Yoga on the beach during sunset

YOGA DURING SUNSET
This will be such a lovely event - watching the sunset while doing a relaxing yoga session on the beach...and it's all for a wonderful cause. Please support this - you can get your tickets from Soulla or Tracy. Xxx
Telephone : 99648541

Everyone who can attend please do so, fitness levels or past experience do not count! Its the cause that counts!

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Key Lime Pie

This zesty key lime pie is delicious for these hot summer nights :)

Ingredients

For the base

175g/6oz digestive biscuits

80g/3oz butter

50g/2oz caster sugar

For the filling

3 large free-range eggs, separated

2 limes, finely grated zest

125ml/4½fl oz lime juice

210ml/7½fl oz condensed milk

80g/3oz caster sugar

½ tsp vanilla extract

pinch salt

½ tsp cream of tartar

Method

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.

For the pastry base, finely crush the biscuits by placing into a plastic bag and bashing with a rolling pin (alternatively, pulse to crumbs using a food processor). Transfer to a mixing bowl.

Melt the butter in a saucepan, then pour over the biscuit crumbs. Add the sugar, then mix well to combine. Evenly spread the biscuit mixture in a 23cm/9in pie case, making sure to cover the sides of the tin as well. Level off any excess biscuit mixture.

For the filling, whisk the egg yolks in a bowl until pale and fluffy. In a separate bowl, whisk together the lime zest, lime juice and condensed milk until smooth and creamy, then mix into the egg yolk mixture. Pour the mixture into the pie case.

In a clean bowl, whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form when the whisk is removed from the bowl. Gradually fold in the sugar, vanilla extract, salt and cream of tartar, then whisk again until stiff peaks form. Spoon the meringue mixture over the filling in the pie case, using a fork to form the meringue into peaks.

Bake the pie in the oven for 15-20 minutes, or until the meringue is golden-brown. Remove from the oven and allow to cool. Place into the fridge to chill completely before serving.

To serve, cut slices of the key lime pie and serve with a scattering of blueberries and a few spoonfuls of whipped cream.

1-2 hours

preparation time

10 to 30 mins

cooking time

Serves 8

Enjoy!!!

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Larnaca Municipality Press Release 27/08-02/09/2012

This weekly press release is part of an effort to inform our citizens and the public in general about the activities of our Municipality.

Cultural Events

For more information call the Larnaca Municipality Cultural Department on 24657745 or 24629333

Construction work

The Department of Construction of the Municipality of Larnaca informs the public that since August is the month of the summer holidays, a special construction crew will be responsible for any problems that may arise during this period.

Finance Department

The Larnaca Municipality Finance Department informs the public that the payments of Refuse Collection Tax, Corporate tax and Business Premises Tax for the year 2012 as well as previous years can be made only at the Larnaca Municipality offices.

All tax payments can also be made at any Bank, Coop Bank or online via JCC.

The public should settle their payments to Larnaca Municipality on time and within the given deadlines to avoid added legal and court costs.

Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Works Department

The Department of Sewerage and Sewage Disposal of the Municipality of Larnaca informs the public that between 27/08-01/09/2012, the following construction work will be in progress:

• Gr. Digeni Avenue (from the junction at Eleftherias street (opposite Drosia High School) to the Melathrou Evgenias street.
• Part of the streets: Ionias, Faneromeni Avenue (from Papadiamanti street to Aristofani – instead of the normal four lanes only two lanes will be open to traffic for this period), Amorgou, Tinou, Veroias, Kalimnou (from Katerinis to Aiginis street), Christoforou Savva, Verenikis.
• 1st Apriliou Avenue (from Thisseos to Fokionos street)
• Leonidou (from P. Giallourou street to Rotsidi street)
• Ierovimou Peristiani
• Neofitou Rodinou
• Georgiou Lapithi
• Spetses
  

Visit the website: www.larnaka.com
 
Energy Team and Environmental Management Department: www.larnaka202020.eu
 
Contact: 24816559, 24816581/email: perivallon@larnaca.com
 
 

Translation kindly provided by

Eri Constantinou

 www.greek4kids.eu 

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Facebook for LPNeurs - Etiquette, Featured likes and Fake accounts.

Dear LPNeurs,

What do you do when your competitor likes your page or asks you to like their page? Once you are 'out there' you must not only offer content, engage and have a clear branding strategy but you must also be polite. Social media is there to make connections and so you must, even with your competitors and specially if they ask first. 

