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Roncatto Braathen is an ambient post-rock duo based in Peterborough, England. They released 2 EPs in 2006, debut Be Quiet Or You Will Explode Into Fires, and Victory Advancement, both home -produced and received underground and critical acclaim for it's mix of various experimental styles, from ambient, post-rock, experimental, and minimal. Both EPs sold out of there limited pressing, and the band are now working on new material for 2008. ...This is the moment where Roncatto Braathen show that they aren't all wires, bolts and circuits and that human flesh -- maybe even a heart -- drives this band. - The Silent Ballet ...a haunting and ethereal mix of electronics, samples and guitar effects that is filled with emotion and a huge palette of sounds. - Terrascope Online Members: James plays guitars/machines/synths/keysAlex plays guitars/machines/synths/keys

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/75803?ns=guardianpageName=Business%3A+Woolworths%3A+everything+must+goch=Businessc3=The+Observerc4=Woolworths+%28Business%29%2CRetail+industry+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CUK+news%2CObserverc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Marketsc6=Zoe+Wood%2CHeather+Stewartc7=2008_11_23c8=1122526c9=articlec10=GUc11=Businessc12=Woolworthsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FBusiness%2FWoolworths" width="1" height="1" //divpFor 30,000 Woolworths staff it may be a bleak Christmas as it became clear yesterday that the veteran high-street retailer could go under this week if management cannot clinch a fire sale./ppWoolworths evokes nostalgia for precious pocket money spent on bottles of cola and ill-advised chart singles by Bucks Fizz. Last week it became clear that Woolworths itself was worth only pocket money, with management in talks to sell the 800-store chain for pound;1./ppThe collapse of Woolworths would be by far the largest retail failure this year, symbolising the high street's woes./ppAt the branch in Muswell Hill, north London, yesterday morning, the perspex lids on the pic 'n' mix - strawberry cables, jelly snakes, jazzies - remained firmly closed./ppNone of the shops in this affluent suburb is bustling - the estate agents are empty and even the swish boutiques have 'Sale' signs in their windows alongside the posh frocks. But Woolworths has a special air of desolation. Packed aisles of Christmas toys and gifts are on special offer, three for the price of two./pp'I quite like Woolies, but basically it's all just a bit crap isn't it?' says one browser, Steve, as he leaves empty-handed. A woman is buying plastic coathangers; another is discussing Advent calendars with a member of staff; and a boy is briefly mesmerised by a musical Santa which dances and plays the saxophone, before his mother drags him away. At the till, two young women lean with their chins in their hands, chatting to the security guard./ppIt wasn't always like this: Woolies once had a shop on every British high street and a special place in the hearts of millions of bargain-hungry shoppers. It was famous for selling anything from sixpenny toys to brown paper and string./ppMusic-hall artist Stanley Holloway used to recite the monologue 'Albert and the Lion', in which the eponymous hero came to a sticky end. Albert brandished '... a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle/The finest that Woolworths could sell'./ppBut today, there are plenty of rivals also piling it high and selling it cheap. In the Muswell Hill branch, almost everything - from Christmas gift packs of Lynx aftershave to Paul O'Grady's autobiography - seems to be reduced. The Tannoy is blasting out 'The Little Drummer Boy' and other festive tunes, punctuated by announcements about a 20 per cent off deal with the slogan 'Woolworths: Let's Have Some Fun!'/ppWoolworths boss Steve Johnson should be visiting his stores today, making sure they are well stocked with Star Wars Clone Trooper helmets and Barbie dolls for this critical time of year./ppBut instead Johnson, who joined the business three months ago pledging to revive it, is fighting to pull Woolworths back from the abyss. With sales so poor that the company is at risk of breaching the conditions on its loans, the board believes that offloading the retail division is the best solution./ppWoolworths is willing to sacrifice the eponymous chain so that its more successful ventures - EUK, which supplies CDs and books to supermarkets, and 2Entertain, a joint venture with the BBC making shows such as Top Gear - can thrive. Management is trying to broker a complex deal by which the retailer might enter administration without dragging its sister companies down with it./ppRestructuring firm Hilco offered to take over the business for pound;1 in return for shouldering nearly pound;270m of Woolworths debt. But the retailer's banks, which include American lender GMAC and Burdale, part of Bank of Ireland, rejected the Hilco plan late last week./ppThe banks are owed almost pound;400m and would be first in line to get their money back if the group collapsed. Unlike suppliers, banks are secured creditors, so have first claim on funds raised by administrators in the sale or break-up of a collapsed business./pp'If this business falls over in a controlled way, a big chunk of the staff will keep their jobs,' said one source close to the talks. 'If the collapse is uncontrolled, everyone risks losing their jobs.'/ppThis weekend's quest is for a deal that the banks will accept. Hilco specialies in distressed businesses, often using what is called a 'pre-pack administration', an insolvency procedure that enables it to shed stores it does not want or cut new rental deals with landlords. /ppWoolworths has tried to reinvent itself many times, most recently as a rival to Argos, launching an internet arm, The Big Red Book - but the results have been poor, with the group making a pound;90.8m loss in the first six months of the year./pp'Woolworths has been ailing for years because it is a jack-of-all-trades and master of none,' says Retail Knowledge Bank analyst Robert Clark. 