Here is still more about how the social media giants are steadily choking off all material that looks at Islam with a critical eye. Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism are all fair game, but Islam is off limits, as our moral superiors move to impose Sharia blasphemy laws upon the West.
As a former Muslim hosting a live TV show for over a decade, I've come to rely on social media platforms to connect with my audience now more than ever before. My show, "Daring Questions," is watched via satellite TV (through Alhayat TV) by millions of viewers around the world (mainly in Arabic speaking communities). My show is popular among Muslims because it is highly controversial. I raise many bold questions about the Islamic faith and I expose the danger of some Islamic doctrine. I also present testimonies of ex-Muslims who have left Islam and allow them to share their experiences in order to empower others and encourage them to do the same. To engage further with audiences and the wider, global, Muslim community, these questions and testimonies are also posted on my two main websites, "BrotherRachid.com" and "IslamExplained.com," as well as on social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. However, Muslim governments impose restrictions and heavy censorship and my websites are often inaccessible in many Muslim countries due to material I present which uses critical thinking to address Islamic doctrines. As a result, social media platforms are an increasingly crucial way for me to reach out to the Muslim world and surpass the censorship that Muslim countries place on the material I present.
However, I face a dilemma that needs to be addressed and exposed to the whole world. The Arabic content for giant social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube is overseen predominantly by Muslims (since the majority of those who speak Arabic are Muslims). These companies have offices in the United Arab Emirates and give their Arabic speaking staff the authority to delete and block any material that does not fit their guidelines. However, this authority is abused when any channel or page that criticizes Islam or presents opposing views to Islam is blocked, deleted or removed. For example, my Facebook page (which has over 1.5 million likes) was once deleted, while the Facebook page of Alhayat – the channel that broadcasts my show – was also deleted without any explanation, causing the channel to lose all the money they had spent on advertising, among other damages. My YouTube channel (which has also garnered millions of views) was once removed for 'breaking guidelines.' Thank God, I appealed the removal and explained the details to those in charge in the US and have since been able to gain my channel back. My Facebook posts are removed on many occasions and I am frequently blocked from posting because a post allegedly "does not follow Facebook guidelines!" No further explanation is provided. Sometimes, even my own picture is reported and removed because it violates copyrights! Recently, I posted a cover of my book in French; the post was removed for breaking "Facebook guidelines" and yet nobody could explain to me how a book that is published legally and sold on Amazon can break Facebook guidelines.


"Eric Etebari directs this film with a nice touch, as though a master photographer himself, but sadly a lot of it feels quite amateur hour."
Perhaps not as polished as it could be, considering it's about the skill of photography, the constant visual grittiness of this tale of right and wrong does the necessary job. It has strength in a confident lead and secondary characters are just as interesting, but sadly it suffers from being quite ridiculous.
One time paparazzo Thomas (Zach McGowan) has built up quite a collection of celebrity snaps, but his business is failing and the heights of his professionalism reach firehouse calendar shots. Living with his girlfriend Arianna (Angela Gots), his world may become blown up as he inadvertently gains an explicit photo of the First Lady (Joyce DeWitt).
Eric Etebari directs this film with a nice touch, as though a master photographer himself; there are some neat moments in the flashy snapshots of Zach's introduction or the quite lovely image of seeing Arianna reading the letter amongst the past world with her father. Sadly a lot of it feels quite amateur hour; hand held cams get a bit tedious, implanted footage on TV screens looks shoddy and layered over dialogue is clear in some places, but it's certainly an engagingly told tale about the world of today.
The biggest asset of this film is the way it deals with obsessing over fame, money and capturing attention. Thomas to a degree falls foul of this media craved society in his background bleeding through to the way he cannot help but hold on to the compromising pictures of a powerful figure in America. The peak of Robert Borneman's script comes very close to the end as the President delivers an address on his policies, which features strongly the reliance of technology and how it drives people to suicide or hate others. That's actually such a poignant and relevant message that it took me by surprise.
Now to the other side; the pitfall is in the far-fetched nature of the plot. It's the biggest force of the story, making the drama continue but the whole thing of the First Lady happening to fall just as Thomas is there is silly from the get go, and then the entire Presidency alarm at what may happen in election season becomes more daft then gripping. Also, Casey and Randy are such contrived tools to progress the tension that it's nearly laughable. I feel that some grounded moments about father/son bonding, reflections on loss and Thomas/Arianna's connection took a back seat to the cheapness of the exploitative photo narrative.
That word cheap is something that sticks out and resonates, as the film does feel cheap in its clichéd look at characters. The acting talent can only try their best with some pretty cardboard personas to play. McGowan is probably the best of the lot, cool and assured as this photographer still in love with dark rooms and old cameras. Gots doesn't have a stand out moment and gets close to annoying when she randomly freaks out over Thomas visiting a store owned by a woman, her pendant and locked box story is quite nice to watch though. DeWitt feels like Edna from The Incredibles, her look and sound bouncing off the walls as cheesy and hilarious.
It would be a stretch to say this film is worth a watch but it's not one to totally forget as the theme of trigger happy paps is always going to run true. Maybe a sheen of modern aged gloss and talent could have made the film look better and ultimately hand it a recommendation.


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Q: Why hasn't functional programming taken over yet? I've read some texts about declarative/functional programming (languages), tried out Haskell as well as written one myself. From what I've seen, functional programming has several advantages over the classical imperative style:

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*Stateless programs; No side effects

*Concurrency; Plays extremely nice with the rising multi-core technology

*Programs are usually shorter and in some cases easier to read

*Productivity goes up (example: Erlang)

*Imperative programming is a very old paradigm (as far as I know) and possibly not suitable for the 21st century
Why are companies using or programs written in functional languages still so "rare"?
Why, when looking at the advantages of functional programming, are we still using imperative programming languages?
Maybe it was too early for it in 1990, but today?

A: When I think about what functional programming might bring to my projects at work I'm always led down the same path of thought:

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*To get the full advantages of functional programming you need laziness. Yes, there are strict functional languages, but the real benefits of functional programming don't shine as well in strict code. For example, in Haskell it's easy to create a sequence of lazy operations on a list and concatenate them and apply them to a list. Eg. op1 $ op2 $ op3 $ op4 $ someList. I know that it's not going to build the entire list and internally I'm just going to get a nice loop that walks through the elements one at a time. This allows you to write really modular code. The interface between two modules can involve handing over potentially vast data structures, and yet you don't have to have the structure resident.

*But when you have laziness, it becomes hard to reason about memory usage. Changing the Haskell compiler flags frequently changes the amount of memory used by an algorithm from O(N) to O(1), except sometimes it doesn't. This isn't really acceptable when you have applications that need to make maximum use of all available memory, and it's not great even for applications that don't need all memory.

A: Two things:

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*It just takes time no matter how good a technology is. The ideas behind FP is about 70 years old. But its mainstream usage in Software Engineering (in the trenches, in industry) is probably less than 10 years. Asking developers to adopt racially new mindsets is possible but just takes time (many, many years). For example, OOP really got mainstream usage in the early 1980's. However, it did not gain dorminance until the late 1990's.

*You need people to be forced to face a technology's strength before it hits it big. Currently, people are using tools that does not not make use of parallelism and things works okay. When apps that do not use parallelism become unbearably slow; then many people will be forced to use parallelism-tools and FP may shot up in popularity. This may also apply to FP's other strengths.

A: Because all those advantages are also disadvantages.

