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Traditions In Chad Harm, Kill Underfed Children
On the day of their son's surgery, the family woke before dawn. They saddled their horses and set out across the 12-mile-long carpet of sand to the nearest town, where they hoped the reputed doctor would cure their frail, feverish baby.
The neighboring town, almost as poor and isolated as their own, hosts a foreign-run emergency clinic for malnourished children. But that's not where the family headed.
The doctor they chose treats patients behind a mud wall. His operating room is the sand lot that serves as his front yard. His operating table is a plastic mat lying on the dirt. His surgical tools include a screwdriver. And his remedy for malnourished children is the removal, without antiseptic or anesthesia, of their teeth and uvula.
That day, three other children were brought to the same traditional doctor, their parents paying up to $6 for a visit, or more than a week's earnings. Not even a mile away, the UNICEF-funded clinic by contrast admitted just one child for its free service, delivered by trained medical professionals.
The 4:1 ratio that you see in this sandy courtyard on just one day in just one town is a microcosm of what is happening all over Chad, and it helps to explain why, despite an enormous, international intervention, malnutrition continues to soar to scandalous levels throughout the Sahel.
The world poured more than $1 billion into the band of countries just south of Africa's vast Sahara Desert to address hunger this year alone, according to a United Nations database. A third of that money went to Chad, where 15 percent of children are acutely malnourished, says a report by aid group Save the Children. That's among the highest rates in Africa.
There are now 32 clinics equipped with the latest technology to halt starvation, most within a few hours' walk of affected families. If a child makes it to one of these centers in time, the chance of survival is remarkably high.
Yet acute malnutrition is only getting worse in the Sahel, where every year, cemeteries fill up with the bodies of children who wasted away within walking distance of help.
In 2010, 55,000 children were treated for the most acute form of malnutrition in Chad. In 2011, it was 65,000. The expected caseload for 2012 is 127,300, according to the report published in June. Overall, in the eight countries in the Sahel, the number of admissions has doubled in just three years.
One reason is that families simply do not take advantage of the safety net created for them, and cling instead to traditions that can end up killing rather than healing their children.
"We try to tell them the consequences. That these are not good treatments. That if the child has diarrhea, he should go to the hospital," says Laurent Blague, director of child protection at Chad's Ministry of Social Welfare. "Unfortunately, this is tradition."
Eight-month-old Abdallah Lamine had been sick for a month, but it wasn't until he started vomiting that his parents made the trip to the medicine man, Haki Hassane.
The mother rode a red horse, carrying her baby's hot body in her lap. She could feel the fever consuming him even through her clothes.
The remedy the healer prescribes for malnourished children is the removal of the uvula, the tiny ball of flesh that hangs from the back of the throat, which he says "gets in the way of the food." For fever, he prescribes the removal of the child's teeth.
In baby Abdallah's case he prescribed both. He grabbed the baby by one arm, placed him on the mat and pinned him down. As the child began to shriek, he dug the unwashed screwdriver into the baby's pink gums, until four tiny teeth popped out.
The healer wiped down the holes in the child's mouth with a corner of a ratty blanket, stained with the blood of the other children he'd treated that day. Then he handed the petrified, whimpering toddler to his stone-faced mother.
Tooth extraction and the removal of the uvula is common in this part of Chad. Elsewhere, the treatment for diarrhea is burning the child's anus with a rod heated over a fire. Other treatments include draining the "bad blood," a procedure recommended when children's bodies swell, a sign of severe malnutrition.
Similar practices prevailed in Europe and America as late as the 18th century. The advances in world medicine since have made their way to Chad in the form of internationally-run clinics, but they continue to be seen as foreign. More than half of Chad's people still use traditional healers, according to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in 2010, whose remedies can be effective for some ailments.
Malnutrition is not one of them. Already malnourished children who have their uvula cut can't eat for at least a week, says health official Blague. When the child does eat, the open wound often gets infected. This worsens the malnutrition.
Because the infection can last several weeks, families believe their baby has simply contracted a different ailment. Chad's government has never addressed these harmful practices. The issue remains extremely sensitive, in part because the healers claim their gift came from Allah and in part because many local officials were submitted to such practices themselves when they were children, aid workers say.
Hassane says in 30 years of practice, he's never fielded any complaints from parents whose children became sicker.
"If a child has fever or diarrhea, once he opens his mouth, I can instantly tell. If I put my finger on his gum and feel it, I can tell if it's due to his bad teeth. Once we take out this bad tooth, the diarrhea stops," Hassane says. "And if the child gets sick again, it's because he had some other illnesses in his system."
Moussa Mahamat Ali, the chief of the healers in the town of Mao, the regional capital, claims that all the children who have come to him have been cured of malnutrition.
"If the child is sick … he has yellow hair, he doesn't eat, he's skinny, it's because of the bad teeth," says the 75-year-old Ali. "This is a treatment for malnutrition. No one has ever told me that this is bad."
By the time children do turn up at the United Nations-funded centers, they have already been through hell. Nearly every week, health workers here admit dangerously emaciated children with a foamy substance coming out of their mouths.
Malnutrition is the underlying cause for the deaths of 2.6 million children every year, according to a study published in the scientific journal, The Lancet. That's a third of the global total for children's deaths.
At the feeding center in the town of Mao, run by the French aid group Action Against Hunger, a mother has come in carrying a bundle in her arms. When she pulls back the sheet, the health workers gasp. It looks like she has brought in a skeleton.
The best predictor for the severity of malnutrition is the circumference of a child's upper arm, the World Health Organization has found over years of responding to famines in Africa. Less than 115 millimeters indicates the child is at risk of imminent death.
This child's arms measure just 80 millimeters around. She weighs 5.2 kilograms (11.4 pounds), slightly more than a healthy newborn. She is 3 years old.
It takes a moment for the health workers to realize that the little girl, Fatime, has been admitted before.
Fatime's short history is a litany of the well-meant customs that get in the way of a child's health, and possibly even her life.
