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German South West Africa: The History and Legacy of Germany’s Biggest African Colony , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 117min

“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.” (Otto von Bismarck) The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event, known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa. The conference established two fundamental rules for European seizure of Africa. The first of these was that no recognition of annexation would be granted without evidence of a practical occupation, and the second, that a practical occupation would be deemed unlawful without a formal appeal for protection made on behalf of a territory by its leader, a plea that must be committed to paper in the form of a legal treaty. This began a rush, spearheaded mainly by European commercial interests in the form of chartered companies, to penetrate the African interior and woo its leadership with guns, trinkets, and alcohol, and having thus obtained their marks or seals upon spurious treaties, begin establishing boundaries of future European African colonies. The ease with which this was achieved was due to the fact that, at that point, traditional African leadership was disunited and the people had just staggered back from centuries of concussion inflicted by the slave trade. Thus, to usurp authority, to intimidate an already broken society, and to play one leader against the other was a diplomatic task so childishly simple, the matter was wrapped up, for the most part, in less than a decade. The German role in this complicated drama was something of an enigm ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Platt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/194185/bk_acx0_194185_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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My Anger: IMNarcEvil, Book 7 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 37min

I am the narcissist. I am allowed to get angry. I can unleash my anger in many forms, and it is socially acceptable to society. You, however, cannot unleash your anger on anyone. You are not allowed to do so, as society doesn’t like empaths who show their anger. You are expected to be prim and proper and put together at all costs and under all circumstances.I expect you to be 100% obedient to me at all costs. Don’t you unleash your anger on me, or there will be consequences. I am your master. You are not allowed to talk back to me or to challenge my authority. I am the ruler of this world that I created; you asked me to create this world for you. I listened when you requested me to build a fantasy world for us to exist in. Why are you being so ungrateful now?I love to use my anger to make people do whatever it is that I want them to do. I know that by asking for things, I am usually denied. I am not fond of social niceties, chit chat, or trying to compromise with anyone. I only get what I want when I stomp on other people, stomp around, or smash objects. I only get what I want when I threaten and intimidate others. I only get what I want by behaving like a bully and making people give me what I want.My temper is my greatest asset. I can make people behave around me by showing my temper. I can make people respect me by slamming my fist down and spewing a few ill choice words. I can command all of the empaths in the world bow at my feet because they are scared, threatened, and intimidated by my display of power.Download now to hear more!Check out our IMNarcEvil series by I.M. Narcissist!Visit www.kadjou.com for newsletters, articles, advice column, free ebooks. and more! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Roelofs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105327/bk_acx0_105327_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Blackjack & Chess Checkmate & Poker & Craps & Texas Holdem: Blackjack, Craps, Poker, Texas Holdem, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 213min

Five books in one! Blackjack: 21 Blackjack Strengths to Beating the Dealer! Are you ready for it? Ready to win every hand? To learn how easy it is to beat the hand with the cards you are dealt? How about figuring out how to become a shark? How to intimidate those who challenge you? This book doesn't provide you with just one tip! Not just two! It doesn't stop with giving you the strengths for you to walk out with a fatter wallet then when you went in! Stop playing children's games and begin learning what you need to take money to the bank! One last thing: Don't worry, we cover the basics too. For anyone just learning the game, all the rules and terms are provided! And you didn't think we would leave out the types of blackjack? Every angle and every tip provided; otherwise this book would be a loser! And Joe Lucky's 21 Blackjack is nothing less than a winner! Chess Checkmate: Chess Tactics & Strategy Revealed! Are you ready for it? Are you ready for checkmate every time? To learn how easy it is to beat anyone in chess? How about to master the mindset of chess? You new to the game? Worried it's just too complex? And requires a brilliant mind? Need a solution to learning quick and easy? No jargon, no complex processes. Simple learning! Take action now and dive right into Chess Checkmate! Craps: Show Me the Money! Are you ready for it? Heading to Vegas and want to have a little fun with some Vegas money? You a beginner or an expert? You ready to toss those dice to a lucky seven? Learn how to place the right bet instead of the right toss! This book doesn't stop with giving you everything about craps from the toss to the bank! Don't worry, we cover the basics too. All the rules and terms are provided! Poker: Mastering Winning with the Hand You Are Dealt! Are you ready for it? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Millian Quinteros. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/095015/bk_acx0_095015_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dream Thieves: Overcoming Obstacles to Fulfill Your Destiny , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 336min

