One of many reasons why a client comes to me is helping them handle their next album release. Being independent, it's up to them to handle artwork, distribution, registration, the works – on top of promoting it, performing and practicing – which is on top of normal life obligations. Doing it alone is not a light task.
While I hope it's clear to you that you need to delegate on help with artwork, press, booking, music videos and promotion, sometimes the actual paperwork of getting the album release gets buried – but is essentially just as important when it earns you money for every stream, purchase and play of your upcoming album.
Some of you may find check lists boring, but I LOVE them. Why? Crossing off that item lets me know the next step was completed, and I can go to sleep at night without my head spinning and thinking, wait, did I do that? Should I do this?
I don't use them for everything, but I definitely have one for album releases. There's just too much to miss or get confused by with everything that needs to be done.
__ Register Copyrights. You immediately own your copyright when the song is in fixed format (sheet music, recording, etc.). It's very easy to do and I recommend handing it off to your VA right away. Just visit http://www.copyright.gov/ to get started. Note, you can register your album as a collection, so you aren't paying the fee for each song.
__ Affiliate with a PRO if this is your first release, or add the track information to your PRO – ASCAP, BMI or SESAC. Some distributors that work with independent artists will do this part for you when setting up your album for an extra fee.
__ Add the album to SoundScan. Whether it's a single or album, register the title at Nielsen Soundscan. Visit http://titlereg.soundscan.com/soundscantitlereg/ to fill out the form. If you have any questions while filling it out, I've found their phone support is always available and always helpful.
__ Set Up Distribution. Whoever you use, make sure to get started early on distribution. Some need at least 2 weeks in order to set up pre-orders, and delays can happen. So once you know the date of your release, go ahead and start on the distribution. If you need some guidance on how to find the best distributor, Ari Herstand has a great resource on his blog here.
__ License any cover songs. You'll need to obtain a mechanical license in order to release a cover song on your album. I've only had to handle this with a Christmas album, but with covers being more and more popular, it's becoming easier to license as well. Some distributors will help with this, but you can also do this by visiting http://www.easysonglicensing.com/.
__ Set up a Private Soundcloud playlist of the album. This will be key if you want to share the album with anyone before it drops. No one wants to download your mp3's, give them easy listening access via Soundcloud. Plus, most blog submissions and press submissions request a streaming link!
__ Add the album to Soundexchange. If you're the owner of the songs, primary artist or in the band, there are additional digital performance royalties you can collect on when music is played on internet/satellite radio. PROs don't cover this, but Soundexchange does. Note, it can take months to get added so if you haven't registered on their site, do it now.
__ Send the album to Pandora. Lots of people still use Pandora so you'll want to make sure your album gets added. It takes all but 5 minutes to send it off and if you're approved, you'll know in a matter of weeks. I've seen it happen in a few days before, but the earlier, the better.
Hope you find this helpful – feel free to print it off for your next release – and can't wait till next time!


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Tag Archives: high-impact practices
Pushing higher education toward a 'new synthesis'
Randy Bass sees a struggle taking place in higher education.
On one side are those who see the future as "unbundled," a model in which students pursue discrete skills at their own pace and mostly under their own direction. On the other side are those who see the future as bundled, much as a university is now with classes and programs and a physical environment that draws everything together.
Randy Bass during a breakout session at the 2017 Teaching Summit
This is not a clash of right vs. wrong or good vs. evil, Bass, a professor and administrator at Georgetown University, said in his keynote address at KU's annual Teaching Summit this month. The bundled model needs the skills, flexibility and other elements of the unbundled side, he says, although he contends that those pursuing the unbundled model "are working with a diminished vision of education."
Let's tease those elements apart a bit.
The unbundled model that Bass describes has been embraced by many entrepreneurs and authors who see the traditional model of higher education failing. Under this model, classes have little or no ties to each other and learning is detached from physical spaces. Students focus on particular skills when they need them, work at their own pace and learn on their own, often online. Bass describes this approach as "granular, targeted, modular." Competency-based education lives on this side of the spectrum. So do MOOCs and online organizations like Lynda.com and Kahn Academy. It is driven by analytics and takes what Bass calls a "disintegrated" approach to learning, one that its advocates say will help underserved populations.
The bundled model approaches higher education as a community. Classes, at least in theory, build on and integrate with each other, helping students accumulate expertise that leads toward completion of a degree. This approach works toward whole-person education, Bass said, providing interaction with other students and with instructors. It builds in skills like critical thinking, creativity, empathy and ethical judgment. All of this is integrated into a larger learning community located in a particular physical space: classrooms, living spaces, informal spaces, and a physical campus. It involves things like student organizations, sports, and arts and entertainment.
Bass said universities should work toward an integrative, inclusive model
He called on universities to work at "rebundling" education in more meaningful ways, finding opportunities to integrate skills and to allow students to work on difficult, authentic questions from the beginning of their studies. The future of higher education, he said, depends on our ability to bring together the components of the unbundled and bundled models of education.
"These two discourses have largely been separate and at war and talking past each other until the last few years," Bass said. "The great challenge of the next decade or more is to move toward a new synthesis."
This new synthesis is crucial, Bass says, because higher education will undergo big changes in the next couple of decades. He drew on the biological theory of punctuated equilibrium, which suggests that evolution doesn't take place in a steady progression. Rather, it goes through long periods of stability punctuated by big leaps in changes of life forms.
"I think we're in that period of time in higher education," Bass said. "I think the last 15 to 20 years have been building to it. … It's creating a shift in what we consider the species of how we deliver higher education. Over the next 15 years, there's going to be a jump, a shift in the landscape."
He made a case that the future lies at the intersection of inclusiveness and integration. It involves integrating the skills promoted by those who want to unbundle education but integrates what Bass called "hard skills": learning to learn, critical thinking, creativity, curiosity, resilience, empathy, humility, ethical judgment.
"We also know that we can't teach most of those things directly," Bass said. "We can't teach these as direct instruction. But we can design environments where they are more likely rather than less likely to be cultivated."
Where various forms of education fit into that quadrant now
Universities were founded on the idea of exclusive excellence, he said, and much of higher education still operates on this model. The future, though, depends on our ability to provide inclusive excellence, he said, to find ways to draw in more people into high-quality, integrative education.
To help with that, he urged adoption of high-impact practices, which have been shown to improve student success. These practices help create unscripted environments that provide hands-on learning, push students outside their comfort zone, help them learn more about themselves, and allow disparate components of education to come together. (What's the opposite of high-impact practices? That would be low-impact practices, he joked, "otherwise known as the curriculum.")
The future depends on helping students accept uncertainty and to learn to think like experts in their disciplines. It also depends on instructors, disciplines and universities identifying what they want students to take away from classes, curricula and a university education.
"If it matters, you have to make it integral," Bass said.
We also need to redesign and expand what we mean by rigor, Bass said. One thing that draws people into a discipline, he said, is that they fall in love with what's difficult about that field.
Bass argues that the future of higher education depends on a "new synthesis" of unbundled and bundled models
"The most important thing we can do, as early as possible and with as many people as possible, is to introduce them to how to navigate difficulties and appreciate difficulty and uncertainty."
Bass offered examples of what that might look like. One involved a student project from a class he teaches on the future of the university. That model envisions education as a community of peers working to gain experience, expertise and independence as students' thinking grows in complexity. It emphasizes a "profound sense that college should build to something that makes you really capable," Bass said.
Another, in which he went into more depth, was a biology class his wife taught that involved at-risk students in a project that analyzed the soil and environment of a Virginia winery. The project humanized learning by having students take on a challenge that involved real-world problems in a location that students got to know well.
Both of those models follow his ideal of education as inclusive and integrative. There are many ways of moving into that realm, he said, and we must keep experimenting. Bass said a biologist reminded him that in a period of punctuated equilibrium, 99 percent of all lifeforms die. In the case of higher education, those "lifeforms" are colleges, universities, departments, programs and individual faculty members.
"There will be institutions to whom change is done, and there will be institutions in control of that change," Bass said.
Throughout his talk and in workshops that followed, Bass pushed instructors, staff members and administrators to think about ways of staying in front of potentially destructive change.
"The question is," he said, "how do we as higher ed institutions survive and thrive during this shift?"
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Because your body is more active, it lifts your mood. I could certainly imagine that it helps your voice carry better.
The most astounding thing with my patient was that she was practically pain-free within a week. This is enough to suggest that the success is a result of wearing the kyBoot. She wasn't in pain anymore, she was able to move more easily and her movements were more symmetrical again. We were able to focus on the actual problem again, which was essentially getting her knee joint to work properly – the reason that she actually came to me in the first place.


