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Taylor Cooprider
There is no other gym I would consider going to I absolutely love ITHINKFIT!
Caylee Messersmith
Best gym in town! The trainers are top notch and constantly motivating you to push yourself more (they know you can because each of them knows the members by name and what their capabilities are!). They really want you to make a lifestyle change and are constantly there to support you and to check in. The members are a close knit group and are very motivating during the classes! Can't say enough great things about this place.
Best workouts at the best gym with the best trainers! I was given a custom diet on day one and lost 31 lbs in first 10 weeks!
Rachel Marie
The best gym in Omaha! Killer workouts, awesome trainers, and friendly faces!
Sarah Windlan
Game Changer!! Ithinkfit took me from exercising to eat what I want to now fitness as a lifestyle! It has truly changed my life for the better! I joined in July 2016 and since then with the help of trainer Shaun Hoover and the rest of the unbeatable staff I have competed in two fitness shows and will check a photo shoot off my bucket list in April of this year. The staff is the best around and the people are friends that have now become family. If you are looking for a change and a purpose like I was, this is your place surrounded by people that will motivate you to reach your goals!!
Tim-Nancy Kirkpatrick
Can't imagine my life with out having IThinkfit The Gym to go to 5 out of 7 days a week!
I eat better, feel better and look healthier than I did 2 years ago. Never imagined I was going benefit the way I have…so thank you to all the fantastic trainers at the gym!
Kayla Thieman
Ithinkfit gym definitely changed my life and my views on "working out!" I originally signed up for a 4 week trial to help a friend get motivated to start a healthier life style and lose some weight. If you are not familiar with a gym and haven't worked out in a long long time, stepping into a gym on your own can be very overwhelming. In 4 weeks I dropped 6 pant sizes and that was with not going as regularly as I had hoped to go due to family issues. When the 4 weeks were up I decided to sign up for the spring fit challenge. I could see definition begin in my arms and back. I had so much more energy, and felt confident in my own skin again. By the end of the 10 week challenge I was wearing a size 5 and x-sm shirts, something I hadn't been able to do since I was in HS. I always thought I worked out hard, but I was completely wrong and that was made clear to me after joining ithinkfit. They push you past the limit you think you have. The body is a powerful thing and your mind will give up before you body will. The trainers take pride in their work and strive to teach you how to "work out" properly. The gym quickly became a major part of my life. I would fein for it, couldn't wait until my next workout. The other members and trainers begin to feel like family. Everyone wants to see you succeed. I can honestly say that I have never found a gym like it.
Julia Von Riesen
IThinkFit changed my life. A friend talked me into joining IThinkFit after I had tried numerous other ways to get back into shape after college. I joined in October 2015 and I can confidently say that by the next summer I was a different person. I saw changes in not only my body but also in my attitude. The trainers make it fun and easy to make goals and stick to them. In the time since I joined IThinkFit I have lost 30lbs of fat and packed on muscle. I have become strong, athletic, healthy, energized, and I have gained quite a few friends along the way. IThinkFit is the gym to join when you need motivators to help keep you accountable. The trainers and members are one of a kind and I can confidently say that they are a key part to the changes that I have made in order to feel like me again. I would highly recommend IThinkFit to anyone looking to get in shape, stay in shape, or just make some new friends with some fitness goals!
Marci Mackie
I always speak highly of iThinkFit Gym!! i have so much respect for Sean and Heath and the way they train and run their gym. I LOVE the classes at iThinkFit! The workouts are great, challenging and you may find it harder then what you currently do in the gym. I know that when i want to get lean the first place i think of is iThinkFit. It goes beyond just a workout, you are given a team, people that you see at every class, a group of people that are motivated and ready to make changes. I think this is the one thing that i found most attractive and addicting about the gym. I wanted to go every chance i could.
they offer quite a few classes and a more challenging womens class called athena! I would say it is def worth your money and that you will want to stay longer then the ten weeks!!!
Heath Murray
My name is Heath Michael Murray co-founder of ITHINKFIT GYM and personal trainer. Being in great shape has not always been the case for me. It has been a long and very hard road. In Sept of 2004, during a recreational game of flag football, I completely blew out my left knee. I tore my ACL completely and also severely tore my MCL and LCL as well as cartiledge. I was completely devastated. Due to the fact that I had no medical insurance, I was forced to wait until March of 2005 to have reconstructive knee surgery. By the time of the surgery I was in terrible shape because depression had set in and physical activity was very difficult to perform."
Bob Hruska
Fall 2008, I was a mess scarred by both the economic down turn and reeling from a failed personal relationship. Also, the Big 30 was less than a year away and I needed a new challenge. I hit the gym for three months but still something was missing from my exercise routine. I contacted Sean Harley and Heath Murray of ITHINKFITGYM. They trained me at their Fit Camp with 300 style workout groups. Additionally, these top trainers worked on my diet as well as maximizing the benefits of taking dietary supplements. We took a threefold approach: burn fat with Chikara, build muscle with Eight Ball Whey 100 and increase lean muscle and reduce lactic acid built-up with Black Betas .
During the 12 weeks of fit camp: new muscles appeared and veins showed up everywhere. Exercising every day at ITHINKFITGYM meant I was surrounded by supportive people who made me feel positive about myself. The relationships I have established with my trainers and fellow fit camps members have changed my life for the better. I went from 190lbs to 169lbs while building muscle and am now the happiest I have ever been!
People constantly ask what is your fitness secret? I reply "it is no secret, only a sound diet, frequent exercise, and choosing to think FIT"!
Betsy Belmont
I started working out in January with Sean after seeing my friend Donette's results. I was tired of "trendy miracle diets" that never worked for me, and wanted to work out with someone who really knew how to transform my body by creating a workout personalized just for me. Not only did Sean kick my ass in the gym he helped me shrink that ass by changing my eating habits too! I feel lighter both physically and emotionally and though it sounds cliché, a weight has literally been lifted off of my shoulders. Instead of lugging my old heavy self around, I only lug heavy shopping bags full of all of my new clothes!
James Clark
Before meeting Sean with I Think Fit, I was going to the gym on a regular basis but not seeing any real change with my body. Sean helped me find the direction I needed by setting dietary and fitness goals. I found the commitment I needed to achieve the body I wanted. After only 12 weeks I was able to lose 18lbs while gaining muscle and dropping 7% bodyfat! The workouts are always different which really helped me stay focused and made it something I truly look forward to doing everyday. The information I learned about diet and supplementation was easy to understand and follow, and will help me the rest of my life. With the results he has helped me obtain I have the drive to work harder, eat better and ultimately live a healthier life. Working with I Think Fit has given me a new confidence in the gym, my business and my personal life.
