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8 Weird Reasons Why Some Women Observe KarvaChauth

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As a young girl KarwaChauth for me was a day when my mom took a break from the routine chores in the house. This was because, with an entire day of stringent fasting ahead of her, she just couldn’t be bothered with discipline. I used to look forward to the evening when my mother and aunts from the neighborhood used to come together to do an hour long puja by rotating glittering thalis (plates) that comprised various signs of their Suhaag. I really did marvel at how nicely each one of them dressed up in their best outfits and dedicated this day in honour of their love for their husbands.

Also, I often wondered that when I grew up and got married, would I ever have the dedication to bear hunger for one full day for my husband’s sake? That was then. A couple of years later, I began to question the logic and validity of it all. I remember my Mom’s wide-eyed stern-faced reaction when I asked her “How can my fasting add years to another man’s life?” (I sometimes think this could really be a Noble Peace Prize winning research if it could come up with a tangent root-cause correlation)

Several years wiser and married I am still seeking an answer to the question that my very-innocent mind had once asked my mom. But now I know better! While some women do believe in the divinity of observing this fast (and trust me, I have no hard feelings against them), I know many a beings of the fairer sex who observe this fast for various reasons. Take a trip down this weird lane of weirder reasons

Here is my list:

1. Because my mother-in-law expects me to, for her son’s sake. I’d just do it rather than argue with her

2. Because I can then claim a Karva Chauth gift from my husband (or coax him into making me feel special)

3. It’s a good opportunity to detoxify and lose some calories
4. It gives me an opportunity to flaunt my best traditional dress at the community celebration.

5. It makes for an amazing selfie

6. It’s fun to patronize the moon along with the husband. Let the moon have some fun too

7. (this ones from those living abroad) It’s one more reason to feel a little Indian

8. Because I completely get (the pun) how my fasting can add a few years to my man’s life

Disclaimer: This post does not intend to hurt the feelings of those who observe KarwaChauth with absolute dedication and fondness. I myself observe this fast and I feel its my way of thanking God for giving me a loving and understanding husband. Also, I feel that if a Valentine’s Day is valid and accepted, KarwaChauth is an Indian and a culturally mainstream version of the same. Tell us your reasons for observing fast on KarwaChauth. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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Durga Prasad Dash October 8, 2017 at 12:52 pm

Loved your different take on the celebration.

Asha Seth October 8, 2017 at 5:26 pm

I enjoyed the rather pratical take on the ritual.

Winsant October 9, 2017 at 2:02 pm

Nice fun read…

Enjoyed it,,,,,,

NEHA JAIN October 9, 2017 at 10:15 pm

Haha.. funny yet true for many women. Loved reading it. The gifs acted as a bonus to the post.

Mamatha dilip October 10, 2017 at 3:02 am

This post made me laugh for a minute. So beautifully written with a tinge of quirkiness. Those gifs made my day

Mommy Tincture October 10, 2017 at 9:31 am

Glad that you liked the gifs. That was my first post with gifs.

Melani Rayen October 10, 2017 at 5:41 pm

Hilarious post..Loved your beautifully written post

Ophira October 10, 2017 at 11:10 pm

Hilarious post 😊 All the gifs were so relevant too ! I liked this compilation. 😊

Charu Sareen October 11, 2017 at 2:55 pm

Haha! That was a fun read. We have all the silly and serious reasons to observe this fast!

Neha @growingwithnemit October 11, 2017 at 8:09 pm

That’s a fun read, am happy someone wrote on this topic and in this hilarious way. I don’t observe fast but I still love my husband to the moon and back and respect him to the core. And I have no hard feelings for those who fast for their husbands.

Mommy Tincture October 11, 2017 at 8:18 pm

That’s a cool spirit to carry Neha! Thanks.

Soumya Rajpal Bhalla October 11, 2017 at 9:15 pm

Haha… super funny post, but sadly true!!!

Shipra Trivedi October 12, 2017 at 12:45 am

Loved this post. And all those giffies are making it super cool.

