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2000 California College of the Arts, Oakland, MFA
1995 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Diploma
1995 Tufts University, Medford, BFA
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Figure Studies, Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver, CO
2008 Merge Gallery, New York, Figurations
2007 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston Fashion Refigured
Ego Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Figurations
2005 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, Domestic Arrangements
2000 Eyre/Moore Gallery, Seattle, Bill Durgin
1999 jennjoygallery, San Francisco, proxy
Selected Group Exhibition
2016 Photo Finish, Station Independent Projects, New York, NY2015 The Billboard Creative Q4, Los Angeles, CA
Fresh 2015, Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 These Peanuts are Bullets, Family Business, New York, NY
Chungmuro Photo Festival, Seoul, Korea
We're All Here Because We're Not All There, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Part & Parcel, Arts Guild New Jersey, NJ
2011 Physical Center, Guest Projects, London, UK
THE PLEASURE IS ALL MINE, Finch & Ada, New York, NY
2010 No Customs, McCoy project Space, Sama Tower, Abu Dhabi
THE JELLIFICATION, Parsons Hall Project Space, Holyoke, MA
Abstract Intentions, School of The Visual Arts, New York, NY
2009 Flag Art Foundation, New York, Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner
Slag Gallery, New York, Turn ON
2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, SMFA Traveling Scholars
2007 Sara Tecchia Roma Gallery, New York, And Who Are You?
Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, Evidence of Things Unseen
2006 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, Summer Show
2003 S F Camerawork, San Francisco, Locating Intimacy-The Space Between
2001 jennjoygallery, San Francisco, climax
2000 LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, Distortion & Desire
1998 Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Nothing But Time, curated by David Ross
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Gen-Art, San Francisco, Emerge
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, Shrink
2007 Grant for excellence in figurative photography, Ultimate Eye Foundation
2006 Alumni Traveling Scholar Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2000 Barclay Simpson Award, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
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COLUMBUS — The Lowndes County coroner says acute alcohol intoxication killed a Columbus man whose body was found earlier this week at Ruben's Fish House.
Coroner Greg Merchant tells The Commercial Dispatch that John Caldwell died after a drinking contest at the restaurant with an off-duty employee Sunday night. Caldwell's body was found Monday in the restaurant.
Merchant says Caldwell's blood alcohol level was 0.5 percent. He says a potentially lethal level is 0.35 percent to 0.4 percent.
Merchant says restaurant employees put the men in a booth so they could sleep off the alcohol. The other man apparently left at some point.
Detective Ryan Rickert of the Lowndes County Sheriff's Department is investigating the case but would not comment.


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Think of Portugal and what is the first thing that pops into your mind? Most likely, the answer is Port. The story goes that port was "born" when the English were fighting the French and realized that one of the sacrifices of war was that their French wine supply was cut off. Thirsty, they made a deal to import wine from Portugal. As you might well imagine, by the time that the Portuguese wine reached English shores, the tropical heat and constant rocking from the voyage turned the wine gloppy and sweet. Though it was not what the English expected, they liked the taste and demanded more.
Instead of continuing to "torture" the wine from Portugal to England, enterprising folk found a way to stabilize the still wine so that it would not become fortified en route, as well as a way to replicate the heat and rocking motion of a ship on dry land, thus paving the way for the modern Port industry.
The seminar began with a brief description of wine growing in Portugal, and moved onto several tasting flights. I was extremely impressed by the white varietals, especially Branco, a fragrant white grape varietal. The Quinta do Vallado Branco 2008 was pale lemon with a scintillating color, and an aromatic nose of fresh cut flowers and intense, sun-warmed apricot. I also liked the Niepoort Redoma Branco Reserva 2007, also a scintillating lemon color with honeysuckle and citrus on the nose.
As an individual, I would have to admit I am more familiar with Portuguese red varietals than white, since the same red grapes that make light red wine are used to make Port, and I had to memorize all ten major varieties for various wine exams (though up to 80 varieties may be used in the production of Port). I found the reds presented for the tasting quite clean and fresh. The first flight of whites would be perfect for all manner of brunch dishes, and lighter lunch dishes including composed salads, white fish, etc. The reds are hearty enough to hold up to a grilled steak, yet could also pair with pork, grilled tuna, and grilled salmon. All in all, Portugal represents a good value when it comes to choosing wine in a restaurant. And these producers from the Douro Valley represent the new quality that is the face of modern Portuguese wine.
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After her four-year silence, booksellers and other readers will welcome back novelist Fannie Flagg with unfeigned eagerness. Her I Still Dream About You heralds a comeback too: Maggie Fortenberry is a former Miss Alabama whose charmed life recently has been screeching downhill. To resurrect her career (and her spirits), Maggie must cobble together an effective real-estate business plan pronto and also grapple with some secrets from her past. As every Fannie Flagg novel, I Still Dream About You is fitted with a full ensemble of characters, including in this case a vindictive villain named Babs "The Beast of Birmingham" Bingington. Part charming Southern romp; part murder mystery; a totally delectable read.
I Still Dream About You
by Fannie FlaggMeet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie's life seems practically perfect—she's lovely, charming, and a
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Life keeps interrupting a former beauty queen's planned suicide in Flagg's latest (Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, 2006, etc.) take on Southern womanhood.
Maggie Fortenberry, Miss Alabama circa the late 1960s, is not exactly depressed, but at age 60, toiling as a Birmingham Realtor as the housing bubble implodes, she simply finds life too burdensome. So she's planned a graceful exit, donating her sparse but tasteful wardrobe, paying her bills, leaving the balance of her meager bank account to charity, etc. She's set her suicide for late October 2008, when Brenda, her best friend and colleague at Red Mountain Realty, convinces her she must see the Whirling Dervishes during their one-night-only November appearance in Birmingham. Maggie reschedules her date with doom, but pretexts for further postponements pop up. Crestview, a mansion originally owned by Scottish industrialist and Birmingham city father Edward Crocker, is coming on the market, and Maggie suspends genteel despair long enough to snatch the listing from Red Mountain's archrival in realty, Babs Bingington, the Beast of Birmingham. Not only did Babs indirectly cause the death of Red Mountain's revered founder, the miniscule but irrepressible Hazel, but thanks to Babs' scorched-earth sales tactics, Birmingham's historic homes are being razed and replaced by shoddily constructed, vulgar monstrosities. Once Crestview is safely sold, an auto accident and grateful goat farmers present further impediments to self-destruction. Not to mention the skeleton, dressed in full Scots regalia,discovered in Crestview's attic. Or Brenda's compulsive overeating, which lands her in the hospital. The early sections of the novel evoke sympathy for Maggie as she rifles her catalog of regrets: her sabotaged chances at the Miss America crown, failed love affairs, thwarted dreams of success in the Big Apple and general incompetence at everything except beauty—now rapidly fading. Although the plot may justify tarring its villain or deifying its savior too broadly, there is no excuse for the Hazel-ex-machinaending.
