Who helps the village kids?
My favorite day of the week in Kenya was always Sunday. I loved watching the kids dress up in their Sunday best - adorable dresses with an assortment of other mismatched things such as tights, shoes, and sweaters. I loved watching them all worship in church - they sang so freely, so joyfully. They would give testimonies and pray and have huge smiles on their faces. They had so much emotion... they danced, jumped around, skipped. It was inspiring. And I loved the culture differences. My favorite was seeing a toddler carrying a baby to church. One village boy had his baby sister with him all day! Keep in mind, the parents weren't there.
But most of all, I fell in love with the village kids. I still remember the first Sunday after church. The village kids were scared of me at first and ignored all of my questions. But, by the end of the day, thanks to my persistence, we were all great friends :) We played a soccer game and many other random games. Even though there was a language barrier, we somehow managed. The games consisted of dancing, running, tagging, laughing, cheering, shouting, falling down, etc. They loved to hold my hand and be in pictures. They were especially fond of my hair and played with it for hours - they were fascinated by my earrings and arm hair too. I noticed their ragged, dirty clothes and their shoes that were often the wrong size and on the wrong foot. Often, their shoes are too big so that they can grow into them - this makes it so the family doesn't have to buy more than one pair. I loved spending time with them... I can't even describe the joy I felt. They were so energetic and ALIVE. I could have played with them forever. One of the most precious moments was when we all held hands in a circle and ran around singing a song about Jesus.
The second week at church I was so happy when Margaret, one girl I was especially attached to, remembered me. Her and her friends came and sat by me during the service while Sharon sat on my lap. Afterwards, I played with all of them for the afternoon and it was SO much fun! I loved hearing about their dreams - one girl wanted to be a DJ, another a singer, and others wanted to be teachers, doctors, etc. It broke my heart that I couldn't help them achieve their goals. I came to the realization that the kids at IAA are actually better off than the village kids in many ways. I thought to myself... who helps the village kids? Most of them go to school, but not all. When they're not at school or church, they're always working for their family on the farm since most families live off of about $1.00 a day. I can't even fathom my life being like that - having no free time. I'm SO grateful that IAA opens their gates to the village kids on Sundays.... it gives them a chance to just be kids for once and have FUN! I was so thankful I was able to give them attention and love them and be their friend. Margaret is in the second grade and I'm praying for her future. I noticed the sweater she was wearing that week had a huge hole in it and it was all unraveling. The village families don't buy new clothes. Despite any hardships they face... they are SO joyful. They loved seeing videos of themselves - they would sing and dance and kept asking for me to sing a song for them. They loved asking about my life and family. One kid asked if I knew Obama which made me laugh. I wish I could have spent more time with them than just Sunday afternoons. I experienced an indescribable joy when I was with them. I loved being able to include all of the kids - the shy ones joined in on our games by the end of the day. I let all of them try to use my camera which they loved! And that made for some interesting pictures.. ha. They were SO sweet and would bring my jacket to me if I left it somewhere.
It broke my heart though when I felt that these kids and families need help too - but they get ignored. The orphanages help the orphans... but who helps the village kids? I feel like they go unnoticed and are forgotten. It is not even about the material things. Yes, the orphanage provides water for them and opens up their gates when medical teams come. Yes, they let the village kids come to the nursery school. But... these children need to be LOVED. They need attention. And, I wished I could help them with their school work - the kids at IAA are blessed to be around volunteers and staff who speak or understand English. The exams to get into high school are all in English so in order to pass, they need to understand it very well. The kids at IAA grow up with English around them... but the village kids don't have this same advantage. I wanted to help them with their schoolwork... education is almost all they have. It determines their future in so many ways.
The last Sunday was so difficult for me. The only way I was able to get through it and be in peace was knowing that God has a perfect plan for each of the village kids. I miss their energy, smiles, laughs, and being able to hold their hands and run around with them. Every Sunday at home now, I think back to the memories with these kids. During worship, I can't help but miss the joyful songs and praises of those in Kenya.
I remember Margaret held my hand during the entire church service that last Sunday. And I thought back to the first Sunday when she wouldn't even acknowledge my presence.... and I realized how far we had come. I recognized the walls and barriers that love had broken down. She was able to trust me as a friend and even show it through holding my hand, following me all day, and hugging me. Saying bye was terrible - I cried so hard. I wrote her a note and had one of the older girls translate it for her.... I'm not sure how much she was able to do. The note talked about how much I loved her and how much God loved her. It said how I'm going to miss her so much and will be praying for her and her future. It said how I hope she continues to work hard in school and that God has an amazing future planned for her. It said how I couldn't wait for the day I would get to come back and play games with her again. I also gave her one of my red headbands that she loved to play with and lots of jolly ranchers to eat. They kept asking when I was coming back and it was so hard not knowing the answer to that. I could tell Margaret was so upset... she looked like she was going to cry when I said bye and she was so quiet. I kept hugging her - I know she treasured the note and she wore the headband home.
I still think about the village kids all the time. I miss the joy in my heart I felt when I was with them. I miss playing hide and seek with them - they would ALL follow me wherever I hid. I miss running around with them until I felt like I was going to pass out from tiredness. I miss the way they held my hand - I could literally FEEL the love. I want to be able to find joy in everything like they do. I want to be able to live simply. I want to be able to praise God NO MATTER WHAT - and mean it. Not praise Him because I'm supposed to... but because I literally take joy in Him and don't let my circumstances define me. HE defines me.
I want to know who helps the village kids. I know God does. But who else?
Let this life be used for change"


Video of Why Volunteer with COVER?
Volunteering With Cover is a video made by "COVER Stories" students about a group of Dartmouth Outing Club members making a home more accessible.
College students can learn a lot by leaving campus and helping people whose homes are in need of repair, says Terry Osborne, a senior lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program and the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric who every spring teaches a course that gives his class an opportunity to do just that.
It's called "COVER Stories: Community Building and the Environment." Partnering with COVER, a nonprofit home repair organization based in White River Junction, Vt., small teams of students spend time off campus either helping to improve a property or working in the COVER store, which sells donated building materials and household goods at low cost. The students also interview COVER staff and clients to create stories, podcasts, and videos that COVER plans to include in its newsletters and on its website.
His students say the community service broadens their view of everyday life beyond Dartmouth.
"The educational idea behind this work is that by venturing beyond the classroom walls, not only are students reminded that there is a world beyond the Dartmouth campus; there is a world out there where the ideas they are studying are being applied in different contexts in complicated ways," Osborne said at the last class, when they presented their final projects while sharing lunch with members of the COVER community.
One of those videos, shown above, by Michelle Wang '21, Lizzie Thoni '21, Sophia Domingo '20, and Alex Wong '21, shows members of the Dartmouth Outing Club helping to build a ramp for COVER client Ted Van Cleef, who tells them, "This is something I really need." Before the ramp was built, Van Cleef says, he had to crawl to get to his car.
For Anoush Khan '21, COVER opened a window into the lives of four people he might otherwise never have met. One couple, Terri and Rose Wheeler, was having trouble heating their drafty house, so a crew helped them weatherize it.
After COVER helped to lower their fuel costs, the Wheelers decide to return the favor by becoming volunteers themselves.
For another podcast, Khan's team profiles Alice and Gary Lohutko, who needed an exterior ramp to make their home more accessible. Alice had become despondent about being housebound because of a disability. "When the work was finished," the team writes, "Alice burst into tears. 'I can't tell you how much this has changed my life. I had no reason to live before.'" Thanks to the new ramp, the Lohutkos can get to medical appointments and to the local library.
Partridge says she was reluctant at first to participate in the class project but found Hubble surprisingly easy to talk to. Jones nods. "It's easy to communicate over a shared task," she says.
"COVER Stories" class is supported by the Dartmouth Center for Social Impact.
I hope our stories provide hope, so that if someone is going through a hard time, they'll turn to COVER for support.


