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When the rest of the nation reaches for a coat, and occasionally the mercury dips low enough in New Orleans that we shiver in shorts, bar manager Nathan Dalton unpacks the crock pot and fills it with a Latino Christmas tradition called Ponche de Navidad, or Christmas punch. It has prunes, apples, guavas, raisins, three kinds of sugar and rum. Plenty of folks who learned most of their Spanish from The Terminator, are drawn to this holiday concoction that Dalton started making last season.
"They see a crock pot behind the bar," Dalton said. "It always starts with 'What's in the crock pot?'"
Warm punches aren't the only steaming drinks New Orleans bartenders are mixing up. From the classic Toddy to exotic new creations, the season has given them a chance to leave the ice in the freezer.
"Everything that we drink is cold," Dalton said. "It's kind of one sided. I always appreciate it when someone makes a good warm drink, because you don't see them that often."
Why don't we encounter more warm drinks?
At Bellocq, which specializes in libations from the age before cocktails, mulled wines and Hot Toddies are currently the top sellers. "I had to order extra glasses," said Kirk Estopinal, who manages the Lee Circle bar that's an offshoot of Cure. No one's "drink," though, is a hot toddy. And it might seem odd to request something warm in the summer, but who refuses ice when it's frigid or gives up hot coffee half the year?
"They're like the essence of the holidays," Estopinal said, explaining part of the reason we rarely call for them in the fall or spring.
It's like how Christmas music used to be before every store played it constantly. My grandparents didn't drink them all the time, but it feels like they did."
On a recent night thick with fog, I settled into Why Not?, the "transitional" whole animal obsessed pop-up inside the Hotel Modern. I asked bartender Kimberly Patton-Bragg what she could make that was warm. A few minutes later, I had a steaming Eggy-Sheggy-Dray in front of me. It was her spin on a classic toddy, an 18th-century recipe of spirit, sugar and hot water.
The drink's name was a phonetic spelling of a traditional Hungarian toast taught to Patton-Bragg by a guest. She made it with brown butter-infused bourbon ("I like to put fat in everything," she said), Stroh Jagertee from Austria, cinnamon syrup, bitters and hot water. Before I took a sip of the hearty herbal brew, the alcohol walloped my nose the way it does when you heat a sauce with wine or brandy. And the Eggy-Sheggy-Dray made me happy and nostalgic. It tasted familiar, even though I'd never had it before or even heard of Stroh Jagertee.
"You can't smell your neighbor's cocktail sitting next to you," Patton-Bragg said. "But with a hot drink you can. When you're a kid, you smell the hot drinks that your parents are drinking."
Like all great cocktails, warm drinks are about balance, but the ratios here are different. Shaking or stirring a cold cocktail with ice dilutes the drink down to roughly 20 percent water, Patton-Bragg said. With a warm drink, where boiling water is typically added at the end, about half what's in the cup is water.
"It's a matter of making sure that you have enough of the alcohol and the sweet that it's not watered down," she said.
For many bars, particularly those not connected to a restaurant, finding boiling water is the main reason that hot drinks aren't served. At Booty's, the just opened street food emporium in the cluster of restaurants near Bywater's Louisa Street, manager and bartender Jeremy J.F. Thompson has a constant source of heat: the steam wand on his espresso machine. Thompson, with a background as a barista, immediately knew the machine could do more than steam milk.
"I would cook everything with the steam wand," said Thompson, recalling his days working in coffee shops. "I would cook eggs with the steam wand."
Now Thompson uses it to heat his Hot Silk cocktail in 30 seconds. Thompson grew up everywhere in the world, as the son of a missionary. And The Hot Silk could only seem like a obvious combination of ingredients to an exceedingly well-traveled man. It includes Swedish Punsch, Brazilian aguardiente, Mexico's reputed aphrodisiac Damiana and a homemade cardamon banana tea.
