text: Best-known for the soft rock hit "Shannon," singer/songwriter Henry Gross (born April 1, 1951) grew up in a musical family -- his mother briefly performed with New York's Metropolitan Opera Chorus, and Gross himself was playing in the city's clubs by the time he was 14. In 1969, Gross became a founding member of the doo wop revival group Sha Na Na, performing with them at the Fillmore and Woodstock. However, Gross left the group the following year and landed a contract with ABC Dunhill Records in 1971; while his first solo outing didn't receive much attention, Gross persevered and was ultimately signed to A&M Records by producers Cashman & West. 1973's Henry Gross, his first album for A&M, sold well regionally and set the stage for the following year's Plug Me into Something, which took his popularity to another level. Gross then moved to Cashman & West's own label Lifesong for his next effort, Release, which featured the gold single "Shannon," a song inspired by the death of Carl Wilson's Irish Setter. Despite the popularity of Release and its singles, Gross' follow-up, Show Me to the Stage, didn't produce any hits. After switching to CBS, he issued Love Is the Stuff and released What's in a Name on Capitol in 1981; he also recorded another album for the label that was never released. For several years, Gross returned to the stage, performing in a touring production of Pump Boys and Dinettes before moving to Nashville in 1986. Gross then signed a publishing deal with Pic a Lic Music, releasing I Keep on Rocking and She's My Baby in Japan and Europe. By the '90s, Gross had his own label, Zelda Records, where he released albums like 1993's Nothing but Dreams. He also had a thriving career as a songwriter, penning the Blackhawk hit "Big Guitar" with the band's Henry Paul, as well as writing songs for Ronnie Milsap, Sonny Burgess, Cindy Lauper, Judy Collins, and Mary Travers. ~ Heather Phares


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We are providing music knowledge integration (from various Web sources), discovery and recommendations. Using our service, people can, for instance, identify all punk-rock bands from NYC signed on CBS or all Motown female singers married with an english drummer. We are also providing recommendations so that from one seed artists, people could get a list of recommended bands - and know why these bands are recommended.
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We provide B2C (public website and search engine) and B2B services, where other music websites can use our data to extend their services, using an open API.
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In a sense I'm coming home.
I began my newspaper career with the start of the Bay Rivers District in 1990 for the York Town Crier. That fall the highlight was Tabb's Division 4 state football championship. I can still see Greg Harris and Pookie Buchanan in my mind's eye, galloping through the sleet and mud on long touchdown receptions from Wayne Hoskins as Tabb rallied late to beat Lee County 21-14 for the title.
For the next decade the Bay Rivers was my primary beat: first with the small daily in Suffolk (The News-Herald) and then back on this side of the water with the York Town Crier, Poquoson Post and finally the Daily Press.
I saw lots of great stuff over the next 10 years: Some great state basketball championship teams at Nansemond River and Bryan Randall's fabulous basketball and football career at Bruton, to name just two.
I've been with the Daily Press for 9-1/2 years, since they hired me to cover the Bay Rivers. But most of the time since I was hired, I've covered William and Mary football, Hampton University football and basketball, and lots of local and NASCAR auto racing.
I've got lots of catching up to do. Best I can tell, Paul Wheeler (Lafayette) and Littleton Parker (Southampton) are the only football coaches left from when I covered the Bay Rivers.
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Ceiling fans, and their light kits, can be substantial energy users. Changes in product design and consumer education offer major savings opportunities.
Ceiling fans are one of the most popular and generally well regarded of all home energy efficiency features. They have a very pragmatic appeal to those who want to cut summer electric bills. At the same time, they offer a decorative alternative to typical light fixtures. So it should come as no surprise that two-thirds of American households now have ceiling fans. Home improvement centers do a brisk and growing business in sales to do-it-yourselfers, and it's not uncommon to find ceiling fans installed by builders in nearly every bedroom and living area in many new homes. But recent research suggests that it may be time for the energy efficiency community to take a second look at ceiling fans (see "Ceiling Fans 101," p. 27). The Florida Solar Energy Center identified ceiling fans as substantial energy users and investigated a number of technologies to improve energy efficiency (see "Cutting-Edge Blades Slash Fan Energy Use," HE, July/Aug '99, p. 7). The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Ecos Consulting recently undertook our own EPA-funded research to determine how much energy ceiling fans use, identify ...
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Lionie Richie is getting richer by the day from his hit his album Tuskegee that is already the best selling album of the year so far for 2012. Tuskegee features some of our favorite hits and favorite artists, including Shania Twain, Jason Aldean, Little Big Town, Billy Currington, Darius Rucker, Rascal Flatts and Jennifer Nettles.
Richie has sold an astounding 912,000 copies as of July 1 according to CMIL and we're only halfway through this year! Second to Richie in country sales for the year so far is Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" which has sold just over 600,000 copies since its debut according to The Boot, making her album the sixth best overall for the year.
Aside from high sales, Richie claimed the number one spot on the overall Billboard Top 200 albums chart for two consecutive weeks and the number one spot in country for four weeks. With this success, Richie is making history, joining Ray Charles in the record books as the only artists to have albums become number one on the charts for country and R&B/Hip-hop.
The popularity of this album isn't just US based either. Tuskegee has climbed to number one in Canada and made it to the top ten albums chart in the UK, Denmark, Holland, Australia, Hong Kong and Sweden, reaching the top twenty in ten countries.
"What a year!" said Richie. "This album has taken me on an unforgettable journey filled with new friends, new jokes and new musical inspirations. I am overwhelmed and humbled by the success of Tuskegee and am thrilled by how it has been embraced by music lovers of all ages and backgrounds around the world."
Tuskegee became platinum-certified after just five weeks for a reason and will likely continue to soar to the finish line for this year.
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Crouching Liver Bird, Hidden Transfer
In between the writing and posting of this piece, the Charlie Adam deal finally went through and he is indeed having a medical at Melwood tomorrow according to the official site here.
Ah, the transfer market. There truly is nothing like it. The agony and the ecstasy all rolled up into one. The joy of a fantastic capture in one hand, and the disappointment of a lost opportunity in the other. There really are only so many world class players out there, and plenty of different clubs competing for them. So far for Liverpool in this transfer window, it's really been a case of frustration more than anything else.
That being said, we have been told from on high to be patient. The powers that be have been and are continually working on bringing in the best players for the team that they can. The fact that John W. Henry came "face-to-face" with the fans by responding to their anxiety on Twitter should tell everyone something. But does it calm anyone down? No, not really.
We are anxious to get the ball rolling. And when the club vehemently told the fans after the super quick procurement of Jordan Henderson that they would attempt to secure transfers quickly to have almost everyone in before pre-season, it seemed a fait accompli all transfer business would be done by then. That time has come and gone as pre-season began this week.
