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Jewish anti-Zionism and antisemitism
The news here is that Haaretz, Israel's far-Left daily, has published a stern rebuke of Jewish antisemitism (Prof. Steven Plaut, 11/11, https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1127159.html The Jew Flu: The strange illness of Jewish anti-Semitism By Uzi Silber, in 5 pages).
Haaretz surprises us, because usually it condemns Israel for much of its self-defense and has correspondents who encourage terrorism against fellow Jews. Like my earlier analysis of Jewish antisemitism, the newspaper's rebuke categorizes it as an emotional disease, typifies it in some of the same ways as my series on irrational anti-Zionism, has double standards, supports the side that believes in hatred and murder. The newspaper accords with my finding that Noam Chomsky (whom one of my critics cited as his authority against Israel) is afflicted with the psychosis.
I think that Martin Buber's case is more complicated. He opposed Jewish government, because he thinks that governments have too much power. I can understand some fevered Jewish minds agreeing, after hundreds of years during which the Jewish people had no power. If Buber were rational about it, he would not want to subordinate their people to a government by gentiles indoctrinated to hate them. But as the newspaper explains, the psychosis is accompanied by disloyalty to one's people.
This disloyalty is something that some of the comments I receive demonstrate is not understood by gentile anti-Zionists. They stereotype all Jews as alike, and assume that all Jews support Israel. False assumption.
Can we expect more, striking developments by Haaretz?
Here's the article:
The 1930s Labor Zionist leader Berl Katznelson asked "Is there another People on Earth so emotionally twisted that they consider everything their nation does despicable and hateful, while every murder, rape, robbery committed by their enemies fill their hearts with admiration and awe?"
This is Jew Flu – the virus of Jewish Anti-Semitism, and its Jewish Anti- and Post-Zionist mutations, afflicting a small but inordinately loud minority of Hebrews.
Its modern symptoms are a rejection of Israel's identity as a Jewish state and a dismissal of its right to defend itself militarily, while embracing the goals of its nihilistic Arab enemies. Those infected with the virus wildly inflate Israeli sins real or imagined, while excusing or rationalizing Palestinian anti-semitism and outrages against Jews.
Those afflicted with Jew Flu often view the notion of Peoplehood as an artifice, which implies a rejection of Jewish national self-determination and acceptance of the 90-year-old Palestinian Arab contention that Jews are not a nation but merely members of a religion, and as such don't merit a national home of their own.
Is Jew Flu a bona-fide illness? Michael Welner, a psychiatrist at New York University, suggests that Jewish Anti-Semitism is akin to a personality disorder, enabling a person to "derive some psychological benefit from this pathological thinking."
What causes Jew Flu? Harvard psychiatrist Kenneth Levin argues for twin culprits: so-called 'Stockholm Syndrome', where "population segments under chronic siege commonly embrace the indictments of their besiegers however bigoted and outrageous", as well as "the psychodynamics of abused children who blame themselves for their situation and believe they could mollify their tormenters if they were 'good'."
Julie Ancis, a psychology professor at Georgia State University says that it isn't "uncommon for a minority group with a history of oppression and persecution to possess internalized self-hatred regarding their cultural/religious identity."
I'm no therapist, but that won't restrain me from proposing my own theory for the ultimate cause of Jew Flu. More on that later.
Since the defamations of Jew Flu victims are propagated across the Internet and are extensively documented and challenged in many fine books and articles, repeating them here would be redundant.
Suffice it to say that Noam Chomsky, Daniel Boyarin, Joel Kovel, Avrum Burg, Ilan Pappe, Steve Quester, Jacqueline Rose, Tony Judt, Naomi Klein, Michael Neumann, Ben Ehrenreich, (the apparently "outed") Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and their ilk, spout pronouncements eerily similar to the propaganda routinely ejaculated by representatives of Fatah, Hamas or Hezbollah.
At the same time, a hearty "shout out" is due those who have made it their business to forcefully rebut the Jewish defamers, including Andrea Levin, Edward Alexander, Alan Dershowitz, David Solway and others. Those interested in a quick and free primer on Jew Flu should download Alvin Rosenfeld's UJA-sponsored brief, "Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism".
Jew Flu, of course, isn't new: It has lurked in our midst for millennia. Jews collaborated with Greeks, Romans and Inquisitors; Bolshevik self loathers displayed savagery towards their brethren; their prophet Karl Marx was described by author Rafael Patai as the "most influential of Jewish self haters", who thought "Israelite faith" most repugnant, and whose rabid anti-Semitism was attributed by the historian Simon Dubnow to "the natural hatred of the renegade for the camp he deserted."
Incredibly, certain young Jews in Weimar Germany, members of a certain Association of National-German Jews were sufficiently maddened by Jew Flu to attempt to "identify and ingratiate (themselves) with the Nazi Party".
Jew Flu developed its anti-Zionist strain in the decades preceding the creation of Israel: renowned philosopher Martin Buber of Hebrew University and others actually justified the Palestinian Arab pogroms of 1921, 1929 and the late 30s, urging that desperate Jewish holocaust refugees be permitted to enter Palestine only with Arab permission.
In 1944, and with the destruction of European Jewry proceeding apace, Lessing Rosenwald, the President of the American Council for Judaism equated the ideal of Jewish Statehood with the concept of a racial state "the Hitlerian concept".
Following remission during the post-Holocaust years, Jewry experienced a relapse of Jew Flu in the aftermath of the '67 Six Day War. In the U.S., young Jewish radicals of the New Left branded Israel a fascist, colonial power while praising Arab countries as progressive and revolutionary – unsurprising since many were Soviet client states.
They remained largely silent as Soviet tanks crushed the 1968 Prague Spring – presumably a 'progressive' development.
New Left sentiments found expression in Israel even during the aftermath of the traumatic Yom Kippur War; at a Tel Aviv reception in late 1973, my mother found herself amid a chatty crowd of cocktailing cultural figures casually dismissive of their own country's right to exist.
The infection among Israel's cultural elites intensified through the Lebanon War and the two Intifadas that sandwiched the delusional Oslo era. As author Aharon Meged lamented in 1994, there existed "an emotional and moral identification by the majority of Israel's intelligentsia, and its print and electronic media, with people committed to our annihilation."
Epitomizing this "moral identification" were the certain prominent Jewish journalists who, according to Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea, crucially failed the so-called 'lynch test', by exhibiting an inability to ever criticize Palestinian terror, even following the widely-televised gruesome execution of two Jews by a Palestinian mob in Ramallah In 2000.
It was at this time that Jew Flu claimed a childhood friend of mine. We?d come of age together in the early '80s, like-minded Zionists, he more "Kahanish" in temperament. Immigrating to Israel the day after graduation, he'd serve in theIDF, settle in Jerusalem, marry, spawn a brood, and settle into the life of an Israeli academic, where anti Zionist stances are common and open identification as an Israeli patriot is tantamount to career suicide.
Infection struck during the Oslo years: before the millennium was out, the youthful Kahanist yeshiva boy had morphed into a militant Jewish Anti Zionist, mindlessly spouting hackneyed and malicious anti-Israel canards on leftwing and Arab websites, and regularly consorting with a posse of Arab academics in Ramallah.
This episode recalled a scene from "Radio Days", the Woody Allen movie in which an uncle fasting on Yom Kippur indignantly watches the Jewish communists next door brazenly barbecuing. In Holiday suit he marches out the front door to scold the Reds on their evil ways, only to return shortly after chewing on a chicken drumstick, indignantly decrying religion as the opiate of the masses.
Those like my friend afflicted with Jew Flu deny their infection, contending that criticism of Israel isn't Anti-Semitism or even Anti-Israel.
Helpfully, Natan Sharansky formulated his so-called 3D litmus test to clearly distinguish mere Israel critics from Jew Flu victims, and has allowed me to diagnose my old friend.
As it turns out, the afflicted regularly engage in at least one of the following -Demonization (comparing Israeli actions to Nazism and referring to Arab refugee camps as Auschwitz);- Double Standards (singling out Israel for human rights abuses while ignoring the blatant human rights violators such as Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Palestinian Authority, North Korea, Cuba, China, Myanmar etc); and Delegitimization (denying Israel the fundamental right to exist as a Jewish state)
During March 2002, Jihadist suicide murderers were exploding on Israeli buses every other day, massacring and maiming hundreds of Jews in a cascade of latter-day pogroms; savage images of Haim Nahman Bialik's monumental poem, "City of Slaughter" blazed across the broken land.
125 Jews were massacred and hundreds were wounded by Palestinian suicide murderers that month. Yet unsurprisingly my stricken friend declined comment.
My friend seems to amuse his Arab colleagues: Appearing at a conference some years ago at Cairo's American University, an Egyptian fellow panelist quipped to the audience that our mutual friend was "more pro-Palestinian than me – I am more pro-Israel than him."
Incidentally, this college has since instituted a ban on Israeli academics.
