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"Do you ever just get down on your knees and thank god that you know me and have access to my dementia?" George Constanza asks when his scheme to get Jerry out of a relationship by having him claim he wants to have a menage a trois, winds up with woman actually being into the idea. It's a hilarious scene because not only does it acknowledge one of the ultimate male fantasies, but when moments later Jerry says he can't go through it, it also underscores that it's a long way from fantasy to reality. There's little of that wonderment or fear in John Turturro's odd, uneven and yet engaging "Fading Gigolo," a film that starts as a sex comedy but becomes something else entirely, as ideas for what would've been two really good separate films are combined into one merely adequate picture.
To the film's benefit, it doesn't waste any time, jumping right into the premise with Murray (Woody Allen), a rare book dealer whose business is going kaput, presenting his friend and florist Fioravante (Turturro) an intriguing proposition: Murray's dermatologist (Sharon Stone) is looking for someone to participate in a threesome along with her curvaceous, bodacious best friend Selima (Sofia Vergara), and she's willing to pay $1,000. Murray suggested Fioravante, but of course, needs to clear it with him first. And while Fioravante is naturally, initially reluctant, the money proves too good to ignore. After an initial test session with the doctor goes very well, Fioravante and Murray are quickly launching a new business in the flesh trade, and the cash starts rolling in. So for a while, Fioravante has no problem selling himself for sex (or moral or ethic quandaries don't seem to bother him), and the elderly Murray seemingly takes like a fish to water in drumming up clients (it's not really explained how he does it, but for the sake of the movie, just roll with it). But of course things all change when Avigal (Vanessa Paradis) enters the picture.
A Hasidic widow, she's connected with Fioravante through Murray for "therapy," and it quickly becomes clear that word isn't just a euphemism for sex. The sensitive Fioravante clearly realizes she's a woman still in mourning and yet also longs for companionship, but hesitates to move on due to the deep pain she still feels as well as the constraints of her faith, which makes meeting men a particular challenge. If that doesn't sound particularly hilarious, that's because it isn't. This section of the movie makes up most of the second half, and it's actually a lovely and a rather unique romance that goes in some fresh and insightful directions. It's certainly the kind of relationship troubles we don't see in a movie often at all and had this been the focus of "Fading Gigolo," it might have been a better movie for it.
That's right, as much as we love Woody Allen, and as effortless as he is here, the comedic elements of 'Gigolo' are actually the least effective. It's certainly not unfunny, just mildly amusing at best (though a running subplot with Murray as a neighborly uncle, or something, to a group of local black kids is completely out of place), with Allen still able to hold his own onscreen and deliver one liners, even making the most of the slightly worn and familiar zingers he throws out here. But the real heart and soul of "Fading Gigolo" is in the pairing of Fioravante and Avigal, with the former negotiating his true feelings through the slight deception he's perpetrating on this vulnerable woman, while the latter slowly awakens to the idea of moving on and learning to accept emotional and physical partnership again.
And with the wacky amateur pimp laffer running alongside a quieter, more observant drama, the overall effect is a movie that's tonally messy and inconsistent. It's one where we found ourselves wanting return to Avigal (Paradis is surprisingly strong in the part), rather than the antics of Murray, who is eventually tailed by Shomrim hothead Dovi (Liev Schreiber), building to a rather wheezy chase sequence. It speaks to Turturro's (non) interest in the sex angle that the threesome is almost completely sidelined after it's first mentioned, only to be quickly resolved in the last act, so we can get back to what happens next with Fioravante and Avigal.
A very New York City story that feels authentic (unlike the other festival NYC tale "Begin Again"), and gorgeously shot by Marco Pontecorvo, "Fading Gigolo" is mostly an inoffensive trifle, slightly undone by its lack of focus and mishmash of genres that don't quite come together. But it's breezily told and acted, with some decent laughs and unlike many comedies these days, it actually cares and respects the characters and the consequences of what they go through. As we said, there are better pictures to be made out of the material but what we do get is a decent enough cinematic peck on the check. [C]
This is a reprint of our review from the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
David Fuchs | April 16, 2014 6:45 PM
The film was made bf Team-Farrow started the lynching. I wonder how much damage was done (eg, did it stop Stone & Vergara from promoting? Are the reviews subconsciously influenced by the "offensive criminal"?).
Most people say that Woody must be guilty of sexual behavior bc Vanity Fair reported that he was in counseling for that. VF said that it was an "Undeniable Fact" that Justice Wilk said "Dylan must be protected" from sexual behavior.
