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What Is The Referee Doing When He Grabs The Wrists Of A Fighter After They’ve Been Knocked Down?
First and foremost he is ensuring the fighter is lucid and responsive.
First thing he does is grab the gloves and wipe the knuckle area(s) on his shirt as they likely picked up some dirt/sand/debris from the ring floor.
He often requests the fighter tries to bring his hands up against resistance, expecting a decent push (if it is weak, he will end the fight).
He will instruct the fighter to bring his hands to the defensive position and reaffirm the fighter is lucid and in control.
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The Feet of a Female Ballet Dancer
As a dancer, I think that ballerinas have beautiful feet. However, to a non-dancer, all that is seen is a distorted and unnatural-looking foot.
In some ways they are ugly because of the extreme of work they do. The unnatural pointe work also takes its toll- not only on the skin, with blisters and wounds, but also with the bones, with stress fractures and bone spurs.
You are not your thoughts. You are your actions.
Self critical thoughts. Guilty thoughts. Thoughts about what I should have done. Fearful thoughts about what others think.
How dark are the thoughts that follow you around each day? Mine get pretty dark.
Linkage
She played Seven of Nine on Star Trek. See Jeri Ryan Now At 54 – Ned Hardy
The 30 Best ‘Simpsons’ Episodes, Ranked – Variety
How to Calm Your Nerves When You’re Freaking Out, According to Experts – Self
More than 150 priests, others in Baltimore Archdiocese abused over 600 kids, Maryland AG report says – CBS
Sometimes something comes into your life and shows you that you have been struggling needlessly. That something is this peeler – Amazon
How Rich People Get Divorced in Secret – The Cut
2 Key Signs That Your Hips Need a New Stretching Routine – Outside
Why friendship makes us healthier – BBC
Daisy Ridley Back as Rey In Star Wars: New Jedi Order, Set 15 Years After Rise of Skywalker – Screen Rant
He Played Tim in Jurassic Park. See Joseph Mazzello Now at 39 – Ned Hardy
‘Andor’: Lucasfilm Debuts First Look at Season 2 of Star Wars Prequel Series – Variety
Coolio’s cause of death revealed as fentanyl overdose – CBS
Dude. Bro. Chief. Bud. Where Do All These Guy Nicknames Come From? – Mel Magazine
How to Make Difficult Conversations Worse, as Seen on “Succession” – HBR
Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to ‘Destroy Humanity’: This Is What Happened – Motherboard
Forget Miles per Gallon. Here’s the Best Metric for Measuring a Car’s Efficiency – Popular Science
Woman Pulls HUGE Lump of Earwax From Man’s Ear (video) – Leenks
Brother choked out sister’s abusive boyfriend – Reddit
The Top 5 Sources of Household Clutter—And How to Put an End to Each Headache – Domino
Productivity Strategy: Reduce Friction, Increase Integrity, Become Simple – Brent Huras
The World Is a Book and Those Who Do Not Travel Read Only One Page
Why Do Japanese Homes Lose All Their Value After 15 Years?
Japanese homes only last an average of 30 years, and lose all of their value after 15. As a result, rather than being an investment that a family can build equity in, Japanese homewoners scrimp and save only to see what is often their life’s biggest investment lose 1/15th of its value each year. How did this come to be?
After WW2, the Japanese slapped together a lot of crudely built homes to house its population.
Those home were so shoddy that they didn’t have much resale value, years later, as it was actually cheaper to tear them down and rebuild them than to repair them. And that became kind of a “thing,” in Japan.
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The official portrait of the crew of Artemis II, the first humans set to visit the Moon in over 50 years.
In a historic move, NASA has announced its first crew of astronauts set to embark on a lunar mission in over fifty years.
Since the conclusion of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, human space exploration has been limited to distances of only a few hundred miles from Earth. However, with the upcoming Artemis mission, NASA is poised to once again land humans on the moon, with hopes of eventually paving the way to a Mars mission.
The scientific community is eagerly anticipating the discoveries that may arise from this mission, as the moon’s surface is expected to offer valuable insights into the formation of our solar system.
They are Reid Wiseman, the mission’s commander; Victor Glover, the pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and, Jeremy Hansen, also a mission specialist. The first three are NASA astronauts, while Mr. Hansen is a member of the Canadian Space Agency.
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How Do You Know If You’re In Love?
Photo by Anastasia Sklyar
“You’ll just know.” This was my mother’s vague response when I asked her how to know if you’re in love with someone, and needless to say, I was less than enthused by her response. To be honest, it seemed like a cop-out. Why, I wondered, can’t anyone seem to accurately describe what being in love feels like? We’ve all heard rom-com movie characters talk about fireworks and pop stars sing about the all-consuming obsession that comes with a new romance, but is that really love? Or is it just infatuation? How can you tell whether you’re just experiencing fiery passion or you’ve truly fallen for someone?