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I had always been a Led Zeppelin fan growing up in the 1970s, but after seeing them play Madison Square Garden in 1977, they became more than just my favorite band. They became my religion. I think I’m not alone in that statement, as there was never a band like Led Zeppelin to have witnessed live in concert. Yeah, some people will say they were sloppy and all that, but those are people who are just kind of missing the point and, sadly, just didn’t get it. Led Zeppelin was indeed a religious experience. They were rockers unlike any other The post 25 Classic Led Zeppelin Songs Everyone Should Know appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

In a laudable civic accomplishment, all 411 buildings owned and operated by the City of Chicago now either run on renewable energy or offset their emissions through financing renewables across the country. The news helped ring in the new year and marks three years since the city signed a major agreement to receive solar power […] The post All Chicago City Buildings Now Run on Renewable Energy appeared first on Good News Network.

News Horizon: Zero Dawn Horizon Zero Dawn Will Become a Movie, Not a Series We love it when our games become unplayable. By Molly Templeton | Published on January 7, 2025 Screenshot: Guerrilla/Sony Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Guerrilla/Sony The video game adaptations cannot be stopped. A new season of The Witcher has been on the way forever. The Last of Us returns in April. I don’t even want to talk about the number of Sonic the Hedgehog movies that will probably exist ten years from now. Tomb Raider has become several movies, an animated series, and an upcoming live-action series. This is only the tip of the iceberg, and the iceberg is growing: Sony has announced that it’s developing movie adaptations of Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2. If the Horizon Zero Dawn adaptation sounds familiar, that’s likely because a series adaptation of the game was announced back in 2022. At that time it was in development with Netflix, but it sounds like that one is off the table. Now, according to Variety, “Columbia Pictures and Sony PlayStation are working on a movie adaptation.” Horizon Zero Dawn is set in a future in which humanity is barely scraping by, living as hunter-gatherers and trying to survive the Machines, which Sony describes as “fearsome mechanical creatures of unknown origin.” The game, and presumably the film, follow a woman named Aloy who “embarks on a journey to discover her destiny.” As one does. The development of the film is literally all the Sony officials announced; there’s no word on writer, director, timeline, or anything else. The same goes for Helldivers 2: It’s being developed as a live-action film. The third-person, alien-and-robot shooting game was immensely popular when released last year; Variety notes that it sold 12 million copies in just 12 weeks. The game has drawn comparisons to another story about killing big bugs in space. As Kotaku points out, “Of course, Helldivers 2, a militaristic parody of a futuristic fascist empire fighting off alien invaders, is sort of already a movie. It’s called Starship Troopers, the Paul Verhoeven action comedy based on the sci-fi novel by Robert Heinlein.” At least one other major Sony game adaptation is still looming: God of War, which was first announced in 2022 with showrunner Rafe Judkins (The Wheel of Time) and a story developed by The Expanse’s Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby. In October, news broke that the trio had parted ways with Amazon MGM Studios and Sony. A week later, Ronald D. Moore, of Battlestar Galactica and Outlander, took the helm. We’ll just have to see which of these games makes it to the small or larger screens first.[end-mark] The post <i>Horizon Zero Dawn</i> Will Become a Movie, Not a Series appeared first on Reactor.

The year 2024 will be remembered for three marvels: Donald Trump, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump. He is Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Even Harry Houdini would be jealous. The facts speak for themselves: President-elect Trump outfoxed and steamrollered four felony prosecutions in New York City; Georgia; Washington, D.C.; and Florida. The New York state prosecution culminated in 34 felony convictions, but the sentencing has idled in the horse latitudes and will die on a political vine. Trump himself threw a spanner in the works by engineering the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 pioneering decision in Trump v. United States (June 1, 2024), bestowing constitutional criminal justice immunity on the former president for presidential acts. Rumors of Trump’s political death at the beginning of 2024 were vastly exaggerated. He effortlessly captured the Republican Party’s presidential nomination with no more than warmup exercises. Former President Bill Clinton earned the nickname “the Comeback Kid,” but President-elect Trump has earned a salute as the super-phoenix of politics. President-elect Donald Trump has been likened to legendary escape artist Harry Houdini, seen here on Jan. 1, 1898. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Trump crushed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the general election while surviving two assassination attempts. His coattails enabled Republicans to regain a Senate majority and maintain control of the House to usher in one-party government.  “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future,” a quote often attributed to Yogi Berra goes. Who could have imagined that 2024 would witness the end of the Assad family’s 53-year dictatorship in Syria and President Bashar Assad’s cowardly flight to Moscow with his family? Who could have imagined the expulsion of Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah as power brokers in the Middle East? What happens next is anyone’s guess. Indefinite years in the wilderness in Syria like Libya or Somalia?  