagia), mum, aunties, family friends etc. Years of hosting huge family Christmas, Easter and Nameday feasts. I believe "training" like that is invaluable. Don't misunderstand me my "rockstars" are the chefs and cooks that we all love. You know the ones!! Jamie, Nigella, Maggie Beer, Stephanie Alexander, Greg Malouf , Guy Grossi, George Calombaris etc. and my Greek food gurus Mirsini Lambrakis and Elias Mamalakis.
Our cooking classes are about the home cooked meals our mums, grandmas and aunties fed us whilst growing up (and still do!). I am yet to see a lot of these dishes in Greek taverns so this is our humble contribution to showing you that there is SO much more to Greek food than the well known mousaka and souvlaki. My love for my culture and Greek cuisine is a never ending learning experience and I look forward to sharing my finds with anyone who wants to learn.


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Critical Aspects Of A Successful Business Website Design
Getting down to business. There are a few aspects of web design that tend to attract visitors more than others, and the success of your business website directly relates to the visibility of your organization's creation.
The more people you can draw to your site, the more likely you are to convert more sales. The key is to nail down these critical design tips before you launch your site, and maximize the effect your launch has on the company's digital visibility.
Here is a brief layout of a few of the most important aspects of a successful business website design. Take notes, and start optimizing your site's design today.
Encourage communication whenever possible
Communication is the most powerful tool you have for growth in your organization. Without communication, your business will run stagnant and eventually, fall apart. Your business website should encourage communication whenever possible.
In addition to your "Contact Us" page, provide opportunities for communication elsewhere. Like this business blog has done, you may encourage communication through a "leave a comment" call to action. Your homepage is also an excellent destination for a small contact form or a simple phone number.
Meticulously integrate the concepts of SEO
If you are not familiar with the concepts of search engine optimization (SEO), then now is as good a time as any to begin enlightening yourself. Search engine optimization will teach you to understand how the internet works.
SEO teaches you, more specifically, how the search engines of the internet work. When you better comprehend how search engines like Google derive their results lists, you can better design your content to rank higher in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).
Optimize your design for mobile access
The speed of society has augmented the way in which we access the internet throughout the day. Most people use their mobile devices more often than their PC or laptop to peruse their favorite spots on the web.
Optimize the design of your business website to work seamlessly with the smaller screens of today's mobile devices. Mobile ready websites also rank better with Google's search criterion.
Include social media share buttons
Social media is the internet's most frequented social hub, and your website has everything to gain from linking itself to social media. Integrate social media share buttons all over your website.
Your blog is one important spot for these share buttons, as people love to share new information and interesting facts. You may also want to include social media share buttons on the homepage of your site for easy referencing.
Enlist in Google My Business
For businesses that also have a brick and mortar address to compliment their online presence, it is important for visibility to enlist in Google's My Business listing. By enlisting, people will be notified of the location of your organization should someone search for relevant listings nearby.
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As I've said before, I like endings. At the very least, I like outcomes. Outcomes are cathartic, the payoff you expect after getting invested in a narrative. Sometimes, it can be rewarding, like the Mandarin reveal was for me or the ending to a film like Blair Witch or American Beauty. Other times, it can be infuriating, and you can't help but shake your fists and go "What the hell?!" That's how I felt with this last season of Doctor Who.
I've known about this franchise since I was small. Local stations aired re-runs of the Tom Baker run in the late eighties, though I couldn't get into it because I was always too scared of it. Now, young fans were often terrorized by the Sontarans or the Daleks or something similar, but I was scared of the intro. It always felt like I was about to be devoured by the swirling void that announced each episode's arrival, that if I stared for too long then the abyss would stare back. Then again, I was a child who didn't flinch watching Alien or Predator, and yet ran screaming from a Count Chocola commercial.
I got reintroduced to Doctor Who with the 1996 special starring Paul McGann, and again with Christopher Eccleston's run nine years later. Since then, I've been following the series through its rebirth and going back on the older classic episodes so I could soak in their charm and laugh at what were considered special effects.
