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This idea gripped me and wouldn't let go. I own neither Supernatural nor Merlin. If I did Castiel would be in a lot more scenes.
For any of those reading any of my works I am very, very sorry. Honestly, I can't write well, and getting me to write is rather hard. This was started when I was still a wee highschooler and you can tell.
You know that feeling you have in the pit of your stomach when your intuition suddenly decides to tell you that this is going to be a horrible day? Merlin couldn't shake the feeling. He had had it since he had woken up that morning. Perhaps it was the grey sky that was waiting for the most inconvenient time to start storming. Maybe it was the idiot that was provoking Arthur, who was in such a foul mood he had already yelled at Merlin eleven times that morning. Either way Merlin wished he hadn't gotten out of bed this morning.
Said Idiot had dismounted a large black horse near where Arthur was sending off Morgana and Gwen. He proceeded to inquire where he could find the king, and after being told that the king only holds private audiences in the afternoon the Idiot had turned to Gwen and with what could only be described as a cocky smile said "When can I hold a private audience with you?". Merlin knew Arthur would never admit it, but the fact that Gwen blushed only deepened the prince's ire. They were about to leave though, so Gwen and Morgana missed much of the real fighting.
Which brings us to the present moment. Arthur had the 'I'm going to put you in the stocks and laugh at you' look on his face. Merlin was familiar with that look, it was the one Uther always had when he was about to throw him into the stocks. Oh, yes Merlin knew that look.
"Guard, put him in the stocks,"
"Can't do it yourself?" Well, it seemed the idiot had a death wish. Not that he hadn't practically done the same thing when he first arrived here. Here it comes, the classic arm twist.
And the man twists his way out of it like it was child's play. With a heavy thud and Arthur was reeling from a blow in the face. Guards quickly stepped in to restrain the suicidal idiot. At spear point the idiot was lead by the men, presumably to the stocks, if not the darkest conner of the dungeon.
Arthur turned to him with a look of fury. Just as his stomach had predicted things were not boding well. When the prince wasn't happy he made it hard for Merlin to be happy.
The Idiot bitterly complained to himself all the way to the stocks. It wasn't until he was secured that he saw that Merlin had followed the guards. The man gave him a smile . Why is it that people who are trouble like to talk with him so much?
"Hey, want to do me a favor?" This idiot is dumber than he looks.
Now usually Merlin was willing to help people out, but this person had made his day so much worse. He was finally going to make a stand for himself! He was going to say no! "I don't even know your name," that didn't come out exactly as he had planned, but it was better than usual.
"Dean, and you?" the idiot had a strange name. Perhaps short for something?
"I'm Merlin," great, he had said his name, now he probably was expected to help.
"Well, Merlin, you see I left my horse back there. She's the large black one. Her name is Baby and I'll kick your ass if she gets hurt." It seems that the idiot really likes his horse. Better to not upset him and take care of it, after all he landed a blow on Arthur. Landing a blow on Arthur means that this Dean could easily kill him. Best to just do it and get out of here. After all villagers are gathering, and there was a surplus of tomatoes a few weeks ago.
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July 28,2006 Nokia started its very first public Unlicensed Mobile Access pilot over Wireless LAN in the Finnish city of Oulu last week. This trial will last at least two months and is being conducted under real life surroundings and conditions. Fifty families from the city of Oulu will be trying and testing the functionalities of this new technology with the help of Nokia’s 6136 mobile device. The 6136 integrates UMA technology to allow for seamless handover of voice and data connections between GSM cellular and WLAN networks. In other words, it combines the benefits of mobile and fixed landline through voice over WLAN.
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Something stinks in the wall-to-wall broadcast of every detail in the Derek Chauvin trial. The hegemonic (in a Marxian sense) result of drilling down so microscopically on one racist cop’s super-transgression, treating the killer as a rogue anomaly, is to disappear the broader mass-carceral white supremacist police-state and the underlying system of racialized class oppression that routinely ruins Black lives. Chauvin is being tried on cable television as “the sacrificial lamb necessary to protect—by deflecting attention away from”—the whole damn system. “Because the murder of George Floyd has received so much international attention amid recent (but ongoing since four centuries) spates of brutality by American law enforcement against non-whites,” an expatriate correspondent writes me from Germany, “it has become important for America’s (mis)leaders to try to demonstrate that the U.S. is not some crippled, raggedy-assed failed state where the rule of law clearly no longer applies.”
This is just one example among many. A fundamental rule in corporate-crafted U.S. media-politics culture is that the systemic taproot of the people’s pain must be ignored and obscured. The nightly news gives a running record of inner-city bloodshed but never includes serious discussion of the savage race-class apartheid that generates misery and violence in deeply impoverished and hyper-segregated communities of color. What results is a decontextualized “urban nightmare” horror show that feeds white racist “law and order” sentiments.
CBS lets Charles Barkley observe (during the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four last weekend) that American politicians play the game of racial “divide-and-conquer” in order to “keep their grasp on money and power.” It was neat to see “Chuck” speak that basic truth. But the network would never bring on a W.E.B. DuBois scholar (or a radical NBA veteran like Craig Hodges, pushed out of the NBA because of his left politics) to explain how racial division and Machiavellian Othering are rooted in the nature of the national and world capitalist system.
The nightly national news tells heartfelt stories about Central Americans trying to flee their miserable terror- and climate change-ravaged homelands. It says nothing about how Washington’s longstanding hemispheric imperialism and U.S.-led, planet-baking global capitalism have made decent lives impossible for millions in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Masses of American viewers are led to falsely think the United States has no responsibility for the trials of Central America and no obligation to help Central Americans.
CBS’s 60 Minutes recently told the inspiring story of how six marooned teenagers from Tonga cooperated peacefully and democratically to survive on a tiny uninhabited South Pacific island for 15 months in the mid-1960s. The story offers, CBS noted, a real-life refutation of the dark image of humanity portrayed in the widely read and still frequently assigned 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, wherein shipwrecked British schoolboys descended into tribal bloodshed and murderous hierarchy. It was a nice segment. Still, 60 Minutes would never bring on a serious Left cultural theorist or historian to explain why a frankly shitty and depressing novel like Lord of the Flies ever became a “modern classic” in the first place. As any good historical materialist could explain, William Golding’s insipid tale cleverly channeled the reigning Western bourgeois notion of “human nature” as inherently violent and selfish – and as therefore requiring proper harnessing and mediation by a purportedly “adult” and “civilized” (capitalist) state. Somewhat on the model of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe in an earlier era, and Garrett Hardin’s sickening and also exceedingly popular (and disastrously influential) essay “The Tragedy of the Commons” 14 years later, Lord of the Flies provided a ruing class-friendly moral fable on behalf of capitalist property and authority relations.
It is possible nowadays to hear American media personnel relate extreme weather events and even migration-driving despair in Central America to anthropogenic climate change. That’s good, but one will look far and wide before they see or hear anybody beyond the narrow corporate-policed parameters of permissible debate reasonably discuss capitalogenic climate destruction – the cooking and poisoning of the planet thanks to capitalism’s relentless drive to appropriate, commodify, and exploit every resource under the sun. The operative force is here is the systemic imperative of accumulation and “growth” to counter the unforgiving tendency of the rate of profit to decline.
It is only on the margins, outside the official boundaries, that you will find properly scientific, historical-materialist warnings against historically unspecific and class-blind uses of “anthros” that project the eco-cidal age of capital onto the broad 100,000-year swath of human activity. As the Marxist environmental geographer/sociologist/historian Jason W. Moore told Sasha Lilley more than a decade ago, “It was not humanity as whole that created …large-scale industry and the massive textile factories of Manchester in the 19th century or Detroit in the last century or Shenzen today. It was capital.”
It is only during the relatively brief period of history when capitalism has ruled the world system (since 1600 or thereabouts by some academic calculations, earlier and later by others) that human social organization has developed the capacity and inner compulsion to transform Earth systems with durable profitability dependent upon on the rapacious enclosure and arrogation of what Moore calls “cheap nature”: cheap food, cheap energy, cheap raw materials and cheap human labor power or cheap human nature.
Americans were subjected to four-plus years of constant, trauma-inducing media coverage of the endlessly transgressive madness of the malignantly narcissist and neofascistic Lord of the Flies president Donald Trump. It was a steady, nonstop news diet of personalized evil, cruelty, and idiocy that left little doubt that Malignant Orange was one of the most sickening and dangerous beings ever to befoul this planet. Much of the reporting and commentary was thorough and hard-hitting, if excessively and often absurdly reluctant to properly identify Trump and Trumpism as fascist. It was unthinkable, however, that “mainstream” (corporate) U.S. media would honestly and fully relate how Trump and his malevolent, white nationalist, and pandemicist presidency – responsible for over half a million excess U.S. deaths at least – was an epitome of America’s longtime white-supremacist capitalism and the fascist tendencies that are rooted in the soulless imperial class dictatorship that is the reign of capital at the end of the day. The corporate media’s obsession with the undeniable crimes of the Trumpenstein Antichrist (surely meriting punishment on the model of what befell “Damiens the Regicide” on March 1, 1757) is similar to the obsession with the beastly criminality of Derek Chauvin: an individualized rogue distraction from the deeper oppression system.
Much the same can be said about the pandemic that Trump and his pandemofascist soul brother Jair Bosonaro have done so much to fan in their respective countries. COVID-19 and what to do about it is a media obsession, understandably enough given its terrible and ongoing toll. The contagion has been sliced and diced in countless different ways in American corporate media. But don’t look for American corporate news and commentary to promote a serious discussion of how it is rooted in a relentlessly expansive profits system that brings humans into lethal contact with new zoonotic diseases while assaulting biodiversity in ways that make pandemics a recurrent menace. As Arooba Ahmed of Columbia University’s Earth Institute observed last fall, in a report that received little attention amidst Trump’s reckless assault on the election he lost – an assault that criminally took up all the White House’s energy while the nation endured a giant third COVID-19 wave:
“Globalization, industrialization, and urbanization have led us to encroach on natural environments, resulting in increased contact with wildlife that we would not encounter otherwise…Such interactions enable diseases to jump from primates into humans, and they become more likely when human industries destroy natural habitats and traverse deeper into forested regions to obtain natural resources to fuel expansion and trade. Widespread contact between human communities and wildlife has left us prone to new diseases such as SARS…Beyond just increased contact with wildlife, habitat destruction disrupts the natural balance in ways that can fuel pandemics. Human pressure on biodiversity through land-use change — resulting from agricultural expansion, logging, infrastructure development and other human activities — is the most common driver of infectious disease emergence, accounting for approximately one third of all emerging disease events….These stressors disrupt the environment’s infectious disease dynamics by changing the species composition of ecosystems to favor species that more frequently spread diseases to humans, such as bats, rodents, and birds.” (emphasis added).
At the same time, the Earth Institute observed that social inequality causes pandemics to wreak their worst damage on the poor: “It is important also to consider the severe inequality regarding who is most vulnerable to contracting the diseases that result from human pressure on biodiversity…the individuals who have few resources to combat the diseases are most susceptible, particularly when large companies are the actors catalyzing this environmental destruction.” This is true in every part of the world, and the Covid 19-era United
States is no exception.
If I were a producer at a major American television outlet, I would bring on Arooba Ahmed and pair her with Binghamton University’s Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (2015). I’d prompt Moore to explain how the globalization and encroachment his fellow panelist described was written into the inner workings and logic of the inherently imperial and savagely unequal capitalist system that nobody is supposed to talk about. And that’s one of the many reasons I’ll never be a producer at a major American television network.