Do you want to earn extra money for a shopping spree?
Need help paying your monthly expenses like rent?
These are all great examples of how to benefit using Wander Jewelry.
The boxes on the left you can see the suggested retail price and in the boxes on the right you can find how much you will make depending on how many bracelets you sell.


I have been teaching yoga to persons with Multiple Sclerosis for 10 years and I have had many of the same amazingly dedicated students for these 10 years. They come to class even though they may be in pain, having difficulty walking, suffering fatigue, anxiety and/or depression and, they leave the class feeling great with comments like, "I feel much better now", or "this is the closest to pain free I have been in many years". It's these smiling faces and these powerful words that keep me believing in the power of yoga and all it has to offer to persons with disabilities. This is the reason I partnered with Chuck Burmeister, a fellow yoga teacher, who also has MS, to create a DVD, "Yoga for Multiple Sclerosis". Through this DVD, we can offer yoga to those who live in other areas and may not have access to MS yoga classes or who may be afraid to try yoga or have difficulty getting out of the house. You can purchase our DVD through my blog site as well as through Amazon. You can connect with us on our Facebook Page, Real Yoga, LLC.
We currently have a marketing team from Heidelberg University conducting a survey for persons with MS and or their care-givers. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey so we can continue to help those with MS.


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St. Louis Alderwoman Cara Spencer First to Challenge Krewson for Mayor
Posted By Danny Wicentowski on Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 3:27 PM
DANNY WICENTOWSKI
Alderwoman Cara Spencer wants to roll into the mayor's office in 2021.
St. Louis city's next mayoral election isn't until April 2021, but — presuming we all survive 2020 — we now know the primary showdown against Mayor Lyda Krewson will include Alderwoman Cara Spencer.
Spencer, who represents the 20th Ward, announced her candidacy today during an appearance on St. Louis on the Air. In a subsequent tweet, she wrote that "Our government has been on autopilot for decades," and that "It's time to throw the typewriters out of City Hall."
Our government has been on autopilot for decades. Our city deserves better. It's time to change course. It's time to throw the typewriters out of City Hall. Today I'm announcing my candidacy to become the next mayor of the City of St. Louis. Lets #FixSTLhttps://t.co/pwfdyXK6LS
— Cara Spencer (@CaraSpencerSTL) January 13, 2020
First elected in 2015, Spencer has played the role of watchdog and activist, most recently in her long campaign against the city's now-ended exploration to privatize the airport. In that role, Spencer's push for a public vote on the issue failed to pass as a bill in the Board of Aldermen, but her outspoken opposition lent momentum to the various elected and citizen groups that fought the privatization plan. Spencer was eventually vindicated in December, when Krewson announced that the city would not consider private proposals for taking over airport operations.
In another high-profile fight, Spencer sued the owners of the St. Louis Blues in 2017 in an attempt to stop the city from putting a $107 million stadium renovation on the backs of taxpayers. That attempt failed, due in no small part of the Blues' lawyers threatening to sue Spencer for legal fees, even though the massive giveaway wasn't supported by the stadium lease.
Spencer may have lost that fight, but in her campaign announcement, the alderwoman says she wants to "live in a city that works."
Then again, Spencer may not be the only challenger waiting in the wings. The mayoral contest will almost certainly come down to the Democratic primary in March 2021. In the 2017 election, a field of field major candidates ended in Krewson winning by a razor-thin margin over Treasurer Tishaura Jones.
To date, Jones has not clarified her plans for 2021 — but she hasn't been entirely silent. About an hour after Spencer declared her candidacy, Jones retweeted Ward 25 Democratic committeewoman Lori Lamprich.
Along with a tea-sipping gif, Lamprich had tweeted, "I, for one, am excited to get to work electing @tishaura as Mayor of St. Louis next year."
I, for one, am excited to get to work electing @tishaura as Mayor of St. Louis next year. pic.twitter.com/Y6fWhruUf5
— Lori Lamprich (@el_Lamprich) January 13, 2020
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McKerrow Island Hut - Remote Backcountry Shelters on Waymarking.com
McKerrow Island Hut
Quick Description: Located on McKerrow Island at the head of Lake McKerrow - South Island of New Zealand
Waymark Code: WM57D
Published By: StagsRoar
Lake McKerrow is situated on the Back-side of the Pembroke Wilderness area of Fiordland and is part of the Lower Hollyford River watershed. The Island at the head of the lake is formed by the Hollyford River as it enters the lake turning west then north as it flows into the lake with a flood channel continuing straight north where the river bends west - the Island thereby fronts onto the lake on it's north side with its south and west side being the river and the east side being the flood channel. This flood channel needs to be waded to access the Island and therefore some homework will need to be done before intending to venture there as if the Hollyford River is high then the flood channel will most likely be unwadable. As it was when I crossed it the Hollyford was not high yet the flood channel depth was still approx 100cms+ deep. On this 1km x 1km island is the McKerrow Island hut. Access to it is approx 9hrs from the road end of Gunns Camp off the Milford Road and is part of the Hollyford - Martins Bay - Pyke River walk. Alabaster Hut is approx 3 hrs further back on the Pyke watershed. If the flood channel is to high to cross then you do actually have the option of carrying on to the Demon Trail Hut which is another few hours walk further up the east side of the lake. For the most part the McKerrow Is hut is the lesser used of the trail as most people do tend to carry on over the Demon Trail as part of their pilgrimage to Martins Bay on the coast. Mckerrow Island is as stated approx 1km x 1km (maybe a little bigger) and is densely wooded with native Kowhai Trees making the birdsong of a morning and through the day melodic with Native Birds such as Tui & Bellbird. The Island itself is approx 15 kms from the sea yet I have seen seals venture here in search of trout and salmon which frequent the lake and river. Dolphins are not unheard of on Lake Mckerrow either as they venture up the Lower Hollyford river for similar purposes. The Hut itself is a 12 bunk hut with an adequate open fireplace so bring your own cooking gear and candles. Good information on this walk and others like it can be found in the book 'Moirs Guide South' which I would advocate as recommended reading. Treat the hut and surrounding bush with respect. Go easy on the firewood which can sometimes be found in the form of driftwood around the Islands brim.
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We are extremely proud of our achievements to date which include strong academic results at both GCSE and A Level, an Ofsted Good rating in May 2017 under a far tougher inspection framework, and a multi-million pound programme of on-going investment which most recently has led to the creation of a state-of-the-art floodlit 3G sports provision for our students.
Gospel values lay at the heart of our Catholic community, and our motto 'Aspire to be More' not only recognises our patron St Thomas More, but encompasses the aspirations we have for all our students. We encourage them to be the best they can be, and work hard to provide them with the inspiring, happy and caring environment they need to achieve that.
Guided by our values of faith, excellence and respect, a 'can-do' culture permeates everything we do as I firmly believe nothing is impossible. No matter what background you come from, education can make a positive impact on your life chances. We aim for the highest standards of behaviour, achievement and pastoral care to ensure your child can thrive, and as a part of the All Saints Catholic Collegiate and the Trinity Sixth Form partnership we can offer a seamless education from reception through to sixth form.
Our standards and traditional values are reflected throughout the culture of our Academy, from our uniform policy to the level of respect we expect between staff and students, our school rules and how students conduct themselves while at school. We make no apologies for this, because our aim is to create a happy working environment which allows our students to grow in confidence and achieve their full potential.
Our partnership with parents and the wider community is an essential part of our success, reflected in the excellent relationships we enjoy with our parent body. We welcome you to come and visit us and see for yourself what we have to offer your child, and I look forward to discussing their future with you.
St Thomas More Catholic Academy is part of the All Saints Catholic Collegiate, a Multi Academy Company (MAC) consisting of one secondary school and four primary schools: St Thomas More Catholic Academy, St Gregory's Catholic Academy, St Maria Goretti Catholic Academy, St Augustine's Catholic Academy, Our Lady's Catholic Academy. Details of these schools can be found on the Collegiate website.
To provide a seamless Catholic education for all children and young people aged 0-19 years.
To provide wider educational opportunities for children and young people to achieve and excel throughout their educational life.
Work collaboratively to protect and preserve Catholic education in this area of the city.
At St Thomas More Catholic Academy is also part of the Trinity Sixth form partnership in which we work collaboratively with two other Catholic high schools to provide a broad sixth form experience for our students.
Further details regarding All Saints Catholic Collegiate governance can be found following this link.
All Saints Catholic Collegiate Annual Accounts and Financial statements can be viewed here.


