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Screenwriting from Alaska (Palin Inspired)
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"I finally figured out we are somewhere between the end of the line and the middle of nowhere."
Dr. Joel Fleischman
Goethe's final words: "More light." Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry: "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerator."
Chris in Morning
KBHR, Cicely, Alaska
When Sarah (Barracuda) Palin was chosen as John McCain's running mate it was textbook solid screenwriting inspired. A nice twist in the story. If it were a movie and she ends up VP I'd call it Mrs. Palin Goes to Washington. Kind of a remake of the Jimmy Stewart classic.
How do you offset the first African-American presidential candidate who makes his acceptance speech before more than 80,000 people at the Democratic National Convention in Denver on 45th anniversary to the day of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech? How do you offset Obama being raised by a single mom and forgoing a Wall Street career to do social work on the south side of Chicago?
How do you take advantage of millions of women who are upset that Hillary Clinton is not the presidential or VP candidate? How does McCain avoid being seen as just rich and elitist and out of touch with the countries economic problems?
You head north…to Alaska, that's what you do. You choose their female governor as your running mate. A "hockey mom" with five kids (pro-family) including one with Downs Syndrome (pro-life) , a moose hunter (NRA), whose husband is part Yup'ik Eskimo (multiethnic) and a commercial fisherman (working class) and union worker (union), whose parents were teachers (middle class), who has faith (evangelicals), who has brought reform to government there (change), who fought the "bridge to nowhere" (fiscally responsible), whose son joined the Army last year on September 11 (patriotism), and who comes from an area more than 3,500 miles from Washington D.C. (beltway outsider).
As a former broadcaster she is media savvy and can read a teleprompter. And her selection as the first VP GOP candidate came on the 88th anniversary of women being allowed to vote. And to top it off the former Miss Wasilla has the whole sexy librarian thing going on with the glasses and wearing her hair up.
I'll leave it to others to debate whether she's qualified for the White House, but there is no debate she has a heck of a story. And stories outside L.A. is what this blog is all about.
Is choosing Palin a Hail Mary pass by McCain? If so, he's old enough to remember when Doug Flutie's desperation pass beat the mighty Miami Hurricanes back in '84. Sometimes the high risk pass works.
And for the media, picking Palin is a slice of Hollywood. A political narrative full of conflict. Peggy Noonan wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Palin's candidacy "will be either dramatically successful or dramatically not; it won't be something in between."
We know screenwriter Gary Ross (Big, Seabiscuit) has written presidential speeches for the Democrats. The talent pool of Republican or conservative screenwriters is not quite as deep (99 to 1?), but I wonder what writer or filmmaker they've employed. (Perhaps John Milius, Clint Eastwood, Dennis Hopper or David Mamet.)
Maybe it was Hillary's Hollywood people (Spielberg or Murphy Brown creator Diane English) suggestion since a Republican victory is Mrs. Clinton's only chance to make a run in '12.
No matter the outcome of the election, from a dramatic standpoint McCain couldn't have written a better script. Well, Palin could have been born in Cedar Falls, Iowa to an African-American mother and a Hispanic father and have captured Bigfoot last week–but let's not get carried away.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Alaska has been at the heart of many good stories as well as being full of folklore. Say, did you hear the "Little known facts" about Palin? "The Northern Lights are really just the reflection from Sarah Palin's eyes." "Sarah Palin doesn't need a gun to hunt. She has been known to throw a bullet through an adult bull elk." (Do you know how long it took for Chuck Norris to get that kind of street cred? She did it in one day.)
On second thought, Sarah Palin appears to have more in common with Erin Brockovich than she does Jimmy Stewart. ("You may want to re-think those ties." Erin, in the movie written by Susannah Grant.) But let's get back to Alaska.
Stories do flow from Alaska; Jack London's Call of the Wild, Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush, Never Cry Wolf, and Christopher Nolan's Insomnia written by Hilary Seltz , Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee's Coming into the Country, Johnny Horton's number one hit North to Alaska, documentaries by Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North) and Warner Herzog (Grizzly Man) and more recently the Sean Penn movie Into the Wild from the Jon Krakauer book.
But my favorite set of stories that are Alaska-based is what I think of as one of the all-time great TV programs – Northern Exposure. (In my book it's right up there with The Twilight Zone and Seinfeld.) Though the show was filmed in Roslyn, Washington it retains the feel of a small eccentric, creative town you'd like to think exists in Alaska. Some say it is based on the quirky little town of Talkeetna, Alaska and others say the quirky town of Ely, Minnesota, a town near the Canadian border in the Boundary Waters.