What could have been an edgy excursion into the individual toll of the Recession on real women devolves into fluff.
The Washington Post
"Undoubtedly [Flagg's] wisest book, comic and compassionate . . . Born of a tender heart and nurtured by an imaginative mind, it's certain to touch the reader's soul."—Richmond Times Dispatch
"A fun and rollicking Nancy Drew mystery for grown-ups."—The Birmingham News
"Classic Fannie . . . What [Flagg] writes about, time and again, are the touching, terrifying, heartbreaking, hysterical, extraordinary, everyday things that make us human."—Southern Living
Product Details
- 9781400065936
- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 11/09/2010
- Pages:
- 336
- Product dimensions:
- 6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)
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The Big Decision
Monday, October 27, 2008
Today was the day Maggie had been thinking about, obsessing about really, for the past five years.
But now that it was actually here, she was surprised at how calm she felt: not at all as she had imagined; certainly not as it would have been portrayed in a novel or in a movie. No heightened emotions. No swelling of background music. No beating of breasts. No nothing. Just the normal end of a perfectly normal workday, if anyone ever could consider the real estate business normal.
That morning, she had gone to the office, worked on newspaper ads for Sunday's open houses, negotiated a washer and dryer and an ugly monkey chandelier to be included in the sale price in one of her listings (although why her buyers wanted it was a mystery), and made a few phone calls, but nothing out of the ordinary. She had known for some time it was coming, but she wondered why it happened on this particular day, instead of one last month or even next week? Yet not more than two minutes ago, as she drove past the pink neon Park Lane Florists sign, she suddenly knew this was the day. No bells, no whistles, just the sudden realization of a simple fact. She sat and waited for the red light to change and then turned off Highland Avenue and pulled up to the black wrought iron gates, pushed her gate code, and drove into the large cobblestone courtyard. At first glance, seeing the tall, flickering gas lamps lining the sidewalks and the ivy growing up the sides of the walls, a stranger might have guessed they were in a quaint little mews somewhere in London, instead of in Mountain Brook, just five minutes from downtown Birmingham. Mountain Brook had always looked more English than southern, something that had always surprised her out-of-town buyers, but most of the iron, coal, and steel barons who had settled it had been from either England or Scotland. Crestview, her very favorite house, that stood atop Red Mountain and overlooked the city, had been built by a Scotsman and was an exact replica of a house in Edinburgh.
A few seconds later, she eased the new light blue Mercedes into her parking space, took her purse and keys, and headed up the stairs leading to her townhome. When she got inside and closed the door behind her, thankfully, the loud, jangling five-?thirty traffic noises quieted down to a soft muffle. Her building was just one of the many stately old red brick apartment buildings built in the twenties and turned into condominiums in the eighties, when this side of town had gone condo-crazy. Her unit was a well-appointed two-story townhouse in the elegant, high-end enclave known as Avon Terrace and was kept immaculate at all times. The dark brown parquet floors were polished and shined, rugs vacuumed, kitchen and bathrooms gleaming and spotless. They had to be. She was the listing agent for the entire complex, and her unit was the model other realtors showed to potential buyers. Today, she didn't stop to check the mail in the silver dish on the small table in the foyer, as she usually did, but walked straight through to the small den off the living room and sat down at her desk.
She knew it must be written by hand. Something like this typed up on the computer would be far too impersonal and certainly not in good taste. She opened the right-hand top drawer and pulled out a small box of monogrammed stationery containing ten sheets of thin blue paper with matching blue envelopes. She took out a few pages and one envelope, then reached across the desk and fingered through a bunch of pens she kept in a brown leather penholder with gold embossing, searching for something to write with. As she continued to test one cheap plastic pen after another, she wished she had kept at least one good fountain pen and that bottle of maroon Montblanc ink she had saved for years. Every one of her old black felt pens had dried up, and now she would have to use the only thing she had left that still worked. She stared at it and sighed. Life was so odd. Never in a million years could she have imagined that she would wind up writing something as vitally important as this on ten-year-old stationery with a fat, bright red ballpoint pen with silver sparkles that had Ed's Crab Shack: Featuring the Best Crab Cakes in Town written on the side.
Good Lord. She had never been to Ed's Crab Shack in her life. Oh, well. Nothing to be done now. She carefully dated the upper right-hand side of the page with tomorrow's date, then took a moment to think about exactly what she wanted to say and how best to say it. She wanted to strike just the perfect tone: not too formal, yet not too casual. Businesslike, but personal. After reviewing the specific points she wanted to make, she began:
To Whom It May Concern,
Good morning, or afternoon, whatever the case may be. When you read this, I will be gone for good. The reasons for my action are varied and many. In the past, I have always strived to be someone my state could be proud of, but I feel that my leaving at this particular time will not cause as much attention as it once might have.
On a personal level, as I do not wish to upset my friends or co-workers or cause anyone undue stress, this letter is to inform you that I have already made all the necessary final arrangements, so please do not worry about finding me, and I apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. But please be assured that although I..."
The phone inside her purse on the floor suddenly started ringing to the tune of "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover." Still concentrating on her letter, she reached down with one hand, rummaged through the purse, and finally dug the phone out and answered it. It was Brenda from work, all excited.
"Have you seen the paper yet?"
"No, not yet. Why?"
"Guess what? The Whirling Dervishes are coming to Birmingham!"
"The who?" asked Maggie, not wanting to be rude, but also not wanting to lose her train of thought.
"The Whirling Dervishes from Turkey! The men with the tall cone hats and long skirts that twirl around in a circle. There's a picture of them in today's Entertainment section."
"Really? The real ones?"
"Yes, the real ones! And they're coming to the Alabama Theatre for a one-?night-?only performance. The Chanting Monks from China or Tibet or somewhere had to cancel, and they got the Dervishes to fill in at the last minute."
"Well, that was lucky."
"And guess what else? I can get us two free tickets from Cecil. Aren't you just dying to see them?"
"When are they coming?" Maggie asked, still trying to concentrate on her letter.
"November the second. Look at your calendar."
"Yes, I'll hold on. You know everybody in town will be scrambling for tickets."
Oh, dear. Maggie could tell Brenda was going to pin her to the wall on this, so as a courtesy, she reached across her desk and picked up the Red Mountain Realty calendar with the photo of the entire staff on it and flipped the page over to November; then she said, "Oh, honey, that's a Sunday, and I don't think I can make it. Darn, and I really would have liked to see them. Why don't you take Robbie?"
"Yes, she might enjoy it."
"You know I can't get my sister to go anywhere at night, much less go and see any Whirling Dervishes. Oh, come on, Maggie, you have to go! When in your lifetime will you ever get another chance to see real Whirling Dervishes? You know, you're not going to Turkey anytime soon."
"Well...that's true...but...."
Brenda did not let her finish. "I don't care what you say, we're going. I'm calling Cecil first thing in the morning. Goodbye!" Brenda hung up before Maggie had a chance to say no. Oh, Lord.