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Comes complete with: IR Hunter Mk II (19mm or 35mm), Soft Carrying Case, Quick Reference Guide, Operator's Manual, Shuttered Eyeguard, and Batteries.
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Commercial Property Market Update: Q1 2020 Lease Activity: Asking Rent / S.F.
According to the latest numbers, our industrial property market update for Will County in Q4 shows a few strong trends to be aware of.
Industrial Property Lease Trends
- Vacancy rate: industrial property vacancy rates are showing a sharply rising trend. This is no doubt due to the stay-at-home orders and lockdowns causing some business to close, either temporarily or permanently.
- Commercial property availability: the amount of properties on the market crept down a bit relative to vacancy rates for the past 10 years or so, but that trend has come to an end in Q1 this year – at least for the time being.
- Industrial property lease rates: following a sharp drop about halfway through the quarter, rents have again begun to rise. This is good news for property owners while making it challenging for tenants to find a long-term lease deal.
- Months to lease: because of all of these factors, and thanks to the economy “re-opening”, properties are not staying empty for long and are only on the market for two months or so.
If you need the help of an expert to interpret the trends being shown in the latest Will County industrial property market update and how they affect you, contact Chris Condon of John Greene Commercial today.

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Barcelona news LIVE updates: Luka Jovic contract agreement, Philippe Coutinho doubts | Football | Sport
Monday, February 11
- Barcelona have reportedly agreed terms with Luka Jovic
- Barcelona must now discuss terms with Eintracht Frankfurt
- Frenkie de Jong is a doubt for Wednesday’s Champions League tie with Real Madrid
- Barcelona are growing increasingly worried about the future of Philippe Coutinho
Luka Jovic agreement
According to newspaper Franfurter Allgemeine, Jovic’s agents have been in talks with Barca.
Barca have agreed to sign De Jong for an eye-watering £58m come the summer.
And while Frankfurt will unlikely get that sort of fee for Jovic, they will still hold out for a hefty sum.
De Jong injury latest
He had been struggling before the game with injury but was passed fit to play.
The return leg is in Madrid on March 5.
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Barcelona are growing increasingly worried about the future of Philippe Coutinho at the club, according to reports.
Coutinho has struggled to settle since his £142million move from Liverpool just over a year ago.
He has started only 14 games in La Liga this season and was on the bench for four matches in a row prior to Sunday’s goalless draw with Athletic Bilbao.
And ESPN say sources close to Barcelona have told them they have doubts over whether or not he can fit into their current system under manager Ernesto Valverde.

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The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday condemned Naxals for killing 16 villagers over suspicions of being police informants and vowed strict action against them.
Chhattisgarh Home Minister Ajay Chandrakar told ANI that the 'inhumane' act of killing the innocent exposes the 'true face' of Naxals.
"I have spoken to officers in the intelligence department. This exposes their true face. It is inhumane to attack innocent people who are not on any side. The fight will continue against these inhumane people. This act of theirs shows their panic. We will give a fitting reply," he said.
Around 16 villagers were killed by Naxals in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh after a kangaroo court accused them of being police informants.
The incident took place on 29 February when Naxals called the nearby villagers for a meeting during which a kangaroo court was held.
The dead bodies of three of the slain villagers have been recovered so far while thirteen are reportedly still in the possession of Naxals.