'It has lots of loyal customers it has failed to exploit over the years due to serial management failure. The irony is that if Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown announce measures to stimulate spending among the lower socio-economic groups on Monday, Woolworths would be a natural place for them to shop.'/ppBack in Muswell Hill, another shopper, Rob, is emerging with a Woolworths carrier bag. He has bought a birthday card and a copy of the Radio Times. 'I go in there very, very seldom,' he says and expresses little sorrow at the possible disappearance of such a venerable retail institution. 'It's a rubbish shop, really: it's the same as WH Smith. They've had their day.'/ph2Five cents to 1.43p/h2p· Frank Woolworth opened his first store, in Utica, New York State, in 1879 with the gimmick that everything was priced at five cents. It failed because it was too far out of the town centre, but a second shop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, became a roaring success. He soon varied the formula, selling some goods at 10 cents, and the famous 'five-and-dime' store was born./pp· Woolworth visited England in 1890 and wrote in his diary: 'A good penny and sixpence store, run by a live Yankee, would be a sensation here.' The first store was opened on Church Street, Liverpool, in 1909 and the British offshoot became more successful than its American parent./pp· Sweets sold by weight - later called the 'pic 'n' mix' - were a key part of Woolworth's formula. When the Liverpool branch opened, the entire stock of sweets sold out on the first day. /pp· By the 1930s, Woolworth was opening a store every fortnight in Britain. When the Second World War broke out, it had 759 branches./pp· Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton - Frank's granddaughter, pictured at her wedding to film star Cary Grant - was known as the 'poor little rich girl'. By the time she died in 1979, Hutton had run through seven husbands and most of her $500m inheritance./pp· Shares in Woolworth's group, now renamed Kingfisher, were worth just 1.43p on Friday./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/woolworths"Woolworths/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/retail"Retail industry/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Businesscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227399527246112300260553996"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Businesscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227399527246112300260553996" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/84041?ns=guardianpageName=Comment+is+free%3A+Tomorrow%2C+Mr+Darling+must+introduce+morality+into+the+Citych=Comment+is+freec3=The+Observerc4=Pre-budget+report%2CEconomic+policy%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CAlistair+Darling%2CLabour%2CTax+and+spending%2CEconomics+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CExecutive+salaries+%28Business%29%2CObserverc5=Personal+Finance%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Marketsc6=Will+Huttonc7=2008_11_23c8=1122582c9=articlec10=GUc11=Comment+is+freec12=blogc13=c14=Comment+is+freeh2=GU%2FComment+is+free%2Fblog%2FComment+is+free" width="1" height="1" //divpThe pre-Budget report is the most important economic moment in the 11-year life of the Labour government. Chancellor Alistair Darling has to walk the finest of lines. He has to marshal well-directed and overwhelming financial force to limit recession, while simultaneously and credibly persuading everybody that he has not lost control of the longest sequence of big Budget deficits outside wartime./ppGet it right and Labour has a chance of winning the next election. Get it wrong and his party will be back in the wilderness./ppFor the last six weeks, Treasury economists and officials have been assessing and reassessing the outlook for the economy and the government's rapidly deteriorating finances. Meanwhile, the wider economic news has got ever gloomier. It will be no surprise that the Treasury is forecasting a significant recession and slow recovery. The problem is that the banking crisis has wrecked the relationships and assumptions on which economic forecasts are made. Reality could be very much worse than expectations./ppThe City of London has landed our country in a mess. Nobody has yet gone as far as the Swiss UBS and invited the incompetent, overpaid monsters at the top to repay their bonuses. They should. Sir Tom Mckillop, outgoing chair of the Royal Bank of Scotland, is so far alone in saying sorry to his investors. Yet having mistakenly once lent far too much, banks are now mistakenly lending far too little./ppAddressing this crisis - as much moral as economic - should be at the heart of the pre-Budget statement. Keynesian economics, I have repeatedly argued, is not so much borrowing and printing money in recessions - although vital in an emergency - it is using every tool possible to persuade and cajole banks and building societies to lend./ppDarling must concentrate his limited funds on creating instruments and policies to stop the destabilising herd effects. The more effective and imaginative he is, the more he will be able to argue that the downturn will be limited and the more the public finances can be stabilised./ppHe has already signalled a willingness to overhaul the cautious and punitively expensive small business loan guarantee scheme. Young small businesses pay 2 per cent on top of their borrowing rate as an insurance policy to reassure