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Would musket lube be better?
Would musket lube be better?
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Farrier files no good. Use wood rasps and ALOX as usual. First couple of rounds should load very easy but still some friction. Steadily increasing resistance but still loadable at 10 rds. I've shot close to a one hole group offhand with this combo (56 grains fffg GOEX) at 25yds. Easily shoot in the 40s at 50yds. I use .678 balls from Lyman mould. Got to have room in there as crud builds, not the close tolerances you have with minies..
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Try doing what you are doin BUT after the wood, assemble the rounds. Then use case to triple dip in MCM lube
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In my potsdam 2f Swiss 715 ball rolled between wood rasps set in tubes then dipped in musket lube thinned out with a little Crisco can load around 15 shot before I have any problems loading
Absolutely NO Alox here. My 1842 Macon seems to shoot rather well with 65gr 3f, ball roughed by farrier file and exposed end double dipped in Lens Lube. Load with lube side to powder, 10+ shots before getting crunchy.
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The fouling accumulated near the breech tells me you are using Swiss. In my experimenting, the same fouling ring happened about 6 from the muzzle with plain Goex 3f. It also seemed that it didnt have anything to do with what and how much lube you use. When I switched to Goex Express, the same as Old Eynsford 3f, the fouling ring went away. Im of the opinion that the liquid alox turns right into carbon and eventually fouls out the barrel.
I use two farriers files and roll the balls until they are a snug slip fit down my Hoyt lined H&P. I got a 6 piece of Bobbys cutoff to use as a filing gauge. Every round I shoot goes through the gauge before I load it into a tube. I load them dry with no lube and can get about 20 shots without noticeable fouling. The last shot loads about the same as the second one, and not all that different from the first one.
(I also have a 30 Macon with a Hoyt barrel that uses the same projectiles.)
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I shoot 70 grains 3F Goex, and also have noticed the "fouling ring" during shooting. Not sure exactly where it is in the bore, though I think it's closer to the muzzle for me.
Anyway I tried shooting them rough, rough+alox, and non-rough, and without lube things got crunchier faster.
I don't think Alox is a particularly good lube in this application and I don't think it is intended to function as lube so much as a windage-eater for the ball while in the bore.
I've not experimented with using actual lube with round balls but it seems a messy proposition to me. I don't have any problems getting through N-SSA competitions with rough Alox balls.
I use a soft lube when plunking and put a juicy glob on top of the ball between shots - at my loading bench of course. Never any crud or loading problems at all. Of course the problem in the N-SSA is you're pegged to the line. Double ALOX is the best I've come up with so far for the skirmish.


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Do you have your eye on a special someone? Have you been crushing on them for a while? Well, it might be time to summon the courage and do something about it, because according to recent stats, the rate of singledom out there is quite high. Despite the rise in online dating and myriad dating apps, about half of American adults—around 124.6 million—are single, according to data used by the Bureau of Labour Statistics. And a U.S. Census Bureau report shows single-person households have also increased by 27.5%, with the majority of them being men.
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"I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself, above all!" — Robert Pattinson, as told to Madame Figaro
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"I used to say to [Blake], 'I would take a bullet for you. I could never love anything as much as I love you.' I would say that to my wife." — Ryan Reynolds, as told to The Daily Mail
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A couple of years ago, if you asked me about 'boat people' I would have told you that I thought it was unfair for them to get here illegally and take the place of those people waiting so long in camps who don't have the means to get here first. I'm not against refugees. In fact, I want Australia to do more. I thought 'boat people' were dodgy queue-jumpers who were possible security-risks.
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The third volume in Marchessault's autobiographically based trilogy. White Pebbles In the Dark Forests traces a reconciliation between men and women, children and parents, animals and humans, and the past and future as it looks at the connections between the visible and the invisible. Following Like a Child of the Earth and Mother of the Grass, this volume introduces Noria, an aviatrix who, like a shaman, flies across the night sky of North America to deliver the world a message of hope and recovery, and Jeanne, the writer who practices the magic art of healing; the art of literature.
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Fabletics succeeded in achieving what everybody considered to be impossible. They dared to take on the e-retail giant Amazon.com and judging by the look of things, this fashion company owned by among others, Kate Hudson, has outdone itself. The brand specializes in offering quality fashion apparels for women interested in comfortable exercise and work clothes. In the coming days, and as part of their broader expansion strategy, they are scheduled to introduce a line for men.
Redefining the Shopping Experience
The explosion of consumerism means that a brand has to put in a lot of effort into their products. Consumers want the very best quality and price is not always an issue. People place more emphasis on the quality and the value they are getting their money's worth. The one thing which separates this outlet from its competitors and peers is their approach to dealing with the customers. Fabletics has put in place several measures and mechanisms to ensure they get a near-perfect picture of what you, as their customer, likes and wants. Becoming a member of this outlet comes with many rewards, for instance, you get tailor-made suggestions and recommendations every time a new interesting fashion piece arrives. That's not even mentioning the tons of discounts and other money-saving offers VIP members receive working with this fashion house.
Fighting Amazon
Building and maintain a healthy relationship with their clients has seen Fabletics increase their presence, tremendously. Today, the establishment, also owned by Don Ressler and Adam Goldenberg, has physical stores in ten countries spread out across the globe. The top executive leaders at Fabletics are have studied the fashion industry for decades. Eventually, it dawned on them why the traditional brick-and-stone fashion stalls were not doing so well. Customers often walk into this premises to window shop at most; once they find a piece which interests them they take a snap of the sweater or shoe and then look for it on Amazon. In a bid to avoid their customer's shopping elsewhere, Fabletics has a strategy which involved curating in as much online data about their members, with the consent of course. Fabletics then uses the information about the pages they like and their fashion tastes and preferences and then finds items matching their description to suggest to their customers.
About Fabletics
Fabletics Inc. is an online subscription fashion store owned by the trio of Kate Hudson, Don Ressler, and Adam Goldenberg. The brand officially got launched in 2013 and has fast risen to be an inspirational success story and model to the business world. It's currently valued at $250M and this figure is expected to hit a billion in less than a decade, according to financial analysts.