At this point allow me to complicate things: It's easy to assume that those struck with Jew Flu would be contemptuous of Jewish religious observance. They often hold Marxist views, which would imply an atheist outlook.
Yet what one should one make of my friend who performs Kiddush on Friday nights, fasts on Yom Kippur and uses two sets of dishes in his kosher kitchen? Would such Jewish customs be performed by an anti-Semite?
Knesset speaker Avrum Burg is a lifelong modern orthodox Jew, a skull capped davener whose Jew Flu was latent for years but burst out into the open when he took to smearing Israel in Nazi-like browns.
Daniel and Jonathan Boyarin are pleasant, prominent and yarmulked professors of Jewish history who don tefilin daily, daven on Shabbat and holidays and are easily mistaken in appearance for West Bank settlers.
Yet Daniel is comfortable vilifying Israel regularly as a violent outlaw state. And Jonathan admitted to me some years ago during an especially sweaty Simchat Torah "hakafa" on the Lower East Side that his views are identical if not even more radical than Daniel's (if that was possible.)
Actually, it is interesting that the views of such radical yet observant Jews resemble the tenets of Catholic Liberation Theology. But could such a trio be accused of outright anti-Semitism?
The Burgs and Boyarins of this world have long revered another devout Jew, the departed Yishayahu Leibowitz, a renowned scholar, recipient of the Israel Prize, and editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia, a Jerusalemite who habitually referred to drafted Israeli soldiers who happened to be defending his charmed way of life as "Judeo-Nazis".
Was Leibowitz an anti-Semite?
Submitting their pronouncements to the Sharansky test demonstrates that even tefilin wearing, kosher food eating Kiddush reciters can speak and write like an Anti Semite
But back to the elusive cause of Jew Flu: what makes one Jew vulnerable and not another? Wouldn't a far larger proportion of Jews fall prey to Jew Flu if, say, Stockholm syndrome was the culprit? Is there a prime mover, some physiological or neurological smoking gun pointing to a root cause?
There may be. David Brooks recently reported in the New York Times on research by a Haifa University team led by Reem Yahya who studied the brains scans of Arabs and Jews while showing them images of hands and feet in painful situations.
Brooks reports that "the two cultures perceived pain differently. The Arabs perceived higher levels of pain over all while the Jews were more sensitive to pain suffered by members of a group other than their own (italics my own.)"
This phenomenon was epitomized by Rosa Luxemburg, a prominent Bolshevik and Jew Flu victim. "I have no room in my heart for Jewish suffering," declared Rosa the Red. "Why do you pester me with Jewish troubles? I feel closer to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations of Putumayo or the Negroes in Africa… I have no separate corner in my heart for the ghetto."
And then there's the modest story Ahmad the cabbie related to me last week as we drove through Eilat-like Palm Springs: Ahmad's brother in Nablus was employed for many years by an Israeli Jewish building contractor. When the outbreak of Intifada in 2000 permanently barred Ahmad's brother from work in Israel, his Jewish boss continued to pay the brother's salary for five years.
The intriguing research out of Haifa suggests that Jews may very well be inherently altruistic. But while exhibiting more sensitivity to another group's pain is one thing, embracing the goals of people openly committed to one's destruction is a form of madness.
So here's my ultimate theory for the cause of this nefarious virus: Jew Flu is a condition in which being "more sensitive to pain suffered by members of a group other than (one's) own metastasizes into a malignant emotional and moral identification with people committed to (one's) annihilation."
Like any other virus, Jew Flu is contagious but containable. Yet ultimately incurable
Originally published here: https://www.examiner.com/x-7095-NY-Israel-Conflict-Examiner~y2009m11d12-Jewish-antiZionism-and-antisemitism


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I'm currently working on a project where I have no control over the HTML that I am applying CSS styles to. And the HTML is not very well labelled, in the sense that there are not enough id and class declarations to differentiate between elements.
So, I'm looking for ways I can apply styles to objects that don't have an id or class attribute.
Sometimes, form items have a "name" or "value" attribute:
<input type="submit" value="Go" name="goButton">
Is there a way I can apply a style based on name="goButton"? What about "value"?
It's the kind of thing that's hard to find out because a Google search will find all sorts of instances in which broad terms like "name" and "value" will appear in web pages.
I'm kind of suspecting the answer is no... but perhaps someone has a clever hack?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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It's not easy for the NSA to keep violating the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution – which bans warrantless searches – say two groups, the Tenth Amendment Center and the Bill of Rights Defence Committee.
For one thing, it takes a lot of water.
Massive data-mining facilities hold the data the NSA pulls in, including the new $1.5 billion data center in Utah, which the groups say uses 1.7 million gallons a day to cool off super-hot servers that hold a mind-boggling amount of data (when they aren't popping fuses).
Cut off the water, and you cut off the NSA, the thinking goes.
As it is, the need for electricity and water is the spy agency's Achilles Heel, the groups point out on a site devoted to putting an arrow through that heel.
To get at that heel, states could cut off not only water but also access to public utilities and services, they suggest, including sanitation, road repair, electricity, and any other resources the NSA needs to keep the show on the road.
The groups suggest that states keep anybody from making a buck off the deal by inflicting "severe penalties" on businesses that might step up to sell the NSA the resources it so badly needs.
The grassroots campaign has come up with model legislation (PDF) – the "4th Amendment Protection Act" – for states to resist what it calls the "unconstitutional NSA programs [our link] that violate the 4th Amendment billions of times each week".
The legal rationale behind cutting off the NSA's supply chain is called "anti-commandeering", the groups say, and has been used in the past to resist the federal government in matters including returning runaway slaves.
From the site:
[Anti-commandeering is] the principle that the federal government doesn't have the authority to force the states (or local communities) to carry out federal laws, regulatory programs, and the like. The Supreme Court affirmed this three times in recent years, the cases being: 1997 Printz, 2002 New York, 2012 Sebelius. It also affirmed this doctrine in the 1842 Prigg case where states refused to assist the federal government in capturing and returning runaway slaves. This is also consistent with what James Madison advised when writing about the Constitution in Federalist #46. Among the four steps he advised as "powerful means" to oppose federal power was "a refusal to cooperate with officers of the Union."
The "Turn It Off" campaign hopes that states that adopt versions of its proposed law would, at minimum, force the NSA to reconsider its collection tactics, if not evict the agency and force it to find a new home(s).
The bill has been introduced in ten states and has spawned related actions, including a campaign to cut off the NSA's juice in Washington State that's received over 18,000 signatures.
Here are updates on versions of the legislation now wending their way through the legislative process (or getting stopped and frisked by law enforcement, as the case may be) in the states of Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire and Washington.
If not literally frisked, the proposed legislation is going to bump up against law enforcement agencies that don't want to stop doing warrantless surveillance.
That was made clear by Brett Hildabrand, the Representative who introduced Kansas's version of the "Turn It Off" legislation.
On Tuesday, Hildabrand tweeted that in a hearing over his bill, local law enforcement admitted that the bill's disallowing of warrantless surveillance would throw a monkey wrench into their own operations.
That's because, as the sheriff's department admitted, they now scan license plates and store data "of law-abiding citizens," Hildabrand wrote – something that HB 2124 would outlaw in its current form.
The Kansas sheriff's department is far from alone when it comes to local law enforcement's increasing use of not only license plate readers but a medley of other surveillance gizmos: gunshot-detection sensors, data-mining of social media posts for criminal activity, tracking of toll payments when drivers use electronic passes, and even at least one drone (in Texas; police in California's Alameda County wanted one too, but public protest forced them to give up that particular toy purchase).
I reached out to Hildabrand to get his take on whether this legislation has a snowball's chance in hell of getting passed in any state, given not only resistance from local law enforcement but also the money and high-paying jobs that come out of the NSA's data centers.
I'll update the story if he gets back to me.
In the meantime, please feel free to share your take on snowballs and having the cojones to stand up to the federal government in this manner in the comments section below.
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10 Brands Doing Post-Advertising Right: Fall Edition
Each week, our social media team at Story hops on a conference call discuss the latest and greatest in the world of social media, content marketing, brand storytelling and the like. While most everyone would admit that meetings are rarely fun, I look forward to this call because I love to talk social-media shop.
Considering how quickly marketing happens in the post-advertising age, we aren't able to cover everything on the blog and a lot of great work that we discuss on our weekly call falls through the cracks. In the last year, we've made it a point to highlight the brands each season that have embraced Post-Advertising and have focused their efforts on creating engaging content and igniting movements that spread.
It's been six long months since our last edition, so let's get on with it! Here are Ten Brands Doing Post-Advertising Right: Fall Edition.


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Visualize this!15 Aug, 2004 By: Ron LaFon
Software to take your designs to the next level.
