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My Top 10 Quotesby Rabbi Shraga Simmons
Words that inspire, motivate and ultimately transform.
Words that inspire, motivate and ultimately transform.
Yearning for the beauty of non-perfection.
How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries.
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today.
It's not your parents' syrupy sweet beverage any more.
I also had everything. Why wasn't it enough?
It took 55 years for this Holocaust survivor and unsung hero to get the Medal of Honor.
A second look at the controversial documentary.
Love is the ultimate mitzvah.
Would you notice one of the world's greatest violinists playing in the midst of rush hour?
The tragedy of the Costa Concordia.
Jacob Lew is appointed White House Chief of Staff. Is that good for the Jews?
As Holocaust refugees, my parents cherished their right and civic duty to vote.
Growing up, raising kids to be good Jews went hand-in-hand with raising them to be good Americans.
The Torah demands that we not judge the moral conduct of the people involved without knowing what they actually saw and did.
Coach Paterno may have followed the rules, but is that enough?
How Jewish guidelines of male-female relationships could have helped.
Some parents never want to grow up.
Rich people are not the enemy.
Sukkot is here and the search is over.
Jobs' wanted to better mankind with his gift. This spirit of creativity is central to Judaism.
Recognizing our shortcomings is the only way to achieve success in life.
My father survived the Nazis. Now he's surviving the hospital that tried to kill him.
My Alzheimer's patients taught me the essence of who we really are.
The greatest civilizations eventually fall due to their own internal decay.
Radical Islam could be weakened by deploying the moral force of liberal democracy and equality.
We are not the ones who have the right to make that decision.
Lessons learned from the super-storm.
What does it take to realize that the world is my responsibility?
Is terrorism against Israel really more justified than terrorism against Norway?
An Arab woman from Qatar taught me how to mourn the Norwegian children.
The Beckhams gave birth to their fourth child. Are they bad role models?
The standard is proof beyond a reasonable doubt, even if it's 'likely' or 'probable' that she committed murder.
Judaism is not a market driven religion.
In the digital age, the library is becoming a graveyard. That may not be a bad thing.
What drives the rich and famous over the edge?
How would Jewish law view the controversial case of Jerome Ersland?
China realizes what the West is rapidly forgetting: a civilization is as strong as its faith.
The San Francisco initiative is an assault on Jewish religious liberty.
The Jewish concept of modesty applies to men as much as it does to women.
How we respond to the economic downturn makes a profound impact on our children.
An eye-opening interview with the man who helps set the IDF's ethical parameters.
Does Bin Laden's death bring a sense of closure? It better not.
Is it proper to celebrate Osama Bin Laden's death?
Respect for royalty is a training ground for worship of the Almighty.
The key steps to lose those extra pounds gained over the holiday.
A 5-year-old girl was missing. How could I just go back to sleep?
How much matzah can you eat?
What could go wrong? The significance of unexpected events in history.
Narayanan Krishnan has brought more than 1.2 million hot meals to India's homeless. Is he unique?


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It's great fun to discover humorous vintage illustrations: especially when the images depict raw humanity during an era of emphatic social graces. Eyebrows were begging to be raised, and the above image would have evoked some meaty disapproval!
There is a difference between class-based etiquette, which isn't so important - I don't mind if people don't know which knife to use in a restaurant - and courtesy, which is. I don't think people should blow their noses in their napkins, and talking with your mouth full is very unattractive, but common sense should tell you that. Don't leave the table until everyone else is finished - it's like saying: "I'm bored now." But getting upset about elbows on tables is a bit trainspotterish, a bit classist.
I use my fingers because, I'm afraid, I'm greedy. And I'll tell you a ghastly secret: when dining alone, I sometimes lick my plate - delicious gravy and juices! But I would never do it in front of someone else.
Paul Burrell, a former royal butler, shared...
If you're faced with a regiment of cutlery and an army of glasses and you're unsure what to do, watch your host to see what they do. I was once on the Royal Yacht Britannia in the South Pacific and the Queen was hosting a dinner for a local prince. Dessert was served. The prince forgot to watch what the Queen did - instead, he popped the grapes into his finger bowl, then some cherries, then when the cream and sugar came out, he poured them in too, making a kind of fruit soup. I was standing behind the Queen looking horrified. He was about to raise the bowl to his lips to drink it when he looked at the Queen and realised he had made a terrible mistake. Not wanting to make him feel awkward, she picked up her finger bowl and took a sip. Now that's class.In today's society, many people adhere to table manners as social courtesy or to maintain appearances, while others approach eating as a free for all. Much like Peter York, some of us have two systems of etiquette: public and private. Realistically, we're comfortable in our bodies and we will allow in private what we would never permit in public.
China's tradition of courteous belching has never become an acceptable part of Western refinement. However, I have observed an epidemic among young girls who treat belching as if it were a sparring match. Even a female friend of mine will casually punctuate a public meal with a belch, explaining that she doesn't choose to be uncomfortable.
As far as licking my own plate, yes, I have done this, err, I mean I do this—but not in public. My daughter and I have been known to lick or use fingers when the thought of discarding a delicious-something-or-other was more than we could bear.
I'm not concerned with table manners but I do think if you don't eat "knees under" meals with your children, you should not be surprised if they grow up alienated and uncivilised. Civilisation is about talking and eating together - not about whether you eat peas with your knife, or whatever.

