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ARCHIVED - Europe's Most Wanted fugitive captured by Spanish and German police
La Diabla stands accused of exploiting and trafficking women and transgender people throughout Spain and Germany
The National Police have arrested Leudis Isaac Corro Camacho, also known as 'La Diabla' in Hamburg, Germany, a fugitive wanted for her involvement in the sexual exploitation of multiple women and transgender people throughout Spain. She fled the country with her boyfriend, a former German police officer, when officials began investigating crimes in Aragon, Asturias and Catalonia almost a year ago, but was finally detained on December 1.
La Diabla, or Donatella as she was also called, had become the most wanted fugitive in Spain and has been on Europol's list of most wanted criminals for a month. She will now be tried for crimes of human trafficking, money laundering and belonging to a criminal organisation.
Before going on the run from Spain, La Diabla recruited women and transsexuals from her home county of Venezuela and later forced them to get breast implants and liposuction before charging them 12,000 euros for the surgery. The victims were locked in flats in Oviedo and Barcelona where they worked as prostitutes to pay off their debt, with some also sent to Germany. When they were no longer profitable for the mafia network, they were "sold" to pimps and a hostess club located on the outskirts of Caspe in Zaragoza.
According to the National Police, officers spotted several sexual advertisements they believed were posted by La Diabla and passed this information on to the German BKA to investigate. In addition, anonymous tips were received through the Europe's Most Wanted portal which led to officers eventually tracking the fugitive to Hamburg.
Europe's Most Wanted 2021 is a campaign developed by Europol and currently contains 54 criminals from 23 different countries. Since its launch in 2016, a total of 41 people have been located and arrested.
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Construction crews in Dubai aren't building offices one brick at a time. Instead they're assembling them one complete wing at a time thanks to an organized effort to make the UAE city the 3D printing capital of the world.
It took only 17 days to put together what is now the temporary home of the Dubai Future Foundation. According to 3dprint.com writer and editor Clare Scott, it was constructed with a twenty foot tall 3D printer that has an automated robotic arm.
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Dubai wants to have twenty-five percent of all new buildings printed with 3D by 2030. It has just assigned a construction company to build what will be the first 3D printed lab. Scott says it's in Solar Park. "So they are also doing a lot of work with 3D solar panels, wind turbines and a lot of that research that's going to happen as part of the 3D future lab."
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3dprint.com says Italy is planning a completely sustainable village. Every building will be printed with 3D parts using locally available materials, including clay. Shambhala in Massa Lombarda's industrial district "will be a high-tech, eco-friendly village with low energy consumption, a village whose inhabitants will be fully self-suffcient," reports 3dprint.com. Construction is set to begin in April, 2017.
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Water Divining
Used for thousands of years, water divining is the ancient art of discovering underground water streams or channels known as 'aquifers'. Aquifers can flow underground for short distances or distances measured in the hundreds of kilometres.
The common ways to divine for water is by the use of divining rods or using a Y shaped stick, (fork of a branch) usually from a Hazelnut tree or a Walnut tree.
Divining occurs by 'walking the land' in a series of traverses and holding divining implements level and pointing forward. When approaching an underground water flow the implements will dip forward and in the case of using rods they will turn indicating direction of flow.
These aquifer flow lines can be mapped across land over considerable distances.
Indications as to the strength of the flow are received through the pull or weight of the implements as the diviner experiences it. It may be said that laws of attraction are at work here and that through the instrument, the diviner's intuition is enhanced by this attraction.
Diviners and Dowsers use a variety of processes to determine for indications of water flow volumes, depth and water values. This is important, as many bores have been sunk at considerable cost only to find little or no water and sometimes when water flow is good it is found that the water is not drinkable. In extreme cases water has been found that cannot be used for any consumption or agricultural purposes, either because of contamination or in rare cases extremely high acidity.
In a contemporary context, dowsing is a non-scientific process. However, as it has been successfully used for thousands of years, it could be viewed as an esoteric science.
Using a Pendulum one can 'dowse' anything that requires an answer except, as many dowsers will attest. when it is used for selfish lower ego purpose. Whilst dowsing is very personal and it is for each one of us to discover for and in ourselves, an attempt to give an explanation as to the nature of it and therefore why it works is given here.
At a cosmic level there is no separation between any thing; all physical matter is of the same quantum particles that have connection and attraction one to the other, in whatever manifestation they behave in a given moment.
With stillness of mind and holding pure intent, one can tap into this flow of connection. It is the dowser who is the instrument, the conduit through which the tools used move in accordance with the flow of this connection. It is an intuitive process requiring a non-subjective and clear mind.
Dowsing can be used for so many things, including such examples as are illustrated here in relation to WATER.
One can dowse a map to get indications of whether underground water is available on a property and the location where it may be found. Indications as to the qualities, depth and flow rates of that water can be estimated, if flow rates are sustainable in a variety of climatic and environmental conditions and so on. These can be highly valuable considerations that can save a great deal of time and often save property owner's large expense and loss when their investment into obtaining water has failed.
This form of map-dowsing is not a replacement for walking and divining the land. It should also be considered that many variables can come into play, some that may be known and many that may not until discovered.
Which is why it can be described as an in-exact science.
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In this instance, dowsing and divining indicated that digging three metres down opened a spring flow. Soil was excavated to build a wall which created a containment dam of small size approximately 120,000lt.
This supplies water for domestic and food garden use and water is gravity fed, with no power input required. The dam refills after use to full level overnight and has continued to do so through the worst drought in living memory.
The energy value of this water is very high, measured at 130,000 BEU. (Bovis Energy Units) and has shown itself to be sustainable.
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Northampton County animal shelter's board backs executive director. 'We do not believe Ms. Bauer is a bully'
By Anthony Salamone
The Center for Animal Health and Welfare is at 1165 Island Park Road in Wilson Township. (Monica Cabrera / The Morning Call)
Center for Animal Health & Welfare Executive Director Kelly Bauer has the full support of the agency's board of directors, despite allegations of misconduct and mismanagement by former employees and board members in running the Northampton County nonprofit.
The controversy played out Tuesday during a tense state of the shelter meeting held virtually by the Williams Township center's five-member board to list its accomplishments.
Michael McMullen, board president, allowed people to ask questions, but neither Bauer nor board members provided any immediate responses. Instead, the center released written responses on its website Thursday evening.
"While we cannot answer for prior board members in terms of the hiring process, the current board stands behind Kelly's integrity and transparency," board members said in response to a question about placing Bauer in charge of public donations.
"Beginning in 2016, our executive director worked diligently with our accountant and auditor to create a system of transparency and oversight," the board said. "We feel this multi-layered system has not only reduced our costs but provides a thorough process for checks and balances."
On Friday, McMullen reiterated board support for Bauer. He also said a veterinarian and dog warden conducted an unannounced inspection Friday of the shelter. "We passed with flying colors," he said.
Spokesperson Shannon Powers of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, which enforces state dog laws, could not immediately confirm the inspection late Friday.
Bauer declined to answer questions after the meeting. "The organization has no comment on what The Morning Call publishes in regard to this," she said in a text message. Bauer previously said during an interview April 8 that she has committed no wrongdoing.
During Tuesday's meeting, attendees took offense to Bauer's comments on a weekly podcast called "Pawfee Talk" that some people say have been inappropriate. One person accused Bauer, who was hired in 2016, of bullying individuals.
The board, while saying it doesn't tolerate intimidation, also noted Bauer covers "honest conversations about animal welfare and controversial subjects."
"We do not believe that Ms. Bauer is a bully," the board said, noting her podcast has been voted among the best in the Lehigh Valley by a local magazine.
Among other questions during the meeting, the board admitted adults at a summer camp in 2021 did not have the proper Pennsylvania criminal background checks or child welfare checks, as required by law.
"We are in current litigation which encompasses some aspects of this question and therefore cannot comment at this time," the board said. McMullen would not elaborate Friday.
People have also raised concerns about the shelter's operations under Bauer, in part because of receiving public dollars to treat animals. The center also receives private donations.
Becky Bartlett, Northampton County deputy administration director, said the county has provided about $5,000 each year since 2018, for a total of $20,000. In addition, the animal shelter has received $34,100 via state gaming funds, and county employees have donated money from its dress down days fund. Last year's donation came to $250.
On its 2019 federal exempt-from-tax form 990, the most recent available, the center reported net assets of $1.08 million, nearly $635,000 in contributions and grants, and about $622,000 in program services and expenses. Those numbers are roughly similar for 2018 and 2017, records show.
In terms of center volunteers, the agency reported going from 400 helpers in 2017, which was Bauer's first full year, to 40 the next year. Some 75 volunteers were at the shelter in 2019, which is the last year the center's 990 forms appear on the information service Candid, formerly GuideStar, that specializes in reporting on U.S. nonprofits.
While McMullen could not specifically account for the decline in unpaid help, he said during the meeting that the shelter had 229 volunteers at the end of 2021. He also said nonprofits such as the shelter deal with departures and turnover.
Anthony Schwickrath, whose tenure on the board lasted more than a decade, said allegations of Bauer's misconduct were valid. Schwickrath resigned in late 2021.
"If you are an animal lover," he said, "you should be involved or at least concerned."
On that point, the sides all agree.
"Dogs' and cats' lives are on the line here, if we're talking about animal wellness," Schwickrath said earlier this week.
"We need to bring this back with what we're doing for the animals," McMullen said.
McMullen did not provide updated financial information Tuesday during his 15-minute presentation. He said in 2021, the shelter served 1,084 animals with placement, advocacy, with 16 animals euthanized. He said the center's future looks bright.
Besides McMullen, other board members are Valerie Antonelli, vice president; Pamela Pearson, treasurer; Ellen Kingsley and Irene Montero-Harris. The report, with questions and responses can be found at healthanimalcenter.org/state-of-the-shelter-report.
Morning Call journalist Anthony Salamone can be reached at asalamone@mcall.com.