Doubt, fear, and time can claw away at your confidence, stealing the dream God placed in your heart. Unexpected obstacles, with about-face twists and turns, can bump you so far off your expected path that you begin to question the validity of that dream. You may even be tempted to give up hope that you can ever become the person you see when you close your eyes. But if you yield to the pressure of these dream thieves to abandon your dream, you will forfeit your unique destiny. Furthermore, you will rob yourself of the fulfillment that only your destiny can bring. Every Dream Is Targeted by a Thief - Are You on Guard? In his revised and updated classic, Dream Thieves, Rick Renner exposes the thieves that come to oppose and rob every single dream - no matter how big or how small that dream may be. Rick also reveals the strategies that every person with a dream must adopt to ensure the fulfillment of his or her dream. Rick explains that every God-given dream has a significant purpose, leading ultimately to a specific destination. That's why dream thieves show up early and repeatedly along your journey to shift your focus from opportunities to obstacles. Their goal is to overwhelm and intimidate you until you're either immobilized and stuck or moving in a direction that's ineffective. These thieves will challenge your call, doubt your dream, and question your capacity to deliver on the vision that consumes you - until eventually the fire in your heart flickers and fades away. Obstacles Can Become the Catalyst To Reach Your Goal! But when you understand the significance of the journey toward your dream, you'll discover that a hindrance can actually further your progress. When you know how to respond to the dream thieves that oppose you - to refute instead of run from them - they can actually provide a service to help you become the person you need to be in order to fulfill your destiny. You can - you must - fulfill y ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrell Corbin, Stephen Sobozenski. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/017336/bk_acx0_017336_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Sources for a Better Education (eBook, PDF)

