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The Hoffnung Music Festivals were a series of three humorous classical music festivals held in Royal Festival Hall, London in 1956, 1958 and 1961 (and a reprise in 1988). They were created by cartoonist and amateur tuba player Gerard Hoffnung.
They included works such as Haydn's Surprise Symphony 'with extra surprises' added by Donald Swann, an 'excerpt from Belshazzar's Feast', with full orchestra and chorus conducted by William Walton himself (with a fly swat), which turned out to consist of just a single chord with the word "Slain!", and humorous works specially commissioned from well-known composers of the day.
1956 concert[edit]
The 1956 concert was recorded, and is available in the American market on Angel Records 35500. Music from The Hoffnung Music Festival Concert, Royal Festival Hall, London. An Extravagant Evening of Symphonic Caricature devised by Gerald Hoffnung, Producer: Sam Wanamaker, Organizer: John Amis. It was recorded at the concert, 13 November 1956, by EMI and released in the U.S. by Angel Records. The liner notes list the programme:
- Introduction by T. E. Bean, General Manager of the Royal Festival Hall
- Fanfare by Francis Baines
- A Grand Grand Overture by Malcolm Arnold
- Concerto for Hose-pipe and Strings (3rd Movement only) by Leopold Mozart
- Concerto Popolare (a Piano Concerto to end all Piano Concertos) by Franz Reizenstein
- Andante from 'Surprise' Symphony in G major ( B. & H. 94) by Haydn (arr. Donald Leonard Swann)
- Gerard Hoffnung introduces Mazurka No. 49 in A minor, Op. 58, No. 2 by Chopin (arr. Daniel Abrams for tuba quartet)
- Lochinvar by Humphrey Searle for Speakers and Percussion (words by Sir Walter Scott)
- Variations on 'Annie Laurie' by Gordon Jacob: Tema: Alerto, ma non troppo. Variations: Poco Inglesemente; Monto Zingaresemente; Alla Gigolo; Finale; Assai.[1]
The liner notes were written by John Amis, one of the organizers of the event. He wrote that it was called the Crazy Concert by the London newspapers, and that all 3000-odd seats were sold within two hours of the opening of the box office, breaking all records for Royal Festival Hall at that time.
1958 concert[edit]
The 1958 production was the Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival, Royal Festival Hall, 21 & 22 November. The EMI recording for the American market was Angel 35800, released in both mono and stereo. The liner notes list the programme:
- Introductory Music played in the Foyer (Francis Chagrin)
- Hoffnung Festival Overture (Francis Baines)
- Metamorphosis on a Bed-time Theme (Allegro commerciale in Modo Televisione) (libretto by Alistair Sampson. Music by Joseph Horovitz)
- Sugar Plums (realized by Elizabeth Poston) (Dolmetsch Ensemble)
- The Famous Tay Whale (a dramatic poem by William McGonagall, music by Mátyás Seiber, declaimed by Edith Evans)
- A movement from Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra (Francis Chagrin)
- Punkt Contrapunkt ("Bruno Heinz Jaja" alias Humphrey Searle)
- Excerpts from The United Nations (Malcolm Arnold)
- Waltz for Restricted Orchestra (Peter Racine Fricker)
- Let's Fake an Opera or The Tales of Hoffnung (William Mann and Franz Reizenstein).[1]
1961 concert[edit]
The 1961 production was the Hoffnung Astronautical Music Festival and was a memorial tribute to Gerard Hoffnung, who had died two years earlier, and was again held in the Royal Festival Hall, 28 November. It was also recorded by EMI in mono and stereo and released in the U.S. on Angel Records 35828. The recording was reissued on CD by Hallmark on 20 February 2012. The selections included
- "Rigmarole" - Introductory Music Played in the Foyer (Francis Baines)
- Festival Anthem (Francis Baines)
- Overture: Leonora No. 4 by Ludwig van Beethoven (featuring the Happy Wanderers Street Band. The actual arranger was not named, but the work of Malcolm Arnold was unmistakable)
- Duet from the Comic Opera "The Barber of Darmstadt" (music by "Bruno Heinz Jaja" alias Humphrey Searle; words by John Amis)
- Ballad of County Down, Mostly in D Major (Francis Chagrin)
- Excerpt from "Belshazzar's Feast" (conducted by the composer, Sir William Walton)
- Horrortorio (music by Joseph Horowitz and words by Alistair Sampson)
- Mobile for Seven Orchestras (Lawrence Leonard)[1]
1988 concert[edit]
On February 12 & 13, 1988 two reprise concerts were performed and recorded at the Royal Festival Hall (released by Decca). The program, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Tom Bergman, consisted of highlights from previous Hoffnung Festivals, including:
- A Hoffnung Festival Fanfare (1956)
- A Grand, Grand Overture (1956)
- Concerto for Hosepipe & Orchestra (1956)
- Ballad of County Down (1961)
- The Tay Whale (1958)
- Leonora Overture (1961)
- Lochinvar (1956)
- Concerto Popolare (1956)
- Metamorphosis on a Bedtime Theme (1958)
- Haydn's Surprise Symphony (1956)
There were also a few new pieces to keep the audience on their toes: Quasimodo e Giulietta, The Heaving Bagpipe, Concerto d'Amore (for two violinists and one violin), and others. Many distinguished guests appeared, including Donald Swann and Gerard Hoffnung's widow and daughter.[2]
- John o'London's Volume 3 (1960)
- Hoffnung, Gerard. The Hoffnung music festival. Publisher: Hoffnung Partnership, 2000, ISBN 1-903643-02-3
- The Hoffnung Music Festival Concert Recorded at the Royal Festival Hall, London. Angel Records 35500, LP, 1956
- The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival, Royal Festival Hall, 21 & 22 November 1958, Angel Records 35800, LP, 1958


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Alas, the final L-Tec test from PV Audio (whatever my opinion is worth!). Strung easily, the 3S is moderately stiff, but nothing outrageous. If I closed my eyes, I wouldn't be able to tell that the "Gut" is not Wilson NXT. It has that same lumpy kind of feel to it. Will see this afternoon if this hybrid is any good, but already, this is a no-lose game for the L-Tec diehards. If I like it, as in it's ungodly, then they win. If I don't like it, then it wasn't the right hybrid, right tension, wrong stringing method, wrong racquet, wrong playing style, etc. Whatever, I'm here to test strings and not Area 51 claims. Strung 48/52.5
3S is actually quite a nice poly. It's obviously stiff, but nonetheless is very resilient. While the "gut" is about as far from natural gut as it gets, it still softens the stringbed more than any cross string I've ever used. Yes, even VS gut doesn't damp the stringbed more. However, that's not a good thing. The strings become very mushy feeling and don't really do 3S justice (I'm assuming). Having hit with what I'm fairly sure is a similar string (I'll save names here), I'm pretty confident that in a full bed, 3S would be quite nice. With the L-Tec "gut"? Er, no.
