if you will choose the wrong kind of shoes so you can injure yourself while climbing because you can slip as result you will get injured it's hard to handle yourself if you are a traceur so by choosing shoes with good and nice grip will be helpful for you.
You should avoid slippery shoes or shoes that have any used plastic on the soles.
You should avoid picking of heavy shoes.
You should avoid buying shoes without laces because it is not much secure for training.
You should avoid shoes that have a bad grip and have a lot of cuts at bottom rubber.
if you are a traceur you need shoes that provide the best possible grip for climbing on the wall for running and for overall parkour training.
You need shoes with a lightweight because it will help you in climbing on the wall and most importantly while running.
Lightweight is also important but the most important thing is that you should pick up shoes that provide good support and are balanced.
You need shoes that provide comfort or comfortable on your feet.
You need shoes that provide sensitivity.
If you are a beginner and you want to start parkour so you will have to work hard for it, you will have to do a lot of training for it and if you will wear shoes with a lightweight having nice grip having good support having good comfort so you can do training quite easily and comfortably.
Adidas Company needs no introduction, the Adidas shoes are generally recommended for parkour community for good reason.
They have an excellent round performance and have no important deficiencies.
They relatively having lightweight, and ha the best grip on every surface, and they are also durable.
It has very good flexibility which is good from the middle of the shoe to the toe.
The heel of this parkour shoe is very stiffer. The comfort and breathability of this shoe are very fantastic.
The cushion provides is less than any of the average running shoe, its sole is at its best and a bit sensitive making them good for balancing. You will notice the lack of shock absorption. This shoe gets fit on any kind of feet.
If you are a beginner and want to buy the best parkour shoes with a budget under $50, this is the right choice.
This shoe has a valuable price and is available in different variety of sizes which will suit any kind of feet.
It has a rubber sole. It has a cotton lining, and have a light weight which is good for parkour.
Due to the use of Vulcanized rubber midsole trim and flexible nitrile rubber traction outsole is a slip, chemical, and oil resistant.
This shoe is best for the beginner of parkour and also for martial arts. It is very much flexible and have a thin sole due to which you will feel a bit of ground.
The rubber of the outer soles is around the sides slightly, which protect your toes and also keep shoes clean. I will suggest this shoe for beginners because of great protection. This shoe is very much durable and breathable.
If you want to buy parkour shoes with a budget under $100 and you are looking for the best parkour shoes, this one is the right choice for you.
Take Flight 1.0 training shoe come from a reputed company named Take Flight.
This shoe is available in different variety of sizes which suit with any kind of feet.
This shoe is very much supportive and comfortable when you are jumping from a high place your feet will stay safe due to its comfortable sole.
You can use this shoe especially for parkour training and for other training as well. It has dual removable insole in it for cushioning versatility. I will suggest this shoe to you because of great support on and for every kind of training.
world's #1 parkour & freerunning shoe.
Light weight and so comfortable.
I guarantee you will love this shoe.
If you are looking best parkour shoes with a good quality Nike Men's Dart 12 Running Shoe is the best option for you.
Because as you can read by its name it is the product of Nike company and has a very better quality as compared to the other companies.
This shoe has a lot of qualities but I am going to tell you some of them. This shoe has a very light weight which is perfect for parkours.
If you will talk about its grip it has a very constant grip across the board. It is not perfect for only parkour but it is perfect for every kind of sport that you love.
This shoe is very much comfortable and gets fit on any kind of feet perfectly. It is also very much valid for parkours due to its good grip.
It has a rubber sole while you are jumping from a high place the rate of injuries is very much low because it will protect your feet.
There are a lot of different brands of sports shoes, similarly, Onitsuka Tiger is one of them. If you are searching for something exceptional you can buy these shoes.
This shoe has very excellent durability. If you will not use them so much ruff it will sustain for a longer period of time.
It comes with a rubber sole which provides better support and gives you great comfort in extreme terrains.
This parkour shoe is made up of fabric and leather which is a very good combination for durability.
Things you will love the most about these parkour shoes is that it comes with a very stylish look.
You can use this pair of shoes for a different sport as well as fashion also.
Comfortable for long time usage.
Fits with wider feet also.
High breathable to stay comfortable.
There are a lot of brands of shoes who are delivering their shoes for parkour and free running Nike is also one of them if you are looking for good parkour shoes Nike men's Flex 2018 RN running shoe is one of them.
I will suggest this shoe for you because of its great quality and its great rubber sole.
This shoe has very great durability if you will use it a little bit careful it can work for a year or two for parkours.
it is made up rubber sole which gives you better support and gives you great support in extreme terrains.
This parkour shoe is made up of fabric and leather which is very good for durability. You can use this shoe for any kind of sport.
PUMA is a brand for shoes which has launches some of the great parkour shoes and freerunning.
PUMA Women's Narita is a nice choice for the use of parkour and also for those who want to buy a shoe for parkour due to its good performance and its price is also not too high to buy.
These shoes are very synthetic and its sole is made up of rubber and it has a light weight which perfects for running and for parkour.
This shoe is very flexible, durable and breathable running shoe in a geo-patterner mesh.
Ever track high-abrasion rubber is used in it for better support while jumping from the top of the roof for a very comfortable landing on the ground.
Breathable running shoe in a geo-patterner mesh.
Puma is a branded company for shoes and the shoes of this company give the very good result.
I chose this shoe just because of its great quality and its price it has good quality for the training in parkour and for running too but mostly good for parkour training.
It is made of foam and it has lightweight while you are training you will not feel that you are wearing shoes.
Its sole is made up of rubber due to which while workout you will not slip at any obstacle it is also very much comfortable and durable while training for parkour.
This shoe is made up for fashion but you can also use it for parkour training due to its light weight and it also doesn't cost you too much while buying it you can use it for training as well for parkour training as well.
It is made up of leather and textile which is a very great combination for durability.
Its weight is also light which is good for parkour training and it is very comfortable and supportive also.
Retro-inspired low-top sneaker featuring logo side overlay and tire tread outsole. It is made up of foam.
cool looking but not durable at all!
This parkour shoe is a product of KNOW OBSTACLES' company which is giving us the best shoe for parkour and freerunning.
Its cost is under $50 which is a very low price to buy this shoe is very much different from other companies due to its few good features.
The weight lightweight and good comfort and good support and durability are common in all the shoe.
But the different thing about this shoe is that Wide foot base engages all five toes and increases the sole surface to stick landings.
The minimalist heel cup is there to provide you moderate heel support. Its sole is made up of rubber it is long lasting and has a durable grip which keeps safe your feet.


