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“I’m not pressed to sell it” says my new hero, a man named Kevin on Facebook Marketplace who is almost certainly not going to be pressed by anyone to sell his extremely purple, very custom 1988 Sterling 825, which he only slightly inaccurately calls a Sterling 825 Acura and is asking $15,000 for right now. The audacity here is astounding and wonderful. The seller’s description starts with “(FIRE EMOJI)TESTING THE MARKET — 1988 STERLING 825 (FIRE EMOJI)” and I’m assuming the flames are for the money he spent customizing this bizarre Japanese-British-American zonkey of an automobile. I can’t get over “testing the market” because, I’m not an expert on Sterlings, but I am a living and breathing human being who looks at approximately 412 used car listings a week and I’m pretty sure this is a test the market is going to fail. Also, there are maybe no Sterling experts because there weren’t enough Sterlings sold in the United States in order to generate expertise. This is a case, like my poor beloved Merkur, of a brand that was capsized by the strength of its home country’s currency… and the brand’s completle lack of a reason to exist. Our champion, Kevin, continues: Putting a feeler out there on my 1988 Sterling 825. This is a very rare gem and definitely not something you see pulling up at every car show. The Sterling was sold in North America for only a short period, and the 825 shares its engineering roots with the Acura/Honda Legend, including the Honda 2.5L V6. (Consumer Guide Blog) No lies detected. What makes Kevin better than 99% of all Facebook Marketplace posters is that he’s both honest and extremely clear about what he is. There’s even a citation! He’s not wrong that the car shares its underpinnings with the first generation Acura Legend. That’s a good car, and even for all his Sterling-related exuberance, he’s making clear that it’s not a British-engineered car. Photo: FB Marketplace Additionally, he’s not wrong that you won’t see this “pulling up at every car show” or even any car show. I’ve seen one Sterling at a car show in 20 years, I think, and that was the 827 hatchback version. I will say that people were excited to see a Sterling in person. Well, weirdos like me were excited to see one at least. Kev-man continues, utilizing Emojis at a level rarely seen on FB Marketplace. This guy is the Steph Curry of appropriate and enticing Seller Description emojis. The 18-inch BBS wheels are an excellent and the paint looks wonderful in photos. I love a purple car, though I think, given it’s a Sterling, perhaps aubergine is more accurate. I would double or triple take if I saw this in person. In profile, especially, it does look great. Photo: FB Marketplace The inside does give off a sumptuous bordello vibe, assuming that bordello was run by Grimace. There’s a thick purple floor, some kind of leather or leather-like white seat with purple stripes, and even purple seatbelts and headliner. The seats proudly say “Sterling,” presumably because even K-Dog can’t remember what the car is when people ask. Photo: Facebook Marketplace Dude even did the handle on his PRNDL shifter. Photo: FB Marketplace I love it. If we lived in a universe that rewarded customizing cars, the amount that Kevin has put into said Sterling (which I’m guessing might be close to $15,000) would be given back to him upon sale. If anything, Kevin seems worthy of 2x of whatever he put in, because the last person this committed to the color purple was Whoopi Goldberg. Will he get it? Hope springs eternal, but probably not. People generally don’t want to buy your specific car aesthetic, and custom cars are often worth less than stock versions. Kevin is going for it, though. Kevin knows what he has. Kevin knows his worth. Kevin will not be daunted. Kevin doesn’t even know the meaning of the word daunt. Photo: FB Marketplace Or, hear me out, maybe someone in his life wants him to sell the Sterling because they don’t get it, and by pricing it so high he’s all but guaranteeing no one is going to email him. “Hey, Kevin, did anyone reach out about your listing?” “It’s the strangest thing… no one seems interested…” He did use hashtags (#aucra #lexus #benz #audi #honda #cars #bbs), so I’m thinking he’s really going for it. Someone searching for a Benz is going to see this Acura and maybe be so happy. They didn’t want an S-Class, they wanted the Class that comes with buying a S-terling. Even if nobody buys it, I just want Kevin to know that I see you, I appreciate what you’ve done here, and I hope you get everything you want out of this sale and, you know, life in general. Top photo: Facebook Marketplace The post No One Is Shooting Their Shot Harder Than The Guy Who Thinks He’s Getting $15,000 For A Purple Sterling 825 appeared first on The Autopian.

