#Chris Patten

[ministerforpeas]

Embarrassing Aunt Maggie!

[trendynewsnow]

Diverse Candidates Compete for Oxford's Chancellorship

The Race for Oxford’s Chancellorship In a surprising twist of candidates vying for the prestigious chancellorship of the University of Oxford, we find a diverse array of individuals, each representing a unique perspective on leadership and vision for the future of this ancient institution. Among them is an Anglican clergyman positioning himself as the “anti-woke candidate.” Another contender, a…

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Inculpation à Londres de trois hommes pour avoir aider le renseignement de Hong Kong

Trois hommes ont été inculpés pour aide aux services de renseignement de Hong Kong et interférence étrangère

Trois hommes ont brièvement comparu le 13 mai devant la justice britannique à Londres, après avoir été inculpés pour aide aux services de renseignement de Hong Kong et pour interférence étrangère, en vertu de la loi britannique sur la sécurité nationale. Les suspects, Chi Leung (Peter) Wai, 38 ans, Matthew Trickett, 37 ans, et Chung Biu Yuen, 63 ans, ont été arrêtés début mai par la police…

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為共同價值而戰　西方絕不能讓普丁獲勝

彭定康（Chris…

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Question Time 2023 01 06 23 BBC Question Time

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Leicester in the east Midlands. On the panel: from the UK government, George Freeman MP, minister for Science, Innovation and Technology; Labour’s shadow minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding Jess Phillips MP; former government adviser Nimco Ali; anti-poverty campaigner and cook Jack Monroe; and the former governor of Hong Kong and current chancellor of Oxford University Chris Patten.

[filmjunky-99]

n o r t h e r n e x p o s u r e created by joshua brand, john falsey Tranquility Base [s6ep23]

'Yes.' - barbara

'What?' - maurice

'I said, I accept, Maurice. But no big announcement, no splashy wedding. We do it by the book, or we don't do it at all, you got that?' - barbara

'Outstanding!' - maurice

'Well, aren't you gonna kiss me?' - barbara

[animezinglife]

Grown Ups is a perfect example of how a simple movie concept that doesn't try too hard and stars the perfect cast will always hold up.

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Masters of The Air Review- A Crowning Achievement In Television This Year, Gripping and Action Packed

 Masters of the Air is the third series from producing partners Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.  The first two Band of Brothers and the Pacific both aired on HBO, while this new one airs on Apple TV Plus. It’s the culmination of these two greats in the film industry’s three-part saga, celebrating the men and women of our armed forces during WWII. The first two were widely celebrated, and the…

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𝒯𝑜𝓉𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝒾𝒸𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒾𝒸 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝒾𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒, ℐ 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓦𝓮𝓼𝓽𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭. ℰ𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓂𝓈 𝒻𝓊𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒸𝑜𝑜𝓁 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒜ℐ 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓀, 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝒶𝓌𝓇𝓎. 𝒮𝑜 𝓌𝑒𝒾𝓇𝒹 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓁𝓎 70'𝓈, 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝒻𝒾𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒾𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒. 𝒲𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒾𝓉 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒷𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝓊𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝒾𝓉 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂? 𝒲𝒽𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓈, 𝐘𝐮𝐥 𝐁𝐫𝐲𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝒶𝓁𝒻𝓊𝓃𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑔𝓊𝓃𝓈𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓃𝒽𝒾��𝓁. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝒾𝓈 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒷𝓁𝓎 𝑔𝑜 𝓌𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝒻𝒾𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒾𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒. ℐ 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝑒𝓃𝒿𝑜𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓀𝒾𝒹 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓂𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒜ℐ. ℛ𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓌𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒻𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝓋𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓉.

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Rock ‘N’ Roll High School 1979

[ministerforpeas]

John Major's take on the Bible!

