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Declutter Your Mind: How to Relieve Anxiety and Build Mental Toughness Through Mindfulness, Thinking & Meditation. Create Your Own Stress-Free Environment by Learning Success Habits. (Change Your Brain, Book 3) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 185min
Confusion. Chatter. Chaos. Comparison. Distractions. Negativity.These are the thoughts that go through our minds every single day. The question is, how well are we managing or filtering those thoughts?The human brain is both fascinating yet complicated at the same time. The truth is, we are in control of our lives. We’re always in control, but we have allowed ourselves to forget that.Negativity is such a powerful force that we have allowed ourselves to believe it is much stronger than we are. We let these unhelpful, self-limiting thoughts wander into our minds where it continues to grow. The more we feed it, the bigger these thoughts become - until the mind becomes so cluttered with thoughts, we feel like we have lost all sense of control.Too many thoughts. Too many worries. Too much rumination and stress over the things we cannot control. Too much time spent overthinking, and too much mental energy focused on the wrong things.A cluttered mind is going to be of no use to you. No matter how good you may think you are at multitasking, the brain does not function that way. It was not made to function that way. Hidden from the rest of the world, mental clutter easily becomes an afterthought. Because we can’t see it, we’re not mindful of the way it is affecting our lives and our emotions. Oh, we can feel its effects, but we don’t think to do anything about it. Like the physical clutter in your environment that is hard to avoid, mental clutter is even harder to get rid of. The mental clutter that is piling up in your brain is eventually going to start wearing you down, chipping away at your confidence and self-esteem until you don’t know what to do about it anymore.Is there something that can be done about this? Yes, there is, and Declutter Your Mind is going to show you how. This guide will shed light on the following areas:The philosophy of declutteringWhy we live with a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Duane DeSalvo. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/215788/bk_acx0_215788_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Undisciplined: Bridal Discipline, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 178min
Gabrielle Astley is quite used to being an afterthought, a burden, a nuisance. As the only child - and a useless female one at that - to a Baron, she was both spoiled materially and neglected emotionally. After her father's death, his third wife and her stepmother is remarried, to the stern and cold Marquess of Dunbury. Since the new Baron wants nothing to do with Gabrielle, the Marquess is her new guardian and Gabrielle finds herself in London, receiving her debut. Despite this turn of events, she can't quite shake her spite of her stepmother, and her attitude lands her into hot water and her first spanking at the hand of her guardian. The Marquess seems eager to marry her off, and Gabrielle has no objection to that goal. London has everything she ever wanted - glamor, excitement, and, for some reason, quite a few people actually seem to like and take an interest in her. When the Marquess' best friend, the rakish Felix Hood becomes one of those people, Gabrielle finds herself hoping for more than just a standard ton marriage...until she begins to realize that he's not interested in her for herself, and his interest may actually be in someone close to her. Felix Hood had no thoughts of settling down in marriage - as the youngest of three brothers, he should be the last to wed. However, when he meets his best friend Philip's new ward and is tasked with the duty of helping guard her against any unsavory suitors (as well as guarding Philip's new wife from Miss Astley's waspish tongue), he can't help but be entranced by her. She's not the usual milk and water miss that is served up to the gentlemen of the tongue; she's prickly, funny, and has a touch of sadness in her eyes that he longs to discover the cause of so that he may vanquish it. But he's not convinced he's ready for marriage, and his hesitation over formally courting her leads Miss Astley to turn to her other suitors, making him wonder if she's really worth the chase. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rebecca McKernan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109513/bk_acx0_109513_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Secret of Rockhouse , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 403min
In the 1980s, people in Dickenson County, VA were united by coal, church, and high school football. The crime rate was low, confidence was high, and it was an ideal place for people of all ages to live. However, in April of 1987, three Clintwood High School seniors witnessed something that changed their outlook entirely. They made a pact to never discuss what they saw; an agreement that would cause each of them to suffer a lifetime of fear, exacerbated by a constant replaying of the horrific event in their nightmares. Twenty-seven years later, one of them returned to town for the final football game at Ralph Cummins Stadium, and inadvertently came face to face with the person he believed was responsible for their constant fright. His friends refused to help him confront the monster, so he enlisted the help of a deputy sheriff, and took matters into his own hands. Only, things were not exactly as they seemed. When it appeared as though a teenage girl was going to meet a similar fate to the victim from 1987, a showdown ensued that brought out a shocking secret. Justice could not be served in the traditional manner, but could it be served at all? And, were there any actual winners? You decide, after listening to The Secret of Rockhouse. The author describes The Secret of Rockhouse as a one-third true autobiography, disguised as a B-grade murder mystery. He set out to write about his life in a work that only his close family would know about. However, once he began putting pen to paper, he decided to have some fun with it and live out his dream of being a rock star through the storyline. The murder mystery component was an afterthought that he decided to add for fun. He hopes his family, friends, and the people in his home county, will enjoy the finished product. Of course, if you don't fit into that demographic, he hopes you listen and enjoy anyway! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Barnard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/114141/bk_acx0_114141_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Closure , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 335min