This textbook evolves from the intersection between 'Research', 'Educational Information Technologies' and recent 'Best Practices'. It offers diplomacy and erudite rhetoric in order to harvest from innovation projects and see how new professional needs for teachers are emerging day by day. The volume launches the compact background for the 21st century education that every teacher faces after being in charge for 3 or 6 years after pre-service training. 'Sources for a better education' refers to the deep understanding and to the incentives for encouraging teachers to leave the comfort zone and experiment the next steps into a further sophisticated professionalism, without the threat of feeling in a 'Dilemma'.The first candidate for extending one's teaching effectiveness is to tailor one's teaching to the test to be expected. 'Teaching to the Test' is an understandable tactic, however it endangers the students' full understanding of underlying concepts and analogies. The second candidate for professionalism is the deeper layer of knowledge on how curricular domains are related. In simpler terms: better teachers know how to 'bridge' topics and subjects so that students develop a deeper understanding on the patterns and structure in knowledge. The 21st century education prioritizes higher degrees of flexible-, divergent and abstract thinking, so that creative problem solving comes into reach. ICT tools for making prior knowledge explicit is a major example on how learners harvest upon prior knowledge, thinking and intuition. The third source for a better education is the courage to envisage one's meta knowledge in order to see patterns in learning and understanding. The more conscious prior knowledge gets decompiled into genetic metaphors; the better future learning can be anticipated. The fourth asset for meta-cognitive skills is the wide spectrum of tools that the web offers for building knowledge infra-structures so that knowledge becomes transformed into problem solving skills; the availability of knowledge is no longer sufficient for finding creative and authentic solutions in future situations. This is the case for both students and teachers. By tradition, the bottom-up strategy from reproductive factual learning up to the levels of problem solving and creative thinking has been favoured. The 'one-click away' access to information on the web asks a more strategic attitude from learners and practitioners to cope with the periphery between known and unknown, so that a more effective meta-cognition develops. The fifth stimulus for more effective learning is the expanding impact of social media. Social media tend to intimidate learners with incomplete understanding to jump on biases as delivered through political and conspiracy agendas. This books aims at the challenge to build upon learners' existential needs and developing interest for a longer-term learning perspective."Renaissance man and philosopher Piet Kommers presents us with an interesting question: What makes education exciting? His book covers a range of lessons learnt through research and practice, covering philosophies and paradoxes, ranging from learning to learn to machine learning for learning. In 35 chapters he takes us on an exciting, comprehensive journey of just about every conceivable aspect of technology and education. This is a must-have for every 21st Century bookshelf!" By: Johannes Cronjé, professor of Digital Teaching and Learning in the Department of Information Technology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa."Piet Kommers has in 400 pages provided an overview of teaching based on practical experience. It is not a summary of pedagogic models, but a guide to important factors in how to motivate students and thus improve their learning. New technologies changes teaching, and we need to understand how application of such technologies can improve the learning. This book provides such knowledge and I wish I had it when I started teaching at university many years ago." By: Jan Frick, Professor Business School, University of Stavanger, Norway."Piet Kommers delivers a very thorough book with a holistic perspective on Learning Technologies. This book is a result of many years of experience that the author has in Higher Education. It comprises lessons learned from the author¿s professional career, including inputs from European Union research projects, as well as diversified interactions with a wide range of Peoples and Cultures. The result is a unique perspective that is a must-read for anyone interested in Learning Technologies, past, present, and future!" By: Pedro Isaias, associate professor at the Information Systems & Technology Management School of The University of New South Wales (UNSW - Sydney), Australia. "Distinguished Professor and Thinker Dr. Piet Kommers presents the academic community with a new horizon on education that reflects the current and future technology trends in the e-Learning and Fast Internet ubiquity. The Book discusses the current and most recent advances in research and application of most effective learning methods in conjunction with the future directions in machine learning in support of learning. The Book's 35 chapters present cutting-edge technologies and state-of-the-art learning methods in support of best educational practices and the student's best learning experience. The Book is most valuable asset to educator's community pursuing the mission of excellence in the Third Millennium!" By: Eduard Babulak, Professor, Computational Sciences, Liberty University, Lynchburg, USA."Well-known scientist, (e-)learning expert and philosopher Piet Kommers presents us with an interesting question: What makes education exciting? His book covers a range of lessons learnt through research and practice, covering philosophies and paradoxes, ranging from 'learning to learn' to 'machine learning for learning'. In 35 chapters he takes us on an exciting, comprehensive journey of just about every conceivable aspect of technology and education. This is an interesting and useful publication for all educators as well as learners and must-have for every 21st Century bookshelf!" By: Eugenia Smyrnova-Trybulska, Dr. hab., associate professor, Institute of Pedagogy, Faculty of Art and Sciences of Education, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland."The book presents a mosaic of assets reflecting the vast international experience in research and realization of learning technologies of the author, honourable professor of the UNESCO Chair in New information technologies in education for all, Piet Kommers. Describing various aspects of learning strategies, approaches, techniques and technologies in a concise way, he engages the readers into the mental construction of a "big picture" and makes them reconsider routine processes of teaching and learning. Exciting and thought-provoking reading for educators, researchers, and devoted learners." By: professor Volodymyr Gritsenko, Director of the International Research and Training Centre for Information Technologies and Systems, National Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Head of the UNESCO Chair.

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Impossible Odds: A Mafia Romance (The Five Families, Book 4) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 482min

