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Archive for July 2006
Bus drivers being assaulted almost every other day
Bus drivers being assaulted almost every other day
Houlahan said he doesn't expect to see cameras on buses for at least a year.
This story – or one very like it – appears regularly. On a day when the Sun can afford over half a page to Mrs Harper's dresses, it must be a "slow news day".
The figures on assaults are inflated by adding in verbal assaults – cameras would be of little help here. But if the physical assaults are a real problem, cameras should have been installed a long time ago, and should now be an urgent priority.
After a series of very serious assaults on its drivers, Bonny's was the first taxi company in the region to install cameras. The other taxi companies spent a long time arguing about who should pay for the cameras, fearing that the company that did not spend the money would have some kind of commercial advantage. Nonsense, of course. Customers really appreciate feeling safer in the cab.
Translink could easily put in cameras: the Skytrain system is one of the most surveilled areas in the region, and no one has an expectation of privacy on public transport. Trouble is that system is useless as evidence in many cases as the video tape is rewound every hour. A modern system of electronic image storage is planned for some time in the future.
Cameras were put on school buses many years ago in many places, to help curb unruly passenger behaviour. The camera boxes were not necessarily loaded – a bit like UK's "gatsos" (fixed location speed cameras) – but they still worked as a deterrent.
These days small surveillance cameras are readily available and very cheap. They could be on all the time – or activated by a strategically placed switch, under the driver's heel for example. Not hard to do. Not expensive. Not when compared to the costs of paying drivers who must take sick leave. Or Translink's WCB premiums.
Richmond Review:"Translink cash troubles are no surprise"
"When TransLink came into being, it also collected all the dead wood from B.C. Transit and public transport planning continues in its 1950s mode. There was no hint of modern transit practice in the great towers in Burnaby." (Letters July 29)
Malcolm Johnston – the name I couldn't recall. I cannot help thinking that this statement may be actionable. I suppose, since I had been with BCT for a couple of years that I was some of that "dead wood".
I wonder what his qualifications are? Do you think he has a Masters degree from one of the better English universities? Much experience in other cities planning transportation of all kinds? Come to that who are the other members of this Light Rail Committee? Who elected him their spokesman?
The province built SkyTrain (both lines), and is building the Canada Line. Not Translink, not BC Transit. Special project offices were set up and transit planners kept busy doing other things. The Evergreen Line is not even started so how he can claim that it is like SkyTrain I do not know. It is certainly not planned to be grade separated, or driverless, or run by Linear Induction Motors. So why is it not LRT?
CP 2816 and train Pitt Meadows BC: July 29, 2006
CP 2816 and train Pitt Meadows BC 2006_0729, originally uploaded by Stephen Rees.
A special promoting Breakfast for Learning picking up speed as it leaves Coquitlam for Agassiz and beyond.
I was very impressed by the affable security provided by CP staff and CP police. Some of the rail fans were less impressive. Those parked by the road ready for the fast getaway to chase off down Highway 7 – a busy suburban street not a freeway – to beat it to the next photo op. Or the youth with the scanner tuned to CP dispatchers who made completely misleading announcements that could have lead to tragedy. And the strange people who have to stand in front of the loco to have their picture taken with it!
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Yaks threaten China's 'miracle' train line
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Yaks threaten China's 'miracle' train line
Crossing the rugged Qinghai plateau and climbing to 5,072 metres (16,640ft) above sea level, the $4.2bn (£2.3bn) railway was hailed by president Hu Jintao as an engineering miracle for the world. But it was always likely to be harder to maintain than to build.
It was the price that caught my eye. Frankly, compared to the cost of the Canada line, it looks like a bargain to me – but then if you are the Chinese government you are probably not faced with the sort of cost structure this P3 is going to land us with for the duration of its contract. And, we don't have to worry about permafrost or Yaks. Though on Sea Island I hope they have a really good contingency plan for rising sea levels and liquefying soils.
"Harder to maintain than build" is probably true of every railway ever built.
Vancouver Celebration of Light 2006
Vancouver Celebration of Light 2006, originally uploaded by nonstopdesign.
We can hear it but not see it. One time, we got an invitation to a rooftop at Granville and 16th – not ideal but close enough.
What we need is a friend with a condo overlooking English Bay, but this Flickr user's contribution is a nice consolation. 400,000 people in a confined space and seemingly very little done to get the crowds home quickly afterwards discourages me from attending.
The Observer | UK News | Anti-heroin project transforms towns
The Observer | UK News | Anti-heroin project transforms towns
A remarkable drugs project has transformed one of the regions worst affected by heroin addiction
One of the most intractable problems in this region is that of drugs – especially in the downtown east side. The so called "four pillars" program does not seem to be very effective, and there are countless references every week – if not every day – to the impact of open drug dealing and property crime on downtown. Often the spin is that this will drive away tourism and damage our chances of maximising the return on the winter Olympics in 2010. As if damaging the local community and destroying the lives of many local people is not incentive enough. Well, not enough to do anything that might actually work, but would also offend US right wingers.
The solution that has worked in Worksop is treating addiction as a health issue, not a crime issue. Just like prohibition against alcohol – which did not work and had to be abandoned – the "just say no", lock'em up, spend more on prisons, approach has also been a dismal failure.
Britain has just as rocky a public health system as we do – although private sector provision is more widespread, and the two track approach acknowledged and not officially denied as it is here.
Of course, just because it has been shown to work elsewhere is almost a guarantee that it won't be adopted here any time soon. "Not invented here" or "we need a made in Canada solution" is one of the most frequently advanced excuses for inactivity. And just because it works on heroin does not address the problems of crystal meth, or crack or whatever.
I think we should give it try. Do you think that Stephen Harper or Gordon Campbell might agree? Probably not. But Sam Sullivan just might.
Tories are starting to clear their clutter of inheritance
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Virgin's east coast route, profitable under British Rail, runs on a subsidy of £400m a year, half what the whole of BR cost in 1989.
The only thing I found to nit pick. Virgin runs the West Coast mainline. The East Coast is run by GNER, a subsidiary of James Sherwood's Sea Containers, and makes a significant profit.


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A quickie nail art design using OPI Totally Fort Worth It as the base colour, Illamasqua Boosh and Throb for the lippie (and on the thumb I did an outline with OPI Curry up don't be late but didn't like it :-)
Onto the tag! This tag is a few quick questions about our experience with lipstick. Fun!