You just concentrate on what you do while keeping an eye on what your colleagues (rather than competitors) are doing on your area of expertise. Some ideas will come out of them first and on other occasions you will be pioneer. There is just a limited number of options for certain activities and 'Hey!' going to school is a bit like paying to copy someone else's ideas so mimicking is part of the learning process. How many times do you see articles on 'how to create the best CV or internet profile'. Aren't we just using third parties' ideas? It doesn't mean that we won't be original and we'll become copycats, we must find the right balance. 

Do not get upset when someone does what you're doing. Occasionally you'll have to follow some sort of structure too and you'll be 'copying' someone else. It takes practice but it's good to know that it happens. A very interesting view on the death of intellectual property is found in this inspirational TED video that lasts 17 minutes when you can spare some time. http://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_four_principles_for_the_open_world_1.html?source=facebook#.UDMkUebgRFB.facebook

You wouldn't promote a competitor on your timeline as a Featured like but you must offer some connections on your area of expertise to your fans, so it could be pages that inspire you or products that you use to manufacture your own. If you don't want to 'add' a like on a competitor's page, you can 'like' it from your business page instead of from your personal account and it doesn't 'count'. It is only added to their fan base numerically if it's a like from a personal Facebook profile. On my Facebook Page design's page I have featured another 6 social media pages with more experience than myself for my fans to find some value beyond what I can offer. Below is how the window looks on my page's timeline. There are always 5 pages at any time and, if you don't set your featured likes and you have liked your competitors', they might pop up inviting your fans to like their pages. 

On Facebook profiles, the latest news indicate that the company is going to delete over 80 million 'fake' accounts, the most obvious being those people make for their pets but also those with a name of a company or business. Only pages are allowed for pets or businesses, not personal profiles. So if you haven't created your page yet, do so now.

A bit more on Facebook etiquette that is mentioned by many social networkers I follow is the question of adding people to groups without their permission. In general don't do it. It is better to send a message to your friends that might be interested in a group and suggest they like it or talk about it face to face if the administrator of the group requires you to add more members in order to advertise in their group. I prefer to use groups that are inclusive and without conditions for me to post on them. Networking is not only about numbers, at some point you must start selecting the people you want to engage with and promote your page in ways that you feel comfortable with. You can always create your own group and invite your friends, just like LPN has done to promote their webpage/blog.

Finally for today, I'd like to mention whether you should post as the page or as yourself and how much personal content you should share with your fans. It is very easy to switch from posting as the page to posting as yourself using the voice bar that appears at the top of the page. When you engage with other pages, it is better to interact as the page and not as the person. Sometimes your fans appreciate the person talking rather that the brand, so do it sparingly and when appropriate. Facebook fans love it when you share something about your private life, not meaning that you must publish photos of your children or home, but a place you visited with you in the photo works wonders. After all, in a healthy state of mind, we should all enjoy our fellow humans' success. The less we fear jealousy and the more we are willing to share, to be transparent and to work for the common good, the more successful we will become.

More on how to convert all this into profit on our next article. Stay tuned and thanks for reading,

Veronica

www.facebook.com/GeekOroklini 

https://plus.google.com/u/0/

www.pinterest.com/ocg201

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Larnaka Municipality Press Release 20-26/08/2012

This weekly press release is part of an effort to inform our citizens and the public in general about the activities of our Municipality.

Cultural Events

For more information call the Larnaca Municipality Cultural Department on 24657745 or 24629333

Construction work

The Department of Construction of the Municipality of Larnaca informs the public that since August is the month of the summer holidays, a special construction crew will be responsible for any problems that may arise during this period.

Finance Department

The Larnaca Municipality Finance Department informs the public that the Municipal Property Tax payment notifications for the year 2012 have been sent. Payments can be made at any Bank, Coop Bank or online via JCC.

As far as the Refuse Collection Tax, Corporate Tax and Business Premises Tax are concerned, the payment deadline has already passed and legal proceedings have begun.

The public should settle their payments to Larnaca Municipality on time and within the given deadlines to avoid added legal and court costs.


Visit the website: www.larnaka.com
 
Energy Team and Environmental Management Department: www.larnaka202020.eu
 
Contact: 24816559, 24816581/email: perivallon@larnaca.com
 
 

Translation kindly provided by

Eri Constantinou

 www.greek4kids.eu 

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Salad Dressings

This week's recipe's are taken from the American Academy International Cook Book. These salad dressings are from our Top 10.  Prepare your favourite salad and dress it up with one of these delicious dressings.  Our Cook Book is due for release in September 2012.

SALAD DRESSINGS

  

Caesar

1 cup mayonnaise

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp Worcestershire

1 clove of garlic (minced)

1/4 tsp salt

1/8 tsp pepper

1/2 cup Parmesean cheese

2 tbsp of milk

Mix all ingredients together and shake or whisk until well blended.