So what are we to make of the secrecy involving the transfer targets? Fans begged for the return of "The Liverpool Way," but then we hypocritically can't stand it when we don't know what's going on. It's very difficult being on the outside looking in when you're trying to look through a piece of frosted glass.
Newspapers don't help with their pages full of "transfer rumors," sometimes containing the most ridiculous and out-of-this-world piece of transfer nonsense. But it's not for lack of trying, or even full disclosure. Many journalists may have more information than they are allowed to reveal, which leaves them in the unfortunate situation that the clubs are also in; tell & you die, don't tell & the fans will kill you.
The saying goes: "Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that," but surely no one should die over anything that happens in the silly season. At least we hope it doesn't come to that. But with Charlie Adam having his 10,000th medical tomorrow, and Aston Villa rejecting another bid for Downing, it's becoming increasingly aggro in the world of Twitter, fan forums, and even blogs when it comes to Liverpool's transfer dealings.
The real question that keeps cropping up is whether any of these "rumors," that is any information about transfers full stop, are actually true at all. No one except for a select few inside Liverpool know who Liverpool Football Club are actually targeting. The Clichy, Wickham, Adam, and Downing possibilities seem plausible enough because actual bids were made, and the other club revealed that they had turned them down.
But those aside, who is Liverpool FC really going after? Will Juan Mata be the club's marquee signing? Is Jose Enrique still on Liverpool's left-back radar? Is there any truth to the rumor they are interested in another Spanish star, Santi Cazorla?
Unfortunately for those of us looking in, we won't know until the papers are signed, the official website makes an announcement, and a medical, an actual medical conducted by the club when they specify, is done.
Until then we must all live in the haze and mystery that surrounds the transfer market, wishing and hoping for the best players to choose us over anyone else. But luckily for us, a new dawn has descended over Liverpool with new owners, a new manager, and hopefully plenty of new players in place before next season. Liverpool Football Club finally has a lot more to offer than just a successful history. They can now offer a successful future as well, something we hope players realize when they make their final choice for a new club.
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Editorial: Google's Android powered by remarkable new 'Flawgic'Googles Android platform is powered by a novel technology that transcends conventional hardware and software. And just as Android hardware and software has looked to Apple for inspiration, this compelling new flexibly adaptive logic is also related to something that first originated within Apple.
Flexibly adaptive logic, or Flawgic, allows the Android platform to terminate any sort of criticism before it can affect how the system performs. Flawgic is neither hardware nor software; its installed directly into public mindshare via a virus spread by talking heads.
Initially, the critical shield of Flawgic was virtually identical to "being in beta," a formerly negative trait that Google turned into a positive by associating it with cool new experiments (like Google Maps) that deserved a lot of credit simply for existing.
While "being in beta" excused some of the warts of Googles freeware products and services, Flawgic takes this to the next level. Flawgic allows every new Android-based product (or anything else Google does) a pass in every respect: appearance, usability, features, reliability, a target market, even sustainable profitability as a product.
If Apple were to release a cheap iPhone that cost $50 or a luxury one that cost $2.000, it would receive intense scrutiny in either direction. The cheap version would be derided as flawed and worthless, while the expensive version would be laughed at for being ludicrously priced.
Flawgic allows low end Android products to be hailed as volume sales generators, even if they are terrible products in every way. But it also does double-duty in allowing Googles insanely priced devices, from Glass to Chromebook Pixel, to escape serious criticism of their inherently poor overall value or the likelihood of their ever selling in meaningful volumes.
It's really that powerful. Heres a look at how it works.
The copycat road to Flawgics emergence
Like many Google innovations, Flawgic is an adaption of the work of others, of whom it gives little or no credit. Google's first product, Web search, was going nowhere until the company realized it could monetize search results with paid placement something Overture had already developed and owned the rights to. Google was sued for copying Overture, but eventually settled the matter with 2.7 million shares of Google stock.
Googles other major initiative, Android, was originally Oracles Java platform. Literally! When Google acquired Android, the project was an implementation of Java on Linux, just as its predecessor Danger was (both projects were co-founded by Andy Rubin).
Suns J2ME Mobile Java platform had flaws and problems, so Google set up addressing these, resulting in its own "Android" that it deemed to be just different enough from Java to avoid paying Sun (and Suns eventual owner, Oracle) anything for its rejiggering of the Mobile Java platform.
Google and Oracle are still locked in a legal squabble over the matter, but regardless of that case's outcome, it's clear that the power of Google's Flawgic is evolving. Google isnt just getting better at copying others DNA; it has developed a new gene that allows it to copy without having to pay anything for it afterward!
The evolution of Flawgic
This new trait sets it apart from earlier, primitive forms of corporate copycats such as Microsoft, which paid out many hundreds of millions of dollars to all the companies it illegitimately copied or wronged in other ways.
After launching Android, Google realized that it had targeted the wrong smartphone products (Blackberry and Windows Mobile) when Apples very different iPhone arrived in 2007. Google then went to work adding value to Android by taking value directly from Apples iOS.
This process wasnt entirely shameless, as Google often had to criticize its partners, most famously Samsung, for taking things too far in their exact reproductions of every Apple product, right down to the design of icons, accessories and even packaging materials.
One Android tablet from Samsung was so overtly infringing of Apples iPad that Google actually asked Samsung to change the design slightly. Despite the well documented nature of this infringement, Flawgic kicked in and explained that what had really occured was that Apple had sued Samsung over rounded corners, because, well, Apple was an asshole.
Putting the F&A in Flawgic
A second gene had evolved! Now, rather than just avoiding any payment for copying others work, Google could paint any effort to stop infringement as a victimization. Google wasnt wrong in copying, it was being wronged after copying, according to Flawgic.
Never mind why Apple didnt sue everyone else over "rounded corners," nor bother to ask yourself why Apple would sue its largest components source over something with such little substance if you have Flawgic installed, you dont need to think. Flawgic does it for you. Flawgic says Apple sued Samsung over rounded corners, so it must be true.
Google then shared the Flawgic gene with Samsung, so that even as Judge Koh stripped Apples case down, Samsung could build up a retaliatory bullshit case of infringement via Flawgic. Now, instead of just not having to pay for infringement and looking victimized by Apple for infringing upon it, Samsung could make the case that it was actually the one being infringed here.
Samsung is working so hard to convince judges and juries worldwide that it is being infringed upon by Apple that it has asserted over 25 standards essential patents so far. Never mind that it has lost or withdrawn each of these, and failed to make any progress in enforcing any of its non-standards essential patents. In the other direction, it has actually lost ground in multiple cases that determined it was indeed a serial patent infringer.