Same story here. If you line up your serves well, you'll get good results. There is no feedback, however, to tell you if you've done that or not. Since that feedback is very important to me, I can't say this is a good stringbed for servers.
Breaking the record player again. Just too much muted feel from the crosses to give what I'm sure is actually a high-feel poly its due. I'm actually quite curious as to how this would play with say OGSM or something fairly neutral.
The 3S is holding tension really rather well. It's at something like 5-6hrs of play time now, with a few weeks of bag time (as per my usual review schedule). As I commented about before, the "gut" feels very firm to the hand, but plays like mashed potatoes. The latter shows itself in durability as once the outer coating wore off, it's started to peel. Not a frayer for sure, but one of the peeling multis.
I did actually like this setup. It was hampered by too much softness from the crosses, but the mains were definitely responsive which is what I like. Would I go to it again? No, because there are other polys and crosses that I still much prefer over it. But to give it its due share, if you're a medium level player looking for something to just bash around from the baseline and tend to get TE, then I can see that this might work well for you. Not shabby at all.
Overall: 9.05/10
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Test Prep Doesn't Have to Be Overwhelming
Standardized tests are around the corner, bursting onto the scene with great academic hysterics. Schools are already having emergency meetings, signing legal documents full of dire security warnings, and printing advice on goldenrod paper with such sage wisdom as "Get sleep."
Meanwhile, inside the classroom, there's panic in the air, and panic is never a harbinger of success. Test prep generally takes the form of practice questions, daily drills at the start of class, or worse, a halting of curriculum altogether for the sake of administering entire packets of test questions daily.
But I don't think you should have to halt your teaching or philosophies to tackle standardized tests. I believe that a few simple strategies, combined with solid teaching, can result in some bang-for-your-buck test prep without sacrificing high-quality classroom time.
Practice Bubbling -- No, I'm Serious
After I went over the disastrous results of our school district's first assessment, my students and I realized the following: Bubbling is a skill, and we stank at it. I knew this because during the test, I had my students circle the answers in their test packet prior to bubbling their Scantron sheets to give us more data to look at when the results came back. This step allowed us to evaluate each answer and put a star by the ones we missed not because of content, but because of carelessness and sheer bubbling bumbling.
Remember, no task is too small that it can't contribute to great failures. Don't take for granted that something as simple as bubbling shouldn't be practiced.
Teach Them How to Speak Test
The language used in tests is unlike any language or dialect. Break down the more amorphous terms that we as educators often take for granted as common knowledge. The word analyze, for instance, is not easily defined. It's vague and, frankly, one that many teachers couldn't define without an "um, it's like . . ." as a lead in.
Make a list of the most common words used instructionally on the test. Remember that just telling students to "Read the directions" isn't enough if they can't understand the directions.
Stare Your Own Data in the Face and Model How to Use it Formatively
Don't be scared to analyze your own data. Use it to make prepping more efficient. By thinking aloud for your kids, be transparent in your analysis of how your own lessons went. They will also be more open to deeper reflection if they see it come from you.
Read your data, determining your lessons not on what you haven't taught yet but rather on what the data shows they don't understand yet. Spend time on what your students don't get, not on what they have already achieved.
Show them the Data, and Set Individual Goals
After you've modeled how to look at data honestly, then bring in the experts -- the students themselves. Ownership is a huge part of success. Have each student examine last year's scores, setting goals that they agree to reach for.
Break things down into concrete chunks. By getting the students to see that only one or two more questions answered correctly might have put them in a higher category, they can set more tangible goals in the form of an informal contract, a bar graph, or a reflection paragraph. Remember that "Do better next time" can't be achieved without defining better.
Build Confidence
By the time all is said and done, there's nothing you can do but say, "You're ready."
They have the knowledge to take these tests even if they don't know that they know it. It's called educated guesswork. And after years of school, and your teaching, they have some ability to do it. They just need to trust it.
Does it always work? Of course not. After all, there isn't some book out there for students like The Secret that says if you just think "proficient" hard enough, it'll happen. What I am talking about is spending some time leading up to these tests counterbalancing all of the negative input your students have heard about themselves or about their school.
Last year, I had my students write a Golden Line, words of encouragement for success, to their peers. They finalized their line onto a flash card and taped it to their desks for the testing group to see the next day. Here are some of their lines:
"I will take the test as if the answers were second nature."