Maggie started to dial her right back and tell her she really couldn't go, but then hesitated. What excuse could she give? She hated to lie. She supposed she could say she would be out of town. In truth, she really would be out of town, but knowing Brenda, she would insist on knowing where she was going, who she was going with, and why. Oh, Lord. Why had she answered the phone? Now that she had finally made the decision, she wanted to go ahead and do it, and sooner rather than later. It had taken her long enough to get to this point.
Naturally, doing something like this would never have been her first choice, but after having made out list after list of all the pros and cons of her life and thoroughly exploring every other possible solution, it had become painfully clear that she had no other option. Oh sure, it would have been easier if she could have somehow unzipped her scalp, taken her brain out, and held it over the kitchen sink, and just rinsed away all the old regrets, hurts, and humiliations right down the drain, and started over, but that was impossible. All she could do was get out now while she still had the mental and physical faculties to do it. Thankfully, all the major preparation and planning of how she was going to do it, method, logistics, etc., had already been completed. Just one last quick stop at Walmart in the morning for some equipment, and she was good to go.
But she was torn about what to do about Brenda. Should she call her back? Or should she simply drop it? Brenda wasn't just any casual acquaintance. She was her real estate partner, and they had been through so much together. Especially after Hazel died. Had it been under any other circumstances, she would have been more than happy to go with her, especially considering all the nice things Brenda had done for her. Just last month, when she had been so sick with that terrible flu, Brenda had insisted on coming over and cooking all her meals. She had taken such good care of her. Oh God, the very last thing in the world she wanted to do was to have to let Brenda down. But now, thanks to her stupidly picking up the phone, it would be the last thing.
She sighed and looked at the calendar again. It would be so much more convenient for her to do it tomorrow or the next day at the latest, but Brenda had sounded so excited, and the poor thing had been having such a hard time lately. November 2 was only six days from now, and considering everything was almost in place and ready to go, she guessed there really was no great rush. So, maybe waiting until the morning of the third wouldn't make all that much difference. It was the decision to do it that mattered most and sticking to it, not when. There was certainly no danger of her changing her mind. It would just mean a slight delay and having a little extra time to get things in order and do a rehearsal to make sure there were no last-minute glitches. After all, this was something you had to get right the first time. And Brenda had made a point; it really would be a shame to miss the Dervishes.
When she was eleven, she had seen a photograph of the Whirling Dervishes in one of her father's National Geographic magazines, and they had looked like something right out of the Arabian Nights, so exotic in their tall cone hats and long swirling skirts. And seeing them the night before she left for good would be a nice send-off for her and certainly make more of an occasion out of it. Besides, it was so important to support the arts, but most of all, she wanted to do something nice for Brenda, as a sort of farewell gift. It was the least she could do for a good friend. She picked up the phone and dialed.
"Listen, Brenda, when you speak to Cecil, ask him if it's possible to get us seats in the middle, and if he could, to try to get us as far up front as he can. We want to get a close look at their outfits."
Brenda said, "Don't worry. If Cecil knows you're coming, they'll be good seats. But I'm bringing my binoculars so we can get a really good look at them, okay?"
"Oh, I'm so excited! Hey, Maggie-what do you suppose they wear when they are not in their twirling outfits?"
"Oh gosh, honey, I don't have a clue."
"Me neither. I just can't wait until November the second. Can you? I'm so glad we're going. Yeah!"
Maggie smiled. "Well...I'm glad you're glad."
"See you tomorrow."
"Yes, you certainly will," said Maggie.
Meet the Author
Fannie Flagg's career started in the fifth grade when she wrote, directed, and starred in her first play entitled The Whoopee Girls, and she has not stopped since. At age nineteen she began writing and producing television specials, and later wrote and appeared on Candid Camera. She then went on to distinguish herself as an actress and a writer in television, films, and the theater. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man; Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe; Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!; Standing in the Rainbow; A Redbird Christmas; and Can't Wait to Get to Heaven. Flagg's script for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes was nominated for an Academy Award, and the Writers Guild of America Award and won the highly regarded Scripter Award for best screenplay of the year. Flagg lives happily in California and Alabama.
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Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- Montecito, California
- Date of Birth:
- September 21, 1944
- Place of Birth:
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Education:
- The University of Alabama
- Website:
- http://www.randomhouse.com/features/fannieflagg/
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Still beautiful, former Miss Alabama Maggie Fortenberry works for Red Mountain Realty in Birmingham. She is very successful at her job and considers her co-workers as friends. Yet with all she knows she has going for herself, Maggie has problems getting out of bed each day as she wonders what she has worth living. Maggie has made elaborate plans to commit suicide without any of her friends knowing she killed herself.
On the day she decides it is time to deploy her exit strategy, she gets the contract to sell Crestview on Red Mountain. She has dreamed of owning that house all her life and wants to make sure the right people, appreciative of this lovely abode, will buy it. She postpones her departure until she finds two people she likes and trusts to do right by Crestview buy the place. Her time selling the house has given Maggie the will to live.
This is a heartwarming story about a woman who rejected love in pursuit of a dream of becoming Miss America and living on Red Mountain that never materialized. Instead she became a realtor instead, but fails to understand how rich she truly is with friends like Brenda and Ethel, and can eat Krispy Kreme doughnuts without weight gain Like Brenda I just look at one and gain 5 pounds). Miracles can come in many ways as Fannie Flagg merges humor with somberness to tell the passionate tender tale that we are all rich in our own ways if we take the time to learn how.
Harriet Klausner
Let me start by saying I love Fannie Flagg and this book is another reminder why. Maggie...Brenda...Ethel...you will fall in love with everyone of these characters. Even in offering my review, I don't think my words will do it justice. I'd also recommend that you buy "When God Stopped Keeping Score," an intimate look at the power of God and forgiveness. If you ever felt bound by your hurt, guilt or anger, given the chance, this book will change your life.
Love all of Fannie Flagg's books. Funny and touching.
I absolutely love Fannie Flagg books. Her characters are so engrossing and Daisy Fay is no different. I found myself laughing outloud. A must read like all her books.
I wish I had a Hazel Whisenknott in my world! As for Maggie, I just wanted to shake her from time to time. The characters were very well developed and I enjoyed the book. I am a Birmingham gal and a huge Fannie fan! Was it her best? Nope, that would be the All Girls Filing Station, but certainly worth reading.
I love all of her books. Each one is so different but with the same hometown feel. I love her. I keep checking back when her next book will be coming out. I will be the first in line at the bookstore. She was great on t.v. but she is a better author.
I love all Fannie Flagg books and don't think I could ever rate one of her books lower than four stars. The main character in this book seemed to have everything going for her, but was a very sad person. Would definitely recommend!
Fun book
What fun. I laughed out loud. The characters were developed in such a way that i could relate easily to them while i found their foibles very humorous. Thanks Ms. Flagg!