How far can a rag, such as VF, go?! I don't ask for much, my threshold is low. I don't ask that they write what IS true, only what can POSSIBLY be true!!
The counselor testified that it was NOT sexual, how can she POSSIBLY counsel Woody for sexual behavior???
Wilk said that "she must be protected" from NONsexual inappropriate behavior. Wilk cited testimony from the counselor, Allen himself, Yale--all "nonsexual."
Wilk & both appellate courts said that EVEN SATCHEL must be protected from the man who is destroying the life of Soon-Yi. They were all proven wrong!


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Technical and trade schools have experienced fluctuations during the past five years, largely due to the recession and stagnant growth in federal funding. High unemployment has caused individuals to seek out further education, while employers are increasing their training requirements to remain competitive. Overall revenue and online enrollment growth has caused profit margins to remain relatively strong, and an increase in online enrollment will likely drive profit growth further... purchase to read more
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More than 6000 people applied, eight were chosen. And, for the first time, NASA has an astronaut class with gender parity — four men, and four women.
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Well, they'll be hitching a ride with the Russians. The bigger question is–why are we still selecting so many pilots? (…since we don't have a spacecraft…)
True, we don't have any craft of our own – FOR NOW. But, these are trainees. By the time they're ready, hopefully we'll have something for them to fly.
If not, I'm sure Virgin Galactic will be hiring.
Military personnel are still disproportionately represented.
jesus christ those people made me feel like an underachiever.
Better to have them in space than blowing up shit down here on Terra, wouldn't you say?
This is how the gender balance should be in the house and senate…instead we have all men in a judiciary committee creating laws about abortion.
Shit. I thought it said the NSA Astronaut class of 2013. That was going to be one weird article.
Why are all the pictures arranged with the guys on the top row and the women on the bottom?
Because the men are taller? Or because they want the women to look subservient. Take your pick.
This is a grid of headshots, not a group photo. Hence I'm questioning the editor's arrangement. It could've been arranged in alphabetical order instead, for example.
It's pretty weird since the article not only lists them in alphabetical order, but says that it's listing them in alphabetical order.
Yeah, that bugged me, too! And of course NASA's website has them in alphabetical order, so it was just weird and graphically ugly on the part of the newspaper.
Also- hate to be that guy but- 4a + 4b is not gender parity- one of each or thereabouts would have been nice, though more women in space is one small step for mankind and I'm glad. Also looks like there is a brownish candidate-another small step.
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Replacing coal sounds like a massive task but consider that every coal plant on the planet was built during my lifetime, some were even built and rebuilt. The economics is such that I'm now confident they will be replaced with solar/wind farms in the next 50yrs. The hydro dams are already in place and there aren't many suitable sites left for new ones. All forms of power generation must match supply to demand on the grid, ie: they need a buffer to be able to match the "wavy" demand curve of a typical city. Coal produces a flat supply curve (so called "base load"), it already uses the existing dams as giant batteries by pumping water uphill during off-peak times and pulling it back onto the grid during peak times. As renewables start replacing coal why would they not also use the existing hydro infrastructure to similar effect?


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The current furore over the dismal results in the CSEC English Language did not happen overnight. Forty-eight years ago, at the graduation of the first batch of Technical High School students of the Dinthill Technical High School, only 38 per cent of students who sat the GCE examination in English language were successful. The then principal, the late CV Philips, lamented the poor performance and reported thus: "English is regarded as a foreign language to most students. It is used by students in the classroom when answering the teachers. However, as soon as they leave the precincts of the classroom, they revert to the old vernacular."
In addressing that deficiency, he launched what was known as a "Better Speaking Campaign". Basically, if a student was caught speaking broken English, a verbatim report of what the student said would be reported at devotion. The student would be mentioned by name, stating place and time of the incident. That proved embarrassing to the offender.
The following year, the pass rate in GCE English language rose to 55 per cent.
The principal was known to be a stickler for the proper use of English. On one occasion, a student and I were in close proximity to an overflowing septic pit. The principal said to the other student, "Son, come and take a quick draft of this obnoxious effluvia." The bewildered student remarked, "Wha yuh seh, Sah?" The principal retorted, "Son, the word is not Sah, it is Sir." The student responded, "I didn't say Sah, Sir. I said Sir, Sah."
