Danish Australian Cultural Society

Event coming up...

Glogg and Aebelskiver Night

When: Saturday 11th July @ 7.30pm
Where: Swedish Church, 21 St Georges Road, Toorak
RSVP: 8 Jul 2009
Cost: $15 per head ($7.50 for children)
Queries: Kiersten 9555 5567
BYO if you don't like Glogg

There will be a guest speaker:
Anthony Grage from the Aviation Historical Society of Australia will talk about early aviation in Australia, Denmark and Sweden...with slide show.

Hope to see as many members as possible on the night.

Our friend and member Erik Thorup has now permitted us to copy his highly informative newsletter 'Young Vikings' onto our website.

Check the Site Navigation panel to the left of the page to click onto it.

Dear Members and friends 26/3/09

Thankyou all for coming tonight. The year has been good but more members would be better. In our last newsletter, you may remember, “when a “NEW” member sends in their membership and nominates YOU….then your next annual membership is free!. I hope many members “promote” DACS to their Danish friends.

As advised in the last newsletter, DACS members granted website user access will no longer receive a paper copy of the newsletter (unless specifically requested). They can read an improved PDF version directly from our website and if required, print as many copies as they require

Nearly all computers now have software for opening PDFs. You should be able to just left click on the filename on this website and the document will automatically open for you.
(Click Read more below)

The DACS website guestbook had come under a sustained spam assault.

Changes have been made to end the problem of automatic spam delivery systems which target guestbooks. Consequently, it will now be necessary for anyone who wishes to post a message in the guestbook to input a series of letters and numbers which appear in a randomly generated field.

This function will also be required for anyone making comments anywhere on the website

The guestbook is now open for all (but the spammers) to use.

Enjoy!

Lance Fishman
DACS Webmaster

"1015 Copenhagen K", available in Denmark since October last year has just now been published in English.

The author Trine Villemann, a veteran royal reporter, writes that Crown Prince Frederik should have never married our Mary but remained with his "true love", former model Katja Storkholm.
(Click Read more below)

Our newsletter now has a recipes page.

The intention is that user provided recipes with a Danish or Scandinavian emphasis will be published on a regular basis. (Another reason to check the website regularly). They will remain for a period until replaced by new ones.
I would really appreciate any member contributions - As with our great cookbook "Tak For Mad".

To start off, I have found a recipe from Greenland which fits will with the article about Danes and the IWC.
(Click Read more below)

Denmark has shattered a move by International Whaling Commission member nations, meeting in Santiago, Chile to move to a concensus on their differences, by insisting on an increased whale kill for Greenland.

The Inuit community of Greenland, permitted "aboriginal subsistance whaling" had been granted a hunt quota of 212 minke whales, 19 fin whales and 2 bowhead whales per annum. Denmark acting on their behalf, has demanded that 10 humpback whales be added.
(Click Read more below).

The DACS website has been further improved and now contains a guestbook.

Anybody (including non-DACS members) can post messages onto our guestbook and anybody can answer by posting another message. Unlike the forums, answers will not be linked directly to questions.

I see this guestbook as a place where people can seek information, provide notification of things of interest and generally interact with others in the group. One possible area of use would be in advertising things to sell or requesting needed items. (Click 'Read more' below)