Blue cheese

4 oz good Roquefort cheese, chopped

1 cup mayonnaise

1 cup heavy cream

2 tablespoons white wine vinegar

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Freshly chopped tarragon to taste

Place all ingredients in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Process until smooth.

Greek

2 fresh garlic cloves (crushed)

1/4 tsp salt

1 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard

1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

2 tbsp fresh lemon juice

1/2 tspsugar

5 tbsp red wine vinegar

1/2 tsp basil leaves (optional)

1/4 tsp oregano leaves (optional)

Mix all ingredients together and shake well to mix

Enjoy!

Marilyn x

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Larnaka Municipality Press Release 13th-19th August

This weekly press release is part of an effort to inform our citizens and the public in general about the activities of our Municipality.

Cultural Events

For more information call the Larnaca Municipality Cultural Department on 24657745 or 24629333 or Visit the website: www.larnaka.com 

Construction work

The Department of Construction of the Municipality of Larnaca informs the public that since August is the month of the summer holidays, a special construction crew will be responsible for any problems that may arise during this period.

Visit the website: www.larnaka.com

Energy Team and Environmental Management Department: www.larnaka202020.eu

Contact: 24816559, 24816581/email: perivallon@larnaca.com

Translation kindly provided by

Eri Constantinou

 www.greek4kids.eu 

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Facebook for LPNeurs - What, how and when to post on your page...

Dear mumpreneurs and dadpreneurs,

Once you have set up your Facebook business page and as you are building up your fan base by sharing your page in groups, on your personal account or with your email contacts, you must keep your page 'alive'. This is the greatest challenge for page owners and page administrators.

There's no need to worry, here are three key elements to focus on: Content, presentation and timing.

Great content is essential. You must keep it real and you must adapt to your audience. There's no magic recipe but in general remember that Facebook users are unwinding while they are connected. An infographic on content that people crave made by marketing experts gives you 21 possibilities.

 http://contently.com/blog/21-types-of-content-audiences-love-infographic/

As you can see, you are not supposed to be posting about your products or services.... all the time. You are allowed a 5% of your total posting quota. Your Facebook page is for you to communicate with your fans, to create connections and to build trust. Once they know you and if they like you, they will buy from you. This is a long term process. You have to spend time or money building this engagement and then you will see results. You have to wait at least 6 months, so be patient.

How can you come up with ideas for your posts? We recommend Pinterest at www.pinterest.com, an online pinboard that allows you to organise visuals in categories that you choose and you can always go back to them to use it for your posts or follow pinners with similar interests for new ideas. It also has a Search function that I always use when I have an idea and need a great image to go with it. 

Go to their site, request an invite and you'll get an email within 2 days. Happy pinning!

 

Pinterest and Facebook go hand in hand as the former provides all the visuals that your posts require plus it is an unlimited source of inspiration. Remember that the best way to present a post is accompanying it with a photo or a graphic, colourful and meaningful. Recent findings suggest they are 3 times more attractive to a fast browser than posts without a visual.

The third important point to consider is timing of your posts. In the Summer people are more active during the hottest times of the day when they are indoors or late at night before they go to sleep. I've noticed people are most active between 2:30 and 5 pm and then after 10 pm until early morning hours. Your audience might not follow this pattern and patterns change with seasons, so you must always check the response to your posts. One way of doing this is by clicking on your Insights from the Admin Panel for your page: a couple of line graphs will show what posts were more popular and you can click on each post individually and revise posting time. 

A final piece of information for today is that unfortunately not all your posts will be seen by your fans, even if they have your page in a special interest list and if they have ticked your page to show on their news feed. There is an algorithm called Edgerank that ranks posts according to 3 criteria: each fan's previous interaction with the page, how many likes, comments and shares the post got overall and how recent the post is. Then Facebook will filter accordingly and decide what posts will appear on each fan's news stream. The average percentage of posts seen by any page's fan is only 16%. This all leads to the general recommendation of posting interesting content with calls to action like asking your fans to 'like' or 'share' or 'comment' and posting more than once a day.Five very simple ideas and a clear explanation on this are given by Jonathan Payne on the following link http://www.business2community.com/facebook/edgerank-and-five-simple-ways-to-increase-facebook-engagement-0227704#comment-446931

The latest posts, the ones with a visual and the ones from the pages you have interacted more with will be at the top of the list at any time you, as a fan, log on to Facebook. So post more than once a day from your page, but at least once a day, at peak times to target your audience and prompt them to interact with your page by liking, commenting or sharing your post. You can schedule your posts ahead, share informative links and always be real and be yourself. You can also post the same content more than once, at different times, on different groups and/or on your personal account as well as on your page. 