the lending bank it will get its money back. The insurance premium needs to be slashed and every small business should qualify. Banks would start to provide much needed working capital./ppBut Darling needs to go much further. For a relatively small amount of money - low billions - he could radically extend cheap insurance schemes across targeted areas of bank lending so that banks would know that, come what may, they will get their loans repaid and thus lend with more confidence. For example, banks used to issue securities to raise money for mortgage finance; the market is shut, but could be reopened, as Treasury adviser Sir James Crosby has urged, with a guarantee. Darling should do it./ppThe same principle should extend to home owners. Darling should create a scheme to allow ordinary borrowers to insure the equity in their homes so they can lock in some wealth. We also need to take the first steps towards the reinvention of the bust British banking system. Darling should announce a new national infrastructure bank along the lines Barack Obama has suggested in the US. /ppHe should also announce a major inquiry into British corporate governance. We can't go on with a system in which directors essentially award themselves bonuses for non-performance. I would introduce a financial services bonus tax - 75 per cent for one year bonuses, but tapering downwards to the standard tax system for long-term bonuses./ppThese measures won't stop the recession, but they could mitigate it. And Darling badly needs a powerful story about why this will be a nasty recession but not worse. As it is, the character of this downturn is devastating the government's tax receipts. More than a quarter of corporation tax came from the financial services sector in 2006/7. No more. Capital gains tax folds in an era of plunging property and share prices. Income from stamp duty on house sales will fall by two-thirds. This recession is going to hit the tax base much more savagely than the last one in the early 1990s./ppThen the peak budget deficit, driven by social security spending and falling tax receipts, rose to nearly 8 per cent of GDP, which in today's terms would be around pound;120bn. This time round, it is bound to be higher. The peak deficit in this economic cycle could rise to 10 per cent of GDP or a mind-boggling pound;150bn. Only between 1940 and 1945 will the UK have borrowed so much for so long./ppThe Conservatives' political bet is that if there are further tax cuts and spending increases, financing these moves is going to force the government into a corner. Which is why Darling's extra borrowing has to be used effectively and boldly; although the deficit is necessarily high, we are at the limits of normal finance without resorting to the money printing press and there may be more demands on the state further to recapitalise a bust banking system before the recession is over. /ppHis firepower has to be directed overwhelmingly on boosting bank lending. He should not be seduced into permanent tax cuts but, instead, offer a one-off tax credit for the low paid who are most likely to spend it. Anything left should be focused on incentives for employers to retain workers, public works programmes and bringing forward whatever capital spending he can. Don't underestimate the capacity of very low interest rates and a devalued pound to help to put a floor under the economy./ppThere are no easy fixes. The next 18 months are going to blight all our lives. Which is why there must be a moral dimension to tomorrow, along with the economics. Darling cannot legislate for those bonuses to be repaid or history to be rerun, but the truth should be baldly stated. It was the greed of a few that has plunged the many into hard times./ppFighting this recession should lay the foundations for a different way of doing capitalism in the future, one that is fairer, longer term and less skewed towards the interests of the City. The rebuilding of the financial system and a more moral system of taxation must begin tomorrow. /ppIf Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown dare to say it, they would find not just their party but the whole country behind them./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/pre-budget-report"Pre-budget report/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/economy"Economic policy/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/creditcrunch"Credit crunch/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/alistairdarling"Alistair Darling/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/labour"Labour/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/taxandspending"Tax and spending/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/economics"Economics/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/executivesalaries"Executive salaries/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Commentisfreecountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227399527460112300260553996"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Commentisfreecountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227399527460112300260553996" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/44814?ns=guardianpageName=Politics%3A+Darling+to+cut+VAT+in+Christmas+bonanzach=Politicsc3=The+Observerc4=Economic+policy%2CPre-budget+report%2CTax+and+spending%2CTax+%28Money%29%2CRecession+%28UK%29%2CCredit+crunch+%28Business%29%2CAlistair+Darling%2CObserver%2CRetail+industry+%28Business%29%2CBusiness%2CMoney%2CUK+news%2CPoliticsc5=Personal+Finance%2CCredit+Crunch%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CBusiness+Marketsc6=Toby+Helm%2CHeather+Stewartc7=2008_11_23c8=1122571c9=articlec10=GUc11=Politicsc12=Economic+policyc13=c14=h2=GU%2FPolitics%2FEconomic+policy" width="1" height="1" //divpAlistair Darling will make