Stateless programs; No side effects

Real-world programs are all about side effects and mutation. When the user presses a button it's because they want something to happen. When they type in something, they want that state to replace whatever state used to be there. When Jane Smith in accounting gets married and changes her name to Jane Jones, the database backing the business process that prints her paycheque had better be all about handling that sort of mutation.  When you fire the machine gun at the alien, most people do not mentally model that as the construction of a new alien with fewer hit points; they model that as a mutation of an existing alien's properties.
When the programming language concepts fundamentally work against the domain being modelled, it's hard to justify using that language.

Concurrency; Plays extremely nice with the rising multi-core technology

The problem is just pushed around. With immutable data structures you have cheap thread safety at the cost of possibly working with stale data. With mutable data structures you have the benefit of always working on fresh data at the cost of having to write complicated logic to keep the data consistent. It's not like one of those is obviously better than the other.

Programs are usually shorter and in some cases easier to read

Except in the cases where they are longer and harder to read. Learning how to read programs written in a functional style is a difficult skill; people seem to be much better at conceiving of programs as a series of steps to be followed, like a recipe, rather than as a series of calculations to be carried out.

Productivity goes up (example: Erlang)

Productivity has to go up a lot in order to justify the massive expense of hiring programmers who know how to program in a functional style.
And remember, you don't want to throw away a working system; most programmers are not building new systems from scratch, but rather maintaining existing systems, most of which were built in non-functional languages. Imagine trying to justify that to shareholders. Why did you scrap your existing working payroll system to build a new one at the cost of millions of dollars? "Because functional programming is awesome" is unlikely to delight the shareholders.

Imperative programming is a very old paradigm (as far as I know) and possibly not suitable for the 21th century

Functional programming is very old too. I don't see how the age of the concept is relevant.
Don't get me wrong. I love functional programming, I joined this team because I wanted to help bring concepts from functional programming into C#, and I think that programming in an immutable style is the way of the future. But there are enormous costs to programming in a functional style that can't simply be wished away. The shift towards a more functional style is going to happen slowly and gradually over a period of decades. And that's what it will be: a shift towards a more functional style, not a wholesale embracing of the purity and beauty of Haskell and the abandoning of C++.
I build compilers for a living and we are definitely embracing a functional style for the next generation of compiler tools. That's because functional programming is fundamentally a good match for the sorts of problems we face. Our problems are all about taking in raw information -- strings and metadata -- and transforming them into different strings and metadata. In situations where mutations occur, like someone is typing in the IDE, the problem space inherently lends itself to functional techniques such as incrementally rebuilding only the portions of the tree that changed. Many domains do not have these nice properties that make them obviously amenable to a functional style.

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Why do you think no functional programming language has entered the mainstream?
John Hughes: Poor marketing! I don't mean propaganda; we've had plenty of that. I mean a careful choice of a target market niche to dominate, followed by a determined effort to make functional programming by far the most effective way to address that niche. In the happy days of the 80s, we thought functional programming was good for everything - but calling new technology "good for everything" is the same as calling it "particularly good at nothing". What's the brand supposed to be? This is a problem that John Launchbury described very clearly in his invited talk at ICFP. Galois Connections nearly went under when their brand was "software in functional languages," but they've gone from strength to strength since focusing on "high-assurance software."
Many people have no idea how technological innovation happens, and expect that better technology will simply become dominant all by itself (the "better mousetrap" effect), but the world's just not like that.

A: The stock answer is that neither will or should replace the other - they are different tools that have different sets of pros and cons, and which approach has the edge will differ depending on the project and other "soft" issues like the available talent pool.
I think you're right that the growth of concurrency due to multi-core will increase the percentage (of the global set of development projects) when functional programming is chosen over other styles.
I think it's rare today because the majority of today's professional talent pool is most comfortable with imperative and object-oriented technologies. For example, I have more than once chosen Java as the language for a commercial project because it was good enough, non-controversial, and I know that I will never run out of people that can program (well enough) in it.

A: Despite the advantages of functional programming, imperative and object oriented programming will never go away completely.
Imperative and object-oriented programming is a step-by-step description of the problem and its solution.  As such, it can be easier to comprehend.  Functional programming can be a bit obscure.
Ultimately, a useful program will always have side effects (like providing actual output to the user for consumption), so the purest of functional languages will still need a way to step into the imperative world from time to time.
The current state-of-the-art is that imperative languages (such as C#) borrow features from the functional world (such as lambda statements) and vice-versa.

A: Hasn't it?
Smalltalk was a great object-oriented system back in the day.  Why hasn't object-oriented programming taken over?  Well, it has.  It just doesn't look like Smalltalk.  Mainstream languages keep getting more Smalltalk-like with C++, Java, C#, etc.  Fashion and style change slower than anything, so when OO went mainstream, we got it by gluing parts of OO to old languages so it looked enough like C to swallow.
Functional is the same way.  Haskell was a great functional language.  But we've got even more mass of mainstream programmers using C-like syntax today than 20 years ago.  So it has to look like C.  Done: look at any LINQ expression and tell me it isn't functional.

A: I believe that imperative languages are more prevalent simply because that's what more people are used to. Neither functional programming nor the imperative programming model is more obscure or academic than the other. In fact, they are complements.
One poster said that imperative code is easier to understand than functional programming code. This is only true if the reader has already seen imperative code, especially if the prior examples are part of the same "family" (for example, C/C++, Perl, PHP and Java). I would not claim that it's true for any imperative language; take a comparison of Java and Forth, to make an extreme example.
To a layperson, all programming languages are indecipherable gibberish, except maybe the verbose languages such as Hypertalk and SQL. (Of note, SQL is a declarative and/or functional language and enjoys enormous popularity.)
If we had been initially trained on a Lisp-y or Haskell-y language from the start, we'd all think functional programming languages are perfectly normal.

A: You've gotten enough answers already that I'll mention only a couple of things I don't see mentioned yet.
First and (in my mind) foremost, procedural languages have benefited greatly from their degree of commonality. For one example, almost anybody who knows almost any of the mainstream procedural (or OO) languages to almost any degree can read most of the others reasonably well. I actively avoid working in Java, C#, Cobol, Fortran, or Basic (for just a few examples) but can read any of them reasonably well -- almost as well, in fact, as people who use them every day.
On the functional side, that's much less true. Just for example, I can write Scheme quite reasonably as well, but that's of little use in reading Ocaml or Haskell (for only a couple of examples). Even within a single family (e.g., Scheme vs., Common Lisp) familiarity with one doesn't seem to translate nearly as well to the other.
The claim that functional code is more readable tends to be true only under a narrow range of conditions. For people who are extremely familiar with the language, readability is indeed excellent -- but for everybody else, it's often next to nonexistent. Worse, while differences in procedural languages are largely of syntax and therefore relatively easily learned, differences in functional languages are often much more fundamental, so they require considerable study to really understand (e.g., knowing Lisp is of little help in understanding Monads).
The other major point is that the idea that functional programs are shorter than procedural ones is often based more on syntax than semantics. Programs written in Haskell (for one example) are often quite short, but its being functional is a rather small part of that. A great deal if it is simply that Haskell has a relatively terse syntax.
Few purely functional languages can compete well with APL for terse source code (though, in fairness, APL supports creating higher level functions as well, so that's not quite a large a difference as in some other cases). Contrariwise, Ada and C++ (for only a couple examples) can be quite competitive in terms of number of operations necessary to accomplish a given task, but the syntax is (at least usually) substantially more verbose.

