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The main stipulation of the bill under fire calls for an inspector general, a position that would oversee the actions of the Boys in Blue. Bloomberg and Kelly have both stated that the position would add another layer of bureaucracy, stalling an agency that needs to be fast on its toes. And, against their will, it had the support of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who argued that, in light of recent controversies involving surveillance and stop-and-frisk, an inspector general was needed now more than ever.
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Thanks for answering my post, Trish! I had a leftover uncooked meatloaf in the freezer, which I baked first and followed the rest of the recipe. Served it with egg noodles and Amish Green Beans by Sharlene W. This meatloaf was enjoyed even by my kids, who do not like meatloaf. Roxygirl
Excellent recipe for leftovers ... I used a jared spaghetti sauce and still added the minced garlic clove to it ... I put spinach on the bottom (3cups) ... served it on spaghetti ... excellent!
This is the best idea for leftover meatloaf I've ever seen, it makes sense, meatloaf is just a giant meatball! It's so simple, it's brilliant!
Tish,I must say this is a very good way to use up leftover meatloaf.Since it was just me eating dinner,this is how it was made.I took three very thinly sliced pieces of Mom's Meatloaf,layed them side by side and topped each slice with 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce that already had a blend of basil,garlic,and oregano.Then I topped that with a shredded Italian Cheese blend. Popped this into my toaster oven.( Didn't want to heat up the whole oven for just me)Baked it at 350º for 30 minutes.And I served it over spaghetti.Thank you for posting a very interesting way to serve leftover meatloaf."Keep Smiling:)"
Wow I can't wait to take this recipe to work Monday! I had it in a sandwich and my hubbie ate it without the bread, and I made pasta for him to put the sauce on. He loved it and said we will be having this again right? My answer was for sure!! I added some parm cheese on top the motz is only change I made.
my hubby loved this!!! he didnt even know it was my leftover meatloaf...lol
I made something very similar to this and my whole family loved it. I used leftover homemade spaghetti sauce instead of the tomato sauce, garlic and italian seasonings. I also added Parmesan cheese. We will definitely have this again. Yum!
this was very good, but why is it called meatloaf parmesan? there is none in the recipe. I added it anyhow, and frankly, I will leave it out next time. this should really be called "Meatloaf Lasagna". Its a very neat, and enjoyable way to use up leftover meatloaf. Wonder if you could layer pepperoni on the meatloaf, and add mushrooms, and onion, and have sort of a pizza effect? I'm gona try that next time.


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Jen's WebLogAll things speech and language related.http://blogs.msdn.com/b/janderso/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2005-01-13T15:15:00ZShould we make better mistakes?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/janderso/archive/2005/03/30/403882.aspx2005-03-30T20:58:00Z2005-03-30T20:58:00Z
Interesting article on using common sense information in speech recognition:

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/032305/Common_sense_boosts_speech_software_032305.html

Users appear to like their experience better if the result (even if incorrect) is semantically plausible.

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A few weeks ago, I was asked to speak about what blogging means to me at Microsoft. It's part of a women's luncheon for my division and the overall goal is to tell people about different types of community involvement. It reminded me of how long it has been since I've actually written here. I'm constantly taking notes of neat Speech/ voice/ linguistic related things on my computer with the intent of later publishing it here. I see this blog as a way to write out my thoughts about these areas and how they relate to the current work that I do. Almost everyday it seems I find out some other neat tidbit.

 I just returned from a recruiting trip for Microsoft. It's my second campus trip and I cant oxen begin to explain the renewed energy it gives me for my job here at Microsoft and for Microsoft's future. There are some amazing college students out there with a tremendous amount of potential. I'm proud to be able to talk to these individuals about technology, their future and the future of Microsoft. I think it is such an amazing opportunity.

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Better late than never, eh?

Now that there are more speech bloggers out there, I should probably tell you who I am. My name is Jen, obviously, and I've been working in speech here at Microsoft for about the past three years. My primary focus is everything desktop related, but I spend a lot of time out here reading about customer experiences, wants, needs, etc. and will probably focus on that more than anything. I'd like to see desktop speech in more mainstream use and I'm looking for ways to make that happen.

jandersohttp://blogs.msdn.com/janderso/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxHealthcare and Technologyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/janderso/archive/2005/01/31/364070.aspx2005-01-31T22:26:00Z2005-01-31T22:26:00Z
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EYVCHTVEF1PQKQSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=59200094

CEOs pushing healthcare technology- speech, handwriting & Tablet seem like natural extensions to aid the healthcare community.

jandersohttp://blogs.msdn.com/janderso/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxUK urged to make computers more humanhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/janderso/archive/2005/01/25/360431.aspx2005-01-25T22:20:00Z2005-01-25T22:20:00Z
I ran across this aricle today: http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160755 about the British Computing Society encouraging UK researchers to investigate implementing more human-like behavior in computers. The article talks some about cognitive processing, invesitgating mental disorders and intelligent robots.

