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Can kids really watch gun violence all hours of the day and remain unaffected?
Later this week, the fifth installment of the "Die Hard" movies is scheduled to open in theaters across the country. "A Good Day to Die Hard" stars, once again, Bruce Willis as John McClane, a too- stubborn-for-his-own-good cop who has to stop a highly trained army of bad guys out to wreak destruction and death. It will undoubtedly be a giant hit for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, owner of the "Die Hard" franchise.
In promoting the new movie, both the Regal and AMC movie chains are holding "Die Hard" marathons on Wednesday. Starting at noon, an AMC theatergoer can spend 12 straight hours watching all five "Die Hard" movies.
That's a lot of "Die Hard." Among the guns used -- and used, and used, and used -- in just the first "Die Hard" are a Steyr AUG assault rifle, a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun, and a Walther PPK pistol with silencer. McClane himself relies on a Beretta 92 semiautomatic pistol in the first three movies, and a Sig Sauer P220 in the more recent films. (He also favors the bald look in the last two movies.)
Of course, it is cartoonish violence, in the sense that rarely -- in all the innumerable killings -- is blood seen pouring out of the victims, or does anyone cry out in anguish and pain. Incredibly, the Motion Picture Association of America judges foul language to be more problematic for children than this kind of bloodless violence, which perhaps explains why the 2007 installment, "Live Free or Die Hard," was rated PG-13: The normally foul-mouthed McClane barely swears in it. (The new one has reclaimed its traditional R.)
What got me thinking about "Die Hard" -- and guns in the movies more generally -- is, of course, the furious gun debate since the killings in Newtown, Connecticut. On one side are those who believe we can cut down on gun violence by, among other things, banning the assault weapons that always seem to be used in mass shootings.
On the other side are the Second Amendment absolutists, who argue that the real problem is the culture, soaked in so much violent imagery that it is virtually impossible to avoid. They add that a ban on assault weapons would be the beginning of a slippery slope that would ultimately lead to a ban on weapons of every kind.
It's not that I don't want to see a ban on assault weapons. I sincerely do. But after poking around the world of gun-crazed movies and other media, I have to say, the Second Amendment absolutists have a point. For instance, when you ask a spokesman for the M.P.A.A. about the real-world effect of gun imagery in the movies, he actually pushes back by claiming that "there is a predominance of findings that show there is no consistent or convincing evidence that exposure causes people to be more violent."
This is, quite simply, untrue. "There is tons of research on this," said Joanne Cantor, professor emerita of communications at the University of Wisconsin, and an expert on the effect of violent movies and video games. "Watching violence makes kids feel they can use violence to solve a problem. It brings increased feelings of hostility. It increases desensitization." Every parent understands this instinctively, of course, but those instincts are backed by decades of solid research.
There is a second reason many people -- indeed, many of the same people who would like to ban assault weapons -- shrink from demanding changes in the culture's tolerance for violent images. To do anything about it legislatively would likely violate the First Amendment. Just as an assault weapon ban is the slippery slope for Second Amendment advocates, efforts to restrict violent images -- or pornography, for that matter -- is the slippery slope for First Amendment absolutists.
Craig Anderson, a psychologist at Iowa State University, told me that children who watch even something as seemingly benign as Woody Woodpecker cartoons -- in which Woody often pecks on someone's head - - can become temporarily more aggressive. "If you are going to start to ban media violence, where do you stop?" he asked.
Violent video games and movies, he went on to say, are certainly not the only factor that can lead someone to commit an act of gun violence. "If someone has no other risk factors, he can play Grand Theft Auto all day and never commit a violent act. But if he has a number of the other risk factors. ..." Anderson let the thought hang.
On Monday, I called an AMC spokesman to ask if his company was worried about its customers watching nonstop shootings for 12 straight hours.
"We are very excited about the 'Die Hard' marathon," he replied. "It will be a great time for our guests." He added, however, that the company had its "security measures in place."
Just, you know, in case.


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Virtual currencies, meet the real world.
The Internal Revenue Service made its first pronouncement on the issue Tuesday, saying it will treat bitcoin and other virtual currencies like property such as stocks, and not currency, giving a potential boost to investors but imposing extensive record-keeping rules. The rule generally would impose capital-gains taxes, rather than higher regular tax rates, on investors' profits.


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(09-13) 12:36 PDT San Francisco -- A seemingly ordinary day at the Transbay Transit Center construction site became a mammoth day of discovery Monday when a mild-mannered crane operator reached deep into the earth and pulled out a tooth.
This was no ordinary tooth. The 10-inch-long brown, black and beige chomper, broken in two and missing a chunk, once belonged to a woolly mammoth, an elephantine creature that roamed the grassy valley that's now San Francisco Bay 10 to 15 thousand years ago in the Pleistocene epoch.