A: No Perceived Need
I recall my old Boss Rick Cline's response when I showed him a copy of John Backus' Turing Award lecture entitled Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?
His response:  "Maybe some of us don't want to be liberated from the von Neumann style!"

A:
Why hasn't functional programming taken over yet?

Functional is better for some things and worse for others so it will never "take over". It is already ubiquitous in the real world though.

Stateless programs; No side effects

Stateless programs are easier to test. This is now widely appreciated and often exploited in industry.

Concurrency; Plays extremely nice with the rising multi-core technology
  Programs are usually shorter and in some cases easier to read
  Productivity goes up (example: Erlang)

You're conflating concurrent and parallelism.
Concurrency can be done effectively using communicating sequential processes (CSP). The code inside a CSP can mutate its local state but the messages sent between them should always be immutable.
Purely functional programming plays extremely badly with multicore because it is so cache unfriendly. Cores end up contending for shared memory and parallel programs don't scale.

Why are companies using or programs written in functional languages still so "rare"?

Scala is often regarded as a functional language but it is no more functional than C# which is one of the most popular languages in the world today.

Why, when looking at the advantages of functional programming, are we still using imperative programming languages?

Purely functional programming has lots of serious disadvantages so we use impure functional languages like Lisp, Scheme, SML, OCaml, Scala and C#.

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5 of 'Shell River Seven' have charges dismissed from Line 3 protest
Two more are still facing litigation including Winona Laduke, who was jailed in Wadena County Jail for three days following the incident.
Line 3 protesters stand before county sheriff deputies from around the region in July 2021 near the Shell River, by Menahga, Minn.
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By Michael Johnson
WADENA — Charges of trespassing and obstruction of legal process were dismissed against five of the women from the group known as the 'Shell River Seven' in Wadena County District Court on Monday, Oct. 31.
Those women include Kelly Maracle, Trish Weber, Mary Klein, Barbara With, and Cheryl Barnds. All pleaded not guilty.
The seven women were arrested back in July 2021 when they sat chained together on lawn chairs on a Line 3 oil pipeline easement in northern Wadena County, near the Shell River. This was a location where construction was not actively taking place, but horizontal drilling was planned nearby to install a pipeline under the Shell River.
Map of Line 3 project as it runs through Minnesota.
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The charges against the women stated that they were trespassing on the easement where construction of the oil pipeline was to take place. When asked to leave, they told law enforcement that they were unable to unchain themselves. They were eventually directed to move to an area where specialists could remove the log chain, bicycle locks and padlocks from binding each other together. They were then taken to the Wadena County Jail, according to court documents. Their goal was to sit in protest against the construction of the Line 3 pipeline that now makes its way south from Canada and through a portion of Wadena County on its way to Superior, Wisc. That pipeline has been operational for more than one year now.
Oil set to flow in Enbridge Line 3 Friday, bringing praise and condemnation in Minnesota
On Wednesday, the Canada-based company Enbridge announced Line 3 would be in service starting Friday, Oct. 1. Pipeline proponents and opponents both made statements in response to the news.
By Matthew J. Liedke
Wadena County District Court Judge Doug Clark dismissed the charges on the grounds that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate probable cause to sustain the charges.
The defense argued in their order that the women were invited to the location to exercise their rights and that the location they were seated was not on a pipeline by definition, rather it was a wooden boardwalk. The defendants also claimed that their act of chaining themselves together and speaking to law enforcement about possible threats posed by the pipeline and Indian treaty rights did not rise to the level of physically obstructing, hindering, or preventing their being taken into custody.
Judge Clark's conclusion was that the protest was taking place away from an active pipeline construction and the protesters presence there was not affecting the ongoing drilling. He added that there was insufficient evidence that the women being chained together was significant to constitute physical obstruction.
"The court makes this determination considering both the location of the defendants' protest and arrest, and the fact that all of the defendants were compliant with law enforcement and did not attempt to escape or resist," the court order read.
Several charges against the other two Shell River Seven, including independent photojournalist K. Flo Razowsky and Winona LaDuke, Executive Director and co-founder of Honor the Earth, remain in place pending ongoing litigation, according to a news release from the group Honor the Earth.
Line 3 headlines from the region
Enbridge to pay $11 million for aquifer breaches during Line 3 construction
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will receive almost $1.5 million.
By Jimmy Lovrien
Enbridge's Line 3 victorious in challenge to Army Corps permits
Court rules that Hubbard County sheriff's blockade of Line 3 opponents' camp was not legal
Dozens of Line 3 protesters in Minnesota still face prosecution
Line 3 aquifer breach is leaking more groundwater
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Michael Johnson is the news editor for Agweek. He lives in the city of Verndale, Minn., but is bent on making it as country as he can until he returns once more to the farm living he enjoys. Also living the dream are his two children and wife.
You can reach Michael at mjohnson@agweek.com or 218-640-2312.


Life insurance and annuities can bring protection and retirement income that is essential for many people's financial needs and goals. And when you purchase these items, you gain the opportunity to name beneficiaries who will receive distributions after you pass away.1 This article provides insight into why you name beneficiaries and how doing so can help protect you and your estate.
Typically, you can choose any living person who you'd want to financially benefit from this contractual relationship.2 However, you usually cannot name minors as beneficiaries, and the rules and age limits vary by state.3 As your life evolves, you will want to revisit your beneficiary designations to help ensure that everything is up to date.
Why do you name them?
When you put money into your life insurance and annuities, you gain the protection of those investments.
How does naming beneficiaries affect your will?
Having a will is an important part of an estate plan, so your executors know how to fulfill your wishes and needs upon your death. But, your beneficiaries are unique in this aspect: When you name beneficiaries to your life insurance and annuities, their designations will override any direction of your will.7 For this reason, you need to make sure all beneficiary designations are up to date and reflect your wishes today.
Ultimately, naming beneficiaries for your life insurance and annuities is as important as having the financial protection that these investments can provide you. Not only will you help ensure that your family benefits from the invested value of your money — but you'll also avoid hefty tax consequences on your assets more effectively. If you would like to discuss your beneficiary designations and options, we are happy to talk.