"It's the most exotic drink on the menu," Thompson said. "There are always these hot drink traditions that seem to be all about the season. I wanted one that would tap more into the South East Asian tradition and the Latin American tradition, playing off traditional tea and soups. It's about sustenance."
Thompson noted that the cocktail emerged from the pharmacy. Bitters, the essential ingredient, were first medicine. But these were patent medicines, their ingredients, even today, a guarded secret. Thompson wanted his Hot Silk to point to an even older tradition where Asian families knew what herb they needed for whatever ailed them.
Warm drinks still do get sipped outside of winter when someone fights a cold. The menu at Bar Tonique, which reads like the table of contents to a complete history of the cocktail, always includes several warm drinks, such as a Hot Toddy and its close cousin the Whiskey Skin. The latter is made with Irish whiskey and a lemon peel.
"It surprised me. I didn't think we would sell a single one in the summer and we did," said Ed Díaz, owner of Bar Tonique. People with a summer head cold appreciated that Bar Tonique could offer them a warm tonic, in the old sense of that word. "It doesn't require any prep," he said, "so we keep them on the list."
We recognize that a warm drink clears a foggy head no matter the weather. But maybe we should remember that they can also lift the spirits. Even in the warmer seasons, let's not forget that a simple, steaming cup spiked with liquor can be a comforting dose of nostalgia.
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A second lens - This is photo of a daisy growing in a crack of our picnic table. I borrowed my grandma's magnifying glass to set in front of the flower.
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this is wonderfully creative and perfectly executed. what aperture/focal length was this shot at?
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that's so original, I would have never thought of that! I also love the muted colors :)
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Creative, lovely, original, genius, artistic, imaginative, charming, I could go on and on. :) Oh, and I love the lump of cat in the background.
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Such a creative picture! Great Capture!!
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This is amazing :D I love the idea, it is so creative!!! I love your use of the rule of thirds and leading lines. Plus, I love the random cat in the background ;) Favorite!
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Nice shot. I was thinking about doing this kind of photo with glasses...
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@pointless/pics F3.8 with an 18-55 mm lenz
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yes, just yes. where was this taken? i think i'm in love.
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Lol, there's a cat in the background! I almost didn't notice it. Wonderful picture, so creative!
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I agree with @pointless/pics.... this is so creative and has an almost comical feel to it!! I love daisies. x)
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Wow, this is super! I also like the cat relaxing in the background. It adds a "home" feel to it. :) Overall, it's very nice!
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Love the idea! Super creative! I like that the flower is very clear! Great shot!
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Nice! The only thing that bothers me is the cat in the background...
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This is perfection. And I love how the cat's in the background :)
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Very creative! It's funny with the cat in the background, but I probably would have taken it out.
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I learned a couple or three things when I laid a teak deck on the boat I built.
1. They are absolutely gorgeous but you're better off without them.
2. Don't sand them or use chemical cleaners on them unless they are so neglected you have no option - that's what wears them down, not walking on them.
3. Scrub them CROSS GRAIN and don't use very stiff brushes. Scrubbing with the grain, which is more instinctive, will wear down the sapwood faster and make them very "grainy" and rough, requiring the aforementioned sanding to smooth them out.
4. When checking their condition, wet them down and wait for them to get mostly dry - any seams, plugs etc. that stay wet longer than the bulk of the planks have failed
5. If you are laying one, don't use screws - bed them in epoxy or polyurethane goo and weight them down until it kicks.
6. Buy a boat with fiberglass decks.
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From its founding in the 1920's, the Pacific Hotel has been rated as a one of the landmarks of Shanghai and has, over this time, hosted countless celebrities. A magnificent neo-classical building, it is located at the beginning of the Nanjing Road Pedestrian Shopping Mall - known far and wide as the 'First Street of China' - and just across the road from the city's green People's Square. The Pacific Hotel is also just across the road from the People's Square Metro station (lines 1 ,2, and 8), Shanghai Municipal Government building, Shanghai History Museum and the Shanghai Grand Theatre. The Shanghai Exhibition Center and the Bund are all within easy reach.
