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December 6th, 2012 | WMFE- Health care reform is a big, complex process, and for some Central Florida residents it's an uncomfortable change. People agree the system needs fixing- but they don't agree on how it should happen.
The Affordable Care Act represents a big change for patients, doctors and insurers using the US health care system. Reactions to it range from outright rejection to ardent support.
To help understand how people react to such a large change, 90.7 News asked Valencia College psychology professor Judi Addelston.
"Typically we respond to change as a source of threat, especially something that's as big as this," says Addelston.
"When our brain perceives threat we marshal our defenses to protect ourselves."
Addelston says we are constantly looking for balance.
To help comprehend the big changes underway in health care 90.7 News broke it down into five areas: physicians, people and public perception, patients, policy and politics.
We also created an online poll so listeners could rank those factors according to importance and share their opinions. Here are some (anonymous) submissions:
"The system is broken…my family, like many others, is spending 20 percent of our income on health care. This is absolutely outrageous."
"We need less government involvement, more competition between insurance companies between states to drive down prices."
"Healthcare reform is a good idea at heart but is terrible for physicians and especially physicians wishing to enter primary care."
The responses were wide ranging, but the rankings formed a pattern: most listeners said patients were most important followed by physicians, policy, people and public perception, with politics last overall.
Another question 90.7 wanted to answer was whether lawmakers, doctors and policy experts would rank the five 'P's differently. They didn't: patients were still the priority, politics the least important.
Comments submitted to WMFE show people agree the system needs reform, even if they don't agree on how to go about it.
Ken Peach, the executive director of the Health Council of East Central Florida, a non profit advisory group, explains:
"A lot of consumers we talk to, you really see two things: one is where the affordable care act is fully embraced, it's the best thing ever," says Peach.
At the other end of the spectrum, says Peach, are people who think the act is a form of government intrusion.
Peach says he worries about the cost of administering the affordable care act, and he thinks some people will also choose to pay a fine rather than get the mandatory coverage.
Another question 90.7 had was whether people might change their mind about the affordable care act after the November election.
At an Ann Romney rally in winter park in late October Barbara Nelen she said she was worried about the cost of Obamacare.
She says she still has concerns about the president's promises.
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Asked if she would consider paying a penalty rather than enrolling in health insurance, Nelen says "Absolutely."
It's not that she doesn't want health insurance, says Nelen, she can't afford it, and hasn't been able to since the economy took a nose dive and her business began to suffer three years ago.
Nelen hasn't hasn't changed her opinion about the law.
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Judi Addelston has this advice for people worried about the new law:
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Danny De Munter, a Belgian architect specialized in high-end interior design and restoration, and Wim Gyselinck, have been designated to build the new city palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The talented Matthew Daniel Siskin's journey to the top of the design community started at a summer program at Parsons The New School for Design at the cusp of his adolescence.
The name Renee Yohe may be familiar to you from all the support work the non-profit organization, To Write Love on Her Arms has done in her honor.
LN-CC, the London-based luxury boutique and e-commerce destination, has just released their spring feature lookbook.
The first step to shaking of those winter months is putting a bit of life back in to our skin.
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Giorgio Armani is pleased to announce the opening of the first Armani/Casa store in Miami, at 10 N.E. 39th Street in the Design District. Opening April 11, 2012 this is the third Armani/Casa store in the United States.
Have you ever seen a color and it just takes your breath away? This is exactly what happened when I saw the colors from Senna Cosmetic's new Velvet Lipstick line. These colors are seriously something special and they feel like magic when applied.
We are all pressed for time and, as a makeup artist, the number one question I am asked by my clients is how to get out the door looking flawless yet natural… in ten minutes. Well, even though it sounds like an impossible feat, it is not
New Photography 2012 presents five artists—Michele Abeles, Birdhead (Ji Weiyu and Song Tao), Anne Collier, Zoe Crosher, Shirana Shahbazi —whose varied techniques and backgrounds represent the diversity and vitality of photography today.
Punctuated by key photographic projects, experimental films, and photobooks, The Shaping of New Visions offers a critical reassessment of photography's role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements, and in the development of contemporary artistic practices.
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- Walk through the complete process of building amazing machines
- Model and create mechanical models and vehicles with detailed designs
- Add advanced global illumination options to the renders created in Blender 3D using YafaRay and LuxRender
- Create machines such as a handgun, a steam punk spacecraft, and a transforming robot
Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 316 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : November 2009
Author(s) : Allan Brito
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Blender, Other, Open Source, Web Graphics & Video
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Machinery Modeling and Visualization with Blender
Chapter 2: Modeling a Handgun
Chapter 3: Polygon Modeling of the Weapon
Chapter 4: Adding Details
Chapter 5: Rendering the Project with YafaRay
Chapter 6: Steampunk Spacecraft
Chapter 7: Working with Smaller Areas
Chapter 8: Advanced UV Mapping
Chapter 9: Putting the Spacecraft to Fly and Shoot with Special Effects
Chapter 10: Rendering the Spacecraft with YafaRay
Chapter 11: Transforming Robot
Chapter 12: Using Modifiers and Curves to Create Details for the Robot and Scene
Chapter 13: Making the Robot Look Metallic with Materials in LuxRender
Chapter 14: Adding Lights to the Scene and Rendering with LuxRender
Chapter 15: It's Alive! Animating the Robot
Chapter 16: Post Production of the Robot
The last chapter may be very exciting for animators, because it's about how to build a transforming robot. Read more
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What you will learn from this book
- Learn the tools and options to use YafaRay to render your images
- Arrange a three-point light system, which produces light for renderings where a single object is the main focus of the image
- Create a steam punk spacecraft with minute detailing and more UV Mapping techniques to add extra realism to the model
- Use Edge Modeling to create, place, and shape different sections and then connect them together to create a base model
- Produce cables and wires by using a combination of curves and surfaces
- Make use of textures to generate shadows and the impression of depth in models
- Make an object look old by adding dust to its texture
- Use, set up, and create combustion flares with particles in Blender 3D
- Set up composite nodes, and create glare and glow effects with them
- Create a photorealistic space environment for the spacecraft with stars and planets using vertices and Halo materials, and add textures to them
- Create a curve, and make any type of object use this curve as a path for animation in Blender
- Construct an amazing robot that can change its shape and transform itself into a military vehicle
Here is a video that shows an example of what the reader will be able to create, in the third project of the book, using Blender 3D to model the entire scene and LuxRender to set up all lights and materials. In LuxRender we will use an incredible feature called Light Groups to control all lights on the scene, with the image still rendering. Notice that we can turn all lights on and off and see the result in real time, and there are many other possible adjustments like the temperature of lights and much more.
