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There were an older era of "analog" audio recordings, produced in the old "waveform", analog audio computer application program, "Audacity". They were functionally supported by a "metronome", a "click track" or a "rhythm track". With a lot of concentration and some luck, a performance could be produced that would satisfy pianists, critics and teachers. The metronome needed to be used to set the basic tempo, but if it were doubled in speed to correspond with the smallest "note" value in a piece (an eighth note in a 6/8 example piece with longer/bigger quarter notes and dotted quarter notes, a typical...

At least two people are wounded in a shooting at a mall in San Jose, California on Black Friday. “Units are currently investigating a shooting at Valley Fair Mall in West San Jose. Two victims were located and have been transported to a local hospital with gunshot wounds,” San Jose Police Department said on Friday evening. “Please avoid the area while officers investigate and work to ensure everyone’s safety,” the police said. The San Jose Police Department said it is not an active shooter situation and it appears to be an isolated incident: This shooting appears to be an isolated...

When it comes to talking to Gen Z men the right is beginning to sound a bit like the left: You can’t get ahead. The whole world is stacked against you. You’re the real victim here. Podcaster Ben Shapiro recently said as much at a recent event, when he called out conservatives for inculcating young men with a “nihilistic” worldview rather than giving them the “tough talk” they need. “I think that the right is actually weirdly feminizing young men by giving them a victimology to buy into,” Shapiro said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “This notion that you, as...

The number has skyrocketed in recent weeks and includes at least 20 judges appointed by Trump himself.The Trump administration’s bid to systematically lock up nearly all immigrants facing deportation proceedings has led to a fierce — and mounting — rejection by courts across the country.That effort, which began with an abrupt policy change by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on July 8, has led to a tidal wave of emergency lawsuits after ICE’s targets were arrested at workplaces, courthouses or check-ins with immigration officers. Many have lived in the U.S. for years, and sometimes decades, without incident and have been pursuing...

Americans should know we already gave socialism a chance. The only reason we get to celebrate Thanksgiving with lots of food is because the Pilgrims learned (the hard way) that socialism doesn’t work. When they came to America, they first tried sharing land. Gov. William Bradford decreed that each family would get an equal share of food, no matter how much they worked. The results were disastrous. Few Pilgrims worked hard, claiming “weakness and inability,” wrote Bradford. “Much was stolen.” The same plan in Jamestown led to starvation, the death of half the population, even cannibalism. Learning from their mistakes,...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller said Tuesday that Democrats are pushing a political strategy that he says would turn the United States “into a version of Somalia.” A City Journal report alleges that Somali-linked fraud rings have siphoned millions from Minnesota programs and funneled some of the stolen money to the Islamist terror group Al-Shabaab, according to federal counterterrorism sources. During an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Miller warned Democrats are steering the country toward what he called the “Somalification of America.” “In other words, when you see the state of Somalia, that’s what they...

Patel said there will be an FBI report in December that will show some of the latest crime statistics in the country, which will include the national murder rate that is expected to drop by double digits. FBI Director Kash Patel said in an interview airing Saturday that the national murder rate in the United States is at its "lowest in modern history." Patel said there will be an FBI report in December that will show some of the latest crime statistics in the country, which will include the national murder rate that is expected to drop by double digits....

Chat, how cooked are we? October's Interest payment on US debt was a record $104.4 billion.This is how empires fall. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/vOhQYdFDJC— Jesse Cohen (@JesseCohenInv) November 26, 2025That's $104.4 BILLION for a single month. My Q4 tax payment fighting financial apocalypse: In the very near and immediate future, our interest payments (that's the key word here) will be so large that they will even eclipse all military spending. The only item we'll be spending more on is Social Security, which only makes things even worse! At this pace FY26 interest payments alone will top $1 trillion — more than the...

Bending Spoons to acquire AOL following $2.8B debt financing Oct 30, 2025 Acquisition positions historic brand for its next phase of growth MILAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technology company Bending Spoons today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AOL, the web portal and email provider, from Yahoo. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. “AOL is an iconic, beloved business that’s in good health, has stood the test of time, and we believe has unexpressed potential,” said Bending Spoons CEO and co-founder, Luca Ferrari. “By our...

“Seditionist 6” member Elissa Slotkin predicted an incident with the National Guard in DC one month ago. This is sick and looking more and more like another Deep State color revolution against the American people. The Deep State went on full attack during President Trump’s first term and manufactured a color revolution in this country to remove President Trump from office. The media, Big Tech, COVID, BLM riots, and more culminated in the stolen 2020 Election. It was planned and produced by the Deep State. It was evil, corrupt, and an attack on the people of America again. There are...