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The elegant Southern Mediterranean style private dining hall on the hotel's 8th floor is a great option for business dinner events.
Transport links are all close at hand when you stay at the Pacific - the hotel has convenient access to the city's high-speed elevated road system (which can whisk you to the four corners of the city in surprisingly quick time), Shanghai Railway Station lies just to the north and the hotel is located between the Pudong (International) and Hongqiao (domestic) airports.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 04/23/14 -- TeraGo Inc. (TSX: TGO) (www.terago.ca), a leading national broadband services and colocation provider to businesses in Canada, announced today that it has earned a place on the Top 250 Canadian ICT Companies list for the seventh consecutive year. The company has jumped up through the ranks quickly, moving to 81st position for 2014. This is the third consecutive year that TeraGo has earned a place in the top 100.
"We are very pleased to be recognized as one of the top 100 Canadian technology companies for seven year in a row," says Stewart Lyons, President and Chief Executive Officer, TeraGo Networks Inc. "Last year was a period of continued growth and improvement, and we intend to build upon that foundation in 2014 as we transition into an IT services company."
TeraGo is continuing to expand its footprint across Canada, leveraging its leading position in broadband services with the continued growth of complementary data centre service capabilities for small and medium businesses.
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TeraGo Networks Inc. provides businesses across Canada with carrier-grade broadband, data and voice communications services. Colocation and disaster recovery solutions are also provided by Data Centers Canada, a division of TeraGo Networks. The national service provider owns and manages its IP network servicing about 6,500 customer locations in 46 major markets across Canada including Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Winnipeg, as well as data centres in Toronto and Vancouver. TeraGo Networks is a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) and is a wholly owned subsidiary of TeraGo Inc. (TSX: TGO). More information about TeraGo is available at www.terago.ca.
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Isn't it fun to look back at those old jobs that got us through school?
I lifeguarded, taught swimming lessons, worked on an asparagus farm, at Sears, in a bank and in a tourist information booth. Does anyone remember Woolco? I worked there too and then taught summer school in a remote northern community without running water or electricity. I was pretty happy to graduate, but I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.I worked at a concession stand at a lake in the summers making cotton candy and renting out canoes. I helped my parents run our campground, checking campers in, working the camp store, lighting tiki torches around the pond every night....
I have worked selling advertising for newspapers and magazines, owned my own clothing store, worked as a service call taker for an air conditioning company in Florida....
PennyOh my...I remember those days! I'm afraid I jumped right into teaching without much in between...other than a few retail clothing jobs...where a fat lady stepped on my big toe! Ouch! I still can't go without polish because of it...not pretty! lol I hope you are having a great week!...hugs...Debbie
ReplyDeleteWhat a great story! I love stuff like this. I was graduating from High School that year in SoCal and I was working at Disneyland. I never saw a celebrity there except for all the Disney characters. But, I did meet many celebs just because I live near Hollywood! Like you, I find it fascinating how paths cross!
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I was stuck in traffic the other day and my car started to overheat and I could smell that sweet smell of coolant (?) .Smoke was coming from my hood. It took a while to find a spot to stop. Long story short I filled it will coolant and in 4 miles it was completely gone. No visible leaks in the driveway. No other issues. Please help!
Damn. Really? I was hoping for different, less expensive, news. I took it to a shop today and will get a call back tomorrow. Do you have any idea what a decent quote would be?
I wouldn't automatically guess head gasket. Check the oil to see if it has any coolant in it if that worries you. Make sure the fan is operating properly. If it is shutting off at idle you will overheat...especially in traffic. My car used to overheat in the summer especially. When my fan bit the big one I replaced it with a new one. They had been redesigned with better blades. After that I never had issues again.
