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Our next gig is fast approaching…
So Mourners our month off is coming to a close, and our next gig is fast approaching. On the 27th of September we support mighty Secreum for their comeback gig @theunicorncamdenlive Alongside our brothers in metal @empirewarning mad thrashers @bangover_band and the German rockers @crossed_arms going to be a night of London's finest not one to miss! See you in the pit 🤘#deadbeforemourning #thrash #metal #unsigned #camdentown #supportthescene
ChuckFest 2019
DBM are at The Unicorn, Camden on Saturday 4th May 2019!
A three-day event commemorating the life and legacy of Chuck Schuldiner
known as the Godfather of death metal, influencing some very big names in the metal world and still continuing to have a profound effect to this day
Each band will be playing at least 1 Death/Control Denied song, in honour of the late and great Chuck.
Day 1 – 03/05/19
Anoxide (Headline)
https://www.facebook.com/Anoxideofficial
https://www.facebook.com/HYDRA.gb/
Subservience
https://www.facebook.com/subservience
https://www.facebook.com/annunciationofficial/
Devoted Defiance
https://www.facebook.com/devoteddefiance/
Winter's Edge (Headline, 10th anniversary)
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWintersEdge
https://www.facebook.com/metalDBM/
Prolapse A.D.
https://www.facebook.com/ProlapseAD/
Angron
https://www.facebook.com/angronmetal/
Xelas
https://www.facebook.com/xelas.band/
WheelieBin Burial
https://www.facebook.com/wheeliebinburial/
ASCARIS (Headline)
https://www.facebook.com/AscarisOfficial/
Mechanized Dirge
https://www.facebook.com/MechanizedDirge/
Spectral Darkwave
https://www.facebook.com/SpectralDarkwave/
Blasfeme
https://www.facebook.com/blasfemeband/
Mørktår
https://www.facebook.com/morktarofficial/
Ekrixi
https://www.facebook.com/Ekrixi-301090830718441/
All proceeds will go towards the charity Sweet Relief, who provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems
https://www.sweetrelief.org/
Free entry/18+
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Bloodstock 2018 — Stage Time Confirmed!
The date and time are confirmed and we invite you to the big one we have all been waiting for!
We can now announce that after winning the Metal 2 The Masses London 2018 competition we will be playing the Hobgoblin New Blood stage at Bloodstock 2018 at 16:30 on Sunday 12th August!
We've been working hard and, after all the fun and adventures of our 'road-to-Bloodstock' mini-tour, it should be a show not to miss! Get this one in your diary before the beer kicks in. We will see you there — Salute!
More DBM Live!
Now that the dust has settled in the DBM camp after the madness that was Metal to The Masses (M2TM) 2018 we continue on our road to BloodStock with three back to back gigs in London, Leicester and Coventry! Continue reading
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Tirunelveli: With the ban on plastic carry bags set to be implemented in the state from January 2019, efforts are already being made by the government, local bodies, district administrations and associations to popularise the use of cloth bags and non-polluting and degradable alternatives. Now, traders are slowly joining the bandwagon to promote the use of cloth bags.
In one such initiative an electronics, home appliances and consumer durables chain has come up with an offer for its customers by announcing a Rs 500 discount to those who bring cloth bags distributed by it.
"We will offer Rs 500 discount per customer on any product they buy in our Tirunelveli showroom in Palayamkottai. This will be apart from the existing offers on our multi-brand range of products such as the inaugural offer. Customers can bring the bags any number of times and avail the offer till March 2019," said a partner of the firm (Venus Electronics), A Karthik.
"We heard that the Tirunelveli district administration is taking various efforts including launch of a novel campaign to promote use of eco-friendly alternative carry bags instead of plastic. We have got 50,000 custom-made cotton cloth bags ready," he said.
The bags were distributed free of cost in seven campaign vehicles from September 3. "There is an overwhelming response in collecting the bags from us. Sometimes, all members of the family received the bags. We have extended the offer till March as we want people to retain these bags and to keep using them," he added.
Karthik said that they are planning to introduce this concept in their other branches as well across the state in a bid to promote the use of eco-friendly bags. "Getting the bags stitched is time consuming as they are tailor-made," he said.


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With 29 medal events and 276 athletes in Rio, Table Tennis is the third largest sport on the Paralympic program and, as one of the largest participant sports in the world, is one of the most competitive. Table Tennis has come a long way from its origins in the late 19th century, when it developed as an after-dinner game played by upper-class English families. Its popularity as a pastime in the 50s and 60s, made it very effective as a rehabilitation sport for people with spinal cord injuries.