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Thank you for your donation! Your support transforms lives.
The neighborhood surrounding CareElderly Seniors Activity Centres are primarily occupied by seniors who live alone with no social support. Our SACs aim to help them age confidently and actively, empowering them with a renewed sense of purpose to become channels of support in the community.
We serve more than 500 seniors within their neighborhoods, keeping them physically and cognitively active through a holistic range of programmes in a safe, loving, and vibrant environment. Your gift enables us to sustain the programmes and services of our SACs, and help our seniors thrive in their golden years.
Our SAC's are also service touchpoints for the community, where resources can be readily obtained for disadvantaged seniors, persons with dementia and seniors with mobility issues. Evidence-based approaches form the backbone of our services which aim to improve seniors' level of socialisation, cognition, coordination and mood.
CCSS is called to serve the community and to influence and equip individuals and families for empowered living through all generations.
Our goal is to empower people who will then in turn transform the lives of those around them through service and outreach. Our volunteers attempt to work with and inspire people from all walks of life in Singapore, regardless of race, religion or background. We see ourselves as part of a vibrant network of active partnerships, actively matching the needs of individuals and families in the community with individuals and organisations who want to donate.
All donations to CCSS will be used to create a meaningful impact on the lives of the people in the community who need it the most.
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The Victorian Slalom Committee conducts a range of Races, Training and Social Events each year.
Victoria is proud to be able to offer a variety of Slalom event each year to suit the needs of beginning and experienced paddlers. See below for the events or series which are conducted each year. The Calendar section of the website will provide specific dates and up to date entry information if it cannot be found here. The location details and maps will ensure you get the the correct location.
The Committee are always looking for volunteers to help out with the running of events – if you are interested in volunteering or would like further information, email Chris.
The Yarra Series of races is held on the Yarra River in or close to the Metropolitan area. The races are suitable for beginners through to experienced paddlers.
Races at variety of natural country rivers. Enjoy the beautiful environment and the challenge of a natural river course.
Championships for school students held in August or September each year. They are open to all secondary school students in Victoria and it is a suitable event for those who are beginning paddling.
For 2019 it is being held on the 4th August on the Yarra River at Warrandyte.
The NSD camp is designed for junior and developing paddlers, however paddlers of all ages are welcome. There are usually over 60 paddlers which are broken into many smaller groups to accommodate the differences in paddling experience. The most advanced paddlers are usually paddlers who are trying, or have already made, the junior National Team, while other groups have paddlers that have only just started their paddling careers. Involvement of parents and other adults is very welcome.
For 2019 the NSD Camp is being held in November on the 22nd (Fri) and 23rd (Sat) on the Goulburn River near Eildon. The camp will be followed by Country Slalom 3 on the 24th (Sun).
Managed by Paddle Australia. This event circulates around a number of the States each year.
The 2020 venue and dates have not yet been announced.
Kayaking is an exciting watersport which is great fun at all levels and takes us to some of the most beautiful and tranquil rivers and bush settings in Victoria. You can start at a local water course and end up representing Australia overseas including events like the Olympics.
Kayaking is a social sport with children of all school year levels practising together and looking after each other under close supervision from teachers and qualified instructors.
Canoe Slalom is an exciting whitewater paddling discipline that combines the best in paddling technique, skill, fitness and power. The sport consists of up to 25 designated upstream or downstream gates (vertical poles approximately on metre apart) suspended over a course of whitewater rapids along a length of 200 – 300 metres. The paddler must negotiate the gates in numerical order, the correct direction, in the shortest possible time and with the least number of penalties. Canoe Slalom can present challenges and deliver achievable outcomes at all levels from beginners to Elite. It is an Olympic sport and is well supported by the Victorian Institute of Sport.
The Slalom Committee organizes races during the year which are pitched at an entry level to the sport and graduate through to experienced and challenging whitewater as the year progresses.
There is an annual Yarra Series which run concurrently with a Country Series. These series culminate in Country Race 3 and the Victorian State Slalom Championships both of which are held on the Goulburn River, at Eildon in November/December.
What does K1, K2, C1 etc mean ?
K1 are one person kayaks. C1 and C2 are one and two person canoes which look similar to kayaks but in which the person kneels and uses at single bladed paddle.
Slalom kayaking is an exciting high energy race over several minutes through gates (pairs of poles suspended over the water) in whitewater rapids Downriver. But kayaking is not just about racing – activities also develop advanced water safety skills and teamwork.
Canoeing Victoria has many affiliated clubs who specialise in slalom paddling and have club coaches and boats available for their members to use when building their skills. For more information, contact the clubs directly. A list of clubs who support slalom paddling can be found here.
To paddle regularly in Slalom Canoeing events paddlers must be a fully registered member of a club that is affiliated with Australian Canoeing, and therefore Canoeing Victoria. A Membership Card is provided to all members and should be taken to events to demonstrate membership. Membership is not expensive and provides insurance coverage and news, information and additional benefits from both the club and Australian Canoeing.
Membership renewals are due to Canoeing Victoria through your club in July of each year.
Just Starting? – The come 'n' try category is designed for new paddlers to the sport still deciding if they want to get involved. If you are not a registered member you must pay an additional levy to cover Insurance for the current race. This category is limited to three races and is not available for any paddler to compete in the State and/or National Championships.
A School Membership Category is available at discounted membership rates (Contact Canoeing Victoria for details) that gives individual paddlers from the relevant school full coverage for all events except the State and National Championships. This membership category is only available through a school and is not an individual category.
As a consequence of the above new membership category being introduced the Certificate of Currency option will be no longer available.
It is the responsibility of the individual paddler / competitor to ensure that he/she has up to date membership of a CV affiliated club. Membership details will be checked against the current CV membership list at each race. If the paddlers name does not appear on the CV register they must either be able to provide proof of membership to a CV affiliated club OR pay the additional levy to cover Insurance for the current race.
For any paddler to compete in the State and/or National Championships he/she must be a current member of a CV (or Interstate Association) affiliated club.
Vic Slalom Team 2015. Congratulations to all Victorian paddlers and good luck for the rest of 2015.
If you wish to contact the Slalom committee, please ring us at the Canoeing Victoria office on 03 8846 4120 or you can email us.
The Slalom Committee now issues an emailed newsletter each couple of months to enable all interested to keep up to date with the upcoming events and activities. There is also other correspondence at various times throughout the year.


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Today's News & Commentary — September 8, 2015
by Ryan Z. Cortazar | Sep 8, 2015 | News & Commentary
President Obama announced a new executive order that will require federal contractors to provide paid sick leave to employees, according to the Washington Post. Under the order, employees will earn one day of paid sick leave for every 30 days worked, up to a maximum of seven per year. The White House noted that the initiative could affect nearly 300,000 workers. The order will not take effect, however, until after the president leaves office in 2017.
The New York Times reported on the drive to set up workers committees in Santa Fe. Somos Un Pueblo Unido, an advocacy group for immigrant workers, has helped employees in a variety of workplaces form committees in order to seek better treatment from employers. Although workers committees are not as strong and effective as traditional unions, they have served as important vehicles for protecting employees who wish to improve their employment conditions. Taking advantage of Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, which protects the right of workers to engage in collective action, the committees protect aggrieved employees who might otherwise be dismissed if they acted alone. Mayté Flores, a member of a workers committee explained, "If I were to do this on my own, they would just fire me and that would have been the end of it. . . . When we [acted] together, we were able to protect ourselves."
The Atlantic examined the relationship between unions and millennials. The article noted that although millennials have been difficult to organize, recent successful drives at Gawker, Salon, and NYU have provided hope that young workers' positive feelings toward unions may be translating into positive action. Nevertheless, experts did not expect widespread organizing success absent larger and more sustained victories. Ruth Milkman, a sociologist at CUNY, stressed that the desire to join unions does not necessarily lead into organizing success because employers wanting to stop such drives often have an upper hand. "It's not about whether workers want to unionize. It's really about whether it's feasible to make that happen," she said. "In general, if you ask the majority of workers, 'If you could have a union, would you like that?' they say yes, but the opportunity to do that is rather limited."
Wal-Mart is launching a new job-training program for its front-line workers, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new initiative appears designed to reduce employee turnover, improve customers' shopping experiences, and provide a public relations boost for the companyy as inequality continues to dominate public discourse. In addition to improved pay and training, hourly supervisors will gain greater management responsibilities over their teams. Wal-Mart also hopes that the initiative will ultimately replicate credentialing systems that have traditionally been used in manufacturing and skilled trades to provide employees with achievement markers that signal their value to employers throughout the industry.
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Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Pedestrian on the Sunset Strip [Update]
By Lindsay William-Ross
Published Nov 10, 2010 11:00 PM
Outside the Roxy, August 2007 (Photo by nicadlr via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
A 21-year-old woman walking in a crosswalk was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver on the Sunset Strip last night in West Hollywood, according to KTLA.
According to witnesses, the woman had been at a concert at the Roxy, and was walking just ahead of a group of people when she crossed Sunset Boulevard at Hammond Street just before midnight last night. She was "thrown more than 50 feet and died on the scene."
Authorities are searching for the driver of the vehicle, which is described as a "dark-colored Bentley." They plan to use surveillance footage from area businesses to help identify the suspect.
UPDATE: The Bentley involved in the fatal accident has been located, though its driver remains at large, according to KTLA. "The vehicle was found running along Westmount Drive, west of La Cienega Blvd. [and] was registered out of Bakersfield."