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VULCAN HISTORY
There isn't reelly much to say about Vulcan history. The first part of this page will be exactly the same as the first part of the Romulan History page. After that, it will be what happened on Vulcan after the other Vulcans left.
Ancient Vulcans were mothing like the Vulcans that StarTrek now knows. They used to be violent and war like. The provinces were always at war, constantly fighting for land, and water, for water was a scarce thing on the desert planet. At least 90 percent of the planet was at war at all times.
Around 80 BC, terran dating, a Vulcan philosipher named Surak, began to practice the control of emotions, and publicly stating that logic was the way to peace. His ideals were very slow to spread and it took many years before people began to take him very seriously. But, he did recieve some followers. One of which was a young man named S'Task and he was Suraks finest pupil.
Around 20 BC, the first signles from an alien race were recieved on Vulcan. However, the aliens did not come in peace. They were Orion slave pirates, and they wanted the Vulcans for their slaves. The Orions captures many of Vulcan's leaders, including S'Task, who had gone to greet the aliens, because Surak had transportion trouble.
This began the greatest of Vulcan's wars. They fought with their more primitive space ships, but they were not enough to beet teh Orions. They used their mind talents to manipulate the Orions into attacking each other and or to drive their ships into the sun.
S'Task had escaped captivity, and began to form a rebbelion against the Orions. He and his followers over-powered the pirates and eventually crashe his ship into the Orion mother ship. He escaped in an escape pod, and was found weeks later, almost dead, but kept alive by his own anger.
This began the split between Surak and his student S'Task. After his experience with the Orions, S'Task renounced the pacifism of Surak, saying that pacifism was inappropriate in the hostile universe waiting in interstellar space. However, S'Task was not willing to promote his philosophies actively against Surak, for fear of prodding Vulcan back into a state of war and anarchy. Surak had long preached that "The structure of spacetime is more concerned with means than ends: beginnings must be clean to be of profit", and S'Task agreed with his old master. It was with this in mind that S'Task proposed an alternate solution.
S'Task and his followers decided to leave Vulcan, using the technology that they had stolen from the Orions. They would find a new planet to live on, with the laws that they wanted, so that Surak and his followers, now many of them, could live their own way.
50 years later the first far travel Vulcan ship left. With it went 15 other ships, each carrying 5000 of the 'Declared' to a new planet. The people decided to avoid all areas located on the Orions star maps, so that they would be sure not to run into them.
This begins the Vulcan culture as we know it. Under the leadership of Surak, the people of Vulcan stopped the wars, and went in pursiut of peace. It took many centuries, but emotion was purged, nearly anyways, although no Vulcan will admit that, and logic became what the Vulcan culture was made up from. Vulcans pride themselves on the fact the there haven't been any wars, and almost no violence in the last 1500 years, although that number may vary. The philosophy still is strong today, and that is what all Vulcans you see now in StarTrek are like, or should be like.
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Abborrskär är en ö nära Ängsö i Nagu,  Finland. Den ligger i Skärgårdshavet i Pargas stad i den ekonomiska regionen  Åboland i landskapet Egentliga Finland, i den sydvästra delen av landet. Ön ligger omkring 5 kilometer öster om Ängsö, 12 kilometer sydväst om Nagu kyrka, 45 kilometer sydväst om Åbo och omkring 170 kilometer väster om Helsingfors. Närmaste allmänna förbindelse är förbindelsebryggan vid Hummelholm som trafikeras av M/S Cheri.

Öns area är  hektar och dess största längd är 260 meter i öst-västlig riktning.

Abborrskär är ett av drygt hundra skärgårdsnamn i Finland som innehåller ordet "abborr".  Dessa namn förekommer huvudsakligen i kustbyar och i innerskärgården där fiskeplatserna har varit relativt få och antas därför vara betingade av fisket.

Klimat
Inlandsklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är augusti, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C.