With that fleeting fancy passing, he begins his second stint at putting his life down in print. He transfers what's wildly written on paper onto his computer. All his earned, learned, and yearned years of life, rife with strife, come alive on his computer. Every morning he awakes with the next ten or so pages in his mind written the night before. He writes like a man possessed, and he is. He's reliving every moment of his life through writ, bit by bit, and it's wild. Each experience is pushed through the keys on the keyboard. As it passes through him, it feels like it's happening now. Smells and scenes of days gone by are so lucid in his mind. He feels physical reactions when writing them down. His memory now is like a snowball rolling down a snow-covered hill, recanting every minute detail of his life. He uses coffee as a stimulant. It helps while writing every moment, memory, and feeling he has at every given point in his already-lived life. He's amazed how the memory stores absolutely everything, including the five, no, make it six senses of every living moment of his life. Timothy in Greek means "honoring God". He always envisions God as all knowing and all seeing, and here he is realizing that truth. His whole life, no matter how tried and tested it's been, has been seen. It's been recorded with every single detail. Not just the experiences themselves; but every thought, every forethought and afterthought. All his words well from being. He records every notion and emotion that arises. Every pain, every pleasure, everything that can be imagined. It's all there, stored in his mind, his heart, his soul. Even every sense has some kind of receptor that stores all his life's energy. Every nuance and circumstance unfurls in swirls upon remembrance. It's like his brain retains the remains of whatever, whenever, however. He's sure, somewhere deep in the recesses of his mind, his passing-through of the birth canal is registered. T ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Zeigdel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/100963/bk_acx0_100963_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beyond Accessibility Compliance
Take a deep look at accessibility as it applies to mobile and wearables. This book covers topics within the accessibility domain that are rarely covered or understood, despite the fact that nearly half of the world's population uses smartphones. Moreover, by 2025, 72% of smartphone users are expected to only use smartphones to access the internet. And yet, accessibility is often an afterthought instead of a core principle of product development. This book changes that.You will begin by exploring the current landscape and policy frameworks, looking at the software product lifecycle and how to embed inclusion from the start. You'll learn the nuances of mobile accessibility as it applies to mobile devices, wearables, and IoT. From there you'll move onto automated testing, accessibility and inclusion, and the next frontiers of emerging technology including AR and VR. There will be notes at the end of programming examples to help those in orthogonal roles, such as project management, understand the basics and the language to better communicate with their engineering counterparts.Over 1 billion people in the world live with some form of disability so it's imperative you devise a comprehensive game plan to make your digital products accessible for all. Beyond Accessibility Compliance is your guide to understanding the current landscape of assistive technology and how emerging techniques are changing the way we think about personalization and accessibility.What You'll LearnSee how people with the most common forms of disabilities use digital productsReview the basics of the product development lifecycle and how to embed accessibility Explore tangible answers as to how accessibility pertains to unique rolesUnderstand the difference between compliance and usabilityMake data visualizations accessible for blind usersImplement code-level changes to address gaps in accessibility Build a campus programs and course material inclusive for people with disabilitiesWho This Book Is ForCurrent developers, designers, and others building technology products with basic knowledge of front-end development. This book is also suitable for students in computer science, engineering, HCI, and related fields. Sections that are not engineering-specific are applicable to design, user research, communication, and business students who are looking to pursue careers in technology.- Shop: buecher
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Carolina Cellobration
PROGRAM NOTES (by the composers) Buffing the Gut (1995) Buffing the Gut was commissioned in 1995 by Buffi Jacobs, then an undergraduate student at the University of South Carolina studying cello with Robert Jesselson. I was a doctoral Teaching Assistant, studying with Dick Goodwin, and Buffi was in my Sight Singing class. One day she asked if I'd write a piece for her senior recital. A relative would get that for her as a graduation gift, and so we sat down together to explore ideas. I recall asking, "what do you like to do on cello when you are just messing around and having fun?" Her eyes widened she played some "rock guitar licks" that I then embellished and used in the piece. We had a fun time collaborating on the first draft, which Dick helped me refine and Robert expertly edited. It is no surprise that in addition to her professional "classical" career, Buffi has been a long-time member of the acclaimed rock group, The Polyphonic Spree. My title was inspired by Buffi's name and the image of a cellist bowing so ferociously that the strings on the cello smolder and appear buffed. I ask you to imagine a cellist alone in an empty concert hall after a concert, playing for the sheer joy of playing. Ben Boone Two Movement Sonata (2011) The first movement of the Sonata, Rondeau, begins as a five part rondo i.e. A, B, A, C, A. That pattern is then repeated in ever shorter statements. The reduction in the length of each part is roughly equivalent to the proportions of the Fibonacci Series. This process continues to a point about four minutes