When HTC launched the One A9, it promised to update the phone with new versions of Android “within 15 days” of their release. Pretty sweet, right? Well, it would be — but that’s not happening with Android 7.0. In a tweet, HTC said the new software w…
Learning to read partitions is a basic skill that is key to anyone who wants to seriously get into music composition and interpretation. There are somewhat tedious “old school” ways to do it on paper, but now there are also apps that will help you hone this skill efficiently.
In this article, we will take a look at best of the apps to learn how to read music on Android.
It is one of the best apps available on the Play Store to help learn how to read music on Android. It also gives you a shorter version of reference inside the app to read more about “Bass” / “Treble”, regarding the notations used.
It is an interactive take to help learn reading music on Android. Music Tutor proves to be more effective by displaying the notations. The app also lets you tweak the difficulty level considering your musical knowledge prior to using the app.
Similar to what “Music Tutor” app offers, but without in-app advertisements. NoteTeacher not just lets you learn how to read music on Android but also provides you a guitar tuner.
You can either learn to read music, and try playing the game to play the right tune according to the displayed notation, or you can have fun with the guitar tuner and learn using it virtually.
The best way to learn how to read music is to try it live. Do you happen to think in the same way? If that is the case, Music Reading Trainer would be very much useful to you.
The app tests you by displaying the notation for an appropriate tune, and you will have to play the one that is right. It would act like an interesting game for a novice. As you play along, you will eventually learn to read the musical notes and do it right. It lets you one of the available clef (Treble, Bass & Grand Staff).
However, in order to get access to the series of 8 notes (octave viewer), you would need to upgrade it to the premium version. It would cost around a dollar (USD) to get rid of the advertisement, access piano octave viewer and the privilege to access future premium features.
It is one of the simplest but a nice one to have installed on your device. MuseScore does not directly help you learn how to read music, but it is more like a practice along with learning to read music eventually.
Unfortunately, the app does not let you add music scores but it does offer a free music notation and composition software for desktop platforms (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux). After going through a lot of music score on the app, you would get a hang to it and would be able to identify the musical notations.
This app comes as a bigger package to have installed on your device. However, it does justify in terms of a number of features offered. It is one of the interesting solutions to help learn how to read music on Android.
Here, you can start identifying notes and get better in reading music on Android. It offers a variety of note identification tasks. However, as being the free version, it contains in-app advertisements. You can alternatively purchase the ad-free version for less than 2 USD.
Also, it gives you the option for additional exercises to enhance your music reading skills. You can get to learn how to read musical notes for guitar and keyboards as well. If you are confident enough that you can identify the musical notes, you can take lessons and quizzes offered in the app to sharpen your skills.
It is not a game, but it is still very useful. You can use this app as a handbook to learn how to read music on Android.
You can get almost anything through this app. Music Theory Helper lets you know about the Octaves, Symbols, Scales and precise Note values. You can choose the octave notation system as well (American or European). If you are looking for British note values, you can enable accessing them from the app settings.
It is a good looking app that helps you learn how to read music. You can access treble and bass for free.
Most of the features offered can be unlocked in the pro version. You can upgrade it at around 3.5 USD. It is definitely worth upgrading when you look at the pro features that you can avail later. It offers a lot of interesting features, that include – key signatures, integrated modules and more.
There are several other apps to help us learn how to read music on Android. However, we have put only the best apps available for you!
Can you tell us about other apps which would help learn how to read music on Android? Have you used one of the above-mentioned apps?
Do share your thoughts in the user comments section below.
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If you need your face to look like you always get a good night of sleep, remember to eat your greens, and wear sunscreen, then you’re likely going to get some facials. Not many people are blessed with perfect, flawless skin, and have to keep to a rigid cleansing routine to keep their skin clear. Every now and again a professional facial treatment can help you out, though once you’ve gone enough times you start to learn what all they do so you can do the same at home, for cheaper.
While there are lots of ways to cleanse your skin, the NuBrilliance Handheld Microdermabrasion system is going to tackle a lot of problems through one device. This compact cleansing system will essentially sand your skin, which helps decrease the appearance of fine lines, sun spots, and of course helps your skin feel much smoother. Since this isn’t nearly as harsh as dermabrasion, you’ll be back out and looking normal shortly after any treatment.
