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When on that day in 1988 he did not wake up, Jean-Michel Basquiat joined the pantheon of artists who died young and thus passed into legend. Although there is a fairly definitive biography by Phoebe Hoban, the beautiful young man that was Basquiat remains a mythic figure and the image of a doomed artist looms over the truth of his life. Despite its title, this film, based on a short interview Tamara Davis did with Basquiat, does nothing to shed light on the artist. Instead, twenty years later, it continues the hagiography and the white washing of a black artist in this tale told mainly by white people. For the cynics, Basquiat was a "head on a pole," a warning sign to any minority brash enough to attempt to breech the all white walls of the art world. This film does nothing to discredit the notion that Basquiat was an exception to the all-white rule in New York's art institutions.
The problems with this documentary begin with the title itself. "The Radiant Child" comes from a 1981 article written for Artforum by Rene Ricard (who does not appear) and the title referred, not to Basquiat, but to a famous drawing by the late street artist, Keith Haring. Basquiat was a peripheral player in the article, which focused on Haring; and yet, the signifier has somehow floated over to fix itself on Basquiat. To attach the term "child" to this artist is racist on the face of it and reflects the white art world attitude towards the young black man. The chic SoHo crowd thought of Basquiat as a "wild" "primitive," not because he was a street artist, but because he was a young black man in dreds. To label him as a "child," radiant or not, is close to calling him "boy." During his entire career, Basquiat was raced and marked.
The implication of this linguistic marginalization is that Basquiat was an innocent child adrift in a smart and savvy art world, which ate him up and consumed his art for fun and profit. But the record indicates that Basquiat was a shrewd observer of the SoHo scene, in which he had been operating for years as the street poet, "Samo." Like Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf (both white men), Basquiat positioned himself and his work in the midst of a burgeoning East Village SoHo scene that combined art and music. It was the last seventies and early eighties and a new generation had drifted into town. Cindy Sherman and Pat Benetar and Ross Bleckner and Robert Mapplethorpe and Madonna all became part of the new vibe. Beyond the exchange of ideas and innovation that could take place among the artists in such an atmosphere, there were the up and coming galleries and the gradual gentrification of the loft district. New artists, new galleries, new ideas and new opportunities—Basquiat was smart enough to know where to place himself. This artist was never an outsider artist; he was always an insider artist.
There is a naïveté to this movie towards a very sophisticated and complex subject. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child assumes an outmoded myth of the artist as genius who is "discovered" and finds sudden fame. This myth which, destroyed the artist, badly needs to be deconstructed. Basquiat was smart and ambitious and focused on making a name and a career for himself. Built around a short interview with Basquiat done by the filmmaker, this documentary vividly portrays another asset that the artist was well aware he possessed. Besides being smart and well educated, Basquiat, who was from a middle class family, was a beautiful young man. "Radiantly" good looking, he attracted the admiration and support of both men and women. If this film has any merits, it is that it captures the physical appeal that allowed the artist to stand out among the contenders in the art world. The loving, lingering close-ups of the obviously smitten cameraperson show the artist in the last moments before he began to deteriorate from drug use. The same qualities that made people want to take care of him were the precise qualities that made people want to use him. His career became a run away train, fueled by the desire to make as much money as possible before the ride was over. But there is nothing unique about Basquiat's story. We here in Los Angeles see it played out again and again—-sudden fame, sudden flame.
The tragic arc of the career of Jean-Michel Basquiat parallels that Vincent van Gogh or of Jackson Pollock, other doomed and damned artists. But unlike van Gogh or Pollock, Basquiat became wealthy in an unprecedented art market, and, after his death, his estate passed to his father who also profited from owning art that was now iconic. Although Andy Warhol developed the notion of the artist-as-celebrity, Warhol was an older and more seasoned player whose detached cynicism protected him from the consequences of fame. Basquiat was arguably one of the first Hollywood-like figures in the New York art world. If the artist lacked the armor, the art world lacked the resources to deal with his sudden ascendency. A review of his career reveals that no one was responsible. No one was in charge. The sudden and massive influx of money and the overwhelming demands on Basquiat's time and talents would have destroyed any young artist.
Although Basquiat has been dead for over twenty years, there is no context or perspective from Davis. The art world he served was a hypermarket of frenzied buying and spending, one of the epicenters of greed during the Eighties, one of the last unregulated laissez-faire capital markets in the world. But this art world crashed like an over-priced stock, shattering forever the fiction that art and money were separate enterprises. Careers rose and fell and there were numerous casualties, from David Salle to Robert Longo. No art historians or art critics appear in Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child to discuss what was a very distorted era in the art world that made and destroyed many of its inhabitants. Some artists survived and went on to distinguished careers: Cindy Sherman became a major figure in postmodern art and Julian Schnabel became a well-regarded filmmaker. Although there is some discussion of the content of Basquiat's art, the sheer novelty of a black male artist painting black history, featuring black male protagonists for white patrons remains ripe for a more considered discourse.
Basuqiat's paintings were confrontational, political, and critical of the white world, which used and discriminated against black men (and black women). The film mentions that Basquiat identified with Charlie Parker, a black entertainer for an audience of whites, suggesting that he was well aware of what was being done to him. The writing on the canvas walls of Basquiat's large scale paintings reinforce his understanding of his role as artistic entertainer to privileged white audiences, much like the boxer, Sugar Ray Robinson. The distinguishing feature of Basquiat's work is that he was essentially a writer who put his literature onto canvas using a brush instead of a spray can or pen. As a writer, as a street artist, Basquiat was much closer to Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger. Like these feminist artists, he was a critic of the dominant society. And like these installation artists, he was able to maintain the balance between criticizing the very people who supported his art and selling his art to the establishment. There is an unstated but present subtext that Basquiat was somehow a "natural" painter, who never had to attend art school. This "noble savage" narrative uses racism to elide just how brilliantly and fluently Basquiat took up the paintbrush and how completely he made the transition from spray painting walls to painting canvases. Although it is easy to look at his expressionistic style, the obvious attraction for his patrons, his activist messages come across loud and clear for all who, in this conservative era, would listen. At a time when affirmative action was being halted, Basquiat was literally one of the most powerful and outspoken black voices in America, judging white people on their actions towards people of color.