"I shall enter school ready and prepared like a cowboy in a showdown."
"You can throw bullets and knives with your hard questions, but I shall dodge and shine through with triumph."
"Failing is not an option, and passing is my way to success."
"Fear is the only thing that is feeding the test's power over the students."
When it comes preparing students for tests, there's no magic bullet, but there is magic in the room when a teacher says with assurance, "You've worked hard, and this is just a way to show others what I already get to see every day. I'm not worried, and you shouldn't be either. You're ready."
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You have spoken to an issue that is of great concern to me. I suspect that we sometimes undermine the students' likelihood of scoring well on the "real" test by desensitizing them with SO MANY practice tests. In the school at which I substitute the students have been baraged with practice tests for weeks on end. They no longer take the tests very seriously, and are increasingly difficult to "keep quiet" as is expected. Does anyone know of research to support the idea that extensive practice testing can actually do more harm than good?
I have to commend the authors of those fabulous "Golden Lines", I am actually tempted to adopt some as classroom mottos. Thanks for the tips. I am blogging for the first time as a class assignment but have to admit I found some great advice here and plan to be back! THANK YOU!
a few weeks before the test we all scramble to prepare the practice tests for the students to take. For the past 12 years, we've always set aside two weeks for the students to practice for the SAT10. We have our students practice bubbling in their answers, we teach them some strategies to answering the questions and so forth. At the school where I teach, we usually test a different grade level. I'm a 1st grade teacher and, last school year, I tested 3rd grade. I don't agree with this because I feel like our students get even more nervous if an unfamiliar face is the one administering the test. (But, the test coordinators work it out that way.) They are nervous enough just taking the test, this just adds to their stress. How do I relieve some of the stress this might cause them?
Congrats on your first blogged comment. Watch out, it's addictive to find online collaborators out there-it's like professional pen pals. Use the mottos and make sure that the kids know kids made them. (Incidentally, these were the cleaner of the mottos. The kids feel just as passionately about these tests and doing well as we do for them.) Good luck and thanks for checking in!
-Heather WG
Kids should be testing with teachers they know. This was a battle our staff chose a couple of years ago, but it is a legitimate scheduling thing. I'd also love to know how other schools do this. Thanks for the comment!
-Heather WG
Anyone know where we can find some practice bubbling worksheets? I believe I had them last year, but I can no longer locate them.
Here is what my school uses to help practice for the SAT 10. They are a little pricey but totally worth the money, my AP actually quit purchasing the other practice books that we hated and bought these instead. They are set up just like the SAT 10, so the kids know the format and aren't surprised on testing day. I used them the past 2 years and have really seen an improvement on our test scores. I hope this helps for you!!
I agree. Our school system has completly taken on teaching our students how to take a test. All of the test and lessons are designed in the format of our state's standardized test. Every reading, language, and math assessment is in a bubble format and includes a writing piece that essentially ask them the same type of questions they'll eventaully see at the end of the school year. While my principal does not apply as much pressure as others in our system, we still meet once a month to figure out why some students are not doing well and and to explain how we plan to turn thier progress around. The whole process takes the fun out of teaching for the students and the teacher. I think that some prior expereince is needed, but I often find that the importance has worn off by the time their performace is measured. I would also be interested in finding out whether over exposure is harmful.
Thank you, Ms. Wolpert-Gawron, for your ideas on preparing our students for the rigors of standardized testing. This is my first-ever blogging experience. For developing their testing vocabulary, our school has a list of 50 academic vocabulary words (analyze, affect, infer, predict...) that we begin exposing the students to at the start of the year. We make it a habit to use the vocab. words in our daily instruction so the students hear how the words are used in a meaningful context. The words are taken from Coxhead's widely-used Academic Word List (2000), which you can find at http://www.uefap.com/vocab/select/awl.htm Because academic vocabulary is a part of daily instruction, by testing time the students will be more prepared to read and understand the language of testing.
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"I was shocked that many businesses weren't complying," she said.
How does it happen that the signs aren't posted - and where does it leave the homeowner who wants more information?
It turns out that the EPA did send out thousands of the "Salmon Hazard" signs to more than 500 regional retailers just as the federal court had ordered.
However, it turns out the judge's order did not obligate retailers to post the signs.
Laurie Gordon, Pesticide Specialist with the Oregon Department of Agriculture, insists that many retailers did post the warning signs, yet admits they didn't last.
"The problem was they weren't laminated and so they were easily damaged or torn through the years, on the shelves -- or they may have been damaged or faded and they were discarded," she said. "There wasn't a plan to keep a constant steady supply for them."
Conservationist Aimee Code works for the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides. She agrees that the signs were not a success because stores didn't have to post them.
She noted that the signs are now gone but that new warnings are coming -- this time on the products themselves. But the labels won't be available for another year, at the earliest, she said.
"When you pick up a product, right there on the label it's going to tell you that this might be a harm (to salmon) and it's going to tell you what you can do to make a change," Code said.
Back at Pacific University, Alexa Clement is proud of her efforts and her senior project because it helped many people make informed decisions about using safe products in the yard and garden.
"It's really not that hard to do. It's just that people need to be on the same page for it (information) to work properly," she said.
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MORGANTON, N.C. -- Despite receiving about half an inch of rain over the weekend, the Table Rock wildfire in the Linville Gorge Wilderness area continues to burn, and has now destroyed more than 2,000 acres since it was discovered last week.
The Forestry Service said Sunday's rain was much needed, as the area has seen dry conditions in recent months, but fears that the warm, drying period that's forecasted over the next week could be a real test on the new containment lines .
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As of Monday afternoon, authorities say the fire remains listed at 2,275 acres, and is 40-percent contained.
