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Table of Contents
- Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- Three-Part Legislative Mission
- Program Descriptions and Access of Services
- Supporting Local School Districts with FAPE
- Length of TSBVI Placements
- TSBVI's Relationship with Educational Service Centers
- TSBVI's Relationship with the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services/Division of Blind Services.
- Cost to the District or to the Parent for Outreach services; Special Programs; Comprehensive Programs?
1. Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
The Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI) in Austin was established by the Texas Legislature in 1856. Since 1856, TSBVI has served students with visual impairments throughout Texas.
2. Three-Part Legislative Mission.
In 1995, the legislature passed a comprehensive set of statutes establishing the School as a state agency with a governing board appointment by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. This legislation defined TSBVI's three major educational roles within the state of Texas:
- Serving students with visual impairments in an on-campus residential program[1];
- Conducting supplemental programs[2]; and
- Providing statewide services to parents, districts, educational service centers and other agencies[3].
More information about the school is available at: www.tsbvi.edu
3. Program Descriptions and Access of Services.
TSBVI has established three educational departments to implement its three-part legislative mission:
Outreach Programs
Short-Term Programs
Comprehensive Programs
3.1 Outreach Programs
The Outreach Programs of TSBVI serve as a statewide resource for families and professionals on blindness and deafblindness. Information about requesting Outreach support is available by phone 512-206-9268 or 512-206-9242 or on the TSBVI website at http://www.tsbvi.edu/outreach
The TSBVI Outreach Staff performs a variety of functions:
- Consultation on Student Programming. The staff consults with local districts on student programming, implementation of evidence-based practices, and transition planning, in coordination with regional education service centers.
A request for individual Student Consultation or local teacher training must come from the school district staff.
- Family Support. TSBVI Outreach supports families of children with visual impairment and/or deafblindness to gain access to resources, connection to other families, and needed training. Families can request information, home consultation, assistance to attend training, and/or helpful connection to other families.
- Statewide Training. The staff provides local and regional workshops, sponsors on-campus workshops and statewide conferences, online courses, and live and archived webinars.
Request training.
- Publications and Materials. The Outreach Program produces original materials, including a quarterly newsletter - TX SenseAbilities (in print and on the website), instructional modules, blogs and a variety of distance learning materials.To request a subscription to the TSBVI quarterly newsletter for families and professionals, please go to TX SenseAbilities.
- Technology Loan Program. The staff administers a technology loan program, through which local programs may borrow specialized technology for use by individual students for up to one school year. A technology loan program is available through an application process.
- VI Registration Coordination. The staff coordinates statewide registration of students with visual impairments and the deafblind census.
- APH Materials Distribution. Specialized materials from the American Printing House for the Blind may be ordered from the TSBVI Outreach Program using federal quota funds to provide VI specific materials to eligible students.
- Coordination of Professional Mentors and Support for Professional Preparation Programs. The staff coordinates the provision of professional mentors for new teachers of students with visual impairments and certified orientation and mobility specialists, and works with universities and regional service centers on recruiting and training new professionals for the field.
Please click here to visit Outreach Programs online (http://www.tsbvi.edu/outreach)
3.2 Short-Term Programs
TSBVI Short-Term Programs include Summer Programs and School Year Short-Term Programs. These programs serve students who are residents of Texas.
- Short-Term Programs. Short-Term Programs are conducted September through May. These 3-5 day classes offer intensive training in the Expanded Core Curriculum (ECC) to students who are functioning on or close to grade level. The 5-day classes focus primarily on some aspect of technology or math. The 3-day classes tend to focus on some aspect of independent living, such as social skills, mobility, visual efficiency, self-determination, recreation. Short-Term Programs also offers online Distance Learning opportunities and Individualized Instruction. Eligible students must be referred by their school district; typically the student's Teacher of the Visually Impaired (TVI) is the person making the referral. Read the complete procedure for accessing and participating in Short-Term Program classes or Go to the Short-Term Programs referral form.
- Summer Programs. A wide range of summer programs serve students of all levels of functioning, from elementary through high school. Classes range from 4 days to 5 weeks in length. The summer application form is completed online at the TSBVI website between the second week of January and the February 14 deadline. Although a summer application does not require a district referral, the TVI is asked to complete the application with supportive information from the family. Specific questions can be directed to the Program Coordinator of individual summer programs, as described on the summer application form.
- Questions about Short-Term Programs may be directed to Sara Merritt, Principal, 512-206-9176,
3.3 Comprehensive Programs
- On-Campus K-12 Educational Program. TSBVI Comprehensive Programs department is the School's on-campus K-12 educational program. Students enrolled in Comprehensive Programs are referred by a local district Admission, Review and Dismissal Committee. Students who are admitted to TSBVI attend school during the regular two-semester school year and do not attend TSBVI during the summer. Students attend school on the TSBVI campus and return home on most weekends during the school year. If a student requires extended school year services, the local district will provide these services; TSBVI does not provide extended school year services. Students who live close to the TSBVI campus are usually transported from their homes to TSBVI on a daily basis by the local school district.
- Eligibility Requirements. To be a student at TSBVI, the student must be a resident of Texas who has been determined by the local school district Admission, Review and Dismissal (ARD) Committee to be visually impaired or deafblind.
