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Top songs I have listened too in 2019: Pauline Croze – Tellement bien

15 Monday Jun 2020

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Pauline Croze  is a French pop/folk singer and musician. She started to sing and play the guitar when she was fourteen and six years later she made her first demos with Quito of the group Señor Holmes.

I have a 16,000 plus digital audio collection and I use Media Monkey to manage my files. One feature of Media Monkey is you can sort your collection based on the number of times played. This playlist is based on the top music and/or music video files I played/listened/streamed from my server in 2019. Complete Playlist HERE

Top songs I have listened too in 2019: Chaka Khan – Like Sugar

08 Monday Jun 2020

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Yvette Marie Stevens, better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer and songwriter. Her career has spanned nearly five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. Known as the “Queen of Funk”, Khan was the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with “I Feel for You” in 1984. Khan has won ten Grammy Awards and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide.

I have a 16,000 plus digital audio collection and I use Media Monkey to manage my files. One feature of Media Monkey is you can sort your collection based on the number of times played. This playlist is based on the top music and/or music video files I played/listened/streamed from my server in 2019. Complete Playlist HERE

The Witness of History

03 Wednesday Jun 2020

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The memories of a Polish survivor of Nazi atrocities in the final months of the war in Europe.

German atrocities in Poland during WW2

Towards the end of World War Two in Europe, Polish civilians suffered terribly at the hands of retreating German troops. But many never received any reparations for what they’d been through. Kevin Connolly has been speaking to one survivor who was a child in those final brutal days of the war in Europe.

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Undated image of Nazi soldiers travelling by motorcycle and car stop to watch a Polish village burn to the ground. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection).

Cultural Factors in Psychiatric Care: Focus on Asian Mental Health

02 Tuesday Jun 2020

Posted by in Creative Therapy Tools, Mental Health, YouTube

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Dr. Descartes Li explores the ways that culture influences mental health. He looks at the effects of cultural identify and the models of illness. He also explores the stressors and supports and the elements of the relationship with the clinicians and the resulting treatment plan. Recorded on 02/26/2020.  UCTV is the broadcast and online media platform of the University of California.

Top songs I have listened too in 2019: Raveena NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

01 Monday Jun 2020

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Raveena Aurora, also known as Raveena, is an American singer and songwriter. Her debut EP, Shanti, was released independently in 2017 after graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Shanti explored themes of self-love and healing, and blended R&B, soul, and jazz music. Her first album, Lucid, was released independently in 2019 and distributed through Empire Distribution. She directed several of her own music videos where she displayed her Indian heritage and “rich interiority of women of color like herself”.

I have a 16,000 plus digital audio collection and I use Media Monkey to manage my files. One feature of Media Monkey is you can sort your collection based on the number of times played. This playlist is based on the top music and/or music video files I played/listened/streamed from my server in 2019. Complete Playlist HERE

To see my yearly favorites playlists from 2010 to 2019 go HERE.

Therapy Dog Gets Honorary Degree

29 Friday May 2020

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From the Huffpost:

He’s got a Ph.D. in being a very good boy.

Well, technically it’s an honorary doctorate in veterinary medicine, but either way, Moose is a very accomplished dog.

The 8-year-old Labrador retriever has worked as a therapy dog at Virginia Tech’s Cook Counseling Center since 2014. Now, his years of service to students are being celebrated with an honorary degree from the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, which is operated by Virginia Tech and the University of Maryland at College Park. Moose was granted the degree at a virtual commencement ceremony on Friday.

See entire article at Huffpost.

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Stock photo of a dog without a degree

Asanas that chase away the blues

28 Thursday May 2020

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Nice article from the Times of India, citing research using Yoga Asanas: Among the many clinical researches being conducted at Nimhans , one involved patients of an old-age home who were exposed to six months of yoga therapy. MRI scans taken before and after showed an increase in the size of the hippocampus, the brain’s memory index. “It wasdog1 larger than before because the grey matter had increased. The results will be published in a scientific journal shortly ,” adds Gangadhar. The hippocampus is vulnerable to stress and atrophy is seen in patients of schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and severe depression. “Yoga acts as an antidepressant ,” he says. Read the entire article here.