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World Organization of China Painters Show
21st Biennial Convention and Show
September 29 – 30, 2017
"Celebrate Our Heritage"
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To all interested in attending a world wide porcelain art event . . . .
We cordially invite you to be part of the World Organization of China Painter's (WOCP) 21st Biennial Convention and Show, "Celebrate Our Heritage". The Convention and Show will be held in the historic city of Fredericksburg, VA at the Fredericksburg Hospitality House Conference Center, September 29 – 30, 2017. As we Celebrate Our Heritage, we will learn share more about our heritages with each other as well as our love of wonderful art in all medias.
The World Show is where our WOCP Worldwide members are invited and encouraged to exhibit their heritage, traditions and art. There will be our art competitions, exhibition of all the state displays, an art auction, dinner meals, International Luncheon, a Colonial high Tea and a large dealer showroom of the world's best dealers of china, paints, instructions and supplies from around the world.
The show begins on September 24 – 28 with Paint-in's.
Paint – In's with International artists in 1, 2 and 3 day workshops – We are currently recruiting famous porcelain artists from around the world and "Celebrating Our Heritage with our international members and artists. This is your opportunity to take classes from artists from around the world in various art medias.
Tours – Sightseeing tours for attendees, family members and artists throughout the convention.
Convention Show & Sale – Grand Opening for Convention, WOCP International Business meeting with all representatives, classes and demonstrations. There will be a special displays of state entries and international displays of art work, an International Luncheon and Colonial High Tea are added as special ticketed fun events. Included in the hospitality package will be 3 seated meals provided with special entertainment each night Celebrating Our Heritage.
Join us at the award winning Fredericksburg Hospitality House in Central Park, Fredericksburg, VA!
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With veteran minicamp coming to a close on Jun. 19, the Chicago Bears receive a much-needed break to recharge before the start of training camp in July at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais.
During the team's time of inactivity, we will take a position-by-position look at some of the expected training camp battles and dark horses to make the team, starting with the offense:
Overview: In an attempt to play through an entire regular season for the first time since 2009, Jay Cutler bulked up and added strength in the offseason, according to Bears coach Marc Trestman. That probably needed to happen considering the murky situation behind Cutler on the depth chart.
The Bears took four potential backups to Cutler into minicamp -- Jordan Palmer, Jimmy Clausen, Jerrod Johnson (who has been released) and rookie David Fales. The group, collectively, has completed a total of 167 passes in the regular season, with the bulk of that coming from Clausen (157).
Makes you miss Josh McCown, right?
Battle to watch: Palmer will go into camp as the front-runner to win the backup job, but Clausen should push him if he picks up Chicago's offense quickly enough. Prior to the team's Jun. 7 acquisition of Clausen, it appeared Fales -- a sixth-round pick -- posed the most significant threat to Palmer in the competition for the No. 2 job. Now, the Bears will likely try to bring along Fales slowly, and give his repetitions to Clausen, who has more experience than Palmer as a starter in the NFL. So look for Clausen and Palmer to slug it out for the No. 2 job, while Johnson and Fales compete for the No. 3 spot.
"If you're a free agent, you're going to be thrown into a situation where you have to learn faster to get up to speed so you can compete. That's a big challenge for me," Clausen said. "The quarterbacks are helping me out a lot. The coaching staff is doing a great job helping me, just trying to get me up to speed as soon as possible."
Dark horse: The Bears invested $114,224 in Fales in the form of a signing bonus, so they might feel inclined to keep him over Johnson. But don' count out Johnson, who in 2011, was the No. 1 overall pick of the defunct UFL.
Before Johnny Manziel tore it up at Texas A&M, Johnson was the school's career leader in total offense (8,888 yards) and passing yards (8,011). But Johnson entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the Philadelphia Eagles, and hasn't been able to stick with a team. Johnson has spent time with the Eagles, Steelers and Seahawks, but many don't realize that a pretty significant shoulder injury at A&M has sort of derailed his career.
"He struggled as a senior at A&M," Bears general manager Phil Emery said last September. "There were a lot of rumors that he was injured. Talking to him, he was. He's undergone surgery. He basically relearned to throw the ball. He was impressive out there in terms of his accuracy and the velocity that he had. He has foot movement, and he's 6-foot-5, 240 pounds. He's a very engaging young man with a lot of intelligence."
Who makes the cut: The Bears will likely keep only three quarterbacks on the active roster, which means Cutler, Clausen -- provided he performs in the preseason -- and Palmer would likely make the cut with the club keeping Fales on the practice squad. Johnson is an intriguing talent, but he will likely fall victim to the numbers game.


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Some Astronauts May Be at Risk for Cognitive Impairment
Johns Hopkins scientists report that rats exposed to high-energy particles, simulating conditions astronauts would face on a long-term deep space mission, show lapses in attention and slower reaction times, even when the radiation exposure is in extremely low dose ranges.
The cognitive impairments — which affected a large subset, but far from all, of the animals — appear to be linked to protein changes in the brain, the scientists say. The findings, if found to hold true in humans, suggest it may be possible to develop a biological marker to predict sensitivity to radiation's effects on the human brain before deployment to deep space. The study, funded by NASA's National Space Biomedical Research Institute, is described in the April issue of the journal Radiation Research.
When astronauts are outside of the Earth's magnetic field, spaceships provide only limited shielding from radiation exposure, explains study leader Robert D. Hienz, Ph.D., an associate professor of behavioral biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. If they take space walks or work outside their vehicles, they will be exposed to the full effects of radiation from solar flares and intergalactic cosmic rays, he says, and since neither the moon nor Mars have a planet-wide magnetic field, astronauts will be exposed to relatively high radiation levels, even when they land on these surfaces.
But not everyone will be affected the same way, his experiments suggest. "In our radiated rats, we found that 40 to 45 percent had these attention-related deficits, while the rest were seemingly unaffected," Hienz says. "If the same proves true in humans and we can identify those more susceptible to radiation's effects before they are harmfully exposed, we may be able to mitigate the damage."
If a biomarker can be identified for humans, it could have even broader implications in determining the best course of treatment for patients receiving radiotherapy for brain tumors or identifying which patients may be more at risk from radiation-based medical treatments, the investigators note.
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Anything. Lol. I really should plan more.
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Try to do something nice on Sundays. But we usually end up BBQ'ing
We usually eat out on the weekends.
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I don't cook at all Mon-Fri and on the weekends we usually eat out unless someone wants something special.