But Flawgic remains ever optimistic that Samsungs patent indiscretions will go away for less than $400 million, the price Google paid to resolve its Overture infringement. In that case, Google ultimately only recorded a charge of around $260 million for copying Overture, and it realized an income tax benefit of more than $100 million for doing so. With this sort of powerful Flawgic in play, who'd want to live under the tedious, restrictive rule of law?
Google's "get out of jail free" gene doesnt seem to be working as well at Samsung, but who knows? Maybe Judge Koh will just nullify the whole case and eventually order Apple to pay Samsung for being a dick. Never underestimate the power of Flawgic.
Putting the FLAW in Flawgic
At the same time, Google has also adapted others work in ways that are so extensive that they no longer resemble the original. Buzz, Googles copy of Twitter, was so terrible in its privacy robbing that nobody wanted to use it. Google +, Googles copy of Facebook, is so nerdy nobody outside of the company uses it. Google Play, Googles copy of the iOS App Store, is so flawed in its security and curation that developers havent paid it any real attention.
Flawgic takes this sort of "downward copying" to a whole new level. It then turns around and excuses itself with complex explanations that branch and turn, even contradicting themselves in crazy loops. Up is down, failure is success, and the success of others is not only failure, but disgusting. This ugly virus appears to have started out being much more benign.
Back in the early 1980s, developers working under Steve Jobs on the original Macintosh project noted how he could passionately convince seemingly anyone of the impossible. When they reached a dead end, Jobs could press them to do things that nobody else saw as practical or sensible. Jobs wild, unbounded optimism and persuasive, charismatic charm became known as his Reality Distortion Field.
Apples fiercest critics happened upon mention of this RDF and repurposed the phrase in the most vitriolic, hateful way to instead suggest that Jobs was actually a cunning charlatan who deceived everyone with a malicious form of dark mind control fraud. Very rapidly, RDF shifted from a term of endearment to a scathing criticism.
Into the 1990s, anyone who dared to buy an Apple product rather than a DOS PC (with more RAM, or the unique ability to install an ISA card!) was instantly branded a Kool-Aid drinking fanboy under the delusion of the Apple RDF.
The "Kool-Aid" part, incidentally, is a reference to the Jonestown Massacre, an atrocity committed by an insane conman who, in the late 1970s, incited a religious following of many impressionable young people, led them to a cult compound and, just as the media began investigating his criminal predatory behavior, fed his captives poisoned drinks, killing 918 innocent people. The event was the "most deadly single non-natural disaster in U.S. history" until September 11, 2001.
Which, if you think about it with Flawgic, is a lot like selling people a computer when there are cheaper alternatives available. Without Flawgic, comparing Steve Jobs or Apple to Jim Jones' murderous, predatory cult is purely disgusting and insulting to humanity.
Flawgics answers for tough questions
Google, potentially inadvertently, stumbled upon RDF, perhaps early in the development of Android. After all, the original Android startup's founder Andy Rubin, who earned the nickname "android" while working at Apple, likely had some exposure to the notion of "RDF" while getting started as an intern at the Mac maker in the mid 1990s.
Somewhere along the line, Flawgic developed as a combination of shifting explanations and excuses that could explain away any criticisms. It was like RDF, but rather than emanating from an individual, it radiated out of the hive mind of the open source community that had adhered to Android. It actually helped Android to make sense as a project.
Why would various hardware makers adopt Android and give up control over their own proprietary platforms in the smartphone world? According to Flawgic, duh! Never you mind! BlackBerry, Nokia, Motorola, Palm and HTC would either adopt Android or go away. Those that adopted Android did go away, at least in profitability, but Flawgic only looks forward, forgetting the past as a matter of principal.
HTC went from being a prominent and rapidly growing Windows Mobile vendor to being a destitute failure. Motorola abandoned Linux to exclusively support Android, and is now imploding as it loses millions each quarter even after it was acquired by Google! This isnt a problem, its a feature, according to Flawgic. Motorola isnt failing, Google is just playing it safe in not showing Motorola any special favors.
Perhaps Google happened upon the true power of Flawgic in the $12.5 billion catacombs of Motorolas 12.5 thousand issued patents and 7,500 patent applications. If so, it seems to be the only thing that could actually be put to use.
In contrast, Blackberry, Nokia and Palm all desperately tried to remain relevant without adopting Android. They, too, have plunged from their original positions as smartphone leaders, but not due to Androids success.
Palm simply ran out of cash trying to develop webOS as a response to iOS. It was ultimately bought up by HP and then sold off to LG, as a way for that company to differentiate its TVs from a glutted market of Android-based smart TVs that simply arent selling. Android's Google TV failure? Flawgic has no answer to that one, but who cares? Nobodys asking for one.
Blackberry and Nokia have similarly set out to remain quasi-independent, with Blackberry buying up QNX and Nokia partnering with Microsoft, both clear responses to iOS. Both efforts have failed to gain any traction so far, and Flawgic would tell you that Androids amazing success was a key reason for this. But recall that Blackberry proposed adding Android support to its PlayBook OS, without sparking any real interest.
The only global smartphone maker that can even claim to have been helped toward profits by Android is Samsung. But LG and Sony, two companies that are close enough to Samsung to serve as a control group, havent similarly benefitted from Android in the least. In reality, the key to Samsungs success was ripping off Apples designs, advertising, software, marketing and packaging so closely so as to cast a Apple halo over its offerings. Samsung isnt selling Android; its selling iOS knockoffs.
Flawgic is never right, but never apologizes
Flawgic tells us that Android is helping Samsung to beat Apple at its own game. But thats not happening. Samsung was well established when Apple entered the smartphone business. Back then, Samsungs offerings were being powered by simple embedded software and by Mobile Java/Linux, the precursor of Android. Samsung was beaten silly by the iPhone just as Blackberry, Nokia, Palm, LG and Sony were. The only company of those to recover was the one that mostly closely copied Apple.
The reality is that Samsung continues to sell mostly low end, cheaper devices that mostly run a really old version of Android. They might as well be Java/Linux phones, as they dont do anything. They dont run many apps, they dont browse the Web much, they dont really do anything but contribute to large volumes of sales that dont result in much profit.
But according to Flawgic, these neo-feature phones create a vast Android army that will at some point create a critical mass that will shift software development and enterprise adoption from iOS to Android. This is widely believed even though Samsung is plotting to replace Android with its own Tizen version of Linux (so that, like Nokia and Blackberry back in the day, it can own its own platform and not need to compete against everyone else with the same software platform). According to Flawgic, this is good news for Android, for Samsung, and for Google, in some way.