One structure within the containment lines could possibly be threatened if the fire were to make a run south, official say. Meanwhile, fire crews remain staged near the Outward Bound camp to provide protection for those structures.
As of Monday afternoon, 193 fire personnel were assisting with the efforts in the Linville Gorge, including a 20-person hand crew from the Oklahoma Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Sunday, fire crews were pulled back from the Table Rock Fire in the Linville Gorge Wilderness area of the Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina, as high winds from a storm front threatened fire crew safety.
Crews resumed work on securing containment lines and cutting hazard trees after the line of storms moved through late Sunday evening.
The US Department of Agriculture said the fire jumped over a containment line at Chimney Gap Saturday. That line was difficult to construct there, officials said, because of steep, rocky terrain that made certain areas inaccessible.
Smoke from the fire has resulted in the issuance of a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for four western counties: Alexander, Burke, Catawba and Caldwell. The alert means the smoke could cause problems for anyone with respiratory problems or very young children. Officials say the super fog could also create hazardous driving conditions.
No injuries have been reported.
Extremely steep and rugged terrain pose serious safety and suppression challenged to the crews working to contain the Table Rock fire.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation. But the U.S. Forest Service wants to hear from anyone who was at the Table Rock picnic area Monday, where investigators believe the fire was sparked.
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Hello all, I would like to present a question. I found a thread on vegetable oil versus canola oil, but I would like to go one step further.
I ususally use olive oil (virgin or extra virgin) for all my cooking. Can I use it in my baking recipes that call for vegetable oil as well (an olive is a veggie after all) I have been, and the cakes seem fine, but maybe I am missing something. The only problem I worry about is that my extra virgin olive oil is green, not yellow. It hasn't changed the coloring of anything I have done yet, but I am really new at this,so.....
Also, special flour for cakes versus all purpose. I heard that if the all purpose is sifted, then you don't really need cake flour (which is way more expensive in my store).
Thanks for all your help.
Extra virgin olive oil can be used in baking if the recipe calls for it. A regular vegetable oil is flavourless so it is ideal for most baking recipe. If you notice the olive oil has some pungent smell to it so it might affect your cake. Also, canola oil is a good substitute too.
I use all purpose flour instead of cake flour by mixing 3/4 cups all purpose flour and 2 tablespoon cornstarch. This works for me everytime. Goodluck to you. I hope this helps.
Cake flour question... I've been wondering the same thing. I did buy some cake flour and used it for a few recipes. I can't say that I noticed a difference really. I recently posted this on a similar thread:
This is from www.practicalpantry.com, and believe it's the same thing that's on the back inside cover of the betty crocker cookbook:
For 1 cup of cake flour, substitute 1 cup minus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour. You also can try substituting 3/4 cup all-purpose flour plus 2 tablespoons cornstarch for every 1 cup of cake flour called for in a recipe. To substitute cake flour for all-purpose flour, use 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons cake flour for every 1 cup all-purpose flour called for in a recipe.
If a recipe for a delicate cake, such as angel food or sponge cake, calls for cake flour, do not try substituting all-purpose flour. Such a substitution could cause the delicate cake to collapse.
Olive oil question: I have used Olive oil in my baking, mostly because we just don't usually keep regular vegetable oil around the house at all. I was very nervous when I used it as the ONLY oil in a brownie recipe, and they came out just fine. I didn't notice a difference in taste at all.
I guess this is really a bump because I would love more information on both q's too!
Extra virgin olive oil can be used in baking if the recipe calls for it. A regular vegetable oil is flavourless so it is ideal for most baking recipe. If you notice the olive oil has some pungent smell to it so it might affect your cake. Also, canola oil is a good substitute too.
I use all purpose flour instead of cake flour by mixing 3/4 cups all purpose flour and 2 tablespoon cornstarch. This works for me everytime. Goodluck to you. I hope this helps.
thats my thinking too...i think it will overpower or change the taste of what ever it is yuo are baking.
I have used olive oil in a few cakes, not as a substitution but rather an accent flavor. I used a very fragrant almost floral-like scented olive oil in a lemon cake recipe. The results were delicious.
This might be of interest (regarding baking w/ olive oil)
This is the link - but I will also include the actual article ( as sometimes the articles are prone to disappearing, especially when it's from a newspaper)
"Olive oil is aromatic in a salad dressing, it adds great flavor to the saute pan, but in a cake?
"I think of olive oil as melted butter," says Faith Willinger, who has written about food and taught cooking in Tuscany for more than 25 years. The American native describes herself as an "olive oil obsessive." She uses it for cooking, drizzling, and baking, having all but eliminated butter from her home.
Willinger is not the only one using oil in ways diehard butter lovers would not venture. A surprising number of pastry chefs in local restaurant kitchens are scaling back on butter and mixing sweet batters with the green-gold elixir.
"People use olive oil because it is healthier [than the alternatives], and it lets the genuine flavors stand up for what they are," says Willinger. "Butter coats the whole palate and makes everything sweeter. Olive oil complements, rather than hides, flavor." She adds it to brownies, breads, and pancakes. For baking, she prefers lighter, sweeter olive oils, like those produced in southern Italy or other temperate climates.
In this country, vegetable oil in cakes has been popular for decades, especially in fruit and vegetable quick breads. Recipes for old-fashioned pumpkin or zucchini breads and apple cakes, for example, often call for oil.