I normally cook Sunday Supper but Fri/Sat is always something we don't know until that day comes.
I try to stay out of the kitchen at all costs. I tend to burn pans. :/ *lol*
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STOCKHOLM An island of ice more than four times the size of Manhattan is drifting across the Arctic Ocean after breaking off from a glacier in Greenland.
Potentially in the path of this unstoppable giant are oil platforms and shipping lanes and any collision could do untold damage. In a worst case scenario, large chunks could reach the heavily trafficked waters where another Greenland iceberg sank the Titanic in 1912.
It's been a summer of near biblical climatic havoc across the planet, with wildfires, heat and smog in Russia and killer floods in Asia. But the moment the Petermann glacier cracked last week creating the biggest Arctic ice island in half a century may symbolize a warming world like no other.
"It's so big that you can't prevent it from drifting. You can't stop it," said Jon-Ove Methlie Hagen, a glaciologist at the University of Oslo.
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I guess it'd be too much trouble to put a warning beacon on it. Instead let's spend millions studying and fretting about it.
I'd bet that we could melt that thing in a split second, if we REALLY wanted to.
This ship is unsinkable....
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On August 1, 2010, almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun erupted in a tumult of activity. This image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory of the news-making solar event on August 1 shows the C3-class solar flare (white area on upper left), a solar tsunami (wave-like structure, upper right), multiple filaments of magnetism lifting off the stellar surface, large-scale shaking of the solar corona, radio bursts, a coronal mass ejection and more.
This multi-wavelength extreme ultraviolet snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sun's northern hemisphere in mid-eruption. Different colors in the image represent different gas temperatures. Earth's magnetic field is still reverberating from the solar flare impact on August 3, 2010, which sparked aurorae as far south as Wisconsin and Iowa in the United States. Analysts believe a second solar flare is following behind the first flare and could re-energize the fading geomagnetic storm and spark a new round of Northern Lights.
No mention whatsoever about the record cold (and accompanying deaths) south of the equator.
Could this be intentional?
re: melt that thing in a split second, if we REALLY wanted to
Or reduce it to several million ice cube sized pieces of ice.
I am not certain , but I think it'll show up on RADAR ...
Maybe put one of those little aluminum RADAR reflectors, or four of them, on it so ships don't collide with it.
BTW, it's Bush's fault.
I wonder if I could go "claim" it and live on it!
That would be cool - figuratively and literally.
The peak temperatures of Summer have passed. Soon enough it will be Winter Solstice Time.
Carpet-bomb it. Would make great practice.
I just saw a Scandinavian scientist who one of the top experts yesterday flatly state it had nothing to do with any global warming. The cause isn't air temprature, it's water temprature due to warm currents that break off ice all the time. This is a much larger than normal chunk, but it happens every now and then, the last time being in the 50s. It will break apart into smaller chunks before it gets into the major shipping lanes, and with modern tracking ships can simply go around it. The interviewer was so disapointed that he wouldn't blame it on global warming.
Wow, a big iceberg calved in midsummer! We must be doomed, I tell ya.
What with radar, sattelite imagery, GPS, internet; if this causes a shipping problems then said company should not be in the business.
Or they are pirates.
There is severe weather somewhere every single year. Yes, it's even Biblical.
I'm so tired of people trying to game us based on trumped up weather stats. There needs to be a $5 reward for "back to nature" pelts.
Get me 300,000 barrels of Crown Royal Black, 1,000,000 plastic cups and 25,000 ice picks. Me and some old boy's from Texas will have that thing knocked down to size by the end of September, of and toss in some brisket and red beans please!
Any shipping running without radar has no business in those waters.
Given its potential for the destruction of commerce, I want to call it the "Obamaberg."
When I read about penguins freezing to death, I knew there was some SERIOUS cold involved.
Or reduce it to several million ice cube sized pieces of ice.
Radioactive ice cubes, the best kinsd to use at such things a s the democrat convention, white house socials and of course nancy pelosis water glass.
Don't forget the Pecan wood for the grillin'.
I might just join you.
Tow it to Louisiana, this time of year the drive thru daquiri huts start running out of ice.
The latest we are all gonna die story from the LSM
Bullsh*t. Arctic winter will stop it dead in its tracks till Spring, and maybe then some depending.
oh wait, that was from a movie wasn't it? :-)
Er, uhm, how can I say this ..... NO!!!!
Pure, BS from everyone quoted in this hysterical piece of cr&p.
The "ice island" is INSIDE a narrow, twisting fjord, now about 1-1/2 miles from even the OPENING of the fjord in Greenland. (See satellite photos, www.wattasupwiththat.com )
The "island" is no larger than Manhattan - which will permit it to BECOME a large iceberg - WHEN it gets out of the fjord - IF it can! - and WHEN it starts melting as it goes south (many hundreds of miles) towards the shipping lanes.
But right now? It's trapped and can do nothing but melt. Or re-freeze into the tip of the glacier since the Arctic temperatures at 80 degrees north latitude (which cuts across north Greenland) are trending back towards 0.0 Celcius, and will go below freezing in about two more weeks.
Wasn't there a novel. or maybe a news article about towing ice bergs to Saudi?
barbra ann
I wouldn't be surprised if some enterprizeing person
moved a hundred Katrina housing units on to the flow
and rented them out as summer homes
"close to the coast".
All the fresh water and ice you need.
I think they should build an ice palace with a landing strip. Turn it into the ultimate exclusive club.
Thanks for the laugh! Had not seen that one!
Anyone who can't resist hyperbole and make an asinine statement like that, is simply an ignoramus who hasn't enough brain cells to grasp that this has been going on every few years as long as humans have had the ability to track large icebergs from space.
Dang, it is just a big chunk of ice that is stuck up in there
amongst a whole bunch of other chunks of ice.
How's a feller gonna make a claim on that and live on it?
I thought it was all out there in the ocean
and some kind of big hazard to ships and navigation and ery'thin.
I am so disappointed.
The "birthing" process (or sometimes called "calving", when a big glacier gives "birth" to a little one, at "oceans waters edge") of glaciers has two components.
The inland buildup of the snow/ice pack creates pressures, both downward and horizontally, which leads to the bottom-most layer of the glacier obtaining a "frozen" state that is more like water, and with the pressure from all the weight from above, it begins to slide - and where does water slide to, it slides to any point that is lower and lower eventually reaches the sea.