Flawgic is very confident about this, and doesnt take any criticism, so dont try to offer any.
Instead, it directs your attention to all the flaws of Apple. The glass back of iPhone 4 is so fragile! And in 2010, the phone still doesnt even have LTE, nor did it (initially) work on Verizon. Fast forward to the present and Googles new Nexus 4 has a glass back and no LTE, nor does it work on Verizon. But no worries, its awesome! And I can live with the flaws, thanks to my mountain moving faith in Flawgic.
Flawgic is confident in the face of failure
Flawgic sees no threats or challenges for Android going forward. This child soldier type of mentality allows it to pursue forward with unbridled optimism and courage. In 2010, Flawgic predicted that Android on Verizon would obliterate the iPhone. But as soon as the iPhone made it to Verizon, it obliterated Android, now taking up almost two thirds of all sales.
Flawgic predicted that Android 3.0 Honeycomb would obliterate the iPad, offering 3D views of YouTube movies all playing at once. Instead, Honeycomb melted down into a sticky mess. The few early adopters were stung with gear that was overpriced and underpowered. Two years later, Android is still amounting for a tiny slice of the tablet pie, despite all the Flawgic supporting its superiority.
Flawgic ignores the failure of the Samsung Galaxy Player and other failed iPod touch contenders, noting that music players dont even matter anymore. Tell that to Apple, which is still selling most of the worlds MP3 players to smartphone and tablet buyers (who already have MP3 functionality). Pure Flawgic tells you that when Samsung sells a customer a hybrid tablet and phone, its a success, while when Apples customers buy an iPhone, iPad and an iPod touch its not really a sign of anything, most definitely not indicative of any sort of advantage held by iOS.
Flawgic studiously ignores the fact that iOS apps run across Apples devices, and that Apple regularly updates those devices for years after the initial purchase. Flawgic excuses the fact that no major Android licensee regularly updates the software on any of its existing products over more than a year or so, or that just because you have two Android products doesnt mean they can necessarily run the same apps.
If, theoretically, any developers support Samsungs new Knox layer of SAFE enterprise support in their apps, even customers who buy a new Galaxy S III phone wont be able to run those SAFE apps on the Samsung tablet that AT&T gave them for free as part of the SAFE promotion, because those tablets arent actually safe to use in the enterprise. They are running plain old Samsung-flavored non-SAFE Android. Flawgic doesnt care, because Flawgic is not really used in the enterprise anyway.
But Flawgic also asserts that Android will be rapidly adopted by the enterprise, if for no other reason than the bring-your-own-device trend. There you have it. Done, cant argue with that.
By the way, have you heard Android is winning? Its what all the Android police are saying. Must be the case. And by winning, we dont mean in profitability or any other metric other than unit sales of products that often arent even officially reported in any useful way to provide comparison.
After all, Android tablets are as cheap as $30 in China! You cant compete with that.
Flawgic has an answer for everything, and answers nothing. Its like rose colored glasses where, after you put them on, you lose 20/20 hindsight.


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Thanks to the magic of Spoonflower, I was quickly and easily able to upload my design files, make a few choices about pattern repeats, size & scale, and textile and -- voila! -- I had my very own fabric in my hands within a few short days. (It probably helps that Spoonflower is literally just down the street!) It was so quick and easy to do, in fact, that I wondered why I was so intimidated to try it out in the first place.
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Photo gallery: Ripple effects of the BP oil spill
As oil hits more beaches, politicians make more waves
Reporting from Atlanta and Washington — The effects of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill continued to spread eastward Sunday, leaving tar balls along the white beaches of the Florida Panhandle, while Washington lawmakers maneuvered through the tricky political currents of the unprecedented environmental disaster.


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Back in 1981, the French railway company SNCF was the first company to start high-speed train service in Europe. Since then, the SNCF has constantly expanded its high speed train network. In late 2011, its new Rhine-Rhone high speed line will start operation and drastically cut down travel time from the Alsace, South West Germany and Northern Switzerland to Paris, Lyons and the Mediterranean. Part of the new line is an inner-city rail link in Mulhouse. Contractor Maïa Sonnier S.A. used different MEVA formwork systems and solutions to efficiently handle the various forming challenges when building the tunnel and bridges required for the inner-city rail link in populated area.
Tunnel walls poured with heavy-duty wall formwork
The aboveground tunnel integrates the rail link into the propulated area without dividing it into two parts. It is 122 m long and has a clear width of 5.5 m. Its walls were poured with MEVA's heavy-duty wall formwork system Mammut 350 that handles fresh concrete pressures up to 100 kN/m² so that walls up to 4 m can be poured at any speed without considering the fresh concrete pressure. This benefit saved much working time when pouring the 6.50 m high walls in 10 m cycles. Large-format Mammut 350 panels were ganged horizontally and height-extended to achieve formwork units 10.5 m long. Four units were used per cycle, one outside and one inside at either wall.
Formwork transport by winch saves 15 working days
The two outside formwork units had working platforms, scaffolding brackets, access hatches and ladders. Each time a cycle was finished, the outside formwork was disassembled into large parts and the parts crane-lifted to the next cycle. The inside formwork units were equipped with support frames STB 450 and trolley walers. These mobile units were pulled with a winch to the next cycle. Pulling entire units to the next cycle saved 1.5 working days per cycle, i.e. 15 working days for the tunnel. A new cycle could be poured every 3.5 days rather than every 5 days.
Bent, rising and with curved Portals
The track in the tunnel makes a slight curve. Yet the tunnel walls are not consistently curved but polygonal. At the end of each cycle the formwork for the next cycle was placed at an angle of 2° to the poured wall of the last cycle to achieve the polygonal tunnel form. In addition, the track rises with a grade of 7.5 ‰ but the concrete joints were to be vertical. This challenge was handled by positioning the large formwork units completely horizontally on the ground and using timber wedges between the ground and the panels. The tunnel portals on both ends are shaped like the aerodynamic power head of the French TGV high speed train. After all other wall cycles had been poured, the 10.5 m long wall partitions with the portals on both ends were poured using the Mammut 350 panels of the outside formwork units that were no longer needed. The curved portals were formed with special wooden formwork supplied by a local company.
Table forms on mobile MEP shoring towers save time
The tunnel slab, 50 cm thick and with a 20 cm concrete haunch on both sides, was constructed with table forms on H20 girders that rested on MEP shoring towers. Four tables with a total forming area of 60 m² were used per cycle. Each table rested on three MEP shoring towers which were connected with scaffold tubes to form one single unit. The shoring units including H20 girders and table forms were moved from one cycle to the next using transport walers and winches. There was no need need to disassemble and reassemble the units, and this saved considerable time. The edges of the tunnel slab were poured using the hand-set EcoAs formwork and the working scaffold KAB 190 to work on.