I have read every book by Fannie Flagg and then re-read every book because they are all so good and this book is no exception. It is a wonderful story that makes you think about other people's lives in a way that most people don't think about. The only thing that I did not like about this book is that it ended but that's the way I feel about all of her books. If you read this book you won't be disappointed.
I loved this book! I've loved everything I've read by Fannie Flagg and this one did not disappoint either! Her quirky characters keep you laughing as well as occaisionally holding a mirrir up to yourself! I loved the way the main character, Maggie, developed during the course of the book. She learned to appreciate life and herself with all her short comings...which really weren't short comings at all! If Maggie and Hazel and Brenda were real people, I would love to be friends with them!
Loved it. was just the kind of story I needed when I read it.
One of the best books ever!! I liked it so well that I've read it twice within a few months! I gave a copy to my sister for her birthday and she loved it too. Fannie Flagg's quirky characters can't be beat!!! I hope that Ms. Flagg has another book in the works!
I love Fannie Flagg's humor ... she's funny without being crude. This book has everything from crazy real estate agents to little people to the main character, a former beauty queen, who's thinking about "leaving." She writes with warmth and wit. At times I laughed out loud! If you're looking to read something light and worthwhile, this is it!
Once again Fannie Flagg did not disappoint!!! I absolutely love her humor and you almost can't help but read it in your head with a southern accent!!! Nothin like a good book...Thank you FF!
This book sucks you in from the start! Her writing style is very entertaining and provides for a quick read. Would recommend to everyone!
I look forward to the wonderful, funny, true, southern stories that Fannie Flagg can give. I found myself looking forward to what would happen next, and she can certainly tell a wonderful story with a southern voice. I would recommend anything she writes.
Fun and enjoyable! Love the characters in this feel good story!
Loved this book and its charming characters with their imaginative names! A wonderful story. I have read every one of Fannie Flagg's books and they just keep getting better.
This is a must read book. The characters are portrayed so beautifully and as hard working women. The entire book is a fascinating mystery that keeps you guessing until the last page. Actually, you are sad to see the book end. A wonderful touching book to read on a cold winter day.
Fanny has done it again. She nailed Miss Alabama with Maggie. As a matter of fact I know one myself. Great read, very funny.
Always enjoy Fannie Flagg, warm, funny and delightful, like a warm blanket on a cold morning,


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The gang needs to perform an exorcism in an abandoned lighthouse. Care to join?
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This collab is relatively different from most collabs, it basically is ONE story line divided into 5 sections, and each section created by a different artist through their own artistic opinion on how it might have been.
i was very lucky to find the animators i found for the collab, i like em all because their styles are so different, and i think that in a collaboration project its always nice to bring different styles together and see how one thing can be viewed through different perspectives. But, now speaking of the animators i have to honestly admit that i am extremely thrilled to have someone aboard the project like Luis, i remember back when i was just starting Flash, my brother and i used his "Grime vs. Squeezy" bit as a good example of a flash animation for a long time. so it's funny to end up in the same boat now. That was just a little factoid i for some eason felt that i needed to point out.
...This collab was first started off by a good friend of mine, i was only an animator making a part in his collab. but a few things got in his way and he didn't have time to get it all done, so he handed the project to me. and due to technical complications with members of the collab and information about this and that, i decided to completely redesign it and start from scratch.
since i already have SO many projects I'm working on i at first thought about accepting to lead this collab, but i think this idea was really interesting and would allow me and other animators to experiment with their more serious side. plus, i always wanted to make a Noire movie, or something along those lines for Newgrounds, and i thought this was the perfect opportunity.
anyways, this is the "Valentine '29" collaboration project, my first collab, maybe my last... but who knows. i hope you all ENJOY...
-Hans Van Harken
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nice!!!! i didnt know a massacre accoured on valintines at that year xD
-= Great Vid 10/10 =-
I realy enjoid this animation. The diffrent art work in it made the movie very creative and "artistic" but so... confusing is the story, if that was the intention of creating this animation, to tell a story, it is failed being a few scenes shy of a full one. There is no ending. Unless the point of this was corely to display different artwork/ animation it desserves an 8.25.
P.S. Stupid Question .In scene 3, The Massacre, is that the face of Mooby Moocow (Kevin Smiths Dogma) on the warehouse door or some random cow logo?
True animated art at its finest.
This flash is one of the more artistic I've ever seen and not just from the animation perspective. The use of the St. Valentine Massacre as the main story, the different art styles and characters, and how well they actually complemented the mood for each chapter, and the voices for the entire collab gave it a dark, if at one point humorous grimace. The entire collaboration in general was well made and well strung together. Hans, man, it would be a shame if you didn't do another collaboration.
holy god that was.....
i can't think of a word that fits what that was perfectly its just its just far too good art at its fullest form a flash of art you guys make a perfect crew of antimaters


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If by "room" you mean a room that's got dark/non-reflective surfaces to minimize light reflected back onto the screen, you're right.
Other than keeping light from bouncing back on the screen from other surfaces in the room, there's nothing special about a "room" as far as projection goes (naturally, I hope we don't need to mention the obvious that the room needs to be dark... as in no skylights letting in light Sunday at noon). As far as screens go, IMO it's a lot less important to pay $$$ on a screen than some might think. In fact, with today's high-output PJs with good contrast/blacks (like the JVC), you DO NOT WANT a high-gain screen bcs you don't want to hot-spot. Rather, a standard 1.3 gain or even no-gain can look fantastic. CRT machines needed high gain just to make them bright enough to watch, and early digital PJs needed gray screens to elevate the black level. With great-performing modern digital PJs, the best thing that the screen can do is provide an even surface that's smoother than your painted wall. Quote:
The RS-series has to be seen to be believed. Not quite as razor-sharp as single-chip DLP, but much better blacks, reds/color, and silky-smooth pictures you can watch for hours without eye strain. Except for absolute black level, they rival the picture of 9" CRT beasts that commanded $60K + just a few short years ago. Last edited by DaViD Boulet; 06-09-2009 at 05:16 PM.. |
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It is hard to make general statements about projector systems. The screen size is very important to know what gain is needed. The projectors that the OP restricted his question to are not really high output projectors with the JVC at 1,000 lumens. Trying to light up a large screen without a high gain screen will be difficult.
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That's true, I forgot about size!