Other woolly mammoth fossils have been found in the Bay Area, including in San Francisco about 2 miles away on Columbus Avenue, near Twin Peaks and in Hunters Point, said Jim Allen, a paleontologist and geologist for the project. The tooth, he said, is in remarkable condition with the enamel still intact, and has not deteriorated to the point of most fossils.
"It's a significant find," he said Wednesday. "It's unique to find something right smack in downtown San Francisco."
A sharp-eyed crane operator, Brandon Valasik, made the discovery while excavating a 200-foot deep hole inside a steel casing for one of the 181 pilings that will form a buttress wall for the massive transit center. Digging through a layer of dark sand about 110 feet down, he plucked out a scoop of soil and dumped it on the ground. He noticed something that looked like a rock but had an unusual shape and color.
"It looked too perfect to be a rock," he said.
Valasik stopped digging and examined his discovery. He called over a boss who took pictures and sent them to Allen. Later in the day, Valasik said, he was told that what he found once sat in the mouth of a woolly mammoth.
"I've been to Washington, D.C., to the Smithsonian," where he saw a woolly mammoth skeleton, he said, "but I never expected to find part of one."
Co-workers have since taken to calling him "Manny," an animated mammoth in the "Ice Age" movies.
Excavation work in the area was halted while the find was examined, but Allen said that because of the depth of the discovery, it's unsafe and unrealistic to send someone down to inspect the site, so digging was allowed to continue. But Allen and construction crews are keeping an eye on the diggings. Transbay officials say they also believe they may have discovered a jaw.
"This behooves us to continue digging," he said. "We might find more."
While he hasn't had time to do much research on the tooth, Allen said it appears to be from a Columbian mammoth, a relative to the modern elephant. Woolly mammoths were common in the Bay Area during the Ice Age, he said, a time in which there was no bay and the Pacific Ocean was far away. He likened it to Africa today.
"It was a zoo here," he said. "Mammoths, mastodons, short-faced bears, saber-toothed cats, they were all hanging out. ... If you could go back to the Bay Area 10, 15 thousand years ago, it would be a pretty wild scene."
Allen said the tooth, from the same age as specimens found in the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown Los Angeles, will aid scientists in the study not only of evolution and extinct species but of geology and tectonic forces that cause earthquakes. The tooth will probably be donated to the California Academy of Sciences, though the Transbay Transit Center may put it on display.
Construction crews have made other finds while excavating the foundations for the Transbay Transit Center. A couple of years ago, they unearthed artifacts from working-class Irish neighborhoods that filled the area in the 1800s, along with a small gold nugget.
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The Lazarene Miracle
According to the Gospel of John, Lazarus lived in the town of Bethany (approximately two miles outside of Jerusalem in the present day West Bank) with his two sisters, Mary and Martha. On His way to Jerusalem before the Passover, the sisters had sent word to Jesus and His Apostles that Lazarus was ill. The Lord tarried where He was, later perceiving Lazarus' death. When He arrived, Lazarus had already been in his tomb for four days. When Martha reproached Our Lord for not arriving sooner, Christ assured her that Lazarus would rise. Martha mistook this for the universal resurrection on Judgment Day, to which He replied, "I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever believeth in me shall never die" (John 11:25-26, KJV). In the presence of the mourners, the Lord ordered the stone rolled away from Lazarus' tomb and bade him to come forth. Lazarus did so, still in his grave wrappings. Jesus then called for the crowd to remove the wrappings and free him. St. John goes on to explain that even more Jews were convinced of Jesus' divinity. This event struck fear into the hearts of the Jewish leaders, so much so that they even considered putting Lazarus to death (John 12:9-11). The religious hierarchy of the Jews at this time was dominated by Sadducees, who denied the resurrection. The Raising of Lazarus represents a testimony to the resurrection - both Christ's and the universal resurrection, as well as Our Lord as victor over death.
According to the V. Rev. Fr. Thomas Hopko, the Lazarene Miracle is the "climactic high point" of St. John's Gospel and the proof of Christ's divinity. It is also the act which serves as the catalyst of the events leading to Our Lord's arrest and Passion.1
Later Life
According to Scripture and the tradition of the Cyprian church, Lazarus was compelled to seek refuge away from Jerusalem to avoid the anger of the high priests and the pharisees, who wanted to kill him, ...the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed in Jesus (John 12:10-11). Many christians too ... were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about. Stephen travelled as far as Phoenicia, and Cyprus, and Antioch ...; just like Stephen, Lazarus would have had to leave Judea to seek refuge in another country.