Unfortunately, the film does not inform the viewer as to just how tragic his young life was. One deplores the lost opportunities and the missed chances over years to help Basquiat, and it continues to be astounding that no one intervened with his addiction until it was too late. His drug problems, which were long standing, are treated as a late development. His numerous love affairs are omitted, and only two of his former lovers appear on camera. His dealers, with the exceptions of Larry Gagosian and Mary Boone, did come on camera but gloss over the fact that Basquiat was a very high maintenance artist and never mention the vast sums of money he made for them. Some artists speak of him on camera, Julian Schnabel who made a very fine movie about the artist, Basquiat, provides commentary. It is worth noting that Schnabel's film is more hard-hitting and realistic than jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Basquiat's fellow street artists, Fab5Freddy, Kenny Scharf, and some of his earlier associates, such as Al Diaz become voices, which merely reiterate the legend and reinforce the myth.
But the film ends with telling us little we do not already know and the Hoban biography remains the best account of a life fully but badly lived. Basquiat may have been "a head on a pole," but he paved the way for other artists of color, from Glen Ligon to Kara Walker. Watching the film and seeing the recovered interview with Basquiat, I was reminded of last year's exhibition at Occidental College of photographs taken of one of their more famous students, Barack Obama. Like this documentary film, the photographs were taken by a young woman; and like Davis's film, the photographs were put away and forgotten. There is a similarity of youth and promise shining out the photographs of Obama, but there is one thing missing—-the vulnerability of Basquiat. Obama came across as cool and self-confident and totally in command of his own life. So what happened to Jean-Michel Basquiat? Simply put, once he entered into the precincts of the art world, he lost control of his life. Hopefully, his art works can be removed from the dramatic story line of the doomed genius artist and will receive a hardheaded assessment as the social critique they were. This film is nostalgic and elegiac but completely without insight. Too bad.
If he were alive today, Jean-Michel Basquiat would be a year older than President Barack Obama.
Dr. Jeanne S. M. Willette
The Arts Blogger

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HardOCP has an image with an equation which apparently draws the Batman logo. Is this for real?
HardOCP has an image with an equation which apparently draws the Batman logo. Is this for real?
As Willie Wong observed, including an expression of the form $\displaystyle \frac{|\alpha|}{\alpha}$ is a way of ensuring that $\alpha > 0$. (As $\sqrt{|\alpha|/\alpha}$ is $1$ if $\alpha > 0$ and non-real if $\alpha < 0$.)
The ellipse $\displaystyle \left( \frac{x}{7} \right)^{2} + \left( \frac{y}{3} \right)^{2} - 1 = 0$ looks like this:
So the curve $\left( \frac{x}{7} \right)^{2}\sqrt{\frac{\left| \left| x \right|-3 \right|}{\left| x \right|-3}} + \left( \frac{y}{3} \right)^{2}\sqrt{\frac{\left| y+3\frac{\sqrt{33}}{7} \right|}{y+3\frac{\sqrt{33}}{7}}} - 1 = 0$ is the above ellipse, in the region where $|x|>3$ and $y > -3\sqrt{33}/7$:
That's the first factor.
The second factor is quite ingeniously done. The curve $\left| \frac{x}{2} \right|\; -\; \frac{\left( 3\sqrt{33}-7 \right)}{112}x^{2}\; -\; 3\; +\; \sqrt{1-\left( \left| \left| x \right|-2 \right|-1 \right)^{2}}-y=0$ looks like:
This is got by adding $y = \left| \frac{x}{2} \right| - \frac{\left( 3\sqrt{33}-7 \right)}{112}x^{2} - 3$, a parabola on the positive-x side, reflected:
and $y = \sqrt{1-\left( \left| \left| x \right|-2 \right|-1 \right)^{2}}$, the upper halves of the four circles $\left( \left| \left| x \right|-2 \right|-1 \right)^2 + y^2 = 1$:
The third factor $9\sqrt{\frac{\left( \left| \left( 1-\left| x \right| \right)\left( \left| x \right|-.75 \right) \right| \right)}{\left( 1-\left| x \right| \right)\left( \left| x \right|-.75 \right)}}\; -\; 8\left| x \right|\; -\; y\; =\; 0$ is just the pair of lines y = 9 - 8|x|:
truncated to the region $0.75 < |x| < 1$.
Similarly, the fourth factor $3\left| x \right|\; +\; .75\sqrt{\left( \frac{\left| \left( .75-\left| x \right| \right)\left( \left| x \right|-.5 \right) \right|}{\left( .75-\left| x \right| \right)\left( \left| x \right|-.5 \right)} \right)}\; -\; y\; =\; 0$ is the pair of lines $y = 3|x| + 0.75$:
truncated to the region $0.5 < |x| < 0.75$.
The fifth factor $2.25\sqrt{\frac{\left| \left( .5-x \right)\left( x+.5 \right) \right|}{\left( .5-x \right)\left( x+.5 \right)}}\; -\; y\; =\; 0$ is the line $y = 2.25$ truncated to $-0.5 < x < 0.5$.
Finally, $\frac{6\sqrt{10}}{7}\; +\; \left( 1.5\; -\; .5\left| x \right| \right)\; -\; \frac{\left( 6\sqrt{10} \right)}{14}\sqrt{4-\left( \left| x \right|-1 \right)^{2}}\; -\; y\; =\; 0$ looks like:
so the sixth factor $\frac{6\sqrt{10}}{7}\; +\; \left( 1.5\; -\; .5\left| x \right| \right)\sqrt{\frac{\left| \left| x \right|-1 \right|}{\left| x \right|-1}}\; -\; \frac{\left( 6\sqrt{10} \right)}{14}\sqrt{4-\left( \left| x \right|-1 \right)^{2}}\; -\; y\; =\; 0$ looks like
As a product of factors is $0$ iff any one of them is $0$, multiplying these six factors puts the curves together, giving: (the software, Grapher.app, chokes a bit on the third factor, and entirely on the fourth)
You may be able to see more easily the correspondences between the equations and the graph through the following picture
Here's what I got from the equation using Maple...