This book was full of twists and turns and I loved the hell out of it!” (Abstract Books) He was a vision of power and privilege. Ruthless arrogance personified. A total stranger and an irresistible challenge. I approached him in a busy casino and felt the sting of his brutal rejection. Then, I did something incredibly brazen. Impulsive. Reckless.I stole from him.The object was inconsequential, only worth a handful of dollars. I didn’t do it for the money; it was about making a statement.I went back home thousands of miles away without giving him a second thought, until I spotted those quicksilver eyes glaring at me across a busy nightclub.It was too impossible to be a coincidence. Yet, there he was, seething with a violent promise of retribution. He thought he’d intimidate me. Hunt me down and make me pay.What he didn’t realize was I don’t scare easily.My name is Giada Genovese, and I’m a goddamn mafia princess. Impossible Odds is the fourth book in the Five Families series but can be listened to as a stand-alone novel. This book is a mafia romance containing adult themes and may not be suitable for sensitive listeners. UNKNOWN N N ©2020 Jill Ramsower;(P)2020 Jill Ramsower http://www.audible.de/pd/B08RDTK6N4?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B08RDTK6N4?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook to Detox Your Mind: Achieve a Better Everyday Life with Proper Cognitive Therapy Plus Stress & Anxiety Management Techniques for Beginners (Unabridged) 4.95 AVAILABLE Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook to Detox Your Mind: Achieve a Better Everyday Life with Proper Cognitive Therapy Plus Stress & Anxiety Management Techniques for Beginners (Unabridged) Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook to Detox Your Mind (Unabridged) Mark Andy Siegel, Ronald Muesse Mindfulness is all about living a good life: Know yourself and develop attitudes and mental habits that will make you not only a successful and effective person in life, but a happy and wise one, too, and thrive.... Fred Smith Mark Andy Siegel, Ronald Muesse 2020-12-28 21:26:13 26 B08RHFNDN4 English - Self-Development English 1.00 4.33 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/230131de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230131/bk_acx0_230131_sample.mp3 Mindfulness is all about living a good life: Know yourself and develop attitudes and mental habits that will make you not only a successful and effective person in life, but a happy and wise one, too, and thrive.It’s the practice of being attentive and present in the moment in an intentional and neutral way, with no judgment or preconceptions.This type of meditation allows the user to freely regulate their attention through a deep observation of their emotions and inner thoughts.Ancient Greeks and Romans already understood that mind and body are deeply connected and practiced a strict lifestyle along with philosophy to try and obtain a healthy mind in a healthy body. But Buddhist priests were the ones who actually achieved it through mindfulness.This incredible knowledge has been passed down and perfected from generation to generation for centuries.And now it could be in your hands, too.Your emotional intelligence will develop further along with empathy and creativity thanks to your deeper contact with your inner self, ultimately greatly improving your wellbeing.Here’s what you will discover inside this book:Improved focus and concentrationA way to get in touch easily with your inner creative selfHow to deal with stress and impulsivenessThe key principles to be happy every dayOver 20 exercises to relax with easeStop making excuses. Stop telling yourself that you don’t have time for this. Start practicing right now and don’t worry, these are all exercises you can fit easily in your hectic schedule: They will vary between a few seconds to a few minutes each.You won’t even have to stop doing whatever you’re busy with to try some of them!Struggle no more. You are about to find out the best proven methods to practice mindfulness and to begin your journey towards inner peace.What are you waiting for? S UNKNOWN N N ©2020 Mark Andy Siegel;(P)2020 Mark Andy Siegel http://www.audible.de/pd/B08RHFNDN4?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B08RHFNDN4?