Craig Compeau, stalwart Dunleavy defender, repeated the simplistic tenets of the “Build the Line!” propaganda campaign in an opinion column published by the Daily News-Miner.Jim Plaquet did the same a few days ago in a letter claiming that, “The economics didn’t kill this opportunity. Our liberal Interior legislators — Scott Kawasaki, Maxine Dibert and Ashley Carrick — did.”That’s not what happened.The Republican talking point in Alaska is that Democrats in the Legislature and a handful of Republicans, including Sen. Cathy Giessel and Sen. Bert Stedman, are the only thing standing between us and a world of cheap energy from the North Slope. The situation is far more complicated than the “Build the Line!” brigade would have us believe.The experience of the past year-and-a-half points to a series of red flags that went unheeded by Alaskans.The uncomfortable truth is that Glenfarne was never the right company to plan and execute one of the world’s largest construction projects.The underlying problems are poor planning, untested assumptions and false expectations raised by Dunleavy, the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, Sen. Dan Sullivan and Glenfarne.The changing claims from Dunleavy, AGDC, Sullivan and Glenfarne on the property tax question between the spring of 2025 and today should make everyone question why no one had thought all of this through in a disciplined manner.Warning signsGlenfarne entered the pipeline planning with AGDC in early 2025 asking for a $50 million money-back guarantee. It wanted the guarantee in case it decided that it could not go forward. We still don’t know why the company was so unsure that it needed this backstop. And why AGDC concluded that the $50 million payback plan was essential.Overwhelming legislative opposition killed the $50 million guarantee. The AGDC deal with Glenfarne remains secret.In the meantime, Donald Trump had announced an imaginary joint venture with Japan and South Korea to build the pipeline. Dunleavy claimed this would ensure construction.Dunleavy, along with Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich the Third were completely taken in by Trump’s attempt to use bluster to build the dream project. They swallowed the notion that Japan and Korea would be forced by Trump to bankroll what Sullivan tried to brand as “America’s Gasline.”High on Trump gasline euphoria, they assumed that things like the state law on property tax was not an immediate problem.On April 9, 2025, AGDC President Frank Richards told the Legislative Budget & Audit Committee that a state property tax cut would be good for the economics of the pipeline, but Glenfarne was not asking for a property tax cut. “There’s no consideration for property taxes. The existing statutes are what are in place and will be abided by,” Richards testified.On June 5, 2025, Brendan Duval, CEO of Glenfarne, appeared at Dunleavy’s energy conference to explain his plans. Tax cuts never came up during the 45-minute session.Speaking at his 2025 energy conference, Dunleavy said his dream for the year ahead was to see agreements signed, pipe ordered and “getting this project ready to roll.”Duval, the CEO of Glenfarne, showed a slide to the Resource Development Council on November 12, 2025 listing the top 10 upcoming milestones for the Alaska LNG project. A property tax cut was not on the list. That same day Dunleavy compared those who questioned the pipeline’s prospects to Doubting Thomas.“There’s some incredible announcements that are going to be made over the next two months that I think will prove what I just said to be correct,” Dunleavy said.Had Glenfarne, AGDC, Sullivan, Begich and Dunleavy conducted due diligence, they would have mentioned that a property tax change would be essential before anyone reached a final investment decision. But they failed to do so.On November 19, 2025, a legislative consultant testified about things the state had to clarify before a company could commit to building a pipeline.Nick Fulford presented the slide below about the various tasks ahead. Questioned by Sen. Cathy Giessel, he said he knew of no legislation planned by Dunleavy to resolve these questions.There was no specific plan from Dunleavy or Glenfarne for the Legislature to reduce the property tax, a levy that made sense with oil, a higher priced commodity, but not with natural gas. The need for a change in property taxes for a gas pipeline had long been discussed, but the Dunleavy administration, AGDC, Sullivan and Glenfarne never made that a priority in 2025. They never mentioned that it had to happen or else.To me this is the biggest clue that Glenfarne has never been the proper vessel for Alaska’s pipeline dreams. A legislative consultant presented this slide on November 19, 2025 to the Legislative Budget & Audit Commitee. Ten days later in Fairbanks, Dunleavy said Glenfarne would advance to a final investment decision in January without any legislative action. One of the biggest promoters of the “Build the Line!” propaganda campaign is Glenfarne, which runs the Alaska LNG Facebook page.On that page, Glenfarne public relations men Tim Fitzpatrick claimed on August 19 that Glenfarne told the Legislature in 2025 what needed to be done: “Alaska’s uncompetitive tax structure has been a known problem to the Legislature for more than a decade. Glenfarne told the Legislature last year that this was a significant barrier to development.”If Glenfarne did tell the Legislature that it needed the tax cut before making a final investment decision, the company should prove it. I have found no indication that Glenfarne ever told legislators in 2025 that it needed the tax break before going ahead. What Glenfarne President Adam Prestidge told legislators November 19 was that the company would order pipe in early 2026, spending hundreds of millions without legislative approval on a tax cut.