This is safe to use for all skin types and can be used whenever you feel like your epidermis needs a little help. There are three diamond tips which include normal, fine, and precision grain surfaces. It can be used on your face, neck, arms, hands, legs, and more so your whole body can have super soft, elastic skin. This is a $119 purchase, but it will definitely beat out the price of going into a spa on a regular basis. Of course, you will still need to buy replacement pads and be sure to keep your normal routine.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Veteran South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu checked into a Cape Town hospital for a recurring infection, his daughter said on Wednesday. The bug put the former cleric in the hospital for a week last year.
“He is expected to remain in hospital for a week or two. The Archbishop underwent similar treatment last year,” Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe said in a statement.
It is unclear what infection Tutu, 84, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is suffering from but his family has said it is not related to the prostate cancer he has been living with for nearly 20 years.
The former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town often used the pulpit to criticize white-minority rule, which ended in 1994.
Tutu retired from public life in 2010 but has kept speaking out on issues ranging from Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians to corruption among South Africa’s political elite.
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When one thinks of Canada, does a superb technological environment come to mind? Well, in today’s age it should. Canada boasts one of the most successful entrepreneurial ecosystems in the world. The Toronto and Waterloo tech scenes have been generating an onslaught of new startups. With the University of Waterloo and other top Canadian universities prioritizing prestigious engineering programs, premiere Canadian tech talent is on the rise. The Canadian startup scene has been generating so many top computer programmers and key tech personnel that Silicon Valley and other U.S. companies are starting to take notice: in the form of poaching Canadian talent and acquiring Canadian companies. This negative cycle — the Canadian government and its universities investing in educating its workforce, only to have the fruits of their labor stolen away to the U.S.– has been plaguing the Canadian business community for years now.
Waterloo has the second highest density of startups in the world; Image Source: Panamericanworld
This Canada to U.S. leakage does not end with one-off employment recruiting. When successful Canadian startups reach a certain small to mid-cap valuation, the recent trend has been for American companies to acquire them and completely relocate the Canadian senior management team south of the border. This not only contributes to the destructive human capital outflow, and prevents the business commerce from staying in Canada, but also limits the ability of start-ups to grow into large-scale tech companies. Having fewer experienced senior managers residing in Canada, and fewer large Canadian acquirers, limits overall growth in the tech sector.
Mike Lazaridis, the co-founder of RIM, (BlackBerry) is one of Canada’s top businessman trying to strengthen the Canadian tech ecosystem; Image Source: The Verge
Nevertheless, there are several prominent Canadians and institutions trying to solve this conundrum. Mike Lazaridis, the co-founder of RIM (BlackBerry), has recently invested $20M in the Lazaridis Institute to help address these issues. I sat down with Dean Micheál Kelly of the Lazaridis Institute to discuss the current environment. Please enjoy my interview with him below.
Interview
Canada has a very strong early-stage tech start-up community. Why do you think there’s been such difficulty with scaling globally competitive tech ventures?
We obviously have a very strong early-stage tech start-up community. I think a lot of the efforts of economic development groups, the federal government, or other organizations really focus on start-ups, and there is a lot of research and data that indicates that we have one of the best start-up ecosystems in the world–second only to the United States. But the challenge we have is the fact that we’re really good at starting companies and we’re not that great at growing companies. Part of the challenge is that we don’t have that ecosystem of sophisticated management talent that is required to take a company from the start-up stage to make it globally competitive. It’s a very different skill set. It’s not about how good your technology is, it’s very much focused on, “Do you have the management skills, organizational skills, strategy skills, and other skills that it takes to scale the company and take it into the international market?” I think that’s one of the biggest barriers that is keeping a lot of our start-ups from scaling into larger, more enterprise-level companies.
Mr. Lazaridis, the co-founder of Research In Motion (BlackBerry) donated $20M to the Lazaridis Institute to strengthen Canada’s tech community; Image Source: Lazaridis Institute
It is well known that Silicon Valley and U.S. companies have been poaching Canadian tech talent and senior management for years. Why do you think this trend has been transpiring? What are the primary drivers of this?