But, surprisingly, speech was not mentioned. I personally think that speech is the next natural interface with computers. But does natural equal human-like? In my opinion, yes. But not as the current technology stands. I think that in order for people to use speech widely on desktop systems that they want an interaction that rivals that of speaking to a human - more on the lines of semantic interpretation. We need to make speech be exciting for a user, to provide some value. An alternate way of typing is novel, but not that thrilling - especially given that typing is taught to most students in high school or younger. For persons with RSI or some other disability, I realize that dictation (good dictation and command and control) may be enough. But, for the other users, they want more - they want to accomplish something that they can't do otherwise, or accomplish something in a faster, more natural way. Currently, I don't think there's any SR system on the market that allows for this sort of experience.

I think we are coming close in embedded applications, but we are limited by memory. I've seen academic demos of some really amazing applications that do add value to the end user - online recognition and translation for example. Things like controlling smart homes are intriguing as well. I know that when I'm laying on the couch I would love to just be able to say "set temperature to 68 degrees" and have it work. Save me some work and I'll use SR for everything. That's the message I'm getting from most non-impaired users.

jandersohttp://blogs.msdn.com/janderso/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxSo much speech, so little time.http://blogs.msdn.com/b/janderso/archive/2005/01/21/358431.aspx2005-01-21T22:21:00Z2005-01-21T22:21:00Z
Dear readers, today I have not one, but two articles for you. I don't have much time to comment, but I'll try soon:

http://www.physorg.com/news2731.html : Multi-lingual speech based technology

http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160633: : IBM's more natural sounding tts

jandersohttp://blogs.msdn.com/janderso/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxLinguistics and the web.http://blogs.msdn.com/b/janderso/archive/2005/01/20/357810.aspx2005-01-21T01:26:00Z2005-01-21T01:26:00Z
So, I'm a linguist at heart. Give me a sentence and I'll give you a syntactic and/or sematic breakdown for your viewing pleasure. So, Fil sent around this article today and now I'm excited about linguistic search engines and corpora and everything. I need a sentence to parse.

Seriously though, I often think about the relation to SR engines and syntactic / semantic grammars. I don't know of any engines (aside from research ones) that actually consider straight syntactical information in their evaluation. What people really want is a semantic engine. They want to speak to the computer like they talk to you or I. Who wouldn't?

If you like things like this as much as me (which is doubtful) then check out these fun places. I won't tell.

Original article: http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3576374

Linguist's search engine: http://lse.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/ - so you can look for things like <noun phrase> <verb phrase> instead of specific words

Language Log: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/ - a blog for linguistics! My life is complete.

jandersohttp://blogs.msdn.com/janderso/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxSpeech Recognition instead of call centers?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/janderso/archive/2005/01/14/353300.aspx2005-01-14T22:26:00Z2005-01-14T22:26:00Z
I was pointed to this article that talks about using AIM for conversations between hearing-imparied and non-hearing imparied individuals. This allows the two parties to communicate without the use of TTY terminal.

Still, there is a call center transcribing the information. This seems like a really interesting application for speech recognition. Assuming accuracy was high enough, this would remove the potential awkardness of speaking while there was a transcriber present. I know there are other things to consider here, but to me, the link seems obvious.

http://www.betanews.com/article/AOL_MCI_Offer_Phone_Numbers_to_Deaf_with_IM/1102908638

jandersohttp://blogs.msdn.com/janderso/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxIBM Releases 500 Patentshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/janderso/archive/2005/01/13/352527.aspx2005-01-13T23:15:00Z2005-01-13T23:15:00Z
IBM has announced that they are releasing 500 of their patents to the open development community. Speech related ones are below:

US6199043 Conversation management in speech recognition interfaces

US5649060 Automatic indexing and aligning of audio and text using speech recognition

US5636325 Speech synthesis and analysis of dialects

US6185529 Speech recognition aided by lateral profile image

US5615299 Speech recognition using dynamic features

US5615296 Continuous speech recognition and voice response system and method to enable conversational dialogues with microprocessors

US5263117 Method and apparatus for finding the best splits in a decision tree for a language model for a speech recognizer

US5222146 Speech recognition apparatus having a speech coder outputting acoustic prototype ranks

See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4163975.stm and http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/01/patents.html for a list of patents.