Deepa October 12, 2017 at 7:17 am

Haha..these are all actually the reasons for some to observe the fast. Nobody knows the exact logic but we all follow this ritual for the love of our life.

Nayantara Hegde October 12, 2017 at 9:22 pm

hahahah very funny post. I love the gifs man. I think the gift part is tempting me to fast too although we dont have this in our community.

Disha Bhandari October 12, 2017 at 9:56 pm

Hilarious! I’d do it too for the weight losing thing. Great post.

Ankit Prajapati October 24, 2018 at 11:01 am

“Karwa Chauth is a festival to express your selfless love for your spouse, And a selfless love like this should be complemented with the best gifts.

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mat said...

The Steelers Way? Come on, let's be serious. You find me one team in the league that doesn't have a couple of knuckleheads that get into some trouble. Besides, I don't want to watch a church organization on the field. I have a hard time rooting for bad guys, but I also don't think there are any "bad" guys on the team, and they still deal with discipline issues better than any other team in the league, not to mention the way they completely ignore any free agents with excess baggage. The way the media and some of the fans treat this club like it's some holier than thou organization is not only arrogant, but unrealistic. The Steelers front office is pragmatic, plain and simple, and that's why they've been successful. Not because they operate on a higher moral plane. Grow up.

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As I emailed to Mr. Starkey: "So your argument is that urinating in the alley (Jeff Reed) is the moral equivalent of vehicular manslaughter (Donte Stallworth)? I agree that these guys aren’t saints, but you’ve made a bit of an overstatement about the entire team. Perhaps we can judge the success of the organization by the shrill, usually foul, comments by the fans of other teams comparing a dismissed drug possession charge (Santonio Holmes) to torturing and killing scores of dogs (Michael Vick). To reiterate, I think you’ve made a huge overstatement. Having said that, if Roethlisberger is convicted of sexual assault in Georgia or loses the civil case in Nevada, then he should be put under the jail. Until then, maybe we can assume it’s similar to the case against Jerome Bettis a few years ago."

Anonymous said...

I think many people have been confused about the "Steeler Way", and apparently Joe Starkey has fallen into the same group.

The Steeler way has not been one of having better morals than other teams. Not cutting or staying away from players that have a few run ins with the law.

The Steelers have always veered to not bring in locker room and team cancers like Terrell Owens and Randy Moss.

Just take a look at the 70's teams. A few of them were in trouble, and they weren't immediately released. So the Rooney's still take the same approach.

P.O. said...

@Spatula.... Reed didn't urinate in an alley (although im sure he has in the past as have I) Spaeth got busted pissing in the parking lot outside of McFaddens and when the cops cited him Reed tried to fight the cops... fighting cops > pissing in an alley

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Professional Athlete/Celebrity > LAW

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I think Ernie Holmes set the standard for the "Steeler Way" by firing a gun at a police helicopter.

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I think Bobby Layne set the standard for Steelers QB's by wrecking into a street car win a teammate's vehicle when he was totally $h!tfaced.

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This Christmas holiday I spent some time fiddling with sensors to build a Proof of Concept on Azure IoT. It isn't very hard to do! To give you an idea about how easy it is to set up (and try yourself) I've covered all steps (literally) in two posts. The first one is about connecting the IoT data to Power BI.

My "Poor Man's IoT"

On a home budget, I've built a small IoT appliance doing some temperature measurements in my freezer (which is kinda old-fashioned - it doesn't even have an internet connection!). I'll go into details in a next post describing the DIY part (so you can try it at home), but here's the general setup:

Poor Man's IoT Magic Architecture

This post's focus is about where the magic happens: how does data from Azure IoT move into Power BI?

Background: IoT Hub Architecture

In the Reference Documentation for Real Time Event Processing1 you'll find the following diagram with architectural layers of real-time event processing systems:

The Azure IoT Hub isn't mentioned yet here, but is positioned beside the "Event Hub", which is the left item on the second last row. This means that data arriving from sensors need to be transformed and stored before being able to see things in Power BI. The good news is, that this step has been made really easy.

