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  2. What do you mean by Typical? Is it normal in France to have protest during this season?
  3. I've had a listen to your YouTube channel. I have considered YouTube but not sure about the adverts. I would be interested to know how much input AI plays in your compositions. Almost every daw comes with ai built in nowadays. For me personally, I'm ok with using ai to get the quality sounds, but I won't let it alter the song in any way unless I make the change myself.
  4. That is a possibility, especially if the source is social media and not a leg news outlet.
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  6. I am on Spotify and other streaming services now. Artist name: undermal (only small letters). I have two songs out. On youtube as @undermalmusic I am in a process of transferring several songs from my harddisk recorder to a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), and then releasing it to streaming (after mastering)
  7. Remember the old commercials that said "Is it live or is it Memorex?" It's harder to tell now than it was then. 🤣
  8. This one was written for my beautiful amazing wife when we had been married for 4 years. We recently celebrated 40 years together. It is a true story. I wasn't looking to get married until she came along. Captured my heart.mp3
  9. Hopefully she is a sister as calm and collected as she appears. Able to go forward while the world around her crumbles. Heartbreaking the whole tragic scene
  10. Look at this heartbreaking video! The tourist is having her coffee peacefully while the conflict is happening behind her. The caption says, “When they only gave me a one-week visa...” 😥 RT_com-2111854258588959211-01.mp4
  11. I put a link as I couldn't figure out how to attach a file. Maybe I'll figure it out.
  12. My FIL refers to TV programs, especially the ones that are 1 hour or more long as movies. He sometimes even uses that term for 30-minute TV programs. He also will usually say a 'show' if referring to an individual episode of a regular TV program.
  13. When I was young, a "movie" was something you went to see in a theater, with seats in rows, and if you came in after the feature had started, an attendant would walk you down the aisle with a flashlight pointing at the floor, and show you to the row where you were to sit. You watched images projected on a screen from a photographic film running through a film projector. The image you watched was VERY large, up to 20 feet high by 50 (or more) feet wide. In addition to the large screens, a movie theater typically had a group of rather large speakers behind the screen capable of producing a wide range of sounds (i.e., 20hz to 20,000hz - the theoretical limit of human hearing) at soft or very loud volumes. The most well known of these speaker systems was the Altec-Lansing A7-500 (a 15 inch woofer in a ported enclosure with a horn speaker mounted on top with the crossover from the 15 inch speaker to the horn at 500hz). Some theaters would have six or ten of these behind the screen. The photographic film was typically 35mm film, almost the same as used in 35mm "still" cameras, only very long lengths of photographic film. It used a projector built to handle the 35mm film and project it onto a screen by putting a light behind the film, and a lens in front of the film, that was focused to give a sharp image on the screen in front of the audience. Today "film" is called "analog media" to differentiate it from "digital media," which does not depend on a whole picture to be projected, but relies on digital media holding digital information that is "translated" to a screen with pixel bulbs lighted by the digital signal in the digital media (obviously this is an over simplification of the digital process to create an image appearing to the eye like an analog picture). You could also buy "8mm movie cameras" that used narrower (about 1/4 the size of 35mm film) photographic film to take pictures in sequence, which we called "movies" since they were using the same process (photographic film). There were smaller film projectors made to project these films on screens at home. Typically these home screens were about four feet high, although six foot high screens could be bought. These were typically called "movies" or "home movies." The term "video" did not come into use until "video recorders" were available commercially as cameras to make personal. Then, anything recorded on the "video recorders" we would watch on our TV screen (max size at the time was 21"). You watched something recorded on magnetic tape, using your television. At first the video recorders were using VHS tapes, played on a VHS player through your TV. Later versions of video recorders came out using smaller tape "cartridges" and finally dispensed with the VHS tapes (and tape cartridges), and recorded digitally to a hard drive, or large capacity solid state drive (SSD). You still watched it on you TV at home. A "video" was not something recorded on photographic film. It was recorded digitally on magnetic media (tape, hard drive, SSD, etc). Some could even record "to the cloud" to a remote server via internet connection. These internet connections could be hard wired (aka ethernet) or by "WiFi" using wireless connections via some method similar to a radio. The media storing the recording was digital, not film. These classic definitions, if followed, would mean the material produced by Jehovah's Organization would be videos (since we do not go to a theatre, pay admission, and sit in a venue with many rows of seats in a darkened space). And they are recorded by digital media, not photographic film. Having said all of that, I now have a 77" TV (instead of 21") which is about 64 inches wide. When seated 10 to 12 feet away, it is almost the same visual effect as sittng in a theater watching film projected on a large screen. It is flanked by two high end electrostatic speakers (six feet high, two feet wide - older classic design "KLH Model Nine" rebuilt to new specs) which handle most sound above 40hz with amazing definition and clarity. The sounds below 40hz (where the electrostatic speakers volume drops off significantly) are handled by two Velodyne subwoofers. The sound from the audio system is equal to the sound produced by the A7-500 systems in theaters. On that big TV I watch a lot of older things that initially were "movies" but have been re-recorded from the film media to digital media that the cable TV company sends out. The cable company offers 200+ channels (requiring their special "set top box" to decipher for the TV). The "box" from the cable company also has the ability to record a program from one channel, while I am watching another channel, or not watching at all. Sometimes what one wants to watch is broadcast at 3:00 A.M. At age 82 I am not a fan of getting up at that time. Even though what I watch might have initially been on photographic film, it is now on digital media. So, applying the critera of "what type of media" one is watching, the old "movies" are not on photographic film. They are digital media. So, perhaps they are videos based on type of media from which they are played. But I still think of them as "movies" because that is what I though they were when they were first produced. Advances in technology have blurred the lines between what is a "movie" and what is a "video" to the point that the two terms could now be considered interchangeable. I believe some "movies" shown in darkened venues with many rows of seats are now on digital media rather than film. This further blurrs the lines between the two words. Personally, I like to call the shorter ones "videos." But, I cannot say someone is wrong if they call them "movies." Thanks, Jim
  14. I am a veggie too . I believe it is more popular here than in U SA . I don’t follow it as closely as some , it is more a policy than an absolute rule. I do eat fish though…. Fish as distinct from crustaceans or octopus or squid which I believe are higher orders of life. A fancy name for what I eat is apparently pescatarian. if that seems inconsistent, well , who said we must always be consistent?
  15. I have played drums and keyboards for 40 years. For a long time I had a home music studio and enjoyed writing and playing music. I ended up with a lot of demo songs on cassette and dat tape which got stored in boxes. Recently I was able to transfer these songs into my pc and I have started to complete them into full songs. I do make use of ai, mainly because at 64, my voice no longer hits the notes it used to. However, I do not use ai to write any music or lyrics or allow AI to modify my existing lyrics or song structure including the melody. Anything I produce is a faithful recreation of my demos. Ai merely allows me to produce a professional sounding song to what I have already written. I have written a number of spiritual songs and also personal ones too. I have never shared my songs but my wife has said that I should. Therefore I will upload a song called Rainbows End. It is a personal song that I wrote when I was going through a tough time in my life. The lead vocal was originally sung by myself but it sounds better with a female voice. hope you enjoy it and I welcome any feedback or comments. Here is the link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S5BMqSYUZXLZx_Kio7IgNmXwspSv21yV/view?usp=drivesdk
  16. We can look forward to the time when he will once again be able to hone his skill and entertain us in the new world. May he sleep peacefully in Jehovah's memory until that time.
  17. Just a follow up. Last night I did the latest update for my iPad and now the research guide works perfectly. I can now bring up all the lessons under Jehovah and Jesus.
  18. You could try using ex:14 v21 as part of your prompt for more accurate results. If your worried about copyrite use world english bible at ebible.org which is public domain.👍
  19. Tried vertical in Google flow, and Youtube create ... 472109249_1792318130360712.mp4 Untitled 2026-10-17 14.51.44.mp4
  20. Buildings torched and over 1,000 detained after half a million protesters sweep France https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/17/europe/half-million-protesters-sweep-france-in-youth-unrest-latam-intl
  21. Isn’t it ironic- that Christendom repeats these words over and over and yet has done everything it can to suppress his name and ignore it? We however are proud to bear his name. Sanctifying it means more than that. We have to defend it and use it with respect and live in a way that brings honour to God’s name.
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    • Sheep