The oil was also low when I added the extra coolant which I thought was odd because it had only been changed about a month before. I looked at the dip stick but wouldn't even know what to look for if there was coolant in the oil. :/
Look inside the oil cap 1st. It will look and have the consistency of peanut butter (don't eat it ). Otherwise you have to drain the oil and see if there is any water in the oil. The oil will not be low with a blown head gasket. It may be that it was low after the change. These cars take 6 quarts instead of the normal 5. If you took it to an oil change place they may not know that.
I had the same problem with my 98. The cooling fan was not turning on. I checked the fan itself, and it was fine. It turned out to be the plug terminals were not making good contact with the fan terminals. In my case I cleaned the female connectors inside the plug and cut some plastic away that was interfering with the connection. Problem fixed. It could be the computer that controls the fan, but they are kind of expensive an there are other alternatives to buying a new comp. Good luck!


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UNSPECIFIED. (2003) Implementing evaluation of the measurement process in an automotive manufacturer: a case study. QUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, 19 (5). pp. 397-410. ISSN 0748-8017
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Reducing process variability is presently an area of much interest in manufacturing organizations. Programmes such as Six Sigma robustly link the financial performance of the organization to the degree of variability present in the processes and products of the organization. Data, and hence measurement processes, play an important part in driving such programmes and in making key manufacturing decisions. In many organizations, however, little thought is given to the quality of the data generated by such measurement processes. By using potentially flawed data in making fundamental manufacturing decisions, the quality of the decision-making process is undermined and, potentially, significant costs are incurred. Research in this area is sparse and has concentrated on the technicalities of the methodologies available to assess measurement process capability. Little work has been done on how to operationalize such activities to give maximum benefit. From the perspective of one automotive company, this paper briefly reviews the approaches presently available to assess the quality of data and develops a practical approach, which is based on an existing technical methodology and incorporates simple continuous improvement tools within a framework which facilitates appropriate improvement actions for each process assessed. A case study demonstrates the framework and shows it to be sound, generalizable and highly supportive of continuous improvement goals. Copyright (C) 2003 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.
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MANILA, Philippines — Sharp on every aspect, National University ripped Adamson, 80-48, Saturday at the Mall of Asia Arena to fuel its hot streak in the UAAP season 76 men's basketball tournament.
The Bulldogs fired from all cylinders (51.5% field), shared the ball with ease (22 assists) and thrived on the open court (23 fastbreak points) as they rolled to their third straight victory and a 6-3 record.
"It sounds like a cliché but we were able to limit them on defense. Fortunately, we were able to run," said head coach Eric Altamirano.
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IvanKozlov posted... I never have. I'll glance over some if it is a game on sale for a good price but i am not %100 sure it is still worth it. Look at some trailer and play through footage and glance at a review or two to get a feel for a game if no demo is available. Weigh that all with the sale price of them game and decide if it is worth it to me or not, but i have never read what someone else wrote about any game and went. Well i need this game right now, or I can't touch this game with a yard stick. | |
Ever since a certain game came out in 2008, I always take reviews with a grain of salt. Word of mouth is usually a better bet IMO. --- Kept you waiting, huh? Currently playing: Half-Life 2, Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, Persona 3 Portable, Legend of Dragoon, Alice: The Madness Returns | |
Reviews matter. More as a whole than individually, but they matter. For example, like in any other form of media, if a bunch of videogame review outlets all say a game is terrible, it's almost assuredly terrible. That doesn't mean you can't like it. It just means you probably won't and most people probably won't. People think that if a game gets a terrible review and they liked it that the review is bad, and that just couldn't be further from the truth. | |
I care about reviews a lot. They greatly affect what I buy. They point me to games that I normally wouldn't be interested in like Borderlands or Dark Souls. But it's not about the score. It's about what the reviews write. I look for at the pros and cons. If a game I wants gets a bad review for major flaws, I'm not going to get it. But if a game I'm on the fence about gets great reviews, I'm more likely to get it. I don't just go to one site either, I read as many as I can. I like to have an idea of what I'm getting before I get it. --- I <3 my HRAP EX-SE SSF4AE + BBCS2 + UMvC3 + MK = Life - Waiting desperately for Skullgirls | |
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i dont anymore, used to when i was young. altough people overall surely do, they claim they dont when their game recieives low scores. --- splinter cell: blacklist......the latest game series turned generic shooter. | |
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In playback mode the SP-350 offers some interesting features. The Edit menu option allows you to crop, resize, adjust brightness and saturation, choose black and white or sepia, and automatically remove red-eye, all of which you might expect, but it also allows you to add a decorative border to your picture, turn it into a calendar, give it a title or make it part of a document layout or contact sheet. These are all clever features, but all of these things can be done better and quicker in image editing software, such as the excellent Olympus Master program that is supplied with the camera.