13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is a biographical war film directed and co-produced by Michael Bay, written by Chuck Hogan and based on Mitchell Zuckoff's 2014 book 13 Hours. Synopsis: During an attack on a U.S. compound in Libya, a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
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This is the first action scene of this movie. Name: 13 Hours The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) Director: Micheal Bay This movie is based on true story.
One of the best movies of 2016. Without a doubt.
From Michael Bay comes 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Watch the official trailer, in theaters January 15th. http://ThirteenHoursMovie.com.


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Leah Fritz is an American feminist poet and author. Included in this series are drafts of Fritz's book, Dreamers and Dealers: An Intimate Appraisal of the Women's Movement. Although she was born in the United States, Fritz has been active in England since she moved there in 1985. The Leah Fritz papers contain correspondence.
Publications citing this paper. An arrow aimed at the heart" the vancouver women's caucus and the abortion campaign 1969-1971.
Recalling contemporary classics such as Americanah, Behold the Dreamers, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a funny, poignant, and insightful debut novel that explores the complexities of family, immigration, prejudice, and the American Dream through meaningful and unlikely.
Recalling contemporary classics such as Americanah, Behold the Dreamers, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a funny, poignant, and insightful debut novel that explores the complexities of family, immigration, prejudice, and the American Dream through meaningful and unlikely friendships forged in unusual circumstances. A bittersweet and bighearted tale of forgiveness, hope, and acceptance, America for Beginners illuminates the unexpected enchantments life can hold, and reminds us that our most precious connections aren't always the ones we seek.
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The book shows how the good, the bad, and the ugly of American history should be narrated: vividly and unflinchingly. Glenn Beck, the media mogul, just wrote his latest non-fiction/fiction book called Dreamers and Deceivers. These true-life tales also serve as stand-alone study guides - inviting further discussion, debate, and action.
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The Dream Dealer is an intriguing and captivating book for girls and boys (9-13 years). All the students loved listening and learning from Marita and they sat so terribly still whilst Marita read from her book. The children had endless questions, which is a positive indication of how much they enjoyed the visit. The Dream Dealer (Children's Book by Marita Phillips). October 9, 2013 ·. Gosh there's a lot of interest in Marita's book talks at the moment.
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I would describe myself as your typical go-getter. Always buzzing around from one thing to the next, whether it be my work as an elementary school teacher, taking a graduate class, getting my masters degree, working out hard in the gym, scrapbooking, meeting friends for dinner, whatever it was, I was doing it.
I remember one of the first symptoms I recognized as being abnormal at the age of about 27 or 28 was fatigue.
I didn't know it was a symptom then, I thought I was just tired. I remember coming home from work and just wanting to lay on the couch and rest. This was not like me. I was the type that spent a day at work and right to the gym, every day of the week, since college.
WHAT DOES CHRONIC BLOATING MEAN FOR YOUR HORMONES?
We've all seen it: the tampon or OTC med commercial, struggling to put pants on, the cramping, the bad mood, the dreaded bloated mirror sulk...periods and bloating.
Yet, here we are, still thinking about the uterus and not necessarily our digestion as influential to our period experience.
Now we're ready to dive into what happens after our food leaves the stomach and moves into our small intestine, or gut, and how this can go very wrong. Specifically, how the syndrome of leaky gut can really mess with our bodies' ability to do their thang.


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\r\nPrior to his current position at Families USA, Mr. Pollack was the Dean of the Antioch University School of Law, the nationally noted law school for public interest lawyers.
\r\nMr. Pollack was also the Founding Executive Director of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), the national leading organization seeking the elimination of domestic hunger. In that capacity, Mr. Pollack argued many cases in federal courts -– including two cases successfully argued on the same day in the U.S. Supreme Court -– to improve food aid to low-income Americans. One of Mr. Pollack's successful lawsuits resulted in the creation of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children – the so-called "WIC Program" that provides high-nutrient foods for pregnant mothers and infants.","url":"https://www.huffpost.com/author/ron-pollack"},"creator":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Person","name":"Ron Pollack","jobTitle":"Founding Executive Director, Families USA","description":"Ron Pollack is the Founding Executive Director of Families USA, the national organization for health care consumers. Families USA's mission is to achieve high-quality, affordable health coverage for everyone in the U.S.
\r\n\tMr. Pollack has co-founded and led a variety of health policy-related initiatives. He founded the Campaign for Children's Health Care, a consortium of more than 50 national organizations seeking to expand health coverage to America's uninsured children.
\r\nHe co-founded the Health Care Coverage for the Uninsured initiative, a process involving two dozen very ideologically diverse national organizations –- including the American Medical Association, America's Health Insurance Plans, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Heritage Foundation, the American Hospital Association, AARP, the Catholic Health Association, two key pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson), the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association, Families USA, and others- – that is expected to issue its recommendations about expanded health coverage, including a Kids First Initiative, in January 2007.
\r\nIn 1997, Mr. Pollack was appointed the sole consumer representative on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. In that capacity, Mr. Pollack helped prepare the Patients' Bill of Rights that has been enacted by many states across the nation.
\r\nMr. Pollack is a frequent guest on a variety of television and radio programs, such as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America and Nightline, NPR's All Things Considered and Morning Edition, The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, and many others, and he is often quoted in such leading newspapers as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times.
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Founding Executive Director, Families USA
Growing Consumer Concerns About Drug Prices
09/25/2015 01:55 pm ET Updated Sep 25, 2016
Among health care consumers throughout the United States, there is growing concern about the high and increasing costs of prescription medicines. Those concerns manifest themselves in myriad ways, and relief from these costs has become a top priority for health care consumers. Here are some of the indicators.
In May of this year, Families USA released a survey report showing that more than 1 out of 4 people - with full-year coverage and who had non-group health insurance at the time of the survey - went without needed health care because they could not afford the cost. Among those going without needed care, more than half found that the prescription medicines they needed were unaffordable, and they were unable to fill their prescriptions.
In a Kaiser Family Foundation poll this April, "making sure that high-cost drugs for chronic conditions are affordable for those who need them" ranked as the public's top health care priority among various issues raised in the survey. Seventy-five (75) percent said it should be a top priority for action by national policymakers.
Numerous consumer and research organizations have criticized drug-maker Gilead, the manufacturer of Sovaldi (designed to cure Hepatitis C), for its astronomical price of that drug. Gilead charged $1,000 per pill for a total regimen costing $84,000. As criticism mounted and competitive drugs came to market, the price was ultimately cut almost in half. But many new specialty drugs now in the pipeline are likely to exceed Sovaldi's original price tag.
Turing Pharmaceuticals, manufacturer of Daraprim (which treats severe infections afflicting HIV and cancer patients), recently increased that drug's price from $13.50 to $750 per pill. Due to public outrage over this increase, the company has indicated it will reduce the price but still has yet to indicate what the final price will be. There simply is no rationale for this price increase, but it is symptomatic that the sky is the limit in drug profiteering.
Pharmaceutical costs are expected to increase faster than other components of health care spending in the coming years. Those costs will not only have an adverse impact on future insurance premiums, but they are already hitting consumers in the pocketbook. As health care deductibles and co-payments continue to grow, the price rises in prescription drugs have an immediate impact on what consumers need to spend to stay healthy - and, for too many, this makes their medicines unaffordable.
Many consumers are angry, and have good reason to be upset, that the exact same drugs, often manufactured by U.S. companies, are considerably more expensive in our country than they are in other nations. Some, with varying success, therefore sought, and still want, to re-import drugs from other countries, such as Canada.
Perhaps most significantly from an economic standpoint, the profit margins of the drug industry are significantly higher than the profit margins in other parts of the health industry - such as insurance companies and America's hospitals. The average rate of profits for drug companies has been in the middle to high teens for numerous years, while insurers' and hospitals' rates of returns are usually in the lower single digits.
There are many lessons we can learn from other countries that have succeeded in keeping drug prices low. And there are a variety of public proposals receiving increasing attention that no doubt will be, and deserve to be, on the national agenda.
A number of states have stepped in and enacted plans to limit the amount that individuals are required to pay out of pocket for their prescription medicines. This protection for consumers, which is especially important for people with chronic health conditions, should be augmented by other proposals that have a more direct impact on the pharmaceutical industry's pricing practices.
Today, Medicare is prohibited from negotiating prices directly with drug companies, and the industry vigorously opposes lifting this prohibition. Instead, its powerful association (the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association, PhRMA) argues that prices should be determined by the competitive marketplace. However, at the same time, many of PhRMA's member companies inappropriately prevent generic competitors from entering the marketplace through legally suspect payoffs to generic companies to delay entry into the market and through bogus attempts to extend expiring patents.
Thus, public bargaining or regulation of prices is often absent, as is meaningful marketplace competition.
PhRMA would have the public believe that this absence of price restraints makes sense because its companies are continuing to undertake research and development on new medical breakthroughs. Unfortunately, expenditures for marketing and advertising far exceed spending on research and development among most of PhRMA's members.
It is time for policymakers to provide leadership on this growing concern about drug prices. Given the public's interest in this, the imperative for effective action will soon make needed policy changes inevitable.
Ron Pollack is the founding executive director of Families USA, the national organization for health care consumers.
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Brickendon är en by i civil parish Brickendon Liberty, i distriktet East Hertfordshire, i grevskapet Hertfordshire i England. Byn är belägen 5 km från Hertford. Brickendon var en civil parish 1866–1894 när det uppgick i Brickendon Urban och Brickendon Rural. Civil parish hade  invånare år 1891. Byn nämndes i Domedagsboken (Domesday Book) år 1086, och kallades då Berchedene.

