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You might have heard mention of that title. You might have seen the billboards, or the tv ads, or seen it talked about online – either on social media or message boards. You might even be one of the talkers already, if not one of the listeners. The very real fact here is that True Detective has arrived, and those lucky enough to have seen it so far really, really want to talk about it – and everyone else is either listening, or doesn't know they should be yet.
Finally landing on UK screens last night courtesy of the Sky Atlantic channel – which has nabbed first dibs on HBO's exported shows – it's not without a degree of fanfare. Rightly so; were it just a another police procedural show, the draw of stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson would be enough to pull a considerable crowd, but the performances, while key, are not all that make this utterly compulsive viewing. The dialogue these fine actors are given is dizzyingly dynamic, and often the most mundane of conversational settings, the car journey, leaves the viewer completely gripped by the nature, delivery and conceptual thematics of these exchanges. Neither McConaughey or Harrelson are television actors, but an attraction to material of this calibre would be impossible to resist, regardless of the medium – and both are turning in what is potentially career-defining work, which given their history (not to mention the current 'McConnaissance') is fairly remarkable. Playing mismatched cops Martin Hart and 'Rust' Cohle, one a family man with a secret, the other a philosophical nihilist entrenched in darkness, both actors are absolutely sensational here, and their frictional relationship and actions both in present and the past play at the very centre of the show, the beating heart of a bruised and battered body.
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I am going to show you how to freeze a cake with frosting and it should not damage your frosting at all. Freezing cakes will keep your cakes moist and fresh.
This is one way to help pull off a stress-free meal when entertaining. I make cakes ahead of time and I freeze them until the day I serve the cakes. I learned this trick when I was in Culinary School. When you take the cake out of the freezer to defrost, it will help moisten the cake. You can freeze the layers of the cake unfrosted if you would like and I do this sometimes, but my favorite way is to frost the cake and then freeze it. The frosting provides a barrier to keep a cake from drying out.
I used a decorated birthday cake for this tutorial to show how freezing a cake correctly will not damage your frosting.
Sit your cake in your freezer without anything covering the cake. I know that it seems like this will ruin your cake, but it will not.
Let the cake sit in the freezer until the icing hardens. It usually takes at least one hour. Touch the icing and make sure that it is hard. It should be hard enough that your fingers do not damage the icing in any way.
Cover the hardened cake well with plastic wrap. I usually wrap the plastic around the cake several times and make sure there are not any holes or gaps in the wrap.
Sit the cake back in the freezer until you are ready to serve. Most people say that the cake will be good for a month or two. I have left one in a little of two months and it was perfect.
I like to remove the cake from the freezer several hours before serving. I will cut the plastic wrap with scissors to remove it.
Take the cake out of the freezer several hours before serving.
As you can see in the photo, the icing looks perfect! If I am cooking for a holiday meal, I will make a couple of cakes and freeze them until the day of the meal. Freezing cakes and having them already baked help makes holidays less stressful.

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Scented Nails Parties
Hi Guys,
Well its been another busy week with many new creations in the workshop.
Scented Nails has been officially added to the new range after the success of the birthday party last week.
15 young ladies went home with their goodies and have been talking up the town about Outback Aromas.
I have decided that we will hold pamper parties for 6-99 yrs olds. We (Outback Aromas) will come to your parties and entertain your guests with Body butter, Lip gloss, Soap making. We also now stock Party bags for your guests with these products, if you just want the goodies if your time poor or just need the goodies, as we all like to pamper ourselves.
Until the end of October your can get the 6 colours in the range for $20 after that they will be $28 for the set.
I have been working on the pamper packs, this includes:
1 x Loofah
1 x Scented nail polish jar
1 x guest soap
1 x Lip gloss
1 x Nail brush
1 x Tea light
1 x Bath bomb
These will be listed this week and ready for sale on the 30 October.
Our new range of Bath Bombs are ready to go too.
Rose & Lavender
Blue Gum
Peppermint for feet
Sex on the beach
Our gift hampers will be ready to roll from the 30 October full of all our Outback goodies.
Stay tuned till next time 30 October
Thank you
Tracy & Outback Aromas
Happy 8th Birthday Outback Aromas
Happy Birthday to Outback Aromas.
What a roller coaster it's been. I started this journey (Tracy O'Donnell, if you did not know who I was) I quit my Government job in the middle of the GFC and built a lifestyle for my children and survived to this day. I had a mortgage and 2 kids to look after. If the Passion & drive is there anything can happen. Build your wings on the way down and shine.
I was a single mum that wanted to do more than my full time job had a 4 & 6 year old children to care for and nurture. Little did I know that I would nurture my children in a whole new world and they have thrived and become beautiful loving caring intelligent young people of this planet.
Right back to the story, I would pack up "Jaffa" our little car with goodies and travel around the countryside with my girls packed in the middle. From this I did see a niche in the market and decide to crave my own road with whatever the obstacle was in my way. I have learnt to climb, fall, dust myself off and look at all types of critics and take on board all the wonderful praise that has come our way.
My creations have travelled the world from Ireland, England, Sri Lanka, Italy, New Zealand and all parts of Australia. I have being able to met the most inspiring people on the way and learnt that if you put yourself out on the ledge and take the leap of faith you will find your wings on the way down but also on the way (if you allow they) people will help you along the way.
People call me fearless and sometimes I do do bold things but I too do have times of oh my did I just do that. Anyone that knows me that I have a wicked sense of humour & a big laugh. I also have leant to laugh at you even when life is throwing the punches that just seem too hard to get up from. My ability to get and enjoy life is one of my talents, which I can thrive on.
When I started my little hobby that became a business and now a lifestyle. I joined a league of women that came out into the world and some men of the business world have started to take notice of. I did the same in the Fire brigade. I took on the boys and did my share of work to earn my place as a fiery, not an easy thing to do. My biggest compliment came from one of our highly experienced Captains of a few years ago. "Hey girlie you will do and I will fight a fire with you any day". This was after 4yrs in the VFRS.
My Nan always told me that I could be anything and it did not matter that I was a female. I don't think she thought I would really take her words so true fully. I was able to honour her memory with our Memorial candles which have brought comfort to many through losing someone. As far as fun memorial candles go I loved creating lanterns for a family in NSW. 8 lanterns made their way to the family all packed in popcorn to celebrate the young man's life. The family was so surprised but loved the idea. The lanterns continued to be a light all the way up the ocean cliff near where they lived. Being part of this little journey with this young teenager was an honour. Thank you.
I have endeavored to help many people. I have be able to be part of many events with Lifeline, The Global Good Foundation, The Angel Network, Wheatbelt Business Network, Small Business Awrads, Small Business Centre Cental Wheatbelt, Merredin Volunteer Fire & Rescue, Merredin Community and the many committees I have been on over the years. I will continue to strive and bring a smile to people through Creative Inspired Fun with Outback Aromas.
My new look and range of products will soon be all reveled. One thing I have learnt about my journey is to share it and listen to others. As I look more into my Life Coaching ventures I hope that I have helped someone that is feeling down and now is able to smile. Life does throw you many curves, but just like the Ice bucket challenges' don't give up pick up the towel, dry off & Shine.
Bye for now
Time to create more.
Tracy & Outback Aromas
PS: We are having 28 days of giveaways' stay tuned.
Soaps on the menu today
Well I am busy creating soaps today for the Fathers day, Outback Aromas Birthday Bash and just becasue its fun to do. I havent done these types of soaps for sometime so I am loving getting back into the fun and games of creating.
We will be having a celebration month starting in the middle of August for Outback Aromas as we hit a milestone in the business.
I have been looking at where we started what we have achieved and where are we going now with our products and our incredible journery through life.
I was talking to both my girls and discussing what they first remember of their crazy mum packing them in the car, making sure they were safe & sound. Then I would pack all my goodies around them. It all started beause my eldest was allergic to many products. I now make her own prducts without nasties and sometimes no colour depending on her style. Shes a teenager now and meeting the requirements of both of my teenagers daughters can be fun sometimes.
My girls have been able to apply these have a go attitude with all that they are achieving in life now.
"Sometimes you have to just take the leap and build your wings on the way down."
Well this is not getting the soaps created till next time. See you all soon.
Spread the love of Outback Aromas.
Tracy & Crew x
HI Guys,
Its been awhile since I have written a post life is just so busy. I have been buy creating new products and need people to starting testing them. So I have called for samplers. http://outbackaromas.com.au/shop/samplers-for-outback-aromas/. I am very happy with the response so far and looking forward to tweaking Outback Aromas products and spreading the love of good quality products to the world.
Other new products are our soap line which will be able to be ordered in the middle of August. I have loved creating agin and remoulding the new & improved Outabck Aromas.
New Beeswax candles & Ice Candles will soon be in the new line too.
Our M & P soap classes will start this week at the In 2 Quilting and craft, Barrack St Merredin WA. Starting at 9am to 12. $30 a head. please email email@example.com or 0408396916.
Many more great ieads coming up soon for you to start shopping for Christmas or just some gift ideas.
Bye for Now
Tracy & The Outback Aromas Family.
HI Guys,
I have loved creating soaps again and having a ball. We had friends over the other day and they said that they loved coming to our home, as the aromas and scents in the home are wonderful. Our home is filled with Sandalwood, Chocolate, Ginger, Lemon Myrtle, Lemon grass, Orange, Rose, Lavender, Rosemary, Tangerine and many more. Besides creating and blend aromas together I love to put on candles all around the home and creating a warm welcoming feeling. The candles are always in safe places as we have little people visiting quite often. Building a place of tranquility has been my gift to my family and friends. So the story goes look out I am now on the trail the create more lotions and potions with many soaps & candles along the way. We have soap classes coming up in August. so let the creating begin for all. Well bye for now Till next time maybe tomorrow. 🙂 Tracy[contact-form][contact-field label='Name' type='name' required='1'/][contact-field label='Email' type='email' required='1'/][contact-field label='Website' type='url'/][contact-field label='Comment' type='textarea' required='1'/][/contact-form]


