 | Bloodbrothers - Native Americans (Pictures) c)Video by gewajega@yahoo.com 2008 Music: "Bloodbrothers" by Bruce Springsteen Lyrics: "We played king of the mountain out on the end The world come chargin' up the hill, and we were women and men Now there's so much that time, time and memory fade away We got our own roads to ride and chances we gotta take We stood side by side each one fightin' for the other We said until we died we'd always be blood brothers Now the hardness of this world slowly grinds your dreams away Makin' a fool's joke out of the promises we make And what once seemed black and white turns to so many shades of gray We lose ourselves in work to do and bills to pay And it's a ride, ride, ride, and there ain't much cover With no one runnin' by your side my blood brother On through the houses of the dead past those fallen in their tracks Always movin' ahead and never lookin' back Now I don't know how I feel, I don't know how I feel tonight If I've fallen 'neath the wheel, if I've lost or I've gained sight I don't even know why, I don't why I made this call Or if any of this matters anymore after all But the stars are burnin' bright like some mystery uncovered I'll keep movin' through the dark with you in my heart My blood brother ..." ************************* Alternate last verse as performed July 1, 2000, at Madison Square Garden, New York: "Now on out here on this road Out on this road tonight I close my eyes and feel so many friends around me In the early evening light And the miles we have come And the battles won and lost Are just so many roads travelled So many rivers crossed And I ask God for the strength And faith in one another 'Cause it's a good night for a ride Cross this river to the other side My blood brothers ..." |
 | Mission '07 After much trial and tribulation the video of our latest mission trip is finished! A lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into the making of this video, and I mean that literally... The video features our (First Congregational Church of Hanover, MA) most recent youth mission trip with our friends from North Community Church of Marshfield, in the city of Hartford, CT. The first part of the week we were part of our denomination's (UCC) 50th Birthday bash, and hundreds of youth from around the nation. The second half of the week we departed from the celebrations to do mission work within the city of Hartford. Working out of Asylum Hill Church, we cleared a Lot for community gardens and did cosmetic work around the Mark Twain house and museum (including painting fences). I didn't get a lot of footage of the celebrations due to reasons I'll not get into, but I got plenty of the mission work which is what these trips are all about, enjoy! Music: Amazing Because It Is - The Almost |
 | The Holy Bible - King James Version - Deuteronomy - Ch. 11 Deuteronomy 11 1.Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. 2And know ye this day: for [I speak] not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, 3And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land; 4And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and [how] the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day; 5And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place; 6And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that [was] in their possession, in the midst of all Israel: 7But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did. 8.Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; 9And that ye may prolong [your] days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, [is] not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst [it] with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11But the land, whither ye go to possess it, [is] a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven: 12A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God [are] always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. 13And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14That I will give [you] the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full. 16Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; 17And [then] the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. 18.Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. 22For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; 23Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. 24Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. 25There shall no man be able to stand before you: [for] the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you. 26.Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; 27A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: 28And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. 29And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. 30[Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh? 31For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein. 32And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day. |