She was born underweight. Women in Chad, including her mother, are discouraged from eating during pregnancy, in the hope that a small child will be easier to deliver.
Fatime's mother stopped breastfeeding her when she became pregnant with her youngest child. She was told that pregnancy tainted her milk and could poison the child still nursing.
Zara Seid, the mother, collected the bitter chaff left over when women pound millet into flour, mixed it with water and painted it on her breasts. The bitter taste repelled the toddler, and she was weaned overnight.
Yet in a place where food is hard to come by, it meant that Fatime began her precipitous fall into undernourishment.
Malnutrition and disease work in a deadly cycle, and soon Fatime got sick with diarrhea and a fever. The lack of a proper diet weakens the immune system and makes childhood diseases more severe. The sick child then loses more weight, making recovery more difficult.
More than a year ago, Fatime's mother brought her into the clinic.
Like many African women, though, her mother needed permission from her husband to leave her family and stay away. And she knew he was starting to get impatient.
Over the pleas of the health workers, she left the clinic only a week after she got there. And upon the advice of villagers, she went to the traditional healer, a one-day visit instead of a three-week hospital stay.
The medicine man diagnosed the child's illness as the result of her baby teeth. He heated a blade in the fire and pulled them out.
"I thought this would bring back my daughter's health, so I took heart from that, even if it was hard to see her in pain," says Seid. "After we took out the bad teeth, it seemed like she was getting better. … Then she got seriously worse."
It took the death of Fatime's baby cousin from malnutrition for her father to finally give her mother the permission to make a second, 1.5-hour journey to the clinic.
By the time Fatime made it to the clinic the second time, she didn't look much bigger than a fetus. Zara Seid kept her daughter wrapped in a cloth, as if embarrassed to show her body, the frightening sight of a child on the knife's edge of starvation.
Her head is bald except for a few tufts of hair. Her mouth is infected with lesions, and stained purple with the antifungal wash the nurses use daily. When she tries to drink formula, she coughs until her tiny, doll-like chest heaves.
Her legs are insect-like, unable to hold her up. They dangle, lifeless. Her arms are no bigger than a shower rod.
Flies are attracted to her, as if she is already dead. They land on her face and crawl in and out of the corners of her eyes.
These mistakes lead here, to a set of humps in the sand. There's a burial ground in every village in this part of Chad, including in Djiguere, where Fatime's cousin lies under the newest hump of sand.
The big mounds are where the adults are buried. But the majority of the piles in the cemetery are small. Some are no larger than a loaf of bread.
Fatime may or may not make it. In the week since she arrived at the feeding center, she's gained 200 grams (7 ounces).
At home in the village, her father, Mahamat Ibrahim, says he has no regrets about having had his daughter's teeth extracted. Bad teeth are to blame for a child not growing, he says.
"This is something that everyone here knows," he says. "It's only the doctors at these foreign hospitals that don't know this. And that's why we avoid taking our children there."
His youngest child is five months old. In a few weeks, her baby teeth will start coming in.
If she falls sick, he plans to take her to the healer to yank them out.
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Okay, I think this is completely outrageous. Tell me I'm not alone...
So today when I pick up my 2.5 yr old DD (dear daughter) there was a note to the parents saying that "due to new regulations regarding how much children should be outside, we are now going to take them out to play anytime it is above 25 degrees. Please send proper attire for your child"
So, you want my little toddler to play outside in BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES??!! IDK about you guys, but I sure as hell down't want to be hanging outside when it's that cold. Anything over 45 degrees would be more reasonable. It's cold and flu season for eff's sake!
Anyway, it says you have to get a doctors note if you want your child to be exempt. So, now, I have to drag my kid down to the doctor, pay the co-pay and get a note saying that she can't play outside during the dead of winter in ILLINOIS!
I'm so pissed and I think it's completely ridiculous! Who the hell set the regulation that 25 degrees is good for a daycare?? The kids start at 15 mos and go up.
ETA: Before anyone else flames me, I am aware that you don't get sick from cold weather.

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Stevenson's brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities that characterized Scottish history. When two brothers attempt to split their loyalties between the warring factions of the 1745 Jacobite rising, one family finds itself tragically divided.
Sad to see so much of life wasted in evil, as is ever the tales of Cain and Abel.
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I had installed BT5r3 on a new box and noticed once I had installed Compiz for the eye candy, there was something constantly writing to disk (icon was flashing frequently) and my cpu/discreet graphics would increase over time (nothing too crazy, but was enough to question, since I was not doing anything intensive on the machine at the time).
Apparently there is a conflict with Compiz and Metacity. Since I do not use Metacity, my workaround was leaving the metacity-common package (i didn't look too deep, but it seems like it is depended on by many other apps installed) but simply removing the metacity package itself (which contains the binaries). Immediately upon removal the constant disk writing went down, and the tied process associated with it (gconfd-2) lowered cpu use.
If anyone else experiences this issue, try the method outlined above > remove metacity. Let me know if it works for you as well!


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Abortion - surgicalSuction curettage; Surgical abortion; Elective abortion - surgical; Therapeutic abortion - surgical
Surgical abortion is a procedure that ends a pregnancy by removing the fetus and placenta from the mother's womb (uterus).
Surgical abortion is not the same as miscarriage. Miscarriage is when a pregnancy ends on its own before the 20th week.
Surgical abortion uses a vacuum to remove the fetus and related pregnancymaterial from the uterus. The procedure ismost oftendone 6 weeks after the woman's last menstrual period or soon afterward when possible.
Before the procedure, you may have the following tests:
- A urine test checks if you are pregnant.
- A blood test checks your blood type. Based on the test result, you may need a special shot to prevent problems if you get pregnant in the future. The shot is called Rhogam.
- An ultrasound test checks how many weeks you are pregnant.
During the procedure:
- You lie on an exam table.
- You may receive medicine (sedative) to help you relax and feel sleepy.
- Your feet will rest in supports called stirrups. These allow your legs to be positioned so that the doctor can view the vagina and cervix.