Transforming and storing sensor data

The transformation part is handled in Stream Analytics. Assuming you already have set up an Azure IoT Hub, you log on to the Azure Portal and create a Stream Analytics Job:

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Click "Add", fill in the details:

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After you click 'create', you'll have a Stream Analytics job within a few seconds.

Because we need to transform the incoming IoT data, we'll need three parts, which are already shown to us by Azure (did I mention already it's easy?) - Inputs, Query and Outputs:

Adding an input

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Transforming the data - building a Query

The data from IoT Hub can arrive in JSON, Avro and CSV, and must be transformed towards a tabular structure in order to be consumed by other services (including, in our case, Power BI). In my Poor Man's IoT setup, the sensors already used JSON to communicate with the Field Gateway, so I decided to try if I could send that information to the cloud and do all transformations there.

Here's an excerpt of some messages the Field Gateway receives from sensors:

As soon you click on the 'Query' part of your job topology, you'll get a SQL-like script template showing up:

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I added the following query, which pivots some input rows into one output-row while aggregating values from every five seconds using a tumbling window. On top of that, it adds the current time to each outputted row:

As soon as you click 'Test', you'll currently (Feb. 10th, 2016) have to move back to the "old" Azure Portal. There you are prompted to upload a sample file. Just put some JSON responses below each other in one '.json' file and upload it, and view the results of your query:

If the results are not what you wanted, you can just alter the query and click 'Rerun', a neat interactive way of query testing.

Adding an output - Save to Power BI

With the data available in tabular form, all there's left to do is move the data to Power BI by creating an Output. This too is not yet supported on the new portal, but is easy to do using the old one.

To add an output, open the Stream Analytics Job, click 'Outputs' and then 'Add an Output'3

Choose 'Power BI' as output type, either authorize as an existing user or register as a new user, and finally enter the Power BI settings.

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Wait, what..? I don't see anything in Power BI!

If everything went okay, only two preconditions need to be met before data can show up in Power BI:

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You read that correctly: if there's no data available, the dataset will not show up in Power BI. This is also the case if the sensor data is already "inside" Stream Analytics, but your aggregation window hasn't expired yet! In my particular case: only every five seconds the data will be communicated to Power BI.

As soon as the data starts arriving though, you can build a report - and even while building the report it will already show LIVE data from your IoT Hub:

Conclusion: Where does the magic happen?

As you can see, it's really easy to connect your Azure IoT Hub to Power BI. But where does Stream Analytics store the incoming data? It's stored inside a PBI workbook inside your workspace. So make use of the aggregation functions of Stream Analytics, or you'll soon be out of space 😉 .

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Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame & Museum - Thunder Bay

This sports museum is dedicated to the preservation of the proud sports heritage of northwestern Ontario through the collection and display of artifacts, educational programs and...

Sports Museum / Hall of Fame

Wilson P. MacDonald Memorial School Museum - Selkirk

This community museum is dedicated to preserving the history of rural education, the heritage of the surrounding community and the memory of poet Wilson Pugsley MacDonald. The...

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Heritage House Museum - Smiths Falls

This classically styled Victorian home depicts the lifestyle of a prominent mill owner's family living in Smiths Falls in the 1860s. Situated on a picturesque...

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University of Toronto Museum Studies Program - Toronto

The Master of Museum Studies (MMSt) program is both an academic and a professional program. It aims to provide students with: Comprehensive knowledge of the functions of museums...

Garrison Petawawa Military Museums - Petawawa

The memory of our airborne forces are preserved and honored in this National Defence museum through the sometimes heart wrenching, heroic and always human stories of the soldiers...

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Stanhope Heritage Discovery Museum - Algonquin Highlands

This community museum is located in the original wood-frame Stanhope Council Chamber built in 1910. Exhibits and displays interpret the local history of the area including early...

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Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre - Etobicoke

Through arts, culture, and storytelling, the Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre aims to interpret the natural and built history of the Lakeshore Grounds area in southern...

