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ARUNIMA’S JOURNEY

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From amputee ex-volleyball player to Everester         

By Karan Kaushik

Arunima Sinha is a name which is synonymous with courage and all those adjectives used to describe those who achieve their goals despite all odds. She is the first female amputee to conquer Mount Everest. She is also the first female amputee to summit Mt Kilimanjaro, Mt Elbrus, Mt Kosciusko, Mt Carstensz Pyramid, Mt Aconcagua and Mt McKinley, Antarctica. She has been conferred with several honors such as the Padma Shri and the Tenzing Norgay Award.

Arunima shared her life story at an interactive session in New Delhi organized by the FICCI’s ladies wings recently. Excerpts:

On motivation

“I haven’t studied at any of the IITs or IIMs but I’ve been called by most of them to speak and motivate their students,” Arunima told her audience.

But the mountaineer felt that it doesn’t matter how effective a motivational speech is. She believes that the biggest motivations lies within and when people are self motivated they don’t need motivation from others. “When your goal becomes your passion it makes you do what you can’t even do. I climbed Everest with my heart and brain and not with my legs making my way through dead bodies. I never believed that I have an artificial leg”, said Arunima who has a firm belief in the saying “Where there is a will, there is a way.”

Her struggle

However, terming Arunima’s journey motivational would be an understatement. Tragedy struck the young national-level volleyball player in 2011 when she was thrown off a moving train by thugs because she had refused to give them her gold chain. She lost her left leg when a train ran over it. Bizarre conspiracy theories of her travelling ticketless and jumping off the train herself or her trying to commit suicide followed. The public’s perception had reduced her to a victim.

While dealing with murmurs of pity, Arunima decided that she would climb Mt Everest and get her self confidence back. Cut to 2013. Arunima did just that and became the world’s first female amputee to achieve this feat. “Our minds hold amazing control on our bodies and not taking a risk is the biggest risk,” she says.

That, though, is easier said than done. Arunima did a course from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering and trained rigorously for 18 months. None other than Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to summit the Everest, had taken her under her wing but not before she had convinced her to do so.

Arunima believes that luck only favours those who dare to attempt the impossible and would settle for nothing less than victory. She, herself, has conquered the highest peaks in the world, something which has taught her the most precious lessons for life. It has made her confident, resilient and brought out the leader within her. “When someone stops you from achieving your goal after you have reached very near to your goal, just move one step ahead and you will find everyone will be following you,” Arunima said.

Arunima runs a sports academy for underprivileged handicapped children. They don’t even have a building till now but she has managed to buy a 50 acre land. Right now her students train on other people’s fields. “They are my life now,” Arunima said. She wants them to get the best possible training. But she has a long way to go. After all, collecting funds is not an easy job.

Arunima now plans to summit her seventh peak but she needs sponsors. “Finding a sponsor is another summit,” laughs the spunky 28-year-old. But she also adds: “The tougher your struggle, the more glorious is your victory.” Arunima is positive about finding a sponsor soon and hopes to go for her next climb around December this year.

Lessons from Rio

“[PV] Sindhu has won hearts across our nation. It’s amazing how Sakshi [Malik] has got a medal in wrestling which is usually seen as a man’s sport. When I started mountaineering, people used to laugh at me, saying that it’s a man’s sport,” Arunima told VON.

Effusive about the gymnast from Tripura, she said, “Dipa [Karmakar] has shown the nation that gymnastics is not just confined to circus shows and her reaching the finals is a commendable achievement. She didn’t even have a costume but still she made it and set a great example for girls in villages. All they need is support from their family and coaches.” “My family is my backbone,” she added.

Asked about the achievements of women in sports and what needs to be done in order to improve sports in our country, she replied: “It’s not just about being a girl; if a girl has talent, she will make us proud. We need to learn from the mistakes that we have done this time and if we do so, we are definitely going to perform much better in Tokyo. If you see, this time, too, all the players have gone there on their own steam. It should be the duty of the nation to stand with them, get them the best possible training from coaches belonging to countries that bag the most medals and to keep them mentally happy and healthy. There is no need to throw eggs and tomatoes at them if they don’t get medals this time, don’t lower their morale. We will definitely improve the next time,” she said.

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Pro and basic models in the iPhone 15 lineup may have more distinctions

According to reports, the sales fall for the current non-pro models is much greater than what Apple’s external environment had expected.

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At the ‘Far Out’ event in September of this year, Apple unveiled the iPhone 14 series, which includes four new models. The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro were smaller models when they were first released by Apple, whereas the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 Pro Max had larger screens.

Early market indicators were indicative of weak demand for non-Pro models. According to a recent rumour, Apple is reportedly “extremely” worried about how the iPhone 14 Plus is selling and is trying to implement new marketing tactics to make up for it when the next iPhone series is released.

According to a recent story on the South Korean blog Naver, Apple is “seriously” contemplating new tactics for the future iPhone 15 lineup and is “seriously” considering how well the iPhone 14 Plus is selling. According to reports, the sales fall for the current non-pro models is much greater than what Apple’s external environment had expected.