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International Stout Day is a worldwide celebration of the iconic beer style, Stout. Taking place in homes, pubs, breweries and restaurants, it's all about celebrating the craft beer revolution, relishing in this beloved beer style, sharing your photos, tasting notes and events with the world.The Brewers Association Beer Style Guidelines - which are updated/changed yearly - recognize eight categories of stout styles:
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- Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout
- Foreign (Export)-Style Stout (Irish Origin)
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- American-Style Imperial Stout
Sadly, there are no Montana specific events listed on the website for International Stout Day, but that doesn't mean you're out of luck. There are many fine Stouts brewed across Montana from Custer's Last Stout at Montana Brewing Co. in Billings to Double Black Diamond Extreme Stout at Blackfoot River Brewing Co. in Helena (simply outstanding) to Woods Bay's Flathead Lake Brewing Co. Stout.
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Christian Jacob began playing at the age of four and graduated with First Prize from the "Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique" in Paris. In 1983, he enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and later joined the faculty.
While attending Berklee "Downbeat Magazine" honored Christian as "Top Collegiate Jazz Soloist" and he won the 6th Annual Great American Jazz Piano Competition in Jacksonville, Florida.
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AwardsFirst Prize from the "Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique" in Paris
"Downbeat Magazine" honored Christian as "Top Collegiate Jazz Soloist"
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"Descriptive words such as virtuoso and genius are not words I easily throw around. When I first heard Christian Jacob I knew he was something special... I believe that Christian Jacob is about to become a major force in jazz today!" -Maynard Ferguson
"A post-bop modernist touched by the souls of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett… Pianist Christian Jacob is a wonderful player whose crystalline melodies and expansive harmonies mark him as someone to keep an ear on." -Jazz Times
"A talented jazz piano newcomer, Christian Jacob shines and has the post-Bill Evans sound well in hand."
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I was a devoted fan of Michel Petrucciani, so it is surprising that it took Christian Jacob's new album to reveal the permanence of Petrucciani's work as a composer. Petrucciani recorded prolifically in his short life, in a variety of settings, and his own tunes always seemed like movements in the album-length suites he wove together from diverse found and invented materials. Christian Jacob is such a fluent, polished pianist—and his long- term working trio with bassist Trey Henry and drummer Ray Brinker is so tight—that he is able to reveal the luminous melodic essences inside Petrucciani's complex irregular forms. Once you have heard Jacob's elegantly detailed and finished renderings of Petrucciani lines like "Looking Up" and "Even Mice Dance" and "13th" and "Memories of Paris," it becomes remarkable that these songs have remained largely unexplored by jazz players. Jacob presents them as such meticulous and complete designs, and such rich sources for improvisation, that he newly claims their place in jazz literature.
When Petrucciani died at 36 in 1999, the French critic Francis Marmande wrote, "If the death of a musicians touches us in a special way, it is because they take their secrets with them." With Contradictions, Christian Jacob has performed the valuable service of revealing that Michel Petrucciani left some of his secrets behind.
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Posted 17 January 2013 - 06:44 AM
Hi everyone,
I was chatting to a friend yesterday as im due bub next week. She was asking my if i was going to try breastfeed again and then the topic of formula and the recent shortage (i didnt really know anything about it) and now im wondering what brand of formula we are in shortage of?
Last time i fed DD for 4 weeks fully breastfed, then until 6weeks comp feeding, then fully bottle feeding, i used the nanha gold.
Just curious as if i want to formula feed, i dont want to get new bub onto a formula that is in shortage.
Posted 17 January 2013 - 06:47 AM
My local chemist had signs up limiting customers to buying two tins each of Karicare formula due to a shortage. I wonder why there is a shortage?
Posted 17 January 2013 - 06:49 AM
Just did a quick google
Posted 17 January 2013 - 06:52 AM
There were a few stories in the papers starting a few weeks ago claiming there was a formula shortage due to people buying in bulk (as in 50-100 tins) and sending them back to China. The first few stories said they were sending them to their families but then later stories claimed it was a black market thing. So, not sure on the specifics.
Posted 17 January 2013 - 06:53 AM
So in a nutshell it is mainly Karicare aptamil gold in shortage because Chinese parents are buying in bulk and taking or sending it over to china, as they are not happy buying their formulas. Too many bad things have happened with the formula companies over there.
Posted 17 January 2013 - 07:05 AM
there is also a "goats milk" formula as well.. cant remember the name of it
woolies in the paper said that they would have a limit - yet an asian lasy - with no kid in tow, bought 3 boes the other day and no one batted an eye lid (and i think they have increased the price tooo)
coles has signs saying there is a limit of 4 per customer.. dont know if its enforced, or if it can be through the self serve counters....