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Blender 3D provides all the features you need to create super-realistic 3D models of machines for use in artwork, movies, and computer games. Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines gives you step-by-step instructions for building weapons, vehicles, robots, and more.
This book will show you how to use Blender 3D for mechanical modeling and product visualization. Through the pages of the book, you will find a step-by-step guide to create three different projects: a fantasy weapon, a spacecraft, and a giant robot. Even though these machines are not realistic, you will be able to build your own sensible and incredible machines with the techniques that you will learn in this book along with the exercises and examples.
All the three sections of this book, which cover three projects, are planned to have an increasing learning curve. The first project is about a hand weapon, and with that we can image a small-sized object with tiny details. This first part of the book will show you how to deal with these details and model them in Blender 3D.
In the second project, we will create a spacecraft, adding a bit of scale to the project, and new materials and textures as well. With this project, we will be working with metal, glass, and other elements that make the spacecraft. Along with the object, a new space environment will be created in the book too.
At the end we have a big and complex object, which is the transforming robot. This last part of the book will cover the modeling of two objects and show how you can make one transform into the other. The scale and number of objects in this project are quite big, but the same principles as in the other projects are applied here with a step-by-step guide on how to go through the workflow of the project.
A practical guide on how to model, texture, and render incredible machines like robots, vehicles, and guns.
This book presents practical tutorials and focuses on fun projects. It contains a lot of serious training material, but is presented in a fun and entertaining way.
Who this book is for
This book targets game designers/developers, artists, and product designers who want to create realistic images, 3D models, and videos of machines. You are expected to have experience with basic Blender operation, as the book is not a 'getting started' tutorial.


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I've been dealing with chronic pain issues for at least 15 years. I have degenerative disk disease with spinal stenos is in my neck. I've had 2 neck surgeries and now have plate/screws from the middle of my back to the top of my neck. As a result of the nerve damage I've developed pherpherial neuropathy in both arms and if that isn't enough I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus on top of it all.
People look at me and they see a healthy individual. But no one knows about the hell that is my life. I had a wonderful pain management doctor but had to move to another state and have found no one here that is willing to help. I am a functioning member of society and I do not deserve to be treated like a criminal. I work full time because I have no other choice AND I'm not ready to give in to full disability yet.
When I moved here and had to start looking for a new doctor I had to go through the interrogation and being treated like I was drug seeking and it just makes me so mad and so frustrated. This isn't a choice but it is my life. My job suffers, my marriage and my family. I have not slept more than 2 hours at a time in the past 2-3 weeks. When I am trying to sleep I get "Charlie horses" in my spine and wake up crying and at times almost screaming because of the intense pain. The depression has gotten almost out of control.
I realize no one can help me with this I just needed some place to vent and possible find someone that knows this hell.
Woiw,it sure sounds lke you too have been through alot!!!
I'm glad you finally found the right pain Dr. for you,that makes a ig difference!Pleae don't be a stranger ,I'm here if you need to chat!!I also suffer from alot of neck and back pain!
Take care,Blessings 77grace
Ive been to many different pain specialists, many different physical therapists, been through all kinds of treatments, tried different muscle relaxers, pain meds and spent all sorts of money on things that didnt work. Dr.s gave up on me. The only thing that I had to help with the pain was Hydrocodone, Tramodol and Methocarbamol. I make a bottle of each last for about 4-6 months. The FDA makes it hard on the Dr.s and many Dr.s dont like to prescribe pain meds.
A few years ago I was seeing a pain specialist who could only offer me prescriptions because I had tried everything else. After a years time she sent my records to my family Dr. and told me to get the meds from them. 6 months go by, I see my Family Dr., they prescribe my meds but tell me that they dont like prescribing those meds because of the FDA BS. So 6 more months go by and I run out of meds. I also developed another pain issue that is 10 times worse than my other pain issues. I end up going back to my pain specialist in order to get my prescriptions. My pain specialist, the one that I had seen a year before, comes into the room and starts treating me like Im a street druggy. She said "WE WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT, GIVE YOU ANY PAIN MEDS". I was so humiliated, embarrassed, shocked, horrified, etc. I was desperate to be out of pain. I just broke down crying right in front of her. It prob. made it look like I WAS a druggy needing a fix. I bawled all the way home. I bawled for hours.
This is so unfair to us. We need our prescriptions to get through our daily lives. We get treated like druggies, we get humiliated, we get kicked when we are already down.
This is ssssoooo wrong!!!! The FDA needs to fix the problem that they have created.
If I were really a druggy just looking for a fix, I sure in the heck wouldnt go to a Dr. to get my fix. I would be getting it off of the streets, like most druggies do. Im sure its cheaper to get from the street too.