But oil can't be used spoon for spoon in place of butter. To convert butter cakes into olive-oil cakes, Willinger recommends using less oil (see below)*
Most olive oils fall into one of these four categories: delicate and mild, fruity and fragrant, olive-y and peppery, or leafy green and grassy. The first two are best for baking. According to Deborah Krasner, author of "The Flavors of Olive Oil," delicate and mild oils have a subtle quality, fine not only for baking and frying but also for infusing with vanilla or herbs. Fruity and fragrant oils, which have more personality, can be fruity like apples or fragrant like green leafy vegetables. According to Willinger, some people like to mix peppery oils with chocolate and let the two flavors play off each other.
Olive oil on the savory table became popular for its flavor and its health properties. In "Olive Oil: From Tree to Table," Peggy Knickerbocker writes that olive oil in baking dramatically reduces the cholesterol and saturated-fat content. Goods baked with the fat taste lighter, she says. Like Willinger, Knickerbocker has used olive oil in breads, pizzas, brownies, biscotti, citrus cakes, and quick breads.
Pastry chef Jackie Boisse has been offering an apple cake made with olive oil on Il Capriccio's menu. "This cake is really moist," says the Waltham baker. "You couldn't use butter." Though corn or safflower oil would work in the recipe, Boisse notes that "olive oil changes the character of the cake in a subtle way. It gives [the cake] a moisture and particular flavor that is not so pronounced."
Boisse also uses olive oil in her sweet, moist vanilla chiffon white cake, which she likes to serve with complementary foods such as sauteed figs.
In keeping with the tradition of beating oil into quick breads, Tom Ponticelli of Davio's makes carrot cake with olive oil. He also recommends substituting olive for generic oils in other vegetable breads because, he says, "olive oil gives a little more character."
Following their lead, I experimented on my unsuspecting family, substituting olive oil for butter in my grandmother's brownie recipe. The squares looked beautiful, with a shiny top. Their good flavor was well received, even after I told my tasters about the oil. I still had reservations.
An olive-oil cornbread was spectacular, with a crisp crust, soft crumb, and robust flavor. I'll never go back to using butter in it. One of my sons declined to taste my cakelike carrot ring, adapted from another family recipe, because he thought he wouldn't like it (he ate the brownies because he wasn't on to my experiments at the time). Though the carrot ring's flavor was different than what we were used to, the oil made it less sweet and gave it a pleasing and satisfying richness.
Lemon almond polenta cake, a traditional Italian dessert, was the best of the baked goods. And it should have been. The pairing of oil, cornmeal, and crushed almonds is an old combination. The moist, intensely flavorful cake had a nice crunch. A side of whipped, sweetened ricotta provided the perfect finishing touch. Next time you take out your baking supplies, if you reach for the olive oil, you're in for a pleasant surprise."
© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.
*Butter-to-olive-oil conversion chart
Cookbook author Peggy Knickerbocker says that you can't substitute olive oil for butter spoon for spoon, so she has worked out the proportions.
For 1 teaspoon butter, substitute 3/4 teaspoon olive oil.
For 1 tablespoon butter, substitute 2 1/4 teaspoons olive oil.
For 1/4 cup butter, substitute 3 tablespoons olive oil.
For 1/3 cup butter, substitute 1/4 cup olive oil.
For 1/2 cup butter, substitute 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil.
For 2/3 cup butter, substitute 1/2 cup olive oil.
For 3/4 cup butter, substitute 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon olive oil.
For 1 cup butter, substitute 3/4 cup olive oil.
Source: "Olive Oil: From Tree to Table"
I use olive oil in all of my baking that calls for "oil". It is very good for you- unlike canola, vegetable, corn, sunflower....etc. ad nauseum. The other mentioned oils are rancid. You cannot taste the rancidity...but studies have proven that they are. Canola is cheaply made....and thus a goldmine for it's producers/marketers. It slipped in under the F&DA in this country because of $$$$$.... AND CRISCO IS HORRIBLE!!! LOL
Butter and olive oil are equally "good" for you. I get rave reviews on my cakes....with either of these.
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1. Supposed To Be There Too ~ Mike Park
2. On That Stage ~ Mike Park
3. Counting Sheep ~ Mike Park
4. Challenging Me ~ Mike Park
5. Just Like This ~ Mike Park
6. Train Maps ~ Mike Park
7. From Korea ~ Mike Park
8. Southbound 280 ~ Mike Park
9. Thankful All The Same ~ Mike Park
10. Hey You! ~ Mike Park
11. Present Day Memories ~ Mike Park
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|Personnel: Mike Park (vocals, guitar); Nagel (bass); Lance (drums).
|Personnel: Mike Park (guitar); Patrick Ford (guitar); Rob Kellenberger (drums).
|Recording information: Dam Studios, Chicago, IL; Expressions, Emeryville, CA; Lance's Girlfriend's Home, Springfield, IL.
|Mike Park is one of the kingpins of the third wave ska revival. He was the singer in Skankin' Pickle and formed Asian Man Records. Maybe the last thing one might expect from Park on his debut solo album is low-key acoustic folk-pop in the style of early Elliott Smith or the New Amsterdams. That's what For the Love of Music is, though. Park's rich voice is backed by acoustic guitars (with the occasional hushed electric guitar) and minimal percussion as he works his way through ten very personal songs that deal with racism in the ska and mod scenes ("Supposed to Be There Soon"), old-school racism ("From Korea"), getting older ("Counting Sheep"), and family junk ("Present Day Memories"). The songs have winning melodies and the political lyrics aren't as clunky as they could have been. Park has a punk inflection to his vocals that Smith never had; many of the tracks here (like the righteous "Challenging Me" or "Hey You!") would be great punk anthems if fleshed out by a full-band attack. Park does a good job of transferring his ska-punk energy and commitment to the stripped-down bedroom sound, and fans of his older music should be able to make the transition right along with Park smoothly. ~ Tim Sendra
Producer: Mike Park
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|Release Date : 11/11/2003
|Original Release Date : 2003
|Catalog ID : SC 0242
|Label : Hopeless Records
|Number of Discs : 1
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A Christmas tradition in Marysville is drawing in big crowds and big money for charity. The family who lives at 7513 72nd Drive Northeast has been decorating their home for seven years. During the month of December, nearly a hundred cars a night drive through their neighborhood to see it.