Källor

Öar i Nagu
Öar i Skärgårdshavet

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TheNewsTribune.com is the official website of the third largest newspaper in Washington, The News Tribune. The website provides local and international news as well as news covering the sports, business, entertainment sectors and a lot more. The website also provides an opinion section and a multimedia section where photos and videos are showcased. The website also has outdoor adventure information and tips, blogs and classifieds sections.
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The building of Henryk Dąbrowski's Chemical plant in Warsaw, pre-dating World War II was destroyed by the developer despite the structure being registered as an architectural monument. The demolition was conducted despite the decision of the Heritage Office and district authorities. The local community which witnessed the demolition alarmed the press and the authorities, as the monument was part of the areas history and the district's cultural identity.
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Lawmakers: Lay off Citi/Mets deal
A group of New York City and Long Island members of Congress ask Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to stay away from the $400-million naming-rights deal.A group of New York City and Long Island members of Congress ask Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to stay away from the $400-million naming-rights deal between Citigroup and the New York Mets for Citi Field.
The six members of Congress argue any move by the U.S. Government would be unnecessarily punative. The issue of the Citigroup naming-rights deal is a very sensitive one right now: Citigroup is one of at least nine banks receiving federal TARP funds and have entered into long-term naming-rights deals for stadiums, ballparks and arenas: Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo, US Bank, Huntington Bank, Bank of New York Mellon Corp., PNC Financial Services, M&T Bank Corp. and Comerica.
The issue achieved prominence when Reps. Dennis Kucinich and Ted Poe issued a call for the government to strike the deal, saying it amounted to taxpayer subsidization of naming rights:
"If Citigroup had filed for bankruptcy, rather than receive $45 billion in taxpayer funds from the TARP, the overpriced naming-rights contract would have been terminated," Kucinich said in a statement. "So TARP, in effect, has propped up the overpriced Citi Field naming-rights deal at a time when Citigroup is also planning to lay off 50,000 employees."
It's really a tempest in a teapot: there's no legal way for the government to order an existing contract be eliminated unilaterally (something the Mets, Citigroup and other baseball officials repeatedly point out), and it sounds like Geithner is pretty much ignoring Kucinich and Poe.
"While we have implemented new restrictions on executive compensation and luxury perks, we will not get involved in individual companies' marketing decisions," said Treasury spokesman Isaac Baker.
RELATED STORIES: Citi, Mets affirm naming-rights deal; Kucinich vows fight against all bank deals; Under public pressure, Citigroup reevaluates Mets deal; Congressmen call for end to Citi's naming-rights deal with Mets
Lowell reverses course, will seek bids for 10-year lease for LeLacheur Park
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Press Room > The Education Trust Statement on the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015
The Education Trust Statement on the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015
Publication date: Dec 2, 2015
Back in January, we set out to ensure a reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would move the country forward in its efforts to close the long-standing gaps in opportunity and achievement separating different groups of young Americans.
"While there are aspects of the Every Student Succeeds Act about which we have real misgivings, our overarching goal was to make all groups of children matter and to ensure that, when any group of children consistently lags behind, somebody has to act," said Daria Hall, Vice President for Government Affairs and Communication. "We believe the bill approved by the House today meets that test."
Specifically, the bill includes the following fundamental protections for vulnerable students:
Consistent, state-adopted standards for all children that are aligned with the demands of postsecondary education and work;
Annual statewide assessment to provide objective, comparable data on how all students are performing;
Rich public reporting on outcomes and opportunities to learn for all groups of children, including per-pupil expenditures, access to rigorous coursework, and measures of school climate;
Statewide accountability systems that include gap-closing goals for student outcomes, ratings based on the progress of all students and each group of students, and the expectation of action when any group of students is consistently underperforming;
Attention to, and a commitment to addressing, inequities in access to ineffective, out-of-field, and inexperienced teachers;
Sustained investment in public education, with the targeting of Title I dollars to the highest poverty schools and districts; and
A role for the U.S. Secretary of Education in enforcing the law.
"Congressional reauthorizations of major education laws are always an exercise in compromise, and this one is no exception," according to Kati Haycock, President. "In the battle between adult interests and those of the children who are at the heart of why the federal government is involved in education, each side won some skirmishes. For example, the final bill places many important decisions about measures of school quality and the pace and nature of improvement efforts in the hands of state and local leaders.
Given the long history of state and local decisions that shortchange vulnerable students, this degree of flexibility is cause for serious trepidation."
"At the same time, however, the law contains critical protections for these same student groups and clear levers for equity-minded leaders and advocates to move the ball forward, rather than back. For example, school accountability systems must rate schools on the performance of every group of students that they serve — something that is not currently happening in most states under ESEA waivers."
We at The Education Trust stand ready to do our part to help make sure state and local leaders and advocates take advantage of those levers and truly prioritize accelerating the achievement of the low-income children and children of color who are the law's very purpose for being.
We're grateful for the tireless work of our coalition partners, and to the bipartisan, bicameral collaboration of Chairman Lamar Alexander, Ranking Member Patty Murray, Chairman John Kline, and Ranking Member Bobby Scott and their staffs for getting us to this point.
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If Budgets Are Statements of Values, This Administration Doesn't Value American Students
May 23, 2017 by John B. King Jr.
WASHINGTON (05/23/17) – "The Trump administration's budget request is an assault on the American Dream. This shortsighted and cruel…
"The Education Trust cannot support DeVos' nomination for U.S. Secretary of Education," says Kati Haycock to Senate HELP Committee
January 23, 2017 by Ed Trust and Kati Haycock
WASHINGTON (01/23/17) – Today Kati Haycock, CEO of The Education Trust, issued the following statement ahead of the Senate…
Statement from The Education Trust on 12th-Grade Reading and Mathematics Results From the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress
April 27, 2016 by Ed Trust
WASHINGTON – While we applaud improved graduation rates for all groups of students, we're not cheering too loudly, because,…
Statement by Kati Haycock, president of The Education Trust, on President Obama's signing of the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015
December 10, 2015 by Ed Trust
WASHINGTON (December 10, 2015) — "We applaud President Obama along with Chairman Lamar Alexander, Ranking Member Patty Murray, Chairman…
Statement From The Education Trust on the Every Child Achieves Act
April 7, 2015 by Ed Trust
WASHINGTON (April 7, 2015) – Kati Haycock, president of The Education Trust, issued the following statement today on the …
Statement From The Education Trust on the Student Success Act, H.R. 5
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WASHINGTON (February 11, 2015) — Today, The Education Trust issued the following statement expressing our disappointment with the House Education…
Statement From The Education Trust on the Support Making Assessments Reliable and Timely (SMART) Act
January 21, 2015 by Ed Trust
WASHINGTON (January 21, 2015) — The Education Trust issued the following statement on the Support Making Assessments Reliable and…
UPDATED: More Than 25 Civil Rights Groups and Education Advocates Release Principles for ESEA Reauthorization: "The Federal Role Must Be Honored and Maintained"
Washington – Today, nearly 20 civil rights groups and education advocates released shared civil rights principles for the reauthorization…
December 9, 2014 by Ed Trust
WASHINGTON (December 9, 2014) — The Education Trust issued the following statement on the Support Making Assessments Reliable and…
Groups Tell Texas State Board of Education: Hold Firm on Rigorous Math for All Students
November 19, 2013 by Ed Trust
WASHINGTON (November 19, 2013) -— The Education Trust, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), and National Council of…
Statement from The Education Trust on the Department of Education's Announcement Concerning the College- and Career-Ready Transition
June 18, 2013 by Ed Trust
WASHINGTON (June 18, 2013) — Today's Department of Education announcement misses the mark on a responsible transition to new…
Kati Haycock, president of The Education Trust, on "Pathways to Prosperity"
February 2, 2011 by Ed Trust
WASHINGTON (February 2, 2011) – The authors of "Pathways to Prosperity" have long track records of caring a lot…


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Robbyn Peters Bennett, LPC
Licensed Supervisor, Child Mental Health Specialist
Therapeutically Guided Safe Sound Machine
Safe Sound Description & Cost
About Robbyn
#StopShamingKids Campaign Protecting children from public shaming on Facebook
Intervening with Angry Parents in Public Have you ever witnessed a parent threatening or hitting their kid in public, and you wanted to do something, but you didn't know what to do…so you did nothing?
Seattle Times OP ED – Shaming Kids Parents shaming their own children on social media is a disturbing trend. Guest columnist Robbyn Peters Bennett urges people not to tolerate or cheer this phenomenon.
Spanking Harms Children – WebMD
TED Talk: Violence, a Family Tradition Robbyn speaks about Spanking as Domestic Violence that drives Adverse Childhood Experiences.
2017 AWARDED Article of the Year in Child Abuse & Neglect 2017 Article of the Year in Child Abuse & Neglect The official journal of The International Society of the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect (ISPCAN). This paper was chosen as Article of the Year out of the 238 manuscripts published in Child Abu
Spanking is an Adverse Childhood Experience To determine if spanking should be considered an ACE, this study aimed to examine 1): the grouping of spanking with physical and emotional abuse; and 2) if spanking has similar associations with poor adult health problems and accounts for additional model
As humans, it is our nature to seek meaningful connection with one another, to extend love and receive love in return, and to engage in life in a way that feels embodied and real. And even when life doesn't feel that way, our imagination and our dreams will turn us toward this innate inclination. We are wired to seek relationship and we all yearn for that sense of "you and me."
When we can't access that sense of "you and me," our neurophysiology moves out of a state of safety. Our spontaneous impulse to connect recedes and life carries us along in a feeling of urgency, one task following another. We may feel a sense of dread, loneliness, or persistent worry. Our relationships may lack vitality and depth. Our children can feel like a burden where we worry that something is wrong, either with them or us.
For those of us who have had early childhood adversity, we may struggle all the more to maintain a sense of "you and me," a state of being that neuroscience refers to as neuroceptive safety.
When our nervous system moves into a state of defense, we become preoccupied with physical security and comfort, rather than relational security and comfort. This allows us to deal with emergencies, but if we don't return to a neuroceptive state of safety, we can't reconnect with others and experience joy and security. We can get stuck in a state of defense. Without that sense of "you and me," we can't access the meaning that arises within relationship that helps us more deeply experience life and endure its inevitable suffering.
So what exactly is neuroceptive safety? It is our spontaneous inclination to be vulnerable with others.
This spontaneity is an emergent property of our physiology. Our spontaneous relationship-seeking tendency doesn't arise from our thoughts or feelings. Rather, it arises from a physiological state. For example, we might think or feel, "I'm fine," but be in a physiological state of defense. Others will hear the words, "I'm fine," but will respond to the urgent message of our physiological state. This is especially true with children. Children listen almost exclusively to our neuorceptive communication. When we are in a state of safety, children feel safe with us and become more regulated and connected.
Our state of safety can be wobbly if we've been raised in families that did not cultivate a sense of safety, where our bodies or emotions were not respected. Other significant life stressors can tax our system and move us out of a state of safety, including parenting. Interestingly, there is emerging research to suggest that becoming a parent has a profound effect on the aspects of the brain responsible for empathy, social engagement and self-regulation. This is true for adoptive parents and grandparents who are the primary parent, as well. If we have a history of early stress, these neural pathways can become strained making parenting much harder. What if we also are raising a child who is neurodivergent, or perhaps we are struggling with health problems, or we are responsible for caring for a complex family system with aging parents. Cultivating a sense of presence and being in a zen physiological state may feel unattainable.
When our bodies struggle to return to a state of safety and are chronically activated, we can suffer chronic problems such as:
frequent emotional reactivity
feeling distant from others or lonely
somatic complaints
working and/or tasking despite a feeling of fatigue and yearning for rest
difficulty feeling trust in close or intimate relationships
In children, this distress presents as "stress behaviors" and looks like:
irritability and tantrums
preponderance of solo play (less likely to play with others)
overly dependent on screens (iPads, etc)
Compulsively jumping on furniture, hanging on others, constantly moving
repetitive vocalization and making sounds (also audio sensitivity)
very little singing, laughter, physical touch or eye contact
My approach to consultation, therapy, the safe sound treatment, and child activism is fundamentally the same. I believe that we all seek safety in relationship, even when we can't tolerate relationship and act out in hurtful ways or withdraw into ourselves. Our apparent struggles and short comings are in large part adaptations for our own survival. And yet, the inclination to move toward loving connection is always there. The inclination for connection shows up in our dreams, in our innermost yearning, and in modest attempts to share or connect with others. Our nervous system is always seeking the safety of nonjudgmental receptivity and when we experience it, we take a little step closer to each other.
Therapeutically Guided Safe Sound Treatment
Robbyn provides a therapeutic, trauma sensitive approach to administering the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) within the safety of a therapeutic relationship. Based upon the research of memory reconsolidation, social baseline theory, and the neurosequential model of therapeutics, Robbyn has created a structured approach that supports optimal efficacy of the protocol.
Clinical Consultation for Psychotherapists
Robbyn is a phase II trainer in the ChildTrauma Academy NMT (nuero-sequential model of therapeutics) and provides consultation to professionals and professional groups on how to connect with and respond to children, especially traumatized children, from a neurologically attuned perspective.
Robbyn has a private practice in Portland, OR where she works with adults and children from a depth and imaginal perspective, with a sensitivity for the relevance of interpersonal neurobiology within relationship.
Child Activism
Robbyn is an expert on the relationship between harsh discipline, child development and long-term health and speaks nationally on the topic. She is a leader in the growing movement to end sanctioned violence against children (corporal punishment) in the US.