Im so glad that I saw this post. I know that Im not alone in this frustration.
I'm sorry that you all are having so much trouble.
If ever your Dr. stops giving you the meds you need, find another Dr. Dont give up. Take care of yourself.
Well,I'm sorry to hear you are going through such a hard time,how long have you been on these meds???I forgot what you said is wrong with you?Also did you say that you run out of meds????I'm just trying to understand why your Dr. would not give you any pain meds!Did you misuse them before and maybe she is upset about that??If you have a real health problem I don't understand!
Hope things get better for you,77grace
I have neck pain, shoulder pain, muscle pain that follows both sides of my spine all the way to my lower back, the muscles under my shoulder blade hurt, I have tail bone pain and I have Lichen Simplex Chronicus Vulva. The LSC is a burning pain of the entire vulva area, it travels down my buttox to my inner thighs. So everything that I do hurts. Even laying down hurts.
Many years ago I finally accepted the fact that I will always have back, shoulder and neck pain. I figured I will just have to live with the pain and take my pain meds when needed. When I developed the LSC, it became impossible to accept. I wake up every day knowing that I will be in horrible pain, all day long. Sometimes its hard for me to get out of bed because I just want to give up. I go through depression at times and there have been times that I wouldnt have cared if lighting struck me dead.
I switched pain specialists and found one who is trying to help me with the LSC pain. I had my Pudendal nerve burned and Im hoping that will help. If it doesnt help, then I will be back to being depressed again.
Thanks for replying Grace. You seem like a very kind person.
I'm curious as to how the pudendal nerve burning went? Did you find a doc who severs the nerve? Or does he do an ablation? Do you also experience pelvic floor tightness?
I guess I'm asking because I may have to resort to something along those lines in the future. One doc said I had pudendal neuralgia and that was after a diagnostic nerve block.
Did you have a diagnostic procedure done before the PN "burning"? I've shied away from the "severing" (which may be different) because of the risk of incontinence and sexual dysfunction. But who enjoys sex anyway with chronic pelvic pain?
I'm sorry to see you have to deal with this. I hope you have a pain-less day, B
My Gyno told me that the left side of my pelvic floor is tight. My health ins. wont cover Pelvic Floor Therapy.
There are also operations that can be done that is supposed to stop the vulva pain. But they could also cause more problems. One operations is to completely remove the vuvla nerves. Very scary stuff.
So you suffer from vulva or vaginal pain? What is your diag.?
All I have to say, is that life can throw you curve balls when you least expect it.
Chronic pain can put limits on your daily life. I am glad that I did so much before this pain started.
You can even google it. I went to a pelvic physcial thearpist & she showed me the keigel excersices that really yoiu don't need to see her for.
It helped me...
Take care, Annette
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Bible OntologyThis is an ontology for the Holy Bible. For end-users please click : http://bibleontology.com/service For Linked Data Frontend: http://bibleontology.com There are two ways...
ALPINO RDF TreebankExport of the ALPINO Dutch Treebank to RDF.
Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon (PHOIBLE)Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon (PHOIBLE) is a data set of phonological inventories with additional linguistic and non-linguistic information.
provenancewebLinked Data provenance and explanation.
Tesauro materias BUPMTesauro de materias de la BUPM
iServe: Linked Services RegistryiServe is the place on the Web where linked data meets services. In a nutshell, iServe is a platform for publishing Semantic Web Services as linked data, no matter their...
AEMET metereological datasetAemetLinked Data (.es) is an open initiative of the Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) whose aim is to enrich the Web of Data with Spanish geospatial data. This initiative started...
ARIADNEThe ARIADNE Foundation is a not-for-profit association that aims to carry out basic and applied research that will improve creation, sharing and reuse of knowledge through the...
LinkLion - A Link Repository for the Web of DataLinkLion is an open-source central repository for the storage of links among resources in the Linked Open Data web. The main goal of LinkLion is to facilitate the publication,...
World War 1 as Linked Open DataThis dataset contains strictly quality-controlled rich information on events, actors and places related to the First World War. As such, it is meant to be used as a reference...
BioSamples RDFThe BioSamples database aggregates sample information for reference samples (e.g. Coriell Cell lines) and samples for which data exist in one of the EBI's assay databases such...
EARThThe Environmental Applications Reference Thesaurus (EARTh) has been compiled and is maintained by the CNR-IIA-EKOLab to facilitate the indexing, retrieval, harmonizing and...
ChEMBL RDFChEMBL is a database of bioactive drug-like small molecules, it contains 2-D structures, calculated properties (e.g. logP, Molecular Weight, Lipinski Parameters, etc.) and...
Linked TCGALinked TCGA is the RDF version of the Cancer Genome Atlas, a pilot project started in 2005 by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Human Genome Research...
Gene Expression Atlas RDFThe Gene Expression Atlas RDF provides information on gene expression patterns under different biological conditions. Gene expression data is re-analysed in-house to detect...
UniProt databasesThe list of Databases that UniProt links to.
UniProt citationsThe subset of pubmed in RDF that is citation or mapped to UniProtKB
UniProt UniPathway
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Kidney and Urinary Pathway Knowledge BaseThe KUPKB is a collection of omics datasets that have been extracted from scientific publications and other related renal databases. The iKUP browser provides a single point of...
Bio2RDF::BiomodelsBioModels Database is a data resource that allows biologists to store, search and retrieve published mathematical models of biological interests.
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Shai_hulud wrote:I would like to see a prequel about Charlie.
I would as well, but somehow I don't think we'll get it because there is still info being withheld from us about him in the main comic. Getting his prequel will spoil the surprises that are awaiting us about him.


