![]() Are you unexpectedly stuck inside due to a snow day or rainy weather? Did your child’s early intervention teacher or occupational therapist recommend you work on certain skills with your child? My learning games are perfect therapy toys. Teachers use these activities in learning centers or for children who finish their work early and need a quiet activity. Do you need a quiet activity to engage your older child while your baby naps? Or perhaps you need a quiet activity for quiet time when your preschooler gives up naps? Parents also use busy bags to give to younger children while the parent is giving a lesson to the older home schooled child. Parents often find these games perfect for quiet activities at church or out and about. Do you have a longer than expected wait while waiting at a restaurant or doctor’s office? Busy bags are portable and make a great quiet activity for when your toddlers are having a difficult time sitting still and being quiet. We get out their trays and an activity and they are happy! ![]() My boys love to “play something at the table” while we cook. Parents, do you need a little time to make a phone call without a toddler hanging on you? Do you need to cook dinner….or feed the new baby? My learning activities keep children actively engaged in a healthy activity while you cook or do other tasks. ![]() Let them focus on play instead of bad behavior and you can sit down and relax and watch their little minds at work! ![]() Playing and learning with an activity is a lot more fun for both parents and children than being frustrated and disciplined. Any time my twin boys are getting a little reckless and needing a change of pace I pull out an activity for an immediate distraction from the behavior. My personal favorite way to use busy bags is to have a quick “in case of an emergency” distraction for mischievous toddlers. Instagram – See my bags in action on Instagram Adult supervision is required.įacebook – Follow me to see my new bags and sale items These bags contain small parts that may not be appropriate for children under the age of 3. Bloggers, you are welcome to write about or recreate my activities for personal use, but please link back to me. This busy bag is an original activity created by me. My learning games and sensory toys have been enjoyed by children in daycares, Montessori schools, and early intervention classrooms! My activities are perfect for toddlers and preschoolers and beneficial for individual who have special needs that need to be developed such as those with autism, sensory processing or dementia. They are classroom-quality educational toys that promote independent play that builds essential skills. Parents, early childhood teachers and occupational therapists trust my learning activities in their home, school or home school classrooms. Spatial relationships - Kids need to start with the bottom scoop of ice cream and work their way up to the top.Ĭurious Minds Busy Bags is dedicated to developing original kid-friendly learning activities for children to explore while building essential skills needed for school success. Color recognition – Kids need to recognize the differences in the colors in order to follow the pattern cards These cards are thick and classroom tough, no other cards can compare! Cards measure 4.25"x 2" and are professionally printed on 100# card stock and laminated with 5mil lamination. 8 double-sided pattern cards (16 patterns total). A plastic cone and 5 colored ice cream scoops (I have 2 different color versions of ice cream so you will get one of the 2 pictured sets)Ģ. This play food inspired learning game uses pattern cards to allow your child to create different flavor combinations for their customers!ĭraw a card and recreate the pattern using the cone and 5 scoops of ice cream.ġ. This busy bag is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers who love to pretend play in the kitchen.
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I know most people won't notice a thing but why set the game in Prague then? The developers didn't give a single microscopic fůck to make it look decent. Even things like license plates, political system of Czechia or landscape don't resemble Czechia at all. Local names, surnames and proper nouns make no sense. The language is so bad even scam ads have better Czech. Literally every poster or sign has insane typos, grammar errors, non-sensical syntax, word by word google translations. What it doesn't fail to do, is to be racist to Czechs (Mankind Divided is set in near future Prague, Czechia). The game tries to make you to sympathize with the oppressed augmented people but the game fails ultimately to do so. The game's main theme is a "racial" conflict between natural people and people augmented with software and hardware implants. In some places it just lags horribly, even on modern hardware.Īll in all, I did enjoy what felt like an inferior laggy demo of a deus ex human revolution. It's still buggy- they've never even fixed random crashes. Compared to the previous game, it felt more like a demo version. I guess I could have beaten the game in like 3 hours or less. The moment things started to get interesting- first bossfight, first conspiracy, the moment I expected to finally get out of Prague and continue to the next location. Plot? Well, I've completed a few boring intro missions, did a few side quests. While in the previous game there were a lot of high tech stuff like turrets and robots for you to hack and use, in this one there are about 5 hackable robots in the whole game. Hacking? It's there, it's represented by minigame, it's fun. The moment you stop hiding, the game becomes your generic middle of the road FPS. And, at the same time, they've nerfed it by adding multiple non-stealth attack skills. ![]() Any mission can be beaten without firing even 1 bullet. There's a ton of skills, perks, hiding spots and vents. I wish they used China, or the US like in the previous deus ex, which worked so much better. They've added a lot of tunnels, explorable buildings, etc, but the setting just didn't cut it. And the main one, Prague, just didn't work well for this futuristic setting. one? You will go to 3 missions on different maps, but they're rather small. Every aspect of it felt like a downgrade, compared to the previous part. This game is good, it's just not what I've expected. ![]() What Sounds Do Goats Make? So, what sound does a goat make? Well, goats make a “baa” sound similar to the sound a sheep makes. For instance, my french alpine makes a low hum that sounds like she is saying "mommmm. As to what the sound actually sounds like, that depends on the breed of goat. So if you have one tree cricket, you hear (imitating cricket.
