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John Thomas Kooz no John Thomas Kooz validatelife@gmail.com validatelife@gmail.com (John Thomas Kooz) Skills of Sherlock, Minimalism, and Tech tech,linux,geek,productivity,minimalism,sherlock,nlp,observation,deduction http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog Copyright Validate Your Life and John Kooz. 2003-2011.tech,linux,geek,productivity,minimalism,sherlock,nlp,observation,deductionScience & MedicineTechnology/Software How-ToHealth/Self-Helphttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/johnkoozbloghttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily Rotation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/johnkoozblog/~3/gWXo0fGwVLU/ http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/12-classical-music-masterpieces-dvoraks-cello-concerto-three-movements-part-2-of-12/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:45:29 +0000 John Thomas Kooz http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/?p=7150 http://www.validateyourlife.com/blog/2012/12-classical-music-masterpieces-dvoraks-cello-concerto-three-movements-part-2-of-12/feed/ 0 classical,classical music,dvorak,masterpieces,mnemonic Introduction All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Valid... Introduction All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Validate Your Life Network, but I have extended it so that it has more utility.  Now this page can be used for identifying classical music pieces! Ever since "classical music" replaced "card and coin tricks" of my Cs of hobbies it had been a major goal to identify a dozen or so quality, essential classical music pieces, and there movements, by ear.  A bit of backstory in the "Cs of hobbies" bit: I had three Hobbies that began with the letter C: Computers, Chess, and Card tricks; as you will see in the 10 Card, 10 Coin Tricks post, Computers became career, Chess remained a great hobby, and Card tricks was completely replaced (I outgrew it) with classical music. So the selections that I would like to identify by ear are what follows.  Quite usefully, links to the actual music are provided as well as some optional biographical or fact-based information about the composer and/or the piece. This page now has utility in my project of identifying specific classical music pieces by ear and serves me well in that regard.  If you have an interest in a similar project, I trust this page will serve your ears as well! I have dissected all twelve of the pieces I want to identify by ear and for each movement have scrupulously detailed acoustic patterns that can be used to "describe" a movement as to better mnemonically recall and then later identify each masterpiece. A rich vocabulary easily and naturally emerges when describing classical masterpieces, I have discovered. For shits and giggles I sequenced these in reverse-era sequence, meaning that the baroque pieces are last and the nationalist-modernist pieces are first.  They have been meticulously sequenced in reverse chronological order of premiere day of each piece. (Pieces we've already covered are in bold.  This list may change.) Nationalist (Czech): Smetana Moldau Nationalist (Czech): Dvorak Cello Concerto in B. (Written 1894. Premiered 1896.) Nationalist (English): Gustov Holst The Planets Nationalist (French): Debussy Dialog du la Vent et la Mer Nationalist (Russian): Stravinsky's Rite of Spring Romantic: Brahm's 4th Symphony Romantic: Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet Classical/Romantic: Beethoven's 9th Symphony. 1824. Classical/Romantic: Beethoven's 5th Symphony Classical: Mozart's 31st Symphony "Paris" Classical: Mozart's 22nd Symphony Baroque: Bach amazing allegro The Post's Covered thus far have been: Beethoven's 9th Symphony Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B (This Post) Movement 1 This piece (and this movement) is challenging to describe. It never gets eerie, nor dreary. It's not particulary sad at times. At certain times it sounds like flickers of something Asian. It's almost jazz-like I think in that it's "behind the notes". It's very subtle. Compared to the loud boom, clash, electrifying explosions in Beethoven's 9, it is incredibly subtle and discrete. I notice at times a similarity to somethign fluid, like Smetana's Moldau, something river-like. It's possible, considering both Dvorak and Smetana are from the same Czech region that the "river flow" theme may be present in both of their work or it could just be something I discerned personally. This piece is soothing but with a slight edge. It never gets ominous and I think I'm realizing precisely what I'm "hearing" in this piece. In the first movement of Dvorak's Cello Concerto, the sound and the tension "just reaches" certain descriptions like it just becomes jazz-like or just almost becomes ominous or just almost becomes victorious or just almost becomes tranquil...but doesn't. Instead of this beign frustrating, it comes across as smooth and transitional and soothing. There are a few twirly moments of the cello, but it is never "happy", John Thomas Kooz no 20:51 Introduction All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. 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Why this is Important? We're 70% H20 (Hey roughly the same proportion of water as the earth!). Water is in all our cells, in our blood, in our brain, in our organs. (Actually, I researched this a few days ago, but still wanted to share). Why this is Important? We're 70% H20 (Hey roughly the same proportion of water as the earth!). Water is in all our cells, in our blood, in our brain, in our organs. The water we drink touches every cellular nuance of our body. Fuel in a car only touches the engine. The petrol people put into motors (for buses or trains or automobiles) (I don't use cars, obviously) touches the motor and the exhaust pipe. The petrol doesn't effect the seats, interior, chassis, wheels, axel nor any of the other parts of mechanical transportation. Water, however does. Whatever effects our feet, our skin, the vitreous fluid in our eyeballs has water in it; our blood-oxygen exchange components (capillaries) in our lungs contain and are immersed in water.  If you dent a car bumper or puncture a tire, the petrol put into the automobile is irrelevant.  Human bodies are not cars (obviously!).  When you cut yourself (like an epidermal minor laceration or abrasion) the blood platelets that rush to seal that and heal that gash and the blood and the skin and every component of your body contains and is effected by the quality of water you drink. Every miniscule or large component of our body has water in it. Therefore, the quality of water we drink effects every part of our body. The quality of water you drink seriously effects how efficiently your body physiologically functions. Toxic water can distort and discombobulate your physiology, whereas pure water can detoxify and is the best "fuel" possible for optimal clarity, productivity, success, fitness, energy, and focus. The Types of "Pure" Water There's only two types of "pure" (95-99% pure) water: reverse osmosis and distilled. "Spring" water may have trace impurities or minerals in it and charcoal filtered water has many particles that are small enough to pass through the filters. Reverse osmosis pushes water through a membrane away from the solutes (water is the solvent). In normal osmosis, water (the solvent) moves towards the solutes to create equilibrium in the solution (i.e. water is dispersed around the solutes). Reverse osmosis works by using a lot of pressure to push the water through a membrane and most all solutes are left