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|Origin - Japan
|Difficulty - Beginner
|Availability -
Uncommon to Rare
|Adult Size - 9 to 11 inches
|Price - Expensive
|Scales - Metallic
Wakin Courtship - Two beautiful Wakin engaged in breeding behavior.
Wakin Goldfish - A bunch of great looking Wakins.
Show Winning Wakin - Show quality adult Wakin.
Medium Wakin - Several medium sized Wakin swimming in a tank with some other goldfish.
History and Origin of the Wakin
A traditional pond fish bred in Japan since the 1500s, the Wakin looks very similar to a Common Goldfish, but has a split tail. It is believed by many people that the Wakin was the proto-breed originally brought over from China, giving rise to the other Japanese breeds.
The Japanese use the term "Wakin" to describe all Common goldfish. This causes some confusion in the United States, because the word "Wakin" is used to denote single-tailed Common Goldfish in Japan as well...they use the word to refer to both types of fish. But in America, it specifically refers to the split-tailed fish shown here.
They look a lot like Fantailed versions of Koi, but have no barbels (whiskers). While Wakin are true goldfish, they can be in the same price ranges as Koi, with adult fish fetching hundreds of dollars. In Japan juveniles can be bought quite cheaply, but they are hard to find in America (and therefore more expensive), and usually have to be mail ordered.
Special Care for the Wakin
The Wakin requires no special care, and can survive in any environment that the Common Goldfish can survive in.
Wakin are intended as pond fish just as koi are. Unlike Koi however, they are not as demanding when it comes to water volume and can tolerate less water volume than Koi.
Ideal Characteristics for the Wakin
The body shape is similar to the Common Goldfish but more torpedo-shaped (wider). Wakins are intended to be viewed from the top, so they have a downward pointing tailbone sort of like a Ranchu. The tail is split, but much flatter than a Fantail. The size range described above is for typical specimens, but some Wakin have been measured as large as 18 inches.
Wakins have fins identical to a Common Goldfish. All fins are single, except the Caudal and Anal fins which are split. The Caudal fins are spread out horizontally similar to a Tosakin, but are rigid and short, about the same length as a Fantail.
The most common colorations are mottled red and white (Usually denoted by "dominant red" meaning the fish is mostly red, or "dominant white" meaning the fish is mostly white). Color patterns will sometimes be variegated. Ideally, wakin will be only red, white, or both. However other colors are occasionally seen, including yellow, orange, and calico versions.
Known Variants of the Wakin


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The relocation of Raul Ibanez to Philadelphia seemed to launch him into a completely new level of play while Andre Ethier also took off in Los Angeles this year.
Clone Wars: Gavin Floyd and John Danks
Gavin Floyd was very lucky in 2008 with an xFIP almost a run above his ERA. His teammate John Danks looked ready to breakout this year. Why have they looked like clones so far?
Clone Wars: Prince Fielder and Justin Morneau
They couldn't look less alike, but 2009 has been a mirror season for these power first basemen.
Clone Wars: Michael Young and Pablo Sandoval
These two third basemen are topping .900 OPS so far this year, but once Michael Young loses short stop next year will they be equal value?
Clone Wars: J.A. Happ and Zach Duke
Much like Zach Duke in 2005, J.A. Happ has had a great first 80 plus innings. Will they be similar in his next 80?
Clone Wars: Second half bargains
Troy Patterson picks his players to target as bargains for the second half.
Clone Wars: Ian Stewart and Mark Reynolds
Ian Stewart has some early signs he might become the next Mark Reynolds and with second base eligibility perhaps a cheap Chase Utley for 2010.
Clone Wars: Jacoby Ellsbury and Juan Pierre
Unable to increase his walk rate Jacoby Ellsbury is dangerously close to being the next Juan Pierre.
Clone Wars: Pitchers due to fall
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 8.0353. Thursday, 13 March 1997.
Date: Wednesday, 12 Mar 1997 12:45:40 -0500
Subject: Ideology
Paul Hawkins asks for a demonstration of the 'irreducibly ideological
content' of, for instance, T.S. Eliot's judgement that Hamlet is an
'artistic failure'. Try this. The assessment of Hamlet was part of a
larger realignment of the Shakespearean canon, indeed a re-mapping of
the whole of English literature, strenuously proposed by Eliot when he
arrived in Britain. The British have always had difficulty in living up
to American ideological expectations of them and Eliot wasn't the first
- or the last-to feel compelled to append 'See Me' to what he perceived
as an appalling cultural scenario. Certainly, it wouldn't be difficult
to argue -as F.R. Leavis did, for instance - that Eliot's Harvard-honed
inability to come to terms with the awkward crudities of an inherited
British way of life contributes to his down-grading of Hamlet. A
Coriolanus-like unease with the sort of popular culture from which
Hamlet springs certainly runs throughout his work. How dare it draw on
'intractable' material! How dare its 'workmanship and thought' occupy an
'unstable position'! How dare it include 'superfluous and inconsistent
scenes'! It's hardly surprising that, for him, the culmination of
Shakespeare's 'tragic successes' turns out in fact to be the play he
associated with the career of Woodrow Wilson as well as his own
situation - Coriolanus: an indisputable masterpiece, he claimed,
'intelligible, self-complete, in the sunlight'. The award of 'F' to
Hamlet and 'A' to the latter play form part of the same alarming
project. Its thrust is clearly ideological. You could say Eliot had come
a long way from St. Louis. That didn't stop him from trying to
reconstruct it on the banks of the Thames.
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From the road a bypath led to a small clearing in a wood, with a slender spiral of smoke showing between the trees.
"He did so; left the road and escaped by some bypath," replied Captain Raymond.
I turned my horse up a bypath near the Sanjowlie Reservoir and literally ran away.
They bring the presentation of proof into a bypath so that the essential problem of evidence is left behind.
After stripping the bush, she turned into a bypath that led straight up a little hill which rose before her.
It was the fault of your disordered brain that we wandered off on that bypath, but, thanks be to Heaven!
The bypath has ever seemed to present resistless charms to the poor human heart.
Oliver reached the style at which the bypath terminated, and once more gained the high-road.
I craned my neck, uneasy at not being able to see the gate nor any part of the bypath.
I, too, am employed in a bypath of the publishing business, and try to bring to my tasks some small measure of honest idealism.