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The Influence of Religiousness on Mental Health
Religious practices provide resources, which prevent depressive symptoms
(January 2020) Preventing illnesses and supporting health-promoting behaviour is of great importance for Europe's ageing population. With the majority of older people still belonging to a religion, science started to investigate whether religion has an effect on people's health outcomes. Earlier research about the association between health and religiousness pointed to favorable outcomes in several physical and mental conditions for religious individuals. Religiousness also tends to be associated with depression, but due to different measurements of religiosity, studies are inconsistent about the extent of this association. Where some found a clear positive effect of religiousness on depression, others found no association at all. For the United States, research was able to confirm the association between religiousness and mental health, but so far, there is no evidence for the European population. Danish researchers Opsahl, Ahrenfeldt, Möller and Hvidt tried to fill this gap with their newest study.
Conceptualisation of religiosity: Two types of religious internalisation
To encounter previous contradicting results, Opsahl et al. differentiate between two types of religiosity, referring to the degree of internalisation. They contrast religiosity, which arises in response to crisis, with restful religiosity, which is practiced continuously and is more instrinsically motivated. Indicators for crisis religiosity are occasional prayer and occasional to no religious service attendance. Restful religiosity is measured as a higher frequency in both prayer and service attendance. Since crisis religiosity may be spurred by adversities, it is expected to be not associated with good mental health. In contrast, restful religiosity may even be a protective factor for depression.
Data about religion-related practices
For the study, the authors used data of waves 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 (2004 – 2015) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The sample consisted of 23,864 individuals from ten European countries. Besides frequency of prayer and religious service attendance, religious education was included as measure of religiousness. Participants, who reported praying, attending religious service and were religiously educated, where understood as restful religious. Participants who reported praying, but neither religious service attendance nor having been religiously educated, counted as crisis religious. A negation on all three measures was registered as non-religious. Depressive symptoms were measured by using six out of twelve items from the Euro-D scale used in SHARE.
Religious service attendance has a positive effect on mental health
The results confirm earlier research's presumption that religiousness is associated with fewer depressive symptoms. This effect was most pronounced for religious service attendance. Attending religious service indeed seems to protect against depression. This may be explained by the community and social support, as well as the structures for coping with stress, which religious service provides. On the other hand, crisis religiousness was associated with higher odds of having certain depressive symptoms, like having been irritable recently and having experienced fatigue, compared with non-religiousness.
Implications for health policies
Following the presented findings, it may be advisable to encourage older persons who are religious to maintain their religious practices and attend religious service. This could lower the odds of developing undesired mental health issues. Additionally, researchers and policy makers should investigate ways to offer similar non-religious services to older individuals who are not connected to religion.
Study by Tobias Opsahl, Linda Juel Ahrenfeldt, Sören Möller and Niels Christian Hvidt (2019): Religiousness and depressive symptoms in Europeans: Findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe. Public Health 175: 111-119. DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2019.07.011.
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033350619302380?dgcid=coauthor#!
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We went ice skating at the Tower of London and this is what we honestly thought
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Ellie McKinnellAudience Editor
I give the experience 9/10
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I consider myself something of an ice-rink connoisseur, as I try out a different place every Christmas and went ice skating regularly when I was a teenager.
This year was the turn of the ice rink at the Tower of London , one of the ones I've always thought to be most beautiful, set against the backdrop of both the medieval tower but also with views across the Thames to the incredibly lit up Hayes Galleria and Shard.
I dragged my boyfriend along, telling him he had to come because of 'tradition', but as soon as his saw the scene he was as excited about skating as I was.
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We went straight after work, going for the 6pm session which lasts until 6.45pm, which I think made a huge difference to our experience. It meant that the rink was a lot quieter than the next time slot - I even overheard someone saying as they left 'thank God we booked this session' to their friend when they saw the queue to get in.
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The 45-minute-long session was the perfect length. It gave you enough time to get used to skating and find your rhythm, you felt like you could stop to look out across the river a take a couple of pictures, then just as your feet started to go numb it was over and you could take off the boots and get the circulation back.
There was also an Ice Rink Café Bar but we zoomed through this, knowing that the drinks would be overpriced and the place looked a little like a canteen anyway.
Now for the criticisms.
The ice wasn't great quality. I saw them Zamboni (that machine that lays the fresh ice surface) it after we left, so presumably they do that at the end of every session, but the ice was already very shredded by the time we got on it. I realise that this is always going to happen, but I wonder if the quality of the ice was a little poor compared to normal rinks.
Also, they had music playing - but only just. There were two speakers and you could hear the faint sound of music when you were right next to them but otherwise the sound was imperceptable. If you're going to play music, play it properly!
Plus, if you're going to play music at a Christmas ice rink you should be playing classic Christmas tunes (even if it is November) rather than current hits that no one over the age of 19 recognise.
But aside from that the experience as a whole was great. I've already recommended it to my mum, and once I've ticked off every other ice rink London has to offer, this will be the first one I return to.
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Q: I get the error MIPS "spim: (parser) syntax error" when running the code I'm using a MIPS simulator.
Occurs that when I'm trying to open the text file that contains my code in the simulator
I am having trouble understanding why this will not run on QTSpim. I get the error

spim: (parser) syntax error line 8

Code:
#This program read the given array value one by one
#then compare and find largest
#Display largest and it's count