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Role of eosinophils and muscarinic receptors in paradoxical airway hyperreactivity associated with antigen challenge
June 2008
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Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology
Oregon Health & Science University
The novel results presented in this thesis demonstrate that human and guinea pig eosinophils express muscarinic receptors, which inhibit eosinophil activation in vitro (Chapter V). Furthermore, I have demonstrated that muscarinic blockade during antigen challenge significantly increases eosinophil activation and subsequent vagally mediated hyperreactivity in guinea pigs (Chapter III and IV) via a mechanism involving eosinophils (Chapter III) and nerve growth factor (NGF) (Chapter IV). These data suggest that the inhibitory muscarinic receptors I have identified in vitro are functional in vivo. Previous work has demonstrated that antigen-induced airway hyperreactivity in guinea pigs is mediated by eosinophil major basic protein (MBP) and neuronal M2 receptor dysfunction. In this thesis, I have identified an alternative mechanism by which eosinophils mediate hyperreactivity in antigen challenged guinea pigs that is not mediated by loss of neuronal M2 function. In this newly identified pathway, both eosinophils and NGF play a critical role since anti-IL-5 and anti-NGF antibodies prevent antigen-induced airway hyperreactivity. NGF may be acting upstream of eosinophil activation, since anti-NGF antibodies prevent increased eosinophil activation. One possible explanation is that NGF induces eosinophils to release a mediator that alters nerve function, and release of this factor is inhibited by acetylcholine. Eosinophils produce a number of mediators that may alter nerve function, including NGF. One key effect of neurotrophins is that they can alter neuronal neurotransmitter content, a phenomenon called neural plasticity. Thus, eosinophils mediate airway hyperreactivity via multiple mechanisms, one involving MBP blockade of neuronal M2 receptors and the other involving NGF and possibly neural plasticity. The implications of these findings are clinically relevant, considering the poor performance of anticholinergics in management of chronic asthma. Anticholinergic drugs are effective bronchodilators when given during an asthma exacerbation. However, these drugs are not as effective as predicted from animal studies and are not recommended for chronic treatment of asthma. The findings in this thesis provide an explanation for this paradox, and suggest that timing of anticholinergic administration is very important. Anticholinergics after antigen challenge are effective bronchodilators, but if administered prophylactically, as would be the case if given chronically, may make hyperreactivity worse. In summary, I have discovered a novel interaction between the parasympathetic nerves and eosinophils. While it has been known that eosinophils can affect parasympathetic nerve function, I have identified a potential mechanism by which nerves may inhibit eosinophil function. This potential mechanism may be a negative feedback loop in which acetylcholine release from nerves dampens the negative effects of eosinophils on neuronal M2 receptor function in allergic asthma. These observations are clinically important because they may explain why anticholinergics treatments that should be effective in managing asthma are not, despite the current body of knowledge in this field and may provide a rationale for new approaches to pharmacological control of the lungs. These findings are significant because they contribute to our understanding of the complex interactions between the immune and nervous systems and because they will influence future therapeutics for treating diseases characterized by increased eosinophil activation, such as asthma.
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Verbout, Norah G., "Role of eosinophils and muscarinic receptors in paradoxical airway hyperreactivity associated with antigen challenge" (2008). Scholar Archive. 540.


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The first wave of nominees for the Teen Choice Awards have been announced and Insurgent and Shailene have been nominated. Voting for the awards will begin tomorrow, Wednesday at 12PM PST! Teen Choice 2015 will air Sunday, August 16 at 8/7c LIVE on FOX.
Movies Choice Movie: Action/Adventure
Furious 7
Kingsman: The Secret Service
San Andreas
The Maze Runner
Choice Movie Actress: Action/Adventure
Alexandra Daddario -San Andreas
Jordana Brewster – Furious 7
Kaya Scodelario- The Maze Runner
Maggie Grace – Taken 3
Michelle Rodriguez – Furious 7
Shailene Woodley – Insurgent


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There was a time when there were not too many good wedding photographers in India. Although a very large segment, good photographers would opt for fashion or advertising as a specialization. Overseas, wedding photography always occupied a very spacial position.
Things changed. As people in India became more quality conscious, more and better photographers started taking up wedding photography as a mainstream career. But also with digital photography everyone started considering themselves as a photographer and started offering wedding photography services at cheaper rates.