I think one of the main drivers was just opportunity; there are so many opportunities–especially in Silicon Valley–and the tax factor is very attractive to Canadian engineers and others. There are lots of opportunities, top compensation, the density is better, and stock options are more realizable. It’s an easy transition for Canadians to move into the U.S. technology industry. Their skills are highly prized. Americans know how good the engineering programs are here. It is just a matter of where there are more opportunities to get involved in really interesting, growing, and globally competitive companies.
Renderings of the new Lazaridis Institute. Image Source: Lazaridis Institute
One of the things that I’ve noticed is that some companies such as Vidyard have recruited a few people from Silicon Valley. We have seen in certain circumstances an inflow of C-level management teams coming to Canada. Do you think that’s due to the Canadian company’s size, the attractiveness of the Canadian economy, or the Canadian Waterloo tech environment?
There will be Canadian technology companies that are attractive to U.S. management talent and others. I think it’s pretty much a company-by-company opportunity. It’s pretty rare that we are able to attract top management talent from Silicon Valley to come up here because one of the fears for many executives is, “If it doesn’t work out, then what happens?” In Silicon Valley, if you take a chance and it doesn’t work out there are probably 12 other companies that people can try right away. Here it’s not so much the case.
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’s 2014 Global Report found that Canada is second only to the United States in the share of the working age population either engaged as an entrepreneur or working directly for one.
What differentiates your program at the Lazaridis Institute from other incubators or Canadian business schools?
First of all, we’re not an incubator. We are post-incubator and post-accelerator focused. Our focus is taking companies that really do have the potential and the capacity to scale, and to help them build the knowledge, tools, and management talent that they need to grow their operations. So we’re very much in the post start-up phase. There aren’t any incubators that really play in this area, that I know of.
Dean Kelly Laurier is spearheading the Lazaridis Institute’s initiatives; Image Source: The Globe And Mail
The other difference is that our focus is really bringing a network of top talent from around the world: people who have done it before and who have been involved in growing companies; the individuals that really understand the challenges these companies are going to face and know how to help them think through some of the challenges. This involves not telling them what to do, but helping them think about what their options are as they face these various challenges. Our goal at the institute is to build a network of top talented people who are practitioners, who’ve been on the battle lines of a lot of these companies, and who really understand the challenges that they’re going to face. It’s unlike other business schools. The faculty members will benefit as we start growing the knowledge, interest, and research around some of these areas. However, the initial focus is really bringing in leading experts from wherever they may be to get involved in programming and in mentoring these companies. I don’t see anybody else doing it in that particular way right now.
The Lazaridis Institute is being built to provide the best young Canadian tech companies with the resources to scale to global enterprise firms; Image Source: Lazaridis Institute
What are you going to offer start-ups in Canada that they won’t find anywhere else?
I think it’s going to be programming, networks, and people that they can interact with, who can help them understand and deal with some of the problems they are going to face when they scale.
When granting funding or pairing an entrepreneur with a respective successful mentor, what criteria are you looking for in that entrepreneur?
It’s going to be an important part of the program in that we will spend a large amount of time ensuring that our mentors have the specific background and experience to support and be of value to each participating company. And the mentors have access to their own networks. For example, if a company has got an organizational issue, the mentor may put the company in touch with someone that really understands the organizational challenges that a company may face at market entry or with someone that better understands some of the international market opportunities.
Have the local municipalities or the Canadian government provided any economic incentives to help stave off the talent leakage?
Not that I know of. I think the best thing we could do to stave off the talent leakage is to build some of those globally competitive companies here that offer those kinds of attractive opportunities. I’m not sure if there’s any kind of subsidy or anything else like that. If it’s a question of good opportunity, there is a good opportunity here, and I think a lot of people will pick the opportunity here. However, we have to be able to provide those opportunities, to make them available to people to stay and grow in their companies.
Because this isn’t a short term Band-Aid solution, it sounds to me that what you are trying to do at the Lazaridis Institute is figure out how to fundamentally change the structure of the Canadian tech environment and the Canadian economy in general?
The great example is in Silicon Valley where you see the recycling of talent that happens. For example, a lot of people have worked in Silicon Valley at start-ups and have learned their entrepreneurial trade and learned how to scale their companies, or there are those who have learned their corporate trade by working for large tech multinationals where they have an opportunity to do global sales, MNA, and a whole range of things. Then, these people with experience in big companies will often recycle themselves, taking on a job in small start-ups. We need to build more of those globally competitive enterprise-level-companies if we’re going to be able to generate that kind of talent recycling–then I think it will take on a dynamic of its own.