Piers and foundations of the foreshore bridges
The railway track passes the Rhine-Rhone canal on a frame bridge. The long ramp before the frame bridge and the short ramp between the frame bridge and the tunnel were constructed as foreshore bridges that fit well into the surrounding area. The pier foundations were formed with the Mammut 350. Each pier has a rectangular middle part with negative imprints (achieved with wooden slats on the facing) and a prefab concrete half-shell on either side. As the foreshore bridges descend on either side of the frame bridge, the piers' rectangular middle parts have different heights. They were formed with plywood facing, the highest piers first. Then the plywood facing was cut down to the size of the lower piers. Thus, the same facing could be used for all piers of different heights.
Different abutments
Four abutments and their foundations were constructed with the Mammut 350. The foundations for the two abutments at the beginning of either foreshore bridge measure 6 x 6 m and 5 x 5 m. The abutment walls are up to 3.20 m high. A bigger forming challenge were the two abutments that connect the frame bridge with the foreshore bridges. Both are elongate and bent approximately in the middle, with an offset on the outside. The abutment walls, 1.30 m thick and up to 4.35 m high, were formed with the Mammut 350. Its articulated corners were used to form the bend on the inside of each abutment. Wooden fillers and formwork parts were used for the offset on the outside. The entire formwork was planned and set up in a way it could be used for both abutments, with only minor modifications necessary for the articulated corners and wooden parts.
Biggest challenge: The frame bridge over the canal
The frame bridge with its 20 m span was the biggest formwork challenge of the entire project. No bridge piers could be erected in the canal bed because they would have impeded shipping traffic. So the only solution was constructing the bridge in the form of a wide and long rectangle covering the entire width of the canal and resting on a row of columns on either side of the canal. The track runs diagonally over the bridge. The colums are 1.60 x 1.30 m and 1.30 x 1.30 m wide and long, with a centre-to-centre distance of 3 m. They were formed with the Mammut 350.
Load: 25 tons per running meter
Each column row supports a concrete beam that is 1.50 m high and up to 2.10 m wide. Both beams were poured with the Mammut 350 and carry the concrete parts that make up the bridge superstructure. These concrete parts – each weighs 40 tons – were poured on site, then placed with a crane onto the bridge beams and supported by MEP HD (heavy duty) props. Three props per running meter were placed on the sheet piling on either side of the canal bed to transfer 25 tons of load per running meter. Special steel profiles at the top and bottom of the props allowed for a smooth and consistent load transfer.
Close cooperation between contractor and MEVA
The project's formwork detailing including structural design was done by MEVA France in close cooperation with the site management of Maïa Sonnier. Thanks to the excellent cooperation and on-site support by MEVA's Alsace office all work was done efficiently and terminated on time
Follow-up project: Parking deck
The number of train passengers will rise significantly when the high-speed line starts operation in December 2011. Many train passengers will arrive by car at the Mulhouse station. That is why a large parking deck is being built there. It will offer parking for 450 cars and MEVA's slab formwork system MevaDec is used to pour the parking deck's slabs.
Referencias de obras construidas con encofrado MEVA. Proyectos arquitectónicos. Proyectos de ingeniería civil. Proyectos residenciales y comerciales. Construcción de rascacielos.
La tarea es reforzar los pilares de sección 60 x 60 cm (2 x 2 pies) convirtiéndolos en columnas de 1,10 m (3.6 pies) de diámetro para una presa subterránea de almacenamiento de aguas pluviales en Berna.
Obra grande en Ratisbona: los trabajos de construcción avanzan a toda marcha bajo la dirección de la Oficina Estatal de Obras y Construcciones.
El St. Jakobshalle, inaugurado en el año 1975, brinda una superficie de 22.000 m² (236.806 pies2) para eventos deportivos, musicales y empresariales.


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Cheap Clones Roundup
April 30th, 2011
The Cheap Clones games seemed somehow…familiar. While a few played things pretty close to the vest, a few managed to stray quite far from the source material – making, dare I say, ORIGINAL titles.
For shame, people! Even when you've been asked to rip somebody off, you come back with something creative. Still, a lot of people used the opportunity to poke fun at some of the quirks and often confusing conventions of the games industry.
Let's see what these 18 games brought to the table this month, shall we:
Hero Test, by Steve Gargolinski
Makes fun of a lot of modern conventions. An evil, evil game indeed.
Super Paper Space Invaders, by Ben
Really improves upon the formula – the music and SFX choices are perfect. Would love to see this expanded upon.
Prism Light, by Roan Contreras
A really well-made maze game with some nice light elements.
Escape Cage, by Aaron Oldenburg
An Escape-the-room clone with a great networked twist. Was I playing the game with myself at some point?
A pretty difficult Columns clone. Match the movement of the shapes instead of their colors.
A pet-sim clone played entirely in Youtube. Some great choices and I love the Tamogotchi aesthetic.
I actually enjoyed this game. Does this make me a bad person?
Vexed Hedgehogs, by Barry Atkins
Protect indie gaming from evil, evil cloners. On an iOS platform, it would make MILLIONS.
A flight control clone that bizarrely has a lot of Mario 64 noises.
A nice clone of Tiny Wings, which is itself a clone of Nathan McCoy's Wavespark if you want to get into all of that.
Commander Clone, by Zachstronaut
A run-n'-gun Contra style game. Make sure to play all the way through the tutorial level.
A Diablo style clone. Looks like you'll need a pretty decent computer to run this one.
A Metroid/Blast Master hybrid clone – the world seems pretty huge.
Ultimate Pong, by AizenSousuke and Mok Swee Hoe
An intentionally buggy Pong clone.
A Breakout clone. There's so little to Breakout, that it's almost hard to determine where cloning begins.
A well made Tetris clone. Though as a fairly competent player I miss the instant-drop button.
Dead Bunny Soup, by MisfitByte
A clone of a ByteJacker game, though I'm not entirely sure which one.
Super Skill Jump, by Breakdance McFunkyPants
An intentionally evil Mario clone – this could give the one on the app store a run for its money.