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Cedar Siding Replacement Project
Cedar Siding Replacement Project: The Challenges
The Superior Products Colorado renovation team stepped in to help these home owners after the home owners won a legal settlement against a previous contractor who had used "Liquid Siding" on the cedar. That liquid siding process had turned their cedar-sided home pink from the original rich tones of cedar wood. The previous contractor's liquid siding treatment also had damaged the siding and created moisture penetrations on the north side of the house, leaving the home vulnerable to potential water damage. In addition to the problems with the liquid siding, this home had a front porch area that was extremely dated and uninviting, and not designed to let the home owners take advantage of outdoor living opportunities that come with living in Colorado.
Cedar Siding Replacement Project: The Solutions
Replacement of Old Cedar Siding and Decorative Elements: Superior Products' team handled replacement of all gable and wall siding using textured fiber cement siding over energy-efficient insulation and home wrap. They also added architectural diagonal cuts on the north side of the home. Stonework included adding a wainscot around the home perimeter, front support posts to hide the downspouts, and full wall areas designed by the homeowner.
Deck Renovation: Superior Products also removed two, non-structural front post supports and the existing rotted wood decking and rail system, and rebuilt the decking system.
New Front Porch & Gutters: The front porch area also underwent a replacement of all fascia and soffit with fiber cement siding, and a high-value gutter system.
Final work included coordination of installation of materials with the landscape architect and landscape contractor on the redesign of the front porch area for functional outdoor living, and building a shed behind the house to store gardening and lawn care tools and equipment.
Cedar Siding Replacement Project: The Results
This modern home went from shocking pink to stunning after Superior Products Colorado remodeled it. Damaged pink cedar was replaced with durable energy-efficient fiber cement siding in natural tones that blends with the landscape. Entryway drama and curb appeal was vastly improved. The home owners were able to enjoy much more outdoor living and Colorado's wonderful climate with the additional of a functional new deck. After the remodel, this home won a 1st place CARE (Colorado Awards for Remodeling Excellence) award for exterior remodeling.
Contact Us Today
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Driving Our own Inquiries
This week we have worked hard on being effective THINKERS, KNOWLEDGEABLE in what we know and INQUIRERS in what we want to further pursue. The students have been working collaboratively with their research buddies. They have been looking to develop a deeper understanding about how organizations around the world are assisting people in need. This Unit has allowed the students to practice their questioning skills as well as their research skills. The students have been developing their own questions to inquire into about their chosen organization and have been making connections with themselves and the Singapore Community. Well done everyone!!!!
FUn RUN
What a great way to finish off the week! On Friday 28th August, the students took part in a school Fun Run. The AIM for the afternoon was to complete as many laps of the school field as possible in the 30 minute time period. The students could walk or run. Every time they passed the start/finish line they received a tally mark on their score card. Each of the score cards were added to the students HOUSE.
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Exploring Writing
Whats what?
We started our Recount Writing Unit off by looking at different types of writing and discussing some of the language and organizational features associated with them. We then listened to Ms Rehu share a Recount orally and decided which piece of writing shared similar language features. Following that, we looked at the different types of Recounts there are and began looking closely at the types of words that are used in each as well as the position of the writer and the point of view.
I know thats a Recount
We looked at the language associated with an Orientation and made connections with the 5 W words + 1. The students decided that these W words are used to introduce the writing.
The students then looked closely at the events that were introduced in the different pieces of Recount Writing samples. They decided that these events had purposefully been placed in order to show how the progression of the events in time order. The students then noticed that transition words had been used to show the events progress over time. They also made a new list of ones that they were familiar with.
Make It Real
We then decided that a real life experience would create a room full of excited writers.
We used Dodgeball as an experience that we could all create a Personal Recount about.
Making connections - Hs TRip
Learning Through Inquiry
On Wednesday 20th August, the Grade 4 students and Teachers took a trip to the High School Campus. They were on a journey of discovery where they wanted to learn more about how the Grade 12 Students have been working with various organizations around Singapore to assist people in need. The Grade 4 students spent the morning inquiring into what it means to be in need, ways to recognize a need, the needs in Singapore and organizations in Singapore that assist people in need. They showed new understandings through visual representations as well as through drama. The Grade 4 students also watched a play that was written by 2 Grade 10 students about the voice of an employer vs the voice of a domestic helper. This proved to be very powerful as the students reflected a lot about their own situations and the helpers that work for their families.
Getting into the Grind
The last week has been busy with getting into the daily routines that we will be following this year. The students have spent a lot of time developing essential agreements for the class as well as for the Grade. We have also had discussions about how we learn best. This has helped us establish a classroom culture that caters for everyone.
How WE Learn Best...
Our Class Portraits
The students in G4.2 created self portraits using half of a photograph to show their creativity and imagination. They looked closely at the features of the face, used symmetry and experimented with colors. They also made a frame with pictures and symbols that represent who they are and where they come from.
the G4.2 Team
Ms Rehu comes from the land of the long white cloud, home of the hobbits and the World Champion Rugby Team "The All Blacks" . She enjoys rugby, dancing and traveling. She is excited to be part of the Grade 4 team and the ISS Community.
May 2016
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Happy Holidays everyone! We hope that you all have a wonderful summer and we will see you on Wednesday 5th September. Thank you for all of your brilliant support this year.
Welcome to Bartons Primary School
Thank you very much for visiting our new school website. I hope that you find all of the information that you are looking for and it gives you a flavour of our friendly and popular school.
At Bartons, we pride ourselves on being a happy and family school where learning and growing potentials is at the heart of everything that we do. Relationships between the children and adults are strong where every child is known well by the dedicated staff and we embrace team working with the whole of our school community. We want our children to be happy and confident and we work hard to provide a safe, fun and caring environment. Every child is special to us and we work closely in partnership with parents to build on each child's individual skills and talents in order that they develop a love of learning and enjoy school. We strive to develop the whole child and we believe that our inclusive and creative curriculum will stimulate and motivate young curious minds. Recently, we have invested in some new exciting core learning approaches which have been really popular with the children. We have become a Maths Numicon school and promote Talk for Writing and Accelerated Reader for Literacy.
We promote British Values and have a set of agreed Core Learning Values and Skills which underpin all aspects of learning. These are embedded into our curriculum and are promoted through our School Council, School Assemblies, Growth Mindset work and our collaborative learning approach 'Working With Others' activities.
At Bartons, teamwork is vitally important and so our new House System and WWO approach encourages the children to be proud of their school and to take responsibility for their behaviour, learning and to look after their working environment. For this reason, we call ourselves Team Bartons.
Please come and visit us if you would like to find out more about Team Bartons and thank you for visiting our school website.
Mrs Kate Powell
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The act of remembering exists in a binary relationship with the act of forgetting. To remember something seems to guard against its forgetting, and this we may say is a good thing. Though almost as quickly we realise that some things ought to be forgotten to move on, 'forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us'. Yet, this Christian prayer notably opts for forgiveness, not merely forgetting. It implies, therefore, that forgiveness may be an act of both remembering and forgetting in so far as one forgives by forgetting, but in so doing, remembers what one is forgiving. What it also introduces, is the concept of justice, for a notion of a wrong that has been committed is nestled in the very idea of forgiveness. And so, the boundary between remembering and forgetting is (on one level) more porous with residual links beyond the quotidian semantic field in which these words operate.
To complicate the act of remembering and forgetting is important on a day such as today, given that it is the 10th anniversary of the July 7th terrorist attacks. Many up and down the country will take time to remember, talk about and mark in some other way the horror and tragedy of that day. But it is precisely because of this, this social memorialising that every community and country engages in regarding particular dates in its history, that one ought to pay attention to the complexity of gestures of public commemoration and their role in shaping collective memories and public consciousness more broadly. This is not to detract of course from the private grief of those directly affected, to whom all sympathies must be extended unreservedly; nor from the tragedy and barbarism of vile actions committed for warped political ends. Rather, it is to expend effort and energy in remembering in its (im)possible fullness that recent history shared by everyone who was witness to it.
By drawing attention to the complicated nature of remembrance, one can foreground the proclivity to produce memory through an element of selection, an element of exclusion, and an element of forgetting. But this forgetting is of a different order to the one that simultaneously marks-and- unmarks itself in the concomitance of forgiveness. Because of the conspicuous nature of public memorials, memory is ossified and transformed into a totem to serve political, sociological and cultural ends and thus, inevitably, exists more as something 'enchanted' and less so to be learnt from. Here forgetting is operational and not (when linked conceptually with forgiveness) attitudinal. Rather than foster a frame of mind that is critical and a temperament that is ethical, such forgetting produces a kind of 'remembering' that is either enervated or (at its worst) pestiferous, energised as it is by more hateful emotions.
Memory that is produced in this way is unable to deal with complexity, contradictions and doubts. It necessarily requires a strong policing of the perimeter that defines what can and cannot be remembered and an erasure of details that do not fall within certain narrowly defined lines. For instance, a too strong a concentration on the violence of July 7th forgets (perhaps momentarily) the humanity that fellow commuters and others demonstrated when everyone came to the aid of those in need. Similarly, it can only deal partially with the excellent work of the professionals involved in the aftermath because it cannot fully address the fact that the protocols and training of these professionals is the result of London having been bombed before (and thus, the 'tragedy of 7/7' is also uncomfortably relative to other tragedies of the past). Such a memorial cannot also acknowledge openly, that London and the UK demonstrated great composure and equanimity following the bombings, in that reprisals against Muslims were not of the degree that Muslims in other parts of the world are fearful of (of course, those who suffered harassment may take exception to such a view and being grateful of this is itself problematic). To acknowledge this reality would be to simultaneously frame the Muslim community and divide the chorus of oneness that (rightly) needs to be sounded when such attacks happen. Indeed, to prevent this from happening, those who perpetrated such violence have to be excluded from any community so that 'we' can stand together against 'them'. But no sooner has such a gesture been affirmed, the question of these men's motives springs up and the (albeit twisted) social imaginaries in which their minds were shaped. But this too must be forgotten or admitted in limited fashion, as indeed does much of the above, for whenever such details are included in the memorialisation of such events they are pressed into the service of forgetting the most important fact: what might 'we' have done in what happened to 'us'? This heresy cannot be remembered nor tolerated; it is in fact through its very active forgetting/erasing that the collective memory and memorialisation is born.
What other dates, faces and lives, we should ask, have to be actively excluded to produce the solemnity of a given memory? The conspicuous public nature of commemorations of dates across the world participate in this kind of 'forgetting'; and it is this 'kind' of forgetting that we must guard against. Instead, the remembrance we should seek is the one where forgetting is intimately tied with forgiving, for only such an ethic will secure a remembering that is transformative and not mere ritual. In this we can learn from the Christian prayer: 'forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us'. We may not all of us be saints, but we have enough sins to share amongst us. Let us remember the dead, everywhere.