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Germans and Israel: 60 Years of a Neurotic Obsession
In 2003 the European Commission sponsored an opinion poll whose results imply that Israel must be some sort of superpower -- at any rate, in the eyes of German television viewers.
Germans are incessantly preoccupied by the small Mediterranean country. But the activities of a few ostentatious and kitschy "philosemites" like Lea Rosh, one of the principal promoters of Berlin's gigantic Holocaust Memorial, have evidently not had the desired effect. There has long existed in Germany a sort of parallel world of uplifting speeches about Israel, on the one hand -- and then, on the other hand, there is this: the poll in question showed that some 65% of Germans feel themselves threatened by Israel. (Another 45% feel threatened by the USA.)
How can that be? Threatened by such a small country with only six million inhabitants: about the size of the German state of Hesse?
The German satirist Wiglaf Droste once rightly said that by "freedom of speech" many Germans understand finally being allowed to say something negative about Jews and Israel again. And thus in the German context the real subject of many stories relating to Israel is just how one can go about doing this.
Germans are obsessed with the issue. Even a master thinker like the political commentator Heribert Prantl of Germany's bestselling broadsheet, Die Süddeutsche Zeitung, cannot let go of the subject. In 2006, during the Israel-Hezbollah war, Prantl showed how it can be done: namely, by asserting that one cannot say anything against Israel -- in order then to do so at great length.
"Bombs falling on Beirut, war in the Gaza Strip, a hundred thousand refugees. What criticism of Israel and how much criticism is permitted in Germany these days?"
Of course, all criticism is permitted. It is only that people like Prantl are always holding themselves back (happily), in order then at some point to out themselves as heroic rebels fighting against their authentic selves and to declare their own inner struggle as universal.
Prantl forms part of a long tradition of German reflection on Israel, which once upon a time started out in a quite different vein. But no matter what the tenor was, Israel was always the object of all sorts of projections. When Germans talk about Israel, they are always only talking about themselves.
Until well into the 1960s, Israel had an ecstatically positive image in West Germany: it was the land of pioneers and Kibbutzim. Germans -- the original fans of cooperative arrangements -- found this appealing.
The military played a particular role in this fascination. With their own curious army (as one common joke among the ranks put it: "The Bundeswehr exists in order to hold off the enemy until a real army comes"), Germans felt themselves curiously attracted by the heroic deeds of precisely a real army: namely, the Israeli army.
In 1967, the German weekly Der Spiegel wrote enthusiastically about "Israel's Blitzkrieg": "By virtue of an exemplary demonstration of iron-willed soldierly virtues -- for Germans always the most impressive of all qualities -- they captured the hearts of the very nation in whose name all Jews were supposed once to be exterminated. In contrast to the German master race, Jews of all people -- whom German Nazis regarded as cowardly, lazy, and decadent -- won a war for the third time against an overwhelmingly superior force."
This view was in fact widespread back then in a Germany where the "economic miracle" was losing steam and that projected its own military fantasies on the mini-state on the Mediterranean.
The same sort of projection exists still today. Thus in a recent interview with the German edition of Vanity Fair, Ulrich K. Wegener, a former commander of Germany's GSG-9 anti-terror unit, claims that the Israeli Army studied and adopted the guerrilla tactics of the Wehrmacht's "Brandenburg" special unit -- a fact that was supposed indeed to speak for the quality of the Nazi paramilitary formation.
(Implicit in similar remarks made by more malicious spirits than Wegener is the idea that Nazis and Israelis are hardly distinguishable and that the Palestinians are the "Jews of the Jews" -- as it used to be put in left-wing terrorist circles in the 1970s.)
The enthusiasm for Israel (which was also apparent in the popularity of Israeli artists like Abi and Esther Ofraim or Daliah Lavi) reached a high point in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the same time, however, a new tone began to be heard. First emerging on the far left, it has come in the meanwhile to express the repressed, but quietly festering sentiment of many Germans.
The sympathy for the Kibbutz-nation was driven out by a sort of new version of the ideal of the "noble savage" as embodied in the oppressed Palestinians (and later too Latinos and Kurds).
The Palestinian scarf became fashionable. Already in the sixties, the "alternative scene" leftist, Dieter Kunzelmann, suggested that Germans had to get over their "tick about the Jews." He and his comrades thought they could do this, for instance, by putting a bomb in the Jewish community center in West Berlin.
Of course, the majority of Germans are not so radical. But they are, nonetheless, preoccupied by this "tick about the Jews" -- of which they themselves show symptoms and whose treatment they obviously consider to be urgent.
A German neurosis. A neurosis that consists, for instance, in the fact that in Germany no country is criticized so harshly as Israel -- and then at the same time Germans complain that "one is not allowed to say anything negative about Israel."
A neurosis that consists in the fact that Heribert Prantl of Die Süddeutsche Zeitung can set off some of the classic pyrotechnics from the anti-Semitic arsenal -- so long as they are just slightly repackaged as anti-Israeli rather than anti-Semitic. For example, the standard charge that Jews are responsible for creating their own enemies. One does not need to draw on any negative anti-Semitic "associations," Prantl claims, "in order to criticize Israel's aggression against Lebanon, which will prove to be a help to Hezbollah's recruitment efforts. One may, indeed one must deplore the fact that Israel is rearing its own enemies and helping to make a murderous conflict eternal."
Israel's aggression? In fact it was the other way around: Israel was attacked. But no: Israel has, of course, to be held responsible.
Prantl continues: "In combating Islamist fanaticism, Israel's self-fanaticization is no help. The right to self-defense cannot lead to international norms, like that of the protection of the civilian population, being suspended."
"Israel's self-fanaticization"? One needs to savor this defamatory coinage by Die Süddeutsche Zeitung's amateur psychologist.
Needless to say, Prantl's remarks were met with applause at the time. In fact, not just applause -- rapturous applause.
This is probably of no concern to Israelis. They are used to it. Unlike Germans, who spend the whole day thinking about Israel, Israelis do not spend the whole day thinking about Germany.
It is similar with Americans, who could not care less about Germany and are more likely to show interest in Asia than in messed-up Europe.
Israelis would rather spend their time developing software and conducting research on biotechnologies, an area in which the country is among the world leaders.
And here in Germany, we will spend another 60 years obsessing over the question: "What may -- no -- what must we be permitted to say against Israel?"
Well, have fun with your ruminations -- but I want nothing to do with them.
Happy Birthday Israel!
The above article first appeared in German on the author's Vanity Fair blog here. The English translation is by John Rosenthal.
CORRECTION: The article intially stated that Brandeburg was a SS unit; it was a Wehrmacht special unit.


