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Here's how bad it really is.
There are up to 1,000 dead bodies in the countryside around the Fukushima nuclear reactors that can't be collected, because the corpses are too radioactive. (1)
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Good Casino, small, but great restaurants for size, courier/free taxi service. Food specials, both cafeteria, local cuisine, chinese and seafood. Pus there was music.
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Good Casino, small, but great restaurants for size, courier/free taxi service. Food specials, both cafeteria, local cuisine, chinese and seafood. Pus there was music.
Started with garlic bread and shrimp cocktail. Some of the best garlic bread ever. Huge serving of shrimp. I enjoyed the steak with salad and chips and also got the onion rings which were very good. Asked steak to be cooked rare and it was...More
The bar and restaurant serve good value meals , you can wander around the casino also. The garlic bread was delicious.
Hubby & I celebrated 31 years of wedded bliss recently, one of our stops was to Dunedin's casino for a meal which was just amazing, well cooked, well presented & the most helpful polite staff. We were also heading to a concert and realised not...More
We were looking for a meal on Sunday when many other restaurants close early and we found the Casino's Grand Bar and Cafe was still open. My wife and I both had steaks which were cooked exactly as we each had asked for and the...More
Not too expensive and a great variety of food and drinks available. The staff were helpful and overall everyone was very obliging. Really enjoyed my time there.
Good food, good service and good price. The restaurant was busy and the service was quick and good quality and tasty.
Having been disappointed with the food in the hotel dining room, we were delighted to find the cafe in the Casino, and returned there for all our meals during our stay.
Hi Penguinlover28, Thank you for taking the time to review the Dunedin Casino- Grand Bar & Cafe- we really appreciate it! We are also so happy to hear you enjoyed your experience, we hope to see you again soon. Lucy- Marketing
Very clean and tidy, was given a $5 voucher by the Scenic Circle Southern Cross Hotel to redeem to for a $5chip, cool ai thought I'd try my luck at a $5 table...to which there was none. Bar was very full and service looked like...More
Hi Brendan, Thank you for taking the time to leave a review- we really appreciate it. I have passed on your comments to each department and would like to think that action has been taken. We take great pride in our Customer Service and usually...More
We went out to the casino for the night, and decided to have a meal there, it was alright, nothing special, my husband had the filled mushrooms and they were tiny,(he thought they were going to be big mushrooms, and not alot on the plate,...More
Hi Kimini, Thank you for taking the time to review your experience at Dunedin Casino. I am sorry to hear that your meal expectations were not met and you did not enjoy our crumbed mushrooms as they are one of our most popular items on...More


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Reviews of Zebra River Lodge
They do not necessarily represent the views of Expert Africa.
A very relaxing place
Very good welcome. Friendliness easily spread to guests. Very good food.
The guide for the morning walk could have been more informative.
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Friendly staff obviously treated well. Owners not there but stand in staff good.
Dogs a bit out of control and one in particular was defineatly not safe for small children but they were very up front about this issue.
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Of all the lodges we stayed at, this was a particular favourite. Stunning landscapes with more than enough walking opportunities.
We did the Canyon walk which afforded fantastic views of the area, and can be completed by any moderately fit person in around 5 hours. Great home cooked food shared with the other guests in the lodge. Staff knowledgeable and friendly.
Zebra River Lodge - very friendly
Rob and Marianna, and the staff at Zebra River Lodge were very friendly and helpful. They very kindly moved us to another room, because of a mouse in our original room! Special thanks to Jana.
We enjoyed the food, particularly the family atmosphere sitting around dining tables, the setting and the walk up to the Quiver tree.
The lodge is a little bit off the beaten track (if there is such a thing in Namibia), but it was a very nice place to spend our first 2 nights in Namibia.
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Zebra river is a very friendly lodge with everyone eating breakfast and evening meals together. Rob was very knowledgeable about the local area ( and Namibia).
We spent a good day walking in the Tsaris mountains.
Wonderful first stop, superb cooking
Arrived very late due to delayed flight which meant that we had had to drive in the dark. It is perhaps a little too far for a first stop from Windhoek if you have never been to Namibia before and driven on the dirt roads!
We had a smashing welcome and it was lovely to all sit around the dinner table sharing experiences with fellow travellers. Rob and Marianne both have plenty of knowledge about the area. Rob particularly went to a great deal of trouble to explain an onward route for us and this resulted in another highlight of our holiday. Rob is hoping to gain a commercial pilots licence soon so with an air strip there will be an extra dimension to this location.
Unfortunately at the time of our visit they were struggling to combat a domouse infestation in a couple of the rooms which whilst understandable in this sort of area did result in a fairly disturbed sleep.
The Canyon and quiver tree walk is well worth the effort but allow a little more time if you find the heat tiring, packed lunch superb.
Friend you never knew you had
Staying at Zebra River is like staying with your best friends. You can do as much or as little as you like, with Rob, Marianne and the staff on hand to help.
Great walks (Quiver tree, easy 3hr walk), Great views, Great home cooking and Rob's sun downer is a must.
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great hospitality, they went out of their way to make doughnuts for Duncan!Read more about the whole safari
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A very relaxing place with a warm welcome and very helpful, friendly staff. There was a convivial atmosphere in the dining room - lots of conversation and good food and wine.
We seemed to have a more baisc room than others and were offered a change the second day but didn't take it as we were just about to go on a walk.
Lots of opportunities for walks with good maps and explanations. An ideal end to a busy holiday.
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Another unexpected delight! We had hoped to end with the Etosha/Ongava as a highlight but this was just perfect!
Rob, Marianne and their colleagues/friends were warmly welcoming and, once again we enjoyed meeting their dogs! The rooms were comfortable and the more plentiful water supply let us enjoy both their charming garden and ... a lovely bath!
The scenery was stunning and our hosts were at pains to ensure that we not only enjoyed our walks but were also properly kitted out. Rob clearly collects rocks which provided a fascinating backdrop and talking point. Once again we enjoyed eating delicious food around a communal table.


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Monday, February 06, 2017
2-Sisters Coloring Project
I named this photo 2-Sisters. A outline image I downloaded from Pinterest and using the Recolor app on my ipad, I colored it and than using the pencil effect within the app, it created this effect. Than I saved to Instagram and than saved to my ipad and downloaded to my PC. From there I loaded in Adobe Photoshop Elements where I created a frame and corrected some areas with the the 'bandaide' tool.
I plan to use this in as a birthday card sometime in the future.
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Flush with victories, providers gearing up
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT)
The year started off strong for nursing homes –– at least as far as public policy was concerned.
Prior to its winter recess, Congress passed two major pieces of legislation that kept important provisions regarding nursing homes intact: a 3.3% fiscal year 2007 marketbasket update and a Medicare exceptions process for therapy caps.