Although I've reported on this industry for a number of years, I'm still fascinated by being able to turn an idea into a photorealistic image complete with textures, fabrics, and reflections and share it with someone else. This type of communication, made possible by the PC, has revolutionized the way we design, develop, and market products and projects. Apparently I'm not alone in this fascination, as rendering and visualization software capable of producing exquisitely detailed images has become popular far beyond the domain of those who produce such work professionally.
These days it's typical for CAD applications to incorporate rudimentary shading and visualization tools in their basic feature sets. You can add more powerful visualization tools via software plug-ins. Once you get into the more extensive design applications, the sophistication of the visualization tools either included or available as add-ons increases significantly, with the distinction between design and visualization often blurring.
Some applications generally thought of as rendering and visualization tools are quite adept at creating models, and some stand-alone rendering applications are designed strictly for the visualization process.
Beyond the rendering process, this roundup includes postrendering tools such as Informatix's Piranesi that remove the hyper-realistic and sometimes hard-edged computerized look and mimic the subtlety of traditional artistic media.
Rendering applications are, it seems, never fast enough. Just when computer systems increase in horsepower and should theoretically be able to cut the times involved in creating these highly detailed images, applications implement new features, effectively canceling any performance gains that the hardware might have provided. I guess we can't complain too much, because even though the process never seems to get any faster, the images produced are more breathtaking and realistic.
New features often include an assortment of rendering options—ray-tracing, Gouraud shading, and radiosity among them. Support is increasing for HDRI (high dynamic range images). You can use these to create an image that contains more color information than traditional photographic processes. In conjunction with radiosity rendering solutions, they produce more realistic environmental lighting.
The world of rendering and visualization software is healthy and continually evolving, providing us with tools to communicate design ideas and concepts to others. At the deadline for this article, we received announcements for two new applications—ArchVision Composer and CAD Render Studio. See p 20 and 25, respectively, for more information.
Price: ImageStudio 1.0, $3,999; StudioTools 11, starts at $7,500
Alias is known for its 3D graphics technology, which includes both software and custom development and training for the film, video, game development, interactive media, industrial design, and visualization markets. Perhaps the most famous Alias product is its Maya software, which is widely used in the entertainment industry. Lord of the Rings and The Mummy are two of the recent films that used Maya's capabilities.
Alias StudioTools and ImageStudio create dynamic industrial design renderings. Image credit: RayBan.
Other Alias applications include Alias SketchBook Pro, a sketching, annotation, and presentation application for the Wacom Tablet and the Tablet PC. For the design industry, Alias produces such applications as StudioTools and PortfolioWall.
StudioTools is a scalable software line that starts with DesignStudio as the entry-level design system, progressing to Alias Studio, and finally to AutoStudio, its top-of-the-line product that includes all options. StudioTools offers both 2D and 3D design tools and supports a number of file formats for importing and exporting. See the feature table on p. 24 and online for more details.
Alias ImageStudio is a relatively new rendering application that transforms 3D models into high-quality visual images. ImageStudio has an easy-to-use interface and customizable preset assets that, in combination with scene preparation tools and superb output, let you focus more on designing and less on preparing 3D images.
ImageStudio uses the mental ray renderer and includes an image-based lighting environment that supports HDRI for enhanced realism. Visualizations produced in ImageStudio are of high quality without entangling you in the myriad details and subtleties of lighting.
At the top end of the spectrum for advanced visualization, Alias released Maya 6, which includes many features for the creation of design visualizations. This includes integration with tools such as AutoCAD, StudioTools, Adobe Photoshop, and Illustrator. Maya's rendering options can create a myriad of image styles, from a Flash or line drawing to a photorealistic image using the integrated mental ray renderer. Animation and special effects can be added to visualize both form and function and create compelling presentations.
Bill Fane reviewed Alias StudioTools and ImageStudio in the February 2004 issue of Cadalyst (p. 20) and gave the products a deserved five-star Highly Recommended rating. That review noted that StudioTools offers powerful 2D conceptualization tools and excellent 3D surface modeling. As you might expect of an application that is available for multiple platforms, the interface doesn't always adhere to standard Windows conventions.
It's not possible to cover even a fraction of the features and capabilities here, but you can read Bill's review online at www.cadalyst.com/studiotools.htm . Alias provides demo versions of most of its applications, including StudioTools and Maya, at its Web site (www.alias.com ). Here you'll also find forums, user groups, customer stories, and a wealth of information and tools for visualization.
AUTODESK VIZ 2005Autodesk
Price: $1,895; $445 upgrade from 2004/3.x
Autodesk VIZ 2005 has many changes when compared with previous versions—some immediately visible, others not. With the release of Autodesk VIZ 2005, the development of VIZ moved from Autodesk's discreet division back to Autodesk. Autodesk VIZ has often been viewed as a stripped-down version of discreet's 3ds max, and in the best sense that is true. Take away the ability to create particles, deformable models, and the reactor system, and the underlying core is essentially the same.
Autodesk VIZ 2005 now supports radiosity rendering.
As soon as you see the new VIZ menu, you'll know that there are changes. The Draft option, Tab panel, and orientation toolbars are gone. New here are a resizable, modeless Layer Manager dialog box—this feature will make many VIZ users very happy—and a light list that shows all the lights in a scene and is easy to modify. Light assemblies, with associated dimmers, make this a truly useful modification.
For realistic results, you can simply position lights in a scene the way you would in the real world. You can use luminaire photometric data or even complete 3D luminaire models from manufacturer Web sites. With the enhanced daylight system in this new release, you can specify location, date, time, and cloud cover conditions.
The previous release of VIZ introduced global illumination technology, which simulates the real-world behavior of light bouncing off multiple surfaces. VIZ 2005 expands its rendering repertoire with mental ray rendering technology to incorporate the most subtle lighting effects.
VIZ now fully supports HDRI. You now have the option of rendering to texture so that you can create custom textures that contain color depths beyond what is available in traditional rendering. Rendering presets are new in this release, as is command-line rendering. An Isoline display option displays easy-to-understand meshes on-screen. This is particularly useful for complex or crowded scenes.
Archvision Composer is a stand-alone application that lets you add RPC images to 2D renderings and photographs.
VIZ 2005's new high-quality, physically based architectural materials reflect the physical characteristics of real-world materials and work well with the lighting and rendering system.
You can effectively manage schematic views as animated assemblies. Schematic view presents a single diagrammatic view of all related moving parts for effective analysis and modification of linkages.
Autodesk notes that this release of VIZ is more stable overall. This, combined with the extensive usability improvements and new features, makes it an even more flexible and powerful tool than previous iterations.
The enhanced interoperability between VIZ 2005 and other Autodesk applications will ease workflow considerations. This release of VIZ is a significant one that brings both depth and a degree of maturity to a popular visualization product.
VIZ 2005 offers more significant features than I can possibly touch on in this limited space—and that's a good thing for you.
Price: $1,495-$2,390
form•Z is available in many versions for a variety of operating systems—great news if you're in a mixed computing environment or work with service bureaus that use different equipment. form•Z is a solid and surface modeler with an extensive set of 2D and 3D form manipulating and sculpting tools. The basic feature set makes form•Z suitable for architects, landscape architects, engineers, animators, illustrators, and industrial and interior designers.
Created using form•Z RadioZity v4.1.4, this image shows a rendered window view using a lens flare.
auto•des•sys has an active user base for its line of visualization products. The form•Z graphical interface is very flexible, featuring multiple windows, tear-off tool palettes, and virtually unlimited Undo and Redo functions. Key shortcuts are customizable, and integrated 2D and 3D operation modes let you work in either 2D or 3D space.
You can move meshes symmetrically according to a predefined profile, randomly, or according to a mathematical formula. You can apply deformation operations to bend and twist meshed objects, and you can use image-based displacements to imprint a shape on both flat and previously meshed surfaces.
With various versions available, you can find the specific set of capabilities that you need. form•Z RenderZone includes photorealistic rendering based on the LightWorks rendering engine. This version offers seven levels of rendering: flat, Gouraud, Phong, preview and full z-buffer, and preview and full raytrace. Soft (bit-mapped) and hard (ray-traced) shadows are produced by all rendering levels above Phong.
RenderZone uses state-of-the-art shaders to render surfaces and other effects. You can attach as many as 32 decals on top of other surface styles to produce a variety of rendering effects.
form•Z RadioZity includes the features of RenderZone and radiosity-based rendering driven by the LightWorks radiosity engine. Using form•Z RadioZity, you can accurately simulate light distribution in an environment. Once radiosity solutions are generated in form•Z RadioZity, you can render them using one of the rendering modes available in form•Z RenderZone. Generated radiosity solutions can also be rendered using OpenGL (Windows) or QD3D (Macintosh) to provide real-time interactive manipulation of the accurately shaded images.