The calving takes place by the assistance of the ocean and its temperature, which at any time is warmer than the glacier. "Warmer" (than ?average? sea temperatures do assist the "calving" process, but they don't create it. The massive body of the glacier does that, no matter what the temperature of the ocean is at the edge of the glacier.
The way the LSM talks it does sound like its out there bobbing around in the North Atlantic bearing down on ships and oil platforms ready to do as much damage as possible.
Maybe the interviewer would have been happy if the blame had been assigned to the malevolent effects of the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the brutal Jewish oppression of the Palestinian women and children. Not as good as global warming, but it will do in a pinch. Oh, and it is all the fault of that Zionist son of a pig and a monkey George W. Bush!
"According to the BBC, Prof. Andreas Muenchow from the University of Delaware said this is the largest Arctic iceberg to calve since 1962. "
This berg is 100 square miles. The one in 1962 was 230 square miles.
That seems not to get very much mention - that this one is still only 43% the size of the last "big" one, about fifty years ago.
Not even half as big.
Just not a big deal, really... after 50 more years of GAW.
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Republican attorney general candidate Brad Schimel said Wednesday that had he been in office, he would have taken the lead in a secret investigation of recent recall elections.
Last year, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen declined a request to lead a John Doe probe that includes five targets and centers on campaign finance laws.
"I think the lesson, in hindsight, was that it's hard to take the politics out of a political John Doe, no matter what you do," Schimel said. "And his (Van Hollen's) stated reason for not taking up the case is he feared that there would be too many claims of politics being involved. Well, we haven't avoided that. I think ultimately, as attorney general, I'll take those cases."
Schimel, the Waukesha County district attorney, said there is a "crisis of confidence" about the lengthy investigation that began in the fall of 2012. It centers on recall races of 2011 and 2012, the most prominent of which was the failed recall attempt of Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Schimel said he had no behind-the-scenes knowledge of the probe.
"People are expressing concerns that this is political," he said. "They throw the witch hunt term around. I think that's where the crisis of confidence lies."
Schimel made his comments during an appearance at the Milwaukee Press Club.
In a question-and-answer session, Schimel discussed key legal issues as well as the drunken-driving citation he received in 1990 when he was 24 years old.
Schimel said he and a friend came in from Madison to attend a concert in Milwaukee. Schimel said after the concert he and the friend went to a bar and "I had one more drink there that I shouldn't have had."
Records show Schimel was clocked driving 81 mph in a 50-mph zone. His blood alcohol content measured 0.14, above the limit at the time of 0.1. Schimel has said he pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving offense and paid a fine. Records also show his license was suspended for six months.
"I got out on the road when I first got in the car," he said. "I felt like I was OK. When that officer pulled me over for speeding, I got out of the car and realized right away I wasn't OK. I shouldn't have done it. It's something I'm not proud of but it's also something I haven't run from. And I've taken the lessons I've learned to make a difference, not only for Waukesha County as a prosecutor but for the state of Wisconsin."
On Wednesday, Schimel unveiled a plan to address a backlog of blood samples tested for suspected operating while intoxicated offenses. He will seek to shift the responsibility for testing blood samples for first-offense and misdemeanor OWI offenses to the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the State Crime Laboratory.
Those tests are currently handled by the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, where the turnaround for testing in 2012 was nearly one year.
In a statement, he said his plan "will give prosecutors the tools to do their job and reduce the number of impaired drivers on Wisconsin roads."
Schimel is the only Republican running for attorney general. Three Democrats have declared: Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne; state Rep. Jon Richards of Milwaukee; and Jefferson County District Attorney Susan Happ.
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Travel Stories: In Florida's Key West, land of tropical cocktails, Doug Mack went to Ernest Hemingway's house looking for inspiration. He found some, but not the kind he hoped.
First, to the bedroom, where a tour group lingered as their guide droned. I've never been one for such scripted contrivances, preferring to bypass the often-inane questions of my fellow travelers and the irreverent but irrelevant personal anecdotes of the guides. I listened from afar and waited for the camera-clutching masses to move on before I entered the room. In due time, they filed out, shutters clicking all the while.
My turn. The first sight, an intricately carved headboard on a large bed, seemed a good omen, particularly after I learned that Papa had been rather clever in creating the king-sized sleeping space, pushing together two twin-sized mattresses on the frame. It struck me as a neat contrivance, a sure sign of eccentricity, and as I paused to admire it, I felt like I was beginning to gain a modicum of insight into Hemingway's life and personality.
It would have been the perfect time for a ghost to pop out from under the bed to offer some thoughts on the secret of life or how to craft brilliant, award-winning prose, or at least a jovial "Booga booga!" Alas, no such luck.
Still, the bedroom was a good start, and surely a paranormal encounter awaited just around the corner. And so, remaining hopeful, I strode onward to the next room, from which the tour group was departing in another percussive chorus of camera shutters and thwack-thwacking flip-flops.
A glass case with postcards, articles and assorted bits and pieces from and about Hemingway's life attempted to tell his tale. I looked over everything quickly, trying to take it all in, just in case the scribe's spook gave a pop quiz before dispensing his wisdom.
But, try as I might, I just couldn't get interested in the information and artifacts offered. I was startled by how little they actually revealed—the display of Papa paraphernalia seemed hastily-assembled, more like the arrangement of items at a flea market than what you'd expect at a museum. The explanatory placards were either absent or uninspiring, which only furthered the vague impression that a crusty old salesman would appear to offer me an unbeatable price for the fishing gear and stack of letters, perhaps throwing in a few vinyl records to sweeten the deal.
This peculiar collection didn't even begin to tell Hemingway's story: The artifacts were lifeless; they gave glimpses into his life but offered no insight. Just an inane assortment of mementos—photos here, letters there—but no real sense that they tied together. I wanted to learn or, more accurately, to be inspired, but I was just getting frustrated and bitter.
As I looked at the display and the rest of the room, my gaze growing more vacant and more disheartened, I managed one last effort to make contact. Listening intently, I tried to find any aural clues that the supposed specter-in-residence might be close at hand. A creepy, distant moan of unknown origin would have sufficed. But no. Nothing but the hum of a fan and the chattering of the other tourists.
The fan seemed rather out of place; I couldn't help but think, as I did one last inventory of the room's disappointing contents, and there's Papa's late-model window fan, to cool off Papa's cheesy glass case of knick-knacks and curios. Moving on to the bathroom, I discovered Hemingway's television, also a recent model. The man was way ahead of his time in his taste in electronics.