Congratulations to Richard Haines and his friend Neil Davies ran 1 hour 51 and 1 hour 50 respectively for KHMT whilst raising the wonderful sum of £500. It was Neil's first half marathon and he has now got the running bug and has subsequently entered the Bracknell and Windsor Half Marathons and is contemplating his first Triathlon in June!! Thank you to both Richard and Neil.


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Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC to Pay $56.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Drug Marketing and Promotion Practices
Whistleblower to RECEIVE $5.9 Million of the recovery
Seattle Whistleblower and Qui Tam Attorneys report that Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC will pay $56.5 million to resolve civil allegations that it violated the False Claims Act as a result of its marketing and promotion of several drugs. Shire, located in Wayne, Pennsylvania, manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, including Adderall XR, Vyvanse and Daytrana, which are approved for the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Pentasa and Lialda, which are approved for the treatment of mild to moderate active ulcerative colitis.
"Patients and health care providers must receive accurate information about available prescription drugs so that they can make safe and informed treatment decisions," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Joyce R. Branda for the Justice Department's Civil Division. "The Department of Justice will be vigilant to hold accountable pharmaceutical companies that provide misleading information regarding a drug's safety or efficacy."
The settlement resolves allegations that, between January 2004 and December 2007, Shire promoted Adderall XR for certain uses despite a lack of clinical data to support such claims and overstated the efficacy of Adderall XR, particularly relative to other ADHD drugs. Among the allegedly unsupported claims was that Adderall XR was clinically superior to other ADHD drugs because it would "normalize" its recipients, rendering them indistinguishable from their non-ADHD peers. Shire allegedly stated that its competitors' products could not achieve similar results, which the government contended was not shown in the clinical data that Shire collected. Shire also allegedly marketed Adderall XR based on unsupported claims that Adderall XR would prevent poor academic performance, loss of employment, criminal behavior, traffic accidents and sexually transmitted disease. In addition, Shire allegedly promoted Adderall XR for the treatment of conduct disorder without approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The settlement further resolves allegations that, between February 2007 and September 2010, Shire sales representatives and other agents allegedly made false and misleading statements about the efficacy and "abuseability" of Vyvanse to state Medicaid formulary committees and to individual physicians. For example, one Shire medical science liaison allegedly told a state formulary board that Vyvanse "provides less abuse liability" than "every other long-acting release mechanism" on the market. However, the government contended that no study Shire conducted had concluded that Vyvanse was not abuseable, and, as an amphetamine product, the Vyvanse label included an FDA-mandated black box warning for its potential for misuse and abuse. Shire also made allegedly unsupported claims that treatment with Vyvanse would prevent car accidents, divorce, arrests and unemployment.
Additionally, the settlement resolves allegations that from April 2006 to September 2010, Shire representatives improperly marketed Daytrana, administered through a patch, as less abuseable than traditional, pill-based medications, and, for part of this period, improperly made phone calls and drafted letters to state Medicaid authorities to assist physicians with the prior authorization process for prescriptions to induce these physicians to prescribe Daytrana and Vyvanse.
Finally, the settlement resolves allegations that between January 2006 and June 2010, Shire sales representatives promoted Lialda and Pentasa for off-label uses not approved by the FDA and not covered by federal healthcare programs. Specifically, the government alleged that Shire promoted Lialda off-label for the prevention of colorectal cancer.
"Marketing efforts that influence a doctor's independent judgment can undermine the doctor-patient relationship and short-change the patient," said U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. "Where children's medication is concerned, it can interfere with a parent's right to clear information regarding the risks to the safety and health of their child. Shire cooperated throughout this investigation and, in advance of this settlement, began to correct its marketing activities."
"This settlement represents another important step in our fight against fraud in federally-funded healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid," said U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon for the Northern District of Illinois. "The Shire settlement returns funds not only to the U.S. government but also to the individual states whose health care programs rely in part on the efficacy of jointly-funded programs like Medicaid. We will continue doing everything in our power to combat fraud and ensure the integrity of our healthcare programs."
As a result of today's $56.5 million settlement, the federal government will receive $35,713,965, and state Medicaid programs will receive $20,786,034.
"Our agency will continue to hold drug companies responsible for seeking to boost profits using false and misleading claims about products, such as the powerful medications prescribed to children and other drugs at issue in this settlement," said Chief Counsel to the HHS Inspector General Gregory E. Demske. "We entered into a corporate integrity agreement with Shire that requires comprehensive compliance safeguards, oversight of Shire promotional activities, and compliance certifications from Shire's board of directors and management."
The allegations resolved by the settlement arose from a lawsuit filed by Dr. Gerardo Torres, a former Shire executive, and a separate lawsuit filed by Anita Hsieh, Kara Harris and Ian Clark, former Shire sales representatives. The lawsuits were filed under the False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions, which permit private parties to sue for false claims on behalf of the government and to share in any recovery. Torres will receive $5.9 million.
The lawsuits are captioned United States ex rel. Torres v. Shire Specialty Pharmaceuticals, et al., No. 08-4795 (E.D. Pa.) and United States ex rel. Hsieh, Harris, and Clark v. Shire PLC, et al., No. 09-6994 (N.D. Ill.). The claims resolved by the settlement are allegations only; there has been no determination of liability.
Source: Dept. of Justice


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Tadeusz Piotrowski (ur. 11 lipca 1940 w Warszawie, zm. 18 listopada 2019 tamże) – polski żeglarz, inżynier, pracownik naukowy, olimpijczyk z Monachium 1972.

Karierę sportową rozpoczynał od uprawiania lekkoatletyki w LZS Mazowsze i AZS Politechnika Warszawska. Żeglarstwo regatowe zaczął uprawiać w 1963 roku w klubie AZS Politechnika. Żeglował w klasach Latający Holender, Finn, Dragon.

Na igrzyskach olimpijskich w 1972 (żeglarstwo było rozgrywane w Kilonii) wystartował w klasie Dragon (partnerami byli: Aleksander Bielaczyc, Lech Poklewski). Polska załoga zajęła 20. miejsce.

W roku 1973 zdobył tytuł międzynarodowego mistrza Szwajcarii w klasie Dragon (partnerami byli: Aleksander Bielaczyc i Lech Poklewski).