a high-risk bid to lead Britain out of recession tomorrow when he is expected to cut VAT and entice the British people to go on a pre-Christmas spending spree. /ppThe move by the Chancellor and Gordon Brown won the support last night of Charles Clarke, one of the Prime Minister's most high-profile critics, a sign that Labour was pulling together after years of in-fighting. Darling's so-called 'VAT holiday' is aimed at encouraging shoppers to spend their way through the recession and will be at the heart of a pound;15bn-pound;20bn package to stimulate the economy. With high street stores slashing prices to attract customers, Darling will offer help with his pre-Christmas price cut in an attempt to limit the collateral damage from the global financial crisis. /ppThe cut is expected to see the rate drop from its current level of 17.5 per cent for at least a year - and possibly for as long as two years. /ppLast night, as Darling put the finishing touches to the most important financial statement of Labour's 11 years in government, there was speculation that he might slash the rate to 15 per cent, a move that would cost the government about pound;12.5bn a year. /ppSuch a move - certain to be interpreted as evidence that Brown is preparing for a possible election next year - is seen by the Prime Minister as essential to help the economy ride out the severest economic downturn for generations. /ppThe VAT reduction is expected to be accompanied by a large increase in personal tax allowances, to lift many low earners out of paying any income tax at all; and plans to speed up public infrastructure projects to help salvage jobs in construction. /ppThere was also speculation that he could help motorists by postponing plans to increase vehicle excise duty on the most polluting cars. /ppWith the financial markets nervously waiting to see how Brown and Darling intend to pay for the measures, the Prime Minister received a significant boost last night when Clarke, a former Home Secretary, finally buried the hatchet and lavished praise on his former political enemy over his handling of the economic crisis./ppEnding one of the bitterest feuds at the top of the Labour party - and in a sign of how it is now united behind its leader - Clarke, who only in September called for Brown to shape up or quit, told The Observer the Prime Minister had shown 'genuine economic and political leadership at a time when it was both desperately needed and difficult to do'./ppHe said: 'It's been a real surprise to me but, to be fair, Gordon's economic self-confidence has made him more decisive on the political front.' The PM had listened to his critics and had 'earned the right to support from across the political and business spectrum,' Clarke said. /pp'I'm not well known for being one of Gordon's biggest fans, but I do think that since the Labour party conference he has done really well in meeting the challenges of the world financial and economic crisis.' As a result, he felt Brown could lead Labour to a fourth consecutive general election victory./pp'Winning the election, particularly in the marginal seats in the south east, remains a really tough call, but Labour is obviously back in the race and can do it.'/ppCity economists said a VAT cut was 'psychologically attractive', as it would encourage people to spend when times were hard and could easily be withdrawn later. /ppThe government's deficit will balloon to way above pound;100bn next year, but the Treasury hopes to reassure the City about the long-term health of the government's finances by announcing detailed plans to increase taxes and squeeze public spending once the recession is over./ppBritain's approach of plunging deeper in the red to pay for a short-term economic support package was echoed in the United States, when President-elect Barack Obama promised to save 2.5 million jobs with a two-year stimulus plan./pp'There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making, and it's likely to get worse before it gets better,' said Obama. 'But 20 January is our chance to begin anew, with a new direction, new ideas and new reforms that will create jobs and fuel long-term economic growth.' /ppIn a speech to the CBI annual conference tomorrow, Brown will defend his own 'fiscal stimulus' plan, insisting that a 'new approach is now needed if we are to get through this unprecedented global financial recession with the least damage to Britain's long-term economic prospects'. /ppIn a swipe at David Cameron's Tories, who oppose the fiscal stimulus, saying it takes borrowing to 'reckless' levels and will lead to massive tax rises by 2011, Brown will add: 'To fail to act now would be not only a failure of economic policy but also a failure of leadership. Doing "too little too late" would mean more damage, more deterioration. We need timely action now to prevent permanent damage to the future. It would be the ultimate failure of leadership to sit on our hands and to let this recession take its course.' /ppThis weekend, the Conservative party launches a nationwide campaign aimed at highlighting its view that Brown's 'pound;100bn borrowing binge' will mean higher taxes in the long run. Poster vans warning of a 'tax bombshell' - the same phrase the Tories successfully deployed against Labour in the 1992 general election campaign - are being used in London and in busy shopping areas across the country. George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor, last night accused Brown of conning the electorate with tax cuts that would have to be paid back. 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Square Enix dévoile quelques nouvelles images de Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days sur Nintendo DS dans le magazine japonais Shonen Jump et confirme que le jeu sortira en février 2009 au Japon.