1. When you were a child, did you use your mother's lipsticks? Yes, but not on myself I don't think! I may have drawn on my mum while she was sleeping... O_O
2. How old were you when you bought your first lipstick? Honestly can't remember exactly but I believe I was in high school and it was a horribly dark brownish currant colour and I dearly regret it :-| Oh the 90s. Oh wait my first lipstick mum bought me but it was fluoro (yes fluoro) pink and it was so freaking awesome. I wish I still had it. I was probably about 9.
3. Pink or red lipstick? Pink. But not cool pink, that looks horrid on me. Warm pink.
4. The most expensive lipstick you have ever bought? A Chanel rouge coco lippie which I ended up giving to my mother!
5. And the cheapest? Hmm I think an Australis lippie. They probably don't make the colour or kind anymore, it was a long time ago...
6. What's the most bizarre thing you have ever done with a lipstick? When I was a little girl I was obsessed with the movie The Labyrinth (it's my favourite movie and soundtrack to date actually) and there's this part where the main character Sarah is walking through a maze. She gets lost and ends up drawing arrows on the stone tiled floor with red lipstick to mark which way she had gone. When I was little I used to play in my backyard pretending I was in that maze and mark random stones in the yard with lipstick :-P
7. If you had to recommend a lipstick, which brand would you recommend and why? I haven't had a lot of brand experience but I love my NARS lippie (I have Cruising). It's moisturizing and just such a great formula in general. The smell is odd to me though. It's familiar but I can't seem to figure out what it is yet or what it reminds me of...
Well that is it, I hope you enjoyed this tag and I would love it if anyone else did this tag or wanted to comment on their own experiences :-) Have a lovely week everyone and bring on the weekend!

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Picture is courtesy of "maxnathans" from Flickr.
Readers who want to plant this cuctus in their garden are invited to email me and I'll refer them to maxnathans.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Sabra Cactus Another View
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Sabra Cactus From Afar
Picture is courtesy of "maxnathans" from Flickr who wrote to me:
Sabra Cactus is the name I call this cactus- not the official name. My reasons are:
a. that it shows the Star of David which is the Israeli Sabra national emblem
b. That it grows here, in Kibbutz Metzuva, in the north of Israel.
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Palestinian Point of View
The Star of David or Solomon's seal had been in use by Muslims for generations and they have the right to love it the same as Jews and Christians who also used it a lot during history. But the state of affairs is influenced by politics and not by history or facts. E.g. Mike Odetalla wrote an article in the peoples voice website on 02/13/07 titled Teaching Hatred. Here are some excerpts about the way Palestinians relate to the Star of David:
The first time I was ever exposed to the Star of David was when I saw it painted on the gleaming metallic bodies of the Fantom jet fighters that were flying low overhead as they bombed and strafed the outskirts of our village … during the 1967 war...
The first Jew that I had ever seen in my life was an alien looking figure, who was standing atop a tank, which also had the Star of David painted on it
The Star of David was not a religious symbol to me and other Palestinians. It was symbol of oppression and fear.
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is the worst muffin I have ever tried...Yuck it's like eating cardboard.
It's a low carb-muffin. I bought it because its only 61cals for a 55g muffin. Never again am I going to go for low carb foods
Carbs aren't evil as long as you eat in moderation.
Anyway, thought I would share with you all, my opinion of this product.
I will give you all a breakdown of the nutritional info:
Per serve
-251kjs (61cals), 8g protein, 0.5g fat, 3gs Carbs, 3gs Fiber, 150mg Sodium.
The nutritional panel looks great but it still taste like eating cardboard and also had a soapy taste. I took one bite chucked the muffin out with the rest of the batch and though to myself I would much rather eat 61cals from real food


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The National Park Service is developing an online program called Virtual Field Trips that will make the Grand Canyon available to kids across the country with the simple click of a mouse. The Grand Canyon Association, the official fundraiser for Grand Canyon National Park, has entered this valuable project in the Pepsi Refresh Project in the hope of securing $50,000 to make this dream a reality.
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I find it hard to believe that my last post on this blog is almost a month old.
Every day, I write at least in one of my blogs (I have five, not sure why except that I feel like every one of my passions needs its own space where I can express things about it). So I have a blog about dogs, a blog about optimism and gratitude, a blog about senior citizens, this blog which is mostly about weight and life issues and then a final one which is a collaborative effort with a few other friends who are also writers.
One of my frustrations has been not to be able (or willing) to take the time to get to my as yet unpublished (because it´s not finished) work of fiction.. Or should I say, works of fiction, since like blogging, I find that I have too many ideas for just one book. Anyway, right now I am working away on a mini iPad that I have not been very nice to…complaining always that it is too small, when in reality, all it takes is a little getting used to. I purchased it about two or three years ago, it was really reasonable. Then I bought a nice keyboard for it, and a case and it is actually working very nicely. So maybe the problem is me, and not it.
Not sure why I went off on a tangent like that except that I felt guitly about not writing in this blog for my faithful followers. I agree that blogging in each site every day is excessive, but once a month is really not cutting it either. Either we put the time in and honor our followers, or we simply go away.
I hope all this rambling hasn´t turned you off. In closing, I would just like to say that although I haven´t been writing here, I have been writing generally, reading also. My weight watchers journey is going strong although I admit that the weight loss is very slow because I don´t feel desperately about it. Of the 50 lbs. I would like to have lost by the end of this year, I have lost 26, so there we are.


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The Cure celebrate their 40th anniversary with a epic performance to a sold out Hyde Park
Day two at Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park saw The Cure celebrate their 40th anniversary with a epic performance to a sold out Hyde Park.
Robert Smith walked onto the stage, jokingly blocking the sunlight with his hands. "I honestly can't talk until the sun goes down, it's taking up all my energy not to dissolve into a pile of dust."
Out came the sprinkling synths and shimmering guitar chords of "Plainsong" as The Cure burst into life, much to delight of the Great Oak Stage audience. Smith's lush vocals filled the park with ease and they wasted no time leading into the other 1989 classic, "Pictures Of You".
As the last rays of the evening sun shone down, the screens behind the stage quickly flicked over to display the sunset, right on cue, Smith and co exploded into their timeless track, "Push", from the 1985 album The Head On The Door. Other hits included "Friday I'm In Love", "Close To Me" and "Lovesong".