Please feel free to ask or comment on any of the points above. For details on how to do any of the above you can visit my page on the link below, call me or email me.

Many thanks for reading,

Veronica

99 66 32 86

orokliniconcierge@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/GeekOroklini

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Oriental Beef with green beans

This week's recipe is taken from the American Academy International Cook Book, and was supplied by my very dear friend Debra Mc Kay.  Our Cook Book is due for release in September 2012.

Oriental Beef with green beans

Ingredients

500g Fillet of beef

2tbsp Oyster suce

1 tbsp Dark soy sauce

Splash Light Soy sauce

Pinch of sugar

Sea salt and black pepper

handful of green beans (blanched for 3 minutes)

1 Red chilli (deseeded and sliced)

2-3 small cloves of garlic (finely chopped)

1 tbsp Groundnut or sunflower oil

Method

1.  Marinade beef in 1 tbsp dark soy sauce and 1 tbsp of oyster sauce for 30minutes

2.  Heat wok until smoking hot - then add oil

3.  Add beef and stir fry for 1 minute

4.  Add garlic, chilli and blanched green beans

5.  Add remaining oyster sauce and a good splash of light soy sauce

6.  Stir fry for a further 5 minutes (don't over do it!!)

Serve with egg fried rice - delish!!

Egg fried rice

Ingredients

1 tbsp vegetable oil

2 eggs

2spring onions, finely chopped

2 tsp soy sauce

100g rice, cooked according to packet instructions

1/2 tsp sesame oil

Method

1.  Heat the oil in a wok until smoking then add the eggs and cook them, stirring vigorously until they are set.

2.  Add spring onion and soy sauce and stir-fry for two minutes.

3.  Add the cooked rice and sesame oil, stir-fry for a further two minutes

4.  Place the egg-fried rice into a bowl and serve immediately

Enjoy!

Marilyn x

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Just So Crafty Ladies Pottery Evening

Just So Crafty are pleased to announce that they are holding a Ladies Pottery Evening.

Place: Just So Crafty

Date: Thursday 13th September

Time: 7.30pm

There will be Wine, Nibbles and Giggles supplied, just come along with a friend and spend an enjoyable evening painting your own pottery piece in the beautiful courtyard.

A fun relaxing evening for ladies only! booking essential....

Contact numbers: 24647750 / 96396784

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Little Muse Theatre

When: Every fortnight from Saturday 12th October 2013

Where: 8 Markou Drakou Street, Larnaca (directly opposite American Academy Junior School)

Time: 9.30am-11am.

Storytelling theatre for young children and parents alike, bringing a treasure trove of stories to life with lots of improvisation songs and audience participation. There is also an art & craft activity based on theme of story.
The suitcase is waiting to be opened, all you need to bring is your imagination…
Little Antidote Theatre & Suitcase Full of Stories is also available for Birthday Bookings which includes:
• an oral telling of a story based on an agreed theme such as princesses, pirates, faeries, dragons, knights etc.
• the children then get the chance to enjoy a craft activity, making an item relevant to the story, for example a princess’ hat or a knight’s shield
• finally, we will act out the story again with lots of improvisation and participation from the children.
Such a session will typically last between 60-90 mins. Such parties would be suitable for children under 7yrs
If you are interested in more information about Suitcase full of Stories or booking a birthday party then please call Catherine on 96216435

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Larnaka Municipality Press Release 6th -12th August 2012

This weekly press release is part of an effort to inform our citizens and the public in general about the activities of our Municipality.

Cultural Events

For more information call the Larnaca Municipality Cultural Department on 24657745 or 24629333

Construction work

The Department of Construction of the Municipality of Larnaca informs the public that between 06-31/08/2012, the following construction work will be in progress:

Works related to the ELDYK park.
Construction of a utility room, to be used by the road sweeper crew in the Municipal Market area.
Installation of photovoltaic system in the park on Telamonos street.

Cleaning of the canals on Oskioutar street and the sewers on Kamaron and Archiepiskopou Makariou streets.

The Department of Construction of the Municipality of Larnaca informs the public that since August is the month of the summer holidays, a special construction crew will be responsible for any problems that may arise during this period.

Administration
Larnaca Municipality Administration informs the public that the following contests are in progress:

Contest. No. 27/2012
Supply of a new 4x4 tractor
Submission deadline: 10/08/2012

Contest No. 28/2012
Supply of a lawnmower for mowing on the road separators and junctions.
Submission deadline: 10/08/2012

Finance Department
The Larnaca Municipality Finance Department informs the public that the Municipal Property Tax payment notifications for the year 2012 have been sent. Payments can be made at any Bank, Coop Bank or online via JCC.