In part because of my love for the show I've been to Roslyn, Talkeetna and Ely. (However, I've never been to Moosefest.) I do think the show Northern Exposure in part lead me to Cedar Falls, Iowa. Growing up in Florida steeped on Jimmy Buffett's songs about Key West, the Caribbean, and paradise mixed with a heavy dose of Walt Disney's version of Main Street, I think I have always been looking for my own personal Margaritaville. (A place where "My old red bike gets me 'round.")
Even if you didn't get into Northern Exposure you'd have to give it points for originality. Where else in the history of TV have you seen two people arm wrestle over the doctrine of transubstantiation or see someone have a conversation with a human-sized dust mite? And isn't there a little spunky Maggie O'Connell (Janie Turner) in Palin? Yes, Palin even owns a float plane. I'm sure Noexers (as fans of the show are called) have already connected John & Cindy McCain with the older/younger couple Shelly & Holling.
Is it more than a coincidence that one of the co-creators of Northern Exposure went to college just a little over an hour from Cedar Falls? John Falsey is one more MFA graduate from the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. The Emmy, Peabody, Golden Globe winning producer/writer also worked on St. Elsewhere, The White Shadow and I'll Fly Away. (I don't know much of what he's done in the last decade. "Where have you gone John Falsey?" Maybe he cashed in and moved to his own personal Cicely, Alaska.)
And I guess this blog is my own little version of Northern Exposures resident radio DJ Chris in the Morning (John Corbett). Trying to do my best to wax philosophically while making odd connections.
Cedar Falls is a little bigger than Cicely Alaska, but it's got enough characteristics to feel similar and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than Key West, FL, Seal Beach, CA, or Crested Butte, CO. No oceans or mountains here (though we do have a river and killer bike trails) but we have a perfect view of the political process as I pointed out in Politics, Power & Screenwriting.
I'm sure will see plenty of Mrs. Palin which will make up for all the times I saw Obama last year. (I think the guy was stalking me.) If John McCain and Sarah Palin don't make it to the White House I think they could have shots at a career in Hollywood. At least a reality show.
And whoever is our next president I wish they add to their packed political campaign platform a decree for films to be better. Yesterday I walked out of two movies in one day for the first time in my life. On second thought, that's really not the government's job–it's yours, so get busy writing.
And just to tie this all together as we say goodbye for now you might not know that the beautiful, haunting song that was played at the end of the last episode of Northern Exposure was written and performed by Iris DeMent — a folk artist who is married to another folk artist named Greg Brown from Iowa City and where I believe they both now live.
If you've never heard "Our Town" or if it's been a while since you've heard it, do yourself a favor and listen to the link below. The song resonates every bone of my body and I hope it hits a nerve or two for you. (And if you've never seen the show at all check it out because it is a fine example of great writing.)
September 4 Update: From a public speaking perspective you'd have to pull for an Obama-Palin ticket. Palin: "The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?.. Lipstick." Great writing and great delivery. All of this reminds me of that great Jon Stewart quip at the 2008 Oscars: "Normally when you see a black man or a woman president, an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty."
Screenwriting Jamaican-Olympic Style
Posted in screenwriting, tagged 100 meter, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Alpha Boys' School, Anthony Davis, Bob Marley, Cool Runnings, Dr. No, dredlocks, Fritz Coleman, Gold medals, How Tiny Jamaica Developed So Many Champion Sprinters, Jamaica, Kingston, Matthew Clark, Michael Phelps, Reggae music, Sean Connery, Shawn Johnson, Sisters of Mercy, Three Little Birds, Training Jamaican sprinters, Trojan Records, Usain Bolt, UTECH on August 18, 2008| 3 Comments »
"Little Jamaica — our country is blessed with some of the best, if not the best, talent you can find."
Olivia Grange,
Jamaica's minister of sport
Chances are when you think of movies and Jamaica Cool Runnings comes to mind. (If you're old school you may remember that part of Sean Connery's first Bond film, Dr. No, was filmed in Jamaica.) But my interest in connecting screenwriting and Jamaica has to do with the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Not to take away from Baltimore's Michael Phelps' outstanding achievement of winning eight gold medals in Beijing, but I can't get over the fact that over the weekend Jamaican athletes won gold in the men and women's 100 meter sprint.