"40 years ago this weekend was the first time we played as The Cure", said Smith. "It was in The Rocket in Crawley. If you asked me what I'd be doing in 40 years' time, I'd be wrong".
The final five of the set, "Boys Don't Cry", "Jumping In Someone Else's Train", "Grinding Halt", "10.15 Saturday Night" and "Killing An Arab" were all songs that the band performed in their set in 1979.
Despite the 30° heat, Interpol arrived on stage suited and booted, with guitarist Daniel Kessler even sporting a tie. Dark shades were kept on throughout as the band treated the crowd to fan-favourites as well as brand new single "The Rover", from their forthcoming album. Closing with "Evil" and "Slow Hands" (the band's most iconic songs) left a lasting impression on all.
Goldfrapp erupted onto the Great Oak Stage with a jubilant shoutout to the England football team, followed by the throbbing synths of "Anymore" – the lead single from their recent LP, Silver Eye. Their disco-tinted classic "Ooh La La" was the standout moment, as Alison Goldfrapp's echoed vocals transformed Hyde Park into a sun drenched dancefloor.
Editors got the crowd moving as they powered through their extensive back catalogue, including "Blood" and "Formaldehyde" – with each guitar solo more colossal than the last.
It's been quite the renaissance for shoegaze pioneers Slowdive, who since releasing their 2017 self-titled album (their first for 20+ years), have stunned audiences around the world with their live sets. Their performance in Hyde Park was packed with the fuzzy, distorted guitar riffs and luscious soundscapes that have become synonymous with the band's name.
Opening the Great Oak Stage was BBC Sound of 2018 nominees Pale Waves, who drew in a huge crowd eager to catch one of the UK's most hotly tipped bands. The 1975's Matt Healy watched on as lead singer / guitarist Heather Baron-Gracie shimmied throughout, before breaking into "My Obsession". "It's such an honour and pleasure to be here – thanks for having us. And enjoy The Cure!"
The Barclaycard Stage was kicked off by the enigmatic Pumarosa, who blended an intriguing medley of electronica, drone and industrial rock. Also featuring was the instrumental sounds of This Will Destroy You, The Twilight Sad, who declared "let's get miserable in the sunshine", the alt-folk tones of Lisa Hannigan and headliners Ride – who walked out to New Order's "World In Motion" before performing to a jam-packed audience.
The Summer Stage welcomed the likes of Swedish band PG Lost, Icelandic three-piece punk outfit Kaelan Mikla and the dulcet tones of singer-songwriter Kathryn Joseph.
Tomorrow will see the legendary Eric Clapton closing the first weekend. Next weekend welcomes headliners Bruno Mars, Michael Bublé and Paul Simon.
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Axis Bank and Standard Chartered have made the announcement of implementing a new cross-border payment platform built on top of Ripple technology.
Standard Chartered released the details of their new platform that will link corporates between India and Singapore using its Straight2Bank system. This new program allows the users to pre-validate transactions, see the fees that are applied to the transactions up-front and quickly settle all transactions.
Reports earlier in the year pointed out that multiple banks around the world have plans to launch a similar system linking various countries. Also, Standard Chartered and many other financial institutions took part in Ripple's Series B round raising $55 million back in 2016.
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OK… I took a picture of my mom with an eye patch and what else could I do but photo shop the picture and make the patch black and then do a pirate card? The stamp set is from Posh/Sunday international Easy mount. I sorta followed Mojo Monday 180(see below) and since I like to use pictures in my cards as one of my favorite techniques I'm entering this for Top Tip Tuesday. AAARRRRGH!
tms- cupcake wars
This weeks Tuesday morning sketch challenge is cupcake wars and since its fall; I decided to make pumpkin spice cupcakes displayed in an autumn showcase display with matching card. The display includes a cornucopia with several different types of squashes, straw, leaves, with an added framed wheat to complete the harvest theme. The cupcakes were made from a spice cake mix substituting 2 cups of canned pumpkin for the liquid. the cupcake papers are fall theme and the frosting is cream cheese, however since the cupcakes need no frosting I've showcased two un- frosted.
The cornucopia stamp has no name and the cupcake stamp is from a set by Sunday International.
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My sister in Denver( actually Centennial Colorado) likes penguins so I put a few on her card, the picture is a small portion of her collection cut with spellbinders. the stamp is Sunday international, the happy birthday Stampin up.
Happy Birthday Sue.
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These mojo layouts get harder each week. I wanted to use this Stampin' up set 'country morning' and the chicken wire is from aSunday international stamp set. The two background designs are my minds eye complete boy stack. The circles were cut with spellbinders.
Happy Birthday Jesse
Its Jesse's birthday and he likes motor cycles and i have a motorcycle stamp from Sunday International so here it is. The happy birthday is Stampin up , cut out with their punch and the background lines cuttle bug. The plaid paper is one of Joanns.
The motorcycle is framed by spellbinders.
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A sheep of any other color would be called patchwork.
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The Douchey DM » Misc » You are NOT a fucking god!
Ever since the DMG, with its illustration of a DM holding the strings of a PC marionette, RPG publisher have alluded to the deification of the dungeon master, there's been a group of DMs (and players) who seem to take this literally.
We've seen these guys. We've certainly overheard them at game cons. Maybe we've played with these guys. Hell, maybe we used to BE these guys.
I can understand the allure of semi-deification — you finally get to have absolute control over something, other than what's in your pants. And some, I suppose, become a little drunk with power, like a frat-boy taking his first beer bong. "I am the master of my universe!" they claim.
Then the players show up. Suddenly Orville the Omniscient can't figure out why he didn't anticipate the party's course of action, or he's frantically improvising because they hopped the rails. Yet some insist on their immortality.
Maybe it's the term: Dungeon Master — as in "master of all he surveys." Besides the haughtiness, it's not very accurate. GURPS uses "Gamemaster." Not really any better than Dungeon Master. Call of Cthulhu uses "Storyteller." That's better, but really he's only one of the storytellers at the table. Traveller uses "Referee." That's probably the most accurate and certainly has almost no haughtiness. It's a little sporty, though.