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Wikipedia's standards have never been higher, but the site needs to attract a new generation of editors to survive.
Wikipedia's launch was kind of an accident. Initially founder Jimmy Wales envisioned an online encyclopedia vetted and edited exclusively by experts—basically a free, online Britannica he called Nupedia. But it was Nupedia's crowdsourced sister site—designed to let users create entries that experts could later perfect—that took off. It didn't take long for Wales to dump Nupedia and embrace his radical side-project, which blossomed faster than anyone expected. Today Wikipedia is the sixth most visited website on the internet (ahead of Amazon and Twitter) and its authority online is almost without parallel. Google the Krebs cycle or the French Revolution, and Wikipedia is the first page you see.
But behind Wikipedia's success lays a tough balancing act, says Tom Simonite at Technology Review, and that balance may now threaten the site's long term survival. From its beginning in 2001, Wikipedia has struggled to reconcile its conflicting missions, from building an authoritative source for all information on the planet to doing it all through open, anonymous, and decentralized volunteer labor. These contradictions came to a head in 2005 when a volunteer posted a defamatory "bio" accusing journalist John Seigenthaler of involvement in the Kennedy assassination. Big changes followed: editors introduced a system of bureaucratic hoops and automated edits to combat vandalism and raise standards. New edits were now easier to spot and dispute, articles were harder to change, and new computer "bots" roamed the encyclopedia to flag down formatting mistakes and vandalism.
The new policies were effective, says Simonite, and then they were too effective. The changes did much to improve Wikipedia's quality and image, but they also led to a drop in participation that's hounded the site ever since. Today, first-time users encounter byzantine editorial guidelines and swift reprimands for mistakes, leading many to simply leave: since 2007, Wikipedia has lost more than a third of its volunteer base. And with fewer newcomers comes less diversity. More than ever before the pool of volunteers is overwhelmingly Western, male, and nerdy, with predictable consequences for the site's coverage (the ratio of Pokémon profiles to articles on female novelists is revealing, says Simonite).
A larger problem is that the internet's social landscape has shifted over the past decade, from anonymous, collaborative communities to commercialized, egocentric hubs like Facebook. Wikipedia remains one of the last of the internet's old-style gatherings and one of the largest. But with Twitter and Facebook dominating our online lives, "people steeped in that model will struggle to understand how and why they should contribute to Wikipedia or any project like it," Simonite adds.
And while the folks at the Wikimedia Foundation are well aware of these issues, their authority to introduce changes is limited. Wikipedia has always been a community project, and it's the community that takes the lead in determining and implementing policies (like it did to combat vandalism). If that community is going to survive, it needs to grow.
Image by Giulia Forsythe, licensed under Creative Commons.
Corporate media ownership is every bit as serious today as it was in 1988.
In 1988, media ownership and consolidation was a new concept for many Americans. Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's Manufacturing Consent had just appeared in print, and Extra!, by now perhaps the most important source of media criticism in the country, was barely a year old. Yet corporate ownership of local and national media was just ramping up—it just wasn't front page news.
Maybe that's why Lynette Lamb's story about media ownership topped Project Censored's list of the "Top 12 Censored Stories" that year (reprinted in Utne's Sept./Oct. 1988 issue). "The rapidly increasing concentration of media ownership in the U.S. raises critical questions about whether the public has access to diverse opinion," wrote Lamb. "And not surprisingly, the impact of this information monopoly continues to be ignored by the mass media."
"Just 29 corporations control half or more of all media (including book publishers, TV, radio, newspapers, and movie production companies)," she wrote. "Six months later… the number was down to 26." Exacerbating the problem, Lamb added, was the interlocking boards of directors between media giants and major corporations. Top executives at the New York Times, she said, also sat on boards for American Express, IBM, Merck, and several other large companies.
"A shrinking number of large media corporations now regard monopoly and historic levels of profit as not only normal, but as their earned right," she added, quoting media expert Ben Bagdikian. "In the process the usual democratic expectations for the media—diversity of ownership and ideas—have disappeared."
Bagdikian's warning was nothing if not prophetic. Within a decade, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, a sort of Citizens United for corporate media, had lifted the floodgates of cross-ownership and corporate mergers, especially in local radio markets. By 2001, more than 10,000 radio stations had been bought and sold, leaving just two companies, Clear Channel and Infinity, to dominate commercial airwaves in most U.S. cities.
Six years later, just eight companies held sway over America's mass media universe, from TV to publishing to the World Wide Web. This nifty timeline from Mother Jones shows just how much the ownership landscape has changed over the past two or three decades (note the dramatic increase in mergers after 1996). What's more, the problem of interlocking corporate leadership has not gone away, and has resulted in conflicts of interest. A 2009 FAIR study in 2009 found that seven major media corporations share directors with health insurers and pharmaceutical companies—a fact that helps explain those sources' overwhelming hostility to single-payer proposals during the health care debate. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to interlocking ownership.
Then as now, what it all boils down to is less critical debate, more conflict of interest, and a narrower picture of the world. "Although this will undoubtedly prove profitable for the shrinking number of media moguls," wrote Lamb, once again quoting Bagdikian, "it is highly dangerous to freedom of the press."
Other top censored stories in Utne that year included biowarfare research at American universities, government secrecy during the Reagan years, and corporate cover-ups on nuclear safety.
Lynette Lamb's original story appeared in Utne's Jan/Feb 1988 issue.
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Reza Aslan is an internationally-respected religious scholar. He earned a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School as well as a Ph.D in the sociology of religions from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He's written extensively on a variety of religious topics from an academic perspective. Ask Lauren Green of Fox News, though, and she'll say those credentials hardly qualify Aslan to write about about the historical Jesus simply because of one reason—he's a Muslim.