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The location between Zona T and Calle 93 is ideal. The room is kept clean daily with bottled water. Lot's of sports channels on flat screen TV. Wifi worked with no issues everywhere. Breakfast included eggs if you ask. Hotel taxi always ready and cheap. The main drawback is the noise, but that's something you expect in Bogota. A construction crew near the hotel broke the law one evening and made noise until 2 AM. In fairness this could happen anywhere in the city. More bilingual staff would be great.
small room and limited staff on location small room and low shower pressure
Location,price, Front check in clerks. ,Simple plain attitudes. I aSk if they can help me booked a flight to medellin she ended booking a flight to cali instead . Horrible experience
The room was very modern, clean, and sleek. The staff was friendly and thorough. All this for a very reasonable price.
- Location is good. - Clean - Consistent "Hilton" atmosphere - I called front desk and room-service, several times, and nobody answered. -After finally getting through, it took over an hour for my room-service order to arrive... and it was just a simple breakfast for two. -Rooms arent very big -Bed is supposed to be king, but it seems smaller - Bathroom/closet door has no lock.
Excellent room in Executive Floor with butler, breakfast, computers, happy hour and clean sheets every day! Outstanding breakfast buffet with local delicacies. None.
The rooms are confortable, big and nice..The breakfast was excellent. They supposed to have a swimming pool.. it was closed for renovation they said
The breckfast The taxis car are very old
It is a super nice hotel, beautiful room, clean, the staff is amazing, very nice bathroom, and everything works perfectly. Great breakfast. Highly recommended I liked everything about this Hotel.
Professional personnel. Nice room. The swimmingpool etc. was under construction. This was not announced before !!!!
Its very fancy and comfortable. it took them 5 hours to bring me an iron board
Service/Aptitude provided by Hotel staff
I will never buy from you again hotel, lack of understanding and sensitivity to the customer, two out of the three I ordered I had to cancel and had to stay another day, instead of moving the date requested an additional fee, the hotel however did so with understanding and free The hotel understand and u guys not, i never get hotels from kayak again.
Friendly, welcoming staff. Everyone greets you with a smile and a genuine desire to make your stay as comfortable as possible. Hotel restaurant and lounge areas are beautiful and luxurious. The best complimentary breakfast I've ever had. The pool is really nice and great for swimming laps. Nice touch having eucalyptus leaves in steam room.
Concierge was very good, excellent service
A beautiful, comfortable hotel in the Chapinero section of the city. They know how to spoil their guests.
The hotel has a very distinctive European feel but the rooms are tiny and the hotel offers simply a bed to sleep in. The restaurant was expensive and terrible. As an American we are used to getting much more for our money than a place like this offers. The beds were very comfortable and the staff was very young and eager to practice their English. They made up for the lack of amenities. The Hotel is within walking distance of the Zona Rosa a very safe night life area.
Perfect for business trip. Boutique and personalized service! Great bootcamp gym with personal training at a low cost! Rooftop bar is perfect for a drink after a long workday (open Wed-Sat). Viviana (manager) has a great team and has made a difference with the customer service offered to their guests! Breakfast could have more variety!
Bathroom, bed, staff, location, Undergoing construction, noisy at times, dust and workers milling around, fitness center not part of hotel and have to pay apart, top floor bar not part of hotel, would not allow charge to room or accept AMEX,
Excellent service, clean, accessible and value for the money. I love their beds, linens, rain shower heads and modern design. the emplyees are friends, professional and always able to assist. They need to improve the street noise situation, even though they are in what would normally be a quiet part of the city. There is a bar upstairs and restaurant downstairs. The music and guests are loud, and such nosie travels through their thin, drywall and glass windows. I suggest looking into double-pane windows to control noise.
The rooms are quiet even thought in Bogota that is difficult to manage. There is an exclusive disco on the top floor but we slept well. Friendly staff. Check in lobby a bit chaotic, music in the 100 grams restaurant too loud.
Loved the interior, furniture and very comfortable bed. The lounges were beautiful and breakfast was great.
Rooms get hot and no way to cool down.
I really enjoyed all the cutesy/funny design touches in this hotel. The look was very modern and original throughout, and parts felt like a design/art museum. I loved the patio on my "M" room, and wish I could have spent more time there. Mi novia and I really enjoyed hamburger bar on the roof level. I had heard some locals describe the hotel as a "gay" hotel, and while I think it definitely would have special appeal to a gay couple, the crowd was mixed, weighted toward young adult, with the odd toddler or two thrown in. It's within walking distance to lots of great cafes, parks and bars, and the area is very safe at all hours of the day/night. Some of the basic things were a bit lacking: For example, there was only one normal outlet in the room, which is kind of odd given the high-tech nature of the Hotel. There were also USB-A outlets, but only one worked. The iPad in the room wouldn't charge or would restart frequently (and seemed gimmicky/unnecessary). The odd layout of the rooms might throw some people, and I found myself bumping into things more than usual. Staff was a little unresponsive at times, I tried to get a cable to my room and had to ask 5 times before being told they didn't have any. Breakfast was so-so. Overall though, a very nice experience.
Courtesy, willingness to accommodate, well located, cozy, would revisit if the opportunity presented itself Some external traffic sounds could be distracting. Cozy means small but cute.
nothing your advertising is absolutely false
Their staff, facilities and food. Their staff honestly made me feel as if i were a vip guest regardless of my room. Thanks to Sara frok the front desk, my stay got a cultural approach. She gave me tips, highlighted routes in maps and schedules to museums, and gave her honest opinion when i asked about some day tours. She could easily work in a major tourism company. Had a great time being pampered by the chef and his creations and by the friendly staff i saw and talked to everyday. Made my stay even better. I would stay there without a doubt again. Location got a bit crowded during morning time, but then again is prime location and extremely centric to get to and from just about anywhere.
I was a little concerned going in because I had been asked to book at this hotel and afterwards saw the one and only review, which was a bit alarming. As I checked in, I mentioned the review and inquired about the renovated rooms. The only way to get a renovated room was to pay more money, which I did not have the authority to do. I decided to go look at the room and take it from there. The room was very nice and clean, the carpet was worn, but not to the extent that the first review led us to believe, at least not in the room I was put in. It really was very acceptable and was not in the front where it would have been loud from the traffic. The staff was extremely polite and courteous. The breakfast selection is excellent. The dinner menu is good but I did suggest at the hotel (they have their own survey card) that they provide one typical dish a day. I had to search for some of the local food as many of the restaurants I visited had foreign food. It was no big deal, but it would have...
The ratings I gave are based on the second room I stayed in. When I arrived I was assigned room #623. Boy was I surprised! It was NOTHING like the photos I had seen. The carpet was so worn that you can see all the cuts they did to put the pieces together when installing it. It was also dirty. When I opened the window curtain the wall paper was coming off the wall. It had black mildew from the humidity. The beds were almost on the floor. The mini bar fridge door would not open. The next day I spoke to Stephanie at Customer Service and told her that the room I had been assigend was nothing like what I saw on the website. She said that the hotel was being remodeled. I was assgined that room because I paid a discounted rate! ($118 per nite (2 nites) & $95 per nite (2 other nites). She spoke to her Manager and the Manager approved 'an upgrade' to another room. When I returned to the hotel to change rooms the attendant in turn (Pamela) was not happy about it and said that it will be done...
Overall my stay in the hotel was really good. The service was very amicable, and the staff was very willing when it came to service. Beds were really stiff!! And walls very thin, you can here your neighbor snoring!! or party!!!!
Great location, OK service, OK breakfast My room smelled like smoke the first night, there was only 1 towel in my room, sink was clogged with some type of dirt and when I asked to get it fixed, no one came up, I ended up fixing it myself.


