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Hi Evelyn & All,

I just got two videos with the Il Volo trio of 16 and 17 year old singers. These kids are in a class of their own. I posted this video some time during the year but watching it again I thought it would be great for your thread Evelyn.

The second video I'll post in my thread.

Shalom,

Peter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZvz0pXV48&feature=player_embedded

Sorry don't mean to get off the subject?

Good Morning,

Maybe I was misunderstood and would like to clarify what I said earlier.

What I meant was just a suggestion on maybe what the forum owner

(Mary) might want do to or talk about for that day or maybe for the week, instead

of letting in run in all directions. We all have different ideas and our minds work in many ways and so I am just talking is all.

Like this one: desert day (i like this one)

or share your favorite movie day: ( i like this one)

or joke day ( i like this one) I did not mean that I was looking for recipes it was just a little

suggestion as we all have them. I just stopped in to say hi make a few observations, and lighten the mode a little. May intention was just something for Mary to look at doing, but like I said, just ideas is all.

Am I a Designer? I have several things that I like doing and learning more about.

One, out of many is the understanding of writing programs for graphics. What I do now is more like a promotional thing.

Business Card Demo…

My computer is at home where I work on many projects, form recording, movie editing, and images designs, and my work is in the field as an electrician and handymen through my Website: KalamazooHandymen.com

I hope this helps to what I like doing.

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Hi Lydia,
I would also like to welcome you back. I love watching these snow scenes, especially this year because I can still look out the window and see lots of green grass.
GOD BLESS YOU
~Mike~

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Hi Evelyn and friends,

I would like to abstain from this debate especially now that you have expressed your wish not to keep taking on with political posts, however, I cannot refrain from mentioning something that came to my mind just after reading your post (yet I promise this is the last time that I will post concerning these matters).

In effect, just before the French Revolution started back in 1879, the most illustrated among the elegant in the country would talk about the increasing risk of it breaking out due to the extreme poverty on the part of the low and disenfranchised at that time. But the richest among the nobility would not take heed. The king himself is quoted saying "After me, the Flood" implying he didn't care if the world ended as long as it happened after he had passed away.

I don't think it will all go to such extremes this time, but there are certain analogies between the situation back then in France and what we can see now occurring on a global scale on the planet. The books of history say that until the French Revolution, it was the Modern Age; after it came to pass, the world had entered the Contemporary Age. And it was the unjust system of one country alone that provoked this transcendental shift of ages.

Now a similar situation, yet far more severe, has been brewing almost world-wide for longer than we care to recount, and we now see ourselves in what I believe is the last stages of a chaotic age where differences are abysmal; where the multi- billionaires on the one hand behave like greedy monsters, and the poor on the other are fed-up with the lack of opportunities even to speak their mind; and this to the extent that their only hope seems to be to more and more draw as much attention as possible toward themselves and their economic predicament.

Now as to their reason for claiming attention. I have recently heard it said that all is a matter of choices and it they had made their choices wisely, they would not be trying now to make the rich part with something they hardly earned or was given. But I say, if only it were a matter of choices there would be no problem at all. Take the case in Great Britain now, where for lack of state funds the old and poor are being forced to choose between warming up for the winter or eat. Is that fair? And we all know where those funds were - to the great banks and corporations as bail-out money.

How can one say this is a game where the rules are the same for all, that if you know them and play wisely you cannot lose?

My point is, a few people, a mere one percent of the world population, have taken immensely more than is their share and will keep doing it because they own the power and keep to themselves all opportunities while the poor are totally deprived thereof.

When the rich and the powerful hold the power in their hands they get all the opportunities to make their riches grow to infinite and that is reflected in the charts. Meanwhile, those with no influences or money at hand to bribe the people in the government will not get the contracts that they are looking for because the number of these contracts is limited and they have already been granted to the powerful. And if they are looking for a much sought job, either in the government or in the private field, they will not get it because it will have already been given to a close friend or a relative of the people in power. The stories that are being published of individuals in the huge, 99 percent segment of the population exemplify this. In other words, they are not granted even the opportunity to earn what, according to some, belongs to others. The problem is, the opportunities themselves seem to always belong to others and this has been occurring more and more and for too long now.

Sincerely,

Miguel

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Happy Sunday friends, I sincerely wish each of you a blessed day.

I would like to gather all of you around for some serious chit chat. I am truly saddened by the tone this thread has taken on with all the political posts. That was never my intention when I started this forum. My goal was to have a fun place with a light hearted ambience where everyone could feel at ease and maybe just forget their troubles for a while by engaging in pleasant camaraderie with fellow adlanders.

Things started off that way but have gradually gotten away from my initial goal. There are numerous threads already discussing almost any political subject you can think of and I would greatly appreciate everyone's cooperation in posting your political views in any of those.

Also for those who have forums of those types, or any type forum for that matter, you are more than welcome to post a link to it here and as a matter of fact I welcome those links. By posting links to other forums we are helping to connect more people and that will also give those who want to participate a choice of which ones they want to participate in and maybe make them aware of certain forums they were not aware of before.

I ask each of you for your cooperation and again I thank everyone for their participation in making this thread the success it has become.

Sincerely,

Evelyn

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Peter, this trio is great!

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Hi Evelyn & All,

I just got two videos with the Il Volo trio of 16 and 17 year old singers. These kids are in a class of their own. I posted this video some time during the year but watching it again I thought it would be great for your thread Evelyn.

The second video I'll post in my thread.

Shalom,

Peter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZvz0pXV48&feature=player_embedded