So, the SP-350 is a mixed bag in terms of performance, so what about picture quality? Here too there are good points and bad points. Olympus metering systems are legendary, so it's no surprise that colour rendition and exposure are superb. Image noise is extremely well controlled at all sensitivity settings, and shots taken at 400 ISO are quite usable. However there is an overall softness to the SP-350's images that robs them of a lot of fine detail. The SP-350 does have a RAW mode, but it doesn't offer any real advantage in overall picture quality. This may be partly down to the lens, but this softness has been reported in other cameras using the same Sony 8MP CCD. The Canon S80 is one of the few cameras using this sensor that manages to avoid the problem, but sadly the SP-350 suffers quite badly.
The 3x optical zoom 8-24mm (38-114mm equiv) F2.8-4.9 lens may not be at fault for that, but it does have its own problems. At wide angle it suffers from very noticeable barrel distortion, as well as blurring at the corners of the frame. However its overall performance is good, although not really up to semi-pro standards. In fact, that's a pretty good summary of the whole camera.
It doesn't have the performance or picture quality to be the compact semi-pro model that it pretends to be, and it does have a few significant flaws, but nonetheless the Olympus SP-350 is a decent camera, with very good build quality and handling, excellent high-ISO noise control and a useful range of photographic controls and extra features.
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Honk! | |
The musical | |
Music | George Stiles |
Lyrics | Anthony Drewe |
Book | Anthony Drewe |
Basis | "The Ugly Duckling" story by Hans Christian Andersen |
Productions | 1993 Newbury 1997 Scarborough 1999 West End 2000 Nyack, New York 2000 North Shore Music Theatre |
Awards | Olivier Award for Best New Musical |
Honk! is a musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Ugly Duckling, incorporating a message of tolerance. The book and lyrics are by Anthony Drewe and music is by George Stiles (of the British songwriting duo Stiles and Drewe). The musical is set in the countryside and features Ugly – a cygnet who is mistaken as an ugly duckling upon falling into his mother's nest and is rejected by everyone but Ida (his mother), a sly tomcat who only befriends him out of hunger, and several other barnyard characters.
The musical debuted at The Watermill Theatre in England in 1993. The West End production opened in 1999 and won the 2000 Olivier Award for Best Musical.
The show is frequently produced by schools, as well as regional and community theatre groups in Britain, the U.S. and Canada.
Production history[edit]
- Newbury, England
A version of Honk! opened in 1993 at The Watermill Theatre in Newbury, England, originally titled The Ugly Duckling or the Aesthetically Challenged Farmyard Fowl. It returned to the Watermill Theatre in December 2007. Both productions were directed by Steven Dexter.[1]
- Scarborough, England
The original production of Honk! officially opened in 1997, directed by Julia McKenzie, at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, England[2]
- West End
The West End production opened on 11 December 1999 at The Royal National Theatre in London and won the 2000 Olivier Award for Best Musical.[3] In Ireland the Dublin Premiere of the show received a nomination for Best Show in 2003 from the Association of Irish Musicals[4][5] and came in second place in the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera for 2004.