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Marocco may refer to:

 Marrakech, a major city in Morocco, North Africa
 Marocco (see), its former Roman Catholic diocese and present Latin Catholic titular see
 Bankes's Horse, a famous English 'dancing/politic/thinking' show equine

See also
 Morocco (disambiguation)


Lystfiskeren is a short film/music video directed by Sara Aunbirk, and features a song by Søren Lau.
A love story about an ordinary guy's whimsical fantasies of being with the remarkable woman sitting next to him at the office. An impossible fantasy. But reality does occasionally show glimpses of the fantastical.
The film was made by Sara Aunbirk and Morten Andersen, with animation support from Sara Holm, Elena Klappenbach and Matias Poggini. Feedback and guidance has been given by friends and various people around The Animation Workshop. The film is supported by Open Workshop.


BK Asiapac, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. based Burger King Corporation, and DaChan Great Wall Group have agreed that BKAP will take an equity position in Home Chain Foods — a DCG subsidiary.
HCF has been a Burger King franchisee since 1989 and currently operates 33 Burger King restaurants in Taiwan. The capital infusion by BKAP will be primarily used to accelerate the growth of the brand in the Taiwan market.
Peter Tan, president BKAP, stated that BKAP believe that the brand has great growth potential in the Taiwan market; and they were delighted to extend their partnership with DCG to help increase their market penetration in Taiwan.
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This web site is under construction, but the e-books are in their final form.
If you want to read contemporary philosophical classics on the meaning of life, a very good source is the book The Meaning of Life: A Reader, edited by E. D. Klemke and Steven M. Cahn (2008). It has a great collection of writing by Leo Tolstoy, David F. Swenson, Louis P. Pojman, Emil L. Fackenheim, Philip L. Quinn, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bertrand Russell, Moritz Schlick, Albert Camus, Kurt Baier, Paul Edwards, Richard Taylor, Thomas Nagel, Joel Feinberg, A. J. Ayer, Kai Nielsen, John Wisdom, Robert Nozick, Susan Wolf, John Kekes and the editors themselves.
Another very good source is the book Exploring the Meaning of Life: An Anthology and Guide, edited by Joshua W. Seachris (2013), but some articles in this anthology may happen to be difficult to read.
You may compare chapters of these two books with writings of a different style by Eckhart Tolle, Ken Wilber, Andrew Cohen, the Dalai Lama, Wayne W. Dyer, Thich Nhat Hanh, Deepak Chopra, Paulo Coelho, Krishna Das, Sai Baba, Philip Berg, and others.


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Innovative Heart Surgery at Mayo Clinic Keeps Drummer's Beat Rolling
Justin Vigile was living out his dream as the drummer of a heavy metal band when a genetic heart condition threatened his budding music career — and his life.
Four years ago, at age 23, Justin Vigile was living out his dream as the drummer for the progressive heavy metal band Extractus. His band was gaining momentum, but his heart was losing steam. That threatened to end his budding music career, and for a time, Justin's life also hung in the balance.
Justin was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at age 15. The genetic condition causes the muscles of the heart to thicken, making it harder for the heart to pump blood. In some people the thickened heart muscle can cause shortness of breath, chest pain or problems in the heart's electrical system, resulting in life-threatening abnormal heart rhythms. Justin had an implantable defibrillator placed in his chest. He went on to pursue his dream and, according to his band's website, Extractus was "ripping through the local scene" in Philadelphia after making its debut in December 2012.
Then during one of the band's gigs, Justin's defibrillator activated on-stage. "It sent me for a loop," he says. Although he managed to keep playing, the incident would lead to worsening symptoms. "Eventually," Justin says, "I couldn't walk. I couldn't get out of bed. My doctors told me, 'Your heart is failing. It will get worse and, at some point, this is it. This is the beginning of the end.'"
Justin Vigile
Justin's family kept looking for an answer. The search eventually brought them to Mayo Clinic and a specialized team led by Hartzell Schaff, M.D., and Steve Ommen, M.D. Justin arrived at Mayo Clinic just in time. "Here's a young man who has his whole life in front of him, and not only is he symptomatic and shows symptoms of his heart disease, he was depressed and discouraged because of the illness and the prospects he had at that time," Dr. Schaff told Mayo Clinic News Network.
At Mayo, Dr. Schaff and his team gave Justin an alternative to heart transplant in the form of apical myectomy, a surgical procedure to relieve symptoms caused by the thickening of muscle in the apex of his heart. During the procedure, a two-inch incision would be made around the apex to remove excess muscle tissue in Justin's heart to increase the amount of blood being pumped out, and to lower the amount of pressure inside the heart.
It's a procedure that Dr. Schaff developed at Mayo Clinic in 1996. Since that time, other surgeons at Mayo have performed the procedure on patients like Justin many times over. For Justin and his family, the outcome has been life-saving and life-changing. "You didn't just give me back a boy who could sit in a chair," Mary Beth said of Dr. Schaff and his surgical team at Mayo Clinic. "You gave me back a boy that could drum again."
And drum again he does. In fact, we're told that Justin and his fellow Extractus band members continue to tour and also recently inked a deal to provide music to NFL Films and the National Football League for use on its various media platforms. (Not a bad gig if you can get it, which thanks to Dr. Schaff and his colleagues at Mayo Clinic, Justin has).
You can read more about Justin here. And you can watch Dr. Schaff discuss Justin's care in this YouTube video. Then drumroll on over and leave a comment below before using the social media tools atop this page to share this story with others.
Learn more about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Read about Mayo Clinic's Department of Cardiovascular Medicine.
Tags: Dr. Hartzell Schaff, Dr. Steve Ommen, Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Patient Stories