Looking at the equation, it looks like it contains terms of the form $$ \sqrt{\frac{| |x| - 1 |}{|x| - 1}} $$ which evaluates to $$\begin{cases} 1 & |x| > 1\\ i & |x| < 1\end{cases} $$
Since any non-zero real number $y$ cannot be equal to a purely imaginary non-zero number, the presence of that term is a way of writing a piece-wise defined function as a single expression. My guess is that if you try to plot this in $\mathbb{C}^2$ instead of $\mathbb{R}^2$ you will get all kinds of awful.
Since people (not from this site, but still...) keep bugging me, and I am unable to edit my previous answer, here's Mathematica code for plotting this monster:
This should work even for versions that do not have the
The following is what I got from the equations using MATLAB:
Here is the M-File (thanks to this link):
In fact, the five linear pieces that consist the "head" (corresponding to the third, fourth, and fifth pieces in Shreevatsa's answer) can be expressed in a less complicated manner, like so:
This can be derived by noting that the functions
$$\begin{cases}f(x)&\text{if }x<c\\g(x)&\text{if }c<x\end{cases}$$
and $f(x)+(g(x)-f(x))U(x-c)$ (where $U(x)$ is the unit step function) are equivalent, and using the "relation"
Note that the elliptic sections (both ends of the "wings", corresponding to the first piece in Shreevatsa's answer) were cut along the lines $y=-\frac37\left((2\sqrt{10}+\sqrt{33})|x|-8\sqrt{10}-3\sqrt{33}\right)$, so the elliptic potion can alternatively be expressed as
Theoretically, since all you have are arcs of linear and quadratic curves, the chimera can be expressed parametrically using rational B-splines, but I'll leave that for someone else to explore...
The 'Batman equation' above relies on an artifact of the plotting software used which blithely ignores the fact that the value $\sqrt{\frac{|x|}{x}}$ is undefined when $x=0$. Indeed, since we're dealing with real numbers, this value is really only defined when $x>0$. It seems a little 'sneaky' to rely on the solver to ignore complex values and also to conveniently ignore undefined values.
A nicer solution would be one that is unequivocally defined everywhere (in the real, as opposed to complex, world). Furthermore, a nice solution would be 'robust' in that small variations (such as those arising from, say, roundoff) would perturb the solution slightly (as opposed to eliminating large chunks).
Try the following in Maxima (actually wxmaxima) which is free. The resulting plot is not quite as nice as the plot above (the lines around the head don't have that nice 'straight line' look), but seems more 'legitimate' to me (in that any reasonable solver should plot a similar shape). Please excuse the code mess.
The resulting plot is:
(Note that this is, more or less, a copy of the entry I made on http://blog.makezine.com.)
Here's the equations typed out if you want save time with writing it yourself.
Sorry but this is not the answer but too long for a comment: Probably the easiest verification is to type the equation on Google you'l be surprised : The easiest way is to Google :2 sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)+(5+0.97(abs(x-.5)+abs(x+.5))-3(abs(x-.75)+abs(x+.75)))(1+abs(1-abs(x))/(1-abs(x))),-3sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)/(abs(x)-4)),abs(x/2)-0.0913722(x^2)-3+sqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)^2),(2.71052+(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)^2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)/(abs(x)-1))+0.9
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The fifth expansion to Blizzard Entertainment's acclaimed massively multiplayer online role-playing game leads players to the untamed world of Draenor, where the orc warchief Grommash Hellscream is forging his twisted Iron Horde into a world-shattering weapon of conquest. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, the champions of the Horde and the Alliance must establish a base of operations on Draenor and seek out courageous allies to make a stand against Hellscream's mighty war machine.
"We're sending players deep into uncharted territory with Warlords of Draenor," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "New features like the Garrison will give players a commanding role in the Warcraft saga like never before, and everyone can get in on the action right away with the included level-90 boost. There's never been a better time to go to war for the Horde or the Alliance."
When Warlords of Draenor launches this fall, it will introduce a wide variety of epic features and content for players of every kind, whether they're longtime veterans or new recruits. With the expansion, players will be able to:
Warlords of Draenor will come in a Standard Edition (physical and digital versions available), which players can pre-purchase now at a suggested retail price of $49.99. Players also have the option to upgrade their pre-purchase to the Digital Deluxe Edition (SRP $69.99), which contains the following in-game bonuses for World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games (each available in-game at the time of pre-purchase):
Players who pre-purchase either the digital Standard Edition or Digital Deluxe Edition from Blizzard at www.worldofwarcraft.com/warlords will be able to immediately† boost one character of their choosing to level 90, allowing them to experience the latest World of Warcraft content alongside their friends††. Players who wish to boost multiple characters to level 90 also now have the option to purchase additional level-90 character boosts directly through the game at $60 apiece. Further details on character boosts, including information on the gear, skills, and provisions boosted level-90 characters will receive, can be found at www.worldofwarcraft.com.
Warlords of Draenor will also be available in a retail-exclusive Collector's Edition, which comes equipped with the digital bonus items from the Digital Deluxe Edition as well as a full-color hardcover art book, a behind-the-scenes two-disc Blu-ray/DVD set, a CD soundtrack, and a Warlords of Draenor mouse pad. The Collector's Edition will be available at select retailers for a suggested retail price of $89.99. Players should check their local retailer for details and availability and be sure to lock in their preorder, as supplies are limited.
In addition to the English version, Warlords of Draenor will be fully localized into Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, European Spanish, Russian, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. For more information on World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor and to pre-purchase your copy, visit www.worldofwarcraft.com/warlords.
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†Players upgrading to Warlords of Draenor from World of Warcraft Starter Edition must wait until trial restrictions are removed before character boost becomes available (may take up to 72 hours).
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ALLENDALE, Mich. (WZZM) -- A landmark on Grand Valley State University's main campus has been removed, but is Miley Cyrus to blame?
Tuesday morning, a crew removed the giant pendulum sculpture from outside Padnos Hall of Science.
The steel ball, which hangs from a cable and resembles a wrecking ball, was installed in 1995. For years students had swung on it, but recently several students climbed on the ball naked, mimicking Miley Cyrus' video for "Wrecking Ball."
At least one student posted a Vine video of his nude tribute to Cyrus.
Tim Thimmesch, the associate vice president of facilities services at GVSU said the sculpture was removed so structural integrity could be examined. "We've been reviewing this over the last couple of weeks, trying to decide whether we really need to look at structural integrity of the installation," said Thimmesch. "We decided to have the ball removed and put into storage for now."
