There were well more than 100 entries in this remix competition—and picking the winner was a tough-tough decision. It’s clear that the challenge of making music based on the sound of Hitachi hard drives failing was as much a reason to take part as winning the Tokyoflash Equalizer watch. So before announcing the winner, let’s review the highlights:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/hard-drive-dying-dance-track-winner-151666.php

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Love, respect, and appreciation for music are easy to share with our children and build life skills at the same time. During the first years of our child’s life, musical skills build self-esteem and enhance expression. Musical rhythms spur motor development. Learning melodies and words stimulates listening capacity and help children develop receptive language. Specific areas of child development and learning are positively affected by exposure to and training in music. Preschoolers given piano and voice lessons, for example, have been found to improve dramatically in their ability to put together picture puzzles of animals. Playing the piano at the preschool age influences development of the cortex, the part of the brain used for thinking, talking, seeing, hearing, and creating. Music training contributes to the ability to learn or enhance mathematics skills.

Music clearly is a resource for living, growing, and learning and can be an integral part of our children’s growing experiences.

Music is controlled movement of sound, in time.

Music is three basic components: Sound + Rhythm + Melody = Music

To help children understand music, it is helpful to look at each component separately. First there is sound, one that we make or one from another source. A few examples of sound are a bird chirping, a teakettle whistling, and a child banging on a pot with a spoon. If music were compared to a painting, sound would be the background color. In our bodies, sound corresponds with our central nervous system. A pleasant sound opens and expands us. It can energize or calm us. A shrieking sound puts our nerves on edge. Like the background in a painting, sound is the first step in creating music.

Here are some ways to explore sound with our children.

- Have your children listen to the sounds around them. How many different sounds can they find in the kitchen or backyard?

- Encourage children to be creative making sounds. Have them use their voices or household objects to make sound. Allow them to make pretty, irritating, or silly sounds. They are all music if they reflect creative exploration or honest feelings.

The purpose for creating sound is not necessarily to make “beautiful music” but to foster self-expression and open up our children’s ears to the world around them.

The second component of music is rhythm. Rhythm defines and organizes the sound through a beat. For example, is the whistling of the teakettle long and steady or short and choppy? Is the child’s banging on the pot fast and upbeat or smooth and slow? In a painting, the rhythm would be the overall movement or flow of the composition. When you first look at the painting, where do your eyes go? Is the painting easy to look at or is it busy and annoying? This is its rhythm.

In our bodies, rhythm corresponds to our own internal body rhythm-our pulse and breath. If the musical beat is quick and steady, our heartbeat and body movements will mirror it. If we are tired, listening to African drumming can kick our body back into gear. On the other hand, if a two-year-old is running around out of control, slow rhythmic music like Bach or Vivaldi restores inner calm and slows most children down. Explore and add rhythm to the sounds that children make.

- Have your children play with different beats: fast, slow, steady, and erratic.

- Ask them if they can feel the vibration of a musical beat in their bodies, and if so, where? How do the different rhythms feel in their body? How do their feet want to move with the different beats?

- Try hand clapping to the rhythm of a poem and foot tapping to a favorite piece of music. These activities are every child’s favorite, free entertainment.

Finally there is melody. Melody corresponds to our emotions. It gives sound and rhythm its feeling and sensual quality. It is the part of music that expresses the hills and valleys of an individual’s experience. It goes straight to our heart and feeling center. Melody can uplift our spirit, calm us during times of stress, or move us to tears. Returning to the painting metaphor, melody would be the overall feeling that the painting evokes as we look at it. Does the painting draw us in and create a feeling of peace, excitement, distress, or discomfort? Introducing melody to the earlier sounds and rhythms will help children learn self-expression.

- Have them hum a tune or create a melody, adding emotion to sound.

- Experiment expressing sounds that are emotional: happy, sad, funny, etc.

Melody turns a sound into a personal and unique statement. By playing with sound, rhythm and melody our children discover a new vocabulary and tool to use for expression when words are hard to find.

We can use creativity and imagination to choose different styles of music by which our children can express their feelings, relax, stimulate their minds or allow their creative juices to flow. A variety of selections, rhythms, tones, and melodies allows children to develop their own musical tastes and sparks their natural curiosity to explore the world of music on their own.

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And this……. http://donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com/594077.html ……my friends is why the modern feminist movement [feminazis] have/has traveled beyond the realm of sanity.

For simply presenting the facts, without even technically giving ‘the other side’ its just due, I am shot down by those raging, incoherent feminazi hormones…=…banned from commenting. No debate, no discussion, no rationality, just heated nonsense turned to shit.

tekanji is what they call the common cretin/dimwitted foot soldier of the modern movement, not seeing the forest for the trees, all the while screaming at the top of her lungs for none but herself to hear….(CHECK HERE TO WITNESS THE ASININE ‘BETE NOIRE’ YOURSELF = http://blog.shrub.com/) ….and though I did happen to respect donnaidh_sidhe’s wit, that respect was lost along with the childish ban she put in place for me simply debating the true text of the original story and the brass tacks beyond (say for instance, the utter crap here ==> http://www.pleasureactivism.org/sex_pos_fem.html). please continue to silence those who disagree with your distorted POV and instinctively re-invent the straw man, just as the supposed ‘perpetrator’ leaves the building, if it suits your fantasies girls. Tis O.K., for whilst you jest and inadvertently poke fun at your own dull impotency, i’ll be safely navigating through your secret stash of Cheet-o crumbs in a successful attempt at escaping the cat-fit of your absurd premise.

