all participants also completed a brief 9-point questionnaire asking about prior familiarity with each of these two episodes (with 1 meaning “not at all” and 9 meaning “very much”). These data were used to split participants into those who were familiar (rating > 5) or unfamiliar (...
taking various art classes offered by community organizations such as the YMCA. She took lessons from Walt Lewis at the Stan Nossett School of Fine Art in Muncie. Margie, the perpetual student, continues learning through her involvement with the New Richmond Group and Indiana Plein Air Painters....
Humans connect through stories, find meaning in stories and remember stories far better than data. Steve Jobs once said: “The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.” And Steve Den...
Meaning one month the full moon appears above the shadow while other months appear below the zone of darkness. When the geometry is just right, the full moon hides in our planet’s shadow for up to three and a half hours. Two weeks before or after a lunar eclipse the...
Don't understand the meaning of the song? Highlight lyrics and request an explanation. Click onhighlightedlyrics to explain. Young man, there's no need to feel down. I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground. I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town ...
‘reform operas’, meaning that the music was to follow the drama and its expression. Nicolas-François Guillard’s libretto is based on Claude Guimond de La Touche’s play of the same name, but ultimately it derives from Euripides’s famous ancient Greek drama. Set shortly after the ...
study, an assessment of participants’ depression scores and fitness levels was performed before and after the intervention. Depression scores were measured using the CES-10-D and PHQ-9 depression questionnaires [6]. To evaluate participants’ current fitness levels, performance in the YMCA step ...
“I know how difficult it is to immerse yourself in [mindfulness] work and how brutal, and it requires a lot of like self-accountability and finding the right community support. I love this stuff, but I love being honest about the work that goes into this.”– YMCA stakeholder (S20) Ve...
He said, “Big enough so the people at the other end of the bar can see it when you lift up your shirt to show it off.” It was good advice for a twenty-two-year-old. Now, almost two decades later, I’m more apt to wonder how it looks as I wade into the YMCA family pool...
After a year of court hearings, the judge granted me full custody of Angie, meaning all the decisions about caring for her were up to me. There were doctors’ appointments and tantrums, nightmares and fevers, potty training and time-outs. I was her mother and her father, never feeling as...