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This photo shows the state on the Colquitz River after sediments ran off the McKenzie Interchange Project construction site Jan. 5. Submitted.
Construction company not subject of investigation after run-off into Saanich river
Incident happened on Jan. 5 following heavy rains and pump failure
Westpro, the contractor in charge of the McKenzie Interchange Project, faces neither an investigation nor any fines following another incident involving a nearby river.
"The ministry is not aware of any active investigations concerning the contractor or any fines that have been issued," read a statement from the Ministry and Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI).
The ministry issued the statement after community activists reported seeing the contractor in charge of the $85 million project "dumping … dirty water from the construction site straight into the Colquitz River and Portage Inlet" on Jan. 5.
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The salmon-bearing river along with larger eco-system has undergone extensive restorations in recent years, and community activists fear the project will reverse those efforts. The Portage Inlet is a low-flush estuary so its water rarely turns over, said Dorothy Chambers, a local environmentalist and a long-time critic of the project. Contaminants settle and stay, affecting the entire ecosystem, she added.
"Heavy sediment load in water is illegal to discharge, and is particularly harmful to discharge into a fish-bearing stream," she said. "Heavy sediment load in the water leads to destruction of the delicate gills of the fish through abrasion which irritates the tissues and the fish suffocate as the mucous response builds up on the gills."
The statement from the ministry acknowledges that during three "brief instances" on Jan. 5 "turbidity levels" at the outlet into the river "briefly exceeded" terms of the contract agreement.
"When this occurred, the outfall drainage rate was immediately adjusted to adhere to project guidelines," it reads. "During the entire process, environmental monitors were on-site to oversee this work."
The statement says that "significant rainfall last week" combined with "a pump malfunction at the site" created "some water pooling for portions" of the work area.
According to the statement, guidelines allow for turbid water (within limits) to be discharged when more than 25 mm of rain have fallen in 24 hours. According to Environment Canada, the storm on Jan. 3 saw 57.6 mm of rain in 24 hours.
"Over the past few days, the project contractor has been draining the water," it reads. "The drainage has occurred during daylight hours so that the water quality of the site discharge could be safely and accurately monitored."
Environmental staff on site have confirmed that turbidity levels at the outlet into the river are within federal and provincial guidelines and "adhere to the strict environmental conditions," according to the statement.
"Data provided by the contractor for the period of [Jan. 3-6] show that turbidity measured at the outfall from the project was within federal/provincial guidelines," it reads.
"Ministry staff will continue to monitor the site to ensure all environmental conditions are being met," the statement reads. "This will include auditing of the contractors' environmental performance."
This is the second incident involving Westpro in as many months. Contaminated water from the construction site entered the river on Dec. 13.
RELATED: McKenzie Interchange pump failure sends contaminated water into Colquitz River
The water breach, which bypassed the legally required on-site filtration system designed to remove contaminates from project wastewater, lasted for about an hour, according to Chambers. "By then the tributary and river itself was thick with their dirty water sediment and I do not know how long they had been pumping into the river before I arrived," she said.
This type of sediment release in a river is a serious threat to the aquatic life, according to Chambers. The unfiltered water release could set back previous protection and restoration work to the Gorge and the sensitive Colquitz ecosystem (which is also a federally protected bird sanctuary).
Issues also arose in February 2018 and in March 2018.
MOTI has employed an additional firm on the project to conduct periodic environmental monitoring and auditing to ensure the contractor meets their obligations.
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Every morning for a week, at the break of dawn, a 19-year-old would start his 10-mile journey through memories of a past life and toward a new future. He walked past his previous home in Warner Robins, Georgia, remembering the flood that stole it all away leaving him and his mom homeless and forcing them to sell their possessions to afford a new apartment.
After about three hours he'd arrive at a mall set on joining the U.S. military to financially support his mother, Connie Norrington. After considering the Air Force, Navy and Army, a Marine Corps recruiter introduced him to a brotherhood which he would later devote his life to.
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"At that point, I realized I could do two things— let it affect me for the rest of my life and accept pity from everyone or use it as motivation and never forget that feeling of ultimate adversity," said West. "[Before the flood] I never saw my little, country-self leaving Georgia. I thought I was going to stay working at Best Buy my whole life."
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As a platoon sergeant, West is responsible for managing the Marines' training on a daily basis and caring for them. A Marine Corps' sergeant's job requires them to implement their leader's orders and policies and to look out for each Marine's welfare so everyone can successfully do their part in a mission.
West believes all Marines fight their own inner battles but they don't always talk about it. All it takes is for someone to show they care to possibly save a life, said West.
"[A Marine] was going through some rough times in the field, and I decided to talk to him," said West. "When I talked to him, we'd both be smiling and I felt like I was keeping him lively. One day we had a conversation where I told him, 'If you ever need to talk again I'm here for you, man.'"
When the Marine was about to get promoted to the rank of lance corporal, he contacted West and asked him to be a part of the ceremony by pinning the rank onto his collar. He told West the talks they had in the field changed his life.
"I knew right then and there that's why I wanted to stay in," said West. "It was the best feeling I've ever had while serving. I wanted to help as many people as I could before I got out as a sergeant major."
A previous first sergeant of West, now Sgt. Maj. Joshua J. Smith, said he believes West has a long and prosperous career ahead of him.
"He will undoubtedly be successful wherever he lands," said Smith. "Sgt. West is, hands down, one of the best and brightest Marines in our ranks today. He is a skilled professional, proven combat leader and he genuinely cares for his brother and sister Marines."
West said wanting to join the Marine Corps to help his mom carried over to wanting to help his fellow Marines. Though his mom died in the early months of 2017, West never let it show. Instead, he carried on smiling, thinking only about the wellbeing of the Marines around him. He said he never forgot why he joined and that has driven him, and will continue to drive him, throughout his career.
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Garnet N. West is a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. At 19, he enlisted as a vehicle recovery operator from his home of Warner Robins, Georgia after graduating high school in 2011. He is currently attached to Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, as a platoon sergeant. As the Marine Corps' only continuously forward-deployed MEU, the 31st MEU provides a flexible force ready to perform a wide range of military operations.
(Photo by Sgt. Amaia Unanue/Released)
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Keith Goddard Chef + Munch Food Company
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The Scream | Bringing Home The Bacon
On a return visit to the Violin Factory at Waterloo for the launch of Grohe's new Blue classy collection of taps, we caught up with London's hottest Michelin starred chef Keith Goddard. Classically trained – he studied at the French Culinary Institute in New York – 33 year old domestic god Keith has worked with Tom Aikens and Oliver Peyton at the Wallace Collection. After his much lauded stint at the restaurant 101 Pimlico Road, Keith's latest venture is Munch Food Company.
"If you want fine dining experience in the comfort of your home or for your business event, Munch is the answer," says Keith. "We love the challenge of creating exquisite one-off menus. We'll happily do it in your kitchen or at your chosen venue. Either is good for us. Just tell us how many people we're catering for, what your tastes are, and we'll come up with something that's fit for a king." Or queen.