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Erwinia chrysanthemi 3937 (Ech3937) is a phytopathogenic bacterium with a wide host range. The pectinolytic enzymes secreted by the bacterium and the type III secretion system (T3SS) are essential for full virulence. We used the green fluorescent protein gene as a reporter to investigate the expression of dspE (a putative T3SS effector) and pelD (a major pectin-degrading enzyme) in populations of Ech3937 under different conditions. Gene expression was analyzed by measuring the fluorescence intensity of individual cells with a fluorescence-activated cell sorter. Ech3937 dspE was induced in minimal medium (MM) with only a portion of Ech3937 cells (43.03%) expressing dspE after 12 h of culture. The nutrient-rich King's medium B did not fully eliminate the expression of dspE; a small percentage of Ech3937 cells (5.55%) was able to express dspE after 12 h of culture in this medium. In all, 68.95% of Ech3937 cells expressed pelD after 12 h of culture in MM supplemented with polygalacturonic acid (PGA). However, 96.34% of Ech131 cells (an hrpL deletion mutant of Ech3937) expressed pelD after 12 h of culture in MM supplemented with PGA. In potato tubers, 6.32% of the bacterial cells expressed dspE 2 h after inoculation, whereas only 0.25% of the cells expressed pelD. However, after 24 h, the percentage of cells expressing pelD (68.48%) was approximately 3.5 times that of cells expressing dspE (19.39%). In contrast to potato tubers, similar proportion of Ech3937 cells expressing dspE (39.34%) and pelD (40.30%) were observed in Chinese cabbage 24 h after inoculation. From promoter activity and real-time quantitative results, the expression of pelD in Ech3937 was demonstrated to be downregulated by HrpL in MM supplemented with PGA.
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You know that winter has worn out its welcome when it's lost the people who play in the snow for a living.
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) posted the following photo on its Facebook page on Tuesday, reflecting many Canadians' frustration with how long the cold season has hung around.
When one of its followers left a comment saying, "#WEAREWINTER !!!!!!" the person running the Facebook account responded with decidedly less enthusiasm:
"And we will be again, just ... later."
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Can a person’s past affect their future? Readers will find out in this debut novel, Exposed by Naomi Chase. Tamia Luke is an account executive who has secrets that are dying to come out. Tamia is in a committed relationship with Brandon Chambers, a well-known attorney, who prides himself on placing his clients at ease. Brandon believes he has found his soul mate but soon finds out that sometimes it is best to judge a book by its cover.
Meanwhile, Tamia’s past discretions lead her into a chance meeting with restaurant owner, Dominic Archer. Dominic is in need of advertising services among other things. Tamia’s secrets start unraveling and she will try anything she can to keep them hidden. Will she succeed?
Exposed is full of powerful characters, entertainment, suspense, and unsuspected twists. Readers will not be able to put this book down until the end. This book’s dynamic ending will have readers wanting more. I hope this is not the end to Tamia Luke’s story and I will be waiting on the sequel. I definitely recommend this book to others.

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City officials name new Lyford police chief
LYFORD – After months without a police department, Lyford city officials have chosen their new chief.
Officials met for the second time this week to choose a police chief. They selected Armin Martinez as the man for the job.
Martinez has more than 20 years’ experience in law enforcement. He’s currently working for the Raymondville Police Department as a patrol sergeant while carrying out administrative duties.
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One of the UK’s leading safety vibration specialists will unveil a new mobile HAV safety device at Britain’s biggest health and safety event, helping monitor hand arm vibration exposure for those workers on the move.
Reactec, the company behind the award winning HAVmeter solution, which monitors and reports the amount of vibration workers are exposed to when using power tools, will launch its new SMARTcharger at the Safety and Health Expo 2012 at Birmingham’s NEC this month.
The SMARTcharger will allow operatives to continuously work remotely for weeks at a time, before having to return the HAVmeter to a Basestation – allowing the successful HAVmeter solution to be deployed across a greater number of mobile workers, helping them from contracting chronic injuries such as vibration white finger.
By recording the vibration exposure levels and trigger times from vibrating power tools, the HAVmeter solution helps provide an in-depth and accurate overview of every employee’s vibration exposure so individual levels stipulated by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) are not exceeded.
Jim O’Hagan, Managing Director of Reactec, hopes that the new SMARTcharger will enable firms across the UK to better manage the welfare of mobile and remote operators.
He said: “HAVmeters are already seen as the industry best practise for monitoring and managing employee exposure to vibration levels which can lead to Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) among workers across a variety of sectors.
“We are continuously working to make it as easier for operatives working both on site and mobile to better manage their welfare in terms of vibration health and safety.
“The development of the SMARTcharger has given us a better understanding of remote working practices and it’s important to realise that there are different types of workers out there with different needs.
“We see the product as a real extension to better manage Hand Arm Vibration exposure.”
The HAVmeter is a small, easy to use device that has been designed to help protect workers from contracting Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome by monitoring and recording their exposure to vibration from power tools and other vibrating equipment.
The system provides every employee with a HAVmeter device that is programmed with their individual vibration exposure limits, which they attach to every tool they use during their shift. The HAVmeter collates data about the amount of vibration workers are exposed to and flashes a warning when limits are reached.
Jim continued: “It’s extremely easy for workers to use the SMARTcharger with the HAVmeter.
“Many workers have not had the chance of working with the HAVmeter due to the fact they do not have a Basestation at hand to charge their devices when off site for days/weeks at a time.
“The SMARTcharger solves this problem as workers are able to charge their HAVmeter on the move and can eventually take it back to a Basestation for their data to be recorded and analysed.”
The SMARTcharger is the most practical way for single or small teams of workers working on projects such as remote projects in construction, park and grounds maintenance and highways to monitor their exposure to vibration from power tools.
HAVmeter is the UK’s leading system for monitoring vibration exposure and, in addition to being offered by major tool hire firms, it is used by many of the country’s biggest construction and manufacturing companies – including Balfour Beatty, The Crown Estate, Tarmac and Aston Martin.
Under the system, every employee is issued with an individual HAVmeter monitor that records their exposure from power tools and other vibrating equipment in order to keep them within the limits set by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
More information about the HAVmeter can be found on the website www.reactec.com


New car registrations across Western European markets increased by 9.5% in July to 1.1 million units, according to the latest IHS Automotive forecast.
The performance in July pushed the year-to-date increase for the first seven months of the year from 8.1% in June to 8.4% year-on-year in July to 8 million units.
As reported by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the UK’s growth in July was more moderate in comparison to other European markets with a 3.2% rise to 178,420 units.
Tim Urquhart, IHS automotive principal analyst, said: “All the major markets in Western Europe recorded positive increases, although France and the UK showed signs of slowing growth.
“The UK is beginning to suffer from a higher base comparison and the fact that private-sector sales are slowing down.”
The market was led by Germany as its new car market continues to increase with registrations increasing by 9.5% year-on-year to 290,196 units.
Spain’s scrappage scheme (which ended in July) helped the market post double digit growth in July with a boost of 23.5% to 109,922 units.
French new car registrations rose at the slowest rate of any of the large European markets, with a rise of 2.3% year-on-year to 147,132 units.
Italy recorded growth of 14.5% year-on-year to 131,489 units.
For the full year, IHS Automotive is predicting a registrations increase of 3.6% year-on-year to 3.13 million units, including a slowdown in the last five months of the year.


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With a creative twist on arcade shooters, Shooting Stars comes blasting its way into the room. This title takes a term intended for addressing fame and then turns it upside down to make it literal. In Shooting Stars, you come toting your laser shooting cat onto a battlefield where you will actually be shooting stars of today’s world culture.
Musicians, actors/actresses, and even beloved Y-Tube personalities are all on the shopping block in Shooting Stars. Of course, the names of those involved are changed for legal reasons, but they even come along with a little dialog to let you be even more assured they are parodies of people. It is very humorous and anyone who even slightly keeps up with that type of stuff will find a little joy in wondering who is next.
As for the gameplay itself, I can say I have very very much enjoyed this game. It is pretty simple and not on the level of “Hell Shooters” that I have seen before in terms of chaos, but the quality of game is very high here. I have to admit that I have never been one to be very good with the hyper chaos Hell Shooters, so having a game a bit toned down and more accessible is a relief for someone trying to come into the genre.
Shooting Stars is a game anyone can sit down and enjoy. The visual aesthetics are good and fun, the witty parody of famous people was enjoyed and the accessible nature of the game was right on the money. This is definitely a fantastic time waster game. There isn’t much in terms of story and the game is not super long, but it has a very high replay value that should keep you coming back.


text: ARTICLE ABSTRACTProgression of breast cancer to metastatic bone disease is linked to deregulated expression of the transcription factor Runx2. Therefore, our goal was to evaluate the potential for clinical use of Runx2-targeting miRNAs to reduce tumor growth and bone metastatic burden. Expression analysis of a panel of miRNAs regulating Runx2 revealed a reciprocal relationship between the abundance of Runx2 protein and two miRNAs, miR-135 and miR-203. These miRNAs are highly expressed in normal breast epithelial cells where Runx2 is not detected, and absent in metastatic breast cancer cells and tissue biopsies that express Runx2. Reconstituting metastatic MDA-MB-231-luc cells with miR-135 and miR-203 reduced the abundance of Runx2 and expression of the metastasis-promoting Runx2 target genes IL11, MMP-13, and PTHrP. In addition, tumor cell viability was decreased and migration suppressed in vitro. Orthotopic implantation of MDA-MB-231-luc cells delivered with miR-135 or miR-203, followed by an intratumoral administration of the synthetic miRNAs, reduced the tumor growth and spontaneous metastasis to bone. Furthermore, intratibial injection of these miRNA-delivered cells impaired tumor growth in the bone environment and inhibited bone resorption. Importantly, reconstitution of Runx2 in MDA-MB-231-luc cells delivered with miR-135 and miR-203 reversed the inhibitory effect of the miRNAs on tumor growth and metastasis. Thus, we have identified that aberrant expression of Runx2 in aggressive tumor cells is related to the loss of specific Runx2-targeting miRNAs and that a clinically relevant replacement strategy by delivery of synthetic miRNAs is a candidate for a therapeutic approach to prevent metastatic bone disease by this route. Cancer Res; 75(7); 1433–44. ©2015 AACR.