- Nyack
Honk! made its U.S. premiere at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center (since 2006 known as the Riverspace Arts in Nyack) in Nyack, New York in February 2000. Although somewhat well received, the Nyack production had a rough start. Just a week before opening the show was quickly re-imagined and restaged, having replaced a key member of the creative team.[6]
- North Shore Music Theatre
A slightly re-written production with a script more oriented to Americans opened at the North Shore Music Theatre in the same year as the Nyack production and had the same male lead, Gavin Creel, as Ugly. The NSMT production used almost the entire original creative team from Great Britain, with an American lighting designer. In its three week run, over 30 regional theatres from around the US were inspired to include the show in their next season.[7] Changes included the Turkey having a fear of Thanksgiving instead of Christmas, and the first line of the song, "A Poultry Tale" being changed from "In this backwater of England" to "In our patch behind the farmhouse". This version is licensed in the USA by Music Theatre International.
Character(s) | Description |
Ugly | The main character, who is shunned for his odd appearance. |
Ida | Ugly's mother, the only one supportive of him. |
Cat | Trying to eat Ugly, sly and cunning (a villain) |
Drake | Ugly's father, who detests Ugly |
Maureen | Ida's friend, but best friends with Henrietta too, a little conceited; a moorhen |
The Turkey | The school's headmaster, afraid of Christmas (Thanksgiving in American version) |
Ducklings | Ugly's siblings (Billy, Beaky, Downy and Fluff. Some versions include additional ducklings.) |
Grace | The most distinguished duck on the lake, or so she says because of the red band on her leg |
Henrietta | Neighbor, Maureen's best friend, acts somewhat as a busybody |
Bullfrog | Laid-back, self-confident frog |
Froglets | The bullfrog's children |
Queenie* | Domesticated cat |
Lowbutt* | Domesticated chicken |
Greylag | Dot's husband, goose of a glittering military career |
Dot | Female goose, Greylag's wife |
Barnacles, Pinkfoot, Snowy | Members of the Goose Squadron |
Father Swan | Father to Penny |
Mother Swan | Mother to Penny |
Penny | A beautiful female swan who Ugly falls in love with after saving her from a fishing line that was strangling her |
Boy | (Voice only) |
Girl | (Voice only) |
Duckyard Animals | Various poultry, such as quail, pheasants, ducks, chickens, etc. |
Farmer | (Voice only) |
Fish | |
Jay Bird/Jack Daw/Maggie Pie** | An 'in your face' reporter from America's Most Feathered |
Old Woman | Owner of Queenie and Lowbutt (Voice only) |
*These characters do not appear in Honk! Jr. (see below)
**The character can male or female. Should the role be played by a female, the character will be renamed Maggie Pie. The UK version is called Jack Daw rather than Jay Bird, and the TV show is renamed "Britain's Most Feathered".
- Act I
It is Spring, and Drake thinks about life on the farm. ("A Poultry Tale"). As he attempts to sneak away, Ida scolds him for neglecting their eggs that are about to hatch. Drake believes one huge egg is a turkey's egg, but Ida is doubtful. Ida expresses "The Joy of Motherhood" and is joined by her friend Maureen, when all of the "normal" eggs hatch. Drake takes the ducklings to learn to swim, leaving Ida to wait for the fifth egg to hatch ("Different" pre-reprise). It finally hatches to reveal Ugly. Ida is initially shocked but is overjoyed that the new arrival is not a turkey. As she teaches him to swim, she notices his amazing talent ("Hold Your Head Up High").
When Drake and the ducklings return, they are aghast at Ugly's appearance and, along with Maureen, Henrietta, the Turkey, and everyone else, make fun of him, while the Cat admires what a great meal he would be ("Look At Him"). As Ugly tries and fails to "quack," he realizes he is just "Different". The Cat offers to be Ugly's friend and to treat him to lunch, which he happily accepts. Ugly tries to get Ida's permission, but she is too busy with the other ducklings. After Ugly leaves with the Cat, Ida realizes Ugly is missing. Everyone splits up to look for him.
