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Songs from the Heart: Ramsey Plays Ramsey

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January 2010 Week 3 Ramsey Lewis is a jazz pianist and multi-instrumentalist, and composer who has released approximately 80 albums over a 50-year career. After several years of live performances and over a dozen albums which only caught the attention of jazz fans, the Ramsey Lewis Trio made a huge impression on mainstream audiences with […]

Songs from the Heart: Ramsey Plays Ramsey

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Ramsey Lewis is a jazz pianist and multi-instrumentalist, and composer who has released approximately 80 albums over a 50-year career. After several years of live performances and over a dozen albums which only caught the attention of jazz fans, the Ramsey Lewis Trio made a huge impression on mainstream audiences with the 1965 album The […]

Personal Security Top 10

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Ten things I find necessary for personal security… 1) A proven supply of fresh water, provided by a well (with a manual pump backup); a swimming pool; a clean, fast-running stream; a lake with a good filtration system; or a cistern. 2) A full-house generator fueled by piped-in natural gas. 3) A large and efficient […]

Hi Times: The Hi Records R&B Years [BOX SET]

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January 2010 Week 2 Hi Records was a label with personality, thanks in large part to its strongman, Willie Mitchell. Generally pictured as the rambunctious little brother of Stax, Hi actually dates back to 1957, but its heyday coincided with label golden-boy Al Green’s commercial flowering in the ’70s. Hi Times opens with a 1959 […]

Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms

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For the past several centuries, the watchword of American industry has been standardization. Everything must be uniform and orderly, parts interchangeable. This urge to trim production costs eventually invaded agriculture, even animal husbandry. The result was chicken and hog farms where animals never saw the light of day and grew fat on drug- and hormone-laden […]

Rubber Soul

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January 2010 Week 1 The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The result of […]

Rubber Soul

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The classic original Beatles studio albums have been re-mastered by a dedicated team of engineers at Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period utilising state of the art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment, carefully maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. The result of this painstaking process is […]

What Cholesterol Doesn’t Cause

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“A recent study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, 2003, found that patients who successfully lowered their cholesterol levels did not reduce plaque buildup in their arteries. One group took a strong dose of a cholesterol-lowering drug while the other took a lower dose of the same drug. Researchers then measured the amount of […]

2009 Reading Archives

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April Week 3: TED, WHITE, AND BLUE:The Nugent Manifesto By Ted Nugent Week 4: Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman By James Gleick May Week 1: 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century By Andrew Krepinevich Week 2: The Omega Diet:The Lifesaving Nutritional Program Based on the Diet […]

2009 Essential Music Archives

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January Week 1: Dreamland by Madeleine Peyroux Week 2: X (Ten) by Trace Adkins Week 3: Desert Heat by Papa John DeFrancesco Week 4: The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd February Week 1: Bossa Nova Stories by Eliane Elias Week 2: Son Of Skip James by Dion Week 3: Seduction: Sinatra Sings Of Love by […]