[black-arcana]

TESTAMENT Recruits NIGHTWISH's FLOOR JANSEN For 'Slower' Song On Upcoming Album

In a new interview with Paul Salfen of AMFM Magazine, TESTAMENT singer Chuck Billy spoke about the progress of the recording sessions for the band's upcoming studio album. The LP will mark TESTAMENT's follow-up to 2020's "Titans Of Creation", which was co-produced by Juan Urteaga, who previously worked with TESTAMENT on "Dark Roots Of Earth" (2012) and "Brotherhood Of The Snake" (2016). Chuck said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We're almost done recording right now. We finished, I'd say, three quarters of the recording before we left for Europe. And we have a three-week break now. And Steve's [DiGiorgio, TESTAMENT bassist] in the studio finishing bass and Eric's [Peterson, TESTAMENT guitarist] finishing up some of the rhythm guitars, but out of the 11 songs, I already tracked eight of 'em. So I just have a couple more songs to sing. We have another break after this U.S. tour in November. We'll finish up all the backing vocals and anything that needs to be — after getting to live with it, which is something nice. We never really get to live with the music after recording. 'It's recorded. Here it is. Let's go. It's done, written in stone.' Which is nice, is now we really get to live with it out on the road and talk about it together and say, 'Hey, what if we did this or what if we tried that?' And we've already came up with so much alternative stuff to try now. Like this week, Friday, I go in and I'm gonna try some new things on some vocal verses. We're talking about tones of guitars and bringing in some string sections."

Going into specifics about one of the songs on the upcoming album, Chuck said: "On this record, I don't wanna say the word 'ballad', but we wrote a slower song like we had back in the '80s and '90s that we wrote on this record. And it's really awesome, really good. We're gonna bring in a guest vocalist, Floor Jansen from NIGHTWISH. She's gonna sing on it with me. And we're gonna put in some string section into the song.

"We're not afraid to take those chances where a lot of bands criticize you, like, 'Oh, we don't write ballads. 'What are you doing that [for]?'" he explained. "But you know what? At this point in our lives and career, we're writing to make us happy first and foremost and what feels good, what feels right, and this song just felt right right now to kind of do this again."

Billy recently told Metal Express Radio's Bryce Van Patten about how TESTAMENT's songwriting process has changed since the band's early days in the late 1980s and 1990s: "Oh, it's night and day. Before, back then, we all lived the same place, we all had to go to the same studio, where now it's by e-mail, sharing the songs. Everybody has home studios to work out demos. Definitely a different writing process, but still Eric is one of the main writers. And ever since we brought in our new drummer, Chris Dovas, he's been here two years — he was 24 when he came into the band; he's 26 [now]. But he's a smart kid. [He] graduated [from] the Berklee [College] Of Music. [He] knows theory [and is] great in the studio with Pro Tools. He's really into modern bands and new and upcoming stuff, and he's got an old soul so he knows the history of the music. But I think him working hand in hand with Eric as long as they did, he really pushed Eric and drove Eric to get challenged. And I wouldn't say 'copy', but I think Chris and what he listens to and the style Eric likes, it brought an influence to the new songs."

Regarding the musical direction of the new TESTAMENT material, Chuck said: "To me, the new songs sound current, they sound fresh. They're touching what a lot of new upcoming bands are making good names for themselves are doing. So, again, it's raising the bar one more time. And I think when fans hear this record, especially new, younger fans are gonna go, 'Whoa. That's TESTAMENT. I know the TESTAMENT I know from 30-something years ago and grew up with, but what is this?' I'm excited for that because I wanna hear what people think. I'd love to see the expression of them hearing it for the first time. That would be great, because it does sound new and modern and fresh, even though we're still being challenged."

Asked if he and his TESTAMENT bandmates have more freedom to do whatever they want now than they did when you were on a major label like Atlantic, Chuck said: "Totally. When we were on Atlantic, that was a big machine. They had an A&R department, they had the radio department, they had tons of departments, tons of money, and they were always influenced by how well their big-selling artists were, which were radio bands and they were pushing radio. So that A&R guy would be whispering in our ears, 'What's the next radio song?' And we're thinking, "Well, we're not a radio band. That's not us.' And even to this day, when I hear some stuff like [on the SiriusXM channel] Ozzy's Boneyard or something, they play ballads by us, and it's, like, that doesn't represent us, but that represents that era in thinking maybe of what TESTAMENT did or what they chose to expose us to the public, which it's misrepresenting us. So, yeah, the freedom's huge now, especially being with Nuclear Blast as long as we have. There's no deadline. It's just, 'When you're ready, you have a record, give it to us.' And that's been really nice. And the beauty about this record is that usually we have Andy Sneap mix our record, so we usually write a record and give it to him and then it's done, written in stone, can't go back. But this record, we had to pick a somebody to mix it, which wasn't available till early next year, January. So we decided, 'Okay.' We tried to get all the tracking done before we went to Europe this June or July, and we got most of it done."

