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Let us face the inevitable, we know that smoking up is fun and all, but at some point of time, we find that the results aren't exactly fun, not because of the experience but because of what smoking up can do to people in the long run. We are not talking about the physical effects but how society asks for one to be drug-free so that one ensures safety. Thus, we are going to look at the best way to clean your system for a drug test and hence, be safe from the bad lines.
What is the need for a drug test and what types are there?
Smoking up is an activity that people tend to start in their teens and their adult life as well and while this may seem the age for curiosity and fun (and it surely is) one gets caught later and in every way too. The results are apparent to the eye and if that's not worse, if one even manages to get away from the sighs of a person who uses drugs, the use of drug tests that are prevalent these days surely help one identify the culprit quite easily. It is not the intention to point out who takes drugs but it is because of the greater good of the community that the same individual (s) is part of.
Hence, now that we realize that the test is not because of a need but rather because of an obligation, one has to perform the test. The tests are also common to what we already know of and they comprise of the usual blood test, urine tests and so on and so forth. A little unconventional test would be the hair sample test but it more than manages itself with the saliva test. Thus, these tests are commonly adopted into people's lives at all major workplaces such as institutions, private sectors, government offices and the list goes on and on. A sample report of one's physical condition, i.e if they are drug users or not are checked and they are henceforth, through to the place.
How can one escape from a drug test unnoticed?
While it may be physically impossible for one to escape from drug tests unnoticed, there are certainly a few ways that one could possibly try in order to make sure that they are not caught and that can be done in a variety of ways thanks to the solutions being practised for quite some time now. Let us take a look at some of the possible solutions and look at them in detail.
Now that we know the routine of tests that are conducted, one can employ a series of tricks and techniques to escape from the ordeal that they would soon experience and they are no doubt the best way to clean your system for a drug test. They generally consist of the following solutions:
- Slipping detox drinks before a test in order to get away with traces of drugs present in one's system
- Consumption of pills as well rather than drinks to accelerate the same above-mentioned process
- A natural detox that needs to be planned way in advance to get the better out of the system
These characteristics are all part of the solutions that we are going to consider, but let us look at them in detail so we can comprehend how they work clearly so we can certainly acknowledge with guarantee and trust that they are indeed the best way to clean your system for a drug test.
The first and risky endeavour is to go for synthetic urine. This is one of the sure ways for one to pass the test and is also equally one of the sure ways to get caught as well, for it is no doubt, fake. Hence, one must carefully research into the subject more before they attempt this endeavour as there are simply no second chances. Making sure that one knows their physical nature, composition, etc can help greatly and doing so can help one retain the same with synthetic urine, in the end. Thus, with great risk comes great success and one can ascertain that this is the best way to clean your system for a drug test!
A less risky way would be drinking a detox drink the right time. The right time is such a crucial factor because it is instrumental in knowing when and how one needs to take it so that they pass the test. Again, research is absolutely necessary in order to get this endeavour right as well. This solution is followed by its sister solution, the detox pill. It is comparatively one of the more natural ways because it combines both the natural way of detoxing and also using the pills to enhance the detoxing procedure and therefore, lose the drug content in one's system. This would be perfect in one has more time before a test!
The other solutions consist of a special shampoo for the hair follicle test, followed by a saliva neutralising gum for the saliva test respectively. Hence, it can be seen that there are solutions for every kind of test that we spoke and hence, it is hugely beneficial if one knows the kind of test they are going to endeavour before they take it so they have a good chance of coming out clean on the other side of the spectrum. Regardless of the scenario, we are still equipped with all the solutions that can help us get out of the mess and one can certainly agree that this is the best way to clean your system for a drug test, in the end!
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Going natural is always safe and best, but the only problem is that it takes too long of a procedure and hence one cannot easily get rid of the problem. Since a career is not something that one seeks to give up, these solutions give us a ray of hope and light and help us by coming out clean and therefore, making sure that we get to live the life that we have always wanted!


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The following is an extract from the DHW textbook: "Exercise 6.8
Consider an annual premium with-profit whole life insuranceissued to a select life aged exactly 40. The basic sum insured is $200 000payable at the end of the month of death, and the premium term is 25 years.Assume a compound reversionary bonus of 1.5% per year, vesting on eachpolicy anniversary, initial expenses of 60% of the annual premium, renewalexpenses of 2.5% of all premiums after the first, plus per policy expenses(incurred when a premium is payable) of $5 at the beginning of the first year,increasing by 6% per year compound at the beginning of each subsequent year.Calculate the annual premium."
Please could someone explain what a compound reversionary bonus is and how it will be treated in this question.
With-profit contracts are life insurance policies where the sum assured is increased by distributing a portion of the surplus generated throughout the term of the contract to policyholders. This distributed surplus is called a bonus (the surplus distributed to shareholders is called a dividend). This bonus can be distributed on a regular basis, say annually, which we term a reversionary bonus or at the end of the contract, called a terminal bonus.
A compound reversionary bonus is calculated as a percentage of the sum assured and all previously accrued bonuses. This means that the bonus of each year is added to the sum assured and the bonus for the following year is calculated on this (new) enhanced sum assured.
In the context of this question, the compound reversionary bonus will affect the sum assured of the contract in the following way:


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Antidepressants plus cognitive therapy reduced relapse in residual depressionPDF
ACP J Club. 2000 May-June;132:104. doi:10.7326/ACPJC-2000-132-3-104
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Paykel ES, Scott J, Teasdale JD, et al. Prevention of relapse in residual depression by cognitive therapy. A controlled trial. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1999 Sep;56:829-35.
In patients with residual depressive symptoms who continue to receive maintenance antidepressant treatment, does cognitive therapy (CT) reduce relapse rates?
Randomized {allocation concealed*}†, blinded (outcome assessors),* controlled trial with 1-year follow-up.
2 psychiatric outpatient clinics, Cambridge and Newcastle, England.
158 patients between 21 and 65 years of age (mean age 43 y, 51% men) with unipolar depression, satisfying the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 3d edition, Revised (DSM-III-R) criteria for major depression within the previous 18 months but not in the previous 2 months, and who had residual symptoms (lasting 2 to 18 mo) reaching at least 8 on the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and 9 on the Beck Depression Inventory. Exclusion criteria were history of bipolar disorders, cyclothymia, schizoaffective disorder, drug or alcohol dependence, persistent antisocial behavior or repeated self-harm, DSM-III-R dysthymia with onset before 20 years of age, borderline personality disorder, learning disability, organic brain damage, current receipt of formal psychotherapy, or any other primary Axis I disorder. All patients had to have been taking antidepressant medication (mean doses equivalent to 185 mg/d of amitriptyline or 33 mg/d of fluoxetine) for the previous 8 weeks or more.
80 patients were allocated to clinical management plus CT for 16 sessions during 20 weeks with 2 subsequent booster sessions, and 78 were allocated to clinical management alone. Clinical management and antidepressant treatment continued for the entire 1-year follow-up period.