#Data declaration
.data
a: .word 5,2,15,3,7,15,8,9,5,2,15,3,7                             #Initialize an array
space: .asciiz " "                                                #Get space
nextLine: .asciiz "\n"                                            #for \n
big: .asciiz "bigger....\n"                                       #Display bigger
small: .asciiz "smaller....\n"                                    #Display smaller
equal: .asciiz "same....\n"                                       #Display same
#Output display strings
Largest: .asciiz "The largest number is "
LargestCount: .asciiz "The largest number is included "
times: .asciiz " times\n"
#Main program
.text
.globl main
main:
la $s0,a                                              #Get the address of the array
addi $s1,$0,13                                        #size of the array
addi $s2,$0,0                                        #for largest number
addi $s3,$0,0                                        #For largest count
addi $t0,$0,0                                        #i
addi $t1,$0,0                                        #j

#Loop for array data print
Loop:
beq $t0,$s1,nextLoop                               #check the counter reach array size
    lw $a0,0($s0)                                      #Get value from array to print
addi $v0,$0,1                                      #Integer print system caa
syscall                                            #Print integer value in a0
la $a0,space                                       #get the address of space string
addi $v0,$0,4                                      #System call to print string
syscall                                            #Print space
addi $t0,$t0,1                                     #Increment counter
addi $s0,$s0,4                                    #to get next data contain address
j Loop                                           #repeat loop

#Find larget and it's count
nextLoop:
la $a0,nextLine                                  #get the address of \n print
addi $v0,$0,4                                    #String print system call
syscall                                          #print string
addi $t0,$0,0                                      #for loop counter
la $s0,a                                          #Get the address of the array
#Loop through array value
forLoop:
beq $t0,$s1,print                                  #check the counter reach array size
move $a1,$s2                                       #For compare method argument
lw $a0,0($s0)                                      #Get value from array
jal compare                                       #call compare function
addi $t1,$v0,0                                   #j=compare(largest,a[i])
beq $t1,0,biggest                               #If the compare result 0 means value bigger
beq $t1,1,same                                   #If the compare result 1 means same value
beq $t1,2,smallest                              #If the compare result 2 means value smaller

#Bigger case
biggest:
la $a0,big
addi $v0,$0,4
syscall
lw $s2,($s0)
addi $s3,$0,1
addi $t0,$t0,1
addi $s0,$s0,4
j forLoop
#Same case
same:
la $a0,equal
addi $v0,$0,4
syscall
addi $s3,$s3,1
addi $t0,$t0,1
addi $s0,$s0,4
j forLoop
smallest:
#Smaller case
la $a0,small
addi $v0,$0,4
syscall
addi $t0,$t0,1
addi $s0,$s0,4
j forLoop

#Print result
print:
la $a0,Largest                       #Largest string display string address
addi $v0,$0,4                       #System call to print string
syscall                             #print
move $a0,$s2                       #To pri t largest number move into a0
addi $v0,$0,1                     #System call to print integer
syscall                           #Integer print
#Print \n
la $a0,nextLine
addi $v0,$0,4
syscall
#Print largest count atring
la $a0,LargestCount
addi $v0,$0,4
syscall
#Print count
move $a0,$s3
addi $v0,$0,1
syscall
#Times string print
la $a0,times
addi $v0,$0,4
syscall
#End of the program
exit:
addi $v0,$0,10                                     #Terminate the program normally system call
syscall                                             #End the program
#Compare method
compare:
move $t3,$ra
jal subt                                           #Call subtract function
bgt $v0,0,return2                                 #If sub value greaterthan 0 return 2
beq $v0,0,return1                                 #If sub value = 0 return 1
addi $v0,$0,0                                     #Other wise return 0 as result
move $ra,$t3
jr $ra                                            #Return to main

#Return value 2 as result of the function call
return2:
addi $v0,$0,2
move $ra,$t3
jr $ra
#Return value 1 as result of the function call
return1:
addi $v0,$0,1
move $ra,$t3
jr $ra
#Subtract function
subt:
sub $v0,$a1,$a0
jr $ra

This runs on MARS and I'm not sure why it wont run on QTSpim as well.

A: a: .word 5,2,15,3,7,15,8,9,5,2,15,3,7

replace , with space .
mips will not take ,
Try this:
a: .word 5 2 15 3 7 15 8 9 5 2 15 3 7

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Stephen Chaplin, CHSO Board president and talented jazz pianist, returns to the venue where it all started-- Caffe Sorrento.
Joining Chaplin are Clay Lyons – Alto Saxophone, Oscar Suchanek – Drums, Fabrizio Sciacca – Bass. The quartet will perform music of Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Tony Bennett and more.