This past September, Peterson told Brutal Planet Magazine that TESTAMENT has tapped Swedish producer Jens Bogren, who has previously worked with OPETH, KREATOR, PARADISE LOST, SOILWORK and AMON AMARTH, among others, to mix the band's upcoming studio album. Peterson said about the LP: "It's, like, 90 percent done. And it's gonna get mixed in December by Jens Bogren. He's a producer from Sweden, and he's done — God, he's done KREATOR, he's doing the new BEHEMOTH right now, he's done IN FLAMES, ARCH ENEMY. A lot of European bands. We usually work with Andy Sneap, but he's [the touring guitarist] in JUDAS PRIEST and he's just, like, 'Bro, I need some time off.' It's a good switch, though. I think Jens will do a good job. And yeah, there's a lot of crazy stuff on this record. I'm excited for everybody to hear it."

In August, Billy told Oran O'Beirne of Overdrive.ie about the musical direction of the new TESTAMENT material: "We always try to outdo ourselves or make a better record or write better songs. It's always a challenge for ourselves, and I think this time we really took a long time to create the record. We kind of got everybody in the same room to really go through the songs and kind of put their two cents in to the arrangements. I think by having Chris — he's a younger drummer, a really great drummer — but I think he brought you know a new fire to Eric in the writing process. And I believe because we're going on 37 years of making records, it's kind of full circle right now. We're kind of inspired by new generation, I guess, of music and metal. And Chris is a big part of that. He's a big fan of that. So I think he inspired Eric just to write some really aggressive, fast, creative riffs. And it really inspired me to really push myself to try to do a little more screaming, death vocals, melodic stuff. We even went as far as writing — I don't wanna say 'ballad', but it's something really catchy that's really slow that's something we haven't done in over 30 years. So I think just the overall songs and the confidence in the writing this time really is gonna stand out on this record."

This past June, Chuck told Nikki Blakk of the San Francisco, California radio station 107.7 The Bone about the lyrical themes covered in the new TESTAMENT songs: "[It's] not as focused [on], like, the aliens, creating mankind and that kind of stuff, but there is some of that. There's a lot. Each song definitely has its own identity lyrically. And again, we're writing stuff that is real, that happens with the environment; we're singing about that again. A.I., we're singing stuff about that. That's a big thing. So, there's always an inspiration for songs. I think it's a little easier. There's so much going on in our world to write about now. It's a crazy world today, so there's a lot of stuff to talk about. And I like singing about what's real and what's going on instead of some fantasy lyrics, because, for me, I think when I sing 'em, I have more conviction, I believe in 'em a little more. And maybe it's easier for me to remember the lyrics live. [Laughs]"

Naming specific tracks, Chuck said: "There's a song, 'Havana Syndrome', which is about the Havana Syndrome. People, look that up. There's 'Infanticide A.I.', which is another song going A.I. direction. And there's actually a slower song. We haven't done a slower song. I'm not gonna say 'ballad', but I'm gonna say a slower song that has a lot of groove and soul, called 'Meant To Be'. And it's like a classic TESTAMENT-type ballad, I guess, if you wanna use that word. But we've got a little bit of everything, but, again, I think it's really sticking to TESTAMENT, having to have some melodic stuff, even though there's some really brutal lyrics and real brutal, more of a death voice. I still put the hook in with more of a melodic hook or something. It's still classic TESTAMENT. If you listen to it, you'll go, 'That's TESTAMENT, but a little more octane to it.'"

Also in June, Chuck told Canada's The Metal Voice that he writes most of TESTAMENT's lyrics with Del James. "Del, he works with GUNS N' ROSES," Chuck said. "He's been working with them and wrote with them a long time ago. I think he had big hits like 'November Rain' with them. And we've been working [together] for over 20 years. So I always go down and work with him because I come up with a lot of the ideas and concepts, but he really interprets and gets the right words, how to say what I'm thinking. And we work fast. When we get together, we'll knock out like two songs in a day. So we don't mess around. We get there, say hello to each other, we sit down and we go right to work. It's about what we do."