- Additional Information about Admission Requirements. Under Texas law, TSBVI is intended to serve students who require specialized or intensive educational or related services related to the visual impairment. The school is not intended to serve students whose needs are appropriately addressed in a home or hospital setting or in a residential treatment facility; or students whose primary, ongoing needs are related to a severe or profound emotional, behavioral, or cognitive deficit.[4]
- Local district ARD committees, including a student 's parents, should review these service requirements as part of considering whether to refer a student for admission into Comprehensive Programs).To be admitted to TSBVI, a student:
- Must require specialized or intensive educational or related services related to the visual impairment
- Must not have needs that are appropriately addressed in a home or hospital setting or in a residential treatment facility
- Must not have primary, ongoing needs that are related to a severe or profound emotional, behavioral, or cognitive deficit.
- Campus Tours. Local district staff, parents and students interested in learning about TSBVI Comprehensive Programs may tour the TSBVI campus. During the tour, visitors will be told about campus services and will see the campus facilities, including educational, recreational and living facilities. To arrange a tour, please contact Admissions Coordinator Cathy Olsen by phone, 512-206-9182, or by email
- Student Referral for Admission. To start a referral process, TSBVI must receive a referral from the local school district ARD committee. Upon receipt of a referral, the TSBVI Admissions Coordinator will communicate by phone with the local district representative and follow up by sending the application for admission. This will include a request for information such as the student's Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) and other important documents.
- TSBVI Referral Committee Determination and Notification of Local School District. After receiving the student application and other documentation requested, the TSBVI Referral Committee will review all information to determine: 1) if the student is eligible for services at TSBVI, and if so 2) whether it appears that the student is receiving a FAPE (see section 5, below) from the local district. For students who are eligible for TSBVI services and appear to need TSBVI admission in order to receive a FAPE, TSBVI will 1) notify the district that the student will be admitted; 2) provide an anticipated enrollment date, and 3) provide the district with the TSBVI contact to begin a collaboration plan with the district and parent.
If, upon review of the information provided by the district, the student appears to be: 1) receiving a FAPE in the local school district, or 2) not eligible for TSBVI services, TSBVI will collaborate with the district to ensure that all relevant referral information has been considered. After the collaboration, TSBVI will determine whether or not to admit the student and notify the district of this determination.
- Resolution of Differences. If a local school district does not agree with the determination of the TSBVI Referral Committee, the local school district may call the TSBVI Director of Center for School Resources for additional discussion about the referral and/or may seek resolution through the Texas Commissioner of Education and the Texas Education Agency or through any due process hearing to which the district or school is entitled under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1400 et seq.).[5]
4. Supporting Local School Districts with FAPE
Primary Role to Assist Local Districts in Providing a Free Appropriate Public Education to the Student.A student's local school district is responsible for ensuring that each of its students receives a free appropriate public education (FAPE).[6] Depending upon the needs of the student, the student's parents and professionals and other staff providing services to a student, each of TSBVI's three programs may be accessed to assist the local district in providing an individual student or groups of students with a FAPE. The overarching role of each of TSBVI's three educational programs is to assist local school districts to ensure that all students with visual impairments receive a free appropriate education.
We think of the relationship between the student's local school district and TSBVI like the relationship between a person's primary care physician and a physician specialist that the person may need from time to time depending on the person's current condition. It is the responsibility of the primary care physician to oversee the person's health and to provide services over the long term; however, the primary care physician may refer the person to a specialist for diagnostic and specialty treatment. The primary care physician does not relinquish the person's care at any time the person is being treated by the specialist. Following intervention by the physician specialist, the primary care physician once again resumes responsibility for the person's physical examinations, diagnosis and treatment.
Similarly, a student's local school district (like a primary care physician) has the long-term responsibility for providing the student with a FAPE. It may be that, during the student's educational career, the district enlists the special services of any one of TSBVI's programs (Outreach, Special Programs, Comprehensive Programs) to meet the student's special needs for educational and related services existing at the time of the district's request and/or referral for services.
Outreach services support local capacity to provide FAPE through consultation and training.
Short-Term Programs can support local capacity to provide FAPE through intensive short-term classes on the TSBVI campus.
Comprehensive Programs is designed to assist local districts by admitting students to TSBVI for the provision of a FAPE and, during the student's enrollment, collaborating with the district to prepare for the student's return to the district or transition to adult work, living and/or education.
5. Length of TSBVI Placements.
5.1. Entitlement to Free Appropriate Public Education for Students with Visual Impairments.
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requires the State of Texas to ensure that all eligible students with disabilities receive a free appropriate public education (FAPE) [7] and recognizes that a public residential program, such as the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, may be appropriate, as needed, for meeting this requirement.[8]
The Texas Education Agency is responsible for ensuring that students with visual impairments have an opportunity for achievement equal to the opportunities afforded their peers with normal vision[9] and that school districts have the flexibility of meeting the needs of students with visual impairments through short-term or long-term services through the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TSBVI).[10]
TSBVI is a possible placement in the continuum of statewide alternative placements for students with visual impairments that local school districts may consider to ensure that a district student with a visual impairment receives a free appropriate public education.
5.2 Consideration by the Local District of Student Placement at TSBVI, FAPE and LRE.
The State of Texas public education system serves approximately 9,000 students with visual impairments. Only a small number of these students can be served at TSBVI at any one time. At any time a district determines that a student has intensive needs for services related to the visual impairment, the district may consider a referral for placement at TSBVI. Two factors are central to this consideration: Free Appropriate Public Education and Least Restrictive Environment.
- Free Appropriate Public Education. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has as its purpose to ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education that emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs and prepare them for further education, employment, and independent living. [11]
- To provide a FAPE, a district must develop an IEP that provides the student with access to specialized instruction and related services that are individually designed to provide educational benefit to the student. [12] The student is not entitled to receive the maximum potential benefit but the benefit must be more than minimal,[13] although some courts have indicated that the requirement includes only a basic floor of opportunity and meaningful access that does not guarantee any level of educational benefit.[14] These standards are very important in TSBVI's consideration of student admission, continued placement and return to the district.