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Ok, so get ready to be swept away. I'm pleased to introduce Wendy Wight, a member of our Tribe and a gorgeously talented artist. Wendy defies the typical stereotypes of artist, though. Not only is she creatively charged, she treats her art like it matters (which is does). This means she approaches everything she does as a professional. It's courageous. And the results are incredible. Etched in whimsy, conceived by the word "YES," and held together by hard hard work. Oh, and you're gonna want a print (or two or three) ... just FYI.
Wendy's bio:
Professional Artist, mother, wife, friend. My current work is utilizing peoples old mementos in my paintings. Just recently I received a huge box of love letters from the 1940s. They are so beautifully written, very intimate and sexy. My whole family is falling in love with both of these people. We are reading the letters to each other. The letters will be used in some kind of project soon. I treat my studio practice like a job and this allows me to be really present with my family when I am at home. I love cooking meals and entertaining my neighbors and friends at our home.
Portfolio of Work - www.wendywight.com
My video - A Conversation with Wendy Wight
What makes you, Wendy, feel strong?
When I can come up with an idea or a solution that utilizes the materials that we have on hand. Make It Work is a mini-mantra for me.
Something that made me feel really strong this summer was driving to Maine, and back, by myself. It made me feel that if I can drive 2000 miles on my own, I can do anything.


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September 17th is Batman Day! Get out and buy a comic book. I plan to! I decided to celebrate the DC Comic hero by giving you movie reviews on all Batman films, minus Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and The Dark Knight Rises, since I've already covered them. Batman & Robin will just be ignored for its blatant offensiveness.
The Dark Knight is directed by Christopher Nolan and features an ensemble cast including Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eric Roberts, Chin Han, Melinda McGraw, and of course, the great late Heath Ledger as the Joker.
The sequel to Batman Begins opens with a bank robbery where a mysterious villain known only as the Joker begins his terror of Gotham City.
As Bruce Wayne battles the underworld as Batman, District Attorney Harvey Dent, ADA Rachel Dawes, and Police Lt. James Gordon are fighting them by day. When the mafia dons get desperate, they turn to the violent sociopath Joker to help bring down the Dark Knight.
This film is the best Batman movie ever. As opposed to showing a pre-Batman, rookie Batman, or old, bitter Batman, this one features him in his prime.
I know Bale gets criticized for his Batman voice, but he is the best in live action film. Not only that, but Heath Ledger shines as the Joker. It is sad he departed from us so soon, because I think Nolan would have more films with him as the Joker.
The production values, the story, the action, and everything in between brings it to the forefront and it deserved MORE awards than it won at the Academy Awards.
FAVORITE QUOTE: I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger.
PARENTAL CONCERNS: Violence, Terror, and foul language
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Rare 4 Bob Sauve 3.5 x 5 signed Chicago Blackhawks photos
Please note...photos are not blurry. I tried to make the photos larger for the listing and that is why they might appear to look blurry. Copyrighted photos circa 1980's. 4 rare Bob Sauve 3.5 x 5 signed photos during pre-game warm ups. Bob Sauve is wearing his vintage helmet goalie mask. Please feel free to make an offer?