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Urodzeni w 1940
Zmarli w 2019
Pochowani na Cmentarzu na Służewie przy ul. Renety w Warszawie
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to go into all the world and share the Good News!
Exercise at a stop during the long drive back to Colorado.
Dance party on the bus to some new songs!
from a very special person.
wonderful evening of worship together.
Recording the new His Little Feet CD!
Auntie Katie cooking bacon on the porch!
watch the big Brazil versus Honduras soccer match.
The boys got to sit inside a state trooper's car!
Officer Biniyam is ready for anything – look out!
Colorado flag. Thank you Auntie Christy!
Thank you for an incredible weekend of ministry.
Gods promise that He will never leave us.
Our final concert at Ellerslie.
to continue to share the Gospel with those around them.
'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you.


Gratitude Journal | Tools for Peace.
From rushing out of the house in the morning, to the last bell, it's easy to get caught up in the ever-changing flow of victories and defeats that comprise a school day. For teachers and students alike, it can feel as if life is lived from one bell/assignment/quiz/social interaction to the next. We're usually not in the habit of just appreciating things, moment to moment. It can be hard to remember to stop and note whatever we feel positively about, so, with this tool, we deliberately build in some time in the school day to focus on gratitude.
When we find something to be grateful for, everything shifts. It can turn our attitude around from feeling overwhelmed or isolated, to feeling connected and supported.
We have a section on gratitude in the free Stop, Breathe & Think: Mindfulness Activities for the Classroom PDF that includes a gratitude meditation, group discussion questions, and journal prompts. Below we'll walk through how we teach the gratitude lesson in our Tools for Peace classrooms.
After checking in with the Check-In Worksheet, we jump into a group discussion or Circle Chart to create a working definition of gratitude. Then we practice the gratitude meditation, either by reading the script, or playing the recording from the Stop, Breathe & Think app. The meditation is great because it helps everyone to slow down, and connect, in whatever way they can, to their own genuine feelings of appreciation and thankfulness.
After the meditation, we set aside a few minutes for a short check-in and share. If the group is open and sharing a lot, we'll give a little more time for discussion before moving into the gratitude journal. The students love the journal because the prompts are very specific, starting with something simple like listing the everyday material things we are grateful for, why they are important, and how they make us feel, and then going deeper into thinking about our own unique qualities, talents, and skills.
The Gratitude Journal continues with writing about the people in our lives. We describe why we are grateful for them, how we feel when we think of them, and even find something we are grateful for in a person that we find difficult to be around. Then we share at least one thing from our journals.
Through sharing what we're grateful for in the classroom setting, students, as well as teachers, find commonalities with one another, which can promote compassion, calmness, and camaraderie, a great environment for learning.
Froh's studies found that kids who kept a Gratitude Journal every day for two weeks were more appreciative than those who didn't, as well as more optimistic and more satisfied with their lives.
If you are using the Check-In Worksheet in your class, you can add any number of the Gratitude Journal prompts to your mindfulness routine. In most classes we focus on a single prompt each week, giving students time to dig deep into each subject.
If you are interested in adding the Gratitude Journal, we have created a guide for you and we'd love to hear how it goes in your classroom. Download the free "Stop, Breathe & Think: Mindfulness Activities for the Classroom" PDF HERE.
Please leave a comment on Facebook or Twitter and tell us how it goes!


Haven't been here in a long while, but thought I'd share something I finished up here recently.
This was made for one of the expats here at work. Chunk of my oroshigane. Handle is birds' eye maple with a stainless spacer and ebony.
I really need to figure out how to take better pictures.
Love the damascus tipe pattern of the steel. Beautiful!
Beautiful. Did you smelt the steel?
my God, that is one sweet knife! I love it.


English speakers love to play with words. Sometimes, we create new words because English doesn't have the word we want. There are some patterns people use to make new adjectives. These patterns don't make "official" words. You won't find the new words in dictionaries, but they can be fun for conversations with friends.
The apartment is ok, but not wonderful.
It's not very cold, but it's also not warm.
The person looks tired, but the speaker wants to be polite.
The type of fun will be soccer-related.
This person didn't want the feeling of a restaurant.
The woman had too much make-up on her face.
Remember, these adjectives aren't actual English words, but they help people casually communicate.
Can you make a new English adjective?
Expressões idiomáticas em inglês: That'll be the day.