I sulked down the stairs to explore the ground floor, where I heard conversation in four languages—four different ways to say "Well, this is kinda disappointing; let's go get some Key lime pie"—but once again found no inspiration, no wraiths.
A lush landscape beckoned outside the windows, so I tagged along with the tour group as it headed outdoors. I followed paths meandering through the tropical flora, imagining Hemingway on an early-morning constitutional along the same route, pausing here and there to admire the setting. The lush environs started to soothe my frustrations and make me think I had perhaps not just wasted 11 bucks and an hour of my life.
A sharp voice broke my daze—the tour guide was suddenly talking with more passion than I'd noticed inside the house, his audience now quiet and enthralled.
The cats. There are about 60 of them, and as the guide spoke about Hemingway's affection for them, it seemed that each one came out of hiding—the critters were everywhere, each one with a calm but vaguely sinister look on its face, creating a mildly Hitchcockian scene. The guide picked up one of the cats, disobeying a nearby sign and, clearly, the struggling animal's own wishes, and offered a bit of show-and-tell about these famous felines' most famous attribute: six toes. The crowd mumbled approvingly. What a man, this Hemingway fellow—he had cats with six toes! The chorus of camera shutters resumed, more vociferous than ever.
As I exited the grounds and strolled down the sidewalk, I tried to convince myself that the experience had not been a major let-down. I tried to be analytical and philosophical about it. I tried, most of all, to give credit to those who maintain Hemingway's residence for not turning it into a Disneyfied attraction, replete with costumed or, worse, animatronic characters.
But I kept coming back to the cats. They were, in fact, pretty charming, in spite of their generally enigmatic personalities. It certainly wasn't their fault that they overshadowed their ancestors' owner and the gloomy, uninspiring, frustratingly ghost-free house in which he lived.
Realizing, with a bit of a start, the implications of this thought that had just drifted through my mind—namely, that I was thinking much like the tourists whose comments and actions I had just been mocking—I pictured a slogan that would fit well on one of those T-shirts sold on Duval Street. It's a bit long, but I think it would sell:
I went to the Hemingway's Home for literary inspiration. I left inspired to get a cat.


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I went primal once before, a couple of months ago. I was able to stick to it for just over a month and then gave in to the all familiar oreo craving. I felt great on it, and awful not on it but that still didn't motivate me to stand strong against my cravings. I love sweets. I want to be fit and muscular though so I will have to try this again.
Today is Day 1.
B: scrambled eggs, sausage, strawberries, iced tea
S: almonds
L: shrimp, roasted veggies in olive oil, caprese salad, diet coke (trying to give up the artificial sugar in the next few days)
May or may not have dinner considering lunch was at 3:30 pm.
Definitely need to drink more water.
I havent worked out yet today but did do 1 hour of body pump weight lifting yesterday.
My stats: 39 years old. 165 lbs. 40% body fat
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I think I might require this for bunless burgers of primal awesomeness...
Seriously, why is this tickling my fancy so much? For 9 dollars I can perfectly stuff a meat patty with bacon and avocado?
Ohhhhhhh man....
I think I might require this for bunless burgers of primal awesomeness...
Seriously, why is this tickling my fancy so much? For 9 dollars I can perfectly stuff a meat patty with bacon and avocado?
Ohhhhhhh man....
OH. YOUR. GODS!!! That just gave one hell of an idea for stuffing my burgers.
I have these little soup tureens (hold maybe 6 oz) I can use those in the same was as the bottom of that thing, and then use a soup plate as the top placement dingus. *rubs hands together* excellent... Now to find a bigger version of that idea in my kitchen.
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Wow, those look great if you throw away the bun of course. I wonder how hard it would be to make those by hand maybe a little thinner.
holy sweet jebeebus lord! i'm wondering if making two larger-than-normal sized patties, putting the stuff on one, and then the other patty on top and pinching the edges together would achieve the same effect?
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I need to find something in my kitchen to use to make these now. A tuna can would be kinda small, although then I could eat 2 or 3 burgers. =] Hmm...
Stuffed sliders?
It seems to me any size would be very simple by hand, no? A cereal bowl would work. I sometimes roll out my ground beef and use a cereal bowl as a cookie cutter to get perfectly sized and shaped burgers. This is if the grill is getting loaded with a dozen or so. Rachel Ray always teaches to thin out the middle of a patty and thicken the edges for more even cooking and to avoid "patty bloat" while cooking. So you build one like she does, but maybe a little thinner and cap it. No need for a device. Ground meat is easily molded.
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aaahh haha this is hilarious!! "the only alternative is a PLAIN BURGER..." the guy looked so sad at his stupid plain burger!!
i must have one of these gadgets. i want one with feta and basil and prosciutto! dear lord!
by the way, is it just me, or do those burgers look like they're like a pound a piece!?


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Like a Victorian naturalist, Emilie Clark has made a careful study of her subject, complete with field notes, writing, drawings and paintings. Her subject? Her own life, as a woman, an organism and a thinker.
Inspired by the life and works of Ellen Henrietta Richards, who introduced the term "ecology" into the English language and who was the first female student and instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Clark has embodied Richards' century-old research methods and practices during the last year or so. »Read Full Blog Post
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When Burma made the transition to quasi-civilian rule two years ago, most observers were skeptical. Would the new military-backed government really bring reform, they asked, or would it just be the same old regime in a slightly different guise?
Well, the government of President Thein Sein has proven all the doubters wrong. The leopard has not only changed its spots—it has also sprouted feathers and learned how to quack. Indeed, it is getting more difficult with each passing day to know what manner of beast this new government is, and even harder to know what to make of almost everyone in any way related to Burma's "great transition."
The most dramatic change, of course, has been in the image of the president himself. Formerly the figurehead prime minister of a reviled military regime, he has gone from being seen as a mere puppet of his higher-ups to becoming, at least in the eyes of some, a great agent of change.
The finishing touch to Thein Sein's extreme makeover came on April 22, when he was awarded the International Crisis Group's "In Pursuit of Peace Award." And so, after decades as one of Burma's reptilian men in green, it seems he is now a full-fledged dove, fit to receive invitations from Washington and other Western capitals.
But Thein Sein is not alone in the shape-shifting game. Khin Nyunt, another once-feared former general who fell from grace nearly a decade ago, has been back in the news recently with the opening of his own art gallery and coffee shop.