behind, resulting in 95-98% pure water. Distilled water is purified through evaporation. The water turns to vapor and practically all solutes are left behind before the vapor condenses back into water. Distilled water is usually around 99% pure, but can occasionally have different types of minute impurities (that would not pass through a reverse osmosis membrane), and is very often more expensive than reverse osmosis water. Overall, you can't go wrong with reverse osmosis nor distilled water. This article was extremely well-written and clear, more clear than medical texts (which delusionally and incorrectly often suggest water "with minerals" is healthy. That's ridiculous. Water should be pure and clean. Take vitamins or eat minerals from healthy vegetables. Do not "get minerals" from water!" Final Tips It's strange. When people travel they say to "watch out for the bad water". I feel I am traveling in the United States because out of Costa Rica, Mexico, Australia, and France, I have encountered the most poisonous, toxic, dangerous, (and diarhea-causing) water in the United States. Maybe that means I'm at home in those other places and traveling in the States. Who knows, but what matters is clean water. After a toxic experience with rust-filled water I will aim to remember to carry a TDS Meter. With that you can measure the ppm (parts per million) of solutes in the water (water is the solvent, but drinking water shouldn't be a heterogenous/homogenous solution at all, just H20!). Set a Threshold Set a maximum TDS reading of what you will drink. It's your body. You should demand a maximum threshold of pollution you will physiologically allow! John Thomas Kooz no 10:12 (Actually, I researched this a few days ago, but still wanted to share). Why this is Important? We&#8217;re 70% H20 (Hey roughly the same proportion of water as the earth!). 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Science has given us a lot of facts about the average person, and one of hte most reliable of these facts is that hte average person doesnt&#8217; see herself [or himself] as...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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"Economists explain that wealth has 'declining marginal utility,' which is a fancy way of saying that it hurts to be hungry, cold, sick, tired, and scared, but once you've brought your way out of these burdens the rest of your money is an increasingly useless pile of paper. " (Gilbert 239). So my interpretation of Gilbert's interpretation of economical theory is that once money has helped you survive (i.e. not die). It's more or less fairly useless. I actually fully agree with and understand that. I agree with the necessity of money for survival and well-being, but then, in stark contrast, its total negligibility and uselessness after survival has been acquired and one has basic living essentials for survival , but genuinely just taken care of, resolved, and certain. Once the burden of being concerned about basic survivals has been resolved, the utility of money plummets and the hassle of it starts to increase! I fear musing on this too much for "testing this theory out" like I did in france or something rubbish. of testing out survival I will never test that out again. wilderness hiking is NOT survival; that's enjoyment. As is work and computer work. Not knowing where will sleep is horridly scary in a city and not knowing if one will get food is also horrifying.  But once survival needs are met, it's good to know that money is a declining marginal utility!   John Thomas Kooz no 9:03 &#8220;Economists explain that wealth has &#8216;declining marginal utility,&#8217; which is a fancy way of saying that it hurts to be hungry, cold, sick, tired, and scared, but once you&#8217;ve brought your way out of these burdens the rest of your money is an increasingly useless pile of paper....<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Every Webmaster Needs Success Data Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Properly setting up tracking is like learning about your customer so you can better serve the "guests" that surf the pages of your site! With more information of your site "guests", you can customize your posts, learn more about for what people were searching your site and write more material of those subjects track your success measured by visitors and more! The best way to do gather that invaluable tracking information is through the the mother (and father) of the Netfootnote_of_awesomeness_1, Google. Their exist many tracking methods to accumulate quantifiable data for your website, blog, and presence on the net, but one of the best is Google Analytics. I'll show you how to setup and install that on your site (or blog). Gather Your Essential Account Information Implement the Tracking There exist three main methods for getting the javascript that tracks every visitor and then outputs it to Google Analytics active on your site (or blog), copy and pasting the code, or using a plugin that utilizes your "web property id" or "google analytics uid", finally an advanced route is to utilize javascript and php to implement the tracking information with your own code. Here's how you accomplish both or either way. Method 1: Copy and Paste the Code (Most Common Method) How to access google analytics code:   Assess and make sure the tracking code is being picked up and transmitting to Google Analytics.   Filter out your own IP so you can distinguish page hits done by you. Tracking Status: Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now." That's what pops up in the yellow Tracking Status Information box that verifies Google Analytics is "set up" on your site! Method 2: Use Plugins to Implement the Tracking Code If you're using a blogging platform like a self-hosted wordpress (wahoo! great blogging platform!) blog, there are numerous exciting plugin options that take care of the pesky analytics copy-paste javascript code placement for you.  (Note: If you're using a wordpress.com blogging platform, their ".com" service uses wordpress statistics to track your visits and this post doesn't really apply to that.) Google Analyticator  - Adds javascript code; enables admin and user-specific filtering; #My personal favourite. Web Ninja Google Analytics - Adds the javascript code; has dashboard widget and analytics stats. Google Analytics Dashboard  - Adds javascript code; can share dashboard information with users and embed data. Google Analytics for WordPress - Adds javascript code; structured around wordpress specifically; uses metadata. Personally, I like Google Analyticator as personal preference.  I like being able to filter out my clicks and visits and the clicks and visits of any other user (Admin, Editor, Author, Contributor, and the like).  Additionally, I have a way of not just eliminating that specific user type but filtering it into its own graph so I see unique non-admin visitors and my own visits and clicks, a useful bit of information to see because if I was doing a lot of testing or installing some new features or writing a lot of posts to a site, it can be useful to see your own visits at times.  In terms of interpreting and reading graphs and data there are entire books written on that, but I like the ability to see, for example, an increase of me visiting my sites (writing more, installing new pages, touching up on the appearance of the site, adding new features, and more) and then a lot of traffic after that! Remember all those plugins are very similar and all they really do is an elaborate form of Method 1: Copy and Paste the code directly from Google Analytics into the template.  