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About Martin Anthony
Famous People I Have Met
people that have influenced me in Travel, Music and wellbeing
Metal Festivals I went to
My Solo Travel Timeline
Sovereign Military Order of Malta
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Queensryche - Armored Saint - Death Angel @ Electric Ballroom 6th Aug 2015
Apologies that I am not posting this post as blog because my netbook fucks around with me everytime I try and make a blog post
I have lived in the UK for almost a month now. In the times I have visited the UK have never been to a concert of any genre. I had been to Hellfest in France and Headbangers Open Air in Germany. But I was never interested in going to a gig in London until now.
After staying in Birmingham for 2 weeks and only venturing out of town to visit my Dad's family in Middlesbrough or meet Beverly the mature escort in Gravesend, I thought it was time to venture back into the city I love to call "Londumb". It's a city I hate with a passion for taking the shine off BIRMINGHAM as it's a fucking trap for so many expats. If you live in London you have made a dumb mistake PEROID. As I only pay 75 quid a week in rent.
I walked out of my home to get a bus to Birmingham New Street so I could get on the 7.40am bus to London. I really love traveling on Megabus because from time to time the buses have Wi-Fi and this helps me talk to people, update my website and do other things.
When I got to Londumb the whole city was in the middle of a fucking tube strike. I had arrived at 11am and needed to get to Whitechapel at 2pm for my Job Center appointment.
After walking all over London town I made it back to Whitechapel for the first time in 3 years and I got my paperwork done for my NI number.
It was a hard time walking around Whitechapel and even seeing the house on Sidney Street where I backstabbed my Cousin John and disowned him. Today marks 3 years since I last saw my unsupportive Cousin and his bitch wife Bronwen.
Moving on from the anguish of Whitechapel I felt free that I revisited that shithole. I will never ever see my wanker Cousin John Hurford ever again. I continued on from Whitechapel to Camden by using the overground train.
Before the doors opened I saw Joey from Armored Saint in the flesh. I didn't feel like asking for a photo because I never knew anything of Armored Saint.
In 2009 I saw Death Angel & Armoured Saint on a double bill toured. Later on that year I saw Queensryche at the Metro. This was before Geoff Tate became a bald douchebag and lost his marbles. *No wait! He was in the process of losing them before the shitstorm happened in 2012.*
Death Angel were the first cab off the rank. Three Filipino-Americans and 2 Caucasian. I really miss the time when Death Angel was 4/5 Filipino. I mean when you come to think of Death Angel they were all Filipinio-American. But both Papa's have left the bands and the Original Drummer Andy (whom joined Death Angel at aged 12 in 1982) threw in the towel after I saw them in 2009.
Death Angel were more focused on their recent release "The Dream Calls for Blood" instead of going back to the past and playing: frolic through the park", Act III and The Ultra Violence. I became a fan of Death Angel when I fell in love with their album Killing Season as it had so many sing along metal songs.
Death Angel could still hold a flame to what I saw them in 2009. Mark can scream the fuck out of his lungs while Rob and Ted know how to shred,
Son of the Morning
Claws in So Deep
Thrown to the Wolves
(With 'The Ultra Violence' intro )
I started writing this post when Armored Saint took the stage. I had never been a fan of that band. But we all know the whole story of that band. They were on Brian Sagel METAL BLADE, John Bush was on the front man, all of their records we're underrated, After Prichard died of Leukaemia in 1991 the band broke up. They reformed after Josh Bush was tired of playing with Anthrax.
I never enjoyed John Bush being the front man of Anthrax. I can remember back in 2009 my buddies in Forgery were telling me not to talk shit about John Bush at the gig since he was meters away from me.
Armored Saint played a whole bunch of classics including "March of the Saint" and some news stuff. John Bush was up to his hold antics, even climbing a stage ladder to go sing on top of a PA system. Now that's what I call A CLASS ACT
Win Hands Down
March of the Saint
Nervous Man
An Exercise in Debauchery
Raising Fear
Left Hook From Right Field
Can U Deliver
6 years after watching Queensrÿche I told myself that I would never ever see Queensrÿche again until Geoff Tate grew his hair back to his usual look. Instead Geoff became an unrecognizable bald fat fuck who used elements of music that would piss off die hard fans.
To be honest, true Queensrÿche fans fucking hated the Cabaret show and they hated their shitty 2011 album "Dedicated to Chaos".
IN 2012 the Original 3 guys of Queensrÿche, plus Parker Lungren joined up with Todd La Torre who was playing in Crimson Glory at the time. Rising West was a side project where the band played the old famous Queensrÿche songs that Geoff Tate grew tired of singing.
In the mist of 2012 Geoff Tate went apeshit at Scott and Michael/Eddie in Brazil and it comes to a lead singer fighting a drummer. It's all because they fired Geoff's family and he was going to get fired next.
Geoff Tate was finally fired In June 2012 as Todd jumped ship to Queensrÿche to get a better pay check.
After 2 years of fighting the TODD LA TORRE edition of Queensrÿche came out on top, but Geoff Tate was left with Operation: Mindcrime as he was the mastermind of that album.
I was really pissed that in 2012 I went to India Instead of seeing Crimson Glory. The band went on hiatus after that tours as more pay checks went to Todd's mailbox. Crimson Glory is dead for now, but I will always wear my C.G shirt to go chase after MILFS, GILF AND COUGARS
The setlist started off with Anarchy-X the snare drum ridden beats along with the infamous rifts that start off Operation Mindcrime. By playing this song, it's how you begin a Queensrÿche gig. You just don't play a concert with three suites of album's that nobody wants to hear.
The band jumped back into its history by playing "Nightrider" of its first EP that came out in 1983. I had never listened to the EP even thought it was the core of the glory days of Queensrÿche. Todd La Torre came out on stage in a fury jacket and sun glasses. He looked so much better than what Geoff Tate ever looked like.
As he opened his mouth I could hear 9 years of glorious Queensrÿche music coming out of a young man's mouth. This is a guy who grew up on "Queen of the Reich" and Operation Mindcrime. He has replaced one lead singer he can do it again.
"Breaking the Silence" we all knew too well about it off Operation: Mindcrime. We all started singing along
I loved it when "Walk in the Shadows" came on. I was singing my lungs out trying to impersonate Todd. I just felt like I had reached mountain peak as my lungs give out just to bronchitis and asthma
"The Whisper" is one of the coolest songs off "Rage for Order" it's a great song with the backing vocals off Parker and Eddie. Scott know the chops of the drum on this song.
All I could wish for is they would play "Gonna get Close to You" because that song is in my top 10 list of songs to play while having sex.
"Warning" Straight off the first full length LP "The Warning" people have came tonight to hear songs of "THE WARNING" Nobody came to hear "Operation Mindcrime 2", "American Solider" or even the dreaded "Dedicated to Chaos".
The people who like the new version of Queensrÿche want to hear songs made between 1983-1991 and from the self-titled 2013 album and on wards.
When the band launched into "Silent Lucidity" it seem that everyone want to hear this song as it was Queensrÿche only *MAINSTREAM* hit. It peaked at #9 and was nominated for 2 Grammy's.
"Where Dreams Go to Die" was off the recent self-titled album that came out in 2013. I had never really given this album a listen, but I should do.
After a bit of a guitar solo between Parker and Michael the band launched into "The Needle Lies" off Operation: Mindcrime.
The issue with Geoff Tate's ownership of O.M is that he can play both albums in its entirety while the current form of Queensryche can only play some songs in a setlist.
NM156 was first recorded on "The Warning" in 1984. It hasn't been sung in years until Todd joined the band. There are so many Gems of Prog Metal on that album I think its time I need to start listening to CD's again.
"Arrow of Time" is a new song off the upcoming album "Condition Hüman". It's really amazing and 10x better than what Geoff Tate is doing right now.
"Eyes of a Stranger" was a hit for Queensrÿcheback in the day. After I left Australia my friend Cathy told me never to be a stranger because there have been times where I have gotten the fuck out of my seat and walked away or walked out of events and gigs as I feel like a stranger that nobody wants to walk or talk with me.
It's hard being in Birmingham and not knowing anyone apart from my Landlord or my GP receptionist. So I look at people as I have the "Eyes of a Stranger" and it's a song I am going to carry on with me.
The band came back on stage to do an encore of "Queen of the Reich" and "Take Hold of the Flame" 2 great songs to end the night.
As the band took a final bow in front of a crowd of 1000 or so Metalheads I had realized that this was my first gig on British soil.
I ended up taking a London bus back to Victoria and sleeping there overnight until my 9am bus back to Birmingham.
ABOUT OVERLAND METALHEAD
I'm Martin Anthony AKA the Overland Metalhead!
I'm a British Metalhead (Born in Sydney) who enjoys the way of overlanding.
I have been travelling solo since April 2010 when I spent 6 weeks in North America. Since then I have visited 82 nations and 100+ cities.
I have lived in Sydney, New York, Birmingham, Melbourne, London and Stockholm!
I have visited Parliament Haus in Port Moresby , spent a week on the Trans Siberian Railway, visited Commonwealth War Graves around the world, met Joanna Lumley in Melbourne, swapped a European phrasebook for a Jackie Collins novel in Bangkok and I travelled 15,000km from Vladivostok to London without flying
I am the proud Author of "Journal of a Metalhead" Vol I & II that are out now
OVERLAND IT!
© Martin Anthony 2014-2019 Overland Metalhead productions