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Sonali Chanchani
Folio Literary Management
Sonali Chanchani is an associate agent at Folio Literary Management, where she represents character-driven upmarket and literary fiction with a strong, distinctive voice. In particular, she's drawn to smart women's fiction; quirky, heartfelt family stories; nuanced psychological mysteries; and rich, atmospheric historical projects with a touch of magical realism. On the nonfiction side, she's interested in narratives and collections that illuminate some aspect of our society or culture — especially reported narratives in the areas of race, class, gender, and politics. Sonali earned her degree in English and Narrative Studies from the University of Southern California and began her career in publishing at Kaya, an independent press dedicated to publishing authors from the Asian diaspora. Committed to fostering inclusivity in the publishing industry, Sonali is keen to represent a diversity of voices.
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Prestigious international fellowship will boost Chan's catalysis research
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Candace Chan has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship that will enable her to work at one of the Max Planck Society's prestigious research institutes in Germany.
Chan is an assistant professor of materials science and engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy.
Assistant professor Candace Chan.
Humboldt Foundation fellowships are awarded through a highly competitive process to researchers whose efforts hold promise for contributing to important advances in engineering, science and scholarship.
The fellowship calls for her to conduct research at a Max Planck institute near the city of Düsseldorf for 15 months over a three-year period. Chan expects to begin in summer 2016.
She will seek to expand her efforts to develop new photocatalytic materials that could be used to improve the performance of technologies employed in energy production and conversion, and in water treatment techniques, among other areas.
Chan will team with Harun Tüysüz, a group leader in heterogeneous catalysis research at the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research), which is known for its many contributions to the field of catalysis.
Chan previously collaborated with Tüysüz when she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, after earning a doctoral degree at Stanford University. They also are editors of the book to be published this fall, "Topics in Current Chemistry: Solar Energy for Fuels," about the science of harnessing solar energy to create fuels such as hydrogen gas using photoelectrochemistry.
During her research fellowship period, Chan and Tüysüz plan to explore ways to enhance the abilities of titanium and tantalum oxides at the nanoscale level to use energy from light to spark chemical reactions.
Specifically, they will focus on using titanium and tantalum oxides with "disordered" nanostructures, in which atoms are bonded in varying configurations rather than uniform symmetrical patterns.
"Some disordered nanomaterials produce more catalytic activity than materials with highly ordered crystalline nanostructures," Chan explains.
The nanostructural defects, however, typically prevent such materials from being efficient catalysts, but Chan and Tüysüz hope to make them work despite the defects.
"If we can make effective photocatalysts with materials that have these defects, then these materials could be made much more inexpensively, since we can avoid energy-intensive methods that are typically used to synthesize materials with high crystalline quality," she says.
Such progress could have a significant impact on the development of new materials to make hydrogen, which holds promise to someday become a plentiful source of clean, renewable energy, Chan says.
In the course of the research Chan and her collaborator expect to also gain a better understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of photocatalysis.
What they learn is likely to aid Chan in her role as a lead researcher with Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems (NEWT), a new multi-university National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in which ASU is a partner institution.
"I think, for instance, we will be able to use new photocatalysts for industrial wastewater treatment to convert toxic contaminants into something nontoxic," she says.
Chan's Humboldt Foundation fellowship should also prove beneficial to her student research assistants. They will get opportunities to use ASU's advanced transmission electron microscopes and perform electrochemical tests in Chan's lab at ASU to further characterize the materials being synthesized and studied in Germany.
She also plans to have students assist in composing papers to report on the research findings.
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Q: if $\frac{a}{b}$ divides $\frac{c}{d}$, and $gcd(a,b)=gcd(c,d)=1,$ then does $b = d$? I'm having issues trying to simplify finding a "lower multiple". Essentially I'd like to be able to develop a short method to solve the following statement:
Assume you have two rational numbers, r1 and r2. You can also assume that
1)$$r1=\frac ab, \space r2=\frac cd,\space for\space some\space a, b, c, d \in \mathbb Z (where \space b,d \neq 0)$$
2) $$ gcd(a,b) = gcd(c,d) = 1$$ and r1, r2 are simplified into their lowest terms
If r1 | r2, does b = d?
EDIT: After the multiplication has taken place, I don't want a' = c' and b' = d' after simplification.
BONUS: would b always be a multiple of d? (or vice versa). I wonder if the numerators sharing prime factors and denominators sharing prime factors has anything to do with it.
I've tried using my first/second year linear algebra proof methods but I can't seem to find a theorem that helps. I've drawn up a couple of examples and found it true, but I'm also biased because I probably want it to be true. If anyone knows a counterexample to this, could they please point it out?

A: Counter example: $$\frac{3}{8} | \frac{9}{4}$$

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com.hp.hpl.jena.assembler

com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology

                        Provides a set of abstractions and convenience classes for accessing and manipluating ontologies
                        represented in RDF.

com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model

A package for creating and manipulating RDF graphs.

Uses of Literal in com.hp.hpl.jena.assembler

Methods in com.hp.hpl.jena.assembler with parameters of type Literal

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

static String
AssemblerHelp.getString(Statement s,
         Literal L)

Answer the String value of the literal L, which is the
        object of the Statement s.

Uses of Literal in com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology

Methods in com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology that return types with arguments of type Literal

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

com.hp.hpl.jena.util.iterator.ExtendedIterator<Literal>
DataRange.listOneOf()

Answer an iterator over all of the literals that are declared to be the permissible values for
 this class.

Methods in com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology with parameters of type Literal

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

void
OntResource.addComment(Literal comment)

Add the given comment to this resource.

void
OntResource.addLabel(Literal label)

Add the given label to this resource.

void
DataRange.addOneOf(Literal lit)

Add a literal to the enumeration that defines the permissible values of this class.

boolean
OntResource.hasComment(Literal comment)

Answer true if this resource has the given comment.

boolean
OntResource.hasLabel(Literal label)

Answer true if this resource has the given label

boolean
DataRange.hasOneOf(Literal lit)

Answer true if the given literal is one of the enumerated literals that are the permissible values
 of this datarange.

void
OntResource.removeComment(Literal comment)

Remove the statement that the given string is a comment on
 this resource.

void
OntResource.removeLabel(Literal label)

Remove the statement that the given string is a label for
 this resource.

void
DataRange.removeOneOf(Literal lit)

Remove the statement that this enumeration includes lit among its members.