Main outcome measures
Relapse and symptom ratings.
Main results
Analysis was by intention to treat. The relapse rate for acute major depression and persistent severe residual symptoms at 68 weeks was 38% lower in the CT group than in the control group (P = 0.02) (Table). Groups did not differ for symptom ratings.
In patients with residual depressive symptoms who continued to receive maintenance antidepressant treatment, cognitive therapy reduced relapse rates.
*See Glossary.
†Information provided by author.
Source of funding: Medical Research Council, London, and Oxford and Anglia Region (England).
For correspondence: Dr. E.S. Paykel, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Box 189, Addenbrook's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, England, UK. FAX 44-122-333-6968.
Table. Antidepressant treatment with clinical management plus cognitive therapy (CT) vs antidepressant treatment with clinical management alone (control) for residual depression‡
|Outcome at 68 weeks
|38% (5 to 61)
|6 (4 to 42)
‡Abbreviations defined in Glossary; RRR, NNT, and CI calculated from data in article.
CT has generally been associated with a lower degree of relapse than medication alone in the treatment of depression (1). Nevertheless, relapse remains an issue in CT, and one that has led to a recent focus on developing maintenance strategies for the treatment of depression (1). Earlier studies show that maintenance treatments seem to lower symptom relapse in patients with depression who receive acute treatment with either medication or CT. Specifically, maintenance CT or CT plus medication have lower rates of relapse than does maintenance medication alone (2).
Building on this literature, Paykel and colleagues have done a well-designed, randomized, controlled trial. Their results show that, for patients with residual symptoms of depression, those receiving maintenance CT relapsed less often than did patients who continued receiving medication (29% vs 47%). Results from this study are consistent with the literature and show an absolute risk reduction of 18% and a number needed to treat (NNT) of 6 (95% CI 4 to 42): For every 6 patients treated with CT, 1 relapse would be prevented. Secondarily, although complete remission of depressive symptoms was infrequent in both groups, results showed that CT had higher remission rates at 20 weeks (24%) than did clinical management (11%) (NNT of 8).
In conclusion, CT may be beneficial as an additive treatment in reducing relapse among patients who achieve a partial response to antidepressant treatment. A similar study that was published earlier and that used a smaller sample found that CT reduced relapse even when patients were tapered off medications (3). Considering that many patients are reluctant to remain on long-term medication treatment even when clinical wisdom dictates otherwise, it would have been interesting to replicate the findings of Fava and colleagues (3) in a larger sample, such as the one in the study by Paykel and colleagues. Nevertheless, the present findings are striking and call for a more closely allied working relationship between pharmacotherapists and cognitive therapists in clinical practice.
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1. Jarrett RB, Basco MR, Risser R, et al. Is there a role for continuation phase cognitive therapy for depressed outpatients? J Consult Clin Psychol. 1998;66:1036-40.
2. Sanderson WC, McGinn LK, in Weissman MM, ed. Cognitive behavioral treatment of depression: clinical application and empirical status. In: Weissman M, editor. Treatment of Depression in the 21st Century. American Psychiatric Association Press. [In press.]
3. Fava GA, Rafanelli C, Grandi S, Conti S, Belluardo P. Prevention of recurrent depression with cognitive behavioral therapy: preliminary findings. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1998;55:816-20.


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Hargreaves Lansdown chief executive Peter Hargreaves has hit out at Chelsea Financial Services and Bestinvest's worst-performing fund lists, claiming they are "cheap publicity stunts" which do not help investors.
CFS' Relegation Zone and Bestinvest's Spot the Dog reports name and shame the worstperforming actively managed funds available to UK investors to help them maximise portfolio returns.
But, writing in this week's Money Marketing, Hargreaves questions the firms' motivations and suggests they should focus on highlighting top-performing funds.
He says: "Do they really believe that investors will go to them because they are slagging off the very product that they sell?
"Any half-witted jerk can look at the performance tables and find out what 'they shouldn't have bought'. Why don't we ask Best and Chelsea to put their reputations on the line and tell us what we should be buying."
CFS says it publishes a buy list which is perfectly accessible to clients and says its report is produced to highlight underperforming funds to clients who may wish to consider switching.
Managing director Darius McDermott says: "There are over 2,000 unit trusts, is it doing the industry a disservice to highlight 100 or so underperforming funds? I do not think so. Peter is entitled to his view but I could not be further from agreeing with him."
Bestinvest says its report is designed to help investors do background research before deciding on what funds they should both buy and sell.
This includes fund recommendations and a graph for clients to compare holding a best of breed fund versus a dog fund against its benchmark.
Senior investment adviser Adrian Lowcock says: "We do not believe that investors and ultimately the fund industry benefit from silence about those funds and managers that consistently fail to deliver."


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Sue recalled that it had all started out so promisingly a year ago. The general consensus in Elm Close was that having a young family move in would be a breath of fresh air. Lin and Keith had both been married before and had four children between them. They were friendly and Lin particularly seemed to appreciate the community feel that pervaded the small crescent of detached houses. Keith was larger than life, always ready with a joke and Lin appeared to hang on his every word. The children, three girls and a boy, ranged in age between two and seven and were quiet and well behaved. Soon Sue's offer to sit when the parents had the occasional night out had been taken up. Her first impression had been that they were shy and, especially the boy, rather nervous. Jumpy was how she described him to her husband Bill.
The first incident of hide and seek happened early one cool morning in early summer. Sue was en route to the bathroom when, opening the landing curtains, she observed four pyjama clad little people running across the back garden to the Wendy house erected by Keith. She shivered but reasoned that children didn't feel the cold as she did so what harm could it do? They were having fun. Later in the day as she retrieved her washing from the line, she caught sight of Lin at her back door and called to her.
''I saw the little monkeys this morning hiding from you. They do choose their moments don't they when they should be getting ready for school?''
Lin looked puzzled but quickly resumed her composure to say, ''Oh… yes. Sorry Sue, I'm in a rush.'' And the door was swiftly closed.
She commented to Bill that Lin seemed to be having a bad day and wasn't her usual sunny self.
Life continued along its routine path with the usual pleasantries exchanged over the fence. However, Sue noticed that her services were no longer required for child minding which made her question whether she had unwittingly upset the children or parents. Her down to earth husband told her that she was, as usual, fussing about nothing and that the idea of her upsetting anyone was laughable.
Early one autumn evening as Sue was about to draw her bedroom curtains she witnessed the second run to the Wendy House. This time she was wearing her glasses so the picture was clearer and her smile froze as she became aware that the children's expressions were more of fear than of fun. She stood motionless as the oldest girl pushed the others through the open door in what could only be described as panic and slammed it behind them. Sue's first instinct was to run next door to see what was going on, or should she go to the Wendy House to check on the children? Perhaps one of the parents would appear soon when they realised that the four were not in the house. She'd wait. Bill was at the Bridge Club so wouldn't wonder where she was. Time passed and as darkness enveloped the Close, Sue could wait no longer.