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Zack's Zest: A SEALs of Honor World Novel (Heroes for Hire, Book 24) (Unabridged) 15.95 AVAILABLE Zack's Zest: A SEALs of Honor World Novel (Heroes for Hire, Book 24) (Unabridged) Zack's Zest (Unabridged) Dale Mayer Zack wasn’t someone to focus on his mistakes, but he’d made a big one, and it was hard to move on from it. Still, he was determined to work with Levi’s team to find new meaning in his life and to get his head on straight. At least, that was the plan.... Brian Meslar Dale Mayer 2020-12-28 10:48:23 292 B08RDTRSGL English - Romance English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/229968de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229968/bk_acx0_229968_sample.mp3 Zack wasn’t someone to focus on his mistakes, but he’d made a big one, and it was hard to move on from it. Still, he was determined to work with Levi’s team to find new meaning in his life and to get his head on straight. At least, that was the plan. When he ends up part of a two-man team to rescue a kidnapped woman, the daughter of a former politician, Zack doesn’t know how to react - she’s certainly unique. Not the least of which, she didn’t appreciate the rescue. At least, not once she learns the details.Quintal knew her father was guilty of the crimes he’d been accused of. She was more concerned about her mother, who’d always been the downtrodden and obedient wife. But, as more and more evidence shines a light on their lives and her kidnapping, the issue is no longer as clear.Heartbroken at the losses that keep mounting, Quintal knows she needs a second rescue - hopefully by her same rescuer. Only, it’s not as simple this time, and it’s infinitely more dangerous.... UNKNOWN N N ©2020 Beverly Dale Mayer;(P)2020 Beverly Dale Mayer http://www.audible.de/pd/B08RDTRSGL?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true http://www.audible.de/pd/B08RDTRSGL?source_code=PNHFA145032019009G&ipRedirectOverride=true Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads (Unabridged) 25.95 AVAILABLE Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads (Unabridged) Violence Unveiled (Unabridged) Gil Bailie This is a Girardian-influenced, engagingly written classic on the nature of violence and the hope for overcoming it in our conflict-ridden world. It is also a literary work, an often miraculous interplay between cultural documents and historical periods.... Randy Coleman-Riese The Cornerstone Forum 2020-12-28 18:20:43 843 B08RF1YJ2G English - Religion & Spirituality English 1.00 9.95 N http://img.audible.de/audiblewords/content/bk/acx0/230009de/lg_image.jpg http://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230009/bk_acx0_230009_sample.mp3 This is a Girardian-influenced, engagingly written classic on the nature of violence and the hope for overcoming it in our conflict-ridden world. It is also a literary work, an often miraculous interplay between cultural documents and historical periods. Gil Bailie wrote Violence Unveiled in the mid-1990s after learning of René Girard’s mimetic theory of human cultural origins. The mimetic theory posits that human interspecies violence posed an existential threat to the continuation of any early human community until the evolution/discovery of a particular kind of directed social violence – scapegoating violence - which in times of social crisis brought peace and harmony to the community at the expense of what would later be understood as a sacred victim or god who becomes a focus of religious awe. Bailie intertwines various accounts of this phenomenon from history, literature and (then ‘90s) current journalistic sources. The Christian gospel accounts of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and the theological reflection on its effects and meaning are understood as the revelatory unveiling" of the truth of the victim as the source of communal peace. However, with this new knowledge and its moral implications cultures influenced by the Judeo-Christian tradition scapegoating violence has gradually lost its ability to bring people in crisis together. Without a change in the human heart, a conversion, this will eventually lead to apocalyptic forms of violence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mackenzie Cartwright, Gomez Pugh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229974/bk_acx0_229974_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Hatfield, Ken : String Theory

