Survey: Americans don't know much about religion

By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer – Tue Sep 28, 3:42 pm ET

"A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths."

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Former Teammates

Buffalo Sabres Drew Stafford, right, battles for the puck with Toronto Maple Leafs Clarke MacArthur during the third period of a pre-season NHL hockey game in Toronto on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. [AP]

So my favourite teams played each other in the last 2 games and each won their home game.

Sick

I have been sick for almost two weeks. It has been really tough having a busy schedule, people counting on you, and the only think I wanted to do was sit or lay in bed. Since I did not slow down I got a lot worse, but now that I barely did anything this weekend I feel better, not 100%, yet I am behind with everything I needed to do. Getting better is most important. I will figure out later how to catch up with everything else.

That time again

With the preseason in full swing . . . hockey is back!
Toronto won again (against Philly).
Buffalo plays Toronto on Saturday.
Oh to have tickets to that game.

A Gripe

Sometimes I cannot understand why students attend a class they have no interest being in and then proceed to create distractions for others. They should have dropped the class or skipped today if writing within Facebook was more important than Tibetan Buddhism.

Nessun Dorma

Luciano Pavarotti

Simon's Cat in 'The Box'

The most beautiful thing filmed

Ricky Fitts: "It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."

--- American Beauty (1999)

Little Mouse

I managed to save this little one on August 21, but today I could not save it's friend. I tried to coax him to drink, had food ready and even chanted over his worn out little body, but he was too far gone when I found him in the window well. He died shortly after and I buried him under the Lilac bush. I am going to measure the window wells and get covers so this does not happen again.

Compassion from Anger

People harm others only when they are unhappy. No one wakes up in the morning and says, "I feel so great today! I think I'll go out and harm someone!" When we can allow ourselves to know the depth of the pain and confusion felt by those who have harmed us, compassion--the wish that they be free from such suffering--can easily arise. Thinking in this way does not mean whitewashing or denying harm that was done. Rather, we acknowledge it, but go beyond amassing resentment, because we know that grudges help neither ourselves nor others.

--from Working with Anger by Thubten Chodron, published by Snow Lion Publications

Все́волод Илларио́нович Пудо́вкин

(Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin) (16 February 1893 – 20 June 1953) was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of montage. Pudovkin's masterpieces are often contrasted with those of his contemporary Sergei Eisenstein, but whereas Eisenstein utilized montage to glorify the power of the masses, Pudovkin preferred to concentrate on the courage and resilience of individuals.

- Wikipedia

HW1 - DMS438

This is a screenshot of the first stage of homework 1: use the Island Demo in Unity 3D and add a village by the shore with Heron on the roof. I did not model any of this section, as the point is to use what is created to learn the program and how the "behind the scenes" work without spending countless hours modeling everything (modeling come next semester). It is a relief to not have to model everything from scratch this semester since I know how long that takes.

Defintion

Compassion: sensitivity to the sufferings experienced by other beings, coupled with a desire to help them to overcome suffering and its causes

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2 Months Later

I am restarting my blogging everyday -- I am online everyday anyway. Who knows, maybe this time I will not stop after completing a full year. Sometimes I have a lot to say sometimes I struggle to find something. Never-the-less there will be a new post everyday.