Kim Cox
I had always worked out but was at a point where I needed change. I was getting bored with my workouts and hit a plateau. I started with the Fit Camps, which I loved, then decided that I needed some personal assistance with my weight training. In a very short amount of time I was stronger and faster than ever. Sean and Heath at ITHINKFIT have taken a genuine interest in helping me reach my fitness goals. They know fitness and nutrition and can help you become your leanest and strongest that you've ever been!
My goal was to be able to do pull ups and have abs…. both accomplished in a short amount of time! I am more athletic than ever and they have given me a new meaning to I Think Fit!
Donette Smith
Last spring I was in a panic because my former band was invited to open for my idols, "Heart", in Norfolk,NE. It had been almost 10 years since my band retired & and about as long since I worked out consistently. I was 44, out of shape, and unmotivated. I approached Sean and asked if it was even possible to look and feel fit in 6 weeks. He assured me that I could do it. Sean has an amazing way of making you want to do your best with positive encouragement. I worked out 2 times per week for 5 weeks and I was transformed! I felt confident to walk on that stage and perform for 4000 people.
Thank you, Sean! I couldn't have done it without you!! Donette Smith


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Opponents of natural gas fracking on environmental grounds (groundwater pollution, seismicity, and socioeconomic disruption, to name a few) have a much stronger argument against the practice since the publication of two methane studies in scientific journals and a lay summary in Scientific American last week.
Stefan Schwietzke, a researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth Systems Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, led both the scientific studies. His team of researchers recalculated previous inventories from the Environmental Protection Agency, the intergovernmental climate panel, and other sources to pin down oilfield and coal emissions with more certainty. They then put the results through a custom atmospheric computer model.
The results were published last week in two respected and peer-reviewed scientific journals: Environmental Science & Technology and Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering. (See study methodology at right.) The findings are not the first on the subject, but they do put another nail in the coffin of our headlong rush to natural gas. [As reported last year by Scientific American and ClimateWire, David Allen, a University of Texas researcher, found higher than expected levels of methane, as did Robert Howarth, a researcher at Cornell. In the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last year, Scot Miller, a Harvard atmospheric scientist, found that both the EPA and the European-based Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) had underestimated methane production. His team also linked higher levels of methane emissions in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas with petroleum drilling.]
Of course, the oil and gas industry and its regulators have known for a long time about the potential for fugitive emissions (leaks at the drilling site and through pipelines and processing infrastructure). It took until the wholesale application of fracking to shale reserves for anyone to carefully measure them, and budget cuts have complicated the process: according to one report, the US needs three times as many towers and observations as we now possess. And measurements aren't easy, because natural gas, oil, and coal extraction release similar byproducts, although in different quantities.
What Schwietzke's new investigations revealed was potential leakage rates between two and four percent of the gas produced in five years studied (2006-2011), spiking at nearly 10% in the Uinta basin of Utah. Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels in a plant have a longer-term effect. Methane leaks from wellheads, pipes, valves, compressors and various other equipment whack the atmosphere like shots of an energy drink, up to 86 times as strongly as straight CO2 emissions over a 20-year time period.
A three percent level is enough to negate the climate benefits of gas over coal during the next two decades. It puts natural gas emissions at a climate equivalent of coal impacts, so the 2-4% findings are enough to call into question the ultimate wisdom of burning natural gas for power versus burning coal.
EPA's latest estimate of fugitive methane emissions, prepared mostly on the advice of petroleum company scientists, was 1.2% (equal to the annual emissions of 112 million cars). "The natural gas industry says its emissions are close to zero," Scientific American reports. "It also maintains that regulations are unnecessary to cut down on leaks, as companies have an economic incentive to capture methane."
As usual, industry spokespeople respond by touting their leading role in "developing new technologies and equipment" to combat the problem. (Rhetorically: what does anyone else have to gain from doing it, who else has access, and who determines whether the technologies and equipment are adequate to solve the problems?)
It's also interesting to know that as the Carbon Disclosure Project found, and we reported in our sister publication CleanTechnica earlier this month, American utilities have begun including carbon emissions in their costs of doing business. Another interesting development: in mid-May, Royal Dutch Shell issued a public letter in response to shareholder questions about carbon risk and oil company capital expenditures. Underestimated and unmitigated fugutive emissions certainly qualify as good reasons for investors to fear stranded assets.
There's one more thing—the new research suggests that some of the oil and gas fields in the US, like the Uinta, are emitting more methane than those in the rest of the world. A possible reason, the methane authors say: sloppy drilling and processing. Gayathri Vaidyanathan of SciAm and ClimateWire, who produced the summary article in SciAm, get right to the point about the possible political implications:
"The insights go to the heart of the debate surrounding the use of natural gas in the United States today. The nation is in an oil and gas boom due to technological advances that have unlocked vast new reserves and vaulted the nation beyond energy behemoths like Russia and Saudi Arabia."
Since 2009, the Obama administration has enthusiastically supported natural gas as a "transitional" or "bridge" fuel to a post-carbon future because it emits about half as much carbon dioxide from the power plant as coal. Many view fuel-switching as a good way to slow climate change. In fact, this year's Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found robust evidence and high agreement on the issue:
"GHG emissions from energy supply can be reduced significantly by replacing current world average coal‐fired power plants with modern, highly efficient natural gas combined‐cycle power plants or combined heat and power plants, provided that natural gas is available and the fugitive emissions associated with extraction and supply are low or mitigated."
It's the fugitive emissions that make the difference.
Some reports, like Jack Smith's piece yesterday in Global Research, call the President an outright liar on natural gas. It's interesting to note that Mr. Obama's verbiage about the relative values of gas and coal has clearly moderated since the most recent National Climate Assessment—whether through enlightenment or by design. Smith's subtitle "Obama Supports Massive Expansion of Hydraulic Fracturing" is misleading in this respect and has little relevance to Obama's recent Atlantic drilling decision, as Smith asserts.
In The New York Times, leading environment reporter Justin Gillis recently discussed natural gas vs. coal as picking the lesser of two climate evils. He brings up a thought from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, a climate scientist at the University of Chicago, that we may be trying to weigh impacts of greenhouse gases over the next 20 years against those of coming millennia. Gillis offers a third possibility:
"What is the chance that a two-pronged attack on climate change would increase the overall level of political will? The idea would be to promise far more aggressive methane control to slow global warming for the benefit of people alive today, along with aggressive CO2 control for the benefit of future generations."
Seeing the two methane studies published widely in the nation's most reputable lay science journal offers a ray of hope for public awareness in the United States. The reports now appear online and should repeat in other science publications and stimulate debate. And who knows? They may even make the evening news—probably from Diane Sawyer or Brian Williams rather than CNN, and almost certainly not from Fox.

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Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the Important Current Affairs Update of 10th and 11th January, 2016. These are important for the upcoming LIC AAO 2016 and Syndicate Manipal PO Exams.