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Dolgo Crab is a Siberian crabapple imported to South Dakota in the late 1800's. One of the best all purpose crab apples.
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On December 11, in the Linguistics lounge, there will be a Malagasy Workshop showcasing work from this year's Field Methods course. Also featured are two invited talks by Ileana Paul (Western University) and Lisa Travis (McGill). All are invited. See the program and registration below.
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December 3, 2017
20th Bilingual Workshop on Theoretical Linguistics
The Bilingual Workshop on Theoretical Linguistics was held at New College, University of Toronto on November 24-25th, 2017, organized by Sophia Bello and Yves Roberge. It was the 20th BWTL (over 21 years), and it is fitting that it is here because the first BWTL was also held at University of Toronto. The program included speakers from U. of T., York, Western, and Wilfred Laurier. José Camacho (Rutgers University) gave a keynote presentation on proper names. The U. of T. speakers included Julianne Doner, Elan Dresher, Jean-François Juneau, Kinza Mahoon, and Andrew Peters. One speaker was unable to attend, so Diane Massam and Yves Roberge gave a last minute replacement talk. The conference followed its traditional format, with short talks and longer discussions. A great time was had by all!
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Here's a step up from your everyday tuna salad—swap out the mayo with avocado, add some red onion, lemon zest and juice, sprinkle with the green of cilantro or parsley, and wow! Put it between two pieces of toast and you have a rather perfect tuna salad sandwich with the lovely addition of avocado and without any mayonnaise. To be clear, I don't have any problem with mayo. But I am rather passionate about avocados so given the opportunity to sub one for the other, I will!
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Submariners Honor Their Own
G-man has a report on a group of submarine veterans in San Diego who've found a very appropriate way to honor the 52 WWII boats still on patrol. Excerpt:
"Next year, Dennis and the chapter's other members plan to dedicate what will be the largest monument ever to subs and submariners lost in World War II. The project, already approved by the City Council, has been in the works for more than a decade. "It will be the centerpiece of a 40-acre harbor-front park in Liberty Station, a new mixed-use development taking shape on the grounds of the former Naval Training Center at Point Loma, said Douglas Smay, 65, a club member who is leading the memorial campaign.
"Fifty-two American Liberty elm trees will shade two parallel footpaths on either side of a wide lawn.
"Beneath each tree, the veterans will place a monument to a submarine lost in World War II. A photo of the sub and its story, along with the names of its missing crew, will be etched in bronze."
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The Wings Hotel, Istanbul truly allows you to spread your wings and experience the historical popular attractions, enjoy the finest cuisine and really take your experience to another level.
"The Flying Man" The Dream…Back in the 1630's at the time of the Ottoman Empire, in the district of Üsküdar, Istanbul used to live an intelligent man who was named Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi. Every morning he would follow his daily routine and go ahead and take his place near the Bosphorus and take in the view with the main focus point for him being the tall tower – the Galata tower situated across the water. The Galata Tower was the building that was the tallest of all the buildings surrounding it. Every day in his usual spot the world walked by him and he never paid any attention to the food seller or the hustling and bustling noises, Hezarfen, was dreaming as always, his dream was the same that he was flying, flying high across the Bosphorus with the sea birds. He wanted to fly across the river and take an ariel view of all the amazing sites that were available to Istanbul.
Days turned to weeks and Hezarfen continued his daily routine of dreaming and then came the moment, he knew that he had to replicate the bird's movements. The answer to his dreams came to him…." Wings" that was the moment he knew he needed wings to help him achieve his dream. He immediately ran over to his workshop where he started the construction of his wings and then along came his friend, Mehmet with a second man who had some drawings, the drawings were a design of wings drawn by Leonardo da Vinci.
Hezarfen, worked day in day out on his wings. Someday later with all the joy on his face Hezarfen tells his friend "My wings are ready" after embracing his friend Mehmet excitingly replies, "Let's see you fly then" At this point in Istanbul almost everyone was aware of this news, Hezarfen decided he needs to practice, so he along with his friend visits the hill and then he looks down, "Hey! Don't jump" shouts Mehmet "I have to" replies Hezarfen and then crash! His friend asks, "are you hurt"? "No" replies Hezarfen "but my wings are broken" They take the broken wings to the workshop and work on repairing them. "They must be bigger" Hezarfen say's "and I need to see the chief of Galata" "but why?" replies Mehmet "I want to fly from Galata Tower, so I need his permission" Hezarfen visits the chief in Galata Tower and to his surprise the chief gives him the permission to fly from the tower. Two weeks later the wings were ready and whilst Hezarfen had the permission of the chief he still required the permission of the Sultan, he decided he would meet with the Sultan and ask for permission. Seven days later, Hezarfen goes to the palace, he walks past Haghia Sophia and he begins to feel nervous about receiving permission, "please give me permission" he thinks, he walks to the Blue Mosque "please say yes" he thinks. Finally, the time had arrived for his meeting with the Sultan, sweating with nervousness he walks to the Sultan and asks for permission to fly across the Bosphorus, "you have it, you must take the flight tomorrow" the Sultan replies, Hezarfen was ecstatic, finally the dream was going to be a reality. The following day, hoping the wind was good Hezarfen was preparing his wings for the magical flight. It was the morning of the flight and Hezarfen stands happily with his wings at the top of the Galata Tower, suddenly he takes the leap and jumps, the falling speed was fast and people started to scream "he is falling" and then his beautiful white wings opened and starting to flap he pushed harder, "I'm flying" he cried he flew gracefully over the Bosphorus taking in the amazing views of Istanbul and landed across the strait in Üsküdar, the magical flight had happened and the dream finally was a reality.
The Wings Hotel, Istanbul is inspired by the Dream and Wings of Hezarfen. The Hotel in all its glory is a beautiful and elegant place to visit and for you to enjoy all your special moment's and like the magical moment that was created during the flight, we are confident that each and every person who visits the Hotel will leave feeling like they have witnessed a truly special moment of their lifetime.
Upon arriving at the Hotel, you will witness the hotel's lobby design replicating the wave of the wings, walking through the Hotel you will experience the tentacles of Hezarfen and experience the design of the wings at the entrance of each floor level.
The hotel gives the opportunity to its guests to wake up every day with a true feel of the magical moment and re live the history with its offering of the amazing sites that were mentioned in the Hezarfen story, many rooms in the hotel allow for a breath-taking view of the historical Galata Tower, which is literally a stone's throw away, along with the Bosphorus, Topkapi Palace - Home of the Sultan, Hagia Sophia - the first place where Hezarfen stopped to calm down before meeting the Sultan and the final stop the most incredible and historical Sultan Ahmet Mosque.
Being located in the center of Istanbul, The Wings Hotel allows you immediate access to Karaköy where you can find Istanbul's most trendy eating, drinking and entertainment venues, you can discover many quality places with delicious Turkish and international cuisine. Taking in the magical sites of the Bosphorus, and passing the historical Galata bridge, follow a very pleasant hiking trail and walk to the mentioned historical sites along with other touristic places of Istanbul such as Taksim, İstiklal Caddesi, Egyptian Market, Yerebatan Cistern and the Grand Bazaar. All locations are also available by a short tram ride if you are not feeling energetic to walk the route.
The Wings Hotel, Istanbul truly is a place for you to experience the beauty of Istanbul, re-live a major element of Ottoman History, enjoy genuine Turkish culture and take your flight to higher levels.


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The United Nations' humanitarian information source on global crises and disasters has just rolled out a new feature — on mobile.
ReliefWeb, the specialized digital service of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, has launched four mobile apps, each catering to the specific interests of its users.
Humanitarians interested in the latest updates on the humanitarian situation in a given country, for example the ongoing crisis in Aleppo, Syria, could download the RW Headlines app. Those who are more interested in the status of humanitarian funding appeals meanwhile, or in accessing situational maps and infographics of a particular crisis might be more suited to download the RW Crises app.
The two other apps, RW Videos and RW Jobs, meanwhile, focus on two specific features of the platform: its jobs board and curated humanitarian videos.
Content on the apps can still be accessed through the ReliefWeb online platform, but the team behind their development hopes the apps will enable faster delivery of important information to ReliefWeb users and make the experience more personalized, allowing them to have more control over the content they are accessing from the service.
The main reason for the decision is largely driven by user information. In 2015, mobile visitors to ReliefWeb increased by 71 percent, according to Adrian Ciancio, product manager at the digital humanitarian information service.
"Although we have a mobile version of the website, we believe the apps allow us to package, curate [and] organize content in different ways to better serve the needs of our audience," Ciancio told Devex.
The team gathered more than 200 users during beta testing, but they anticipate user feedback in the coming weeks and months will dictate additional features and improvements.
"We'll do an evaluation of the impact and feedback received after the initial months … and base our future developments on user response," Ciancio said.
This is not the first time OCHA has come out with an app for humanitarian content. In 2013, Devex reported about the Humanitarian Kiosk, which provides a snapshot of the humanitarian situation in a given country. The information from the Humanitarian Kiosk can be synced and viewed offline.
The apps, according to Ciancio, have a "much wider and more comprehensive" coverage than the Humanitarian Kiosk, and to some extent, they also have an offline viewing feature: Humanitarian reports can be saved and accessed later offline, for example. The first versions of the apps are more focused on content sharing, he noted. Full offline browsing and other features such as push notifications for situation report updates or jobs are in the pipeline for future versions.
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Precise plasma cutting of metal plates and profiles from 1 to 12 mm, working area 2000 x 1000 mm. We produce parts, details, brackets, ornaments and even whole metal artworks as ordered by the customer. They are suitable for companies in the field of metalworking, metal constructions, stands etc. Quality is guaranteed by the use of Hypertherm plasma cutting machine.
Spinning of shapes from sheets (thickness 0.5 to 4 mm) of metals such as steel, inox, aluminum, copper, brass. An affordable method to produce cones, hemispheres, pans, lids, metal shades, reflectors etc. The technology is suitable for producers of lighting, metalworking, machines etc.
Bending of metal plates up to 2.5 mm thick. High-quality welding at attractive prices.
Oven size 2000 x 1200 x 1000 mm. We use only high-quality brands of powder coats.
The company Renesse Ltd. was founded in 2011 with the intention to offer affordable and manageable alternative of die forming and laser cutting, especially for thicker metal plates. The lower cost of tooling makes spinning the preferred method of metal shaping for small and medium product series. We use high-quality, reliable Leifeld and Hypertherm machines. We offer also bending, welding and powder coating.
We operate in a production unit with approximately 120 square meters in the town of Dragoman. Our office is in the city of Sofia.