Green said as much when she recently interviewed Aslan on the FoxNews.com online show "Spirited Debate" (video below). Aslan was there to talk about his new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, but spent most of the 10-minute interview trying to explain just how ridiculous it is to focus on the fact that he also happens to be a Muslim. As Aslan later said in a radio interview that Tom Kludt posted on Talking Points Memo, "It's weird to all of a sudden talk about it as though only practitioners of a faith can write about the prophets of that faith," he said. "If that were true, there would be a lot fewer Islam books out there."
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Reza Aslan's author's note from Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth:
When I was fifteen years old, I found Jesus.
I spent the summer of my sophomore year at an evangelical youth camp in Northern California, a place of timbered fields and boundless blue skies, where, given enough time and stillness and soft-spoken encouragement, one could not help but hear the voice of God. Amidst the man-made lakes and majestic pines my friends and I sang songs, played games, and swapped secrets, rollicking in our freedom from the pressures of home and school. In the evenings, we gathered in a fire-lit assembly hall at the center of the camp. It was there that I heard a remarkable story that would change my life forever.
Two thousand years ago, I was told, in an ancient land called Galilee, the God of heaven and earth was born in the form of a helpless child. The child grew into a blameless man. The man became the Christ, the savior of humanity. Through his words and miraculous deeds, he challenged the Jews who thought they were the chosen of God, and in return the Jews had him nailed to a cross. Though he could have saved himself from that gruesome death, he freely chose to die. Indeed, his death was the point of it all, for his sacrifice freed us all from the burden of our sins. But the story did not end there, because three days later, he rose again, exalted and divine, so that now, all who believe in him and accept him into their hearts will also never die, but have eternal life.
For a kid raised in a motley family of lukewarm Muslims and exuberant atheists, this was truly the greatest story ever told. Never before had I felt so intimately the pull of God. In Iran, the place of my birth, I was Muslim in much the way I was Persian. My religion and my ethnicity were mutual and linked. Like most people born into a religious tradition, my faith was as familiar to me as my skin, and just as disregardable. After the Iranian revolution forced my family to flee our home, religion in general, and Islam in particular, became taboo in our household. Islam was shorthand for everything we had lost to the mullahs who now ruled Iran.
My mother still prayed when no one was looking, and you could still find a stray Quran or two hidden in a closet or a drawer somewhere. But, for the most part, our lives were scrubbed of all trace of God.
That was just fine with me. After all, in the America of the 1980s, being Muslim was like being a spaceman. My faith was a bruise, the most obvious symbol of my otherness; it needed to be concealed.
Jesus, on the other hand, was America. He was the central figure in America's national drama. Accepting him into my heart was as close as I could get to feeling truly American. I do not mean to say that mine was a conversion of convenience. On the contrary, I burned with absolute devotion to my newfound faith. I was presented with a Jesus who was less "Lord and Savior" than he was a best friend, someone with whom I could have a deep and personal relationship. As a teenager trying to make sense of an indeterminate world I had only just become aware of, this was an invitation I could not refuse.
The moment I returned home from camp, I began eagerly to share the good news of Jesus Christ with my friends and family, my neighbors and classmates, with people I'd just met and with strangers on the street: those who heard it gladly, and those who threw it back in my face. Yet something unexpected happened in my quest to save the souls of the world. The more I probed the Bible to arm myself against the doubts of unbelievers, the more distance I discovered between the Jesus of the gospels and the Jesus of history – between Jesus the Christ and Jesus of Nazareth. In college, where I began my formal study of the history of religions, that initial discomfort soon ballooned into full-blown doubts of my own.
The bedrock of evangelical Christianity, at least as it was taught to me, is the unconditional belief that every word of the Bible is God-breathed and true, literal and inerrant. The sudden realization that this belief is patently and irrefutably false, that the Bible is replete with the most blatant and obvious errors and contradictions—just as one would expect from a document written by hundreds of different hands across thousands of years—left me confused and spiritual unmoored. And so, like many people in my situation, I angrily discarded my faith as if it were a costly forgery I had been duped into buying. I began to rethink the faith and culture of my forefathers, finding in them as an adult a deeper, more intimate familiarity than I ever had as a child, the kind that comes from reconnecting with an old friend after many years apart.
Meanwhile, I continued my academic work in religious studies, delving back into the Bible not as an unquestioning believer but as an inquisitive scholar. No longer chained to the assumption that the stories I read were literally true, I became aware of a more meaningful truth in the text, a truth intentionally detached from the exigencies of history. Ironically, the more I learned about the life of the historical Jesus, the turbulent world in which he lived, and the brutality of the Roman occupation that he defied, the more I was drawn to him. Indeed, the Jewish peasant and revolutionary who challenged the rule of the most powerful empire the world had ever known and lost became so much more real to me than the detached, unearthly being I had been introduced to in church.
Today, I can confidently say that two decades of rigorous academic research into the origins of Christianity has made me a more genuinely committed disciple of Jesus of Nazareth than I ever was of Jesus Christ. My hope with this book is to spread the good news of the Jesus of history with the same fervor that I once applied to spreading the story of the Christ.
There are a few things to keep in mind before we begin our examination of the Jesus of history. For every well-attested, heavily researched, and eminently authoritative argument made about the historical Jesus, there is an equally well-attested, equally researched, and equally authoritative argument opposing it. Rather than burden the reader with the centuries-long debate about the life and mission of Jesus of Nazareth, I have constructed my narrative upon what I believe to be the most accurate and reasonable argument, based on my two decades of scholarly research into the New Testament and early Christian history. For those interested in the debate, I have exhaustively detailed my research and, whenever possible, provided the arguments of those who disagree with my interpretation in the lengthy notes section at the end of this book.