Usain Bolt did it in world record speed on the male side and on the female side Jamaican runners collected all the medals. ESPN dubbed Jamaica "World's Fastest Nation."
What is most amazing to me about this feat is that the total population of Jamaica is under 3 million compared to over 300 million for the United States. (And there are a few other countries at the Olympics as well.) Another way to look at it is Iowa also has three million people. This is really at the heart what Screenwriting from Iowa is all about. That amazing things can come from little places.
But amazing things don't come out of thin air. If you look beyond Jamaica's gold medals you will find the secret to how a small impoverished island ended up on top the world stage. Matthew Clark wrote an insightful article on this titled a couple of months ago, How Tiny Jamaica Developed So Many Champion Sprinters. Like champion long distances runners from Kenya and Ethiopia the key word there is developed.
Anthony Davis, the sports director at Jamaica's University of Technology (UTECH), whose programs and facilities developed Bolt told Clark, "You'd have had to plant a seed long ago to get where we are today."
Davis helped start the school because traditionally Jamaica's best athletes left the country to compete for colleges in the United States. And though the program is looking golden now, its original vision was doubted and even today its facilities are still second-rate compared to the US. According to Davis, "We had a choice: complain about the resources and do nothing or work with what we have."
Clark's article points out; Another reason for Jamaicans' success: their attitude, according to (Fitz) Coleman ( a technical coach on Bolt's team) "We genuinely believe that we'll conquer," he says. "It's a mindset. We're small and we're poor, but we believe in ourselves."
A couple years ago I shot a documentary in Jamaica and spent a few days in Kingston far away from the other side of the island where tourist usually spend their time on peaceful beaches. We were told not to walk outside the barbed wire topped walls of our hotel at night and that the murder rate per capita was higher than Haiti.
The economics of the area are poor — in fact one home we shot in would be the equivalent of a large tool shed in the States-no air and and no bathroom. But I found the people warm and friendly, and the music, food, culture and history totally captivated me.
We did take time to tour the Bob Marley Museum in the home where he used to live and it is a must see for reggae fans. Nothing quite brightens driving on snowy freezing day in Iowa as listening to Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds." (But even if a white guy from Iowa likes reggae music, it may be a sin for him to wear a traditional Jamaican hat. At least I didn't get the one with fake dredlocks for the full Rastafarian poser look. Just doing my part to help the economy there.)
And just how has a little island again produced such memorable music? No, I'm not thinking about the herbs Marley had in his spliff. Once again talent, training and time are the key.
Believe it or not there is actually a strong connection between Jamaica's musical heritage and a school run by Catholic nuns. The Sisters of Mercy founded the Alpha Boys' School in 1892 to house and educate "wayward boys' from poor families in Jamaica. Music was a key part of their education.
An interesting read on this is Tracing reggae's Catholic roots by Thomas Green.
"Without the school, there just wouldn't have been the blossoming of talent on the island in the key period of the `60s and `70s," says Laurence Cane-Honeysett, a music consultant to reggae label Trojan Records, who has compiled the excellent album Alpha Boys' School: Music in Education 1910-2006.
"When the Jamaican music industry took off, it was totally dependent on those who studied there," he says.
So wherever you are in your screenwriting journey I hope you can be inspired by the small island of Jamaica and its recent gold medal achievements. And whether you live in West Des Moines, West Africa, or West Covina I hope you remember the words of Jamaican sports director Anthony Davis, "We had a choice: complain about the resources and do nothing or work with what we have."
In the last couple days the men and women's Jamaican track team left no questions in regard to their dominance as they claimed gold medals in every single Olympic individual sprinting event. Anyone working on the script on the life of three time gold medalist and world record holder Usain Bolt's life story yet?
To put Jamaica's achievements in perspective, they ended up with six gold medals. It was estimated that for China to have won the same amount of gold medals per capita that they would have had to won 2,889 gold medals. So pop open a Red Stripe for the little guys this week.
(It was also great to see Iowa's own Shawn Johnson—who just happens to be from West Des Moines— win a gold on the balance beam.)
The 48-Hour Film
Posted in screenwriting, tagged Amy Anderson, Beijing, Des Moines, Failure to Launch, Galleria de Paco, Gymnast, Heart Strings, Iowa, Jon Van Allen, leaving Las Vegas, Matthew McConaughey, Mike Figgis, Olympics, Paco Rosic, Panasonic HVX 200, Sergei Eisenstien, Shawn Johnson, Sistine Chapel, Spin-U-Tech, The 48 Hour film project, Waterloo, West Des Moines on August 6, 2008| 3 Comments »
"I shoot video because it gives me freedom as a filmmaker to try new things."