text: The swimming pool was really the only place left on Earth where extreme pogo stick users couldn't rip mad tricks. Until now. "The Only Underwater Pogo Stick" was designed for use in the pool, and allows you to easily "perform a variety of waterborne stunts as you bounce off walls or bottoms." Instead of a traditional spring (which is for landlubbing amateurs), a rigid ball filled with water fits into the footrest, and lets you bounce about in shallow water or "bound powerfully" in the deep end. Works with in-ground pools only for US$60. [Hammacher Schlemmer]


text: Santiago, Chile – A Chinese factory fishing ship that burned last week off Antarctica has sunk without anyone on board, Chile's navy said on Monday.The vessel Kai Xin caught fire and its 97 crew members were rescued by a Norwegian ship. Then it began to drift unmanned and in flames, zigzagging dangerously close to glaciers.The Chilean navy said an official representing the ship's owner confirmed that the vessel went down on Sunday afternoon near Bransfield Strait at the Antarctic Peninsula.A Chilean navy tugboat was searching for the ship's remains and stood ready to contain any spilled fuel.The first alert of the sinking came from the Chinese fishing ship Fu Rong Hai, which on its way through the Antarctic sent an email to the ship owner saying the Kai Zin no longer appeared on the radar. Crewmembers then saw fishing nets and small boats drifting in the chilly waters.Chile's navy told the Fu Rong Hai to remain there until the navy tugboat Lautaro reached the site and began to search for the sunken ship.Oil spillOfficials had feared a damaging oil spill. But Captain Juan Villegas, maritime governor for Chile's portion of Antarctica, said that appeared unlikely now."An environmental disaster is ruled out because of the fire on board," Villegas told The Associated Press. "Experts say that if there was any fuel on board it has burned out by now."The 104m Chinese vessel was built in 1990, according to the website of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.The Kai Xin was operated by Shanghai Kaichuang Marine International, a company that specialises in deep-sea fishing, fisheries products and processing. The ship used pelagic trawling to fish and could sail in loose pack ice, according to the commission.A company statement posted last week said the fire occurred while the ship was fishing. It said Kaichuang would investigate the cause of the accident and the extent of the damage before releasing more details.


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Louisville guard Kevin Ware is recovering following successful surgery on his broken right leg.
School officials say the sophomore had the bone reset and a rod inserted into his right tibia. The surgery took two hours. Ware is expected to stay in Indianapolis until at least Tuesday.
Ware landed awkwardly, with his leg bending at almost a right angle, after he contested a 3-point shot late in the first half of the NCAA Midwest regional final on Sunday between the Cardinals and Duke.
Ware's stunned teammates wept openly as he was taken off the court on a stretcher and to Methodist Hospital.
Louisville went on to beat Duke 85-63.


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I'd like to have these foods when we go to UK!
I was unlucky that it wouldn't introduce Japanese food:(
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Carmen: The Chinese introduced oriental food to Britain. But before the Chinese, immigrants from all around the world came to live in London.
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This is Borough Market, London's oldest food market. Today, you can find food here from all over the world.
This is Italian cheese. Each group of settlers brought their own food and styles of cooking and people here embraced the exciting new flavours… maybe because British food wasn't very good.
Restaurants from all around the world can be found on most British high streets. Indian, Chinese, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Persian... the list goes on.
But just what are the UK's favourite dishes?
On the Street: My favourite meal is Thai green curry.
On the Street: One of my favourite meals is... cottage pie with peas.
On the Street: My favourite food is... Chinese ... Chinese.
On the Street: What's my favourite meal? Still full English breakfast.
Chef: This is a full English breakfast. Tomato, black pudding, sausage, bacon, egg, mushroom.
Carmen: A big fried breakfast might not be to everyone's taste. But in Britain, there is something for everyone.
Celia Brooks Brown is a food writer and knows all about food and the future of food in the UK, today.
Mmm! It looks good. What have we got here, Celia?
Celia: Well, this is a British tomato salad with a Yorkshire-made sheep's cheese. And here we have a Barnsley lamb chop with new potatoes and a mint hollandaise sauce.
Carmen: So is this a sign of developments in British cooking?
Celia: Yes, people want to know where their food comes from. Chefs in restaurants like these are reinventing classic British dishes. They're using ingredients that are locally sourced and locally grown.
Carmen: So what about world cuisine?
Celia: Well, anything goes. Chefs love to experiment with ingredients from different cultures. And we live in a globalised society, it's very exciting.
Carmen: OK, Celia, if you were cooking these dishes at home, what ingredients from different cultures would you use?
Celia: Well, I might use something like this. This is a Moroccan spice mix called Ras el Hanout. Have a sniff.
Carmen: Hmm. That's really strong.
Celia: Lovely, isn't it? Now, this might make a lovely spice rub for that lamb chop.
Carmen: I can't wait to taste this.
Carmen: The food in Britain reflects the many different cultures here. But some of the old favourites are here to stay. I'm off for my favourite, fish and chips. Want a chip?
What do you think about British food?
I'd like to have these foods when we go to UK!
I was unlucky that it wouldn't introduce Japanese food:(
The video was so good that I could understand almost all!
I want to try to eat British food.
British food is very delicious
hello Zidny, introduce my name is lia, actually it's my call name. are you Indonesian? nice to see you here. c u
Ahh they look delicious❤❤I am hungry now! XD
That's so good to get chances to eat food from different cultures.
But I don't think they are healthy like Japanese food. And I want to know that Japanese food is popular in Britain:))
Hi! One of my friends has sushi every single day. It's part of his new healthy diet. He has sushi for lunch, and steamed vegetables for dinner. So I think sushi's getting quite popular now! How about you, do you like eating food from around the world? What food is popular in Japan at the moment? Could you recommend a few Japanese dishes for us to try?
Jonathan (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
I have never tried British food.
I was Interesting that the leporter said there are many kind of counry food are in Britain, because British food is no good.
I am looking forword to eat food in Britain.
The "new" English food looks so delicious!
I wonder if there are also Japanese food in the UK
I think British food tastes good. At scool we learned that British people usualy eat oatmeal for breakfast and drink tea with milk all day long. But I see that traditional breakfast is very big and nourishing and doesn`t include poridge.
What is a black pudding?
Hi Hanna,
It's true that many British people drink lots of cups of tea during the day. To answer your question, black pudding is a type of black sausage made with blood. I think most people would only have a cooked breakfast at the weekend. I think toast or cereals is more popular on a normal school day.
Best wishes, Jo (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
Hello Jo,
Thanks for your answer. Here, in Ukraine, we eat black pudding too, but it has another name(Krovjanka).
mmm....yummy and really delicious :)
Looking nice!
I'm studying about food in the UK
So this video was good for me
I will try to cook some foods which I saw in the video
Through this vedio, I can feel that Britain is a multicultural country once more.
I want to try full English breakfast and fish and chips.
Hi, mgguegun;)
I like French kitchen too, and it's one of the best. I like French croissants, la cafe au lait-white coffee and laduree macarons, of course;). Have you ever tried some food from Balcan countries?