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While they may be used interchangeably in casual conversation, they actually have different meanings. From an etymological dictionary:
There isn't a lot of difference between them - they can be used almost interchangeably. To the extent that there is a difference (and anyone pays attention to the fine gradations in the terms), then:
None of them expresses outright disbelief in whatever is being discussed, but there is always a background sentiment of "that should not be happening; are you sure it did?".
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It's the Avengers' 50th anniversary, and Marvel has a big plan for Avengers #24.NOW, also known as Avengers #1 for the purposes of All-New Marvel NOW! (It's confusing, I know. Just go with it.). To celebrate the milestone in December, the publisher plans to sell a special polybagged edition of Avengers #24.NOW and bundle it with a "Avengers 50th Anniversary Mega Fold-Out Poster" that's more than 6 feet wide. For the curious, that's about 11 comic pages stacked end to end.
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See the full poster below. Avengers #24.NOW goes on sale Dec. 14.
Is there any info as to whether this polybagged w/ poster version is still going to be $3.99? I also heard a rumor that all the ".NOW" numbered issues would include digital copies of the whole first arc of each comic. Is that true, as well? Because I wouldn't mind trying out some things I haven't read yet (like maybe Nova or one of the X-Force titles) if I can get caught up. Anybody know any info about this stuff at all?
Just looked at the Marvel Previews and it has no mention of the poster and does say that the digital is #24 and volume 1 Avengers World.
This is a terrible poster. It's just a bunch of unconnected stock figures with costumes. A glorified sketch pad. Yes, the figures are photo-realistic, but who cares?
Can you remotely imagine Jack Kirby generating something so static, so banal? Or Gene Colan? Or John Buscema? Or George Perez?
There's so much more to dynamic comic art than tracing photos.
There appears to be a major error here. Where is Gilgamesh?
He's the Forgotten One. What did you expect?
no original guardians that sucks…(and yes they were members at one point back during the Korvac Saga).
LOL! And people say the New 52 is bad? LOL! Marvel restarts their comics every year now it's ridiculous!
Gilgamesh appears on the right of the image behind Captain Mar-vell
Where's Magdalene? I can't see her, but I do see Swordsman II, Masque and Deathcry. Magdalene should be there too.
Above Winter Soldier.
They did not put Living Lightning. lol Fury Jr was never an avenger unless you disregard the secret team created by Shield without the knowledge and permission of the Avengers.
And although they put some honorary members (Yellowjacket, Deathcry, Magdalene, Marrina, Swordsman alternative and Masque) they forgot to others as Rick Jones, the original Guardians of the Galaxy and Flux.
Who is the woman in red behind wolverine?
Is Luke Cage in there? I can't find him…
D'oh! He's next to the Winter Soldier, right?
@ William: Good question. I thought it might be Firestar. Because of the glasses and the red hair. But I sure don't know this outfit.
Pff, it's Julia Carpanter now known as Madame Web …
Living Lightning is behind Wonder Man
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Reconstructability Analysis of Epistasis
Version of Record online: 6 DEC 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00628.x
© 2010 The Author Annals of Human Genetics © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/University College London
Annals of Human Genetics
Volume 75, Issue 1, pages 157–171, January 2011
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Zwick, M. (2011), Reconstructability Analysis of Epistasis. Annals of Human Genetics, 75: 157–171. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2010.00628.x
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- Version of Record online: 6 DEC 2010
- Received: 15 May 2010Accepted: 7 October 2010
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- Epistasis;
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The literature on epistasis describes various methods to detect epistatic interactions and to classify different types of epistasis. Reconstructability analysis (RA) has recently been used to detect epistasis in genomic data. This paper shows that RA offers a classification of types of epistasis at three levels of resolution (variable-based models without loops, variable-based models with loops, state-based models). These types can be defined by the simplest RA structures that model the data without information loss; a more detailed classification can be defined by the information content of multiple candidate structures. The RA classification can be augmented with structures from related graphical modeling approaches. RA can analyze epistatic interactions involving an arbitrary number of genes or SNPs and constitutes a flexible and effective methodology for genomic analysis.


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Author and cartoonist Kris Kovick died Friday in San Francisco at the age of 50, following an eight-year battle with breast cancer. Credited as the founder of the women's spoken word scene in San Francisco via the monthly show she hosted at Red Dora's Lady Café from 1991 to 1993, Kovick had her cartoons and writings published in many periodicals and anthologies, including her own collection, What I Love About Lesbian Politics Is Arguing With People I Agree With. Donations can be made to her memory to San Francisco's Jon Sims Center for the Arts.