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UCPH Global Development
Welcome to the UCPH Global Development portal
The University of Copenhagen is the strongest Danish research and education institution with respect to activities related to developing countries. The university has a number of internationally recognised research groups that have contributed significantly to solving the challenges of developing countries.
The expertise of the university ranges from social, economic and political conditions of the individual to global issues regarding culture, governance, human health, natural resources, environment, trade and stability.
The university's core research areas in relation to developing countries:


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This cover is made out of super-soft fleece which doesn't fade or shrink. It features our popular "Tan Designer Plaid" print. The cover is overlocked all the way around and has a quality elastic cord inserted into a channel all around the cover. This cover is sized just right for standard Close Contact and All-Purpose Saddles. It is our standard size and will be too loose on small child saddles.
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Nationally Board Certified in Acupuncture NCCAOM 1999
(no longer NCCAOM board certified by choice as they are not supporting acupunture the way they should)
Licensed as an acupuncturist in the State of Florida 2000
Licensed as a Naturopathic Doctor in the State of Washington 1996
Accredited onto the staff of Jupiter Medical Center as a physician 2002
Appointed to the Florida State Board of Acupuncture by Governor Bush 2003
Certified in Laser Acupuncture Therapy 2004
Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine-Bastyr University 1995
Masters Degree in Acupuncture-Bastyr University 1999
Bachelor of Science-Florida Institute of Technology 1980
Professional Experience:
Private practice since February 29th, 1996
Consultant and writer for Healthshop.com 1999
Acupuncture Physician at the Mind/Body Institute of Jupiter Medical Center 2000-2004
Advisory Board of Martin Memorial Cancer Ctr to integrate CAM into the Center 2002
Florida State Board of Acupuncture Board Member 2002
Columnist for Better Nutrition Magazine 2002
Formulator for Lane Labs 2003
Appointed Senior Research Editor for Better Nutrition Magazine 2004
Private practice with Dr Mark Gocke at Jupiter Medical Center 2004
Resident Expert on The Deborah Ray syndicated TV and Radio shows 2005
Appointed Sales Manager for HealthyTalkRadio 2005
Appointed to the Federation of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and Regulatory Agencies (FAOMRA) as the representative for the Florida Board of Acupuncture
Consultant to MDVIP corp. to develop evidence-based complimentary therapies in conjunction with the Institute of Advanced Concepts (Penn School of Pharmacy) 2005
Voted onto the FAOMRA Board 2006
Appointed to the Advisory Panel of Nature's Sunshine Corporation 2007
Appointed to the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Doctoral Task Force 2007
Voted Chairman of the Florida State Board of Acupuncture 2007
Appointed to AAAOM Legal Research Action committee 2007
Adjunct Faculty Palm Beach Community College 2009
Community Acupuncture Clinic of the Treasure Coast 2008
Appointed Chief Medical Office of NouJour Medical Group 2009
Joined Center for Brain Training, Jupiter, FL 2009
Formulator/ Marketing Consultant for American BioSciences 2010
Columnist for Living Without Magazine 2010
Community Acupuncture of Florida –Jupiter Clinic 2011
Consultant for Emerson Ecologics 2012
DRTV Direct Response TV Spokesperson for Thermotex Corporation 2012
Webinar presenter for Emerson Ecologics 2012
Formulator for RelaxZen Beverages 2012
Writer for VRP Vitamin Research Publications 2012
Acupuncturist Specializing in Addiction treatment at Futures of West Palm Beach 2013
Acupuncturist Specializing in Addiction treatment at Just Believe Recovery Center 2013
Product Development Cherry Works 2014
Head of Marketing and Product Development for Cherry Works 2016
Public Speaking and Writing:
Bastyr University, Boeing , Swedish Hospital of Seattle, Puget Consumers Coop, Jupiter Medical Center, Martin Memorial Hospital, Florida Power and Light, Phillips Intl., Dolphin Publishing, Jupiter Medical Center, Hibbel Museum, Alive Expo (Seattle and Atlanta)
Spokesperson for UAS Labs, Spokesperson for American Biosciences
Various appearances at hospital cancer, heart, diabetic, and pain support groups.
Recent Articles
Uterine Fibroids-Better Nutrition Magazine, 2004
War of the Intestines-Better Nutrition Magazine, 2005
Chocolate and PMS- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2005
Natural Therapies for the treatment of Diabetes Type 2- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2005
PMS- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2005
Preventing Colds and Flu- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2005
Should I take Vitamin E? – Better Nutrition Magazine, 2005
Asthma and Reducing Steroid Use- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2005
The Wintertime Blues and Homeopathy- Remedies Magazine, 2005
The Formula for Reducing Cancer is Simple Better Nutrition Magazine, 2005
Digestive Difficulties- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2006
Diabetes and R-lipoic Acid- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2006
Easing the Journey-Treating Depression in Post Menopausal Women- Dr Susan Lark Letter, 2006
Soy and Prostate Cancer- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2006
Natural Medicine Goes Eastern to Treat PMS- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2006
Menopause and Memory- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2006
How Does Acupuncture Work?- Natural Awakenings Magazine, 2007
Stress and Taking the Path of Least Resistance Natural Awakenings Magazine, 2007
Supplements and Menopause Natural Awakenings Magazine, 2007
Seasonal Affective Disorder and Natural Therapies- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2007
Immunity and Upper Respiratory Health- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2007
Liver Detox-Should I? – Better Nutrition Magazine, 2007
Lymphedema- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2007
CLL and the Immune System-Natural Awakening Magazine, 2007
Cold Sores and Herpes-Natural Awakening Magazine, 2007
Essential Oils/Aromatherapy-Natural Awakening Magazine, 2007
Hypertension-Natural Awakening Magazine, 2007
Menopause-Natural Awakening Magazine, 2007
Raw Food and Sprouting-Natural Awakening Magazine, 2007
Seasonal Allergies-Natural Awakening Magazine, 2007
Anxiety and Fear- Chinese Herbal Medicine- Mayway Newsletter, 2008
Hot Flashes and Menopause- Better Nutrition Magazine, 2008
Vaccinations- Natural Awakenings Magazine, 2008
Diabetes is a Disease on the Rise- Healthy Directions-2008
Rotator Cuff Tears Natural Awakenings Magazine, 2008
Omega-3- Living Without Magazine, 2010
CHF and Acupuncture- Jupiter Medical Center Newsletter, 2010
Medicinal Mushrooms- Living Without Magazine, 2010
Living Without Migraines- Seabreeze publications, 2011
Heel Pain- Seabreeze publications, 2011
Cholesterol, Blessing or Curse- Living Without Magazine, 2011
Back Pain- Seabreeze Publications, 2011
Lycopene- Living Without Magazine, 2011
Cocoa- Living Without Magazine, 2011
Fennel- Living Without Magazine, 2011
Remedies Magazine–Strange, but True-Is Big Pharma Hijacking Another Natural Product? 2011
Treating Low Back Pain on the Job 2012 Research Paper to be published
Diabetes and Gut Flora – VRP Vitamin Research Products 2013
Urinary Incontinence – VRP Vitamin Research Products 2013
Insomnia – VRP Vitamin Research Products 2013


