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Last spring saw a free-for-all break out in the evangelical Protestant camp over a proposed new inclusive language translation of the New International Version Bible. While World magazine, which sounded the alarm, was scolded for joining battle in hysterical and sarcastic tones, the translators were compelled to explain in what sense it was accurate to render masculine terms neuter, singulars plural, or produce grammatical whimsies like everyone . . . they.
As the battle broke open, I found that I wasnt wholeheartedly on either side. On the one hand, Im a living-language Philistine; I believe that a language in use will be in change, and that this organic process must be accommodated. Its futile to fight it. Friends with sensibilities purer than mine protest that we cant allow ungainly, PC-inspired language changes to occur, but in many cases its simply impossible to prevent them. Some improvements are too awkward to gain common use, but when a language shift catches on, it has to run its course. Sometimes, as in the case of the short-lived term groovy, the word can be toddling out the door within a year. Sometimes, as in the case of the current redefinition of the word gay, resistance is futile. Anyone who insists on using gay to mean blithe is begging to be immediately misunderstood and snickered at.
Thus, I recognize that man is no longer a coherent synonym for humankind, and I have long avoided it (and other masculine generics) in my writing. Some of my friends are mounting the barricades on this one, because it is a fine and dignified word with excellent credentials, but I think that battle is over. Not that we have to expunge it from our past, re-titling books and recarving plaques, ripping the guts from idiomatic sayings; there may even still arise occasions of such dignity that no feebler substitute will do. But in ordinary speech and contemporary writing, most of us have grudgingly learned to avoid using the impolite, impolitic man.
No, there arent any good equivalents. People is unmelodious; humankind is overly earnest; folks is unsuitable for situations that dont include a hayride. Too bad. For the time being, people who write about people cant use masculine-flavored group nouns. They wont be clearly understood, and the purpose of writing is communication.
But our own original writing is one thing; translation is another. Like it or not, the Bible frequently uses masculine generics in the original languages. Some partisans in the inclusive language debate insist that we must therefore use masculine generics, like man, in order to be faithful to Scripture. But this principle of exacting literalism is unevenly applied. The original languages of the Bible also use different terms for singular and plural you, yet even the most emphatic proponents of literal translation arent insisting we go back to thee and thou. They acknowledge that archaic, discarded terms cant be resurrected, even if theyre more precise. In modern Bibles you is used for both singular and plural, and the reader is dependent on footnotes when the distinction is significant (as in Luke 22:31-32).
Its a judgment call, but I believe that here again man is now archaic, and should be dealt with the same way. But what about gender-specific words that arent outdated, words still in everyday use- a man, he, his, brother? Should these be avoided, so that women know theyre included?
Speaking as one of the party whose tender feelings are under consideration, I dont want the Bible rewritten so it wont offend women. I think the Bible should offend women. It should offend men, figure skaters, plumbers, headwaiters, Alaskans, Ethiopians, baton twirlers, Jews, and Gentiles. If its not offending people, its not doing its job.
The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task. Where the original language uses a generic term for humans, dont cling to outmoded man. Where it uses a specifically masculine term, respect that puzzling fact and leave it alone. We dont know enough to change it. Were not as smart as we think we are.
Almost twenty-four years ago I walked into a church in Dublin a Hindu, and walked out a Christian. I had had an unexpected confrontation with the presence of One I discovered to be my Lord, and was set reeling. I knew I needed operating instructions quickly, and particularly wanted to find out who this Jesus was. I hunted up a Bible, a pocket-sized King James with print several microns high, and plunged into the Gospel of Matthew.
I disliked it from the start. Jesus was often abrupt and hard-edged. I disagreed with some of the things he said. I was offended.
But something had happened in my heart. The confrontation in the church had knocked a hole in my ego. I knew at last that I didnt make the world, I didnt know everything, and it was time for me to sit down, shut up, and listen. I kept working my way through the Gospels, and they began working their way through me. There are still parts of the Bible I dont like. But I like the parts I dont like, because I know thats where I need to listen harder.
Again, theres nothing wrong with giving a neutral biblical term a neutral English equivalent. For example, when Caiaphas says, It is expedient that one man should die for the people, he uses the Greek term anthropos , not aner ; this could acceptably be, It is expedient that one person die.
The problem comes when the original writer chose a specifically masculine term. Psalm 1 begins, Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked. He could have written people who, but he didnt. If we correct him according to dictates of modern fashion, what might we lose? We lose touch with the ancient and continuous historical understanding that this verse prefigures the One who is righteous, Christ the Lord. We lose the bracing image of one solitary figure standing against widespread evil, diluting him into a vague mass.
Scrupulous anxiety about offending women is offensive to this woman. If someone thinks Im incapable of reading Blessed is the man and figuring out it applies to me too, Im insulted. Besides, updating gender references wont go very far toward a goal of making the Bible palatable. Someone who balks at a man is really going to be thrown for a loop when she hits Take up your cross.
Frederica Mathewes-Green is a syndicated columnist and a commentator for National Public Radio.