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The recent capture of polygamous leader Warren Jeffs now off the FBI's most-wanted list and waiting his fate in the aptly named Purgatory Jail once again puts plural marriage and Utah under international scrutiny.
The world press is clearly intrigued, while at the same time baffled by polygamy's modern-day complexities. In the shorthand of daily journalism, polygamous fundamentalism is often pictured as a monolithic culture full of sister wives in dowdy ankle-length dresses. Though estimates put their number at less than 40,000, "Mormon fundamentalists" are often confused in media reports with the 12.5 million members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In reality, modern-day polygamous fundamentalists are a diverse lot, full of rival leaders and a contentious history, as well as thousands of members who follow no leader at all. Some live in isolated communities (one group worships in a pyramid on the Utah-Nevada border); some may live next door in the Salt Lake Valley, not unlike the folks on HBO's "Big Love." Others live at Jeffs' new, secretive FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) temple compound in Eldorado, Texas, in polygamous colonies in northern Mexico and western Canada, and in tiny outposts scattered around the Intermountain West.
Despite the imprisonment of the movement's most visible leader, polygamous fundamentalism appears to have a staying power that makes it unlikely to disappear anytime soon, according to experts both inside and out.
Anne Wilde, a polygamist widow and a director of the pro-polygamy group Principle Voices, says there are currently some 37,000 people (including children) who are fundamentalist Mormons. That's a name that the LDS Church finds objectionable, but one that the fundamentalists say is fitting. It is the mainstream LDS Church, they argue, that strayed from the faith's original doctrinal underpinnings when LDS Church President Wilford Woodruff issued the Manifesto in 1890, advising Latter-day Saints to refrain from plural marriage.
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Because polygamy continued in secrecy to a small extent, a second "official statement" on the practice was issued by LDS Church President Joseph F. Smith in 1904, ending authorization for plural marriages on pain of excommunication from the church. Current LDS leaders acknowledge the practice as part of their early history, and LDS scripture still contains passages that fundamentalists use to defend its continuation.
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In the first few decades of the 20th century, several LDS Church members including a few leaders were excommunicated as they continued to advocate polygamy and/or practice it. Some were later reinstated in the church, while a handful split from the faith to form their own groups under separate leadership. The ins and outs of those complex relationships are documented in a new 500-page book just off the press this week, "Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto," by Layton physician and historian Brian Hales.
The dissenters said the true priesthood authority to perform plural marriage came to them in a variety of ways, most tied to either their early ancestors as acquaintances of church founder Joseph Smith or one of his successors, President John Taylor. (See related story link)
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In January 1847 a young woman lay dying of consumption at 11 Boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris. Her name was Marie Duplessis. She had recently turned 23 and was the most fashionable courtesan in Paris, the uncontested queen of the horizontales who serviced the city's rich bourgeoisie, upper classes, artists, writers and musicians. Her life and death would inspire Verdi's most famous opera – La traviata.
By all accounts Duplessis was as refined as she was brilliant, precocious and generous. Franz Liszt was among her many lovers. He was touring Russia when news reached him that she had died. Hers, he declared, had been the sweetest nature, pure and serene, unsullied by the corruption of her shadowy world. Clearly there was something very special about Marie Duplessis.
Nor did the wider French press hold back with their tributes after her death on 3 February 1847. After all, in addition to such lovers as Liszt, Alexandre Dumas fils and — perhaps too — Dumas père, Duplessis' wider circle of acquaintances encompassed some of her most illustrious contemporaries.
Within a year of Duplessis' death, Dumas fils had written La Dame aux camélias. They had been lovers for 11 months. The novel was instantly recognized as a roman à clef and took Paris by storm, not least because of its candid, unapologetic portrayal of forbidden pleasures and vices. Dumas' pretext for basing it so intimately on his own life was that at 24 he was too young to invent fiction.
On 2 February 1852, pointedly almost five years to the day since her death, Dumas' dramatic adaptation of La Dame aux camélias received its premiere at the Vaudeville. It was almost certainly through this that Verdi and his companion, the singer Giuseppina Strepponi, first encountered the story of Marie Duplessis in the guise of Marguerite Gautier. Verdi appears to have decided there and then to compose La traviata.
An illuminating account of Duplessis' early life growing up in Normandy was written some forty years after her death by a childhood friend, the journalist Romain Vienne. While on a posting in San Francisco he had been persuaded to see La Dame aux camélias. In response, Vienne wrote a memoir, La Vérité sur la dame aux camélias, in the hope of distancing Marie's story from the fictions that had grown up around her.
Marie Duplessis was born Rose Alphonsine Plessis in the village of Nonant on 15 January 1824. The aristocratic-sounding 'Du' and her first name were her inventions. Vienne's most affecting memory was of a time when they had met again in Nonant years after childhood. Marie revealed to him that she had returned to Normandy to recover from the birth of a 'beautiful' baby boy three months earlier. She could not keep him because his rich father had taken him away to be brought up in Burgundy in ways befitting his noble pedigree.
When Vienne pressed Duplessis about her own father, she started to cry; much to his surprise she defended his memory, even though he had once traded her for money to a degenerate old man in the nearby hamlet of Exmes. She who later displayed red and white camellias alternately to advertise her sexual availability had, as a child, been found wandering aimlessly in meadows near the village, distraught, bleeding and terror-stricken. Local outrage at the treatment of little Alphonsine saved her from being forced back into the arms of her abuser; it also turned her father into a pariah.
The short life of the lady of the camellias continues to haunt the imagination. Marie Duplessis has achieved lasting and universal fame as Violetta Valéry in the lyrics and music of Verdi's opera. Proust claimed that La traviata transformed La Dame aux camélias into art. It also turned the tragic young woman from Normandy into a legend.
This is an edited extract from René Weis's article 'The Saintly Courtesan', available in full in The Royal Opera's programme book for La traviata, on sale during performances.