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young persons winter skills courses (16-20 years)
course preview
Many young people are taking part in more adventurous mountaineering either with friends, through a club / youth group / scouts / DofE / or with family and friends. In the nature of things – in our shrinking world – there are now more easily accessible mountain adventures open to younger folks – as part of a gap year or simply a progressive interest in the outdoors. What better way to spend part of the Christmas, New Year, February half term, or Easter break with friends or like minded other young people learning the basics of winter skills. This could be in preparation for a summer expedition or a first trip to the Alps, a DofE Gold Residential Course, or an ideal way to extend summer hill walking into an all year round activity.
Maximum Ratio | 1: 6/8
Number of Days'
2 Day week end or 3 day mid week or 1 day private guiding. The minimum course duration is 2 days. Given the progressive nature of the course we only accept bookings from the first day. We do not accept younger folks on 5 day courses and would always suggest a couple of shorter courses rather than a longer course.
Course Summary
Designed for younger folks with experience of summer hillwalking our introduction to winter mountain walking programms offer an ideal, cost-effective opportunity for younger novices to learn the requirements of winter mountain equipment and clothing – before investing heavily in buying specialist gear.
There is an emphasis on | developing navigational and route finding skills to confidently navigate in poor visibility in more variable weather conditions : the effective use of winter equipment & clothing. : winter skills using ice axe and crampons are taught intensively – without roped climbing, the use of a hill rope for confidence or safety only.
Dates & Prices
Course Title : | introduction to winter skills for young persons, clubs & student groups 16 – 20 years
Course Overview
The overall course programms are based on our Introduction to Winter Skills – Winter Mountain Walking and Winter & Munros and is those who wish to brush up on, refresh skills learned previously or extend their hill walking seasons safely into autumn & winter conditions with like minded friends. See our course itinerary & gear list
Previous Experience & Fitness : | Applications are invited from members of Scottish student mountaineering, climbing and hill walking clubs or registered mountain club members aged between 18 and 22 years old at the start of the course who are already fit and active hill walkers: who are happy to spend 6 hours on the hill, carrying a heavy rucksack to an altitude of 1000m. Familiarity with map & compass navigation is required. Depending on the level of the course applicants should also have some summer rock climbing experience and be in a position to pass on their newly acquired skills to other students, young people or club members
|Number of Days' Instruction
Group Size
(Course only)
|2 Day weekend
|The dates for these courses will be online shortly
|3 Day mid week
|£ 175.50
|4 day Pre Christmas, Christmas 2013; New Year & Easter
|£ 234
|One Day Private Guiding – Introduction to Winter Skills/ Winter Walking
|1:1 – 1:6
|£150/1:1 to
|At any time subject to availability
What is included Our winter mountain prices include: – All technical gear is supplied but if you do not have them ice axe, crampons will need to be hired at extra cost from us along with suitable stiff winter boots. We provide harnesses; helmet; all technical climbing gear such as karabiners; belay plates etc; all survival and safety gear; ropes. Please see our Winter Kit List. Not included in our standard basic prices: -suitable winter boots; ice axe or crampons; map & compass; rucksack; any personal clothing – however most of these items can be provided or hired economically from us on site from our stores. Gondola uplift tickets at Nevis Range are also required for possibly the first one or two days – depending on the weather conditions.
Programme Itinerary
Except for an initial briefing & essential Winter Mountain Safety talk the course will all take place out "on the hill".
The Itinerary will follow that of either the Winter Skills – Winter Walking or Winter Munros programs. Except for an initial briefing & essential Winter Mountain Safety talk the course will all take place out "on the hill". Depending on the length of the course the priority on these high input courses will be given to:-
- Winter Mountain Navigation, proper use of ice axe and crampons for safe travel through the Scottish mountains in winter. The assessment and prediction of avalanche and winter weather conditions will also be covered along with survival techniques.
- Where a more technical programme is required for maybe a part or whole group who already have some winter experience the course is based on our Winter Mountaincraft Course. Here a lower ratio of instructor / student will apply along with a higher daily rate.
- Winter equipment and clothing – choice, selection
- Winter mountain navigation – pacing and timing; aiming off, trans sections; boxing, doglegs; relocation techniques
- Route finding techniques in white out / deep snow conditions to minimise energy output.
- Survival and rescue techniques along with safe choice of routes and planning.
- Emergency procedures.
- Digging emergency snow shelters
- Basic safety and nutritional techniques, which can be applied to a Scottish, winter, a first Alpine walking season or High Mountain Trekking holiday.
- Recognition of and avoidance of hypothermia
- Use of ice axe and crampons – ice axe arrests – self arrests without an ice axe.
- emergency braking; step cutting, kicking steps; fitting crampons; walking in crampons; using crampons for ascent / descent; moving together; glissading. Use of ski poles
- Safety on steep ground in winter with the use of a hill rope without becoming too involved in technical rope work.
- Emergency rope work
- A daily assessment of weather
- Assessment of snow pack conditions along with avalanche awareness and prediction.
- Ascent of winter munros & easy ridges.
Times & Meeting
We normally meet at 09.00 hrs at our meeting / lecture room at Snowgoose Mountain Centre. On weekend courses you need to be with us latest by 19.00 hrs on the Friday evening for the briefing / Winter Mountain Safety Talk / fitting of boots & crampons so that we can all maximise a full day on the hill on Saturday. We usually come off the hill by 17.00 hrs. Please plan your travel arrangements around these times.
Depending on the wishes of the group, the prevailing weather conditions & the length of the course the first day at least will normally be spent at Aonach Mor using the gondola up lift to maximise day light hours & snow conditions.
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Around 10 years ago, I was riding around with my friend Ryan Smith from my hometown of Princeton Indiana, and he popped in a CD that made my head turn. "So… who is this?" I asked. Ryan replied, "I knew you'd like it. This is Chimaira." Impossibility of Reason was the record. As a drummer, I'm inspired by speed, control, and tastefulness. Chimaira had exactly what I was looking for at the time. My band Deliver Us From Evil covered tracks like Cleansation, Power Trip, and Pure Hatred. I still play the pattern at the end of Eyes Of A Criminal during sound checks. Cool stuff! The crowd loves it… which helped introduce our fans to this legendary band.
In 2007, my band played a show in Owensboro KY with another awesome band, DååTH, who had just been signed to Roadrunner Records. Back then, they did not have a full time drummer but they still ripped. Eventually, they recruited Kevin Talley (who's a buddy of mine and former Chimaira), who hired me to shoot all of the media for their second release "The Concealers".
My band also had the opportunity to join them on a string of dates in 2010.
A decade passed, and Chimaira's "Impossibility" lineup left the group for various reasons leaving founding member Mark Hunter to reform the band. Learning that Dååth went on hiatus, Hunter teamed up with three of its members, Emil, Sean and Jeremy, and the drummer of another band I like, Bleed The Sky's, Austin D'Amond. Chimaira's NEW lineup are all OLD friends! Haha. I worked with them in Louisville earlier this summer and got these rad shots…
After working in the majestic land of India this September, I flew home, and Deliver Us From Evil played the Indianapolis Metal Fest with Chimaira. It was a killer reunion with some friends I had not seen in a bit. I sat and talked to Mark as he was curious about India. He expressed wanting to travel there with me. More on that later… As our conversation ended, I was made aware that Mark has a solid knowledge of various methods of health maintenance and wellness coaching. I was raised a certain way by my mom, so many of the things he was describing were already familiar to me. Pretty sweet. We played a show at the Murat in Indy, and it was a blast. I had not been on stage in a bit, so it was refreshing. That next Monday, we met up in St. Louis and got these shots. Some of these are still exclusive so I'll show you what I can.
After all of that went down, Mark and I stayed in contact, and he was interested in me help launch his wellness coaching career. He needs a photographer. So… he flew me to Cleveland, and we went on a photo mission. You may automatically think, "What does the frontman of a metal band know about wellness coaching?." When you think of metal bands, you might think of endless debauchery, anger, screaming, and craziness. Well, I can tell you as a person in a metal band, that isn't always the case. There are some extremely smart people in this game. And what I witnessed first hand after staying at Mark's house over four days is he has quite a bit of experience helping people get through their day to day ailments.
During the 80′s and 90′s, people were literally dying because of drug addiction and plain abuse to their bodies. I'm sure they had no understanding or education of how to maintain themselves on the road. How to eat, no sleep, mixed with constant inebriation, and absolutely no maintenance at all. Now, many musicians have become aware that they have to start to take care of their health in order to keep playing music… and to keep from dying early. Mark's girlfriend Lauren has had Crohn's disease since she was twelve.She battles it every day and has had multiple surgeries leaving her with around nine feet of intestine. Reality sunk in when I saw Mark walk out of his bedroom with an IV stand. The next day, we had to take Lauren to the hospital to be admitted in ICU. She bounced back of course, but seeing someone go thorough that and knowing that it is a consistent thing in their life makes me feel like all of the small accomplishments I have had don't even compare. Mark hits the road then heads home to contribute. Because he cares. I was impressed how he compartmentalized his state of mind, and pulled it together when we went back out to shoot. He had just dropped her off at the hospital, and he still brought the energy needed to get the job done. A true professional. I was impressed. He could have easily blown off the shoot, and I would have totally understood. Knowing the behind the scenes story, I think this photo captures what was truly on his mind. Mark is in the process of coaching new clients, as well. The motivation is about making a difference and spreading awareness. Educating people on how they can live their lives with much more quality than they ever expected. Grass-fed beef, fresh ingredients, and Bulletproof® Coffee are on top of the agenda. Great stuff. I was sold. Bulletproof® Coffee was interesting. Kerrygold Unsalted Butter and MCT Oil are blended to the coffee to provide the body with necessary fats to get you through the beginning of your day. Tastes pretty great too surprisingly enough. My team and I currently worked on www.markhunter.net. Great stuff and lots of valuable info.
Here is the video I shot and directed for Chimaira edited with the help of my friend Ben Woehler.
Check out Chimaira's latest record CROWN OF PHANTOMS
And thanks to Cupcake for keeping us safe in Cleveland.
All photos by Alex Morgan. Behind the scenes of Alex working by Chris Koyle.
Artwork provided by Chimaira. Bulletproof® Coffee