Posted 17 January 2013 - 07:14 AM
Thanks for the quick replies.
Its good that the stores would state that there is a shortage, atleast if i need to buy something to feed bub i can try choose something that i can buy all the time.
I know that there was issues with nanha gold last year, so i may stay away from that one.
Funny though because i was looking at the karicare aptimal, might have to rethink for my plan B
Posted 17 January 2013 - 07:32 AM
we've had trouble finding Apitmal gold, goats milk or bellamys organic.
Posted 04 February 2013 - 12:00 AM
The baby formula in China are bad.
The problem is, China impose very high tax (>70%) on foreign imported baby formula. So the seller do not buy from manufacturers directly, and relies on Chinese in Australia to buy baby formula in bulk from stores and ships back to China.
That is, smuggling.
Canada, US, UK, and even South America face the same problem.
We are a group of parents in Hong Kong, these smugglers seized most baby formula in stores and we need your help. We created a petition in US, hoping that Obama will step in to stop the madness across the globe. Please sign the petition!
Our Facebook group:
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Posted 04 February 2013 - 05:49 AM
QUOTE (elmo_mum @ 17/01/2013, 08:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
woolies in the paper said that they would have a limit - yet an asian lasy - with no kid in tow, bought 3 boes the other day and no one batted an eye lid
coles has signs saying there is a limit of 4 per customer.. dont know if its enforced, or if it can be through the self serve counters....
Definitely not policed. I bought 6 tins the other day because I'm sick of running around trying to find stock when DS runs out, and no one said anything at the check out. FWIW I didn't have my DS with me either, I rarely take him shopping.
The formula in question is Karicare Aptamil Gold.
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HUMAN RIGHTS: ASSESSED ESSAY Introduction The modern notion of human rights was born in the direct aftermath of World War II. It is indeed with the discovery of the atrocities committed by the Axis forces that a strong "Never Again" political stream arose in the international community, culminating with the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. Since that day, human rights have been established as a major and legitimate focus of international attention. In the half century since, hundreds of universal, regional or national agreements governing human rights issues have arisen. Yet, in the meantime, major breaches of human rights have been witnessed from South America (Chile, Argentina) to Far East Asia (North Korea, China) on what appears to be a worldwide scale. Even more frightening is the constatation that these breaches are often committed in or by states that are parties to one or more treaties on Human Rights. Such a situation could have been understood in the light of the statu quo existing during the Cold War, when the ideological division of the world was the first concern. But as stated by Farer & Gaer: "In the wake of the Cold War the UN has finally become an agent for democratisation and minority protection". This paradox existing between the growing importance of Human Rights and their constant breaches is made even more surprising by the fact that Human Rights became "in the century's finale a pervasive global cause, culminating in the most unusual of modern wars, the NATO intervention in Kosovo"1 and the American expeditions in the Middle East (Afghanistan and Iraq). As never before, the foreign political stage is seemingly dominated by claims for basic political, individual and even social and economical rights (with the growth of an anti-globalization movement). So strong is that tendency, that Human Rights offenses are now hunted down whether they are past (for example the attempt to bring Augusto Pinochet to justice)
'almost all nation observe almost all principles of international law and almost all of their obligations almost all of the times'"11. This assertion can definitely be regarded as false when it comes to Human Rights. Examples can be found involving "almost" all the countries "almost" all of the times. It took America nearly forty years to ratify, with qualifying conditions the 1948 Genocide Convention. France has never transcripted in its national law the UN Charter for the Rights of Children (which has never been ratified by the USA). Last but not least, most of the genocides that have been perpetrated since the end of World War II, have taken place in countries party to the already quoted 1948 Genocide Convention (Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Iraq, etc...). In fact, it seems impossible to imagine a way of enforcing Human Rights when one reckons that it is already impossible to enforce the principles of international law. Indeed, the respect of international agreements is completely left to the will of the nations parties to these agreements. The respect (or non-respect) of a signed treaty is a matter of sovereignty and no sanction can be envisaged but a military intervention violating this concept of sovereignty. This is also Carlos Santiago Nino's stance: according to this author the most serious limitation of the strategy of enforcing Human Rights is "that the still current conception of sovereignty of states impose severe restrictions on the obligations that governments accept by their commitment and on the forms of intervention available to external organs for investigating and punishing Human Rights violations"12. The conception of a potential international normative system has to clash with the ideal of self determination because there is no 'global civil society'. Or in Chris Brown's words "properly understood, 'civil society' requires an effective state, while 'global civil society' is characteristically seen as a substitute for such a political order. Furthermore, it may be doubted that the mind-set required to make a civil society work actually exists in the world today"13.