Weis's books include The Real Traviata: The Song of Marie Duplessis.
La traviata runs 16 January–19 March 2016. Tickets are still available.]]>
For much of opera's history it was common practice for composers to alter their works for different performances – inserting arias for certain singers, removing others, and changing the orchestration to suit the available forces. Gluck had a particular challenge when he took his opera Orfeo ed Euridice from Vienna to Paris, making significant changes to a work that was already highly innovative, to suit the cities' very different tastes and traditions.
Orfeo ed Euridice was the first of Gluck's three 'Reform' operas, created with librettist Ranieri de' Calzabigi, and it was a tremendous success on its Vienna premiere in 1762. Gluck and Calzabigi set out to reform the serious opera of the day, as in their view it had ossified into rigid formalities, far removed from the drama that was supposed to drive it. They succeeded: Orfeo immediately captivated audiences with its vivid depiction of Orpheus' grief and his journey through the Underworld.
In Orfeo, both Gluck and Calzabigi were influenced by the French tragédie lyrique – particularly its practice of long, through-composed dramatic structures, adapted by Gluck to breathtaking effect. It only made sense, then, that Gluck should wish to establish himself in Paris. He arrived in the city in 1773, and with the help of his former singing pupil Marie Antoinette, managed to convince the Académie Royale de Musique to stage his first French opera, Iphigénie en Aulide.
A strenuous rehearsal period paid off with Iphigénie's triumphant premiere in April 1774. The success, though, was short-lived: Louis XV's death in May meant the closure of all theatres and a premature end to Iphigénie's first run. Gluck put the period of mourning to good use, and rapidly adapted Orfeo ed Euridice for its Parisian premiere in August.
This adaptation was no small feat: almost every movement was revised or extended, with some entirely new sections. The biggest change was to the hero. Orfeo in Vienna had been a castrato; but in France the castrato voice was almost a subject of ridicule, so Gluck recast Orphée as a haute-contre, a very high tenor voice. The haute-contre in question was Joseph Legros, then the Opéra's leading man; his incredibly high-lying voice has meant that, in the history of opera, only a handful of tenors have been able to tackle the role.
The change of hero was by no means the only alteration. Gluck revised the orchestration to suit the more modern instruments in Paris: cornetti were replaced by clarinets, chalumeaux by oboes. The larger performance space of the Académie Royale demanded a richer orchestral texture, leading to much more extended use of the trombones in particular. Gluck inserted extra dances and arias throughout, meeting the French demand for spectacle.
Gluck's amendments for Paris attract criticism, even now. Some see the augmentation of the one-hour-long chamber opera Orfeo ed Euridice into the more ornate tragédie lyrique Orphée et Eurydice as a departure from the values of the 'Reform' operas. It's true that certain things were lost: the transposition of Orpheus' role from castrato to haute-contre disrupted Gluck's sophisticated tonal plan, and the addition of extra movements meant much of the satisfying structural symmetry of the original was lost. The addition of Orpheus' Act I aria 'L'espoir renaît dans mon âme' – a vocal showpiece with arguably little dramatic purpose – caused controversy even in Gluck's time.
And yet there are obvious advantages to the Paris version. In the 11 years between Orfeo and Orphée, Gluck had developed both as a composer and as a man of the theatre, and many of his alterations intensify his earlier dramatic touches. Several of the additions contain some of Gluck's finest music – the revised dances in Act II, Eurydice's lovely following aria 'Cet asile aimable et tranquille' and the Act III trio 'Tendre Amour'. We're lucky today that we can enjoy performances and recordings that seek to recreate, as far as possible, Gluck's two very different impressions of this masterpiece.
Orphée et Eurydice runs 14 September–3 October 2015. Tickets are still available.
The production is staged with generous philanthropic support from Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet, and is part of #Hofest.]]>
'Ah! How delightful to leave the dreary countryside for Paris, beautiful Paris that Love must have created!' wrote the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The image of Paris as the city of love has inspired countless novels and films – and operas, too, though not always for reasons of romance…
Take the city's troubled political and religious history, inspiration for several great operas. Meyerbeer's 1836 opera Les Huguenots focusses on the conflict between Protestant Huguenots and Catholics and culminates in the 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Sixty years after Meyerbeer, Giordano was drawn to the French Revolution for Andrea Chénier. Both composers take care to depict local and period colour: Meyerbeer frequently refers to the Lutheran chorale 'Ein' feste Burg', and opens Act III with lusty choruses sung by Parisian pleasure-seekers, and Giordano weaves the Marseillaise and other Revolutionary songs into his score. But the principal focus of both operas is the impact of politics on young lovers: Meyerbeer's Protestant Raoul and Catholic Valentine, and Giordano's poet Chénier and aristocrat Maddalena di Coigny, who – in both operas – choose to die together heroically rather than capitulate to a brutal regime.
Paris's reputation as the hub of thrilling theatre has also inspired several composers. Cilea vividly depicted the bustle of backstage life at the Comédie-Française in Adriana Lecouvreur, his heroine inspired by the great 18th-century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur. He mixed fiction (a play by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé) with a few facts about the real Adrienne to create a memorably dramatic plot – which ends with Adriana's death after she receives a poisoned bouquet sent to her by an aristocratic rival in love. Richard Strauss offered a rather more positive view of theatrical patronage in Capriccio (which also contains a character modelled on a real 18th-century French star actress, La Clairon), where his heroine Countess Madeleine and her stage-struck brother genuinely love the arts.
During the 18th and 19th centuries Paris became famed for its courtesans; as a consequence many operatic heroines have found themselves corrupted there (especially if they're called Manon). Massenet's Manon becomes a vain coquette once she's entered the Parisian demi-monde: she exults in her own beauty in her Act III Gavotte and encourages Des Grieux into a life of vice in the hectic gambling scene. In the Parisian Act II of Puccini's Manon Lescaut the once-innocent heroine is depicted as a pampered and bored kept woman. Henze's Manon in Boulevard Solitude evolves into a vulgar tart and ultimately becomes a cold-blooded killer. On the other hand, in Verdi's La traviata the brash music for the party scenes contrasts with Violetta and Alfredo's lyrical sincerity and their longing to leave Paris for a simpler life in the country.