“In the very near term, we will also be commencing steel production and place purchase orders for hundreds of millions of dollars of steel that will be carried out by domestic and global steel mills and pipe mills, and delivered here into Alaska,” Prestidge told the Legislative Budget & Audit Committee that day.“The initial early works, including the pipe purchases, will be funded by Glenfarne,” said Prestidge.“They are frankly more risky because there are assumptions that will be made and parts of the ultimate project package that need to be finalized, but I think our level of optimism in the project will justify making those expenditures,” he said.On November 29, 2025, Dunleavy said much the same thing at a Fairbanks fundraiser for Rep. Frank Tomaszewski.Glenfarne had assured him that there was nothing the Legislature needed to do before the company advanced to a final investment decision, Dunleavy said.“I talk with Glenfarne every week. I talk with the president and his people often. Everyone is excited about where this pipeline is gonna go. In terms of it’s gonna happen,” Dunleavy said.“And then FID, what they call final investment decision, will be January. Spoken to them again yesterday, they see nothing standing in the way. So when February, or when January comes, you’re probably gonna see an announcement before the end of January that they’re gonna start to order pipe. And it’ll be here by August of this next year,” Dunleavy said last November. “So you will have gas.”A little more than two weeks later, Dunleavy had a completely different opinion about what had to happen first to move the project forward.It was on December 16, 2025 that the Anchorage Daily News reported that Dunleavy would ask the Legislature to cut property tax on the proposed project. Legislators would have to roll up their sleeves and get serious, he said.Your contributions help support independent analysis and political commentary by Alaska reporter and author Dermot Cole. Thank you for reading and for your support. Either click here to use PayPal or send checks to: Dermot Cole, Box 10673, Fairbanks, AK 99710-0673.

No kid-aged auto enthusiast ever saw their bicycle as just a bike. It was the only transportation device we were allowed to have, so you can be damn sure we were going to add lights, speedometers, STP decals, and anything else to make it seem more like a car or motorcycle. Bike manufacturers seemed to know that, and so they did their best to make their products aspirational things that took on the qualities of automobiles our pre-driver’s-license selves dreamed of. That dream car changed over the years, but for 1985 Raleigh had their finger on the pulse of Colecovision and Tron-watching youth; and boy, did they deliver an over-the-top product for them. Knight Rider Knockoff Last week, Pete recalled how kids of the sixties and seventies wanted bikes that looked like dragsters or motorcycles ridden by the Bad Element of society. The Schwinn Sting Ray started the trend in 1963, followed by such fancifully named versions as the Orange Krate and Lemon Peeler. source: Schwinn The coolest “muscle bike” of them all to me, however, was released across the pond in England for 1969: the Raleigh Chopper. Raleigh Designed by the firm Ogle (who also penned the Bond Bug and Reliant Scimitar cars), the Chopper featured a dramatic, angular frame design and a gear selector mounted to a console-like perch on the crossbar: eBay This was the ultimate in cool at the time, but times naturally change. By the early eighties, most of us kids wouldn’t even know what Easy Rider was, but a 14-inch Sony at home pumped our brains full of vehicles that screamed “space age technology.” This was stuff from the future, like the year 2000. We needed to be calmed down in a dark, quiet room after seeing the commercial for the new 1984 C4 Corvette dodging lasers with its Millennium Falcon instruments: The C4 was like a real-life manifestation of the 1982 Trans Am in Knight Rider, minus the bulletproof skin and The Hoff’s chest hair. Seemingly always late to the party or wasting time on After School Specials we didn’t care about, the ABC network took three years to answer for K.I.T.T. with a television show called Street Hawk. source: ABC TV This one had actor and one-hit-wonder pop star Rex Smith as a loner on a computerized dirt bike that gets missions assigned to him by the dude from Murphy Brown (Joe Regalbuto). Here’s