Regardless of the phrase (or the reason), GMs who think of themselves as deities need a fucking reality check. Seriously, get a puppy, buy an "I'm a Star!" hat. Do anything, but don't ask the players to suck your fake-god cock.
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Doesn't Call of Cthulhu use "keeper," short for "keeper of arcane lore"? Maybe a bit presumptuous, but I always liked it.
And I have to agree… GMs with a God complex are just the worst.
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Paul Lay writing in the December issue of History Today makes some excellent points regarding historical novel writing. I was particularly struck by this comment regarding the book The Daughter of Time by Josephine Yey "The historical novel when it is this good, this thoroughly researched, has become a means of legitimate historical inquiry." David Caute's book should be seen in this light.
Caute has the reputation of being a novelist, playwright, and a historian. He is also a noted journalist and essay writer. He apparently uses the techniques of novel writing well and imbues his subject matter with his strong left-wing feelings, one writer said he " brings a broad knowledge of European (mainly French) intellectual traditions into English fiction, he is one of the most intellectually stimulating novelists of recent decades in England--a "public" rather than a "private "writer".
Caute's novel is set in the high point of the English Civil War. A group of disaffected ex-New Model Army soldiers and others along with wives and children, led by Gerard Winstanley have become disillusioned by the course of the civil war under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell. The group decides to take over some land at St Georges Hill in Surrey. They plant crops and graze cattle to survive.
Their mission was to develop and practice a primitive form of Communism. The settlement expressed in simple terms a growing disgust and protest by sections of both the lower middle class and sections of an early working class at the rapidly growing social inequality that existed during the civil war. Their commune was met with swift and violent punishment, and eventually, they were defeated.
The fact that although written in 1965 the book and the subject matter still resonate today is that the issues that appear in the book such as the nature of democracy, social inequality and the rapacious nature of private property are still topics that provoke debate and civil unrest today.
How else would you explain that despite the passage of nearly four hundred years people are still violently evicted from land for protesting at social injustice?
In an article which could have described a scene 400 hundred years ago, the Guardian writer George Monbiot says this "Hounded by police and bailiffs, evicted wherever they stopped, they did not mean to settle here. They had walked out of London to occupy disused farmland on the Queen's estates surrounding Windsor Castle. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that didn't work out very well. But after several days of pursuit, they landed two fields away from the place where modern democracy is commonly supposed to have been born.
At first, this group of mostly young, dispossessed people, who (after the 17th-century revolutionaries) call themselves Diggers 2012(1), camped on the old rugby pitch of Brunel University's Runnymede campus. It's a weed-choked complex of grand old buildings and modern halls of residence, whose mildewed curtains flap in the wind behind open windows, all mysteriously abandoned as if struck by a plague or a neutron bomb. The diggers were evicted again, and moved down the hill into the woods behind the campus: pressed, as if by the ineluctable force of history, ever closer to the symbolic spot. From the meeting house they have built and their cluster of tents, you can see across the meadows to where the Magna Carta has sealed almost 800 years ago".
As David Caute recently pointed out St George's Hill in Surrey is now home to some the most expensive real estate in England "Here opulent private properties sit untouchable behind security gates and surveillance cameras. It was not always so. In 1649, as the civil war drew to a close and Charles I stepped out on to a Whitehall balcony to face the executioner, the landowners of St George's Hill were confronted by an influx of nightmare neighbors, the so-called Diggers".
While on the surface of things these people seemed to be a bunch crackpots, they were, in fact, the early forebears of the communist movement. Their actions were very revolutionary, the leader of this group Gerrard Winstanley, advanced their claims in the name of social justice. He also called for the end to "Norman yoke" which he blamed for all of England's troubles
The novel is mostly told through words and eyes of Winstanley, part academic book part story. While the book unfortunately has been left a little on the shelf, the subject matter has seen a significant renaissance. It is only recently that a systematic study of Winstanley has started to emerge. The recent publication of his collected works is one indication of the trend to restore Winstanley to his place as one of the most prominent figures of the English civil war.
He is certainly a figure that according to Christopher Hill who turned the world upside down. His form of utopian communism was influenced by John Lilburne and his fellow Levellers. But in ideological terms, he went further than the Levellers in both actions and words. The egalitarian nature of his philosophy was captured in his pamphlet "The New Law of Righteousness," written in 1648. "Selfish imaginations," he said had lead one man to rule over another. "But everyone shall put their hands to till the earth and bring up cattle, and the blessing of the earth shall be common to all," "When a man hath need of any corn or cattle, take from the next store-house he meets with. There shall be no buying and selling, no fairs or markets, but the whole earth shall be the common Treasury for every man."
The Diggers and Levellers were part of a group of people that sought to understand the profound political and social changes that were taking place at the beginning of the 17th century. They were the right 'Ideologues of the revolution' and had a capacity for abstract thought. While the Diggers were sympathetic to the poor, which stemmed from their religion they had no program to bring about social change, they never advocated a violent overturning of society. Their class outlook, that being of small producers, conditioned their ideology. At no stage did the Diggers or that matter did the larger group the Levellers constitute a mass movement.
The contradiction between their concern for the poor and their position of representatives of the small property owners caused some tension. They had no opposition to private property, and therefore they accepted that inequalities would always exist, they merely argued for a lot of the poor to be made more equitable.
Caute as was said earlier a man of the left and the novel reflects Caute's academic upbringing as a student of Christopher Hill, as Caute says "I became acquainted with the Diggers in Oxford University tutorials with the great historian of our 17th-century upheavals, Christopher Hill, who at that juncture was severing his links with the Communist party in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution. Out of this came a novel, Comrade Jacob, published in the spring of 1961. But how to climb into the heads of Fifth Monarchists, Quakers, Ranters and the other mushrooming sects? We find it easier, surely, to understand the strictly secular doctrines of Jacobins and Bolsheviks. I divided the storytelling between Winstanley's own self-righteous narrative and scenes in which his actions and personality are viewed through a more skeptical authorial lens. Much of it was mere conjecture - the evidence is hazy. But this haze, which became the oxygen of the novel, was later lost in the film version".