Venturing into the garden she observed that the only light showing next door was in the master bedroom from where she could just make out the sound of an angry voice and another resembling that emitted by an injured animal.
The children would by now be terrified and she had to act.
The police had arrived quickly and had praised the accuracy of her information. As the convoy of vehicles departed, Keith with the police, Lin in an ambulance and the children with a quietly spoken lady from the local authority, Sue found little comfort in the young policewoman's words.
''Your action saved her life.''
All she saw was another broken family.


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Being a filmmaker is hard. I must have saved these 15 times before they were small enough for Youtube, but high enough quality to not look like crap. Anyway, I finally succeeded so go check them out!
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I have been riding in Tahoe, working on my suntan (ok, burn) and making videos of the Nikita photoshoot. I am not sure exactly how it happened, but I made one video and they convinced me to stay longer so I could make videos every day. apparently people appreciate my randomness and dry wit. so anyway, the compression on these suck. I will be posting all of them on futuresnowboarding.com when I am done here and they will look better, but if you want a special sneek peak, here ya go!
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I am down in mid-California, about to go ride Northstar with the Nikita team girls. While there may be an epic video coming out of this day, the real reason I was here was the Nikita Chickita event at Mammoth. I've been helping out Josh as event manager — getting sponsors, hyping up girls on the internet, and various other important tasks. All my hard work finally came to fruition on Saturday and I'd say we ran a pretty rad event. There certainly was a lot of free stuff for the girls, and well, everyone loves free stuff.
I had planned to shoot photos of the contest but got recruited to judge instead. I managed to snap a few shots from the judging booth, but nothing spectacular. I did manage to crush a few girls dreams and progress snowboarding with my judging though. Actually, I don't think I did either of those things. In fact when one girl complained that she should have made finals I made the executive call to just let her in. It worked out, she ended up getting third.
Anyway, the event was awesome. Super mellow. I've written about 4 different stories about it, and here is a link to the one I did on Future Snowboarding. Actually, it ended up being a tag team with Kevin Westenbarger because this event was such a big deal we both ended up doing posts. Most of the photos are his, but here is my favorite of my photos from the event. This is the winners of the Nikita Sponsorship for the past two years:
After the event I rode at Mammoth and Holy Crap! that mountain is fun. I even rode halfpipe and got like "head high" (you know, the height of a human head.) Here's a sweet picture of me at the top of the mountain. Thanks to Kim from Osiris for making this masterpiece happen.


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Here's the story about my favourite Linux bug: the thrashing hell syndrome.
To reproduce it you need to have swap activated and a run-away process. Traditionally, for the latter Netscape Navigator was great, in these days it might happen with Firefox with Flash or Monodevelop. Or if you're developing something and accidentally make an eternal loop that allocates memory.
What will happen is that the system quickly slows down. You'll have some seconds to react to kill the process. If you're too slow, the graphical interface locks up and you're toast while the machine enters thrashing hell. You can usually get to a terminal and even enter username and password, but it locks up again before the shell is running. Probably because you can't spawn a new process when in thrashing hell.
The condition will last for anywhere between a couple of minutes and more than half an hour. Unless you power off the machine, there's nothing you can do. At all. Other than to stare at a frozen screen while the machine entertains itself.
At some point an out-of-memory killer was introduced in an attempt, I believe, to mitigate this problem. Its job was to kill a process to free up memory in memory-tight situations. Here's a hilarious analogy by Andries Brouwer. I suspect Netscape was the main cause, although I might be wrong, I've never been close to kernel development anyway.
Anyway, that was long time ago.
Fast forward to the introduction of Ubuntu, the really easy-to-use GNU/Linux. I should warn you that I'm going to do some bashing of Ubuntu now, which is not really fair since Ubuntu is pretty cool.
When I first got into thrashing hell on a Ubuntu system, I didn't believe it had happened. I thought the OOM killer should have saved me, but apparently not. Probably it'll only kick in when all of the swap is used. But hey, Ubuntu is for the masses, right? The system should have protected me. That's what I naively thought.
So I filed a Ubuntu bug report on the kernel. I hoped that a couple of the knowledgeable people who are working on Ubuntu would fix this old problem in a snap.
Which didn't happen. The bug wasn't accepted. As far as I can tell because the guy in the other end thought the process limiting support in the kernel is advanced enough to take care of the problem. I wasn't sure whether he was right. But I filed a new bug report with the hope that someone else would see the vision.
That's over two years ago. So far no progress. Which is not what I'd hoped, because it really puts the system in a bad light. If this happened to an average user, that person would instantly conclude that Ubuntu/Linux just crashed.
But it's sort of fine, because it's open source etc. etc. and the people in the other end are free to spend their time as they like.
Then today there was an update. Cool! I thought. Until I found out that it's just a drone reply. Even a particularly annoying one, apparently it's not good enough to report a bug on the latest release since the problem might theoretically be fixed in the next alpha. The bug has already been auto-closed once because if noone's interested then the report must be invalid.
So noone wants to listen. That makes me think this will continue to be my favourite Linux bug for many more years to come.
PS: My favourite recent Windows bug is probably the one where Windows interprets all mouse clicks as right-button clicks.


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I can't help agreeing with Bart Ehrman, even though I'm reluctant to take lessons in theology and the Bible from agnostics who do not believe in Jesus' resurrection, when he says:
"Even if we cannot, in the end, know the reasons for suffering, we can at the least have appropriate responses to it. We ourselves can feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, clothe the naked; we can work to solve problems of poverty; we can give money to agencies finding cures for cancer and AIDS; we can volunteer more often locally; we can give more to international relief efforts. We can, in fact, fulfill the urgent demands implicit in Matthew's account of the judgment between the sheep and the goats, for 'as you have done this to the least of these, my brothers and sisters, you have done it unto me.'"
The last quote I want to share comes from Bart Ehrman's theological sparing partner N. T. Wright:
"I don't think much of the Bible is actually addressing the question, 'Why is there suffering?', but rather the question, 'What is God doing about it?'"
Wright's answer involves Abraham, the first coming of Jesus, the Resurrection of Jesus, the second coming of Jesus and all of God's plan of salvation. I would encourage you to read the entire post.
And a final passage from that same post:
"The other side of the coin of 'the problem of evil' is, after all, 'the problem of good': if there is no God, no good and wise creator, why is there an impulse to justice and mercy so deep within us? Why is there beauty, love, laughter, friendship, joy? How do you then tell the difference between Ecclesiastes and Sartre?"
The "problem of good" is a theoretical problem not for Christians, of course; but for atheists and agnostics.