Current Affairs at a Glance – 10th and 11th January, 2016
- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam
Ltd, the Visakhapatnam steel plant, has signed an MoU with the Andhra Pradesh Government for an
investment of around Rs. 38,500 crore in various projects.
- HDFC Life has set
up a wholly-owned subsidiary in the Dubai
International Financial Centre (DIFC) called the 'HDFC International Life
and Re Company Limited' (HILRCL) with an initial capital outlay of $12.33
- Binny Bansal
appointed as new CEO of Flipart, Sachin Bansal as Executive Chairman
- Ashish Saraf
appointed as vice-president of Airbus India
- DRDO successfully
test fired New Tank Ammunition for Arjun Main Battle Tank
- Vice-President Hamid Ansari today dedicated to the nation
the K R Narayanan Institute of Visual
Sciences and Arts, a first of its kind imitative of the Kerala government
at nearby Thekkumithala.
- 73rd Annual Golden
Globe Awards announced in California. The Revenant won the Best Motion Picture – Drama while best Actor and best Director Awards were conferred to Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro Inarritu for the same movie. Brie Larson won the best actress
award for 'The Room' Movie.
- Nepal on 9
January 2016 was elected to the UNICEF
executive board, representing the group of Asia-Pacific countries for the term
- The 11th World Hindi
Day was celebrated on 10 January
- Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to compete in a world
championship Formula One grand prix, passed away on 8 January 2016 in
RINL inks pact with
Andhra Pradesh Govt for Rs. 38,500-cr investment
Andhra Pradesh Govt for Rs. 38,500-cr investment
- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd, the Visakhapatnam steel plant,
has signed an MoU with the Andhra Pradesh Government for an investment of
around Rs. 38,500 crore in various projects.
- According to a press release, the three-day Partnership
Summit, which began on Sunday, is being jointly organised by the State
Government and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
- The State Government and RINL agreed on the importance of
infrastructure and industrial development in Andhra Pradesh and welcomed mutual
cooperation for facilitating investments in Andhra Pradesh.
- P C Mohapatra, Director (Projects) of RINL, and Kartikeya
Misra, Director of Industries, Andhra Pradesh, exchanged the MoU copies for
establishing the following projects. The MoU envisages investment of around Rs.
38,500 crore to take up various projects at Visakhapatnam with an employment
opportunity for 3,000 persons.
HDFC Life sets up
subsidiary at Dubai International Financial Centre
subsidiary at Dubai International Financial Centre
- HDFC Life has set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in the Dubai
International Financial Centre (DIFC) called the 'HDFC International Life and
Re Company Limited' (HILRCL) with an initial capital outlay of $12.33 million.
- In a statement to the stock exchanges, Housing Development
Finance Corporation (HDFC) said that this subsidiary was incorporated on
January 10, 2016.
- Further, HILRCL will operate in DIFC, and shall shortly
commence its business operations, subject to completion of further regulatory
formalities for obtaining the final license from the Dubai Financial Services
Binny Bansal
appointed as new CEO of Flipart, Sachin Bansal as Executive Chairman
appointed as new CEO of Flipart, Sachin Bansal as Executive Chairman
- In a top management rejig, e-commerce firm Flipkart on
Monday appointed Binny Bansal as the Chief Executive Officer and Sachin Bansal
as the Executive Chairman.
- In his role as the Executive Chairman, Sachin will provide
strategic direction and mentor the senior leadership as also look for new
investment opportunities.
- While, Binny as the CEO will now be responsible for
operationally driving the company and be accountable for Flipkart's overall
- Sachin, who will continue to be the Chairman of the Board,
will play an active role in championing the Indian e-commerce sector and
building the internet ecosystem and represent the company in external forums.
- Mukesh Bansal will continue to be the head of commerce
platform and will have additional responsibility of the ads business. He will
also continue as the Chairman of Myntra.
Ashish Saraf
appointed as vice-president of Airbus India
appointed as vice-president of Airbus India
- In order to boost its Make in India intitiative, Airbus
India has appointed Ashish Saraf as Vice-President – Industry Development, Strategic
Partnerships and Offsets.
- Saraf will primarily be responsible for the Group's 'Make in
India' initiatives and conceive new ones for all the businesses of Airbus Group
India. The move comes close on the heels of Airbus Group uniting its divisions
in India under a single company.
- The company has been steadily trying to boost its local
sourcing from the country. In an earlier intwerview with Business Standard,
Srinivasan Dwarakanath, MD Airbus India, said there has been a 12-fold growth
in outsourcing in the past nine years. The group also targeted a cumulative
volume worth $2-billion sourcing in the next five years.
Burkina Faso's president
named Paul Kaba Thieba as Prime Minister
named Paul Kaba Thieba as Prime Minister
- Economist Paul Kaba Thieba was named as the Prime Minister
of Burkina Faso on 7 January 2016 by the President Roch Marc Christian Kabore.
- The announcement was made a week after the president was
sworn in as the country's first new leader in almost three decades following
his election in November 2015.
- 56-year-old Thieba has worked for many years with as an
economist for the West African central bank, BCEAO, in Ivory Coast. Now, he is
charged with forming President Marc Roch Kabore's government as the country
continues with a democratic transition after 27 years under leader Blaise
DRDO successfully
test fired New Tank Ammunition for Arjun MBT
test fired New Tank Ammunition for Arjun MBT
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on 6
January 2016 successfully test fired the new Penetration-Cum Blast (PCB) and
Thermobaric (TB) Ammunition tank at Chandipur, Odisha. This wa specially designed for Arjun Main
Battle Tank (MBT).
- The trials were conducted jointly with Army and were aimed
to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ammunitions on derelict tank fitted
with instrumentation to measure the shocks, blast pressure and temperature at
various locations and on advanced imaging systems.
- The trials were very effective and the damage was devastated
with the firing of ammunition successfully destroying the target tank and
severely damaging its turret, barrel, tracks, ammunition bin, various sights,
antennas etc.
- The trials were unique as for the first time such evaluation
was carried out in India which gave a quantum jump in the fire-power of Arjun
Ansari Dedicates to
the Nation Kerala's First Film Institute
the Nation Kerala's First Film Institute
- Vice-President Hamid Ansari today dedicated to the nation
the K R Narayanan Institute of Visual Sciences and Arts, a first of its kind
imitative of the Kerala government at nearby Thekkumithala.
- Speaking on the occasion, Ansari said there was a need to
have institutes with international standards to equip future generations of
visual and video artists not only with the aesthetic creativity and social
awareness, but also with the technical and logistical aspects of film and video
- K R Narayanan National Institute of Visual Sciences and Arts
was set up by the state government with an objective to impart world-class
knowledge and training in visual-based technologies such as cinema, television,
and video to Indian artists and technicians.
- The institute offers three-year diploma courses in script
writing, direction, acting, cinematography, animation, editing and audiography.