Think about this for a moment: The ex-Military Intelligence chief, who almost single-handedly created Burma's police state, is now in the business of selling paintings and serving lattes. Where else but in the magical land of the new Burma could a man whose name once sent shivers up people's spines pass himself off as a genteel barista and patron of the arts?
But the vogue for abrupt career shifts is not confined to Burma's former military strongmen; even foreigners have been affected by the euphoria over the opening of Southeast Asia's last frontier.
In February, Kurt Campbell, the former US secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, packed in his academic and diplomatic career to found The Asia Group, LLC, an investment group that offers advice on how to make a bundle in the world's fastest growing region. Among his first assignments: lobbying for an American consortium keen to win a contract to upgrade Rangoon's international airport.
Writing about Burma's potential for the Financial Times blog, Campbell could barely contain himself: "It's damn exciting," wrote the man who at one time acted as the chief negotiator between Burma's military regime and the democratic opposition.
For the most part, however, Burma-mania has had its greatest transformative effect on the country's citizens, particularly those once held up as paragons of social and political virtue.
The latest wave of anti-Muslim violence that began in Meikhtila in March has claimed many casualties, not the least being the reputation of Burma's monks. It was not so long ago that the world watched in awe as Buddhist monks resisted the military's might armed with nothing more than the Metta Sutta, the Buddha's discourse on loving-kindness. These days, however, they are more likely to be seen as ringleaders of nasty pogroms that aim to rid cities, towns and villages of their Muslim inhabitants.
The metamorphosis of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been even more shocking for many, especially those who saw her as the sainted savior of her nation. Once faulted for being too rigidly principled, her support for the controversial Letpadaung copper mine, a Chinese-backed project opposed by local villagers, has recast her as an über-pragmatist, prepared to do anything that will help pave the way to power.
The greatest hurdle to the Nobel Peace Prize winner's quest for the ultimate prize—Burma's presidency—is the 2008 Constitution, which was designed to keep her out of the country's highest office by banning anyone with family ties to any other nation from serving as chief executive. Changing this—or any other—provision in the national charter is virtually impossible, because of a requirement that all amendments must have more than 75-percent support in Parliament. The catch, of course, is that the military holds 25 percent of the seats, giving it the ultimate say in what stays and what changes.
But this hasn't prevented Aung San Suu Kyi from seeking allies in her bid to undo the former junta's carefully laid plans to prevent her from becoming Burma's leader after the next election in 2015. But to stand any chance of success, she will need the backing of the ruling party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), which holds the lion's share of seats thanks to the rigged 2010 election.
Not so long ago, any cooperation between the USDP and the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader would have been unthinkable. After all, 10 years ago, thugs from the Union Solidarity and Development Association, an earlier incarnation of the USDP, carried out one of the worst political massacres in Burma's modern history, slaughtering scores of NLD supporters in an attack on Aung San Suu Kyi's entourage near Depayin, Sagaing Division, on May 30, 2003.
But none of that seems to matter today. "If they really want to change the Constitution, there's no reason not to fully co-operate with them. All together we can co-operate. The USDP made a proposal to organize the committee to amend the Constitution. We did support that proposal," said the opposition leader who would be president.
These are strange days, indeed. While there's no telling how all of this will turn out, one thing seems sure: Whatever you think you know about Burma today will almost certainly be proven untrue tomorrow.
Chameleon, chimera, take your pick. The survival instinct works wonders for both the generals and the Lady. Besides the prize looks mouth watering for both sides too – staying power recharged and supercharged for the generals and ultimate concrete power for her. If Kurt Campbell finds it "damn exciting", it's eye watering for the generals. Never mind the people, they make up the backdrop like in those WW2 documentaries where the Titans clashed. Damn exciting, huh?
Whatever has happened in Myanmar since 1988 must be a very hard lesson for all Myanmars to learn from the immense suffering that all went through. First the common folks at the bottom of the social strata, then those that felt the need to oppose the country's military with whatever means including any foreign assistance and finally the military itself "agonized" with the monumental task of "maintaining law and order" and the great concern that the country would disintegrate with 20 or so insurgencies continuing since 1948.
So now in 2013 25 years later, the country, the peoples and the Parliamentary Government must not dwell on the past but must ensure that the country must never go back to that and work for the future together. All things should be possible today like the NLD, USDP and the military working in harmony for the benefit and welfare of the peoples. In this regard, it is critical that the "free media inside Myanmar and the expatriate media outside" play a responsible role NOT TO PIT PARTIES ONE AGAINSTTHE OTHER" in the pattern of what the media does in the U.S, EU and Japan, causing "great polarization" and divisions where democracy is practically a joke. These so-called democracies have lost their way and have become "PLUTOCRACIES" where the rich 1% controls the Government.
Myanmar must not allow that to happen when considering to amend the constitution no matter what the pros and cons from "interests groups". The infant Myanmar parliament must bear in mind that "constitutional amendments must be undertaken for the benefit and welfare of the entire population, NOT FOR A SINGLE ENTITY, PARTY OR INDIVIDUAL. No constitutional instrument is "perfect" including the much celebrated U.S. one" that is no longer working for the American people. Ruling party in Japan thinks it is no longer working for them and of course in Myanmar there is a clamor to amend it. It would be a monumental mistake to amend the constitution that would cater to the need of one political party, one individual or a single entity.
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It is too late. It has already happened.
I don't want to be the devil's advocate, but the West has to be very careful about China's "counter-attack". I can imagine Chinese were a bit caught by surprise but as we all know thye still have a pretty firm grip on various Burmese natural resources. Besides, there are tens of thousands of loyal Chinese (a few of them are definitely spies), who recently immigrated to Burma to make a quick buck (i.e. to buy off Burmese property etc.) and they have strong ties cemented by lucrative bribes (guanxi in Chinese) to the ex-junta generals, their families and their business cronies.
The interesting thing that I am nowadays keeping an eye on is the Facebook page of the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar (although as we all know Facebook is banned in China; what blatant hypocrisy!) It seems that China is trying to play the "Buddhist card" to soften up the anti-Chinese sentiment in Burma. You can see pictures of the Chinese ambassador (and the Consular guy from Mandalay) almost "kow-towing" to some monks and also something about that Buddha's sacred tooth relic etc. on that Facebook page. Buddhist monks still wield a lot of influence in Myanmar, because a lot of Myanmese still identify nationalism with tribal/ethnic and religious identity (that's partly what's causing these anti-Muslim riots in the country) This is again a very hypocritical double-faced stance from Peking (and also from certain Buddhist monks in Burma) given the problems Chinese have with Uighur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhist monks. In any case, Myanmar is geo-strategically a very important country in their backyard that China do not want to lose control of (access to Bay of Bengal and all that), so I will wait and see (I have been following Chinese politics for quite a long time!)