![]() Unlike large ships, Royal Clipper is very inclusive, and officers and crew mingle with passengers throughout the day and guests are welcome to go on the bridge during daylight hours to chat and ask questions.įor the entire trip, and with a visibility of 30 miles to the horizon, we only saw a handful of vast container ships passing in the distance along with four plucky souls crossing the Atlantic on a yacht. ![]() Flagship Royal Clipper holds the Guinness record as the world’s largest square rigger in service and with 5,202 square metres of sails spread across five masts this classic ship powered solely by wind whenever possible.Įach day, dot on noon, three bells would sound and Captain Mariusz Szalek updated us on the progress of our 16-day 3,131 nautical mile voyage that took us from Bridgetown, Barbados, to Lisbon in Portugal, with just one stop in the Azores. It was all a world away from the stereotypical image of a transatlantic crossing, where thousands of passengers gather on mighty cruise ships to dress up in their best bib and tuckers, dine at multiple restaurants, dance the night away in glittering ballrooms, gamble and watch West End-style shows.įor people who aren’t big on ‘regular’ cruising and adore sailing or harbour a romantic notion to fleetingly run away to sea on magnificent tall ship then Royal Clipper will tick all their seafaring boxes and more.Ĭarrying just 227 passengers, and with a crew of 106, the vessel is part of the three-strong Star Clippers’ fleet which replicate the golden age of sailing with modern day comforts. It was probably no surprise we slept so well that night rocked to sleep in our cosy cabin decked out in gleaming wood and brass and with the spray of the Atlantic Ocean washing over the porthole. That night we gathered in the al fresco Tropical Bar to continue celebrating our success and deluding ourselves that we were easing any aching muscles with the aid of a Pain Killer, a potent cocktail of rum, brandy, orange juice, coconut cream and nutmeg. With another team completing the task in more than double our time, we were duly rewarded with a chocolate cake for coming second in a seafaring Olympic Games that also saw us hunting for spoons in the swimming pool, running around the swabbed teak decks in an egg and spoon race and holding aloft bottles of water for as long as we could. It was an awe-inspiring moment to see the staysail gently unfurl and exactly 1 minute and 33 seconds later start picking up the trade winds and propel the ship forward. Above the sound of the waves our team leader shouted that we needed to pull on the ‘ho’ rather than the ‘heave’ so we regrouped and seconds later were rewarded with the sight of one of Royal Clipper’s 42 sails responding to our efforts. With a collective ‘heave ho’ we tugged on the stout rope in a disjointed fashion and staggered backwards on the gently rolling deck when nothing happened. All at sea on a tall ship bound from Barbados to Lisbon (Representative image) Google India on Wednesday announced the results for its Year in Search 2021, revealing. The index shows relative volumes for each query compared to search volumes for the top. Google India has released its list of the most searched terms in India. This is testament to the influence of recent events on keywords and optimized phrases for improved channel visibility. The most searched query on Google in 2022 was Flipkart and shoes, indexed with a value of 100. Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the latter part of 2020 has seen a significant rise in the usage of queries related to the pandemic. Phrases like “near me” and “close to me” have witnessed a significant increase in their frequency of appearances in queries. Amber Heard’s trial with ex-husband Johnny Depp gained worldwide publicity and she even entered the top list of most searched people in the world on Google 2022. Searches related to local preferences are gaining momentum, rendering local SEO invaluable to promote visibility of the content. Cricket took the top spot for all searches on Google, along with pandemic-related questions, especially given the harrowing nature of the second wave this summer which crippled the countrys healthcare system. One of the major optimization strategies is to cater to the demographic of the nation, which incorporates efficient description, headline, and tag implementation. Recently, Google revealed the list of the most Googled items on its search engine in India in 2021. Like every year, this year too, Bollywood remains one of the most dominating searches. ASMR takes the 2nd spot with 2.86m searches. One of the group’s members, KSI, is also 3rd on the list. The British group that have become hugely popular for their videos of challenges, comedy sketches and video game commentaries. Hence, a sound implementation of SEO in videos has become a necessity for a successful content creating channel. Recently, Google India has declared the most searched movies of 2021 in India. The group of YouTubers, Sidemen, is the most searched term on YouTube in the UK with 3.35m searches. ![]() Click on Pin and Zoom into a city or State. ![]() Recent trends suggest an increase in consumption of video over graphic or text content. India history, culture, tourist attractions and other links of interest. It is evident in the fact that video streaming accounts for a