"Montage is conflict."
Sergei Eisenstein
Since my last post was on the six-word story, I thought it would be a fitting place to talk about the 48 hour film.
A couple weekends ago I made a film as part of The 48 Hour Film Project taking place in Des Moines, Iowa. Below the film titled "Heart Strings" I'll talk a little about the process of making that film.
This is my third year doing The 48 Hour Film Project in Des Moines. The past two years my films have won best cinematography against the 35+ teams competing. This year I really wanted to take a shot at making the best film.
The first thing I noticed is in these sort of things comedy does very well so I had in mind that I'd make a film with a humorous angle. I also decided that I wanted to shoot in one location and be done shooting by Saturday morning. Local artist Paco Rosic (www.pacorosic.com) has a restaurant here and said we could shoot there after 10 PM.
Then we had a handful of people that had agreed to be in the film if I needed them. My goal was to use only two or three people. I really was aiming for simplicity. On Friday night we drew romance as the genre we had to make and the idea of speed dating came to my mind in about ten seconds.
Which of course fit the talent pool I had gathered– a mix of men and one women. Paco ended up as one of the actors and not only gets the girl at the end of the movie, but he edited the film as well. He is a talented artist and who has a non-linear editing system in his loft near the restaurant.
You learn to go with the flow when you're making a film in 48 hours. I had an editor and a DP both from Minneapolis who had to pull out of helping just days before the shoot so I was glad Paco wanted to take a stab at editing it. Local grip and lighting specialist Jon Van Allen decided he could help out and the film would not have been as good without him. He brought not only his talent, but his fully equipped grip trailer and an extra Panasonic HVX 200 camera.
And then there is the lead actress Amy Anderson. This is a classic case of "do what you can, where you are, with what you have." This was Amy's first film, but I knew she could play the violin so that would play a part of the story. So she not only was on camera between midnight and 6AM talking to strangers, but she had to perform for the final scene after that. Thank you, Amy.
The entire cast and crew did a super job and it was an enjoyable and stress free shoot. I had written a loose outline of characters and some dialogue and then we just shot a lot of footage picking out the best performances that seemed to have the most conflict in the character Bridget's search for Mr. Right.
We turned in the film before the deadline and would have liked more time to tweak the audio–but it is a 48 hour film. Thanks to people lending their time, talent and equipment the total budget was less than 48 bucks. (Probably less than the average lunch for Matthew McConaughey on "Failure to Launch.")
If you're a screenwriter who's never directed a film, events like this are perfect for you to try some new things. It's also a good chance to let people who have little or no experience to get a glimpse into what it takes to make a film. Believe it or not, an all night shoot is a great introduction to the carnival of a life in the film business.
And if you're ever driving through Iowa and looking for a unique restaurant check out Galleria de Paco in Waterloo, Iowa. (The shooting location of Heart Strings.) How many places in the world can you eat shrimp and grits and look at a fantastic spray painted recreation of the Sistine Chapel?
Update: On August 14, The 48 Hour/Des Moines Awards were given out and my little film "Heart Strings" won best cinematography and an honorable mention for best directing.
Later that night US Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson from West Des Moines snagged a silver metal in Beijing. In one of those quirky timing things I drove by Johnson's high school on the way to the Fleur Cinema where the top 12 48 Hour Films were being shown.
Johnson is one more reminder that Iowa is full of surprises. Check out her website that is hosted by my buddies over at Spin-U-Tech.


I'm not sure when Ford brought out the F-100 that they intended it to be supercharged Muscle Rock Crawler! Vaterra has released the 1968 Ford F-100 Ascender 1/10th scale 4WD in a Rock Crawler format and it's ready to rumble by day. Throw the LED lights on and you're good to go at night as well. The big block muscle truck has never looked so good!
Need to make a statement on the rock slopes? The 1968 1/10th scale Ford F-100 from Vaterra is going to turn heads. With an officially licensed Ford F-100 body, caged back with real aluminium panels, working LED lights and a spare tyre you are going to look the business. Speaking of looks the F-100 has immaculate scale detail including the correct two-tone colour combination straight out of the late 60's. Personalise it with some of your own customisations as well. The Ascender Rock Crawler will bind to your current Spektrum radio. You can go straight out of the box and onto the rocks!