By the way, I am pleased to see you guys also use "über-", one of my favourite expressions!


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Puccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades movie soundtracks, and his plots have infiltrated our popular culture. But, although Puccini's art still captivates audiences and the popularity of such works as Tosca, La Boh?me, and Madama Butterfly has never waned, he has long been a victim of critical snobbery and cultural marginalization.
In this witty and informative guide for beginners and fans alike, William Berger sets the record straight, reclaiming Puccini as a serious artist. Combining his trademark irreverent humor with passionate enthusiasm, Berger strikes just the right balance of introductory information and thought-provoking analysis. He includes a biography, discussions of each opera, a glossary, fun facts and anecdotes, and above all keen insight into Puccini's enduring power. For anyone who loves Puccini and for anyone who just wonders what all the fuss is about, Puccini Without Excuses is funny, challenging, and always a pleasure to read.
_ Why Puccini's art and its message of hope is crucial to our world today
_ How Anglo audiences often miss the mythic significance of his operas
_ The use of his music as shorthand in films, from A Room with a View to Fatal Attraction
_ A scene-by scene analysis of each opera
_ A guide to the wealth of available recordings, books, and videos
Part One
the case of puccini
Why Puccini? Why Now?
An Introduction
Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have us think. This book is aimed, firstly, at people who would have trouble agreeing with either part of that sentence.
To begin with, there is the issue of opera in general. I do not hold with those who believe that opera is a dying art form. The same things have been said about opera almost since its invention. Opera was said to be doomed when the castrati disappeared in the eighteenth century, when the Napoleonic Wars shut down the conservatories in the early nineteenth century, when tonality was redefined in the twentieth century, and so on. Movies, television, radio, and the Internet were each supposed to nail the coffin lid shut, and all of those media have become part of the opera story. If opera were mortal, it would have died by now.
Yet opera has been neatly contained in an obscure corner, thought to be only for, ahem, "certain" people, and this riles me. I believe opera is the most important art form. It is not the most important because, as is always said, it subsumes every other art form (which happens to be true), but because at its best it has the ability to probe deeper into the human experience than any other art form. There are never any easy answers in opera, and it promotes critical thinking. This is why fans are always said to be so passionate. While I can celebrate the high profile of opera in America today, I wish it were even higher-much higher.
There are, however, impediments to raising this profile. Opera will always be considered a foreign art form, and we see all our national neuroses about things foreign in our approach to opera. It will always be marginalized to some degree. Opera continues to attract the elitist label. That there are rich people who support and attend the opera is beyond question, but I must wonder why it is that opera remains the single great signifier of the effete elite. You have all seen the images on television: overdressed, ancient, white audiences wielding lorgnettes while overfed woman onstage hits earsplitting high note. It doesn't matter that this image has little basis in reality-it exists and is with us forever. Had there never been this "opera house of the imagination," it would have been necessary to invent it. And the image continues to keep opera, and all its considerable power, away from many, many people.
Conversely, the arts marketing people have been working overtime for a generation or so to combat this idea, and in doing so have perhaps overstepped their bounds. Opera is not elite, they have maintained. It's fun, and (worst of all), it's good for you, like cultural cod liver oil. This is America. We have to believe, or pretend, that something has an uplifting moral effect in order to support it (cf. baseball). I doubt that opera has ever made anyone a better person. I don't think baseball has either, but I love it all the same. Quality should be an end in itself. Furthermore, opera is elitist, but not in the way it is assumed by detractors to be. It is phenomenally expensive to produce and always has been, and therefore must be funded by someone (the king, corporate foundations, whomever). It is elitist in its performers: only about one in a million people (by one estimate) is born with the instrument necessary to make the sounds required, and only very few of them can follow through on their gift. And it is elitist in its requirements of its audience. We are expected to pay attention if we are to cull what can be culled from the experience. We seem to be able to assimilate these ideas in sports. We ought to be able to do something analogous for opera.
Leaving aside, for now, the issue of opera's continuing, illogical, and urgent validity in the world today, we must focus on Puccini within that world. On the one hand, a Puccini fan should have no cause for complaint. Puccini's works are in the repertory of every company, major and minor, and are hugely available on recordings and video. The numbers are unreliable, but I have read that one-fourth of all opera performances in the United States are of three of Puccini's most popular operas (La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly). The number seems plausible. Yet this alone can be a cause for complaint among fans. There is a tendency toward either fossilization of performance or hysterical attempts to "revitalize" these works, both of which have the effect of reducing their inherent vitality. In general, critics, performers, directors, and audiences have reached a stalemate on this man's art. People like Puccini, and many love him, but one gets the feeling that he is approached in this country as a sort of guilty pleasure, like dessert. I never understood this stance, and let me say right off that I am absolutely allergic to anything that reeks of the sentimental. So how could I stomach Puccini? I have always found a huge degree of insight in his works, and was shocked to discover that there were others who didn't.
A hundred years ago, there may have been something "old-fashioned" about Puccini. He relied heavily on melody, with which he was ostentatiously gifted, and much of the popularity of his operas was due to the "hit tunes," the big arias, in his work. The general movement of opera composers at the time was away from a reliance on the aria and toward an absolute horror of melody. This was a huge issue of debate at the time. It need be less so now. Audiences seem to comprehend that there are different styles of opera, and no one in their right mind posits one form only as the right way. Furthermore, Puccini's arias, magnificent though they may be, are not the whole of the story. There was recently an interesting movie called À ("Pi"). In it, a young mathematician is on the verge of discovering a sequence of numbers that forms the numerical identity of God. Naturally, everyone wants to wring the secret out of him, from Wall Street to religious factions. At one point, our hero is captured and tortured to reveal the equation. He attempts to explain to his captors, "It's not the numbers . . . they're just numbers! It's the spaces in between them and their relationship to each other-THAT'S where God is!" It occurred to me that this was the most elegant explanation of opera I had ever heard. The numbers-that is, the arias, or the hits, or the "big" moments-are not the point. Of course, as in À, they have to be the "right" numbers, but those are not the essence. The point is the work as a whole. Example: Musetta's famous waltz from Act II of La bohème. This, by any standards, is a hit. Snippets of it are heard everywhere. Fine. But later in the opera, Musetta's sometime lover Marcello will include phrases of the waltz while he is pondering how much he misses her. It is the same music, yet it is entirely different. And we in the audience can experience the relation of the two moments to each other, how there is always something a little painful in joyous moments because we will know they will pass, and something a little sweet in painful moments because they cause us to remember the times of fulfillment. This is how one can best appreciate Puccini's genius. There are lots of great waltzes in the world, but there is only one Bohème.