Method parameters in com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology with type arguments of type Literal

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

void
DataRange.addOneOf(Iterator<Literal> literals)

Add each literal from the given iteratation to the
 enumeration that defines the permissible values of this datarange.

Uses of Literal in com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model

Methods in com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model that return Literal

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

Literal
RDFNode.asLiteral()

If this node is a Literal, answer that literal; otherwise throw an
        exception.

static Literal
ResourceFactory.createLangLiteral(String string,
                 String lang)

Answer a plain (untyped) literal with no language and the given content.

Literal
ResourceFactory.Interface.createLangLiteral(String string,
                 String lang)

Answer a plain (untyped) literal with no language and the given content.

Literal
ModelCon.createLiteral(String v)

create a literal from a String value.

Literal
Model.createLiteral(String v,
             boolean wellFormed)

Create a literal from a String value.

Literal
Model.createLiteral(String v,
             String language)

Create an untyped literal from a String value with a specified language.

static Literal
ResourceFactory.createPlainLiteral(String string)

Answer a plain (untyped) literal with no language and the given content.

Literal
ResourceFactory.Interface.createPlainLiteral(String string)

Answer a plain (untyped) literal with no language and the given content.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(boolean v)

create a type literal from a boolean value.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(Calendar d)

Create a typed literal of type xsd:dateTime from a Calendar object.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(char v)

create a typed literal from a char value.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(double v)

create a typed literal from a double value.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(float v)

create a typed literal from a float value.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(int v)

create a typed literal from an integer value.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(long v)

create a typed literal from an integer value.

static Literal
ResourceFactory.createTypedLiteral(Object value)

Answer a typed literal.

Literal
ResourceFactory.Interface.createTypedLiteral(Object value)

Answer a typed literal.

Literal
Model.createTypedLiteral(Object value)

Build a typed literal label from its value form using
 whatever datatype is currently registered as the the default
 representation for this java class.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(Object v)

create a literal from an Object.

Literal
Model.createTypedLiteral(Object value,
                  RDFDatatype dtype)

Build a typed literal from its value form.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(Object value,
                  String typeURI)

Build a typed literal from its value form.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(String v)

create a typed literal from a String value.

static Literal
ResourceFactory.createTypedLiteral(String string,
                  RDFDatatype dType)

Answer a typed literal.

Literal
ResourceFactory.Interface.createTypedLiteral(String string,
                  RDFDatatype datatype)

Answer a typed literal.

Literal
Model.createTypedLiteral(String lex,
                  RDFDatatype dtype)

Build a typed literal from its lexical form.

Literal
ModelCon.createTypedLiteral(String lex,
                  String typeURI)

Build a typed literal from its lexical form.

Literal
Alt.getDefaultLiteral()

Return the default value for this resource.

Literal
Statement.getLiteral()

Return the object of the statement.

Literal
Seq.getLiteral(int index)

Get the member at a given index.

Literal
Literal.inModel(Model m)

Answer a version of this literal in the model m.

Methods in com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model with parameters of type Literal

Modifier and Type
Method and Description

Resource
Resource.addLiteral(Property p,
          Literal o)

Add the property p with the pre-constructed Literal value
        o to this resource, ie add (this, p, o) to this's
        model.

Model
ModelCon.addLiteral(Resource s,
          Property p,
          Literal o)

add a statement to this model.

boolean
Literal.sameValueAs(Literal other)

Test that two literals are semantically equivalent.

Object
RDFVisitor.visitLiteral(Literal l)

Method to call when visiting a literal RDF node l.

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A large number of changes to benefits and tax credits were announced in the Emergency Budget. In particular, people claiming tax credits and private tenants claiming Housing Benefit face new rules about their entitlements, and many will see substantial reductions in their income. A brief description of the main changes is below.
Some changes come into effect relatively soon, such as the reduction in the interest rate used to calculate mortgage interest payments. However, the majority of changes will take place from April 2011 onwards. Entitledto will ensure that its calculators are constantly up-to-date, implementing in-year changes immediately before they occur. Once 2011 rates and rules have been confirmed in the Pre-Budget Report (likely to be in December) we will prepare new 2011 calculators that you will be able to access using a year selector. We expect that this functionality will be available in February or March 2011.
From April 2012 the second income threshold will be abolished. This means the family element will be tapered away immediately after the child element.
Against this, however, the index used to uprate elements of tax credits is changing to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) instead of RPI.
d) Finally, the rules HMRC use when incomes vary to adjust tax credit awards are changing.
From April 2011 the income disregard when a household's income rises will be reduced to £10,000. At present, HMRC use an income disregard of £25,000 when calculating entitlement to tax credits (i.e. income increases of up to £25,000 are ignored when calculating entitlement).
From April 2012 a new income disregard of £2,500 for income falls will be introduced. This may mean that tax credits will not increase if income reduces within the new threshold.
From April 2012 backdating will be reduced from 3 months to 1 month.
From October 2011 LHA rates will be based on the thirtieth percentile of rents of the local 'broad rental market area'.
The Saving Gateway, a scheme to help low income families save, will no longer be introduced in July 2010.
Uprating for working age: from April 2011 all benefits (apart from Child Benefit, the basic pension, Pension Credit, see below) will be uprated in line with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) instead of the Retail Prices Index (RPI. The CPI is usually lower than RPI as the CPI doesn't count housing costs.
Uprating for pensioners: from April 2011 the basic State Pension will rise by the highest of earnings, prices (CPI measure) or 2.5 per cent. The standard minimum income guarantee in Pension Credit will increase in April 2011 by the cash rise in a full basic State Pension.


MILWAUKEE - While interest in mindfulness meditation as a stress reliever has grown through the years, there's been little evidence to support that it helps those suffering from chronic inflammation conditions in which psychological stress plays a major role.
A new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientists suggests mindfulness meditation techniques may help people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and asthma.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction, originally designed for patients with chronic pain, consists of continuously focusing attention on the breath, bodily sensations and mental content while seated, walking or practicing yoga.
The study by University of Wisconsin neuroscientists with the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center was the first designed to control for other therapeutic mechanisms, such as supportive social interaction, expert instruction or learning new skills, according to a university news release.
The mindfulness-based approach is not a magic bullet, said Melissa Rosenkranz, assistant scientist at the center and lead author of the paper, which was published recently in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity.
But the study does show that there are ways that mindfulness can be beneficial, and that some people may be more likely to benefit from this approach than other interventions, she said.
Significant portions of the population do not benefit from available pharmaceutical treatment options, for example. Some of these patients suffer from negative side effects of the drugs or simply do not respond to the standard of care for treatment of the disorder.
"The mindfulness-based approach to stress reduction may offer a lower-cost alternative or complement to standard treatment, and it can be practiced easily by patients in their own homes, whenever they need," Rosenkranz said.
The study compared two methods of reducing stress: a mindfulness meditation-based approach and a program designed to enhance health in ways unrelated to mindfulness.
The comparison group participated in the Health Enhancement Program, which consisted of nutritional education; physical activity, such as walking; balance, agility and core strengthening; and music therapy. The content of the program was meant to match aspects of the mindfulness instruction in some way. For example, physical exercise was meant to match walking meditation, without the mindfulness component. Both groups had the same amount of training, the same level of expertise in the instructors, and the same amount of home practice required of participants.
Using a tool called the Trier Social Stress Test to induce psychological stress and a capsaicin cream to produce inflammation on the skin, immune and endocrine measures were collected before and after training in the two methods. While both techniques were proven effective in reducing stress, the mindfulness-based stress reduction approach was more effective at reducing stress-induced inflammation.
The results show that behavioral interventions designed to reduce emotional reactivity are beneficial to people suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions. The study also suggests that mindfulness techniques may be more effective in relieving inflammatory symptoms than other activities that promote well-being.
(c)2013 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Distributed by Mclatchy-Tribune News Service.