Another gain was the elimination of survey revisit fees for nursing facilities, which took effect in October.
Not all turned out rosy for long-term care, however. Facilities lost some ground on the "75% Rule," a regulation for outpatient therapy providers, which was scaled back to 60%.
As a sign of the current policy making climate, no sooner did the president sign the legislation than legislators began tackling some issues that had been granted only temporary closure.
"We were obviously very pleased that the Medicare package did not include any cuts to Medicare funding. However, we do know that Congress is set to look at Medicare funding once again," said American Health Care Association spokeswoman Susan Feeney.
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Simple Ceremonies you can do at home
1) Put under the bed when you go to sleep to cure sickness. In the morning the doll will have absorbedyour illness. Destroy to banish the malady.
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3) Pierce him whilst cursing your enemies and they will surely fall.
4) Burn him to give absolution to yourself or another whilst praying forgiveness.
5) Tie with string to bind a lover to you.
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7) Bury him under a tree with cinnamon for aid in financial matters.
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This version makes some interesting additions to the familiar story. It is now a girl rather than a male friend that comes to visit Roderick Usher who now keeps her a prisoner there so that he can breed with her and carry on the Usher line. Where in all other versions of The Fall of the House of Usher it is Rodericks sister that goes into a cataleptic fit and is buried alive, here it the heroines fiancee who is Rodericks nephew. For a time, this version of The House of Usher makes an interestingly concerted effort to get away from the 19th Century period setting of most other Poe films. The film gives us Romy Windsor as a modern girl who enters an Usher house that seems to still exist in the 19th Century and scenes where she is told not to wear perfume lest this upset Rodericks ultra-sensitive nose; where she says she is studying to be a hairdresser and he puzzles over why she wants to be a barber or at saying that her mother sells Avon. We get an interesting glimpse in these few scenes of a Poe that is struggling to come to terms with the modern world.
Alas, beyond a few superficialities, what we end up with bears little resemblance to Poes The Fall of the House of Usher. Moreover, the film turns into something quite different to what it started out as. At first, it seems like an imprisonment thriller along the lines of something like The Fanatic/Die, Die, My Darling (1965) but then in the last half-hour it turns into a variant on the creaky old mad-relative-in-the-attic tale with a dishevelled Donald Pleasence introduced and, for some reason, killing everybody with a power drill that he has attached to his wrist. None of this has any equivalent in the original short story.
The House of Usher comes from producer Harry Alan Towers who had bankrolled numerous films by the notorious exploitation director Jess Franco, as well as versions of classic horrors such as Dorian Grey (1970) and Edge of Sanity (1989) where the emphasis was placed on a crude sexploitation element. It is the same with The House of Usher. There are numerous scenes of gratuitous gore littered throughout Oliver Reed shoving the maids hand down onto the mincemeat grinder and we seeing ground meat coming out the other end, before Birkinshaws camera pulls back to show that it is just meat and not what we think. Elsewhere, we see a rat being applied to the treacherous doctor (Philip Godewa)s crotch; the maids head served up on a silver platter; Romy Windsors hairdryer gushing spouts of blood at the mirror and then she finding a severed head sitting there. Birkinshaws direction consists of cheap theatrics Psycho (1960)-styled strings that start screeching as Norman Coombes turns around in the front seat of the taxi; or where, as the house starts collapsing at the climax, coffins pop up and skeletons burst out trying to grab a fleeing Romy Windsor. Elsewhere, for no particular reason, the walls develop arms and start trying to grab people. It is a film where Edgar Allan Poe has been reduced to the level of cheap exploitation shocks.
Director Alan Birkinshaw, who is brother of celebrated British writer Fay Weldon, has made a number of other genre films including Killers Moon (1978), Invaders of the Lost Gold/Horror Safari (1982) and a horror Agatha Christie adaptation Ten Little Indians (1989), also for producer Harry Alan Towers, as well as the other modernised Edgar Allan Poe adaptation Masque of the Red Death.
Other adaptations of The Fall of the House of Usher include:- Jean Epsteins French silent version The Fall of the House of Usher (1928); The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), a short silent British version; a dreary and not very faithful British version The Fall of the House of Usher (1949); Roger Cormans The House of Usher (1960) starring Vincent Price; the inept tv variation The Fall of the House of Usher (1979) with Martin Landau; Jesus Francos cheap The Fall of the House of Usher (1983) with Howard Vernon; Harry Alan Towers cheap House of Usher (1989) with Oliver Reed; Ken Russells demented variation The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002); the low-budget modernised The House of Usher (2006); David DeCoteaus softcore gay House of Usher (2008); and as an episode of the animated anthology Extraordinary Tales (2015).
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Despite several residents asking city leaders to reconsider, the Atascadero City Council on Tuesday night unanimously banned rummaging through other people's trash.
The law, known as the anti-scavenging ordinance, is slated to take effect Feb. 12 and makes Atascadero the only city in San Luis Obispo County with such an ordinance. Breaking the new rules would be punishable by a fine of no more than $250 per offense.
The council tentatively approved the new law last month after the Police Department said residents complained about people rummaging through trash bins for food and recyclables in Atascadero neighborhoods. Later, locals took to the issue on social media. The online debates pitted issues such as identity theft, litter and noise against humanitarian opinions about helping the impoverished.
Atascadero police Chief Jerel Haley told the City Council on Dec. 9 that the department did not have the exact number of complaints it received last year or whether complaints have increased since the previous year.
Existing state law makes recyclables the property of authorized waste collectors once inside a bin for pickup, but police have depended on local garbage companies to report offenses and previously had no grounds to do so on their own.


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Hundreds of people from Bassetlaw asked me to vote in Parliament last Friday for a new NHS Bill. This high level of interest demonstrates yet again the level of concern locally about the risks privatisation poses for our health services. The vote last Friday was for a bill to reverse the privatisation of NHS services that has already taken place since 2010 and to channel funding away from bureaucratic reorganisation and towards providing the doctors and nurses that this country needs.
Having long campaigned to keep health services free and accessible I was pleased to vote for the Bill. Privatisation allows companies to take the profitable parts of the NHS and strip down services whilst the taxpayer continues to pay to keep the system afloat. Thank you to everyone who got in touch about the vote – I will continue to campaign to keep our health services public that put patients before profits.
I have been contacted by McDonalds who are working in association with the FA, Nike and Adidas as they are giving away a free football kit to every FA accredited club with a junior team. Local teams may have already been contacted by the FA about this scheme, but for those who haven't I strongly recommend you take up this chance to get your junior team a free kit. If your team is interested in a kit please contact my office on 01909 506200 for further details.