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For someone who was the talk of the trading town in Atlanta Braves organization, Justin Upton will officially not being coming to Georgia, Jayson Stark tweets. Trade talks with the Arizona Diamondbacks broke down with both sides concluding there is "not going to be a fit."
The Diamondbacks had their eyes on shortstop Andrelton Simmons, who Frank Wren had already deemed "unreachable."
Upton was already expected to be pricey, but the Braves were unwilling to part with the chunk of talent required.Tags: Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta, Atlanta Braves, Justin Upton, MLB


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Dr Brian In "The Bare Facts"
The wonderful Dr. Brian Wolstein wasn't always a world-renowned MUA (Manipulation Under Anethesia) specialist.
The founder and CEO of Team MUA and Suncoast Total Healthcare was once in an all-male entertainment group called "The Bare Facts."
Dr. Brian passed along a copy of their pic to Ron, who of course wanted to post it to the site ASAP!
(Dr. Brian is in the top row, all the way to the right)
How great is the hair?


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A beehive is a structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young. Natural beehives (or "nests") are made by honey bee colonies, while domesticated honey bees are kept in man-made beehives in a location known as an apiary. The beehives made by people are usually the things referred to by the word "beehive."
Beehives have hexagonal cells in them, packed together. This is called a honeycomb.


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Test 5
Read the following information and five statements given below it carefully and answer the questions which follows:
People in the remote village of Kenal are now totally self-sufficient and liberal and no longer wait till people from urban areas dish out empowerment as a special privilege or favour.
A- Many of the residents formed a group and initiated a self-help micro-credit programme which provided help and support to the villagers to start a new business.
B- There was a time when the villagers had to seek favours from their urban counterparts.
C- Kenal lacks the new advancements and technological developments owing to a lack of urban intervention.
D- Many other villages are now approaching the people from Kenal to help them follow the same directions.
E- Women in Kenal too are realising the importance of empowerment and are taking every possible step to add to their family's kitty.
Which of the statements numbered A , B, C, D and E mentioned above represents a step which helped the process of liberalization and empowerment of the villagers?