Most digital PJs have adequate brightness to illuminate an 8-foot-wide screen (100" diag) or somewhere in there. Certainly that's true with the JVC. For those looking for unusually large screens... like 15 feet wide + etc, gain will be needed. What I would stress to those thinking about FP is that you don't need an uber-large screen so long as your viewing angle is already within the 30-degree range. Think of the "1.5 screen widths away" seating distance rule of thumb... if you have a screen that's 8 feet wide, then sit 12 feet away (1.5 x 8 = 12). You get 30 degrees. You don't want to sit proportionally closer (ie, you don't want to sit 12 feet away from a 12 foot wide screen... you'd want to sit 18 feet away from a 12 foot wide screen) as most SD content will look really bad, and you don't want to sit farther bcs you'll lose the benefit of HD resolution and you'll lose the theater-like immersion. Picking screen-size with FP is NOT like picking the biggest plasma that will fit on your wall or that your wife will let you buy. In the case of FP you're duplicating "theater" and you need to think specifically about seating distance to produce the right viewing angle. But the main point is that the screen-size isn't important: it's the relative distance you sit from that screen that counts because that's what affects your viewing angle. Go with more reasonably sized screen (100") and sit closer and you'll get a better image (brighter) than trying to sit farther away from a larger screen that hot-spots with high gain etc. Now, if the room is an auditorium and you're trying to create seating for 20 people, ok, you need a large screen to work for the far-away seats. But in an average HT with a sofa, 100" is more than enough for the 3 on the sofa plus the extra rank of chairs behind. Last edited by DaViD Boulet; 06-10-2009 at 05:27 AM.. |
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LDS Prophet Joseph Smith taught that God was once a mortal man:
"God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. ...I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil,...
It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, ...and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did; ...you have got to learn how to be gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done before you, namely, by going from one small degree to another,... from exaltation to exaltation, until you attain to the resurrection of the dead, and are able to dwell in everlasting burnings. and to sit in glory, as do those who sit enthroned in everlasting power" (History of the Church, Vol. 6, Ch. 14, p. 305-6).
LDS President Brigham Young declared that God was once a finite being:
"It appears ridiculous to the world, under their darkened and erroneous traditions, that God has once been a finite being" (Deseret News, Nov. 16, 1859, p. 290).
LDS President Joseph Fielding Smith said that God had a father, a grandfather, etc.:
"Our father in heaven, according to the Prophet, had a father, and since there has been a condition of this kind through all eternity, each Father had a Father" (Doctrines of Salvation, 2:47).
LDS President Joseph F. Smith taught that God was born as a mortal on some other earth:
"I know that God is a being with body, parts and passions...Man was born of woman; Christ, the Savior, was born of woman; and God, the Father was born of woman" (Deseret News, Church News, Sept. 19, 1936, p. 2).
LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie taught:
"The Father is a glorified, perfected, resurrected, exalted man who worked out his salvation by obedience to the same laws he has given to us so that we may do the same" (A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, p. 64)
LDS Apostle Melvin Ballard explained that God has a wife:
"For as we have a Father in heaven, so also we have a Mother there, a glorified, exalted, ennobled Mother" (As quoted in Achieving a Celestial Marriage, LDS Church manual, 1976, p. 129).
LDS Doctrine and Covenants promises the faithful LDS couple that they can achieve godhood in the same manner as God the Father:
"...if a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with her for time and for all eternity,... they shall [have]...a continuation of the seeds [children] forever and ever. Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from everlasting to everlasting,... Then shall they be gods, because they have all power,... and continuation of the lives,... [endless procreation of spirit children]" (Doctrine and Covenants Section 132:18-22)
LDS President Brigham Young taught that faithful Mormons can achieve godhood:
"Intelligent beings are organized to become Gods, even the Sons of God, to dwell in the presence of the Gods, and become associated with the highest intelligences that dwell in eternity. We are now in the school, and must practice upon what we receive" (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 245).
LDS President Joseph F. Smith said:
"We are precisely in the same condition and under the same circumstances that God our heavenly Father was when he was passing through this, or a similar ordeal" (Gospel Doctrine, p. 54).
As recently as 2007 both Apostle Boyd K. Packer and Dallen Oakes, during an interview for PBS, explained that God the father has a resurrected body. Apostle Packer stated:
"That vision [Joseph Smith's 1820 vision] taught us some things. We learned about the personality of God the Father, a resurrected Being, as part of our gospel." [link]
Apostle Oakes used the same term when he was interviewed:
"The first revelation received by Joseph Smith was the appearance to him of the Father and the Son embodied, separate, identifiable, tangible Beings who appeared to him in what we refer to as the First Vision. And that first revelation, concerning the nature of God as an embodied, glorified, resurrected Being, challenged the creeds of Christianity. Christianity describes God as a disembodied, incomprehensible, spiritual entity that fills the whole universe, and an indistinguishable Father and Son." [link]
LDS Apostle James E. Talmage taught that God progressed from a mortal to a god:
"We believe in a God who is Himself progressive, whose majesty is intelligence; whose perfection consists in eternal advancement a Being who has attained His exalted state by a path which now His children are permitted to follow, whose glory it is their heritage to share. In spite of the opposition of the sects, in the face of direct charges of blasphemy, the Church proclaims the eternal truth: 'As man is, God once was; as God is, man may be'" (Articles of Faith, Ch. 24, p. 430-431).
What the Bible Says About God
1. ALWAYS GOD - in the past as well as in the future.
"Art thou not from ever-lasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One?" Hab. 1:12
"For I am the Lord, I change not." Mal. 3:6
"...from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." Psa. 90:2
"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent." Num. 23:19
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man,...who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever." Rom. 1:22-25
The LDS god started as a finite man and progressed to godhood.
2. ALWAYS HOLY - Both in the past and future.
"...a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." Deut. 32:4
"I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee." Hos. 11:9
"The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works." Psa. 145:17
"God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5
"Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness." Psa. 119:142
The LDS god achieved holiness.
3. ALL KNOWING - Both in the past and in the future.
"Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? ... There is no searching of his understanding." Isa. 40:13, 14, 28
"Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite." Psa. 147:5
The LDS god had to learn everything.
"The Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Rev. 19:6
"...his eternal power and Godhead." Rom. 1:20
The LDS god attained his power.
"The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; where is the house that ye build unto me: and where is the place of my rest?" Isa. 66:1
"Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord." Jer. 23:23-24
The LDS god can be in only one place at a time.
"I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone, that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself." Isa. 44:24
"By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." Psa. 33:6
"Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all." Neh. 9:6
The LDS god cooperated with the Council of Gods to create.
"I am he; before me there was no God formed neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour." Isa. 43:10-11
"I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God....is there a God beside me; yea, there is no God; I know not any." Isa. 44:6 & 8
"To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?...for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me." Isa. 46:5 & 9
"I am the Lord; that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another." Isa. 42:8
The LDS God has a father and mother, grandparents, brothers and sisters, etc.
For a more in-depth discussion of the LDS view of God and man:
Mormonism and the Threefold Problem of Progression: Examining the LDS Doctrine of Eternal Progression in Light of the Bible, Philosophy, and Science
Hey, BYU students and ex BYU students...did you know your alma mater namesake taught your god wasn's always infinite?
From the article: God, the Father was born of woman (Lds "prophet" Joseph F. Smith)
Did all you Catholics know that there's yet another Mary-like figure somewhere in the heavens who supposedly gave birth to God the Father?
