by Ralph
on September 14, 2010
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Bite into Hot Peppers for health
Peppers are good sources of vitamins (A and C) but hot peppers contain capsaicinoids which have many wonderful health benefits. These (the most common form is capsaicin) cause the ‘hot’ experience when we eat them. They have no effect on the taste buds but act directly on the pain receptors in the mouth. If you have eaten a hot pepper by mistake, you will understand. The hotness of peppers is measured in scoville units. Bell peppers have zero scoville units while habanero peppers register 200,000 to 300,000 scoville units. Other peppers (or chiles) are in between. [continue reading…]
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by Ralph
on September 9, 2010
The Animals made some music which, for me, defined the edginess of the late 60’s. I never was aware that they were British at the time. They didn’t wear their nationality on their sleeves as did the Beatles and Stones and their music fit into what Americans ( at least younger Americans were thinking). The defining song for me was Sky Pilot which either made fun of military chaplains (and religion) or did not. It also derided the Vietnam War – or maybe it didn’t. It was an ambivalent song for an ambivalent time and a whole band of ambivalent people. There is always some place or activity that I associate with a song and for Sky Pilot it is the mess hall of the USARPAC Barracks at Fort Shafter when I was doing KP. If Dante had served in the US Army, I am sure that he would have found a place for KP in hell. During one of my endless days of KP, this song came on the radio and became etched in my brain. Somehow KP, the war and religion all came together. Sky Pilot is not The Animals best song but somehow it tries to have a meaning – unusual for the 60’s and The Animals. Their other songs are less cerebral and more stirring up emotions. [continue reading…]
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