- Governor Justice (Rtd) P Sathasivam and Chief Minister
Ooomen Chandy were among those attended the function.
International Kite
festival started in Ahmedabad
festival started in Ahmedabad
- Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on 10 January 2016
inaugurated the 28th edition of International Kite Festival at Sabarmati River
front in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
- The Kite festival of Gujarat marks Uttarayan, the day when
winter begins to turn into summer, according to the Indian calendar.
- The five-day annual event saw participation of about 98
foreign kite flyers from 28 different nations and 55 participants from 8
different states and 28 kite flyers from Gujarat.
President inaugurated
88th Annual Conference of Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan
88th Annual Conference of Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan
- The President Pranab Mukherjee on 10 January 2016
inaugurated the three day long 88th annual conference of Nikhil Bharat Banga
Sahitya Sammelan in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
- In this conference, delegates from all over the country
attend to hold thematic discussions, meet Bengali authors, novelists, and
poets, attend literary sessions, exchange thoughts with scholars of the other
- All participants of the conference would also be encouraged
to contribute towards Indian literature continously.
BHEL commissions 520
MW thermal power unit in Andhra Pradesh
MW thermal power unit in Andhra Pradesh
- State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) today said it has
commissioned a 520-mw coal-based thermal power unit in Andhra Pradesh.
- "The unit has been commissioned at the 2×520 mw Vizag
Thermal Power Project of Hinduja National Power Company Limited (HNPCL),
Visakhapatnam," the company said in a statement.
& Honors –
& Honors –
73rd Annual Golden
Globe Awards announced in California
Globe Awards announced in California
- The 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced on 11
January 2015 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the US.
These annual awards honour the best in Motion Pictures and Television for the
year 2015.
- The Revenant won the Best Motion Picture – Drama while best
Actor and best Director Awards were conferred to Leonardo DiCaprio and
Alejandro Inarritu for the same movie. Brie Larson won the best actress award
for 'The Room' Movie.
Balkrishna Garg
conferred with 2015 Harikrishna Devsare Baalsahitya Award
conferred with 2015 Harikrishna Devsare Baalsahitya Award
- Veteran hindi poet Balkrishna Garg was on 8 January 2016
conferred with the 2015 Harikrishna Devsare Baalsahitya Award in New Delhi. He
received the award for his Baa Geet, which is a collection of poems for
- The award was presented by Sahitya Akademi President
Vishwanath Prasad Tiwari and National Book Trust (NBT) Chairman Baldeo Bhai
- It was the second award to be conferred since its inception
in 2014 and consists of a cash prize of 75000 rupees, a shawl and a citation.
Indian-Origin Girl
Wins Hindi Literary Award in Singapore
Wins Hindi Literary Award in Singapore
- A nine-year-old Indian-origin girl in Singapore has won the
first prize for writing a story in Hindi in a literary competition at the inaugural
"Hindi Prerna Awards".
- Saamiya Khan, won the competition in the children group of
age 8-12, is taking Hindi as a second language, which is compulsory in
Singapore school curriculum for students of north Indian origins.
- The competition was held for three groups, pupils of
8-12-year-old in children group, students of 13-16 in youth group and those
above 16 in the higher learning classes in the open group.
- Saamiya, a primary four pupil, says she was inspired by her
parents, Mohammed Shariq Khan and Sheba Khan, to learn Hindi and now speaks
more confidently on telephone with her grandparents in Mumbai.
- India's High Commissioner Vijay Thakur Singh handed over the
prize to Saamiya.
Nepal elected as
UNICEF's executive board member for 2016-2018
UNICEF's executive board member for 2016-2018
- Nepal on 9 January 2016 was elected to the UNICEF executive
board, representing the group of Asia-Pacific countries for the term 2016-2018.
- Nepal's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN),
Durga Prasad Bhattarai, was also unanimously elected vice-president to the
Bureau of the Executive Board of the UNICEF for 2016.
- Nepal recently completed its terms as a member of the UN
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for 2013-2015 and as vice-president from
Asia-Pacific region at the executive board of United Nations Development
Programme/United Nations Population Fund/United Nations Office for Project
Services for the year 2015.
11th World Hindi Day
observed on 10 January
observed on 10 January
- The 11th World Hindi Day was celebrated on 10 January 2016.
To mark the occasion, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) through its
missions/posts abroad and the Department of Official Language (Rajbhasha)
conducted special events to spread the greatness of the language.
- The day was first observed on 10 January 2006. And, it is in
addition to the National Hindi Divas that is being celebrated annually on 14
- National Hindi Divas is celebrated to mark the day, 14
September 1949, on which the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi written in
Devanagari script as the Official Language of the Union.
14th Pravasi
Bharatiya Diwas held in New Delhi
Bharatiya Diwas held in New Delhi
- The 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) was held on 9 January
2016 in New Delhi. The event was inaugurated by the External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj and attended by Priti Patel, MoS for Employment, United Kingdom.
- Apart from the main event in New Delhi, the day was
celebrated by the MEA, across the world, through its missions/posts abroad.
- On this occasion, Sushma Swaraj announced that the
government is considering Aadhaar cards to non-resident Indians (NRIs) and
allowing women workers to Gulf countries only through the government agencies
to ensure they were not duped by recruiting agents or firms.
Mizoram Celebrated
'Missionary Day' on 11 January
'Missionary Day' on 11 January
- 'Missionary Day', anniversary of the arrival of two Welsh
Christian missionaries, was today observed and celebrated across the
Christian-dominated north eastern state of Mizoram.
- Government offices and educational institutions were closed
for the day as the state government declared the day as a public holiday.
- The local churches of the Baptist Church of Mizoram held
prayer and worship services and also organised community feasts.
- Rev. J.H. Lorrain and Rev.F.W. Savidge had arrived in the
then Lushai country (Mizoram) by boat from Assam on January 11, 1894 and spread
Christianity which resulted in conversion of almost all the Mizos to the new
Stephen Fleming named
coach of Pune IPL team
coach of Pune IPL team
- Former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming was on Monday
named chief coach of the new Pune franchise of the Indian Premier League
Twenty20 cricket tournament.
- With this the former Chennai Super Kings coach will renew
his long and most successful partnership with his former captain Mahendra Singh
Dhoni who was picked in the December draft.
Stanislas Wawrinka
won third consecutive Chennai Open title
won third consecutive Chennai Open title
- Stanislas Wawrinka on 10 January 2016 won his Chennai Open
title. In the summit clash at the Nungambakkam tennis stadium of Chennai, he
defeated Croatian Borna Coric 6-3, 7-5.
- This is the fourth Chennai Open title for the Swiss player
and the third consecutive win, who first won it in 2011.
- With this win, Wawrinka lifted the cup and got the award
money of 75700 US dollars and got away with 250 ATP ranking points.