Now, the current series has been the subject of controversy, what with the accusations of sexism and racism and older fans saying the BBC reduced Doctor Who to a half-assed pantomime, but I don't mind. Well, okay, there are times when I do mind, like when Season Four ended with Dalek Vaudeville and the TARDIS turned into a space tow-truck and the Doctor suddenly decided not to regenerate, like that was a thing all along, and... you get the idea. It's never been enough to make me quit, though. Even among a slew of bad episodes, I'll find one or two each season that keep my interest piqued.
Last season, though, I saw a lot of missed potential. I saw moments that could have blown away the audience if they had been done differently. So I asked, what were those moments, and how would I have done them? Let's see...
1. The Asylum Episode
Show-runner Steven Moffat touted this episode as an attempt to make the Daleks scary again which, to me, is a tall order. Then again, I never saw the Daleks as scary. Intimidating, yes, but not scary. Even if they were, this was not the episode to save them.
Quick recap: The Doctor and his favourite dysfunctional couple get called to nose about on a Dalek-owned planet/nuthouse for Daleks gone coo-coo. Down there is a girl, Clara, an explorer who got attacked by nanobots that turned her into a despotic salt shaker like her cell-mates, but her human mind's still kicking and keeping her sane.
If you know anything about the Daleks, you'd know that was a weak premise. The Daleks have an asylum? What happened to destroying inferior models? And why would they want to turn other beings into Daleks when Daleks' core ethics are based around eugenics?
You know what this was? A Cybermen episode. Cybermen are all about conversion, just as Cybermen can have errors in programming, and can give in to the humanity that they tried to suppress. My theory is that Moffat wanted to do a Cybermen episode until Neil Gaiman popped in with his idea and blew the studio away. Me, I'd have kept it as a Cybermen episode and told Gaiman to keep "Nightmare In Silver" on hold for next year but then why would you ever betray Neil Gaiman like that? So maybe I'd just make a new cyber-threat and have The Doctor kick its space-butt hardcore.
2. Amy and Rory's Exit
Companions have to leave, just as Doctors have to die and regenerate into new Doctors. This is how things have to be, the course to run. However, when Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill said they wanted to leave soon, the studio scrambled to accommodate that need in the clumsiest way possible.
So "The Angels Take Manhattan" featured the return of The Weeping Angels, who are running some kind of roach motel or whatever and the episode ends with one last Angel zapping Rory into the past again. Amy Pond goes after him because she can't stand to be separated from her husband, and The Doctor can't go back and save them because of time-stream displacement crap.
Someone already mentioned how absurd that excuse was. Why wouldn't The Doctor just jump back in time to a different year or take a train from a neighbouring state without worrying about fragging the TARDIS? For me, I was just disappointed at the ending itself. It came out of nowhere, and it didn't quite wrap up the Ponds' arc the way it should have.
You see, Amy Pond's story has been about breaking apart the fairy tale. Each major plot arc dealt with themes of the clash between childhood and adulthood, implementing things from many of our youths that we adored, from lullabies and fables to knights in shining armour, and then twisting them and making them weird and scary and actually quite clever at times.
The other thing he did was to play up the idea that the fairy tale ending did not always happen, especially in Season Six. Amy was abducted, her child taken from her and turned into a killing machine who grows into a crazy MILF that her once-imaginary friend then marries. Season Seven had other moments like this, like the fact that Amy can no longer have kids, her relationship with Rory's strained to hell, and The Doctor keeps popping in to take them on life-threatening adventures halfway around the universe. It evolved from being an Aesop's Fable to an Aesop's Foible, with real life problems and consequences invading Amy's dreams.
Why wouldn't she be mad about this? The Doctor ruined her life. Since she's been with him, she's been hunted, kidnapped, experimented on, made infertile, and watched the love of her life die countless deaths. And the Doctor, rather than saying "Stay home, I can't keep putting you in danger like this," loads her and Rory into the TARDIS again and says "WHO WANTS TO FIGHT SPACE HITLERS?!"