All Greek translations of the New Testament are my own (with a little help from my friends Liddell and Scott). In those few cases in which I do not directly translate a passage of the New Testament, I rely on the translation provided by the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. All Hebrew and Aramaic translations are provided by Dr. Ian C. Werrett, associate professor of religious studies at St. Martin's University.
Throughout the text, all references to the Q source material will be marked thus:
(Matthew | Luke), with the order of the books indicating which gospel I am most directly quoting. The reader will notice that I rely primarily on the gospel of Mark and the Q material in forming my outline of the story of Jesus. That is because these are the earliest and thus most reliable sources available to us about the life of the Nazarean. In general I have chosen not to delve too deeply into the so-called "Gnostic Gospels." While these texts are incredibly important in outlining the wide array of opinions among the early Christian community about who Jesus was and what his teachings meant, they do not shed much light on the historical Jesus himself.
Although it is almost unanimously agreed that, with the possible exception of Luke-Acts, the gospels were not written by the people for which they are named, for ease and the sake of clarity, I will continue to refer to the gospel writers by the names by which we now know and recognize them.
Finally, in keeping with scholarly designations, this text employs C.E., or Common Era, instead of A.D. in its dating, and B.C.E. instead of B.C. It also more properly refers to the Old Testament as the Hebrew Bible or the Hebrew Scriptures.
Excerpted from ZEALOT: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan Copyright © 2013 by Reza Aslan. Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Vinyl records are back. According to the International Federation of the
Phonographic Industry (what a mouthful!), 2012 saw the highest vinyl sales in
16 years. I've seen this trend with my own eyes. The vinyl bins in the Bay Area
record store where I work, which used to be frequented by older collectors,
crate diggers and hipsters, are now frequented by...everyone. It's not unusual
to see a 13 year old flipping through the wax, a herd of UC students comparing
album art, or a 30-something executive with several records under his arm.
Considered by purists to be a warmer, superior medium, records offer
listeners a way to connect more directly with the music. And vinyl, with its
sizable packaging, flip-it-over format and visible grooves, is a hands-on,
tactile experience that lends itself particularly well to group listens.
Recently, a shop in north London
was transformed into a vinyl-only lending library called, quite aptly, The
Vinyl Lending Library. The brainchild of Elly Rendall and Sophie Austin, the
library was created to give people access to a wide variety of musical styles,
allow them to borrow and share records, and to help build community around
music. Rendell and Austin also plan to use the space for DJ lessons,
documentary screenings and more.
Stocked entirely with records donated by the public, the library is free to
those who donate records. A small fee is charged for those who simply want to
borrow music. Members can take up to five records at a time.
While some of the details, such as what to do if someone doesn't return the
records they borrow, will be worked out as things progress, the library is now
open and borrowing has begun. The plan is to develop trusting relationships
between the library and its members and build a DIY, reputation-based community
where benefits can be earned as members demonstrate their trustworthiness.
If all goes well, the lending library could serve as a model for people who
want to share the love of vinyl without the expense and space issue of having a
personal collection.
Image by Stoke Newington/Hackney
After much deliberation, some back-issue rereading, and more than one impassioned speech, we're very pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Utne Media Awards. With a loaded field of top-notch nominees, choosing the winners wasn't easy, but the following publications stood out to us this year.
General Excellence — YES! MagazineYES! Magazine earned our recognition for General Excellence this year simply because every quarterly issue we read was chock-full of articles we couldn't wait to reprint and share with our readers.
One of our main criteria for selecting the winner was how often we found ourselves trying to reprint stories from the magazine in question. When we considered YES!, we realized that not only did we try to find room for one of its articles in nearly every issue of Utne Reader last year, but that those articles were consistently among our favorites when we did a post-issue assessment. Some of these included a profile of Boulder, Colorado's effort to kick out the corporate-controlled power utility and start its own wind/solar-based utility, a soldier-run coffee shop that helps veterans cope with PTSD, and various articles related to debt forgiveness.
It's also worth recognizing that despite the precarious state of independent publishing these days, YES! has remained committed to its non-profit, ad-free, and Creative Commons-friendly ideals, and is dependent on subscriptions and donations for its survival. Thankfully, optimism and hope for a better future are still important to enough people to keep a magazine like YES! in print. Which, when you think about it, is really good news for us all.
Best Writing — The New InquiryThe New Inquiry is the sort of website that makes the loss of print seem a lot less frightening. Founded during the darkest years of liberal arts cutbacks and publishing house closures, TNI pulls together a lost generation of students and writers to form a truly unique online community. With an irreverent, accessible style, the site's engaging critical lens—covering everything from the anti-social mores of social media to student debt—is refreshing, challenging, and always unexpected.
Best Political Coverage — Tom DispatchEmerging in the early days of the War on Terror, Tom Dispatch's fierce devotion to truth has proven essential to navigating our Orwellian post-9/11 planet. Combining some of the most insightful and courageous voices on the web, the site strikes at the very foundations of power and propaganda. As we face down a new decade of drone warfare, counterinsurgency, and climate chaos, Tom Dispatch's forceful analysis and sharp investigative authority could scarcely be more vital.