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The Anglican Centre in Rome: promoting Christian unity in a divided world
The Anglican Centre in Rome is a permanent Anglican Communion presence in 'the Eternal City' and its Director, currently Canon David Richardson, is the Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative to the Holy See
'The Council is drawing to its end; but the work of Christian Unity is but beginning.' So spoke Bishop John Moorman as the Second Vatican Council was concluding in December, 1965. 'We outside the communion of the Roman Church have for long been occupied in prayer, in dialogue and in effort for the union ofourrespective Churches.Now, with the entry of the Roman Catholic Church into this field, we realise that the Ecumenical Movement has taken on a new dimension. At last we can say that the whole Christian world is engaged in the search for that unity for which Our Blessed Lord prayed.'
Moorman, Bishop of Ripon, was responding on behalf of all the ecumenical observers at the Council to a speech by Pope Paul VI in which the Pope addressed them as 'Dear Observers, or rather let us call you by the name which has sprung to life again during these four years of the Ecumenical Council: Brothers and Friends in Christ'.
In 1966, a mere three months after the conclusion of the Council, a visionary generation opened a centre in Rome that would begin the task of building friendships, trust and mutual knowledge between Anglicans and Roman Catholics. They called it the Anglican Centre in Rome and today, almost fifty years later, it stands as they intended, as a centre of hospitality, education and worship, for committed ecumenists and pilgrim travellers.
The Centre today
Occupying an apartment in a palace in the historic heart of Rome, the Centre houses a library – some 14,000 volumes – of Anglican theology, the core of it given by Bishop Moorman whose vision of the Centre as a place where Roman Catholics might learn about Anglicanism was realized from the outset. At the dedication of the Centre in March 1966, Archbishop Michael Ramsey said: 'The Anglican student is often a debtor to writers within the Roman Catholic Church. This Centre is an attempt to repay that debt by making available the resources of Anglican learning to any who will come to enjoy them.' The library is home also to the documents of the theological–ecumenical dialogue, the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), now in its third phase.
Worship is at the heart of the Centre's life. In addition to the daily round of prayer, the Eucharist is celebrated in the chapel on Tuesdays, its congregation of local Christians and visitors from all parts of the world staying on to enjoy prosecco and pranzo (lunch) together.
A gathering place
Courses on spirituality, church history and ecumenism, three or four times a year, utilize the resources of the Eternal City. So for example, in Lent 2013, Dr Paula Gooder's explorations of the four Gospel accounts of Holy Week will be complemented by visits to a rich gallery of Christian sites and art.
A periodical, Centro, is published in hard copy twice a year and is available online. The past five years have seen the ACR website <www. anglicancentreinrome.org> upgraded to make it a more effective instrument of communication.
A gathering place for pilgrim groups and often also a venue for diocesan senior staff meetings from the Church of England, the Centre offers spiritual and intellectual renewal for visitors to Rome, individuals and groups, and a unique insight into the palimpsest that is the Eternal City.
'So we came away feeling that in many mysterious ways the Holy Spirit was seeping into every corner of his universal church with his crystal clear pure water of hope and the privilege of seeing what a lot of doors have been opened and are being kept open by the Anglican Centre to let that water in at ground level.'
Mark Stephens Course attender
Ecumenical vocation
The Centre supports the work of ARCIC, IARCCUM (the International Anglican Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission), the national Anglican-Roman Catholic Commissions (ARCs) and other ecumenical networks and institutions. The Anglican Co-Chair of ARCIC is always a member of the Board of Governors of the Centre.
Since the Anglican Centre's inception the role of Director has been combined with that of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative to the Holy See. Successive Directors have established friendships and trust
at the highest levels of the Vatican. The Anglican Communion is the only Christian body to have such a representation in Rome accredited by the Holy See.
Increasingly, because of its unique ecumenical vocation and its position at the heart of the Roman Catholic world, the Anglican Centre has also become a focal point of intraAnglican unity. Here Anglicans from widely different theological and ecclesiological perspectives come to work and talk together, to pray and worship together and to learn that what unites them is far more – and more important – than what divides them.
'The Anglican Centre has become both a focus for creative encounter between Anglicans and Roman Catholics and a major resource for Anglicans of very varied background and conviction. It is a vital gift to the Communion and to the whole ecumenical enterprise.'
+Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury
The Centre focuses and embodies the Anglican yearning for the visible unity of the Church and the time when full Eucharistic fellowship may be restored. Its Governors, drawn from England, Ireland, the USA, New Zealand, Africa and Asia, are passionate about this vision. In November 2011, together with the present Director and assisted by an outside consultant, they agreed a set of priorities and goals for the next five years.
Acknowledging the strategic importance of having a Centre in the heart of Rome, the vision statement describes the ACR as the 'symbol and embodiment of the Anglican Communion's commitment to the vision of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church of Jesus Christ which, through the Director of the Centre, maintains a representative presence of the Anglican Communion and the Archbishop of Canterbury.'
The past decade has seen the development of a way of relating known as 'Receptive Ecumenism', a methodology now being employed by ARCIC. This involves asking what
each may learn from the other – and creating an open and accepting environment in which questions may be asked and answers given with friendliness and frankness. The Centre is precisely such a setting, and aims to share its thinking and experience widely with an increased use of electronic and interactive media.
'The Anglican Centre is a greatly valued resource which - through the presence of its Director, the carefully planned courses it runs, and the welcoming setting it provides - facilitates and encourages ecumenical dialogue.'
+Kurt Card. Koch
President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity
Receptive ecumenism
Over the next five years the Centre plans to offer courses and colloquia in Receptive Ecumenism which provide comparative teachings and practices from disciplines as diverse as theology, sociology, business, anthropology and philosophy. It will also be developing colloquia that explore Anglican understandings of Catholicism, and Catholic understandings of Anglicanism. The aim is to distribute these courses, practices, model relationships, liturgies, and study guides around the world.
Using its friendships it aims also to broker joint endeavours, study and practical mission projects, to build effective structures for common action and to be a focal point for facilitating Anglican collaboration with the offices of the Vatican, especially the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.
'Hand in hand with the theological dialogue, Anglicans and Roman Catholics are encouraged to engage in shared mission, working together for the healing and reconciling of a broken and divided world. The Anglican Centre nurtures those vital partnerships and conversations, in Rome and across the Communion, that help to move us ever closer in common life and witness to the Gospel'.
+ David Hamid Co-Chair, IARCCUM
Building networks
The largest Christian groupings in the world are the Roman Catholic Church and the Churches of the Anglican Communion, with a presence in every continent. The opportunities for cooperation are immense, both through international networks and in the local dioceses.
The Governors envisage the Anglican Centre as the hub for developing further the links between the two Churches as they respond together to the needs of an increasingly secularized world. The Governors hope that by augmenting staffing at the Centre, the Director may be freed to follow up initiatives and build an even larger network of relationships within the Vatican.
'Over the past two decades I have witnessed wonderful collaborative work being pioneered at both local and leadership levels, yet this is rarely reflected in the media and much more needs to be done to raise awareness of the progress in – and potential of - ecumenical relations. The Anglican Centre, together with the Vatican's Council for Christian Unity, is an important partner in this painstaking work of building lasting relationships, showcasing best practice and shedding light on the past, present and future of our journey towards full communion in the Body of Christ.'
Philippa Hitchen Vatican Radio journalist
Forever Anglican
With its Chapel of St Augustine of Canterbury, its library of Anglican theology, spirituality, history and Canon Law, its courses which draw participants from all round the world, its unique connection with, on the one hand, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and on the other, the worldwide Church, the Anglican Centre in Rome is a unique expression of Anglican Patrimony and the Anglican commitment to the visible unity of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church of Jesus Christ.
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Track Shack and Jon and I, are being honored this week at a luncheon as Florida Retailer of the Year. It is amazing to think back and remember our first few struggling years and now a running specialty store is in the retail limelight. Wow! Jon and I continue to be awed by how running is truly mainstreamed. But, the question remains: what to wear? I'm certainly not wearing what I wear to work. Shorts just won't cut it. A dress, a skirt, pants? Ugh! How can I make my arms look thin? But, before that big day, our daughter and son-in-law are coming into town and you know what that means! Family dinner! I think, maybe, a potato bar, salad, fruit? Yes, that should be a hit. We are so lucky because our dinners still include three generations, our children, my mom and Jon's parents: only that means I need to be creative with meals to keep all our tummys happy.
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HBO's Tiger Woods Documentary, 'Tiger,' Is An Irresistible Watch — That Leaves Some Open Questions
Part I of HBO's two-part Tiger Woods documentary, Tiger, airs this Sunday, promising to be the perfect golf-centric spinoff for everyone who loved reliving Michael Jordan's glory days in The Last Dance. It's a fitting tribute to the guy who has been described as "the Michael Jordan of golf" since probably even before he'd won his first major at The Masters in 1997. Even their flagship documentaries follow a similar pattern: the rise, the death of a father, the controversy, the resurgence, the nagging question of whether our hero is actually psychotic in some way, and if maybe that's what dominance on their level requires.
Yet Tiger Woods isn't a perfect analogue for Michael Jordan. It's even possible that the pressure to fulfill that hero athlete archetype contributed to Tiger's arguably lower lows.
I was a competitive youth golfer myself during Tiger's rise, so rewatching his child prodigy-Stanford phenom arc comes with a heavy dose of deja vu. I remember thinking, throughout that rise, that Tiger Woods must be the most boring superstar athlete who ever lived — the awkward nasal voice, the halting, guarded delivery, the seeming inability to offer anything but the dryest discussion of golf's minutia. "Well, uh, I think I'd rate the long iron game about a C+ today, but luckily I had the putter working and uh…"
At the time I was far more partial to John Daly, the chain-smoking Arkansas shitkicker with a mullet and porn 'stache, who wore hideous shirts, inhaled hot dogs at the turn, and barely took practice swings before knocking 300-yard drives with his goofball whirlybird back swing. Tiger Woods: infallible golf robot from Southern California, was a little harder to love.
With the benefit of hindsight and history, it's easier to acknowledge: Tiger Woods being kind of a dork is what humanizes him. It also contextualizes some of the pressures that he was under — that he'd been essentially bred for greatness, shoved into a spotlight he probably never wanted in the first place literally since before he could talk. It's possible to see him as an underdog, but only after the fact. Appearing as a golf phenom on the Mike Douglas Show as a two-year-old, Tiger Woods is as much former child star as he is star athlete. To borrow another sports analogy, Earl Woods had a few things in common with Marv Marinovich, the famously overbearing father of "test tube quarterback" Todd Marinovich.
We always knew Earl Woods was a little nuts, and it's a credit to Tiger directors Matthew Heineman and Matthew Hamachek (along with producers Alex Gibney, Sam Pollard, Stacey Offman, Richard Perello, Armen Keteyian and Jeff Benedict) that they actually find some new and interesting anecdotes in that arena. Unlike Todd Marinovich, whose career sort of flamed out in drug addiction just after he became an NFL first-round draft pick, Tiger Woods really did come to dominate his sport. Watching old footage of Tiger dominating major tournaments by 10 or 15 strokes is irresistible in the same way watching old footage of Jordan in The Last Dance was irresistible. In that way, Earl Woods succeeded where many pushy stage fathers failed.
Yet the constant need to contextualize Tiger's dominance using other sports illustrates the obvious: that golf isn't other sports. That Tiger really did manage to transcend golf, in a way no one had before, is his greatest achievement. And yet he was always hamstrung by the fact that he is, deep down, a golfer; master of a sport that the public generally thinks of as being for fat old Republicans who hate their wives and isn't particularly manly. Tiger relives Nike's first Tiger Woods commercial, the one in which he flatly declared "there are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin."
The ad stirred controversy at the time, for so boldly playing the race card and perhaps not being perfectly true on the merits: Tiger Woods probably could've played any course he wanted in 1996. But just because it wasn't 100% true to the letter didn't mean it wasn't true in spirit. It would've been entirely true for any other black golfer at the time. Just six years before the ad aired, in 1990, Hal W. Thompson, the founder of Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama, the venue for the 1990 PGA Championship (one of pro golf's four majors), said "we don't discriminate in every other area except the blacks."
That same year, it was reported that 17 other PGA tour sites had all-white memberships (with most probably not quite stupid enough not to admit that they had specifically excluded black members like Thompson did). And hey, what do you know, the year of that controversy was also the same year that the host of the Master's, Augusta National, invited their first black member. One can probably assume that golf didn't magically become not racist in the six years between 1990 and 1996.
So the Tiger quote from the Nike commercial was jarring, and might've seemed like "playing the race card" or like unnecessary pot-stirring in any other sport, but because it was golf, it was impossible to claim that the spirit of it wasn't true with any sort of credibility.
Yet the point of it was clearly to position Tiger Woods as some kind of rebel, a cool iconoclast (read: someone who could sell sneakers). Which may have been true, but only by accident of his birth and probably not by virtue of his personality. Woods was a guy who succeeded by listening to his dad, not by telling his dad to f*ck off.
In the context of history, Tiger Woods' story is a story that's inextricable from race. It's the story of having identities foisted upon him. Being white means never having people ask you which race you most identify with or asked to be a mouthpiece for your people.
And how do you come to know yourself when people are constantly telling you who you are from the time you're two? Even Michael Jordan never had to deal with that, at least not from such a young age. And maybe that gave Tiger just a wisp of an inferiority complex when he was hanging with his other superstar pals. That's what Tiger seems to suggest, that Tiger Woods's partying and womanizing was driven partly by the pressure to live up to "superstar athlete," partly by Freudian issues inherited from his womanizing father, and partly by the usual childhood-stealing fishbowl of early fame (and in that sense, personality-stealing too). Tiger Woods is sort of Michael Jordan plus Michael Jackson plus golf.
Yet one of the key aspects of Michael Jordan is a meticulously maintained public image. We see Tiger's DUI video and the 911 call after he crashed his SUV, possibly during a fight with his wife over his mistresses, and all the former mistresses coming forward, and we think we're getting some vivid picture of Tiger Woods' inner life. Yet unlike The Last Dance, Tiger feels like it's telling a story that's still developing. Tiger's signature comeback triumph, his win at the Master's at the age of 43 (eclipsing even Jordan, who was 35 when he won his last title), was barely a year and a half ago, in 2019.
After all the back surgeries, the rehab, the claims of sex addiction, the late night monologue punchlines, we hear an announcer in Tiger triumphantly declare, during footage of him teeing off, that Tiger Woods was making "his first start in 301 days!"
301 days? That's it? After all that talk about "would he even be able to swing a club" and "father time is undefeated," his longest layoff was less than a year? This was, by the way, just seven months after his famous DUI arrest where he was filmed mumbling incoherently, not knowing what state he was in and with five different drugs in his system, including two opioids and Xanex.
Most people don't go from rock bottom to competing in professional sports in seven months. And hey, what about those back surgeries, anyway? The film sort of glosses over them, vaguely implying that they may have been caused by years of Tiger's violent swing, his refusal to acknowledge physical pain, and his brief penchant for training with Navy SEALS after his father's death. But is it too conspiratorial to wonder, in reference to the guy arrested with multiple opiates in his system who had four back surgeries between 2014 and 2017, whether those two things might be related? He certainly wouldn't be the first athlete to develop an opiate dependency after an injury (all his knee injuries in 2008, for instance), nor the first person with an opiate dependency to suffer from chronic back issues. None of this cheapens any of his wins; if anything it makes them that much more impressive.
Tiger Woods's win at the 2019 Masters is one of the greatest sports comebacks of all time, one of the most inspiring performances of an over-40 athlete ever, and the perfect coda to a rise-fall-comeback documentary series like Tiger. Maybe it's a little too perfect. At the very least, there are enough open questions in it that I can't help but wish for a part three. Hopefully after another major victory.
Part one of 'Tiger' premieres this Sunday on HBO. Vince Mancini is on Twitter. You can access his archive of reviews here.
Topics: #Documentaries, #HBO, #Tiger WoodsTags: Documentaries, HBO, tiger, TIGER WOODS


