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PRECEPT is an exciting new British electronic artist who he has just released his new EP 'Absence'. With his orchestral music being featured on TV screens around the world, Precept decided to switch it up and blend electronic and alternative influences from which his 2016 debut EP 'Ghosts' was born which incorporated analog synthesizers and downtempo beats. And this year comes 'Absence' which Precept created fully himself from the composition, recording to mixing and mastering. Surging waves and floaty atmospherics with deftly layered vocals and rolling basslines wash over you. Hints of Precept's orchestral background peek through in various tracks...

Hey, folks, remember the good old days when candidate Barack Obama at least pretended to be bipartisan and conciliatory? Now it's as if he's on a mission to prove he was faking it. Obama is behaving like a bitter ex-spouse who knows all our hot buttons and delights in pushing them. He is governing by crisis, fear, alienation, cronyism and anti-constitutional fiat. He is openly flaunting his militant radicalism, as if he's trying to provoke us -- and his second term hasn't even begun. He is horrifying all Americans who have the slightest concern about our deficits and debt, refusing...

The Evangelical Presbyterian (E.P) Church, Ghana, on Sunday joined the growing condemnation of homosexuality in Ghana, saying attempts to justify the abominable behaviour were unacceptable. The Reverend Joyce Kofi Kodade, Moderator of the West Volta Presbytery of the E.P. Church, said the explanation that homosexuality could be biological, psychological, or social behaviour is untenable. He said: “If you know you are sick, go for treatment, see a doctor, if you think it is psychological, see a counsellor. Don't justify homosexuality by the laws. “According to the law you may be right but according to the will of God, you are...

The culture war just won`t die. Sarah Palin is in full publicity mode, and it is driving her critics to distraction. Palin is a political figure who decided there`s more money in the wild west show. Last month "Sarah Palin`s Alaska" debuted on TLC and earned that network`s highest ratings ever. Palin is also pitching a new book, "America by Heart." The book is number 31 on amazon.com. Palin also appears on Fox News as a paid contributor. Liberals just can`t resist criticizing Palin. Aaron Sorkin hates Sarah Palin. Sorkin is best known as the producer/writer of NBC`s "The West...

Today, we announced that Nielsen Business Media has reached an agreement with e5 Global Media Holdings, LLC, a new company formed jointly by Pluribus Capital Management and Guggenheim Partners, for the sale of eight brands in the Media and Entertainment Group, including Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, The Clio Awards, Backstage, Billboard, Film Journal International and The Hollywood Reporter. e5 Global Media Holdings has also agreed to acquire our Film Expo business, which includes the ShoWest, ShowEast, Cinema Expo International and CineAsia trade shows. In addition, we’ve made the decision to cease operations for Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews. This move...

One of the greatest injustices to the victims of racism, and in particular the holocaust, is the trivialization of it. One does not have to agree with the Dutch “Islamophobic” anti-immigration politicians Geert Wilders or Rita Verdonk, but what kind of person writes something like: “Whenever I see people such as Wilders and Verdonk I think of the Kristallnacht! The moment the Jews were rounded up...”? People who write such things do not care about the suffering of the Jews. They merely abuse the Nazi crimes for their own petty political objectives. The example quoted above comes from the Dutch...

27 March 2007, 16:20 Moscow Patriarchate's diocese of Korsun suspends its participation in Assembly of Orthodox Bishops of France Paris, February 27, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church's diocese of Korsun has sustained its participation in the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops of France (AOBF) because of 'crisis developments' in its work. The AOBF is an advisory body of bishops belonging to various Orthodox jurisdictions existing in France. It is led by a representative of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The clergy and laity of the French deanery of the Korsun diocesan at their meeting chaired by the ruling bishop, Innokenty (Vasilyev)...

16 February 2007, 16:42 ROCOR criticizes the Constantinople Patriarchate for ‘perpetual interference’ in the Russian Orthodox Church’s affaires Paris, February 16, Interfax - The problems in relationships between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Patriarchate of Constantinople arise because of the latter, Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) said. He said he meant Constantinople’s ‘perpetual interference in Russian affaires.’ ‘Their interference has become large-scale since 1917, the year of the Bolshevik revolution, when they started meddling with the Russian matters, and it goes on in Estonia and Ukraine,’ the archbishop told the participants of the...

22 November 2006, 14:54 Moscow Patriarchate is against Constantinople’s attempts to intervene in other Orthodox Churches’ affairs Moscow, November 22, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church denies that the Patriarchate of Constantinople can intervene in internal affairs of other Churches and urges to prevent division in the Orthodox world. ‘We deny the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s capacity to intervene in the jurisdiction of other Churches. This idea separates us from Rome at present,’ said the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad at the opening of the annual Radonezh festival of Orthodox...

"ORTHODOXOS TYPOS": Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Denounces Moscow's "3rd Rome" Theory According to the Athens newspaper To Vima of 8 July 2004, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew responded to the "3rd Rome" theory of the Patriarch of Moscow (which had been brought up for discussion during the 8th International Assemblage of the Russian Orthodox Church) by calling it "...foolish, hubristic, and blasphemous," because "...it resounds with the spirit of caesarpapism and vaticanism; something totally unacceptable to the Orthodox Church." To Vima went on to report that the Ecumenical Patriarch replied specifically to the positions and arguments posited by the attending Church hierarchy and...

In another time and place, in a universe that seems sometimes far, far away, I was a member of the Old Guard. I was part of the Media Elite, that effete corps of impudent snobs who filtered the news for the American people. In fact, I had arisen to the very top of the food chain – the elite of the Media Elite, the small club of those who actually ran newsrooms in major metro dailies. To maintain some contact with this dying culture and to amuse myself in reflective moments, I sometimes still read the trade journal of the...

Week after week, Eastern Orthodox hierarchs guide their flocks through the incense-shrouded rites that define their ancient faith. Bishops also become experts at another intricate ritual: banquets. So Metropolitan Philip, the Antiochian Orthodox archbishop of North America, was not surprised to be asked to make a few remarks at the final banquet of the 2004 Clergy-Laity Congress of the Greek Orthodox Church in New York City. He was surprised when Greek Archbishop Demetrios indicated that this was more than a polite request. "I reminded him that when I speak, I tell it like it is," said Philip. What happened next...

As editorial endorsements wind down along with the election campaign, only a few major papers remain on the sidelines, with their picks expected this Sunday or before. This small group includes, among others, The Providence Journal, The Sun in Baltimore, and the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. But in today's updated E&P list of endorsements, mainly adding small and midsized papers, President Bush made some gains, picking up 20 while Sen. John Kerry added 15. Kerry now leads in endorsements 142 to 123 and in the circulation of those papers (roughly 17.5 million to 11.5 million). Kerry picked up two more...