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Characteristics of the Plasma Generated by Primary Electrons at Lowered Pressure
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Plasma characteristics in the gap at lowered pressure in the presence of primary electrons are analyzed for the hydrodynamic model in the cold ion approximation. It is demonstrated that at a certain critical ionization level, the plasma state changes abruptly. The potential drop in the plasma can be not only more, but also less than ln(2)kTe/e, and hence the velocity of ions exiting from the plasma can be more or less than the Bohm velocity. For low ionization intensity and formation of the plasma with a high fraction of primary electrons, the velocity of secondary electron exiting from the plasma becomes equal to their thermal velocity, and their distribution differs significantly from the Boltzmann distribution.
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VIDEO: Lion mascots for World Cup 2019
With luxurious manes, short horns and faces that appear to be shaped like rugby balls, mascots "Ren" and "G" are inspired by "shishi," the mythical lion-like figure that features in Japan's new year celebrations and kabuki theatre.
Introducing Ren-G, the official mascot for #RWC2019 pic.twitter.com/95BKmf1chO
— Rugby World Cup (@rugbyworldcup) January 26, 2018
"Ren," with a white mane is the parent of child "G", whose mane is red, and the pair bounced up and down, trading high-fives and passing a rugby ball back-and-forth at a press conference in Tokyo.
The pair, chosen from among 50 candidates, "represent the culture of host Japan" and "convey the message that it would be the first World Cup in Japan and in Asia," said Shogo Miyata, an official from the 2019 organising committee.
They are the first mascots for a Rugby World Cup since 1999, and will be competing for attention with a plethora of cutesy mascots, which in Japan promote everything from local regions to prisons.
"Mascots are symbolic in Japan," said Rob Abernethy, executive director of the World Cup.
"The story behind our mascots will create connections, a bond between the Japanese people, rugby and its value," he said.
Japan will host the Rugby World Cup just a year before the 2020 Olympics.
Three sets of potential Olympic mascots are currently vying for the votes of Japanese schoolchildren, with the result expected to be announced next month.
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BRIGHT IDEAS: Deborah Rhode's The Beauty Bias
Oxford University Press has just published Professor Deborah L. Rhode's newest book, The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law. I got my copy from Amazon on Friday and enjoyed every moment reading it over the weekend. The book is illuminating and important: it explores the often unacknowledged, yet pervasive, discrimination against people, particularly women, who don't conform to mainstream notions of beauty and appearance. Professor Deborah Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She is the one of the country's leading scholars in legal ethics and gender. Professor Rhode is incredibly prolific: she has written over 20 books and countless articles. She is the director of the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession and a columnist for the National Law Journal. Before joining the Stanford Law faculty, she was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Lucky for CoOp readers, I had a chance to interview Professor Rhode about The Beauty Bias. I reproduce our conversation below:
DC: What prompted you to write this book?
DR: It partly started with shoes. I have always viewed women's footwear design as a haven for closet misogynists; so much of what they produce is so dysfunctional for its primary purpose—comfortable walking. Yet in many contexts, including my years as Chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, I was struck by how often some of the nation's most prominent, powerful, and otherwise sensible women were hobbling about in what we described in high school as "killer shoes." They were stranded in cab lines and late for meetings — held back both literally and figuratively — because of shoes. And inconvenience is the least of the problems. High heels are a major contributor to serious back and foot problems, and four-fifths of women eventually experience such difficulties. A growing percentage are even willing to undergo foot surgery to fit into their designer footwear. I was sufficiently irritated to write an op for the New York Times and it triggered more of a response than probably anything I've ever published.
That experience underscored a question I had long puzzled over. Of all the inequities that the contemporary women's movement has targeted, why have those related to appearance shown among the least improvement? Half of American women report unhappiness with how they look, a figure greater than a quarter century ago. In a country where large percentages of the population can't afford basic health care, cosmetic surgery is the fastest growing specialty. Our global investment in appearance is over 200 billion, and millions of individuals, particularly women, are paying a huge cost not just in money but in time, physical health, and psychological well-being. Discrimination based on appearance, especially weight, is among the most common forms of bias; it is much more frequent and equally arbitrary as many forms of discrimination that are now unlawful. But except in a few jurisdictions, bias based on appearance is perfectly legal.
DC: How does this fit into your broader scholarship?
DR: As a legal academic with a particular interest in gender equality, I wanted a better understanding of where our preoccupation with appearance comes from, what costs it imposes, and what could we do about it from a policy perspective. I've always been interested in the gap between our aspirations and achievements involving social justice in general and women's rights in particular. Appearance raises those issues and provides a window on questions involving the law's capacities and constraints in producing social change. Appearance discrimination has also attracted relatively little public or scholarly attention, and part of the problem is that so few individuals realize that we have a serious problem. This project offered the chance to provide the first comprehensive overview of the law in this area, and new research on the experience of the few jurisdictions that explicitly prohibit some form of appearance discrimination. And because I'm always interested in connecting research to practice, I tried to write in a way that will be interesting and accessible to a broad public and policy audience.
DC: Are you hopeful that we might combat this bias?
DR: I'm optimistic about reform but not naive about what stands in the way. The importance of attractiveness is deeply rooted, and the economic stakes in its pursuit are enormous. But the costs of our preoccupation with appearance are also considerable and could be much more fully appreciated. Many individuals realize that it hurts to be beautiful, but few realize how much and how many billions are squandered in worthless or unhealthful cosmetic and weight reduction efforts. And even fewer of us realize how much it hurts not to be beautiful, or to conform to culturally prescribed norms that are much more demanding for women than men, and that compound disadvantages based on race, class and ethnicity. Most Americans have bumped up against some aspect of the problem and might be energized to do something if they came to see this as not just an individual problem but a social injustice and cultural challenge. Read More


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SMITHSBURG -- The Smithsburg girls basketball team scored a season-high 71 points Friday night against South Hagerstown.
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Emily Hargreaves led Smithsburg with 15 points, Bethany Garnand had 11 and Chelsea Hoover added 10 as the Leopards rolled to a 71-25 victory to sweep the season series with the Rebels.
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Take 10: With Jim Aina
A new feature from Hitting the Stage by HTS Staff Reviewer Wil Kahele, where he asks people in our theatre community ten questions to better know them and their work!
I asked actor and director Jim Aina a few questions. Jim is a well known actor in Honolulu who just made his directorial debut with BOY by Anna Ziegler at TAG.
1.) When did you get involved in theatre? What was your first community theatre production and what year?
Jim Aina: I did plays while in high school at Kamehameha. My first community theatre involvement was with Kumu Kahua Theatre while they were performing at St. Andrew's Priory. The show was "Lucky Come Hawai'i", directed by the late Jim Nakamoto. I believe it was 1986.
2.) When did you know that you wanted to direct? What made you select BOY as your directorial debut?
JA: I saw BOY off-broadway in NYC in late March, 2016. In the first 20 minutes of the show, I knew that it was a story that I wanted to bring home to Hawaii. It was the first time I seriously entertained the thought of directing. The story had everything I believed in; acceptance, compassion, forgiveness, the struggle to find one's true identity, authenticity, & love.