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Anyone who has seen The Sound of Music knows how Maria von Trapp’s life began–but what happened after the final scene? Discover what Maria’s life was like after fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria for America. With intriguing facts about her life in the nunnery, her romance with Captain von Trapp, their ten children, and their singing careers, this inspiring story reaches beyond The Sound of Music–and reveals the courage and determination of a kind, energetic, and very real woman.
I watch the “Sound of Music” every winter, but did not realize how much of a life Maria von Trapp lived after the movie ended. A wonderful read for young and old.

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Last Monday, ”the queen of pop” confirmed that Mexico will be one of the countries that she will visit for her artistic tour ”The Celebration Tour,” with the one who will be celebrating his 40 years in the music scene.
Despite the emotion of the followers of the interpreter of “Like a Virgin” for the return to Mexico after several years, they remembered that time in which Madonna and Lucía Méndez had their friction.
It was in an interview with the entertainment program ”Hoy”, in which Andrea Legarreta says that Lucía Méndez “snubbed” Madonna.
It was at least 20 years ago that the two celebrities met, as Lucía Méndez attended a concert by “the queen of pop” and she did not get up from her seat, she remained seated.
This action infuriated Madonna and she approached the Mexican actress and asked her to get up to “cheer” and enjoy her show dancing standing up.
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But Lucía Méndez was not going to give up and did not give in, to which Madonna told her “Fuc… you”. Even Madonna’s security guards approached Mendez to ask her to get up but again the actress was not going to give in and she told them ”I’m gonna call my lawyer” which means ”I’m going to call my lawyer”, a phrase that became iconic of the famous.
The Mexican actress could not stand up because she had an injured knee, as she confessed.
When Lucía Méndez confessed her brush with Madonna, people accused her of being a liar and that she only wanted to talk about it to gain popularity, but A video in which Madonna is angry because the organizers of her concert put people who looked at her with bad eyes in the front rows went viral.
This video would give weight to Lucía Méndez’s statement, as they assure that it makes sense for her to say it, since Madonna He gets mad when the people who attend his concert don’t go crazy dancing and singing to his music.
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Two bills were introduced this week by lawmakers to help prevent and save the monarch butterfly population.
The MONARCH Act, provides support for the conservation of western monarch butterflies (the monarch butterfly population that overwinters along the coast of California and breeds across California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah). Specifically, the bill establishes the Western Monarch Butterfly Rescue Fund. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) must use amounts in the fund to provide grants for the conservation of such butterflies. In addition, the USDA must transfer amounts from the fund to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to implement the Western Monarch Butterfly Conservation Plan, which was prepared by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.
The Monarch and Pollinator Highway Act, would require the Secretary of Transportation to establish a program to provide grants to carry out activities to benefit pollinators on roadsides and highway rights-of-way, including the planting and seeding of native, locally-appropriate grasses and wildflowers, including milkweed, and for other purposes.
Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-ORe) introduced the bills in hopes to prevent the extinction of the species.
According to Common Dreams, the legislation comes at a critical moment for the iconic species. The Xerces Society said in January after its latest annual western monarch count that 1,914 monarch butterflies were recorded overwintering on the California coast—a figure the conservation group said reflected a staggering 99.9% drop from numbers in the 1980s and was an indiction the species was heading toward extinction.
With no protection on state or federal levels, these butterflies are in desperate need of an advocate.
“These bills will provide a lifeline for monarch butterflies whose populations have declined dramatically due to pesticide use, climate change, and habitat loss,” says Dr. Sylvia Fallon, senior director of wildlife at NRDC.


A police cop was killed while a cop and a CRPF personnel were injured in a militant attack at Prichoo area of South Kashmir’s Pulwama, officials said.
They told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), that militants attacked the joint team of police and CRPF at a Naka at the Prichoo area of Pulwama leaving three security forces personnel injured of which one succumbed on way to hospital and two others also sustained bullet injuries.
Officials confirmed the death of a policeman and identified him as Head Constable Anoop Singh number 70 of Indian Reserve Police 10th battalion, a resident of Saidpora, Pulwama.
The injured were identified as police Muhammad Ibrahim, who sustained serious bullet wounds and a CRPF man Krishan Kumar of 182 battalion CRPF, who received a minor bullet injury in his chest.
Kashmir zone police on its twitter hand wrote that militants fired at joint Naka party of police and CRPF at Prichoo, Pulwama. “Two police personnel got injured, however, one of the injured succumbed,” the tweet read.
Today’s attack is the second in the last 24 hours in Kashmir. Yesterday, militants killed two BSF men at Pandach area of Srinagar outskirts and also snatched their weapons.


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In this tutorial, I demonstrate how I use Adobe Lightroom 4.0 to edit a gallery on my new Squarespace website. In it, I demonstrate my workflow for evaluating my website and editing the images that end up in a gallery showcasing my street photography. It provides some important tips for editing one's photography to provide the best presentation and impact for a body of work. You can visit my new website by going to www.ibarionex.net.
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Sono began his career in the financial services industry in 2012 and joined Investors Group Securities Inc. (IGSI) in 2016. Prior to joining IG, he worked for a full-service brokerage and the largest discount brokerage in Canada. Sono graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree.
Sono provides overall portfolio and individual securities advisory services for high net worth clients who seek advice regarding portfolio structure. He provides written portfolio summaries which analyze existing portfolio investments and makes recommendations based on the client’s current situation, risk tolerance and objectives.
Mutual funds, investment products and brokerage services are offered through Investors Group Securities Inc., (in Québec, a firm in Financial Planning). Investors Group Securities Inc. is a member of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund. Insurance products and services distributed through I.G. Insurance Services Inc. , (in Québec, a Financial Services Firm). Investors Group Trust Co. Ltd. is a federally regulated trust company and the mortgagee. Mortgages are offered through I.G. Investment Management, Ltd.* Inquiries will be referred to a Mortgage Planning Specialist (in Ontario, a Mortgage Agent, and in Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, a Mortgage Broker). *In ON and NS, registered as a Mortgage Brokerage (ON 10809, NS 3000240) and a Mortgage Administrator (ON 11256, NS 3000232), in QC, registered as a financial services firm (QC 2400376104) and in NB, registered as a Mortgage Brokerage.

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The Dish Rag got a chance to chat with Emily Blunt about her Golden Globe-nominated role in yet another amazing film about a British female monarch, "The Young Victoria."
We wanted her take on where the teenage monarch's inner strength came from as well as the touching -- yet not widely known in the US -- story of her devotion to her husband Prince Albert.
Fittingly, Emily is engaged to be married to "The Office" star John Krasinski. And the night before we met, she'd appeared on Craig Ferguson's show, which she says started off with him talking about her breasts.
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The round stylized flower is a repeating image in my work. It references my early visual influences from home decoration, patterns in textiles, and folk art. When I was 5 my mother took me to the hardware store and allowed me to choose wallpaper for my new room. The paper I chose had a large scale repeating simple graphic flower, a popular motif in the 1960’s. I fell asleep looking at it for many years and consider it one of my first empowering creative acts: the ability to create an environment and the pattern itself both left a lasting imprint on me.
The Red Flower Tile (Chunk, Bump and Split), 2022 grouping was made in my studio in rural Northwest CT. The swamp maple used was pulled into the studio from fallen trees on the property. Tiles pieces were hand cut out of clay, fired with a saturated red glaze, and inlaid into shaped and sanded logs. The final results merges decorative floral elements with pieces of the landscape. The series of large shallow hand thrown bowls was inspired by this sculpture grouping; using the same tile template pattern and saturated red glaze.