What is the typical profile for a company that is in your program?
This year is our pilot. We are looking at companies that might fit the following criteria: typically the company is probably less than 5 years old, it has a repeatable revenue stream, a strong product, and 5 to 10 people on a management team. The company may have raised its seed round but really has demonstrated that it has potential. The entrepreneur understands the market, already has built a product, and sees the opportunity to really scale, and can benefit from the kinds of things that we can offer them. We’re looking at working with maybe 10 or 12 companies at a time, because it’s going to be a very much hands-on experience. We all agree that not every technology company has the opportunity to scale or the capacity to scale. Our approach is going to be a very targeted one, working with those companies that really have a realistic vision and a potential to grow.
Waterloo’s vibrant tech scene is being poached by Silicon Valley; Image Source: The Globe And Mail
What are some key obstacles impeding a company’s growth? Both from the Lazaridis Institute’s perspective but also from what you have witnessed for a start-up or a scaled company?
Well, some of the work that we did early on when we launched the Institute was that we conducted interviews with 125 tech CEOs and investors looking at the biggest challenges today and how they are looking to scale. Surprisingly, a lot of the challenges were managing challenges. The companies did not think that they had the depth of management to understand the management issues that they’re going to likely face, and so things like organizational issues, sales issues, financial issues, and going after international markets… these are all of the types of things that these companies have to build some capacity around, if they are going to successfully scale their operations. I think it’s the lack of that capacity right now that leaves a barrier for many of these companies. Many great technology companies were founded by technology entrepreneurs, but taking the company to the next level is very difficult.
So you believe what you’ve put together at the Lazaridis Institute is the solution?
I think we’re one solution. I mean, it would be a bit presumptuous to say we are the whole solution to the problem. However, I think we will demonstrate that what we’re doing will have a beneficial effect on the growth and scale of technology companies. As we demonstrate that, we believe we will attract more support so that we can expand our operations, our networks, and our programming. I think we can have a significant effect on growing the next generation of globally competitive tech companies.
What will be the next Canadian BlackBerry? Image Source: UTBBlogs
How do you see the program influencing the Canadian technology ecosystem in five or even ten years?
Well, our belief is that we will be able to generate some great companies. Whether we will be able to generate the next BlackBerry platform is a valid question. However, I think that we will be able to generate a number of global enterprise companies. We’ll start to recycle some of the talent that we were talking about earlier, and I won’t be surprised if in the next five years we have four or five local enterprise companies that have emerged from the program and become large, global companies. I think we’ll start to see a dynamic effect if that happens.
How does Canada’s technology ecosystem compare to our international peers?
I think we compare extremely well with most other countries. As I said earlier, I think we’re only second to the United States’ tech ecosystem. We have great universities, strong technology, and great technology start-up companies. I do think that we can benefit from some more serious venture capital, led by people who really understand the dynamics of growing tech companies and a deeper pool of management talent. However, I think that we have many of the ingredients to be great players in this area.
Mr. Lazaridis, the co-founder of Research In Motion (BlackBerry) is the school’s primary patron. Why did Mr. Lazaridis decide to invest in this school and program? What is his vision for the long term?
I think his objective for investing is exactly what we’ve been talking about. He sees the great ecosystem and the great companies that we have across the country, especially in Waterloo, but he also sees that a lot of those companies aren’t getting out of the start-up stage. I think he recognized that one of the elements of that are the management issues. Canada does have a pretty good record of generating great technology, and really interesting start-up technology companies, but he really wants to see them grow in Canada, create employment in Canada, create value in Canada, and not see them move offshore early in their lives. I think that his long term goal is–he really wants to build up a strong globally competitive technology industry in this country.
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With grassroots anger driving this presidential election—anger at government, anger at Congress, anger at Wall Street, anger at the elites and the establishment, heck, anger at everything—Democrats could make electoral headway by addressing one of those objects with this do-able promise: “Make government work better.”
And Democrats are the ones to make such promise, because, unlike Republicans who have ranted against all things government for generations now, Democrats still believe government can work for the benefit of the people.