First, Apple should think about lowering the price difference between pro models and entry-level devices. This is consistent with analyst Ross Young’s assertion that all iPhone models could get the Dynamic Island feature next year, which is now only accessible on iPhone 14 Pro models.

Future iPhone models’ pricing may also change, according to Apple, and “the price will be determined differently than it is currently.” It might lower the cost of the 2023 lineup’s Plus model. The starting pricing for the iPhone 14 Plus in India is Rs. 89,900. The starting price for the iPhone 14 Pro Max, in contrast, is Rs. 1,39,900.

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Ming-Chi Kuo, a well-known analyst, had already predicted that Apple would widen the gap between professional and non-professional iPhone models even more and include unique features in the iPhone 15 Pro Max. The business plans to raise the average selling price (ASP) of iPhone devices, according to Kuo.

The blog post also claims that there will be a clear distinction between the pro model and the max in terms of materials and camera components. This supports earlier rumours that stated the iPhone 15 Pro Max model would include a titanium chassis and a periscope zoom camera. It is anticipated that solid-state buttons would replace the traditional volume and power buttons on the high-end iPhone 15 devices.

The basic iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max models are rumoured to be part of Apple’s 2023 iPhone portfolio. Apple’s upcoming A17 Bionic chip is anticipated to power the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The A16 Bionic chip might be found in the non-Pro variants.

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Want to move on from your unworthy ex before Valentine’s Day? Name a cockroach after your ex and watch it eaten alive for just THIS much

As Valentine’s week nears, many couples are excited to celebrate their love and romance. However, this is not the case for everyone. A lot of people despise the concept of Valentine’s because of past relationship trauma and unworthy exes.

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As Valentine’s week nears, many couples are excited to celebrate their love and romance. However, this is not the case for everyone. A lot of people despise the concept of Valentine’s because of past relationship trauma and unworthy exes. What if you were told that there is a way to get your cockroach of an ex eaten by animals, alive? No, this will not murder your ex in reality, but you will never find a better way to move on.

The San Antonio Zoological Society has come up with an idea for people to name a cockroach or rat after their ex-boyfriend or girlfriend. The event is called Cry Me a Cockroach, which is organised every year on Valentine’s Day. The society took to their Twitter handle and said that if people donate, their ex will be fed to an animal. They will also receive certificates.

There are some zoos in Pennsylvania, like Lehigh Valley Zoo, where people are allowed to name a bug after their former boyfriend or girlfriend. After this, these bugs are fed to their animals. All of this is done for just $5 or Rs 374.

Lehigh Valley Zoo came up with this brilliantly vicious, yet harmful idea, and took to their official Twitter handle to advertise. They said that they get it that sometimes, love sucks. So instead of feeling down that their love may not last forever, people should put a twist on Valentine’s Day and name a bug after their ex. They mentioned that all people have to do is to make a $5 donation to name one of the feeder crickets, and they will feed them to their ambassador animals. The offer is open till February 14, 2022.

This is not it. The Lehigh Zoo Website will also upload weekly videos on Facebook for people to see their ex’s big-avatar getting eaten.

Indeed, for every undeserving ex, there is a bug waiting to be eaten.

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Ensure nutrition supplement ad wins hearts, Tweeple say video taught them a lot | WATCH

In this era of ads where some advertisements are really praised for their inclusivity while the others are being criticised, Ensure (an American brand of nutritional supplements) have also come up with a very heart touching advertisement in this festive season.

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By Tarannum

In this era of ads where some advertisements are really praised for their inclusivity while the others are being criticised, Ensure (an American brand of nutritional supplements) have also come up with a very heart touching advertisement in this festive season.

The video is on fleek and it’s being liked and shared by people a lot on social media, soon it came out. Tweeple are appreciating and twitting this viral video with good compliments.

In this inspiring advertisement, we can see a man making a list of guests, asking her wife for one of his specific friends on the occasion of the festival but her wife denies informing him about the long list and work overload, the man then make her a cup of hot tea made of Ensure milk powder, saying that we should thank the people who took time for us when nobody did. This cute message is liked by the people and Twitter is flooded with appreciation posts with the hashtag StrongerInsideOut.

One person tweeted that this video taught him to come up front, help people and celebrate. Have a look :

The other Twitter user wrote about the amazing initiative of this video and appreciated this.

https://twitter.com/Gopika55/status/1457671525209833479

What is Ensure?

Ensure is an American for nutritional supplements and replacements for meals. This brand, Ensure is manufactured by Abbott Laboratories.

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Ensure Original contains 220 calories, six grams of saturated fat, 15 grams of sugar, and nine grams of protein in a 237-ml (8-fl oz) bottle. Water, corn maltodextrin, sugar, milk protein concentrate, canola oil, and soy protein isolate are the top six ingredients in Ensure original. For people with lactose intolerance can also take this as Ensure is considered lactose-free.

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