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Definitions for raidreɪd
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:
a police raid on a narcotics ring.
a sudden attack on an enemy, as by air or by a small land force.
an effort to lure away a competitor's employees, members, etc.
a concerted attempt of speculators to force stock prices down.
(v.t.)to make a raid on.
(v.i.)to engage in a raid.
Origin of raid:
1375–1425; ME (north and Scots) ra(i)de, OE rād expedition, lit., a riding; doublet of road
foray, raid, maraud(noun)
a sudden short attack
an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
"The police raided the crack house"
foray into, raid(verb)
enter someone else's territory and take spoils
"The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly"
take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock
"T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies"
search for something needed or desired
"Our babysitter raided our refrigerator"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
a sudden military attack
an occasion when police enter a place by force to find sth
five suspects arrested in a drug raid
a sudden attack on a place in which thieves steal
a bank raid
(of police) to enter a place by force to find sth
Special agents raided the building.
to steal from a place
Thieves raided the cash register.; Who raided the cookie jar?
A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
An attacking movement.
To engage in a raid.
To steal from; pillage
To lure from another; to entice away from
To indulge oneself by taking from
Origin: From raid (obsolete after Middle English but revived in the 19th-century by Walter Scott), from rad ( > English road).
a hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray
an attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury
to make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
An operation to temporarily seize an area in order to secure information, confuse an adversary, capture personnel or equipment, or to destroy a capability. It ends with a planned withdrawal upon completion of the assigned mission.
Translations for raid
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
to make a raid on
The police raided the gambling club.
- klopjag doenAfrikaans
- يقومُ بِغارَةٍ، يُداهِمArabic
- tomar de assaltoPortuguese (BR)
- eine Razzia machenGerman
- foretage et raid; foretage en razziaDanish
- κάνω επιδρομή, εισβάλλωGreek
- hacer una redada; atacar por sorpresaSpanish
- haarangut tegemaEstonian
- یورش بردن؛ ریختن به محل خاصFarsi
- faire une descente dansFrench
- छापा मारनाHindi
- izvršiti racijuCroatian
- gera innrás/rassíuIcelandic
- (fare un'incursione in)Italian
- surengti reidą įLithuanian
- iebrukt; uzbruktLatvian
- aanvallen, overvallenDutch
- gjøre en rassiaNorwegian
- zrobić najazd/obławę/nalot naPolish
- یورش بردن؛ ریختن به محل خاصPersian
- يرغل كول، تاړاكول، تاخت او تاز كولPashto
- a face o razie/o descindereRomanian
- совершать налёт, облавуRussian
- napraviti racijoSlovenian
- izvršiti racijuSerbian
- göra en räd (razzia)Swedish
- baskın yapmakTurkish
- 襲擊Chinese (Trad.)
- робити наліт, облавуUkrainian
- چھاپہ مارناUrdu
- đột kíchVietnamese
- 袭击Chinese (Simp.)
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|Celtic Radio Community > General Discussion > Irish Festivals|
|Posted by: mitchell 27-May-2018, 08:23 PM|
| What: Missouri River Irish Festival
Where: St. Charles, Missouri
When: Memorial Weekend.
Length: 3 days
How often: Annually
Headliners 2018: The Elders and Barley Juice plus others.
C u in 2019.
List your favorite Celtic festivals
|Posted by: mitchell 27-May-2018, 08:30 PM|
| The major list of Celtic festival USA is
|Posted by: haynes9 30-May-2018, 03:00 AM|
| Nice post, Mitchell! The Celtic festival I always attend is the one in Flagstaff, Arizona. Only two hours or so from our home on the Navajo Nation.
Arizona Highland Celtic Festival
When: July 21 - 22, 2018
Where: Flagstaff, Arizona
This is a great time of fun and music. The Wicked Tinkers almost always play here. The Knockabouts, a local Flag group, are always there. This year marks a return of the Recollective. They are a terrific band! Come to the mountains for some good fun!
|Posted by: Robert Phoenix 06-Jun-2018, 07:34 PM|
| Milwaukee Irish fest and the Irish fair in Minnesota are the big ones for me.
|Posted by: Queenchickawana 28-Jun-2018, 11:28 AM|
|Posted by: Squire 12-Jul-2018, 08:00 AM|
|Thanks for the links these are great more festivals than I thought.|
|Posted by: dalern63 05-Jan-2019, 09:48 PM|
|I love festivals|
|Posted by: Skinner 27-Jul-2019, 09:47 AM|
| Here in western Ohio, (I know you're saying where's that) Celtic Festival; Dayton, July 26, 27 & 28th. Some of the performers are Scythian, Gaelic Storm
and Socks in the Frying Pan. The next week it's in Columbus Ohio.

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Frank Garcia has some amazing new products for his wonderful Memory Hardware line!! There are so many NEW products in this sneak peek! Just take a long look then scroll down for more!
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Stunning or what? Frank created a new Bohemian Summer Mixed-Media Album showcasing a few of his latest products: new Le Merlier Metalware, Regalia Crowns, and Montchamp Resin Frame from his Memory Hardware 2017 Collection. Art Venture - Phoenix attendees will be creating this in just a few weeks!
How abotu a just a few project peeks too? "I knew that I had to make a dream catcher with the Love Clippings collection (12x12 Paper - Pretty Little Notes, 8x8 Collection Kit). Once I saw the Memory Hardware frames, I knew the frames were perfect for this!" ~ Tiffany Solorio
"Memory Hardware and Love Clippings mix really well! They create a lovely vintage combination. Can you spot a trim, some dangling embellishments and chain in this altered fan?" ~ Riikka Kovasin
Once you're done drooling over these amazing photos, then check out our previous sneak peeks for even more deliciousness:
Aren't these new Memory Hardware products exciting?! Look for the full reveal coming soon. In the meantime if you'd like to know even more about our NEW Color Philosophy Inks, Cari Fennell will be showing them off on Facebook Live at 11:00 a.m. PT/2:00 p.m. ET!!


South Carolina High School Teacher Wins Miss USA Contest
Lu Parker, a high school English literature teacher representing South Carolina, was crowned Miss USA on Friday night.
Miss USA 1993 Kenya Moore of Detroit crowned Parker at the end of the two-hour program televised nationally on CBS. The 25-year-old Charleston native also won the evening gown event.
Runner-up was Patricia Southall, 23, of Chesapeake, Va., a former aide to ex-Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder. Southall won both the swimsuit and preliminary interview events.
Second runner-up was Lynn Jenkins, 25, of Gastonia, N.C., who described herself as a motivational speaker.
Jennifer Gareis of New York, Shirelle Hebert of Louisiana and Christine Friedel of Texas were eliminated when the field was narrowed from six to three.
The winner of the pageant, which includes representatives from the 50 states and the District of Columbia, receives $235,000 in cash and prizes and represents the United States in the Miss Universe pageant on May 20 in Manila.
Bob Goen, weekend host and correspondent for “Entertainment Tonight,” and Arthel Neville, host for E! Entertainment Television, were hosts of the 43rd annual pageant.
The 51 contestants participated in pre-pageant activities for more than two weeks. Ten judges rated them in the swimsuit and evening gown events and interviews.
The panel of 10 judges consisted of “American Gladiators” personality Erika Andersch, singer-songwriter Carol Connors, beauty products executive John Paul DeJoria, former Miss USA Mai Shanley-Fitzgerald, Telemundo personality Pedro Luis Garcia, Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner, talent agent Aaron Kaplan, Dallas Cowboys tailback Derrick Lassic, casting agent Meg Liberman and actress Sheryl Lee Ralph.