Milos Raonic won 2016
Brisbane International Tennis men's singles trophy
Brisbane International Tennis men's singles trophy
- Milos Raonic of Canada on 10 December 2015 won the 2016
Brisbane International Tennis men's singles trophy.
- To win the title, the 14th world ranking player defeated
Roger Federer of Switzerland 6-4 6-4 in the final match held at Brisbane in
Australia. At present, Roger Federer is at the third position in the world
singles ranking.
- For Raonic, it was the 8th World ATP tour title in his
career and the first title in the 2016 season.
Winners in other
- Women's Singles: Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
- Men's Doubles: Henri Kontinen (Finland) & John Peers
- Women's Doubles: Sania Mirza (India) & Martina Hingis
Rene Holten Poulsen
named Denmark's sportsperson of 2015
named Denmark's sportsperson of 2015
- Danish kayaker Rene Holten Poulsen on 9 January 2016 was
named the Denmark's sportsperson of the year 2015.
- The Sports Confederation of Denmark and Danish
Jyllands-Posten newspaper voted to award Poulsen the prize, which is known as
Sports Name of the Year and is among the country's top sports prizes.
ICC announces
MoneyGram as Event Partner
MoneyGram as Event Partner
- The ICC and MoneyGram International, a leading global
provider of money transfer services, on Monday announced an eight-year deal
which confirms MoneyGram as an event partner for ICC events from 2016-2023.
- A media release by ICC stated: "The ICC and MoneyGram
recently completed a successful five-year partnership, which began with the ICC
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& Authors –
Book titled MARU
BHARAT SARU BHARAT authoured by Jain Acharya Maharaj released
BHARAT SARU BHARAT authoured by Jain Acharya Maharaj released
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 10 January 2016 released a
book titled "MARU BHARAT SARU BHARAT "(My India Noble India) written by Jain
Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj.
- This is the 300th book of Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj. The
book release function was organized by Sahitya Satkar Samiti of Ratnatrayee
Trust in Mumbai.
- The book, My India, Nobel India, will be available in four
languages – English, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi.
Maria Teresa de
Filippis, first female Formula One driver, died
Filippis, first female Formula One driver, died
- Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to compete in a
world championship Formula One grand prix, passed away on 8 January 2016 in
Italy. She was 89.
- De Filippis participated in five World Championship Grands
Prix; however, she scored no championship points. Although she remained largely
unsuccessful in her Formula One racing career, she is remembered as a pioneer
in motor racing, a sport dominated by men.
Noted Hindi writer
Ravindra Kalia passed away
Ravindra Kalia passed away
- Noted Hindi writer and journalist Ravindra Kalia passed away
on 9 January 2016 in New Delhi. He was 78.
- Kalia had been suffering from liver cirrhosis.
- The writer is known for his works like Nau Saal Chotti Patni
and Ghalib Chutti Sharab.
- The former Bharatiya Jnanpith director, Kalia was also the
editor of several literary magazines, including Naya Gyanodaya.
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All the everyday little details can show you whether your partner feels the same way for you. This small details can also show you what you deny to see, which is that the love between you is no more the same, and is no more present. They are very important details because sometimes they can determine if the relationship will still work or will break as soon as some problem appears, so you should read them carefully and not ignore them.
In this article we will show you 10 signs that will help you determine if your partner still feels the same way about you. Do not ignore them.
Do not ignore the following signs:
1. No longer demonstrate love before
If you have the feeling that your partner doesn't show a lot of interest for you as before, and all that he/she tries to do is impressing someone else, maybe it is time to move away, because the love here is probably over. You will have to focus more just on yourself.
2. Always thinking of someone else
If you notice that your partner doesn't show any interest in you and his mind is always in someone else, but not you, it is time to have a little conversation and decide what to do next with your relationship.
3. No more conversation topics
If you don't have any topics to talk about, and you feel that your partner is not interested in your life anymore, than you are also not interested at each other anymore. Separate ways will be the best solution.
4. Your partner always blames you for everything that happens
When your partner starts blaming you for every possible thing, than it is probably time to leave him/her.
5. There is no more support between you
Your partner cannot longer stand to be around you in any circumstance, he is annoyed by you and he mistreats you and everything you do is not good enough for him, if this is the case with you then you should probably leave him because you deserve better.
6. Excuses all the time
If your partner always has some excuse for not being home, something like working, business traveling, playing games or drinking with friends, but not taking you with him, you should think better, and realize that he no longer loves you and probably has someone else in his life.
7. You are no longer in your partners plans.
When everything you both ever dreamed of is broken and over, and you are no longer in his/her plans for the future, the best for the both of you will be to end the relationship.
8. He/She doesn't show any respect for you anymore
When all that your partner remembers are the moments when he/she suffered and forgets all the wonderful moments that you spent together, trying to repair the relationship will be worthless, so you should break it immediately.
9. He/She doesn't give you any explanations anymore
In such situations, usually your partner does not consider you as a part of his life and thereby he thinks that he should not give you any explanations for the things that he does. You simply do not matter. So why be with him?
10. Hating and hurting each other
When he/she lies and cheats you, and also doesn't talk to you, and all that he/she does is hurting you, it just makes you hating yourself. This is the best of all signs because it for sure means that the love is definitely over. Put an end to the relationship and enjoy. You deserve it.
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Last night, I sat on the couch and watched UFC The Ultimate Fighter (in which contestants fight their way towards a contract with the UFC). I'm really enjoying this show. At the same time, I was knitting a sweater.
Knitting and UFC. You might not put those things together very often.
But why not?
I realised how often our lives are influenced by stereotypes and assumptions. Even in the UFC show, the victorious female fighter, Julianna Pena, felt the need to point out that just because she liked getting dressed up and looking like a girl, didn't mean she couldn't fight well. Why should we assume that a woman who likes to wear make-up doesn't have what it takes to be a UFC fighter?
Lou Tice at the Pacific Institute, describes stereotypes beautifully:
"Stereotypes are thought-saving devices, because when you accept a stereotype, you don't have to think for yourself at all. Your idea comes to you frozen, prepackaged, ready to use. You just thaw it out and slip it into your brain like a microwave – nothing further is required."
When we can free ourselves from those stereotypes, we can free ourselves to live a much more fulfilling life. We free ourselves simply to enjoy what we enjoy doing.
If I tell you there is a woman who:
- Practises Karate.
- Likes rugby.
- Used to teach rifle shooting.
- Drinks pints of beer.
does that conjure up a particular image in your head?
Then I tell you there is a woman who:
- Likes fashion and make-up, and worked in the bridal fashion industry.
- Studied ballet keenly growing up.
- Loves baking pretty cupcakes.
- Has drawers full of crafting materials in her home.
does this conjure up a different image?
What if I told you that all these enthusiasms belong to ONE WOMAN?
That woman is, in fact, ME.