A large group of students gathered outside Padnos Hall Tuesday night to protest the removal of the sculpture, changing "Wrecking ball! Wrecking ball!"
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Giving birth to grief
Essay | Like a mother's pangs, the death of a child brings painful contractions and release
"Giving birth to grief" Continued...
Never did we think we'd receive the phone call we received at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1998, our youngest son's 21st birthday, from a Boston-area hospital.
Our oldest son, Jeff, was a second-year law student at Boston University and had decided to take a relaxing bike ride after a full day of classes before hitting the books again that night.
The neurosurgeon on the phone told us Jeff had somehow flipped over the handlebars of the bicycle and had suffered severe blunt head trauma. He was unconscious and needed immediate surgery to relieve the pressure on his brain and to stop the bleeding.
We gave our consent. I asked the doctor his prognosis. He said, "We'll do the surgery and he should be fine." My wife and I quickly packed. Together with our 15-year-old daughter, the youngest of our four children, we headed for Boston, a five-hour drive from our home in northeastern Pennsylvania. We contacted our other two sons and made arrangements for them to come to the hospital.
Curiously, our youngest son, Jared, asked his mother to hang up the extension phone and then said to me, "Dad, is Jeff going to die?" We hadn't said or been told anything remotely close to that, but had told them of the neurosurgeon's optimism. (We learned later that Jared said to those who brought him to the hospital, "If anything happens to my brother, it will kill my mother.")
When we arrived at the hospital, at about 3:30 the next morning, we began to get the distinct impression that things were not "fine." Initially, we could not get any information about where Jeff was or how he was. When we finally got to his floor, it was the respiratory ICU, and my wife, a nurse, immediately said, "We're in trouble, he's probably not breathing on his own."
She was right. He was hooked up to more tubes and machines than I have ever seen. The surgery had not been successful and a second surgery was imminent. Optimism was gone.
At 8 a.m. the surgeons came out and informed us that they had done all they could do and did not expect Jeff to live through the day. How could this be? Less than 12 hours ago they told us he should be "fine." This cannot be happening. This has got to be a mistake.
We contacted everyone we could think of and asked them to contact everyone they could think of, and to pray.
Jared approached me and said, "Some birthday present, huh Dad? . . . Why is this happening?" How to answer such a question? God gave me an answer: I said, "Son, things like this happen in this life. We are not necessarily exempt from them because we are Christians; they are part of the nature of this life. But I guarantee you, they will not be part of the life to come. Jesus came to reveal that life to us and to give that life to us where there will be no more sorrow, suffering, tragedy, pain, or death."
At 10 p.m. I fell asleep on a cot in the lobby area of the ninth floor. Three hours later I awoke with a start. I hurried back into Jeff's room and relieved a dear friend of ours keeping prayerful vigil at his bedside.
Suddenly, it hit me as I looked at all the machines and our son's valiant battle to live (he had been a superior athlete in high school) and how he was suffering (his heart rate sustained over 200) that he was very likely doing all of this for us. I walked over to his bed and said to him, "Son, you don't have to keep doing this for us. If you have seen His face, then you do what the Father tells you." And that was it for me. I had released him to the Lord. He was no longer mine.
My wife returned to the room and I learned that she had said the very same words to him while I was sleeping. We continued to sit at his bedside. Suddenly my wife grabbed my arm and said to me, "Did you see that?" She is a very stable person, not given to hysterics or fanaticism. "See what?" I said. "I just saw Jesus and Jeffrey. They both had white robes on and Jeffrey was perfect. He had all his hair back (most of which was cut off during the surgeries). Jesus had His arms open to him and was saying to him, 'Welcome. Well done good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of thy Lord.'"
My wife continued, "I cannot describe to you the peace I had at that moment. It is like none I have ever experienced on earth and I know it will be the peace of heaven for all eternity." Right after that the neurosurgeon came in, checked Jeff's pupils, and informed us that he was brain-dead. My wife said, "Oh yes, I know, he's gone."
For Jeff, the 33-hour battle was over. He was home. For us the battle had just begun.
Several hours later we were approached about donating Jeff's vital organs, tissues, eyes, etc. We were taken aback. Who thinks of such things at a time like this? However, as we did think about it, my wife and I asked ourselves what Jeff would do. It didn't take long to decide. He went to law school believing that God wanted him to defend the cause of the widow and the orphan.
Later we received letters from several of the organ recipients, all grateful for a second chance at life. Of course, we were glad for them, but it only served to heighten our awareness of the magnitude of the cost. It took a life to give life. As Christians, we are quite familiar with that theme. But now it was much more than a theme: We were living it. Jesus had to give His life for us so that He could give it to us. There's no other way to get it-no way around it, as Jesus conceded in the Garden of Gethsemane.
On Sunday, May 21, 2000, the very day Jeff would have graduated from law school, our family was attending an organ donor banquet. While we understood the desire of such groups to pay tribute to families who donate organs of their loved ones, for us it was just too painful. If only there was some other way and this had never happened. If only we were at his law school graduation. If only he had left the house five minutes earlier or later. If only he had never gone for a bike ride that day. If only he had never gotten that stupid bike.
Our second-born, Joshua, was staggered by his brother's death. Jeff was not only his "big brother," he was his best friend. We were involved in a violent auto accident when Josh was only 6 days old on our way to the first pediatric visit after his birth. Josh acquired hydrocephalus as a result and for the next 19 years of his life endured upwards of 20 major surgeries. So much of this, along with physical challenges, seemed to take him out of the social mainstream. Socializing was awkward for Josh, and friends didn't come easy.
Josh talked very little about Jeff for two years after his death. Our other two children pretty much followed the same pattern. It was just too hard for them. All of them seemed to go on with life carrying a huge weight that no one talked about.
But after two years Josh exploded. He had graduated from a Bible college and gone on to obtain a B.A. in religion and philosophy. All that didn't matter now. His position was, "If this is what I get for trying to follow the Lord, I'm done." Josh's anger manifested itself in a variety of ways over the next couple of years. He just could not be reasoned with. Why had God not protected his brother?