f you’ve ever used a node system (they seem to be appearing everywhere now) you’ll either: A) swear by their use, and wonder what I’m complaining about, probably thinking I just need to spend more time with it, or 3d mink lashes) Think they’re over-complicated and created that way to alienate the masses from their use.
I shall explain my argument with a simple test I performed with both Adobe’s After Effects, and The Foundry’s Nuke. Now I will say first of all that I’m biased towards After Effects, having used it for several years, but I didn’t find it as frustrating to start off with as I did when I tried Nuke. The test was easy: Import a small video clip, turn it black and white, look at it.
Seems easy enough…Lets start with After Effects (hereafter AE) In AE, I went to File > Import > clicked on my video clip > OK. Now the clip was inside AE’s project browser. I clicked and dragged it to the logical looking place for clips, the large rectangle area at the bottom and *TA DA* AE creates a new composition to the exact length of my clip. So far so good. Next I looked for the effects, which are cleverly labeled “Effects”. Searched for ‘black and white’, got a preset called ‘black and white’, clicked and dragged that onto my clip, and instantly it turned black and white. I then pressed the play button and was nicely treated to my clip playing in black and white.
Anttx, let’s try Nuke. Opened Nuke, had a look for an import function. After about 5 minutes of trying to find it I gave up (I’m sure if there are some dedicated Nuke users reading this, you’re probably thinking I’m a fool and screaming out how obvious the import function is, however, it didn’t present itself to me after looking for it) So I went for the next option of opening Window’s explorer, and dragging the clip across the screen so I could directly drop it into Nuke. This worked, but seemed an odd way of getting footage in there. Now finding the black and white (B&W) present wasn’t too hard, I’ll let Nuke off there, so I dropped the B&W node into my endless sea of node space. Had a think for a moment, logic would suggest connecting the B&W node to the clip, but it isn’t, it’s the other way around. Fair enough, I guess if you’re running a chain of events it will go Clip > Make it black and white > Preview.
So now I’m at the stage of trying to look at my clip, only nothing happens. After searching on Google for a while, I discover I have to connect my clip to a viewing node (or something). I’m sorry, but this just seems utterly pointless to me. If I’m working with something visual, I’d expect to be able to see it as a default setting. You wouldn’t buy a TV with everything but the screen in it, then go and buy the screen later. Apple ship their 3d mink lashes with headphones (though I’m sure they’ve been tempted to make you buy them separately), but they point is, if you’re going to do something, you want the end result as part of the process, not something that should be an option. So now I’ve got my clip, black and white, and I can see it, so I want to play it back. However I find that upon pressing the play button that it is very jumpy, distorted and broken. I’ve got a good spec PC, AE has no trouble playing back 50 layers of video and effects, but Nuke is struggling to play a 10 second B&W clip. “WHY?!” I scream while slowly pulling out my 3d mink lashes to ease the pain and frustration.
After yet more Googling I discovered that Nuke is based upon the speed of your hard drive transfer rate, and likes to think about files in terms of frames, rather than whole films. So that 16Gb of Ram I’ve got is sitting their quietly, probably drinking a cheap whiskey and waiting for something to do, while my hard drive is frantically jumping back and forth between video frames.
After this I just gave up, I am fully aware of some of the fantastic film effects that have been composited using Nuke, but when I see a mass tangle of node wires crossing over and inserting themselves into 3d mink lashes boxes with little meaning, looking like spaghetti and meatballs without the sauce, I can’t help but think this program is intentionally hard to understand, just so only the most dedicated of people will ever get to understand its secrets. And I guess that’s why only the best at it get the best jobs.


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Financial Education Team Adds Oakland Intern To Help Increase Program Effectiveness
As most of us know, a helping hand can greatly increase effectiveness and efficiency in completing a task. While the Financial Education team works hands-on with four different schools in the Oakland area (not including the Brandon School District Adult Transition Program), the area of opportunity for a new addition to the department continues to expand.
This expansion is what prompted the team to seek out an Oakland University intern to join forces with the current Financial Educators working in the Oakland area. As the schools currently working directly with the Financial Education team are located in Brandon Township, the department expects to see other schools added to the roster in areas like Rochester Hills and Clarkston in the near future.
“We are excited to integrate a college intern into our financial education program because it will provide a dynamic professional experience and inject new ideas into the program. We are also excited to provide intern opportunities for the Oakland University community that provide for career exploration as well as hands on professional experience," explained Ian Duncanson, the only full-time Financial Educator currently working in the Oakland area.
As students go on break for the holidays, the team is interviewing candidates to fulfill the new opening and is hoping to introduce the college intern to the school programs in January. From carrying necessary items back and forth from the office into the schools, to generating new ideas for engagement of students, student-run branches and in-school branches alike will benefit greatly from this adjustment to the team.
The department hopes to make its mark on the Oakland community by providing innovative opportunities to students, and bringing on key team members that will help to act as ambassadors of the credit union on Oakland University’s campus and beyond.


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The Herald erroneously implied that $16 million was spent to care for 14 remaining people at Fernald Developmental Center when, in fact, the $16 million covered the care of far more (“16M to care for 14 people,” May 24). According to the Department of Developmental Services, the $16 million figure is a projection of the cost of operating Fernald throughout the current fiscal year.
Last July there were between 50 and 70 residents still living at Fernald. Throughout the current year, the administration has moved residents out, and 14 was the number of residents still remaining as of last month. DDS projects that the annual cost of caring for those remaining 14 residents is $8.9 million, not $16 million. Moreover, as developmental centers close, the cost per person spikes due to the declining residential population.
— David Kassel,
Mass. Coalition of Families and Advocates, Inc.

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This year, we’ve seen the climate crisis wreak havoc across the world. From record-level extreme heat, forest fires, to flooding and droughts – we’ve seen that the climate catastrophe is here and ongoing. 2022 has demonstrated once again that those who contributed the least to the crisis suffer the most.
As the IPCC has recognised, colonialism – which devastates ecosystems, and exploits and destroys land and resources – was, and continues to be, a key driver of the crisis.
There is a gap between recognising the problems and taking decisive action.
Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, military occupation, and apartheid, has destroyed Palestine’s environment, pillaged its natural resources, and left Palestinians without the control over, or access to, their land and resources necessary to mitigate and adapt to the effects of the climate crisis. The Jewish National Fund has always been a key instrument in the settler colonisation of Palestinian land, expropriation of Palestinian resources, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people, yet the JNF has observer status with the UNFCCC and regularly accompanies the Israeli government at COP meetings.
Indigenous and global majority movements, in Palestine and beyond, are leading the struggle for justice. In advance of COP27 in Egypt, the Stop the JNF Campaign joins movements across the world in demanding climate justice – for rich countries to pay their climate debts and reparations, and for an urgent and just transition to renewable energy.
Specifically, the Stop the JNF campaign amplifies calls for:
- A people-led overhaul of the negotiations, rejecting its narrow corporate agenda.
- For organisations and corporations that profit from ecological destruction to be held accountable – including Siemens and Chevron, who are both engaged in fossil gas projects with Israel.
- The removal of the racist Jewish National Fund from observer status to the UNFCCC.