I'm french and I think France has the best meals of the world ;p Like 20sep_fm
, a glass of milk is enough for my breakfast , but I would like to taste a full british breakfast !! It looks delicious ! I'm sorry if you don't understand my comment , my English is so bad =0 Thank for this video !
Hi mgueguen! I'd definitely recommend you try a full English breakfast if you get the chance. It's especially good on a cold morning. It warms you up. And don't worry about your English, you did very well :-)
Jonathan (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
I don't like English food, it's too heavy for my taste. And I don't eat eggs and bacon. My favourite breakfast are some cereals with milk and fruits. It's healthy and gives you energy.
Yes Bora F.
What do you think about Azerbaijan food?
Hoü old are you?
i think it is very delicious..
mmmm tasty *-* ............ iknow that potato used more than than te other foods in british
hello lekjana i like potatos too they are delicious :).... but now i am in italy and itaIian food looks tasty to
Potato is my favorite food. megisiana. Thank............................................
it looks so delicious ........and what a shame i have never tried Britain food but i would love and ******Jonathan potatoes is my favorite food too.............
Thank you very much.Jo (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
Wow! It's great to hear about the food from your countries - reading your comments is making me hungry! :)
Jo (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
Simply, sweet water.Jonathan Rickard(LearnEnglish Teens Team)
I think that are very delicious ... Each country has a special cooking and this is what makes us try all kinds of food .. The video was very useful because it helps to have as much knowledge about the dishes and it is a plus that in addition to that we learn in our language they can learn and in English and this has been done only with your help. Thank for everything you have done for this site and for us to teach us how to practice the English language ... You are the best ...!!!!
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Jonathan (LearnEnglish Teens Team)
I think that are very delicious and worth trying them but each country has a different way to cook from another country and this is the reason that it forces you to try all .. It was a very nice video and you're doingan excellent job for this site and helping us to learn the cultures and traditions of other countries, and in particular for the UK .. you are the best,,!!!,
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Table of Contents
Research and general acceptance
Different medical organizations, governments, and diet plans define 'low fat' slightly different ways. In this essay, a low fat diet is one where 30% or less of the total daily calories come from fats A very low fat diet is one where 15% or less of the total daily calories come from fat. By comparison, in the average American diet about 35–37% of calories come from fat.
When metabolized in the body, fats provide 9 calories per gram compared to 4 calories per gram from proteins and carbohydrates Because of this, diets plans repeatedly target reduction in fats as a good way to lose weight. Examples of low fat diets include the Pritikin diet and Scarsdale diet, both popular in the 1970s, Rosemary Conley's Hip and Thigh Diet (late 1980s), and the Dr. Dean Ornish Diet (2000s). Research into preventing cardiovascular disease also stimulated interest in low fat diets as a pre-ventative health measure.
Over the past three decades, thinking about fats has changed. In the twenty-first century, all fats are not created equal. Fats are described as either saturated or unsaturated based on their chemical structure. Saturated fats are animal fats such as butter, the fats in milk and cream, bacon fat, the fat under the skin of chickens, lard, or the fat a piece of prime rib of beef. These fats are usually solid at room temperature. Exceptions are palm oil and coconut oil, which are both liquid saturated fats. Saturated fats are 'bad' fats. They raise the level of LDL cholesterol ('bad' cholesterol) in the blood. High LDL cholesterol levels are associated with an increased the risk of heart disease.
Unsaturated fats have a slightly different chemical structure that makes them liquid at room temperatures. Unsaturated fats, especially monounsaturated fats, are 'good' fats that help lower cholesterol levels. Olive oil, canola oil, and peanut oil are high in monounsaturated fats. Corn oil, soybean oil, safflower oil, and sunflower oil are high in polyunsaturated fats. Fish oils that are high in omega-3 fatty acids are also polyunsaturated and have beneficial health effects.
Another type of fat, trans fat, is made by a manufacturing process that creates hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. Trans fat acts like saturated fat, raising the level of LDL cholesterol. It is found in some margarines, and in many commercially baked and fried foods. Starting in January 2006, the amount of trans fat in processed foods must be listed separately from total fat on food labels.
The federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 recommends that no more than 30% of an individual's daily calories come from fat. Beyond that, no more than 10% of calories should come from saturated fat and people should consume as little trans fat as possible. The American Heart Association's Nutrition Committee joined with the American Cancer Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the National Institutes of Health to endorse these guidelines as part of a healthy diet. However, some experts believe that for heart health the amount of fats consumed should be much lower.
Nathan Pritikin, originator of the Pritikin Diet Plan developed a very low fat diet for heart health. The Pritikin Plan calls for less than 10% of calories to come from fat. The diet is also low in protein and high in whole-grain carbohydrates. Respected independent research shows that this diet does cause weight loss and lower risk factors for heart disease such as cholesterol and blood triglycerides Critics of the diet say that it is too difficult to stay on and that low the fat component of the diet does not allow people to get enough beneficial fats such as omega-3 fatty acids.
The Dr Dean Ornish Diet is another very low fat diet where only aboug15% of calories come from fat. The Ornish diet is an almost-vegetarian diet. It too is designed to promote heart health, and again critics claim hat it does not provide enough essential fatty acids.
Other low fat diets are designed for people who have digestive disorders. People who have gallstones or gallbladder disease often benefit from reducing the amount of fats they eat. Bile, a digestive fluid made in the gallbladder, helps break down fats. When the gallbladder is not functioning well, a low fat diet can improve digestion. Symptoms of other gastrointestinal problems, such as diarrhea, irritable bowel disorder, various malabsorptive disorders, and fatty liver, often improve on a low fat diet. People who have had weight loss surgery usually have fewer digestive problems if they eat a low fat diet.
Managing a low fat diet
People on low fat diets need to avoid certain foods. High-fat foods include whole milk and whole milk products such as ice cream or cream cheese, fried foods, marbled beef, chicken skin, spare ribs or any meat with visible fat, tuna packed in oil, regular salad dressing, potato chips and fried snack foods, and many baked goods—cookies, cakes, pies, and doughnuts.
People wishing to reduce the fat in their diet must read food labels. Food labels are required to list in the nutrition information panel nutrition facts that include calories, calories from fat, total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, dietary fiber, sugars, protein, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, and iron In addition, the following words have specific legal meanings on food labels.
- Fat-free: less than 0.5 grams of fat per serving.
- Low fat: no more than 3 grams or less of fat per serving.
- Less fat: A minimum of 25% less fat than the comparison food.
- Light (fat) A minimum of 50% less fat than the comparison food.