the voiceover during the opening credits: This is Jesse Mach, an ex-motorcycle cop, injured in the line of duty. Now a police troubleshooter, he’s been recruited for a top secret government mission to ride Street Hawk — an all-terrain attack motorcycle designed to fight urban crime, capable of incredible speeds up to three hundred miles an hour, and immense firepower. Only one man, federal agent Norman Tuttle, knows Jesse Mach’s true identity. The man…the machine…Street Hawk. So, yeah, it’s about a Knight Industries Two Thousand minus two wheels that doesn’t talk. The bikes were based on a 1983 Honda XL500 trail bike and later a 1984 XR500 with electric-start engines from Honda’s Ascot, making the Streethawks possibly the first electric-start dual-sport bikes ever. A high-tech bike that goes 300 mph can’t have a kick-starter, right? Reportedly, the stuck-on bodywork was a constant problem for the production crews as the parts continually flew off, especially during stunt work. ABC TV It’s hard to believe the show lasted for a whole season of 13 episodes, but if you were under the age of 13 at the time, you probably thought it was Godfather-level drama. You also imagined the Street Hawk had a lot more in common with the Schwinn you rode to school each day than it did with Michael Knight’s Pontiac. A company with some savvy marketing people would have seen that as well; surprisingly, it wasn’t a company in the United States that did. Digital Overground The Raleigh Chopper had obviously fallen out of favor with kids by the early eighties, but the British firm was continually developing new products. For 1982, they launched the Burner series of BMX bikes. Raleigh With distinctive gusseted frames and pad sets, they were easily the most successful products of the genre in the UK, selling over 500,000 examples in the first two years they were available. Raleigh Still, a BMX bike is a BMX bike; Raleigh really wanted something to totally wow the public like the cutting-edge Chopper had a decade earlier. Thankfully, someone must have caught a bit of American television programming and had a fever dream of what the Average Kid would find irresistible. Management gave the go-ahead to develop what was essentially going to be the “Chopper for the eighties,” a project that ultimately cost a reported 500,000 UK pounds (or around $650,000 in 1985, which would be about just over $2,000,000 today). Raleigh named the new 1985 model “Vektar.” It was built on a Burner frame and fork with “5 Spoke I.C.I. AMX9 Mag Wheels,” which makes them sound considerably more high-tech than the simple Skyway knock-offs they were. The bike was kitted out with “unbreakable” polyurethane mudguards and brutally angular trim pieces that looked like pieces of a Star Wars stormtrooper’s armor. Raleigh If anyone asks you, “what was eighties design like?” you can show them a picture of the Vektar. It’s just glorious; you can hear Tangerine Dream music just looking at it. I love those metal band letters and that spelling – they obviously didn’t want Vector Motor’s Gerry Weigert suing them (and he absolutely would). Raleigh Ah, but that’s just the base-model Vektar. The real party trick was the loaded Vektar, which Raliegh dubbed the “World’s First Computer Bike.” Oh yeah. What you got was a big, heavy console on the upper frame, not totally unlike the earlier Chopper, but instead of a cable-pulling lever, the Vektar’s console was packed with electronic goodies. Mainly useless goodies, but electronic. Raleigh You got an LCD speedometer at the top of what was jokingly called a “heads down” display with a bar graph for speed under a MPH/KMPH bar display. With a touch of a membrane-style button, you could switch to elapsed time or distance. Geez, even your mum’s Ford didn’t have this sh*t. It’s totally pointless and cheesy. Also, I need to get one of these right away. source: Raleigh Below the digital display was an “audio system,” essentially an AM radio with three preset stations above a control panel for the “sound generator.” It even came with a whip antenna you could install on the back of your Vektar. source: Raleigh The sound system offered eight cheesy sound effects, activated by a rocker level next to the handgrips. Raleigh even provided a blank space for “any new device” in the future. Sadly, I don’t see that any “new devices” were ever available, and the Vektar itself doesn’t seem to have lasted very long on the market either. What happened? @boysandgirlsofknocka In 1985 The ‘Vektar’ is the world’s first high-technology bike, developed at a cost of more than £500,000 and the successor to the best selling ‘Chopper’. Revolutionary features include a radio boasting three channels, a sound synthesiser programmed with eight re-set high-tech sounds and a computer equipped to calculate speed, distance and time of journeys#ireland#bike#1985 fyp#fypシ #fypシ゚viral #foryou #foryoupage #follow#nostolgia ♬ original sound – James Twomey The Future Was Expensive Exact sales figures are not available, but estimates are that only 50,000 to 100,000 Vektars were made before Raleigh pulled the plug sometime around 1987. Sadly, the Vektar never made it across the Atlantic to sell here in America. While Raleigh’s Chopper was significantly different from the other bikes of the time, it was rather obvious that the Vektar was a dressed-up Burner BMXer with not a lot to differentiate it besides the silly details and dubious tech. What’s worse is Raleigh asked a relatively small for