- Universal treaty regimes collectively called the International Bill of Rights in some part reliant on enforcement by UN organs. - Increasing of the influence of regional treaties as the ECHR.23 1 Karl Meyer, enforcing human rights, in www.worldpolicy.com. 2 Oona Hathaway, Global Legal Information & Human Rights in the 21st Century, in www.worldpolicy.com 3 Kirsten Sellars, The rise and rise of Human Rights, Sutton publishing, 2002. 4 Director of the institute of public affairs, University of Minnesota quoted in The rise and rise of Human Rights 5 F.E Dowrick, introduction in Human Rights problems, perspectives and texts, Saxon House, 1979, p.6. 6 Peter Jones, Human Rights and diverse cultures: continuity or discontinuity? In www.worldpolicy.com 7 UN Chronicle, January 1978, p 68 quoted by F.E Dowrick in Human Rights problems, perspectives and texts, Saxon House, 1979. 8 F.E Dowrick, introduction in Human Rights problems, perspectives and texts, Saxon House, 1979, p.22. 9 Karl Meyer, enforcing human rights, in www.worldpolicy.com 10 Tom Campbell, Realizing Human Rights in Human Rights: from rhetoric to reality, Blackwell, 1986, p.1. 11 Oona Hathaway, Global Legal Information & Human Rights in the 21st Century, in www.worldpolicy.com. 12 Carlos Santiago Nino, The Ethics of Human Rights, Clarendon Press, 1991, p.3. 13 Chris Brown, Cosmopolitanism, World citizenship and Global Civil Society, in www.worldpolicy.com 14 Karl Meyer, enforcing human rights, in www.worldpolicy.com 15 Oona Hathaway, Global Legal Information & Human Rights in the 21st Century, in www.worldpolicy.com 16 Karl Meyer, enforcing human rights, in www.worldpolicy.com. 17 Michael Ignatieff quoted in www.worldpolicy.com. 18 see Noam Chomsky, Rogue States, Pluto press, 2000, chapter 2. 19 L.J McFarlane, The theory and practice of Human Rights, Maurice Temple Smith, 1985, p. 12-13. 20 Both quoted by Noam Chomsky in Rogue States, Pluto press, 2000, chapter 9, p. 112-113. 21 Steven Donziger, The real war on crime: The report of the National Criminal Justice Commission, HarperCollins, 1996. 22 Tom Campbell, Realizing Human Rights in Human Rights: from rhetoric to reality, Blackwell, 1986, p.11. 23 in www.udhr.org 0256595 1
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Q:I just went to check the rest of your blog. Color me surprised the first picture I see is a 100' tall statue of a fucking mythical creature.
Oh yeah (today we repeat asshole), "a fucking mythical creature" who has inspired people like Copernico, Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Bacon, Kepler, Descartes, Pascal, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Bernoulli, Lavoisier, Ampere, Cauchy, Faraday, Maxwell, Mendel, Riemann, Joule, Pasteur, Stokes, Kelvin, Becquerel, Cantor, Rutherford, Marconi, Eddington, Millikan, Planck, Compton, Lemaître, Heisenberg, Gödel, Jordan, John Barrow, Richard Gott, Maldacena, Freeman Dyson… and many others. And this in Science, if we talk about art or culture the list is endless…
So … a little respect for the beliefs of the people, I am also an atheist (agnostic for being specific), but the last thing I would do is denigrate the beliefs of others. You must educate yourself, being atheist don't make you more clever.
A person who wish to remain anonymous make a good (and additional) argument:
Just a thought…
That "100 foot statue" (actually 125 feet, counting the base) was one of the more interesting engineering feats of the early 20th century. The catenary system alone has to deal with over 40 lightning strikes annually. If engineering, construction, and the necessary annual maintenance involved aren't "science" enough, then what is?
Good point!
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i may be a bit extremist, but i don't think we have an obligation to respect other people's beliefs, especially when they're wrong and dangerous like christianity. Having said that, what's the problem with a photoset of a statue of Jesus?
Yeah, I agree, you have *no obligation* to respect other people's beliefs… is rather a matter of education and human rights. By the way, I do not see Christianity as such a bad thing, some Christian sects are harmful, the same goes for Islam, and also politics with garbages like communism and nazism. To despise christians because a minority are harmful is similar to insult entire political right wing (or left wing) because of fascism or communism. Diversity and tolerance please, bad thing if we all thought the same thing, a sign that civilization has been stopped.