From the article: "The Father is a glorified, perfected, resurrected, exalted man who worked out his salvation by obedience to the same laws..." (Lds "apostle" Bruce McConkie)
So...Mormons say the Mormon god had to save himself??? The Mormon god is a saved being, eh? And an Lds church manual praises some glorified Mom-god? Which Mormons worship this god when the one hymn in the Lds hymnal that mentions her is sung???
In sharp contradiction, the true One God -- the God of the Bible -- the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Paul has always been...
...and always been holy [in no need of "salvation"]
...almighty...no need to "attain" anything!
This God acted alone in creation...no "council of gods" as Mormons claim In facts, no other true gods at all!
And this God has the triple Omnis...
...Omnipresent...not bodily limited...
...omniscient...this God has has no need to be a "student" of any previous god...
...omnipotent...this God didn't go from a 98-lb weakling to divine Charles Atlas or some Hercules as the Mormon myth implies...
All I can say is "Poppycock!".
I think south park did a fair job on the mormons. Very nice people in my experience but I wouldn't follow their faith.
Here are some other things Mormons believe:
Mormon theology teaches:
* God was born and raised on another planet.
* He has a harem of wives.
* They produce spirit-babies that are sent to earth; there they gain bodies and earn sainthood.
* Jesus is the brother of Lucifer.
* Jesus is the chosen/elected savior by a council of gods from other worlds.
* America is the promised land, not Israel. The holy city is Independence, Missouri, not Jerusalem. Jesus latter-day agenda is to return to Missouri.
* The U.S. Constitution is as sacred as the Book of Mormon. In the latter days, it will be under siege and will be saved by Mormons. Thus, we must reclaim America to save the Constitution and usher in a genuine age of Mormon leadership. They want to build a Mormon kingdom on earth, similar to modern day Dominionists/Kingdom Now proponents within Christianity. Founder Joseph Smith had a socialistic philosophy and wished to have a society that shared things in common.
* Americas founding fathers were spirit babies who created a sacred Constitution.
* Salvation is works-based and not through grace and faith.
And good advice re: not following Mormon leadings...I suspect we'll get a poster who will come on here advocating his Mormon links...with a canned spam message about an "anti-Mormon" gang...
ALL: But Utherdoul can't be accused of being a part of any FR "gang"...
So, ALL: Follow your gut feeling...don't talk to Lds Missionaries unless you're witnessing to them...
One of the reasons why Mitt Romney is not electable as POTUS. He will never get the support of fundamentalist Christians in the South, all of whom regard Joseph Smith as a con man and Mormons as heretics.
Independence MO is the home of the RLDS or Community of Christ as it's now known .... so it's interesting how the SLC Mormons claim Independence Mo as their Holy City ... SLC is Brigham Young's version and Independence Mo is Joseph Smith, Jr. version ... who's right??
Yes, and we'll have a front line contender for president that believes all these heresies. Yes, and we have one that believes all these heresies leading evangelicals, Protestants, and Catholics around by the nose in huge Washington rallies.
And some think Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck are really smart people. Not in my book. Anybody so spiritually bereft as to fall for all that trash is dumb as a post...and they have no business leading this country anywhere. America needs to get back to its Christian roots.
One of the reasons why Mitt Romney is not electable as POTUS.
...is because he is a liberal, starting with his life time PRO-ABORTION stand...
* God was born and raised on another planet.
(Yup...how do you think the script for the Superman series was inspired?)
* He has a harem of wives.
Good point...makes ya wonder why Lds church manuals only mention one goddess?
* They produce spirit-babies that are sent to earth; there they gain bodies and earn sainthood.
Makes ya wonder why Mormon leaders allows ANY exceptions for abortions given that there are supposedly spirits who've been awaiting a special-delivery body! (Mormons allow abortions for health of the mom...a wide-open exception...severely disabled children...rape...to cover up incest...if the abortionist says so...and if God says so)
* Jesus is the brother of Lucifer.
Yeah...imagine that...if Lucifer would have beaten Jesus in the Mormon pre-existence spirit-birth order, then Lucifer could have been the Mormon savior of the world!
* Salvation is works-based and not through grace and faith.
Well...salvation is indeed "trust" based for Mormons...trusting in THEMSELVES!!!
LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie taught:
"The Father is a glorified, perfected, resurrected, exalted man who worked out his salvation by obedience to the same laws he has given to us so that we may do the same" (A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, p. 64)
THAT is the great slap in Jesus's face that Mormonism mkaes, because it at once relegates the Cross to an aside, and raises the sin of satan to a goal of devout Mormons, to commit themselves to the sin of Cain 'and the God of Christianity can just lump it if he doesn't like it, we Mormons will work our way to worthiness and god will have to usher us into His kingdom eacuse we;ve earned it!'
Do they believe dinosaurs and men coexisted? That's my Poppycock litmus test.
BTW, welcome to FR, n00b.
Just like Satan said to Eve.
Genesis 3: 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
One needs look no further when Joseph Smith says the exact same thing as Satan said to Eve to know where the teachings of Smith come from.
What do you make of the Ica Stones?
Hugh Hewitt claimed that Mitt Romney was one of the smartest politicians he's met. But to me there's a difference between "smartness" (IQ) and discernment -- spiritual IQ especially re: spiritual issues.
How scary that is to think that somebody who can't even define what the world religion of the Christian faith is (true-believing Mormons think Christians are "apostates") is somebody who could be so close to the White House!
I mean, what kind of confidence is that when the president has to deal with world religions at such a key level (i.e. Islam). If Romney can't get the basics of Christianity down, how would we expect him to get Islam figured out?
Yes, and well have a front line contender for president that believes all these heresies. Yes, and we have one that believes all these heresies leading evangelicals, Protestants, and Catholics around by the nose in huge Washington rallies. [Sasportas]
Yes...just imagine a POTUS Scientologist influencing all those impressionable kids about Scientology...or a POTUS Hare Krishna...same thing...
One of the reasons why Mitt Romney is not electable as POTUS. He will never get the support of fundamentalist Christians in the South, all of whom regard Joseph Smith as a con man and Mormons as heretics. [Strk321]
Well put.
Exposed as a hoax, were they not?
I don't know. I read of them more than a decade ago.
Check wikipedia. Some Peruvian farmer admitted to forging them using a drill and cow dung.
Read John 5:19. "Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."
Yes, MHG, 'tis good you highlighted that again...first note that little word "perfected"...IOW, Mormons don't believe their god was all-holy from all eternity past...he had to become "perfectED" (otherwise this lds so-called "apostle" would have used the word "perfect" -- not "perfected.")
THAT is the great slap in Jesus's face that Mormonism makes, because it at once relegates the Cross to an aside, and raises the sin of satan to a goal of devout Mormons
Bingo, MHG! Note that the cross for the Mormon only opens the door for all mankind, so that a few thousandths of 1% of the world's populated that's ever lived or will live will be able to live in God's presence forever! (The rest, per Mormonism, will be shut out!)