Sometimes we are desperate to maintain some tangible contact with Jeff. For some time after his death, my wife kept his pillow with pillowcase intact. Every now and then she would bury her face in that pillow and try to pick up his scent. We had lots of photos of him but no video, and wished we had. One day I went to his old high school where he played football and asked the athletic director if he would let me borrow some old video of Jeff playing football. He graciously retrieved seven tapes for me which I devoured, painfully, in one sitting.
Jared's birthday has always been difficult for all of us since Jeff's accident. We have done our best to celebrate, but everyone in the room knows something else happened on that day. This past year, on his 30th birthday, Jared suddenly got up from the table and disappeared into another room where he silently wept.
One of the memories I don't think I'll ever forget: The day after Jeff died Jared drove down to school to check his mailbox. When he returned home, it was obvious he had been crying as he handed a card to us. It was a birthday card from Jeff, a humorous card in keeping with the fun they loved to have with one another. Jeff had handwritten a note at the bottom of the card: "I hope the memories of our childhood bring back such fond memories for you as they do for me. Love, Jeff."
Even today, 10 years later, the times our children talk about Jeff are few and far between. It's still so painful. We miss him so much. Our daughter told us, "I think about Jeff every day."
It took us five years to empty out Jeff's old bedroom closet in our home-the bedroom that was his for 19 of his 25 years. We couldn't do it. With all of his clothes and personal belongings still there, it was almost like a memorial shrine. But we knew we had to do it. It was part of letting go and letting God heal our broken hearts. That was one of the most painful experiences we've ever had-item by item until we got to the bottom of the closet where we had put "the bag" containing the T-shirt, shorts, socks, sneakers, underwear, and shaved hair given to us by the hospital.
Grief must be tempered with hope. If it is not, it will eat you alive. You will stop living. I recall a day when grief overtook me as I was alone in the family room thinking about Jeff. I couldn't stop crying-but right in the midst of it all I heard an indescribable gentle whisper say, "he's with Me." That whisper from that Voice-God Almighty-was just what I needed to remind me afresh that "he's with Me," and so shall we ever be with the Lord-1 Thessalonians 4:18-"comfort one another with these words."
The battle of grief is like the contractions a woman experiences during the birth process. The contractions start far apart and gradually come closer together until the baby is born. Grief pains or contractions start out close together, one after another, and gradually occur farther apart. But no matter how far apart they are, when one comes it is just as painful as the first one.
The 10th anniversary of Jeff's death is approaching. The contractions still come every now and then. Will they ever stop coming? I don't know. Very well-meaning people have said to us that time heals all wounds. I respectfully disagree. I do know, however, that the same One with Whom Jeff now enjoys eternal bliss is the same One Who comforts us with that blessed hope, "He's with Me."
-Jack Rehill is a pastor in Pennsylvania


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Consider, being able to retrieve emails from external pop3 and imap accounts.
Configuring external email account retrieval through the zimbra web interface would take webmailing to another level.
1) Has it been considered already ?
2) Why / Why not ?
3) If considered.. When will it be released ?
I must admit, I have not investigated deep enough to say if the above features are already implemented, but as I have not seen it mentioned anywhere I assume it is not a running feature so far.
Have a nice weekend, Best regards Daniel Mersebak


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Florissant, MO (KSDK) - As the holiday season approaches, the Florissant Police Department is alerting people of potential scammers trying to take advantage of people's generosity.
According to Officer Andy Haarmann, a police spokesman, these con artists tend to target elderly victims, with most crimes occurring midmorning and afternoon.
Throughout 2012, police have investigated a number of incidents where scammers rehearse stories to persuade victims into giving them money.
The Florissant Police Department wants to remind everyone that, "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
If you are approached by a scam artist, please notify your local police department as soon as possible.


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New CWU E-mail Address Info
We've sent out messages about your email address being enhanced with a email@example.com protocol. It's go-time for all CWU email addresses to use this standard beginning April 27th.
What does this mean for you? You now have a clearly identifiable email address connected to CWU that provides improved cybersecurity, provides a professional e-mail address for you to share and is displayed on your e-mails.
Does this affect your CWU account username? No. That remains but will not be seen in your e-mails any longer. You still log into CWU systems using your CWU account/username.
Please direct any questions to the CWU Service Desk at 509-963-2001. Thank you.


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- County Profiles
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- Office of Research & Statistics, South Carolina State Budget & Control Board
- This site provides statistical information about South Carolina. A wide variety of health statistics, including information about the supply of health professionals, is available. Some manipulation of data relating to inpatient discharges, emergency room visits, outpatient visits and health professionals allows you to tailor a report to a specific county or health care facility. Demographic information collected in South Carolina as well as data from the U.S. Census Bureau relating to South Carolina is included. Reports can be generated to provide information at the community and county levels.
- SCGov
- This is a portal to SC government information, goods and services.
- South Carolina Agricultural Statistics
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC)
- South Carolina State Agencies
- An alphabetical list of state agencies and boards
- South Carolina Statistical Abstract
(South Carolina Budget & Control Board, Office of Research and Statistics)
- South Carolina: State & County QuickFacts
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Full name for Millie?
Just recently found out my BF likes the name Millie, but couldn't think of a full name for it. I also like it, but it's rare nowadays to know what he likes, name-wise. We're not fond of the names Millicent, Melisande, or Mildred, but what are some other names that Millie could be a nickname for?
For reference, I am not pregnant and not TTC anytime soon, just exploring options in general.~Favorites of the moment~
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Place Your Bets: Which Gambling Hot Spot Now Dwarfs Las Vegas?
If you thought Vegas was where the big gamblers went to play, you're behind the times. Sin City has been blown past by another exotic destination once infamous for corruption and mob activity. But you probably won't be heading there to play baccarat any time soon.


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ORLANDO, Fla. – A Walmart shopper struck with the Christmas spirit surprised dozens of families by paying off their layaway balances.
Greg Parady overhead a woman say she would be unable to pay off her layaway balance and decided to help her and several others. Parady went to the store's layaway counter and paid off her balance but he didn't stop there – ringing up nearly $21,000 to pay off the layaway accounts of nearly 80 families.


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Most Americans, when they think "most popular American made vehicle by sales volume" are going to think Camaro, Mustang, or maybe Taurus. Not many of us are going to consider a truck as having more sales volume than a car, especially these cars. However, when 2008 rolled around, that was the case-in fact, the F-Series of trucks was enjoying a nearly three decade long run as the most popular American made vehicle according to sales volume, with the F-150 leading the pack in sales volume. This is because the F-150 has always appealed to the class of truck buyer that uses their truck for more than just work.