Last spring saw a free-for-all break out in the evangelical Protestant camp over a proposed new inclusive language translation of the New International Version Bible. While World magazine, which sounded the alarm, was scolded for joining battle in hysterical and sarcastic tones, the translators were compelled to explain in what sense it was accurate to render masculine terms neuter, singulars plural, or produce grammatical whimsies like everyone . . . they.


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Apache/httpd is something which you would like to have contained. And now fedora provides a native way/mechanism to to so with virt-sandbox-service. With this, you can create a virtualized sanbox service and then connect/list/manage such with virsh.
We will be using LXC.
Basically its couple of commands and you have a contained service running.
# List all the containers virsh -c lxc:/// list # Create the sandbox, all default parameters. Will take dhcp address. virt-sandbox-service create -C --username amitag -u httpd.service httpd_conta # Create the container with static IP. virt-sandbox-service create -C --username amitag -u httpd.service -N \ address=192.168.122.11/24%192.168.122.255 httpd_conta#Enable and start the service. virt-sandbox-service start httpd_conta virt-sandbox-service enable httpd_conta#Delete the container if not required any more. virt-sandbox-service delete httpd_conta
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BOSTON -- Now's the time to get those students moving. According to research presented at the recent annual meeting of the Obesity Society in Boston, the average student gains more than a pound over Thanksgiving break. Students who are overweight or obese gain even more—more than 2 pounds, according to researchers.
Researchers weighed 94 students the week before Thanksgiving and within a week of their return to classes. Students gained an average of 1.1 pounds, or an extra 320 daily calories.
Eighty-four students came back for a third weigh-in after the winter break in mid-January. While most normal-weight students had lost their "turkey" weight, those who started out overweight had not.
Researchers also measured body fat percentage. Although normal-weight students lost weight, many students replaced some muscle mass with lighter-weight fat. Researchers note that students are probably not getting much activity at home as they are when on campus, walking from class to class.


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Goods, services and facilities
You have the right to be free from discrimination when you receive goods or services, or use facilities. For example, this right applies to:
- stores, restaurants and bars
- hospitals and health services
- schools, universities and colleges
- public places, amenities and utilities such as recreation centres, public washrooms, malls and parks
- services and programs provided by municipal and provincial governments, including social assistance and benefits, and public transit
- services provided by insurance companies
- classified advertisement space in a newspaper.
Relevant policies and guides:
October 1999 - The objective of the Paper is twofold: to promote dialogue on protecting human rights in the insurance industry and to examine alternatives to current practices by obtaining input from experts, regulators and consumers. Access to insurance in our society raises significant issues about distributive justice and fairness in the public sphere, issues that have received scant attention in Canada and in Ontario where rate setting has traditionally been viewed as a private matter.
Consultation report: Human rights issues in insuranceOctober 2001 - In October 1999, the Ontario Human Rights Commission released a Discussion Paper for public consultation entitled Human Rights Issues in Insurance. This Consultation Report summarizes comments and viewpoints that were communicated to the Commission. The Report also examines possible directions to ensure human rights issues in insurance continue to receive attention in the future. A summary of relevant Code sections and selected case law is included in the appendices.
Human Rights Project Charter - Windsor
The Windsor Police Service (Service) and the Windsor Police Services Board (Board) for many years have been open to the concerns brought forward by various ethno-racial, cultural and faith organizations and communities. The Board and Service responded with Service-wide change initiatives aimed at protecting and promoting human rights and equity, including the development of a Diversity Statement in August, 2004.
In view of these factors, the Board and Service approached the OHRC proposing a project charter modeled after the Toronto project charter.
Human Rights Project Charter - OHRC, MCSCS, MGSAugust 2011 - The Human Rights Project aims to provide time limited support to MCSCS in its ongoing initiatives aimed at identifying and eliminating any possible discrimination in the employment of MCSCS employees and in the delivery of services by MCSCS. This Project Charter details the agreed upon relationship to be established between the three parties to fulfill these aims.
Submission of the Ontario Human Rights Commission to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario Regarding the draft policy, "Physicians and the Ontario Human Rights Code"February 2008 - The draft policy raises a number of new concerns. The following pages detail the Commission's concerns and provide suggestions for how to address them. We hope that our comments assist the College in providing greater clarity and ensuring that physicians have correct and sufficient information about their obligations under the Code.
Sexual harassment and your education (fact sheet)
As a student, you have the right to an education where you are not sexually harassed. This includes primary, secondary and post-secondary education, and school activities such as sports, arts and cultural activities, field trips and tutoring.
Sexual harassment in education (brochure)
2011 - The Ontario Human Rights Code prohibits sexual harassment in education. "Education" includes primary, secondary and post-secondary education, and school activities such as sports, arts and cultural activities, school functions, field trips and tutoring. Sexual harassment may also occur as part of school rituals, such as when initiating new students, new players in team sports, or new members of sororities and fraternities. More and more, students are being sexually harassed online. Technology, such as e-mail, blogs, social networking sites, chat rooms, dating websites, text messaging features, etc., provides new frontiers for the sexual harassment.