- Least Restrictive Environment. In looking at the continuum of placement options available to meet the student's needs, the district must look for the placement that can provide the student's FAPE that is also the least restrictive environment in which FAPE can be provided. In focusing on a placement, the student's ARD committee must ensure that the student with a visual and other impairments is educated to the maximum extent appropriate with children who are nondisabled; and that a placement like one at TSBVI occurs only if the nature and the severity of the disability preclude satisfactory achievement of education in the regular classroom with the use of supplementary aids and services.[15]
5.3 Length of Student Enrollment in TSBVI Comprehensive Programs.
The IDEA reflects a strong preference for the student to be educated in regular classes with the student's nondisabled peers with appropriate supplementary aids and services. To this end, Commissioner Rule requires that, when a student's ARD committee places the student at TSBVI, the district is required to list the services in the student's individualized education program which TSBVI can provide and to include in the student's IEP the criteria and estimated time lines for returning the student to the resident school district.[16]
In accordance with Commissioner Rule and the IDEA's preference, when a student is admitted, TSBVI collaborates with the student's local school district to prepare for the student's return to the local school district for further programming. In many cases, for a variety of factors, it is appropriate for a student to transition directly from TSBVI Comprehensive Programs into adult life without returning for programming in the local district. In these situations, TSBVI will actively collaborate with local district staff and family to plan for the student's successful transition into adult life.
Occasionally, a student may continue enrollment at TSBVI for a longer term than is typical for most of our students. Reasons for this include lack of availability of appropriately trained staff or other essentials for the provision of FAPE. Throughout this time, TSBVI will continue to actively collaborate with the local school district and family so that the district can prepare for the student's return home to receive a FAPE.
- Collaboration with Local District, ESCs, DARS, and Other Agencies to Facilitate Student Return to Home and Local Education. From the time a student is accepted for admission, TSBVI focuses on developing a strong partnership with the staff of the student's local school district, the Educational Services Center serving the student's district, the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services--Division of Blind Services and other agencies or entities that support the student and the student's family. The goal of this extensive collaboration is to support the district's efforts and abilities to provide the student with a FAPE upon the student's return to the district. During the student's enrollment, TSBVI not only provides the instruction and other FAPE elements the student needs but also collaborates intensively with the district and other agency staff and the student's family to prepare for the student's return to the district by:
- facilitating onsite visits by TSBVI and district staff;
- conducting specialized assessments;
- developing effective strategies for student teaching and learning that will be used during the student 's TSBVI placement and upon return to the local district; and
- identifying student needs for:
- Special Education Services
- Related Services
- Supplementary Aids and Services
- Program Modifications
- Staff that will be needed when the student returns to the district; and ensuring that these staff members are trained
When the district is prepared to provide a FAPE, the student will return to the district. Being prepared to provide a FAPE does not mean that the district will provide the student with the same level of services or the same opportunity to benefit from education that was provided at TSBVI. It does mean, though, that the district will implement an IEP reasonably calculated to enable the student to receive educational benefit. Because TSBVI is a center of expertise for the education of students with visual impairments, we are able to provide a level of intensity of services not typically available in local districts. Sometimes, it is difficult for parents to accept that the services offered by the district when the student returns may not match what was offered at TSBVI. This does not mean that the student is not receiving a FAPE as long as the IEP is calculated to provide educational benefit. By working with districts and parents during student enrollment, however, we strive to perform activities that will maximize the student's educational benefit upon return to the district.
6. TSBVI's Relationship with Educational Service Centers.
The Educational Service Centers (ESC) were created by the Texas Legislature to assist school districts in improving student performance, to operate more efficiently and economically and to implement initiatives assigned by the legislature of the commission of education.[17]
- Outreach Programs. The TSBVI Outreach Program collaborates with ESCs on requests for services related to individual students so that the ESC can help implement recommendations from Outreach Program specialists. The district or TSBVI will contact the ESC prior to scheduling consultation or training. ESCs sometimes assist districts in funding transportation and per diem costs related to Outreach staff consultation.
- Short-Term Programs. With permission, the ESC is informed when a student is attending a Short-Term Program class. This allows the ESC staff to support student learning in the local district.
- Comprehensive Programs. With permission, the ESC is informed when a student is enrolled as a student in TSBVI Comprehensive Programs. The student's ESC is a valued partner in supporting local capacity to provide FAPE.
7. TSBVI's Relationship with the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services/Division of Blind Services.
- Outreach Programs. Outreach Programs actively link with DBS to serve students and their families across the state. DBS staff are invited to participate in local school consultation visits. Workshops are often co-sponsored with DBS, especially for topics relevant to family members. The quarterly TX SenseAbilities newsletter is an ongoing joint effort of TSBVI and DBS. Close collaboration between DBS and educational partners benefits all students.
- Short-Term Programs. DBS works with TSBVI to distribute information about Special Programs throughout the state. As co-sponsor, DBS is specifically involved in administering the TSBVI summer vocational SWEAT program.
- Comprehensive Programs. With adult student or parent permission, DBS caseworkers are invited to attend student ARD committee meetings and to visit the student while at school. DBS has a critical role in facilitating training and opportunities outside of the school for students and families such as independent living skills, self-advocacy, vocational preparation and transition to adult life.
