cannot change

How to Accept What You Cannot Change with the Power of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
$25.00
Recorded live from a 2.5 hour self-help seminar at the Rational Living Therapy Institute. Dr. Aldo Pucci teaches during his excellent seminar: * How to Determine What You Can and Cannot Change * What Acceptance Really Is * How Stoic Philosophy Can Be Extremely Helpful * How to Accept and Care at the Same Time * How to Accept Your Past * How to Accept Your Present * How to Accept Your Future * Mental Mistakes that Make Acceptance More Difficult * Accepting Specific Situations: o End of a Relationship o Death of a Loved-One o Your Own Death o Illness o Loss of Job o Loss of Home o Infidelity o End of a Relationship o Death of a Loved-One o Your Own Death o Illness o Loss of Job o Loss of Home o Infidelity This audio presentation contains two audio CD's.

TWO (2) BRACELET SET - Bangle Style - Engraved with the Serenity Prayer ~ God Grant Me, Serenity to Accept the Things I Cannot Change; Courage to Change the Things I Can; and Wisdom to Know the Difference ~ Silver Tone Metal
$39.98
If you are looking for an inspirational message for someone who is ill, hospitalized, or simply experiencing a challenging situation, the messages on these bracelets should hopefully lift their spirits. Furthermore, if it gets lost or damaged, it's not an expensive piece of jewelry that you'll lose sleep over.

The overall quality however is very cheap. The product was 50% off when I purchased it and in seeing the product; I believe it was still a bit over priced. In additional, the surface of the bracelets scratch very easily leaving a black mark. One of my bracelets actually arrived in shipping marked up this way. Note also that the twisting in the bracelet looks odd as the twist is only on one side and it is basically just flattened metal. Packaging of the bracelets also looks cheap.

What I Cannot Change (Kaskade Radio Edit) [Explicit]
$0.99

Nicolae Bretan: Golem and Arald
$16.98
Nimbus has really done the music of Nicolae Bretan (1887-1968) a great service - a service I'm not always convinced he really deserves. I really enjoyed the recording of his first opera, Luceaf���rul, but I have more mixed feelings about the two short one-acters here. They are indeed fascinating works, but the music - while often attractive - cannot avoid lapsing into banality more frequently than one would have hoped. The style is generally late-romantic with a touch of folk music, which more often than is comfortable becomes rhythmically boring with short-breathed melodic lines.

The story of Golem is well-known enough, though - as seems to be the case in most of Bretan's operas - the theme of humanity is omnipresent - with Golem being the most sympathetic character in the opera. He is also given several rather fine arias and solos, and Alexandru Agache is perhaps the most impressive singer among the cast, with a round tone, smooth legato and a deeply-felt performance overall. Unfortunately his counterpart, Sandra Sandru is not always easy on the ear, especially in louder passages, which are almost grating, and often harsh-sounding. Tam���s Dar���czy is no more than acceptable as the Rabbi L���w, whereas Dan Zancu's bass is mostly rather good (without having that much to do). Golem is overall a fine work with some inspired moments, not a masterpiece - far from it - but worth a listen.

The fifteen year later Arald, on the other hand, is less distinguished. The work is a rather simple love-story set in the underworld, and musically it consists of a sequence of arias culminating in an ecstatic duet (which is probably the most worthwhile item here). The music is serene, but passionate, and not particularly original or distinguished - which is nothing more than a nice way of indicating that it is pretty boring. The singing is rather good, however - the bass Zancu again has a warm-toned and attractive voice, and Agache reappears as an impressive seer. Jon Voineag's Arald has more passion than beauty of voice but Sandru is more compelling here than in Golem. It doesn't quite help. Bretan's attempts at pushing one climax after another becomes ingratiating, and the music is short-breathed and mostly wearisome. It is not helped, neither here nor in Golem by the sound of the orchestra - they play well enough under Cristian Mandeal, although the performances would have been improved, I suspect, with a little more thought about how to emphasize the longer lines to achieve more flow and better build-ups to the more important climaxes. The sound quality is a little constricted and unbalanced as well, which is certainly no asset.

I might have come across sounding harsher than I want to in this review. While neither of these works are, by any means, essential acquisitions, they - or at least Golem - are well worth hearing at least once, and the disc can certainly be recommended to adventurous lovers of late-romantic opera; just don't expect to find a hidden gem (and go for Luceaf���rul first if you don't already know it).