So if you have an aversion to using a plugin, John Thomas Kooz no 9:49 Every Webmaster Needs Success Data Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Properly setting up tracking is like learning...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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I was touching up a portion of my material_items_all list and got stuck on a hygiene component. Specifically a hygiene-travel items. Something spectacular occurred to me after a few hours of meticulous frustration. I was touching up a portion of my material_items_all list and got stuck on a hygiene component. Specifically a hygiene-travel items. I looked up exactly what was the TSA aviation regulation for non-flammable fluids and, appealing to a precise side of me, was satisfied with the 100ml/3.4oz container limit. I then realized I had a bunch of empty unused bottles that after cleaning and removing their labels (5-hour energy, old Whiteboard spray bottle, and a few others like even an old spice container) I could now use for my hygiene travel needs (optionally for mouthwash, hand-sanitizer, lotion, aftershave, deodorant-fluid, hair gel, woah 6!). I then had two huge realizations after struggling for two hours deciding if I should label each bottle's size (30ml/1oz for an old poison ivy bottle to be used for hand sanitizer, or like 60ml/2oz for the 5-hour energy bottles for mouthwash and lotion) and the proper label for each: They are really big realizations. When You Remove the Label from Products Magically Good Things Happen The items start to feel like video game items (that don't have tons of small print on them) You enjoy the products more. I've loved JIF peanut butter since I was a kid and tried a huge variety of highly expensive and exotic forms of peanut butter but just always like JIF creamy, boring, cheap, good. But when I took the label off the large jug, I was able to enjoy it more. This sounds preposterous but it psychologically-gustatorially "tasted better"! I think the psychology behind this is, quite simply is a small miniscule part of your brain sees that product (I'll continue with the peanut butter example) and instead of seeing JIF and getting confused on if it's supposed to be advertising that product (because after all, those flashy-colored product labels make advertising the product modular. In your own home it's like someone's pantry or fridge is a walking commercial advertisement with all the labels). So you stop advertising the product (in a very small, but centering and uplifting way) when you remove the labels from things. Try it. It's really cool. The Actual Product(s) are Strange! After cleaning and trying to accurately label the metric volume and identifying label of the containing substance of travel bottles, I realized that it was all just fluids. If I put all those fluids in identical bowels, I 'd have clear gelatinous plasma-like stuff (hair gel) soupier clear plasma-like stuff (hand-sanitizer) blue fluid (mouthwash) yellowish fluid (aftershave) white plasma-like substance (lotion) blue fluid (deodorant fluid, really after shave but I use it for spray) They're just chemicals! They're just chemistry, chemicals, fluids. They're gelatinous or viscous or non-viscous or fluid. That was shocking to me because I'd always purchased and recognized "Listerine Cool Mint" in that recognizable bottle or "Crew Hair Gel in that Brown Bottle" and those advertising containers and labels was how I interacted with the product. This sounds preposterous (but hey it works for me!) when I put mouthwash in my cleaned-out clear cylinder mini (previously for spices) bottle, it tasted better and I remembered to use mouthwash when I needed, creating better dental hygiene, fresher breath, and increased "clean" enjoyment. I think a small cognitive part of the brain feels enslaved using and looking at these products sometimes multiple times a day. When you remove the label, you realize that most of these are just substances, chemicals. This is fascinating. All those expensive ointments and chemicals, those companies just make a single mixture, a heterogenous or homogenous mixture solution sometimes with solvents and solutes but it's just a mixture! It was just astounding to see how much of my life is working with these different colored, different textured mixtures or pastes (peanut butter is paste-like). John Thomas Kooz no 11:00 Something spectacular occurred to me after a few hours of meticulous frustration. I was touching up a portion of my material_items_all list and got stuck on a hygiene component. Specifically a hygiene-travel items. I looked up exactly what was the TSA aviation regulation for non-flammable fluids...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Every Webmaster Needs Success Data Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Properly setting up tracking is like learning about your customer so you can better serve the "guests" that surf the pages of your site! With more information of your site "guests", you can customize your posts, learn more about for what people were searching your site and write more material of those subjects track your success measured by visitors and more! The best way to do gather that invaluable tracking information is through the the mother (and father) of the Netfootnote_of_awesomeness_1, Google. Their exist many tracking methods to accumulate quantifiable data for your website, blog, and presence on the net, but one of the best is Google Analytics. I'll show you how to setup and install that on your site (or blog). Gather Your Essential Account Information Implement the Tracking There exist three main methods for getting the javascript that tracks every visitor and then outputs it to Google Analytics active on your site (or blog), copy and pasting the code, or using a plugin that utilizes your "web property id" or "google analytics uid", finally an advanced route is to utilize javascript and php to implement the tracking information with your own code. Here's how you accomplish both or either way. Method 1: Copy and Paste the Code (Most Common Method) How to access google analytics code:   Assess and make sure the tracking code is being picked up and transmitting to Google Analytics.   Filter out your own IP so you can distinguish page hits done by you. Tracking Status: Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now." That's what pops up in the yellow Tracking Status Information box that verifies Google Analytics is "set up" on your site! Method 2: Use Plugins to Implement the Tracking Code If you're using a blogging platform like a self-hosted wordpress (wahoo! great blogging platform!) blog, there are numerous exciting plugin options that take care of the pesky analytics copy-paste javascript code placement for you.  (Note: If you're using a wordpress.com blogging platform, their ".com" service uses wordpress statistics to track your visits and this post doesn't really apply to that.) Google Analyticator  - Adds javascript code; enables admin and user-specific filtering; #My personal favourite. Web Ninja Google Analytics - Adds the javascript code; has dashboard widget and analytics stats. Google Analytics Dashboard  - Adds javascript code; can share dashboard information with users and embed data. Google Analytics for WordPress - Adds javascript code; structured around wordpress specifically; uses metadata. Personally, I like Google Analyticator as personal preference.  I like being able to filter out my clicks and visits and the clicks and visits of any other user (Admin, Editor, Author, Contributor, and the like).  