Wheelchair Table Tennis has been part of the Paralympic program since the first Games at Rome in 1960 – 28 years before the sport made its Olympic debut. Events for standing athletes were introduced in 1976 with inclusion of amputee classes into the Paralympics. By 2012, athletes from all physical disability groups and athletes with an intellectual disability could be classified for Table Tennis within its eleven classes.
Para-table Tennis follows the rules set by the International Table Tennis Federation, with slight modifications for wheelchair athletes only: the serve must cross the back of the table before it crosses the sides of the table and either player in doubles may hit the ball after the serve has been received.
In 1964 Daphne Ceeney (now Hilton) and Marion O'Brien won Australia's first gold. O'Brien competed for England at the 1960 Paralympics, met and married Australian Team member Chris O'Brien, moved to Australia and competed for Australia in 1964 and 1968. Ceeney won 14 Paralympic medals across five sports over three Games, including Australia's first medals won by a female athlete.
Table tennis results at the summer Paralympics from 1960.
Table tennis results at the summer Paralympics from 1960
In the Table Tennis tent at the first RNSH Paraplegic Games
Table Tennis is one of the original Paralympic sports
Australians Table Tennis Team at the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games
Ray Letheby serves one up
Carmel Williams was Australia's only female table tennis player in a team of nine
Csaba Bobary was Australia's sole Table Tennis player
Lack of international competition told in table tennis

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How Reed changed me: It made me a leader and challenged me to grow into a stronger and more thoughtful person.
Awards, fellowships, grants: I received a commendation of excellence, and gave a presentation on my thesis work at the Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium about how one of the female restaurant owners I looked at in my thesis dressed in a cheongsam to bring to mind a certain image of feminized China, to sell an elite exoticism in her restaurant and cuisine.
Actual superpower: Shutting down men who interrupt me.
Pet peeve: White-owned ethnic restaurants.
What's next: Working at the Portland Chinatown Museum.
Thesis adviser: Prof. Lara Netting [history 2017–18]
Thesis: The Last Mandarin: Problematizing Authenticity in Chinese-American Cuisine in the 20th Century
What it's about: My goal is to demonstrate how Chinese-Americans cultivated and sold a sense of authentic China during the Cold War. Specifically, I'm looking at the Chinese-American culinary scene in San Francisco during this time, and focusing on two Chinese-American chefs—Cecilia Chiang and Johnny Kan—and contrasting their conceptualizations of culinary authenticity.
What it's really about: I order Chinese food to my apartment and tell myself that qualifies as thesis work.
Cool stuff: I was the training supervisor at Reed's nuclear reactor and raised 30 freshmen into competent reactor operators. I did my thesis on something I love, coached a softball team, read the longest book ever written, fell in love, learned how to code and speak my mother's native language, and started a foodie blog with my best friend.
Influential book: The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai.
Concept that blew my mind: Science is not apolitical. Working at the reactor taught me that as a scientist and operator I am still as subjected to the biases that affect me in my work as a historian.
Favorite class: Chinese literature—Chinese Narrative Traditions with Prof. Alexei Ditter [Chinese 2006–] was the hardest I have ever had to work at Reed for a single class, but the work made me fall in love with an amazing narrative and made me feel the most engaged I have ever felt in conference. We read the longest book in all of Chinese literature, The Dream of the Red Chamber (红楼梦)—2,500 pages long. Alexei was an amazing teacher and always came to class really excited to teach us. I loved how direct he always was with our small five-person class. It also reminded me how proud I am to be Chinese-American and that badass literature comes out of China, even if no one in the United States knows that.


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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III
Standup Comedy Concerts Farce Showbiz Drama Odd Couple Film Buddy Film
Active - 1967 - 2019 | Born - Dec 1, 1940 in Peoria, Illinois, United States | Died - Dec 10, 2005 | Genres - Comedy
Biography by Hal Erickson
African-American comedian Richard Pryor grew up bombarded by mixed messages. Pryor's grandmother owned a string of brothels, his mother prostituted herself, and his father was a pimp. Still, they raised Richard to be honest, polite, and religious. Living in one of the worst slums in Peoria, IL, Pryor found that he could best defend himself by getting gang members to laugh at instead of pummeling him. This led to his reputation as a disruptive class clown, although at least one understanding teacher allowed Pryor one minute per week to "cut up" so long as he behaved himself the rest of the time. At age 14, he became involved in amateur dramatics at Peoria's Carver Community Center, which polished his stage presence. In 1963, Pryor headed to New York to seek work as a standup comic; after small gigs in the black nightclub circuit, he was advised to pattern himself after Bill Cosby -- that is, to be what white audiences perceived as "nonthreatening."