Last week Worksop based charity, Hope for the Homeless was recognised in Parliament for their work. Hope provides a variety of services to people who are most in need in our area and they were runners up for prize of the best civil society organisation to tackle poverty. I was delighted to welcome the team to Parliament and it is right that they are congratulated both nationally and locally.
This week several representatives of the Worksop Town Supporters Trust and I travelled to Stamford in Lincolnshire to visit the Borderville Sports Centre which is home to the latest all weather 3G pitches and facilities. The centre has been funded by the FA and the Football Foundation as part of their campaign to improve grassroots football and offers the kind of facilities I would like to bring to Worksop. At the ground we met with both the FA and the clubs that use the facility and had a good discussion about how we can develop our own plans for a new Worksop Town stadium.
After several years of inviting the Business Secretary, Vince Cable to come to Bassetlaw, he finally came this week and saw the excellent work that some of our companies are doing. He visited MBA Polymers and Brunton Shaw, both of which have seen their businesses grow and expand despite the recession and it is vital that senior Ministers like Vince Cable travel to northern areas like ours to see what more they can do to help business communities thrive and develop.


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A note on staying safe: South Florida is not the Deep South. It's too Caribbean, too Spanish, too full of New Englanders and New Yorkers and Jews. But on some nights, on certain streets, it can do a good impression. Public displays of affection are A-OK anywhere in Wilton Manors, in most of Miami Beach and much of Miami proper, and in most of the townships and municipalities around Fort Lauderdale.
But the farther west you go, and the farther north, the Dixier the landscape becomes. Good rule: If the men in your immediate vicinity are all white and look like frat boys, and if the women have hairdos you last saw on Bret Michaels' Rock of Love -- and, most crucially, if all of these people have been drinking -- please summon a Lyft and scootch off to one of the more hospitable locales mentioned below.
A note to lesbians: This guide is gay guy-centric. SoFla is full of queer women, but it does not have a queer women's scene. Even the gayest of the gay ghettos in SoFla lost its lone lesbian bar almost a decade ago. I'm sorry I don't have more for you.
South Beach
How gay is it? Late-'90s Nathan Lane.
Like Greenwich Village, Hollywood, or the strand of Parisian neighborhoods that run along the Right Bank of the Seine, South Beach has been gay enough long enough for its gayness to seep into the neighborhood's aura. The gayness is no longer a matter of individual clubs and cafes; it is a component of South Beach's glittery, sweaty, pansexual gestalt. This is a good place to integrate.
Miami Beach is a city on a barrier island, separated from Miami proper by Biscayne Bay. South Beach takes up its southernmost two miles. If you've never been to Florida, South Beach is what you think about when you think about Miami. The Versace mansion, the Colony, the Art Deco, the old mob money, the outfits that cost too much while covering too little, the riots of pastels, the tables spilling out of cafes under bright umbrellas and covering the sidewalks leading to the great wide beach, the evil consumerist paradise of high-end shopping and eating and clubbing. If that's the stuff you're coming to Florida for, you have very little reason to leave South Beach 'til it's time to fly home.
The gayness is as a component of South Beach's glittery, sweaty, pansexual gestalt.
You'll find most nightclubs along Washington Ave, and lots of eats and historic architecture on Ocean Ave, which is the last thoroughfare before the Atlantic. (That's where you'll find the Versace manse, now a boutique hotel, sparkling behind stucco and shrubbery and looking like a shrine to a pagan god.) The eats on Ocean can tend towards the touristy -- there is, for example, a TGIF full of dazed-looking Midwesterners. Better to head to Lincoln Rd, in the northern part of South Beach, which is South Beach's most scenic (and priciest) location for shopping and eating. You can't drive on Lincoln, and driving almost anywhere in South Beach is a pain because there's no place to park. Get to walking.
There's a fine gay hotel called the Gaythering on the Biscayne Bay side of South Beach (with a notably steamy "Men's Self-Spa"), and there are tons of gay and gay-oriented clubs on the Atlantic side -- Club Boi (which caters mostly, but not exclusively, to Latinx and black men), Score, the gracefully aging Twist, Palace (a good place to catch a drag show), and many more. There are frequent openings and closings, and the hot Saturday or Wednesday club this year may not be hot on the same nights or in the same ways next year. My advice: Make your first stop the LGBT Visitor Center and see what's what.
The Design District, Coconut Grove, and Coral Gables
How gay are they? James Franco in a generous mood.
But really: There's a lot more to Miami than South Beach, and you're missing out if you stick to one side of the bay.
The Design District, aka Wynwood, is a formerly terrifying maze of decaying Deco buildings and warehouses. It's not very gay but it's plenty gay-friendly. Wynwood has been full of oddball galleries for two decades, and it's suddenly flush with high-end retailers -- Givenchy and Tom Ford now face each other across an intersection at which, in 2007 or 2008, I was almost mugged by a raving bald guy with one shoe and no teeth. Miami!
Come for the art and stay for the Arsht Center, a performance venue and bone-white architectural marvel that looks like a felled cubist angel. The main auditorium has outstanding acoustics, and it's the home of the venerable Florida Grand Opera.
Travel south, past the immensities of Downtown -- the Wall Street of Central America, as it's called -- and you'll arrive in the old boho hangout of Coconut Grove. This is Miami's oldest neighborhood, as well as its greenest, still full of the primeval hammocks that greeted Miami's first dredgers and builders. There's serious money down the Grove's sleepy streets. Madonna used to live here, as did Sly Stallone and LeBron James. Not far from their former abodes is the stunning Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, which is an excellent place to get gay married. There's nightlife in the Grove, too -- mostly centered around the CocoWalk, near Grand Ave and Main, though none of it's explicitly gay. (For a gay bar, you've gotta go a mile or so north to Azucar -- which, incidentally, isn't at all far from Miami's last old-school gay bathhouse, Club Aqua.)
Just a bit farther south you'll find yourself out of Miami and in Coral Gables, another lush, old-money 'hood with an understated gay presence. Go there for the theater. Actors' Playhouse on the Miracle Mile is about as good as regional theater gets in America -- I've seen Broadway-beating productions of Les Miserables, Le Cage aux Folles, and Urinetown there. You'll find more challenging fare at GableStage at the Biltmore, where director Joe Adler mounts fiercely smart productions of plays by, say, Sarah Kane, Stephen Adly Guirgis, and Martin McDonagh. (I once saw a production of Sarah Kane's Blasted there that haunted me for actual years.) Please note: The Biltmore is a stunning hotel, a relic of the Gilded Age, and you should show up to your show an hour or two early so you can wander the premises, gawp at the enormous pool, and enjoy a cocktail or three in the snug basement bar.