and a few seconds into the piece. Then it goes in reverse to expand each part to the end. The second movement, Scherzo Canonico, recalls lines and textures from the first movement in a scherzo, trio, scherzo form. The scherzos are round canons at the unison and the trio, a cancrizans canon. The Sonata seeks to tell no story nor to reveal any deep spiritual truth. It is a piece of abstract music. It is what it is. Here end the program notes for a piece which has no program. Samuel O. Douglas Lilies (2011) Lilies, as a flower, are thought to symbolize purity and a return to innocence. In that spirit, "Lilies" is a reflective and gentle vocalise for cello and piano. The work is in three, expansive sections. The opening features a long, lyrical cello line over a slowly rocking bass in the piano. This gives way to a more restless, searching middle section, which in turn leads back to an altered version of the original melodic material, and a quiet, if somewhat mysterious, resolution. 'Lilies' was commissioned by the Jesselson/Fugo Duo in 2011, and is dedicated in memory of John McElyea. John Fitz Rogers Frieze (2011) The German novelist and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) once said that architecture is "frozen music." In architecture, a frieze refers to a horizontal band of decorative images found along the top of a wall that are typically a set of variations on a single theme. Written for cellist Bob Jesselson and pianist Charles Fugo on the thirtieth anniversary of the Jesselson/Fugo Duo, Frieze (2011) explores musical analogues of mathematical frieze groups, symmetric line patterns on a two-dimensional surface that infinitely repeat in a single direction. These types of patterns are mapped onto the pitch and time domains to create the musical ideas that form the basis of the work. The titles of the seven movements are double entendres, terms with very precise meanings in mathematical music theory that have very different meanings outside of music. For example the second movement, titled "Mosaic," refers to a design made from small pieces of colored tile or stone in art, whereas in twelve-tone music it refers to a way to partition the aggregate into subsets. Dr. Reginald Bain In Memoriam (September 11, 2001) I wrote these sketches while watching the horror of the attacks of September 11, 2001: the collapse of the World Trade Center, the attack on the Pentagon, the plane-crash in Pennsylvania. I didn't have a piece in mind, or consciously set out to write one. But the sketches seemed to belong together, afterwards, and to fit the solo cello.* It was my way of holding each other in our loss. It reflects my sadness, our collective sadness-- the loss of loved ones, looking for survivors, not finding. Hoping it isn't true, disbelief...it is true. The slow motion collapse of the towers--with that collapse, all of our losses, our national sense of invulnerability gone...humility, interdependence, prayer. Meira Warshauer *Originally for solo cello. Subsequent versions for violin solo (commissioned by Gregory Harrington), violin and cello duo, violin and bass clarinet duo, clarinet solo, clarinet and bass clarinet duo, clarinet and cello duo (arr. By Suzanne Mueller). Also available for solo cello with string ensemble (9 players: 3 2 2 1 1) or string orchestra, and for solo cello with cello ensemble (6 celli, arranged by Mirel Iancovici). Published by Kol Meira Publications (ASCAP), 3526 Boundbrook Lane, Columbia, SC 29206, USA. Yizkor (Remember) (2009) Mourning can be both private and public. When we visit a grave or observe the anniversary of a person's death, we generally do so in private. 'Yizkor' (which is Hebrew for 'Remember') is a prayer for the public observance for the community of bereaved. These two movements are the last two movements of a three movement work called 'Yizkor'. I had written a one movement piece for cello solo by that name in 2001 after the horrific events of 9/11. The cello was the solo voice that cries, the solo voice that is heard no more. In 2009 I felt that the piece needed more, so I added the two movements included in this album as further amplification of that feeling. These second and third movements of Yizkor are included on this CD to reflect the afterthought, or aftershock, that follows an emotional loss. The second movement depicts the frantic and frenetic feeling that follows such a shock. That is why I used a figure of two sixteenth notes at the beginning of every measure. The third movement has a descending legato melodic mirroring an ascending line in the first movement. This last movement is the afterthought, and the solemn feeling we have when remembering. With my background in composition combined with film scoring, I tend to see music more as an underscore, be it to a film, or to our lives. From my perspective as a songwriter I also feel strongly about the human voice and the power of song. Ayala Asherov-Kalus Dessau Dances (2011) There is a famous German dance hall outside of Austin, Texas - well, really outside of Pflugerville, TX to be more precise -- that dates back to 1876. For decades Dessau Hall hosted about every major traveling music act ... from polka bands to the dance orchestras of Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, Guy Lombardo, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw and Stan Kenton, to country artists like Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, and Willie Nelson. Even Elvis Presley played there several times. Programs were often broadcast over KTBC which was owned by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird. I recall performing at Dessau Hall with different territory bands ... and remember that there was a big oak tree growing out of the dance floor and up through the roof. I thought that it would be fun to abstract rhythms from three popular dances that we were always asked to play at Dessau Hall -- a schottische, a waltz and a polka. The evenings also featured promenades -- little marches that would stop abruptly providing a kind of musical chairs to identify the next dance partner. So I decided that Dessau Dances needed a promenade theme to open the set and tie each of the movements together. Gordon (Dick) Goodwin Duet for Cello and Piano (2011) Program notes in the classical music tradition provide historical and background information on the piece, the composer, giving the audience tips for what to expect when listening to- Shop: odax
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