The aluminium machined suspension system will handle the most brutal conditions. With the chassis riding on a 3-link panhard bar front suspension and a supporting 4-link rear suspension your F-100 Ascender is loaded for bear! A variety of pre-load settings are made possible due to the oil-filled threaded shocks. You're going to find it hard to find a slope this puppy can't handle!
Rocky terrain and steep inclines get eaten up by the F-100's engineered single speed, metal gear transmission. You can further customise if you wish by purchasing a two-speed transmission if the standard one-speed is not giving you enough thrills.
The drivetrain components on your F-100 Ascender are as tough as the rest of this muscle truck and give you a class-leading 45 degrees of steering angle.
To complement the ruggedness of your pimped out muscle truck you also get the super grippy Interco Super Swamper TSL SX tyres with their compound and tread pattern helping you handle all the angles.
You can slot in a 96mm shorty pack in the battery tray specifically designed to float over the front axle. This battery position will give your Ascender Rock Crawler more traction due to the extra weight over the front axles. Ideal for the steep inclines and big rocks!
The patented stamped steel ladder frame rails are fully adjustable and can be reconfigured to fit most scale crawler bodies and four different wheelbases.
Your F-100 Ascender is not going to 'diff' out when you place one wheel under extreme load. The one-piece metal locker with its smaller low profile houses the axle and gives you far more ground clearance at the same time.
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As part of a document template project, I am looking to call a custom 'new document' dialog that will be used in Word.
The dialog box will be created in C#.
If anyone has any code clips that be great also.
Ignore, I've Since discovered VSTO SE !


After a series of performances around the world, Charlotte Gainsbourg will be performing live in Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. Steady Holiday will also be joining her on stage that night.
Gainsbourg is a British-French actress and singer-- the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.
In her latest album Rest, which has been acclaimed as one of 2017's best albums (Pitchfork, The Guardian, The Independent, Les Inrockuptibles…), the artist speaks about herself. An uncompromising self-portrait, the album suggests that from the first steps to the first words, to the first kisses ... life is made of first times that lead to a series of last times.
Rest was produced by Sebastian, from the label Ed Banger, who has a background in electronic music. This accords with Charlotte Gainsbourg's desire for a sound with a disquieting, mechanistic edge.
Don't wait to book your tickets for this concert at the El Rey Theatre. Find the full tour schedules HERE. Follow our Facebook and Instagram pages for ticket give-aways!


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Home Northborough Dennis M. Litwinetz, 75, of Northborough
Dennis M. Litwinetz, 75, of Northborough
Northborough – Dennis M. Litwinetz, 75, passed away peacefully Feb. 1, 2019 at Rose Monahan Hospice House, while surrounded by the love of his devoted family.
Dennis was born and raised in Nesquehoning, Pa., a son to the late Michael and Olga (Sobol) Litwinetz. He was a member of Nesquehoning High School's class of '61. It was during this time he met the love of his life, his high school sweetheart and future wife of 50 years, M. Jane Trevena.
After high school, Dennis honorably served in the U.S. Navy, and upon his return enrolled in Penn State University where he earned a BS in Computer Science and later, a Master Degree from University of Lowell graduating with high honors.
Dennis worked most of his career as an electrical engineer for Digital Equipment, Compaq, and Hewlett Packard Corp and held patents for his work. Even in his retirement he enjoyed tinkering with old computers.
He looked forward to going out for Sunday morning breakfasts and was a New England sports enthusiast as well as a loyal follower of Penn State football. More than anything Dennis loved spending time with his family.
In addition to his wife M. Jane, Dennis leaves a daughter, Laura J. Litwinetz and partner Kevin Kelly of Quincy; a son, Jason M. Litwinetz and his wife Tina of Rutland; and his precious granddaughter, Kaitlyn, whom he was so proud to babysit for. Dennis also leaves a brother, Paul Litwinetz and his wife Susan of Boulder, Co., and four nephews, Michael and Greg Touchton and Matthew and Bill Trevena. Dennis shared a special bond with Matt and Bill and considered them more as sons than nephews. Dennis also leaves his childhood friend, John Kominitsky, and close friend, Bernie Hall.
Dennis' family respectfully request any memorial contributions be made to the Parkinson's Foundation, 200 SE 1st St., Suite 800, Miami, FL 33131 (https://parkinson.org) or to the Rose Monahan Hospice House, c/o VNA Care-Fund Development Office, 199 Rosewood Dr., Suite 180, Danvers, MA 01923.