In addition to the light types included in the base version of form•Z, RadioZity incorporates area and custom light types that you can use to produce radiosity solutions and renderings.
auto•des•sys has a reputation for being responsive to customer needs, and many features in form•Z originated from customer requests. Online forums, regular updates on the Web sites, and the easy availability of online product updates all contribute to the strength of the form•Z user base. The company's online gallery of user visualizations serves as inspiration and as a very good advertisement of form•Z's capabilities.
PIRANESI 3Informatix Software International
Price: $750
Cadalyst has reviewed Piranesi 3 in past years, and it continues to be an important product for visualizers. Piranesi 3 differs from all the other applications included here because it's a post-rendering application in which you apply effects once you render your basic model.
Support for Piranesi is built into an ever-increasing variety of applications. Programs that generate Piranesi's EPIX file format, natively or via plug-ins, include 3ds max, VIZ, ArchiCAD, Architectural Desktop, Art*lantis, Autodesk Building Systems, Cinema 4D R8, form•Z, LightWave, MicroStation, MicroGDS, NavisWorks, RenderWorks, and SketchUp. You can find a list of updated plug-ins and availability on the Informatix Web site.
The primary design for this building was first created in AutoCAD and Rhino, and then rendered using Piranesi 3. Image credit: Richard Carnaggio, Cohen & Company.
The Windows version of Piranesi now supports ArchVision's RPC (rich photorealistic content) cutouts. You can choose the viewing angle that you want from the individual RPC file, and shadows are automatically cast. The ability to use RPC images within Piranesi makes it easy to add people and items to your illustrations without increasing the file size too much.
Piranesi includes Vedute, an important tool for anyone working with a modeler or renderer that doesn't directly generate Piranesi EPIX files. Vedute is significantly improved for Piranesi 3 and is available only with Piranesi 3, not as a free download. The Vedute viewer is supplied with all versions of Piranesi on both Windows and Mac and can produce Piranesi EPIX and EPIX panorama images from DXF and AutoCAD 3DS files.
IMSIs CAD Render Studio provides photorealistic rendering, animation, and publishing for those without 3D visual modeling functionality.
One cool capability is Piranesi's ability to produce the remarkable effect of a Quicktime Panorama that lets you pan or move around inside, for example, a watercolor visualization—certainly a striking and memorable effect. This is possible because Piranesi 3 can paint cubic panoramas, in which a point is surrounded by an imaginary cube. Each face of the cube contains an image with color, depth, and material values. You can then export these views as MOV (movie) files and display them on free players such as Apple's QuickTime. These movie files let you pan up, down, and around a particular spot in real time.
You can use all of the effects with panoramas. Piranesi automatically manages distortions caused by projection to and from the faces of a cube, so rendering a panoramic scene is just as easy as rendering a normal flat image. Two new effects, linear direction fades and cube textures, are introduced for specific use with panoramas.
Table 1 Visualization Software Features*
Informatix has built each new version of Piranesi on the original application and hasn't added features simply for features' sake. This clarity of concept, along with Piranesi's compatibility with a broad range of applications, has made it a very popular visualization tool. Piranesi is designed for those who want to avoid hyper-realistic, sharp-edged visualizations that scream "computer generated."
Piranesi 4 is scheduled to debut in September. According to the company, the new version extends 2D cutout capabilities to 3D models. It also comes with new brushes, filters, and more than 300 new cutout and texture images.
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NUGRAF RENDERING SYSTEM 4.1.2Okino Computer Graphics
Price: $495
The NuGraf Rendering System is a complete design solution. A speedy and capable renderer, it comes with top-quality converters and optimization tools for a broad range of graphic file formats. It handles all forms of geometry, including NURBS and meshes. These characteristics are complemented by a well-designed interface and the ability to process and render huge files quickly and with minimal memory. An extensive Help system is available for when you do have questions.
The NuGraf Rendering System is solid and reliable. Okino is well-known for its conversion capabilities, which are truly outstanding. New since we reviewed the system last year is a free IRIT Modeler exporter module from Technion University, a free Leveller height field exporter by Daylon Graphics, and certification for Autodesk Inventor v8 compliance. PolyTrans and NuGraf v4.1 customers can now download the Houdini Geo import converter and a new MilkShape-3D import converter that bridges the gap between the most popular 3D gaming file formats.
Okinos NuGraf imports assemblies, such as this one from Pro/ENGINEER, for rendering. Image credit: Genexis Design.
At the source level, there are really no differences between PolyTrans and NuGraf. At the functional level, NuGraf is the full-blown application and PolyTrans is a simpler version. PolyTrans doesn't include the full ray-tracing functionality or advanced rendering features such as lens flares, perspective match, and ray tracing. It also doesn't offer interactive texture projections, polygon level picking, material assignments, or horizontal toolbars. PolyTrans plug-ins are available for Maya, 3ds max, XSI, and Macromedia Director.
The current release of the NuGraf Rendering System supports 18 major CAD formats in addition to formats from animation packages such as Lightwave, Softimage, 3ds max, Maya, and others. A listing of all its major new features and new 3D/2D file formats is online at www.okino.com/version_comparisons.htm .
Okino focuses on the quality and accuracy of its translation capabilities. After some sixteen years dedicated to creating a seamless and cost-effective bridge to move CAD assemblies from the CAD world into animation and visual simulation, Okino has definite ideas of what does and does not constitute a quality product. This eye for detail and quality is reflected in its products.
You can download demos of PolyTrans and NuGraf for Windows. There's also an optional download of the Okino Plug-Ins Super Installer to install native import and export converters in 3ds max, Maya, Softimage-XSI, and Macromedia Director (import). A command-line demo of PolyTrans is available for Silicon Graphics IRIX (UNIX).
Price: $495
Price: $1,195
Price: $1,195
PENGUIN (with AutoCAD or Rhino)
Price: $195
Robert McNeel and AssociatesRobert McNeel & Associates produces a broad range of visualization products. Its current lineup includes AccuRender 3 and 4 (beta version), Rhino 3 (NURBS modeler), Flamingo (for rendering within Rhino), and Penguin 3D (a conceptual, sketch, and cartoon nonphotometric scan line renderer for creating stylized images in Rhino and AutoCAD). Among these products are several adept and flexible rendering applications.
Arguably the best-known product from Robert McNeel & Associates is also one of its first: AccuRender. AccuRender creates photorealistic images from 3D models inside AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop, Mechanical Desktop, and Revit. The basic technology behind AccuRender is also used within Flamingo, which provides the same functions inside Rhino.
The top-level AccuRender 4 (beta) menu provides access to its various functions. You can also use a basic AccuRender toolbar for this purpose so you can bypass this screen.
AccuRender uses ray-tracing and radiosity technologies to create realistic stills, panoramas, and animations. AccuRender 3 supports multiprocessors and background processing and is fairly speedy in its production of images.
If, during the process of watching a rendering appear, you see something you must correct or change, you can interrupt AccuRender while processing to revise material assignments and lighting. AccuRender 4 is currently in beta. It offers more than 25 major new features—among them a global illumination light dome with HDRI support, an enhanced user interface, and network distributed rendering.
As we go to press with this article, most of the major new features in AccuRender 4 are complete and the final bug fixing and refinement process is well underway. As with other products from Robert McNeel & Associates, the AccuRender 4 beta is an open beta, free for all to participate and provide input.
AutoCAD 2005 with the basic AccuRender 4 "top level" menu, the AccuRender toolbar, and an open dialog box for the plant libraries.
AccuRender supports AutoCAD 2002-2005 as well as Architectural Desktop and Mechanical Desktop. Once you load AccuRender 4, type AR4 at the command line to load the new interface or AR3 to retain the old interface.
Among the other features currently included in the AccuRender 4 beta are a content browser with drag-and-drop support and Windows Explorer integration of materials, plants, light, and RPC content. Architectural Desktop support is improved, and materials and plants are now saved in the DWF file for easy pack-and-go operations.
AccuRender 4 now includes an Environment Manager with support for multiple environments and templates. AutoCAD Property Manager integration for AccuRender object properties is included. Floor Elevations Manager is also new, as is a batch-rendering manager. Rendering changes include support for the Piranesi EPIX file format, a nonphotometric raytracer, sun and parallel light soft shadows, and a globally reflected environment option.
Expected, but not yet implemented, features include coMOTION animations, distributed rendering for single frames and animations, polygonal groundcover, and more materials, plants and objects. Among the new post-render, real-time capabilities are depth of field, glare, and haze. Check www.accurender.com for the latest service packs and beta versions of AccuRender.;
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A fascinating true-crime story, elegant period detail, and Clint Eastwood's consummate filmmaking technique mask many of the flaws of Changeling, a would-be Oscar contender starring Angelina Jolie. Though Changeling depicts a boy's mysterious disappearance and inconceivable, perhaps related serial crimes committed by a madman, J. Michael Straczynski's well-researched script (or Eastwood's film anyway) tells something less than the whole story in order to encapsulate it within a 141-minute running time. Even setting aside this quibble, Changeling lacks enough grit and intellect to convert moody melodrama into thoughtful drama. As thoughtful as it gets: the doubly stated family motto "Never start a fight. Always finish it."