Challenge the one-size-fits-all stereotype, step away from the generalised assumption of what people (including yourself) should be like based on one aspect of their lives. Celebrate the many sides to yourself, and revel in your individuality.
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Where are we here for? A illustrious question, no doubt, but too one which has slid trailing from its patrician spot into the black dump of the cliché. For we rarely ask ourselves this examine in serious. Yet if we did, we would rediscover new substance in our lives. Knowing what we came to do present on earth, knowing our life's mission, can be richly rewardful. We would see ourselves moving from tedium to freedom, from fearsome to joy and from frustration to cheerfulness. As Walt Disney quondam said: "Do not dream your life; continue living your dream!"
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1. Go vertebrae to your early years dreams.
When you were a juvenile you e'er lived in your hunch. You enjoyed out of the blue happiness, minus a attention to detail or hassle in the international. You lived fasten to the source, your own psyche. So the dreams you had when you were a adolescent often indicate a division of the expedition your psyche has undertaken by upcoming into this international.Post ads:
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When we are in nature, our minds without thinking change state peaceful and level-headed. Nature has a peaceful result on us. And when our cognition is relaxed we ofttimes we get the maximal ideas, visions and revelations. We may even get a looking of our life's mission, for the striking role we are meant to frisk on the earth-stage.
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4. Keep an start noesis.
We do not cognize what our search is. It may be something that our head initially may not accept. Yet the much pliant our noesis is, the easier it will be for us to hear the dictates of our psyche. A easily bent consciousness is besides a clearer mind, unclogged by create mentally design and rusty opinions. If we save an uncap and pardon mind, a brain of a mind to alteration and to espouse new thinking and new ways, we set up ourselves for the revelation of our life-mission.
5. Meditate!
This may be the record-breaking leftover of direction. We have to nightclub deep inwardly and set up a flesh and blood relation beside our soul, the god wakeless inside us. As religious pedagogue Sri Chinmoy states, "Your hunt is in the inward recesses of your heart, and you have to brainstorm and execute it nearby. There can be no outer way for you to bring about your missionary post." Once we are genuinely in piece of music beside our soul, in becomes to a certain extent glib to know our life's expedition. And we will as well get wide capableness to execute our mission and dwell up to our deepest and most rewarding dreams.


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Cycling to work the other day, I found myself waiting at a set of traffic lights that signal when cyclists may cross the ever-busy Goswell Road. It's a rare sight in London to see cycling considered in such a way, though hopefully this is set to change soon. Most days nothing much happens where this separated cycle lane meets the pavement before joining the road, but recently a funny event I would normally shrug off struck me as intriguing. As I waited at the red light and cyclists began to accumulate behind, a few others sat a little further ahead, such that they were now obstacles to pedestrians using the pavement. And as we sat there, patiently watching the rest of the city flow by, an old man, clearly frustrated with those blocking the pavement ahead thought he'd tell us that "these are the ones that give you lot a bad name!"
"What lot?" I suddenly thought, before realising he meant 'cyclists' – that dreaded term. Ask your friends to draw a picture of a 'cyclist' and they'll come up with something probably more akin to Bradley Wiggins than otherwise. On TV and radio debates, too, mention of 'cyclists' brings up the old favourite about running red lights or an otherwise miscreant individual, probably wantonly running down old ladies. It's true that in London many cyclists are male working professionals probably wearing some form of lycra. They're like this because they've managed to adapt a type of 'cycling' to London commuting. They're able to keep up with traffic, impose themselves similarly to a motorised vehicle and negotiate the urban car-scape. But that shouldn't mean they're all necessarily running down old ladies or ignoring red lights.
If you're caught up in this debate, you'll have heard Bath based psychologist, Ian Walker, describe this behaviour as characteristic of 'outgrouping': the "overgeneralisation of negative behaviour and attributes – e.g. 'They all ride through red lights all the time''. And even he's aware that there's more to it than just that. Beyond being an outgroup, cyclists are also a minority. As such they suffer doubly at the hands of this socio-psychological tendency and, what's more, their behaviour goes against the desirable social norm here in Britain of reaching adulthood and driving a car. Cycling is thus framed as anti-conventional child's play (hatred of cyclists is another issue entirely – I'll get to it at some point in the future). London commuter cycling has found a way to fit in, however awkwardly, to the automobile society we've built over the past 70 years.
Over the course of the post-war period, transport has increasingly equated to driving. It's been a time over which we've built flyovers, gyratorys, motorways, traffic lights, suburbs, multi-story car-parks, out-of-town retail centres, paved over front gardens and built garages for parking; created the driving licence, invented a host of criminal offences and written the highway code to regulate people's behaviour whilst developing a plethora of much less noticeable cultural expectations around diving – it has it's own citizenship and moral order (ever notice talk of the good driver?). Oil has equated to both money and geopolitical power across the globe. Everyone has been caught up by the promise of Automobility – that fast, private transport on demand.
It's not only how we get around, but how things get to us. The more we've built for, regulated and normalised driving, the more we've found driving an inescapable necessity. Nowadays it's hard to image a world without them. It's safe to say 'driving' is more than just hopping in a car to go somewhere, it's a massive conglomerate of technologies, social relations, cultural expectations, built environments, supply chains and so on; what sociologist, John Urry, calls the 'System of Automobility'.
Cycling and cyclists today are very much defined by their deference to this system. But as a more democratic form of everyday cycling is gradually being built for, the image of cycling will hopefully change and with it the skills and things needed to take part – fewer thighs of Hoy, lycra of Mr. Motivator and four lane roundabout negotiation, just normal clothes, normal bikes being ridden comfortably in a space no longer dominated by fast moving, powerful traffic.
For the time being, if you find yourself in the Monday morning peloton of the employed and working heading for central London there is a sense of camaraderie. Fall off and there'll likely be some fellow bikers hop off and help you up. Get cut up by a seemingly impatient driver and you'll be able to tut, sigh, gesture or even discuss your frustration with a rider nearby – there'll be an empathetic audience to share your 'pain'. So if we are supposedly a 'lot' – a category of people with a bad reputation because we cycle – it's internally defined by the way we see, feel, hear, expect and anticipate events on the road from the same, fearful and vulnerable perspective. As a 'cyclist' there might be stronger ties elsewhere in our lives – the bike a key part of middle-class aspirations to lead a sustainable life, an outward expression of environmentalism, or our means of attaining a fit and healthy body – but for the great majority of us, the only thing in common is this perspective on the city and it's dominant transport system. Let's hope that as more of us experience this, more of us realise what must change.
Nicholas Sanderson holds a BSc in Geography from the University of Edinburgh, where his interests fell on Urban Studies and Mobilities. He writes about social science's teachings on how we use things, buildings and infrastructure.