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Disney, List, Top 10
15 Best Disney Songs
Kathryn Milewski February 02, 2022
Ah, Disney songs. They're whimsical, fun, easy to sing along to, and always impeccably well-written. For many, Disney songs have played a large role in their childhood development. For many others, Disney songs still play a big role in their lives: whether they're still listening to them in adulthood or passing them down to their own kids.
This week on the Billboard Hot 100, the Encanto song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" hit #1 on the chart. It's become the first song from a Disney movie to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 29 years. It's also become the 2nd Disney song to achieve such a feat.
Disney's Billboard win has us wondering...what other songs in Disney's catalogue deserve praise? What are the all-time best songs to come out of the animation studio? Which songs are the easiest to remember, and have had a profound effect on modern pop culture?
Ranking Disney songs is a near-impossible task, since everyone has their own personal preferences. Instead, we're listing our picks for the 15 Best Disney Songs, in no particular order. Whether you're a fan of the old classics, Disney Renaissance movies, or the newer stuff the company is putting out today, you'll find a great mix of magical songs on this list.
1. "Be Our Guest" - Beauty and the Beast
This show-stopping number from Beauty and the Beast sees Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, and other servants in the Beast's castle singing to Belle as they serve her dinner. Undoubtedly, it was because of this song and other great tracks in Beauty and the Beast that the film became nominated for Best Picture and won Best Music, Original Score at the Oscars.
"Be Our Guest" was written by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman and orchestrated by Danny Troob. It features vocals from Jerry Orbach (Lumiere) and Angela Lansbury (Mrs. Potts), as well as a full chorus of furniture. With its high energy, great rhyming lyrics, and uniquely French sounds (like an accordion opening), "Be Our Guest" is anything but second best.
2. "I'll Make a Man Out of You" - Mulan
Let's get down to business! While this 90s classic may be considered a little heteronormative for 2022 standards, there's no denying that when you play this song during a road trip, everyone in the car will belt along. Perhaps it's the cliché masculinity of "I'll Make a Man Out of You" that makes it really fun to sing. After all, the point of the song in the movie is to show Mulan can be just as swift as a coursing river with all the force of a great typhoon even though she is the only woman among Li Shang's motley crew of soldiers.
With stunning vocals from Donny Osmond and a grand orchestra with pounding drums and blaring trumpets, you'll feel extra buff while listening to this pumped-up track. And don't forget about that quotable chorus! The nature-infused lyrics are actually representative of four of the five elements of Wu Xing: Chinese fields used to describe an array of phenomena. The reference to the River speaks of the water element, whilst Typhoon, Forest and Fire speak of air, earth and fire. It is also a reference to Sun Tzu, who penned in The Art of War: "as swift as wind, as gentle as forest, as fierce as fire, as unshakable as mountain."
3. "Colors of the Wind" - Pocahontas
The theme song of Pocahontas, "Colors of the Wind" was written by lyricist Stephen Schwartz and composer Alan Menken for Walt Disney Pictures' 33rd animated feature film. It's flowy, elegant, and rich with imagery and sonic grandiose. A pop ballad, the song's lyrics contrast the priorities of European imperialism with values like respecting nature and living in harmony with the Earth's creatures. In the time of climate change, "Colors of the Wind" is a more relevant song than ever.
The song was originally recorded by Judy Kuhn in her role as the singing voice of Pocahontas, and she gives a powerhouse performance. Later on, Vanessa Williams' cover of the song was released as the lead single from the film's soundtrack in 1995. Alan Menken even said "Colors of the Wind" was, "one of the most important songs I've ever written."
4. "Part of Your World" - The Little Mermaid
There are so many fantastic songs from The Little Mermaid. For this list, we're choosing the famous "I Want" ballad "Part of Your World," which Ariel the mermaid sings in the film's first act.
You can hear Ariel's desire and curiosity for human life within Jodi Benson's masterful performance. "Part of Your World" is another hit written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, and in the Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection: Commentary, Menken explained, "One of the things we looked for immediately was something that would reflect water flowing. So we came up with this figure that was: [plays the opening piano chords for "Part of Your World."] That movement is intrinsic to the whole Mermaid score."
Over the years, several artists have covered this song: including Faith Hill, Carly Rae Jepson, Sierra Boggess, and Skye Sweetnam. We can't wait for Halle Bailey to offer her interpretation in 2023!
5. "A Whole New World" - Aladdin
Besides the Encanto song "We Don't Talk About Bruno," this is the only other Disney song to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 back in 1993. Another Menken song created with the help of Tim Rice, this song is Aladdin and Jasmine's love ballad as they have an adventurous magic carpet ride.
Despite being one of Disney's most famous songs, the writing process for "A Whole New World" only took 45 minutes! The song also won Best Original Song at the Academy Awards, and singers Lea Salonga and Brad Kane got to sing it outside of their animated forms. What can we say about this whimsical track? It's shining, shimmering, splendid.
6. "Let It Go" - Frozen
Hailed as the power ballad of all power ballads, "Let It Go" is a staple of early 2010s' popular music - and probably the most well-known song to come out of Disney in recent years.
Winning the 2013 Academy Award for Best Original Song, "Let It Go" was penned by married duo Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez: the team behind The Book of Mormon. In the song, Elsa (voiced by Broadway actress Idina Menzel) embraces her ice powers and vows to leave "the past within the past."
"Let It Go" is a song full of teen angst, pride, and cathartic acceptance. Its message is a powerful one: there's no use in hiding your special gifts from the world.
7. "Circle of Life" - The Lion King
"Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!" Like the Pride Lands animals coming to worship Simba's birth, we bow down to this royal Disney song written by Tim Rice and Sir Elton John.
The African chants by Lebo M help open The Lion King on a triumphant note, and Carmen Twillie's strong vocals offer a special reverence to the already-iconic movie scene. And who doesn't love that awesome key change when Rafiki lifts Simba high into the air?
Once The Lion King was released, Elton John also shared his own pop version of "Circle of Life." It peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100.
8. "You'll Be In My Heart" - Tarzan
When it comes to Phil Collins, you fall into one of two camps: you either know him as the guy from the band Genesis, or you know him as the man who sang the songs on the Tarzan soundtrack.
"You'll Be In My Heart" is the standout from that movie, and although it's originally sung by Kala the ape (Glenn Close) in the film, Collins' pop rendition from the official soundtrack got a lot more attention. It was one of five original songs written by Collins in 1998 for the 1999 picture. In the movie, the song ends on the first verse, but the full version of the song is available on the soundtrack.
Like many great Disney bops, the number went on to win the Golden Globe and Academy Awards for Best Original Song. It also received a Grammy nomination for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture. It lost to Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger," which was written for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Fun fact: Lily Collins, Phil Collins' actress daughter, claims this is her favorite song from her dad.
9. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" - Mary Poppins
There's a lot of great songs from the 1964 film Mary Poppins, including "A Spoonful of Sugar" and "Chim Chim Cher-ee." But in terms of the song we feel is the most memorable, the very long-titled "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" takes the cake.
Written by Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman, Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) sings the peppy song just after she's won a race and is describing how she's feeling. She's joined by Bert (Dick Van Dyke) and a happy orchestra of cartoon characters. Believe it or not, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a real word! And it's the right word to describe how we feel when listening to this Disney track.
10. "When You Wish Upon a Star" - Pinocchio
A famous tune from Pinocchio which has become the theme song for Disney itself. The melody now plays before every Disney movie, during the company's intro.
Hopeful and full of childlike wonder, "When You Wish Upon a Star" was written by Leigh Harline and composed by Ned Washington. It's a simple-yet-effective tune sung by the film's supporting character, Jiminy Cricket. This is the kind of song that makes you feel like anything is possible in life. It's what Disney is all about.
11. "Heigh-Ho" - Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Besides "Closing Time" by Semisonic, this is probably the greatest off-from-work song ever written. With happy whistling and a sturdy tempo, it's easy to march along with the dwarfs from Snow White as they carry pickaxes home from their mine. Little do they know there's a fugitive princess in their abode!
This is another song written by Leigh Harline, as well as Larry Morey & Frank Churchill. It was released in 1937 for Disney's first feature film and the first traditionally animated feature film in history. If it weren't for "Heigh-Ho" and the other great songs within Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, who knows if we would have other wonderful Disney movies today!
12. "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" - Cinderella
Another classic song from the golden age of Disney. "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" is similar to "When You Wish Upon a Star" in the sense that it's both elegant and hopeful. Ilene Woods' shimmering vocals and lyrics by Oliver Wallace, Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman, and Mack David make this tune an undisputed Disney classic.
In the song, Cinderella claims that dreams at night are desires from the heart. She tells her animal friends she wishes she could live in her dreams instead of serving her horrible stepmother and stepsisters in waking life. Like the mice in Cinderella's bedroom, this song will put you in a pleasant daze.
13. "How Far I'll Go" - Moana
"How Far I'll Go" is Moana's character-establishing "I Want" song. While she wants to stay on her island with her family, she also wants to go on an adventure out on the open sea.
Disney did an extensive casting search to find their Polynesian princess Moana. We're glad they picked Auli'i Cravalho, because she knocks it out of the park in "How Far I'll Go." Lin-Manuel Miranda also contributed lyrics to the tune. In order to get in the right state of mind, he locked himself in his childhood bedroom and tried to remember feelings of teen angst.
Miranda said on Genius, "It's a challenging song. It's not 'I hate it here, I want to be out there.' It's not, 'There must be more than this provincial life.' She loves her island, she loves her parents, she loves her people. And there's still this voice inside. And I think finding that notion of listening to that little voice inside you, and… being who you are, once I wrote that…it then had huge story repercussions. The screenwriters took that ball and ran with it."
The number was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and performed live at the 2017 Oscars by Auli'i Cravalho. It even peaked at #1 on the charts in Canada.
14. "The Bare Necessities" - The Jungle Book
Jazzy and fun, "The Bare Necessities" from The Jungle Book teaches us that simple joys often yield the best rewards. This song helps you forget about your worries and your strife! It's essentially a precursor to "Hakuna Matata." And it has a subtle message about eating healthy.
The song was written by Terry Gilkyson with vocals from Bruce Reitherman & Phil Harris. With "The Bare Necessities" you get a sense of just how carefree - yet joyful - Baloo the bear is. Remember: "when you pick a pawpaw or a prickly pear, and you prick a raw paw, next time beware! Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw when you pick a pear. Try to use the claw. But you don't need to use the claw when you pick a pear of the big pawpaw!"
15. "I See the Light" - Tangled
Finally, we've got a song from Tangled on the list! While we love "Mother Knows Best" and "When Will My Life Begin?" we know the fan-favorite is "I See The Light" from the middle of the film. It's easy to see why: the duet between Rapunzel and Eugene is romantic, dreamy, and makes you feel warm inside.
"I See the Light" actually underwent a lot of changes before it became the Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi hit it is today. The duet was originally called "You Are My Forever," and was a reprise of a song Mother Gothel sung to Rapunzel. After "You Are My Forever" was removed, the song was still different from what it was in the finished film. It was supposed to be an anthem-like song at first, but Alan Menken made the decision of adding gentler lyrics.
"I See the Light" was nominated for Best Song at the 83rd Academy Awards but lost to another Disney tune: "We Belong Together" from Toy Story 3.
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Q: Shader code wrong on the Adreno GPU I'm coding a page curl effect (use libGdx). My code work well on the Mali GPU (Samsung S3), but it wrong on the Adreno GPU (Samsung Ace):
#ifdef GL_ES
precision mediump float;
#endif