Jolie plays single mother Christine Collins, who in 1928 waited in vain for her nine-year-old son Walter to return home one night (Straczynski alters the circumstances slightly for dramatic effect). The stymied LAPD, already facing public outcry for being "on the take," believe some good press has landed in their laps when a boy turns up in Illinois and announces that he is the missing boy. Triumphantly, Captain J.J. Jones (Jeffrey Donovan) proffers the boy to Christine at the train station, as the eager press awaits a photo op. With one look at the boy, Christine is crestfallen: this, she insists, isn't her son. Jones, knowing the police department can't afford not to have solved this case, proves equally insistent. He suggests the distraught Christine must be mistaken. "Try the boy out," he says. In a fog of emotion and confusion, Christine agrees to play along, posing for photographs and taking the boy home.
It's quickly apparent that "Walter" isn't whom he claims to be, setting off a chain of events that pit Christine and a newfound ally—radio preacher Rev. Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich)—against Jones and his cronies. Coercion is used against the innocent and the guilty, with women and, especially, Christine getting the worst of it. Collins' and Briegleb's heroism, then, becomes not only a crusade against police corruption but a feminist quest for social justice, eventually finding its way to an improperly institutionalized mental patient, a composite character played by Amy Ryan ("If we're insane, nobody has to listen to us"). A second composite character becomes involved: a detective (Michael Kelly), whose apprehension of another "lost boy" points the way to a psychopath (Jason Butler Harner) who may have the answers Christine needs. The mystery may keep audiences guessing, to a point, but there's never a question of where to point our righteous indignation, never a doubt that Christine is both victim and strident hero.
Though there's more truth than fiction here, it's a shame Straczynski felt the need to embroider the tale in spots and cushion it in others. Citing a desire not to indulge the story's more lurid elements, the film omits the psycho's real-life partner in crime (his grandmother, who he thought was his mother) and purposefully obfuscates the depth of his perversion (my kingdom for a James Ellroy!). The choices seem calculated to make the film more voter-friendly in Oscar season—certainly they don't serve the purpose of being as truthful as possible. Along these lines, Changeling amounts to an Oscar showcase: perhaps for Eastwood, as per industry standard; perhaps for Malkovich, cast brilliantly against type as a heroic stiff; and certainly for Angelina Jolie, who—despite giving one of her most resonant leading performances—can't quite shake the regal bearing that stands between her and a realistic Everywoman performance.
Universal gives a typically flawless A/V transfer to Changeling. The image perfectly recreates Eastwood's visual design, with a spotless and attractive image that yields plenty of detail, even in shadows, and accurate color. The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track offers subtle surround effects and presents a definitive home-video rendering of the theatrical soundscape.
Universal's U-Control is the main vehicle for the bonus features here: Archives pops up with photos, headlines and so forth from the historical record; Los Angeles: Then and Now uses vintage and contemporary footage and photos to compare 1928 L.A. to 2008 L.A.; and a Picture in Picture track includes behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast (including Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich) and crew (including Clint Eastwood, writer J. Michael Straczynski and producers Brian Grazer and Robert Lorenz).
Two other featurettes live on the disc. The first, "Partners in Crime: Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie" (13:33, HD) features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Eastwood, Jolie, Malkovich, Straczynski, Grazer, Eddie Alderson, Gattlin Griffith, Colm Feore, Jason Butler Harner, Denis O'Hare, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Donovan, Michael Kelly, costume designer Deborah Hopper, production designer James Murakami, Lorenz, and location manager Patrick Mignano. The focus is on Eastwood's method, beloved by cast and crew.
"The Common Thread: Angelina Jolie Becomes Christine Collins" (4:58, HD) focuses, briefly, on Jolie's work, with interviews from Jolie, Eastwood, and Hopper.
Universal includes its My Scenes bookmarking feature and the BD-Live hookup to additional online content.
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Dropped by the Blunt Club at PI last night with KuK and Tony D, as a nice little break before the Sedona Slamboree this weekend.
The place has some good air, tight rhymes, and cheap beer. Tony D got hammered but performed well. A dude from Philly dropped a political piece with some great rhythms and rhymes that set the night off because another performer was from NYC. Spitting lines about dissing the flag and suggesting 9-11 was a hoax ... not a good idea sometimes. This NYC first off started shouting, then a full on mooning, then lost it at the end, violently shouting and punching the stage after the kid finished. Ah, the power of words.
From fuckin' out of nowhere, Mike 360 showed up from Albuquerque. I met him in ALB and Seattle when he was big ball of hate, damn-the-white-man rage, and he totally missed the point of slam. Have a good time. He's lost the militancy, still has an edge, and his political poem was beautiful. Tony D reported having heard the same poem in ALB and their regional tournament. What a flash.
I did "He Needs it Bad" for Tony D. I could milk it without a time limit. It's always a crowd pleaser but not a particularly good poem; it's just a list performed over the top. But it was something good to leave a first time impression with the hosts; being able to play off previous poets. I scored 2nd place and won some tickets to a DJ contest.
Seeing the Drunken Immortals was cool because it's been a long time, but after the hip-hop I heard in St. Louis, Detroit, NYC, and Chicago on the Save the Male Tour, the locals are dull and repetitive. The bass was too hot, the treble too low, and there were no original beats; it was 3 minutes of the same rhythm with rhymes thrown over, like a pack of kids rapping to a CD or the radio. If you're a live band, fucking use it.
Leave for Sedona in 2 hrs.
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(HealthDay)—When doctors suspect a patient has a urinary tract infection, they often request a urine sample so they can test for the presence of bacteria. Now, new research suggests this step may be unnecessary.
Nearly one-quarter of women who had signs of a urinary tract infection—a burning feeling when urinating or feeling an urgent need to pee—had no evidence of bacteria in their urine or in their bladders, the study found. And although a number of urine culture tests found a variety of different bacteria, only one bug—Escherichia coli—was found in both the urine test and the bladder.
These findings suggest that today's lab tests may not be refined enough to detect very small quantities of bacteria in the bladder. It's also possible that the symptoms may not be caused by a bladder infection, but instead may be caused by an infection in the urethra, the tube that allows urine to pass out of the body. Or, inflammation in the urethra might be causing the symptoms, rather than bacteria.
"Our study provides further evidence that midstream urine cultures don't routinely need to be done. Most labs don't quantify low enough unless you specifically ask them to. Most women are treated right away for symptoms anyway, because the urine culture doesn't come back for two days,†explained the study's lead author, Dr. Thomas Hooton, a professor of medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida.
Hooton added that a short course of antibiotics is likely to be effective, and that it's important to keep studying urinary tract infections. In particular, he said, "we need to know more about exactly what causes symptoms.â€
Results of the study were published in the Nov. 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Urinary tract infections (also called UTIs or acute cystitis) are common bacterial infections, responsible for about 9 million doctor's visits in the United States every year, according to the study.
The bacteria responsible for the infection is generally found through a test of urine collected when someone goes to the bathroom. Urine collected directly from the bladder would yield more accurate results because there are fewer places for the urine to potentially become contaminated. But collecting urine from the bladder requires insertion of a catheter, an uncomfortable, invasive and more expensive procedure.
However, the 226 women included in the current study volunteered to collect a midstream urine sample, and immediately after allowed another sample to be collected directly from their bladder via a catheter.
All of the women were healthy, premenopausal women who had symptoms of a bladder infection.
When the researchers found E. coli in the midstream urine sample, it was also quite likely that they would find it in the bladder urine, too. However, when other types of bacteria were found in the midstream urine sample, they often didn't correlate to bacteria in the bladder.
The researchers also found that when other bacteria were in the midstream urine sample, E. coli was often present in the bladder urine samples.
"E. coli is probably causing most infections,†said Hooton.
"Our findings are further confirmation that collection of urine has limited usefulness. You don't get the results back for two days, and just practically speaking, it's an added cost because we know E. coli causes most UTIs,†noted Hooton.
If your physician decides to treat you without asking for a urine sample to culture, that's reasonable, said the author of an accompanying journal editorial, Dr. Michael Donnenberg, a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
But Donnenberg noted that this study raises a number of questions, too: "Do bacteria in the urethra cause symptoms? And, if they do, does treating them make the symptoms go away more quickly?â€
The test relied on today needs to be refined if it continues to be used in clinical practice, he suggested. Millions of these tests are still performed annually, he wrote in the editorial.
Both experts said more research on when antibiotics are helpful and when they're not might help reduce potentially unnecessary antibiotic use. Reducing unnecessary antibiotic use is important because of concerns about growing antibiotic resistance.