Wilton Manors
How gay is it? Sodom and Gomorrah meets the men's room at the Republican National Convention.
In 2006, a notably terrible film called Another Gay Movie briefly appeared in a few American theaters. It was a gross-out teen comedy with an interesting conceit: In the world of the film, gay was normal. Gay was the majority. The whole damn world was gay.
That conceit is the reality in Wilton Manors.
"The Island City," as it's known, is a little municipality 10 minutes north of Downtown Fort Lauderdale and 40 minutes north of Miami. It's surrounded by an unremarkable canal, and its borders are roughly defined by undistinguished streets -- particularly Oakland Park Blvd, Powerline Rd, and Federal Highway, which could be thoroughfares plucked from the urban sprawl around Anydamnwhere, USA.
I moved to Wilton Manors when it wasn't gay at all. I was 13, and Wilton Manors was still faintly dangerous -- it wasn't many years after Jaco Pastorius, the pioneering jazz bassist, was beaten to death on a sidewalk on Wilton Drive. Not far from that spot, there were two competing Christian bookstores selling devotionals, chintzy Jesus-themed gifts, and vestments.
The Christian bookstores are long gone, and Wilton Drive is now a gay fantasia.
Wilton Manors is an extremely wholesome-feeling burg. Sort of like Mayberry R.F.D. but with Speedos.
A brief tour of The Drive, as it's known:
At the intersection of Dixie Highway and NE 26th St there is a cafe and bakery called Stork's. This is the eponymous cafe opened by Wilton Manors' gay ex-mayor, Jim Stork. Continue west from there, and on a side street just off Wilton Drive you'll find Le Patio, a teensy, deeply romantic French restaurant owned by lesbian restaurateurs Vero and Jean. Shortly thereafter, The Drive becomes a blur of gay commerce -- within a few blocks there's Rumors Bar, Progress Bar, a gay burger joint called Rosie's with a gorgeous lanai, a high-end gay sushi and Thai joint called Galanga, a combo nightclub-restaurant with an excitingly labyrinthine layout called The Manor, a gay pool hall, two gay ice cream parlors, and two gay thrift stores.
There are gay condo developments. There's an extraordinary gay candy shop called To The Moon, the proprietor of which, Antonio, has a frighteningly encyclopedic knowledge of sweets through the ages. In a single plaza, you'll find the venerable gay bar and restaurant Georgie's Alibi, a clothing store called Gaymart, a gay sushi shop called Tee Jay's, a gay bar called Hunters, a gay coffee shop called Java Boys, and a gay optician's office called Chic Optique. One plaza! And this continues for over a mile. The het world doesn't reassert itself until long after Wilton Drive has turned south and become NE 4th Ave, and you pass by the gleefully piggy Ramrod Bar, full of leather daddies and the boys who love them.
Branching off of Wilton Drive every hundred yards or so are more streets, and each of them has gay commerce of its own. And on many of those streets are gay guesthouses. There's this one, and this one, and many more besides.
You know, a funny thing happens when the gays take over a town. The sex and sensuality that defines explicitly gay spots in a more predominantly het city doesn't disappear, exactly, but it does tone itself down. Wilton Manors is probably one of the easiest places in the world for a gay guy to get laid, but perhaps for that reason, "getting laid" does not seem to be the dominant concern of street life. Which is to say: Wilton Manors is an extremely wholesome-feeling burg. Sort of like Mayberry RFD, but with Speedos. My straight friends have started moving there, because it seems like such a friendly, healthy place to raise a family.
The Gay Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and towns near Fort Lauderdale that aren't Wilton Manors
How gay are they? Varies.
A lot of gay life orbits around the homo-singularity of Wilton Manors, and the greater Fort Lauderdale area is full of stuff to see. Some of it's subtle.
For example, there is no sign identifying the Sebastian Street Beach as "The Gay Beach," but that's what it is. Just across the street from, and slightly to the north of, the rather fratty outdoor mall called Beach Place, there is a 200- or 300-yard stretch of sand where the blankets are mostly lain upon by same-sex couples, and where the men's bathing suits are mostly of the kind known as "banana hammocks." It's fun to watch the looks of dawning bemusement on the faces of conservative tourists as they realize what they've just wandered into.
You'll find a strip club called Le Boy, specializing in adorably malnourished twinks.
Just a little ways south of Sebastian (and past the famous Elbo Room, of Where the Boys Are fame) is the eastern terminus of Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale's most famous (and overpriced) shopping street. It's lovely. Head west to where it ends in a complex of straight nightclubs, and you're suddenly not far from The Club, an extensive bathhouse where you can get into just about anything with just about anyone at just about any time. Also nearby is Victoria Park, once Fort Lauderdale's premier gay 'hood, where you can still find some very nice clothing-optional gay guesthouses. At the edge of the neighborhood is The Gateway Theatre, an old-timey movie house that features gay and independent cinema.
Though most of the area's gay bars are in Wilton Manors, you can find some charming dives around Fort Lauderdale. Mona's and The Cubby Hole are friendly, economical places to get a drink in relative peace and quiet, and they're not far from this place, which is plenty friendly, but neither peaceful nor especially quiet. And just north of there you'll find a strip club called Le Boy, specializing in adorably malnourished twinks.
North of Fort Lauderdale is a blossoming burg called Oakland Park, which is being rapidly colonized by gays priced out of Wilton Manors. It's home to SoFla's best independent beer-brewing operation, Funky Buddha, which sometimes hosts gay nights in its expansive taproom. Near there is an outpost of Lips, the drag-bar chain.
Outposts, colonies, miscellanea, and Key West
How gay are they? Varies.
There are little redoubts of gay life all the way up the South Floridian coast. Delray Beach is arty, historic, architecturally charming, and reliably metrosexual. Clematis Rd, in West Palm Beach, has an inclusive and frequently freaky nightlife. Boca Raton is full of retired gays, and they have their spots. But one can only travel so much, and if you have somehow exhausted the possibilities of Dade and Broward Counties, head south past the half-settled swamps outside Homestead, over the 40 or so bridges and 160 miles that bring you to the end of the Florida Keys.
Key West was one of America's original gay havens, just like it was a haven for anybody who had a hard time fitting in elsewhere in America: the weird, the lazy, the pathologically chill, the hopelessly boho, Ernest Hemingway. What happened in South Beach happened much earlier in Key West, and the island's explicitly gay subculture has merged with the place's general funk and fun. Now it's all gay, all straight, all pansexual, all the time. You'll find Baptist housewives from Tennessee yucking it up with drag queens at a place like La Te Da, and everybody seems cool with everybody. The hets from the Big American Middle have an unusually easy time dropping their guard here, maybe because Key West never feels quite like the real world.