Despite its reputation for corruption, Paris has played host to some of the most enjoyable operatic parties take place in Paris. These include Hanna Glawari's ball in Lehár's Die lustige Witwe (where she transforms her house into an imitation of Maxim's restaurant), Offenbach's ebullient champagne supper and masked ball in La Vie parisienne and the joyous Christmas Eve celebrations in Act II of Puccini's La bohème (which Debussy claimed brought 1830s Paris perfectly to life).
Finally, there's no doubt that Paris has inspired some of opera's most tender love music. The city provides the perfect romantic backdrop to Manon and Des Grieux's amorous duet in Act II of Manon, Louise's ecstatic aria 'Depuis le jour' in Act III of Charpentier's Louise, Ruggero and Magda's toast to love ('Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso') in Act II of Puccini's La rondine and, perhaps greatest of all, Rodolfo and Mimì's growing attraction in Act I of La bohème. No matter how critical opera composers may be of Paris, its romantic ambience is as irresistible for them as for anyone else.
La traviata runs from 16 January – 19 March 2016. Booking is now open.
The performance will be relayed live to cinemas worldwide on 4 February 2016. Find your nearest cinema showing.
The production is generously supported by Coutts.
Massenet's exquisite opera Manon was written in 1882, at the height of the period known as the Belle Époque. Laurent Pelly's Royal Opera production takes that world of lavish luxury as its setting, in response to the intense focus Massenet places on his capricious heroine. Massenet's Manon is quite distinct from the heroine of the 1731 novel by Abbé Prévost that inspired the opera, a moralistic tale tracking the fateful passion of the young Chevalier Des Grieux for a bad girl. As Kate Hopkins writes in the programme book accompanying the production, Massenet was following 'the 19th-century fascination with the fallen woman'
'Prostitution was one of the most discussed and controversial subjects of the era. Painters (particularly in France) depicted prostitutes and courtesans in various guises, the most famous example perhaps Manet's Olympia (1863). Many writers, particularly in England and France, explored the prostitute, the courtesan, the seduced girl and the adulterous wife in their novels. In her progress from flirtatious girl via glamorous courtesan to wretched prisoner Massenet's Manon displays similarities to a wide range of heroines in 19th-century fiction. All have one characteristic in common: a love of pleasure that leads them to make disastrous choices.'
Elsewhere in the programme book, historian Kate Hickman writes 'The Parisian courtesan had become the ultimate luxury good. While the principal part of her trade took place in the bedroom, it was never only about sex. The great courtesan's art was about theatre, about extravagance, about wildly conspicuous consumption: a piece of performance art long before that term was ever invented.
'Manon could have been any one of thousands – perhaps tens of thousands – of young women who contributed to the sexual economy of 19th-century France. This extraordinary world, or half-world – the demi-monde, in Dumas' eloquent phrase – was a vast shadowland of women who, with varying degrees of business sense, traded sexual favours for money. They ranged from the filles de joie of the lowliest bordellos to the most famous courtesans, so luxurious – so expensive – that a new term altogether had to be coined to describe them. These women – the Grandes horizontales as they became known – were the stars of their day. Famous, independent, wealthy beyond dreams, they were written about, emulated, desired and excoriated, in about equal measure.'
Kate Hickman goes on to describe the courtesans' spending habits: 'Cora Pearl, the celebrated "English Beauty" of the Second Empire, is only one of a number of courtesans who is alleged to have had herself served up 'au naturel' upon a platter, the pièce de résistance at one of her own dinner parties (a strategic sprig of parsley is included in some versions). This story, and others like it – the bath filled with vintage champagne, the marrons glacés (in another version, oranges) wrapped in 1,000 franc notes – may or may not have been literally true; but what is certain is that the courtesan's job was to spend. And spend they did: not only on clothes and jewels, but on acquiring the best chefs, the finest wines, the most outrageously expensive hothouse flowers.'
The full articles 'Courtesans: The Real Story' by Kate Hickman and 'Destroyed by Pleasure' by Kate Hopkins are available in the programme book that accompanies Manon, on sale in the theatre at performance times and from the ROH Shop. The Royal Opera's production of Manon runs from 14 January to 4 February 2014. Tickets are still available.]]>
The Story Begins…
When the elegant courtesan Magda de Civry meets the young and innocent Ruggero Lastouc, she is smitten, and begins to imagine the life they might live together. But can she forget her past and make her dream reality?
1920s Elegance
Nicolas Joël's naturalistic production pays homage to the final years of the era of the great courtesans. Art Deco is evoked in the elegant salon of Act I – with sumptuous furniture, beautiful frescoes and a white grand piano – and in the mosaic tiles of the hotel in Act III. Magda's glamorous costume in Act I contrasts with the simple print dress she wears in Act II's brilliant evocation of Paris café life.
Operetta Origins
La rondine was originally commissioned for the Carltheater in Vienna as an operetta; a German libretto was supplied. Puccini insisted on writing a through-composed work in Italian, and employed the librettist Giuseppe Adami to adapt the text. In 1915 Italy entered World War I, fighting against the Austrians. Writing an opera for Vienna was now impossible and La rondine had its premiere in neutral Monte Carlo in 1917. By then it had been transformed from its operetta origins, not least in terms of the story, which has a more melancholy ending than most operettas.
Dances and Beautiful Melodies
One operetta quality that does remain in La rondine is the use of popular dances, particularly the waltz. This is most prominent in Act II, when two waltz themes are combined. In the same act, Puccini experimented with the tango, one-step and foxtrot. Along with this dance-inspired music, La rondine contains some exquisite arias, particularly Magda's dreamy 'Chi il bel sogno di Doretta' in Act I.
Growing Success
La rondine was slow to become successful, in part because of its 'mixed' genre: neither a comedy nor a tragedy. However, in recent years it has had regular performances worldwide, and become hailed, as Puccini himself called it, as a 'jewel' in the repertory.
La rondine runs from 5 – 21 July. Tickets are on sale now. The production is sponsored by Coutts. Generous philanthropic support was given by Mr and Mrs Christopher W.T. Johnston and The American Friends of Covent Garden.]]>
The Story Begins…
When a penniless writer, Rodolfo, meets a young seamstress, Mimì, it is a case of love at first sight. As it dawns on him that she is gravely ill with consumption, will he leave her or stay?