Voici une nouvelle vidéo de plusieurs présentateurs japonais expliquant le principe de Tales of Hearts sur Nintendo DS dont la sortie est prévue pour le 11 décembre prochain au Japon.

By David Lambert - Early this month Acorn Media announced that their February 10th release for Wild at Heart - Series 1 on DVD. They didn't release the package art for that set back at the time, but... (more)

pHere is another prayer from emThe Valley of Vision/em. I think this one has somehow struck me deeper than any other in the book. This confession both shames and encourages me: "I am not yet weaned from all created glory, honour, wisdom, and esteem of others, for I have a secret motive to eye my name in all I do." Here it is, a prayer that God would remove the dark guest who haunts me./p hr / pO Lord,/p pBend my hands and cut them off, for I have often struck thee with a wayward will, when these fingers should embrace thee by faith./p pI am not yet weaned from all created glory, honour, wisdom, and esteem of others, for I have a secret motive to eye my name in all I do./p pLet me not only speak the word sin, but see the thing itself./p pGive me to view a discovered sinfulness, to know that though my sins are crucified they are never wholly mortified./p pHatred, malice, ill-will,vain-glory that hungers for and hunts after man's approval and applause, all are crucified, forgiven, but they rise again in my sinful heart./p pO my crucified but never wholly mortified sinfulness!br / O my life-long damage and daily shame!br / O my indwelling and besetting sins!br / O the tormenting slavery of a sinful heart!/p pDestroy, O God, the dark guest within whose hidden presence makes my life a hell./p pYet thou hast not left me here without grace; The cross still stands and meets my needs in the deepest straits of the soul./p pI thank thee that my remembrance of it is like David's sight of Goliath's sword which preached forth thy deliverance./p pThe memory of my great sins, my many temptations, my falls, bring afresh into my mind the remembrance of thy great help, of thy support from heaven, of the great grace that saved such a wretch as I am./p pThere is no treasure so wonderful as that continuous experience of thy grace toward me which alone can subdue the risings of sin within:/p pGive me more of it./pa href="http://www.amazon.com/?tag=dietofbookwor-20"img src="http://www.adgrab.org/www/images/amazon-christmas.jpg" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=0cvRN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=0cvRN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=qc39n"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=qc39n" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?a=yABvn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/challies/XhEt?i=yABvn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/challies/XhEt/~4/462173060" height="1" width="1"/

Better late than never, I suppose, especially if you're a religious person who loves The Beatles. But it happened at last: On Saturday, the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano finally rethought John Lennon's infamous 1966 claim that his band was "more popular than Jesus."

And, yea, it was all good.