- The doctor may numb the cervixso you feel little pain during the procedure.
- Small rods called dilators will be put in the cervix to gently stretch it open. Sometimes laminaria, or sticks of seaweed for medical use, are placed in the cervix. This is done the day before the procedure to help the cervix dilate slowly.
- The doctor inserts a tube into the womb and the vacuum is usedto remove the pregnancy tissues.
After the procedure, you may be given medicine to help the uterus contract. This reduces bleeding.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
Reasons a surgical abortion might be considered include:
- Yourbaby has a birth defect or genetic problem.
- Your pregnancy is harmful to your health (therapeutic abortion).
- The pregnancy resulted after a traumatic event such as rape or incest.
The decision to end a pregnancy is very personal. To help you weigh your choices, discuss your feelings with a counselor or health care provider. A family member or friend can also be of help.
Risks of surgical abortion include:
- Damage to the womb or cervix
- Uterine perforation (accidentally putting a hole in the uterus with one of the instruments used)
- Excessive bleeding
- Infection of the uterus or fallopian tubes
- Scarring of the inside of the uterus
- Reaction to the medicines or anesthesia, such as problems breathing
- Not removing all of the tissue, with the need for another procedure
After the Procedure
You will stay in a recovery area for a few hours. The health care providers will tell you when you can go home. Because you may still be drowsy from the medicines, arrange ahead of time to have someone pick you up.
Follow instructions for how to care for yourself at home. Make any follow-up appointments.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Complications (problems) rarely occur after this procedure.
Physical recovery usually occurs within a few days, depending on the stage of the pregnancy. Vaginal bleeding can last for a week to 10 days. Cramping usually lasts for a day or two.
You can get pregnant before your next period, which occurs 4-6 weeks after the procedure. Be sure to make arrangements to prevent pregnancy, especially during the first month after the procedure. You may want to talk with your health care provider aboutemergency contraception.
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Jensen JT, Mischell Jr DR. Family planning: contraception, sterilization, and pregnancy termination. In: Katz VL, Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Katz VL, eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA:Elsevier Mosby; 2012:chap 13.
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She was just 28 months at the time, not showing the most glaring signs of ASD but struggling with certain things nonetheless.
A friend of mine from my Babycenter DIG had moved mountains to help us find someone over the Christmas holidays who could assess our daughter. So that's how we ended up in Chicago on Christmas Eve. We were scared, nervous, and anxious to get some answers...and I remember sobbing when the psychologist confirmed that ASD was part of our new reality.
Five years later (and a move to Sydney shortly after that Chicago trip), and years of great early intervention & the ongoing support of a lot of great people, our toddler who struggled with SO many things is a happy, thriving, still-very-quirky 7-year-old.
We are so grateful to the friend who had the guts to say "You ought to follow up your concerns with a professional." We are so grateful to the psychologist who was willing to squeeze us in yet still offer a gold standard assessment right before the holidays. We are so grateful that we could actually afford to make that journey, as there are a lot of other similarly situated families who are forced to wait too long for help for their kids.
So yeah, if I blather on EB about how important it is to get things properly checked out if you have concerns about your child -- ASD or otherwise -- it's because that trip to Chicago changed our lives for the better.
I am so proud of my daughter and am amazed at how far she has come. Prepare for the awesomeness to continue!
Thanks for letting me brag/share my happy news.
Happy holidays, everyone!
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An address to the Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, November 15, 2002
We are gathered here today to celebrate a connection that spans more than 6,000 miles and more than 100 years, a connection that binds together two distinguished institutions of learning through shared origins and shared ideals, through parallel histories of global engagement and a common goal of intensifying this engagement in the future. We share especially our respect for John Franklin Goucher, who, with his wife, Mary Fisher Goucher, established this connection not only through his generosity, but also through his vision: He imagined and realized a kind of education that would span the globe in its scope and impact. Through this visit, we from Goucher College, including alumnae and members of the Board of Trustees, rededicate ourselves to carrying forth his legacy. We are proud of the fact that there is a building named for Dr. Goucher here on the campus of Aoyama Gakuin University, and we hope there will be many more visits and exchanges over the years between our campus in Baltimore and this one in Tokyo.
It seems fitting that so much of what Aoyama Gakuin University and Goucher College have become today began with seeds planted by one family. After all, what drove Dr. Goucher to sow these seeds so far and wide was a belief in the transformative power that could be inherent in the education of the individual. He understood that one person's knowledge can have a profound effect on the whole world; that ideas, if one knows how to put them into action, can transform communities, societies, states, and entire nations; that the more a person knows about the world in which he or she lives, the more likely that person will be to embrace a broader perspective and work to improve the world for all of its inhabitants.
Dr. Goucher understood these ideas because he spent much of his life putting them into practice. He was a missionary in the broadest and most positive sense -- a visionary who had an extraordinary impact. In the early 1880s, he joined fellow leaders of the Methodist community in Baltimore, where he served as a minister, in chartering a college to give young women access to a quality education. This was intended to level the playing field in a society where opportunities for women were often scarce. Originally called the Woman's College of Baltimore City, the institution was the site of the first Goucher Hall, built on land and with funds provided by John Franklin and Mary Fisher Goucher. He later became its second president, and it was renamed Goucher College in 1910 in his honor.
As you know, at about the same time, halfway around the world, Dr. Goucher was helping to persuade the government of Japan to grant permission to foreigners to buy land outside the boundaries that had been established for them, and to use that land to organize a college. In 1882, he and his wife donated money to purchase land for an institution, then called the Anglo-Japanese College, near the Emperor's palace in Tokyo, and to fund one of its first buildings, also known as Goucher Hall. That institution, of course, is what we all now know as Aoyama Gakuin. I learned only recently that I was born exactly one hundred years and three days after John Franklin Goucher, and I am sure you can imagine the pride, and the sense of history, that I feel today, standing before you as the tenth president of Goucher College.