Tausodan makes some important remarks, and I have to say I am partially agree with him/her and I think worth take a look.
I disagree that God is irrelevant in the career of the people cited above, many of them were priests and theologians so God was an essential part of their life, even though was independent of its activities as scientists.
And this is related with other of your claims (shared also with user `our-particles-are-in-motion´) about that the link I provided `does not support my conclusion´. It's partially true, but it does support that:
"While religious and nonreligious thinking differentially engage broad regions of the frontal, parietal, and medial temporal lobes, the difference between belief and disbelief appears to be content-independent. Our study compares religious thinking with ordinary cognition and, as such, constitutes a step toward developing a neuropsychology of religion. However, these findings may also further our understanding of how the brain accepts statements of all kinds to be valid descriptions of the world."
which I interpret as the religious feelings do not interfere with perception of reality, and people who think "Angels really exist" are perfectly able to rightly solve propositions such as "Eagles really exist" (to cite one example documented in the paper).
And no one should think this is strange, because many of the fathers of rational thinking were people extraordinarily religious (they believed that angels exist… so what?) without any prejudice to revolutionize the world using the reason (and only the reason). The linked list above is the example in the Christian religion, but there are similar lists for Jews and Muslims (for not out of monotheism).
In any case, we agree in the esential, the respect for other people's beliefs. And that is the important on this.
Thank to (almost) everyone for participate.


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The Pennsylvania Office of Inspector General releases monthly reports detailing who pleaded guilty to welfare fraud or was sentenced for it, as well as how much money was taken. This list highlights each month's top dollar case
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It was very recent that Microsoft dropped Kinect and Yusuf Medhi has confirmed the company is having internal discussions about how removing Kinect could give more processing power for games.
In a recent interview with Polygon, Microsoft's corporate vice president for devices and studios Medhi said the decision to drop Kinect from its bundles came after months of serious discussion, and that both developers and publishers were made aware of this already.
Medhi also said, "We remain deeply committed to the Kinect as a core component of a next-generation console. We think that the bio-metric sign-in, voice controls of the menu, ability to say 'record that' and capture a moment of gameplay are all critical to the experience."
"We have never wavered from that since the launch."
He added, "The decision we announced is offering a choice to people that would allow them to buy an Xbox One and then ramp up to Kinect when they can afford to."
This decision was driven in part by the adoption rate of current Xbox 360 owners, Medhi claimed. "We have over 80 million people who have yet to buy an Xbox One," he said.
He was asked if any compensation would be given to the early adopters who paid for Kinect, Medhi replied, "Our view is that the Xbox One with Kinect is the premium experience. The things you are able to do are pretty magical. I think that (early adopters) are hopefully delighted as well with their usage."
The last thing that was mentioned, Medhi confirmed that Microsoft is now re-appraising Xbox One's hardware architecture without Kinect, adding, "We are in discussions with our game publishers about what we might do in this space and we will have more to talk about soon."
It seems that the decision by Microsoft to lower the price of Xbox One without Kinect, could help them in the future. If it does give power to games, that should also please developers.
You can leave a comment below with your thoughts about Microsoft dropping Kinect.
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I Spy Christmas Ornaments
Each year at Christmas my children exchange homemade ornaments with their cousins instead of presents. This year we made "I spy" ornaments. Another 1st grader mom and myself came up with the idea, and she wrote the poem on the tag:
"I spy 2 snowflakes, a star from the night, A golden ring, and a Christmas light; A holly leaf, a snowman, a little white dove, 2 bells, a present, and a heart full of love."
We are making them with our daughters' first grade class at their Christmas party on Friday.
They are super simple to make. I ordered the empty craft ornament balls (4-inch) off of e-bay. I then filled one side of the ornament with Polypellets (1 c.) purchased at Walmart. I then put in 10 small Christmas-y items: confetti snowflakes; heart, holly leaf, and star beads, "gold" ring and tiny dove (from the bridal dept at Hobby Lobby), miniature Christmas light, and present (from Hobby Lobby's miniature doll house dept), 2 types of small bells, and a snowman button. I glued the 2 halves together, tied on the tag and a ribbon, and that is it. They have been a huge hit.