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Call for reprisals over China's Hong Kong security proposals
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
# Asia Pacific
# China
# Hong Kong
Lord Patten, last British governor of Hong Kong, urges UK and US to resist 'assault on freedoms'
Britain and the US are facing calls to take some form of economic reprisal after China signalled that it was taking major steps to restrict civil liberties in Hong Kong by pushing through national security laws.
In an early sign of the British reaction, Lord Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong and a passionate critic of Chinese regime, called the move a "comprehensive assault on the city's autonomy, rule of law, and fundamental freedoms".
Related: 'This is the end of Hong Kong': China pushes controversial security laws
He has recently written to the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, seeking assurances that the UK will not allow the Sino-British joint declaration to be torn up. The declaration, signed in 1985, made clear that Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy, rights and freedoms would remain unchanged for 50 years.
In the US, Senator Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, condemned Beijing's plans, accusing the Communist party of "trying to kill Hong Kong's autonomy" and promising action if Beijing goes ahead.
"Beijing's current proposal will effectively destroy the rule of law in Hong Kong and will give Chairman Xi's thugs legal cover to treat freedom-loving protesters as terrorists," Sasse said in a statement.
The chair of the House foreign affairs committee, Michael McCaul, warned: "Any law passed by the CCP that further stifles the freedom of the people of Hong Kong would only further erode the foundations of One Country, Two Systems, and will not be tolerated by the United States."
Donald Trump has been piling new trade restrictions on China in recent weeks, partly in response to the Chinese handling of the coronavirus outbreak. But Republican Senators called for Trump in the specific case of Hong Kong to change the former UK colony's preferential trading status. A US government determination of the special administrative region's "autonomy" is a precondition for continued US preferential trade and investment terms distinct from those applied to China. Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has already said it will be difficult to declare the region autonomous in view of recent arrests of protesters.
The US president seems determined to make the threat posed by the Chinese Communist party the defining issue in the campaign for November's presidential election, so may need little encouragement to impose new economic tariffs. Steve Bannon, his onetime political aide, said Trump's three election themes will be China, China, and China.
On Thursday, Trump told reporters at the White House that "nobody knows yet" the details of China's plan. "If it happens, we'll address that issue very strongly," Trump said, without elaborating.
Given the long history of bipartisan scepticism towards China in Washington, Democrats are unlikely to oppose any measures. Indeed, pro-democracy legislators in Hong Kong such as Claudia Mo are already expecting Trump to respond to China's actions. "China's move might just be considered savage by outsiders, and there could be a huge political price to pay internationally," she said. "Is it worth it?"
The UK government, by contrast, has been involved in a balancing act.
Tighter UK takeover laws are due to be published soon, but the UK Treasury does not believe decoupling between the west and China is in anyone's interest. The UK is also the No 1 foreign direct investment site for China in Europe, even if trade between Germany and China dwarfs that of the UK.
Politically, the UK does not want to jettison China. Lord Hague, a former Conservative foreign secretary, said this month that there was no major challenge facing the world that could be solved without the cooperation of China. That applies especially to UN climate change talks, a process in which the UK has the diplomatic lead.
The UK intelligence agencies have also made the judgment that Chinese-owned Huawei firm could be at the heart of the UK's new 5G network, without compromising national security, a decision that has led to heated phone calls between Trump and Boris Johnson.
But the pressure to change tack is growing. Tom Tugendhat, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, said this week UK relations with China had reached "a turning point". He argued: "The UK has a special duty to respond since China is now directly and incrementally challenging the international rules-based system."
The UK, he said, was dealing with a very different China from the China of 2010. "Up until a decade ago, we saw that increased wealth led to increased democratisation. Well, that is not so any more."
Labour's Asia spokesman, Stephen Kinnock, has also adopted a more active and assertive position.
But the perennial question is what in practical terms can the UK do to resist a takeover in Hong Kong, apart from express outrage. Extending the British National Overseas Passport offer to Hong Kong citizens is the normal demand.
In a muted letter to the foreign affairs select committee, Raab said: "If there is any attempt to include national security legislation before wider concerns with rights and freedoms in Hong Kong has been addressed satisfactorily, it could further unsettle the situation."
The UK Foreign Office said: "We are following reports and monitoring the situation closely. We expect China to respect Hong Kong's rights and freedoms and high degree of autonomy. As a party to the joint declaration, the UK is committed to upholding Hong Kong's autonomy and respecting the 'one country, two systems' model."
Patrick Wintour
Patrick Wintour is diplomatic editor for the Guardian
Oxford moves to protect students from China's Hong Kong security law
Students will submit work related to China anonymously and told not to record classes
Chinese parliament approves controversial Hong Kong security law
Move paves way for anti-sedition laws that rights advocates say threaten freedoms, as US opposition builds
Lily Kuo in Beijing
European leaders condemn China over 'deplorable' Hong Kong security bill
Beijing move to stamp out anti-government protests poses diplomatic test for UK
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Hong Kong activist Tony Chung jailed under national security law
Judge sentences 20-year-old to three years and seven months in prison for secession and money laundering
Helen Davidson in Taipei
China's extradition law should respect Hong Kong deal, says May
PM voices concern as ministers say proposed changes may breach freedoms agreed in 1997
China's Great Firewall descends on Hong Kong internet users
Residents rush to erase digital footprints as law gives police powers over online activity
Defiant Hong Kong football fans boo China's national anthem
Protest by supporters at international friendly follows Beijing's toughening of penalties for disrespecting national song
Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong
Hong Kong security law 'may break international laws'
UN experts call on China to explain apparent breaches of human rights obligations
Helen Davidson
Controversial Hong Kong national security law comes into effect
Critics say broad scope of crimes targeted by law marks full takeover by China
Lily Kuo in Beijing and Guardian reporter in Hong Kong
Hong Kong protesters march over abducted booksellers
Thousands demand resignation of CY Leung who critics accuse of failing to confront China over bookseller scandal
Tom Phillips in Beijing