There are places on the island that are gay-only. The Island House and Equator are little preserves of old-school gay life and easy sexuality, and much fun can be had there. But do get out onto the main drag of Duval St at least a few times, and mingle with the straights and tourists and local oddities in their natural habitats. Head west to the Sunset Celebration and catch the spectacular natural light show over the gulf and the motley bunch of street performers who assemble nightly at Mallory Square. The last time I was there, which was a while ago, there was a fantastic contortionist, a gymnast, an exceptionally loud bagpiper, and a guy who'd trained some of the polydactyl cats that roam the island to jump through hoops of fire, like little circus lions. I don't know if he's still there. If he isn't, I'm confident that someone comparably weird and wonderful has taken his place.
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1. Club Boi1437 Washington Ave, Miami Beach
2. Score Bar1437 Washington Ave, Miami Beach
3. Twist1057 Washington Ave, Miami Beach
4. Palace Bar1200 Ocean Dr, Miami
5. Azucar NightClub2301 SW 32nd Ave, Miami
6. Club Aqua2991 Coral Way, Coral Gables
7. stork's2505 NE 15th Ave, Wilton Manors
8. Le Patio Restaurant2401 NE 11th Ave, Wilton Manors
9. Rumors Bar Lounge2426 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors
10. Progress Bar2440 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors
11. Rosie's Bar & Grill2449 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors
12. Galanga Thai Kitchen & Sushi Bar2389 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors
13. The Manor2345 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors
14. To The Moon2205 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors
15. Georgie's Alibi Monkey Bar2266 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors
16. Tee-Jay Thai Sushi2254 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors
17. Hunters2232 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors
18. Java Boys2230 Wilton Dr, Wilton Manors
19. Ramrod1508 NE 4th Ave, Wilton Manors
20. Mona's Cocktail Lounge502 E Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale
21. Cubby Hole823 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale
22. 321 Slammer Club321 Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale
23. LeBoy1243 NE 11th Ave, Fort Lauderdale
24. The Funky Buddha Brewery1201 NE 38th St, Oakland Park
25. Lips Restaurant1421 E Oakland Park Blvd, Oakland Park
26. La Te Da1175 Duval St, Key West
If you're looking for a nightspot that ditches electronic music for Latin hits, hip-hop, R&B, and old school rap, head to Miami Beach's Club Boi. The nightclub's roster of events packs a punch, including the crowd-favorite, high-energy weekly Sexy Saturdays. Though the club caters mostly, but not exclusively to Latin and black men, it's open to everyone of course, so make Club Boi a stop on your next night out.
Get ready to shoot, score, and win at Score Miami, a nightclub in Miami Beach that prides itself on being one of the hottest, most energetic spots in the city. Situated on Washington Avenue, Score's space is lit up with rainbow spotlights and a massive disco ball, lending a truly universally flattering glow to the well-coiffed men on the dance floor. If you're seeking a spot to see and be seen, make Score next on your Miami nightlife bucket list.
Twist has two stories, three dance floors, and seven bars, which are numbers you should get behind… literally. The massive nightclub on Washington Ave. is the apex of gay bars on the beach, with abundant drink specials, beats bumping, and shirtless buffs packed shoulder-to-shoulder in every nook and cranny. Grab a drink at one of the many bars and dance until dawn on one of the dance floors, just don't leave without a trip to the back cabana, the "Bungalow Bar," for a dance from the go-go boys. And remember, as they say at Twist, "Never a cover, always a groove!"
The first and only gay restaurant and bar on Ocean Drive, the Palace has been an Art Deco District institution for decades. The menu, divided into appetizers, sandwiches, flatbreads, burgers, salads, entrees, pastas, and sides will fuel you during both weekend drag shows and weekly dance parties, and highlights include blackened mahi, shrimp and tilapia livornese, and Cajun fettucine with peppers and sautéed chicken. Signature cocktails are whimsical and innovative, including the Tiffany Fantasia, with pear vodka, lychee puree, and lemonade, the T.Lo with Tanduay Asian Rum, raspberry puree, pineapple juice, and soda water, and the Melissa Hilton with peach vodka, peach schnapps, cranberry juice, and pineapple juice.
It's been said that nights at Azucar Miami are sweet as sugar, and you'll understand why after a couple of drinks at this premier gay Latin nightclub in Miami. Whether you're shy on the dance floor or like to shake it out for everyone to see, you'll find a home at this spot, which serves as a gateway to the nightlife scene in Little Havana. Azucar Miami jam packs its schedule with cabaret nights, drag shows, and, of course, drink specials, promising a good time every time.
Club Aqua -- formerly known as Club Body Center upon its inception in the '70s -- is Miami's last remaining old-school gay sauna and bathhouse in Coconut Grove. The "Clothing Optional Facility" has everything you know and love about a bathhouse: gym, sauna, jacuzzi, spa, pool, tropical gardens, maze (that's right, I said tropical gardens and a maze). Every day brings with it a different special, like free beer on some nights, DJs and male dancers the next, and poolside buffets when you get hungry. And there men, lots and lots of men.
If all candidates for office opened bakeries, perhaps our country would function a little more sweetly. Okay, probably not, but considering that smile-inducing, sugar-high-inspiring Stork's Bakery was opened by a one-time candidate for Congress, forgive us for thinking pastries can solve our politics. In any case, head to Stork's for cakes, cheesecakes, pies, pastries, and tarts that will make your heart skip a beat. And if you're craving "real" food (Mama once told you that cookies aren't a meal), there's that too. Try a salad, sandwich, or soup to feel extra satisfied.
Is there anything more romantic than a teeny tiny restaurant with an outdoor garden patio of wrought iron chairs and wooden tables lit by purple string lights? Combine the atmosphere and the European comfort food of Fort Lauderdale's Le Patio, and you've got yourself the perfect date spot. Start with a cheese plate and work your way through the menu to the crowd-favorite lobster ravioli served in a heavy cream sauce, eventually ending with the crème brulee that will leave you with sweet dreams for days.
Rumors Bar and Grill is one of the few Wilton Manors spots that offers a BYOB option. That's right, Build Your Own Burger. Add sautéed peppers, sautéed onions, garlic aioli, jalapeno jelly, mushrooms, and crispy onions to a blend-of-beef patty for the ultimate experience. If burgers aren't your thing, opt for a mac & cheese with braised short rib, avocado fries with sriracha aioli, fried Brussels sprouts, or nachos to line your belly before diving headfirst into the cocktail menu of margaritas, wines, and beers.