Additionally, I have a way of not just eliminating that specific user type but filtering it into its own graph so I see unique non-admin visitors and my own visits and clicks, a useful bit of information to see because if I was doing a lot of testing or installing some new features or writing a lot of posts to a site, it can be useful to see your own visits at times.  In terms of interpreting and reading graphs and data there are entire books written on that, but I like the ability to see, for example, an increase of me visiting my sites (writing more, installing new pages, touching up on the appearance of the site, adding new features, and more) and then a lot of traffic after that! Remember all those plugins are very similar and all they really do is an elaborate form of Method 1: Copy and Paste the code directly from Google Analytics into the template. John Thomas Kooz no 9:49 Every Webmaster Needs Success Data Every webmaster eventually knows that he or she needs tracking. The ability to track visitors, clicks, and the browsers, geographical regions, and more data of each visitor to your site is invaluable information! Properly setting up tracking is like learning...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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As someone who has suffered from chronic indecision and the consequential doubt and incapacitation caused by indecision, This is easily one of the most important posts (out of over 500) that I have ever written and recorded. As someone who has suffered from chronic indecision and the consequential doubt and incapacitation caused by indecision, this is one of my most personally helpful posts, but anyone will benefit from this. Even if you consider yourself freakishly decisive already, this will at the very least remind you of why it's so insanely essential to avoid indecision at all costs; never engage indecision. Indecision is worse than producing or "finishing" with something sub par. Indecision is worse than procrastination; it is more devastating than being over-critical or undisciplined; indecision is wretched. "The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision." - Maimonides quote (Spanish Philosopher, 1135-1204) "Indecision is the seedling of fear." - Napoleon Hill Havoc Caused by Indecision (for me Personally) Uncertainty on which paper-based books to discard, which led to clutter. Uncertainty on book drafts which caused me to scrap and overlook hundreds of pages of decent or quality writing. I can't stand indecision! I can't afford to be indecisive! I loathe and hate how much time I've wasted with indecision. Can you relate to that? Look at What Indecision Wrecks and Destroys Future. Indecision prevents from occurring the good future resultant things caused by making the decision Present. Indecision clogs the present with enervating, draining, infectious havoc. So indecision annihilates the present and blockades you from the future! Indecision is wretched. It's "waiting". Indecision is toxic delay and waiting. One great solution is let's use a previous NLP concept I invented, "PIVOT" to dissolve indecision. Eradicate Indecision Here's a few more insights into dissolving indecision. Move Towards Decisiveness. Thing about all the uplifting awesome future privileges and abilities that are on pause by not having made that decision. Move Away from Indecision. Indecision puts on pause your future. How much longer do you want to feel stuck, wallowing in the quicksand of indecision? Transcend Decision. There's no decisions; just actions. Make calculated actions and get out of the "pros" and "cons" of decision-making loops. Recognize that you eventually take an action to get out of a decision, so just make calculated actions. Deliberate Imperfection. Be imperfect! Make imperfect decisions! Perfection is a curse and striving for it is almost always inextricably related to indecision! So being imperfect deliberately, will accelerate you to experience actions and decision, then if you want, later you can improve quality but improving quality is not gut-wrenchingly incapacitating like indecision. Cut and Slice Away. In many of the books I've written I mention decision. In one book I dissect that "decide" is literally (directly) from Latin "decidere" which literally (exactly) means "to cut off". So don't look at decisions as this absurdly idiotic, preposterous and useless stream of "evaluating" or "looking at options", or "looking at what's best?!", or ruminating on pros and cons. No, No, No. Bloody friction' hell, no! Decision is slicing. You have an outrageously sharp blade. Millions of times sharper than a japanese katana (some of the sharpest blades in the world). You use that to cut, to slice things away. There are no more decisions. There are no more evaluations of options. You no longer examine what's best. You cut, slice, and "cut away". You achieve. You experience the future and the present is uplifting.   John Thomas Kooz no 5:53 This is easily one of the most important posts (out of over 500) that I have ever written and recorded. As someone who has suffered from chronic indecision and the consequential doubt and incapacitation caused by indecision, this is one of my most personally helpful posts, but anyone will benefit...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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All descriptions of the movements on this page are the sole property and work of John Thomas Kooz. Originally this page was simply a list of all the music that appeared in audio blog snippets (as intros or outros usually) around the Validate Your Life Network, but I have extended it so that it has more utility.  Now this page can be used for identifying classical music pieces! Ever since "classical music" replaced "card and coin tricks" of my Cs of hobbies it had been a major goal to identify a dozen or so quality, essential classical music pieces, and there movements, by ear.  A bit of backstory in the "Cs of hobbies" bit: I had three Hobbies that began with the letter C: Computers, Chess, and Card tricks; as you will see in the 10 Card, 10 Coin Tricks post, Computers became career, Chess remained a great hobby, and Card tricks was completely replaced (I outgrew it) with classical music. So the selections that I would like to identify by ear are what follows.  Quite usefully, links to the actual music are provided as well as some optional biographical or fact-based information about the composer and/or the piece. This page now has utility in my project of identifying specific classical music pieces by ear and serves me well in that regard.  If you have an interest in a similar project, I trust this page will serve your ears as well! I have dissected all twelve of the pieces I want to identify by ear and for each movement have scrupulously detailed acoustic patterns that can be used to "describe" a movement as to better mnemonically recall and then later identify each masterpiece. A rich vocabulary easily and naturally emerges when describing classical masterpieces, I have discovered. For shits and giggles I sequenced these in reverse-era sequence, meaning that the baroque pieces are last and the nationalist-modernist pieces are first.  They have been meticulously sequenced in reverse chronological order of premiere day of each piece. Nationalist (Czech): Smetana Moldau
Nationalist (English): Gustov Holst The Planets
Nationalist (French): Debussy Dialog du la Vent et la Mer
Nationalist (Russian): Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Romantic: Brahm's 4th Symphony
Romantic: Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet
Classical/Romantic: Beethoven's 9th Symphony. 1824.