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PASSIONADA is a story of second chances. Celia Amonte (Sofia Milos) is a beautiful Portuguese American woman who cannot move on from the loss of her husband, a young fisherman who died at sea. She and her daughter Vicky (Emmy Rossum) live with her mother in law (Lupe Ontiveros) in the seaside fishing community of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Celia works as a seamstress during the day, but at night she sings the beautiful Fado music that she learned from her childhood. Celia's passion and sadness are expressed deeply in this soulful music.
Celia and her daughter Vicky are close, but Vicky has a secret. She is making excursions to the local gambling casino. There she meets Charlie Beck (Jason Isaacs), a charming Englishman and professional gambler. Vicky wants Charlie to help her learn to cheat at cards, but he declines.
When Charlie and his friends (Theresa Russell and Seymour Cassel) visit the restaurant where Celia is performing, Charlie is thunderstruck by Celia's sensual beauty and the passion of her music. He attempts to get to know her, but Celia is not open to Charlie's charm.
When Vicky discovers Charlie's dilemma, she makes him an interesting proposition. If he will teach her how to count cards at blackjack, she will help him get a date with her mother.


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This counting game is fun way to practice number recognition and one to one correspondence and because it's a game it will really appeal to preschoolers.
The game is so simple and easy to set up and can be done with guidance or independently. Evan loves when I turn things into games and this one was a real treat due to the smacking aspect of it. Don't be fooled by the fun and simplicity though. When playing this game lots of skills are being reinforced.
After showing Evan how to play and completing a few rounds with him, he was able to do this on his own for a tiny bit. He does get distracted and starts smacking everything with the swatter, so I tend to stay close by and remind him how we play the game. If you can't leave your child to do things like this independently, that is totally normal. Some kids are more inclined to work with little supervision and others need to be kept on task a bit. I don't force him to do any of these activities, but sometimes a reminder is what he needs to refocus.
All my materials were bought at the dollar store and can be used over and over again for other activities.
All you have to do is write the numbers on the sticky notes and place on your work surface.
The child will roll the die and identify which number is facing up. Evan was able to identify numbers 1-3 immediately upon seeing it, but for numbers 4-6 he needed to count the dots to know which number was rolled. You can also use a set of dice and work on numbers from 7-12.
Then he needed to identify the sticky note with the corresponding number and smack it with the swatter. I instructed him to swat the number the same amount of times the number represents. For instance, if he rolled 3, he would swat that sticky note 3 times. However, he was having way too much fun with the swatting and just kept going. Often swatting each number 6 or 7 times. So if you can get your child to do this, great. If not, that's totally normal. The swatting is just too much fun!
For more activities like this, check out my Preschool Math Activities board on Pinterest!


Foreign phrases: Extincto subjecto, tollitur adjunctum.When the substance is extinguished, the incident ceases.
Cody and Sweetland were the first women motorcycle riders to complete the Baja 1000 back in 1990.
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text: Q: Actions of amenable groups on graphs with uncountably many ends Let $G$ be a finitely generated amenable group acting transitively on an amenable Schreier graph $S$. Is it possible for $S$ to have uncountably many ends? An amenable graph with uncountably many ends might be something like a slowly growing tree. I guess the answer is positive, but I'd like to see a simple example.