3.) What inspired your soundtrack from BOY and will you release the playlist on Spotify? (The second part of the question is for me because I really, really liked the playlist!)
JA: I heard the piano playing in my head each time I read the script, so theres a lot of piano music in the pre-show segments. The play spans from '68-'90, so I wanted to pay attention to that time period as well, so many of the songs are dated. Then I took a look at specific scenes and wanted specific songs to reflect the previous scene or the one coming up. I also heard the nursery rhyme, "hush little baby", the cooing/crying of a new born baby, and broken/shattered notes of different instruments in my head. I combined all three to reflect the "brokenness" of Adam's childhood.
4.) When did you start preparing for BOY? How long did it take you to get to opening night?
JA: It took 1 year & 5 months from script in hand to opening night.
5.) I understand that the playwright, Anna Ziegler, had contact with you. What did she say or what was communicated?
JA: I initially contacted Anna in July of last year. She has been extremely excited & supportive of our production, and has kept in touch with (assistant director) Karen Hironaga. We will be sending her a taped copy of the show. I will be seeing her latest play, "Actually" in New York in November.
6.) How much input did you have in the design aspects of BOY?
JA: I had an extremely clear vision of how I wanted the story told, and therefore worked very closely with each designer. I knew what I wanted to hear, I saw what each character would look like, how we could use space and lighting to move the story forward and bring a new and interesting texture to the staging of the play.
7.) All this talent on one stage, I'm surprised the roof hasn't exploded, how did you gather so much talent?
JA: Each actor came to auditions. There was a callback. These five individuals gave me what I was looking for in terms of what I needed in the actor I would be working with, not necessarily thinking about the characters so much. The traits I was looking for in the actors were: Fearlessness, sensitivity, open-minded, curious, a sense of vulnerability, and tenacity (I ask for a lot). It has been a privilege to work along side these five highly talented artists.
8.) Do you think this experience has spoiled you from watching Theatre through an objective point of view?
JA: I LOVE Theatre! I have so much to learn! I like going to see a play and simply taking it all in....as a "whole". I can think about what I liked or didn't like after the show, but try not to analyze or critique while I'm watching. That would defeat the purpose of seeing the play in the first place. If anything, this experience will enhance future productions that I see!
9.) What will you take away from this experience and how will it affect any future theatrical endeavors?
JA: I'll really appreciate what it takes to stage the story and the many hands it takes to do it! Yeah, I've gained so much from this opportunity! I can't imagine anything less than a years "prep" time to produce a story that'll be ready for the stage. Choose carefully. Know as much as you can about designers, actors, people you choose to be on your creative team. Choose a story that you are completely and insanely passionate about. It'll allow you to really celebrate the good times, but more importantly, get you through the rough & bumpy times. Reflect on the "Why" you must tell this story. It'll keep you focused! It'll probably be awhile before I direct again, but I'll never say Never!
10.) What's next for Jim Aina? Acting? Directing? Vacation?
JA: I took a month off from work for this show, so I'll need to get back to flying. Yes, it'll be nice to go back to acting. I feel I've become a more effective artist/actor because of this experience. Who knows what's around the corner? But after all, isn't that what makes life exciting?!!?
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To indulge in peaceSaman Villas, an exquisite boutique hotel located on the west coast of the island is the perfect romantic escape. It is a place for you to relax, unwind and rejuvenate your senses.
Each of 27 privately situated suites have a seaside lookout. Once you adapt to the sound of the waves, you are left with just the sea breeze filling your lungs and a breathtaking view satisfying your eyes. The atmosphere is one of exotic tranquility disturbed only by the sounds of birds and the waves crashing on the rocks. Heavenly suites are decked with luxurious furnishings and draped with crisp linens and bright island fabrics. A highlight of the suites is the generously laid out bathroom in which modern bath ware are fused with ethnic motifs.
A resourceful team of chefs draws inspiration from you, to create delectable meals featuring multicultural cuisine and fresh seafood. Extending the romance and tranquility of your intimate retreat is the Sahana Spa, designed for guests to spend the day in total peace and harmony with nature.
Eco-friendlyThey shall respect the environment, seeking to do no damages and to exploit its resources in a sustainable way.
What to expect
- Unique location with golden sandy beaches.
- Only 5 kilometers away from the Bentota resort.
- 25 Minutes from the main airport by Sea Plane (Cinnamon Air).
- 45 Minutes from the main airport and 30 minutes from the Ratmalana airport in Colombo (Deccan Air).
- 150 Minutes by Car from the main airport and 90 minutes from Colombo (via expressway).
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- From Bandaranaike International Airport - Bentota 2,5hrs.
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Sahana SpaAn indulgent escape, where your intimate island retreat will come full circle. The Sahana Spa sources its essential oils and Ayurveda products from Kemara, a respected producer of organic healing and nourishing solutions in Sri Lanka. Signature Treatments, Massages, Ayurveda traditions & Beauty treatments are available.
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waves break beneath you. Other unique dining locations include the pool
pavilion overlooking the ocean, the privacy of your own suite or in a water
garden or tropical garden setting at the spa.
Whilst a delectable selection of Eastern, Western and Sri Lankan cuisines are offered at their main restaurant, you will also discover a range of international wines to complement your fine-dining experience. You also have the option of creating your very own menu, just have a chat with one of the Chefs who will be more than delighted to attend to your specific culinary needs. Special arrangements can be made for guests seeking particular dietary requirements. Every meal is an unforgettable sensory experience. The dazzling ocean will be your companion wherever you choose to dine at Saman Villas.
Weddings & HoneymoonYou and your loved one deserve to exchange vows in as memorable a setting as Saman Villas. Intimate in nature, unforgettably beautiful and conveniently located, this tropical paradise islet has all the makings for a perfect wedding day.
Extend your wedding celebration by honeymooning at a luxurious Saman Villas private suite can take pleasure in the quiet atmosphere and wonderful hospitality that is at your beck at call.
EntertainmentOne of Sri Lankas' popular cultural dance performance groups showcases their dance acts at Saman Villas every Wednesday during dinner time commencing from 7.30 pm.
Hotel facilities
- Infinity-Edge swimming pool
- Gardens
- Terrace restaurant
- Lounge bar
- Sunset lounge
- Shana Spa
- Library with books, cd's, dvd's
- Snooker table
- Boardroom facilities
- Jewelry shop
- Evening entertainment
- Airport transfer upon request
- Cycle track
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- Brief Garden
- Buddhist Temple
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- Dutch Fort
- Fish Market
- Maduganga River safari
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- Deep Sea fishing
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Superior suite
Superior suite
Wake up to stunning aerial views of the ocean on the upper level.
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Deluxe suite
Deluxe suite
Frangipani trees and seaside flora generously surrounds the ground floor.
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Deluxe suite with pool
Deluxe suite
Relax in style and enjoy uninterrupted views of the ocean from the pool.