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For over a decade helped the Hollywood elite to cut the red carpet this year and sports scientist, Venice A Fulton, unveiled a six-week plan for the promise of getting “skinnier than all his friends in record time.
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The benefits of the pH miracle diet you’ve probably run across the phrase “green drinks” before. In fact, a quick search of reviews on Robert Young’s book, “The pH Miracle Diet” shows that many people who use the program also use green drinks to raise the level of alkalinity in their diets. What are green drinks and how it benefits following the pH diet?
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Latest Opeth News
Below is our complete Opeth news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Note: We began associating news directly with bands in late 2003. Therefore, earlier band news may not be listed on this page.
Opeth mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt has been chosen to curate Roadburn Festival 2014 on Friday, April 11th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Opeth will headline the show, and all other bands will be personally selected by Mikael. Previous Roadburn curators have included Neurosis, Tom G. Warrior of Celtic Frost/Triptykon, Sunn O))), Voivod, and Jus Oborn of Electric Wizard.
Says Mikael, "It's with great honour that I accepted the invitation to be the curator for the 2014 Roadburn festival. I'm pretty damn far from being a professional booker/promoter, and I've never been part in choosing bands for an event apart from bands that Opeth has toured with. So this is a first for me, but I have to say I'm very excited.
"I've reached out to a handful of my favourite bands from the past and present. As of now it looks like it will be an amazing musical event. Still brainstorming about possible bands for this glorious festival but I already know that I'm going to be like a kid at Christmas. It will be amazing! Plain and simple. Obviously Opeth will perform as well, but to be quite honest with you, our own performance doesn't get me nearly as excited as the thought of experiencing the bands that have shown interest. It will be remarkable and memorable. A celebration, bitches!" More...
Roadrunner Records has issued the following announcement about releasing a retrospective box set:
"On October 1, we'll be releasing 'XXX: Three Decades of Roadrunner Records,' a four-disc box set that chronicles our first thirty years in existence.
"Each disc in the set will reflect a period in our history, with artists such Mercyful Fate, Deicide, Brujeria, Suffocation, Type O Negative, Slipknot, Machine Head, Sepultura, Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Dream Theater, Opeth, Gojira, Airbourne, Black Stone Cherry, and Rush being represented.
"Furthermore, the set will feature liner notes written by Decibel contributor Chris Dick in addition to quotes from founder Cees Wessels; legendary A&R guru Monte Conner; and artists such as King Diamond, Sepultura/Soulfly/Cavalera Conspiracy mastermind Max Cavalera, Trivium frontman Matt Heafy, Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt, Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, and more."
Opeth has checked in with the following announcement about performing on the Melloboat and writing new material for an upcoming album:
"Opeth will return onboard the Melloboat, organized by Mellotronen records in September. Due to a glitch in the machinery this hasn't been posted til now which have led to some confusion amongst Opeth fans wanting to attend. But we'll be there.
"The festival is held between the 6th and 8th of September onboard the Silja festival cruise ship going from Stockholm to Riga.
"Despite notoriously sea-sick band members, Opeth will take a break in the writing process for record number 11 and be there to entertain. Other bands include Icecross, Trettioåriga kriget, Cressida and horror film score legend Fabio Frizzi among others."
Further information on the Melloboat can be found at this location.
Opeth will be performing in support of latest album "Heritage (reviewed here), which split the band's fan base on the fully prog rock sound. Last year Metalunderground.com took two opposing sides to dissect the album, which features no death growls or extreme metal elements.
Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth was recently interviewed by The Age of Metal in Tucson, Arizona.
In the YouTube clip he discusses how bassist Martin Mendez pranked the members of Katatonia on tour, playing the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, pre-show rituals, and more.
Check it out below.
Roadrunner Records has posted a video interview online with Opeth bassist Martin Mendez, the longest-serving member of the group aside from Mikael Åkerfeldt.
In the clip below, he talks about moving to Sweden from Uruguay as a teenager, how he works with the band's drummer Martin Axenrot, and how Opeth's music has changed over the years.
Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson of Opeth were interviewed by Australia's Maniacs while out on an Australian run of shows. Check out the video clip below.
You can also check out recent footage of the band's Newbury Comics Record Store Day performance at this location.
Opeth, which is currently writing a new album to follow last full-length "Heritage," stopped by Newbury Comics in Massachusetts this past Saturday for a (mostly) acoustic show on Record Store Day.
Check out fan filmed footage of the song "Credence" in the YouTube player below.
Opeth will be doing a free acoustic performance and signing this Saturday, April 20th (which is also Record Store Day) at Newbury Comics in Leominster, MA at 3:00 PM.
The band's North American tour in support of latest album, "Heritage," kicks off this Thursday, April 18th, and runs through May 26th. Bassist Martin Mendez says of the upcoming dates:
"We’re doing a different kind of tour than last time. Last time some of the fans were disappointed because we were really promoting the last record and we didn’t do any of the really heavy songs. But this time we are doing is mish-mash of everything. I hope — I think it will be appreciated."
In related news, Opeth also recently announced the band is writing the follow-up album to "Heritage."
Opeth guitarist Fredrik Åkesson was recently interviewed by Australia's Loudmag, and during the course of the conversation, revealed that the band is writing material for a next studio album and follow-up to "Heritage" (reivewed here).
According to Fredrik, the next record will go "in a somewhat different direction to Heritage. It won't be a step back, but it will be different. Maybe more intense in a way. You'll have to wait and see! I was in the studio today and put down my solos and I was very happy about it. The song I heard that Mikael [Åkerfeldt] wrote today sounds very cool. I think that's all I can say at this point!"
He says the band is planning to re-enter the studio this fall, perhaps at the end of September. Stay tuned for further details.
Opeth will be touring North America next month, and a full list of tour dates can be found at this location.
Read the full article at Loudmag.com.
The latest round of bands confirmed to storm the stage at New England Metal and Hardcore Festival XV has today been announced. The fresh additions to the brutal three-day event include Alleageon, Alpha & Omega, Born Low, MurderDeathKill and Dark Sermon, as well as Baltimore hardcore squad Trapped Under Ice and New Jersey’s renowned explosive tech metal practitioners The Dillinger Escape Plan.
A tour based around the fest has also been created by MassConcerts, something they’ve done for the past four years. Dubbed Mission Quest to Metal Fest, the trek was formed in order to help a few of the bands get to and from NEMHF this year. This year the tour unifies Expire, Alpha & Omega, Power Trip, Twitching Tongues, and Antagonist A.D. on a ten-date assault leading up to their individual performances at the festival.
Stated promoter Scott Lee on the formation of this built-in tour: “We are really proud of this year’s lineup, and to bring these bands together leading up to it. The tour includes Expire who played last year, California powerhouse Alpha & Omega, Power Trip who is an up-and-coming hardcore band from Texas, and Twitching Tongues. We're also very excited to have Antagonist A.D. from New Zealand; they are the band coming from the farthest away for the fest. Pretty happy to have them; we love putting foreign bands on the bill!” More...
As was announced yesterday, Sweden's ultimate dark rock/metal band Katatonia will be heading on an extensive North American tour with headliner and fellow Swedish elite Opeth. The upcoming run, "North American Heritage Tour 2013," will hit over 30 cities this spring beginning April 18 in Buffalo, N.Y.
Commented guitarist, Anders Nyström: "Back in the U.S.A...That's right Springsteen! We're looking at round #2 as special guests to our brothers in Opeth on their last North American leg of the Heritage World Tour. This time we'll mainly cover off-territories, so regardless if you caught or missed us last time, consider this a second chance to attend the dead ends of North America with one of the best bills there'll ever be!"
The tour will make two special stops, the first in Worcester, Mass. on April 20tg where the band returns to play the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival, then in Clifton Park, N.Y. on April 28th where acclaimed Porcupine Tree front-man Steven Wilson will join for the night. A full list of confirmed dates can be seen below.
Katatonia last toured North America in September 2012 as part of the co-headlining "Epic Kings & Idols Tour" with The Devin Townsend Project. "Dead End Kings" Katatonia's ninth studio album (reviewed here), hit stores on August 28th, 2012 via Peaceville Records. More...
The ever-evolving Swedish band Opeth will return to North America in support of most recent studio album, "Heritage." The tour will kick off on April 18th in Buffalo and will take the band throughout North America on a 30+ city tour. Katatonia has been confirmed as direct support for the tour.
There will be several dates of note during Opeth’ s North American run. On April 20th, Opeth will be making a stop to headline alongside Anthrax, Hatebreed, and Suicidal Tendencies at the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival. The April 28th show in Clifton Park, NY will see Åkerfeldt’s Storm Corrosion collaborator and friend Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree join Opeth for a special evening that is not to be missed.
There will also be two rare and intimate evenings with Opeth planned for Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn on April 29th and The Roxy in Los Angeles on May 24th. These shows will allow fans the unique opportunity to experience Opeth like never before. More...
Promoter MassConcerts detailed the 2013 edition of the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival's annual event at The Palladium in Worcester, Mass. The three day festival commences on Friday April 19, 2013, with a kick off event on Thursday, April 18th. The press release reads as follows:
"For the 2013 installment, the NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL will once again overthrow the historic venue, The Palladium, in Worcester, Massachusetts, this year marking the 15th anniversary of the iconic weekend-long gathering! The festivities will commence with a pre-party on April 18th, 2013 and the three official days of the fest following on the 19th, 20th, and 21st.
"Commented the festival’s founder Scott Lee of MassConcerts: 'I am excited with how far we have come and am ecstatic for this to be on our 15th year! It has been a long, interesting journey. We always try to make it a memorable event and we really hope you all enjoy the festival this year.'
"With more than forty acts from all realms of the extreme music world already set to storm the two stages of NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL XV -- and with many more to be announced in the coming weeks -- the confirmed headliners for the event will include Hatebreed, Opeth and Suicidal Tendencies, as well as legendary thrash titans Anthrax performing their Among The Living album in its entirety, as part of their headlining spot on the Metal Alliance Tour.
"View the full list of bands set to confirm this year below. Tickets for the event will go on sale next Wednesday, January 16th."
The lineup includes: More...
Swedish progressive metal favourites Opeth have posted a new, thirty second trailer online for their upcoming 2013 activity, which will commence in the Spring of next year. You can check it out below. More...
Front man Mikael Åkerfeldt and guitarist Fredrik Åkesson of Opeth were interviewed by Marshall on the first date of the band's recent U.K. tour. They talk about the amps they use onstage, and walk you through their live rigs. Check out the clip below.
The band has recently been performing unplugged shows featuring acoustic rendition of earlier works, in addition to softer songs off the new album "Heritage." You can check out excerpts from a recent interview with Mikael Åkerfeldt about these unplugged gigs right here.
Legendary Swedish act Opeth performed an unplugged show in London earlier this month, with footage from the show available here. Roadrunner Records has now conducted an interview directly with band frontman Mikael Akerfeldt about the show and footage being recorded from several unplugged gigs which may be released down the line. Excerpts from the interview follow, or you can read the full thing right here.
RR: You played what was described as your first-ever “unplugged” show earlier this month at Union Chapel in London, but you were playing electric instruments, so how was it different from a regular Opeth gig?
Well, none of the so-called “unplugged” shows are really unplugged, because there’s always microphones [laughs], even if you’ve got acoustic guitars. But we just played some more mellow stuff, I guess. We’ve got a bunch of those songs, so it was kind of easy for us to do that. The problem we had was that the dB limit in Union Chapel, where we played, was 85 dB, so we had to have the amps on really low. That was the only problem that we noticed, really. Other than that, it was fun. It was a bit like throwing ourselves off a cliff in a way, because out of the 10 or 11 songs that we played, I think half of them were songs we’d never played before. So it was interesting. But it went really well. I was quite happy with it.
RR: You're doing two more shows like this, in Germany; are you filming or recording these shows at all?
We bought some type of rig, so we can record every show. I’m not sure if we’re recording every show, but we did record the London show, and we’re probably gonna continue recording whenever we can. But I’m not sure what we’re doing with that stuff, to be honest. It’s always good to have material, and maybe further down the line, if we have a bunch of shows recorded we can pick and choose the best segments of the shows and maybe put something out, but we don’t know yet.More...
Opeth performed an unplugged show at the Union Chapel in London on November 16th, 2012 and fan-filmed footage from the show is now available online.
Below you can check out Opeth playing "Häxprocess" and an unplugged version of "Demon of the Fall" courtesy of YouTube users ryanjoe2003 and wilsonmikael. "Häxprocess" comes off the band's latest full-length album "Heritage" (reviewed here). More...
MetalInsider.net had the chance to interview guitarist Anders Nystrom (Katatonia, Bloodbath) in New York City last weekend, and during the chat Anders revealed that Katatonia’s originally planned fall tour with Opeth has been canned, and also confirmed that Bloodbath has found a replacement for Mikael Akerfeldt in Bloodbath. Excerpts from the interview follow.
Metal Insider: Speaking about touring, guitarist Fredrik Akesson let it slip this past summer that Opeth and Katatonia would be touring North America again later this year. Is that still happening?
That was supposed to happen, but Mikael [Akerfeldt, Opeth frontman] actually pulled the plug on that at the last minute. It’s very unfortunate because we have two more days on this tour now. In three days, we were supposed to start that tour, so it’s a bummer really. We were ready to do that.
Metal Insider: Did he give a reason for canning the tour?
I think honestly, Mikael’s burnt. He’s just been touring nonstop, constantly. I think he had to choose his priorities because they’re going out in Europe in a month as well. So that would mean they probably wouldn’t have a gap at all and they decided to pull on this tour, which is unfortunate for us. But things like that happen, it’s out of our control.
Metal Insider On the plus side, at least you guys did get to tour together. It brought a lot of exposure for the band, I’m sure. I remember when we were speaking you were like, “that would be the perfect tour for us” and one year later… More...
Read the full article at Metal Insider.
In an exclusive video for Prograckmag.com, Opeth mainman Mikael Akerfeldt explains where the idea of doing an acoustic show came from, why it appealed to him, and why he chose Anathema to support his band on an upcoming UK tour. Check out the video right here or in the player below.
Prog Magazine No.30 is published on September 26th and features Akerfeldt on the cover. The Opeth November UK tour dates are as follows:
12/11 Nottingham Rock City
13/11 Glasgow O2 ABC
14/11 Dublin Vicar St
15/11 Leeds Metropolitan University
16/11 London Union Chapel
17/11 Portsmouth Pyramid Centre More...
Due to an overwhelming demand from metal fans worldwide, Grammy-nominated and Juno award-winning Banger Films is setting out to raise funds to make what has become known as "The Lost Episode" a reality. Metal Evolution: Extreme Metal “The Lost Episode” covers co-director Sam Dunn’s favorite genres: Death Metal, Black Metal and Grindcore, and he is reaching out to metal fans to help make it happen.
“Hundreds of fans have emailed us demanding, pleading, that we do this episode,” says Banger Films co-founder Sam Dunn. “So in response we're launching an IndieGoGo campaign to raise funding within the Metal community to finance the episode. The goal is to raise $175,000 in 90 days!” The campaign kicked off Friday, September 14th. Details of the campaign, including cool donor gifts at various contribution levels. More...