You know what would have been great? If Amy walked away from the Doctor after saving Rory for the umpteenth time. If they survived their adventure in New York and Amy put her foot down and said "Enough." If they had a great big row and Amy told the Doctor it's time to grow up and sort her life out. No coming back. No guest appearances. Just gone.
Oh man. You know what would have been even better? If he transports the Ponds back to the present, jumps onboard the TARDIS and finds an Angel there. Then the Angel messes with the controls and the Doctor ends up sixty years in the future, when Amy's an old spinster and Rory's been proper-dead for two years. Then Amy gives the "I'm done with you" speech and tells The Doctor that she and Rory went on to live a normal life after he left. This becomes a fixed point in time. This means The Doctor never crosses timelines with them again. This is how the Fairy Tale ends: with Amy and Rory living happily ever after. I'll take those awards now.
3. Clara
To me, this is the biggest squandering of potential.
Here was a girl who the Doctor met multiple times, who died saving his life twice and kept coming back. People were wondering if she was The Rani or Romana or even a new version of River Song running amok. Sadly, what we got was an ordinary girl who jumped into some time vortex that was/will be The Doctor's corpse (that alone is another article), who then becomes this super-companion leading The Doctor to everywhere he had to be, from helping him steal the right TARDIS to warning him of dangers ahead, and making sure The Great Intelligence did not screw over our favourite Time Lord when his representative Doctor Simeon did the exact same thing moments earlier.
This stinks of a Mary Sue. This sounds like someone wanting to be the most important person in The Doctor's life ever, writing herself in as someone who saves his hide endlessly. I have a better one:
My Clara Oswin Oswald is a creation of The Great Intelligence. She's a humanoid bio-computer built when she was still in the womb, with her mother being the prototype that sired her. This is why The Doctor's scanners registered her as human, but also why the TARDIS doesn't like her.
More than anything, this is why Clara keeps popping up in multiple timelines. See, my Clara's mom isn't actually dead. Her death was faked by the Intelligence and then brought back to whatever base they're operating out of. Then, using the blueprints embedded in the mom-bot, the Great Intelligence makes a hundred Claras and sets them loose across time and space. There's a Clara in the Not-Dalek Asylum, there's one in Victorian London, one on Mars, one aboard a space freighter, one in the stone age, and one at the end of the world. And one right behind you.
But why do this? So that the Great Intelligence could infiltrate the TARDIS and steal its secrets, because the GI has wanted to snatch his ride for years and replicate it, weaponize it. And it finally found a way of doing so: by creating an ideal Companion for The Doctor. One that's clever, one that's brave and knows her way around any scary situation, one that can rely on him; one that won't leave. This would tie in with my vision of the Ponds' departure. This Doctor's lonely, and like any man on the rebound he looks for the next best thing that comes along. Clara would be the companion of the Eleventh Doctor's dreams, and it would become his greatest nightmare.
So there you have it; a meaner, cleaner Season Seven. At least by my standards. I like this series, but it does try my patience sometimes. I mean, Jesus Christ.
See you next time,


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Without a common format, the financial community has been constantly penalized by the data exchange process. Currently, when financial data are dematerialized, they are exchanged in a multitude of formats: Excel files, free text, PDF, etc. Often not much more suitable for processing than photocopying and limited to certain platforms, these formats prove unsuitable for the exchange of information between programs, for analysis, comparison and presentation of reports to users. So far, despite a strong tendency to use XML syntax, attempts at convergence have struggled to generalize and apply to many sectors and contexts. In recent years, reporting requirements have led to a significant increase in the cost of using financial systems. The use of XBRL technology, using XML syntax, supported by many players in the world of finance, the software industry and adapted to reporting, can constitute the solution. Many governments, regulators, financial institutions are already using XBRL or have pilot projects in place. This document specifically targets XBRL. This technology, which is now recognized by the entire software industry, provides tremendous benefits for data exchange, storage, research and processing.