Explore further: Antibiotic use to treat catheter-associated bacteriuria futile in decreasing risk of mortality
More information: Learn more about urinary tract infections from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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The ego — the fear-soaked part of our minds — is happiest when we listen and do everything it asks, even when it doesn't make sense. Spiritual growth actually depends on listening to the ego, but only so we can learn not to do what it suggests. The ten ego lies documented in this book range from the idea that there is only one person who will complete us to idea that we need to "win" by holding on to grudges the longest. Using humor and a solid base of academic and practical knowledge, "Dr. Dana" Marrocco helps readers gently undo the lies we all tell ourselves.
"Open this book, begin to read, and see if you can't find the truth, which will make you free. According to A Course in Miracles, we do not perceive our own best interests and need clarity to better understand what those interests are. This is an overall theme in Dr. Dana's conscientiously written book, reinforcing the practice of looking inward with total honesty to experience the happiness we deserve." — Jon Mundy, PhD, Author of Living A Course in MiraclesBy Dr. Dana Marrocco


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Lesson 4: Should Christians Hail Mary? (Luke 1:26-45)Related Media
A man heard a message on the end times and decided to make all he could before the economy collapsed. He took his life savings, went to the race track, and prayed for wisdom on how to bet. (He hadn't heard my message on gambling!)
Just before the first race began, the man noticed a Catholic priest who came onto the track, sprinkled some water, waved his arms and made some signs over a horse. The horse won by seven lengths. The same thing happened on the second, third, and fourth races. The man waited one more race, just to make sure. The same thing happened--the horse the priest blessed won. So on the sixth race he waited until the priest did his thing and then he ran off and placed his whole life savings on that horse. The race began. The horse ran fifty feet and fell over dead.
The man was horrified. He ran down to the priest and said, "Priest, I have to talk to you!" "Yes, what is it my son?" "Priest, I watched you; in every race, the horse you blessed won. So I went and bet everything I had on this horse, but it died! What happened?" The priest shook his head sadly and said, "You must be a Protestant." "Why do you say that?" asked the man. "Because," said the priest, "you don't know the difference between a blessing and the last rites."
That story illustrates that there are some differences between Protestants and Catholics! Our text raises another area of more substantial difference, namely, how we view the virgin Mary. These verses are the basis for the Catholic Ave, Maria, or "Hail, Mary," a prayer to Mary that is the core of the Rosary. That prayer concludes,
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy! Our life, our sweetness, and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping, in this valley of tears. Turn, then, most gracious Advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us; and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus; O clement; O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.
This raises some important questions: Should Christians hail Mary? (To hail means to greet with enthusiastic approval or to summon by calling.) Is she "our life, our sweetness, our hope?" Should we pray to her (or to any saint) or ask her to intercede with Jesus on our behalf? If not, how should we view Mary? Does she deserve a higher status than that of other believers? Our answers to these questions must come from Scripture alone, which is unchanging, not from the traditions of the church, which do change. In light of the strong movement today to drop all denominational barriers and to join together with the Catholic Church as if we were all one, these questions are not merely academic. Let's look first at what the text tells us of Mary; then at what it says of her Son.
What the Text Tells us of Mary:
Background: In the sixth month of Elizabeth's being pregnant with John, the same angel, Gabriel, who had appeared to Zacharias was sent to Mary. Note how God took the initiative in sending His Son and in choosing Mary out of all the other young women in Israel. If we were going to announce the choice of a young woman as the mother of the long-promised Messiah, we would probably do it on prime time TV, with much advertising and hype beforehand. But God did it quietly and without fanfare.
Mary was not living in the center of Jewish culture and religion, Jerusalem, but in the often-despised town of Nazareth in Galilee. God often chooses the foolish things of the world to humble those who are wise in their own sight. Mary was probably a teenager, since Jewish girls in that culture usually married in their teens. The Jewish betrothal lasted about a year and was legally binding, requiring a certificate of divorce to end it. Mary was betrothed to Joseph, a carpenter.
Gabriel greeted her by saying, "Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you" (1:28). (The King James Version adds, "You are blessed among women," which probably was inserted by copyists from verse 42, and thus is not supposed to be in verse 28.) The word "hail" is simply the common Greek word used for greeting someone. In Hebrew, it was "Shalom!" The phrase, "favored one," means that Mary has found grace in God's sight (1:30; see Gen. 6:8). The emphasis is not on Mary's merit, but on God's sovereign choice. God singled out Mary for an important task. The phrase, "The Lord is with you" means, "God will give you His help for the task He has called you to do" (see Judges 6:12).
Mary didn't seem to be afraid of the angel's presence, as Zechariah had been (1:12), but she was troubled by his words. I think she was overwhelmed at the implication of what the angel was saying, that God had singled out her–of all people–for a special task. While God noticed Mary, she was humbly unaware of anything special about herself.
The angel went on to explain what was about to happen, that Mary was to conceive and bear a son named, "Yahweh saves" (Jesus, = Joshua, in Hebrew). The angel's words make it plain that this son will be the promised Messiah, the fulfillment of God's promises to David centuries before (see 2 Sam. 7:16). Mary didn't doubt the angel's words (as Zacharias had, 1:18), but she did ask for clarification. Since she is yet a virgin, and the implication was that this would happen before her betrothal to Joseph was consummated, how would it take place? Gabriel briefly explains the miracle of the virgin birth, which I'll comment on in a moment.
Then, although Mary did not ask for confirmation, the angel graciously supplied it by telling her that Elizabeth, who had been barren and was now past her childbearing years, had conceived John by God's power (through union with her husband). Then Gabriel added that great reminder, "For nothing will be impossible with God." Mary's beautiful response was, "Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; be it done to me according to your word."
After Gabriel left, Mary quickly went the 80 or so miles to visit her relative, Elizabeth. Probably she wanted to rejoice together with her about what God was doing and to compare notes on their recent experiences. As soon as Mary greeted Elizabeth, John, in Elizabeth's womb, leaped for joy. Through the Holy Spirit, Elizabeth recognized that Mary was carrying the promised Messiah in her womb and she proceeded to bless Mary for what God was doing through her.
Observations regarding Mary:
1. Mary is not a dispenser of grace, but a recipient of it.
If grace is deserved, it is no longer grace. By definition, grace is God's undeserved favor. Mary refers to God as her Savior (1:47). Scripture is clear that only sinners need a Savior. Thus Mary is acknowledging her own need for God's grace and salvation. John Calvin points out that if Mary had to receive grace from God just as we do, then it is absurd to seek grace from her, as if she can somehow bestow it (Calvin's Commentaries [Baker], 1:33). Mary is not a dispenser of grace to others, but a recipient of it herself.
The Bible is abundantly clear that no one is saved by his or her own merit or good works, but only by the merit of Jesus Christ and His death on the cross on their behalf (Eph. 2:8-9; Titus 3:4-7). That was true of Mary; it is true of every other person since Adam and Eve fell into sin, except Jesus Christ alone. The Catholic Church teaches that in order for Jesus to be born sinless, Mary had to be born without sin. In the 1850's Pope Pius IX declared as dogma (which every Catholic must believe) that Mary was immaculately conceived or born without original sin (Dave Hunt, A Woman Rides the Beast [Harvest House], p. 443). The fallacy of that dogma (apart from the fact that the Bible never teaches it) is, Mary's parents would have had to be sinlessly conceived for Mary to have escaped their sin, and so on all the way back to Adam. Without stating the method, the angel simply affirms that through the power of the Holy Spirit, Mary's offspring would be preserved from sin through the virgin birth or conception (1:35).
The lesson for us is that if Mary, who was obviously a godly young woman, needed God's grace, how much more do we! But the way we receive God's grace is not through Mary, but only through the Lord Jesus Christ. He is offered freely as the Savior of sinners who trust in Him (John 3:16).
2. Mary was thoughtful and reverent toward the things of God.
Unlike Zacharias, Mary did not seem to be troubled by the angel's sudden presence, but rather by his words. Calvin (p. 34) states, "It instantly occurred to her that the angel had not been sent for a trifling purpose." Mary took seriously this word to her from God. When the angel greeted her, "Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you," she didn't flippantly reply, "Cool!" She was troubled by what it meant and pondered it seriously.
This tells me that teenagers can and should be serious about the things of God. The prevailing theory in youth ministry today is that you've got to entertain kids with funny skits and speakers who are comedians. Only in that context can you occasionally slip in any teaching about God. I'm not against wholesome fun or humor. But at the same time, we don't need to go with the cultural flow. Young people can have a heart for the things of God.
3. Mary believed that God would do as He said.
Although she was astonished and puzzled by the angel's words, so that she asked for clarification (1:34), she did not doubt. As Elizabeth affirms through the Holy Spirit (1:45), "blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what had been spoken to her by the Lord."
The lesson for us is clear: If God has spoken clearly through His Word, we must believe it without wavering. We may need to study it further to make sure we understand it properly. We may need to acknowledge that we do not understand all the depths of it, as Mary probably never fully understood the miracle of how God could take on human flesh through the virgin birth. But the angel's word in verse 37 is always true: "For nothing will be impossible with God." If we believe in God, we believe in the possibility of miracles.