Calling hours will be held Thursday, Feb. 7, from 5-7 p.m., at Hays Funeral Home, 56 Main St., Northborough. Dennis' funeral will be held at in the funeral home Friday, Feb. 8, at 10 a.m. Burial will military honors will follow in Howard Street Cemetery.
To leave a condolence, please visit www.HaysFuneralHome.com.
Dennis M. Litwinetz
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Albert Leonard Oldman est un boxeur britannique né le  et mort le . Sa carrière est marquée par son titre de champion olympique obtenu dans la catégorie poids lourds aux Jeux de Londres en 1908.

Carrière
Le parcours olympique d'Oldman pour conquérir l'or a été l'un des plus rapides de l'histoire. Il gagne son premier combat par KO en moins d'une minute puis bénéficie d'un forfait en demi-finale. En finale, il bat son compatriote Sydney Evans en moins de deux minutes.

Oldman, qui servait dans les Horse guards, devint par la suite policier à Londres. En 1910, il émigrait à Ceylan pour y être policier.

Parcours aux Jeux olympiques
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 S'impose par forfait en demi-finale
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Boxeur britannique
Boxeur aux Jeux olympiques de 1908
Champion olympique britannique
Champion olympique de boxe
Naissance en novembre 1883
Décès en janvier 1961
Décès à 77 ans

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Apologetics (giving a rational defense of one's beliefs) is an intellectual endeavor, but the consequences can be quite practical. Since people often act on their beliefs (e.g., helping those in need because we believe that it's the right thing to do), defending true beliefs and refuting false beliefs will occasionally be a matter of life and death.
Take Oklahoma beheader Alton Nolen (who now goes by the name "Jah'Keem Yisrael") as an example.
However, as evidenced by his complete ignorance of basic Christian doctrine, he was given absolutely no intellectual foundation. When he was eventually presented with a variety of objections to Christianity in prison, he converted to Islam.
Let's look at a few of Nolen's posts to see what would have happened if he had encountered a Christian apologist.
John 1:3—All things came into being through Him [Jesus], and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
Colossians 1:16—For by Him [Jesus] all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Mark 2:5-12—When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven." Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, "Why does this fellow talk like that? He's blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?" Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, "Why are you thinking these things? Which is easier: to say to this paralyzed man, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up, take your mat and walk'? But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins." So he said to the man, "I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home." He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"
John 13:13—"You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am."
Notice that simple familiarity with the Bible is enough to easily refute all of Nolen's objections. Let's look at another.
(1) Nolen asks, "Why would the Father Jesus as you say be coming back to earth." Nolen is clearly ignorant of basic Christian theology, because we don't say that Jesus is the Father.
Matthew 25:31-33—"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left."
John 5:22-23—"Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him."
(4) Nolen challenges Christians to show him that Jesus is God. The passages we have already looked at show that Jesus is God. But for a fuller discussion, see my article "Where Did Jesus Say, 'I Am God, Worship Me'?"
Perhaps Nolen has something more significant in his next post.
NIV—No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
NASB—No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
ESV—No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
NRSV—No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.
Is this verse supposed to refute belief in the deity of Christ? Because when we actually read the verse, it specifically says that Jesus is God.
John 14:7—"If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him."
The level of ignorance here is astounding.
(1) Nolen declares that the Dead Sea Scrolls were taken out of the Bible, as if the scrolls were originally included in the Bible but were later removed. This is nonsense. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of nearly a thousand scrolls, some of which are copies of Old Testament books (e.g., Genesis, Exodus, etc.), while others are deuterocanonical (not included in the Jewish canon of scripture). The texts that were included in the Bible are still in the Bible, and the texts that didn't still aren't. So which texts were removed?
(2) Nolen says that the Dead Sea Scrolls claim that Jesus never died. Since the Dead Sea Scrolls aren't about the life of Jesus, we can only wonder how they say that Jesus didn't die.
(3) Nolen apparently believes that the Gospel of Barnabas was part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. But the Gospel of Barnabas is a medieval forgery written more than a thousand years after the time of Jesus and was certainly not one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was written in Italian!
Putting all of this together, we can see that Nolen (1) knows nothing about Christianity, but (2) thinks that he has a knock-down case against Christianity. If Nolen had been given a basic foundation in apologetics, he wouldn't be arguing any of this. When confronted with arguments against Christianity in prison, he would have been able to refute them.