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Re: Can i apply for government jobs after B.Tech in ECE?
1. your bachelor degree in engineering with atleast 65% marks from any recognized university.
3. you must have been good technical knowledge about the project .
After completing B.tech in ECE You Can Join in Both the Private and Public Sector Jobs .
>> You can apply for jobs in public sector companies such as BHEL,ISRO,NTPC,ONGC etc. For getting into the PSU's you should be a GATE qualified candidates than only you can apply for Interview in PSU's. GATE examinationis conducted every year for engineering candidates. so go for it for better job and career growth.
>> Candidates msut have obtained atleast 60% marks throughout study.
>> Candidate having GAP more than 2 year cannot apply.
>> Backlog candidates are not eligble.
There are lots of opportunities for B.tech ECE candidates.
You can apply in govt as well as private sector jobs.
4th Option is GATE-> If you want to continue with higher studies and you should appear for GATE and after commpleting M.Tech , many electronics companies like Intel, LG, SAMSUNG recruit electronics engineers at a very good salary.
ELECTRICITY BOARD OF INDIA etc,etc..
As you have completed your B Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering you have various job opportunities in Government as well as in Private sector.
You must get minimum of 60% in your B Tech without any backlogs from a recognized university or college.
Your age must be in between 21 to 30 years.
You must qualify GATE Exam with good marks in order to get good job in good company.
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I won't spoil the end of The Jinx here—if by some chance you haven't already read reports of the much lauded HBO documentary series—but I think it's safe to say that the finale provided the seemingly "definitive" conclusion we all pined for in Serial. The last episode plays more like a suspense thriller than an open-ended study of the American justice system. The Jinx possesses a clear beginning, middle, and, most importantly, powerful resolution. Not that an open-ended plot can't have a "conclusion," but there's a certain amount of satisfaction attached to having all the answers handed to you before the credits roll (though "all" is certainly up for debate here).
The Jinx offers us a chance to revel in this primitive longing for closure. It sweeps us away in the euphoria of a microscopic eschaton—feelings that are at once ancient, universal, and, I believe, quite spiritual.
Even as The Jinx explores the nature of truth, it also revels in the satisfaction that comes when the unknowable suddenly bursts into the present.The full title for Andrew Jarecki's six-episode series is The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. Deaths in the plural, of course, referring not to Durst, but to individuals near Durst. You see, millionaire Robert Durst is either a psychotic madman or the biggest jinx the world has ever known. The son of a wealthy real estate tycoon, Durst's life is shrouded in mystery. His wife, best friend, and next-door neighbor have all either gone missing or turned up dead—the neighbor's body found cut up and floating in the Gulf of Mexico.
With unprecedented access to Durst, Jarecki slowly investigates the mystery, probing each scenario to answer the decades-old question: "Does Robert Durst deserve to be locked up?" The first few episodes of The Jinx serve as infotainment of sorts to Durst's depravity (or bad luck). Just when the audience is led to believe the situation couldn't get any more mangled, the plot adds a "But wait, there's more!" line to the narrative. Halfway through, viewers will likely find themselves in one of two categories: Durst is either a remorseless killer or simply some sort of harmless anti-rabbit's foot.


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In a city swollen by refugees and bubbling with civil unrest, two young people fall in love. Their homeland is on the brink of war. One day soon they must leave it behind- striking out into the unknown, searching for some corner of the world that might be safe.
Exit West is an extraordinary, sweeping journey, reaching far across the globe and deep into the human heart. In a world of upheaval and fear, how can we hold onto our humanity? In a world of closed borders, what happens when a door is opened? Mohsin Hamid's novel blazes triumphantly in the darkness, singing from the eye of the storm.


Discussion in 'Member Video and Sound Clips' started by emjee, Jun 26, 2008.
I welcome criticism, but if you could leave out any cruel comments I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
show more of that beautiful baker. cool dark fuzz tone.
Cool licks and nice guitar emjee ... congrats on your world premiere music video right here on TGP!! I gave you 5 stars baby!!
Thanks you guys! Those comments mean so much to me.
Hans thanks for the advice, I'll dd that info to the comments asap.
using a pick, just my fangers...thanks again guys!