Russia’s war against Ukraine continued with no end in sight. Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s hope for a blitzkrieg victory proved illusory. His hiring North Korean mercenaries seems an act of desperation.  But Ukraine is also wobbling politically and militarily. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s grip on power is waning. The willingness of the United States to continue funding the Ukraine war effort beyond the $170 billion already given since February 2022 is in doubt. President Joe Biden’s authorization for Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied, long-range missiles inside Russia provoked Putin to declare that the United States was now a legitimate war target and that nuclear weapons were on the table. Putin elaborated that Russia “reserves the right” to use such weapons to respond to a conventional-weapons attack that creates a “critical threat” to its “sovereignty and territorial integrity.” Is the world inching toward another Cuban missile crisis? The post-Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-initiated war against Israel eclipsed Ukraine in 2024. Gaza has been reduced to rubble. Nearly the entire 2.1 million Palestinian population has been displaced. The war has extended to the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Yemen. Israel seems invincible, like Napoleon after Austerlitz.  But Israel is clueless about the future. It cannot remain a Jewish, democratic state if it absorbs tens of millions of Arabs. Israel is already domestically convulsed over defanging an independent judiciary and ending the 80-year-old military exemption for Haredi Jews. Let’s pray President-elect Trump can pull a rabbit like the Abraham Accords out of the Middle East hat in 2025. China emerged as a daunting rival to the United States in 2024. We have grown increasingly reliant on China for electric vehicles, computer chips, drones, and solar panels. Its economy is growing faster than ours. Its economic tentacles have reached Africa and Latin America. Its nuclear arsenal is expanding in anticipation of a showdown over Taiwan. The United States is seeking to ban TikTok in retaliation. Trump has promised to impose punitive 100% tariffs on Chinese imports. Expect more of the same in 2025. Why am I devoting so much space to politics? It’s because whether you take an interest in politics or not, politics will take an interest in you. But let’s move on. 2024 also witnessed the passing of MLB legend Willie Mays, “the Say Hey Kid.” Can we ever forget his iconic over-the-shoulder catch during the 1954 World Series? As Mays passed, pop-star celebrity Taylor Swift was entering the rarefied billionaire class. Her Eras Tour was the first concert tour to gross more than $1 billion. Did anything really change in 2024? Has the DNA of the species changed? Has the human narrative changed? Have the instinctive cravings for power, money, sex, fame, and creature comforts changed? Has the Gospel changed? Is change an illusion that only the wise apprehend? As the curtain rises on 2025, may you prosper and thrill marching to your own drummer. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Why 2024 Was the Year of Donald Trump appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Winning the 2024 election was only the beginning–the Trump effect is now sweeping the globe. From Canada to the U.K. and continental Europe, left-liberal governments are tottering while right-leaning voters, especially young men, gravitate toward populist politics and take inspiration from Donald Trump’s success in America. It’s almost as if Trump himself were on the ballot in other advanced democracies. Recent polls showing Trump to be more popular in Canada than the country’s own prime minister, Justin Trudeau, presaged Trudeau’s announcement this week of his resignation as Liberal Party leader and impending replacement as head of government. Will Britain’s Keir Starmer, who’s only been in office since July, ultimately face a similar fate? Starmer’s dismal, Joe Biden-like–and Trudeau-like–poll numbers suggest so: In mid-December, YouGov measured the Labour prime minister’s net favorability at minus 41%. Left-liberal leaders like Trudeau and Starmer are architects of their own ruin, to be sure: Like their counterparts in America’s Democratic Party, they’ve shown themselves to be economically inept and wildly out of touch with voters’ desires to limit immigration. Yet that’s true of the center-right parties in all too many parts of the world, too, which is why Britain’s Conservatives lost the last election and Canada’s Tories have been out of power for a decade. Voters already know how inadequate the leadership of a Trudeau or a Starmer is. But to mobilize voters’ dissatisfaction requires a strong voice in opposition to the left–someone willing to mock the pretensions of these worse-than-mediocre premiers and offer a stark alternative on immigration and other urgent issues. Trump may not be able to run for office in Britain or Canada, but he can and does provide that voice for the right even beyond America’s shores. Calling Trudeau the “governor” of Canada, as if our neighbor to the north were merely the 51st state, was one way Trump highlighted Trudeau’s weakness. Canadian conservatives do not, of course, think of their country as just an appendage to America, but the effect of Trump’s jibe was to make Trudeau look like the lightweight he is, setting him up for his downfall at home. After Trump’s humiliation of Trudeau, the prime minister’s standing in his own party collapsed, with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland resigning from his cabinet. Now Trudeau himself is heading for the exit: Trump has peacefully brought regime