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My first computer manual read "There are two kinds of users, those who have lost data and those who will." Being very cautious, I am fortunate to count myself in the latter category. Likewise, there are two categories of members in the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT): those who have suffered abuse in employment and those who have not. Among those who have not, conventional thought dictates that bad things do not happen to good people, especially good "gaijin" (foreigners). And if they do, this is Japan: the culture is different; we are guests; do not complain; acceptance is the answer.
I spend a good deal of time researching human rights issues. While having coffee with Etsuko Yamada, a social critic and defendant in the Kabutoyama case who has been on trial and retrial since 1978, she complained that most foreigners who settle down here become Japanized to the point of cognitive lethargy. She, together with many human rights activists and responsible lawyers, are quite convinced that the only way to change this country is through speaking out and confronting social issues forcefully and directly. From a historical perspective, she is quite correct: nothing ever changed in feudal times until the peasants rioted. Silence then, as it does now, meant acceptance.
The purpose of any gakkai (academic association) is to improve society through research and education. The purpose of education, particularly language education, is to stoke the fires of the mind, not to stuff tepid information into apathetic heads. Those who assume that confrontation and conflict are "western values" that "smack of cultural superiority and imperialism" or that Japan is all lukewarm and collectivist consensus building are historically and sociologically misinformed. "Acceptance" of injustice in Japan or anywhere is the pedagogy of a doormat. Loudly or softly, JALT fulfills its role in society when it addresses issues directly; when it speaks truth to power.
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Pak Sarzameen Party's Mustafa Kamal offers apology to Christian community for hurting their sentiments by passing discriminatory comments. We offer apology over hurting the sentiments of honorable community, PSP spokesperson stated. We strongly believe in equality, and are striving to uphold unison, explanatory statement read.
PSP spokesperson further explained that party holds firm to the belief that humanity must be valued and respects all regardless of color, race, religion or language. It was stated that it is the motto of the party to unite all with bond of national accord and mutual respect.
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The statement further clarified that comments of Mustafa Kamal Chairman Pak Sarzameen Party was misunderstood by certain community. It was asserted that as a responsible political party, PSP realizes that the misunderstanding caused by Mustafa Kamal's comments had deeply hurt a community's sentiments.
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I am starting a new section on the OSOP page. It will be called What's Inside. It will mostly be seismometers but surely not limited to that. You just never know that the things you learn dissembling that Mikrotik Groove radio will come in handy when you are building a borehole accelerometer.
I will start with what is inside the industry standard the Streckeisen STS-2, just photos for now but as I have time I will draw arrows and make comments. Most of these photos are looking from the bottom into the insides. I have misplaced all of my photos of looking from the top into the insides but when I find them I will add them the post.
Well how did the ants get in???
The STS-2 has a warp-less base plate, that would be the thick stainless plate between the green pressure covers. The three identical sensors are bolted to the warp-less base plate and then the green covers are bolted together separated by some spacers. The bolts and spacers do not touch the warp-less plate. There is an orange o-ring between which the warp-less plate floats, pressure on the bottom of the plate and top of the plate are always equal. The o-rings seal out many things like water and air, but must have had something yummy to ants. They ate a hole in the ring and them found the insides to be nice and dry and warm.
In future additions to the What's Inside section I will have 3D-lite, L4, Guralp, Trillium 40, and more. Please send me photos of what you have discovered inside: angel at osop dot com dot pa.
The ants photo came to me via the IRIS/Passcal Instrument center, the rest I took myself.
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Breakout to the East
When the Third Army became operational on August 1, General Patton took control not only of the 8th Corps operations in Brittany but also of Maj. Gen. (later Gen.) Wade H. Haislip's 15th Corps, which turned southeastward toward Mayenne. Taking Mayenne on August 4, capturing Laval on August 5, and seizing Le Mans on August 8, the 15th Corps formed an enveloping pincer that extended more than 75 miles around the German left flank. Meanwhile, the First Army also swung southeastward toward the road centers of Vire and Mortain, thereby starting a swinging movement designed to carry the Allies to the Seine River and the periphery of the lodgment area envisioned by the Overlord planners. But the Germans turned and sprang. Hoping to regain Avranches and thereby to close the holethat Bradley had punched in their defenses, the Germans launched a counterattack at Mortain on August 7. They were motivated by the desire to reestablish the conditions of static warfare that had served them well during June and most of July. They struck the 30th Infantry Division of Collins' 7th Corps with full force. Quickly reinforced by Bradley, the 7th Corps fought a magnificent defensive battle to halt the German threat.
By attacking westward through Mortain toward Avranches, the Germans had placed their heads into a potential noose. Bradley saw the possibility of encircling the Germans and proposed this maneuver to Montgomery, who agreed. Bradley therefore directed Patton to turn the 15th Corps northward from Le Mans toward the successive objectives of Alengon and Argentan with the purpose of cutting behind the Germans at Mortain. If Montgomery's forces drove southward from the Caen area and reached Falaise, the Allies would form a pocket and threaten the enemy's Fifth Panzer and Seventh armies with encirclement and annihilation. General Crerar's Canadian First Army, which had become operational on the Continent on July 23, attacked southward toward Falaise on August 8, but gained little ground. In contrast, Haislip's 15th Corps took Alengon and was within sight of Argentan by August 13. Because the American troops had reached the boundary line separating American and British zones of operations, Bradley ordered Patton to halt further advance by Haislip's corps. This decision was dictated in part by the fact that Crerar was about to launch a heavy attack on the following day. On August 14, after 800 planes had dropped 3,700 tons of bombs to clear a path for the ground troops, the Canadians launched their attack. Two days later they reached Falaise. Allied forces were then only 15 miles apart, but the Germans were escaping eastward out of the pocket through this 15-mile sector, called the Argentan-Falaise gap.
Bradley had meanwhile approved Patton's plan to send part of the 15th Corps to the Seine. This movement got under way on August 14. Five days later the 79th Division was crossing the Seine River and establishing a bridgehead on the east bank. Other troops of the 15th Corps, soon joined by the First Army's 19th Corps under Corlett, were driving down the west bank of the Seine and pushing the Germans toward the mouth of the river, where escape crossings were harder to find. While this secpnd encirclement at the Seine was in progress, the Allied troops holding the shoulders of the first encirclement at Argentan and Falaise were at last making contact at Chambois and Trun. They thus closed the pocket on August 20, trapping more than 50,000 German troops, destroying an additional 10,000, and sending the Fifth Panzer and Seventh armies reeling eastward across the Seine in defeat. Field Marshal Walter Model meanwhile had become commander in chief in the west, replacing Kluge, who committed suicide.
By this time two more American corps had come on the scene. Maj. Gen. (later Gen.) Walton H. Walker's 20th Corps, after taking Angers, turned to take Chartres. Maj. Gen. Gilbert R. Cook's 12th Corps drove toward Orleans. By August 20, when the First and Third armies pulled up to the Seine, Eisenhower had already decided to ignore the original limits of the lodgment area and cross the river in strength in pursuit of the disorganized enemy force. Meanwhile, as British and Canadian armies moved to the Seine, American and French troops liberated Paris.