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I could have placed these tips under the heading of the town of Lamoille, that being the small town closest to the range. But no one has probably heard of that town. Probably not that many have heard of Elko, either. Still, most people will come through Elko en route to the Rubies, which lie about 20 miles to the southeast. Elko is also a nice town to tarry. There is a nice museum where you can find out more about this area of the country: the old California Emigrant trail, the Basques, the local Indians, the mining and cattle industries. There are plenty of places to stay here in Elko, along with some good Basque restaurants and the obligatory gambling casinos - this being Nevada, afterall. For the non-camper, this is also the better spot to base out of. Lamoille has only one small lodge with 3 rooms. There used to be a super bed and breakfast, where I stayed the last time through, but I see that the old ranch house has gone back to being a ranch house.
The Ruby Mountains are a typical Great Basin range in that they are long, thin, gentler slopes on one side and an abrupt face on the other: 100 miles by 10 miles, west is gentler and east is abrupt. These mountains are way out there. It takes you some time to reach here. Salt Lake City is the nearest city and that is five hours away. While the range is typical, it is also spectacular. The range is a place of natural grandeur, rarely witnessed by the normal tourists roaring by on nearby I80 or the millions who are flying overhead - en route to California or cities in the east. If they notice the mountains at all, they probably look just like one more set of hills rising out of the monotonous sage. So, come with me to virtually tour some of the Rubies and see what they are missing.
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HENDERSON, Nev. -- A substitute teacher at a Henderson high school was caught on camera screaming unusual comments at a crowd of students.
The rant at Foothill High School Friday morning did not last long, but witnesses told 8 News NOW that the substitute teacher, identified as McDonald Bently, stood up on a planter and then on a bench, telling them to get out of Las Vegas while they could and to go to New York to see the quality of life.
Witnesses also said he threw a carton of orange juice onto the ground.
Bently was eventually pinned down by other teachers and taken to the hospital.
The school was not in lockdown, but there were some tense moments. Some kids were afraid, others laughed and some clapped.
"I was confused and I was scared, I didn't know what was going on, I was scared like, what if he had a weapon, what if he started getting physical and what if he got violent," freshman Jacqueline Viramontes said.
Students say Bently is usually laid back in class.
Clark County School District Police would only say that it was a medical episode.
The district says substitute teachers go through the same background check as any employee. Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky says an investigation into the outburst is underway.
"We're evaluating the situation. We're trying to figure out what's going on. We want to ensure the safety of all of our students so as soon as we can get to the bottom of this, we will, to make sure that our students are safe. But also, if that individual has some difficulties, we want to make sure that they're taken care of as well," Skorkowsky said.


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The bilateral agreements for the construction of the Gazprom-favoured South Stream gas pipeline – concluded between Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia and Austria – are all in breach of EU law.
On Tuesday, Dr. Randall K. O'Bannon, NRLC's Director of Education, explained in thoughtful detail the latest abortion figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control–and what they mean.
Silvio Berlusconi has been a constant fixture of Italian politics for decades, but, thanks to a fraud case verdict that effectively barred him from politics and placed him under house arrest, his time at the top may finally be over.
Britons are more likely to be glued to the goggle box than almost any other nation in Europe, with a third of us watching at least three hours of television every weekday.
The number of people out of work in Bulgaria and Romania has risen in October as unemployment across the eurozone dipped, according to official figures.
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For months on end, furious Bulgarian protestors have been gathering in front of parliament in Sofia to accuse the government of corruption and demand its resignation.
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Brand New Season of Talks
On September 9th we see the start of our band new season of talks which you can view in the Meetings tab above. Our opening speaker will be Apostolos Christou who is a Research Astronomer at Armagh Observatory. His most research focuses on the small bodies of the solar system, from the very small meteoroids that give rise to shooting stars in the night sky to the much larger asteroids, comets and planetary satellites. and is studying their origin, evolution and interrelations. Recently he found that a recently discovered asteroid has been following the Earth in its motion around the Sun for at least the past 250,000 years, and may be intimately related to the origin of our planet. He found that all the clones remained in a so-called "horseshoe" state with respect to the Earth. In this configuration, an object mimics very closely the orbital motion of our planet around the Sun, but as seen from Earth it appears to slowly trace out a horseshoe shape in space.