Prior to joining TESTAMENT as a full-time member, Dovas filled in for Lombardo on the first six dates of TESTAMENT's summer/fall 2022 leg of "The Bay Strikes Back Tour".

[painfools]

okaaaay so i wanted to make more horror-y muses for spooky szn and then got a little carried away creating little plots / scenarios for them to find themselves in. if you would like to interact with one of the muses or write out the scenarios, give this a like and i'll slide in your ims.

ryan destiny is nala hudson. mid 20s. bisexual. vampire.

michael evans-behling is brandon bello. late 20s. pansexual. profession is verse dep.

aubrey plaza is christina ' chris ' acevedo. late 30s. pansexual. profession is verse dep.

oscar isaac is joaquin perez mid 40s. closeted bisexual. private / rogue detective.

zoe kravitz is alexis tyler. early 30s. bisexual. journalist.

tommy martinez is ernesto bolivar. early 30s. questioning. profession is verse dep.

adria arjona is demetria aguilar. early 30s. pansexual. profession is verse dep.

emilio sakraya is beni idrissi. late 20s. bisexual. profession is verse dep.

casey deidrick is vaughn moore. mid 30s. bisexual. gas station clerk.

grace van patten is marla armstrong. mid 20s. questioning. profession is verse dep.

if you want to do the plots but prefer to interact with any of my permanent / main muses, that's fine too!! ****

and now on to the plots / scenarios. i drew inspo from r/nosleep and horror movie tropes i love so not entirely original but:

priest has to perform a diy exorcism / priest being tempted by a demon.

wealthy business person invites closest friends to their estate ( a. classic who done it when business person ends up dead OR b. business person has built an intricate labyrinth / death chamber ala h.h holmes)

videographer / youtuber at a haunted location, terrifying forest, any kind of spooky environment.

i'm working the night shift completely alone. why did i just hear a clank from inside my place of employment?

a journalist is looking into the strange disappearance of a family member / friend. ALTERNATIVELY a journalist is trying to solve a string of murders, ends up falling for the killer.

babysitter being stalked / haunted / hunted.

cult member who wants out and tries to make their escape. OR cult member who will do anything to rise the ranks.

a small high school reunion at a lakeside cabin turns deadly.

a gas station worker encountering oddities during their late night shifts. (examples: briefly speaks to the passerby that looks eerily similar to the police sketch of a prison escapee, meets a person who ends up missing, murdered, etc.,)

girl is happy to start fresh in a new apartment until she begins noticing her items are disappearing / being misplaced.

my significant other went on a business trip and they haven't been the same since.

air bnb from hell: i rented out a place for the weekend but i think it might be haunted / surveilled.

i went camping for the weekend. i keep having strange dreams of a shadow standing over my tent. OR i went camping for the weekend and every night i keep hearing strange sounds. tonight i heard a scream.

everyone around me keeps dying. am i cursed or is someone trying to get me all alone?

i inherited a fancy home / cabin from an estranged family member. strange things begin to happen.

we're on a cruise ship and someone just got murdered. there's no escape.

i lost my significant other a year ago. today, i bumped into someone who looks exactly like them.

we made a devil sacrifice / used a ouija board / said a name in front of the mirror five times. strange things have been happening since.

my partner is pregnant. the crazy woman next door is convinced our baby is the anti-christ.

[chinemagazine]

La Chine renforce son emprise sur Hong Kong

Au cours des trois dernières années, le gouvernement fantoche de Hong Kong a appliqué avec empressement les mesures répressives de Pékin.

Par Project Syndicate, de Chris Patten – Il y a quelques semaines, j’ai été invité par plusieurs églises d’Oxford et des environs à participer à une réunion d’une journée qu’elles avaient organisée pour accueillir les émigrés de Hong Kong et leurs familles dans la région. Presque tous les participants bénéficiaient du système de visa introduit par le Royaume-Uni en 2021, qui permet aux résidents…

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黎智英為自由而抗爭　「寧鳴而死，不默而生」

彭定康（Chris…