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Grand deluxe suite with swimming pool
Executive suite
An opulent villa tucked-away featuring a terrace and a small garden.
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Saman villa suite with swimming pool
Exclusively designed villa suite with a secluded private pool.
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- Rates mentioned are per suite per night based on 2 people sharing, unless otherwise stated.
- Rates mentioned are in US Dollars (USD).
- Rates mentioned exclude Breakfast.
- Rates mentioned exclude 25,60% Hotel taxes, Service charges & City taxes.
- In the event of any change in government taxes, the tax component is subject to change.
- Rates mentioned include Wi-Fi.
- Full board & Half board are available upon request.
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Child Policy
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- Children over 11 years will be considered as adults.
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- If the booking is cancelled before the cancellation deadline the deposit charged will be refunded.
Cancellation Policy
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- If you cancel between 25 - 0 days prior to arrival date, they will charge a cancellation fee of 100%of the total booked amount or 4 nights.
- A no show or early departure is a penalty fee of 100% of the total booked amount.
- Cancellation charges will apply on compulsory supplements for bookings covering New Years Eve.
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The Honest Truth: 01/04/17
The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart is about a boy in a losing fight with cancer and decided he'd rather climb Mt. Rainier with his dog. So he buys a ticket on Amtrak and back tracks from Seattle to mountain. Along the way he gets beat up and has all sorts of other bad things happen to him but he continues on.
The book has numerous positive reviews but from the very first chapter it just didn't work for me. First and foremost given how close the boy is to the mountain he wants to climb I find it extraordinary that he'd take a train so far out of his way. There are municipal buses that share overlapping routes that would have been cheaper and probably something he'd be more familiar with.
Then there are the bullies popping out of nowhere. Because of course kids instantly know when a kid from somewhere else is coming into their territory. Of course they are compelled to beat up all strangers. They are reacting to a need of the plot, not by any actual observed teen behavior.
Then there's the mountain itself. Although the thing is MASSIVE it's not as abandoned as it's portrayed. I doubt he'd get as far up the mountain as he did by himself. And yet, when things are finally dire enough that he literally needs rescuing, his dog is able to run back down the mountain to get help in time! Remember how I said Mt. Rainier is MASSIVE? Again, this is a plot driven convenience.
The Honest Truth reads like a late 1970s, early 1980s After School Special. If you like that sort of story you will like the book. If you want something with a little more realism, read something else.
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I mentioned on Friday that I have three final pieces in order to finish off my degree (user study, writing my dissertation, and submitting to a journal). While I don't have the three completely hammered out, I have started working. And am hoping this week I might be able to come up with an initial outline for my dissertation (and get that moving ahead).
However, the main thing I've focused on, has been the user study that was discussed. And I started by checking into the feasibility of what was proposed. If I had tracked time from the beginning of my PhD, I bet I'd find that I have spent upwards of 30% of my PhD determining if something was feasible or not. Every single step of my PhD has started with a hypothesis followed immediately by "can we do this using x?" or "is it even possible to do y?". Which has meant that I start off by spending a lot of time not directly working on the hypothesis, but figuring out if our decision on how to proceed makes any sense. And sometimes, it hasn't, and we've had to re-think and change direction. The worst time this happened, was during the beginning, when we had to really change direction and re-think my entire project (and ended up "wasting" almost 2 years*).
And so, with our planned user study, I knew the first thing I needed to figure out was whether or not this was even going to work. And so I started by researching the idea from home. What could I find out about the tools we had chosen? What had other people done? Was there any promising news that any of the potential initial red flags were going to be solved soon? After doing that, I met with another student who is using the system and we sat down and looked through what you could actually do. On one hand, it's really cool, and it'd be very neat to re-do some of my stuff here and be able to show the "robustness" of my solution. On the other hand, there are some serious limitations in their design – limitations that I don't get and are so confusing as to why they are implemented they way they are.
So now that I've done some initial feasibility exploration, it's time to sit down with my supervisor and figure out how to proceed. Is there a way we can modify what we want to do such that the limitations are no longer a problem? If not, is there another reasonable user study that we could do that would be similar in design? Or, would the best solution be to just not do a user study, since this "failed"? I don't know what the answer is going to be. And I imagine we won't be able to solve it in an initial meeting. On the plus side, at least this time, I actually have other stuff to work on, while we sort this out.
* It wasn't really a waste. It helped frame and set up the motivation for what I've done for the rest of my time. But it definitely took a long time to figure this all out.


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My Alcoholic Tendencies Are Taking A Quick Ten
For the first time since I came back to school, I decided to retire my tube top and alcoholic concoction and instead throw on my running shorts, put on a face mask, and snuggle in my bed and watch American Horror Story. That is right everybody, I am completely sober; my half gal of Svedka has not budged since the weekend prior and my joints and blunts are stowed away in my backpack for another night. I should be studying for my big Anatomy exam that's this Monday, but for some reason I am here, writing. It has been over a week since I last posted something on this website, but I feel like a lot has happened to me mentally that I just need to…I don't know, rant? Complain? Vent out? I honestly don't even know what the premise of this post will be, yet here I am, writing in my dorm room on a Saturday night while my friends are tormenting their livers and lungs with juuls and jungle juice. I guess the only efficient way to do this is to do it in a list-like form. So let's start with the my current number one "issue" that has been on my mind:
1. Emotional Feels and My Self-Worth as a Woman
It's the time of year I guess: that time of year when I meet somebody knew, start talking to them more and more, and suddenly can't stop thinking about them. I see this person, and I suddenly have this tightness in my chest and start rambling in my mind. This is something that should be almost exciting to others, but for me this is anything but. In fact, it's more like a hindrance.
I know I'm not beautiful.
This is such a sad mindset to have, but it is a mindset I bear. My body is far from perfect, my face is only partially adequate when I paint it with products I spend way too much money on, and my go to wardrobe include oversized sweatshirts and leggings. I'm almost a thousand percent sure that whenever I walk down the road, people don't look twice my way, and if they are, it's probably because of the beautiful blond walking five feet in front of me.
Despite my not-so great relationship with God, I am believer in fate, and even worse, I am a believer in soulmates. Maybe it's because of my unhealthy obsession of Disney movies and the large amount of romantic YA novels I read in high school, but for some reason I have been conditioned to think that there is a person for everyone. But I am so impatient. I am smart enough to know that the first person you date won't be your last, but that doesn't mean I don't want to experience that almost perfect love story.
This is all probably all so over dramatic, but what can I say: I'm pretty dramatic overall.
Side note: if you are feeling the same way I'm feeling, do not listen to Queen Naija's "Butterfly". Just don't. It's too fucking real.
2. What the Fuck am I Doing Here
I've been contemplating my role lately. My role here at school, my role in life, my role in the universe, yada yada yada. Existentialism is a real thing folks, and yes, apparently you can have it sober. As I was reading about glycolysis and the electron transport chain and the fucking citric acid cycle, I had a moment of semi-clarity: why the fuck am I doing this. Why am I in Spokane Washington reading about metabolism? Why the hell am I causing myself this much stress by being in school?