major share of online mobile traffic across the nation. Not surprisingly, video content is witnessing exponential growth in recent years. Google has released the 2022 yearender list featuring the top searches done in India. Video content was sought out actively, also evident by the fact that the video-sharing platform had the highest share of monthly social network users in the country that same year. With IPL in the top spot in the overall 2022 Google trending search results, the Cowin app and FIFA World Cup occupied the second and third spot consecutively. These common search queries provide an insight into the Indian content consumption patterns. Followed by, queries related to cricket and online lottery betting- also known as Satta in Hindi. According to Google's search data from 2022, the most common query by Indians was 'In' along with 'video'. ![]() Make sure you start at the most visible end or corner of the space, so that if a final edger piece needs to be cut to fit, it will sit in the least noticeable area of your yard. Place your edgers snugly next to one another in the trench. Related: Edge Your Beds: 12 Easy Ideas for Landscape Borders STEP 4: Set edging in place. Remove as much gravel or other debris as possible to help keep a level edge and save time during install. When using pavers, bricks, and similar materials, fill the bottom of the trench with a 1-inch bed of sand, and pack it smooth and level. For edging to stop grass from spreading into beds, dig your trench to just below the grass root line. It is important to dig down enough for the bottom of the edging to sit slightly below the ground for a more natural look and a solid set. For example, if you use edging to form a path, think about how high the edging should be to hold your path filler (such as gravel or pavers) without creating a tripping hazard.įor most edging materials, dig a trench about 4 to 6 inches wide and 3 to 4 inches deep along your spray-painted line, or a few inches deeper and wider than your material. The best way to install landscape edging varies based on the material, use, and location in the landscape. Photo: STEP 3: Dig a trench, and fill the bottom with sand. This avoids miscalculations and accidentally infringing on a garden bed or path because 3 inches of edging material now sits on the wrong side of the mark! Or mark your border and then build forms to pour the entire length of concrete edging, curves and all.īefore making your “permanent” mark with spray paint, decide which side of the edge you are marking so that when you go to install the edging materials, you line up the correct side. 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"Then, I actually met my husband when I was in college and our first date was playing pinball over pizza and so it's kind of been a personal heart string for me."Ĭlement hopes to bring her love to pinball to other women by bring a chapter of Belles and Chimes to Tucson. You'd go in the basement and just bang around with the cousins," Clement said. My cousins had one when we lived in Iowa. "I think my very first pinball machine was when I was about 4 years old. Places like D&D Pinball, Arizonas largest pinball arcade with 30 machines, serves as a time capsule preserving childhood memories of the arcade. ![]() Clement said pinball has always been a big part of her life, so it is worth it. I've always loved pinball," Belles and Chimes participant Teresa Clement said.Ĭlement lives in Marana, but commutes to Phoenix just to be part of Belles and Chimes. Whatever your gaming needs, we have a full inventory of pinball machines and other gaming equipment. Round1 Tucson 2. 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This Bowling alley is a very good bowling center the staff is very nice the food is great and they have great deals. At The Pinball Machine Center, we take a lot of pride in the used pinball machines we offer to the public. "For a woman who is just like, hey, I'd love to jump into competitive pinball, it can be a little intimidating to walk into a room full of men who maybe don't see you as an equal pinball player. Found this great pinball joint for all us who like games by the name of D&D. It started as a way to give women a chance to play pinball, without being the only woman at competitions. ![]() Every flipper, bumper, sound effect, and display pixel has been painstakingly emulated in astonishing detail. I’ll have more on how they’re starting the first all women pinball group here in Tucson tonight on /6jyXn9P0LD- Veronika Vernachio July 20, 2019 Pinball Arcade by FarSight Studios features exact recreations of the all-time greatest pinball tables from Stern Pinball® and Gottlieb® together in one game. They’re an all women pinball group called Belles and Chimes from Phoenix. Ever thought about playing pinball competitively? Well, these women do once a month. Find local places to play pinball The Tucson Pinball Map is a high-quality user-updated pinball locator for all the public pinball machines in your area. ![]() Use these numbers as a guide for placing your feeders and keeping them from pesky squirrels. They cannot jump more than 5 feet up from the ground, 7 feet across, say, from a tree, and they do not want to drop more than 10 feet from the feeder above. If you place them near trees where the squirrels can jump on the feeders and feed themselves, then your squirrel problem is never going to go away.