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GOP gears up for intense tax battle as Senate debuts plan
Clip: 11/10/2017 | 4m 22s
Republicans pushed ahead on their plan for a tax overhaul, with two major developments. The House Ways and Means Committee passed its sweeping tax bill, while the Senate released their own version. Lisa Desjardins sits down with Judy Woodruff to discuss how the two bills compare, which GOP senators aren't yet convinced and how Democrats are reacting.
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Residential and One-day-Retreats
All the retreats are led by experienced facilitators, many of whom are from a professional background and who have learnt to interweave a spiritual approach into their personal and professional lives. They give their time voluntarily to help others see the inner changes which are necessary to cultivate a deeper contentment and a greater joy, in an often chaotic world. Each retreat is an opportunity to explore the deepest insights into the true nature of our being, review the purpose of our life and learn practical methods to sustain calm and clarity in everyday living.
Both the One-Day Retreat and residential Meditation Retreat (Inner Peace, Inner Power) provide guidance in meditation, whilst the retreats for specific professional groups are sensitively designed to explore the application of spiritual values in the workplace. The retreats are intended for participants who are 18 years of age and over.
Retreats at the Global Retreat Centre have two key components.
The Aim
The aim is to enable participants to recharge their own sense of well being, and learn how to maintain this strength in everyday life. Lectures, meditation, workshops, pure vegetarian food, walks in the beautiful grounds, and a peaceful atmosphere all contribute to the process.


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Law Firms
If your network's not running, you're not billing. To keep your computers compliant, hire some good tech representation.
Technology is as central to your law firm as the gavel and legal pad. What once filled beautiful libraries and countless filing cabinets, now sits on servers and network storage— not to mention the cloud. Managing evolving data systems and ever-changing hardware for law firms is a tall order. At Golden Tech, we shoulder all the burden of your technology infrastructure. We silently fend off security risks, quickly resolve day-to-day issues, and create proactive plans for the evolution of your company and its IT needs.
Focus on Your Clients
Ninety-one percent of all U.S. law firms have fewer than 10 employees (typically 4 lawyers). Trying to handle your IT services internally is more than just a challenge, it's inefficient.
With one staff member usually dedicated to technology, his or her expertise is inherently limited. Your IT staff can quickly become overwhelmed with simple repairs,
preventable failures, and changing printer toner. This leaves little or no time for proactive maintenance, and this opens the door to major security issues that could significantly increase downtime.
Golden Tech offers managed technology solutions that free your staff to focus on the most important thing: the client. No longer do you have to dedicate staff hours at your small firm to technology troubles. From day zero, we lock down your assets, take full control of your infrastructure, and begin monitoring the health and security of your network from our offices.
Over 70 percent of IT issues can be solved remotely, without any significant downtime. This means, with Golden Tech as your relentless tech partner, you'll be able to offer uninterrupted service to your clients and, most importantly, never think about IT again.
Increase Your Uptime
Downtime is a headache. You can't access that client file, you can't get
to your notes, you can't look up precedent. It can all be very frustrating. But take a few steps back and look at the broader effects. Estimates suggest that for more than 50 percent of small- to-medium sized businesses, each hour of downtime will cost anywhere between $50,000 and $250,000. Of those businesses that suffer a major outage of 10 days or more, 93 percent file for bankruptcy within a year.
Our goal is to prevent our clients from suffering those losses. At Golden Tech, we will create a custom-tailored technology plan for you. We give you full access to report issues and errors and allow you to get in touch with a live technician through various channels (phone, email, online portal, etc.). Once your new infrastructure is in place, we will consistently monitor every aspect of its performance. These simple steps alone are shown to increase uptime by 80 percent. Beyond maintenance and security; we'll meet with you quarterly to continue evolving your technology systems as technology improves and your business grows.
Secure Your Data
Before anything else, data security is the most important function of information technology in the legal field. Data breaches, especially in the case of sensitive legal records, can mean the end of a great reputation in seconds flat. Moreover, those breaches cost money, not just in downtime, but (as you all well know) in legal liability. We'll stop at nothing to ensure your data is locked down.
First, we'll ensure your infrastructure is a safe place upon which to store and transfer data and sensitive legal records. With things on lock-down, we'll make sure that your data storage is robust, operating with some fail-overs, and has the appropriate redundancies. After building out your infrastructure to support data security measures, we'll help to address your policies and procedures.
Finally, we'll protect against the threat of catastrophe and hardware malfunction. We'll create a secure portal wherein we'll back up all of your data offsite, in a secure place, out of harm's way.
Why Golden Tech
At Golden Tech we pride ourselves on relationships over anything else. Other providers have made the transition to managed services out of necessity; we made it because it was the best fit.
Today, just over 50 percent of law firms are using a managed service provider to handle their information technology. This marks a 200% increase in just 5 years. But managed service alone isn't a solution. Like any service provider, managed technology services run the gamut of quality.
We are fully transparent about our work, with communication at all steps. With four engineers at the helm, we understand the need to illustrate a return on investment. We do so by focusing on creating value through our great service and our best-in-class proactive consultation.