Nineteenth-Century Paris Brought to Life
Designer Julia Trevelyan Oman meticulously researched Parisian life of the
1830s and 40s for this production. Highlights include Marcello's painting
in Act I, the careful layout of the bohemians' attic, complete with four beds, and the brilliantly-created Paris street scene in Act II, including a three-level Café Momus with an upstairs billiard room. Find out more about Oman's extensive research for the production.
Rivalry and Intrigue
Puccini began to plan an opera based on the French writer Henri (known as Henry) Murger's popular novel Scènes de la vie de bohème in 1893. Unfortunately his friend Ruggero Leoncavallo was contemplating an opera on the same subject, and claimed he'd thought of the idea first. Puccini issued a challenge: the public could decide which opera they preferred. Although Leoncavallo's La bohème initially had better reviews, the public preferred Puccini's.
Love and Death in Bohemian Paris
Henry Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème is a series of short stories based on the author's poverty-stricken existence among young Parisian artists. The tone of the stories is generally satirical; only two of the stories are tragic. Scènes de la vie de bohème was published as a book in 1851. Murger and his friend Théodore Barrière also wrote a successful melodramatic play, La Vie de bohème (1849). Puccini and his librettists drew on a limited amount of material from Murger's stories and play, altering much of the plot and making the principal characters more sympathetic.
Characterful Scene-Setting and Glorious Melodies
La bohème is famous for its beautiful arias and duets, above all Mimì and Rodolfo's arias and duet in Act I. It also contains some wonderful evocations of Parisian life, including the hustle and bustle of Christmas Eve in the streets outside the Café Momus, and dawn on a winter day on the outskirts of the city.
La bohème runs until 16 June 2015. Tickets are still available.
The production will be broadcast live to cinemas around the world on 10 June 2015. Find your nearest cinema.
When Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable was first performed in 1831, Paris was the centre of the musical world. It was also a turbulent place, struggling to get on its feet after the radical Napoleonic era. The monarchy that followed Napoleon's abdication proved an unhappy affair, so the 1830 July Revolution routed Charles X. He was replaced with Louis Philippe I, the 'citizen king' as he was initially known. Alongside this majestic new order, grand opera was born.
Grand opera is sung throughout (unlike opéra comique, it has no spoken dialogue). But its essential characteristics give rise to the genre's imposing moniker, as many of the works of the 1830s and beyond show. Plots set tragic private romance against a background of impressive and heroic historical events; there were impressive stage effects; the chorus played a major dramatic and vocal part; there were many leading characters and, increasingly, a ballet was included at some stage in the drama. With vast forces in big ensembles, stage tableaux and complex plots, the operas usually stretched to five acts. And Robert le diable was right at the forefront of this new all-embracing idea of drama, music, movement and image.
Composers such as Meyerbeer, Fromental Halévy and Daniel Auber displayed a real talent for combining such elements as medieval stories, grand flights of passion, stunning vocal showpieces and grand spectacle. Auber's 1828 La Muette de Portici set a trend, especially by including a volcanic eruption on stage (a trick nicked from La Scala's production of Giovanni Pacini's L'ultimo giorno di Pompei). Gioachino Rossini, brought to Paris by the former king, followed suit with the equally imposing historical epic Guillaume Tell in 1829. Both operas were designed by Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri, whose visual genius was also used for the staging of Robert le diable. Meyerbeer had come to Paris after becoming successful in Italy, and his experience and the new cultural atmosphere he encountered fired his theatrical imagination. Robert le diable appeared in 1831.
The Paris Opéra, then resident at the Salle Le Peletier, was the place to see and be seen, the heart of Paris society. But if these entertainments seemed the preserve of the upper classes from the expensive seats, the general public were also avid fans higher up in the cheap ones. On stage, the operas often have a spirit of class conflict through stories in which powerful, privileged characters are brought face to face with the rebellious masses. La Muette de Portici revolves around an uprising in 17th-century Naples, the like of which Paris knew well. Partisan clashes – often religious – run through Halévy's La Juive as well as Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and L'Africaine. The premiere of Robert le diable comes shortly before the events that inspired Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. Not surprisingly, the opera house was under the constant scrutiny of the censors!
Although Robert le diable was relatively tame politically as one of the earliest of these grand operas its impact on French culture was immense. The night-time nuns' bacchanal in Act III, captured vividly by Edgar Degas in 1871, was an inspiration for Giselle (which had its premiere at the Salle Le Peletier in 1841). Giselle in turn travelled to Russia in 1842 and inspired similarly eerie, moonlit scenes in La Bayadère and Swan Lake.
Ballet was, in itself at the time, part and parcel of grand opera and many would come just to see the dancing. Perhaps the clearest indication of the importance of this type of opera and its structures during the 19th century was when Wagner's Tannhäuser came to Paris in 1861. The all-too-powerful Jockey Club had grown used to turning up halfway through the evening. Its members would watch their girls in the corps de ballet and then promptly leave for dinner. But Wagner did not play by the rules, moved the ballet from its customary position well on in the opera to the beginning of Act 1, and uproar ensued.
Robert le diable continued to be staged at the Paris Opéra throughout the 19th century, both at the Salle Le Peletier and at its even grander successor, the Palais Garnier. And even when operetta and opéra comique became more fashionable, Meyerbeer's supernatural masterpiece survived. But, as naturalism made its mark at the end of the 19th century, and the economics of opera production became more challenging, French grand opera increasingly lost its place on the stage and with the audience. And so Robert le diable fell out of favour. As well as being absent from the Royal Opera House since 1890, it disappeared from the Paris stage for nearly a century. But like its famous phantom nuns, the opera has recently begun to rise again and, with it, a flavour of the volatile world in which it was created.
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Maui Rides
by Byron on Dec. 27, 2007 at 10:41 AM
The wet, windy, and stormy weather shortened most of our Maui rides and made the trip to Hana and back downright brutal at times, especially when climbing. The road conditions make for tense riding because it's slick and unpredictable. Where…» Read More »