As far as the Refuse Collection Tax, Corporate Tax and Business Premises Tax are concerned, the payment deadline has already passed and legal proceedings have begun.

The public should settle their payments to Larnaca Municipality on time and within the given deadlines to avoid added legal and court costs.

Visit the website: www.larnaka.com

Energy Team and Environmental Management Department: www.larnaka202020.eu

Contact: 24816559, 24816581/email: perivallon@larnaca.com

Translation kindly provided by

Eri Constantinou

 www.greek4kids.eu 

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Finger Puppet Theatre Craft

Here is a great craft which not only gives us the opportunity to be crafty, it also helps us be creative and theatrical. :)

What you'll need:

Cereal box

Paper (we used pink and purple)

Crepe paper (we used pink)

Glue 

Scissors

Pipe cleaners

Take an empty cereal box and cut out the middle for he stage. Also remove the flaps at the opening so that you have a straight bottom.  Cut out and glue colourful paper to the cereal box. We glued purple on the front and pink on all the other sides. 

Cut out some crepe paper and glue each one to the top of the opening of the stage.  Tie to the side using pipe cleaners.  For us the curtain is only attached at the top.  The rest is "flowing" freely. Let it dry and that's really all there is to it.  Emma loved her finger puppet theater.

You could also decorate the back of the stage by gluing your child's drawing to the back wall of the cereal box.  All you need now are some finger puppets and you're set!

Happy creating!

Vanja
Emma's Lunch

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Larnaka Municipality Diary of Events

MUSICFriday 10 – Saturday 11
LARNAKA FINIKOUDES BEACH
Summer Land Festival Cyprus
Musical programme with the participation of well-known
Deejays from Cyprus and abroad
Friday 10 August, 4:00 p.m. – 4:00 a.m.
Saturday 11 August,
9:00 p.m. – 4:00 a.m.

Tickets and information:www.SummerLand-Festival.com

THEATRE
Friday 10, Saturday 11 & Sunday 12
9:00 p.m.
LARNAKA MEDIEVAL FORT
“SKALA” Theatre
“My Friend, Lefterakis”

Comedy by Alekos Sakellarios (in Greek)
Stage director: Maria Mannaridou Karsera

Admission €12 & €7 (students, soldiers, pensioners & families with 3 and more children)

THEATRE
Friday 24th 9:00 p.m.
PATTICHIO MUNICIPAL AMPHITHEATRE OF LARNAKA
“I will jump out of the window”
Comedy by George Feydeau
Stage director: Manos Papagiannis
Admission €20

Larnaka Municipal Theatre:
Tel. Theatre / Box Office: 24665795
Operating Hours:
Monday – Friday: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. & 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

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Spanish Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

This week's recipe is taken from the American Academy International Cook Book, and was supplied by Me.  

Our Cook Book is due for release in September 2012.

INGREDIENTS

(Meatballs)

5OOg lean minced beef

1 onion, peeled and finely chopped

1 garlic clove, peeled and finely chopped

50g white breadcrumbs

25g grated cheddar cheese

2tbsp chopped flat leaf parsley (plus extra to garnish)

Sea salt and black pepper

1 large egg, lightly beaten

2tbsp olive oil

(Tomato sauce)

2tbsp olive oil

1 onion peeled and finely chopped

120ml dry white wine

2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes

100ml water

1-2tsp sugar

METHOD

To make the meatballs,

Mix the minced beef, onion,garlic, breadcrumbs, cheese and chopped parsley together in a large bowl until evenly combined.  Season well with salt and pepper.

Add the egg and comb ine mixture with your hands.

With damp hands shape into 16 balls...cover with cling film and chill for 30minutes.

Meanwhile make the tomato sauce.

Heat the olive oil in frying pan, add onion and garlic, fry gently until lightly golden.

Increase the heat slightly and pour in the wine. Reduce by half, then stir in the chopped tomatoes, water and sugar.

Season with salt and pepper.

Simmer for 10-15minutes until tomatoes are soft, then remove from heat

To cook the meatballs,

Heat the oil in a large wide pan. Fry meatballs for 5 minutes, turning frequently, until browned all over.

Pour in the tomato sauce and simmer for 10-15minutes until the meatballs are cooked through.

Sprinkle with fresh chopped parsley and serve with pasta, garlic saute potatoes or fresh crusty bread.

Allow approx 1 hour

to prepare and cook

Serves 4

Enjoy!!

Marilyn

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