String Theory - Ken Hatfield Some projects have longer gestation periods than others. The musical ideas on this recording had been percolating in my subconscious for quite awhile, but achieving the balance I desired between simultaneity and sequentiality proved to be elusive. The music on this CD is very personal to me. The forms of the compositions and the instrumentations employed for these recorded performances mirror the sounds that I heard in my 'mind's ear' at the time of each piece's creation. These imaginary sounds and the inspirations that gave rise to them guided every aspect of the compositional process, as well as the recording of my performances of each piece. Two prime objectives motivated the creation of this CD. First, I wanted to delve deeper into the nexus between improvisation and composition that I began to examine on my CD Explorations for Solo Guitar. And second, I felt compelled to undertake an emotional journey to reclaim aspects of my cultural heritage that, frankly, as a jazz musician I had spent a lot of energy trying to distance myself from, namely, my Appalachian roots. Two of the compositions ('Borges & I' and 'Snowhill Variations') are solo guitar pieces and were recorded with no overdubs. The other two pieces ('The Gospel According to Sam' and 'String Theory') were composed as duets and were recorded with that principle in mind. Consequently, though I obviously can't play the guitar and dobro or the guitar and mandolin at the same time, I did play each part as one half of it's respective duet. So the guitar parts for each piece were recorded with no overdubs, and then each of the other instruments was added as it was played, that is, as one integral half of each duet, with no overdubs within each part. The polyphonic nature of the writing does make this difficult, but it is the way the pieces were conceived, and the way they would be performed in a live concert setting. While modern recording technology makes it possible to separate the different voices within each instrument's part, assigning each voice it's own track, I chose not to use that procedure because I felt it would distort the sense of a dialogue between two equals that is central to my conception of the compositions. Each of the four multi-movement works that make up this CD was structured so that any single movement could stand on it's own, but when heard within the context of the entirety of it's surrounding movements, each movement illuminates it's neighbors. This concept is crucial for understanding the sources that inspired each of the four multi-movement works. Even though there are three or more movements within each work, each movement relates to a different aspect of the sources that inspired the work in which it is contained. For example, 'Borges & I' is constructed in the form of a suite with seven movements, each of which is named after a short story written by the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Even the suite's overall title is named after one of Borges's short stories, and each movement of the suite was inspired by the short story after which it was named. While Borges's stories cover an enormous range of ideas and emotions, there are certain constants, which is in part why he is viewed as the father of a literary movement often referred to as 'magic realism.' One of the qualities I find most intriguing in Borges's work is his capacity for addressing the most profound aspects of the human condition in the most succinct terms. The form of the short story and the collections comprised of small numbers of them that were published during Borges's lifetime even resemble the form of a suite made up of individual movements. While my suite is not program music intended to underscore Borges's fictions (as he called them), it is an honest response to the masterful works of one of the 20th century's true visionaries. The inspiration for 'The Gospel According to Sam' was a large number of colorful sayings that I've heard throughout my life, expressed by an extraordinary man named Sam, who also happens to be my father. When I first moved to New York City and began working with a lot of different musicians, I found myself in some unfamiliar situations and responded from time to time with some of the witticisms of my father. For example, when a club owner started to deduct the cost of a glass of water from the band's pay, insisting it was on a musician's bar tab, I responded by saying that the club owner was 'tighter than a fish's ass, and that's watertight.' My fellow musicians loved these expressions so much that they often asked where on earth I came up with the stuff. When I told them, several suggested that I put together a book of my Dad's more outlandish expressions and title it 'The Gospel According to Sam.' My Dad loves the dobro, so I wrote 'The Gospel According to Sam' for him. 'Snowhill Variations' was inspired by a story told during a lecture attended by Adrian Leverkühn, the main character in Thomas Mann's novel Dr. Faustus. As a young man Adrian attended lectures about music, and during one such lecture the speaker speculates that music is such a natural art that, even without the benefit of instruction or guidance and by merely observing the natural implications of sound, a musically talented novice could reinvent music, with the results being much the same as the music we know today (or at least at the time of the novel, the early 20th century). To illustrate his point the lecturer tells the story of Johann Beissel, who formed a religious order in Pennsylvania. Beissel received what he believed to be divinely inspired poems that were messages for the faithful. Upon hearing choral music Beissel decided that his poems would be more effectively communicated with music. Knowing nothing about music did not intimidate Herr Beissel, he simply invented his own method for creating credible vocal music using a system of what he referred to as 'master and slave' tones, not unlike the system of chord tones and alternating passing tones that explain many of our chord-scale relationships today. While this story was only a small but interesting part of Mann's novel, I was intrigued by it. However, I assumed that, like the rest of the novel, it was fiction. To my surprise I found out that Beissel really existed, that he did invent a system for creating choral music, and that he founded religious sects at Ephrata and at Snowhill, Pennsylvania. I began to imagine what Beissel's music might have sounded like, and a theme took shape in my mind. When I began to play around with it on paper, I was surprised to hear how malleable it was. So I wrote twelve variations on it. The title piece for the CD, 'String Theory,' didn't have a single source of inspiration. Rather, it emerged from a serendipitous confluence of encounters with art and science, and my own observations on the interactions between these two seemingly disparate disciplines. For example, when I first saw the Henry Moore drawing that graces the cover of this CD, and the way in which it's audience quizzically awaits the unveiling of the monolithic structure covered in something bound by string, it struck me as a visual metaphor for the way physicists are awaiting the next step in the process of proving or disproving the validity of string theory. I was also fascinated by the way that some physicists began naming subatomic particles and/or the forces governing their behavior with names like 'Grace' and 'Love,' and how the deeper they get into it, the stranger it becomes-with a projected eleven dimensions to reality. It seems that the weirder their discoveries, the more physicists use names of familiar qualities to describe the tendencies of the phenomena they either predict or discover. Finally, there is the conspicuous fact that every instrument I play on this recording has strings attached. I always look for a unifying principle to hold things together, and 'String Theory' seemed the obv

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Let's Go to Prison

Dax Shepard stars in this prison comedy as John Lyshitski, a lifelong petty criminal who is all too familiar with the criminal justice system. For Lyshitski, prison is a second home where he knows all the ruels and runs the show. After being released from his most recent jail stay, Lyshitski decides it's time to avenge the man responsible for it all. But to his humor, Lyshitski learns he's been freed just moments after the death of his nemesis, Judge Biederman. Needing someone to take out his grudge on, Lyshitski sets his sight on the judge's son, Nelson Biederman IV. a well-groomed, high-powered executive who verges on uptight, Biederman looks like he wouldn't make it through one night in a jail cell. But as the result of Lyshitskis tricky maneuvers, Biederman finds himself sentenced to several years in a penitentiary that would intimidate even a seasoned criminal. Proving just how far hell go for revenge, Lyshitski also gets himself arrested so that he can make his targets life a living hell. Includes both unrated and rated versions. Star Bob Odenkirk, Will Arnett, Dax Shepard Special Features: Widescreen.

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