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Q: Data property with d2rq I am using the D2RQ Language to create the mapping file. I have a class Persona with this defination:
# Table persone
map:Persona a d2rq:ClassMap;
    d2rq:dataStorage map:database;
    d2rq:uriPattern "persona/@@persona.cognome_persona@@";
    d2rq:class prova_rules_M:Persona;
    .

I would like to create a data_property called "anni_persona" for this class. How can I do? Can anyone help me with the syntax?
Thank you!

A: Properties don't "belong" to classes in RDF or OWL.  Instead, properties may have domains and ranges, which specifies that the subject or object of a triple with the property belongs to a certain class or datatype.  E.g., if we say that the domain of hasName is Agent, then whenever we see "x hasName {something}", then we can infer that "x rdf:type Agent".  It sounds like you're trying to say there is a property anni_persona, and that its domain is Persona.  That's just a matter of asserting anni_persona rdfs:domain Persona somewhere.
Now, to get values from the database table into RDF data, I think that you'll just want to take a look at section 6 in the documentation:

6. Adding properties to resources (d2rq:PropertyBridge).
A d2rq:PropertyBridge relates a database column to an RDF property.
  Property bridges are used to attach properties to the RDF resources
  created by a class map. The values of these properties are often
  literals, but can also be URIs or blank nodes that relate the resource
  to other resources, e.g. the value of a paper's :author property could
  be a URI representing a person.
If the one of the columns used in a property bridge is NULL for some
  database rows, then no property is created for the resources
  corresponding to these rows.

Based on the examples in that documentation, it looks like you'd end up with something like:
map:AnniPersona a d2rq:PropertyBridge ;
    d2rq:belongsToClassMap map:Persona ;
    d2rq:property :anni_persona ;
    d2rq:column "Persone.Anni" .

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Q: Describe a Dataframe on PySpark I have a fairly large Parquet file which I am loading using
file = spark.read.parquet('hdfs/directory/test.parquet')

Now I want to get some statistics (similar to pandas describe() function). What I've tried to do was:
file_pd = file.toPandas()
file_pd.describe()

but obviously this requires to load all the data in memory and it will fail.
Can anyone suggest a workaround?