After writing the book, Caute says he was approached by some people offering to make the book into film, But Caute stated that "The recurrent problem in these adaptations during the 1960s and 70s was the erosion of two central themes of the novel by the partisan passions of the New Left. Winstanley's mystical religious fervour went out of the window – he was always found on his feet rather than his knees. Also defenestrated was the rising personal power this opinionated prophet exercised among his poor followers, and how his "moral parsonage" may have entered his soul. In the stage and screen adaptations he was to be found striding out of a socialist realist manual, a clear-headed tribune of the people, a steadfast hero unburdened by the shadow of Esau. The lessons of Orwell's Animal Farm did not surface".
Perhaps the most famous "use "of Caute's book is the film Winstanley by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo. Caute is heavily critical of some shortcomings in the movie.
Having seen the film and read the book, I am in agreement with Caute. I like the film it has great merit and is stunningly photographed but as Caute said the religious/political aspects of Winstanley are heavily downplayed.
When asked by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, to use the book Caute said yes but only if he could write the film script myself. Caute bitterly regretted it and "discovered that screenwriters do not count for much. Not until I was shown the final product did I realize what had been going on. I duly withdrew my screenwriting credit".
Caute criticism was that Winstanley while being a "vivid commentary on the physical condition of 17th century rural England", it was "reluctant to penetrate the strong religious motivations of the time. Winstanley believed that to know the secrets of nature is to know the works of God within the creation. This extends to the characters. I make no great claims for my novel in this regard, but it did attempt to convey individuals' sometimes perverse changes of mood and motivation. This is indeed retained in the person of the army commander, Lord General Fairfax, but Winstanley, the eponymous hero of the film, remains from start to finish a decent, upstanding, strangely well-spoken Left Book Club idealist. The rough edges of a Lancastrian, the spiritual torment, the mood swings between pride and humility, Winstanley's mounting confusions about God and Reason, have utterly gone".
The book also has its weaknesses. It should not be seen as a verbatim account of the role of the Diggers in the English Revolution. Caute only touches upon some significant events that could have been expanded without ruining the book. More could have been made of the Putney debates which are very briefly mentioned in the book. A detailed look at these discussions would have given a far broader and objective assessment of Winstanley's role in the debate over the franchise.
Caute could have also developed more the religious and more importantly political divide between the Presbyterian and Independents. It should not be lost that the people that sought the Diggers eviction were mostly Presbyterians; Lord Fairfax was after all heavily on the side of the Independents. But these are small points and should not detract from what is an excellent example of the historical novel genre.
1. Looking back in regret at Winstanley David Caute guardian.co.uk, Friday 17 October 2008
2. The Promised Land July 16, 2012 This is the fate of young people today: excluded, but forbidden to opt out. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th July 2012
3. The New Levellers 2012 from http://leejohnbarnes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/new-levellers-update.html (21st Century British Nationalism -Cognitive Dissidence, The mechanism of warfare and subversion for intellectual revolutionaries.) This is a very right wing article and should be read with some care.
4. http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/ourkingdom-theme/melissa-lane/2009/03/11/liberty-as-a-social-value-lessons-from-the-levellers
5. My review of the film Winstanley can be found @ http://keith-perspective.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/winstanley-dvd-1975-director-kevin.html


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Wednesday, October 29, 2014
WWW Conference 2014: 20th Anniversary
Now, mark your calendars for October 8-12, 2015 for our next conference in Bend, OR. Jane Kirkpatrick and Shanna Hatfield have already been hard at work planning! I'm looking forward to seeing you all again!
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
October Member News
Congratulations to the new releases this month! Join us in Golden CO this weekend for our annual conference!
Teresa Lynn, Little Lodges on the Prairie: Freemasonry &Laura Ingalls Wilder is now available on Nook, as well as Kindle & Amazon. This is the first book to comprehensively document the role of Freemasonry in the lives of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the ever-popular Little House on the Prairie book series, and her family.
Reprint and audio rights for Susan Wittig Albert's author-published novel, A Wilder Rose, have gone to Lake Union Publishing, with a March 2015 relaunch date. The book was a WILLA finalist in historical fiction.Susan Wittig Albert,
Andrea Downing, Dearest Darling, Wild Rose Press.
Stuck in a life of servitude to her penny-pinching brother, Emily Darling longs for a more exciting existence. When a packet with travel tickets, meant for one Ethel Darton, accidentally lands on her doormat, Emily sees her chance for escape. Daniel Saunders has carved out a life for himself in Wyoming—a life missing one thing: a wife. Having scrimped and saved to bring his mail-order bride from New York, he is outraged to find in her stead a runaway fraud and, even worse, the impostor is the sister of his old enemy…
Velda Brotherton, Beyond the Moon, A wounded warrior home from 9 years as a POW in Vietnam meets his angel. This is their battle to emotionally bring him back home from the horrors of that captivity.
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
Colors of Palo Duro Canyon
By Natalie Bright
The Caprock, the surface across the Texas Panhandle, is a flat, treeless expanse resistive to erosion. Where rivers cross these Great Plains and spill over the edge to the lower elevations, erosion can create chasms. As is the case of the Prairie Dog Fork of the Red River, which created the geological formation of Palo Duro Canyon, located south of Amarillo. Over millions of years the river has eroded down, dropping the floor by 800 feet.
"It is a burning, seething cauldron, filled with dramatic light and color".
Georgia O'Keefe
I think artists find our Palo Duro Canyon so pleasing to paint because the layers are compliments of each other. Right next to the purple layers, is the complementing yellow shale. The Yellow shale is oxygen rich swamp deposits as opposed to the anoxic blue shale below. The off-white, or grey sandstone at the top of the Canyon is the Trujillo sandstone, or white sandstone of the Caprock.
The very top, is the white sandstone of the Ogallala, which is our major water aquifer. Here the Ogallala is exposed at the surface. The purple and grey gravels of the Sierra Grande uplift washed down to mix with the sand giving us our major fresh water aquifer for this area.
The grey or white bed layers are actually volcanic ash from the formation of Yellowstone National park that drifted to settle in our area. How do geologists know it is Yellowstone ash? Through testing of the chemical compound, every volcanic eruption has a particular signature and chemical make-up unique to that one particular incident.
Murky, blue shale was deposited in this environment. The inland sea evaporated, transitioning into the Triassic swamp mud. With rivers flowing through the area and cutting into the bright red Permian, the mixture of the Blue shale with the Permian red beds resulted in the purple shale layers seen just above the Permian-Triassic contact.