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Hell Yeah! TINY HOUSE SUMMER CAMP 4 Has Been Announced!!!
Built in about 1485, the Old Palace affords excursions as well as being a venue for Weddings,corporate and personal parties and rather more. This recurrently led him into conflict with former boss, hospital administrator and Dean of Medicine Dr Lisa Cuddy(Lisa Edelstein), who left the present at the end of last season after an on-off romance with House. Whenever we were confident there was extra rain on the way in which, we transferred water from our house tank. When I was researching this hub, my daughter and I oohed and aahed over some fabulous houses within the North of England which would price not more than the value of our 3-mattress terraced home right here within the South. Another well introduced DIY on making a Bluebird home, the birds of the world thank you for educating others how to make a home a house for them! The cool space framed … Read More


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I have not stopped giving thanks for you,
remembering you in my prayers
{Ephesians 1:16}
Today my sister and I were reminiscing. We like to do that sometimes, remembering our shared past with our unique perspectives. We talk of places we lived (we moved a lot growing up), we talked about that Christmas in Farmington, NM, when I was four and she was nine and we each received the tall-as-me-walking-dolls. We remembered Grandma's homemade donuts dipped in sugar and milk in FireKing mugs.
Today my sister took a day off of work to take care of me. She did my laundry and cleaned my carpets, put away Halloween decor and did the dishes.
Today I tried to remember how to walk.
I tried to keep my balance and put one foot in front of the other and ignore the pain. I worked hard at physical therapy. I tried to remember how it feels to be healthy.
I cried a little in frustration. But then I remembered.
I remembered the day my friend drove across the state just to stay with me at the hospital.
I remembered the sunrises my daughter and I watched together from my hospital window, hugging mugs of coffee and drinking in a life restored.
I remembered the day I came home, nine days after the day that changed my life. I made it up the ramp with my walker, through the laundry room and into the doorway to my kitchen, to my family room and there I stood. Home. Alive.
I remember three months of meals delivered by friends and strangers alike, of friends cleaning my house, caring for my children, letters and gifts, flowers and hugs.
I remember when my massage girl asked if she could take care of me and rubbed my aching muscles with a mother's tenderness.
I remember.
And my tears of discouragement become tears of gratitude.
Tears of joy.
I will never forget.
I will always remember.
Whatever happens in my life is not only about me. My life can bring Glory to God. They can see me and behold the glory not of me, but of my Savior. That is my desire.


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Good Person Enamel Pin
Here we have an enamel pin of a juicy rose, with the daintiest green leaf, printed with the phrase "I'm A Good Person." It's nice to have a subtle little reminder, and even nicer of you to give one to a good person you know. That makes you a good person, so go ahead and buy two, why dontcha?
Hard enamel pin with a butterfly clasp, measures about 1.25 inches.


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B and I have officially survived our first year of married life. To say that it had been a whirlwind would honestly be an understatement. We're hoping that the next 365 days together will be slightly more stable and calm than the first 366. Let's try not to suddenly move across the world, get through 3 jobs, and build any Ikea furniture in the forthcoming year. To celebrate our marital achievement, we treated ourselves to dinner at Via Carota.
Via Carota made its way on to Pete Wells' list of the best restaurants of 2015. On this list he described it as where he sends people 'to get unfussy, delicious food in the West Village'. We'd also heard good things about the pasta and the Negroni. We needed no other reason to choose this is as our anniversary date spot.
Early on a Tuesday evening, the majority of the tightly-packed tables in the windows are already taken. We take the remaining empty one, and sit bolt upright on the Welsh (yes, really, Welsh) chapel chairs, which conveniently have the menus tucked in to the back - where the bible would have been in their first life - for easy, and constant access.
The light pours in through the huge windows, severe light fittings hang from the ceiling, and the plain wooden tables contrast with the smart marble bar, behind which sits endless bottles of amaro, and a blackboard listing several classic Italian cocktails. A classic Negroni and a Negroni Sbagliato (like the classic, but with Prosecco where there would be gin) were ordered, and were sipped alongside chewy, airy sourdough, doused in zingy extra-virgin olive oil.
Burrata with dandelion greens, anchovies, and sundried tomatoes got those taste buds buzzing. It didn't look like much, but the burrata exploded with a creamy interior, which stood up powerfully to the salty mush of anchovies and the sweet tomatoes.
Vegetables feature heavily on Via Carota's menu. With no less than 15 different vegetable-focused options, we tried not let ourselves get overwhelmed by all the choice. We settled on kale doused in crunchy croutons of lardo, which took only seconds to devour: If you want to feel like you're eating your greens, but actually just want to eat salami, this is the way to enjoy them. A more delicate grilled polenta with ramps and bacon arrived at the same time, and we vowed to cook and eat more polenta in the upcoming months. This could well be the best ramps dish of the year so far. And that's a competitive award to win.
We then shared mushroom tortelli and coniglio fritto, aka fried rabbit. The tortelli were wonderfully simple. The lack of focus on presentation was authentically Italian - no garnishes, no extra colors, no smears of purée to be found here. Instead all the attention and care has gone into perfecting the pasta. This is the most comforting, heart-warming dish . Exactly what everyone needs on a rainy weekday. The rabbit was served similarly simply, on top of a fried piece of bread. A crispy, crunchy exterior revealed juicy, intensely flavored rabbit meat inside. My younger self would not have been happy that I had opted to celebrate my anniversary by eating Thumper, but my older, greedier self, was pleased with this tasty decision.
We finished our glass of Chianti and eventually sacrificed our table to the ever-growing line of hungry people in desperate need of a creamy bowl of mushroom tortelli.
Via Carota, 51 Grove Street, New York, NY 10014


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Flexible Bands?
The flexible bands are what make the Vertical Spice Drawer Units unique and provide the great and easy access to spices.
The bands are 2 mm in diameter with black polyester over a rubber core, crimped into a loop. Very similar to mini bungie cords or elastic hair bands (pony tail bands). We found our prototype material at a Joann Fabric and Craft Store and now have a vendor form the loops with a similar product. We stock bands as "Accessories" for future replacements.
We have bands on the prototype units in our kitchen that are 5 years old and still performing. Yes they will wear out, but they are an inexpensive replacement that makes our product design like no other.


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Extra lives:
Level 3
Collect the extra life at the far right end of the first level
of the museum. Jump onto the rising platforms. Jump back down
when reaching the third platform or when the screen scrolls up
to collect the extra life again.
Level 5
Reach the second platform at the top of the level. Move off
the left side of the screen and fall in a straight line to collect
three extra lives while losing one life.
Easy driving/flying levels:
Stay in the upper left corner of the screen to avoid all enemies.