This popularity stems from multiple factors, the leading ones being its toughness, how easy it is to drive, the fact that it delivers an incredibly smooth and quiet ride for a truck, and the dizzying number of choices that are available. F-150 buyers have three body styles, and multiple trim packages-between three and eight trims were available, depending on body style chosen-to choose from.


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A look at the latest recalls issued this week.
Safety agency probes VW SUV lighting problem
U.S. safety regulators are investigating thousands of Volkswagen SUVs because the outside lights can go out unexpectedly. The probe affects 61,000 VW Tiguans from the 2009 through 2011 model years.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says 26 drivers have complained about headlights, tail lights and turn signals going dark. Many said they found an overheated and melted fuse under the hood. The agency says the fuse controls several exterior light circuits. The complaints say the problem gets worse over time.
Investigators have not yet determined if it's bad enough to cause a recall.
Thousands of hooded sweatshirts recalled
Vans Inc. is recalling is AV Edict hooded sweatshirts for boys. The sweatshirts, sold through September at Vans stores nationwide, have a drawstring that can pose a choking or strangulation hazard. Parents should return the sweatshirts for a full refund.
Fire hazard prompts light bulb recall
Thousands of Infinity Green candelabra light bulbs are being recalled due to catching fire. The light bulbs were sold nationwide.


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This monster wall graphic isn't as scary as it is hilarious with it's huge smile and pointy teeth! This funny creature will add style and visual interest to any room. It comes in two different sizes: 22 inches wide by 25 inches tall or 11 inches wide by 10 inches tall. This monster wall decal is perfect for a little kids room or even an apartment or dorm.
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Hartford Hospital
New & Featured Funding Opportunities (Generously funded by Medical Staff)
The following links will take you to the home page for each agency. Look for "grants" and "funding opportunities" within the site.
Government Funding Sources (Federal)
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Department of Defense (DOD)
Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
SCIRP pre-application (For the upcoming Pre-Application Deadline for the four Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP) opportunities)
Non-Government Funding Sources (Foundation)
Autism Speaks
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The Evil Within
The Evil Within Latest News
The Evil Within's last DLC pack lets you embrace your inner box-headed psychopath
The Evil Within's final piece of downloadable content will ditch limited ammo reserves and forced stealth sections, in favour of letting you run around as a great, big madman with a metal box on his head.
Said bad guy is The Keeper, the monstrosity (or ONE of the monstrosities) that chases you throughout the core game. Titled The Executioner, the DLC is coming later this month.
The Evil Within: The Consequence DLC released today
The Evil Within: The Consequence is the second piece of DLC for Shinji Mikami's bonkers action-horror game, and it's available today. As in the first slice of content, The Assignment, you take on the role of Detective Juli Kidman, who's determinedly trying to have an even worse day than Evil Within star Sebastian Castellanos.
The Evil Within gets second chunk of campaign DLC, The Consequence, next month
For those of you who have already clocked The Evil Within's pretty decent first chunk of campaign DLC, you'll be happy to know that the next lot is due next month.
Due on April 21st, 'The Consequence' will be a direct continuation to Juli Kidman's story in the first DLC expansion, The Assignment.
The Assignment DLC for The Evil Within screams onto digital downloads
Bethesda has announced that the first proper DLC expansion for The Evil Within, titled "The Assignment", is now available to download on PC. It's the first of two big DLC packs for the game and will be followed up by "The Consequence" later this Spring (no, it's not Spring yet, it's still Winter... we think).
The Evil Within: The Assignment due out March 10th
Bethesda and developer Tango Gameworks has announced that DLC The Assignment for The Evil Within will be creeping us out March 10th. In this extra slice of horror we play as detective Juli Kidman to wrap up loose ends.
A second helping of DLC is due "later this spring," and will conclude this concurrent, er, capering? The season pass features all these DLC releases, or can be bought separately for £6.99.


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Nice, I'm sure I can find a use for these somewhere.
EDIT (May 10): This thread is no longer restrained to slopes. It now covers tileable terrain in general.
(Follow-up to this thread: http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=4655)
My D&D campaign being full of wilderness encounters (in plains), I was tired of having only rocks, bushes and trees to show. Unfortunately, I've never seen a well-done slope, so I started experimenting (see the above thread).
Now that I'm satisfied with the way I can get slopes to look like, I started producing a slope tileset. The first useable result is joined to this post in a zip file along with pictures of what it looks like. There's only 2-square long slopes for now, but I'm working on more.
Each tile of the set covers multiple squares, with squares 64 pixels wide. They're designed so that a small set of tiles can be rotated every which way and fit together seamlessly to make slopes as wide as desired. To save memory, gain versatility and have more variety, they have no texture of their own and must be added on top of a background texture (generic "plain" will do, as will a few others). This allows for really, really big maps, and scenarios (chase, exploration, string of fights) which would not be possible with a single, stand-alone map. Gametable crashes with 15-square by 15-square images and hardly handles their splitting in smaller images (hard limit of 10 MB of usable images). Maptool won't handle 30-square by 30-square pictures and slows down considerably as cumulative image size increases (it is, however, crazily efficient with textures and tiles). Thus the tileset.
While I had realism in mind at first, my priority is usability. Each square must show clearly what kind of terrain it is. If I indicate a slope (using up precious memory), it's a steep one that affects the players. Otherwise it's not shown. Seen from above, real-life slopes are only visible if the sun is low, and even then, not if the light hits them sideway. I show them by making their top lighter than their bottom (easily seen in the leftmost picture) and adding a subtle gradient shadow (even though the slope should make none). I also reinforce them with a pale grass/earth/rock texture; the combination of texture and lighting make the slope obvious no matter the zoom levels and clearly delimits which squares are part of it.
The complete tileset will have edges (denivellations between two squares), 1-square, 2-square and 4-square slopes and the necessary transitioning tiles. I will surely make a matching cliff tileset, and maybe combinations between the two (if the cliff gets higher, surely there's a slope somewhere...).
Last edited by Ceraus; 05-10-2009 at 05:59 AM. Reason: broadened the topic
Nice, I'm sure I can find a use for these somewhere.