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In early November 2013, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded over $150 million in damages to a 13-year-old year girl who witnessed three members of her family burn to death following a car accident on a Southern California freeway. This verdict could be one of the largest of its kind.
In this case, back in November 2009, the Asam family was traveling from California to Oregon for the Thanksgiving holiday when their SUV rear-ended a semi-trailer truck parked on the shoulder of a California freeway. The plaintiff (then 9-years-old) and her 11-year old brother managed to escape from their family's SUV after it struck and got caught under a semi-trailer truck parked on the shoulder of the freeway. However, they witnesses the deaths of their parents and brother, who were burned alive when their family's trapped SUV caught fire.
The lawsuit alleged that the driver of the truck, Rudolph Ortiz, pulled his truck over to the side of the road to sleep. In doing, he failed to use the emergency signals and ignored written warnings that stopping on the shoulder was allowed only in emergencies. Attorneys for the defendants argued that Ortiz stopped to take medication for a severe headache, which constituted an emergency. Defendants also alleged that the law was not broken as the semi-trailer truck was parked on the dirt road to the right of the shoulder. Finally, defendants alleged that plaintiff's father was also negligent for attempting to stop the family's SUV on the shoulder after the SUV allegedly struck debris on the freeway.
In the end, the jury found that Ortiz was negligent for parking on the side of the freeway in the dark without the legally required lights and emergency reflectors, and awarded plaintiff $150 million. Though the jury also found plaintiff's father partly negligent, they concluded his actions were not a substantial factor in causing the family's death. The $150 million verdict includes $8.75 million intended for the plaintiff's brother, who committed suicide on their mother's birthday before the trial began. All of the money, including the $8.75 million, will be placed in a trust for the plaintiff until she turns 18.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, there were 4,472 fatal crashes and 60,000 injuries involving large trucks (defined as a truck with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds) in 2009. The state of Texas accounted for 315 of the fatalities in 2009. Trucks accidents involving a car can be far more serious than an accidents involving two cars, largely due to the fact that a truck can weigh anywhere from 10,000 to 80,000 pounds, whereas the average weight of a car ranges from 3,000 to 5,500 pounds. At the same time, accidents involving semi-trucks and eighteen wheelers, present unique issues including, governmental regulations, unique insurance coverage issues, negligent maintenance claims, and trucking records and logs.
As seen by the facts of the case below, there are a variety of road hazards that can lead to serious car accidents, causing injuries and even death, including vehicles stopped on the side of the road and debris from other vehicles on the highway. In addition, on high-speed highways, it is not always easy for cars to make it to the shoulder, and even there, these vehicles can create a safety hazard.
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When the child dies, she lost her faith on God. Giving away some details will deprive you of the series of emotions and thoughts that you'll be experiencing upon reading the novel. But thank you for thinking of us, we really appreciate it! I thoroughly enjoyed this book and it brought out my Filipina pride. Some of them are good. But if you said that the characters almost sound the same, how were you able to distinguish them from each other? The focus was on the relationships between these four women sisters, aunts, cousins, daughters. I first learned about this book from a small commentary in one of the fashion magazines. It is a tale that Caridad in no way suspects.
The descriptions of the Philippines, and the frequent use of foreign language words gave it a unique flavor. Out of the blue Caridad's mother summons her home. Maybe I was open to it in a different way, or maybe something in her words just brought it all alive for me, but I am grateful. Was the book any good? Still, you made the book sound interesting. The voices of the four women are virtually identical, however, and sometimes lapse into cliched musings about life and love. But wow, it will stay with me for a long time! It's interesting until the last page. As Caridad hears at last the unspoken stories, and the never forgotten tragedy of the war years, she will learn a startling truth that will change her life forever.
The only letter that Caridad of Australia received, in her entire life, from Thelma of the Philippines, generated so many questions that can only be answered by going home to the Philippines. It was to help her family out of poverty, but Enrique, her husband has always known this. You read something that is like a telenovela! It's not the most well written or poetic. I'm giving this book five stars, not because it's the most profound book I've ever read. And a few parts are just similarly told like the other one I've found on another page. Have you been watching too much telenovelas lately? Why were you not satisfied? I love the way Arlene wrote about the relationship, and the background.
I guess this is also a reason why I keep reading it over and over; I find my words lost in its pages and reading them brings them to life… at least, for me. I found some of the detailed description of the war years a bit tiresome, but I did think it was a realistic way that the older women would have handled the story telling. There is a reason why they are there. Anyway, there's nothing offensively bad about this book: the writing is adequate, the imagery mostly works, there's a decent sense of place. Like a wheel that turns, sometimes it misses you,sometimes it crushes you.
As for the big secret about Caridad's origins, it's rather anticlimactic, though the moral dilemma is handled well enough, without idealizing or vilifying any of the women involved. This was another good read. They live in little pockets on the periphery of these affluent subdivisions. In 1982, she left the country while in her early 20s due to the political upheaval in Manilla. The arrangement of the story was refreshingly different, swapping between points of view as the four key characters each related their experiences, three of them telling of the same event but from vastly different perspectives. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement.
It is about acultural identity born of Spanish, Chinese, and Filipino influence. If Chai had chosen to focus on one or two aspects of the story rather than covering everything that's ever happened to everyone, it likely would have had more resonance. Not in history class, or visiting places like Corregidor and Intramuros, or reading historical books. Little did she know about who she really was and the people who held their part of the truth are now brave enough and ready to give what belongs to her. The novel illuminates much modern Philippine history. Then I turned pages more quickly with enthusiasm. My rating of this book is definitely influenced of my appreciation for the content, but it is very well written too.
It describes a lot about us, Filipino. Each perspective enriches the others thereby giving the whole further substance. It has been a long time since the last time she visited her homeland-- the Philippines. And the ending could have been better, but I guess it would suffice. She finally learns who see is just in time to see her mother leave her. I just felt that it could have been written better. She has become one of my favorite authors because of this book, and I can't wait to see what she writes about next.
She takes us to a place we have never been before. Slightly tilting my head, I can also see in spite of my great fear for heights one of the premiere hospitals in the Metro — the Makati Medical Hospital. Chai was born and educated in Manila. When she tells of life in the evacuation camps or in war-decimated Manila, however, the descriptions are sensual and palpably detailed. Caridad is a wife and mother, a native of the Philippines living in Sydney, Australia. In 1982, she migrated to Sydney with her parents and sisters and now lives in Northern Beaches.
But I did love the writing style Arlene Chai is marvellous at creating and describing settings. You mean I gave you your allowance and you spent it on an unsatisfying book? I also especially appreciated learning more about the Philippines, as well as their experience during the war. But I read a book, The Last Time I Saw Mother by Arlene J. And each day you wake up and breathe and live is but another day's reprieve from death. Since her father died, her mother wanted things to stay as they were, so the memories will at least be preserved. But after reading it, I really really thankful for decision to buy that book :D 10 rebu jaman kuliah gethuw The story is about a Philipine Woman — I think she was Chinese most of the time-, who moved to Australia with her husband. She became an advertising at George Patterson's advertising agency in 1972 and has been working there since.


