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Jun 24, 2020
Simple, effective product for cooking eggs for sandwiches
I'd like it better if the metal was thicker to help retain cooking heat, but if you use it on a FLAT heating surface like a griddle and you let it sit on the griddle for a couple of minutes to warm up before you break the egg into it or ladle in the scrambled egg mixture, you get minimum to no egg leakage and a nice disc of cooked egg for your sandwiches. Great product, and I would not mind having a few more.
Sep 20, 2010
A compendium of John Williams' hits - and misses
John Williams has had a lasting impact on the American culture, and indeed worldwide culture. Everyone knows the "Theme from Jaws," the "Main Title from Star Wars," and "The Superman March," his signature song when he's conducting. These and numbers like them are on this CD of numbers that are requested when he's serving as a guest conductor or the Conductor Emeritus of the Boston Pops. All the tracks on By Request were recorded by Williams during his tenure as the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, which to me is a major plus. When you have the composer conducting his own music with 'his' orchestra, you know that what you're hearing is what the composer wanted to say with his music. That's rare in the orchestral world, and is another reason to cherish this CD.
There are other numbers on this CD that many people forget he wrote. Every time you watch the Olympic Games, you'll hear "Summon the Heroes," included here as part of his "Olympic Fanfare and Theme." If you watch the NBC Nightly News, you will hear excerpts from "The Mission," a piece especially commissioned by NBC News for their nightly news program that has led in and seen out the network's nighttime news broadcast for thirty years now. There is the "Liberty Fanfare," specially commissioned for the centennial of the Statue of Liberty. All of these are seldom heard in their entirety, and are worth listening to.
And then there are some numbers where in my opinion the Maestro missed the mark; or perhaps it's simply that the movies from which they are taken do not appeal to me and thus taint the music with that distaste. Compared to its contemporary, "The Patton March" by Jerry Goldsmith, the "Midway March" seems pale and tired. The march Williams wrote for Steven Spielberg's only flop, 1941, leaves me scratching my head. And the overture that he wrote for the John Wayne movie The Cowboys in 1972 has never seemed to me to belong in a movie of that genre, never mind one with that particular plot; it's just too bombastic.
However, that's what the Skip button on your CD player is for. I'm more than willing to put up with three duds in order to get fifteen of John Williams' best numbers on one CD. I think you will be as well.
Jul 05, 2007
The Basic Guide to Heraldry and Blazoning
1 of 2 found this helpful If you want to learn how the English heraldic system works - the rules for designing a coat of arms - and the art of blazon - the language that describes heraldic devices in such a way that they can be visualized without the need to draw them out - this is your textbook. It will teach you all the rules and enough terminology so you can continue learning on your own from other, more specialized books. Fox-Davies is not the ultimate book on heraldry, nor is the guide to heraldry as complete as the title suggests. But there is no better place to learn the basics and develop a foundation in heraldry than this book.