change to Canada, though as always, the hard part will be what comes next. Trump has a grasp on the future, however, thanks to the support of young men even in places where the populist right has so far enjoyed only moderate success. Britain is one such place: Reform UK, the immigration-restrictionist party Nigel Farage leads, won only a handful of seats in last year’s parliamentary elections, despite the success of the Brexit movement under Farage eight years earlier. Farage and Reform UK are far from displacing the Conservative Party as the leading force on the British right. But shortly after the U.S. presidential election, Jim Blagden of the think tank More in Common released polling data showing that fully half of British men aged 18-35 would have voted for Trump if they could have done so, while only some 25% voted for either the Conservatives or Reform in Britain’s own election. Trump also had a lead over the Conservatives and Reform together, albeit a narrower one, among British men aged 35-44. Polls weeks before the U.S. election, meanwhile, showed that altogether about a third of young British people would have voted for Trump–which may not seem so impressive until one considers that the Labour Party won a commanding majority in Parliament, more than three times as many seat as the Conservatives, with a “popular vote” total of just 33.7%. Will the Conservatives take this as a signal to move in a more populist direction? Doing so would help them thwart the challenge from Farage, who may not win many seats but does cost the Conservatives seats by splitting the right-leaning vote. Yet the Conservatives may be content to let Starmer defeat himself with his unpopular policies–that could work in the short run, but it would only postpone a populist reckoning. Trump didn’t start a new party. He took over and remade America’s existing right-of-center vehicle. If some Trump-like future leader in Britain or Europe can do likewise, the result could be a generational realignment similar to the one America has seen. Until then, though, Trump himself will continue to be the leader of a transformation that is remaking more than just American politics–and which has now unmade Justin Trudeau’s premiership. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Donald Trump’s Worldwide Election appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has vetoed a provision in House Bill 315 that sought to shield medical professionals from state disciplinary actions over medical opinions conflicting with state-sanctioned guidance. The measure, described as a “medical free speech” safeguard, was removed through a late-night line-item veto on Thursday. The provision aimed to bar regulatory entities, such as the Ohio Medical Board, from disciplining or threatening to discipline medical practitioners for expressing opinions—whether publicly or privately—that deviated from those of the board or other state agencies. However, DeWine justified his veto by warning of potential harm to public health. In his message accompanying the veto, the governor stated, “it is not in the public interest and instead could lead to devastating and deadly consequences for patient health.” DeWine also elaborated to reporters on how such a measure might undermine the state’s ability to hold doctors accountable for malpractice. He expressed concern that the provision could allow practitioners to avoid scrutiny simply by framing negligent actions as personal medical opinions. “All the doctor would have to say in defense is, ‘Well, it’s my opinion,’” DeWine remarked in late December, signaling his intent to veto the provision. “This would totally gut our ability to regulate health professionals.” The proposal has faced resistance from DeWine’s administration since its initial introduction in an earlier bill, House Bill 73. That legislation, spearheaded by Representative Jennifer Gross, R-West Chester, sought to expand patient access to off-label prescriptions and grant legal immunity to pharmacists filling such prescriptions. According to a nonpartisan analysis of H.B. 73, the bill aimed to protect both patients and medical providers engaging in treatments outside conventional practices. Gross, a nurse practitioner, has consistently advocated for medical freedom, testifying before the Ohio House Health Provider Services committee in support of shielding health professionals from retaliation when utilizing what she described as “life-saving treatments.” Her stance reflects a broader push to ensure that neither patients nor medical practitioners face punitive consequences for pursuing unconventional or off-label medical options. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Ohio Governor DeWine Vetoes “Medical Free Speech” Provision appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Reach for the sharpest tool in the shed, and keep it that way, with this DIY knife sharpening kit. Is your knife so dull you can't even cut butter? Well here is a quick and easy way to sharpen all of your knife with things you probably have in your garage You always want your knives to be as sharp as the first time you bought it, and we all know this requires having a good knife sharpening kit to make it happen. Not to mention  a set of sharpening stones can become costly. When the stones are used repeatedly, it results to a “bowl” shape. To remove this, it requires you another stone which is called a flattening stone which means it costs you another dollars to buy this. Well, here is a great cost effective DIY  to accomplish all of these things! How to Make a Homemade Knife Sharpener  DIY Knife Sharpening Kit Today, we are going to create a knife sharpening kit, which will be capable of making your knife sharp enough to shave with, utilizes easily obtainable materials, and never goes bad or develops “bowl”-ing problems. This Do-It-Yourself Knife sharpening kit is simply just attaching sandpaper onto a bathroom tile. It easy to do and it works just like a sharpening stone. All you have to do is replace the sandpaper once it’s old. Materials and Tools Needed Container of Acetone (fingernail polish remover) Adhesive Spray 5 packs  variety of high grit sandpaper (800-2000 grit) Scissors Cotton cloths Rubber bumpers (optional) 5 Smooth bathroom tiles Wax paper Supplies You Need To Make A DIY Knife Sharpening Kit When buying 5 different variety of sandpaper, the higher the grit number, the finer the sanding. You may want to use 800, 1000, and 2000 grit sand paper at least. 