Carnival in the Netherlands coming years are: Traditionally a Carnaval feast was the last opportunity to eat well before the time of food shortage at the end of the winter during which one was limited to the minimum necessary. On what nowadays is called "vastenavond" (the days before fasting) all the remaining winter stores of lard, butter and meat which were left would be eaten, for it would soon start to rot and decay. The selected livestock had in fact already been slaughtered in November and the meat would be no longer preservable. All the food that had survived the winter had to be
No Longer There No Longer There "No Longer There" is the first single to be taken from The Cat Empire's fourth album, "So Many Nights". The single peaked at number 12 in the Australian singles chart. According to the email sent to the band's mailing list, the CD single will include "four unreleased tracks" and pre-ordered copies of the single will be signed by the entire band. The song "No Longer There" has been uploaded on the band's MySpace. The MySpace version has a 10-second keyboard introduction which is omitted in the radio version. The song includes a slide guitar, two violins, a