I've been following a lot of travel pages on Instagram lately. There are people close to my age on white sandy beaches in the Caribbean or climbing several mountain ranges in Iceland. People are riding elephants in India and are zip lining through the Amazon. And where am I? Writing on a computer in my cramped dorm room on a Saturday night.
Am I actually going to drop out of college and pursue all of this? Probably not. Am I going to change my major to try and find happiness? Probably not. Because money is such a huge goal to achieve here, and because I have to somehow pay back my immigrant parents for literally almost losing their lives to find a better life for me, I feel like I have no choice. I feel like that's been the common trend about most of the things in my life: I have absolutely no choice.
3. An Unintentional Emotional Attachment
I am not going into specific details about this. But basically, someone who I thought would still be in my life is no longer here. No, they didn't die. They just…left, without a trace. When I got the news about this, the sudden trail of tears that trickled down my face was an actual shock to me.
Sure, I get attached to people pretty easily, but this was on a whole other level.
After finding out about the news, I rushed to the bathroom and bawled. And I had no idea how to stop. This was such a new feeling, and as it rushed throughout my entire essence, all I wanted was for it to stop. I texted friends and heeded advice, and when none of it was working, I even took desperate measures and called my mother, not the greatest person to talk to about emotions.
This event has been floating throughout my mind this weekend, yet for some reason I still do not know how to deal with it. The closest thing I've had to a loss is my grandpa dying, and I was A) six and B) had no idea what the hell was going on.
I still have no idea what to do about this nuance feeling. I just really want to get it situated as soon as possible.
And That's the Tea Folks
As I finish writing this, I am realizing how low key therapeutic this is. Writing in a room by myself with only the sum of Maxwell seeping through my speakers has got to be my favorite Saturday night endeavor of the semester so far. So I know that this post isn't as happy and hopeful as I promised, but despite all this dreary gloom and doom, I am still hopeful for the semester. I really do feel like something is going to happen to me. I couldn't tell you what, but I just have this feeling in gut. Hopefully it comes true. Hopefully it's marvelous. Marvelous enough to actually liven up this website.
Until next time. Peace.


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Since doing the 3 hour workshop with Robyn I thought I would practice the other day and this was one of my favourites. I even managed half a catch light in her eyes. Will keep practicing.
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A gecko that remained hidden and was believed to be extinct was re-discovered recently after 135 years. Called the Jeypore Gecko (Geckoella jeyporensis) it was found in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa by scientists who spent more than two years looking for this little creature.
It is one thing to hope that a species is not extinct and totally another to actually show proof of its existence. But doctorate student of the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Ishan Agarwal, Aniruddha Datta-Roy and field assistant Tarun Khichi finally got the reward of their perseverance when they re-discovered a tiny Indian Gecko after 135 years.
Ishan has been working on the Geckoella since 2008 to understand more about its evolutionary history. This lizard species was first detected and collected in 1877 by British national, Colonel RH Beddome from Jeypore Hills in Orissa.
In his quest to find more about geckos, the researcher Agrawal sifted through the little information available of the lizard like creature and thought it imperative to locate that elusive one that had remained hidden for more than a century.
Turning Sleuth for a Gecko
Colonel Beddome had made his discovery of the Jeypore Gecko in the Eastern Ghats a century ago. He had found a male of the species with orangey-brown dorsal side and large, brown blotches. But over the years either no one else noted the absence of the gecko in recorded scientific history or simply did not bother to look for it.
In 2008 Agrawal began working on the Geckoella and got interested in this particular species believed extinct.
He said the rediscovery was a product of two years of collaborative efforts of scientists from the Centre for Ecological Sciences; the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; the Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, and the America-based Villanova University.
The work began by studying the little information on the animal.
"The only clues on the species were from its original description, which said that the species was collected under a rock in a forest at 4,200 feet on "Patinghe Hill, Jeypore,"said Agarwal. He described the team's discovery a result of "persistence work and little bit of luck".
In 2010, the team embarked on their first field trip to try and locate the gecko. They had searched various places in Koraput district for this species with no luck. In 2011 they assembled again with Praveen Karanth, V Deepak and Prudhviraj, for another field trip through high elevations of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha and against all odds were able to find the species again from a different locality in Andhra Pradesh
The results of the re-discovery have been published in journal 'Hamadryad'.
The Gecko from Eastern Ghats
Varad Giri from Bombay Natural History Society and Aaron Bauer of Villanova University studied the biological classification of the lizard species.
Interestingly, besides being morphologically unique and endemic to a region not traditionally known to harbour many endemics, this species appears restricted to a very specialized habitat in the Eastern Ghats, semi-evergreen forests above 1000m elevation.
"The discovery is unique among Indian geckos as it has enlarged, hexagonal, plate-like scales across the back," Giri said.
What the scientific community also interpret from this discovery is that there might be many other species in India that have not been discovered yet or simply thought to be extinct without proper investigation to prove otherwise.
It is urgently needed that India's biodiversity is systematically listed and constantly upgraded to give a place to all living forms of this immense nation.
The scientist warned that the immense manmade changes in the natural system was making time run out for many species.
"There is an urgent need for trained biologists to undertake country-wide surveys," said Giri.
Let us hope the current discovery encourages others to keep hiking the beaten path and find more treasures of the natural world hidden from our sight.
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SANTA ROSA, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- Outflows from stock mutual funds totaling $3.6 billion in the latest week are sure to disappoint those cheered on by April's booming inflows, Mutual Fund Trim Tabs said Thursday.
Stock funds pulled in a whopping $19.3 billion in April, reversing two months of outflows totaling some $24 billion, according to data released by the industry trade group Investment Company Institute on Wednesday. See related story.
"I'm sure there are plenty of people who thought the good old days were back, particularly the fund managements, where the money just rolls in month after month," Trim Tabs' director of research Carl Wittnebert told CBS.MarketWatch.com.
"The possibility crossed my mind that the public was going to come back in a big way, meaning roughly $20 billion, $25 billion a month," Wittnebert said.
Through Tuesday, the fund analyst estimates that the May tote comes to $8.8 billion. Wittnebert doubts that inflows will cross the $10 billion threshold when the final May numbers are tallied.
Over the five-day period ending Wednesday, U.S. equity funds leaked $1.2 billion in assets and mutual funds investing abroad shed another $2.4 billion.
Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Trim Tabs also reported that $400 million flowed into bond funds while hybrids attracted just $200 million in assets.
Mutual Funds Trim Tabs tracks the daily flow of a small sampling of mutual fund companies, representing roughly 15 percent of all equity fund assets, to arrive at its weekly estimates.
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Money market fund assets rose by just $930 million in the latest week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.
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Assets of institutional money market funds fell by nearly $1.2 billion over the week. Among institutional funds, assets of taxable funds decreased by $1.3 billion while tax-exempt fund assets rose by more than $143 million.