The Gouchers' influence, both direct and indirect, was felt in many other places. They provided funding for a hospital for women in Tientsin, China, and for the campus of the West China University in Chengtu. Dr. Goucher served as president of that university's Board of Governors, and also as a trustee of the University of Peking and Fukien Union University in Foochow. In addition, during the last two decades of the 19th century, the Gouchers donated a total of $100,000 to found and finance more than 120 elementary and secondary schools in the villages of Northern India, open to boys and girls of all castes. In Korea, Dr. Goucher helped to organize hospitals and schools, and persuaded the government to allow foreigners to establish a mission. With the financial support of the Gouchers, one of the missionaries opened a school for women in Seoul in 1886; that school has grown to become Ewha Woman's University, the largest university for women in the world.
The Gouchers' travels around the globe, and their efforts to improve all of these communities, would be impressive enough if they took place today. But it is important to remember that at the time when the Gouchers undertook their work, international engagement and involvement on that scale was far from common. And it arose more from personal motivation than from any perceived necessity or geopolitical instinct. In that period, great distances, both literal and figurative, enabled people to live in relative isolation from their neighbors in the rest of the world, and to be quite content with that situation. But the Gouchers recognized that education is necessarily a global pursuit -- that events and advances and catastrophes in any one part of the world always have a significant effect on others, and that none of us, regardless of the physical and geographical characteristics of the places where we live or the nature of our personal and communal circumstances, should ever feel as though we exist outside the global currents of history. Progress or decline anywhere has an impact everywhere.
The strength of this world view, and the importance of this approach to education, has perhaps never been so evident as it is today. Technology, particularly with regard to the transmission of information, has bridged distances that in the past required great effort and long periods of time to traverse. Better communication and growing cooperation among the world's political and economic systems, and vastly expanded trade among nations, has made our interdependence abundantly clear. The violent conflicts that rage -- or threaten to erupt -- in a disheartening number of locations around the globe have, and will continue to have, serious repercussions in all of our lives. Their outcomes will determine the character of our world for generations to come.
The only appropriate response to the challenges that all of these developments represent is to intensify our engagement with the entire world -- to broaden our understanding of the circumstances from which such challenges arise and to expand our participation in efforts to address and surmount them. No one has the luxury anymore of hiding away from the world when its problems seem too frightening, too mysterious, or otherwise too overwhelming to face. Our lives as members of the global community are more tightly intertwined than ever before. If we are to arrive at solutions that are truly acceptable to us all -- viable and sustainable over time -- we must redouble our efforts to understand each other as distinct elements of one community. Although we may have vastly different histories, cultures, traditions, ideals, and goals for the future, we have no choice but to reconcile them, as we try to live together on a single fragile planet whose resources are finite, not inexhaustible.
One need only take a cursory look around the world to see that this is not, for the most part, the way some people have been accustomed to thinking and living. There are many obvious instances from the past century when differing world views led not to attempts at reconciliation, but to bitter and often horrifically violent conflict. But even setting those conflicts aside, evidence abounds that vast numbers of people simply are not ready -- or interested -- to learn about the events of the world that do not seem to have a direct effect on their own daily lives and personal interests. To use my own country as an example: I can cite a recent poll conducted in the United States, less than a year after the horrifying terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which indicated shockingly low levels of public interest in international news. Indeed, there was only a modest increase in interest from a similar poll that was taken the year before the attacks. The events of September 11 demonstrated to Americans in the most terrible and shocking way that circumstances in remote regions on the other side of the globe really could yield dire consequences right where we live. But still, in this survey, only 37 percent of the American public reported being consistently engaged by international news.
I cite this survey for two reasons. First, I think it is a particularly egregious piece of evidence of a long-standing problem. The American people have, for a very long time, had a bad reputation for their low interest in and knowledge of international affairs. Let me not, however, create the impression that I believe Americans are unique in this respect. A recent visit to England reminded me just how parochial Europeans can be – how utterly preoccupied with domestic issues and unaware even of each other's attitudes, let alone those of the world beyond. And I can imagine that even in the island nation of Japan, and even in this era of technological innovation and accomplishment, internationalists may sometimes despair of building a constituency among the general public. But the disparity between the amount of information freely and readily available to Americans and the low level of effort they display in absorbing that information is a particular problem, and one that I may have a bit more standing to address.
The second, and perhaps more important, reason I cite this survey of Americans' interest in international news is that, while it certainly reveals some disheartening trends -- and some ominous portents for the very idea of global engagement -- it also contains an interesting and hopeful statistic, one that I believe should convince the educational institutions of the world that we may play a critical role in reversing the negative trends. In addition to asking respondents to rate their level of interest in international news, the survey sought an explanation from those who expressed indifference about the world. Nearly two-thirds said they did not pay attention because they couldn't. They felt they lacked the necessary background and education to follow international issues.
A statistic like this should give us, as educators, great concern. After all, the implication is that our educational institutions – at least the American ones -- have failed to provide our students with a complete enough understanding of the world to enable them to participate fully in it. I am guessing that the same may be true, in greater or lesser measure, in other parts of the world, perhaps including Japan. But this should also serve as a rallying point, because it identifies a problem that we can -- and we must -- remedy. If we are going to aspire to leadership in this arena, it will serve us well to keep firmly in mind that our own institutions -- Aoyama Gakuin and Goucher College -- have strong traditions of global engagement. We must consider how to build on these traditions and ensure that we prepare our own students for full, meaningful citizenship in the global community of the 21st century. We must set a good example and hope to inspire others along the way. I would suggest that we focus our efforts on the accomplishment of three major, overarching goals.
First, we must reevaluate and revise the curriculum at our institutions, with an eye toward infusing it, at every level and in every discipline, with an appreciation for the ways in which the various fields of study relate to one another and the ways in which all intellectual disciplines relate to the world. Our students must understand that the courses they take and the analytical abilities they acquire are pieces of a much larger mosaic representing the whole of human knowledge and understanding. Advances, discoveries, revisions, and other developments in any part of that mosaic change the configuration and character of the mosaic as a whole. Students should leave our institutions with a sense of how knowledge transcends boundaries not only between ideas and systems of belief, but also among nations and peoples. We must frame each and every one of the disciplines we teach in relation to the sweep of history and the global diversity with which they are permanently connected.