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More people have seen Earth from space than have stood at the bottom of the ocean, by a factor of more than twenty. Human spaceflight began with Yuri Gagarin in 1961. By November 2021, ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer had become the 600th person to leave the planet, riding a SpaceX capsule to orbit. The tally has climbed higher since, pushed up by commercial flights. Now look down instead of up. As of the last dive in July 2022, only 27 people had been documented reaching Challenger Deep, the lowest known point on Earth. It sits at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, roughly 6.83 miles down. That is nearly eleven kilometres of water pressing overhead. The ratio runs opposite to what most people would guess. Why down is arguably the harder trip Space is a vacuum. That is dangerous, but simple to design against: you just have to keep the air pressure in. The deep ocean does the reverse, and does it far more violently. At the floor of Challenger Deep the water bears down at 16,000 pounds per square inch, more than a thousand times the pressure at sea level. It is also permanently dark and just above freezing. A spacecraft window holds back nothing. A submersible hull has to hold back the weight of nearly seven miles of seawater trying to crush it flat. The person who has been down more than anyone describes it with a strange calm. Victor Vescovo said after one record dive: “I was surrounded by enormous pressure, but I was safely cocooned in my technological bubble.” Building that bubble is the engineering problem, and very few have solved it. How few have actually made it down For half a century, almost nobody went. Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh took the bathyscaphe Trieste to the bottom in 1960. Then decades passed. People would not return until filmmaker James Cameron’s solo dive in 2012. Three people in five decades. The numbers only moved when Vescovo’s submersible, the DSV Limiting Factor, began making repeat dives in 2019. He returned to the bottom a record 15 times between then and July 2022. Nearly every recent descent used that single vessel. The last of the documented dives carried oceanographer Dawn Wright, who reached the floor on 12 July 2022. Space, by contrast, has become a crowded route. There were over 2,800 launches in 2024 alone. Why we poured the money upward The imbalance is not really about difficulty. It is about motive, and the motive was politics. The Cold War turned space into a contest between two superpowers, and contests attract budgets. There was no equivalent race to the seafloor, no flag to plant at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, so the deep never got its Apollo program. When the deep finally did get sustained attention, the money came from a private wallet, not a government. Vescovo worked with an engineering firm to build the Limiting Factor, a two-person submersible that came at a reported cost of $30 million. Serious money, but a rounding error next to a national space budget. That difference in backing, more than any difference in physics, explains the lopsided head count. What the imbalance leaves unseen Perhaps the clearest measure of how little we have looked is not the head count but how much of the deep floor nobody has ever laid eyes on. A 2025 study in Science Advances tried to put a number on it, drawing on around 44,000 dive records from 120 countries since 1958. The finding: “More than 99.999% of the deep seafloor has never been seen.” The patch humans have actually observed up close works out to roughly the size of Rhode Island. Mapping the floor with sonar, rather than looking at it directly, has moved faster but still lags. NOAA reported that slightly more than 23% of the seafloor had been mapped in high resolution as of 2022. An international effort called Seabed 2030 is trying to chart the whole floor to modern standards by the end of the decade. Charting the shape of the seabed is a different, faster job than actually seeing it. Katy Croff Bell, who led the 2025 study, treats the thin record as a live problem. Bell argues that “As we face accelerated threats to the deep ocean—from climate change to potential mining and resource exploitation—this limited exploration of such a vast region becomes a critical problem for both science and policy.” You cannot manage what you have never looked at. What the two frontiers share, for now, is that most of the destination remains untouched. The post More than 600 people have flown into space since 1961, yet only 27 people were documented as having reached Challenger Deep by July 2022 — the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans, nearly seven miles below the surface. appeared first on Space Daily.