Government touches our lives in many ways—at the federal, state, and local level. But those ways in recent years have not been altogether good, even including, sorry to say, during the Democratic administration of Barack Obama.
The stories of governmental ineptitude and waste of the Obama years are legion: The Department of Veterans Affairs forcing veterans into unconscionably long wait times for appointments, with vets dying without proper attention. The Internal Revenue Service improperly auditing conservative groups. The General Services Administration’s lavish departmental conference in Las Vegas. The Secret Service’s various scandals, too many to cite, jeopardizing its mission to protect the President.
And who can forget the totally bollixed rollout of Obamacare, which ate the news for a good year and which still taints the program, despite its ultimately smoother—and successful—operation. Readers will have other examples.
Sometimes it’s the nearby snafu, at the state or local level, that rankles the worst. Here in Washington state, the Department of Corrections mistakenly released 3,300 prisoners before their terms were up, due to computer error. Wait: Aren’t humans in charge of the cell keys? This failure of central mission drives citizens nuts and, in this case, fear for their safety. Sadly, this happened on a Democratic governor’s watch.
Mission review in the agencies should be conducted constantly, to ensure that the central mission is being met—and to ensure, at the very least, that no more prisoners are released prematurely due to computer glitches. (Washington is not the only state guilty in this regard; so are Michigan, California, and Nebraska.)
In reaction post-snafu, it’s not enough for an agency head to cite complexity or enormity of scale as the reason for an operational snafu. Presidents and governors who appoint agency heads absolutely need to ensure their appointees bring executive and managerial skills and are not just being rewarded for political favors.
Over time, the unending drip-drip-drip of government snafus in the media creates, like the halo effect, a smear effect that, in the mind of the increasingly angry citizen, goes beyond the inept agency in the headlines to smear all of government. Indeed, the question becomes for the angry citizen: Does any government agency work as it should—and as it did, once upon a time, in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration during the Great Depression and World War II. Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal is marked by many observers as the advent of the public’s declining trust in government.
It is the citizen, of course, who is most injured and ill-served when a government snafu occurs. But the other injured party, one not often recognized, is the highly-skilled and dedicated public servant, who, by the millions, graduate top of their class and head to Washington, D.C. or the state capitals to render service to the public. It’s a noble profession, public service, but after decades of anti-government venom and innumerable snafus, one wonders how much longer the same quality will want to become the much-maligned “bureaucrat”?
Democrats: We have a repair job to do. At the Democratic national convention in July, much was said about government’s role, but not much was said, either in speeches or the party platform, about making the government we have work better. In a hurting economy, government waste infuriates. In a nation unsure of its greatness, government ineptitude disheartens.
Democratic politicians can give heart and gain votes by vowing to make government work better. Especially with the visible public projects that seem never to get finished, like road or bridge repair, vow to finish them—and then, once in office, do it. A strong example: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s vow to launch a $275-billion national infrastructure program, if she is elected.
Of course, to make government work better, we need political leaders who behave better. This is not to condemn the entire current roster, not at all; the Democrats in Congress are the members trying to make that dysfunctional institution functional; they are dedicated public servants of sound character. But, recurring to the smear effect again: All it takes in today’s angry atmosphere is just one bad actor (for one, ex-Congressman Anthony Wiener), indulging in tasteless behavior or wrongdoing, to smear all of his cohorts, leading the public to conclude all politicians are perverts or crooks. This is a massive load for the conscientious politician (of whom, again, there are many).
And once in office, legislators must appropriate sufficient budget funds to the agencies, so agencies can get their legislated job done. A Congress back in the control of Democrats could end the endless Republican budget games.
To conclude: Donald Trump has stoked the anger and disillusion in the country with his slogan, “Make America great again,” proposing authoritarian and xenophobic means to achieve a better day. Democrats recognize the perils of the present moment, but, more hopeful, believe adherence to America’s foundational ideals will bring us to that better day, thus our favorite slogan, “We can do better.”
So, Democrats: Make the U.S. government—once a marvel in world history—work better.