But it gets worse. When he went to prison, Nolen was just as ignorant of Islam as he was of Christianity. This allowed Muslims to convince him that Islam is the truth. Once he became convinced that Islam is the truth, he learned about jihad, terrorizing non-Muslims, and beheading. He eventually decided to wage jihad by committing a "lone-wolf" attack, beheading a woman and stabbing another before being shot.
If Nolen had met a well-informed Christian apologist before, during, or after his conversion to Islam, I don't think we would ever have heard of him, because I don't think he would have gone on a killing spree.
Apologetics, then, can save lives. It's time for Christians to equip ourselves to defend the Gospel and to refute Islam.
Great work Dr. David. I seriouslly wanna become a christian apologetic since I have a lot of muslims folks around me. Thanks for shewing more light to the world of false belief.
The thing is that Satan can make you forget bible verses. Muslims are allowed to lie to bring people into their religion. As CL Edwards can tell you Muslims first get people to doubt the word of God, and after they have created doubt they present the quran as the uncorrupted word of God.
Christian apologists, sadly, can do little to stop conversions to Islam because Muslim faith is not dependent on evidence. We need to understand that Islam is simply the cult of Muhammad under the pretext of monotheism. If Muhammad had depended on real evidence for his claim of divine selection then Islam would have been stillborn.
Although Muslims often talk about evidence, their resort to evidence is totally dishonest. The only "evidence" that Muslims will consider as being valid is that which "proves" Muhammad to be a true prophet. The cult mentality of Muslims render them incapable of engaging with REAL evidence because they instinctively know where this evidence leads. Such evidence is simply denied or explained away albeit unconvincingly. Muslims have no qualms about sacrificing their intellectual integrity if it helps to sustain their faith in Muhammad.
Please keep this up David. It's not only Nolen we're talking about. In the Quran (2:221), it seems like Muslims are prohibited to marry non Muslims and hence, whenever a non Muslim were to marry a Muslim, a conversion is in most cases compulsory. I do know that many countries (and in fact many "moderate" Muslims) don't see this as a hard law, but where I come from, the government plays its part and forces a conversion before you can marry a Muslim. So obviously this includes Christians who convert to Islam to marry a Muslim too. You brought up the subject that Christians have to educate themselves with Christianity sufficiently. I couldn't agree more. We ourselves can become apologists of a certain level in our own right. We must know WHY we believe. It isn't sufficient to just go to church every Sunday and listen to the pastor. We must do our own research and look for facts and proofs. A former Catholic woman who converted to Islam to marry her Muslim husband wrote to the one of our newspapers recently asking why are people fighting in the name of religion. This woman, while possibly sincere in her intentions, obviously knows not much about Christianity (otherwise she would not have converted to Islam ala Alton Nolen) or Islam (otherwise she wouldn't have asked such a fundamental question).
You are right. Even a smattering knowledge of Christianity is sufficient to knock out the wind from Islamic doctrine.
The reality sadly is that politically correct and liberal thinking as made us spiritually poor. Christians in west are turning to religions of the East imagining that they have access to peace that passes understanding. They do not. And those that call on the Religion of Peace is nothing more that a Religion of Piece.
Since all Three Persons, The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19), all equally occupy the same very highest office of power and authority in heaven, and 'God' being the very highest title, then all Three have to be called God.
The term "one God" in Scripture means the one and only highest office equally occupied by the three Persons bearing the same highest title of 'God' (God/King "the King of heaven" Daniel 4:37).
But Muslims will argue that the triune God, or Trinity, or three Gods/Kings (working as one in the highest position of authority in heaven), is polytheism (multiple gods). But the term 'polytheism' is applicable only to created gods/beings. The eternal triune God is the original source of all life and all other gods/beings would not even exist without an eternal first cause.
The eternal first cause is the triune God, the three Persons, all with the highest title of 'God' (God/King) who operate together as one (e.g. "I and My Father are one" John 10:30 and 15:26) team or family, and who existed in eternity before the creation of the universe (Genesis 1:1; 1:27).
They are not three finite and limited pagan gods. And polytheism (worship of multiple gods) would not exist at all without sin having entered into the world in the first place, after it was created. As the Creator, the "Lord your God" of the Old Testament, who is Christ, the Son, the Word (John 1:1-3), also commanded: "You shall have no other gods before Me" Exodus 20:3.