Best Arts Coverage — ColossalVisit Colossal and prepare to see the imaginative, the innovative, and the stunning. An abandoned nightclub turned art gallery by Parisian street artists, for instance. A tree-shadow chandelier, or composite photos of the moon during a solar eclipse. Colossal features a wide range of visual art, emphasizing the non-digital. While the site makes for enjoyable perusing, meticulous linking to original sources means it's a great starting point for those wishing to delve deeper.Best Social/Cultural Coverage — GuernicaFor a web-only magazine with the simple tagline "a magazine of art & politics," Guernica proved to be so much more to us last year. Covering a wide variety of topics with top-notch writing and unique insight, Guernica was another one of those sources that we kept trying to find an opportunity to share with our readers. Last year, it introduced us to ecopsychology and challenged us to rethink the virtues of a green economics and carbon offsets. Like The New Inquiry, Guernica makes us excited about the future of web journalism.
Best International Coverage — New InternationalistFrom feminist activism in Iraq to restorative justice pilgrimages in Chile, 2012 saw New Internationalist's mission to "bring to life the people, the ideas and the action in the fight for global justice" in full force. Authoritative, cogent, and always hopeful, NI adds badly needed context and stirring vision to our understanding of a complex and changing world.
Best Environmental Coverage — High Country NewsIf it weren't for High Country News, we might never have heard about the effects of Twilight-inspired tourism on the Quileute tribe, about abandoned subdivision developments at the foot of the Grand Tetons, or the struggles of a California ski town facing warming temperatures and unpredictable snow falls. With riveting reports from people tapped in to the shouts of the wild, HCN sheds light on what's happening in America beyond the edges of the daily, urban-focused news cycle.
Best Body/Spirit Coverage — TricycleSince its founding in 1991, Tricycle has become a beacon for Western Buddhists, attracting a variety of other spiritual seekers along the way. In the past year, the pages of Tricycle have considered serious topics from addiction to aging, challenged widely accepted notions of the historical Buddha, and recounted spiritual quests that have not led to Buddhism. This openness to difficulty and uncertainty suggests a living-out of the words the magazine puts to print.
Best Science/Technology Coverage — Scientific AmericanThe oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the United States, Scientific American needs little introduction. But considering the "small press" tradition of these awards, some readers may wonder why they're here. Simply stated, we love Scientific American for how well they boil down complicated science into lucid, accessible coverage. It's also where we found an article about a bipartisan solution to cutting corruption out of the federal budget, one of our favorite stories from last year.
The rise of
corporate-owned social media raises many flags about our online security and
the future of the digital commons. The solution, says theorist Michael Albert,
is a different kind of network altogether.
In many ways, social media seem almost designed for
activism. Efficient, user-friendly, and above all, inexpensive, sites like
Facebook and Twitter are invaluable communication tools for any activist.
Planning a rally outside a college president's office? Create a Facebook group.
Find a nifty guide to protesters' rights online? Share it on Twitter. Worried
about police brutality at an illegal march? Live-stream from your phone so more
people can see what you see.
No shock that, "Twitter revolutions" aside, social media
have undoubtedly played an important role in activism and social change over
the past decade. In Egypt,
the revolution in some ways began with Facebook groups like the 6 April Youth
Movement and "We Are All Khaled Saaed." Here in the U.S.,
it was a "We Are the 99 Percent" Tumblr page that gave many future participants
their first glimpse of Occupy Wall Street—more than a full week before the
first encampment in Zuccotti
Park. Achievements like
the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street were of course about so much more than
Facebook or Tumblr, but without social media they would likely have been very
different movements.
Which, when you think about it, is probably the exact opposite
of what the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world thought social media would do. So
much of what sites like Twitter or Facebook are designed for, how they're
organized and governed, and how they make money, could not be further from ideals
like social justice or goals like ending student debt. Many sites, like
Facebook, even have a history of giving private data over to government
agencies in
the U.S. and abroad.
But here's the good news. It doesn't have to be like this. There's
no law of nature that social media need to be run by giant corporations or that
users need to put up with government spying and manipulative advertising. So,
what's the alternative?
Michael Albert, social theorist and co-editor of Z Magazine, has come up with one solution—and
it's worth taking a close look at. It's called FaceLeft, and it embodies the
very best of social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, but emphatically
without the spying, concision, and commercialization users have long put up
with. Ad-free, substantive, and as open or private as users want to make it,
FaceLeft is the first social network designed by and for activists—or anyone who
feels uncomfortable with corporate-owned social media.
"Can social networking itself better reflect and address needs of people
who are trying to improve the world?" Albert asked in an email exchange. "I
think the answer is of course it can." It's just a matter of creating an
alternative space, one that "allows brevity but emphasizes substance, that
rejects ads but enhances mutual aid, that protects privacy and of course also
seeks to subvert spying."
For a first time user, the site may look and feel a lot like Facebook. Users
can set up profiles, connect with others, join groups, and follow stories
through a news feed. There are also spaces for events and easy ways to share photos,
videos, and links from other sites.
But that's where the similarities end. In countless ways, FaceLeft
delivers more substance and more genuine interaction than a typical social
network. News feeds include your contacts' updates, but also RSS feeds from
media outlets like Democracy Now! and
Al Jazeera. Groups are built around actions
and topics like Food Not Bombs and Indigenous Activism, and facilitate informed
discussions that would be unthinkable on a more typical social media platform. Users
are encouraged not only to interact and comment, but to stay informed and ask
deep questions.
Even more importantly, with FaceLeft, there's no hidden agenda. The
site's hosts won't catalogue your private information and sell it to
advertisers, or allow the government to spy on its users. To that end, users
are asked to subscribe to the site for no more than $3 per month. The idea,
says Albert, is to be upfront about how the site tackles operating expenses, as
opposed to a "free" site where users pay with their private data.
