A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot while doing various activities. Shoes are also used as an item of decoration. The design of shoes has varied enormously through time and from culture to culture, with appearance originally being tied to function. Additionally fashion has often dictated many design elements, such as whether shoes have very high heels or flat ones. Contemporary footwear varies widely in style, complexity and cost. Basic sandals may consist
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ability to the guilotine of commercial disapibilty. Fuck i'm runnin' off track Breathless; I lie face down in a stew of my own brains Suicide, no it's not, that shits just my artistic train of thought nasty, like the lifeless fucks that can't put a foot ahead of themselves in-U-End-Oh Selfless pricks raped of dignity they deviate from star-dumb into bottles named Ass-prin, recovering from an overdose the kid lacked honesty, No I in team but there is a me, a Knight with a piece stood proud at my
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655 Avenue de l’Europe 38330 Montbonnot, France ABSTRACT INRIA [1] and LMS [2] have designed and realized an anthropomorphic legged robot, BIP2000 (fig.1). A planar version achieves walking, and the whole robot is able to keep its balance on one foot while moving. The purpose of this paper is to present the principles and the architecture of the robot control we have used. After having presented the robotic system, and the software architecture, we will detail the principles of the robot control
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two main types of serves in volleyball: The underhand serve and the overhand serve. Both types of serves can be broken down into three main components: * Serving posture: The athlete’s body position—correct weight distribution and ideal arm and foot placement—before the actual serve. * The toss: The lifting or throwing of the ball into the air before contact is made. Discussions about the toss usually focus on correct ball positioning, the ideal toss height for each type of serve, and preferred
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you look pretty. But today I am not going to talk about the women’s high heels; I am going to talk about the Chinese foot-binding, what cause it and what it affects. They have similar function but it’s different. High heels are the shoes of the foot, but the foot-binding is changing your foot’s shape as a high heel. You see the difference, one is shoes and one is foot. Chinese foot- binding started during song dynasty, it is a Chinese custom of wrapping women's feet with 10 feet long bandages in
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The Skeletal System The Skeletal System serves many important functions; it provides the shape and form for our bodies in addition to supporting, protecting, allowing bodily movement, producing blood for the body, and storing minerals. Functions Its 206 bones form a rigid framework to which the softer tissues and organs of the body are attached. Vital organs are protected by the skeletal system. The brain is protected by the surrounding skull as the heart and lungs are encased by the
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get a workout, and the muscles engaged there include our iliopsoas, tensor fasciae latae, pectineus, and adductor longus and brevis. As our feet hit the floor, normally with a heel-to-toe movement, our calves interact with our ankles to allow each foot to be pulled back on forth. This part of our walk will engage our gastrocnemius, soleus, plantaris, and tibialis posterior and
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Pg457 Q9 Loan & Wrongful Act Bob and Sally decided to open a shop providing pedicures and selling foot-care products. They called it “feet first”. They agreed that Bob would be solely responsible for performing the pedicures and Sally would be solely responsible for providing and packaging the foot-care products for sale. Mei Ling, a friend of both Bob and Sally’s, agreed to lend them $10,000 to get the business started, provided she received half of the profits at the end of the first year.
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heels at least three days a week and a third have fallen while wearing them. Statistics show that high heels are one of the biggest factors leading to foot problems in women. Michael Liebow, a podiatrist in Bethesda, pulls out an X-ray of a foot in a high-heel shoe: It reveals the ball of the foot at a 90 degree angle to the bones in the rest of the foot. That doesn’t sound very logical. He says that when people go into his office with six inch heels and say, “My feet are killing me!” he responds “That's
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standing, he had chosen to do the right thing and paid the price. He imagined the faces of the people laughing as they streamed away, and kicked the sand. He stopped abruptly when his foot hit something in the sand. Rainsford yelped in pain. Kneeling to the ground, Rainsford stared in bewilderment at what his foot had hit, it was a mummified monkey’s paw, he reached towards it. As soon as his fingers touched the paw, an odd sense of foreboding passed through him. He pocketed the item, and out of
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