This location was Kittium (today Kittium is called Larnaca) of Cyprus. When Apostle Paul and Apostle Barnabas travelled to Cyprus, they ordained Lazarus as the first Bishop of Kitium. That is why all episcopal thrones in Larnaca have the icon of St. Lazarus instead of Christ, which is the standard custom of the church.
Little more is known about Lazarus after Our Lord's Resurrection and Ascension. However, during his thirty year stay in Larnaca various traditions are connected with him. The most famous is that he never smiled or joked; except for one occcassion. One day, he saw someone stealing a clay pot and he laughed saying, "the clay steals the clay".
Another famous tradition connects Lazarus with the discovery of Mount Athos. Lazarus was very close to Christ and his family and was missing the Virgin Mary. For this reason, he sent a ship to the Holy Lands to bring the Virgin Mary and John the Theologian to Cyprus for a visit. While they were travelling, a great storm blew the ship off course and carried the ship to the shores of Athos, Greece. According to the tradition, the most holy Theotokos, was taken aback by the beauty of the area and prayed to her son that this could be her garden. After converting the local idolaters they set sail for Cyprus and met with Lazarus. It is said, that she had knit for Lazarus a Bishop's pallium with her own hands.
The first tomb of Lazarus in Bethany remains as a site for pilgrims to this very day. The second tomb, on the island of Cyprus, was found in Kittium sometime in A.D. 890, with his relics inside and bearing the inscription "Lazarus, the Friend of Christ."
Subsequently a church dedicated to Saint Lazarus has been built on this site.
See Also
- 1 Lazarus Saturday. Speaking the Truth in Love Podcast by Fr. Thomas Hopko. Ancient Faith Radio. 18 April 2008.
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The Creation Of The Universe
Miracles in Our Bodies
Microscopic Motors of The Body: The Muscles
Muscles are the power stations of our bodies. They are in charge of transforming energy into power, which they perfectly perform throughout one's life. We notice this sometimes, but most of the time we are not aware of it. For example, some muscles contract although we do not consciously make any effort. The heart and stomach muscles are of this type. Their action is beyond our control. Muscles that contract by our will are attached to our skeleton. There are 650 voluntary muscles in the human body. As we move, these muscles contract and relax together with the bones they are attached to.
Muscles are operated by blood vessels and nerves. Blood vessels carry oxygen and nourishment to muscles, while nerves drive muscle movement.
What would happen if the control of your muscles were completely left up to you? Suppose, for example, that your heart muscles contracted only with your conscious control from now on. You would do nothing but concentrate on the contraction and relaxation of your heart muscles. That is because if your heart muscles did not contract even for a moment, you would die. And death would be inevitable when you were asleep, since you would not be able to control your heart's functioning. However this never happens since you do not need to think about such things thanks to the perfect controlling system in your body.
What we need to do, above all, is to give thanks to our compassionate Lord, Who makes everything easy for us, and to act in a way that is pleasing to Him. Allah commands us to worship Him alone in the following verse:
That is Allah, your Lord. There is no god but Him, the Creator of everything. So worship Him. He is responsible for everything. (Surat al-An'am: 102)
Muscles Operate Harmoniously
Did you know that 17 muscles in your face contract simultaneously when you smile? If one of these muscles did not contract or malfunctioned, you wouldn't be able to smile. Furthermore, you would have an empty expression on your face.
There are 28 muscles controlling your facial expression. With the joint contraction of these muscles, you can assume hundreds of different expressions. You can express anger, bewilderment, happiness and amusement as well as many other emotions thanks to these muscles. Besides the facial muscles, other muscles in your body work in harmony too. In order to take a single step, for example, 54 muscles operate at the same time. Thus we can easily make hundreds of movements, which seem ordinary to us. But having read of all this one should stop and think, because people do not contribute anything at all to the functioning of these muscles. If the muscles did not function properly, it would not be possible to take even a step, let alone run, swim or ride a bicycle. Therefore, we should keep a very important truth in mind: Allah created a perfect system in the human body. This is a gift from our Lord. What we should do in return is to reflect on Allah's infinite mercy, to remember His greatness and to give thanks to Him.
The Hands Handle Everything Skillfully
Turning the pages of a book, opening a car door, washing one's hands... These are merely a few of the things that we frequently do using our hands, without experiencing any difficulty. We use our hands in performing hundreds of other acts as well.
A human hand is so strong that it can exert a pressure of as much as 45 kg (100 pounds) on an object without even clenching the fist. Besides such strength, we can also use our hands in very delicate and fine acts, such as threading a needle, whenever we so wish. While one group of actions requires a great deal of strength, the other requires strict accuracy. We, however, do not even realise how remarkable are the achievements which our hands bring about in reality. We never consciously decide to exercise a force of 500 grams (1.1 pound) in order to pick a piece of paper up from a table or to exercise a force of 5 kilograms (11 pounds) in order to throw a ball. We perform all such things automatically without conscious thought, since Allah created us perfectly. The remarkable competence of our hands is the result of Allah's matchless creation.
