Hands-on: Cong Burn’s Stacks Plug-in and iOS App Synths, Loops and Layers – CDM Create Digital Music

From the creator of Strokes, Stacks is a unique 4-voice wavetable morphing polysynth combined with a 4-track granular looper. But that description doesn’t really do it justice: modeling and digital grunge combine to create a raunchy instrument that behaves like an experimental studio. I’ve been playing around with a test version of Stacks on desktop. … Read more

‘Wonder baby’ burns in tent fire and beats all odds – but mum says she’s being shunned by society

Dalal is the little Syrian girl they never thought would survive. Now four years old, despite horrific burns and no hands, she is once again confusing the doctors, her family and everyone who knows her. We watch her concentrate hard on maneuvering a cage between the stumps she was left with. It’s hard work for … Read more

Warning from mother after toddler suffers extreme burns from touching plants

Ella Cain, 2, was playing in the garden when she smelled and brushed the stems of a plant with delicate yellow flowers. The next day she had small blisters on her skin Ella developed painful brown spots after brushing against a plant (Kennedy News and Media) A mother has issued a warning after her toddler … Read more

Scaffold builder dies from chemical burns

The incident took place at Tata’s Lostock Hall site

Michael Densmore, from Halewood, Merseyside, died as a result of complications from the wound he suffered after his right foot slipped into a container containing a liquid chemical of calcium hydroxide – known as ‘milk of lime’ – causing chemical and thermal burns. The 37-year-old father of four was one of several scaffolders employed by … Read more