The Howard County Office of Transportation conducted a planning study and preliminary design for a shared-use (pedestrian and bicycle) pathway along Robert Fulton Drive.
The goals of the project are:
- Improve bicycle and pedestrian access to Columbia Gateway from surrounding communities
- Improve bicycle and pedestrian access from Columbia Gateway to nearby "lunch hour" restaurants and retail destinations
- Seek to connect to nearby projects on Oakland Mills Road, McGaw Road, and Snowden River Parkway, as well as the Columbia pathway network.
Final report. The final Planning Study for Robert Fulton Drive Shared-Use Path project was completed February 6, 2021.
Supporting documentation. Additional materials include the following:
Next steps. Final design is expected to be completed in 2023. Construction is not yet funded and is likely to require grant funds or developer contributions.
Public Meeting and Input
A public meeting was held virtually on Thursday, October 22, 2020 to share information on the proposed design and receive feedback from the community. Twenty-three members of the public attended.
- The video of the meeting can be seen here.
- The presentation alone can be accessed here.
- A summary of questions, comments, and responses can be found here.
- All comments on the proposed design received from the public by the November 5, 2020 deadline are have been being considered in the final design.
The Office of Transportation held an open-house style community meeting on November 19, 2019 in the cafeteria of Guilford Elementary School to present concept options for public review and comment. Based on the comments heard at the public meeting on November 19th and received via email after the meeting, Howard County advanced Option 1D/2C to preliminary design. Click here to view those two concepts. Preliminary design included a field topographic survey and environmental assessment as the first phase.
Feasibility Study Area Options
|Columbia Gateway Drive to Solar Walk
|Solar Walk to Oakland Mills Road/Snowden River Parkway
|Solar Walk to Wegmans
|Full Study Area
Initial Study Process
This planning phase assessed multiple options across three areas within the broader study boundaries, as shown above. As pedestrian and bicycle access into Gateway can be provided via multiple projects in the future, the specific goals of this concept phase were to determine:
- Whether this design phase should pursue a connection to the bicycle and pedestrian network at the Snowden River Parkway/Oakland Mills Road intersection (Area 2) or at Wegmans (Area 3)
- Once that selection is made, which of the assessed options should be advanced to preliminary design.
Based on the comments heard at the public meeting on November 19, 2019 and received via email after the meeting, Howard County advanced Option 1D/2C to preliminary design. Click here to view those two concepts. Preliminary design includes a field topographic survey and environmental assessment as the first phase.
Sign Up and Questions
If you wish to be added to our Office of Transportation distribution list to be informed about future transportation related projects and events, please click here.