Second, at the same time we work to provide a more complete global context in our classes, we must create intellectual communities and environments that welcome a chorus – sometimes even a cacophony -- of voices from all over the world. We must encourage the free flow, discussion, and debate of a huge range of ideas, often expressed in surprising, even outrageous ways. It is only through considering a wide variety of perspectives that we may arrive at a broader understanding of the issues we face, and it is only through genuine diversity on our campuses that such a range of perspectives may be encouraged and reliably represented. Our campuses should serve as crucibles for the blending of ideas and approaches found throughout the world, testing them all and refining the best.
Finally, and most importantly, we must provide our students with meaningful opportunities to complement their coursework with genuine engagement with the outside world. These future leaders and engaged citizens must understand how the knowledge they gain in the classroom comes into play every day, across the globe, in all of the struggles and advances that define our lives. We can accomplish this through community service programs close to home and study abroad programs that span the planet. We can use practical internship programs to place students in businesses, governmental and multilateral agencies, and nonprofit organizations worldwide. We can invite the greatest minds our world has to offer into our campus communities to share the knowledge and wisdom they have gained through their own work. We should do all of this and more, establishing as many connections as we can through which the members of our educational institutions can participate in the concentric communities -- local, national, and international -- of which they are a part. Through these connections, the members of those communities can also play an important part in the intellectual lives of our schools.
Attaining such sweeping goals will require bold efforts, and while I expect that we will approach them with confidence, I hope we will remember to temper that confidence with humility. Some of us would do well to learn better how to acknowledge our nations' mistakes of the past and how to approach the future with an introspective frame of mind. The education community must continue to ask the hardest questions of the policymakers.
A visitor to the Goucher campus made a comment recently that I have kept in mind ever since. The place where any of us are today, he said – in Tokyo, in Baltimore or Washington, in some of the great cities and capitals of the world -- is not the center of the universe, but just the site of one little push-pin on the globe. In every challenge we face, as individuals and as nations, we must realize that there are many others throughout the world who have faced even greater challenges -- and have done so with a dignity and a grace to which we should all aspire. We must also remember that from these daunting challenges arise great and novel solutions which, at their best, represent the tenacity, inventiveness, and resolve of humankind. We should neither ignore nor dismiss the ideas of other peoples simply because they seem so foreign as to have little bearing on our own concerns. On the contrary, we should be tireless and unremitting in seeking them out. Even those ideas that seem like little more than intriguing academic exercises today may hold the key to a problem we confront tomorrow -- or may start us thinking in tangential new directions about the work we are doing now. People sometimes have a tendency, akin to jealousy, to think that acknowledging the struggles and celebrating the successes of others somehow diminishes our own worth or importance. On the contrary, I would propose that we banish this cynical, rather self-important response and instead do all we can to view the lives of others with the empathy we would ask them to show us. If we expect others to care about and identify with us, we will have to do the same for them. We cannot survive without each other.
Along the way, we must be cautious about indulging the dreams of superiority and exceptionalism that have been known to tempt both of our societies, and some others, too. If there is one thing I have learned in a long career engaged with international issues, it is that advanced industrial societies do not necessarily have all the answers – that we may have much to learn from the poorest and humblest peoples of Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, or Eastern Europe about fundamental issues facing us all.
Just as we temper our confidence with humility, we must also take care that in opening ourselves to the multitude of ideas and perspectives to be found in the world, we maintain our own intellectual discipline, rigor, and honesty in evaluating them. Ideas that lack empirical support should never be accepted simply because we find them appealing, nor should they be rejected just because they challenge what we think we know about our world. In all of the inquiries we undertake in all disciplines -- from biology to history, psychology to literature -- we must constantly measure every idea, no matter how widely accepted or controversial it may seem, against all available evidence. We must be as indefatigable in seeking out this evidence as we are in courting the thoughts and imagination of other people who may think differently from ourselves. Above all, we must be as forthright and honest in conceding the changes this process produces in our thinking as we are in trumpeting evidence that supports our views. At no time should we allow our understanding to be shaped by our desire to preserve what we would like to believe about ourselves, our nations, or our world. At all times, we must construct our understanding from all of the facts available to us -- even if those facts reveal difficult truths that we would just as soon not consider.
At Goucher College, we have just formulated a new strategic vision that we hope reflects all of these goals in innovative and exciting ways. I am proud of this plan and eager to implement it. But while our institutions of higher learning certainly play an important role in guiding students toward the kind of global engagement that will be required of them in navigating the world of the 21st century, they cannot do it alone. We must begin our efforts at the very earliest stages in our children's education and sustain them until the day they graduate. Aoyama Gakuin is in a special position to do just that, comprising, as it does, not only a college and a graduate school, but also a junior and senior high school and an elementary school. Like Goucher College, Aoyama Gakuin's history and traditions provide a strong foundation on which to build an exemplary program of international education. We can both engage students in close and lifelong relationships with their neighbors in the global community. I hope that, as counterpart institutions with common origins, we, too, can enjoy a close relationship with each other as we work in our own ways to attain this worthy and important goal.
Much has changed since John Franklin Goucher traveled the world, planting the seeds from which Goucher College, Aoyama Gakuin University, and other institutions of service and learning grew. Although he could not possibly have imagined some of the circumstances that have since made his views on education seem so prescient, the basic principles that guided him hold no less true in the world of today. Dr. Goucher believed that education held the key to the solution of, as he put it, "old world as well as new world problems." In teaching our young people how to use their learning to participate fully, thoughtfully, and responsibly in the world they will soon inherit, we continue to prove him right.


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Dr. Richard Rutt, Director of the School of Physical Therapy, Announces Retirement
Dr. Rutt will retire at the end of the 2015-2016 academic year following 24 years of service at Pacific University.