Did you know that one of the greatest attempts of scientists has been to make an artificial hand similar to a human hand? Robot hands made so far have been equivalent to the human hand in terms of strength, yet have lacked the sense of touch and the capability to perform various tasks at the same time.
As a matter of fact, it is the opinion of many scientists that a robot hand possessing all the functions of a human hand cannot be made. Engineer Hans J. Schneebeli, who has designed the robotic hand known as "The Karlsruhe Hand", stated that the more he worked on robotic hands, the more he admired the human hand. He added that they still need a lot of time to be able to tackle even a few of the jobs accomplished by the human hand.
Our hands, which cannot even be imitated by today's technology, are designed by Allah. They manifest the perfection in Allah's artistry of creation.
There is no other creator besides Allah. In the following verse, Allah informs us that there is no other god besides Him and addresses those who do not see this fact:
Say: "Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?" Say: "Allah." Say: "So why have you taken protectors apart from Him who possess no power to help or harm themselves?" Say: "Are the blind and seeing equal? Or are darkness and light the same? Or have they assigned partners to Allah who create as He creates, so that all creating seems the same to them?" Say: "Allah is the Creator of everything. He is the One, the All-Conquering.' (Surat ar-Ra'd: 16)


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This is written by an Atheist mom, who, for all I know may be a member of this site. I did not check, but I liked and agreed with everything she wrote. It is an opinion piece, of course.
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Not a bad piece. Maybe not as sophisticated in places, but it's honest and straightforward and calls a spade a spade.
think she is a blogger not a reporter, but yes, simple and easy.
Some douchebag has already flagged the story as inappropriate. That didn't take long.
"Some douchebag" can't deal with opposing opinions. [sigh] Big surprise...
I was surprised it stayed up that long. What ever happened to freedom of speech? Dbags indeed. We are the minority, but still gaining ground.
Update: CNN hasn't flagged this iReport as inappropriate, but some community members have. This is a divisive topic, however it does not violate our Community Guidelines, so we ask people to please stop flagging it. We will continue to review the story as often as possible.
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Also, this has over 45,000 likes on Facebook. :)
I'm glad to see CNN essentially tell the christian extremist to essentially "shut your pie hole!".
Sadly, they don't hear that nearly enough.
Apparently the article resonated quite a bit, and also the bible-thumpers could not get it shut down.
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I think it is utterly iniquitous that the Fort Hays State University volleyball team is participating in a lengthy boondoggle in Hawaii, when departments actually dealing with education are struggling to stay within miserly budgeting.
This also goes to the national scandal of outrageous expenditure in both high school and college "____ball" -- football being the worst offender. Have you seen some of the coaches' salaries?
Where do they think they are? Wall Street??
Also impacting the situation is the amount of time off given to "athletes," which cannot be anything but unhelpful to teachers trying to maintain academic integrity.
They have enough on their plate without having to finagle "makeup" deals for these spoiled darlings who, on the whole, contribute very little to our struggle to compete academically with better-focused institutions abroad.
Here, professional and professorial staff actually get in trouble for trying to maintain academic standards for today's, "I want the grade my parents paid for" brigrade.
Truly, the Age of Mediocrity -- and it looks like it's only going to get worse.
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La Tabkha
Authentic Lebanese cuisine in a trendy atmosphere
Branches:Gemmayzeh, Hamra, Jal El Dib
Price:Between 13$ and 18$
Review by Souad
At 'La Tabkha', you will find common Lebanese plates as well as authentic plates that our grandmothers used to cook.
The atmosphere of the branches is trendy contrasting with the traditional nature of the food. The quality of the food is not always excellent.
A visit to this restaurant may give you the opportunity to taste some forgotten simple plates.Write a Review
Lebanese menu with some authentic traditional plates and daily menus
Suitable for vegetarians. Serves alcohol.
1 Review
Feb 1, 2012 at 04:12This place used to be good when it opened. Now its prices keep going up... You are forced to buy a MEAL and not just the plate. The dine in experience is just horrific when extremely poor service and shabby interior that is in desperate need of touch ups and fixing. Food is becoming increasingly disappointing in its taste and quality. Website always seems to have problems. When you call you sometimes get very rude girls answering you and keeping you waiting till they finish whatever they are discussing with the delivery boys. Deliveries often get delivered to wrong addresses. It wouldnt be my first choice of places to visit... if I'd visit again or order in.
Gemmayzeh, in the middle of Gouraud street, on your right if you're coming from downtown
Phone Number: 01 579 000
This branch makes delivery.
Hamra not far from the end of Bliss street
Phone Number: 01 347 346
This branch makes delivery.