Checking out the display is free, but Dennis Warren's hope is that no one comes empty-handed.
He stands on his street night after night, greeting cars as they arrive and collecting donations and canned goods to bring to Volunteers ofAmerica.
They have a big warehouse and can accept anything we can give them, said Warren. It's really worked out the last four or five years.
He says it brings added meaning to a project that already spreads so much joy.
What's really worth it is the smiles on the childrens' faces, and the smiles the lights bring to other adults, he said.
Some families park in front of his house and stay there for a half hour or more. Many visit on more than one occasion.
You always see things like this on YouTube or on television, said Aaron Carlisle, who brought his three-year-old daughter. To experience it in person is even better.
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Crazy Fish's sink plumbing is teed - one goes to directly to a thruhull and one to the input to a macerator. The macerator is located on the aft bulkhead of where the trash can resides.
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Although I was excited initially and the hose performed its purpose, it developed a huge balloon near the nozzle which blew, rendering the hose useless. I noticed there are sharp v-shaped 'grippers' which hold the hose in place. These are causing the holes. My dad's also blew when he tugged at the hose. It was supposed to make that senior's life easier. Instead, we spent a lot of money on disappointment.
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Par Lessismore
de Burlington Ontario
Bought one for myself and another for a friend.....we set up hers first.....a bit apprehensive after some of the negative reviews. However, we quickly realized that after you finish using it, you HAVE to keep spraying to remove the water out, and you will notice again that the hose starts to shrink......Easy to move from one area to another--extremely light! Excellent nozzle (included). Uses minimum storage space over winter. Easily portable. Makes life easier:-) More friends are looking to buy one next year!
Great idea but junk
Par nat
de Ontario
Broke after 2 months. Not durable but love the idea.
Like the concept - but not durable.
Par Momma G
de Edmonton
Was excited, so excited at first. Initially was going to give it 5 stars but the hose blew two weeks ago - so disappointed. I did find though, that I had to "baby" the hose. Don't pull on it, watch it when it was full to ensure it didn't get caught on something when I was going around to the front of my home, etc. I was so sure that I had been using it properly because I didn't want to lug our old hose anymore. I really did like this hose and am sad that it didn't hold up to more than one month of use!
Sooooooooo Disappointed
Par Just Love TSC
de NL
I ordered two 75ft. showstoppers and was THRILLED for about 6 weeks. Then, the inner tube on one collapsed and about a week later, the other one started showing small leaks everywhere. I just loved this product. I was, oh, so careful using them BUT that wasn't the issue.I have tried contacting the company but they just ignore me. Soooooooooo disappointed!!!!
Fragile - Don't try to remove the nozzle
Par True North
de Ottawa
I also was a big fan of this hose. Today I attempted to change the nozzle and attach a Windex outdoor spray bottle. The bottom of the attachment to the hose undid and the inner tube disappearred down inside the outer fabric hose, rendering it useless. I got it in May and up until today only used it for watering the garden. I thought I had finally found a hose that lasts more than one season. Not this one!
not well made at all
Par nannnamary
de new brunswick
i bought this and used it 3 times,,,the nozzle broke right off the end,,,i was shocked to say the least,,..sent back for refund,,,not well made at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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FORT WORTH, Texas — Renowned classical pianist Van Cliburn has appeared in public for the first time since he was diagnosed with advanced bone cancer.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports the 78-year-old pianist shuffled onto the Bass Hall stage in Fort Worth on Thursday night. He appeared after the Fort Worth Symphony finished playing the "Star-Spangled Banner" to open a concert marking the 50th anniversary of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Alann Simpson, interim president and CEO of the Van Cliburn Foundation, told the Star-Telegram that Cliburn "willed himself to do it."
Cliburn's publicist revealed the pianist's cancer diagnosis late last month. Cliburn, who lives in Fort Worth, shot to fame in 1958 when he won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow at age 23.
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I work in foster care, and I say this not to be harsh, but I work with children who have/had extended family members that knew about the extent of the abuse/neglect going on and for whatever reason, did nothing, and really only served to extend the abuse or neglect that was going on. They could have done something, even if it was just to pick up the phone and focus the authorities on these families, and they chose not to. And the kids are the ones who ended up suffering for it.
I can absolutely understand not wanting to provide placement for this baby, and I can understand, to some extent, not wanting to get involved, but I think you have to.
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Don't bring banana-flavoured oatmeal aboard...
Some of you may recall a list that I posted a while ago.
It is my first season launching my new/older boat by myself. The list was of things that needed to be done prior to, or shortly after launching.
Much of the below-the-water stuff has been done - including soda-blasting; new anti-fouling; hull repairs; replacing transducer and depth-sounder; etc.
The list, however is not getting any shorter. For everything that is accomplished I am finding two or three other things that need doing.
It seemed to take forever to get the hull done to get the boat in the water. This was finally done about two weeks ago. I then set about to step the mast. I had replaced the mast-head light with a combination tri-colour and all-around white light. I replaced the wiring in the mast as well as my main halyard. I put on new spreader boots and tidied up my flag halyard blocks. And the thing I was most looking forward to was I replaced the old wind vane that didn't spin as it was bent.