University's Psi Chi Honor Society Named a Model Chapter
Pacific's chapter is among the top 4 percent in the country to be designated as such by the national organization.
Physician Assistant Student Joseph Sutherland '16 Serves as President of National Student Organization
Sutherland is the first Pacific University student to preside over the Student Academy of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.
Psychology Major Amy VanderZanden '16 Interns at Prestigious Research Center in Philadelphia
The senior from Portland is spending the summer at Temple University in Philadelphia working under the direction of renowned neuroscientist Nora Newcombe.
Alumnus Represents Brazil in Football World Championship
Heron Souza de Azevedo '14 has worked nearly a decade to help grow American football in his native Brazil. In July 2015, he represented his nation's team at the International Federation of American Football World Championship in Ohio.
University Avenue to Undergo Reconstruction
Later this month, the north side of Pacific University's Forest Grove Campus will undergo significant road construction on University Avenue between Sunset Drive and College Way to improve both driver access and pedestrian safety.
Pacific Psychology & Comprehensive Health Clinic Partners With Returning Veterans Project
Operated by the School of Professional Psychology, the clinic will provide free mental health screenings to post-911 war zone military veterans beginning Monday, July 6.
Pacific University Celebrates Oregon Private College Week Aug. 3-7
The university is joining 10 other private, nonprofit colleges and universities in the state to participate in Oregon Private College Week. Prospective students who visit at least four participating institutions during the week will receive application fee waivers.
Pacific University in the News: June 22-28, 2015
Selected news stories featuring or mentioning the university.
Dance Slow Decades
"I've come to realize there's nothing to worry about, because you've all done your jobs correctly. Because if I am at all successful today and hereafter, it is a direct result of your support."


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Understanding tax issues, hiring employees or even applying for articles of organization can seem intimidating to entrepreneurs.
To help current and aspiring business owners navigate the intricacies of state and federal tax laws, the California State Board of Equalization is hosting a free small-business fair Nov. 14 in Chula Vista.
The board is sponsoring the event, along with Vice Chair Michelle Steel, Assembly members Shirley Weber and Lorena Gonzalez, and the city of Chula Vista.
From 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., participants will have access to representatives from six state agencies, including the Board of Equalization, the Internal Revenue Service, the Franchise Tax Board and the U.S. Small Business Administration, among others, to ask questions and receive information.
Presentations will cover topics such as the different forms of ownership, record-keeping, the differences between employees or independent contractors and basic sales tax and use tax.
Small-Business Fair
What: Free small-business fair
When: 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14
Where: City of Chula Vista Council Chambers, 276 Fourth Avenue, Chula Vista
To register, visit www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/sbf.htm or call (888) 847-9652Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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mobilEcho is up on Salesforce.com's AppExchange. And we now offer integration with Salesforce.
Today we announced a new partnership with Salesforce.com and are pleased to report that mobilEcho is now listed on the Salesforce AppExchange Mobile. Over the past few months we have been working on an integration with Salesforce.com which will allow companies to empower their field sales force to take full advantage of their iPads and iPhones. mobilEcho users already have access to all the documents and content they need to do their jobs. This new Salesforce.com feature will allow mobilEcho to optionally require a user to log an activity in an Account or Lead when showing a customer a specific file using mobilEcho. So for example, a salesperson could be showing a presentation or data sheet and that activity can then be directly logged into Salesforce.com. This helps with productivity and it also helps enterprises get more accurate, up to date client activities.
This is especially relevant for regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, pharma, biotech, insurance, energy, government and others, who want to be able to provide secure mobile file access for their field forces utilizing Salesforce.com. And it fits nicely into one of the mobile use cases we still see constantly: the remote sales force or service personnel.


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At a minimum Cydia should also keep track of your installed free apps as well!
Just sayin...
Hopefully evasi0n is updated quickly, I have my whole work schedule on my exchange calendar, I found out awhile ago when I kept getting the cannot connect error or whatever, my battery dies too fast
I tried to update my iphone 5 , now I have lost everything, and evasion won't work because it only supports upto 6.1
And I didn't say widgets don't drain battery. I said that my bad battery issue was with me PRIOR to jailbreak. That proves no connection to widgets. And, in keeping with your general statement - it got worse AFTER jailbreak and fillin' her up with my fav widgets. Of course! No contest.
But the Exchange bug's been around since 6.0 if you do a little reading, bro. I use two beefy Exchange Calendars that are central to my job. They're the definite culprit with my battery life prior to 6.1.2. Irrefutable, bro. I'm definitely gettin' me back some battery after this restore. No doubt about it.
My point is regardless of this fix your battery will be bad. Could have sworn I read you post you run full brightness. If not my bad. Update to 6.1.2 and see what happens. Nothing! I'll bet the ranch. I added to last post also.
Anyway I'm home now and not in a argumentative mood anymore. Lol. Let me know how 6.1.2 is. I'm on the fence if I wanna update.
I set my settings EXACTLY as Anthony did and could not get his results with exact same phone - stock, 6.0.2. But there is one difference between Anthony's and my phone - now that I know of the bug - my heavy reliance upon Exchange Calendars for my job.
I don't doubt widget usage (never full brightness, though) is a factor in my battery getting even worse post JB. But all my preferences otherwise are very battery friendly (I'm specific about Location Services, Notifications, etc).. I'm quite convinced the upgrade and restore I just did tonight will make all the difference. The odd fast drain FINALLY makes sense.
So don't bet that farm yet. I'll keep you posted and show some battery results - if I can keep my stinking hands off the respring button for a 24 hour period. What a frustrating bug that is!!!


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If you're a budding or professional climber, the Black Diamond Zodiac Gear Sling makes a great choice. Lightweight and affordable, the Black Diamond Zodiac Gear Sling is perfect for budding climbers, as well as trad, big wall, and free climbers. It has two padded slings which allow for a strangle-free aid rack management, keeping the gear out of the way as you climb all the way to the top. The dual-shoulder design distributes weight evenly and enables easy organization. Climbers will surely be amazed at how light it is, but still can handle large racks to get the job done. This gear sling also features a fleece lining and a zippered pocket to keep your climbing tools in place. Its versatility, affordability, and lightweight functionality will surely have climbers raving about it. So, whether you're into rock, trad, big wall, or free climbing, the Black Diamond Zodiac Gear Sling is absolutely a great choice.