Working up a sweat in the Violin Factory kitchen, Keith reveals, "Equally if all you're after is a platter of sandwiches or Munch pizzas followed by homemade brownies, banana and maple syrup flapjacks, and elderflower refreshers to show your employees how much you appreciate their hard work, then order a Friday afternoon treat they won't forget!" There's always room to Grohe.
Why a chef?
"I became a chef by accident while training in New York at the French Culinary Institute. My intention was to learn all I could about every aspect of the restaurant business before embarking on a career that would hopefully have led me to become a successful hotelier or restaurateur. Although I absolutely loved cooking even then, the idea of spending 16 hour days in a hot kitchen didn't appeal to me. However, one week into my Culinary Arts Degree I realised I'd found my vocation."
Where's home?
"Paddington in London with my girlfriend."
Why Munch?
"At the time when 101 Pimlico Road shut its doors I'd spent six straight years in restaurant environments doing anything up to 100 hour weeks. I certainly didn't want to change industry but had a plan in my head as to where I wanted to be in my mid 30s. This involved not only a restaurant of my own but a catering division that would allow us to provide a service for many of my customers who'd inquired about it in the past but to whom I had to say no to as we just didn't have the capacity. On top of that, event catering is a very different skill. I figured the time was right to make the move into it before I got back into another restaurant."
Favourite dish to cook?
"Strangely I love cooking soups, particularly authentic soups from various parts of the world. In a similar vein I like slow cooking things like daubes, stews and tougher cuts of meat."
Best advice?
"Don't mess with the classics!"
Eating out?
"I like to vary things to be honest. We're extremely lucky in London as in one week we could eat pretty much every cuisine in the world. I occasionally like to go high end to Michelin star restaurants but the rest of the time to anywhere that has identity, that isn't trying to please everyone. Other than French and Italian, I like Lebanese, Chinese, Japanese and Indian food a lot."
London or New York?
"I lived in New York for two of the best years of my life. However London is tough to beat."
Tags 101 pimlico road, edvard munch scream, francis bacon triptych, french culinary institute new york, grohe, keith goddard chef, munch food company, oliver peyton, tom aikens, violin factory waterloo, wallace collection
Architects Architecture Country Houses
Auchinleck House Ayrshire + The Landmark Trust
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Landmark Ruling
The story of the present building, the spirit of the age, begins with Lord Auchinleck, father of James Boswell, the celebrated blogger diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson. Lord Auchinleck, aka Laird No.8, received his non hereditary title in recognition of his appointment as a judge in the High Court of Scotland. This uplift in social status required an upgrade of house on the family estate he used as a retreat when the Edinburgh courts were in recess. The current building is the third house to be constructed on the estate which was granted to Auchinleck's forbearers in the 14th century.
His choice of the neoclassical style originated from a deep seated love of the classics rather than merely following voguish architectural whims. He regularly identified with the writings of Horace. A frequent Horatian theme is the pleasure of fulfilling life in one's own, usually rural, locale. The epigram presiding over the entrance front pediment encapsulates this approach to living: "Quod petis, hic est; est ulubris animus is te non deficit aequus." Or, "What you seek is here in this remote place if you can only keep a steady disposition."
The emblems carved on the pediment represent aspects of the cultivated mind, all of which could be expected to find expression in a house evoking an aesthete's villa. Music, martial arts, scales of justice, a sceptre of authority and the serpent entwined staff of Aesculapius the healer are all represented. They are grouped round the central motif, a hooded falcon from the Boswell family crest.
The Duchess of Northumberland sniffily dismissed the decoration of the pediment in her 1780 diary as "terribly loaded with Ornaments of Trumpets and Maces and the Deuce knows what". As for the house itself, she found it to be "but a middling house, but justly it is a romantick spot". Phew.
Until recently the architects were assumed to be the Adam brothers. They designed the contemporaneous neighbouring Dumfries House. Lord Auchinleck records a jaunt to the Earl of Dumfries at Leifnorris in a letter of 1753 "where politicks and house building made the subject of conversation at a plentiful dinner". An investigation of the Boswell Papers at Yale Manuscript Library suggested Auchinleck House was most likely designed by the Edinburgh based square-wright John Johnston with a heavy helping hand from the good Lord himself.
Johnston was a protégé of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, author of The Country Seat and instrumental in promoting the ethos of the villa in Scotland. It's a triumph of balance, symmetry and proportion. Whether the product of one or more minds, an intelligence and creativity of the highest order is apparent. Estate manager James Bruce wrote to Boswell in 1758,
"The building is going on: tho' slowly by reason of few hands, the reason of which was, before a full determination was fixed on, masons was all taken up as a vast worke is carrying on in this country by these great Naboos."
Another account from this period reported that Lord Auchinleck built his house "so slowly and prudently, that he himself hardly felt the expense". The General Ledger of the Bank of Scotland reveals that Lord Auchinleck took out Bonds of Credit for £500 and £1,000 between 1759 and 1762. Expenditure on the estate peaked between 1758 and 1760. Window tax for 31 openings was first paid on the house in 1760. Daylight robbery! Boswell's son was more than happy with his new home, writing on 30 March 1767 to his friend William Temple,
"This is a superb place: we have the noblest natural beauties and my father has made most extensive improvements. We took 10 miles out upon our dominions. We have an excellent new house. I am now writing in a library forty foot long. Come to us, my dearest friend."
Estate journals confirm that the four pavilions flanking the house were not added until 1773 although they always seem to have been intended. The pavilions contrast with the main block in material and style. The idiosyncratic sexiness of their silhouette, as distinctive as a Philip Treacy hat, suggests a fondness for the Vanbrugh school of drama. Boswell refers to the finished pavilions in his August 1775 journal as "newly whitened". This would have disguised the variation between their rosy sandstone and the gentler grey limestone of the main block. In authentic Palladian style, the pavilions weren't just decorative additions but were utilised as estate outbuildings.
Lord Auchinleck lived in splendid isolation to the ripe old age of 75, becoming increasingly cantankerous and garrulous. Not so Horatian after all. James Boswell was 41 when as Laird No.9 he inherited the estate in 1782. He made no changes to the house, presumably too busy writing and getting sozzled. Boswell did though progress his father's planting scheme. Auchinleck House continued down the Boswell line in the 19th century with no subsequent descendents bothering to alter it. One exception was a family member who took with gusto to tarting up the dining room as a parlour, patterning the room to within a square inch of its life.
The house passed by marriage to the Talbot family who packed their suitcases for Malahide Castle in 1905. They dispersed its contents and in the 1920s the house was sold to a distant branch of the family named Douglas-Bothwell. It fell into sober decline for the rest of the 20th century until in 1986 the owner, another James Boswell, sold the house with 14 hectares to the Scottish Historic Buildings Trust. The Trust made the house watertight but struggled to find a role for it in the face of development proposals for the rest of the site. In 1999 the freehold was transferred to the Landmark Trust. And so began the Landmark Trust's largest restoration to date. Raise your glasses!
Lavender's Blue wish to thank the Landmark Trust for their extensive research which we have shamelessly ploughed, plundered, pillaged and plagiarised our way through while adding a pinch of personal panache.
Peasant Shoot
Lights, cameras, action! Lavender's Blue stayed at Auchinleck House this summer for an exclusive photo shoot. Taxi at dawn across the capital (not that we're tired of London), Virgin train to Carlisle, two hour drive through lashing rain to Eden Lake Auchinleck village, 10 minute detour getting lost on the estate… and we still managed to arrive just in time to experience a glorious Scottish sunset.
