Keeping with the traditions of her Greek heritage, Lagoudis brings out the whole family to enjoy the food and to help stuff her guests full of it.
Reminiscent of scenes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Lagoudis’ cooking lessons are more a party than a class.
Lagoudis has been giving cooking lessons out of her home in [...]

Mets reliever Matt Wise will seek a second opinion on the team’s right rotator cuff tendinitis diagnosis that landed him on the 15-day disabled list on Tuesday.
Wise’s current ailment, he said, is related to a nerve problem in the back of his shoulder that makes his arm feel as if he’s “throwing underwater.” Word from [...]

The exit pay of Suffolk’s former chief deputy county executive, Paul Sabatino, will be cut by $37,540 because the county attorney has found that a waiver that allowed him to carry over vacation time was not properly authorized.
Comptroller Joseph Sawicki, who withheld the exit pay in February to seek a legal opinion, said Sabatino’s payments [...]

Australia’s flagship airline is preparing to smash its unionised engineering workforce with non-union labour recruited in Asia and the Pacific, in a move that echoes the epic maritime dispute that rocked the waterfront a decade ago.
Documents seen by the Sydney Morning Herald show Qantas has engaged a labour hire company, Newport Aviation, to recruit the [...]

People danced in the streets. Strangers hugged and kissed. And an 18-year-old New York model waited for word from her Kiwi sweetheart.
Three months earlier, Weslee Price Wootten had sent the Western Union cablegram that would change her life: Darling, I will marry you. All my love.
Noel D’Audney enlisted in 1939, an Auckland University student who [...]

Hours before the legislature’s 2008 session ended, the state Senate unanimously passed a comprehensive mortgage-relief bill that would help thousands of subprime mortgage holders threatened with foreclosure.
The Senate moved swiftly in bipartisan fashion to help cash-strapped homeowners through programs that would give them more-affordable interest rates, allowing them to remain in their homes. Gov. M. [...]

Amidst wrestling with the public perception of the Xbox 360’s apparent hardware quality, Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices division reported a profit for its third quarter.Thanks to “robust demand” for Xbox 360 consoles, the Entertainment and Devices arm of the software giant saw revenue for the quarter grow 68 percent over the comparable period last year. [...]

MetService says two alerts %26mdash; a heavy-rain warning and a severe-thunderstorm watch %26mdash; were in place when the group entered Mangetepopo Gorge, near National Park, on Tuesday afternoon.
But the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre said it did not receive the warnings.
The stream swelled from 0.5 cubic metres a second to 18 cubic metres in [...]

Rogers has been axed despite making his test debut for Australia against India at his home ground at the WACA just three months ago.
The contracted player list for the next 12 months chosen by the national selection panel includes just two specialist openers in test duo Matthew Hayden and Phil Jaques.
Added to the list for [...]

A closed-door workshop at Labours annual congress raised the idea of distributing pamphlets on KiwiSaver, produced by Inland Revenue, and on Working for Families, produced by Work and Income.
Delegates were advised to tell voters when handing out the pamphlets that National had voted against both measures.
Williams, who led the session, reportedly endorsed the plan. But [...]