There is evidence of the depositional environment of a sea floor. This is not the massive ocean covering the earth at the time, but a small inland sea – hot, stagnate, evaporate left white gypsum in the sea bed resulting in the gypsum rich layers you can see in the Canyon walls. At the bottom of the Canyon, the dark red is the top of the Permian, and right above that is the Triassic.
Mankind brought their own color as evidenced by rock art, bedrock mortars, points, metal weapons, and other artifacts left behind. The Clovis and Folsom peoples hunted mammoth and giant bison about 12,000 years ago. The deep chasm, abundant wildlife and flowing river provided shelter and resources for the Apache, Comanche and Kiowa.
In 1876 Charles Goodnight drove 1,600 Longhorn cattle to the canyon, and formed the famous JA Ranch along with his English partner, John Adair. The ranch grew to 100,000 head of cattle and most of the canyon belonged to the JA. The state purchased the land in 1933 and opened the park in 1934. Containing 28,000 acres, Palo Duro Canyon is the second largest park in the state parks system.
Today Palo Duro Canyon State Park is a unique place to picnic, hike, and explore.
Resource: C.M. Bright, Geologist
Photo Credit: Natalie Bright
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Among papers to be presented at the upcoming NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts meeting are several that catch the eye from an interstellar perspective:
Sailing the Planets: Science from Directed Aerial Robot Explorers
Bio-Nano-Machines for Space Applications
The Plasma Magnet
These are among the papers to be presented by Phase II fellows of NIAC; i.e., those whose work has received a second round of NIAC funding. More lectures are to be announced before the meeting, which takes place October 10-11 in Broomfield, CO (30 minutes from the Denver airport). Those interested in attending should contact Katherine Reilly at firstname.lastname@example.com with their name, affiliation, email address, telephone number and specific dates of attendance. There is no charge for registration.
A number of poster presentations will also be available, including three
intriguing antimatter discussions:
Extraction of Antiparticles Concentrated in Planetary Magnetic Fields
Antimatter Harvesting in Space
Positron-Propelled and Powered Space Transport Vehicle for Planetary Missions
Centauri Dreams discussed both Jackson and Bickford's work in a previous post. More on the NIAC meeting as things develop. The meeting site is the Omni Interlocken, located at 500 Interlocken Blvd., Broomfield, Colorado 80021.


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Conventions - and entire election seasons - have become a chorus of voices. From Facebook and Twitter to Tumblr and Reddit and everything in between, anyone with Internet access has the chance to speak up.
"The microphone is now free, and everyone can get a microphone," said Adam Sharp, head of government, news and social innovation at Twitter. "And if you have quality information, you can get scale for that."
Sharp joined panelists from Google, Facebook and the Obama campaign in "The Digital Campaign and Social Media's Impact," a National Journal discussion held in Charlotte today.
Each social media platform is different. Moderator Garance Franke-Ruta, a senior editor at The Atlantic, contrasted Twitter, a moment-by-moment news source, with Facebook, a countervailing force pushing people toward deeper stories. Tumblr is fun, said Joe Rospars, chief digital strategist for Obama's campaign.
Discussing Obama's interview session on Reddit last week, Rospars said it's another community to tap into for campaign organizing - much like Twitter and Facebook, but with its own unique culture.
The people who participate in social media determine their direction, but Twitter staff can step in to make content a little easier to access. When searching for #DNC2012 this week, Tweeters will find a special hashtag page, similar to pages created for the Republican National Convention and the 2012 Olympics.
"The way they work is we use a combination of editorial and algorithmic signals," said Rachael Horwitz, senior manager of communications at Twitter. Algorithms gather tweets based on certain hashtags while a team of editors track down accounts that might be relevant to the page. The editorial team sought out political journalists, candidates and delegates for the #DNC2012 page.
#DNC2012 is already moving at a speed that's hard to keep up with, and Horwitz says it will get even more exciting to watch the page during convention speeches this week.
"Twitter has a way of making people feel closer to the event," Horwitz said. "The tweets coming out of both conventions give people a sort of behind the scenes look at what's going on."
So don't fear - if you can't make it to the convention in Charlotte, you can be here without really being here. Watch the convention on a live stream here (available in English or Spanish) and check out YouTube's politics page for more coverage. To add your voice to the chorus, Tweet with hashtag #DNC2012 or chime in on Facebook on the DemConvention page or the Charlotte in 2012 page. You could even sign a petition to bring Betty White to the DNC.
You have your microphone - how will you use it?
Monday, September 3, 2012
Free microphones for all
Conventions - and entire election seasons - have become a chorus of voices. From Facebook and Twitter to Tumblr and Reddit and everything in between, anyone with Internet access has the chance to speak up.
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Susie Daily
Rick Elsworth
Rick is the Vice President, Operations for Parkway Corporation. Parkway owns and operates parking facilities on the east coast from Toronto, Canada down to Memphis, Tennessee. Rick graduated from Rutgers with a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. He brings an extensive background in operations management with over 23 years of experience . Rick is a core member of the 2018 class in LEADERSHIP, Philadelphia. He grew up in south NJ where he resides today with his wife and three kids.
Jessica McBride
Jess is the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, and is responsible for numerous projects and initiatives across her enterprise. She has an exceptional record of success in the management of operations and business functions for corporate, government and non-profit organizations. Jess holds a degree in Psychology from The University of California, Irvine and is a lifelong dog lover. She has had the joy of living with many different breeds of dogs over her lifetime and is currently the proud mom of 3 fur kids and spends much of her free time enjoying the outdoors with them in Philly.
Chad O'Kane
Chad is the Director of Development at Wilmington Friends School, a PK-12 Quaker school in Wilmington, DE. In his role, Chad manages a staff of 7, and oversees the major giving, planned giving, annual giving, and alumni relations functions for the school, and also serves on the school's senior administrative team. Prior to this role, Chad was co-founder and Vice President of Premier Pool Renovations in Plymouth Meeting, PA, a high-end commercial and residential swimming pool restoration company, where he oversaw the growth of the company from startup to more than $2 million in annual revenue. Chad received a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies from James Madison University in 1999, and a Master of Arts in Communication from Virginia Tech in 2011. His master's thesis focused on media literacy education in K-12 public schools.
