#3 Music we like

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Concerto for piano and orchestra n.3-Beethoven -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FetACZlj0_0 (this is just a small part of it, if you wish to listen to more, please look it up)

#2 . Music we like

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My way-Frank Sinatra - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w25TylDyQBY&feature=related

Truly beautiful
Liebesleid-Kreisler - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InsOK98vBxg&feature=related

Relax with Jazz
Blue Monk-Thelonious Monk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY&feature=related

I could hear it a whole day long!
Waldstein (Sonata)-Beethoven -
1st mov http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73iGekDLTMc
2nd mov http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phe2wt1MF14&feature=channel
3rd mov http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6wxKGc3VJY&feature=channel

Explanation to the experience

In spite of there being no way you can obtain 'pure' black color, you can mix diferent colors which then together seem black! Amazing, huh??

Well, the next question might be: "why don't the colors spread as black and separate instead?"
Like everything, those 'colors' are made of particles which wheigh diferently. So, lighter colors like blue are taken further away with the water when heavier colors like brown settle down earlier.

What color is your pen??

Remember...there is no color "black"?! As seen in a prism, white light refracts into all rainbow-colors, black not being one of them(, at least not during day-time). So how come they sell YOU black pens with "black" ink?? You can find the answer - if you wish to call it so - with the help of a very interesting, colorful and fun expercience you can do with your children:

What you will need:

1. Several coffee filters
2. Several different black pens (preferably felt, and not water-resitant)
3. Glass filled with water

What you should do:

1. Drink half of the water in the glass
2. Cut or rip a disk out of the coffee filter (diameter of disk > diameter of glass)
3. Draw a circle (diameter > 1cm) in the center of the disk and make a small hole in the middle of the circle
4. Make a small paper roll from another coffee filter and insert it into the hole from step three
5. Put the disk on top of the glass so that the paper roll touches the water
6. Wait 'n' c

Repeat for the other pens

The dark side of purchasing LOW-FAT products

We are used to attributing a monetary value to virtually all physical things, as in many everyday situations we are (potential) buyers or sellers.

With this comes an almost subconscious knowledge of the intrinsic value of things that surround us - even if we don´t know their exact monetary value, we can decide rather well, which of any two items is the more valuable to us.

Obviously, great businesses thrive on the exploitation of collective misconceptions - be it by putting an extra-shine on the surface of an ordinary ball-pen, by offering the "extra 20% for free" on shampoos and detergents or by promoting their 21% p.a.-credit-facility with "just 75c./day" ( or "Smooth monthly instalments of reduced value" as seen recently in an ad by a Portuguese bank ;-)) .

Now think water and animal fat: little doubt that anyone of us not living in or close to a desert is prepared to pay a considerably higher price for the fat, or ask for one if we happen to have a kilo of fat and a litre of water to sell.

Now think of a mixed product, and apply our - collective ;-) - ability to create an average from two given numbers: for sure, the price of any such product should be within the range of the higher and the lower of the two, according to the composition-mix.

Now think of - or check it out in your local grocery-store - the composition and price-ranges of all low-fat-labelled dairy items: using as base the price for regular butter, the price for the water-component of the low-fat version is easily double that of Perrier Table Water - and without the bottle.

We have tried hard to find a home-made alternative to obtain the same benefit without the extra-cost, e.g. soaking the bread in water (it´s rather difficult to apply the room-temperature regular butter without obtaining a ball-shaped structure), even before putting it into the toaster (bad idea - even though the short-circuit was fortunately limited to that appliance...we could have bought lots of the premium version of low-fat-butter for the price of the new toaster :s).

So in the end, we just help ourselves to a glass of water - 200ml of water on an average serving-size of 25g of butter result in 225g ultra-super-low-fat butter, for the price of just 25g of regular butter (we use tab-water...).

#1 - Music we like

Among our current favourite music are the following, listen in if you like:

If you are looking for really fun music:
Csárdás - Vittorio Monti - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF9uQI-SRv4&feature=related

50's! Don't forget to read the lyrics " ... I'll make you so proud of me ... ":
Be my baby - The Ronettes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyGO5NRhzvk&feature=related

If you don't like it at the first time, listen on and on until you do, it's worth it:
Piano concerto n°3 in C minor, op.37, first movement (allegro con brio) - Beethoven - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At-dDw7sZRg

Classic:
Pathétique 3rd movement - Beethoven - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjrMiJN8oRw&feature=related

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