Progress is a breath of fresh air in a Wilton Manors strip heavily dominated by dive bars. This LGBTQ spot operates on the ethos of progress and unity, evident in the sleek and sophisticated décor like low ceilings, stone elements, and chrome lighting fixtures that make the space decidedly intimate. Come here for a drink or two with friends or make it your night-out destination, an experience enhanced by the club's up-and-coming DJs and ultra talented dancers.
It's time to finally have a reason to order dessert for breakfast. Rosie's Bar and Grill, a gay restaurant in Wilton Manors, offers a Sunday Funday brunch on its tropical patio. Sitting below vibrant umbrellas and paper lanterns, start with something "Big and Fluffy," like a stack of s'mores pancakes loaded with milk chocolate and topped with marshmallow fluff, and then continue with a "Big 'Dict," Benedicts served on big, flaky biscuits. If you're into "Omelet Porn" (don't worry; there's no discrimination here) try the cheeseburger omelet with beef, Cheddar cheese, tomato, onion, and pickles. Wash it all down with a Bloody Mary or three, and get dancin' to the beat of the DJ.
Restaurants on The Drive in Wilton Manors have a responsibility to be as exciting and hip as the various clubs, condos, and stores in the vicinity. Galanga Thai Kitchen & Sushi Bar fulfills its responsibility in its hip chalet-like house on Wilton Dr. with a romantic, contemporary atmosphere (perfect for a date) and famously attractive staff (perfect for finding a date, perhaps?) to prime its patrons for a wild dance party down the street. The food proffer includes authentic Thai and Japanese cuisines, with dishes like pad Thai, curries, familiar sushi roll favorites, and sashimi.
The Manor is the pinnacle of Wilton Manor. It's equal parts nightclub, event space, and ultra lounge housed in a two story space, culminating in a gay and lesbian funhouse… though fun mansion would be a more accurate depiction of the labyrinthine complex. The Manor features a combination of vintage and modern styles, with crystal chandeliers hanging alongside disco balls, a lavish VIP room with plush couches, and fog machines and rainbow confetti filling the air on the sweaty, sticky dance floor that you can't seem to break away from… not even for bottle service in VIP.
To The Moon is an otherworldly treasure trove of over 12,000 colorful, collectible confectionary items, including hard-to-find candies from 1806 to today, 70 types of chocolate-covered snacks, over 100 types of black licorice, 90 varieties of dark chocolate, and hundreds of international grocery items like German pretzels, Dutch wafers, and British crisps. And if that's not enough of a mouthful for you, add in some decidedly adult novelties sprinkled throughout the Wilton Manors store, and then reevaluate your opinion.
With a name like Georgie's Alibi Monkey Bar, you pretty much know exactly what to expect, right? Right. The gay bar and restaurant in Wilton Manor is one of the area's busiest spots, maybe because of the award-winning burger, maybe because of the generous happy hours, but probably because of the late night transformation from burger joint to dance club Georgie's makes when the lights go down. Expect a line out the door and down the street, people travel to Georgie's Alibi Monkey Bar to be serenaded by the drag queens and the divas, for the nonstop dancing, and yeah, that award-winning burger, they're here for that, too.
Before hitting up gay club Georgie's Alibi at the Shoppes of Wilton Manors, stock up on raw fish and Thai specialties at Tee-Jay Thai Sushi. Perhaps somewhat envious of Georgie's club aesthetic, Tee-Jay brings amps up the Asian dining experience to new, flashy levels with the glow of purple and blue neon lights, jellyfish-shaped lamps at the sushi bar, and sleek wooden furniture. Start with Thai dumplings, which come light and silky, and fill up on tuna tataki, Thai-style chicken fried rice, and aromatic chicken panang curry with peanuts, coconut milk, bell peppers, and a hefty amount of spice for a kick in the pants.
The team behind Hunters Palm Springs has expanded its gay club empire down south, where Hunters Fort Lauderdale occupies a coveted spot in the Shoppes at Wilton Manors. The energy is contagious here, so come ready to tear up the dance floor beneath laser lights and a spiked disco ball that could potentially injure (read: impale) if gravity has its way. But you're at Hunters. Your Moscow Mule is divine, your favorite song is blaring on the speakers, and all is well. Don't be afraid to live on the edge.
In Wilton Manors, there are few spots where you can sit down for a drink that isn't beer, wine, or a cocktail. Luckily, Java Boys is here to serve with the espresso you'll need to wake you up after a night on the strip, as well as some delicious pastries to fuel (and fill out) your beach bod. With muffins, scones, pies, and even fried empanadas on offer, this cozy spot is a destination for both breakfast and lunch seekers.
If you've ever spent time in Wilton Manors, it's likely you've seen leather-clad men cruise by you on 4th Ave., but it's even more likely that you've been to Ramrod, one of the longest running gay clubs in Fort Lauderdale, with an affinity for leather. Enter and enjoy edgy music and erotic videos in a medieval dungeon-like space, with gargoyles, griffins, and cast iron jail doors hanging from the ceiling, and a smoke machine clouding up the small room. There's a bar on the back patio for those that shy from the sweaty dance floor inside, and for those that dare show up sans leather, you're encouraged to stop by Leatherwerks, the on-premises leather and fetish store, which just so happens to be the best in the area… or just take off your shirt.
Mona's Bar is what you'd imagine a real-life Fort Lauderdale Barbie dream beach house to look like if you nixed the teeny furniture, poured a whole lot of booze, and planted it on the side of Sunrise Boulevard. The cocktail bar (and its hot pink exterior) has a loyal following of locals who prefer this out-of-the-way gay dive to the Wilton Manors strip, and with popcorn and chocolate pretzels on offer as bar snacks, it's not hard to understand why. Stick around long enough to play the bar's signature train game -- every time the train rolls by, you might win yourself a free drink.
You'll enter The Cubby Hole through, you guessed it, the back door. The smoke-filled hallway lined with Christmas lights will lead you to a bar that's packed with tens of men (and a few ladies), and depending on the time of week, patrons will either be stripped down to their skivvies (there are weekly drink deals for that) or fully clothed. Come with your girls or your boys and down a couple of cheap cocktails as you move to the music of the 90s jukebox. You have entered the self-proclaimed Friendliest Bar in Fort Lauderdale, and yes, that is indeed porn playing on the flat-screens around the bar.
You'll need a membership to enter 321 Slammer, but that shouldn't turn you off. With public and private play areas, slings, and glory holes, the space is darkly sexy with amber and dark red hues throughout. Wall decals of men of all shapes and sizes line the mazelike hallways, leaving what goes on behind these closed doors only to your imagination. The bar is BYOB, so bring your finest booze and your worst behavior.
