White Chocolate and Raspberry Blondies

White Chocolate and Raspberry Blondies

Makes 16 Squares
200g butter
200g white chocolate
3 large eggs
300g caster sugar
200g plain flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
150g raspberries
1. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180C/160 fan.
2. Line a 23cm square tin with a large piece of baking paper. (This will enable you to lift the blondes out of the tin easily.)
3. Roughly chop the chocolate.

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Best Software: Tor Anonymous Browser

Best Software: Tor Anonymous Browser

Best Software.
Tor is a brilliant browser that keeps your information safe. It means that shopping sites and search engines will not personalise their content to you for their benefit. It means that your location and browsing habits are not being collated and sold on to Amazon and other shops for product targeting.
It is worth using just to explore the internet without being pestered by the same camera (replace with any product you once purchased) ads, because you once bought a camera online and that is all you see in search or pop ups.

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Dress Disappears When You Get Excited

Dress Disappears When You Get Excited

Daan Roosegaarde from Capetown has designed a dress that combines technology with social fashion.
A dress that becomes transparent when the wearer gets excited.
The idea itself is pretty exciting, though woe betide the man's feelings if the dress stays completely opaque.
"Darling, aren't you pleased to see me?".
"Yes, it's just I have my pacemaker turned down to keep the excitement from wearing the battery out!".

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New Affordable Micro 3D Printer

New Affordable Micro 3D Printer

The new Micro 3D printer promises to retail at $349 and brings affordable precision 3D printing to your desktop.
How quickly technology now improves and falls in price! Last year these machines were $2000 minimum.
Just plug in the printer to your laptop and create pretty much any model you can think of. Boasting Micro Motion Technology for precision printing every time and funky consumer orientated colour schemes.
Design your next product, bring your great idea to life or simply amaze the children for fun.

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Panono 360 Ball Panoramic Throwing Camera

Panono 360 Ball Panoramic Throwing Camera

This is what happens when our technology gets to the point that almost any idea can be realised.
You can imagine these two tech lovers sitting over a beer somewhere.
“I know!! How about a ball that you throw in the air and it takes a complete 360 panoramic picture ready when you catch it?”
“I think I could make that actually”
“Really, I was just kidding.”
“No, it’s quite doable actually”
“OK”

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Oculus Rift Immersive Virtual Reality Headset

Oculus Rift Immersive Virtual Reality Headset

The Oculus Rift is the next step in gaming, a virtual reality headset that every kid dreams of having.
Designed by Palmer Luckey who wanted to make a quality headset that every gamer could afford.
He is aptly named as once launched on Kickstarter it was soon snapped up by Facebook and now has most of the major video companies building it into their games.
The headset turns with you and gives you a complete immersive 360 field of view for a heightened playing experience.

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Change in the Modern World

Change in the Modern World

Introduction: the prestige of change in the modern world
It is only very recently – on the scale of human history – that change has been the focus of much enthusiasm.
The ancient Greeks and Romans often took the view that the whole world was in decline, each generation of people successively worse than those who had come before. A golden age of harmony and justice had, they felt, existed in the past. So change was negative: a step bringing chaos and ruin closer.
 

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International eXcellence's 20 Most eXcellent Films from 2012 and 2013

International eXcellence's 20 Most eXcellent Films from 2012 and 2013

As divisive a subject as you could ask for, whenever words like ‘finest’ and ‘film’ are put together the smart money is on an argument breaking out. We all look for different things from the seventh art, and as a result it’s impossible for everyone to see movies in the same way. Nevertheless, we decided to stick our neck out and compile the following list of must-see films from the last two years, all of which are five-star masterpieces.
 
A Field In England; dir. Ben Wheatley; 2013

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Vestra Wealth & The School of Life: Alain de Botton

Vestra Wealth & The School of Life: Alain de Botton

International eXcellence attended a small soiree last night at the Groucho Club hosted by Vestra Wealth and Alain de Botton from the School of Life. Now at first glance it may seem an odd marriage to team a philosophy/psychology school with a wealth company, but it is without doubt a very good idea indeed.

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Danielle de Niese London Concert Sohana Research Fund

Danielle de Niese London Concert Sohana Research Fund

The renowned and glamorous soprano Danielle de Niese is holding a concert starting at 19.30 on the 24th of June at St John's Smith Square to support the Sohana Research Fund (SRF).
The New York Times referred to her as "Opera's coolest soprano" and she is truly excellent, beautiful with the voice to match.
Danielle de Niese will be accompanied by Cameron Stowe on Piano. The VIP Champagne reception post concert tickets with Danielle can be purchased here for £100:

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