The father of the West Virginia guard member who died following Wednesday’s Washington, DC, shooting responded with two heartbreaking sentences on Thanksgiving. Gary Beckstrom, the father of 20-year-old West Virginia National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom, wrote on Facebook Thursday: “My baby girl has passed to glory. If I don’t talk to you don’t be offend [sic] this has been a horrible tragedy.” The young woman soldier had been in critical condition with gunshot wounds since the attack as doctors tried to save her life. Still hospitalized and in critical condition is 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, who with Beckstrom was was shot...

President Donald Trump has not dismissed the possibility of deporting the family of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old Afghan refugee charged with the ambush murder of a National Guard soldier near the White House. Speaking to reporters on Thanksgiving, Trump revealed his team is actively reviewing the option, stating, “Well, we’re looking at that right now,” when asked about expelling Lakanwal’s wife and five children from the U.S. Lakanwal opened fire on two unarmed West Virginia National Guard members patrolling near the White House on Wednesday as part of “Operation DC Safe and Beautiful” to curb rising crime in the capital....

In 1787, Judge Robert Yates predicted what we see happening today: judges interfering in the political process to destroy the Trump administration. “The judge who always likes the results he reaches is a bad judge.” – Antonin Scalia As a litigator in the uber-left San Francisco Bay Area for three decades, I routinely witnessed left-leaning judges make up the law as they went along. One went so far as to say, “I know what the law is, but I think...” What constrained them a little was the fact that it was considered humiliating to be reversed by a higher court....

Donald Trump has revoked every executive order Joe Biden signed with an autopen - escalating the battle over the legitimacy of the ailing ex-president's administration. 'I am hereby canceling all executive orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the autopen did so illegally,' Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday. 'Joe Biden was not involved in the autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury.' Presidents may legally undo executive orders signed by their predecessors, including pardons, however there is...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to skip a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels next week, two U.S. officials said, in a ​highly unusual absence of the top U.S. diplomat from a key transatlantic gathering. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau will ‌represent Washington instead, said one of the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss matters that have not yet been made public. It was unclear why Rubio planned to skip the ‌December 3 meeting, and his plans could change. But his likely no-show comes when U.S. and Ukrainian officials have been scrambling to narrow gaps over...

As U.S. military operations continue on the Pacific and Caribbean coasts, taking out drug-smuggling boats, the left has been dining out on the absurd claim that the U.S. Navy's targets are nothing more than fishing boats, filled with humble fishermen. . . . I'm not sure why they did this, but the Wall Street Journal decided to interview a few, and well, yes, they are drug dealers.

Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was damaged on Thursday following the launch of a manned Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station, the Roscosmos space agency said. The Soyuz MS-28, which was carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev, along with NASA astronaut Chris Williams, took off from Baikonur at 12:27 Moscow time and successfully docked with the ISS later in the day. “Damage to several elements of the launch pad was detected,” Roscosmos said hours after the crew arrived at the ISS. “An assessment of the condition of the launch complex is currently underway.” The space agency said...

Thanksgiving weekend ends on Sunday, and still there’s no peace in Ukraine. Donald Trump’s latest attempt to end the war – his 28-point plan – began to fall apart from the moment it mysteriously leaked to various international news outfits last week. As that story landed, Reuters broke some other news: Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, would stand down in January. Kellogg, who represents the more ardently pro-Ukrainian faction of the administration, had clashed repeatedly with Trump’s peace envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been engaging in friendly dialogue with Moscow for most of the year. His departure seemed...

President Donald Trump said on Nov. 27 that the United States could eliminate income taxes over the next couple of years due to revenue generated from tariffs. Trump made the remarks during a Thanksgiving call with U.S. service members, saying the tariffs he imposed on foreign nations have generated substantial revenue and pushed companies to build their manufacturing facilities in the United States to avoid tariff costs. “We’re taking in hundreds of billions of dollars like we’ve never done before. And some of that’s going to go back in a form of a sort of dividend to our people, but...

Ousted Oxford Union president-elect George Abaraonye has issued an apology to the family of Charlie Kirk after celebrating when he was shot. The 20-year-old PPE student at University College, Oxford, sparked outrage in September when he wrote in a WhatsApp group of Union members: 'Charlie Kirk got shot, let's f****** go', and posted a similar message on Instagram.The comments came just months after Abaraonye sat opposite Kirk, one of the most prominent pro-Trump voices in American politics during a heated Oxford Union debate.He now claims his reaction came before the seriousness of the incident became clear.'I had very little context...