Jal El Dib
Phone Number: 04 724 723
This branch makes delivery.
See Also
Le Chef - Gemmayzeh(15 votes)
Famous old, traditional and cheap restaurant of Gemmayzeh street
Misk(9 votes)
Daily meals in a famous sweets shop
Kababji(19 votes)
Modern Kabab and Grills Restaurant
Muscade - Jal el dib(2 votes)
Plat du jour & Traiteur
Semsom(14 votes)
Lebanese cuisine with a twist
Carla's Good Food - Mazraa(8 votes)
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andreasn necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 759 diseños de 170 diseñadores freelance.
We are a newly started, but highly skilled IT consultancy firm. We have experienced and creative personnel versed in current technologies but also have a good understanding of new technology on the horizon.
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This design with its two blue colors is very nice: http://99designs.com/contests/27738/entries/114. We'd like to try a logo in that spirit. Also some alternations like
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http://99designs.com/contests/27366/entries/443 (especially the left one)
We like the big size company-feel of this one. We'd like to have some alternations to see if this might be a direction to pursue.
* The bottom one with red background is very nice. We would like to try a design like that.
* The top one with white background might be better without the gradient.
And we kindly request that follow these guidelines as well:
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* No registered trademark icon
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For the Binea logo we are imagining a modern, clean and fresh design that exudes professionalism and creativity.
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|Nanjing Nanjing has served as China's capital several times in China's history. Hong Wu, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, relocated the imperial court to Nanjing in the 14th century. The Yangtze River Bridge, upon its completion in 1968, provided the first direct overland link between the lower Yangtze River Valley and Beijing. Visit the blue-domed hall of the Dr.Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, reached by climbing 392 granite steps, an impressive memorial to the world famous former leader. A Qing Dynasty style bazaar that surrounds a Confucian Temple provides a fascinating experience.
|Fengdu Legend-rich Fengdu is known as the "City of Ghosts." In ancient times, sailors moored their boats midstream rather than on shore to avoid attack by ghosts. The temple complex high up on Mingshan Hill is filled with statues of ghosts and devils. Originally dedicated to the gods of the Underworld, it's a popular site for visitors today.
|ShiBaoZhai Balanced on the edge of the sheer cliffs of Shibaozhai is a spectacular 12-story wooden pagoda. Over 400 years old, this amazing building ws constructed without use of a single nail. Truly magnificent, the pagoda is appropriately called the "Pearl of the Yangtze."
|Shanghai China's business center, and gateway to the Yangtze River. Once called the "Paris of the East," Shanghai's European past is on display at its waterfront Bund. The Old Quarter's twisting alleys, ancient temples and shops are not to be missed. Modern skyscapers are testament to the city's prosperity, while world-renowned museums pay homage to the nation's past.
Huangshan Renowned are the "Four Ultimate Beauties" of Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) - ancient pines, sea of clouds, fantastically shaped rocks and its hot springs. Revered throughout China, Huangshan is not easily accessible. After taking a gondola three quarters of the way up, the adventurous may continue via stairway. The reward is a truly unforgettable experience of walking into a living Chinese ink painting, as dramatic vistas are on display before you.
|Wanzhou (formerly Wanxian) Like vigilant sentries, Wanzhou's two nine-storied pagodas watch over the riverside entrance to the city. Steep stairways wind up from the river to the center of the town high above the Yangtze. The locally famous rattan and cane market buzzes with buyers and sellers bargaining for the handmade mats, fans, hats and baskets.
|Wushan Traditional courtyard style homes line the streets in Wushan, which are named after the 12 peaks of the Wu Gorge. This is the starting point for a day excursion up the Daning River to view the spectacular Small Gorges - Dragon Gate, Misty or Emerald. Continue on by sampan to the picturesque mini-gorges of the Ma Du River for more amazing scenery.
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Prayer in Ushpizin
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Communication is essential. In the communication discipline, there is a maxim, "You are never not communicating." At every point in time, through words, facial expressions and body language we are communicating and although we have all this practice at communication it still is one of the hardest and most convoluted things in our existence. And that's just when talking to other humans. Communication is even more difficult when relegated to the realm of the supernatural. How do we talk to God, who we can't see and from whom we hardly ever receive verbal reciprocation?
I know that my dialogue with God is often fraught with distractions and other concerns because of the lack of a physical presence. God sometimes doesn't seem as real as my friends around me or even the people I walk past in my everyday life. One of the ways I've learned to overcome this in small ways is by following the example of those who pray like God is sitting right next to them. I think that these examples are crucial to helping us become people who better communicate with others and with God.