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Ghoraja Juun, my largely stagnated campaign setting.
Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
I've pretty much completed the base tileset, so here's a demo of a few elements. The whole (current) tileset can be seen at the left.
I'm working on texture transitions right now, so that going from earthy to grassy looks like the third image rather than the second. It's just a universal texture that's superimposed on the seams and fades out in both directions. Hopefully it's universal enough for many terrain types.
I'll also collect good-looking vegetation and rocks.
EDIT: Oh, and I'll make rivers too. And paths.
Last edited by Ceraus; 05-02-2009 at 12:33 AM.
Lookin pretty good.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
A sample map I've made using the current (unreleased) tileset. Again, the whole tileset is visible on the left. I used two 8x8 textures, a few rocks I made and some vegetation I stole.
I estimate that this map would take about 10 MB if it was stand-alone. Using tiles, it takes 4 MB instead... not much smaller, admittedly, but I can continue expanding it without increasing memory usage.
Great work...
My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Ghoraja Juun, my largely stagnated campaign setting.
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Nice, I could put that to use pretty quickly.
Joining the tileset. It includes the following:
- Slopes 1-, 2- and 4-square long
- Cliffs and "steps"
- Transitions: 0-1, 0-step, 1-step, 1-2, 1-4, 2-4, step-cliff
- Appropriate ground textures: grassy, grass-earthy, sand
- Rocky texture designed to fit with the cliffs
- Details: rocks, trees, assorted vegetation
All elements are designed to snap to a 64-pixel-squares grid... I hope the low resolution is not a problem. The tileset is much more flexible than it appears at first; while there are many limitations to what exact shapes can be formed with the slopes and cliffs, the global result should not suffer (see sample picture above). The base textures and most of the vegetation are "stolen", but the rest is mine.
Although functional, the tileset is still WIP, but the current elements are pretty much set in stone. I'll continue adding to it -- paths, water and texture change come to mind, and urban environments eventually -- but I'm taking a break for now.
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Bleargh! 64px? That's a weird size. I run everything at a 100px grid in MapTool.
I knew it. I was so focused on the results that I forgot to consider other resolutions.
I've always used 64px because one, that was the only Gametable resolution, and two, I base my player and NPC tokens on World of Warcraft icons (with remade borders), which are incidentally 64px.
So I wonder: is there a "standard" virtual tabletop resolution? What would be the ideal tileset resolution? I should adapt before I make too much stuff.
(Note: I confirm, slopy terrain is very much more fun than featureless plains.)


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Several hundred people turned out for the funeral for former Auburn University football player Ed Christian, who was shot to death last week.
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TROY, Mich. (WXYZ) - Microsoft has announced that one of their five new retail stores will be coming to the Detroit area.
The software giant says they will be building a store at The Somerset Collection in Troy. No details about the store, or when it will open, have been released.
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When Street Rodder attended Billetproof, in 2002, it was such a good time that we've always wanted to go back. The show's changed since then-and even more since 1997, when the first Billetproof hosted a handful of cars in a bowling alley parking lot. Now, Billetproof is a big show (registration cuts off at 1,000 cars), held at the fairgrounds in Antioch, California, but has managed to keep the atmosphere and energy of a parking lot meet.
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Club involvement is another reason for the success of this show. Promoters Alan and Melissa Galbraith recruit local car clubs to provide custom-built trophies and pick the winners. This year's host club, the Dragoons from Antioch, did a good job getting everybody in and keeping them happy.
This was the first year the show-previously a one-day deal-stretched across the whole weekend. In addition to the cars, there were live bands, a pinstripers panel jam, a swap meet, a model car contest, a beauty contest, dozens of indoor and outdoor vendors, and even an on-site barber cutting hair like they used to.
Northern California is known for traditional customs and the turn-out in Antioch reflected that. STREET RODDER has also changed since we were at Billetproof in 2002, and customs have worked their way into these pages-so we get to highlight some of our favorite postwar cars from the weekend along with earlier iron.
Billetproof will be back in Antioch in September, plus there are other Billetproof shows all over the United States throughout the year. You can find out about 2010 events at www.billetproof.com.
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This '51 Chevy Fleetline was built in the garage by owner Scott-Anthony Coppock with help from Carlos Rodriguez and other friends. Kyle Martin and Coppock shot the paint. The Chevy got a 6-inch chop, along with a Buick grille, '51 Caddy front bumper, Caddy sombrero caps, and real Appletons."Filthy Phil" Bell made the 700-mile, 13-hour trip form Boise, Idaho, to Billetproof in his '47 Chrysler Royal. In three years he's done all his own work, shaving badges and adding '39 Ford taillights. A 383 stroker small-block replaced the factory Spitfire six.Travis Kennedy got his '31 A coupe on the road just in time for a trip to Bonneville this summer. The frame is from Vern Tardel's shop, where a lot of work was done. Split 'bones, suicide perch, friction shocks, and rear buggy springs meet Travis' goal to keep it "old school." The seats are chopped up MG buckets.Builder/painter George Borba from Geo's Chop Shop does some Saturday morning detailing on Hunter Bender's custom '61 Cadillac, finished with 26 coats of Candy Gold, and 32 coats of heavy metalflake on the top. Side trim is on the way. Billetproof promoter Alan Galbraith picked it for the Big Flake award.A blown Rat motor, full 'cage, suicide frontend, cheater slicks, drilled and sleeved 'rails, and overall attitude make Ed Umland's '31 coupe a bona fide hot rod. The radiator was relocated to the rear and the interior was finished in tooled and hand-stitched leather.You can't look at cars all the time, right? The Beauty Queen contest, sponsored by Mitzi & Co., was held on Sunday. The winner was Jessica D. (far left), but every contestant could've popped right out of a George Petty or Gil Elvgren pinup. Gambino Customs helped with the trophy and T Bonz created the art for the contest.A 235 I-6 Chevy with an Edelbrock split manifold, dual 1V carbs, and Maund scoops powers P.J. Pullen's channeled '31 five-window. The hand-fabbed interior includes red metalflake buckets. Pullen's son Tyler built the car from his dad's ideas, then gave him the car when it was done.One of the most attention-getting cars at the event was this unmodified, unrestored 1909 Overland Model 31, owned by Fraser from Antioch. Even the seat stuffing, busting through the split fabric of the worn-out old survivor, is original and cool.