The righteous holy Persons of the triune God of the Bible cannot be called something idolatrous and evil like 'polytheistic', since they were together in eternity long before idolatry and evil even came into existence, and they have not nor will ever change or become corrupted (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8; Romans 1:23; Isaiah 57:15).
Great job, and God Bless you guys abundantly.
I absolutely agree that Christians should be well equipped. We all know that the BIBLE is our sword. We must know how to handle and understand it.
David, You hit the nail on the head. I was almost led astray too by Islamic lies and deception when I was in the University. If more people have access to the resources that are on your site, the world would be a better and safer place.
Sometimes converted muslims just in the wrong crowd espesially in USA. I am very active debating with lots of muslims within Face book groups.
It takes time to for muslim to realize how bad is their holy book was written.
Many muslim only know about the good part of Quran because that's what their imam or ustads want them to know.
Many converted muslim woman dont realize how bad is their quran treated them and also their prophet said "Women only half the value of man" also " Women are the most inhibitant in the hell fire" and many more.
[Leminaso Luwukan]"I am very active debating with lots of muslims within Face book groups."
That is excellent. Which specific groups? What are some of your favorite questions to ask Muslims?


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The Guardian Nigeria. Students march to protest black teen's killing in Wisconsin.
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Anticipating a continuation of historic and recent national trends, the Young, Gifted & Black Coalition (YGB). expects Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne to announce his decision not to indict Madison police officer Matt Kenny for breaking into an apartment and shooting unarmed 19 year old Tony Robinson multiple times in response to a distress call for help.
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"They grabbed Brandi and dragged her, so I grabbed her," reported Balogun. "Then they jumped on me. They came up behind me and grabbed my neck. Then another cop grabbed me and they had me wrapped up. They just kept saying 'stop resisting, stop resisting!' But I wasn't doing anything." Grayson was violently thrown to the ground and then drug along the ground before she was arrested. Balogun along with approximately six more people, including youth, were arrested at that time. Marnie Schroeder, another arrested person described the scene: "He [CJ Terrell] wasn't talking, wasn't doing anything and they slammed him to the ground. They had their knee on his neck and his face in the dirt. I tried to put my hand under his face to protect it, but then they arrested me." Community members are outraged but unsurprised by this gross display of state power by MPD. "This is a clear example of the state violence we have been talking about for months," said Grayson. "They brutalized me, and they arrested our babies who were mourning and protesting against the police violence that led to the murder of their friend, Tony Robinson."


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Q: Exercise 1.2 in Hartshorne Chapter I I got most of this exercise but there are a few things I am confused about:

Let $A = \{ (t,t^2,t^3) : t \in k\}$.  Show that $A$ is closed and irreducible of dimension one, find generators of the ideal $\mathcal I(A)$, and show that $k[A]$ is isomorphic to the polynomial ring in one variable $k[T]$.

Obviously $A = \mathcal V(Y - X^2, Z - X^3)$, so $A$ is closed.  And the elements of $\mathcal I(A)$ are those $f$ for which $f(t, t^2, t^3) = 0$ for all $t \in k$, i.e. all those $f(X,Y,Z)$ for which $f(T,T^2,T^3)$ is the zero polynomial.  From this description it's clear that $\mathcal I(A)$ is a prime ideal, hence $A$ is irreducible.
The kernel of the surjective ring homomorphism $k[X,Y,Z] \rightarrow k[T]$ given by $f(X,Y,Z) \mapsto f(T, T^2, T^3)$ is exactly $\mathcal I(A)$, so this establishes the last claim.  From here we get that $$Dim(A) = Dim(k[X,Y,Z]/ \mathcal I(A) ) = Dim(k[T]) = 1$$ The only thing I haven't done is find generators for $\mathcal I(A)$, which is the radical of $I = (Y - X^2, Z - X^3)$.  Is $I$ a radical ideal ($\mathcal I(A) = I$)?  I'm having trouble seeing this.  Also, is there a more direct way to compute the dimension of $A$?

A: You may write down the isomorphism of coordinate ring explicitly: $k[X,Y,Z]/(Y-X^2,Z-X^3)\to k[T]$,by $(X,Y,Z)\mapsto(T,T^2,T^3)$ and $k[T]\to k[X,Y,Z]/(Y-X^2,Z-X^3)$, by $T\mapsto X$ are well defined and mutually inverse. Thus the rings are isomorphic. (From this you see the ideal is radical.)

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