Classical/Romantic: Beethoven's 5th Symphony
Classical: Mozart's 31st Symphony "Paris", K. 297/300a 
Classical: Mozart's 22nd Symphony
Baroque: Bach amazing allegro Beethoven's 9th Symphony 9th - 1st Movement Mnemonic How it Sounds:  Like a brewing, building, crescendoing simmer of an orchestra. Reflection on the Video: The Conductor, Leonard Bernstein, looks like a seasoned musicman, like one of the ancient composers himself!  Wow the camera zooms on this were incredible.  Easily one of the best details of 9th Symphony Movement1!  You know it's difficult to tell which time period this was played in (it turns out to be 1989) because costumes, instruments, tones, and the like are basically invariants in classical music!  But I saw specs on one person and this looks like it was from a few decades ago.  I joyfully  chuckled whenever the camera showed Bernstein's mannerisms and facial expressions, which are a bit of an orchestra in themselves! 9th - 2nd Movement Mnemonic How it Sounds: In the opening like an electric whiz-bang of sound, direct and abrupt compared to the first movement.  Throughout the piece there is a cheerful but kind of menacing twirly chime interrupted with bellows from a kettle drum on occasion and many loud erupting crescendos reminding you this is not a trivial piece.  In fact, the entire movement sounds a lot like a crescendo finale to an entire concert, but extended over an entire movement. 9th - 3rd Movement Mnemonic How it Sounds: The piece commences with a smooth, gradual, gentle, peaceful lilting of the woodwinds. 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Erin Doland, editor of the Unclutterer blog, Ever set out to "Really, seriously clean out this room," then find yourself, 20 minutes later, slowly sorting through photos and memorabilia, unable to toss a single thing? Erin Doland, editor of the Unclutterer blog, explained in a guest post why we can't help holding onto clutter. The more you touch things over a lifetime, but also in the last few minutes, the more attached you grow to those things. It's why every retailer worth their salt wants you to test, try, but most of all handle their sample goods, and it's why you find it hard to toss things that were once precious, but now totally useless. Have a friend or professional help you out by holding things up for you, rather than let your hands get all sentimental. Photo by Elsie esq.. -- Read more at lifehacker Thought this was particularly clever, too.  Avoid HALT when considering purchasing anything: Do you really need another 16 GB thumb drive to move files around, or are you just angry with all the tech problems you had at work? Are you really in need of a garage sale panini press, or are you just late on grabbing lunch? It's not such a stretch. As the Moolanomy personal finance blog points out, the role of HALT feelings--Hunger, Anger, Loneliness, Tiredness--are no small thing in the impulsive decisions we make. Step back from that thing you're about to open your wallet for, consider your HALT levels, and maybe you don't end up a bit more weighed down with the unnecessary. --Read more from this amazing set of 10 productivity mindhacks at lifehacker. Also this article discusses anchoring in a way that higher initial price makes lowered 'sale" price almost deceptively seem like a better bargain. Contrast effect at work and the sup-average article didn't include very much NLP (which I thought it would given the anchoring concept), but a decent article nevertheless. The Stranger test is designed to minimize impulse purchases where you picture some stranger offering you the money or the product, most of time will take money, justifying not making the purchase. A clever article on how product branding uses colors to sway purchasing decisions (in a distorted way) resulting in the good advice of reminding to purchase items based on nutrition and dietary preference instead of packaging! John Thomas Kooz no 8:53 Ever set out to &#8220;Really, seriously clean out this room,&#8221; then find yourself, 20 minutes later, slowly sorting through photos and memorabilia, unable to toss a single thing? Erin Doland, editor of the Unclutterer blog, explained in a guest post why we can&#8217;t help holding onto...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Disclaimer: I felt it necessary to include this Disclaimer.  If you consider yourself to have a modicum of faith in any religion, there exists a high degree of certainty (almost a guarantee) that this and other "Atheism For The Win" posts will either decrease your faith or make you angry.  That is not my intention.  My intention in this post is simply to share what I know is true, and my intention in this disclaimer is simply to share viable consequences. Note: Naturally, the audio blog is much more informative and detailed than the written portion.  The audio  blog contains all the information in the written portion and about a half hour more of discussion on this post. This is going to be brief because Richard Dawkins (one of my five british heroes, and one of the most enlightened and helpful people I can think of) has already prescribed, clarified, illustrated, and elucidated almost every point on atheist with incredible lucidity, cogency, humor, whit -- and well, just awesome, it's just awesome, put it that way -- in his books (like the God Delusion, the Blind Watchmaker, and on a more purely scientific level, The Greatest Show on Earth). Dawkins has replaced Douglas Adams (who, in turn, replaced Roald Dhal -- all three mind you, British literary gents) in the author of whose nascent and emergent penned ideas are what I eagerly read upon each release. In short, I think it's great to have an author (and to choose this one wisely) whereby you read each of their books when they're released. I'm looking forward to the next Dawkins book and find his teachings, writing style, and clarity, as said before, just awesome. So anyways, basically, Dawkins said this better than I am, but I wanted to share this condensed version of some ideas and pointers I had and picked up. All Those Types of Gods Darrow: Mother Goose Mueller: two enormous green lobsters Invisible Inaudible, Unicrorn Flying spaghetti monster who people believe has touched them with his noddly appendage! BRILLIANT! What's hysterically appealing to the enligthened and lucid mind is all of this idiotic fabrications of pure lunacy are all equally "plausible" gods! This leads us to the famous teapot example. QUOTE There could be a teapot orbitting the earth. Just like when all thoe imbeciles prayer to their skygod, that skygod could really be Mother Goose, or an invisible