This chopped, shaved, and slammed '50 Ford sedan, belonging to David Aguilar, wears traditional sled trim from wide whites and spots to shaved side panels, white tuck 'n' roll, fishtail exhaust tips, '59 Cadillac taillights, and some elaborate pinstriping on the deck.Brad Masterson from Masterson Kustoms (and the Beatniks Club) chopped his '51 Chevy Fleetline with help from legendary custom builder Bill Hines. The grille is filled with a '54 Pontiac bar. During the five years that he's owned it, Brad's Chevy has served as his daily driver.Gary Morales wanted his '54 Chevy 210 to look like it could've come out of Barris Kustoms-and Lucky 7 Customs in Antioch helped him accomplish that. The roof was chopped 4 1/2 inches and slid forward 5 inches. The Chevy won the Frank DeRosa Pick.No window sticker, but the license plate identifies Babs as the owner of this '59 Dodge. The trim was left intact (except for nose and deck), the grille was cleaned up, and copper metallic scallops carefully follow all those body lines. The top is metallic copper with cream scallops.We'd seen Jack Rudy's unchopped '52 Chevy sedan (which he's owned for 24 years) at the Grand National show in January. Jack retained the chromed Chevy trim, matched with what looks like Buick trim. Brad Masterson shot the paint-his first 'flake job. Good start, we'd say.The Road Knights picked Mickey Himsl's '27 Ford Touring for the Best Hot Rod trophy. Himsl paid $1,000 for the car and built it with all old stuff. The '48 Flathead with two 97s and Edmunds air cleaners on an Offy manifold is tied to a '39 box. Himsl's brother Art contributed paint and pinstriping.The flathead in Ron Carter's flamed '27 T roadster has been replaced by a Pontiac 195ci slant-four. Now Ron says he wants to add a 3-71 blower, like Mickey Thompson did to the same engine on a '61 Monte Carlo show car. The T rides on Deuce 'rails with 12-spoke American mags.Ever seen a hot rod Hudson? Dan Wathor's channeled '31 coupe is packed with a Super Red Ram Hemi with three deuces. Gray tuck 'n' roll and a custom dash dress up the inside. The outside features some nice 'striping on the firewall, deck, headlight housings, and grille shell. Santa Cruz Speed & Custom and the Crime Scene Choppers awarded it Best Orphan.
Twenty-two-year-old Mario Meza-Murillo sold his '59 El Camino to buy this bulletnose '62 Thunderbird in February. He bagged it and added the five-spokes, and John Christensen shot the screamin' green paint and darker green scallops, followed by a panel of lace painting on top.John Parker's slammed '51 Ford business coupe has been a custom for years and was once owned by the Bean Bandits. In fact, BB member Julio Hernandez chopped the top-not easy when starting with a post car. Matt Egon put the solid green flames over the gold candy paint.


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SOmehow this finally posted. So here is the story to my buck an the one that got away
Well I'm new to the forum and just want to say hello first of all I really enjoy reading Eastmans Hunting Journal and LOVE the Bowhunting Journal.
This hunt really started at the end of November really and every weekend I had available before the general archery season started in AZ on Jan 1. Me and my brother set up cameras and glassed for hours an hours looking for some worthy bucks in our hunting holes. The very first camera we checked we had pictures of 9 different bucks but only one of them was worth hunting but it was early in Dec and we still had a lot of time to scout and find other bucks and hope a few more showed in this particular area.
My brother had been seeing a different buck in another area for the past couple years but not till after he had already killed out and there was nothing that he could do about it and so this year he was going to give this buck a legitamate shot.
Well Jan 1st was finally here and wouldnt you know it on new years eve there was an enormous snow storm and there was not any deer showing up at my stand but on Christmas day the monster my brother was hunting finally showed his face and he was bigger than ever. So for 7 straight days my brother sat in his stand in below freezing temperatures and never laid eyes on the monster coues. On that 7th day he was so frozen we walked out to warm up in his truck. He drove to a different area and glassed up a monster muley and thru an awesome stalk on him and arrowed him at 45 yards. As luck would have it his buck began to show up again.
So I found myself jumping ship and sitting in my brothers stand. We set up 2 stands in his tree so he could film an we werent in the tree 3 hours and we were swamped by coues deer. A nice 3 point was 18 yards in front of me when Lee says " DONT SHOOT DO NOT SHOOT... the monster is to your left." He pushed a doe to 30 yards and I drew my bow and he stopped behind a little bit of brush that I thought I could get an arrow thru. WRONG!!! But he wasnt spooked he bolted down hill an gathered up another doe an pushed her to 50 yards. At this point I was so shook up from buck fever I shouldnt have even taken the 2nd shot but I did and it skipped thru his massive rack. All I heard was my brother say " I wonder what you were looking at.'' I handed him my bow and said "take this before I throw it out of the @#$&ing tree!!!!" Later that month after I was able to laugh about the situation we nicknamed that buck Goldtips after my 5575 goldtip skipped thru his rack. We never have seen Goldtips again but you better beleive he is on our 2012 hit list.
Well I had to go back to work the following day for a week but I was back at it that weekend and since we hadnt seen any action at the other stand since all hell broke loss over there the week before we decided to check my original stand and all the 9 bucks had showed back up including 2 bigger bucks that hadnt been there before the rut had kicked in. Jan. 23rd I climbed into the stand at about 8 o clock a small three point came in followed by a single doe. As I was sitting there watching them I didnt know if it was my imagination but I thought I heard a buck grunt... But then I heard it again and he was coming in fast! I slowly stood up as he was trotting in grunting one right after another.... He started dogging that doe and pushed her right under my stand and I drew back and grunted. He stopped at only 8 yards for my stand and I smoked him!!!! He wasnt the biggest buck I hunted by any means but I couldnt be happier with him. He ended up scoring right around 87''. Thanks to my brother who hunted his butt off with me even after he had already killed. He has taught me a ton and is the best hunter I know. I included a trailcam pic of Goldtip and a pic of my brothers muley... sorry the pics arent in order but you get the point
SOmehow this finally posted. So here is the story to my buck an the one that got away
Nice buck, fun story too.