8. Is there a cost to the district or to the parent for Outreach services, Special Programs, or Comprehensive Programs?
8.1 Outreach Program Services.
Certain costs may be associated with Outreach services:
- Registration Fees. TSBVI sometimes charges a registration fee to help cover the costs of conferences.
- Transportation Costs. A local district occasionally pays for the transportation costs of Outreach staff coming to their district for technical assistance or training.
- Consultation Services. Consultation fees may be requested for certain Outreach services.
8.2 Short-Term Programs.
Certain costs may be associated with Special Programs:
- School Year Short-Term Programs. Short-Term Programs, including transportation costs, are provided by TSBVI at no cost to the district or parent.
- Summer Programs. There are no costs for students to attend a summer program; however TSBVI does not support transportation to the summer programs and the responsibility for transportation costs remains with the district or family.
8.3 Comprehensive Programs.
There are two costs to the district for a student enrolled in the Comprehensive Programs of TSBVI:
- Student's Education. The local district shares in the cost of the student's education when the student is enrolled in TSBVI. The amount of the cost per student will vary from district to district and is determined by dividing the district's local maintenance and debt service taxes by the district's average daily attendance for the preceding year.
- Each district provides the Texas Education Agency (TEA) with the information necessary to make this calculation. TEA then deducts the district's amount from the foundation school funds payable to the district and remits the district's share to TSBVI. If the district does not receive foundation school funds, TEA directs the district to remit the payment to TEA and TEA then remits the district's share to TSBVI. The district never sends a payment directly to TSBVI.[18]
- Student Transportation Costs. The local district is responsible for providing transportation to its student at the beginning and end of the school year, and at each of the TSBVI school holidays when the School closes. There are eight school closings in the typical school year. The cost to the district depends on distance, mode of transportation, and whether the student's ARD Committee has determined that an escort is required to accompany the student. In some cases the student's parent serves as the escort and transportation provider; the parent is reimbursed by the local district for the cost of the transportation.[19]
Information related to Costs to Parents includes:
- Education, Room and Board at No Cost to District or Parent. The costs of the student's education and related services, room and board at TSBVI are funded by TSBVI at no cost to the parent or the district.
- Parent Costs. The student's education is free to the parent. The student's medical treatment is the responsibility of the student's parents. Parents are encouraged to provide students with an "allowance" for personal items and special recreation activities, although most recreation activities are funded by TSBVI.
[1] Tx. Educ. Code 30.021(a)
[2] Tx. Educ. Code 30.021(c)
[3] Tx. Educ. Code 30.021(d)
[4] Tx. Educ. Code 30.021(a), (a)(1), (a)(2)
[5] Tx. Educ. Code 30.021(b)
[6] See 20 USC 1413
[7] See 20 USC 1412(a)
[8] See 34 CFR 300.104; TSBVI is considered a "public residential program"; however, for students who are admitted and live in Austin and surrounding areas, the students are "day students" and do not live on campus. Local districts provide daily transportation for the student to and from the student's home.
[9] See Tx. Educ. Code 30.022(a)
[10] See Tx. Educ. Code 30.002(c)(5)(D)
[12] Board of Education v. Rowley, 458 U.S. 176, 206-07 (1982).
[13] See, e.g., Doe v. Smith, 879 F.2d 1340, 1341 (6th Cir. 1989)
[14] JSK v. Hendry County School Board, 941 F.2d 1563, 1572 (11th Cir. 1991)
[15] See 34 CFR §300.114(a)(2)
[16] 19 TAC 89.1085(c)
[17] Tx. Educ. Code 8.002
[18] Tx. Educ. Code 30.003


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Watching Gov. Bill Richardson's unceremonious (some would argue deplorable) removal of business honcho Sherman McCorkle from the state's military base retention commission, one wonders, a la Bob Dole during the 1996 presidential campaign, "Where's the outrage?"
McCorkle, who heads up the nonprofit Technology Ventures Corporation, has a long and untarnished record of promoting high-tech economic development in New Mexico, is a leader in the state's business community and, perhaps most importantly, was a key player in the effort to stop a threatened closure of Kirtland Air Force Base in 1995.
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As the old saying goes; however, actions often speak louder than words. Richardson's dumping of McCorkle coincided with the appearance of an op-ed in the Albuquerque Journal that he wrote criticizing the UNM Board of Regents. In this case, McCorkle took issue with a just passed diktat requiring the stamp of approval from labor union bosses before new hires could work on a $180 million construction project at the state's flagship university.
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After it dawned on the governor's spinmeisters that McCorkle's dismissal had legs in the news media, an explanation was trotted out to justify Richardson's action: McCorkle had a "poor" attendance record. In fact it wasn't just poor, according to one of the governor's spokespeople, McCorkle's attendance record was "very poor"—an emphasis reminiscent of the exchange between Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men (Private Santiago wasn't just in danger, he was in "grave danger"). Obviously the intent was to leave the impression McCorkle was some sort of habitual truant that Big Bill had every right to suspend.
Unfortunately, like the yarn Col. Jessup was spinning about ordering a Code Red, the facts in this case don't stand up to scrutiny, either. McCorkle has attended each and every one of the four full commission meetings that have been held to date. He did miss one out of two sub-committee meetings.
So, being as generous as is possible to the Guv's press flacks, of six meetings held so far (keep in mind, we're including two subcommittee meetings), McCorkle has attended five. If that constitutes a "very poor" attendance record, it'd be interesting to see how City Councilor Tina Cummins chronic absenteeism would be described.