First glimpse of the house is the beguiling west elevation across a meadow. A haha conceals the raised basement from this perspective. Sweep round the driveway, past the long east elevation, and entry is via a porch to the side at basement level. Side on, the house resembles a Georgian three storey townhouse. A corridor bisects the floorplan of both the basement and bedroom floor like arteries running through the heart of the building.
The former kitchen is now a table tennis room with stone vaults ideal for whacking the ball off. A dumb waiter to one side of the hearth is a reminder of the room's original use. Stone steps from the corridor wind up past a bathroom, with a window immodestly level with the front driveway, to the dramatic full height staircase towering up to an elaborate plasterwork ceiling. This space is not huge by country house standards, especially considering it contains the only staircase for use by master and servant alike. In fact although large by modern standards, Auchinleck House exudes a charming air of compact intimacy.
The staircase hall leads directly into the squarish entrance hall, beautifully lit by the glazed front door. This space occupies the central bay of the piano nobile along the east front. A panelled breakfast room with a fireplace tipsily set at a 45 degree angle continues the east front enfilade culminating in the grand dining room. This room was designed to impress. The smaller proportions of the breakfast room, which in effect is an ante room, give way to a space spreading across the full width of the house with windows on three sides. Its higher ceiling is accommodated by shrinking the floor to ceiling height of the bedrooms above, meaning their sashes skim the floor like crinoline skirts.
Auchinleck's acme; Beethoven's 9th in architectural form.
The flow of connecting spaces continues with another door towards the back of the house leading from the dining room into the relocated kitchen. The enfilade along the west front mirrors that of the east. The veiny marble fireplace in the kitchen looks like carved blue cheese. Another door leads back into the entrance hall. The third room off the entrance hall is the principle bedroom with a magnificent four poster bed. This room leads into a single bedroom and the final room along the west front is a corner bathroom.
In a circular fashion, the single bedroom also opens into a panelled morning room and then back into the staircase hall. This layout is a late example of the Grand Apartment with Parade Planning circulation from one room to another, flowing from public to private quarters.
Five bedrooms open off the first floor corridor. En suites have been carved out of dressing rooms and the thickness of the walls cleverly accommodates alcoves, cupboards, blind doorways and even a couple of small stone basins. Steps at one end of the corridor ascend to the two bedroom suites over the dining rooms. Their lower ceilings lend them a cottagey feel.
The impressive crimson painted library fills the full length of the four bay breakfront on the west elevation, with views onto the meadow far below, the countryside reaching out to infinity beyond. In 18th century Scotland the first floor was the approved location for a gentleman's library. Little wonder.
Lavender's Blue are the latest in a long line of noble notable visitors to the estate. In January 2012, Owen Patterson, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, and his wife Rose Ridley, daughter of the 4th Viscount Ridley, stayed at Auchinleck House. Everybody's changeling.
In Good Spirits
Extract from James Boswell's merry Book of Company at Auchinleck 1782 to 1795 edited by Viscountess Eccles and Gordon Turnbull.
"When Boswell succeeded his father as laird of Auchinleck in 1782, he became a person of significance in Ayrshire society and he resolved to fill his position with dignity and sobriety. His journals for earlier years are full of references to what has been aptly described as 'deep drinking, appalling hangovers, profound repentance… and deep drinking' but now, as he told Johnson: 'It was my determination that I should maintain the decorum of the representative of Auchinleck and I am doing so.' He had drunk little since his bout of influenza earlier in the year and the record in the Book of Company shows that, for the first few months of his lairdship, consumption of wines and other liquors at Auchinleck was indeed quite moderate. Thus, when Sir John Whitefoord came to dinner on 12 October 1782, only a single bottle of claret was drunk, and Boswell recorded in his journal:
'I had almost broke through my sober scheme of life, as we were tête-à-tête and it was the first time he had been in my house since my succession. But I checked myself. Indeed my wish to drink with him was not from love of wine and intoxication, as has frequently been the case with me, but from a desire to be cordial. He excused me, and drank claret easily while I took wine and water.'
The 'sober scheme of life' did not last for long. By the end of the year, Boswell's good spirits were beginning to crumble and his moderation lapsed. On 3 January 1783, he visited Eglinton where he enjoyed some old Malaga, 'and finding I really had liberty to drink as I pleased, my heart dilated and I drank two bottles, all but three glasses.' The next morning he noted: 'awaked very ill, and was somewhat vexed that I had not been able to maintain my sobriety even at Eglinton.'
After this, Boswell did not return to Auchinleck until August 1783. There, during the ensuing three months, as the 'Book of Company' shows, he entertained numerous guests who were treated to generous, indeed at times extraordinary quantities of liquor. He wrote in his journal:
'A great variety of other company was at Auchinleck. I felt the entertaining of them in general was a laborious and anxious task. I several times drank too much wine, and suffered severe distress after it. I was quite averse to writing. I was exact only in keeping my Book of Company and Liquors, in which I marked with more regularity than I supposed possible for me all the company with us at dinner in one column, and all night in another, with the different liquors drank each day in separate columns.'
Over many years, Boswell had reacted to his own concern about excessive drinking by noting how much he drank and its effect on him. This may have been one of his reasons for combining the record of his guests at Auchinleck with a detailed arithmetical account of every bottle of wine or other liquor consumed. It was as much a discipline aimed at keeping his drinking under control as an aid to the efficient management of his cellar. But the discipline, though it may have served to focus Boswell's attention on his own over-indulgence, did not prevent it. The statistics speak for themselves: on 16 October 1783, with six guests for dinner and overnight, the consumption totalled 19 bottles (seven bottles and two Scotch pints of claret [equivalent to 11 bottles], three bottles of port, one of Lisbon, two of Madeira, one of mountain, and one of rum); and the following day, 17 October, with seven guests, the tally came to 20 bottles (11 equivalent bottles of claret, three of port, two of Lisbon, one of Madeira, and three of rum). Amazingly, Boswell escaped his usual hangover and was able to write: 'I drank a great deal of wine without feeling any bad effect. While I kept the highest pitch of jollity, I at the same time maintained the peculiar decorum of the family of Auchinleck.'
The record of liquors begins tidily enough in September 1782, with consumption neatly recorded in 10 separate columns headed: Port, Lisbon, Sherry, Madeira, Mountain, Sitgis, Gin, Brandy, Rum. Of these, Lisbon, mountain and Sitgis are virtually unknown to modern wine drinkers […]. Although Boswell kept whisky at Auchinleck, it does not appear in the Book of Company, for it was not at that time a drink for the gentry nor one which they would normally have offered to their guests.
The record is kept reasonably well and conscientiously until the end of 1783, although Boswell's arithmetic in summing his columns is sometimes wrong. Not surprisingly, he was taking arithmetic lessons from Alexander Millar, his domestic chaplain and his son's tutor. However, his arithmetic is not always as bad as may at first appear. A Scotch pint of claret was roughly equivalent to three imperial pints. Boswell thus counts a pint as though it were two bottles in totalling his columns. Other letters of symbols appear on the record which cannot be confidently explained. These take the form of H, J (or possibly I), and a symbol that looks like a narrow upright oval. The H is marked against certain bottles of claret consumed in September and October 1783; and the other letters or symbols appear against certain bottles of both claret and port consumed during the same period. in a modern wine list, H often signifies half a bottle, but half-bottles were not normally supplied by wine merchants at that time. Furthermore, if Boswell counted a Scotch pint as two bottles in summing his columns, one would have expected him to count two bottles marked H as one, if indeed they had been half-bottles. This does not occur. Perhaps H indicates claret supplied by John Hamilton, of Bogle & Hamilton, Glasgow, one of his regular wine merchants; perhaps it identifies the storage location from which it was taken – for example the hall cupboard (which according to a list of Liquors at Auchinleck of 1794, was used for the storage of wines). One can speculate similarly about the other markings, but it is impossible to reach any firm conclusion as to what they signify.