A couple of friends and I took over the crane at the marina and b.s.'d our way into stepping the mast. In retrospect I guess I really should have secured all of the dangling shrouds and stays... I'm sure we looked like a real bunch of winners to the old salts at the marina!
Anyhow, the mast went up; the foot was secured and all of the turn buckles tuned up. I motored over to my slip.
A few days later I looked up to admire my handy-work, and to make sure that my shiny, new wind vane was alligned with the others along the dock. It wasn't! It had got bent by the crane or something when I winched up the mast. Oh well. I guess I can keep relying on my shroud tell-tails until I take the mast down again.
The sails went up pretty easily - except the outhaul snapped when I was tensioning the sail. When I went to replace the outhaul I noticed that the block was in pretty rough shape so I replaced that as well.
After that the sails went up without a hitch.
So now, almost 2-weeks after getting wet we decided to go for a 3-day cruise.
The plan was to sail out to Hope Island and spend a day or two in the nice bay on the South-east side. There is a sandy bottom at about 8 - 10 feet and a long, curving white sand beach along the island. Last year when we were there the water was crystal-clear.
So off we set. The wind was perfect. I was able to go on a broad reach all the way up past the Outer Harbour at Penetanguishene, going at a constant 6.4 knots (that's about my top speed). Because it was mid-week, and because of the high gas prices, we pretty much had the Bay to ourselves.
We got to Hope after a few tacks under Giant's Tomb and saw that the bay was pretty choppy because the wind was coming in from the South East - straight into it. The wind was supposed to decline and shift to the North by the evening. We decided to sail over to the bay on the North side of Beckwith to wait for the wind to shift.
We got into Beckwith and planted the hook. We were alone in a bay that is wall-to-wall with stinkpots on any weekend.
We got lulled by the calmness of our anchorage and ended up hitting the sack where we were.
At about 5 am I woke up with the boat rocking quite heavily end-to-end.
I crawled out of my bunk and found my wife sitting in the salon looking tired. She said the wind had picked up at about 1 am and was now coming in from the North.
I suggested that we haul up the anchor and head over to our original destination which should now be calmer. She was up for that.
Getting the anchor up was a real chore as the waves were coming at us at over a metre. The wind was howling straight at us. I was hoping that my little 9.9 hp would have the guts to push us into the wind once the anchor was up and that the wind wouldn't drive us onto the rocks which looked really close to our port side.
After much heaving and timing my pulls with the rise and fall of the bow, I got the anchor up and stowed and my little Honda gave us a little headway into the howling wind.
We got out beyond the risk of hitting rocks. The waves were coming in at over 2 meters with some monsters getting closer to 3. Sharon is convinced that as we rode up the front of a couple of the big ones the boat was almost vertical. The challenge now was to turn through the waves and head down-wind to the shelter of Hope Island. The way the weather was going would put the the waves coming over our beam for most of the trip down between Beckwith and Hope Islands.
After some rolling and pitching (and probably a lot of yawing) we made the bay at Hope Island and, as expected, it was calm.
We dropped the hook in 8 feet and I put on a pot of coffee.
What does any of this have to do with banana-flavoured oatmeal?
Well, once things calmed down a bit and we'd had a bit of a nap, Sharon told me that the head wasn't drawing in any water for flushing. I had tried to get the weather off the VHF but couldn't get any signal.
Neither of these were a big deal, but they were both nuisances.
I was able to get a local FM station that had marine forecasts and we could haul in buckets of water to flush the head.
Sharon offered me breakfast which I gratefully accepted.
A few minutes later she placed a bowl of steaming banana-flavoured oatmeal in front of me. Banana! Doesn't she know not to bring bananas aboard?
I thought about all of the little things that had not gone as planned, all of the little mechanical failures, and realized that they were all because of the banana-flavoured oatmeal.
Epilogue: Once we returned to the marina I removed all traces of the offending cereal from the boat. I checked the head. It worked perfectly...
The VHF still doesn't work properly. I think I must have disconnected the plug at the mast-head when I stepped the mast.
At least now I have a reason to send someone aloft to check the connection, and, while they are there, fix my damned wind vane.
Does anyone have a spare bosun's chair?
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Bridget Everett Whacks Rock Bottom at Joe's Pub
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The Valley of Astonishment Will Leave You...Astonished
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At first, Thompson is genuinely terrified by the prospect of a sophomore-type slump following the moderate success of Hell's Angels, his close-to-the-bone, firsthand account of time spent among the notorious gang of bikers and bullies; he flails around in desperation, searching for a hold on his next unwieldy book project, a sort of unanchored, telescoping epic about "The Death of the American Dream." Though he knows he's just the writer for such a grandiose undertaking, Thompson is incapable of locating a hinge upon which to hang his apocalyptic screed. Hence there's a very pleasurable kind of suspense in reading the reams of querulous, queasy letters he rifles off (always between four and seven in the morning, ripped to the gills on speed) to his publisher or his agent, bemoaning endless struggles and a frustrating lack of focus. "The angst has become malignant," he confesses to Jim Silberman of Random House. "I feel it growing in me, choking the energy . . . there is a weird, helpless kind of rage in not understanding how I can write so many pages and still not get anything written."
Such epistolary litanies afford an electrifying glimpse of a surprisingly vulnerable artist at the outermost reaches of despair, which becomes all the more poignant when he begins, ever so gradually, to close in on a potential solution. "Maybe the only way to get at the vitals of the American Dream is to come at it crab-wise," he writes to Silberman, " . . . focus down close on something specific, then slam the enemy in the balls from some wholly unexpected vantage point."