unicord, or, yes, the holy Flying Spaghetti Monster. I love the ridiculing touch of the FSM having "noodle appendages". I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that hte questioner is also an atheist when considering Zeus, Apollo, Amon Ra, Mihtras, Baal, Thor, Wotan, the Golden Calf, and the Flying Spaghetti Monstoer" (Dawkins 76) Sheer Brilliance of Stable Happiness "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." (dawkins Delusion 194). That's amusing and very succinct but it's communicating a lot. That one sentence of Dawkins alludes to "the composition of happiness". It's like with food, you can eat 1000 calories of soggy, fried hamburger slop or 1000 calories of some tasty, healthy vegetarian, fresh indian dish and say that each person is both full, they've both had a meal. But the person who had the healthy food, via digestive, circulatory, and nervous system will consequentially emotionally be a lot better off than the person who ate slop. The same is true for happiness. If the source of happines is this delusional fabrication (religion), sure that provides some temporary feeble consolation, but in reality, it's fragile and unstable, wavering happiness. Happiness derived from things that are actually true like, I don't know, mathematics, astronomy (like the fact that some reasons earth is habitable are because of having a non-binary star system, the goldilocks effect of planetary placement, John Thomas Kooz no 41:14 Disclaimer: I felt it necessary to include this Disclaimer.  If you consider yourself to have a modicum of faith in any religion, there exists a high degree of certainty (almost a guarantee) that this and other &#8220;Atheism For The Win&#8221; posts will either decrease your faith or make you...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C! Download the Stave. Regardless of where you are in the world...regardless of your purpose in life...this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)... Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C! Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and Enjoy the Holiday Cheer. John Thomas Kooz no 16:37 Regardless of where you are in the world&#8230;regardless of your purpose in life&#8230;this literature written by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman &#38; Hall on December 17, 143 (168 years ago!)&#8230; Is A C-L-A-S-S-I-C! Download the Stave. Put it on your mp3 player and...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Sony for Audio Recording. Canon for digital photos and visual media (film). Spacepen for writing utensil. Cyberlite Swiss Army Knife Garmin or Magellan for gps devices. - Stick With a Brand that Works Booth Oranges for Oranges. Sony for Audio Recording. Canon for digital photos and visual media (film). Spacepen for writing utensil. Cyberlite Swiss Army Knife Garmin or Magellan for gps devices. Just a few examples. I've used those products for years. All of them are "apex productivity items" (an item that is so quality that all you need is that item and it replaces all other items in a said category; so in other word, with my sony recorder, I need no other recorders, with my spacepen, I genuinely do not need and do not have any other pen) I've had two sony audio recorders; both are apex productivity items. The booth oranges replace all other oranges. And I've tried sony and other products for visual media, but nothing matches up to canon. Those companies specialize in making great stuff in regards to oranges, audio recording, and visual recording products. I've tried deviating from them and doing so results in just gross items that don't work. I'm one of the last people to recommend brand-allegiance, but I'm not. I'm recommending continuing to use the same apex productivity items for a given category of item, that work. Experimenting with other items is rarely and almost never worth the time, cost, and hassle. Personal experience: Just went to the grocery store and knew I wanted and needed booth oranges (I had tried others and knew those were the best). But a Sunkist bag looked bigger so I got two bags of Sunkist and two of booth. The Sunkist oranges were horrendous. It doesn't matter the quantity of something if it's rubbish. The oranges is a small malleable example that can be applied to more challenging things to discard. If you get a $200 camera that doesn't work, it would be wasteful to just throw it out, so most people continue to use things that are more or less malfunctioning. Sticking with a type of thing that you know works allows you to move forward without selective hassle. So what draws us away from something we know that works? With my oranges example, it was more quantity. Maybe it's lower cost, supposed better value, an added bonus feature, or many of the other peripheral distractors, but what really matters is the core item. Is the core item quality? My goal is to only have apex productivity items. I've accomplished that with pens, swiss army knives, audio recording devices, gps devices and moving and still visual recording devices. I'd like to find the apex productivity item in regards to computer monitors (dell or viewsonic are considerations) laptops (asus or dell seem the best) keyboards mice Know this! Marketing and advertisements can work against you and be your enemy. Did I ever EVER see a single informerical or advertisement for my spacepen? No. Not a single one. But it's the only pen I have and only pen I will ever have. Often something that's highly advertised can often (not always, but often) mean inferior product or substane (from films to objects) because so much time and money went into advertising instead of proper design! Certainly if some other company comes out with a better-made item in any category it might be ridiculous not to check that out, but it's also arguable that it might be ridiculous to abandon an item that works exceptionally well. I know that I'll never have another brand of audio recorder ever. There's no reason to. That's simplifying for me. That's eliminating one less thing to worry about. One of the biggest rules of thumb I've noticed with minimalism, is if you find one apex productivity item, you can instanlty eliminate many (possibly dozens and dozens) of mediocre, malfunctioning or non-apex productivity items. Enjoying minimalism (and all of its many, many, many rewards) is practically impossible without at least half a dozen (ideally ALL) apex productivity items. So want to know a phenomenal trick for identifying apex-productivity items? Go Green Look for Green items. John Thomas Kooz no 9:32 Stick With a Brand that Works Booth Oranges for Oranges. Sony for Audio Recording. Canon for digital photos and visual media (film). Spacepen for writing utensil. Cyberlite Swiss Army Knife Garmin or Magellan for gps devices. Just a few examples. I&#8217;ve used those products for years. All of...