An interesting aside that demonstrates how lamentably bogus the "very poor" attendance rationale is, Richardson's Secretary of Economic Development Rick Homans—also on the same commission as McCorkle—has the worst attendance record of any commission member. He's missed two meetings, and he's still there ... but he hasn't said anything critical of the Guv, either.
Of course there's nothing really shocking about this sort of hardball politics. What's shocking is how such an absolutely over-the-top "bush league" move could come from a governor renowned for his political acumen. After all, this is a politico who prides himself on his ability to negotiate with brutal dictators like Sadaam Hussein and Kim Il Jong of North Korea—mild-mannered Sherman McCorkle was just too much for him to finesse?
In all seriousness, was publicly kicking the butt of a fellow New Mexican who has put in years of volunteer service to our state and staging a lame-brained explanation afterwards the best way a political phenom like Bill Richardson could deal with an op-ed he didn't like?
How about this? Do nothing—because nobody really heeds those things, and McCorkle doesn't have a vote on the Board of Regents anyway. Here's another option: Call McCorkle and work him the way the North Koreans, the media, and the Legislature get worked. Win him over. Or, if the anger is just too overwhelming, wait a month before canning him so it's not so easy to make the link between a fit of pique and retribution.
Then again, if the advice of that last item is followed people might not fully understand just how much political power they're dealing with and they might continue to write upsetting editorials. And we couldn't have that, could we?

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|2013-02-16, 08:52
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this is how its done
Join Date: Mar 2012
bgm/ost I need to listen before I die
Hi everyone. I just got into this type of music and I'm looking to fill my ipod with at least 200 songs so I need some suggestions. Other instruments playing in the background is fine as long as it fits and I prefer no vocals.
here are some of the stuff I liked
guilty crown- Krone
TMOHZ- god knows
fairy from wonderful- yong heng de ai
grisaia no kajitsu-kimi no iru machi
steins;gate-believe me
hyouka-interlude impossible
just 166 more to go. songs can from anywhere dramas,anime etc. if list fills up i might add another one
(source- name of song) <-- I prefer in this format
Spoiler for 1-200:
i'll check this thread on Tuesday and update.thanks and good luck
UPDATE:I want to thank everyone for the suggestions I'm really enjoying them. Now I'm looking for more but this time I don't care what instruments are used.
from eroges/ visual novels
1.anything from 2010-present
2. has to be from non translated games
3.would like it if BGM was dark and mysterious like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pydjcxe6fo or emotionally capivating
from anime
1.from 2012-present
2.same as the third requirement from VN/eroges
examples: enjoying some tracks from nagiasu
Any ost/bgm not related to anime can still be shared
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|2013-02-16, 09:24
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Arcadia Bay.
Age: 25
Nodame Cantabile is the obvious choice. La Corda d'oro Primo Passo is another one.
Oh, I mis-read your post. I thought you needed an anime based on western classical music........
Well, if its just OST's you're looking for here goes(put the names in youtube search box),
FMA - Brothers
Ergo Proxy - Terra Incognita
Fairy Tail - Celtic Song, Seigi no Chikara
Inuyasha - Dearest(BGM string ver.)
Jyu Oh Sei - White Out, Planet of the Beast King
Naruto Shippuden - Man of the World 2
|2013-02-16, 10:56
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In your bloodstream
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Shion no Ou is a good source.
|2013-02-16, 13:34
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Cross Game - I need more
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: I've moved around the American West. I've lived in Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Oklahoma
Age: 39
The first song that comes to mind is:
Clannad - Nagisa Warm
Clannad has a great sound track.
Clannad - Farewell At The Foot Of A Hill
Clannad - Dear Old Home
Clannad - Ushio
Clannad - Toki wo Kizamu Uta
This one is guitar, but it is my favorite version of Dango Daikazoku
Clannad - Dango Daikazoku
There is an artist that goes by "TAM" who does a lot of anime songs in violin and piano format. His channel is violinpiano2. I especially like his versions of Madoka Magica songs:
Madoka Magica - Credens Justitiam
Madoka Magica - Credens Justitiam
Madoka Magica - Sis Puella Magica
Madoka Magica - Connect
Madoka Magica - Magia
A Certain Scientific Railgun - Only My Railgun
Most of those have links to his circle where you can get his music.
Of course that makes me think of Kimagure Orange Road and the Madoka Piano Files.
Kimagure Orange Road - Emotion
Kimagure Orange Road - Missing
Kimagure Orange Road - Kanashii kake
Kimagure Orange Road - A Boy Meets A Girl
My favorite:
Kimagure Orange Road - Summer Time
And that puts me in mind of the Maison Ikkoku OST.
Maison Ikkoku - Hello Sadness aka "Kanashimi yo Konnichiwa" (This arrangement was by an AnimeSuki member by the way)
Maison Ikkoku - Will There Be Sunshine Tomorrow aka "Ashita Hareru Ka"
Maison Ikkoku - Bells Ring In The Dawn
Maison Ikkoku - After The Rain
Maison Ikkoku - Hello Sadness (violin)
Maison Ikkoku - Kaerazaru Kare
Some miscellaneous anime songs:
Angel Beats - My Soul, Your Beats!