Whereas, Mormonism acclaims Adam & Eve's sin as this great thing to celebrate because it opened the door for Mormons to become gods...immortal!
How the forces of darkness laugh at this topsy-turvy theology! The cross is reduced to nothing in Mormonism; and sin -- the cause of original sin passed down to all from generation to generation -- is according to one current Lds "apostle" (Oaks) something to be "celebrated!" (Whoaa)
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One of the reasons why Mitt Romney is not electable as POTUS. He will never get the support of fundamentalist Christians in the South, all of whom regard Joseph Smith as a con man and Mormons as heretics. [strk321]
Note this comment from another past Lds general authority, B.H. Roberts, who was elected as one of the first Congressman from the new state of Utah in 1898...of course, as a Democrat:
We offend again in our doctrine that men are of the same race with the divine personages we call Gods. Great stress is laid upon the idea that we believe that 'as man is, God once was, and as God now is, man may become.' The world usually shouts 'blasphemy' and 'sacrilege' at one when he talks of such a possibility (B.H. Roberts, 1992, Defense of The Faith and The Saints 2:570)
So, here Roberts is...24 years after being turned away from Congress...stating that the Mormon Father-god is of the same "race" as men. Well, Roberts, wasn't turned away from Congress because of these kind of theological beliefs.
What happened in 1898 is a rare moment in U.S. grassroots history.
Minus the advent of multi-media pushed petitions, citizens took 28 banners all over this country and secured 7 million signatures.
Why? Because they didn't want B.H. Roberts seated in our Congress
And why not? Because B.H. Roberts had taken yet a third wife AFTER the Manifesto claiming that Mormons were starting to steer clear of polygamy.
You see, despite the propaganda by some to the contrary, Americans have long believed that what politicians do in their private lives does have some extension and overlap and carry-over to their public lives.
I mean...that's what the very meaning of the word integrity is...(integer = one whole #).
That's exactly what Bill Clinton failed to show in his POTUS life via his "relationship" with an intern.
We as a nation are better off living an integrated, wholistic life that's not divided according to who you want to portray one image to...only then to present a "second" face to somebody else.
Be true, America.
Be true, Mormons. (God knows your inside heart...He knows you can't wait for His grace to kick in AFTER all YOU can do...'cause it'll never be enough).
Come to the true Jesus for His grace & mercy & compassion & forgiveness...and live.
Are you sooo shy you can never actually have a specific target of your posts?
Will you now quickly retreat back into your private forested "webland" to post no more like your other quick hit-&-run forays into past threads?
"One of the reasons why Mitt Romney is not electable as POTUS. He will never get the support of fundamentalist Christians in the South..."
Ranked by importance, that would be about the 4,912th reason. Romney is so bad that even if he were a Mohammedan it wouldn't matter - he's that bad on the issues and that untrustworthy.
"One of the reasons why Mitt Romney is not electable as POTUS. He will never get the support of fundamentalist Christians in the South..."
Ranked by importance, that would be about the 4,912th reason. Romney is so bad that even if he were a Mohammedan it wouldn't matter - he's that bad on the issues and that untrustworthy.
The majority of Southern Christians are not of the 'fundamentalist' persuasion.
I don't follow you here, maybe this is a typo? The south is the Bible belt, fundamentalist churches on every corner.
I hear that the sun rises in the morning.
There was a time that to criticize LDS beliefs was said by Mormons to be evidence of "persecution." I haven't heard that response recently. Possibly they realized that few were impressed by such a complaint.
I don't believe I got an answer from you... Is your name Brian?
I had a study with two of their missionaries. "Elders," even though they were probably in their teens.
I was pointing out the flaws in the book of mormon and its contradictions to the Bible. One of the missionaries was very interested in what I was saying. Our time was up and we made another appointment for the following week.
The following week arrived and the "elder" who was asking me questions about the book of mormon, etc, wasn't there. It seems the mormons felt he needed some more indoctrination.
An absolutely dishonest and disreputable bunch of people.
No way would I waste my time, money, efforts toward electing slick willard. His candidacy = disaster in the making.
Oh no, they haven't given up on that.
They've moved on to much more colorful descriptions of their critics since then in their attempts to "demonstrate" how "persecuted" they are.
See, as an ex-mo talking about the church, the experiences, the conflicts and contradictions I have/had with the LdS faith, I'm lower than low in a mormon's eyes.
I'm an apostate doomed to outer darkness (mormon hell) guaranteed a fate that rivals that of your average satan worshipper. (According to mormon doctrine anyway, if you believe in that.)
This "doctrine" is the primary reason I left the LdS church.
Thankfully, with a lot of help from some folks here on FR, I have found the Jesus Christ of the Bible and I am grateful to God for giving me the wisdom to see the error of my ways.
July 27, 2010, born again, in Christ.
Or back to the holy wars?
I know, I know... we go back to burning people at the stake.
Or maybe that's not modern enough ... I know we can go back into those roots...back to the good ole days of the Ku Klux Klan
But if it's those pesky Mormons who we need to teach a lesson to... we could take America back to these "christian" roots.
Wait... I know... here's the "christianity" we should move toward.
Ya know, I think I'm going to call a pass on going back to your "christian" roots. But thanks for asking.
Do ya think Glenn needs some time out, to become better indoctrinated acquainted with the peculiarities of your founders belief in total apostasy?
Good point. Where has Mitt been to support the Tea Party? No where. That's a pretty major strike against him.
Actually, during the 2008 primaries, the left attacked his religion to a far greater degree than any Christian group did. Bill Maher & Co. went around making all kinds of bad jokes about polygamy. C'mon guys, MR is a modern Mormon. He doesn't do that.
(Yeah, THE SON rose in the morning, too!)
And some think Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck are really smart people. Not in my book. Anybody so spiritually bereft as to fall for all that trash is dumb as a post...and they have no business leading this country anywhere. America needs to get back to its Christian roots.
Yes let all run those trashy dumb Mormons out of our cities and towns they have no business to believe differently...
How dare they have a voice this is America no their kind is not welcome here...
Not in my book they have no business leading this country anywhere!
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Thanks, Resty...I haven't seen this site before...I'll look it over more in-depth to see if there's anything I can post from it...
Sorry to disappoint you, Stourme...but I've never picketed any church, let alone a Mormon one.
I think it's fine when people hand out tracts to Lds going into events, or coming out of events.
My relatives are Lds. And I don't think anybody outside an Lds meetinghouse should be yelling obscenities at them.
C'mon Resty. 'Tis a difference 'tween voting for POTUS and your local dog catcher.
Mitt will follow Beck's lead....jump in front of the Tea Party parade and call himself the leader, now that it's a proven force. Wait for it.
All the while, his henchmen will be stabbing Palin and any other conservative candidate in the back.
Good point.
***Check wikipedia. Some Peruvian farmer admitted to forging them using a drill and cow dung.***
Some Peruvian also faked a bunch of stones showing ancient Indians doing heart surgery, looking at the stars with telescopes and such. Eric Von Danegan tried to pass them of as real in one of his "Chariots of the Gods" books.