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India has banned holding dolphins captive for entertainment purposes. The act doesn't concern me, at this point; I'm unsure how to tease out our relationship with creation, especially in terms of captivity or the 'taming' of animals. Christians may be able to encourage captivity of animals under the clause of "[ruling] over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." We could also argue that part of righteous rule is loving our 'subjects,' so to speak, and that captivity is intrinsically against this idea.
But the fascinating bit of the decision—as is often the case—is the reasoning behind it. The Central Zoo Authority of India had this to say about dolphins:
Whereas cetaceans in general are highly intelligent and sensitive, and various scientists who have researched dolphin behavior have suggested that the unusually high intelligence; as compared to other animals means that dolphin should be seen as 'non-human persons' and as such should have their own specific rights and is morally unacceptable to keep them captive for entertainment purpose.
I'm not sure what a non-human person is, but that seems to be the hinge of the argument. There are other pragmatic concerns (dolphins are more likely to die in captivity, for instance), but those are less concerned with the necessary reality of captivity; that is, a practical concern is one that we can learn to overcome, while the nature of the thing (i.e., a 'non-human person') would make all captivity immoral. Questions of personhood are familiar to proponents of the pro-life debate, and those who have entered into serious science fiction might have dealt with the questions as well (clones, aliens, any number of other fictional possibilities). But we don't often deal with the question outside of humanity, at least with living creatures here on earth.
So what makes a person? Well, Chisholm helps us frame the question:
An answer would take the form "Necessarily, x is a person if and only if …x …", with the blanks appropriately filled in. More specifically, we can ask at what point in one's development from a fertilized egg there comes to be a person, or what it would take for a chimpanzee or a Martian or an electronic computer to be a person, if they could ever be. (See e.g. Chisholm 1976: 136f., Baker 2000: ch. 3.)
If I were to argue against dolphin personhood, it is tempting to simply fill in "human" for x above. Unfortunately, this question begging doesn't really end up taking us anywhere. Ultimately, we'd end up setting up 'human' and 'person' as essentially equivalent in the initial definition, which removes even the possibility of discussion of other candidates for personhood. It is possible that 'person' is best defined as human, to an argument for personhood can't start there.
So let's assume that we have to define 'personhood' using something deeper than just 'human.' The first obvious fact of personhood is that any given human must be classified as a person. We grant rights, and some we believe are inalienable, to all persons, but no one disputes that humans are persons (or shouldn't; we've got a bad history with things like slavery, but we're making progress). So if we came up with a definition of personhood that wasn't fluid enough or broad enough to include a human, we've failed in our definition.
But is it possible that personhood is bigger than just humanity? That's at least the assumption behind the dolphin argument. I'll start by saying this: if you asked me on the street what endowed human beings with personhood, as it were, I'd likely say something akin to "all persons are made in the image of God." Any and every bearer of the image of God is deserving of certain rights and graces, or at least we should be offering those rights to them. This answer necessarily precludes anything non-human, since only humanity is made in the image of God. There is a sense in which God has personhood, of course, but it's a source relationship as much as anything; the image of God is derivative of God, and so personhood is derivative of something, perhaps some sort of divine personhood.
But I wonder if we can make the argument sans the image of God. Starting with naturalistic evolution, do we have good reason to refrain from granting personhood to dolphins, chimpanzees, or any other intelligent non-human life?
One criterion, tacitly offered by the dolphin argument, is that intelligence is sufficient for personhood. The primary argument for personhood, after all, is that "cetaceans are highly intelligent and sensitive," and so they deserve some rights as non-human persons. While some argue that intelligence is a poor measure of personhood on the basis of the clear exceptions (those in a vegetative state may appear to lack any intelligence, even if they once had it; more powerful is the example of certain sorts of mental handicaps or deficiencies), but it will be more helpful to deal with generalities rather than exceptions. You can say a family is kind and mean it, even if there's an unkind uncle. Perhaps not every member of a species is intelligent, but that shouldn't preclude the species from being classified as intelligent. There will always be outliers.
But is intelligence enough for us to grant personhood? Science fiction has been asking this for years, though usually in terms of artificial intelligence. Should we grant rights to the appearance of intelligence that we see in computers or holograms? Perhaps one day AI technology will reach a point where we have genuine intelligence (though I have my doubts about the viability of this), and if that happens we'll find ourselves asking the same questions. But a dolphin is different in significant ways. For starters, there is no feeling of ownership that can come with artificial intelligence. We didn't create the dolphin, so we don't have the same rights over it that we might over a mechanical intelligence.
Some might extend 'intelligence' to mean something like an ability to plan and put into motion various plans. Others might classify it as the ability to engage in abstract thought (a quick counterargument: do we have a way of confirming that dolphins, who appear to have other intelligent actions, are not capable of abstract thought?). Still others would rest on the issue of the image of God, as my own instincts guide me.
Personhood is difficult to define, that's certain. It's an important process to go through, for a variety of reasons. The pro-life movement is one of them, but so are many claims of victimization or oppression. Anytime someone claims that they are treated as sub-human, we have to ask how we treat sub-humans, which usually means identifying some sub-humans. While I remain unconvinced that we should treat dolphins as non-human persons, I recognize that the majority of the strength of my position comes from my religious convictions. I don't think that weakens them, but it does offer less assistance when arguing in the public sphere.


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> Il 07/09/2011 22:32, Joey Morin ha scritto:
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Tonix (Antonio Nati)
>> <tonix at interazioni dot it>wrote:
>>> With this small change manageability would become fantastic for ISP
>>> environments.
>>> Rules would be much less, and general speed of monowall would be better.
>> while i agree that this kind of feature would be much easier to manage and
>> maintain (especially in a situation with soooo many interfaces), it's
>> unlikely that it would improve performance. i suspect that the
>> configuration feature you seek would still need to generate individual rules
>> for each interface, either at configuration time or dynamically at run time.
> Why?
> Practically speaking instead of several "pass in"
> pass in on eth0 proto tcp from any to 18.104.22.168
> pass in on eth1 proto tcp from any to 220.127.116.11
> pass in on eth2 proto tcp from any to 220.127.116.11
> pass in on eth3 proto tcp from any to 22.214.171.124
> ...............................
> pass in on ethN proto tcp from any to 188.8.131.52
> it would become simply
> pass out on eth5 proto tcp from any to 22.214.171.124
> This "pass out" rules eliminatex all N rules needed for every incoming interface.
> So, I feel handling of a rules table 20 times smaller would help a lot rules checking performance.
> But that would a a side effect. Main effect is real manageability. In complex situations like
mine, actual monowall behaviours are hard to manage.
> Basically, it is a question of prospective.
> As normal user or end user actual behaviour is fine.
> As ISP, managing dozens of vlans, actual behaviour is hard to use, hard to mantain, hard to check.
> Using output rules would help extremely and would semplify security schemas.
You are right, but not knowing exactly how ipfiler works here is a thought.
The default behavior is to deny all incoming traffic and you must specify a permit rule to allow
your traffic through.
Because the firewall is stateful it will create a dynamic rule to shortcut the filter table.
You have to do your incoming filter anyway.
Even if we do an outgoing filer does the firewall test it at all?