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Niagara Historical Resource Centre - Niagara-on-the-Lake

The resource centre library collection focuses on the Niagara-on-the-Lake area and surrounding district. Records are mainly on microfilm.

Park House Museum - Amherstburg

This community museum has what is believed to be the earliest surviving building on either side of the Detroit River. The French frame log structure was built in the 1790...

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Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association - Milton

This operating antique electric streetcar and transit museum features vehicles from 1893 to the present. A 1912 Grand Trunk station from Rockwood, Ontario is also located on the...

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Documentation, photos, maps, artificats related to the history of Thorld/Beaverdams and the immediate area. The museum has a large collection of Thorold newspapers, as well as...

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Remarks (internal):The specimens from British Columbia represent a considerable northward extension from Washington State and C. alaskana is a new host. Likewise the collections from Newfoundland and Quebec extend the known distribution eastward from New York (DAOM 77261, fig. 4). Elsewhere in U.S.A. the rust is recorded (Index of Plant Diseases in United States, Agric. Hdbk. No. 165, 1960) from Montana, California and Oregon (DAOM 77263 C. scouleri Hook. Fig. 1) P. campanulae has been recorded from west Greenland (H.B. Gjaerum, Rep. Tott. Mycol. Inst. (Japan) 10: 155-161. 1971) on Campanula unifiora L. which also occurs in the Canadian Arctic. In Europe this rust is apparently more common than in North America and it is also known in Japan. Material from both areas is represented in DAOM and compares favourably with the Canadian specimens.
Puccinia novae-zembliae JÂ¢rst. (= P. campanulae novae-zembliae (JÂ¢rst.) Arth.) is a microform species parasitizing C. uniflora in arctic environments but is unknown in Canada. Gjaerum (op. cit.) lists it from west Greenland and his illustrations of the teliospores show morphological differences from teliospores of P. campanulae: broader (more robust) spores with thicker walls and without discernable papillae.
In the Canadian material examined, all specimens showed heavy infection of lower stems, petioles and leaves adjacent to ground level and much fewer telia on upper leaves and petioles.
Rusted plants may also bear a second rust, Coleosporium campanulae (Pers.) Lév. (see Fungi Canadenses No. 218).
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Description:Puccinia campanulae Carm. ex Berk. in Smith, Engl. Fl. 52: 356. 1836.
Pycnia, Aecia, Uredinia unknown. Telia dark brown, pulverulent, hypophyllous, also petiolicolous and caulicolous. Teliospores ellipsoid to oblong, moderately constricted at septum, apex round to obtuse, base slightly tapered, 27-43 x 13-20 µm; wall pale yellow to pale yellow-brown, 1.6 µm thick at sides, 2.1-4.2 µm at pores by the presence of small, abrupt papillae, very minutely verrucose, less conspicuously so in lower cell, pores apical and septal with papillae slightly paler than wall; pedicel hyaline, fragile, breaking at 10 µm or less.
Host: Campanulaceae: Campanula spp.
Distribution: Newfoundland, Quebec, British Columbia.
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BugShot Insect Photography Workshops

I am pleased to announce that BugShot, our humble insect photography event from last summer, is poised to expand into a series of courses & workshops. For starters, this means two things:

  1. The 2012 BugShot summer workshop now has a time and a place: the magical Archbold Biological Station in Florida, August 23-26.
  2. BugShot now has a dedicated web page, bugshot.net.

Registration for the summer course opens March 1st.

12 thoughts on “BugShot Insect Photography Workshops”

    1. I’m really excited for this one. It’s your old stomping grounds, James! Archbold is more expensive so we’ve had to raise the registration fee, but I think it’ll be worth it.

  1. The grant writing fingers are ready to get going.

    I really enjoyed taking part last year. Continuity of instructors and the change of venue to the Archbold Biological Station make this a really outstanding opportunity for last year’s participants, as well as people who are new to the BugShot experience.

    Thanks to all of you for the work you put into providing the opportunity to do this again!

