Kypseli, which means ‘bee hive’ in Greek, is worth noting for its Fokionos Negri section which is a long park like street with many cafes, bars, restaurants and boutiques.
Fokionos Negri is very popular with local residents and to other residents it is a destination for its night time amusements and promenades. You can cruise the strip here in Fokionos! Kypseli Sq is also very nice in a traditional Greek way at the top end of the strip.
There you may get a whiff of old Greece with many people enjoying the outdoors and children playing and so on. Of course non ( or very few) of the people you see in Kypseli will be Greek.
They will likely be Albanian or Ukrainian or Russian or Kurdish or from relatively near by. No big deal these are the people that do all the work in Greece these days. There are some great souvlaki places and restaurants in the square area that should not be missed too!
Also you will find the American chain Pizza Hut. Yawn! Stick with the local cuisine! Try Greek Pizza it really good usually.
Bee – The most beneficial species of the animal kingdom for humans.
Humans cultivated bees since the ancient times. Honey is referred as therapeutical in Egyptian papyruses 3500 years ago. In the ancient Indians’ book of life it is said that life is prolonged when there is honey and milk in everyday diet. Nectar was the food of the immortal Olympian Gods. Zeus was brought up with honey by the Bee nymph.The father of medicine Hippocrates recommended it for the treatment of several diseases, and so did Aristotle who believed that honey prolongs life.
The Egyptians offered their gods honeycombs with honey as a valuable present showing devotion and gratitude. Cleopatra, the Egyprian queen, used honey for her face and body.
In Mykinae and the Minoan signs of other basic products of nutrition honey is (me-ri) is mentioned. In the classical era honey was one of the mytotos (kind of gruel) ingredients. Legumes also were eaten in the form of gruel adding honey. “Plakunta” was also a very popular sweet with honey, nuts and spices. Aristeos had become immortal because the Earth and the Hours to whom Apollon had given him,fed him with amvrosia. In the Byzantine period honey was also part of the diet.
Nuclear workers join the strike against the new labor law in France. In the meantime, oil depots blockades across the country lead to fuel shortages and long lines at many gas stations.
President Obama completed his trip to Vietnam with a town hall meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday, in which he discussed rap music with Suboi, a local artist.
I feel I can learn a real lot from this blog. The author writes very well in a clear, easy to understand language. I am very interested to understand more about the Nazi area and the Nazis and the present increase in right extremism and how maybe it can be brought to a halt.
“Please don’t write about Ya’ir Golan!” a friend begged me, “Anything a leftist like you writes will only harm him!”
So I abstained for some weeks. But I can’t keep quiet any longer.
General Ya’ir Golan, the deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, made a speech on Holocaust Memorial Day. Wearing his uniform, he read a prepared, well-considered text that triggered an uproar which has not yet died down.
Dozens of articles have been published in its wake, some condemning him, some lauding him. Seems that nobody could stay indifferent.
The main sentence was: “If there is something that frightens me about the memories of the Holocaust, it is the knowledge of the awful processes which happened in Europe in general, and in Germany in particular, 70, 80, 90 years ago, and finding traces of them…
Ja, Berlin ist eine Reise wert. Tenth trip to Berlin. This is quite an achievement, coming all the way from Australia! Best wishes for a good time in Berlin, Peter! Indeed, I am very much looking forward to this trip too.
“Back to the Future”, everyone knows that title from the film trilogy by Robert Zemeckis with Micheal J. Fox in the starring role. It is with a rather quiet satisfaction that I can say, I thought of the title already in 1977 before anybody thought of the film.
The title came to my mind for a diary I was going to write about my first trip back from Australia to West-Berlin.
Germany, and with it West-Berlin, had experienced an economic miracle (Wirtschaftswunder) and I wanted to see those changes.
I bought a big, fat copy book. Its title is still the only written evidence of that trip. Actually, it is no evidence at all, just a thought bubble.
Now, thirty-eight years later, it came to my mind again, as my wife and I, plus a large number of my family are preparing for another trip to that beloved city of my personal history.
This interview, according to our prime minister, shows how important it is to look after the rich. This for sure gives people an incentive not to be poor. Indeed, why do we have to pay foreigners to do the sort of work Australians could do if only they had the wish to become rich!
” . . . . After all, we live in a capitalist system and that’s something that the Labor Party don’t seem to understand. It’s only by looking after the rich that people have an incentive not to be poor and then they’ll take on the sort of work that we now have to pay foreigners to do.”
“I did get your letter, thanks. I noticed that it told us that Export Trade Deals would generate 19,000 new export opportunities and you said that 200,000 more jobs would be created in the next financial year. Where did you get those numbers from?”
“Well, it’s common sense really.”
“So you’ve just plucked them out of the air.”
“No, we put them down on paper.”
“But why, did you say 19,000 opportunities?”