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Study: Waiting to Have Kids May Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer
PROBLEM: There have been some indications that maternity might be a protective factor against breast cancer. The most common type of breast cancer, ER positive, occurs less among women who've carried a child to term and who breast-feed. Breast-feeding, additionally, has also been shown to decrease the risk of one the most aggressive breast cancers: "triple-negative." But as yet, not enough is known about the relationship between reproductive history and one's risk of developing any types of breast cancer.
METHODOLOGY: In this observational study, researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center looked at data from almost 2,000 women between the ages of 20 and 44. About half had a history of breast cancer; their reproductive histories were compared, by sub-type, with the women who had never had the disease.
RESULTS: The longer women waited before having their first child after their first period, the lower their risk of triple-negative breast cancer. At the peak of the findings, a 15-year interval was associated with a 60 percent reduction in risk.
Breast-feeding, too, was associated with an inverse risk of the same sub-type of breast cancer. But no associations between childbirth or breast-feeding were found for ER positive or HER2-overexpressing breast cancers.
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1. My oldest is turning thirty in less than a week.
Back when I had him there had been a very large rise in breastfeeding for lots of reasons.
I was also reading at that time, that breastfeeding for a decent period of time altogether, something on the order of at least two years, was understood to be protective against breast cancer.
Let's see, I was 34 when I had him, so there were 20 years from when I had my first period to when I got pregnant. I had another son 4 years later. Nursed both of them for about 2 years each.
I know that the fact that (so far at least) I've not gotten breast cancer can in no way demonstrate if late childbearing and long term nursing is a factor, because I'm only one person. But even if I'd been told 30 years ago that late childbearing and long term nursing put a woman at greater risk, I still wouldn't have had my children any earlier, and I still would have nursed them, because of all the positive benefits of doing so.


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1 Scottish Executive 2003. The Lifelong Learning Strategy for Scotland. Life Through Learning: Learning Through Life.
2 Scottish Executive. Lifelong Learning Statistics, 2003-2004.
3 Department for Education and Skills. 2002. National Adult Learning Survey 2001
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The above answer is excellent. The "stick sharpened at both ends" does manifest pure evil--Jack's. He intends to put Ralph's head on the one end and offer it to the Beast as he and the warriors have done with the pig's head. Jack's character has been revealed as completely dark, and as leader, he is leading the rest of the boys down the same path. Luckily for Ralph, Samneric (the twins) have a softer heart and the fire signals the Navy ship.
Ralph is huddled in the jungle near Castle Rock, as dusk passes. Sam and Eric, who are guarding Castle Rock under Jack's leadership, are approached by Ralph. They inform him that Jack's tribe will be out hunting him the next day, and they have "sharpened a stick at both ends." The "stick sharpened at both ends" is a reference to what they did with the Lord of the Flies, impaling one end in the head and the other in the ground. This shows the brutality of what they planned to do to Ralph, who indeed felt like a pig being hunted by the savages.
Enotes offers an excellent analysis of the novel, and the second URL I provide below is a site completely dedicated to it.
I'm new to this website, but we talked about this in my literature class, and it means that the one end of the stick was to stick the pigs head through, and the other end of the stick means to stick it through the ground
thank you... that makes perfect sense