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Eggs, Apples, & Oats (12-pack) Blenderized Meals
$ 49.95
Product Details
Each meal contains 1 serving of fruits and vegetables * Good source of protein * Good source of iron * Certified gluten free oats
- 100% real food, blenderized meals for people with feeding tubes.
- Ready to use for bolus (syringe) feeding.
- Convenient 12 pack, 9.4 oz net weight per meal (yields 320 calories in an 8 ounce serving).
- No refrigeration needed! Shelf-stable for 3 years from the date of manufacturing.
- Ingredients: Apples, whole eggs, water, zucchini, flaxseed oil, and rolled oats.
- No corn syrup, dairy, soy, or nuts!
Real Food Blends meals are 100% real food pureed meals for use in a feeding tube.
The Eggs, Apples & Oats meal contains only 6 ingredients: apples, whole eggs, water, zucchini, flaxseed oil, and rolled oats. No additives or preservatives - these blenderized meals are made shelf-stable through the same heating process that keeps baby foods on shelves. Real Food Blends meals are thicker than traditional enteral formulas, and are intended to be bolus fed with a syringe. Additional liquid can be added for use in a feeding tube pump or smaller feeding tubes.
Always consult with your medical professionals before making any changes to your prescribed enteral (tube-feeding) formula, and before starting a blenderized diet.


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Cross country champions
The cross country team ran at Little Stoke Park on the last day of term against many other schools from South Gloucestershire. As usual the children did themselves proud and ran very well. Thea Clarke came first, Charlotte Nichols third, Caris Gibson fourth and Emma Donaldson, Joe Mead first and Isaac Felming second. These placings enabled the Year 6 boys and girls to retain their South Gloucestershire champions' title, which is a fantastic achievement and well deserved for all their hard training. The rest of the team also did well and we have several placings in the top three including Archie Weatherhead in Year 4. Thank you to the parents who train the children every week come rain or shine Mrs Clarke, Mrs Mead, Mrs Broadhurst and Ms Lumsden.


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Decomposition and Unattended Deaths
Once a body dies, we all start to decompose within hours of the event and unfortunately, the smell that accompanies this is often the first sign of an unattended death. The only way to permanently remove the odour is by removing every trace of biohazardous waste. This can include and is not limited to disposing of any furniture soiled with body fluids, cutting out walls, cupboards, floor tiles, bedding, floorboards etc. Once all the biohazardous materials are removed we begin the odour removal treatment.. This process is very precise and is not as simple as spraying some nice smelling chemicals in the air. Although, it may mask the odour for a while, it is in no way a permanent odour removal solution and the smell will quickly reappear.
The job of clearing up after an unattended death and the odour of decomposition isn't taken care of by the Police, Local Authorities or Landlords. It is only specialist cleaning companies like Complete ~Environmental Services that are insured, trained and equipped to deal with these unfortunate situations.
We are happy to work with the family by dealing quickly, compassionately and effectively with the aftermath of any such event, our team are sensitive to the grief that situations such as this causes, and will thoroughly explain the process that may be required for any particular situation.
Why use Complete?
Complete Environmental Services are licensed waste carriers & dispose of all items in a legal, environmentally responsible manner in full accordance with all current UK legislation. We are members of BPCA, Safe Contractors Approved, Biokil Crown Approved Contractor and Altius Approved Vendor.
We have been successfully fulfilling national contracts to commercial customers and individuals for over 15 years. We are professionally trained, fully insured and accredited members of some of the nations most respected industry certification bodies. Our trauma cleaning & disinfection procedures allow us to not only meet but to exceed the 2010 Biocide Product Directive standards against Avian flu, A/H1N1 Swine flu, MRSA, C.difficile, Listeria, Paeruginosa, E-coli, S.Aureas, Enterococcus hirea, Bacillus subtillis, Asperigilus niger, Salmonella, Legionella pneumophilia and many more.


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The number is close, but the meaning's less clear
"The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.
— PolitiFact National
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The Palm in Denver holds holiday mixology classes next month
Itching to learn more about mixology before those holiday parties – you know, the ones at your apartment? The Palm in Denver is offering holiday cocktail classes.
The classes come with detailed instructions for mixing those holiday booze bombs, the drinks themselves, and lots of good food. The holiday cheer takes over The Palm on Thursday, Nov. 15. For $55 you get two hours – from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. – and all sorts of appetizer goodies.
To RSVP, contact Wendy Klein at firstname.lastname@example.com or 303.825.1810
The menu?
Ciroc Vodka, Cointreau Orange Liqueur, fresh lemon and a splash of sour
served in a sugar-rimmed martini glass
Carpaccio of Beef Tenderloin
olive oil soaked crostini with a horseradish cream and chervil
Bacon Wrapped Scallop Skewers
sweet chili glaze
Don Julio Blano Tequila, Chambord Liqueur, apple juice,
fresh squeezed lemon juice and agave nectar served on the rocks
Filet Mignon Capri Sandwiches
imported mozzarella di bufala, oven dried tomato, micro basil and balsamic aioli
Ahi Tuna Tartare Tacos
chili peppers and wasabi crème fraiche
Crown Royal Blended Canadian Whisky, Cointreau Orange Liqueur, orange marmalade,
fresh squeezed lemon juice and ginger served on the rocks with a ginger candy rim
Maple Chili Glazed Lamb Chop Lollipops
Brie & Cranberry Wontons
topped with toasted almonds


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Cryket Childrens Meet 2011
|Children's Games
|Ladies Games
|Mother & Child Games
|1. Spoon & Water
|1. Team Balloon Relay
|1. 3 Leg Game
|2. Water & Bucket
|2. Tug of War
|2. Stroller Game
|3. Team Running Relay
|3. Frisbee
|4. Cut & Stick
Games Description :
Children's Games
1. Spoon & Water
Need to hold the spoon in the mouth and move the water from one container to another.
2. Water & Bucket
Need to run between two buckets and pour the water by using a glass.This is a team game.
3. Team Running Relay
There is game where a team need to finish off certain distance. At a time one team member will be running
4. Cut & Stick
This also a team game, we will provide with images, one person need to cut the picture, the other person need to stick the image and the other person needs to color the image
Ladies Games
1. Team Balloon Relay: Suspense :-o (and more over hard to explain)
2. Tug of War - As all of you know, two groups people pulling a rope from each side
3. Frisbee - There will be cups on a stick, you need make them fall by using Frisbee
Mother & Child Games
1. 3 Leg Game - A rope will be tied to mother and child - one at the legs and one to the waist, need to race to the end point
2. Stroller Game - This a game for mothers and stroller children (0-3 yrs old). Mother needs to keep her baby in stroller and race to the end point
Registration starts at 9.00AM and games start at 10.00 AM
Free food is provided for children.
Please bring your stollers for those participating in Stroller game. We have Face Painting & Mehandi and many more...


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Mike's Graduation Party.
June 29, 2010 | Post a Comment
When Mike Limon asked me the day before his graduation party if there was any way I could come and shoot the event, I was more than happy to agree. Mike just recently graduated from Cal State Fullerton with a degree in business administration with concentration in finance, and his sister Crystal (who the event was also in celebration of) had just graduated from Sonora high school.
The Limon family was thrilled to have a photographer there for the dinner, which made it all the more exciting for me to be shooting at; family members gathered each other to get their photos taken, everybody was extremely friendly to me, and Mike's youngest sister Julie volunteered herself to be my assistant for the night. It was definitely an evening enjoyed by all.
I'm proud of Mike for graduating from Cal State Fullerton with the degree he's been working on achieving for a number of years now, and I'm excited for Crystal to begin earning her degree at Cal State Fullerton. Congratulations again, you guys!