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Are you searching for a professional, caring and experienced Hawthorn CHIROPRACTOR?
Our team of Chiropractors in Hawthorn are experienced in specific, personalised & modern Chiropractic techniques. We want to help you today like we have assisted many others the community. My name is Dr. Robbie Hunt and I am the principal chiropractor at the practice, with over 10 years of clinical experience. I work alongside Dr. Adam Curwood & Dr Peter Vrakatselis who are both experienced and trusted Hawthorn Chiropractors. We see patients of all ages, backgrounds and for a variety of health concerns. We proudly work alongside a number of local community sports teams including the Hawthorn Cricket Club, St. Kevin's & Scotch's Old Boys VAFA Football Club, Netball Victoria, Hawthorn Basketball Association & Melbourne Triathlon Club, among others.
Why you should choose our Hawthorn Chiropractors?
Dr Robbie Hunt is the founder of Wellbeing Hawthorn and Pakenham Chiropractic practices. He has over 10 years experience managing patients for a wide variety of musculo-skeletal i
ssues and health related conditions. Dr Robbie sees patients of all ages.
CLICK HERE to view Dr. Robbie Hunt's profile.
Dr Adam Curwood is a senior associate Chiropractor at Wellbeing Hawthorn. Dr Adam has an extensive background in sport & fitness as well as wellness Chiropractic care having spent several years in the AFL system. It is Dr. Adam's passion to see his patients live a health, happy & active lifestyle through Chiropractic management, proper nutrition & exercise.
CLICK HERE to view Dr. Adam Curwood's profile.
Dr Peter Vrakatselis is a senior associate Chiropractor at Wellbeing Hawthorn and Pakenham practices. Dr Peter has extensive experience working alongside professional and amateur AFL players. He is a qualified and experienced Myotherapist having worked with patients for a variety of musculo-skeletal issues including back and neck pain, shoulder injuries, disc problems and much more!
CLICK HERE to view Dr. Peter Vrakatselis' profile.
For All Enquiries: (03) 9882 7135
All our chiropractors are graduates of RMIT university's 5-year Chiropractic program in Melbourne which is regarded as one of the best programs in the world. Our chiropractors are registered under the Chiropractic Board of Australia, are current members of the Chiropractor's Association of Victoria and attend continuing professional education to stay at the front of professional medical and health developments.
Complimenting our Chiropractic team in Hawthorn are industry recognised Myotherapists, Massage Therapists, Podiatrists, Kinesiologists, Exercise Physiologists, Personal Trainers & Clinical Psychologists.
Our practice Facilities
Our Hawthorn Chiropractic practice has some of the best medical facilities in Melbourne – including digital x-rays and scanners, 3-D postural analysis software, foot scanners, sEMG nerve technology among others. Our practice is large and semi-open planned, the environment is warm and friendly, which is conducive to healing and helping you feel at your best.
Where are we located?
Your Chiropractors in Hawthorn are situated at 365 Burwood Rd. The practice is located 50m from the corner of Glenferrie and Burwood roads, opposite the town hall, with ample on street parking available for patients. The practice is easily accessible from the Melbourne city centre via train, tram and bus, the closest train station in Glenferrie Station (400m walk.) You can find directions to our Hawthorn Chiropractic practices by clicking this link.
Our chiropractors also consult from a practice located in Pakenham. Alongside the Chiropractors in Pakenham is a team of 4 Remedial Massage Therapists who will cover all your soft tissue needs. For more information on the Pakenham practice click here.
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There's the thought that selling a product is the most difficult task to accomplish, yet in reality it is not as complicated as the world has set it out to be. In order to spread your product like wildfire and have your potential clients saying YES here's a few tips to put you in the right direction of your product sales.
Before I mention different avenues to sell, there is one golden rule of product sales you must comply with or your sales journey will be cut short in the near future.


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Have had very few problems with the actual LED strips. In fact, have only had problems with the WS2812B (individually controlled RGB LEDs) type strips, and they were just bad solder joints. It's the switches/controllers and their remotes that break down. But they are all cheap, so you just need to plan on changing them out like you would a light bulb. And btw, not that it apply's to this article, but LED's will not lower your power use if not used with a "switching" power supply. Because the little power bricks burn ruffly the same amount regardless...
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I'm going to add one more, my all time #1 shithole dive bar - Johnnie's Pier 69 on 73rd and Western. By the way, Western Ave, being the longest street in the city, probably has the most shithole dive bars (ok, maybe Halsted) of any street in the country, and who knows, maybe the world. We here in Chicago are very fortunate.
This was a place that was converted from a shitty wood frame house, late 1800's or early 1900's. Made into a bar in the mid-40's. My father used to go there and rev it up with his buddies in the 50's and 60's. (he lived with my grandparents at 7210 S. Western) Used to bring me there sometimes when I was a kid. All the wild fucks in the neighborhood went there, gearheads, bikers, bums, drunkards, general criminal types and the like. I of course started going there as soon as I turned 21. Went there one evening, fairly crowded, mostly bikers (at least a dozen bikes out in front) and luckily got a seat at the bar. Turned to my right, and there was a biker bitch sittin' on the footrest, blowin' her man right there while he was seated at the bar. Nobody seemed to mind, even the bartender. I thought, wow.
Anyway, here's my claim to fame there: Went there one night mid-week after I got off work. (second shift at Litton Precision Gear, 4545 S. Western Blvd.) First I went to the shithole right across the street from work, Jeanette's - pounded down a few, nothing happening there. Went down to Johnnie's. It was about midnight. Nobody in there except the bartender and one guy. Now this guy was a big motherfucker, built like a brick shithouse. And he was fucked up, head bobbin' up and down, in and out of consciousness. Figured fuck it, I'll have one and leave. Sat down far off to right of this guy. Now they had only one TV, of course, and it was at the left end of the bar. So I'm sittin' there having my beer, looking at the TV, minding my own business, when this guy turns to me and yells "quit lookin' at me, faggot". I didn't say anything, bartender tells him to calm down. 5 minutes later, same thing - "quit lookin' at me, faggot" I said, "I ain't lookin' at you, dude, I'm lookin' at the fuckin' TV". Bartender says, "Mike, one more time and you're outta here" This Mike guy says, "Oh yeah, you think you can throw me out?" I said, don't worry, I'm outta here, I just gotta take a piss. The john was down at the end of the place, past the pool table. I got out of the john, grabbed a pool stick, and hit this motherfucker as hard as I could across the back of his neck. Broke the stick. Down and out. Bartender says, "He deserved that, but now you gotta drag him outta here and I ain't helping you" I said no problem. Dragged him out to the curb, laid him half on the street. He started moaning a little, I took off and got the fuck outta there.