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David Martin Hosken, 32, will be sentenced next month after a report by probation officers is prepared.
Hosken, from Rhydyfelin, Aberystwyth, was cleared of four other charges.
The judge at Swansea Crown Court granted him bail but warned him that did not indicate what the sentence might be.
Judge Christopher Morton said he wanted the pre-sentence report to detail the consequences of the conviction to Hosken's role as a teacher.
His bail conditions ban him from entering the school grounds.
'Completely stupid'
The trial had earlier heard how police recovered text messages from Hosken addressed "babe" and signed "love you".
Hosken had told the jury he had been "completely stupid" and "unprofessional" in sending the teenager text messages which could have been considered to be suggestive.
But he denied there was a ever a sexual motive in his relationship with her.
He agreed he had had a "closer then normal" relationship with the girl, who had turned to him for help while experiencing emotional difficulties.
Hosken, of Rhydyfelin, Aberystwyth, accepted he had acted in an unprofessional, foolish and inappropriate manner.
During the trial the prosecution claimed Hosken kissed the girl on the lips and once wrote he would like to do something to her "that could put me in jail."
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MINNEAPOLIS - Ron Artest said Friday night he hoped to give the NFL a try once his days in the NBA are done. He said he believes he can be a good tight end despite never playing organized football while growing up.
Artest also said he might become a professional boxer when he retires. No, really.
"We're going to try," the 6-foot-7, 260-pound Artest said. "You've got to have a good strategy, train right. The boxing, I've been training for three years. I'm definitely going to try. The worst thing that could happen is they say, 'You (stink).' "
Artest's teammate Lamar Odom, seated nearby, was incredulous.
"What are you going to do?" Odom asked Artest.
When Artest told him about his football plans, Odom said, "No, you're not."
Artest explained his reasons for wanting to don shoulder pads and a helmet.
"I want to try out," he said before the Lakers played the Minnesota Timberwolves. "I don't know if I'm going to play or they're going to pick me. I'm going to play tight end. If I can make it, I'm going to do it.
"As a kid growing up, in my neighborhood (in New York), we didn't have enough money for equipment. There are a lot of great athletes in my neighborhood, but you can't afford to play on a football team because the equipment is very expensive.
"It's the same thing with the music. Music is easier now because of technology. But growing up there was no way to buy the equipment. Now you're able to do different things, your mind opens up. There's really nothing I feel I can't do."
Lakers coach Phil Jackson has been supportive of Artest's pursuits away from basketball while he's been with the team and believes it keeps him from getting too distracted with too much time on his hands.
"I just think Ron has an active mind," Jackson said. "He's got a lot going on. His mind is going in multiple directions. I think it's sometimes good for him to have an outside distraction, an outside source to have interest in besides basketball."
Artest's rap single "Champion" received positive reviews last spring. It was even played during warm-ups before a game in Denver last week.
It remains to be determined if he can make the jump from basketball to football or to boxing, however.
Brown finds niche
There never was any question about Shannon Brown's athletic ability, but the Lakers saw something more in him. Jackson said Brown made it clear he would accept any role the Lakers had for him after a February 2009 trade from Charlotte.
"It wasn't about his playing ability, it was about his personality right off the bat," Jackson said. "He was a young man who felt like this was a great opportunity to do whatever he wanted to do, to go out and play point guard or whatever we wanted.
"So that was great."
Brown, encouraged to improve his shooting and ballhandling skills, worked tirelessly over the summer inside a hot, stuffy gymnasium he has dubbed the "Hot Box" at his high school in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, Ill.
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According to a sommelier friend, Billecart is a favourite of men charged with ordering champagne in a restaurant. He surmises it's because many of them associate it with billy carts and pleasant boyhood pursuits.
Billykart Kitchen in Annerley probably confuses the issue even further, offering Billecart as its house champagne – a little tongue in cheek fun.
It's an inspired name evoking a wholesome, simpler time when kids weren't tethered to their electronica, but played cricket in the streets and raced each other in dodgy homemade billycarts.
As a venue, it doesn't slip easily into a nice neat category. Is it a cafe? Well yes, it does breakfasts and serves up some pretty fine Campos coffee, but it's also licensed. And it's open on Friday nights with a more substantial menu.
Billykart Kitchen is owned by former TV chef Ben O'Donoghue who became famous when he made the Surfing the Menu series with Curtis Stone. Stone, of course, has moved to the US, hosting television shows and recently opening a restaurant in LA. O'Donoghue returned to Australia and moved to Queensland with local lass, wife Dee. He writes cookbooks, does the occasional celeb appearance and has set up shop in this old corner store deep in the suburbs next to an old-school butcher.
He's treated the historical old premises with due respect and it has a great feel. It is deep, cool and spacious, with tongue and groove walls painted lime and charcoal with cheerful yellow accents (which sounds hideous but isn't), a stencilled cement floor and, in homage to its former life, roller doors instead of front and back doors. There are pot plants attached to pillars, wooden crates of fruit and veg at the front counter and shelves of books, magazine and retro toys. It's a comfortable, convivial place that encourages diners to bouts of nostalgia and lingering.
Apart from breakfast, Billykart does a very fine lunch. Everything's made in-house, down to their milkshake syrups. The floor staff may not be entirely across the minutiae of the menu, but cheerfully ferry questions to the kitchen.
Well-priced entrees include tender flash fried, bandari-spiced calamari (a mix of caraway seeds, cardamom, coriander, cumin, nutmeg and turmeric) with a tomato and coriander sauce – a welcome change from the ubiquitous salt 'n' pepper calamari. Spaghetti is to-the-second al dente and generously studded with handpicked spanner crab, fresh cherry tomatoes, basil and a judicious amount of chilli. It seems like a bottomless bowl, but I was still reluctant to hand over half to my dining partner as agreed in exchange for his buttermilk barbecued chicken, but it turned out to be a pretty rewarding swap. The chicken breast is brined before being barbecued, so it's perfectly tender and well-seasoned, partnered with a panzanella salad.
A sweets cabinet is as homely as everything else, filled with well-made standards like chocolate brownies, carrot cake and an excellent lemon meringue tart made with a gluten free pastry, its tartness tempered by sweet blow-torched Italian meringue in pretty scalloped waves.
As well as the Billecart, the compact wine list has some well-priced numbers sold by the glass and the bottle.
So, I've racked my brain but the negative side of my tally sheet remains blank. I just can't find anything I don't like about Billykart. There's on street parking, a sparky playlist, happy staff and good, value-for-money food in generous portions. What more could you ask for?
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ABLINGTON trainer/rider Mark Wall lifted one of point-to-pointing's four classic races, the Coronation Gold Cup, at Larkhill on Saturday thanks to the impressive success of Theatre Queen.
The seven-year-old sauntered home a long-looking 12 lengths ahead of useful yardsticks Bellsinni Ron and Rumbavu after leading at the top of the final climb.
Rumbavu had won the big race at the opening Cockleberry point-to point meeting at Aldsworth recently.
Theatre Queen had run in just five races before Saturday, winning four times and suffered her only defeat when left at the start at Wadebridge in December.
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New tech makes a dent in Eagle County dental business
August 2, 2013
EAGLE — The Vail Valley is a special place for many reasons. People travel here from all over to ski and raft and … have dental work done?
Yes, dental work.
That's due to a few factors, such as a transient population that fluctuates with the season, the high number of second-home owners, the Eagle County Regional Airport and the CAD/CAM dental technology available at a handful of dental offices here.
CAD/CAM stands for "computer-aided design/manufacturing." It allows teeth to be crowned or fixed with prosthetics in a matter of hours instead of weeks.
"For 98 percent of dental offices across the country, this is relatively new technology, but I've been doing this about five years," said Michael Wing, of Eagle Valley Dental in Eagle. "I get patients from Los Angeles, Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas, and Chicago. One person comes and then they bring their whole family to me when they come out on their next holiday."
The more traditional procedure for fixing a chipped tooth or making a crown takes a couple of weeks. On the first visit, a model is made of the tooth to get repaired and the patient gets a temporary crown to wear while the crown is being made in a lab somewhere else. When the crown is ready, the patient returns to have it installed.
With CAD/CAM technology, the patient walks out with the crown in two hours.
Wing said that makes a big difference when a visitor chips a tooth on the ski hill.
"When the patient has to come back to finish the work, that doesn't always happen," Wing said. "When I can do this in one visit, I don't have a failed appointment two weeks later."
In one case, Wing fixed a tooth for a helicopter pilot who needed it right away or he wouldn't be allowed to go on a six-year mission.
Since the CAD/CAM systems are more commonly found here than in many other places, some visitors simply incorporate a dental procedure into their vacation.
"We're doing two crowns for a patient from Florida and he wouldn't have done it here otherwise if we didn't have this system," said Mandy Robison, of Peak Dentistry in Edwards. "I think you will start to find it in more and more offices."
Bethany Haerter, a hygienist for Vail Dentistry in Edwards, agreed that their CAD/CAM system made a difference for their business.
"We took the leap of faith on the investment about five years ago because it's really a pain for people having temporary crowns and coming back," she said. "This is a huge benefit for people in this valley. Someone who comes in with a broken tooth from the ski hill can literally get back out on the hill that same day."
Haerter added that the technology is beneficial to the health of the gums as well.
"The accuracy allows us to preserve or conserve the natural tooth structure, and gums are healthier against the natural tooth," she said.
One reason the technology is not widespread is the cost. The systems carry a price tag that's between $100,000 and $150,000.
"It was a large investment," Robison said. "We worked hand in hand with labs for so many years, this changes our career, since my husband and I do all the work ourselves."
Wing has an assistant who spends a lot of time on his CAD/CAM system.
"In some cases like this, it creates a job here that was formerly going to a lab somewhere else," he said.
Robinson noted that the technology is commonly used in the labs and it's simply making the jump to offices.
"I wouldn't be surprised if someday it becomes more necessary for dental offices," she said.
Haerter said it's already an important piece of equipment for this area.
"I think there's a need for it in our valley because we do help a lot of people on vacation," she said.
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Celebuzz was on the scene Thursday at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, where we asked some of the biggest names in music and Hollywood what they're currently listing to.
Among the most frequent names dropped: Frank Ocean and Bon Iver.
Then there was Big Time Rush actress Erin Sanders, who played a little game of Name That Tune with Celebuzz as she tried to figure out what her current favorite song is.
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Social networking sites are doing wonders for third-party businesses, allowing them to market and interact with customers as never before. And many application developers are generating serious revenue through games hosted on sites such as Facebook. But the social networks themselves are not making nearly enough money from this activity.
That's the message from a new report entitled "Follow the Money: An Analysis of Business Strategies and Dealmaking in Social Media". Authored by Lauren Rich Fine, a former Merrill Lynch analyst who is now director of research for ContentNext Media, the report argues that social networking sites, and Facebook in particular, need to get much more aggressive about monetising their traffic. Read more