After 1783, the record of consumption begins to deteriorate. Boswell gives up adding columns and ceases to carry forward the totals from page to page. After January 1785, he abandons the record for the remainder of the year. The columns are still marked, but they are left blank and unheaded. A scrappy and incomplete record resumes in 1786, with the column headings reduced in number, no totals, and consumption frequently is abandoned altogether until 1793, apart from a few entries in April, May, and July 1789. The record begins again on 2 March 1793 with only three columns, headed Port, Mountain and Punch, to which Boswell later adds columns for Sherry, Claret, and Rum. The record finally peters out for good in August 1794.
That same month, on 22 August 1794, Boswell wrote out a list of Liquors at Auchinleck. This is interesting because it shows how meagre the stocks were at that date. Apart from a reasonable supply of mountain (i.e. some Malaga) and some Madeira, there were only a few bottles of drinkable claret and some oddments. There were a dozen bottles of whisky dating back to 1783 which Boswell kept in his counting room (presumably for his estate employees and probably seldom resorted to). It is odd that such a modest quantity of liquors could not all have been accommodated in the cellar as such, but bottles appear to have been stored in presses or cupboards all over the house: in the family bedroom, in the dressing room, in the hall, and in the counting room.
It is clear that when Boswell compiled his list of Liquors at Auchinleck, the cellar was in a badly depleted state and quite inadequate for a substantial country house where guests were to be entertained. But when Boswell returned to Auchinleck from London on 1 July 1794, it was with a firm resolve to be sober, and this would not have been helped by replenishing his stock of wines. On 14 July he wrote to his son Jamie:
'I have not drunk half a bottle of wine any day since I came here, some days not more than two glasses, some none at all. This moderation I am convinced has produced a calmness in my blood and spirits very different from the effects of too free living in the metropolis.'''
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Art Design Luxury
Masterpiece London Arts + Antiques Show 2013
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Donald Judd. Art for architecture's sake. A private view at the chic David Zwirner Gallery in Mayfair. Three floors of white galleries behind a cream façade. Cool as. Next the RCA end of year show at the Dyson Building in Battersea. The gallery with a shop in residence. Unresolved duality. Is it just us or does art exist in a vacuum these days? Charles Saatchi put in an appearance, no doubt hunting for the next Damien or Tracey. Back over Battersea Bridge, a wedding cake cast in iron, walk down Cheyne and check into hospital. Royal Hospital Chelsea. We've saved the best till last. It's Masterpiece, the highest end arts and antiques fair in London reserved for the nought-point-one-per-centers. Boutique Maastricht.
A red carpet over green grass leads to a white pop up portico framing the entrance to a vast marquee, a primitive structure lifted to the sublime by a printed cloak resembling the hospital building: Henry James' "principle of indefinite horizontal extensions" in canvas. Masterpiece attracts the famous and infamous. Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice walk on by. Anna Wintour's sharp bob and Zandra Rhodes' fuschia bob make them both recognisable from behind, surely the key definition of fame. We are joined by leading architect and avatar of heritage today John O'Connell, first director of the Irish Architectural Archive Nick Sheaff, and reductivist artist Suresh Dutt. What's the collective noun for design luminaries? Coterie?
Now in its fourth year, Masterpiece is a variegated container of uses, architecture, history and technologies, challenging our thinking on design, strategies and the relevance of art – and on the urban importance of aesthetics. It questions artistic predilections and speculates on ideas of time and context. A temporary setting for the permanently magical. First – pit – stop the Ruinart stand, the oldest champagne house, purveyor to the likes of Browns Hotel. Next stop, The Mount Street Deli for beetroot and avocado salad.
The new Maserati Quattroporte on display provides a beautiful distraction. "The design of the Quattroporte is inspired by Maserati's core stylistic principles: harmony of proportions, dynamic lines and Italian elegance," explains Marco Tencone, head of the Maserati Design Centre. "It's been kept simple and clear with a character line flowing alongthe side to define the strong volume of the rear wing, creating a very muscular look. The cabin is sleek with a three window treatment and frameless doors." Even the engine is a work of art. Next, we call in on Philip Mould who has just sold The Cholmendeley Hilliard miniature, a rare portrait of an unknown lady of the Tudor court, for a not-so-miniature £200,000.
A pair of George III marquetry semi elliptical commodes with Irish provenance is the star attraction at Mallett, that stalwart of Dover Street antiques hub. "All this is very emphatic," notes John, pointing to the lashings of evidently bespoke detail. Mallett attributes the commodes to the London cabinetmakers Ince & Mayhew. They were supplied to Robert and Catherine Birch in the 1770s for their home near Dublin, Turvey House. Duality resolved. John reminisces, "I picked up fragments of historic wallpaper from the derelict Turvey House, just before it was demolished in 1987."
Onwards to the Milanese gallery Carlo Orsi which is celebrating winning object of the year, a 1920s bronze cast by Adolfus Wildt. But we are there to see Interior of Palazzo Lucchesi Palli di Campofranco in Palermo, an exquisite oil on canvas. Elegant Roman gallerist Alessandra di Castro remarks, "Oil is much more sought after than watercolour. This important aristocratic residence was the townhouse of the Duchess of Berry." She understands the painting to be by the early 19th century Neapolitan artist Vincenzo Abbati. "It's a wow picture!"
"The layered curtains filter the light through the open windows, imparting a soft indirect radiance to the room," observes John. "The red banquette type seating, white chimney board and green painted frieze combine to form a most stylish Sicilian neoclassical interior. It forms the setting for a beautifully hung significant collection of paintings." Guercino, Stomer, Titan: all the greats are represented. "My life is crowded with incident. I'm off to a bidet party in Dresden." In between, he's restoring Marino Casino, Ireland's finest neoclassical building.
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SKA South Africa promotes the public awareness, understanding and appreciation of SKA and its research, science, innovation and technology outputs.
The SKA Africa Science Promotions Office is responsible for the development of partnerships that will see the production of resources targeted at the public; the training of content specialists and science communicators, including the media, to engage with the public; the implementation of public events that encourage discussion and debate; and the monitoring and evaluation of all public engagement initiatives.
In this space, you will find free resources to support the public awareness of astronomy, radio astronomy and the SKA.
If you would like to partner with SKA Africa on an initiative that will promote the public awareness of the SKA, email your bright idea to events@ska.ac.za.
In much the same way that you tune your radio to listen to your favourite music, radio astronomers can tune their telescopes to pick up the radio waves that come from quasars, other distant galaxies and the cosmic microwave background that are millions of light years from the Earth. Find out more about radio waves, radio telescopes, radio astronomy, and what is happening with radio astronomy in South Africa.
Mission MeerKAT explains how radio astronomy works and why this pathfinder telescope is being built in the Karoo. Download the Collector's Edition which includes all three episodes or each episode individually.
Shared Sky is the SKA's international indigenous art/astronomy exhibition. Shared Sky stems from a vision by the SKA to bring together, under one sky, Aboriginal Australian and South African artists in a collaborative exhibition celebrating humanity's ancient cultural wisdom.
The SKA South Africa Project, including the MeerKAT telescope, is one of the biggest science and engineering projects in South Africa.