One such example is Ushpizin (Dar, 2004), an Israeli film, that follows Moshe, a rabbi, and his wife, Mali, during the Jewish holiday of Succoth as they welcome unexpected ushpizin (guests) to their house. There are three specific scenes I want to focus on that provides some stunning examples of prayer that bleeds emotion and authenticity.
Moshe and Mali don't have any money to pay their bills let alone celebrate the holiday that is approaching. Distraught by this possibility they do the only thing they can: pray. Moshe leaves the house and goes to a park. He sits down on the bench and begins conversing with God in honest, down-to-earth terms. As his prayer continues, his emotions continue to rise as he claps his hands and eventually lets out a heart-rending cry. While he is praying, through the magic of parallel editing, we see God answering his prayer before he has concluded it by sending Moshe and Mali a gift of 1,000 dollars.
Moshe and Mali's reaction to this gift is one of overwhelming joy. They begin to dance and sing to the Lord, praising Him for the gift. The joy in this scene is palpable and once again there is a sense of real connection to God with Moshe using "Abba" to address God from the position of a son. Once again we see a very real belief in a God who breaks into everyday life. In the Christian culture I inhabit in America, a reaction like theirs is something unusual and not seen very often. Their reaction makes me question where that joy and intense belief in God's power is in my faith.
The final scene that sticks out to me is essentially the climax of the film. The unexpected guests have driven Mali away by their behavior and what they have brought out in Moshe. His guests have also just used a very precious lemon, which Moshe purchased for 1,000 shekels, as salad dressing. This time, instead of succumbing to his anger, like he has previously, Moshe runs from his guests. He finally stops running, out of breath, in a grove of trees and unloads his anger on God. There are tears and screams. As he prays, I can almost imagine a Psalmist in this position, laying his soul out before God. And there is Moshe, lying prostrate on the ground, pleading for God's mercy. I'm not sure I've ever bared my soul to God in that manner.
Like before, God hears Moshe's prayer and brings his wife back to him. This is not a God that is removed from his Creation, but One working in and through His people, showing them grace and mercy. Ushpizin, as you might expect from a film centered on a Jewish rabbi, is profoundly spiritual and delivers some beautiful portraits of prayer. Like I've learned from those who have gone before me, I hope to learn from the picture painted by this wonderful film.


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Dialectal differences in comparatives Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Dialectal differences in comparatives Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message QaaolchouraJoined: 10 Oct 2008Posts: 539Location: 21 miles from the Syrian border Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 5:15 pm Post subject: Dialectal differences in comparatives I've noticed that grammar books tend to use the rule that if you're comparing two adjectives of one syllable, or two syllables where the second syllable is "y" you use "-er," while if you use two syllables where the second syllable isn't y, or more than two syllables, then you use "more." However I've noticed that in my dialect this is patently wrong, and I almost exclusively use "-er" instead of "more" in the following circumstances: 1. If the word is two syllables and ends in a vowel: yellower, shallower. 2. If the word is three syllables, ends in "y" and the first syllable is "un": unhealthier, ungainlier. I also tend to use -er, but often use "more," especially for emphasis or in formal situations in two more cases: 3. If the word is two syllables and ends in a sonorant consonant (eviler, awesomer) 4. If the word is "stupid": stupider. (This seems to be an isolated case, like that of the comparative of "fun" being "more fun," since all other two-syllable adjectives ending in "d" I use "more": more vapid, more haggard.) I'll note here that for what it's worth my spellchecker recognizes all of my extra exceptions except "awesomer," but does recognize "handsomer." It also recognizes "wickeder," which sounds wrong to me. I'll also note that I've checked with other New Englanders, and my rule seems to be valid for my dialect, not just my own idiosyncrasy, but it may still be a local idiosyncrasy. (Like the New England habit of saying "quarter of," which confused learners and coworkers alike until I learned to use "quarter to" with non-native speakers and Britons.) So tell me, in you dialect of English, which, if any of these additional rules apply to comparatives? (Also, which dialect do you speak?) Obviously I'll still tell students the rule in all the grammar books, since I expect that's what the TOEFL expects, but I'm wondering if other rules are widespread-enough to merit telling my students about these exceptions. ~Q Back to top johnslatJoined: 21 Jan 2003Posts: 13859Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 5:50 pm Post subject: Dear Qaaolchoura, "Modern sources tend to grudgingly accept fun as an adjective. For example, Garners Modern American Usage says fun as an adjective has reached the stage where it becomes commonplace even among many well-educated people but is still avoided in careful usage. Funnest on the other hand, a word that would be the standard inflected form of the adjective fun, is less acceptable. I wrote about funnest back in 2008 when Steve Jobs called the new iPod the funnest iPod ever. I still wish I hadnt said, Words are fun at the end of my interview. Live radio isnt exactly the place where careful usage shines because you need time to be careful, and Im young enough that fun as an adjective doesnt sound wrong to me, but I still know that it rubs some people the wrong way. Its a low bar, but at least I didnt say, Talking about words is the funnest thing I did today. