As a bonus, A389 will be offering a very limited edition flexi of an
bonus cover song that INTEGRITY track recorded with Araca during
the same period.

Check out the INTEGRITY track ‘Kingdom Of Heaven’ from the
’Kingdom Of Heaven’ 7”/Digital coming 01/31/2012 on A389 Recordings

http://soundcloud.com/a389recordings/integrity

Vocalist Dwid Hellion recently completed an interview conducted by Mike IX
(Eyehategod) that was included as part of CVLT NATION’s Artist To Artist series.

http://www.cvltnation.com/cvlt-nation-artist-to-artist-intervieweyehategod-vs-integrity/

INTEGRITY will be co-headlining the A389 Recordings VIII Anniversary
Bash this Saturday January 21, 2012 alongside EYEHATEGOD and
many other great bands, before embarking on a European tour with
the UK’s ROT IN HELL in February (dates below). Earlybird copies of
the ‘Kingdom Of Heaven’ EP will be available at the 01/21 performance.

01/21 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
A389 Recordings VIII Anniversary Bash w/ Eyehategod; Integrity; Gehenna; Pulling
Teeth, Magrudergrind, Weekend Nachos, Seven Sisters Of Sleep, Pick Your Side,
Low Places, Junior Bruce, Full Of Hell, Homewrecker, Young And In The Way,
Hatewaves, Triac & Eddie Brock

02/10 Sofia, Bulgaria @ The Box
02/11 Athens, Greece @ Kytarro
02/13 Moscow, Russia @ Plan B
02/14 St Petersburg, Russia @ V-Club
02/15 Kolin, Germany @ MTC (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/16 Osnabruk Germany @ Bastard (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/17 Damstadt, Germany @ Steinbruch Theater (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/18 Ieper, Belgium @ Winter Fest (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/19 Dresden, Germany @ Chemiefabrik (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/20 Berlin, Germany @ Cassiopeia (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/21 Hamburg, Germany @ Logo (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/22 Stockholm, Sweden @ Klubben 43 (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/23 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Beta (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/24 Steenwijk, Netherlands @ Buze (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/25 Venio, Netherlands @ Parron55 (w/ Rot In Hell)
02/26 Saarbrucken, Germany @ Garage (w/ Rot In Hell)

http://a389.tumblr.com/post/16068076571/integrity-announce-kingdom-of-heaven-ep-tour

http://eastbeasthc.bandcamp.com/

Wikipedia will black out its Web site on Wednesday to protest SOPA, a version of anti-piracy legislation that’s being considered by Congress.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales made the announcement on Twitter on Monday, saying the site would shut down English versions of the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia at midnight Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday until midnight on Wednesday.

Wales called the move a “community decision.” He pointed to a page that was created to gauge support for a possible blackout. Users have until 6:59 p.m. today to weigh in on the decision.

Wales and other SOPA opponents hope to draw attention to language in SOPA that, according to some, is too broad and could hurt free speech and innovation.

Wikipedia is not alone in its plans for a blackout. Reddit and the Cheezburger network that includes sites like The Daily What and Fail Blog also plan to shut down to protest SOPA. The document service Scribd already made a billion pages vanish. Craigslist boasts a notice on their frontpage saying “Stop SOPA and PIPA. [The bills] are threatening Craigslist and the rest of your Internet. Most of the web sites you use strongly oppose these bills.”

The online protests are changing the debate.

Over the weekend, the White House hinted that it would oppose the current version of the bill. And key sponsors are stepping away from its most controversial aspects.

If Wikipedia blacks out as promised, Wales expects an estimated 25 million daily visitors to be affected. His advice for students who might rely on the site: “Do your homework early.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/wikipedia-blackout-coming-jan-18-says-co-founder-jimmy-wales/2012/01/16/gIQAh2Ke3P_blog.html

Weekend Nachos (Jock Power and Violence)
Abomination (Bostons Hunt Masters)
Homewrecker (Hide your kids, hide your wife)
Bastard Swine (Haverhill’s Hate)
Anti-Venom (Members of Villain, Abomination, Streetsweeper and Isolation)
Sex Scene (Weird guys doing weird stuff, making me feel weird)

$10
Show will be running on time and swiftly because its a weekday.
Support touring bands.

http://frequencydeletedrecords.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-hate-your-guts-revenge-watch-the-world-burn-split-on-7-limited-color-vinyl

Please spread the word about this. Go to this, donate some $$$. Make it a good time. Big Thanks to Jim Doucette for the flyer, and Josh Hynes for putting on this awesome show.

The virus is an H5N1 bird flu strain which was genetically altered to become much more contagious. It was created by Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who first presented his work to the public at an influenza conference in Malta in September.

Fouchier said the strain circulates in animals, particularly birds, but rarely affects humans.
In the ten or so years since bird flu first emerged in Asia, fewer than 600 cases have been reported in humans. But the H5N1 strain is particularly vicious, killing roughly half of patients diagnosed with it. What stops it from becoming a major threat to public health is that it does not readily transmit from human to human. Or at least it didn’t – until now.

Researchers in Fouchier’s team used ferrets – test animals which closely mimic the human response to influenza – and transmitted H5N1 from one to another to make it more adaptable to new hosts. After 10 generations, the virus had mutated to become airborne, which means ferrets became ill from merely being near other diseased animals.

A genetic study showed that the new, dangerous strain had only five mutations compared to the original one, and all of them were earlier seen in the natural environment – just not all at once. Fouchier’s strain is as contagious as the human seasonal flu, which kills tens of thousands of people each year, but is likely to cause many more fatalities if released.

“I can’t think of another pathogenic organism that is as scary as this one,” Paul Keim, a microbial geneticist who has worked on anthrax for many years, told Science Insider. “I don’t think anthrax is scary at all compared to this.”

Now Keim, who chairs the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB), and other members of the body, have a very difficult decision to make. Fouchier wants his study to be published. So does virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who led similar research in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Tokyo, and reached comparable results. And it is up to NSABB to give them the green light.

Many academics and biosecurity experts are naturally cautious about releasing information which could provide any bioterrorist with a ready recipe to hold the world to ransom. Some argue that such work should never have been done in the first place and call for international monitoring of potentially harmful research.

“It’s just a bad idea for scientists to turn a lethal virus into a lethal and highly contagious virus. And it’s a second bad idea for them to publish how they did it so others can copy it,” believes Dr. Thomas Inglesby, a bioterrorism expert and director of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

However the very same data, if made available to the scientific community, could potentially allow humanity to prepare for an H5N1 pandemic, which Fouchier’s study has shown to be far more probable than was previously believed. Clamping down on freedom of information in the scientific domain may in the end leave us defenseless against the flu, should it arise naturally.

NSABB plans to issue a public statement soon, says Keim, and is likely to issue additional recommendations about this type of research. “We’ll have a lot to say,” he says.

https://rt.com/news/bird-flu-killer-strain-119/