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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Going Nuclear
Just a few years back, when the Dems were using the maneuver to roadblock various Bush appointees, the Republican leadership of the time, led by Bill Frist, came pretty darn close to going nuclear and doing away with the supermajority. At the time, cooler heads prevailed, aware no doubt that the party in charge one day won't be, and that's when they'll wish they had it, and I pretty much agreed for that very reason.
However, thanks mostly to wish-washy Dems like Lincoln and Nelson, not to mention the dependably undependable Mr. Lieberman, that sixty vote threshold is sure doing a hell of a job squeezing any actual reform out of health care reform. Thanks to this and many more examples, Steven Pearlstein makes a pretty compelling argument that if there's any hope to be had of things actually getting done in Washington, now is as good a time as any to drop the bomb on the filibuster.
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Acting wasn't on Paul Welch's radar until a local production company came to his Ottawa-area high school to film a police training video. Even though he'd never acted, he begged to be involved and was thrilled to land the role of Victim #1.
This was on the heels of the Columbine tragedy and the video was meant to help first responders — like police officers, firefighters and paramedics — respond to a school shooting. Welch (`07 BFA, Acting) played a student who was pistol-whipped in the forehead by a teenage gunman. "I had no lines, but I got to have some pretty cool special-effects makeup," he says.
This whet the 18-year-old's appetite for the dramatic arts. He enrolled in a scene study class at a local community theatre in Ottawa and began auditioning for performances. Soon he was doing three or four shows a year, while taking courses at university. After finishing his degree, he decided to give acting a shot.
"I was single and had no debt at that point, so I figured I had nothing to lose," says Welch. At the advice of well-known theatre director, he applied for the top three acting programs in Canada — including the University of Alberta's Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting. In Toronto, he auditioned for Arts drama professor Beau Coleman. "I left feeling so excited that I wanted to cancel my other two auditions," he says. "Fortunately, I got accepted."
The program at the U of A was world-class, he says, and emphasized voice, speech and text (the interpretation of scripts). When he graduated in 2007, Welch joined his graduating class on a cross-country auditioning tour before snagging the role of Puck in a production of A Midsummer's Night Dream by Calgary's Shakespeare in the Park. He moved to Calgary in 2009 and quickly established himself in the city's burgeoning theatre scene. "After a while, you're making a name for yourself, building a career for yourself and buying a condo," he laughs.
But like many LGBTQ actors, he didn't often see himself in the roles he was performing. After meeting a budding actor named Jonathan Brower at an industry event, the two men decided to do something about the lack of queer representation in theatre. In 2012, they co-created the city's only queer theatre company, Third Street Theatre. With so many stereotypical, unflattering portrayals of LGBTQ people in television and film, they hoped to produce plays to show audiences "the human being behind the label" and allow queer people to see themselves on stage.
Welch served as co-artistic director for the company for two years before stepping out on his own again in 2014. Now, he's performing as an actor in theatre and film, directing plays (like Story Book Theatre's Red Riding Hood, coming Spring 2015), teaching acting, coaching budding performers and writing. Welch has several plays in the works, as well as a fantasy novel that's being shopped around by a literary agent in New York City. His work has earned him numerous accolades, including theatre awards and nominations, and inclusion in Avenue Calgary's 2014 Top 40 Under 40 list.
It's not an easy career choice — even for someone as talented and accomplished as Welch — but this is precisely why he loves it.
"It is always a challenge — to try to listen and communicate, to find presence, to effectively tell the story as best as possible and to work towards moving the audience."
"A lot of things come pretty easy for me, and as a result I lose interest pretty quickly. However, with acting, coaching, directing, it is always a challenge — to try to listen and communicate, to find presence, to effectively tell the story as best as possible and to work towards moving the audience," says Welch. "That's what appeals to me the most: doing what I can to help people come together as a community, witness a story and be moved by it."


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THE completion of the City of Salford Stadium would transform the local economy with 80 per cent of its employees set to be from the city.
According to an Economic Impact Report it will give a £10m boost to Salford, give 1,651 people new jobs and those behind the plans for the Reds' new home promise to actively encourage the unemployed back into work.
Single mothers will be able to leave their children at a creche while they work on the site and transport links will give easier access for those without their own means of getting to work.
Salford Council, local colleges and schools will work with the businesses on the site to provide apprenticeships to be carried out both during construction and when the facilities at Barton are complete.
It is the vision of Salford Reds' chairman John Wilkinson to take on local people straight from school and give them jobs for life.
He said: "It is something I've tried to do with my business - employ local people to do the job and give them a chance to progress through the company. It builds loyalty and is beneficial to everyone concerned.
"Not only do we want the stadium to be built by people from Salford we want the people to also work at the site and be at the heart of everything we are doing.
"There are areas near to the stadium that have suffered a high unemployment level because industries such as the steel works have collapsed and many people that used to work there are left with nothing.
"These people who live within walking distance of the site will be able to once more get into work. The ones who struggle to find jobs because they haven't got transport will be able to get there easily.
"The single parents who have nowhere to put their children will have a creche which takes away a major complication stopping them getting work. I hope we can help transform the local economy.
A number of jobs will be available at the site. Mr Wilkinson said: "Obviously there will be construction jobs while the stadium is getting built then we will need people to work in the hotel, retail units and the stadium itself. It is our intention that these jobs will go to the people in the immediate area. This will be Salford's stadium for Salford people."