Ano Hana - Secret Base
The World God Only Knows - God Only Knows
The World God Only Knows - Koi no Kioku
Space Battleship Yamato - The Scarlet Scarf
Space BattleShip Yamat0 - Universe Spreading to Infinity
Space Battleship Yamato - From Yamato With Love
Another - Anamnesis
Mirai Nikki - Vol. 2 Track 5
Bunny Drop - Otozureta Henka
Bunny Drop - Sweet Drops
Kimi Ni Todoke - Pure White Story
Kimi Ni Todoke - Kimi Ni Todoke by May's
Kimi Ni Todoke - Opening (slow version)
Kimi Ni Todoke - Opening
Crest of the Stars - Daughter of Love
Fullmetal Alchemist - Brothers
Whisper of the Heart - Oka no Machi
Ah My Goddess - Belldandy
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Barefoot in the Park
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Eva 02
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Rei II
Bodacious Space Pirates - Mugen no Ai
You also might want to check out The Piano Guys youtube channel. They specialize in Piano and Cello music.
My favorite of theirs is probably their version of Over the Rainbow:
Wizard of Oz - Over the Rainbow
Their original Michael Meets Mozart is also very good.
However, if we are just going by piano and violin music without looking for an anime source I have to put this one as the best:
Sadko - The Hindu Song aka "The Song of India" by Rimsky-Korsakov.
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|2013-02-16, 18:06
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this is how its done
Join Date: Mar 2012
very nice I'll make sure check everyone's suggestions by tuesday. what I'm looking for is an ost that memorable and is able bring out different emotions or something unique that adds different instruments besides violin and piano.
I checked out the piano guys "micheal meets mozart" and I loved it thanks sackett for the suggestion I'll add it on my list on tuesday
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|2013-02-17, 17:20
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Bleach - Bleach OST 1 #19 Never Meant To Belong
Couldn't think of anything that I liked as much as this.
|2013-02-17, 17:53
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reading #hikaributts
Join Date: Feb 2009
Seeing that you don't mind music from VN's, because of Grisaia in your list i can recommend most of the instrumental tracks of the Hatsyuki Sakura OST like
桜の心 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSh7RtdrVE
送る言葉 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2YLdbCMKVw
ナイトダンス http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFA5A7ErRjw
死者の嘆き http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFuo6BiIfQU
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|2013-02-17, 21:04
|Link #10
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: FL, USA
Age: 30
Little Busters - The Boys and their Farewell ~piano only~
Little Busters - Faraway(Haruka Kanata)
Little Busters - In the Town of Continuing Rain/Furitsuzuku Ame no Machi de
Angel Beats - Unjust Life
Angel Beats - Ichiban no Takaramono (My Most Precious Treasure)
|2013-02-18, 14:09
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Austria
Noir - Solitude by the Window (Accordeon instead of violins)
Final Fantasy X - To Zanarkand (Piano only)
.hack//Liminality - Grandpa's Violin
Hawkwind (Rock album) - Hall of the Mountaingrill
|2013-02-19, 02:10
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Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki - Ki Toki To - Yonhon Ashi no Odori
Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki - Sora Tsutsumi
Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuk - Meguri
Angel Beats - Theme of SSS
Angel Beats - My soul,your beats
Gunslinger Girl - TEMA 1
Gunslinger Girl - Etereo
Sketchbook ~full color's~ - Speed 2
Sketchbook ~full color's~ - Yuumagure no Kuni
Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita - Yume no Naka no Watashi no Yume ~Hataraku Yousei-san ver~
Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita - Yume no Naka no Watashi no Yume ~Kusunoki no Sato ver~ (a different version of the same song with more piano but can't find it online)
Bungaku Shoujo - Bungaku Shoujo
Bungaku Shoujo - Sorezore no Aza
5 centimeters per second - Omoide wa Tooku
5 centimeters per second - Sora To Umi No Shi
Sora no Woto - Au coin du Feu (some other instruments featured as well but there's some great piano + string parts)
That's the only song I'll share from that ost because it tends to have horns rather than a piano part but if you don't mind that I recommend checking the whole ost out
Shigofumi - Isekai
Nazo no Kanojo X - Nazo no Kanojo
Chihayafuru - Main Theme
Chihayafuru - Shouri e no Michi
Chihayafuru - Takaburu Kimochi
|2013-02-19, 04:26
|Link #14
this is how its done
Join Date: Mar 2012
thanks everyone for the suggestions I carefully handpicked the songs I liked and put them on my list. keep posting
|2013-02-19, 08:00
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In your bloodstream
Age: 68
I own the CD myself; cost a bit more when I bought it at the time the show aired than it does now, too.
|2013-03-01, 07:47
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: FL, USA
Age: 30
One I forgot:
Accel World - glass memory
|2013-03-08, 18:33
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this is how its done
Join Date: Mar 2012
|2013-03-09, 01:10
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: United States
Puella was my introduction to the genre and most likely the only anime in the genre that I'll end up watching. Don't be fooled by the genre.
Spoiler for Spoiler for Puella's plot.:
Before trying that one, I highly recommend watching Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni to its fullest. You'll get a lot more enjoyment out of both the plot and one of the characters afterwards. In my case,
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CAIRO – With near impunity and the backing of the Islamist president, Egyptian police have been accused of firing wildly at protesters, beating them and lashing out with deadly force in clashes across much of the country the past week, regaining their Hosni Mubarak-era notoriety as a tool of repression.
In the process, nearly 60 people have been killed and hundreds injured, and the security forces have re-emerged as a significant political player after spending the two years since Mubarak's ouster on the sidelines, sulking or unwilling to fully take back the streets.
Moreover, President Mohammed Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood was long oppressed by the security forces, has made it clear that he needs the police on his side to protect his still shaky grip on power. On state TV Sunday, he thanked the police for their response to the protests, a day after dozens had been killed in the Mediterranean city of Port Said.