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/fun-as-an-adjective.aspx Yup, there are, I guess, always going to be exceptions. Some texts, in fact, mention them: "Number of syllables Comparative Superlative two syllables + -er OR more + adj + -est OR most + adj ending in: -y, -ly, -ow ending in: -le, -er or -ure these common adjectives - handsome, polite, pleasant, common, quiet happy happier/ more happy happiest/ most happy yellow yellower/ more yellow yellowest/ most yellow simple simpler/ more simple simplest/ most simple tender tenderer/ more tender tenderest/ most tender If you are not sure, use MORE + OR MOST + Note: Adjectives ending in '-y' like happy, pretty, busy, sunny, lucky etc:. replace the -y with -ier or -iest in the comparative and superlative form. http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/adjectives_comparative_superlative.php At the lower levels, KIS (Keep It Simple). At the upper levels, mention some exceptions. I'm from Boston, but I say/write "more unhealthy," "more handsome, "more evil," etc. To my ear "awesomer" sounds "awkwarder" than "more awesome." 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Thu, 10 Dec 2009
FUDCon Toronto 2009
Another FUDCon is in the books, this time in Toronto. It was great to catch up with many people, put faces to some names, and meet a bunch of new contributors. I gave a session on Moksha, which I'll talk about below, and was also on the Fedora Infrastructure panel discussion.
My goal this FUDCon wasn't to crank out a ton of code, but to focus on gathering and prioritizing requirements and to help others be productive. Here are some of the projects I focused on.
Moksha is a project I created a little over a year ago, which is the base of a couple of other applications I've been working on as well: Fedora Community and CIVX. I'll be blogging about these in more detail later.
One of the main themes of FUDCon this year was Messaging (AMQP), and Moksha is a large part of this puzzle, as it allows you to wield AMQP within web applications. During my session the demo involved busting open a terminal, creating a consumer that reacts to all messages, creating a message producer, and then creating a live chat widget -- all of which hooked up to Fedora's AMQP broker.
I'll be turning my slides into an article, so expect a full blog post explaining the basics soon. In the mean time, I found Adam Miller's description to be extremely amusing:
"I walked into a session called "Moksha and Fedora Community -- Real-time web apps with Python and AMQP" which blew my mind. This is Web3.0 (not by definition, but that's what I'm calling it), Luke Macken and J5 completely just stepped over web2.0 and said "pffft, childs play" (well not really but in my mind I assume it went something like that). This session showed off technology that allows real time message passing in a web browser as well as "native" support for standard protocols. The project page is https://fedorahosted.org/moksha/ and I think everyone on the planet should take some time to go there and enjoy the demo, prepare to have your mind blown. Oh, and I also irc transcribed that one as well http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fudcon-room-3/2009-12-05/fudcon-room-3.2009-12-05-22.07.log.html ... presentation slides found: http://lmacken.fedorapeople.org/moksha-FUDConToronto-2009.odp"
Fedora Community
So after we released v1.0 of Fedora Community for F12, all of us went off in seperate directions to hack on various things. J5 wrote AMQP javascript bindings, which I then integrated into Moksha. Máirín Duffy built a portable usability lab and has been doing great research on the usability of the project. And I dove back into Moksha to solidify the platform.
After we deploy our AMQP broker for Fedora, and once we have start adding shims into our existing infrastructure, we'll then be able to start creating live widgets and message consumers that can react to events, allowing us to wield Fedora in real-time. This will let us to keep our fingers on the pulse of Fedora, automate and facilitate tedious tasks, and gather metrics as things happen.
During the hackfests I also did some work on our current Fedora Community deployment. Over the past few weeks some of our widgets randomly died, and we haven't been receiving proper error messages. So, I successfully hooked up WebError and the team is now getting traceback emails, which will help us fix problems much faster (or at least nag the hell out of us about them).
I also worked with Ian Weller on the new Statistics section of the dashboard, which has yet to hit production. Ian and I wrote Wiki metrics, Seth Vidal wrote BitTorrent metrics, and I wrote Bodhi metrics. We've also got many more to come. My main concern was a blocker issue that we were hitting with our flot graphs when you quickly bounce between tabs. I ended up "fixing" the bug, so I'll be pushing what we have of the stats branch into production in the near future.
TurboGears has definitely been our favorite web framework within Fedora's Infrastructure for many years now. TurboGears2, a complete re-invention of itself, has been released recently, and is catching on *very* quickly in the community. Tons of people are working on awesome new apps, and loving every minute of it. I was also able to convert a rails hacker over to it, after he was able to quickly dive into one of the tutorials with ease. See my previous blog post about getting up and running with TG2 in Fedora/EPEL.