In his lair, the Cat is preparing to eat Ugly, who is unaware of the danger ("Play with Your Food"). Just as the Cat is about to strike, the children playing outside send a ball flying through the window, hitting the Cat and causing him to fall into the pot. Ugly thinks he is hiding and goes to find a hiding place of his own, but ends up getting "Lost". Back at the duckyard, no one can find Ugly, and they mourn him ("The Elegy"), but Ida refuses to believe he is dead. Jay Bird (or Maggie Pie), interrupts and begins to interview Ida for "America's Most Feathered". Ida laments about what it's like to lose one of your children ("Every Tear a Mother Cries"). Ida continues to search for Ugly, leaving her other four ducklings with Drake.
Meanwhile, Ugly comes across two military geese, Greylag and Dot, and begs for their help. They and their "squadron" of geese decide to go on a reconnaissance mission to find Ugly's home ("Wild Goose Chase"). However, there is a shoot going on in the marsh, so the Cat sneaks in and offers to help out by telling them when the shoot is over, hoping that they will leave him alone with Ugly. Greylag sees through the Cat's plan and takes him along. The Geese and the Cat head off to the shoot, which is still going on, and get shot down. Ugly, who didn't go on the mission with them, realizes that the Cat is evil and had lied. Ida sets off to find Ugly, and they both vow to find each other and be reunited. ("Hold Your Head Up High" Reprise).
- Act II
Ugly wanders into a house and meets Queenie and Lowbutt, a domesticated cat and chicken. They too make fun of him not only for his looks but also for not being of "their sort" ("It Takes All Sorts"). When they turn on the TV, they see Ida and Jay Bird broadcasting a missing notice for Ugly. Ugly recognizes his mother and Queenie goes to call the advertised number. Just then the doorbell rings, and the Cat enters, poorly disguised as Drake. Ugly sees through the disguise, but Lowbutt believes he is actually Ugly's father. But when Queenie comes back in, the Cat falls in love. Queenie also thinks he is a duck, but she too falls in love when he removes his disguise ("Together"). Lowbutt is dismayed, so she helps Ugly to escape, leaving the Cat to decide between his meal and Queenie. He chooses to go after Ugly, leaving Lowbutt to console Queenie.
Back at the farmyard, Drake is forced into some responsibility, and, now that the ducklings are almost a year old, they are beginning to give Drake a hard time as teenagers. Ida, still searching for Ugly, comes across everyone that Ugly has met ("The Collage"). Meanwhile, Ugly finds Penny, a swan, caught in some fishing line and untangles her. Penny, knowing Ugly is a swan, invites him to migrate with her, but Ugly insists that he can't. As Penny flies away, Ugly realizes he is in love with her ("Now I've Seen You"), but is sad because he believes she could never love someone as ugly as himself. Just then, a Bullfrog comes hopping by. Noticing his bad mood, he tells Ugly about how "ugliness" is just a matter of taste and that someone out there will always love you "Warts and All". The song cheers Ugly up, and the bullfrog leaves. Suddenly, a net drops on Ugly's head. A farmer has caught him for his family's Sunday roast. When the Farmer goes to get his knife, the Cat sneaks back onstage and offers a deal; he will lead Ugly back to the farm, but Ugly has to promise to be the Cat's lunch. Ugly agrees, and both of them head back to the farmyard.