Riot police continued on Thursday to battle rock-throwing protesters in an area near Tahrir Square in central Cairo, the seventh day of clashes in the wave of political violence that has engulfed Egypt — though battles elsewhere have eased somewhat.
The police's furious response to the protests and riots — some of which targeted their stations and left two police officers dead — uncovered the depth of discontent in the once all-powerful security forces. Since Mubarak's fall, they have been demoralized and in disarray. But now they are signaling that they want back the status they held under his rule, when no one questioned their use of force and they had unlimited powers of arrest.
"The police saw the protests as an opportunity to show they are strong, capable and ready to crush them," said rights lawyer Negad Borai. "They knew they had political cover, to which they responded by using a disproportionate amount of force."
The Interior Ministry, in charge of police, says its forces showed restraint and pointed out that dozens of police were injured in the clashes, along with the two dead. It has also staunchly denied that police fired birdshot at protesters in the street fighting. At least three protesters are known to have been killed by birdshot, and many others have shown wounds from the metal pellets riddling their torsos and heads.
Five different interior ministers have headed the forces in the past two years, and none has been able to exercise full control over the unsettled ranks.
Distraught police officers heckled the latest interior minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, when he showed up for the funeral of the two officers killed last weekend. They accused him of being there only for the news cameras, and raised such a storm that the minister, surrounded by his bodyguards, left the mosque and the funeral went ahead without him. Later, Ibrahim said in a statement that he understood the officers were under stress.
Some in the force are seething over what they see as the inadequate firepower given to the police in the face of attackers who have frequently targeted police stations and prisons over the past two years.
Egyptian media reported that riot police conscripts mutinied at a large Cairo base to protest what they see as crippling constraints on their use of firearms against protesters. The Interior Ministry denied the reports, but Prime Minister Hesham Kandil visited the base on Wednesday, a highly unusual move that suggested there had been troubles.
There is also resistance to serving under a president who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, a group whose members police targeted for years under Mubarak.
Many in the police, for example, are convinced that Morsi and his Brotherhood are unfit to rule and not worth working for, according to security officials familiar with the mood on the force, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the issue.
The sacking last month of Ibrahim's predecessor, Ahmed Gamal-Eddin, did not go down well in the force.
Gamal-Eddin, who was popular among officers, is thought to have lost his job over his refusal to use force against opposition supporters who made their way to the outer walls of the presidential palace last month and for failing to prevent attacks on offices of the Brotherhood and its political party around the country.
Morsi, who came to office seven months ago as Egypt's first freely elected president, has been trying to woo the police, praising them for the few steps that have been taken to restore law and order.
Last week, the black-clad riot police appeared for the first time in new, protective gear that reduces their vulnerability to rocks and firebombs and conceal much of their faces. In a first, the police also received three patrol helicopters.
Morsi's television address on Sunday also gave the police key political cover. He thanked the security forces for their handling of the protests and described the protesters as thugs or die-hard Mubarak loyalists trying to bring down the state, effectively justifying any police action.
Furthermore, he declared a 30-day state of emergency in Port Said and two other Suez Canal cities, giving police there far reaching powers to arrest and detain suspects, a move that harked back to Mubarak's rule, when Egypt was under emergency laws for most of his 29 years in power.
The speech came a day after nearly 40 people were killed in Port Said, where protesters and witnesses spoke of random shootings by police marksmen stationed on rooftops or from moving armored cars, lashing out after the two policemen were killed by armed men trying to storm a prison.
In Cairo, footage aired on Egyptian TV stations showed protesters, some as young as 15, lying on the ground while getting beaten up by bands of policemen.
"Their actions are brutal and their officers are taunting us with obscene hand signs," complained Hamadah Hasem, a 26-year-old protester in Cairo.
Hebya Morayef, the Egypt director for Human Rights Watch, noted that Morsi made no mention of claims of excessive force by police or pledge investigations of alleged abuses.
"In a sense, Morsi is making decisions that are similar to those of his predecessors," she said about the president's apparent abandonment of plans to reform the police and instead focus on winning them over.
"It is short sighted," she said.
Egypt's police are a militarized force believed to number around 500,000 men. They played a key role in maintaining Mubarak's grip on power, systematically detaining and torturing Islamists and silencing dissidents. Hated and blamed for massive human rights abuses, the brutality of the police was among the key reasons behind the 2011 revolution.
The police melted away four days into the 18-day revolution following deadly clashes with protesters. They have since returned to duty but are yet to fully take back the streets, even as crime and disorder have increased dramatically.
Some policemen say they will not fully carry out their duties as a retribution for their humiliating defeat in 2011. Others maintain they are ready to go back to work in earnest if given guarantees that they won't be prosecuted for their actions in enforcing the law.
The anti-Mubarak revolution raised calls for widespread reform of the police aimed at purging abusive officers, ending a culture that condoned torture, bribe-taking and abuses, and improving the professional capabilities of the force. No process for doing any of that has begun.
Revolutionaries and rights activists blame the police for the death of nearly 900 protesters during the revolution and dozens more in unrest that followed Mubarak's overthrow. The police, on their part, say they shot to kill when their lives were in danger as bands of armed protesters stormed police stations across much of the country.
More than a 100 policemen have been put on trials on charges of killing protesters, but almost all were acquitted. The latest example came Thursday when a court in Sharqiyah acquitted the Nile Delta province's former police chief and seven of his top aides on charges of killing protesters in 2011.
Mubarak and his security chief, former interior minister Habib el-Adly, were convicted of failing to prevent the killings and sentenced in June to life in prison. Both successfully appealed their sentences and will now face a new trial.