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1984 v. Brave New World
In October of 1949, a few months after the release of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he received a fascinating letter from fellow author Aldous Huxley — a man who, 17 years previous, had seen his own nightmarish vision of society published, in the form of Brave New World. What begins as a letter of praise soon becomes a brief comparison of the two novels, and an explanation as to why Huxley believes his own, earlier work to be a more realistic prediction.
Trivia: In 1917, long before he wrote this letter, Aldous Huxley briefly taught Orwell French at Eton.
(Source: Letters of Aldous Huxley; Image: George Orwell (via) & Aldous Huxley (via).)
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Dear Mr. Orwell,
It was very kind of you to tell your publishers to send me a copy of your book. It arrived as I was in the midst of a piece of work that required much reading and consulting of references; and since poor sight makes it necessary for me to ration my reading, I had to wait a long time before being able to embark on Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Agreeing with all that the critics have written of it, I need not tell you, yet once more, how fine and how profoundly important the book is. May I speak instead of the thing with which the book deals — the ultimate revolution? The first hints of a philosophy of the ultimate revolution — the revolution which lies beyond politics and economics, and which aims at total subversion of the individual's psychology and physiology — are to be found in the Marquis de Sade, who regarded himself as the continuator, the consummator, of Robespierre and Babeuf. The philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it. Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtful. My own belief is that the ruling oligarchy will find less arduous and wasteful ways of governing and of satisfying its lust for power, and these ways will resemble those which I described in Brave New World. I have had occasion recently to look into the history of animal magnetism and hypnotism, and have been greatly struck by the way in which, for a hundred and fifty years, the world has refused to take serious cognizance of the discoveries of Mesmer, Braid, Esdaile, and the rest.
Partly because of the prevailing materialism and partly because of prevailing respectability, nineteenth-century philosophers and men of science were not willing to investigate the odder facts of psychology for practical men, such as politicians, soldiers and policemen, to apply in the field of government. Thanks to the voluntary ignorance of our fathers, the advent of the ultimate revolution was delayed for five or six generations. Another lucky accident was Freud's inability to hypnotize successfully and his consequent disparagement of hypnotism. This delayed the general application of hypnotism to psychiatry for at least forty years. But now psycho-analysis is being combined with hypnosis; and hypnosis has been made easy and indefinitely extensible through the use of barbiturates, which induce a hypnoid and suggestible state in even the most recalcitrant subjects.
Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience. In other words, I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency. Meanwhile, of course, there may be a large scale biological and atomic war — in which case we shall have nightmares of other and scarcely imaginable kinds.
Thank you once again for the book.
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Dr. Krishna Chivukula
1970 - M.Tech - Aerospace Engineering	Chairman @ INDO MIM Tec Pvt Ltd
Dr. Krishna Chivukula graduated with a M. Tech. in Aeronautical Engineering from IIT Madras in 1970, following a B. Tech. (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1968. He received an MBA from Harvard University in 1980, and was awarded a Doctor of Letters (D. Lit.) degree from Tumkur University in 2012.
Dr. Krishna Chivukula rapidly rose though the engineering ranks of Hoffman Industries in USA to become Chief Engineer in 1976. In 1984, after his Harvard MBA, he returned to Hoffman Industries as Group President and CEO, but left in 1990 to start his first company, Shiva Technologies Inc., in Syracuse, New York. Under his leadership, Shiva Technologies grew to # 1 position in the world in the area of trace element analysis using advanced mass spectroscopic techniques. In 1997, Shiva Analyticals Pvt. Ltd. was established in Bangalore.
Also in 1997, Dr. Krishna Chivukula brought state-of-the-art engineering manufacturing technology – metal injection molding (MIM) – to India, while it was still an emerging technology in USA, by starting a second company– INDO US MIM Tec Pvt. Ltd. — in Bangalore. Presently, INDO US MIM Tec occupies the number one position in the world in MIM technology in terms of capacity and sales, employing over 2000 highly-qualified personnel, including two Vice-Presidents who are IIT Madras alumni. The firm is the only large scale MIM industry in India, and has a projected turnover of nearly Rs. 1000 Crores. The clients are drawn from around the world, and span a range of industries including industrial, consumer and medical sectors. INDO US MIM Tec has received many international awards in recognition of excellence achieved in various categories. A third company, Gowri Ventures, was started in 2009 in Renigunta with specialization in high – precision investment castings.
Dr. Krishna Chivukula has also engaged in significant philanthropic activities. He is sponsoring a well-coordinated mid-day meal program for 2,200 primary and secondary school children in Bangalore. These children are also provided with healthcare through the Bangalore Baptist Hospital, which receives funding every month so that they can provide free or subsidized health care for poor patients. The Asha Foundation, which provides counselling and healthcare for patients afflicted with HIV/AIDS, is also supported financially. His donation of one million dollars in 2006-07 to Bangalore Baptist Hospital has funded a state-of-the-art operation theater and laboratory facilities. In 2014, he has also adopted a school at Chamarajanagar near Mysore, taking care of the entire expenses of running the school of 300 children from economically weaker backgrounds, including orphaned & destitute children.
In recognition of Dr. Krishna Chivukula's professional excellence and contributions to the community, IIT Madras and its alumni are proud to confer upon him this award.
Prof. Srikant R
Professor, @ University of Illinois
Mr. Sekhar Vasan
1975 - B.Tech - Metallurgical and Material Engineering
Managing Director @ Sansera Engineering Private Limited
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1972 - M.Tech - Aerospace Engineering
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Comelec extends COC filing deadline
By: Rosalie O. Abatayo April 20,2018 - 11:12 PM
Candidates for the Barangay and SK elections file their Certificates of Candidacy (COCs) at the Cebu City Comelec office. CDN PHOTO/JUNJIE MENDOZA
The Commision on Elections has extended the filing of Certificates of Candidacy for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) polls until 5:00 p.m. today, April 21.
In a resolution, Comelec extended the period after the National Youth Commission (NYC) expressed its concern that the number of candidates for SK positions may be insufficient to fill up the 338,584 available slots.
Comelec Provincial Election Supervisor lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano said that this extension is a fair luck to those who were not able to make the cut off yesterday.
"There was an SK line up from Camotes nga niabot almost 5 p.m. unya sayop ang ilang form. They haven't filed kay kung mag-fill out silag balik sa form kay maabtan na silag past 5 p.m., so wa gyod sila ka-file," said Castillano.
(An SK line up from Camotes arrived at almost 5 p.m. and they did not fill up the correct forms. They did not file their Certificates of Candidacy because it would take them past 5 p.m. to fill out the correct ones.)
Castillano said some candidates also arrived at their respective Comelec offices at past 5 p.m.
"Maayo ra sad ni para naa pa to sila'y chance. At least tomorrow, maka-file pa sila," Castillano said. (The extension will give them another chance to file their candidacies.)
Castillano is confident that they would make the 38,000 target number of candidates for the Barangay and SK elections (BSKE).
As of 5 p.m. yesterday, there were 30,686 candidates for the coming polls in Cebu, 1,212 of which are vying for SK chairmanship while 10,107 as SK councilors.
They are now consolidating the number of candidates who filed their COCs. While achieving the target number of candidates may not be a problem for Cebu, Castillano said violations of the anti-dynasty provision of the SK Reform Law might emerge.
He said that Comelec only checks the accuracy of the documents submitted for the COC.
It cannot investigate into whether or not the candidate is related to an incumbent official up to the second degree of consanguinity or affinity.
They will act on violations of the anti-dynasty provision only if there is a complaint filed. Castillano said those who believe that a candidate is violating the anti-dynasty provision of the law should file a complaint before the office of the Comelec within five business days after the deadline of the filing of COCs on April 21, so that the Comelec can act on it.
If a candidate who violates the anti-dynasty provision of the SK law, is elected, Castillano said that a quo warranto case must then be filed before the court to remove him from office. /With Marthy John Lubiano PIT Intern
Comelec warns of premature campaigning
TAGS: COC, Comelec, deadline, extends, filing