Īlways remember the 5-7-9 rule for squirrel protection. One thing that you can do is to reassess where you place your feeders. Let’s take a look at what these are so you’ll know how to keep squirrels out of bird feeders. There also might be some bird feeders that are made specifically for avoiding this very incident. ![]() 10 Ways: How To Squirrel Proof Bird Feederīelow are some tips that will teach birdwatching enthusiasts how to squirrel proof your bird feeders. You don’t appreciate squirrel’s behavior around your bird feeders and that’s why you start to search for a squirrel-proof bird feeder to eliminate or minimize squirrel theft while still being able to attract specific types of birds. The problem lies, however, in the frequency of their visits, their greedy appetites, and the occasional attitudes. It may seem that there should be no problem with squirrels having a little birdseed or suet to nourish themselves for the day. Some of the best birdseed like black oil sunflower seeds, suet, and nuts are just as attractive to squirrels as they are to birds. The first thing we have to talk about is why exactly squirrels steal the feed in your feeders. ![]() What is up with Squirrels and Bird Feeders? It still very much depends on your situation. Always remember though, that some of these tips and product suggestions might not work for everyone. There will be products along the way that will help you out. Here, we will give you some tips on how to do exactly that. There are multiple ways in how to squirrel proof bird feeders. There is nothing worse than buying expensive bird feed that just ends up getting eaten by squirrels! This drives me nuts and has lead me on the quest of finding “how to squirrel proof bird feeder” solutions. I’m talking about those pesky squirrels that steal the food of the birds you are trying to feed. However, there are times that it just gets on your nerve.
![]() In other aerobic-dominant activities, though, muscular endurance may be a limiting factor. ![]() You’d need to focus on aerobic endurance training.Ī competent marathoner may become a much better runner and lower their injury risk by increasing muscular endurance, but aerobic endurance is the core fitness quality required to finish a marathon in the first place. If you can’t finish a marathon, no amount of muscular endurance training will make it possible. That means the limiting factor was their inadequate aerobic fitness, not a lack of endurance in the muscle fibers of their legs. On the other hand, someone who is unable to finish a marathon can probably still walk shortly after their failed attempt. Increasing your aerobic fitness would be totally irrelevant to doing lots of pushups. Instead, it’s most likely because all the muscle fibers that allow you to perform a pushup finally became exhausted.Īnd to get better at the maximum pushup test, you’d need to practice doing high-rep pushups. If you’re attempting to do as many pushups as possible, when you reach your limit, it’s not because you had to stop and catch your breath. Here’s the technical definition of muscular endurance as a fitness quality: “the ability of muscles to remain active for extended periods of time while resisting or recovering from fatigue.”Īs an illustration, let’s examine the differences between the maximum pushup test (a pure muscular endurance activity) and a marathon. The goal of muscular endurance training is to perform more reps or keep a muscle group active for a longer period of time. Sample Muscular Endurance Training Program.The Top 10 Muscular Endurance Exercises & Activities. TypeĢ023-24 New York Knicks Salary Cap Totals Teams that spend over the threshold pay fines (estimated below). ![]() Typeĭenotes the Knicks current standing in terms of the luxury tax threshold. The "credit" balance remains as an exception that can be used within the next year to acquire salary via trade without further relinquishing additional salary. Trade Exception Details becomes available when a team relinquishes more salary than it acquires during a trade. It can be used for contracts up to 2 years in length. Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception Details is awarded annually to teams who are above the cap but below the Luxury Tax Apron ($172,346,000) and can be used for contracts up to 4 years in length.īi-Annual Exception Details is available to any teams who are below the Luxury Tax Apron ($172,346,000), and did not use this exception in the previous season. Exceptions can be split up for multiple player signings, however only one of these exceptions may be used in a season and they cannot be combined. Player (1)Įxceptions are essentially "grants" offering teams an additional way to sign players. These figures are not counted toward a team's Luxury Tax Allocation. ![]() Renouncing these cap holds will NOT afford the team any new cap space. Since the Knicks are currently over the league salary cap, these cap holds do not count against their Total Cap figure. Player (2)Ĭap holds represent "placeholders" for pending free agents, unsigned draft picks, offer sheets, etc. Two-way salaries do not count against a team's Total Cap/Tax Allocations. Players signed to Two-Way contracts that are currently designated to G-League affiliate. |
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