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The cherry blossoms are finally in bloom in Washington, D.C., and what better way to celebrate these beautiful Japanese gifts than with a haiku? Our callout on Facebook and Twitter yielded hundreds of spring haiku submissions. With the help of Ellen Compton, Roberta Beary and Kristen Deming of the Haiku Society of America, we selected 20 and made videos inspired by the top three.
streetlamps in the haze ...
this morning the stone lions
catch cherry blossoms
— Judy Totts
cherry blossom rain
sound of a love song passes
with the traffic
— Dawn Apanius
On Jefferson's watch,
Pink cherry blossoms reflect
At the water's edge
— Tim O'Malley
And here are the rest ...
The sun's light caress
Opens the cherry blossoms
And lets us all in.
— Chris Anne
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But I cannot forget
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park bench take-away
the sky and cherry blossoms
in a cup of tea
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up far too early
there are little girls playing
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Sitting with sake.
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I dream of the past.
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she kisses him first
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vernal equinox...
windstorms of cherry blossoms
turn the water pink
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the first day of Spring
a wooly caterpillar
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As pink fades to green
one million haiku poets
put away their pens.
— Peyton Price
Wet April morning–
Windshield wiper blades
heavy with cherry blossoms.
— Joel Dias-Porter
Here in Washington, D.C., tomorrow, it's the annual Cherry Blossom Festival Parade. The pink flowers are in full bloom, everywhere you look. Petals are covering the streets. And since Washington's first cherry trees were a gift from Japan, we figured what better tribute than a haiku. The tiny poems have five syllables on the first line, seven on the next line, and five syllables on the last line. Our call-out on Facebook for blossom haikus yielded hundreds of spring poems. And with help from the Haiku Society of America, we found a few favorites and we called up the poets.
CHRISTINE COLON: When I just wrote down the lines, I just thought about how the cherry blossoms are not out for us, but we're being let in to their natural beauty. The sun's light caress opens the cherry blossoms and lets us all in.
TIM O'MALLEY: On Jefferson's watch, pink cherry blossoms reflect at the water's edge.
JUDY TOTTS: Street lamps in the haze; this morning the stone lions catch cherry blossoms.
PAUL CONNEALLY: We haven't quite got cherry blossoms out yet. The weather's so bad. I live in Loughborough, which is in the midlands of England. I've been writing haiku about 20 years. For me, haiku are exactly capturing moments.
Park bench takeaway, the sky and cherry blossoms, in a cup of tea.
PEYTON PRICE: Well, as someone who writes haiku every day, I'm also inspired by the cherry blossoms, and I appreciate how people are inspired by them. But I also think it's funny to see the haiku kind of come and go with the blossoms. So you'll see a big bloom of haiku on Twitter, when the cherry blossoms bloom. And then so many people - that's it. That's their haiku for the year, and then they're moving on to other things. As pink fades to green, 1 million haiku poets put away their pens.
GREENE: That was Christine Colon, in San Diego; Tim O'Malley, in Scranton, Pa.; Judy Totts, in Medina, Ohio; Paul Conneally, who sent us a poem all the way from England; and Peyton Price, from the Washington, D.C., suburbs. Now, if you'd like to see the gorgeous flowers these poets are writing about for yourself, you can head to our website. We've put together some videos inspired by some of these haiku, at NPR.org.
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Anthropometry is the science of obtaining systematic measurements of the human body. Anthropometry first developed in the 19 th century as a method employed by physical anthropologists for the study of human variation and evolution in both living and extinct populations. In particular, such anthropometric measurements have been used historically as a means to associate racial, cultural, and psychological attributes with physical properties. Specifically, anthropomorphic measurements involve the size (e.g., height, weight, surface area, and volume), structure (e.g., sitting vs. standing height, shoulder and hip width, arm/leg length, and neck circumference), and composition (e.g., percentage of body fat, water content, and lean body mass) of humans.
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Alphonse Bertillon was the son of the physician and founder of the Society of Anthropology of Paris, Louis-Adolphe Bertillon. Although the process of obtaining human measurements had originated in ancient civilizations, Alphonse Bertillon is credited as the father of anthropometrics based on his classification system known as the "anthropometric system" or "judicial anthropometry". Alphonse Bertillon began his career working for the Paris police force in the criminal records department. It was here that Bertillon recognized the recurring problem that it was becoming increasingly more difficult to identify repeat offenders, as the criminal records were stored alphabetically and many criminals were devising aliases in order to avoid deportation and harsher sentences. To address this issue, Bertillon devised a new classification system based on anthropomorphic measurements with the assumptions that bone density is fixed past the age of 20 years, and human dimensions are intrinsically highly variable. Bertillon obtained measurements of height, breadth, foot size, length and width of the head, length of the middle finger, and the length of the left forearm, as well as other morphological and distinguishing characteristics of criminals in custody (as shown below). He then classified each individual as small, medium, or large, and added frontal and profile photography to each file. Such photography is still currently used today in the form of a "mug shot". After convincing the Paris criminology department to implement Bertillon's system, this method of classification was used to quickly and easily identify unknown individuals and repeat offenders. The use of this anthropometric system was subsequently termed "Bertillonage" and spread rapidly throughout the world during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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BO'L is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. DJM receives funding from the Benioff Ocean Initiative. NCB received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada. EKP's participation was supported by the Ocean Sanctuary Alliance and the Italian Ministry of the Environment. We would like to thank Josh Cinner for his helpful comments on an earlier draft. We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their helpful comments that strengthened the manuscript.
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