“Well, it seemed like a pretty good number. We’re being conservative because we could have said that as there are billions of people in the countries we’ve negotiated trade deals with that there are billions of opportunities, but that sounded too much like we were just making it up.”
“But did you do any economic modelling?”
“Of course not, economic modelling is far too costly and theoretic and it’s far better to go for the tried and true method of using a number that’s small enough to be believable but still big enough to be impressive.”
Kate Tempest
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kate Tempest
Born Kate Esther Calvert[1]
22 December 1985 (age 30)
Brockley, South East London, England
Occupation Poet, playwright, rapper, recording artist
Notable work Hopelessly Devoted, Wasted, Brand New Ancients, Everybody Down, Hold Your Own
Website katetempest.co.uk
Musical career
Genres Spoken word, hip-hop
Instruments Vocals
Labels Big Dada, Ninja Tune
Kate Tempest (born Kate Esther Calvert, 22 December 1985) is an English poet, spoken word artist and playwright. In 2013 she won the Ted Hughes Award for her work Brand New Ancients.[2] In 2015-16, she was a visiting fellow in the Department of English, University College, London.
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1 Life and work
2 Reception
3 References
4 External links
Life and work[edit]
Tempest grew up in Brockley, South East London, one of five children. She describes growing up in “a shitty part of town, but in a nice house where there was always food”, and developing her work ethic by seeing her father go from working as a labourer, through night-school to becoming a criminal lawyer by the time she was eight years old.[3]
She enjoyed her primary school experience but was unhappy at secondary school. She cites her English teacher Mr Bradshaw as an encouraging influence who read her early poetry and gave her books to inspire her. She says she had a “wayward youth”, living in squats, “hanging around on picket lines rapping at riot cops”. She worked in a record shop from age 14 to 18. At 16 she studied at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon and she went on to graduate in English Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London.[2]
She describes the London marches to call an end to the Iraq war as a point of disillusionment when she saw that the message of millions of people did not change the direction of the war.[3][4][5][6]
Tempest first performed when she was 16, at open mic nights at Deal Real, a small hip hop store on Carnaby Street in London’s West End. She went on to support acts such as John Cooper Clarke, Billy Bragg, Benjamin Zephaniah and Scroobius Pip. She toured Europe, Australia and America with her band ‘Sound of Rum’ and worked with organisations such as Yale University, the BBC, Apples and Snakes, The Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Tempest has performed at venues such as Glastonbury, Latitude, The Wandering Word tent at Shambala, The Big Chill and the Nu-Yorican poetry café, where she won two poetry slams. Her first poetry book was Everything Speaks in its Own Way, followed by her first work of theatre, Wasted. At 26, she launched the theatrical spoken word piece Brand New Ancients at the Battersea Arts Centre (2012), to great critical acclaim.[3][4][5][7] The piece also won Tempest the 2013 Off West End Award (“The Offies”) for “Best TBC Production”. Tempest’s influences include, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, W B Yeats, William Blake, W H Auden and Wu-Tang Clan.[4][5][8]At the Barbican launch of ‘The Bricks that Build the Houses’, Tempest explained how many people thought of Virginia Woolf when reading her work but she had never actually read much Woolf. Tempest also explained how all writers and artists are using the same material, the bubbling content of humanity, and that this causes continuities between writers, even those that have not read one another.
In 2014 she released the album Everybody Down (Big Dada), which was produced by Dan Carey and was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize.[9] In January 2015 the album was given the inaugural “Soundcheck Award” for the best album of 2014 by Radioeins and Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin.
Reception[edit]
The Economist said of Tempest’s commission from the Royal Shakespeare Company: “A stunning piece by Kate Tempest, a London-born performance poet, comes bursting off the screen. Rarely has the relevance of Shakespeare to our language, to the very fabric of our feelings, been expressed with quite such youthful passion. (It should be mandatory viewing for all teenagers.)”[10] The Huffington Post describes her as “Britain’s leading young poet, playwright and rapper…one of the most widely respected performers in the country – the complete package of lyrics and delivery. She is also one of the most exciting young writers working in Britain today.” (2012)[3] The Guardian commented of Brand New Ancients, “Suddenly it feels as if we are not in a theatre but a church… gathered around a hearth, hearing the age-old stories that help us make sense of our lives. We’re given the sense that what we are watching is something sacred.”[11] In 2013 the newspaper noted:
She is one of the brightest talents around. Her spoken-word performances have the metre and craft of traditional poetry, the kinetic agitation of hip-hop and the intimacy of a whispered heart-to-heart… Tempest deals bravely with poverty, class and consumerism. She does so in a way that not only avoids the pitfalls of sounding trite, but manages to be beautiful too, drawing on ancient mythology and sermonic cadence to tell stories of the everyday.[12]
In 2013 she won the Ted Hughes Award for her work Brand New Ancients.,[2] and was selected as one of the 2014 Next Generation Poets by the Poetry Society.
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