The never ending force of automation redefined.
Absent minds wander through a gulf with an aimless ambition within a false reality.
Incapable of real life perception, a warped image of perfection remains.
You are the prophet of deception.
We are the ultimate design of apprehension.
The people fall unaware to the pandemic delusion.
All authentic design, real life outside the machine.
The eternal circuit of false hope and vanity.
Rid the world of brainwash media behind your screen.
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All of their computer screens in the dark, worshiping talentless pigs, mindlessly clicking.
Spineless cattle, worshiping idols of arrogance, and greed.
They are marching towards the inevitable end as our heroes die one by one.
The ever lasting automaton that is gaining control.
Humanity will crumble at the feet of the innominate.
Overlords that concur civilization laugh as the innocent disintegrate.
We are not the answer, but we can be the solution.
We may not hold the key, but we can all act as one.
Behold modern day slavery in its finest form.


Becca is the founder of AWEsome Retreat. She has been blogging about Theme Parks and travel for over six years. In addition to writing for her own site, Becca is a co-founder of the popular Disneyland with Kids Facebook Group, a writer for TravelingMom and an Instagram Coach. When not working, Becca enjoys spending time with her family hiking, exploring the outdoors, and playing board games.


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The term "medical device" is protected and describes products that serve an medical/therapeutic purpose and work not in a pharmacological way but rather due to their physical characteristics.
In July of 1981 "Gossendorf fango" was recognised by the regional government of Styria (Austria) as a healing aluvial mud.
In 2009, fangocur was certified by TÜV Austria to produce and distribute medical devices. Connected with the certification, the Mineral Drink and the Mineral Drink MICRO were recognised as Class I medical devices, useful in the treatment and alleviation of illness.
The amazing success with the Mineral Drink and the Mineral Drink MICRO as well as with Bentomed and Bentomed MICRO prompted fangocur to further confirm the effects for each individual ailment through additional certifications, literature references and research. Here are the results: since April of 2013 two of our drink remedies have achieved the highest possible certification (Class IIa) as medical devices. This means that their high quality and effectiveness have been confirmed, consolidated and recognized as being at an even higher level.
"Gossendorf fango", the special healing clay contained in the fangocur drink remedies, has special physical properties that allow it to take up both fluid and gaseous harmful substances and move them out of the body. Through a so-called ion exchange, valuable minerals and trace elements are passed on to the body. Additionally, our "Gossendor fango" is both anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial.