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Thane (also called Thana) is a city in Konkan, Maharashtra. It is the headquarters of Thane district. Its biggest claim to fame is that the first railway line laid in India was from Boribandar to Thane station. It also known as Elder sister of Mumbai (Bombay) as Thane district was divided and part of Thane district that is from Mulund to Sion was given to Mumbai for its future development. Also Mumbai is heavily depending on Thane for water supply from Lakes. The city has around 30 lakes. If you are looking for car rental Thane let us know and we will be happy to provide you with best budgeted deals for . Book cabs in Thane


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Indians inform Harang he will not make club
(GOODYEAR, Ariz.) – And then there were three. The Cleveland Indians have worked their way through difficult decisions when it comes to the final spot in the starting rotation leaving Carlos Carrasco, Josh Tomlin and Trevor Bauer as the final three candidates for the coveted spot.
On Sunday general manager Chris Antonetti and manager Terry Francona informed veteran right-hander Aaron Harang that he would not make the big league club out of spring training.
Francona confirmed that Carrasco, Tomlin and Bauer are the final three candidates for the last job in the starting rotation. Whoever wins that spot will likely pitch fourth in the rotation which would line up to be the Tribe's home opener April 4 vs. the Minnesota Twins at Progressive Field.
So far, the Indians rotation looks like this:
1. Justin Masterson
2. Corey Kluber
3. Zach McAllister
4. Undecided (Carrasco, Tomlin or Bauer?)
5. Danny Salazar
The Indians are still being cautious with Salazar, who may not make his 2014 debut until April 8.
As for Harang, he can opt out of his Minor League contract with the Indians on Monday, March 24 in order to try and find another big league pitching job. Francona has maintained he feels Harang is a big league pitcher. However, if Harang does not exercise his opt-out, he would be in line for a $100,000 bonus and would likely start the season at Triple-A Columbus.
More decisions regarding the Tribe's roster are expected in the coming days including DL situations with Michael Bourn and Jason Giambi, as well as third base, bench spots and bullpen jobs.
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Degree Completion for Aboriginal People in British Columbia: A Case Study
Both programs were offered in a face-to-face format at the Merritt campus, and both were a collaborative effort. Implications for establishing and sustaining Aboriginal-focused post-secondary education are identified and discussed in this article, as are the barriers to post-secondary education faced by Aboriginal students and the authors' challenges as non- Aboriginal people engaged in programming across cultures. Additionally, reflections on these initiatives are offered and linkages to key literature on the issue of Aboriginal post- secondary education are identified.
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Should Kal-L have his own character page?
I believe he should. Justice League Of America Vol. 1 #73 introduced Kal-L, the Superman of a parallel Earth, who went on to have numerous interactions with our more familiar Kal-El, as well as establishing a separate identity in his own universe.
Even though retroactive continuity indicates that many of Superman's Golden Age adventures were in fact the adventures of this Kal-L, it is often hard to determine exactly which. Therefore, I believe only Kal-L's appearances from after JLA Vol. 1 #73 ought to be included on such a character page.
Naturally, this raises the question of whether similar pages ought to be created for characters like the Earth-2 Batman. Certainly not all superheroes that adventured in the Golden Age ought automatically to be granted a separate Earth-2 page, but some of these, particularly the Justice Society, were featured in Earth-2 adventures after the introduction of the concept. Despite their overlapping backgrounds, Earth-2 characters generally developed quite differently than either their Earth-1 counterparts or their Golden Age antecedents, and because of that, maybe shouldn't be lumped into those categories. Power Girl (Kara Zor-L) and the original Huntress (Helena Wayne) stand as two obvious examples of this; the former because of her continued role in the mainstream DC Universe post-Crisis, and the latter because of her radically different origins from her mainstream universe counterpart.
Anyhow, that's my take. What's yours?
Should Kal-L have his own character page?


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To spruce up a simple jeans + tee combo, I added a silk printed scarf scored for about $3 at the thrift store, my fave buckle belt, and some strappy sandals. For anyone who scorns H&M and Target items because they are low-quality...I can't even count how much wear these 3-yr old $20 sandals and $17 clutch have gotten, while still looking fairly pristine. If you are selective with design and materials, there are definitely gems to be found at fast-fashion and discount retailers...
This is my second pair of Old Navy rock star jeggings (see black styled here) (gave away russet to my cousin in China), and I have developed mixed feelings about them. On one hand, I definitely appreciate that they run small and are available in several inseams and colors (although ON needs to do a better job of restocking!). I also like the price tag of $30-$35 plus their frequent discounts. On the other hand, the fit is inconsistent and the design & material in my opinion don't compare to some of Gap's legging jeans (here's an option in a nice dark wash). The material of my ON jeans feel stiff in general, and the black pair attracts lint like none other. Gap definitely has their material and sizing inconsistencies too, though, so you never really know until you try a style on.
On a separate note - H&M lovers can print out this coupon for 35% off (highest I've ever seen from them) one item. Technically it's for email subscribers, so sign up for their emails to receive coupons going forward. Thanks so much to SewPetiteGal for tweeting this during her early-morning sale alerts. She was so kind to also message me directly just in case this H&M lover missed it : )
Armed with my coupon, I popped in at lunch and was soon ready to leave empty-handed. I tried on some cute, colorful bracelets (the petite wrist-friendly mint and peach bangles are a set), but wasn't enticed enough to buy. I was also sorely disappointed by the tent-like winning Fashion Star dresses - I guess runway looks don't translate well for shorties in real life! Here's a 2 on me (per the model this dress is supposed to be around knee-length) for shits and giggles:
On my way out, I spotted a flash of neon out of the corner of my eye and was thrilled to see these highlighter yellow sandals (item # 067212) fully stocked on a shelf. I had called around for them after this post with no luck, and assumed they had come and gone quickly. They are definitely more neon yellow-green in person than the warm yellow shown in the picture, which is too bad, but I might alter the color later. I grabbed a US 5/ EUR 36 (feels like a 5.5) for just $22.75 after the coupon. They are quite fun and look sturdy (more so than F21 shoes), and are a very welcome addition to my collection of neutral heels.