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Listed speeds of bows
Chance for you knowledgeable guys to educate me on the topic of listed speeds for different bows. I assume that when manufacturers list the speeds their bow of capable of, they do so at the maximum poundage for the bow, correct?
What weight arrow is used, is there some sort of industry standard?
Also, if I were to use a chrony to measure my own arrow speeds with various setups, what would be the recommended distance to set the chrony up at? Is there an industry standard for that as well?
I have access to an F1 chrony that a friend uses for his guns, I assume if the arrow is shot at the proper distance, both from the device and above the sensor, it would work just as well as the ones sold exclusively for archery, correct? The only difference I can see between archery specific brands is that they come with lights above the diffusers for indoor shooting. Am I missing something here?
Thanks for any help you guys can give.
IBO speeds are listed from bows shot at 70# 30" draw shooting 5 grains per pound. Some companies are actually pretty close to attaining IBO speeds in the real world.
Hoyt's speeds are usually conservative, Mathews tends to inflate their IBO speeds more than anyone else.
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To have a 30" draw ,your probably 6'1"+.28" is probably the most common and 2" draw makes a huge difference in obtaining IBO speeds.
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To add to what Dan said, you shoot over the Chrony as close as possible with about 4' being a decent average. The arrow doesn't slow down that much in a couple feet to make a difference. And so far as I know a Chronograph is a chronograph. The only one I'm aware of being made just for archery is the one (forget the name) that mounts in the stabilizer hole of a bow. The ones that are freestanding or mount to a tripod are not dedicated to just archery.
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Title: Evidence of tRNA cleavage in apicomplexan parasites: half-tRNAs as new potential regulatory molecules of Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium berghei) AuthorGalizi, Roberto | |
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I think you misunderstood my saying "it's never been on the SSA list since 1880." 1880 is the very first year the SSA list starts. So we don't have that data before that year, and can't say anything about the use of Nikita in the USA before that date, one way or the other, from that data alone. So my statement does NOT imply that Nikita was among the top 1000 names for boys before 1880. :)
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It's been a year since I left Manila that place where I have lived in for 30 years, that place I call home. Yet isn't it ironic that I hate that place I call home?
I hate the no fail, daily bumper-to-bumper traffic, which would cost me an average of 3-4 hours of my day, shoulder-to-shoulder with fellow commuters, sweating from faulty air-conditioning. I hate the now more regular Milo-colored (i.e. Nestle's popular chocolate and malt powder drink) monsoon floods brought about by progress of concrete giants, denuded mountainsides and an increasing population of litterers. I hate the blackened puddles: a deadly cocktail of water, grime, bodily waste and litter from the crowded streets and clogged canals, a bane for extensive walkers like me who enjoy wearing flip flops and other open footwear. I hate the landscape of heartbreaking poverty in decrepit shanties, which continue growing like mushrooms alongside the once pristine, functional rivers of yore and in seemingly abandoned lots, alleyways and other nook and crannies. I hate the monumental posters and placards of crocodile politicians with their artificial grins and bogus promises, who are obviously out for the people's future vote. I hate the potent scent of urban sweat, a mixture of vinegar, cheap floral perfume, salt, whitening lotion, talcum powder and long hours of hard work. I hate the feeling of gritty stickiness, one gets from exposure to the tropical humidity, the kind that gets crusty on your clothing.
As I huffed and hauled my pink luggage through the airport's x-ray machine, I thought "Am I really ready to come home to all that?"
I guess I should be. Despite the glaring repulsiveness of the Manila's laudable progress and urbanity, it is where my heart is. Manila is where family and friends are. I heaved a sigh of resignation because it is still home.
I tossed and turned on my modest economy class airplane seat, struggling to get some proper shut eye and preparing for my short, sweet and errand filled trip home. I suddenly turned anxious to finally be reunited with family and friends, whom I have constant interaction with through the wonders of communication technology. My taste buds and stomach also started to do cartwheels from excitement of being reunited with familiar, almost-impossible-to-replicate-in-our-desert-home flavors and textures.
Manila truly did not fail to deliver on my expectations. From high up in the sky and through the darkness of the night as the plan was taxiing into Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), I could already see the chaos from my window: the bipolar streetlights, which are aligned in one strip then turns into a complete disarray on the following uneven strips of concrete and asphalt, the hypermarkets with screaming fluorescent signage, and the relatively narrow two-lane highways. Another exasperated sigh. Manila, somehow you have not changed. Or have you?
Torn between feelings of love and hate, I breathed in the musty air of one of the world's worst airports and stepped out into the humid night air of my home. Manila, I have come home
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"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not."
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Combining all six of these sources of influence help an Influencer overdetermine change.
I ask, "So tell me about your newest book, Change Anything."
He responds, "We challenge you to escape the willpower trap and evolve a plan that works perfectly for your subject: you."
He goes on, "When people can't change, it's rarely because they lack the will. They are blind and outnumbered: They're blind to all but 1 or 2 of the 6 sources of influence… and there are far more sources under the waterline working against them than there sources acting for them."
"People who see and use all six sources of influence are 10 times more likely to change and create change."
"We all think we have the power to change just through our force of will. We know we should change. We want to change. But we don't change!"
"That calls into question the belief that we actually do have power to change on our own. We call it agency."
"The numbers say we don't have as much as we think we do!" I pipe up.
He continues, "In the book we quote research that shows: 85% of efforts to drive new behavior in organizations fail. 87% of employees have suffered economically because they didn't change. Only 1 in 5 American adults are financially prepared. Only 1 of 10 couples in marriage counseling actually stay together. 90% of those getting coronary bypass surgery are back to the same behavior within 2 years."
Then his tempo increased, "4 years ago we studied 5000 people who tried to change. 4400 failed. 600 succeeded. How much more successful were the 600? As I said, they were 10x more likely to change. Why? They did 6 things better."
He lists them, so I number them:
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- They learn skills to do that they couldn't.
- They recruit accomplices to help them change.
- They remove the accomplices that stop them from change.
- They use or lose incentives to help them change.
- They control their space, their surroundings, to make it easier to change."
"They focus on the 6 sources of influence, 6 levers they can pull, rather than endlessly tugging on willpower alone."
So I stop him, "So where do you begin? How does a business leader start?"
He responds, "Ask first... is the problem worth solving?"
He laughs, "My dad always said, 'If something's not worth doing at all, it's certainly not worth doing well!' So build a business case. In the hospital example we call it a clinical case. Is it worth it? Or more important, what happens if you don't change?"
"Ouch!" I say, "I better stick with my green smoothies!"
David went on and coached me through a similar 6 sources of influence that I could put into place to help in getting back below a 40-inch waistline. If you are no longer at your college weight you can click through to the expanded version of this article and I'll be happy to share. You can be an accomplice. -- Ken
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