Carla Seaquist’s latest book is titled “Can America Save Itself from Decline?: Politics, Culture, Morality.” An earlier book is titled “Manufacturing Hope: Post-9/11 Notes on Politics, Culture, Torture, and the American Character.” Also a playwright, she published “Two Plays of Life and Death” and is at work on a play titled “Prodigal.” (Archives here.)
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The New York police repeatedly broke rules governing intelligence-gathering while targeting Muslims for surveillance after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a report issued on Tuesday.
The report — by the Office of the Inspector General for the New York Police Department, an oversight agency created in 2013 — said that the department’s Intelligence Bureau regularly let deadlines pass before asking to extend investigations into political activity, and often failed to explain the roles of undercover officers and confidential informers, as required.
“The fact that deadlines were missed and rules were violated is troubling and must be rectified,” the report said.
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If you’re looking for ways to recognize the breastfeeding mothers in your life, we’ve got some ideas.
In honor of National Breastfeeding Month, we’ve rounded up some gift ideas (aside from the obvious free Netflix subscriptions and unlimited massages that nursing moms desire). From witty onesies to cute prints to one fierce button, here are 15 products for breastfeeding and pumping mamas.
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One of the most difficult tasks any individual can master, is the ability to let go of the past, and move forward towards their future. This can feel especially difficult after the end if a long relationship, and while you are working towards healing and starting over. If an individual can learn to master the skills of letting go of past hurts and grievances they are holding on to, and to stop worrying about every possible case scenario in the future that can go wrong, they can truly feel a sense of peace, and have a more successful and meaningful present, in all areas of their lives, especially in their relationships.
Below are some quotes on the ideas of letting go and moving on, that I hope will plant kernels of inspiration and grounding, and closure for your life. With this new found peace and lightness, great things can be accomplished, and your life can be more fully enjoyed. You are more open and happy, and this creates an ideal situation to move forward with your life and perhaps a new partnership.
1. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
2. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
3. “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
4. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
― Shannon L. Alder
5. “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.”
― C. JoyBell C.
6. “If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
7. “When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.”
― Shannon L. Alder
8. “Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye”
― Beyoncé Knowles
9. “When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear…. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.”
― Gerald G. Jampolsky
10. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
― Shannon L. Alder
11. “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
― C. JoyBell C.
12. “There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
― C. JoyBell C.
13. “If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”
― Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
14. “I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.”
― Jeffrey McDaniel
15. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
― Steve Maraboli
16. “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”
― Tony Schwartz
17. “Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.”
― Shannon L. Alder
18. “The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
19. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
20. “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
― Ann Landers
Hopefully some of these resonated with you, and showed you how empowering and healing letting go can be. We feel lighter, more free, and more open to the possibilities in our lives. For the first time we are able to see the future full of possibilities, and unencumbered by the baggage and hurts of the past.
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Questlove is bringing his eclectic love for music to streaming radio.
The Roots drummer announced the launch of his new Pandora radio show, “Questlove Supreme,” on Wednesday. The weekly three-hour show will be curated and produced by the Philadelphia-native. It will also feature a mix of musical selections and interviews from the likes of actress-comedienne Maya Rudolph where he’ll discuss “thematic” topics, according to a press release.
The newly-formed partnership, which will replay for 48 hours each week, will also appoint the multi-instrumentalist as the company’s strategic advisor. In the role, he will provide the streaming platform with advice and support for artist initiatives and music product strategy.
“I see in Pandora both a deep respect for the craft of music and a commitment to the musicians that make it their living,” he said in the release before detailing his initial introduction to the company’s trademark music algorithm Music Genome Project –– created by Pandora founder and CEO, Tim Westergren.
“When Tim introduced me to the Music Genome Project, and explained its origin and how he and his team developed it, I was blown away,” he said. “Pandora is a company born of a musician’s experience, and I’m very excited to join them in their mission to create a healthy and vibrant industry for artists and fans, alike.”
Westergren also echoed his excitement for including Questlove’s vast musical expertise into Pandora’s business strategy.
“His near encyclopedic knowledge of the theory and history of music and his abiding passion for supporting artists of all kinds is a perfect match for our mission,” Westergren added in the press release.
“We’re thrilled to have his expertise and counsel, and to share his talents, insights and love of music with our over 78 million listeners.”
“Questlove Supreme” premieres on Pandora Sept. 7 at 1 p.m. EST.
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