Asteroid 2010 SO16 takes 175 years to make the trip from one end of the horseshoe to the other. So while on the one hand its orbit is remarkably similar to Earth's, although it keeps well away from the Earth. So well, in fact, that it has likely been in this orbit for several hundred thousand years, never coming closer to our planet than 50 times the distance to the Moon". This is where it is now, near the end of the horseshoe trailing the Earth. Currently, three other horseshoe companions of the Earth are known to exist but, unlike 2010 SO16, these linger for a few thousand years at most before moving on to different orbits. Also, with an estimated diameter of 200–400 metres, 2010 SO16 is by far the largest of Earth's horseshoe asteroids. See you at the Westwood House Hotel at 7.30pm, See a Google Map HERE or visit www.westwoodhousehotel.com
Back to Basics Workshops
As part of our outreach program we offer a series of free monthly "Back to Basics" beginner workshops held at NUI Galway where both the public and club members can expand their knowledge and observing skills as well as meeting new people. Workshops start at 7.30pm and take place at Room 220 in the Physics Department in NUI Galway just off the main concourse. We hope to see as many as you at them and remember entry is free, Beginners are most welcome. The opening workshop will be given by Brian McGabhann on September 22nd with a topic entitled "A Guide to the Sun and safe solar viewing" while the next will be on October 20th: "Amateur Radio Astronomy" Tom Frawley, Galway Radio Club
If you enjoy observing the stars, don't forget that there's a star a quarter million times closer than any other and 13 billion times brighter. And it appears enormous, as big in your telescope's eyepiece as the Moon. Of course, it's the Sun. If you've got a telescope, you're missing out if you don't equip it for observing our great, big day star.
Warning: the Sun can blind you, especially when its light is concentrated by a telescope. But if you use a proper Sun-observing filter and don't do something careless (such as letting the filter blow off in the wind), you can watch the Sun safely for a lifetime and enjoy some highlights that include capturing the Solar Eclipse coming in March 2015, watch Sunspot activity and prominences or even catch the International Space Station as it hurtles across the face of the Sun. If you're into photography do not use your camera to photograph the Sun unless you have a solar filter. Most especially do not use live view (or a point and shoot camera) pointed at the sun. That tactic is very likely to damage your camera. All these topics will be covered in this opening workshop.
See the full list of upcoming workshops HERE
To find directions to the venue just off Distillery Rd at NUI Galway see HERE and to locate the room inside the building see the map HERE
Skelligs Star Party 2014
A group of Amateur Astronomers from clubs in Ireland will be heading to Europe's only Gold Tier Dark Sky site in South Kerry next month for the first "Skelligs Star Party" The dates have been finally agreed on and they are Aug 22nd-24th.. They will be meeting up and staying at Skellig Lodge in Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry from 7.30pm on Friday 22nd. This will be a free event designed totally around observing with talks, observing, workshops and a table quiz, Well worth the journey to meet like minded amateur astronomers from around Ireland.
You will have to pay for you own accommodation. All those interested in this event are more than welcome. The Kerry International Dark-Sky Reserve is located in the South West coast of Ireland in what is called an Isthumus - a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas, usually with water on either side. The Reserve is protected by the Kerry Mountains and Hills on one side and the Atlantic ocean on the other. For further information see HERE or call Roy Stewart at 0866045332
Our view of the Universe has changed dramatically. Hundreds of planets of startling diversity have been discovered orbiting distant suns. Other astronomical observations have also revealed that most of the matter in the Universe is dark and invisible and that the expansion of the universe is accelerating in an unexpected and unexplained way. New missions pave the way to a better understanding of our solar system and its cosmic interlopers including comets. Recent discoveries, powerful new ways to observe the Universe, and bold new ideas to understand it have created scientific opportunities without precedent. Some of these big questions will be addresses at the 2015 Galway Astronomy Festival with a host well known amateur and academic astronomers from Ireland and the UK.
1 Michael Perryman: co author of the "Millennium Star Atlas" and project scientist of the GAIA Space Astrometry mission
2 Daniel (Eclipsedan) Lynch: Irish Eclipse chaser of ten international Total Solar Eclipses and his talk will prelude to the March 2015 Solar eclipse
3 Nick Howes: Amateur astronomer at the Kielder Observatory, UK, Consultant and Science writer
4 Paul Abel: UK Amateur Astronomer, broadcaster and writer, Sky at Night presenter, Author of "The Stargazers Notebook" and "Visual & Planetary Astronomy"
5 Professor Susan McKenna Lawlor: Space Technology Ireland & NUIM
6 Dr Christopher Watson: Excellent speaker on the topic of Exoplanetary worlds from Queens University Belfast
7 Dave Grennan: Dublin based Supernova hunter
If you have any queries regarding the Club call the chairperson; Ronan Newman at 0868434003