varying vec2 v_texCoords;

uniform sampler2D sourceTex;
uniform sampler2D targetTex;
uniform float time; // Ranges from 0.0 to 1.0

const float MIN_AMOUNT = -0.16;
const float MAX_AMOUNT = 1.3;
float amount = time * (MAX_AMOUNT - MIN_AMOUNT) + MIN_AMOUNT;

const float PI = 3.141592653589793;

const float scale = 512.0;
const float sharpness = 3.0;

float cylinderCenter = amount;
// 360 degrees * amount
float cylinderAngle = 2.0 * PI * amount;

const float cylinderRadius = 1.0 / PI / 2.0;

vec3 hitPoint(float hitAngle, float yc, vec3 point, mat3 rrotation) {
    float hitPoint = hitAngle / (2.0 * PI);
    point.y = hitPoint;
    return rrotation * point;
}

vec4 antiAlias(vec4 color1, vec4 color2, float distance) {
    distance *= scale;
    if (distance < 0.0) return color2;
    if (distance > 2.0) return color1;
    float dd = pow(1.0 - distance / 2.0, sharpness);
    return ((color2 - color1) * dd) + color1;
}

float distanceToEdge(vec3 point) {
    float dx = abs(point.x > 0.5 ? 1.0 - point.x : point.x);
    float dy = abs(point.y > 0.5 ? 1.0 - point.y : point.y);
    if (point.x < 0.0) dx = -point.x;
    if (point.x > 1.0) dx = point.x - 1.0;
    if (point.y < 0.0) dy = -point.y;
    if (point.y > 1.0) dy = point.y - 1.0;
    if ((point.x < 0.0 || point.x > 1.0) && (point.y < 0.0 || point.y > 1.0)) return sqrt(dx * dx + dy * dy);
    return min(dx, dy);
}

vec4 seeThrough(float yc, vec2 p, mat3 rotation, mat3 rrotation) {
    float hitAngle = PI - (acos(yc / cylinderRadius) - cylinderAngle);
    vec3 point = hitPoint(hitAngle, yc, rotation * vec3(p, 1.0), rrotation);

    if (yc <= 0.0 && (point.x < 0.0 || point.y < 0.0 || point.x > 1.0 || point.y > 1.0)) {
        return texture2D(targetTex, v_texCoords);
    }

    if (yc > 0.0) return texture2D(sourceTex, p);

    vec4 color = texture2D(sourceTex, point.xy);
    vec4 tcolor = vec4(0.0);

    return antiAlias(color, tcolor, distanceToEdge(point));
}

vec4 seeThroughWithShadow(float yc, vec2 p, vec3 point, mat3 rotation, mat3 rrotation) {
    float shadow = distanceToEdge(point) * 30.0;
    shadow = (1.0 - shadow) / 3.0;
    if (shadow < 0.0) shadow = 0.0;
    else shadow *= amount;

    vec4 shadowColor = seeThrough(yc, p, rotation, rrotation);
    shadowColor.r -= shadow;
    shadowColor.g -= shadow;
    shadowColor.b -= shadow;
    return shadowColor;
}

vec4 backside(float yc, vec3 point) {
    vec4 color = texture2D(sourceTex, point.xy);
    float gray = (color.r + color.b + color.g) / 15.0;
    gray += (8.0 / 10.0) * (pow(1.0 - abs(yc / cylinderRadius), 2.0 / 10.0) / 2.0 + (5.0 / 10.0));
    color.rgb = vec3(gray);
    return color;
}

vec4 behindSurface(float yc, vec3 point, mat3 rrotation) {
    float shado = (1.0 - ((-cylinderRadius - yc) / amount * 7.0)) / 6.0;
    shado *= 1.0 - abs(point.x - 0.5);

    yc = (-cylinderRadius - cylinderRadius - yc);

    float hitAngle = (acos(yc / cylinderRadius) + cylinderAngle) - PI;
    point = hitPoint(hitAngle, yc, point, rrotation);

    if (yc < 0.0 && point.x >= 0.0 && point.y >= 0.0 && point.x <= 1.0 && point.y <= 1.0 && (hitAngle < PI || amount > 0.5)){
        shado = 1.0 - (sqrt(pow(point.x - 0.5, 2.0) + pow(point.y - 0.5, 2.0)) / (71.0 / 100.0));
        shado *= pow(-yc / cylinderRadius, 3.0);
        shado *= 0.5;
    } else
        shado = 0.0;