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A whole new look defined the Paddock Club of the Committee of 300 this year.
Classic and custom cars, provided by the Sultans Car Club, were on display, which added to the '50s and '60s décor in the huge center tent. Director Phyllis Covey teamed with James Noonan, owner of Events by Noonan, to bring a new spark to the venue. From the red carpet entry to the tiki bar to the revamped media center, it lived up to being "Your Place to be for the Race!"
Greeting the 500 or so race buffs were two 9-11 Memorial Race Cars on the Honor Tour offered by Kevyn Major Howard. Partygoers dined on the tempting and delicious breakfast and lunches by Country Garden caterers, followed by dancing to the music of "After Party" and "Surf's Up."
Drifting Drivers were busy giving autographs and posing for photos with the throng of attendees.
The Committee of 300 is named for its limit of 300 volunteer members, who are also called the "Redcoats" because of their iconic red jackets. It is their custom to select a local charity each year that doesn't receive large grants or donations from the public. Previous charities have included The Steel Magnolias, LEAP and the Historical Society of Long Beach. The 2012 beneficiary is the Pacific Sailing Maritime Center, which provides some stress-free relaxation for cancer-stricken children and their parents.
Expanding its charitable and community service activities this year, C-300 has collected food at its meetings for the 100 Men organization (for backpacks of food for underprivileged children to provide weekend meals); members helped serve and provide food to the Substance Abuse Foundation for Thanksgiving and Christmas; and the group worked with area schools to provide opportunities for community service hours necessary for graduation.
Special needs adult groups were on the scene at the Paddock club to assist in the set-up. Some clients from the Substance Abuse Foundation served as ushers.
President Diane Morris, with the assistance of President-elect Rich Carry, delivered traditional red carnations to each of the 250 volunteer workers. The florals were provided by Flowers by Vickie, whose owner, Esther Ross, is a life member of the committee. Among these hard workers were Mike Yoachum, Dennis Pitts, Danielle Orman and Cheryl Portugal. President Morris says that new members are welcome (email@example.com), and said anyone interested in tickets to the race venue for next year can purchase them now at this year's price. Call 562-981-9200.
Seen at the scene: John and Susan Ridgely, Julie Nemechek, Lisa Viets, Larry Case, Bill and Daniella Love, Wes and Joann Young, Kevin Curtis, Ken and Barbie Peikert, Andy Heintzelman, Mike Phillips, Cheryl Lemmon, Patty Maude, Penny Ferguson, Pam Canfield, Linda Holcomb, Ken Kern, Dave Scaffone, Steve Elliott, Ken Reason, Robert and Linda Manley, Frank Sternat, Mark Ostermeier, William Coles, Steve Sudakoff, Rick Lorenzen.
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I've been thinking all day of how to create a play list that will avoid duplicating data.
This is what I can make up with
CREATE TABLE `play_lists` (
`id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
`userID` INT NOT NULL,
`name` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
`date` DATETIME NOT NULL
FOREIGN KEY userID(userID) REFERENCES users(id) ON DELETE CASCADE
) ENGINE = innoDB;
CREATE TABLE `play_listSongs` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
`play_listID` int(11) NOT NULL,
`songID` int(11) NOT NULL,
`date` datetime NOT NULL,
FOREIGN KEY play_listID(play_listID) REFERENCES play_lists(id) ON DELETE CASCADE,
FOREIGN KEY songID(songID) REFERENCES uploaded_songs(uploaded_songID) ON DELETE CASCADE
) ENGINE = innoDB;
The problem is that my friend says that he also needs a repository of all songs that are in the play lists.
The problem is that, if a user does not create an initial play list than the above tables will not work correctly. Also, if the user inserts a song into a play list then the repository would not have that new song that was inserted.
His method would be to create a table that stores ALL your songs that you have and also the tables I created and reference them to each other.
The problem is that the repository table would contain ALL your songs AND the play_listSongs table would also contain all your songs.
Is there another method to meet his needs that I am missing out on?
what's a playlist?
What hes trying to create is an mp3 play list, like iTunes.
In iTunes you have a repository of all your songs. Then you can create different play lists to store only certain songs.
That's what I'm trying to help me setup DB wise. But It's a lot of duplication of data his way.
okay, i don't do itunes and i don't do playlists, but the general principle of databases is "one fact in one place"
surely you people aren't thinking that an entire mp3 file has to be copied from a central repository into some other location to constitute a playlist?
each song would be stored only once, yeah?
I believe (if I remember correctly) that he had a table for the songs.
So I guess that makes it the repository of all songs, whether a user has selected a particular song to be in a play list.
But that wouldn't solve the problem. Or am I missing something and you're trying to hint it at me? :shifty:
your tables are fine
I'm not sure you understand me correctly. Let me give you a scenario:
User clicks on a mp3 to add to his play list.
The user does not have an initial play list so the script recognizes that and creates one for the user and adds the song.
The user finds another mp3 and decides to create a brand new play list and store it there. *this becomes a problem because the song is now available within that play list but not in the user's repository of all songs. So that means I would also need to copy over that row into another table possible called song_library or something like that and hold the same information.
In essence the play_listSongs and the song_library table will both have the same information (song id and the user id) and both reference the songs table (where all the information is stored such as the URL where the mp3 is stored, song name, etc)
If a user should be able to have a song in their own specific library, but not in any of their own playlists, then you need a user_library table.
If a users library consists of only songs that are currently in one or more of their playlists, then it's fine how it is.


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