A: What are the stats you need? Spark has a similar feature
file.summary().show()

+-------+----+
|summary|test|
+-------+----+
|  count|   3|
|   mean| 2.0|
| stddev| 1.0|
|    min|   1|
|    25%|   1|
|    50%|   2|
|    75%|   3|
|    max|   3|
+-------+----+

A: In Spark you can use df.describe() or df.summary() to check statistical information.
The difference is that df.summary() returns the same information as df.describe() plus quartile information (25%, 50% and 75%).
If you want to delete string columns, you can use a list comprehension to access the values of dtypes, which returns a tuple ('column_name', 'column_type'), and delete the string type, passing these columns as a parameter to df.select().
Command example:
df.select([col[0] for col in df.dtypes if col[1] != 'string']).describe().show()

A: Even though its not exactly related to the question asked, but similar to hive or SQL based describe function to see data types, you can simple do
df.printSchema()

This will give you description of data types of the data frame


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Joni Mitchell 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns' Musical Lead-Up Playlist
Duke Ellington, The Crusaders, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Joan Baez and more to whet your appetite before listening to Mitchell's seventh studio album.
The Story of Joni Mitchell 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns'
"I got interested in moving away from the hit department, to the art department." - Joni Mitchell
The Story of Joni Mitchell 'Blue'
"It's a description of the times. There were so many sinking but I had to keep thinking I could make it through the waves." Joni Mitchell.
The Story of Carole King 'Tapestry'
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Red Alert Sounded in Three Kerala Districts as IMD Predicts Very Heavy Rainfall
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The alarm has been sounded for Idukki district from July 18 to 20, Pathanamthitta and Kottayam districts for July 19.
Children play in a puddle of water as it rains at a sea front in Kochi, India June 9, 2019. (Image: REUTERS)
Thiruvananthapuram: With the southwest monsoon set to intensify in Kerala over the next few days, the India Meteorological Department has sounded a red alert in Idukki, Pathanamthitta and Kottayam districts of the state.
The red alert has been given from July 19 as heavy to very heavy rainfall would occur in Ernakulam district.
The red alert is a call to immediately take preventive steps to evacuate people from vulnerable areas to shelter camps and provide others with emergency kits.
The districts are likely to receive extremely heavy rainfall upwards of 20 cm, an IMD official told PTI.
The officials said, Alappuzha district received heavy rainfall on July 17 with 6 cm of rain.
Other districts are predicted to get isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall on these days, though a red alert has not been issued for them.
Fishermen living on the coast of Kerala and Lakshadweep area have been cautioned not to venture out to sea due to strong winds from the northwesterly direction reaching speeds of 40-50 kmph.
The southwest monsoon had set in on June 8, a week late, marking the official commencement of the four-month rainfall season.
There has been 46 per cent rainfall deficit till July 15, official sources said.
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The Art of Scent at MAD is the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik
Smelly Museum
The Daily Pic: At the Museum of Arts and Design, perfumes pan out.
Updated Jul. 12, 2017 1:35AM ET / Published Jan. 20, 2013 3:45PM ET
Visitors explore perfume, in a setting by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Photo by Brad Farwell)
Two women lean forward to get a whiff, literally, of the works in a show called "The Art of Scent, 1889-2012", at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York – which turns out to be one of the most stimulating exhibitions in New York in recent times.
Back when I profiled its curator, Chandler Burr, I hinted at doubts I had about the models he was using to declare perfume art, and about his readings of his chosen art works. Now that the show is up, however, most of those doubts disappear. "The Art of Scent" really is a purist's immersion in the language of perfume – no fancy bottles, no touting of luxury firms or their star clients, little to distract from the opportunity merely to sniff. And it proves that scent is an art form with its own unique rules and dynamics.
For one thing, there's no such thing as a quick "glance" at a smell, the way there is with an image: It feels as though you're either truly attending to it, or not. This means that you're more tempted to return for more and renew the experience than with an image – maybe because the details of an aroma vanish so quickly from your mind and memory. Perhaps because most of us are so undertrained in scents, it feels like there's a huge amount left to learn about them: The sheer difficulty of smell aesthetics make them that much more compelling. There's a full language there, waiting to be mastered, and most of us don't even know its ABCs. (I got a kick out of discovering the cotton-candy overtones in the perfume called "Angel" and the laundry-soap notes in "Drakkar Noir".)
For someone like me, who lives mostly in the visual arts, the show also teaches an important lesson: Many people are probably almost as much at sea in the language of fine art as I am with scent. It's also cheering: There seems to be so very much left to say in figuring out this art form on its own terms – more, anyway, than the show's wall texts let on. Sorry, Chandler, but trying to draw parallels between realism and abstraction in painting and the same ideas in perfume doesn't elevate the smells to art; it leaves them seeming subservient to the older, better-known discipline. Scents can be discussed, I feel sure, as though humans had only ever known the world through their noses. This show is so fine because it's so little like others we've known.
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The Verdict: 3.8/5 ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
If you're a baseball player, it's a very safe bet that you want to hit better. Even pitchers want to get a hit or even a home run.
And for that, you need lots of practice and the right tools.
Just as bodybuilders and other athletes use barbells and dumbbells to develop muscles to gain strength, you can also improve your hitting with the Pure Grip Baseball Glove.
Darnell Jones, the co-founder and CEO of Powerhandz, once talked about the inspiration for their weighted gloves.
At the time, Jason "White Chocolate" Williams was dazzling the NBA with his ball-handling and passing prowess, and the basketball player said that he practiced his dribbling with garden gloves.
That made it more difficult for him to control the ball and so he had to compensate for the extra challenge. So when the gloves came off for the game, it became comparatively so much easier to handle the ball.
It was like using ankle weights during training. When they came off, players can run faster and jump higher. And that feature was also incorporated in the Powerhandz Baseball glove.
Continue reading below this picture for more on this Powerhandz review
Features of Powerhandz for Baseball
Each Powerhandz pair of gloves has been tweaked to provide for the specific needs of a particular sport. But they all have similar features with each other.
For the most part, these weighted baseball batting gloves use iron sand as the resistance component for the gloves.
These resistance components are all spread out over the top side of the gloves. This makes you work harder in gripping and moving your bat. The weights go all the way up to the fingertips.
With these weights, once you get used to them you'll find that you're so much stronger after you've taken them off and you use your regular batting gloves.
And not only are you stronger, but you also generate a faster hand speed when you swing your bat afterwards.
Powerhandz Baseball Construction and Materials
The construction of the Pure Grip Baseball Glove also took note of the flex points of the hands, and how there weren't any large amounts of muscle and fat in between the flex points and the skin.
Powerhandz made sure to account for these things, so that they can make it comfortable enough to wear so that you won't be in a hurry to remove them.
You're also not in any way distracted from your primary task of hitting the ball during batting practice.
In addition, the materials used for the gloves are also very flexible, so your fingers can move freely without being restricted.
For the top sides of the gloves, Powerhandz uses four-way nylon fabric, while the palms are made of synthetic and genuine leather.
The grip material on the palm, on the other hand, is similar to the material used for baseball batting gloves, so that you can transition your hitting grip more easily when you make your switch of cloves.
The gloves come in a pair, and you have several sizes to choose from to help you get a pair of gloves that fits perfectly. The Youth and Medium size gloves weight about 400 grams, or 0.88 pounds.
The Large to XXL versions weigh about 453 grams or a full pound each.
Just be careful about washing the gloves and you're not supposed to put them in the wash machine at all. To clean them, you should just use a non-toxic aerosol spray.
Pros and Cons of the Pure Grip Baseball Glove
There are many benefits offered by the Powerhandz Baseball glove, and part of the reason why it's so good is that the company took numerous steps along the way to perfect it.
After they've developed a working prototype, they used several different manufacturers around the world to find the best one who can make them in the quality they required.
Then they tested it for high intensity training, and they used real athletes. They used professionals, amateurs, strength coaches, and trainers in their evaluations.
And they constantly made tweaks and improvements along the way.
So now what we have is the optimum configuration for strengthening the hands with the use of these weighted baseball batting gloves.
Pure Grip Baseball Glove Video
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Additional Pros and Cons
The resistance boosts the strength of the hand and arm muscles, and the effects can be considerable. Of course, the use of this tool is a complement to constant repetitious practice, but using it can lead to more impressive improvements.
One effect is that you can end up hitting the ball harder when you make contact. In other words, you can end up with more homeruns. It's no secret that strength in baseball is pretty much associated with homerun dingers.
Barry Bonds and A-Rod become more notable homerun hitters when they packed their skinny frames with more muscle. Now you can do it the safe way too with barbells and dumbbells, but now you can also strengthen your hand muscles as well.
Then you also boost your hand speed, and this can get you more contact and also more hits. That's also because after using the Powerhandz Baseball glove you'll find that you have more control over your bat.
You can defeat the opposing team by "hitting the baseball where they aren't," as notable hitting legend Ty Cobb described how to hit.
Finally, there's also the psychological factor. The Powerhandz for Baseball gives you an extra challenge as you compensate for the extra weight. So when you take them off, it feels so much easier.
This can give you a confidence boost that can also improve your hitting as well. When you think it's easier, then it becomes easier. If you think you can hit, you're more likely to succeed.
Of course, it can be a little hard to get used to it at first. But then training isn't supposed to be easy!
This isn't a proper Powerhandz Baseball Gloves review if we don't have a definitive judgment for the Pure Grip Baseball Glove.
And here's what we say: buy it. If you don't believe us, believe David Ortiz. If you can trust the Big Papi, who can you trust?
This thing really works, and it even looks cool. It takes care of your hand, and it really improves your hitting.
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Q: Where is /var/lib/docker on Mac/OS X I´m looking for the folder /var/lib/docker on my Mac after installing docker for Mac.
With docker info  I get
    Containers: 5
     ...
    Server Version: 1.12.0-rc4
    Storage Driver: aufs
     Root Dir: /var/lib/docker/aufs
     Backing Filesystem: extfs
     Dirs: 339
     Dirperm1 Supported: true
    ...
    Name: moby
    ID: LUOU:5UHI:JFNI:OQFT:BLKR:YJIC:HHE5:W4LP:YHVP:TT3V:4CB2:6TUS
    Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
    Debug Mode (client): false
    ....