Another large problem with the perception of Puccini, I came to realize, is the issue of verismo. This is the name given to a genre of opera current around the turn of the last century. It is hard to define: in fact, I address the issue on nearly every page of this book and must warn you right off that I never come close to defining it. Suffice it to say for now that composers like Puccini were seeking a direct communication with their audiences, avoiding everything that looked like "artistry" or "technique." Of course, they used tons of artistry and technique in their works, but they still had the elusive ideal of verismo to guide them. In cinema, this trend became known as neoverismo in a slew of Italian masterpieces from the mid-twentieth century. (It is called "neo" verismo because the operatic and literary output in the genre fifty years previously was the original verismo.) Any film student can tell you that most of the films thus categorized are not "pure" in their usage of the techniques of the genre, which stress the "invisible hand of the creator." In Bicycle Thief, for example, there is a crowd scene during a sudden rainstorm. The intended effect is to show people caught, quite casually, in the rain. The few seconds of film took an entire day and a squadron of Rome's fire department to get the exact "impromptu" effect the director wanted. The same is true for our contemporary films of the "Dogma" school: only one or two films from Denmark truly qualify as "Dogma" films, but their effect on filmmaking in general is enormous. So while Puccini is not a "pure" verismo composer, we must consider the issues at stake in the genre in order to understand him. (These issues are explored throughout the book.)
The verismo school of opera is not particularly well understood today. Times change, and audiences and performers naturally respond to certain styles more easily than to others. Right now, baroque opera is very well represented in theaters. There are exciting, well-sung productions of long-neglected works by Handel and others given to enthusiastic audiences. No one in their right mind could have seen this coming forty years ago. Furthermore, I see more diverse audiences at those performances than I do at the standard repertory, all eating it up without the slightest bit of explanation necessary. Fifty years ago, it would have taken the average music fan a week of lectures just to be able to sit through such a "static" opera without pulling out his or her hair. Today's audiences take it all in stride.
Handel's operas are stylized in the extreme and conform to certain conventions that draw a neon light, so to speak, around the staginess of the work being given. This is the very opposite of verismo, which seeks to show life as it is among people as they are. All good and well, but how can we look for life as it is at the opera house, of all crazy places? Furthermore, it takes a certain kind of performance to make verismo come alive. The traditions of performing verismo are quite unacceptable in the world today-they seem like overacting, overscreeching, and so forth. It simply doesn't work. But what will work instead? Very, very few performers have found a formula. While Handel's operas can come to life with the talents and temperaments of today's performers, verismo eludes a great many of them. Go and see a master class given by a great retired diva-Renata Scotto's spring to mind immediately. You can see her working with the young artists, who are all very talented and who know the techniques of operatic singing quite well. But when there is a piece of Puccini to be sung and evaluated, watch her literally trying to pull something out from inside the young singers! Just hitting the notes will simply not do. You need to feel them, live them, BE them, and of course deliver them across the footlights. Verismo is often translated as "realism" but the word is closer to "truth" in Italian.
Truth-there's a big word, and a big part of the problem. One can find truth in opera as long as it is fake enough (stylized enough) to allow us to draw a frame around it. But the direct, in-your-face work of Puccini is strangely elusive for today's performers and audiences. Puccini is considered "easy" opera and the classic composer to use when introducing new audiences to the medium. I seriously doubt if that is true in quite the same way it was fifty years ago. There is something in the frank emotions and lack of intellectual pretense that makes Puccini remarkably difficult for a modern audience. Furthermore, there is a remarkable subtlety (yes, subtlety) in his works. Melodies are driven home when necessary, but many of his most excellent effects are achieved with a superb economy of expression-a few notes here and there. We are not equipped to listen as closely as people were a couple of generations ago, and we miss a lot. Puccini's operas are not short because they are trivial. They are short because he says what he needs to efficiently and quickly. In this way, Puccini has become more "difficult" to fathom, while, ironically, a composer such as Wagner has become much easier for modern audiences than he was a few decades ago. It's time for a new look at Puccini. All the traditional assumptions have changed.
Beyond provoking the groups of people outlined in the first paragraph of this chapter, the main thrust of this book is aimed at those who want to delve, or delve more deeply, into the art of Giacomo Puccini. A certain amount has already been written, from quite specific points of view. And everyone seems to have a point of view. The musicologists, after a century of benign neglect or outright hostility, have been forced by the paying public to admit that Puccini has some musical validity after all. Since all their contempt (much of which, I will repeat throughout this book, seems based on thinly veiled racism, or at least on cultural assumptions so insidious that they border on racism) did not consign Puccini to the dustbin of history, they have, for a few years now, been turning themselves around to analyze this music with the same tools they applied to much of the abstract and emotionally retarded music of the twentieth century and have managed to discover a vocabulary that allows them to enjoy it without feeling that they have compromised their values. To be sure, much of what has been written lately is fine and long overdue: it is my hope that the reader will be inspired to research such works for his or her own deeper understanding of the music. I am especially indebted, and will refer continually, to the great musicological efforts of Mosco Carner, William Ashbrook, Julian Budden, and, more recently, Michele Girardi, and the fine biographical work (which contains a good deal more musical insight than some of the musical commentaries out there) of Mary Jane Philips-Matz. I am also indebted to and inspired by the wonderful work of Susan Vandiver Nicassio, whose work opens up greater vistas by using Puccini as a departure point. But I intend to address the issue in a slightly different way: What is the art of Puccini about? Why does it continue to captivate people, either directly in the opera house or in the many other forms where it is experienced? Since opera is the total performing arts experience, what is the most total way to experience it?
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Berger is a radio host on NYC's PBS station (which I unfortunately have never heard), and his book reads exactly like what a well-informed, passionate d.j. would sound like as he waxed fervently about his musical loves. The book reads as if it were spoken and meant to be heard. This is a delightful and most enjoyable aspect of the book. As he recounts the story behind each opera, Berger interrupts himself with commentary, as if speaking over the performance at hand or hitting the pause button on the CD player. And his comments are highly personal, though not arbitrary or off-the-wall, meant to keep us on target and focused, but not school-marmish. He "speaks" to us like an old friend sharing what he knows and feels.