On the way, the two get caught in a blizzard and freeze ("The Blizzard"). Ida unfortunately has gotten caught in it as well. Ida notices them and believes Ugly is dead. Penny and her family come to Ida and tell her to cry, that her tears of hope will save Ugly. Soon Ugly wakes up and realizes he is not a duck, but a swan, then reunites with his mother ("Transformation"). Penny recognizes that Ugly is the one who saved her earlier and the two confess their love to each other. The swans invite Ugly to come learn their ways. Although Ugly wants to stay with Ida, she insists that he go with the swans. As they fly off, Ida sings of how Ugly was different, but Ugly suddenly reappears with Penny, as they have decided to stay with Ida. Just before they leave, Ugly frees the Cat, who has remained frozen this entire time. As the Cat notices Ugly is not a duck but a swan, he goes insane before running away in defeat ("Melting Moggy").
Ugly, Penny and Ida return to the lake; everyone loves Ugly now that he is a swan. They ask for his forgiveness for making fun of him ("Look At Him" Reprise). Ugly happily accepts their apology and introduces Penny. Grace decides to relinquish the Red Band, now the Cygnet Ring, to Ugly, dubbing him "the finest bird on the lake".
Musical numbers[edit]
^These songs do not appear in Honk! Jr.
Honk! Jr.[edit]
A junior version of Honk! has been made for younger audiences. There are slight changes in Honk! Jr., notably the Cat could be played by either a male or female. Because of this, the characters Queenie and Lowbutt do not appear in this version, nor do the songs "It Takes All Sorts" and "Together". Certain songs are cut (see the song list above), whilst others, such as "Look At Him" are shortened with the lyrics slightly changed. The lyrics in "Warts and All" were also changed slightly to appeal to younger audiences. "The Wild Goose Chase", a song that normally appears at the end of the first act, opens Act 2 to fill the gap normally filled by Queenie and Lowbutt.
- ^ Gardner, Lyn."Theatre: Honk!", The Guardian, 3 December 2007
- ^ talkinbroadway.com review with production information
- ^ Albemarle listing
- ^ AIMS nominations, 2003
- ^ AIMS awards, 2003
- ^ Klein, Alvin. "THEATER; Hit Musical From London Staged in Rockland County" New York Times', February 27, 2000
- ^ [1]
- The Guide to Musical Theatre
- Talkin' Broadway Broadway & Off-Broadway theatre discussion, cast recording news, reviews of musicals and drama.
External links[edit]
- George Stiles and Anthony Drewe official website
- International Herald Tribune review, 1999
- Honk! at the Music Theatre International website
- Honk! JR. at the Music Theatre International website
- Josef Weinberger production and licensing information for the UK


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BACKGROUND: Evidence on economically efficient strategies to lower blood pressure (BP) from low- and middle-income countries remains scarce. The Control of Blood Pressure and Risk Attenuation (COBRA) trial randomized 1341 hypertensive subjects in 12 randomly selected communities in Karachi, Pakistan, to 3 intervention programs: (1) combined home health education (HHE) plus trained general practitioner (GP); (2) HHE only; and (3) trained GP only. The comparator was no intervention (or usual care). The reduction in BP was most pronounced in the combined group. The present study examined the cost-effectiveness of these strategies. METHODS AND RESULTS: Total costs were assessed at baseline and 2 years to estimate incremental cost-effectiveness ratios based on (1) intervention cost; (2) cost of physician consultation, medications, diagnostics, changes in lifestyle, and productivity loss; and (3) change in systolic BP. Precision of the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio estimates was assessed by 1000 bootstrapping replications. Bayesian probabilistic sensitivity analysis was also performed. The annual costs per participant associated with the combined HHE plus trained GP, HHE alone, and trained GP alone were $3.99, $3.34, and $0.65, respectively. HHE plus trained GP was the most cost-effective intervention, with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of $23 (95 confidence interval, 6-99) per mm Hg reduction in systolic BP compared with usual care, and remained so in 97.7 of 1000 bootstrapped replications. CONCLUSIONS: The combined intervention of HHE plus trained GP is potentially affordable and more cost-effective for BP control than usual care or either strategy alone in some communities in Pakistan, and possibly other countries in Indochina with similar healthcare infrastructure. |
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