December 2014: the Court ruled that it answers to nobody, including the human rights court, Brussels conjured 315 billion euros out of 21 billion, and a fresh team promised to do less while quietly grabbing more.
Reflection on the year 2014, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
A new Commission took office promising to conjure 315 billion euros out of 21, survived a censure vote over its president's tax-haven past, and ordered Google broken up between sermons. Brussels also decided your olive oil needed a back label telling you to keep it in the dark.
The Christian view of Christmas deepens with time. Jesus birth points to Gods great love and justice.
BarlowGirl's 2005 release, guitars with weight and drive. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
NSUndoManager gives you full undo/redo with almost no code. While you change something, tell the undo manager how to reverse it.
A young woman asks De Cock for help, but she is too late: her husband has hanged himself. It is the start of a grim case with no official support.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), directed by Peter Jackson, brings the story of Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield to its end. Martin Freeman plays Bilbo, who watches his friend lose himself to greed as armies gather at the gates of the Lonely Mountain.
Monthly update 295 • November 2014 • 2014-11-01 - 2014-11-30
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Option, co-authored with Douglas Corleone, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid head to Somalia to rescue an aid worker held by pirates.
November 2014 paired fresh Snowden cable-tap revelations and nation-state spy malware with a wave of corporate tracking and a stalled push for surveillance reform.
In Personal, Reacher hunts a sniper who targeted the French president, linked to a past enemy from his Army days.
Paddington (2014), directed by Paul King, follows a young bear from Peru who arrives in London looking for a home. Ben Whishaw voices Paddington, a polite and hopeful bear who wears a red hat, loves marmalade, and believes the best of everyone he meets.
The month Brussels handed Britain a 1.7 billion pound bill, crowned a fresh Commission nobody voted for, and decided that rescuing drowning migrants was somebody else's job.
Michael W. Smith's 2004 release, craft and polish in every chorus. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
iOS 8 introduces significant updates to the Core Location framework, enhancing developer capabilities and user privacy through granular permissions, indoor positioning, and visit monitoring.
Gregorian gather carols and ballads into a 2014 winter record, choral voices and gentle arrangements for the quiet end of the year.
De Cock gives a newly widowed woman a well-meant piece of advice, and seems to set off a case in which three murders follow in quick succession.
October 2014 turned the post-Snowden privacy fight towards the phone in your pocket, as default encryption, carrier tracking headers and a run of retail breaches collided with a chorus of official complaints.
Monthly update 294 • October 2014 • 2014-10-01 - 2014-10-31
The jailed Daltons learn they have a small nephew to raise, and Lucky Luke is saddled with minding both the brothers and the unruly boy.
The month Brussels outlawed the powerful vacuum cleaner, eyed your kettle and hairdryer next, and unveiled a brand new Commission to think up further things to ban.
John Wick (2014), directed by Chad Stahelski, follows a retired hitman who returns to the criminal underworld after a group of thugs steal his car and kill the puppy his dying wife left him. Keanu Reeves plays John Wick, a man the whole underworld fears.
Chris Tomlin centres his 2014 worship album Love Ran Red on the cross, with congregational songs of grace, awe, and a gathered table.
for KING & COUNTRY return in 2014 with a bold pop-rock record about living fully, holding fast to faith, and loving without holding back.