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White Tulips
I'm half in love with the man who comes with the flowers. Every Wednesday afternoon he's here, when the coffee cups are cleared and we're waiting in limbo for five o'clock and the changeover and the evening folk. He wears grubby fleeces that my ma would sniff at, sometimes a baseball cap; but it's okay, it's turned the right way. He doesn't speak much. Actually I was scared he was English or something, but then one day I took the tulips off him (they were white tulips, they lasted longer than a week so I took a few home when nobody was looking). When our hands brushed he looked up and said, all Glaswegian like, Will I just get the payment at the bar? like he'd not been here a million times before and like maybe he just wanted something to say. I looked back and smiled and I was still smiling when I realised I should reply and so said Aye.
It's his last day today. I'm hiding in back of house because I don't want to see him and be sad. J is texting me asking if I want to come over to his tonight cos he has a waterbed now and a new Xbox game, like I care about either of those things. Go on, speak to him. My manager's taking glee in my discomfort as always but it's only cos she loves me. Just ask him for his number. She brushes my hair through to make it shiny.
I've never asked a boy for his number in my life. Like, I've never needed to. It's never occurred to me. Guys watch me like I'm something on the screen and they can't draw their eyes away. Creeps are everywhere, you just have to pick the good ones. They're always nice at first but then it's boring. I never think of what comes next, just what's on offer the now. All those WhatsApp notifications and the dirty pictures they send me—like a girl wants to look at a thing like that, mushrooming in darkness and ugliness. My manager calls it Ego.
There's never enough time to sort through the messages, to sift out the good ones. I could have a man for every night of the week if I wanted. But who would?
I don't even know his name. I used to have this daydream where we'd be walking around B&Q together—you know the outdoor garden bit—and every now and then he'd stop to tell me what things were called. He knew the names of all the flowers and shrubs and sometimes the trees. He'd say words like cascades and ovals and crescents, gesturing to the jungle of stuff around us. I didn't care about the names but I liked that he wasn't quiet or awkward like other boys and that he would just talk and talk so I could listen. We'd go for hot chocolates afterwards and maybe he'd meet my granny who would like him a lot cos he always says Thanks and Take Care. He'd bring her tulips, white ones, like the ones he gave me.
He's leaving out the door now with the other girl from the florist whose fleece matches his. They're carrying the boxes of last week's flowers, with the shrivelled tips and the silver gravel and that weird green thing they call oasis. The bell for the kitchen is ringing but I wait till he's all the way out the door.
Take Care, I whisper, hating myself. I enter the kitchen and my manager pulls me aside.
What is it?
I flip open the card and there's a clipart picture of Robert Burns roses in a vase. The name of the florist, an email, a number.
Never too late, she says, brushing past me with the confidence I want.
/ Maria Sledmere
(fff prompts: vase)