For the next five years, the young comic flourished in clubs and on TV variety shows, making his film bow in The Busy Body (1967). But the suppression of Pryor's black pride and anger by the white power structure frustrated him. One night, sometime between 1969 and 1971, he "lost it" while performing a gig in Las Vegas; he either walked off-stage without a word or he obscenely proclaimed that he was sick of it. Over the next few years, Pryor found himself banned from many nightclubs, allegedly due to offending the mob-connected powers-that-be, and lost many of his so-called friends who'd been sponging off of him. Broke, Pryor went underground in Berkeley, CA, in the early '70s; when he re-emerged, he was a road-company Cosby no more. His act, replete with colorful epithets, painfully accurate character studies of street types, and hilarious (and, to some, frightening) hostility over black-white inequities, struck just the right note with audiences of the committed '70s. Record company executives, concerned that Pryor's humor would appeal only to blacks, were amazed at how well his first post-Berkeley album, That Nigger's Crazy!, sold with young white consumers.
As for Hollywood, Pryor made a key early appearance in the Diana Ross vehicle Lady Sings the Blues. But ultra-reactionary Tinseltown wasn't quite attuned to Pryor's liberal use of obscenities or his racial posturing. Pryor had been commissioned to write and star in a Mel Brooks-directed Western-comedy about a black sheriff, but Brooks replaced Pryor with the less-threatening Cleavon Little; Pryor nonetheless retained a credit as one of five writers on the picture, alongside such luminaries as Andrew Bergman. When Pryor appeared onscreen in The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings and Silver Streak (both 1976), it was as a supporting actor. But Pryor's popularity built momentum, and by the end of the '70s he became the highest-paid starring comedian in films, with long-range contracts ensuring him work well into the next decade - when such efforts as Stir Crazy, Bustin' Loose, and The Toy helped to both clean up the foul-mouthed comic's somewhat raunchy public image, and endear him to a whole new generation of fans. His comedy albums -- and later, videocassettes -- sold out as quickly as they were recorded. The only entertainment arena still too timid for Pryor was network television -- his 1977 NBC variety series has become legendary for the staggering amount of network interference and censorship imposed upon it.
By the early '80s, Pryor was on top of the entertainment world. Then came a near-fatal catastrophe when he accidentally set himself afire while freebasing cocaine. Upon recovery, he joked liberally (and self-deprecatively) about his brush with death, but, otherwise, he appeared to change; his comedy became more introspective, more rambling, more tiresome, and occasionally (as in the 1983 standup effort Richard Pryor: Here and Now) drew vicious heckling and catcalls from obnoxious audiences. His cinematic decline began with a thinly-disguised film autobiography, Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986), which Pryor starred in and directed; it met with critical scorn. Pryor's films declined in popularity, the audiences grew more hostile at the concerts, and Pryor deteriorated physically. Doctors diagnosed him with multiple sclerosis in the late '80s, and, by 1990, it became painfully obvious to everyone that he was a very sick man, although his industry friends and supporters made great effort to celebrate his accomplishments and buoy his spirits. The twin 1989 releases Harlem Nights and See No Evil, Hear No Evil (the latter of which re-teamed Pryor with fellow Silver Streak alums Arthur Hiller and Gene Wilder) failed to reignite Pryor's popularity or draw back his fanbase.
Pryor's ill-fated attempt to resuscitate his stand-up act at L.A.'s Comedy Store in 1992 proved disastrous; unable to stand, Pryor was forced to deliver his monologues from an easy chair; he aborted his planned tour soon after. He appeared in television and films only sporadically in his final decade, save a rare cameo in David Lynch's 1997 Lost Highway.
These dark omens foretold a sad end to a shimmering career; the world lost Pryor soon after. On December 12, 2005, the comedian - only 65 years old -- died of a heart attack in a Los Angeles hospital. But he left a peerless legacy behind as a stand-up comic and black actor.
Raised by his grandmother, who ran a brothel.
Started his professional career as a singer and piano player.
Contributed to the screenplay for the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy classic Blazing Saddles.
Worked with fellow comedic actor Gene Wilder on four box office buddy films: 1976 Silver Streak, 1980's Stir Crazy, 1989 See No Evil, Hear No Evil and 1991's Another You.
Published his autobiography, Pryor Convictions: And Other Life Sentences, in 1995.
Honored in 1996 by the NAACP with a Lifetime Achievement Image Award and a Hall of Fame Award.
In 1998, was the first person to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Was a staunch advocate for animal rights and founded Pryor's Planet, a charity for animals.