The shadow of the law: Surveying the case law dealing with competing rights claims
This document explains the legal backdrop for the Commission's Policy Framework. It is divided into two main sections. The first provides an overview and summary of key legal principles from some significant legal decisions. This section aims to help readers understand the relevant legal background when seeking to conciliate or otherwise reconcile competing rights claims. The second part of the document surveys the leading cases that deal with competing rights. It also provides examples of situations where the leading cases, and the key principles from them, have been applied by courts and tribunals. It is divided by the types of rights conflicts that most commonly arise. The cases are discussed in some detail as the specific factual context of each case is so important to the rights reconciliation process.
Letter to the Globe and Mail Re: Black belt teen strikes back at bully, and rallies community against racismMay 1, 2009 - I have watched with great interest – and hope – the events unfolding at Keswick High School in the past week. It was so refreshing to see 400 students rising together to tell their peers, their school, and their community, that racism and bullying are not welcome.
Commission asks to intervene in court case involving a Muslim woman's right to testify wearing her niqab (face covering)Factum of the proposed intervenor Ontario Human Rights Commission


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Breast Health & Imaging
Breast Cancer Screening: Mammography
Screening mammography is used to find early stage breast cancer at a time when it is more easily cured—when the cancer is still too small to be felt as a lump, and when the risk of cancer spreading is still low. Dartmouth-Hitchcock offers the latest breast health services and mammography breast exams including 2-dimensional (2-D) digital mammography and 3-D digital breast mammography tomosynthesis.
When Should I Start Having Mammograms?
Women who prefer to maximize life-extending benefits and seek improved treatment options for breast cancer should choose annual screening starting at age 40. They should continue as long as they are in good health.
Get the facts about your options for starting mammograms, with this decision aid on our Dartmouth-Hitchcock Healthwise® Health Encyclopedia website.
If your screening mammogram suggests that you need further testing, we have a full range of diagnostic tests including additional mammography, breast ultrasound, MRI, and if needed, breast biopsy. Our highly trained team of radiologists from Dartmouth-Hitchcock works closely with the Comprehensive Breast Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC) to provide a thorough diagnosis and approach to your breast health.
Evaluation and Treatment
The Norris Cotton Cancer Center is an NCI accredited cancer center and academic research facility with a national reputation. The Comprehensive Breast Program is able to offer many types of standard and new treatments, including national and regional clinical trials that might not be available at smaller community hospitals. Through an integrated approach, highly trained specialists from a variety of medical disciplines work together to provide the very best treatment plan, and to deliver a range of medical and supportive services focused on you, not just your disease.
Additional information
In addition to the resources available on the D-H web pages referenced above, the following sites provide good introductions to various aspects of breast health, imaging and procedures.
- Breast Cancer Treatments
Norris Cotton Cancer Center's descriptions of common types of breast cancer treatments
- Breast Cancer Guide
The American Cancer Society's comprehensive guide for patients
- Breast Cancer Portal
The National Cancer Institute's portal to information for patients, health care providers, and researchers
Breast Health Doctors on Local Radio Programs
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Radiologists Daniel J. Abbis, DO and Todd A. Noce, DO recently provided a comprehensive overview of breast health, including screening guidelines as well as the newest advances in screening options such as the new 3-dimensional technology, on three local radio programs. Select the links below to hear the interviews.


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Patterson Dental Software
Categories: Bur & Diamond Rotary Instruments : Carbide Burs
Euro Carbide Goldies® Crosscut – HP, 1/Pkg - Dedeco International Inc
Euro Carbide Goldies® are the latest in abrasive technology – a combination of top-quality tungsten carbide burs and a unique, permanent 0.0001" gold-colored titanium nitride coating. They provide a faster, smoother and cooler finishing of all materials. The coating process enhances the durability and performance of the burs, allowing the cutting edges to remain sharper for longer periods of time. During operation, the coating also acts as a continuous lubricant, enabling the burs to provide a smoother finish at higher operating speeds. The smooth cutting action and easy chip flow both contribute to an improved surface finishing. Any procedure that is presently being done with uncoated carbide burs can also be worked with great success using Euro Carbide Goldies®.
- Crosscut handpiece (HP): Ideal for texturizing porcelain, metal substructures and temporary acrylic restorations
- Revolutionary titanium nitride coating
- Popular blade configurations
- Precision machined and balanced
- Color coded to ISO standards
- Guaranteed to last 3x longer
- 3/32" (2.35 mm) shank diameter
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Siddharth Sharma, MathWorks
Join us to see the new look and feel of Simulink and Stateflow.
In this webinar, you will learn how to design decision logic for control systems. We start with a quick introduction of state machines. MathWorks engineers then show a simple way to model complex decision logic using state diagrams and flow charts while checking it using animation and static diagnostics. Through demonstrations, you will also learn about the latest that Stateflow has to offer with R2012b.
About the Presenter: Siddharth Sharma works in the technical marketing group for Stateflow at the MathWorks. Before joining the MathWorks, he was in software development and has a background in mechanical engineering.