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a look at the start set up
here come the early bird starters
smile and a stretch.
Joining us from Rehoboth is Amy Lindsey, Doris Hicks, and Mary Beth Evans.
stretching out
Team Zwolak.
Winning relay team.....New Balance DE
promise.....you will hear the starting gun.
Eric Makovsky, Washington, DC getting ready to sing National Anthem
Mayor Jim Baker, City of Wilm. with Robert Laskowski, CEO of Title sponsor CCHS
That is Mike Wardian #13 at start. He set a new record of 2:26:22 for fastest time run in DE.
Wardian at about 2 miles
2009 Marathon winner Marco Capelli
4th overall Christopher Bain
John Dimeo, 12th overall
#23 overall female winner Alison Sanchez.
Mike Wardian at the turn around on the Riverwalk.
Here comes Marco in second.
And Eric gives it the thumbs up.
Beau Vinton heads for home...second place 55-59 in half.
Race director wayno with Mike Wardian
Wayno with Eric and Marco.
Eric, Christopher and Marco.
Dr. Laskowski Christiana Care CEO nears the finish line.
Wayno with women's winner Alison Sanchez.
Dan McConnell with his parents at finish line.
David Morl, from Novelty. OH shows off his bobble head award


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Tall buildings would destroy ambience
Published: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 12:00 a.m.
To The Editor: Stephen Black has requested residents to explain why building height restrictions in Hendersonville should not be eliminated. Along with Barbara Volk and Jeff Collis we vote in a negative, vociferous way against erecting high-rises for our city.
Hendersonville and the surrounding area have unique features of being progressive, attractive and healthful to live in, to work in and to enjoy its many attributes. Our city leaders should give serious thought to maintaining this small-town atmosphere and the quality lifestyle.
Examine why people move to our community and why many who came here because of employment or the Four Seasons or visiting come back permanently upon retirement.
We agree we must accept changes due to our growth, but this does not require building tall monstrosities with expensive condos. To do so destroys one of the primary reasons many have relocated here.
Thus, the old courthouse is a distinguished landmark whose prominence should not be obstructed by taller buildings.
Joy and Frank Blazey
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