      We have our Circuit Assembly this weekend (with the Branch Rep), so I'll be rather scarce around here. I'm waiting to find out who the Rep is going to be.
       
      Well, actually it's Sunday. But I'm going to cheat and watch the streamed version on Saturday. (Don't tell anyone.)
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    • Jim Jam

      jw.org was the most consulted religious website last month in Bahrein, a country where the majority of people are muslim and the preaching work is under ban
       

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    • Jim Jam

      Do you think the pope has already been preached to personally? Or at least been sent a letter?
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    • TheKid23

      Our Kingdom Hall is hosting 3 weeks of Elders schools starting tomorrow. 
       
      We organised some of the kids to make a welcome banner. The bros who were prepping today loved it. 
       
      our sister Cong had these carts made 
       
      We also have these to put up 
       
      And every elder and instructor (hopefully) will also get a keyring at the last day of their school.

       
      Can you tell we’re all excited? Gonna be long days (we’ve got to arrive by 6:15am) but I’m sure at the end it’ll all be worth it! 
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    • Hendrix

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    • Ostria

      Does anyone have a list of the first 24 songs from the organization? I promise im not gonna memorize them and randomly sing them to a coworker to being her back to her childhood 😏. I think at one point the song numbers changed, she told me about how she used to have to play ‘we are Jehovah’s witnesses’  (song 63) on the piano but left the organization when there were 24 songs. 
       
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    • lostinthought

      Last Tuesday i finally got to meet the people at my new congregation, and they were pretty warm and welcoming to me. It reminded me of how great is the unity that exists in this wonderful brotherhood.
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    • Tortuga

      My wife recently had major surgery and the hospital has a home care nurse check on her once a week. We have had three different nurses and my wife has given each of them a contact card. 😁
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    • lostinthought

      Hi all, i just wanted to say that i'm officially moving to the Bay Area next week!. This is something that i've been planning to do since last year, and i have faith that Jehovah will bless me with more oppotunities to share his word with much more people.
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