THIS, MY FRIENDS, IS JUST ONE OF THE REASONS [along with the aggregating contradictions, amassing hypocritical dung and the eternal antagonistic victim role they embody] WHY I DETEST MOST MODERN [deluded] FEMINISTS.

IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE ORIGINAL POST HAS BEEN PROTECTED (not deleted or private), WHICH, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, CAN ONLY BE DONE BY AN ‘EMPLOYEE’ (so that noone can bear witness to the sheer nonsense), AND THAT THE ORIGINAL ENTRY IS NOT CACHED, BC HAS SOMEHOW IMPLEMENTED A ROBOT.TXT FILE THAT DOESN’T ALLOW ARCHIVING [unless LJ allows that somewherez?], which is a smart move i guess for her.

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furthermore, tekanji has attempted to file a frivolous claim, through LJ’s abuse team, for me simply providing a link to her PUBLIC website where she PUBLICLY DISPLAYS HER PICTURES and HER REAL NAME.

Just another case of the feminist camp’s attempt at censorship?

Read on and you decide:
http://www.gabnet.com/lit/deich3e.htm

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for the record, my so-called biased statistics actually came from the same governmental statistics these same deluded feminists attempt to use as a weapon to humiliate the male species as a whole, much like i’ve witnessed for 10+ years now. if they actually took the time to examine those links, they would have found this out, but of course they refused to take the time out of their day to actually reside outside of their protective box.

besides, the fact of the matter is, is that this duplicitous, flame baiting, and somewhat sexist comment is why I posted in the first place ==> “…..I’m a little bit obsessed these days with the ways in which people routinely treat women as objects….”which we can freely conclude is a subtle way of taking a stab at men in general.

Here are yet two other examples of how I’ve end up a target of the feminist hordes:
http://spins.us/FORUM/viewtopic.php?t=37498 – My Opposition to the VAWA as it is written

http://spins.us/FORUM/viewtopic.php?t=39937 – PBS criminal complicity to feminist distortions and lies about Single Fathers who want JOINT CUSTODY OF THEIR CHILDREN.

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The folks at Jim Henson productions announced almost without fanfare that a sequel to the impressive The Dark Crystal is in the works and will be directed by the award-winning Genndy Tartakovsky, who created the hit series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Samurai Jack and Dexter’s Laboratory, will direct ‘Power of the Dark Crystal,’ the sequel to the 1982 classic fantasy film.
http://henson.com/company/20060201.html

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0083791/

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Clarity accounts for probably 80% of success and happiness. Lack of clarity is probably more responsible for frustration and underachievement than any other single factor. That’s why we say that “Success is goals, and all else is commentary.” People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. This is true everywhere and under all circumstances.

The Three Keys to High Achievement

You could even say that the three keys to high achievement are, “Clarity, Clarity, Clarity,” with regard to your goals. Your success in life will be largely determined by how clear you are about what it is you really, really want.

Write and Rewrite Your Goals

The more you write and rewrite your goals and the more you think about them, the clearer you will become about them. The clearer you are about what you want, the more likely you are to do more and more of the things that are consistent with achieving them. Meanwhile, you will do fewer and fewer of the things that don’t help to get the things you really want.

The Seven Step Process for Achieving Goals

Here, once more, is the simple, seven-step process that you can use to achieve your goals faster and easier than ever before.

First, decide exactly what you want in each area of your life. Be specific!

Second, write it down, clearly and in detail;

Third, set a specific deadline. If it is a large goal, break it down into sub-deadlines and write them down in order;

Fourth, make a list of everything you can think of that you are going to have to do to achieve your goal. As you think of new items, add them to your list;

Fifth, organize the items on your list into a plan by placing them in the proper sequence and priority;

Sixth, take action immediately on the most important thing you can do on your plan. This is very important!

Seventh, do something every day that moves you toward the attainment of one or more of your important goals. Maintain the momentum!

Join the Top 3%

Fewer than three percent [adulterated percentile] of adults have written goals and plans that they work on every single day. When you sit down and write out your goals, you move yourself into the top 3% of people in our society. And you will soon start to get the same results that they do.

Review Your Goals Daily

Study and review your goals every day to be sure they are still your most important goals. You will find yourself adding goals to your list as time passes. You will also find yourself deleting goals that are no longer as important as you once thought. Whatever your goals are, plan them out thoroughly, on paper, and work on them every single day. This is the key to peak performance and maximum achievement.

Action Exercises

Here is how you can apply this law immediately:

First, make a list of ten goals that you would like to achieve in the coming year. Write them down in the present tense, as though a year has passed and you have already accomplished them.

Second, from your list of ten goals, ask yourself, “What one goal, if I were to accomplish it, would have the greatest positive impact on my life?” Whatever it is, put a circle around this goal and move it to a separate sheet of paper.

Third, practice the seven-step method described above on this goal. Set a deadline, make a plan, and put it into action and work on it every day. Make this goal your major definite purpose for the weeks and months ahead.

Now………..get ready for some amazing changes in your life.

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