The book is a fairly thorough account of the man and his music: we get a brief biographical sketch, the operas (8 of them) in detail, recommended recordings, dvds, and books, Puccini in the movies, a glossary of opera terms and how they apply to Puccini's work, and more. And everything, even the glossary, has the Berger stamp of authority and élan to it.
So I've already started making a list of CDs based on Berger's recommendations and until I can get some of them, have put my LP version of MADAMA BUTTERFLY with Erich Leinsdorf conducting Anna Moffo and Cesare Valletti (not on Berger's list) on the turntable. That's what Berger's book has done for me: brought me back to the music of Puccini once again. Pops and Bird will just have to wait.
The book has several sections. After a somewhat tendentious introduction, we get a chatty yet informative life and times chapter which also includes a description of what was going on in the wider world of opera and classical music during Puccini's life. There are fascinating comments about, say, the relationship between Puccini and Toscanini in this section.
Then we get a chapter by chapter discussion of each of the mature operas, beginning with Manon Lescaut and ending with Turandot. Each opera's chapter has an exhaustive discussion of each scene of the stage action, followed by really quite wonderful ruminations on the musical and production issues of each scene. Berger's comments are generally witty and almost always spot on. He also manages to include some of the gossip extant about various productions, singers, stage directors and conductors.
Then comes a section called 'The Puccini Code' which focuses on the myth of Tosca (one of the weaker chapters in my opinion), 'what one might expect to see' in various productions, and a little coda called 'Puccinian Permutations' which comments on influences the various operas (and the Puccini style) have had on popular culture; think of 'Rent' and 'Moonstruck', for instance.
Finally, there is a section in which Berger discusses recordings of the major operas, with comments about various singers, conductors (and he pulls no punches here) as well as some mention of DVDs and videotapes. He ends this section with a listing and comments about important books on his subject. The book ends with a glossary of terms (helpful for the neophyte, certainly, but without a pronunciation guide, which he had earlier supplied for the names of the operas; that might have been helpful. Can you pronounce 'morbidezza' or 'Regietheater'?). The book contains a fairly full index. Editing and production values are quite good (although I suspect director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and baritone Simon Keenlyside might have preferred their names be spelled correctly). The paperback's cover features a blow-up of a photo of the young Puccini taken from a 'musical celebrities cigarette card series.' (!)
I would recommend this book not only to the newcomer to opera but also to grizzled opera veterans who think they already know everything there is to know about Puccini.
Scott Morrison
I found most of the commentary shallow.
Potential buyers should know that most of this book is a summary of Puccini's major operas (Edgar is not included).
Part Three, "The Puccini Code" is quite disappointing. I had hoped I would gain some deeper appreciation for Puccini but I came away unsure that there was anything I did not discover on my own.
Sometimes, Berger could not help taking unwarranted strikes at Wagner. This is strange for someone who wrote a book about Wagner and certainly knows better than to resort to clichés about his operas. At one point he even suggests that racial purity is a theme in Wagner's opera. If there are arguments to be made here, they should be made and not stuck in, unjustified, in a book on Puccini. He levels a similarly unjustified charge of racism on some of Puccini's critics. Mispronouncing "Turandot" . . . "slightly racist."
My advice, save your money and buy recordings or tickets. Puccini's brilliance is there. You do not need Berger to hold your hand through the process.
If you're a movie buff, you'll have heard snatches of a Puccini aria or musical interlude from THE GODFATHER III to MOONSTRUCK, & if you listen to any of this genius' legacy: LA BOHEME, MADAME BUTTERFLY, TOSCA, & his other five operas, you'll find the music quite familiar.
You'll find out why William Berger thinks Puccini is relevant in today's world in his analyses of the eight operas, the last of which is the unfinished TURANDOT. & you'll also find that Puccini's life was itself worthy of... a soap opera.
Even as I was enjoying the read, I learnt a lot -- about the history of the times, music, collaborations & domestic drama. Bravo!
Puccini without Excuses is another matter altogether. The entire tone of this book is defensive: poor maligned Puccini, critically under-appreciated. The information in this book is colored by this attitude of the author, and because of this defensive tone, we don't get the feeling of respect and love that Berger transmits in both Verdi... and Wagner...
Nevertheless, this book is useful for the synopses of most of Puccini's operas and other bits of information, especially a very thought-provoking take on Il Trittico, as well as a sense of what you might expect to see in the staging of a production.
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Shaw: Geale Will Have New Weapons Against Sturm
By Adrian Warren
Daniel Geale is set to unveil new weapons in his boxing armoury against Felix Sturm in their middleweight world title unification bout in Germany this weekend.
Australia's IBF champion Geale tackles WBA Super title holder Sturm in Oberhausen on Saturday night (early Sunday AEST).
Sturm says the double-title bout is the biggest of his career, even eclipsing his famous clash with legendary Oscar de la Hoya in Las Vegas eight years ago.
"Daniel Geale is a great great fighter. He's fast, he has a great jab and we're very excited about this fight," Sturm said on Fox Sports.
Geale's trainer Graham Shaw said his 31-year-old charge continued to improve.
"Without a doubt he (Sturm) is Daniel's most difficult opponent so far, but having said that Daniel improves every fight and I'd say he has improved 20 per cent from his last fight," Shaw told AAP from Germany.
"He's always in the gym. We're constantly working on different things. We talk a lot about tactics and things we need to do.
"Of course we've studied Felix but we can't spend too much time on that. We've got to worry about what we've got to do rather than 'he does this, we'd better do that'.
"We want to get him into that frame of mind that 'this is not meant to happen' and upset his rhythm.
"Do things that maybe Daniel Geale hasn't done before, that he hasn't seen on tape.
"Daniel Geale is a thinking fighter, so is Felix Sturm, but I'm sure there will be things that happen in the fight that they both have to respond to that's not in the game plan.
"For sure, you will certainly see things from Daniel Geale this fight you probably haven't seen before."
Spies will find it hard to learn anything about Geale, who thanks to a helpful gym owner in Essen is training behind locked doors.
Shaw said Geale was in the shape he wanted him to be just a few days out from the fight and his charge was looking sharper each day.
Looking forward to this one. I usually enjoy Sturm fights. They are normally pretty exciting.Comment by Bomb_onya_Madre on 08-28-2012
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