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Basically, I do most of my work at a computer and thus my runway list is usually Computers, Errands, Groceries, or Social. But the Runway-Computer list I noticed had different categories and, This is an installment for the POPP productivity series. Basically, I do most of my work at a computer and thus my runway list is usually Computers, Errands, Groceries, or Social. But the Runway-Computer list I noticed had different categories and, mor... John Thomas Kooz no 8:41 This is an installment for the POPP productivity series. Basically, I do most of my work at a computer and thus my runway list is usually Computers, Errands, Groceries, or Social. But the Runway-Computer list I noticed had different categories and, more importantly, dividing the RWCO list into the...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Anyways, I, thus, I Have been interested in wilderness survival for, well, off and on 10 years (ever since I read Tom Brown's The Tracker in 2001, grand grand book that one and that guy is mean lean survivalist, but there are better like Bear Grylls). Anyways, I, thus, ... John Thomas Kooz no 8:22 I Have been interested in wilderness survival for, well, off and on 10 years (ever since I read Tom Brown&#8217;s The Tracker in 2001, grand grand book that one and that guy is mean lean survivalist, but there are better like Bear Grylls). Anyways, I, thus, find, discover, and enjoy some great...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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ONE OF MOST MONUMENTAL OF YEAR SO FAR. PRODUCTIVITY. CLOSURE, NON-SPRAWL. CONTAINED. MODULAR. This is a massive massive productivity tip I just realized.  It's to keep the computer (and hard-drives) STREAM-LINED.  COMPUTER work AND FOLDERS! ONE OF MOST MONUMENTAL OF YEAR SO FAR. PRODUCTIVITY. CLOSURE, NON-SPRAWL. CONTAINED. MODULAR.  Use computer as-if I am about to migrate and/or do a reinstall, this keeps EVERYTHING not locked down but Compact. the desktop is always clean, nothing sprawls no amorphorous folders Perfect example is audacities , I record, edit then DELETE the audacity file (which are completely unneeded and space-hoggers) this removes uncertainty and creates closure and completion psychologically and realistically plus I'm left with FANTASTIC sense of a GREAT clean clear workspace! A time where I did just this was when my S.M.A.R.T. hard drive status was failing.  Basically, that means that gradual signs of wear and tear are showing and indicators predict an imminent hard drive failure.  But the hard drive, at the time, worked fine although I couldn't repartition it.  In short, I used a computer (with an extra monitor attached to it) ONLY for browsing and looking at external hard drives!  I had thus massive, over 90% empty hard drive.  It was glorious and immensely clarifying!  It encouraged me to have a tidy workspace and usually I downloaded applications or add-ons and meant to uninstall them and didn't and it added to this cumulative effect of clutter.  But with NOT using the hard drive, using the computer as if it were a workstation, productivity increased exponentially! The Faux Ticket Experiment.  Try it! This turned out also to be massively congruent with my passion for minimalism!  Additionally, this small habit of computer minimalism and productivity and efficiency, galvanizes health.  Here's how.  I noticed a pattern preceding travel.  Many times. right before travel I found myself tidying up immensely.  I ate more healthily and naturally and exercised regularly.  If I had a plane (or train) to catch and I had purchased the ticket for over a month in advance, I was very organized and balanced. I realized I could emulate that same bit of health equilibrium without the cost of purchasing a ticket!  I could just always act like I had a ticket to go to xyz place in three days.  Try that!  It's the faux ticket experiment.  You don't purchase a ticket nor go anywhere but your productivity levels act like you are and you complete projects, have previously inaccessible resources of energy and things are much more modular and organized! John Thomas Kooz no 11:11 This is a massive massive productivity tip I just realized.  It&#8217;s to keep the computer (and hard-drives) STREAM-LINED.  COMPUTER work AND FOLDERS! ONE OF MOST MONUMENTAL OF YEAR SO FAR. PRODUCTIVITY. CLOSURE, NON-SPRAWL. CONTAINED. MODULAR.  Use computer as-if I am about to migrate and/or do...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Another lesson my Kittens (and this serves as another installment of the original Kitten Anthologies) taught me is that Personal Space and Personal Time is crucial to any relationship even one with the species felis catus (between homo sapiens and felis catus or homo sapiens and homo sapiens personal time and personal space is crucial).  What I learned from cats is I love them.  I love them looking, acting, and feeling healthy.  I love their companionship, low maintenance, agility, awesomeness, and they're some of my best friends, really (if you want to call that pathetic, so bet\ it).  They are some of my best friends and I care about them and I love my cats.  That said, being around them 24/7...I'd strangle them; I would go completely insane!   And then I realized the parallel of that to any relationship. Sartre said "Hell is other people" (blogged on this extensively, but showed that we always have choice), and you want other people, a homo sapiens to homo sapiens relationship, but that, too, would be hell to be around another homo sapiens 24/7. So what actually makes a relationship good and immensely something of benefit and of something that you look forward to, so that it's not a burden, something that's delightful...is, in many ways time away from the relationship and being able to be like "It's been great awesome fun playing with you!  I'm going to go now.  Bye."  and then doing your own thing.  If you don't do that, a relationship is burdening.  Having the right balance of time interacting with a person (delightful) and then time not interacting with them (also and equally as delightful) is the recipe for a meaningful balanced relationship.  So another thing I learned from my cats is that for having a relationship with any species, part of that relationship is also not having a relationship! Being in a relationship and always being with that person (or species) in the relationship is toxic.  