But I don´t have a directory /var/lib/docker on my host.
I have checked /Users/myuser/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/ but couldn´t find anything there. Any idea where it is located?

A: As of 2021 is the dance going, Mac Users get easily to the VM with the documented methods, and hence to the volumes.
There's a way Rocky Chen found to get inside the VM in Mac. With this you can actually inspect the famous /var/lib/docker/volumes.
docker run -it --privileged --pid=host debian nsenter -t 1 -m -u -n -i sh
Let examine the method:

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*-it goes for Keep STDIN open even if not attached + Allocate pseudo-TTY

*--privileged "gives all capabilities to the container. Allows special cases like running docker" .

*--pid defines to use the host VM namespace.

*debian the actual image to use.

*nsenter a debian's tool to run programs in different namespaces

*-t is the target PID

*-m mount the provided PID namespace.

*-u enter the Unix Time Sharing (UTS) namespace.

*-n enter the provided PID network namespace.

*-i enter the provided PID IPC namespace.

Once run, go to /var/lib/docker/volumes/and you'll find your volumes.
The next question to address for me is:
How to take those volumes and back them up in the host?
I appreciate ideas in the comments!
UPDATE FOR VSCODE USERS
If you downloaded the Official Docker extension, sun will shine for you.

Just inspect the volumes in Visual Studio Code. Right-click the files you want to have in your local, and download them. That easy!
2nd UPDATE
As of July 2021, Docker Desktop for Mac is announcing we will be able to access volumes directly from the GUI, but only for Pro and Team accounts.

A: I think the new version of docker (my version is 20.10.5) uses socket instead of TTY to communicate with the virtual machine so you can use the nc command instead of the screen command.
nc -U ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/debug-shell.sock

A: some what of a zombie thread but as I just found it here is another solution that doesn't need screen nor messes up shell etc.
The path listed from a docker volume inspect <vol_name>
returns the path for the container, something like:
"Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/coap_service_db_data/_data"
the _data component being the last component of the path you setup in the volumes: section of the service using a given volume eg:
volumes:
      - db_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data , obvs your mileage will vary.
To get there on the mac the easiest method I have found is to actually start a small container running and mount the root of the host to the /docker directory in the image, this gives you access to the volumes used on the host.
docker run --rm -it -v /:/docker alpine:edge
from this point you can cd to the volume
cd /var/lib/docker/volumes/coap_service_db_data/_data

A: The other answers here are outdated if you're using Docker for Mac.
Here's how I was able to get into the VM. Run the command:
screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/tty
This is the default path, but you may need to first do:
cd ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms
and then ls to see which directory your VM is in and replace the "0" accordingly.
When you're in, you might just see a blank screen. Hit your "Enter" key.
This page explains that to exit from the VM you need to "Ctrl-a" then "d"

A: See this answer
When using Docker for Mac Application, it appears that the containers are stored within the VM located at:

~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/com.docker.driver.amd64-linux/Docker.qcow2

A: Looks like the new version of docker for Mac has moved this to a UI element which you can see here. Clicking on that button which says CLI will launch a terminal which you can use to browse the docker file system.

A: As mentioned in the above answers, you will find it in:
screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/tty
Once you get the tty running you can navigate to /var/lib/docker

A: Just as @Dmitriy said:
screen ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/tty
and can use ctrl a + d to detach the screen
and use screen -dr to re-attach the screen again(since if you simply attach screen again, the terminal text will be garbled.)
Reference
or if you want to exit, use ctrl + a + k,then choose y to kill the screen.

A: Run:
docker run -it --privileged --pid=host debian nsenter -t 1 -a bash
ls /var/lib/docker

A: For MacOS I use the following steps:

*

*login into docker virtual-machine (on MacOS docker can be run only inside virtual machine, in my case I have VirtualBox tool with docker VM): docker-machine ssh

*as soon as I logged-in I need to switch to super user from docker user: sudo -i

*now I'm able to check /var/lib/docker directory

A: This path comes from Docker Host (not from MacOS)
before "Docker for Mac Application" times, where there was a VirtualBox VM "default" and inside this VM, the mentioned path exists (for sure), now in "Docker for Mac Application" times there is a Docker.qcow2 image, which is qemu base vm.
To jump inside this VM @mik-jagger way is ok (but there are few more)

A: I would say that the file:
/var/run/docker.sock

Is actually at:
/Volumes/{DISKNAME}/var/run/docker.sock

If you run this, it should prove it, as long as your running VirtualBox 5.2.8 or later and the share for /Volumes  is setup to be auto-mounted and permanent AND you generated the default docker-machine while on that version of Virtualbox:
#!/bin/bash
docker run -d --restart unless-stopped -p 9000:9000 \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock portainer/portainer \
--no-auth

Then, access Portainer at:  192.168.99.100:9000 or localhost:9000

A: Docker logs are not in /var/lib/docker on MacOS.
MacOs users can find the docker logs on this path;
/Users/Barrack.Kenya/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/log/host

*

*job_name: docker
static_configs:

*

*targets:

*

*docker
labels:
job: dockerlogs
path: (Please put the path)

pipeline_stages:

*

*docker: {}


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де Коленку́р ():
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 Де Коленкур, Габриэль Луи (1740—1808) — дивизионный генерал, 4-й маркиз де Коленкур, Сенатор в Охранительном сенате.
 Коленкур, Арман де (1773—1827) — дивизионный генерал, дипломат, доверенное лицо Наполеона I, оставил воспоминания о походе Наполеона в Россию, сын Габриэля Луи де Коленкура
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Другое
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