One of my main tasks during the hackfests was to pull the authentication layer in Fedora Community that authenticates against the Fedora Account System, and port it over to python-fedora, so we can use it in any TurboGears2 application. I committed the initial port to python-fedora-devel, and have started working on integrating it into a default TG2 quickstart and document the process. There are still a couple of minor things I want to fix/clean up before releasing it, so expect a blog about it soon.
It seems like yesterday that I was an intern at Red Hat working on an internal updates system for Fedora Core. Coming up on 5 years later, and I am now working on my 3rd implementation of an updates system, Bodhi v2.0. What's wrong with the current Bodhi you ask? Well, if you talk to any user of it, you'll probably get a pretty long list. Bodhi is the first TurboGears application written & deployed in Fedora Infrastructure, and uses the vanilla components (SQLObject, kid, CherryPy2). The TG1 stack has been holding up quite nicely over the years, and is still supported upstream, but bodhi's current implemention and design does not make it easy to grow.
Bodhi v2.0 will be implemented in TurboGears2, using SQLAlchemy for an ORM, Mako for templates, and ToscaWidgets2 for re-usable widgets. It will be hook-based and plugin-driven, and will be completely distribution agnostic. Another important goal will be AMQP message-bus integration, which will allow other services or users to react to various events inside of the system as they happen.
So far I've ported the old DB model from SQLObject to SQLAlchemy, and have begun porting the old unit tests, and writing new ones. Come the new year, I'll be giving this much more of my focus.
During the hackfests I got a chance to talk to Dennis Gilmore about various improvements that we need to make with regard to the update push process. It was also great to talk to many different users of bodhi, who expressed various concerns, some of which I've already fixed. I also got a chance to talk to Xavier Lamien about deploying Bodhi for rpmfusion. On the bus ride home I helped explain to Mel how Bodhi & Koji fit into the big picture of things.
During the BarCamp sessions I also attended a session about the Update Experience, where we discussed many important issues surrounding updates.
So I got a chance to finally meet Sebastian Dziallas, of Sugar on a Stick fame, and was able to fix a few liveusb-creator issues on his laptop. I ended up pushing out a new release a couple of days ago that contains some of those fixes, along with a new version of Sugar on a Stick.
The liveusb-creator has been catching a lot of press recently (see the front page for a list). Not only did it have a 2 page spread in Linux Format, but it was also featured in this weeks Wired.com article New Sugar on a Stick Brings Much Needed Improvements. Rock.
There was lot of brainstorming done by Dave Malcolm, Colin Walters, Toshio Kuratomi, Bernie Innocenti, I, and many others about various improvements that we could make to the Python interpreter. From speeding up startup time by doing some clever caching to potentially creating a new optimized compiled binary format. We also looked into how WebError/abrt gather tracebacks, and discussed ways of enabling interactive traceback debugging for vanilla processes, without requiring a layer of WSGI middleware.
There was also work done on adding SystemTap probes to Python, which is very exciting. There are many ideas for various probe points, including one that I blogged about previously.
Intel iMac8,1 support
My iMac sucks at Linux. This has been something that has been nagging me for a long time, and I've been slowly trying to chip away at the problems. First, I've been doing work on a Mac port of the liveusb-creator. I also started to work on a kernel patch for getting the EFI framebuffer working, and discussed how to do it with ajax and pjones. The screen doesn't display anything after grub, and since we don't know the base address of the framebuffer, it involves writing code to iterate over memory trying to find some common pixel patterns. I'm still trying to wrap my head around all of it, but I'll probably end up just buying them beer to fix it for me.
ThincrustThincrust is a project that I've been excited about for a while, and I actually have some appliances deployed in a production cloud. I was able to run some ideas for various virtual appliances by one of the authors over some beers. Some pre-baked virtual appliances that you can easily throw into a cloud that I would like to see:
- WSGI appliance
- TurboGears2, Pylons, Django, etc.
- Moksha - Real-time web application in a box
- func, certmaster, puppetmaster
- Intrusion detection system
- Many more that I can't think of right now
dogtailI'm glad to see that dogtail is still exciting people in the community. It still has a lot of potential to improve not only the way we test graphical software, but we also discussed ways of using it to teach people and automate various desktop tasks. What if you logged in after a fresh install and got the following popup bubble:
Hi, welcome to Fedora, what can I help you do today?
- Installing new software
- Setting up an email client
- Using and RSS news reader
- More...
Each task would then allow Fedora to take the wheel and walk the user through various steps. I had this idea a while ago, when dogtail first came out, and I still think it would be totally awesome. Anyway, this was not a focus of the hackfests, but merely a conversation that I had while walking to lunch :)
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