The home cook can also reduce fat in the diet in the following ways:
- Remove all visible fat from meat and skin from poultry before cooking.
- Bake or broil meats on a rack set in a pan, so that the fat can drip off.
- Refrigerate homemade soups and stews, then skim the solidified fat off the top before serving.
- If using canned soup or broth that contains fat, put the can in the refrigerator for a few hours, and skim the solid fat off the top before heating.
- Top pasta with vegetables instead of oil, butter, or cheese.
To reduce fat in meals when eating out:
- Choose items that are broiled, roasted or baked. Avoid fried foods.
- Select fish or chicken instead of beef or pork.
- Ask for salad dressing, butter, and gravy on the side.
- Fill up on salad with non-fat dressing at the salad bar.
Low fat diets work as weight loss diets because they reduce calorie intake. The difficulty with low fat and very low fat diets is that they are difficult to maintain. Often when people go off these diets they gain weight back, then diet again, then gain weight back in a pattern of weight cycling This happens with many diets, but some research shows that people who go off low fat diets tend to binge or overeat more than people who go off more moderate diets.
Low fat diets are effective in improving certain digestive symptoms. A general low fat diet is usually prescribed first, and then fine-tuned with the aid of a physician to best treat the individual's digestive problems.
People who go on low fat diets can benefit in these ways:
- They lose weight.
- Their health usually improves.
- Their risk of developing cardiovascular disease may decrease.
- They get relief from unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms.
Young children, pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and the elderly are not good candidates for
very low fat diets. These groups have special nutritional needs that are unlikely to be met by very low fat intake.
Low fat diets are difficult to maintain for long periods. They may increase the risk of yo-yo dieting or weight cycling.
Although many low fat diets have been shown to be healthy, individual diets vary, and some low fat diets are not nutritionally balanced.
Research and general acceptance
Many health claims have been made for low fat diets. One is that they help people lose weight better than other diets. However, studies have shown that low fat diets are no better at helping people lose weight and keep that weight off than regular low-calorie diets. The total amount of calories has more effect on weight loss than the particular foods those calories come from.
Critics of this study claim that the low-fat group did not reduce their fat significantly enough to make a difference in health and that the study did not cover enough time. Others said that eating unsaturated fat (a Mediterranean diet) was heart healthy and that this study did not distinguish between saturated and unsaturated fat intake. Supporters of the study have said that it shows that how much people eat and how much they exercise (their calorie balance) are more important than what they eat. This study is likely to stimulate more research into low fat diets and the health differences between unsaturated and saturated fats.
American Heart Association American Heart Association Low-fat, Low-cholesterol Cookbook: Delicious Recipes to Help Lower your Cholesterol New York, NY: Clarkson Potter, 2004.
Ornish, Dean. Eat More, Weigh Less: Dr. Dean Ornish's Advantage Ten Program for Losing Weight Safely While Eating Abundantly New York: Quill, 2001.
American Heart Association Science Advisory Board. 'Very Low Fat Diets.' Circulation. 98 (1998):935-39. <http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/98/935> .
Kolata, Gina. 'Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut health Risks, Study Finds.' New York Times. February 8, 2006. <http://www.nytimes.com/>.
American Dietetic Association. 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, Illinois 60606-6995. Telephone: (800) 877-1600. Website: <http://www.eatright.org>.
American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231. Telephone: (800) 242-8721. Website: <http://www.americanheart.org>.
Harvard School of Public Health. 'Interpreting News on Diet.' Harvard University, 2007. <http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/media.html>.
Jackson Siegelbaum Gastroenterology. 'Low Fat Diet.' 2006 <http://www.gicare.pated/edtgs11.htm>.
Laino, Charlene. 'Traditional Low-Fat Diet Rated Healthy.' WebMD, March 26, 2007. <http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20070326/traditional-low-fat-diet-rated-healthy>.
United States Department of Health and Human Services and the United States Department of Agriculture. 'Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005.' January 12, 2005. <http://www.healthierus.gov/dietaryguidelines>.
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The Business Climate Index is used as a reference for the future development of the German Gross Domestic Product. The past has shown that 50% of the movement of the GDP can be linked to the IFO business climate index.
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Credit amounts are reduced, thereby also drop in consumption and thus the inflation targets of the FED cannot be reached.
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Following the Brexit, contrary to expectations, both retail and consumer prices have risen, providing a bit relaxation for the British economy.
A confirmation of the GDP for the third quarter is now pending. On Friday, it is expected to remain at t the annualized rate of 2.3%.
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I know y'all have been pining to know exactly what I mean in my profile when I state that I like "any piano boogie-woogie."
Here's a great example of a piano boogie-woogie. (If the ending is unsettling, remember that it's been sequenced that way so it can be repeated seamlessly as background music.) And I could listen to the background boogie on this all-piano midi site all day long.
I also enjoy ragtime piano and bluesy piano and gospel piano -- really, any piano music with swing, rhythm, and feeling to it.
Why do my thoughts wander to the Blackwood Brothers? Because, dear hearts, many of the piano accompaniments on the old Blackwood Brothers albums were played as if a boogie-woogie could break out at any moment. I enjoy the sound of the piano as much as the harmonies of the Brothers.
I suppose the great pianist, Wally Varner, who played with the Blackwood Brothers in the 1950's and 60's came out of the same sorts of Southern influences that produced the piano-playing cousins: Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley, and Jimmy Swaggart. (Jimmy Swaggart fell into disgrace as a TV evangelist, but he could play the piano -- no one can deny that!)
The 50's and early 60's were great years for the Blackwood Brothers with Wally Varner at the keyboard and J.D. Sumner singing bass. If you ever get a chance, listen to the stereophonic sound of their early 60's recordings with headphones so you can experience J.D. singing deep, deep bass into your ear. He usually seemed to be on a separate channel from the other quartet members.
I'm wandering from the topic, so it must be time to quit.
Related posts:
Piano Tuning -- My piano.
Playing the Piano -- Why I admire people who can play the piano.
Related websites:
I Love A Piano
The Piano Bar
Piano Roll Midi's
Elvis and the Blackwood Brothers -- Only vaguely related, but an interesting short read if you're not already aware of the relationship.
And of course you already know that J.D. Sumner and the Stamps were back-up singers for Elvis during the 1970's and that James Blackwood and J.D. Sumners sang at Elvis's funeral (as did Jake Hess also.)
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The early 20th century was a high time for science. As challenge after challenge was met head-on and the Age of Steam gave way to the vacuum tube and the unlocking of the energy of the atom, it seemed as if progress was unstoppable. Would we be living on Mars and commuting by pneumatic tube by 1999? [Read more...]