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As legal marijuana goes mainstream and businesses differentiate themselves in recreational and medicinal markets, new trends in cannabis are emerging all the time.
In addition to becoming a more all-around professional industry that's attractive to investors, here we touch on some of the newest trends in marijuana for 2017, so far.
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On a quiet night not so long ago (two days ago, to be exact) I was visited by an unexpected, uninvited guest. A fleeting glimpse of brown fur, spindly legs and perky ears caught my attention from the corner of my eye and then it was gone. Acting quickly I sealed the only exit, the crack beneath the guest bathroom's door, and pondered how best to dispatch the rodent who had undoubtedly let itself in when I carelessly left the back door open to air the place out.
For those who don't know me, I am a pacifist. I take great pride in seeking peaceful resolution, but I will admit the thought of a field mouse loose in the apartment elicited thoughts of mouse traps, adhesives, and poisons. Fortunately those countless hours of Facebook surfing finally paid off as a peaceful solution came to mind almost immediately.
The breakdown of parts as I interpreted them:
With all of these wonderful resources at my disposal I took to my workshop and assembled what could possibly be my greatest piece of craftsmanship:
Let's be 100% clear; fashioning a MacGuyver worthy mousetrap at midnight on a work night is not my idea of a good time. The experience is hardly worth talking about outside of the fact that this simple solution was extraordinarily effective. With a few simple components readily available at home I was able to fashion the contraption and bait it with some irresistible dark chocolate covered almonds for bait. Within an hour I could hear that the trap had worked as my newfound friend darted back and forth within the bottle helplessly.
If you're going to get some fresh air, open a window instead of a door. This is nowhere near as fun as Tom and Jerry led me to believe.


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July 11, 2009
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FLEMINGSBURG -- As summer moves in and area residents look for ways to shed unwanted pounds, the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service in Fleming County is offering two unique opportunities to help get into shape.
Kentucky now ranks seventh in the nation in terms of obese residents and more adults and children are experiencing weight-related health conditions than ever before, according to a recently released study by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the number of overweight individuals in the United States has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, with nearly a third of all Americans now facing weight problems, and that some 300,000 deaths may be attributed to obesity each year.
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The first issue of Women Talking Politics, The Research Magazine of the New Zealand Political Studies Association / Te Kāhui Tātai Tōrangapū o Aotearoa (NZPSA) is now online. Edited by Dr Valentina Cardo of the University of Auckland, Women Talking Politics has been re-launched after a five-year break. The first two issues of Women Talking Politics are supported by NZPSA's bi-annual grant.
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Isaiah 40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?
Proverbs 30:4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who has gathered up the wind in the hollow of his hands? Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and the name of his son? Tell me if you know!
Isaiah 48:13 My own hand laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they all stand up together.
Habakkuk 3:4 His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden.
So what happened? Obviously I didn't commit suicide, even though that is what my full intentions were. I pictured myself as a broken doll, thrown into a ditch, sodden and filthy. And all of a sudden two loving arms reached down and two loving hands picked me up, cleaned me off, healed my hurts and set me on my feet. But the most amazing thing was that my heart, which had been filled with hatred and loathing, was now full of love and joy, in the twinkling of an eye.
Deuteronomy 33:26-27 "There is no one like the God of Jeshurun [the upright one], who rides on the heavens to help you and on the clouds in his majesty. The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, `Destroy him!'
Now, I had not prayed or asked God for help. I'm sure that my mother and grandmother were praying for me, as they always have, but they didn't know in the physical realm what was on my mind, because I told no one. But in this instant, God reached down to me, and filled me with love and hope, and immediately I realized that I had been looking at life all wrong.
I had gotten "saved" 500 times or so, but never really believed God accepted me because I was such a failure in living the Christian life. That's why I kept getting saved, because I thought my salvation depended on my works, and my works were crummy.
But now, scooped up by the everlasting arms of God's love and held in His hands, I could see things from a totally different viewpoint. It was like being raised from the dead and looking down from Heaven and getting the whole picture. God loved me, He sent Jesus who died for me, and accepting that fact was what being saved meant!
The point is: Jesus had compassion on a poor struggling fool without a clue. I had no faith to claim a miracle with. My life was a mess. I was as good as dead. But my Lord loved me and raised me up in His hands and filled me with love.
Psalms 63:8 My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.
Psalms 139:9-10 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
Isaiah 49:15-16 Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands
John 10:28-30 I give them eternal life, and
they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father,
who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out
of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one."
Isaiah 51:16 I have put my words in your mouth
and covered you with the shadow of my hand-- I who set the heavens in place,
who laid the foundations of the earth, and who say to Zion, `You are my
Exodus 15:6 "Your right hand, O LORD, was majestic in power. Your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy.
Psalms 44:3 It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
Psalms 22:16 Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet.
John 20:25, 27 So the other disciples told
him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see
the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and
put my hand into his side, I will not believe it."
Then he [Jesus] said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."
Psalms 31:5,15 Into your hands I commit my spirit; redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth My times are in your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are God's workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance
for us to do.
We are also told that He used the breadth of His hand to measure the
universe, and set each star in place with His fingers. What mighty hands
God has!
Or we can humble ourselves under Gods mighty hand, the hand of the
Creator of all things, and He will hide us there and strengthen us, and
in due time exalt us:
1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
|Yes, God's Hands are big enough to save us all, to keep us all, to bring us victory, and to lift us up. Put yourself in God's Hands today!
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Unbound handmade artist's book. Inscription and illustration of the poem 'Birds die in Galilee' by Mahmoud Darwish. Each of the 30 pages consists of 3 sections: 2 outer leaves, one of which has the verse of poetry, and an inner page with a separate monoprint.
Abdallah Benanteur was born in Algeria and currently lives in France. He is a painter and engraver and has created artists' books from the poetry of numerous writers, including Mahmoud Darwish.
Darwish is one of the best-known poets of the Arab world. He was born in 1941 in the village of al-Birweh in Galilee, from where his family were displaced following the creation of Israel in 1948. He lived for some years in Haifa working for the newspaper Al-Ittihad and began writing poetry. As a political activist, he was regularly detained by the Israeli authorities until he finally left, first for Moscow, then Cairo. It was here that he found his literary place with prominent Egyptian writers, such as Naguib Mahfouz. Between 1973 and 1982 he was in Beirut, and he considered his poem 'That's Her Image and This is the Lover's Suicide' the best of all his writing at this time. He left Lebanon at the height of the civil war in 1982 for Tunisia, and from there eventually returned to Ramallah in Palestine where he was to spend much of the rest of his life. Upon his death in 2008 he received a state funeral, attended by thousands of Palestinians. He is buried in Ramallah.


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