Bloomberg reports that the parent company of private jet providers VistaJet and XO is considering an IPO as early as 2027. In an article bylined by four separate reporters, it said the IPO could value Vista Global at “more than $10 billion.” Bank of America Corp., UBS Group AG, and UniCredit SpA are working with Vista Global, according to the report. Zurich and Milan are being considered for the listing. Previous IPO reports for Vista Global have not panned out yet, including a Bloomberg report in February 2025. A possible IPO, also reported by Bloomberg in 2021, didn’t materialize. In April, financial website 9fin linked Bank of America to an IPO for the VistaJet, XO owner, sometime in 2026. 9fin wrote: ‘Company executives made those remarks to lenders during a recent earnings call, which helped drive a rally in the debt issued by the privately owned jet charter company, said the sources. VistaJet’s 6.375% (super upside notes) due 2030 was spotted at 93.359 on Thursday (9 April), climbing around seven points from its recent low of around 86 in late March, according to 9fin data. Meanwhile, its 9.5% SUNs due 2028 were indicated at 100.76 today, up more than three points from the lows.’ VistaJet 2026 financials 9fin also reported that Vista Global raised debt funding via Bank of America in February of this year. Bank of America priced “a $215 million add-on to its existing $700 million (Term Loan B) due 2031.” That same month, VistaJet placed a firm order for 40 Challenger 3500s with options for 120 more. 9fin quoted an unnamed source saying, “An IPO would have a significant impact on VistaJet’s balance sheet, and would represent a ‘blessing’ of the company’s business model by equity investors.” It completed a pair of financial deals in 2025, totaling $1.3 billion. On March 28, 2025, Vista closed a $600 million equity investment. Singapore-based RRJ Capital led that investment. Proceeds were used in part to repay existing secured debt. On April 1, 2025, it closed a $700 million Senior Secured Term Loan B due 2031. Founder Thomas Flohr remains the controlling shareholder. This past February, bond rating agency KBRA said it was discontinuing public coverage of Vista. It had reaffirmed its BB- issuer rating with a stable outlook. Today’s Bloomberg report said the IPO “could raise more than $1 billion, insinuating a limited float. Founder Thomas Flohr has previously said he intends to maintain his majority stake in the company. Vista Global ranks as the third-largest U.S. private jet operator based on charter and fractional flight hours. Vista did not immediately respond to a request for comments. Bloomberg noted none of the financial institutions it linked to the IPO responded. The post VistaJet, XO parent Vista Global could have $10 billion IPO value appeared first on Private Jet Card Comparisons.

Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS) through its Federal Department of Development Partners Projects invites applications from suitable candidates to fill the position of: ICT4D Specialist (Value Chain for Northern Nigeria Programme). The position is located in Wuse 2, Abuja. The programme is aimed at improving incomes, food security and climate resilience among smallholder farmers and other value chain actors in nine Northern states. Interested candidates should possess a minimum of a Masters or higher-level university Degree in Information Technology and Management, Computer Science, ICTs in Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering, Data Science, Agriculture, or other relevant disciplines with a minimum of ten (10) minimum of ten (10) years of relevant professional experience, including at least seven (7) years in a similar role involving the design and implementation of digital solutions and platforms for agricultural development programmes, preferably funded by IFAD, the World Bank, AfDB, AFD or similar multilateral development organisations. Active membership in a recognized professional food and nutrition body is an added advantage.

Power metal veterans PRIMAL FEAR will release their new album, "Shadowriders", on April 23, 2027 via Reigning Phoenix Music. The LP's first single and music video, "Vengeance Now", will arrive before Christmas. In a recent interview with George Dionne of KNAC.COM, PRIMAL FEAR bassist and producer Ma...

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