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FCC Commissioner Speaks Out Against NFL's Blackout Policy
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSPD) -- One of five commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission is speaking out against the NFL's blackout rule.
Under the current rules, when home games are not sold out, local television stations and cable and satellite providers cannot broadcast the game in the team's home market.
"I think whatever validity the rule might have had back in 1975 when we adopted it, it's outlived its usefulness and it harms fans all across the country from Buffalo to San Diego and Cleveland to Tampa Bay," said Ajit Pai.
He's calling for a vote on the measure by the full FCC panel. The group voted unanimously back in December to take a look at the issue.
"I hope that's a sign for the future that when the time comes they'll agree with me that we should send it to the scrap heap," he said.
But the NFL isn't going to back down without a fight. The NFL and its network broadcasters have established a "Protect Football on Free TV" campaign, and appointed Hall of Fame receiver Lynn Swann as its spokesman.
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Fueled by Erasmus Medical Center's dedication to premier patient care and Dell's commitment to social responsibility, an alliance between the two organizations serves as an effective strategy vehicle to support social impact and drive positive patient outcomes. In this mission, a physical vehicle – a custom-built research mobile lab, the NeurasBus – facilitates clinical research and treatment development at Neurasmus, a neuroscience research subsidiary of Erasmus MC in Netherlands.
A recent interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlof7CF_UR0) with Bas Koekkoek, the Assistant Professor at Erasmus MC and Research Leader at Neurasmus, and Renzo Taal, the Director of Healthcare/Life Sciences at Dell, reflects a shared enthusiasm about the potential of the NeurasBus to deliver real benefits for the medical research community and personalized options to the patients.
Bas and Renzo's comments suggest that Dell not only perceives itself as a socially responsible organization, but also recognizes the growing importance of IT to the mission of healthcare. In making the NeurasBus possible, Dell provided some of the highest performance workstations in existence to support the multi-core power-processing needs of the advanced neuro-research lab. In addition, the workstations and the IT infrastructure are among the most energy efficient, which is in alignment with Dell's focus on sustainability and reduced environmental impact.
Often, research conducted at medical centers or academic institutions is driven by government funding and marginal revenues from services rendered. With recent economic volatility world-wide, funding for medical research has become increasingly scarce. Consequently, medical centers are forced to seek alternative means of supporting human research critical in continued expansion of knowledge for evidence-based medicine.
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The example of Erasmus MC's Neurasmus and Dell collaboration illustrates a natural fit between IT and medical research resulting from a mutual alignment on the mission to improve patient outcomes. In fact, the healthcare industry presents ample opportunities for socially responsible companies to become involved in shaping the future and well-being of our society, and the potential impact does not stop there. Consider the possibilities.


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The enthusiastic chefs offer tasty dishes for lunch and dinner. The focus is entirely on local and short traveled ingredients. The atmosphere is informal and cosy. With friendly and efficient service. The wine menu is professionally selected by talented wine experts, and they complement the dishes in a unique way. Possibly the best location in town, with a lovely out doors serving area!


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Movies: list is too long but I have a very, very wide taste in movies.
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