Plein air procreate sketches of my back woods..
These are great man. I love how implied a lot of your shapes are!
Google Hangouts troll... I may finish this... someday... maybe not.
Love the way you use colours.
@Elithenia thanks for the kind words!
Awesome! Love the Inktober stuff.
@clark thanks! Looking forward to this year's inktober.
Here's a welcome break from other work, sketching ships for a board game.
I've updated my ArtStation with some ipad plein air paintings from this spring and early summer. I've tried to make a habit of stopping at this park in the mornings for painting studies.
Sweet art dump, keep up the awesome work!
Love your style man, feels a little more raw and real than usual. Awesome work!
@Crazy_pixel @WilliamB_Art Thanks for kind words!
I've been bogged down with some projects lately.. not a lot I can show, but I eeked out another plein air on the iPad. This heron has been hanging out at the lake lately. We're like buds now (though it's not facebook official).
Wow, just went through most of your book here. Such awesome work. Lots of energy!
I read a post from you a couple pages ago about when you first got your iPad for drawing and you were unsure if you would end up using it very seriously. Did you end up getting used to using it a lot? I see some paintings recently. Just wondering if you adapted it to use more often.
Nice work as always didnt know you had an art station ac, you just got yourself a new follower mate!
@lotet aww shucks! and likewise!