So a functional relationship involves space and time and not interacting with that relationship entity (person, species, felis catus) at all at times, that's part of the relationship! Also, this is in regard to discipline with yourself in a relationship!  Often, when I'm in the middle of a project I'll see my cats and want to pet one of them.  I'll have that interest and feel if I don't then they'll think less of me (when such a conclusion is irrational given all the petting sessions and how much I like and play with them), which is preposterous.  But if my prefrontal cortex reminds me that petting and playing with the cat now (in the middle of something) will leave me feeling distracted and frustrated that it's better not to at that time.  This is immensely important.  I've observed times where I give into the urge to pet my cats when in the middle of something and it's delightful for awhile but then I try to refocus and my amygdala "hijacks" (a concept described by Daniel Goleman as when the emotion center of your mind kind of takes over with its hair trigger responses instead of the smooth sound logical left PFC), and I resultingly feel frustrated and anxious about not getting work accomplished.  So relationship balance is not just ensuring others give you space, but fortuitously knowing to discipline yourself by applying self-awareness so you know that if you interact with a certain relationship entity at a certain time it wouldn't be the best for you. This is a fascinating and quite astounding truism I (thanks to my feline friends) I just realized.  A huge monumental part of a relationship, is NOT interacting with the person in the relationship!  Otherwise, the relationship feels parasitic and leech-like.  A balanced relationship has a correspondingly balanced distribution of time with and time not with the species! Lesson Know when time with a person would be best and honor the self-awareness of understanding when time not interacting with an entity (cat, friend, person, whatever) would be best. John Thomas Kooz no 9:02 Another lesson my Kittens (and this serves as another installment of the original Kitten Anthologies) taught me is that Personal Space and Personal Time is crucial to any relationship even one with the species felis catus (between homo sapiens and felis catus or homo sapiens and homo sapiens...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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What is The Pomodoro Technique?  Directly from their website: The Pomodoro Technique® is a way to get the most out of time management.  Turn time into a valauble ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous i... History and "Will it Work?" What is The Pomodoro Technique?  Directly from their website: The Pomodoro Technique® is a way to get the most out of time management.  Turn time into a valauble ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it. Francesco Cirillo created the Pomodoro Technique® in the 1980s.  It is now practiced by professional teams and indviduals around the world. Right, so it's a "time management" technique that's over 30 years old.  First off, I would do away with the concept of the "time management", that will slow you down (more on this later in my post).  And also do away with "chart continuous improvement".  Don't worry about charting your improvement.  You'll feel it and see it using the crisp mathematically-clear 25/5 time chunks (or scapes or frames).  Personally, I think their website turns it into something much more than it is: it's using time in 25 minute chunks with a 5-minute break.  That's all it is!  I don't think that's worthy of "Registering", but that aside, it is unique and interesting and what follows are some insights into this. Admittedly, when I first discovered the Pomodoro Technique in early 2009 it was a "cool idea" and I remember seeing this odd-looking tomato logo.  That was about it.  I got bogged down with gear!   Just Try the Technique and Don't Fret About Gear I got too bogged down with "which app do I use"?  Do I actually use a bloody egg-timer?  (I would now recommend focus-booster.  It rocks.  Is simple, digital, and best of all has a colour-changing bar reflecting the amount of time left!)  But I would not recommend getting an actual egg-timer.  That distracts from the modularity of the pomodoro technique, it is clunky, too old-fashioned, makes annoying sounds, and doesn't have much use other than the technique (an egg-timer is not versatile).  Plus, you will look like an imbecile carrying around a ticking egg-timer, when really you're a stream-lined productivity machine!  So focus-booster works great.  Also a wrist-watch with a multi-function timer (some wristwatches allow for another timer, like the break timer, to start or the chronometer) set at 25-minutes would work.  Using focus-booster or your watch utilizes "gear" you already have to install this technique (try it out, it may not be right for you, but at this time in my life, thigns seriously fly using the Pomodoro Technique and having discovered the Focus Booster app.  I am thinking of many things in 25-minute segments now.  Okay that's 1 blog post, 1 outbound bike ride to get groceries...1 etc.).  It's almost like how as I was growing up whenever I heard of some expensive thing I would respond "That's like buying 4 computers!" and I would always convert an incomprehensibly large sum into "computer increments" for comparison.  Pomodoro's do change the landscape of your time.  If you like being locked in, imprisoned by the linear flow of a calendar, this likely won't work for you, but if you like modularity, crisp, efficient, time modules, Pomodoro rocks! Also, disclaimer, what I was mentioning before was that I was distracted with getting the right "gear'.  I liked the technique but muddled over: vibrating wrist watches phone apps computer apps actual timers And the like.  I was getting stuck on "gear" and not employing technique!  Gear is irrelevant.  I never really knew  exactly what Lance Armstrong meant by titling his book "It's Not About the Bike", but one message I took from that is that it's not about "gear" it's about how you use a technique or skills or focus.  In fact, if you're over-obsessing about gear, you probably don't understand the technique!  That was the case with me in early 2009.  Being obsessive absout which "new" gear to try out this "new" Pomodoro technique was indicative of not really understanding and not using (or maybe, at the time, not being compatible with) the technique.  Keep that in mind. 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