And still, before this nut-busting quasi-ambush could take the literary world by storm, Thompson would receive a pair of crucial de facto lessons in national politics. The first lesson, what Thompson refers to in a letter to Lawrence Turman of 20th Century Fox as "The Cauterization of the Duped," occurred at the disastrous '68 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Facing "the National Guard's bayonet picket fence" on Michigan Avenue, Thompson tried to cross the line after flashing his press pass to a cop, "and I was still looking at the snarl on his face when I felt my stomach punched back against my spine; he used his club like a spear, holding it with both hands and hitting me right above the belt."
Thompson was certainly no stranger to physical assaulthe received a legendary ass-stomping from the Hell's Angelsbut this state-sponsored gut-punch was symbolic as well as personal: The fascist worm had turned, and all Thompson's worst fears had come suddenly, devastatingly true. It's after this definitive moment that Thompson's writing becomes at once more pessimistic and more urgent, as he fights to wrest a survivalist's wisdom from his growing despondency. In an incisive 1969 letter to Ron Dorfman of the Chicago Journalism Review, Thompson discusses the notion of "the media provoking violence," and it's clear from the clarity and intensity of his writing that the deeper significance of the DNC debacle was not lost on him. "Should the news media deal with this kind of violence? I think so. A middle-class voyeur who gets his kicks from watching Mannix or Marshal Dillon punch people around should be given the chance to watch a real beatinga terrified man, like himself, screaming and crying for help with blood in his eyes and not able to breathe."
Thompson's second collision with political reality, then, was as redemptive as the first was dishearteningto wit, his wily spearheading of the campaign to elect "hippy lawyer" Joe Edwards as mayor of Aspen in 1969. Though, in the final tally, his "Freak Power" campaign was defeated by a single vote, Thompson found his faith in the system miraculously revitalized. "The joke in all this is that I suddenly see a bedrock validity in the American Dream," he wrote (again to Silberman). "The Joe Edwards campaign was a straight exercise in Jeffersonian Democracy . . . [and] a wilder trip, for me, than any acid I've ever eaten." The drug comparison is apt: From this point forward, Thompson's penchant for political gamesmanship would become a full-blown addiction, compelling his failed bid for sheriff of Aspen in the next election (on the "mescaline ticket"), and then driving him to compose his most enduring work of renegade political reportage, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72.
And then, of course, there was Watergate, which Thompson describes to his agent, Lynn Nesbit, in September 1976 as the "dramatically perfect climax to what now seems like one, long, violent and incredibly active story." Indeed. Fear and Loathing in America itself reads like one long, rambunctious, crazed, and oddly touching epistolary novel, written by a brilliant nervous-wreck of a man who finds himself caught in the middle of a very American nightmare. (Thompson wanted more than anything to be his generation's F. Scott Fitzgerald.) The collection is rarely dull, and often downright hilarious, especially Thompson's endless stream of scurrilous assaults on a nickel-and-diming Jann Wenner ("Jann your most recent emission of lunatic, greed-crazed instructions to me was good for a lot of laughs here in Saigon . . . "). Most interesting, however, are the long letters in which Thompson waxes philosophical on the subject of writing and reporting; in working out his ideas in this format, he provides important insights into his wildly subjective "gonzo" style of journalism.
All of these lettersto Tom Wolfe, William Kennedy, Ralph Steadman, "Samoan Attorney" Oscar Acosta, Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, George McGovernwind themselves like enervated commentary into the narrative stitching provided by the sweep of big historical events, augmenting our understanding of Thompson's development as one of this country's most imaginative and prophetic social observers/critics. While the collection as a whole could certainly benefit from a more meticulous system of annotationthe whirl of names and dates is dizzyingit nonetheless stands as an extremely valuable historical document, and a testament to Thompson's lasting importance as both a journalist and stylist.
Thompson himself best sums up the book's sociological worth in a letter to Silberman near the end of the anthology: "I have never had much respect or affection for journalism, but for the past 10 years it has been both a dependable meal-ticket and a valid passport to the cockpit(s) of whatever action, crisis, movement or instant history I wanted to be a part of. . . . I managedby using almost any kind of valid or invalid journalistic credentials I could get my hands onto get myself personally involved in just about everything that interested me: from Berkeley to Chicago, Las Vegas to the White House, shark-fishing, street-fighting, dope-smuggling, Hell's Angels, Superbowls, local politics and a few things I'd prefer not to mention until various statutes of limitations expire."
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White initiated a law effective in July 2012 that gives his office authority to waive such fees for residents impacted by natural disasters and living in counties that have been declared disaster areas by the governor. The 13 counties proclaimed disaster areas include: Champaign, Douglas, Grundy, Jasper, LaSalle, Massac, Pope, Tazewell, Wabash, Washington, Wayne, Will and Woodford counties.
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Collinsville, Ill. (Nov. 19, 2013) – After battling weather and hazardous working conditions throughout the past two days, Ameren Illinois field crews and support staff have restored service to 94 percent of all customers.
As of 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, about 7,500 customers were without power, mostly concentrated in the hard-hit areas of Washington, Pekin, Bloomington, Danville and Gifford.
Estimated safe restoration times for all customers in Pekin, Groveland, Roanoke, East Peoria, Bloomington, Danville, Tuscola and Pana is the end of the day today. Restoration work is also in progress for customers in Washington and Gifford and both areas are expected to have service by the end of the day on Wednesday.
November 18, 2013 (Danville, Illinois)— The Festival of Trees closed yesterday due to storm-related power outages, much like the rest of the Danville area. As a result, organizers have made some announcements:
The Festival of Trees is open for business as planned today, from 9:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m., including all scheduled events.
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DANVILLE — The Vermilion County Sheriff's Department has made two arrests in connection with an October home invasion.
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