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Aging in Place
Season 7 Episode 8 | 56m 52s
There are roughly 46 million adults age 65 and older in the U.S. Yet while life expectancy has increased and the aging population has grown, nursing home use has been on the decline. What does it mean to age in place? What care options are available? How do you make a home elder-friendly? Our guests provide answers to these questions and more.
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In the fantasy version of my life I live in a Jacobean farmhouse somewhere, with a lavender and pink rose border lining the path to the front foor, and herbaceous borders the lawns. And somewhere there's a perfect kitchen garden, full of pretty vegetables and herbs and edible flowers. I'm not much of a gardener, truth to be told tho, so I will probably always keep indulging in this fantasy merely by visiting other people's gardens…
Cottage gardens
As a city dweller (first floor, with a view of traffic lights and a cemetery), I dream of the time when I can have my own garden – berries and apples, rhubarbs under bells, neat rows of vegetables and beets and herbs, sweet peas (which smell like heaven and don't photograph at all well) and autumn dahlias. One day.
The sting in the tale
In my fantasies, this is the garden of my cottage somewhere near the seaside.
Actually, these flowers all grown in the Oxford University Botanic Gardens. When I was still a student, I used to go there all the time, especially in the summers, sit somewhere for hours reading, enjoying the relative quiet. My heart bled when last summer they knocked down the Tolkien tree, an ancient black pine under which the writer used to sit, tree so big and so old it couldn't hold its own weight anymore. One of my favourite Botanic Garden memories though is from the bleak midwinter of my first year as a student in Oxford. On a particularly grey, dull January Sunday morning, I walked around the gardens with a friend; the plants were dead and the flower beds empty, not even the snowdrops blooming yet. There was a fog – not a romantic mist, but the sort of damp, cold fog that the English winter so excels at, and we escaped its clutches to the nearest pub, where we sat by the fire, ordered lunch and watched through the windows how sleet started to fall. A day as perfect as it was opposite to this.
The flower borders were planted to attract butterflies, but on this day, they were actually full of bees – greedy, fat bees of every kind, drunk of the nectar, heavy with pollen.
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Sailing to Deliver an Important Message
Hard on the heels of last week's story about the poo-powered street lamp comes one about a ship made from discarded plastics. All the stuff that's already out there needs to be put to good use, but the real message is that you and I need to reduce or eliminate our use of single trip plastics.
We Need More of These!
A terrific idea, contributing to the solution of two (or three) problems: dog poo pollution, global warming and lighting up a beauty spot!
Now all we need is a way of capturing cow's burps. Maybe Brian Harper can address that one – their are plenty of cows in Hereford and Worcester for him to experiment on (not that I'm advocating experimenting on animals in the usual sense, you understand.)
For Goodness Sake Stop Digging! #WATWB
I grew up in an environment where it was taken for granted that you dug the garden every spring using a spade, then, a few days later, you would go over it again with a fork to remove the weeds. During that first digging you would create trenches into which you would pile organic matter. Living in a farming region there was always plenty of farmyard manure available for this purpose. The point being that the organic matter was buried, to be accessed by the roots of the plants you subsequently grew on the plot.
If there was an area on which nothing was grown during winter you might do that first dig in autumn, leaving the turned soil exposed to frost in order to help break it down. Because we had a heavy clay soil, all of this work was deemed essential. That remains the basic principle with which I still garden.
It turns out that my parents were wrong, and so am I. You don't have to dig at all; instead you place your organic matter on the top of the soil and plant into it.
At 77 digging is noticeably hard work these days so I'm going to embrace change, leave my spade in the shed, and have a go at "no-dig" gardening. My parents would probably turn in their graves at the thought!
The same principle can be used to ensure a sustainable source of nourishing vegetables to replace the vast numbers that are imported over huge distances.