In a curious twist, the way-past-due change of heart and mind came on the 40th anniversary of The White Album's 1968 release. Look Vatican, we don't want to tell you how to do your job, but you might have wanted to forgive Lennon's statement in 2007, the 40th anniversary of its epochal Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Sure, we'd argue that The White Album, which is really named The Beatles, is a more lasting classic than its globally influential predecessor. But you might want to consider the fact that Charles Manson misread the double-album as a code for an apocalyptic class and race war, George Harrison suggests "a damn good whacking" for "Pigs" in power, Lennon calls for "Revolution" not once but twice (that is, after he claims that "Happiness is a Warm Gun"), and McCartney kicks off the effort with a sex parody about Russian girls.

We're just saying.

"The talent of Lennon and the other Beatles gave us some of the best pages in modern pop music," the Vatican mouthpiece argued, according to the UK's Telegraph, adding that only "snobs" would look down on the Fab Four at this stage of the immortality game. After all, L'Osservatore Romano concluded, The Beatles have indeed shown "an extraordinary resistance to the effects of time."

Time was indeed the essence of Lennon's comment. ""Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink," he blasphemed in 1966. "I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity."

Don't look now, Beatles, but I think Jesus just threw in the towel.

Photo: Wikipedia/UPI

See also:

• The Beatles: The Biggest Bastards on Earth?
• McCartney to Israel, Palestine: Give Peace a Chance
• Speaking of The Beatles' Auditory Cheesecake...
• Sad Anniversary: The Beatles Bid Adieu to TV
• John Lennon's Killer Denied Parole (Again)
• The Day The Beatles Fled Imelda Marcos
• Report: Beatles Eye Rock Band, Guitar Hero
• He Met The Walrus: Animated Lennon Interview
• Lost Beatles Tape Found, Readied For Auction
• Give Peace a Price Tag

A friend in The Netherlands made this video about moi'. A lot of the info comes from a human interest story the local paper (The Virginian Pilot) did on me last year. SAY THIS PRAYER: Dear Jesus, I am a sinner and am headed to eternal hell because of my sins. I believe you died on the cross to take away my sins and to take me to heaven. Jesus, I ask you now to come into my heart and take away my sins and give me eternal life. http://www.armyofgod.com

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Pour la première fois depuis la tournée et concert parisien oblige , Tom chante le petit passage en français de Black Burning Heart ! Une première :)

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Category: Games
Released: Nov 19, 2008
Price: $1.99

Description:
Gong Zhu (Chinese Hearts) 1. Introduction Gong Zhu is a single deck, four players card game. Very similar to Hearts but has some interesting differences. "Gong Zhu" means to drive the pig (Queen of Spade) out. The objective of the game is to score positive points and avoid penalty points. 2. Play of the hand: The person who holds the 2 of clubs must lead it to the first trick. The other players, in clockwise order, must play a card of the suit which was led if possible. If they do not have a card of that suit, they may play any card. The player who played the highest card of the suit led wins the trick, gets all the point cards and leads to the next trick. After the first hand, the player who �won� the Queen of Spade in the previous hand leads it to the first trick of the next hand. 3. Scoring: - Queen of Spade (Pig):-100 - Ace of Heart:-50 - King of Heart:-40 - Queen of Heart: -30 - Jack of Heart:-20 - 10,9,8,7,6,5 of Heart:-10 - 4,3,2 of Heart: 0 - Jack of Diamond (Goat): 100 - Ten of Club (Doubler):Doubles the score of the other point cards you got. Or scores 50 points if the other point cards you got sum up to 0. - All Reds: If a player takes all 13 hearts, he gets 200 instead of -200. - Sweep: If a player takes all 16 point cards, Pig's score becomes 100 instead of -100. A round is over once any player�s total score gets below -1000 or above 1000. The player(s) who scored more than 1000 score are awarded 2 round points. The player(s) who scored below -1000 do not get any round points. The rest of the player(s) are awarded 1 round point. [In real plays, the losers are required to oink under the table. ] 4. Show card: Player can decide whether to show the Pig, Goat, Ace of Heart, or Doubler. If a card is shown, that card cannot be played in the first trick its suit is led, unless it's the only card of its suit you have. Showing a card doubles the card�s points: Pig: -200 Ace of Heart: All hearts' points double. Goat:200 Doubler:Quadruples your points, or scores 100 if the other point cards cancel each other out.

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