20 December 2024

Mark Tremonti - O Holy Night (Live in Orlando)


Mark Tremonti - O Holy Night (Live From Orlando) Checkout Mark performing the Christmas classic, O Holy Night, live with his big band at the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center in Orlando, Florida. 

Tremonti Sings Sinatra consists of members of Frank Sinatra's orchestra and is in support of National Down Syndrome Society and Take A Chance For Charity. 

One of my absolute rock favourites: Mark Tremonti - doing something very different: watch & enjoy!

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Reading for today: on Heaven's dance

 

The golden apple of selfhood, thrown among the false gods, became an apple of discord because they scrambled for it. 

They did not know the first rule of the holy game, which is that every player must by all means touch the ball and then immediately pass it on. To be found with it in your hands is a fault: to cling to it, death. But when it flies to and fro among the players too swift for eye to follow, and the great master Himself leads the revelry, giving Himself eternally to His creatures in the generation, and back to Himself in the sacrifice, of the Word, then indeed the eternal dance ‘makes heaven drowsy with the harmony’. 

All pains and pleasures we have known on earth are early initiations in the movements of that dance: but the dance itself is strictly incomparable with the sufferings of this present time. As we draw nearer to its uncreated rhythm, pain and pleasure sink almost out of sight. There is joy in the dance, but it does not exist for the sake of joy. It does not even exist for the sake of good, or of love. It is Love Himself, and Good Himself, and therefore happy. It does not exist for us, but we for it.

By: C.S. Lewis

From: The Problem of Pain


18 December 2024

Japan’s Honda and Nissan to reportedly begin merger talks

Japanese automakers Nissan Motor and Honda Motor reportedly plan to enter into negotiations for a merger to better compete in the rapidly changing global automotive industry, the Nikkei newspaper reported Tuesday.

Honda and Nissan are considering operating under a holding company, and soon will sign a memorandum of understanding, according to the report. They also look to eventually bring Mitsubishi Motors, in which Nissan is the top shareholder with a 24% stake, under the holding company.

The combined Nissan-Honda-Mitsubishi enterprise would equate to more than 8 million vehicle sales annually, according to Nikkei. That would place the company among the world’s largest automakers, but still below fellow Japanese automaker Toyota Motor, at 11.2 million in 2023, as well as German automaker Volkswagen, which last year reported sales of 9.2 million vehicles.

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16 December 2024

TalkTalk to axe hundreds of jobs, £120m cost cuts

TalkTalk is set to cut hundreds of jobs in a sweeping effort to slash costs by £120m, as the debt-burdened broadband provider embarks on a radical restructure to restore its financial health.

In an update to investors last week, the company confirmed a “radical” overhaul, with initial redundancies already under consultation. Around 130 positions are set to go at its Salford-based consumer division, while further reductions at its wholesale arm—known internally as Platform X—are expected to push total job losses into the hundreds.

The cuts are anticipated to fall heavily on central head office roles after TalkTalk admitted that multiple business units and management layers had weighed down operating expenses. The company reported a workforce of 1,857 in February, two-thirds of whom were in administrative roles.

The redundancies form part of a wider cost-cutting agenda targeting more than £120m in savings, around 60% of which TalkTalk intends to achieve within the next 12 months. Alongside job losses, the cost reduction plan is expected to encompass the sale of non-core businesses, office closures, and tighter controls over marketing, travel, and catering budgets.

In addition, TalkTalk plans to automate more tasks, ramp up its use of artificial intelligence, and consider outsourcing and offshoring options to streamline operations.

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12 December 2024

LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players

LG has discontinued all Blu-ray players, including the UBK80 and UBK90 UHD Blu-ray players, with remaining units only available while stocks last.

The announcement echoes similar moves from Oppo in 2018 and Samsung in 2019, when both companies exited the optical disc player market.

LG has now officially discontinued its Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray players, as reflected on LG's online portals and confirmed by multiple sources to FlatpanelsHD.

However, in a statement to FlatpanelsHD, LG Korea stopped short of confirming a definitive global exit from the optical disc player market, leaving the door open for a return if demand picks up. For now, a few old models remain available in regions such as America and Europe, but only until inventory runs out.

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11 December 2024

What does a Firewall do to protect my Network?

A firewall is a security protocol that protects your internal network from the threats of the internet. It keeps an eye on the data that comes in and out of your network.

Without a firewall, your trusted private network could be at risk of cyberattacks, data breaches, and malware from the public.

To get to grips with how a firewall works, you need to understand how data travels between internet networks. Basically, data moves across the internet in the form of information-filled packets. A firewall inspects these data packets to analyse their:

  • Content: The information each data packet contains, such as an image, text, or video.
  • Protocol: The language of the data packet, for example, HTTP or TCP.
  • Port: The medium that the data is traveling through, such as email, web, or a social media network.
  • Source: Where the data is coming from, for example, the IP address or hostname of incoming traffic.
  • Destination: Where the data is headed, including the IP address, hostname, and other information that describes where the traffic is going.

Afterwards, the firewall determines whether to let the data packet pass or, instead, to block it based on a set of predefined rules.

To ensure that dangerous data packets are blocked, it’s crucial that you properly set up your firewall, create effective rules, and keep it up to date.

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08 December 2024

Jesus - the Way to the Father

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

Read all of John 14 at Bible Gateway