LeBoy is: where the boys are, never a cover, always a good time. LeBoy took a new approach to the strip club, turning it into an upscale establishment for entertainment and hospitality alike. The 2,500sqft space features choreographed performances, VIP rooms, an outdoor patio, and most importantly, male models. And this isn't one of those strip clubs with questionable food, rather one of those few strip clubs with food that's actually good. Pizzas, burgers, hot dogs, quesadillas, and the like are served on the patio, which is the perfect primer for watching male models flaunt their flawless bodies when they take the stage each night.
Funky Buddha Brewing is home to big flavors, meaning that in a peanut butter and jelly beer, you'll actually taste the roasted peanuts and fruit jam as you sip. Flagship beers include Hop Gun IPA and Floridian Hefeweizen, which pair perfectly with the cheese board, soft pretzel, Floridian spiced olives, and pork sandwich, which are all made in-house and served at the brewery. The space is industrial-chic with flecks of wood and chrome imbued in the walls.
Lips Restaurant is a show palace, where drag queens and divas dazzle during dinner theater in a space self-described as "Ken and Barbie's dream house on acid." A longtime West Village, New York City favorite, Lips extended its flashy entertainment to Fort Lauderdale, putting on shows beneath grand chandeliers and disco balls. There's no cover for the coveted seats at the bar, just a two-drink minimum, so order a couple kitschy-named cocktails, sit back, and prepare to be dazzled.
Key West was one of America's original gay havens, but the island's explicitly gay subculture has merged with the area's general funk and fun. It's evident at places like the historic La Te Da, a cabaret and piano bar set in an iconic hotel that once housed Cuban exile José Martí. Now, you'll find Baptist housewives from Tennessee yucking it up with drag queens over martinis poolside -- it's all gay, all straight, all pansexual, all the time.


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This year for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Team Tulsa marched in the parade with my host site, HOPE Testing Clinic. We all wore red for HIV/AIDS awareness. During the parade, we handed out lollipops with information about HIV testing for Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day that is coming up on February 7, along with other clinic and testing information. We also handed out information about the Oklahoma HIV/STD Hotline that is answered during the day at HOPE. We carried my clinic's banner that encourages people to get tested (which I did trip over while carrying!). This year's parade was the biggest in Tulsa's history. Not only were people celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr., but President Obama's picture was on many of the floats as well. This extra significance made the parade all that more meaningful for myself, and the others involved. All the local television stations were there, and I had a few people tell me they saw us on tv. It was just an awesome feeling being involved in the biggest MLK parade ever in Tulsa, the day before President Obama's first day in office all while getting the word about about HIV testing in Tulsa.
Samantha Young
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Mansanares v. Buckeye Judge et al
Plaintiff: Miguel Mansanares
Defendant: Buckeye Judge, John Doe, Jane Doe, Arizona, State of, Terry Goddard, Ironwood/Gila Bend Judge and Superior Court Judges
Case Number: 2:2008cv00662
Filed: April 4, 2008
Court: Arizona District Court
Office: Prisoner: Civil Rights Office
County: Maricopa
Referring Judge: Lawrence O Anderson (PS)
Presiding Judge: Mary H Murguia
Nature of Suit: None
Cause of Action: Federal Question
Jury Demanded By: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights
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4 Health Problems that can be Treated with Cabbage Leaves
Due to its powerful medical properties, the cabbage can help you to treat numerous health problems. Apart from consuming it, this vegetable can be used as a natural topical medication since its leaves have an ability to pull out different diseases from your body. Here are four health problems which can be treated with cabbage leaves.
Headaches most commonly occur as a result of increased stress levels or excessive tiredness. If you suffer from a headache, you can relieve it by applying a compress of cabbage leaves onto the upper part of your head and your forehead.
In order to keep the leaves in place, you should put a hat on your head. As soon as you notice a relief in your headache, you may remove the leaves.
Breastfeeding Pain
Many women experience an excessive pain during breastfeeding. However, this pain can easily be reduced by using cabbage leaves. Apply some fresh leaves to your breasts, and the pain will instantly be relieved.
Thyroid Gland Problems
If your thyroid gland is unable to function properly, you are exposed to the risk of various health issues, including digestive problems, decreased metabolism, heart irregularities, increased cholesterol levels, muscle weakness, joint pain, and weight changes.
In order to treat any thyroid gland issue, you should place some cabbage leaves on the base of your neck, where the thyroid gland is located.
Secure the leaves with a bandage or a shawl. Leave the leaves on your neck during the night, and remove them the following morning.
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We spent the class today getting to know Mrs. Lefebvre and Mr. Toman better. Now it is time for the students to share their information with us! A student survey and parent/student contract were passed today and are due at the start of Friday's class.
And don't forget to think of an action that starts with the sound of the first letter of your first name!
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CALI Strong Lord Rasta Socks
The CALI Strong Lord Rasta Sock is a premium athletic sock that will have your dogs rocking their best. These socks are crew length with a jacquard knit pattern of breathable cotton blend construction.
- Cotton blend of 80% Cotton, 15% Nylon and 5% Spandex.
- Mid Length Crew Sock
- Full Cushioned Foot With Welt Top
- Contrast Heel And Toe
- One Size Fits Most
- Machine Wash Warm
- Non-chlorine Bleach When Needed
- Tumble Dry, Normal
Reggae History:
- Reggae originated in downtown Kingston, where the major studios like Studio One and Treasure Isle were located. The location was the musical birthplace of reggae music greats like Bob Marley and The Wailers, the I-Three (Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffith), Dennis Brown, John Holt, Bob Andy, Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd and many more.
- Despite being recognized as a reggae legend, Bob Marley never won a Grammy. The Best Reggae Recording category was added in 1984, three years after his death.
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If you like your furniture to have a rustic, traditional yet modern flavour, you'll love the Corona range. If you love the Corona range and yet you would like it white then Corona White Washed Waxed range is just for you.Corona White is a selected range of furniture stemming from the well reknowned Corona Range but given a crisp clean white wash waxed finish.
The pine timber is ecologically grown in Brazil, where the furniture range is also made using traditional methods. Each item is lovingly treated with a base coat which protects the wood as well as giving it a charming grainy effect, before being hand polished with wax for an extra layer of protection. Across the range, black metal hinges and handles echo the rustic styling, creating a pleasing aesthetic that complements both modern and traditional decor styles.
The Corona range of furniture is designed for various rooms in the house. Individual pieces are available on a mix-and-match basis or in sets. There is, for instance, a bedroom collection that comprises a two-door wardrobe, a bedside cabinet with one door and one drawer, and a chest of drawers with two full width drawers beneath two half width drawers. The items in the set are also available singly to give you the freedom to choose exactly which pieces you need. Separate bedroom items of furniture include bed frames in 5' or 4'6" widths with head and foot boards, traditionally styled storage trunks and single pedestal dressing tables with three drawers.