    return vec4(texture2D(targetTex, v_texCoords).rgb - shado, 1.0);
}

void main(void) {
    const float angle = 30.0 * PI / 180.0;
    float c = cos(-angle);
    float s = sin(-angle);

    mat3 rotation = mat3(
        c, s, 0,
        -s, c, 0,
        0.12, 0.258, 1
    );

    c = cos(angle);
    s = sin(angle);

    mat3 rrotation = mat3(
        c, s, 0,
        -s, c, 0,
        0.15, -0.5, 1
    );

    vec3 point = rotation * vec3(v_texCoords, 1.0);

    float yc = point.y - cylinderCenter;

    if (yc < -cylinderRadius) {
        // Behind surface
        gl_FragColor = behindSurface(yc, point, rrotation);
        return;
    }

    if (yc > cylinderRadius) {
        // Flat surface
        gl_FragColor = texture2D(sourceTex, v_texCoords);
        return;
    }

    float hitAngle = (acos(yc / cylinderRadius) + cylinderAngle) - PI;

    float hitAngleMod = mod(hitAngle, 2.0 * PI);
    if ((hitAngleMod > PI && amount < 0.5) || (hitAngleMod > PI/2.0 && amount < 0.0)) {
        gl_FragColor = seeThrough(yc, v_texCoords, rotation, rrotation);
        return;
    }

    point = hitPoint(hitAngle, yc, point, rrotation);

    if (point.x < 0.0 || point.y < 0.0 || point.x > 1.0 || point.y > 1.0) {
        gl_FragColor = seeThroughWithShadow(yc, v_texCoords, point, rotation, rrotation);
        return;
    }

    vec4 color = backside(yc, point);

    vec4 otherColor;
    if (yc < 0.0) {
        float shado = 1.0 - (sqrt(pow(point.x - 0.5, 2.0) + pow(point.y - 0.5, 2.0)) / 0.71);
        shado *= pow(-yc / cylinderRadius, 3.0);
        shado *= 0.5;
        otherColor = vec4(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, shado);
    } else {
        otherColor = texture2D(sourceTex, v_texCoords);
    }

    color = antiAlias(color, otherColor, cylinderRadius - abs(yc));

    vec4 cl = seeThroughWithShadow(yc, v_texCoords, point, rotation, rrotation);
    float dist = distanceToEdge(point);

    gl_FragColor = antiAlias(color, cl, dist);
}

Error code returned at compile time is:
W/Adreno200-ES20(14787): <process_gl_state_enables:463>: GL_INVALID_ENUM

I spent 2 days but still can not solve this problem. Help me!


विश्व बवासीर दिवस के अवसर पर निःशुल्क!
Kshara Sutra Therapy is an Ayurvedic Parasurgical Technique. Great Indian Surgeon Sushruta narrated in his teachings the use of Kshara for cure of fistula in ano and other anorectal diseases. The work of Sushruta was later compiled as "Sushrut Samhita" in the 5th century A.D. Acharya Chakrapani Datta (10-11 Century A.D.) and Acharya Bhav Mishra (16-18 century A.D.) have described in their classical Ayurvedic texts, the method of preparation and treatment of fistula in ano by use of Kshara Sutra (K.S.). It is being used for the successful treatment of Anorectal Diseases from many years. In this technique, a specially prepared thread (Kshar Sutra) is used to cure diseases. Kshar Sutra acts by "Herbal Chemical Cauterisation" and removes the disease from the body. Many studies have been published by Ayurvedic doctors recently with encouraging results for treatment of fistula in ano and other anorectal diseases by use of Kshara Sutra.
Dr. Sarvesh Kumar Singh is one of the best Ayurvedic Physicians in Gorakhpur, UP. His specialization in Clinical Pharmacology gives him ability to understand the properties of Ayurvedic medicines. This gives him an edge over many routine physicians. With a vision to provide best panchkarma and Ksharsutra Treatment in Gorakhpur. He is one of the rare Ayurvedic practitioners who treat with Ethical Ayurvedic drugs/formulations. His treatments/prescriptions are based on Ayurvedic medicines as per Shastras (manuscript) and Ayurvedic pharmacopoeia.


My latest book is called Smoothie, and it was actually my easiest title ever! Usually I worry and fret about titles, but one of my favorite parts about Smoothie was the idea that something small — like going out for a frozen treat — could have life-changing consequences. I wanted my title to reflect that idea.
Melissa McCarthy for Heather, no question. Natalie's a bit tougher — I can't decide between Zoie Palmer of today or Linda Hamilton post-Terminator 1 and pre-Terminator 2. Maybe a combination of the two?
5. What song has had the most impact on your life?
I've never been particularly musically inclined, and didn't own a single piece of music until I was nearly in high school. Then I heard R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion and my entire understanding of music changed. I've built a very eclectic music collection since then and listen to a wide variety of bands, but I still get a thrill every time I hear Losing My Religion.
Jane Elliot has been writing novels, short stories, and screenplays for over twenty years. She believes that fiction can help promote understanding and acceptance of alternative and marginalized societal groups and most of her writing is focused on relationships, be they platonic or romantic, between individuals from all walks of life.


Jon Marco, drummer and vocalist of Young Love and The Thrills, is the heartbeat and groove of the band. Sometimes referred to as the Phil Collins of the group, he most recently stepped out from behind the drums to record his first solo album: "Jon Marco." In May 2013, he released his first music video for his single "Rhianna." The video, produced by Jim Meegan and Andy Wesby, went on to garner 100,000 hits in a little over a week and was featured on the "Today" show. Jon Marco is excited to be playing another season alongside such talented musicians and great friends.


Oh maaaan the Cubs in the World Series!!!
I think the country needs this right now. Here's to miracles that are earned, fought for and believed in... And may the two teams BOTH play their hearts out.
Wow. After months of seeing some of the worst we have to offer one another, here is a chance to rise above any of it.
Here's to baseball showing everyone what good sports can be - literally and as in sportsmanship.
Three cheers for some good news, everybody!
Our heartfelt condolences feel like feeble tribute but we send them to his beloved daughter and all his comic pals who are heartbroken this night.
We're pretty sure nobody ever made us laugh harder than you did.
We know you're up in heaven giving 'em hell.
We were reading an online article from the NY Times in which they were quoting from a Trump speech. He told the Pennsylvania crowd they were once leading "steal producers".
Lots of possibilities. The reporter phones it in with Dragon. OK, maybe one possibility.
And it's our Mom's birthday. The one who taught us about spelling and grammar. Oh, the humanity. The humanity.
I wanna be this little girl when I grow up.
Our eyes and ears can only hold so much until the heart itself spills over into the big oceans of who we really are, who we can be.
Yes, there's a big HTGAWM episode coming up: the little wrap around we shot were precursors for that. And any sixteen hour day on set still beats a real gig, lest it seem we are unaware of that.
Look at her, will you? Turn my back for a minute and BOOM: The nursery's full.
Maybe there is a bunch of little pricks running around joke in here, but that would be tacky.
As it is, I'm just glad they all seem to be healthy.
This may be difficult to believe, but this writer was an "A" in conduct student. (Getting one "B" during a semester was traumatic.) Having said that, I can honestly say that I've the utmost admiration for the kids listed here in perhaps my favorite Awkward Family Photo collection of all: "17 Reasons for Detention".
If you're one of these kids: God bless you and thank you for making the world a little more interesting.
This spectacular homage to the incalculably bizarre current events in America is timely, dark and utterly tragic, given the fact that a certain segment of the population with a paucity of - we'll leave this blank for the sake of decorum and subtlety - will invariably take it seriously.


2. How do you turn it on?
The aquaSketch does not require any power, making it the perfect tool for notation of information underwater.
3. What does aquaSketch do that a slate can't?
4. What are aquaSketc Apps?
5. How do I change Aps?
6. Is aquaSketch just for scuba divers?
7. How can I make my own aquaSketch Apps?
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8. How long does the aquaSketch vellum last?
9. How difficult is it to erase and reuse?
10. How do I archive my notes?