    1. Think of it this way: your epic Road Trip to BugShot 2012 just got more Epic!

      Alternately, if you’re serious about a workshop closer to home, we may well be able to assemble another, smaller BugShot event up your way. We’re definitely expanding into more than just the annual event.

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Is Our Starbucks Learning?

I spotted this geographically-challenged mural at the Heathrow Airport Starbucks:

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      1. Bah, a mere pecadillo !

        Antarctica and many islands around the globe have been totally submerged by sea level rise, which is real reason why they are not present on the map !

        On the other hand, some islands which used to be virtual flyspecks of land have grown enormous in extent and Kamchatka (which used to be one of my favorite map segments in the game Risk) has mysteriously shifted hundreds of miles. This is no doubt a good indication of the end of the world as we know it.

  1. Alex, love it…I used this in my Tropical Ecology class today. BTW, I give the students a geography quiz every year and the results are…illuminating. Who knew the Himalayas were in Canada? or that Nigeria was in South America? Or that the island so big they call it a continent is actually China/India? All real answers I have gotten in the past few years.

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“Split” your voice for power, freedom and resonance

Do you feel power in your chest voice, but tightness and a lack of agility as you sing higher?

Do you feel freedom and flexibility in your head voice, but lack that power and resonance you get in chest voice?

“Split” your voice and you can combine the freedom of head voice with the depth of chest voice.

Here’s what I mean by splitting your voice.

Imagine a glowing ball about the size of a golf ball or cue ball.  Now imagine this glowing ball is your voice.  (Did you see The Little Mermaid, where the evil witch took Ariel’s voice out of her throat and it was this little blue glowing ball?  Just like that.)

First, chest voice.  In reality, you don’t have two different voices, but it can feel like that sometimes so we use this terminology for convenience.  Chest voice is the range most of us – except maybe Great-Aunt Ethel – use when speaking.  It feels like it comes from the body, the chest, sometimes even the belly, like in a deep belly laugh.  When you sing in chest voice, that glowing ball feels like it is in your body – your belly or your lower chest.

Now, head voice (again, it’s the same voice, but it can feel different).  Head voice is a higher register of pitches.  Guys, it’s the voice you use when you try to talk like a girl.  For some girls, especially sopranos, it can be a more powerful register than the chest voice.  Regardless, head voice feels like it “lives in” or “comes from” the head.  It may not feel like it resonates much, if at all, in the body.  When you sing in a light head voice, that glowing ball feels like lives in your throat or your head.

To split your voice, imagine taking that glowing ball and allowing it to double and separate.  Part of it goes up to your head, and part of it moves down into your body.  Got it?  Take a moment, close your eyes and actually imagine this happening.

OK, now take a mid-range song and sing it three different ways:

  • Imagine the glowing ball in your head
  • Imagine the glowing ball in your belly
  • Imagine the glowing ball split between both places

 Below are some audio samples of me doing this exercise.

  • In the first track, you’ll hear a lack of power and body in the voice, but plenty of ease.
  • In the second track, you’ll hear more power, but some tension creeping in because this is a bit high for me to sing in an unmixed chest voice.
  • In the third track, you’ll hear that tension disappear but the voice retains more body and depth than it had in the first track.

I admit this is one of the more unusual vocal technique tips.  What’s really happening here?  I believe that all that is going on with this exercise is that the concept of splitting your voice simply wraps up two different concepts into one visualization, which is much easier to work on than two ideas at the same time:

1) Involve your body in creating your voice, not just your head.

2) Retain the freedom of head voice while still involving your body.

(c) 2010 Adrienne Osborn

Adrienne Osborn is a vocalist and performance coach based in Colorado.   For more free articles and tips, visit http://PerformanceHigh.net.


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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Essie Turquoise and Caicos and Nfu-oh 40

Essie Turquoise and Caicos has been something I've looked at and put back multiple times before and finally decided to pick it up a while back. I layered it with my new flakies, Nfu-oh 40, a blue to green and purple color shift.