#WATWB cohosts for this month are: Inderpreet Uppal, Sylvia Stein, Shilpa Garg, Simon Falk, Damyanti Biswas
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Growing Health and Well Being #WATWB
I first came across the Sydenham Garden through a feature on the BBC's weekly gardening programme Gardener's World. My link will take you to the page on their website that explains how they began. From there you can navigate to the rest of the site where you will see news of some of their achievements.
Whilst researching Sydenham Gardens I also came across another website that presents evidence about the efficacy of gardening as therapy, in the treatment of mental health and developing self esteem. Again, you can navigate from that page to see a huge range of information about the health and other benefits of sustainable farming and food production.
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A Burning Question
Here's Suffolk based writer Stevie Turner with some wise words on food hygiene, mostly learned from her Mum who sounds like a woman I would have liked to have known.
But who knows the answer to the question she poses? Why do they? I never do – seems pointless to me, eat outside in the garden by all means, but cook it inside.
And as for those gas fired monsters, I can't see the point when you've a perfectly serviceable oven and hob inside. And then there are those outdoor heaters which seem to have been created to prevent smokers from freezing to death now they have to go outside with their coffin nails. I would never have one in my garden. If I get cold I go indoors!
Dudes With Little Dicks
The story I'm linking to today is a long one, but it bears reading and sharing far and wide. It presents a stark vision of our future that has little to do with climate change or air pollution or the litter that disfigures our countryside. It's about what happens to all the stuff we throw away.
And, if you think recycling or beachcombing for washed up plastic artifacts is the answer, think again.
Way back in the early 1960s I submitted a short story to the tutor of a writing correspondence course that I never finished. The young man at the centre of the story believed he had a great future in plastics because plastics was the future. That prediction of mine has certainly come true: in the 50 years since, our plastic production has increased 600 fold, from less than 50 million tonnes annually to over 300 million.
And the frightening thing about plastic is that, unlike timber or natural fibres, it does not rot and become a biologically useful substance. It disintegrates into particles of ever decreasing size which are ingested by fish and animals, thereby entering our own food chain.
There is, it seems, nothing we can do about it. Our best hope is to stop producing it. Banning plastic bags is not the answer, recycling plastic bottles is not the answer. If we cannot learn to live without it we are doomed. If you don't believe me, read the article. As I say, it is long; but it is beautifully written, wide ranging and contains many lessons about the horrors that homo sapiens is, at this stage of his development, inflicting upon his home planet.
My Friend the Page 3 Girl!
I've known Theresa since she joined the Laois Writers' Group several years ago. She later moved to County Clare but we have stayed in touch and I had the pleasure of visiting her in her home a few months ago whilst on a short break in Clare. I also interviewed her here a coupe of years ago.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of explaining 'why' when presenting your classroom management plan.
Studies have shown that people are more likely to do what you ask if you give them a reason.
Even if that reason isn't terribly compelling.
Just using the word "because" will make your rules more meaningful.
And therefore more effective.
Especially if you emphasize their true purpose, which is to protect your students' right to learn and enjoy school.
When you make it about them, they're more likely to buy into your program and even agree with your rules.
And this makes all the difference.
But in that original article we alluded to another reason why this strategy is so effective.
You see, the use of reasoning also sends the message that you respect your students. It sends the message that what is best for them is your highest priority.
It lets them know that you understand what it's like being in their shoes.
To that end—and this is key here—be sure to include how their non-compliance of the rules affects those around them.
Empathy is a powerful emotion.
And it is especially effective in changing behavior and attitudes and getting everyone pulling in the same direction.
When you fail to explain your reasoning, and how rule-breaking makes your classroom less fun and less conducive to learning, you send a message of antagonism.
You push them away.
You communicate loud and clear that it's your way or the highway, that they should do what you ask because you said so.
This authoritarian approach to the beginning of the school year causes dislike, rebelliousness, and a desire to misbehave behind your back—which is difficult to reverse.
This doesn't mean that you'll be wishy-washy. It doesn't mean that you're giving up your leadership or that your rules are negotiable.
It just means that you're going to give your students the respect they so greatly appreciate by explaining 'why.'