It's interesting that Zacharias asked for a sign, but was disciplined for his doubting. Mary believed and did not ask for a sign, but she was graciously given one anyway (the word about Elizabeth). Often if we believe we are given more confirming evidence; if we doubt, we are not given any confirmation, because our hearts are not right before God.
4. Mary obediently submitted to God in spite of the potential hardship for her future.
By saying, "Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; be it done to me according to your word" (1:38), Mary opened herself up to many trials. Her fiancé heard of her pregnancy and decided that he would have to divorce her (Matt. 1:19). Her friends would have shunned her and her family may have disowned her. She would have been publicly shamed and rejected for the rest of her life. But in spite of all the potential hardship, Mary obediently submitted to God's will for her life. As a result, she was greatly blessed with this unique role in all of history, to be the mother of the Savior.
Often, submitting to God's will is not the easiest way to go. It may involve giving up the desire for popularity or worldly success. It may mean leaving family or friends to go to the mission field. In some cases, it means giving up the potential for marriage and family in order to serve God. But whatever hardship we endure in obedience to God, He will richly repay. Because Mary obeyed God, she was blessed among women.
Conclusions about Mary: The Pope prays to Mary, that she will "comfort, guide, strengthen, and protect the whole of humanity" and that she would "obtain for us the grace of eternal salvation" (Dave Hunt, p. 445). A popular tract, "The Rosary, Your Key to Heaven," declares,
The Rosary is a means of salvation, because a true child of Mary is never lost and one who says the Rosary daily is truly Mary's child…. Mary is our all-powerful Advocate and she can obtain from the Heart of her Divine Son whatever is good for her children…. No one is beyond redemption if he but turns to Mary Immaculate. (Cited by Hunt, pp. 446-447.)
Dave Hunt (p. 447, italics his) comments,
Though the Bible never hints at such a thing, and though Paul never preached it or told it to anyone, yet for the Catholic, Mary has become the essential conduit through which salvation and all grace flows. Jesus and God the Father play an important role too, but it is Mary who brings everything together and dispenses all God's gifts to those who through devotion to her become "her children."
Our text and the whole Bible make it clear that Mary is not to be elevated above any other believer. Yet at the same time, we should not react to Catholicism's veneration of Mary by neglecting to learn from her. As a godly woman who trusted and obeyed God, she has much to teach us. But we can learn even more by looking at Mary's Son:
What the Text Tells us of Jesus:
Background: Gabriel told Mary that she would conceive in her womb, and bear a son, and that she should name Him Jesus (1:31). Furthermore, "He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; and His kingdom will have no end" (1:32-33). And, Jesus is called Mary's "holy offspring," "the Son of God" (1:35). Elizabeth refers to Mary's child as her Lord (1:43), which implies His superiority to her offspring, John the Baptist. There is enough here for a series of sermons, but I can only make some brief observations:
Observations regarding Jesus the Savior:
1. Jesus the Savior is both God and man through the miracle of the virgin birth.
Walter Liefeld states, "Luke presents the theology of the Incarnation in a way so holy and congruent with OT sacred history that any comparisons with pagan mythology seem utterly incongruous" (Expositor's Bible Commentary [Zondervan], 8:829). While the virgin birth (or conception) is clearly a miracle, there is no hint of God cohabiting with Mary. Rather, the Holy Spirit would "overshadow" her. It is the same word used for the glory of God resting upon the tabernacle (Exod. 40:35), and for the cloud overshadowing the disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration (Luke 9:34). While there is a mystery here, the sense is that the awesome presence of the Holy Spirit would envelope Mary and miraculously cause her to conceive the Lord Jesus, who is eternally God and yet, from conception in Mary's womb, fully human. Jesus had a human mother, but no human father. He is unique in all history in that He is undiminished deity and perfect humanity united in one person.
As I already mentioned, the angel states that Mary's offspring would be holy (1:35). Calvin (pp. 43-44) explains, "Though Christ was formed of the seed of Abraham, yet he contracted no defilement from a sinful nature; for the Spirit of God kept him pure from the very commencement: and this was done not merely that he might abound in personal holiness, but chiefly that he might sanctify his own people. The manner of conception, therefore, assures us that we have a Mediator separate from sinners, (Heb. 7:26)."
Neither Mary nor Elizabeth fully understood Jesus' deity at this early point in time. Luke builds his Christology from the ground up, letting it unfold as the story makes it more clear. But the things revealed at this point fully allow for the further revelation. Elizabeth refers to Mary as "the mother of my Lord" (1:43). By "Lord" she probably was referring to Jesus as the Messiah, and she probably did not realize that Messiah had to be divine. But it later becomes clear that He is not just a human descendent of David and of Mary, but also fully divine.
The Savior had to be fully human, yet without sin of His own, to bear the sins of the human race. But He also had to be fully God so that His sacrifice had infinite merit before God. We must affirm both Jesus' humanity and His deity. Thus we must affirm His virgin birth.
2. Jesus the Savior will be uniquely great, the Son of the Most High.
Gabriel's description of Jesus shows that He alone is to be worshiped because He alone is God in human flesh. The angel said, "He shall be great" (1:32). While the angel said of John the Baptist that "he will be great in the sight of the Lord" (1:15), of Jesus he said, "He shall be great," and added, "and will be called the Son of the Most High." Hebrews 1:5 states, "For to which of the angels did He ever say, 'You are My Son, today I have begotten you'?" Jesus is uniquely God's only begotten Son.
Jesus later said that John the Baptist was the greatest person ever born naturally on this earth (Matt. 11:11). That means that John was greater than Mary. But John himself acknowledged of Jesus, He is "mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the thong of His sandals" (Luke 3:16). John also testified, "After me comes a Man who has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me" (John 1:30). Remember, John was born six months before Jesus, yet he acknowledged that Jesus existed before him. No wonder John exclaimed, "This is the Son of God" (John 1:34). "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30). Any elevation of Mary that puts her on the same plane as Jesus is utter blasphemy! Jesus alone is the uniquely great Savior and Son of God.
3. Jesus the Savior will reign forever on the throne of David.
Jesus is the fulfillment of God's promise to David a thousand years before, that one of his descendents would reign on his throne forever (2 Sam. 7:12-14). Although there is controversy among godly scholars over this point, it seems clear to me that the kingdom in Luke's thinking has both present (Luke 11:20; 17:21) and future (Luke 13:28; 19:11; Acts 1:6, 11; 14:22) aspects. He is king over His people right now. But, also, I take the words at face value to mean that when Jesus returns, He will literally reign over Israel, as well as the whole earth, in His millennial kingdom.
But whatever one's views of prophecy, every godly scholar agrees that the day is soon coming when every knee shall bow before Jesus as King of kings and Lord of lords. You can either bow voluntarily now, or be forced to bow later. Jesus made it clear that on that terrible day of judgment, the King will say to those who have not submitted to Him, "Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matt. 25:41). Clearly, now is the time to trust in and submit to Jesus as Savior and Lord!
The bottom line for us concerning the relationship of Mary and Jesus is:
While we should imitate Mary's faith and submission to God, we should trust in and submit to Jesus as Savior and Lord.
On March 23, 1743, when Handel's "Messiah" was first performed in London, the king was present in the audience. When the performance got to the moving "Hallelujah Chorus," with its words, "For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth," the whole audience, including the king, sprang to its feet, and remained standing through the entire chorus. From that time, it became a custom to stand during that chorus whenever it is performed.
But the custom of the British monarch standing changed over time. About 100 years later, when Queen Victoria had just ascended the throne, she went to hear "The Messiah." Those in her court who knew protocol had instructed her that she must not rise when others stood at the singing of the "Hallelujah Chorus." So, as the singers were exclaiming, "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! For the Lord our God omnipotent reigneth," Victoria remained seated--but with great difficulty.
Finally, they came to that part of the chorus where they proclaim Christ King of kings and Lord of lords. Victoria could stay seated no longer. She rose and stood reverently with her head bowed before the Lord who alone is great.
Was Mary great? Yes, as far as those who need a Savior go, she was great for her humble submission to the will of God. In that we should imitate her. But Mary herself would be quick to acknowledge that in the true sense, only God is great. By the miracle and mystery of the virgin birth, Mary's Son was the eternal God in human flesh. "O come let us adore Him!"
Discussion Questions
- Some say, "They will know we are Christians by our love, not by doctrinal purity. All that matters is believing in Jesus." Your answer?
- Catholicism argues that spiritual authority rests both on Scripture and on church tradition. How do you answer this?
- How would you answer a person who said, "The virgin birth sounds like other pagan legends. Besides, I don't believe in miracles"?
- Why is the virgin birth an absolutely essential doctrine of the Christian faith?
Copyright 1997, Steven J. Cole, All Rights Reserved.
Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture Quotations are from the New American Standard Bible, Updated Edition © The Lockman Foundation
Related Topics: Christology, Soteriology (Salvation), Faith, False Teachers, Grace


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Singles Q&A: Bride or Breadwinner
- Carolyn McCulley Author & Contributing Writer
- 2007 27 Jun
QUESTION: I have been living in dorms for seven years, so my ability to apply what I know about nutrition has been lacking, to say the least. As I look forward to getting married in the fall and having my own place for the first time, I am most excited about having the ability to shop for and prepare my own food.
My biggest concern is that I won't have time to cook (or exercise) if I take a full-time job away from home and continue to be active in ministry. It used to be normal for women to quit their jobs when they got married to take care of the home and, eventually, children. As I have run the idea by my friends and family of having a part-time job to allow me to have more time to care for a home, I have received very negative feedback. People have cited money, career, and potential for laziness as reasons to get a full-time job.
Is it reasonable to think that homemaking, even without children, could be the equivalent of a part-time job?
ANSWER: Short answer? Yes, without a doubt.
But I think there's much more to consider in your situation than just the question you asked. The first thing that struck me was that you reference getting married in the fall and that you are seeking the counsel of friends and family—but you haven't specifically cited your future husband's opinion. As you two prepare to marry, I hope these plans are the things you are discussing and evaluating together. In fact, as you ponder this decision, you have an opportunity to help him in his new role as a husband. Because the Bible gives him the responsibility to lead and provide for his family, you can signal your willingness to encourage him in this role by taking this matter to him first. What is his opinion here? What are his priorities for your family? Your guidance and input are invaluable in your marriage, and he needs your counsel as he leads. So this needs to be a decision you make jointly as a couple.
Second, it's quite possible to work full-time, serve in your local church, get exercise and cook. Many of us do it all the time. However, I think you are wise to consider the importance of what I call the "private sphere" as you get married. You and your husband won't be college roommates, living parallel lives that rarely intersect except at the bathroom door. You will be building a life together, which requires spending time with each other. You can spend all that time together running errands, mowing the lawn, paying bills and cleaning the house, or you can decide how your "team" is going to share the many responsibilities of adult life so that you aren't being driven by your "To Do" list. The benefit of having one person with more time dedicated to these "private sphere" tasks is that you have more quality time together as a couple to enjoy each other and to minister elsewhere. Given all the administrative tasks of running a home—house maintenance, shopping, making medical appointments, tracking a budget, paying bills and taxes, cleaning, yard work and more—it's clear this is at least a part-time job already, even without children!
Yet, you've just spent seven years in college, so I assume you have sunk some money in an advanced degree and you may have college loans to pay off. Your joint finances are another reason why your future husband needs to be involved in making this decision. He may prefer that you get a solid base of experience in your career so that you could pursue the option of working part-time in your field in the future or, assuming you take time off with your children, that you could return to it one day. He could also see the advantage of you working full-time now to pay down school loans before children add to the family's finances. Or he may want to minimize everyone's stress levels by not having two people in demanding, full-time jobs. Again, it's a decision that you make as a couple.
Finally, I want to examine the reasons your friends and family think you should not work part-time. You said they listed money, career and potential for laziness as reasons to get a full-time job. But the values you listed were excitement about having your own home, a desire to cook nutritiously, a concern about lack of exercise and the goal of being active in ministry. There's not much overlap here.
Now money is important, but we honestly don't need as much of it as our culture dictates. There are ways to live more frugally and happily on just one income. I live in one of the most expensive areas in the world, but I know hundreds of families who survive on one income. Is it easy? No, but it's done every day. As to career, I don't know what you studied but it would be wise to do some informational interviews in your field to find out how you can navigate different seasons of life while staying active at some level in your profession. You need credible information about trends in your profession to make a wise decision. With regard to laziness, that is a heart issue. You can be employed full-time and still be lazy. Or you can work at home and be incredibly productive. The setting is not what determines your character. If your friends and family observe a pattern of laziness in your life, then tackle that topic as a matter of growing in godliness. But ask any homemaker if there's time to slack off, and you'll probably get a huge guffaw.
My opinion? As I said, I don't know all of your details, but if I were given the opportunity as a new bride to work part-time, I would take it. Marriage is a huge adjustment, as is the transition from college to career. To do both at the same time can be disorienting. But your marriage should trump your career. If God blesses you both with long lives, you'll be married far many more years than you will work. Plus, your marriage is supposed to point beyond you to the mystery of Christ and his church (Ephesians 5:31-32). Your job is not seen in the same light in Scripture. You would be truly living counter-culturally if you put your best efforts into your marriage over your career.
Most importantly, Scripture calls you as a married woman to a few specific things and I would make those a priority in order to honor God: learning to love and follow your husband; learning to love your children; managing your home well; and growing in kindness, self-control and purity (Titus 2:3-5).
Carolyn McCulley works for Sovereign Grace Ministries in church and ministry relations. She is also an author ( Did I Kiss
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The Bango Project
Original forum post http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=919723#post919723
Also this can be found on the ubuntu wiki here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bango
I was changing the sounds on my computer today, and realized what a drag is was. I m often not at my computer 100% of the time, even though it is on, and so i need alerts to tell me when i have a new email or IM message, or for other reasons.
Anyway, I got thinking about why there is no gnome sound theme available, you can change the individual files for notifications etc in preferences > sounds, but this isn't great, I really don't want to go through and select each file. What i really want is to download a theme of gnome-look.org or something similar, and just drag it onto the theme manager, and let it install all the files for me.
The big trouble with this right now is there is no specification that I know of for desktop sounds. I may be wrong here.
Then I got thinking a little more, about the tango project. This has been great, it not only creating a detailed specification allowing applications to share common icons, i want the same play button on all my media applications!, but it also provides guidance on the design of icons, how to use shadows or colours for instance.
So what had this got to do with sounds files? Well I had a thought that it would be really cool if a similar effort sound be set up for sounds on computers. For computer newbies, sounds can be a great way to provide feedback on their actions, making the gulf between a real world action action and its results on screen seem smaller from a user perspective.
So I am proposing the bango project, why bango? well, sounds like tango for one thing, and bango - kinda like making a noise with the bang part. Mind you, i am open to suggestions for the name
What would this project do? Well for one thing provide useful guidance on how to match events on the screen to sounds. How should someone create a sound event for an email arriving, or for when an application crashes, or when a user logs in.
The project should also be responsible for carrying our usability testing on a range of users. Making sure these sounds themes enhance the users computing experience.
Most importantly however, the group should work with freedesktop.org to produce a specification for sounds themes, similar to the tango project. This will allow the project to span multiple desktop environments like tango. If a developer wanted a sound for a particular event for their app, say the email arriving again, just use the notification-email.flac file.
The group should also be responsible for promoting the use of open codecs for the sounds files, ogg or flac for example.
So why all the bother? Well because I feel it would make the life of people migrating to open source software like Linux that little bit easier. Having common consequences for actions can allow the user to bridge semantically similar actions, which may be syntactically different.
Anyway, this is really just me putting this idea out there, maybe there's similar projects right now, i dunno, but i guess let the community decide if this is important enough to be considered.
Naming Specification
This is a first draft of the sound naming spec for bango. There are lots of similarites between tango, this is deliberate.
Ok, so i have identified three broad categories i think the sounds should fall under:
This is to notify the user of an action or event which may have a major imact on the system or their current use case
|The sound used when an error occurs trying to intialize the network connection of the computing device.
|The sound used when a dialog is opened to explain an error condition to the user.
|The sound used when the battery is below 20%.
|The sound used when an urgent update is available through the system software update program.
This is to alert the user that the system, or their current use case has changed state in some way - mew email arriving, new non-critical update to an application available
|The sound used when one or more search results are returned
|the sound used when no search results are returned
|The sound used when the user locks their current session
|The sound used when a user logs into the system or a service (i.e. desktop login)
|The sound used when a user logs out of the system or a service (i.e. Gaim logout)
|The sound used when the battery is below 40%.
|The sound used when a dialog is opened to give information to the user that may be pertinent to the requested action.
|The sound used when an update is available for software installed on the computing device, through the system software update program.
This is to give the user feedback on their actions. These are not used to alter the use of errors, but rather reassure the user that their action was successful, sound on window opening / closing for example
|The sound used when a new IM or email is recieved
|The sound used when a new IM or email is sent
|The sound used when a new window or dialog is opened
|The sound used when an existing window is closed
|The sound used for the âOKâ button that might appear in dialog windows.
|The sound used for the âCancelâ button that might appear in dialog windows.
|The sound used when a file is accepted by a window, such as a folder or IM conversation
|The sound used when the user emptys the trash
|The sound used when a file or folder is sent to the trash
Idea Pool
By having the categories above, the user could now select whether they want all sounds, only alert sounds so they only get notified on critical events


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