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Schloss Wiepersdorf with its international and interdisciplinary fellowhip program must remain closed until further notice due to the current restrictions. However, the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf will start the fellowship program in June 2020, but due to the current situation in an interactive online format. This includes encounters in virtual space with the involvement of external experts, the presentation of works on suitable platforms and a series of events via social media. The corresponding requirements are currently being developed.
This expansion will enable all artists and scholars who have been awarded a fellowship for this year to participate in the program despite the Covid 19 pandemic. A total of 15 artists and scholars from Germany and abroad, whose fellowships are funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, as well as one artist, who is funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, will take part in the online format between June and August. This ensures that the artists and scholars will be provided with the promised financial resources in the current crisis. The sustainability of this format is a central concern of the Cultural Foundation. Even in times of travel and other restrictions, it will continue to expand the range of activities, diversify opportunities for participation, bridge distances and make Schloss Wiepersdorf accessible from afar.
The project, ART IN A CONFLICTED WORLD, which will take place from September to November and whose six fellowships are financed by the German Federal Foreign Office, is also expected to be carried out in an online format. Information on all artists and scholars of this year can be found on our website www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de/en.
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With the project Zwischen Krieg und Frieden oder die Erkundung eines Zwischenraums (Between War and Peace), documentary film director Sebastian Eschenbach dedicates a video installation to the history of Wiepersdorf Castle and the region from 1945 onwards. The film is using interviews with contemporary witnesses and other people familiar with the area to uncover the different strata, especially the times of upheaval, and to investigate how these upheavals have determined the life in Wiepersdorf and the neighbouring villages to this day. The work is to be presented in two rooms on the ground floor of Schloss Wiepersdorf on the occasion of its reopening.
A trailer (in German language) can be found here.
The video installation Zwischen Krieg und Frieden, produced by the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf, is part of the project Krieg und Frieden. 1945 und die Folgen in Brandenburg – Kulturland Brandenburg 2020.
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Combine nuts, 2T butter, egg, brown sugar and vanilla and mix well. With spoon fill shells about 3/4 full. Bake for 25-30 minutes at 350F. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.


Odd rating, I know, but I wanted it to make the 9+ category. It's that good, but still, not more than that. It's a special kind of book, imo.
An older man and an older woman tell, in alternating chapters, first person accounts of their daily lives over a relatively short span of time, their interactions with animals at the London Zoo and more. They are strangers, but by coincidence they meet more than once.
William G. is middle-aged, divorced, a bookstore clerk and lives in a rooming house. He's a heavy smoker, sometimes wears a beard and makes literary connections frequently. He loves sea turtles and hates to see them caged.
Neaera H. is middle-aged and single, the successful author of children's books. Of herself she says she's "intellectual and artistic looking." She makes frequent literary connections. She loves sea turtles and hates to see them caged.
There are differences, though. William lives in a boarding house and works in a used bookshop so he has plenty of personal encounters and much of his narrative is made up of these scenarios. Neaera lives in an apartment and works as a writer so she has very few personal interactions and her narrative is primarily comprised of thinking and details about the life of her pet water-beetle. Her narrative is more like a journal while his tends to be a 1st person report on events although he does think quite a lot. The voices sound the same though, in terms of vocabulary and rhythm – I suspect that's deliberate. And the effect is that the reader has to really pay attention to whose narrative it is because it's often difficult to tell without the chapter headings.
The book is about how these two very like-minded people meet – they may, as William says, be too like-minded. Somehow William and Neaera develop a plot to free the turtles and so the book goes on this adventure with the two protagonists.
The major characters are very, very well drawn and I really "like" them all. The plot seems to drive the book although … The themes are basically coincidence and freedom, maybe instinct and fate – being set free. It actually seems to be a fate-driven book (if there is such a thing). And although the book is not at all fluffy or saccharine at all, there are occasions of sweet humor which I really enjoyed.
I really didn't want the book to end.
There was a film made of this some years ago which I remember being really good. It might be worth your while looking it out.
I don't watch movies at all – sometimes I wish I did but I always seem to have something I'd rather do. This is at the theater or at home. At home I fall asleep.


Overall synth is in very good shape, original protective plastic still on LED screen, manual has a little bit of wear, I do not have the box.
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