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"Keeping It Different" with Dave Witte
For a subsection of metallic hardcore fans, River Black feels like a homecoming. The band, who released their self-titled debut in July, are the seminal hardcore act Burnt By The Sun in all but name, featuring guitarist John Adubato, singer Mike Olender, and drummer Dave Witte together for the first time since 2009's Heart of Darkness. River Black picks up where Burnt By The Sun left off, continuing their progression towards an aggressive mid tempo churn with air-tight musicianship.
In the intervening years, Witte has kept himself busy with a multitude of projects. Witte, who earned a reputation as one of the most punishing extreme metal drummers in America with his work in Human Remains and Discordance Axis, is notoriously prolific. On top of playing in retro-thrash act Municipal Waste, Witte has teamed up with saxophonist Bruce Lamont and bassist Aaron Dallison for the avant-garde doom band Brain Tentacles, has done session work for Soilwork, and still has time to record powerviolence with No Faith.
I spoke to Witte over phone while he was on the road with Brain Tentacles, and our conversation jumped rapidly between each of his projects, along with digressions into his drumming philosophy and vegan food.
Are you in full on Brain Tentacles mode right now? Or are you balancing all those bands at once?
I'm balancing everything.
How do you keep track of all that, if you don't mind me asking?
Well, there's no really easy way. You gotta make it all happen, you know? I like to be creative. I like to play with people who are creative so it pushes a lot of good sets out of me. And, you know, for the right music, you just gotta play it live.
So you just take it like one band of the time?
Well, yeah. I don't know, man. I'm trying to make everything happen at once and I'm pretty good at it. If something comes up, you just gotta do it. We were doing this run. It's 14 days, a bunch of stuff with Inter Arma and some pickup shows. And then we end in Chicago with Mastodon for the "Hope for the Day" campaign, the anti-suicide suicide prevention organization. It's gonna be a great show.
So the River Black record; you're playing with a bunch of the Burnt By The Sun guys again. Do you view it as sort of a continuation of that band or is it just something entirely new for you?
Well, I consider it an extension and also a new endeavor as well. I mean, there's three-fourths of us there so we all know how one another operate, we're comfortable with each other, and we know what to expect from one another. You know, I guess we grew a little bit. We fine tuned a bit, a little more streamlined it so to speak. So we wanted to make it more focused and more heavy and angrier than Burnt rather than relying on like a speed or spastic element, you know?
Streamlined was one of the words that I was thinking of too. It feels like you're picking your spots a bit more when to go faster or when to bring in some outside element. But it's all about that sort of really crushing like mid-tempo approach on that record.
Yeah and, you know, we've done that. We've touched that. We'll use it here and there. That's what John really loves to do. John writes all the riffs and he just brings it out of me and everybody else. So it was easy to keep going with that direction.
Outside of just streamlining it, do you have like a different approach for it compared to the way played drums with Burnt By The Sun? Or do you just go in there and do your thing?
Well again, it's about John. John brings a bunch of stuff out of me that no one can the way he does. So it makes me approach the drum set and look at things a little bit differently. I'm always able to come up with some interesting stuff due directly to him. The process wasn't too far removed from the Burnt stuff because John and I wrote most of that. It's usually just him and I in a room but like I said before, I wanted to focus on just making it heavier and more mid paced. You know, we did all the fast stuff and that's great. That's fine, don't get me wrong but all right man, we did that already, you know?
Right, you don't want to repeat yourself.
It's a new chapter. We went through various name changes, various vocalists. And you know, when Mike [Olender] was interested and decided to hop on board, everything that we had laying around popped into place. He really poured the gas on the flame, so to speak. He brought a lot of stuff to life that we thought was just okay. You know, him and Ken involved, it really made it as best as it could be, I suppose.
The records sounds like a lot of those songs were written with space in mind for a vocalist.
You know, it's funny because, we don't really think about that when we're writing. Mike's always good at figuring stuff out. When he signed up we all sort of moved things here and there and extended some parts here and there for vocal patterns. So we adjusted to him.
There's that one moment on "Haunt" with clean vocals. It totally pops on the record because you guys didn't overuse it. It's the same thing with the string section. It's like you guys really carefully selected where to do that stuff.
Yeah, we're not that type of band man. You know, a lot of people do the sing and the screaming thing. And that's cool, that's good for them and some of those people do it well. But we were never that band. We're driven to do what we do. So a little cherry like that, it's pretty well placed and it's nice little departure for the record. For the strings, we had this girl Jessica that I know that I worked with down in Richmond. She's a great player and it just came to me one day that that song would sound great with a string section. And it just happened to work out.
You do a lot of 16th note riding on the bell. But then every once in awhile you throw in these little patterns that are really different and not what you'd expect. Like there's that bit on "Everywhere" where you're alternating between a four tom and a high hat. Is that something you thought of in the moment or do you write the basic form of the drumbeat and then embellish it later?
Again it goes back to John. For some reason he just gives me these riffs which enables me to turn something else out of my brain and think outside the box. I start with patterns and just elaborate on it from there. I guess that's one example of a polyrhythm. I know what you're talking about there but I like a simple approach. It's like a painting or so to speak. So I'll have a simple approach to the beat and when I'm looking at it and going down the line, I try to have every fill in be different and be more intense and work with the next part. I try to arrange everything that way.
I feel like one of the drummer's jobs in a band, especially a band that's so guitar oriented is you have to dictate structure a lot of the time, you know? You've got to set up the next section and make sure that the energy is going correctly from one part to a next. That's something I really liked on the River Black record.
Oh thanks, man. I think it's super important to know when to not play and to know when to play for the part of the song, you know, be a part of it.
What's your plans for River Black going forward?
We have plans to do another record.
Touring on it too?
I mean it'll be selective. That's not gonna be a full-time thing. We're gonna play, we're gonna make it special. We'll do what we can. Everyone else is really busy with life and other bands and stuff. So when we get to do it, we try to make it as fun as possible. We will play more. But we're gonna be highly selective on what we do, you know? That's just the way it has to be with that band. (editor's note: two booked dates are listed below.)
Since you play in so many other bands at once, do you see things that you pick up from one act bleeding into the other bands? Or do you try and separate between them?
Totally. I try to keep everything different but every once in awhile…that's the best thing about doing other projects. It makes you think differently and come up with new patterns and do fills and stuff like that. Then you can start cross-pollinating. Something you would have never thought of working in one band might after taking a little detour with another music project.
Of course, it's gotta be contextual too because the super groovy ghost note stuff that you're doing on Brain Tentacles, that wouldn't fit on Municipal Waste, you know?
That's why I have multiple things going on because I have a lot in me that I can't get out in one spot.
Is there anything in you that you feel like you still need to find like an outlet for in terms of how you play drums?
I need to learn more. I mean, you can never know enough, you know?
What do you feel like you need to work on now? Like what's the thing that like is challenging you at the moment that you want to improve on?
Well, I'd like to work on more four-way independence. More rudiments in general and building skills back up. You get so busy and you tour so much it's hard to focus on like moving forward learning because you're locked into playing those songs all the time. Sometimes you're playing so much you need to break some plans and it's hard. I don't know. It's a never ending battle to learn stuff because there's always someone out there that comes up with something new that relights the flame to inspire and learn more. That never ends. There's this great Instagram site called "Play This Beat" I recommend for anybody that wants to learn some more stuff. It's a bunch of guys playing beats and everyone does their interpretation of it and puts it up. It's a really good resource.
I was gonna ask like who, what are the places that you're finding inspiration from lately?
Well, there's this guy Carter Mac that I've been following. He's the drummer for The Lion King, does a lot of New York session stuff. That guy's a monster. He's such a great drummer. I'm surrounded by people that enjoy music and are highly talented. So everyone has a wide range of tastes. It's easy to find out like who's pushing the envelope forward in a bunch of different circles. What's good is you can recognize creativity and sort of judging with greatness. It's totally inspiring. I don't necessarily go out and seek it, I just have it genetically because I have so many different friends that play. "Oh have you heard of this guy yet?" Like, "Oh no. Oh wow, I didn't even know he existed. He just blew my mind." So I passed it on to some other guys. There's this other guy named George Hooks. He's a klezmer drummer. There's like a link of him on YouTube playing a bar mitzvah or a Jewish wedding or something, I forget what it is [Editor's note: we found it].
He's like an older dude, is that right?
Yeah, the video's a few years old but he killed it. He's like almost a metal drummer. It's pretty fun to watch. There's this other guy, Dafnis Prieto, that I really love. He's this Cuban guy, big afro, monster jazz player. He'll be doing like the clave pattern with the cowbell and changing the tempo the whole entire time while his body solos over the rest of it and that's changed tempos sometimes too. It's crazy.
Those kind of like latin jazz players have like I think probably the most limb independence of like any genre. It's unbelievable.
Yeah, those guys have forgotten stuff I haven't even learned yet. They're like next level.
If you could pick up more of that limb independence, where would you want to apply that in a current band that you're in?
Probably Brain Tentacles. Brain Tentacles is pretty free. Sometimes it's very liberating too.
Brain Tentacles feels like the limitations are really wherever you set them because it's so different. Something like Municipal Waste on the other hand, you're going for a specific genre.
Yeah, that's what it is and that's what it always will be, you know? With Brain Tentacles, there's only three of us. It's just endless possibilities to stretch out as far as you want or reel it in. You know, keep it tight. It's cool. It's exciting every night.
Are you guys working on any new music or is it still just mostly the record you all came out with last year?
We've actually planned a new one for this trip. And we're trying it out. It's going over pretty well. It's a lot of fun to play it too.
Where have you guys taken the sound on the new album?
I don't know. We're stretching out this one. It has a little more speed and heaviness to it. It's a little more dynamic. It's fun. I mean, we're just figuring it out. It's gonna develop while we're out. What's cool about this band is that everything was put together quickly and recorded and then when we went out and played it everything's evolved and it came to life. The personality of the songs were flushed out on the road.
Going back to Municipal Waste. You mentioned that it is what is it and it's always going to be going for that sound. How do you personally keep that fresh for yourself? How do you find like new ways to approach that sound like on each record?
Oh, you just listen to some old stuff and you listen to some new stuff. I guess the biggest factor is that this time around is we added another player. He was able to bring some cool stuff to the table. We should have did it years ago. Now all the harmonies on the old records are totally coming to life. It's just fuller, heavier, more focused. When you got another guy in the band, you gotta really be on your "A" game and keep it precise. There's no leeway because the guitars have to totally be in tune with one another on time. It forces us to look into a little harder, you know?
You've gone out of your way to work with so many different artists, it makes sense that you would be inspired more in an older band by bringing in someone new. Having different people to work with seems like one of the drivers of your creativity, at least from the outside.
Yeah. And it's a never-ending cycle too. There'll be a young band that comes up. You're like, "Wow, these guys are doing something cool." you know? It makes you work a little harder. It re-inspires you to play what you're doing, you know? Oh, holy shit.
What just happened?
Oh, nothing. Just someone's driving like a dumbass up ahead.
Are you generally the driver when it comes to tour or you guys switch it up?
No, we switch it up. Aaron's driving right now.
I had a drum teacher for a while that compared driving and drumming because they involve using like all your limbs and all of your senses all at once.
You know what's funny? He's right because I talk to people about learning drums and I ask them two things. Do you know how to dribble a basketball and do you know how to drive a stick shift ? Because they're both very similar.
Are you a big basketball guy?
No but, you know, when you bounce the ball, you want it to come back to you. Same principle when the stick hits the head you want it to come back.
You're totally right that it's all playing with rebound. But also the drummer is like the point guard of the band. You're setting everyone else up, you're passing to them, you're making sure that they're getting their touches so to speak.
That's true. I never thought about that. It makes total sense. You're steering, you got the pedal and the brake and you got the clutch, and then you got the stick. It's totally like drumming, just a different way of doing it.
You're setting the tempo for everyone else. You're responsible for keeping everyone is that car safe.
I know that you're a big foodie and beer guy. Do you relate those outside interests to drumming or do you like to keep your passions separate?
I mean, I don't know. I never really thought of it that way but I guess it's just all one big thing, you know? Everybody likes all kinds of stuff. And I guess the one thing about having good food and beer especially on tour is that you're stoked to try all this stuff and then when it's really good, you know, your body's happy and then your mind becomes happy and it just leads to a better performance. You're like, "Oh man, I just had this great meal and I had this killer beer," and you're all excited about it and then you go play and you're in a good frame of mind. So, you know, you apply yourself in a different way I think.
I went through phases. First, it was all about eating the craziest thing I could find and then you know then it was like trying to find the craziest beers. Then it was drinking the sickest roasted coffee and I'm totally nuts about chocolate and always looking for crazy chocolate. But over the last couple years, it's been vegan and vegetarian cuisine because it's come so far. It doesn't really matter even if you're a vegetarian or not, it's just good food. I actually opened a food truck with my girlfriend. An all vegan food truck.
Are you vegan or is it just something you're interested in at the moment?
I'm not vegan. I just love the food. My girlfriend's vegan. I don't eat as much meat as I used to. I'm just doing my own thing. I'm helping in my own way, you know?
For sure.
The best thing about playing music is you're exposed to all these things that you'd, you know, never come across normally and so much information and inspiration. And you can try and apply it. You know, find some killer recipe and try it out at home.
I'm glad you brought it back to music because I see a similarity. You're talking about going through these kind of phases of trying the most extreme coffee that you can find or the best chocolate. I feel like that's what you do musically too. You bounce around from all these different projects. On one side there's Discordance Axis where it's the fastest, craziest grind that you can get into. Then you're also working on doing Burnt By The Sun which was alternating between super fast and the slower, heavier shit. Now with River Black it's all about that midtempo crunch.
Yeah, totally. Yeah, it's like going to the buffet all the time.
Where do you think you like picked that up, as like a person?
I was raised in a meat and potatoes household you know, in the suburbs. My mom would make the same 5 meals and rotate it every week or every other week. When I met Joey Capizzi and Xavier and Eddie Ortiz, these New York guys, that was my first exposure to vegetarian and veganism back in the day. I found out about like Indian Cuisine, Thai food, you know, Korean food, all this stuff I really didn't know about. Of course, I knew what Italian and Chinese were because they were super popular, you know? I was exposed all this ethnic stuff I didn't know existed. I just started trying stuff. That was the gateway. Those guys gave me the gateway to try all that stuff. Then just from traveling so much, just picked up so much stuff from around the world. Why not try it?
Musically, was it kind of the same thing? Did you grow up in a particularly musical household or was it the same kind of like meat and potatoes thing for music too?
Same thing. My uncle was a drummer though. He gave me drumsticks when I was a kid. He's a great blues drummer. He's got the meanest shuffle in the game. But, you know, same thing with those Staten Island guys I just mentioned about the cuisine. Those guys taught me how to play really heavy. They played really heavy music and I was just all about being fast and precise. I learned the heavy dynamic with those guys. You pick things up from, you know, people along the way and just start applying them in other places.
Was there ever a particular band that you feel was a turning point in terms of becoming the drummer that you are today?
Human Remains, for sure. Steve and I had a really good relationship. It's Human Remains, and Discordance Axis, and then Burnt by the Sun. Those were like the building blocks for everything. They made me think outside the box, you know? All those bands were unorthodox, did their own thing, people didn't understand it. I know that sounds lame but it forced me to be more creative and try new things. So right off the bat, I was totally just getting pushed, you know, to work differently. I think that was a huge advantage.
I would say just from an outsider's perspective, it seems like Brain Tentacles is the thing that's like really pushing you in a similar way now because it's allowing you to apply all those different like skills that you've learned.
Everything's there, it's a blank canvas with Brain Tentacles. So there's a shitload of colors I can put on it, you know what I mean?
River Black have two upcoming shows, including an opening slot at Saint Vitus with Tombs.
River Black — 2017 Tour Dates
SEP 15 @ Kung Fu Necktie, Philadelphia, PA w/ Artificial Brain, The Longest War
SEP 16 @ Saint Vitus, Brooklyn, NY w/ Tombs Slow Death, Longest War