 | FE: Radiant Dawn Part 84 (Fort Alpea) This is part 84 of my first walkthrough of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. There's no special editing, each segment will be 10 mins or less depending on the scene. --I accidentally deleted a conversation that takes place before this battle. Sorry! :( I'll add a script though in case anyone wants to know what they said. I'll make sure this never happens again. -Inside Fort Alpea- Elincia: ...The battle will begin soon. I want both of you to promise me that you will fall back if in danger. Understood? Nealuchi: Fall back, Your Majesty? No one can hold a candle to the speed at which the raven tribe retreats. Elincia: Ha ha... That's a relief ----------------------------------------------- Crimean Rebel: Reporting, Sir! Fort Alpea's gate is sealed, and they are readying their defenses. Ludveck: I see... Lady Lucia must have arranged some way to warn the queen. But alas, even if they were to have all the energy and luck in the world, the Royal Knights wouldn't arrive for two days. In any case, there's no way we can lose, considering that we have a card which has yet to be putinto the game. ----------------------------------------------- -Inside Fort Alpea- Crimea: Y-Your Majesty, dire news! The rear gate is open, and the rebel army is storming in! Elincia: What?! How could this happen?! Lethe: I think you'll understand once you question this man. Elincia: You guard the inner garden, correct? Crimea: You scum! You helped the rebel army, didn't you?! Servant: Yes. Yes, I did. I did it because it was the best thing for the future of this country. Those Daein murderers killed my entire family, and now the queen bows down and wags her tail at them! It's a disgrace! Crimea: Silence! You're the traitor here! Prepare to die. Elincia: Wait! Killing this man will do nothing to help our situation. We have to halt Ludveck and his men. They're already inside! Lethe: I'm going out there, too. Mordecai: Mordecai will fight for you, Queen Elincia Brom: You can count on me, Your Majesty. Nephenee: Queen Elincia, Crimea needs you more than anything, and I reckon you could use my help. Heather: My homeland, being ruled by a snobby stiff like Ludveck? Please. I don't think so! Crimea: Your Majesty! We would give our lives for our queen! Allow us to fight! Elincia: Thank you, everyone. I am indeed the queen of Crimea, and a queen does not hide.Our enemies are fellow citizens of Crimea. But we can no longer sit idle as they destroy the harmony of our nation. ----------------------------------------------- -Outside Fort Alpea- Ludveck: Could our situation be any better? Just look at these fragile defenses... As fragile as the queen's reign! ...Oh? The queen's taken command? I expected her to abandon her people, turn tail, and run for the hills. How preciously naive. We shall have to teach her that being overly optimistic can be fatal. |
 | The Most beautiful Hole in Rome ( la buca piu bella di roma) Produced and presented by Alessandro Sorbello http://www.alessandrosorbello.com for New Realm Media http://www.newrealm.com.au The Aventine Keyhole For those in the know, this is a popular attraction. Locals bring their visitors here to admire the impressive optical effect created by Piranesi. It doesn't sound that wonderful; some trees and St. Peter's, but few leave uncharmed. Located in the artistic and enigmatic Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, a gate bars the entrance to the Priory of the Knights of Malta. Queue up to have a look through the ornate keyhole, and you'll see the Vatican's vast white cathedral floating at the end of a symmetrical tunnel of trimmed trees. The piazza is placed on the Aventine Hill (Aventino), which is a nice tranquil place to stroll on a sunny day. To reach the keyhole, you follow Via di Santa Sabina from the Circo Massimo (Circus Maximus) past a rose garden, two attractive churches and a couple of delightful panoramic parks. One, a walled garden filled with orange trees, hosts outdoors theatre in the summer months. Some claim that there is a country even smaller than the world's smallest country, Vatican City. They claim that world's actual smallest country is an organization headquartered in Rome called the Sovereign Military Order Of Malta (SMOM for short but also known as the Knights of Malta and also officially the Sovereign Military Hopsitaller Order Of St. John Of Jerusalem, Of Rhodes And Of Malta). While the Knights of Malta was once an independent country, today it is no more an independent country than any other organization such as the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. The Knights of Malta as a religious organization that provides humanitarian and medical assistance worldwide. It has held Permanent Observer status at the United Nations (as does the Red Cross) since 1994 and issues "passports" to its diplomats for diplomatic business but it does not meet the criteria for being an independent country. It lacks territory, a permanent population, police power, and has no economy. The Knights of Malta was founded in the late 11th century when it established a hospital in Jerusalem to care for ill pilgrims during the First Crusade. The organization expanded and built additional hospitals along the route from Europe to the Holy Land. In addition to their hospitaller duties, the Knights of Malta also waged war against the Muslim "infidels." Eventually, Jerusalem was recaptured by the Muslims and the Knights of Malta left Jerusalem and spent time in various places, especially the island of Cyprus. In 1309 the SMOM took control of Rhodes (today a Greek island) but had to flee in 1523. They were given Malta in 1530 and built the capital city of Valletta. Despite the neutrality of the Knights of Malta, Napoleon conquered Malta in 1798 and the SMOM fled once again. Finally, in 1834 the Knights of Malta found a home in Rome, where they still reside. While the Knights of Malta is recognized as an independent country by the Vatican City (a country that doesn't meet all of the criteria for being an independent country itself) and a handful of other Roman Catholic countries, it does not issue coins or stamps for more than ornamental purposes. Though the Knights of Malta maintains "embassies" in a host of countries (in such places as Russia, Spain, Hungary, and Poland) it does not in others (such as the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, or Japan). There are fifty national Knights of Malta organizations and thousands of members (called "knights") worldwide. The United States maintains an association as does Canada and the United Kingdom. |
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