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Smokey Bird | Look mum no hands!
This brilliant seasonal blend of Colombian, Honduran, and Ethiopian origin offers a blinding caffenation punch right in the taste buds. Expect caramel, citrus, and some cheeky floral highlights in the espresso, or smooth and soothing sweetness with milk.
Pelicano Roastery describe themselves as the 'New kids on the block', a foundling roastery found on 28 Sydney street in Brighton. They sent us a bag in the post to try... we liked it so much it's now our guest espresso. Simple as. Got a brew you'd like us to try? Pop it in the post: 49 Old Street, EC1V 9HX.
We'll post a little piece about the featured guest espresso (as and when it changes) in our grinder... come to the cafe and try it yourself, yeah?


text:
require "thor"
require "rainbow"
require "fileutils"

module Tlapse::CLI
  class Alpha < Thor
    desc "serve", "Start a drb server via which photo capturing may be performed remotely"
    option :host,
      desc: "The hostname on which the server is run",
      type: :string,
      default: "localhost",
      aliases: %i(H)
    option :port,
      desc: "The port on which the server is run",
      type: :numeric,
      default: 9000,
      aliases: %i(p)
    def serve
      server = Tlapse::Server.new(
        host: options[:host],
        port: options[:port]
      )
      puts "Serving on #{server.full_host}"
      server.serve
    end

    desc "compile", "Use ffmpeg to combine .jpg files into a video"
    option :force,
      desc: "Force overwrite any existing output files",
      type: :boolean,
      default: false,
      aliases: %i(f)
    option :out,
      desc: "The desired output filename",
      type: :string,
      default: "out.mkv",
      aliases: %i(o)
    option :glob,
      desc: "Specify how to find input images, e.g. `*.JPEG`",
      type: :string,
      default: "**/*.jpg"
    def compile
      video = Tlapse::Video.new(
        glob: options[:glob],
        out: options[:out]
      )

      if video.outfile_exists?
        if options[:force]
          FileUtils.rm(video.outfile)
          puts "Removed file #{video.outfile}"
        else
          Tlapse::Logger.error! "#{video.outfile} exists. Use -f to overwrite or " \
            "-o to specify a different output file."
        end
      end

      video.create!
    end

    desc "organize", "Cannonically organize pictures in the current directory"
    option :dry_run,
      desc: "Print out what would change without actually changing anything",
      type: :boolean,
      default: false
    def organize
      Tlapse::Util.organize! dry_run: options[:dry_run]
    end

    desc "capture", "Capture a series of timelapse photos"
    option :interval,
      desc: "The interval (in minutes) at which pictures will be taken",
      type: :numeric,
      default: 5,
      aliases: %i(i)
    option :until,
      desc: %(Time to stop capturing. Can use special "sunset" or "sunrise"),
      type: :string,
      default: "sunset"
    option :compile,
      desc: "When done capturing, compile photos into a video",
      type: :boolean,
      default: false
    option :compile_out,
      desc: "Specify the name for the generated video file",
      type: :string,
      default: "out.mkv"
    def capture
      dirname = Time.now.strftime(Tlapse::Capture.capture_dirname)
      FileUtils.mkdir_p dirname
      Dir.chdir dirname

      cmd = Tlapse::Capture.timelapse_command(
        to: parse_time(options[:until]),
        interval: options[:interval].minutes
      )

      if options[:compile]
        video = Tlapse::Video.new(
          outfile: options[:compile_out]
        )

        if video.outfile_exists?
          Tlapse::Logger.error! "The file #{video.outfile} already exists in" \
            " the directory #{dirname}. Please delete it or use the" \
            " --compile-out option to specify a different filename."
        end

        cmd += " && #{video.create_command}"
      end

      exec cmd
    end

    no_commands do
      def parse_time(time)
        case time
        when "sunset" then Tlapse::SolarEvent.sunset
        when "sunrise" then Tlapse::SolarEvent.sunrise
        else Time.parse(time)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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