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In Zappa Roidz you fly around in a space ship and you have to shoot all the asteroids and aliens you encounter. When you shoot a large asteroid it will break into smaller asteroids that you also have to shoot. On a map you can see where all the asteroids and aliens are. Your space ship can be destroyed by colliding with other objects. When you have lost all your space ships the game is over.
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Janifer's Story
Janifer is the fourth of six children in her family, and the most educated by having
completed senior three (grade 11) and some of senior four (grade 12). However, Janifer
had to drop out of school in 2010 when her mother became ill and she was needed at home
to help with her older brother and his six young children, her younger sister and an ill
nephew. Additionally, Janifer now has a child of her own after being abandoned by the
father. None of her siblings have an education beyond senior two (grade 10) and the family
was relying on the $28/month Janifer earned as a part-time teacher in her neighbourhood's
primary school, but this was not enough for a family of 12. Janifer was selected by her
community to receive training in carpentry and joinery through a scholarship at VEC-L, the
vocational school built and founded by SSF. This gives her the potential to care for
everyone in her family.
About her studies and future, Janifer says: "I know if I train and know how to make furniture
of a high value, my family and my life will never be the same"
As a way to support education and training, Salama SHIELD has established Salama
Vocational Education Centre – Lyantonde (SVEC-L), with practical studies focused on
supporting youth development and employability. Curricula promote the development of
the whole person and program clusters include foundation studies, environment and
agriculture, with individual study areas such as animal husbandry, auto mechanics,
bricklaying, culinary arts, hospitality, tailoring, concrete and carpentry. As part of their
studies, students take part in "Mbuntu Dialogues," which creates a forum for youth to
discuss and confront social issues and learn how to avoid risky behaviours. Discussions
take place around reproductive health and social issues, also presenting an opportunity for
youth to develop leadership skills and roles within the community. At SSF we believe these
youth can succeed and have placed SVEC-L and our Community Development Centre to
provide them with practical skills, support and the opportunity to discuss prevalent issues.
Recently, Salama SHIELD has fully handed over SVEC-L, now VEC-L to the community.
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A Season In Chaos ...
The main guy at SOTD records had heard Deliverance's cover of "Silent Night" (A touchingly faithful cover with some killer thrash riffing and an slightly darker edge) and thought ~hey why isn't there an album of various extreme metal bands performing their own interpretations of traditional christmas carols? ~ . Now seeing as he owned a record company (now defunct, unrelated to the album I'm sure) and knew of several metals bands who could contribute. He ended up with "Brutal Christmas", a compilation of 11 bands performing Christmas carols like you've never heard them before. This is why I'll be giving each track a little blurb.
First off we have a thrashy cover of "Angels We Have Heard On High" by Archer. This has a great solo riff of the songs melody opening and closing the track. Though a faithful rendition it manages to have some killer riffing and blistering drum work. A shining start.
Next is Kekal's "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" which is standard Kekal fair. Kekal is an Indonesian Christian black metal band who order industrial. It's an interesting mix. Though the melody is not as traditional, Kekal manage to give the song a fresh sound while not ruining it.
Then it's "Mary Did You Know" by Royal Anguish (featuring guest performance by Henrik from Mistral). Royal Anguish do a passionate rendition while sticking to their distinct sound of progressive death metal. The song uses mostly clean vocals and some fine guitar work and keyboards. If Mary didn't know, she knows now!
Frank's Enemy destroy all that is "Lully Lullay" with their performance of "Coventry Carol (Lully Lullay)". It starts off with a renaissance sound and female vocals that are traditional, yet slightly unsettling. The music gets warped and woozy just before the band obliterates any sense of melody with their brand of sickenly brutal death metal. They do slow it up with some crunchy guitar work and a single bell. It's very disturbing and darkly sinister. The song ends with the chilling renaissance sound and female vocals. Oh those Frank's Enemy boys are one of the most brutal metal bands I've ever heard.
The renaissance sound continues on the intro to Frost Like Ashes "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence/O Come Emmanuel" with use of a harpsichord. The the band kicks in with brutal black/death metal rendition of "Let All Mortal ..." It's fast and pummelling. They slow it down into a gothy doom bit while transitioning into "O Come Emmanuel" and once we catch our breath we are blasted again into "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence". There is no silence here.
Tortured Conscience's old school death metal rendition of "Little Drummer Boy" is worth the price of the CD. It is so brutal it's almost silly. It is extreme death metal at it's best. The bone-crushing drum work is blistering, but the melody is still recognizable. Though it may get mocked (featured recently on the Howard Stern show) they perform the song faithfully with a little touch of good ol' death metal to enhance it. I would have liked to see a killer drum solo here, but maybe that's just me.
Hearken pull of a very melodic death metal cover of "O Come All Ye Faithful". It's mid-paced heavy with some nice off timed drumming and very melodic vocals that defy anyone who says death metal vocals can't carry melody.
I'm am unfamiliar with the song "Child Messiah" and cannot find an alternate version to compare to (maybe they changed the title?!?) But Death Requisite pull off some nice black metal here with hints of ethnic flavour in some of the melody. Good work
Eversinceve toss off a 7 min version of "O Holy Night" that is pure metalcore. The death/black metal vocals are great and the music is brutally faithful. The heavy breakdowns are mosh worthy and the middle bridge is stirring. But what I love here is the raw emotion inherit throughout the song. It is by far the most passionate song here because of its brutality.
Lucky for Faithbomb that Kekal's "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" uniquely their own or else we might have had some repetition. Faithbomb's "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (take 2)" is faithful to the melody, one really fast with some brutally heavy breakdowns. at a minute twenty, this is the shortest song here, but it delivers.
Pure Defiance closes the album out with a Christmasy sounding mid-paced thrash rendition of "Joy To The World". It's upliftingly wicked, with some fine thrash work in the middle and wailing soloing. It ends the album on a lighter note without losing the metal edge carried through the album.
As much as I love "Little Drummer Boy" I'd have to go with Eversinceve's "O Holy Night" as my fave, it's just so moving. This album is a must for any metalhead to own and crank through the holidays. I also have a silly cover of "Do They Know It's Christmas" by the Deftones, though faithfully done, is almost mocking, but not quite. As well as a Rush-esque cover of "O Come Emmanuel" with hints of Pink Floyd and new age. I don't know who the artist is though. And lastly if you can check out Korn's disgustingly brutal death metal version of Jingle Bell's... It's brilliant.
Well this is it for me till the New Year when I'll be limiting my reviews to once a week. I's is just to busy to keep up. This way I can give the albums my full attention and I don't feel I'm rushing them. Thanks to everyone who keeps on coming back and I wish you all a Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year!


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