At the same time, FaceLeft is by no means meant to compete
with sites like Twitter or Facebook. Rather, it's about creating more diversity
in an increasingly homogenous internet. When the web started, Albert recalls, users
relied on platforms like America Online to do pretty much everything. But within
a few years more people figured out how to navigate for themselves and the
internet began to blossom. With low costs and few barriers, users created a
uniquely free landscape to interact and share information.
The problem with sites like Facebook and Twitter, Albert
says, is that they're "trying to get everyone back under one umbrella," meaning Facebook and
Twitter. And they're succeeding. Countless organizations, from local restaurants
to immigrant rights groups "now see their most important web presence as their
activity on and within the confines of Facebook." What this means is that more
and more of the web is being mediated by private, commercial hands. It's as if the
web itself has been suburbanized: Where once friends and colleagues could meet
in fairly public spaces—chatrooms, message boards, independent sites and blogs—now
the most important online meeting place is the equivalent of a digital shopping
"The issue is, do we want our own ways of doing important things,"
Albert asks, "or do we want to settle for what we can eek out of corporate
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In March 2010, just a couple of weeks before the iPad was due to be released publicly, I had a reason to contact Steve. A friend of mine was dying of liver disease and I was going to San Francisco to hopefully see and communicate with her while it was still possible. She was a friend from my Adobe days and was very much into technology. I thought it would be a treat for her to see an iPad. And I had one. But until the product was officially released I could not show it to anyone without permission from Apple management. [...]
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Talk about will power. I could've never kept the iPad a secret!
Lol me either. I probably would have blabbed about it as soon as I found out about it.
Wow, Jobs was a great guy. He was willing to potentially sacrifice the secrecy of Apple to grant a little joy to a dying patient. I wish more people could be like Jobs in that regard.
Many people may have tried to label SJ as a dictator, but I think there are many more great things that he did, all the way from apple down to individuals in his life, that are being kept as beautiful and warm secrets inside some people's hearts; this is exactly one of them.
I personally don't think Steve was a dictator, but a man with unrelenting standards who often refused to give in and risk the quality of his products to go down. A man who believed and cherished in family enough to risk a highly secret product of Apple just to make someone's last breath just a little more happy. An amazing man to be remembered and respected.
This patient was a kindred spirit, someone who suffered as SJ was to suffer. SJ knew exactly what this person was going through and to give one small gift of joy if even for a moment is worth it. SJ was treating her the way he would have wanted to be treated, with respect and kindness. RIP
Great story. I think Steve's humanity is sometimes hidden behind the brilliant mind and products we've become addicted to.
Amazing story.
Wow! What a friend. I'm sure she was smiling from heaven. That is totally awesome. Everyone needs a friend like that. A
It is nice to see the much softer side of Mr. Steve Jobs. It paints a glimpse into that moment perhaps accompanied be others. Wether it is true or not (about Jobs being a dictator) this shows he still had a softer side. I don't think he was a saint but he definitely was someone that could be looked up to. And as many have mentioned perhaps the world needs more people like him.
Great story and amazing how people called Steve Jobs compassionate etc.
I'm still curious as to why, with the billions he has accrued over the years, he never gave any money away to charities or had other real form of philanthropic efforts.
...I mean besides the whole gifting us with amazing experiences of his products and forward thinking, of course.
Still, him typing "OK" to someone seems to have brought all these characteristics to someone who may not have had these qualities. His passing has brought a lot of praise of the kind of person he was, but facts can't be avoided. He didn't donate anything!
Bill Gates, Buffet -- they gave it almost ALL up. In responsible and carefully calculated ways.
But sure, this shows he was compassionate to someone who was sick. As he was..
This is a true insight to parts of the mind of Steve. His love and passion for the products were evident on stage. His love and passion for his people were evident by his willingness to risk the chance of a huge product leak, to bring someone the joy the iPad has brought us all, even if but for a moment. His short, direct response also makes you smile because of the nature and consistency of a typical Steve Jobs email reply. You won't find to many people like that anymore...
I'm nowhere near the level of importance that SJ was at but so many times I don't see the need to answer emails that should get a response. His willingness to reply to so many people puts me to shame.
SJ was a very interesting man. I found his biography to be quite insightful as well. Things like this article show the compassionate side of the man where as he could be a real ass at times. Based on the very small amount of information that I have read about SJ, I suspect that he was on the autism scale... probably high functioning Aspberger's with touches of OCD. These conditions shaped the man and served him well at times but also crippled him. I love seeing articles like this one which gives a little peek into SJ's private (and compassionate) side.
btw, what does one write to "OK"
"OmgZ THX DOOODE" or ignore it.
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Wow! Knowing that apple is big on the secrecy stuff, that was incredible on Jobs' part. Great guy.
for someone so obsessed with control and security it is nice to see a more empathic steve jobs
I don't think he was as big of a tool as he gave the impression of being. He was a great businessman, and I think he just liked his privacy and keeping his company's secret's secret.
We dont really know the attitude of Steve Jobs but i think he is a good guy, aside from giving us new devices and technology He also gives to charities. he is just like a country president he wants his people to be happy and enjoy life.
I was expecting a longer reply from SJ. I can definitely see how those two letters would mean more than a rambling paragraph saying pretty much the same thing.
What a great story, Steve had hart, love and care for all people. That's way Apple is such success. Hope Apple can keep hart and love people. Unlike after Sam Waldon passed and greedy people starting taking over. RIP , Steve
Nice story. Would like to see more of this kinds of stuff from apple.
Steve is thought of a dictator but while he created NeXT OS which Doom was coded on and combined into Apple OS to create OS X, Apple was going down. He came back and had to be a little strict to bring the company back. I hope to see more letters like this that do show his compassionate side that alot of people never got to see and should see.


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