Seth Rappaport
Board Chair
Seth is the Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at PREIT, a Philadelphia-based real estate development firm specializing in retail real estate. In his role, he oversees their business-to-business marketing efforts, market research, corporate branding and social media, trade show events and more. Seth has also held business development & media sales and consumer marketing roles within the organization. He started his career in the advertising industry serving travel & hospitality clients while at a boutique ad agency in Philadelphia. Seth graduated with honors from The Pennsylvania State University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from the Smeal College of Business. He lives in Wynnewood, PA with his wife Jamie, two young children and an adorable pug named Lucy.
Emily Surovick
Emily has spent the past 16 years as a director of admissions at various private schools in the Philadelphia area. She brings a breadth of knowledge regarding fundraising and financial aid processes to our board along with a high energy and enthusiasm. Emily graduated from Georgetown University cum laude with a degree in French.
Meet Our Veterinarian
Dr. Kristen Lohr, VMD
Kristen is a veterinarian at Devon Vet Hospital in Devon, PA. She began working there in 1999 upon graduation from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. She grew up in Malvern and spent her weekends working for a local veterinarian starting at the age of 16. She attended the University of Pennsylvania for her undergrad and earned a degree in Biology. Her specialties in the veterinary field are surgery and behavior medicine. Kristen and Devon Vet Hospital are the primary care givers to the Paws and Affection team and they couldn't be in better hands!


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I decided to give it up, go home and get back to sulking; however, being completely out of milk and other staples, I needed to stop off at the grocery store first. Right away I could not seem to extract a cart from the lineup of empties. (Those stacked carts can be like Chinese finger traps). I grunted angrily as mine finally came free of the mass with a loud crashing and banging, and then I looked up to see a very cute, very tall man--a fellow shopper--smiling at me.
"They don't make it easy, do they?" He had a kind, intelligent face. He was positively twinkling at me. Hello, elusive endorphins!
I made my way to the dairy section. I was suddenly feeling so jaunty I wasn't paying attention and almost ran smack into a woman who had one hand on a huge cart and the other on a baby stroller. Standing next to her on tip-toe was a 7- or 8-year-old girl. The girl was reaching frantically for the top shelf.
"The whipped one! That's what I had! That one!"
"Okay, just wait a minute," said the mom.
I swiveled my cart to one side so that I could retrieve the tub of whipped Kraft Philadelphia cream cheese for the girl. "This one?" I proffered it, smiling at her.
"Yes!! I want that one!" she squealed, grasping it with both hands. Then she frowned. "Wait,…this doesn't look right." She looked sad.
I put it back and got another kind. "How about this one? Wait--this is low fat, so you probably don't want this one, actually." (Promoting full-fat elevated my mood another notch.)
"Ohhhh!…" said the girl, utterly tortured. "It just doesn't look the same way…." She was really feeling this, I could tell; it was so very important to her. I pulled down one kind after another--whipped, non-whipped, flavored, low fat, no fat, small, large. And then I started to realize that they all looked wrong to me, too. I wasn't positive, but it seemed as though Kraft had altered their time-honored packaging by changing the colors slightly. I suggested this to the girl and pointed out that, while the package might look a little different, whipped Philadelphia cream cheese made by Kraft would probably not disappoint. And then, right there in Aisle 6, the three of us proceeded to have a very interesting, cocktail-esque party talk about the grounding nature of traditional products like cream cheese, and the fact that when companies change the look of their products, or an old company goes out of business altogether, the very things we always found comforting can suddenly become anxiety-producing. But that it's all part of life and shopping in America. Finally the girl settled on the first kind she had picked out. She was not exactly happy, but she was not unhappy either. The mother looked gratefully at me. "Well, we'll let you get back to your own shopping problems. Thank you so much!"
It was just a random smile from a nice man and a fifteen-minute conversation with a mother and daughter about cream cheese. But like many seemingly-meaningless interactions with strangers, it lifted my day, and made me--well, not exactly happy, but not unhappy either.


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Bob Dole to Chuck Todd: The Senate isn't broken, but 'badly bent'
Former Senate majority leader and one-time GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole, 91, told MSNBC's Chuck Todd that despite persistent gridlock, the U.S. Senate is not broken.
"Well, the Senate may not be broken, but it's badly bent," Dole said in an interview scheduled to air next week on "The Daily Rundown," adding that fixing it will require "some strong leadership in both parties."
On Thursday, both houses of Congress failed to pass emergency legislation that would address the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, increasing criticism of the U.S. government's overall effectiveness.
Watch a preview of Dole's interview with Chuck Todd below:


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Almyrida is a small village on the north coast of the western Crete. It is ideal for a relaxing seaside holiday, where you are surrounded by nature and just a short drive away from the airport or the city of Chania. Until recently it was just a fishermen village of 50-100 residents. Due to its wonderful Mediterranean climate, its two clear sandy beaches and its beautiful nature, the village has recently evolved into a tourist resort.
Almyrida is now famous for its fish taverns and great local products, as well as its quality night-life. The natural surroundings and neighbouring villages offer endless hours of trekking and exploring while there is always one or the other traditional celebration with local food, music and dances.
Kalyves is a relatively large village located on the coastal side between Chania and Rethymno city, a 10-minute drive away from Niriides Apartments. It is worth to pay a visit to this settlement to witness an interesting overlap of traditional Greek village with a tourist resort.
There, you will find a variety of good restaurants, shops and bars, all with a stunning backdrop of the White Mountains and breathtaking landscapes of wild Cretan Nature. Kalyves is perfect for spending one day swimming, tasting the food, and strolling around.
Aptera is an ancient city that you can reach after a 20-minute drive from Niriides Apartments. It is one of the most beautiful historical sights of Western Crete, that is still not so popular among the tourists what makes it even more special.
This ancient city was founded in the 8th century BC on a hill 230 meters above the water from where you can see the panorama of entire Souda Bay. Once, it used to be a city of great importance, until sadly it was destroyed by the great earthquake in 4 BC.
The charming city of Chania is located only a 30-minute drive away from Almyrida Bay. It is a must to visit this incredible city with a long history and mixed heritage. Hundreds of years under Venetians, and then Turks, left a noticeable trace on this place, turning it into a truly unique scenery.
Stroll around the Old Venetian Harbour and appreciate the fascinating eclectics of churches and mosques standing side by side with modern bars, shops and restaurants. There, you can explore the divine gastronomy of Chania region, shop local goods and artisan products, and take breaks with delicious cocktails at trendy spots.