Interestingly, the research, as described in Adam Grant's book Originals, shows that not only does explaining why lead to more rule following, it causes children to question rules that don't line up with societal expectations.
In other words, it causes them to become future leaders and creative thinkers.
And when they do misbehave?
If they know ahead of time how their actions affect others, if they know why a particular rule benefits the class as a whole, then they feel remorse.
They feel the healthy weight of guilt and responsibility. They accept the consequences, see the error of their ways, and reflect on their misbehavior.
They resolve not to make the same mistakes again.
So, when you're teaching your classroom management plan at the beginning of the school year, be sure and explain why your rules are important.
Explain how they exist for their benefit.
Explain how breaking them affects the peace, enjoyment, and learning rights of everyone in the class.
Do this, and your students will eagerly jump on board your program.
And begin rowing in the same direction.
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Simon Grayson is targeting a stronger start from Preston this season after two seasons of having to play catch-up.
Last year, PNE lost five of their first six Championship matches and dropped into the bottom three.
In 2015/16, they took four points from the opening two league games before hitting a nine-game run without a win.
The Lilywhites recovered to finish 11th both times but it should have been higher last term, a poor last month of the campaign seeing them slide from the play-off fringes.
North End boss Grayson said: "What we need to do is start the season better than we have done in the last two years in the Championship.
"We don't want to have to play catch-up again.
"If we can start better, we might give ourselves a better opportunity of getting into the top six, which is something we would all like to do.
"It will be a tough division again and we want to do our best to finish higher."
On Wednesday morning the fixtures are released by the Football League, with the new campaign kicking off on August 5.
The season's opener will be followed by the Carabao Cup visit to Accrington Stanley.
PNE's squad gathers for pre-season training a week on Thursday.
There could be a couple of new faces reporting for work that day, with more to follow as pre-season progresses.
The one new signing to be announced, Sean Maguire, is due to report on July 24.
He is joining from Cork City and North End have agreed to let him stay with the League of Ireland leaders until then.
Maguire scored twice in Cork's 4-1 win over Limerick on Friday, taking his tally for the campaign to 18 goals.
The double also took him to 51 goals in his time playing in the League of Ireland. Also featuring for Cork in Friday's win was left-back Kevin O'Connor, who is all set to follow Maguire to Deepdale.
If Maguire could bring his tremendous scoring form over the water, it would prove to be an astute buy for North End.
"Sean is a bit different to the other strikers we have at the club and it will be good to have him here," said Grayson.
"It is a step up for him to come here but he is hungry for that challenge.
"The lad clearly knows where the back of the net is and if he can adapt as well as Daryl Horgan and Andy Boyle have done, he'll fit in well.
"Sean is on the periphery of the Republic of Ireland squad which shows what Martin O'Neill thinks of him.
"He's been banging the goals in for Cork this season and got to a good number in relatively few games.
"We've got the deal for him done and by the time we come back we will probably have got a few more done."


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Life is a challenging journey that can be wonderful, but at other times, leave our mind and body out of balance. Reiki is a safe, natural healing method, enabling the practitioner to be a channel for new energy to be delivered to you; by placing the hands on different positions on the body, freeing the body to heal itself.
At times when we are stressed, anxious or unwell, we often need a helping hand to calm our mind and to feel better. I offer Reiki treatments as a way to help others achieve peace of mind, body and spirit. Receiving Reiki treatments is a great way to start taking care of your well being.
Reiki is a Japanese word that describes universal life force energy (spirit or soul energy), a gentle yet powerful energy that runs through all things.
Reiki treatments promote the body's ability to heal itself, bringing relief from suffering of body and mind.
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Jikiden Reiki is traditional Japanese Usui Reiki that has been 'directly taught' or 'handed down'. It is true to the original form of Reiki taught by Usui Sensei, without influences from other healing modalities or cultures. This makes it simple and effective. Read more...
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The benefits of Reiki are infinite and unique to the individual, all you need is a willingness to be open, to allow healing to take place.


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