TaC is a minty fresh light green creme, applies a bit streaky at the start but evens out very nice in 3 coats. It dries smooth and does not chip easily.  TaC is more blue-leaning than other minty greens I've encountered, so the green-ness did not clash with my skintone, no lobster hands! This is a plus. It's very airy and fresh, definitely a spring color for me.

When I layered it with nfu-oh 40, the flakies took a very green quality with a blue flash. This also has added a lot of green to the polish color itself, but it wasn't too drastic. Overall, I do like the combo and will be trying these flakies over other polish as well!

  1. Such a gorgeous combination, I love the Essie colour, so vibrant and fresh x

  2. That's such a cute color!! My favorite mint is probably Essie Mint Candy Apple (: It works surprisingly well on my toes too :D

  3. oh my! I love that Essie and the flakies are awesome!

  4. T & C is one of my favorites, it looks great on you!

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Split Preparations for GRE between Studies at Home and Coaching Centre

Preparing for GRE gets done half at home and half at the coaching centre. To be sure that you get the best coaching, you must select well. The easy way to select the best coaching centre is to find one that has 20 years’ experience. Or, has the most number of students with 1450+ SAT scores and 700+ GMAT scores.

Check the Options in Coaching

Knowing that the coaching centre has the skill and experience gives you the confidence you need to get going. There are many GRE coaching centres in Bangalore so you have plenty of choices. Check whether they offer different types of coaching such as classroom tuition, live classes, online tutorials, and private tutoring. Then, you have the freedom to choose the one that suits your lifestyle.

Most of the successful candidates begin preparing for GRE one or two years before. The more you become familiar with the topics, the faster you will be able to answer them. The only thing to watch out for is that you cover all the topics in time. So, beginning early helps you a lot. The other thing to do is to talk to your seniors especially those who appeared and got through GRE to find out how to tackle the test.

Details of the Test

The test consists of three sections and you can take the test 5 times a year with a gap of at least 21 days between attempts. The test is for 3 hours 45 minutes. You can score at most 340. If you choose an institute for GRE prep Bangalore that has the most number of students in India with 325+ score in GRE, you can be sure to get good coaching and results.

The first section of the test is Analytical Writing. Here you have two parts. One is that you Analyse an Issue. The other is that you Analyse an Argument. You have 30 minutes to do each task. The second part is Verbal Reasoning. It has 20 questions and you have 30 minutes to answer all the questions. The test is computer generated so no two students will receive the same questions.

Unscored Sections in the End

The third is the Quantitative Reasoning section. This again has 20 questions and you will have 35 minutes to answer the questions. You will get an unscored section after Analytical Writing. But, this is not counted toward your GRE score. You might have an unscored research section. This is always given at the end of the test.

The thing for you to do now is to choose the study plan. This must set aside enough time for revision and for coaching classes. The coaching classes tell you how the other students are faring. It shows you how to prepare those tough questions that you might find difficult to handle alone. Also, it gives you a choice of different types of study options as mentioned above. But, this depends on the institute where you take coaching.

Start early is the winning motto for all those who prepare for GRE. Remember, both science and engineering graduates will take this exam, so there will be plenty of competition.


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NBA Draft Prospect - Tyler Honeycutt

6,8 - SF - UCLA

Honeycutt is a versatile small forward/shooting guard who can do a little bit of everything on the court. He's jumping to the pros after two seasons for the Bruins and projects as a mid to late first round pick.

His versatility should make him a very valuable role player in the NBA. He can defend, rebound, start the break with a strong pass or lead the break himself with his excellent handle and court vision. He is a very long athlete with long arms and good hops.  Has good anticipation on defense and uses his long arms well to pressure the ball-handler and make passing difficult.

Very good at floating around the perimeter looking for an open J. Has great form on his jumper and looks like he could develop into a very dangerous NBA three point shooter. Good passer who understands the game and makes the right plays with the ball.

Skinny and needs to add strength.  Doesn't have elite foot speed to stay with some of the quicker NBA wings. Very versatile but doesn't stand out in any one area.

Possible Teams: 76ers (if they trade A.I.) Knicks, Wizards

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