There was not much movement in either the retail or the institutional side, ICI spokesman Chris Wloszczyna observed. "On the institutional side the money funds have caught up to the recent declines from the Fed."
Institutional money market funds swelled after the last rate cut by the Federal Reserve, pulling in $21 billion during the previous week. Big money typically will shun direct instruments, like commercial paper, following a rate cut, in favor of money markets, which take time to digest the cut.
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VANCOUVER, BC, MEDIA ADVISORY--(Marketwire - Feb. 12, 2010) - The Executive of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs will be participating in a 29 hour fast supporting the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk Tribal Council's (MTTC) opposition to fish farm tenures in the Broughton Archipelago.
"There are 29 fish farm tenures in the territories of the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk," said Chief Bob Chamberlin, Chair of the MTTC and Secretary-Treasurer of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. "The 29 hour fast reflects the 29 fish farm tenures in our territories."
The fast will begin at 5:00 a.m. on Monday, February 15th at the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (500 - 342 Water Street, Vancouver, Canada). The fast will end on February 16th, the day when Team Canada faces off with Team Norway in Men's Ice Hockey.
The MTTC have extended an invitation to King Harald V of Norway to meet with the Chiefs of the MTTC and UBCIC during his time at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Chief Chamberlin stated "The Chiefs want to discuss with King Harald the conduct of certain Norwegian Fish Farm Companies and how their business operations are not in accodance with the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which the Norwegian Government voting Yes to at the UN General Assembly."
Date: Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Place: Union of BC Indian Chiefs Office, Suite 500 - 342 Water Street, Vancouver BCTime: 10:00 AMWho: Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President - UBCIC; Chief Willie Charlie, Vice-President - UBCIC; Chief Bob Chamberlin, Secretary-Treasurer - UBCIC; Hereditary Chiefs; and Friends
/For further information: Backgrounder - MTTC Open Letter to King Harald V of Norway at http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/News_Releases/UBCICNews02151001.htm /
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So, what and who are we? We're authors. Some of us poor bastards also have day jobs, because let's face it, mortgages have to be paid and kids (of the human and furry variety) like to be fed. We are not a publisher, as we've explained, so don't send us your shit. Not that it's shit. It might be. We don't know. We don't care. What we want is bodies. Your bodies. And your minds. Okay, your soul. We like souls.
Wait, things have gone off the rails here. Let's take a few steps back.
Deviant Dolls is about books, readers, and marketing, not always in that order. We write books. We must promote said books to readers. We love readers. If you don't love readers, get outta here. Why are you writing anything? As a collective of authors, it is our goal to get as many of our weird, horrific, hilarious, edgy, outside the mainstream stories to readers. This means we need a network. Part of the purpose of the Dolls is to help each other find new readers and to keep our current readers happy. Not so hard, right? It is when you're going it alone.
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Metaphorical or literal, you've gotta have balls to be a Doll. Why? We aren't about pussy-footing around the shit. We want to take risks and want authors who aren't afraid to take a leap with us. If you're worried about image or think you're fancy, walk away now.
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Epa Renovate Right Brochure
Renew the corresponding Epa Renovate Right Brochure is a booklet provided by the EPA or Environmental Protection Agency. The agency will work with homeowner's tips to create a test for lead paint dust when remodeling or renovation projects conducted in their homes.
Currently, EPA requires remodelers or remodeling company to inform the person or homeowner to do the test after their homes have been renovated.
To allow this information to homeowners, remodeling or renovation of the company must provide EPA the right to modify brochure owners so they understand what to do. Before this, get tips from the EPA and NAHB Congress-led coalition of consumer rights. Thus, given the review of the Epa Renovate Right Brochure that customers should take the test after the reforms are not only doing the cleaning verification conducted by the remodelers or remodeling company.
Therefore, companies or remodelers remodeling, installation of windows, and other contractors must provide EPA the right to change the brochure owners live in homes built before 1978 before doing renovations or remodeling a home or building. For contractors who are remodeling or print files to download the April 2010 revised page of the publication of the EPA to enter the site.
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I guess the first question is whether we consider the agreement by you, me, and Maedhros on the issue of Ulmo's counsel to have been a vote or a unanimous consensus. No official vote was taken, and we all found the solution adopted to be acceptable, but it was fairly clear that you preferred to include the counsel of war while Maedhros and I preferred not to.
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The following story makes clear that China is engaged in child abuse for the sake of Olympic Gold. We suspect that to some degree that is occurring in other nations as well.
There is an excellent summary here of the holistic and noble ideals that inspired the ancient Olympics and moved Pierre de Coubertin to revive them in the 19th century. Unfortunately, the founders' intent to develop the whole person - body, mind and spirit - has been transformed by a statist and corporate juggernaut into something deformed that in too many cases is unhealthy and destructive to the athletes. It's long past time to reform the Olympic Movement, remove the governmental and corporate influences, and restore the intent of its ancient and modern founders. That refocus will do far more for the life of participating nations than will the accumulation of gold medals.
China has changed dramatically since it began reforming its Communist system three decades ago. But one vestige of Soviet-style central planning remains in its "juguo" or "whole nation" sports system.
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From The TelegraphByMalcolm Moore
Under the "whole nation" system, China roots out talented young children and puts them in special academies from as young as four years old.
If they are able to progress, athletes who make the cut are put into a relentless training programme, filled with targets they must regularly hit, and paid by the government a monthly wage of between 1,000 yuan and 3,000 yuan a month (£96 to £288).
Each year, the best athletes are sent to national training centres in Beijing, where they compete to enter China's national team. If they succeed, they will move with their families into the training centre and live there all year round.Outsiders who have glimpsed inside the Chinese National Gymnastics centre, like Sir Matthew Pinsent, have been dismayed by what they saw.
"I know it is gymnastics and that sport has to start its athletes young," he said, before the Beijing games. "But I have to say I was really shocked. I do think those kids are being abused." One note, found pinned to the wall of the training centre before the Beijing Olympics simply read: "Leaders put pressure on us, subordinates put pressure on us, pressure each other. Pressure yourself. There will be no breakthrough without the hardest hardship. You cannot be a champion without going through the ultimate pressure".Related Articles
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For as long as they are successful, the national team members benefit from perks including air tickets for their parents to watch them compete and, in some cases, sponsorship deals.
Gymnasts who win medals in international competitions, or with national titles, can attend university after their career ends, with the tuition paid for by the state.
The ones who do not win medals, however, have to take the notoriously difficult university entrance exams.
The success of the whole nation scheme has been evident from China's ever-rising tally of gold medals at successive Olympic Games, culminating in Beijing when China won 51 golds to the US' 36 and Russia's 23.
Since the Sydney Olympics in 2000, China also adopted Project 119, a plan to boost its gold medal haul by pouring funding into sports that the country has traditionally been weaker at: track-and-field, boxing, swimming and rowing, among others.