200-400 grit sand paper is good for sharpening knife that is really dull and dinged up. If you want to sharpen you knife to help you shave hairs off, 2000 grit sand paper is the way to go.   The Process First, make sure you are in a relatively clean, well ventilated area. You do not want to be in a non ventilated area with the acetone. Step one: Clean Tile. Put a bit of acetone on the cloth rag to clean the bathroom tiles. You need to remove of the fuzzy material left on the tiles. Wait for a few minutes for the acetone to flash off of the tiles. Pour some acetone on a cloth or rag.   Wipe the acetone on the tiles to clean them and remove any residue.   Step two: Attach Sandpaper. Next, you want to attach the sandpaper to the bathroom tile. In a well ventilated area, spray the bathroom tile and the back of the sandpaper sheet with the spray adhesive, let them sit for as long as the adhesive suggests, then attach them together properly. Use a strong spray adhesive to coat the tops of your tiles.   Align the sandpaper over the tile and then press firmly to secure.   Trim any excess sandpaper with either scissors or a utility knife.   Step three: Compress and cure. Lay a sheet of wax paper on top of the sharpening tile. Then you want to place a large flat weight on top of the to compress the sandpaper sheet onto the tile, and let it sit and cure. Cut pieces of wax paper that will cover each tile.   The wax paper will go over the sandpaper.   Place books or another heavy object on top of the wax paper and then allow the adhesive to set for at least an hour.   Step four: Repeat for each grit you want. Repeat this same process for the other four bathroom tiles and with the other varieties of grit sandpaper. You will want to label each tile with what grit sandpaper it has on it. This way you will know which tile you want to use depending on the condition of the knife you are sharpening. You will need to wait for at least an hour or two before start using the sharpening tiles in order for the adhesive spray to cure.   Optional Addition: You can use little rubber bumpers on the bottom of the bathroom tiles. It helps stack the tiles without worrying about damaging the sandpaper sheets. In addition, it is easier to sharpen the knives without the sharpening tile moving. When changing the sandpaper from the bathrooms tiles, once it gets old or damaged, just use peel the sand paper off and remove the adhesive using the cotton cloth and acetone Important: recommended sharpening method If you don't know how to sharpen a knife using a sharpening stone, you will want to watch some videos to learn before trying to sharpen your knives. When you are sharpening using this kit, you only want to PULL the knife back as you sharpen it – Do not push the knife forward to sharpen it. This will prevent damage to the sand paper, and extend the life of the sharpener. Always use water as a lubricant. Since the sand paper is wet or dry type, just use water – that's what it was made for. The 800, 1000, and 2000 will be your most used grits/tiles. Anything less than that is more used for knives that are extremely dull.   Now go enjoy sharpening all of your knifes! And remember – Be careful with sharp objects! We don't want you cutting yourself! That’s all, fellow homesteaders! Did you enjoy our DIY Knife Sharpening Kit tutorial? Let us know in the comments section below what troubles you had or what you did differently when making a DIY Knife Sharpening Kit . Do you have a technique on how tomake a DIY Knife Sharpening Kit that’s a staple on your homestead? Share it with us and we’ll give it a shot. We love doing DIY homesteading projects and becoming more self-reliant by learning more about how everything works around the homestead. That’s why Homesteading was created. We want all folks looking to lead a self-sufficient life, either on a homestead or in an urban environment, to come together and learn from each other! Of course, we welcome your help in creating a community of homesteaders.  Come and share your homesteading tips and ideas, recipes and expect the best advice on self-reliance and homesteading trials from our team of long-time homesteaders, self-reliant wilderness, and preparedness experts. Want to write for Homesteading? Shoot us an e mail and make sure to stay in touch on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest! Do you have Instagram? Don’t forget to join us @HomesteadingUSA. Click here to Like Us on Facebook. Click here to Follow Homesteading on Pinterest. Ready To Make Your Own DIY Knife Sharpening Kit? I finally found supplies locally, but they were not available at any of my local hardware stores. I actually had to go to two automotive stores before I found this grade of sandpaper. I checked Amazon, just to be able to provide product links, and was surprised to find they offer this sandpaper at about half the price of what I paid. Here are my favorite picks for supplies: Sandpaper Pack: Assorted Grade 3M(TM) Wetordry(TM) Sandpaper, 03006, 3-2/3 in x 9 in, Assorted, 5 sheets per pack Sandpaper Pack: Assorted Grade 3M 03024 Imperial Wetordry 3-2/3″ x 9″ Sandpaper with Assorted Grit Sizes, (Pack of 5) Spray Adhesive : Super 77 (my favorite) 3M 77 Super Multipurpose Adhesive Aerosol, Clear 16.75 Oz. Aerosol Can