Argiropolis village is not only a beautiful place with natural springs but also a point of great historical importance. Once, many centuries ago, it used to be called Ancient Lappa that was one of the biggest settlements of the time in the island of Crete.
Stroll around the village that forms an amphitheatre around the hills to discover the surprising adjacence of traditional Cretan buildings and Venetian Noble houses standing next to each other. Visit tavernas, so popular amongst locals for its fresh sweetwater fish and smoked meat.
The exotic beach of Falassarna is located 59km west of Chania city and almost 17km west of Kissamos, at the western base of Cape Gramvousa. At the northern end of the beach, you will find ruins of the ancient Greco-Roman city of Falassarna.
Falassarna bay is one of the most famous beaches in Greece and has been awarded the best beach of Crete and one of the 10 best beaches in Europe. Falassarna is made up of five different beach beaches, with the two central being the most popular amongst travellers.
Samaria Gorge is located in the southwest of Crete in the regional unit of Chania. It was created by a small river running between the White Mountains (Lefká Óri) and Mt. Volakias. The gorge is 16 km long, starting at an altitude of 1,250 m at the northern entrance, and ending in the shores of the Libyan Sea in Agia Roumeli. The walk through Samaria National Park is 13 km long, but one has to walk another three kilometres to Agia Roumeli from the park exit, making the hike 16 km long.
The most famous part of the gorge is the stretch known as the Gates, where the walls of the gorge come as close to each other as 4 meters while pinning the sky on the 300 meters height. In the year of 1962, Samaria was acknowledged as a national park, mainly due to a variety of endangered species such as Kri-Kri goat.
Elafonisi is located 76km west of Chania in the southwestern tip of Crete. Its exotic beaches with white sand and turquoise water are formed on both sides of the peninsula. The sand is pinkish in many places, taking its colour from millions of crushed shells. Near the breaking point of the peninsula, the sea water does not exceed 1m in depth, creating a small lagoon making it ideal for children. You can easily explore and cross the lagoon in order to reach the opposite side of the peninsula.


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There are celebrations for every season and taste in South Dakota. Let the great adventure planning begin!
You can channel your inner pioneer at Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant in De Smet or get your motor runnin' at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Experience the culture and beauty of the area's earliest residents at powwows across the state or watch history in action during the biannual night blasts at Crazy Horse Memorial. Fun festivals and fairs, cultural happenings and delightful diversions can be found across the Mount Rushmore State. Sometimes they're delicious, sometimes they're weird, but they'll always be part of a trip you'll never forget.
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Stones Corner is a unique precinct located in the heart of Greenslopes, Brisbane.
Stones Corner shows offs its suburban flair through its services, diversity and culinary delights. With a great mix of restaurants, cafes and bars paired with a range of clothes and giftware shopping, Stones Corner provides a vibrant atmosphere for any occasion, day or night.
A few of its well-known eateries include Lady Marmalade, 5 Boroughs and Shady Palms.
Stones Corner has a strong historic background with the Stone Family dating back to 1875. Originally known as Burnett Swamp, the area was re-named Stones Corner after James Stone purchased land and ran a successful shop on the corner of Logan Road and Old Cleveland Road in 1875. James Stone sold his land in 1887 where the new owner erected a two storey building which is currently known as the Stones Corner Hotel.
Only ten minutes from Brisbane's Central Business District, and with free parking in the streets surrounding the main shopping strip, Stones Corner is an easily accessible hub. Stones Corner invites you to experience one of Brisbane's most eclectic precincts.
Due to current health advice on social distancing, please contact the business for the most up to date information regarding opening times and services.


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I am so in LOVE with this chocolate cake recipe! I've made it before, in this blog post, Gluten-Free Chocolate Cake.
I don't use flour. I use almond meal instead.
I also have been experimenting with the recipe by using less and less sugar each time. I'm down to 70g of sugar, it still tastes amazing and it's still a winner every time I make it (original recipe asked for 100g).
In this picture, I served it with homemade ice cream, mixed berries and roasted pistachios.
OMG soooo yummy!
100g unsalted butter
140g good quality dark chocolate, chopped
70g of brown sugar
3 eggs separated
140g of almond meal
vanilla ice cream
mixed berries
1. Preheat oven to 160C. Line a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper.
2. Slowly melt chocolate, butter and brown sugar, until smooth. Then let it cool for 5 minutes.
(You can melt it in a bowl over hot water, or melt it in the microwave. I just melt them in a small pot on the stove, on VERY low heat!)
3. Whisk the egg whites until you can make firm peaks when you lift the whisk up.
4. Add the egg yolks into the chocolate mixture, then stir in the almond meal. Mix until well combined.
5. Fold in the egg whites into the chocolate mixture, until well combined. Pour into cake tin.
6. Bake for 30 minutes or until your skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin for another 10 minutes. Turn the cake onto a plate to cool completely.
7. Add toppings and serve immediately!


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Founder of motorik beats, Kraftwerk and Neu! legend Klaus Dinger has exited stage left.
Dinger, who played drums for Kraftwerk and went on to co-found Neu!, died March 21, although the news of his death was not made public until late last night.
A report from Neu! label Grönland cites the cause of death as heart failure. Dinger was 61, and would have turned 62 on March 24.
Dinger trademarked the steady, propulsive drumming style that came to define the motorik sound associated with krautrock. He drummed on Kraftwerk's 1970 self-titled debut before leaving the band, along with guitarist Michael Rother, to start Neu!
Neu! released three seminal albums during the 70s, and had a noted influence on everyone from David Bowie to Sonic Youth to Holy Fuck.
After Neu! dissolved, Dinger went on to work with La DÃÅsseldorf, and in the 90s he formed a composite group of sorts called La! Neu?
René Renner, head of Grönland Records, called Dinger 'an uncompromising musician, a challenging personality, (an) inspirational human being, and one of the most influential drummers' in a statement released last night.
Renner also invoked a telling Brian Eno quote: 'There were three great beats in the 70s. Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, James Brown's funk, and Klaus Dinger's Neu! beat.'
Rother added: 'Together with many friends of his music I will remember Klaus for his creativity as an artist and I will think about him with gratitude for his wonderful contributions to our project Neu!'