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A Greek tragedy by Racine, a web of interlocking and tragic loves and misunderstandings propels this play from beginning to end. Although I enjoyed Andromache more, this was also a pleasure from beginning to end. And like Andromache, added greater psychological depth and complexity to characters caught in what would otherwise appear to be the inevitably unfolding clockwork gears of their fates.
Why do modern authors insist on retaining both the characters and the predictable outcomes of these ancient dramas? Racine's French prose is great but the story fails to excite.
I loved this. Racine makes one big change from Euripides: he blames Phedre's false accusation mostly (though not wholly) on her nurse, instead of on her. Coincidentally, that's the one thing that really stuck out for me in the original: I found Phedre's final accusation jarring, unearned and unexplained. So...nice job, Racine!
He also throws a love interest for Hippolytus in, though, in order to make him a little less...y'know, above it all. This was less successful. I think he'd have achieved the effect more cleanly simply by having Hippolytus acknowledge some attraction to Phedre.
And I have now managed to second guess Euripides and Racine in two paragraphs. You know who else wasn't that great? Shakespeare. Yeah!
*ahem* Translation review: not so great. Rawlings delivers with the original French on preceding pages, which is terrific but also serves to make obvious her own shortcomings. Her translation is loose, and it ignores the rhyme of the original. Richard Wilbur manages the same rhyme scheme with ease in his Moliere translation. I'd heard that he failed hard when he attempted Racine, so I didn't read it. With hindsight, I'd give him a shot - or recent dead Laureate Ted Hughes, who also attempted it. Without anything to compare it to, Rawlings' interpretation is functional but not great.
Since Rawlings' translation was just okay for me, I'd like to get back and check this out at some point. Besides, the cover is way cooler.
When is one guilty of something, when one commits the reprehensible deed, and only one knows it, or when it is made known to others?
Phèdre thinks that the latter case is a great deal worse, worse even than death:
je meurs pour ne point faire un aveu si funeste
je n'en mourrai plus, j'en mourrai plus coupable
And so probably did Racine, because in his Phèdre, the action is activated by Phèdre's avowal of her guilt which she makes three times. These three long soliloquies are amongst the most famous parts of the play. She is guilty of loving her stepson and she acknowledges this to her "confidente" (Oenone), to her stepson (Hyppolite), and to her husband (Thésée). These three confessions trigger the drama that unfolds irremediably fast, bringing the tragic downfall of both guilty and non guilty.
But the interest of this play is not in the plot, but in the themes that Racine so lyrically develops. Love coupled with jealousy as a fatal damnation. Treachery as the worst ignominy that can be suffered and inflicted. Choices that remain captive and render Destiny unavoidable. And expectedly in Racine, the power of the word as the vehicle for the human soul.
Racine's tragedies are distilled drama. They are tragedies at their purest in which there is the very minimum of extraneous material. Respecting the three Aristotelian units of one place, one theme and one unit of time (one day), Racine also added the typically 17th century French concept of "bienséance" or "propriety". He approached the three units by emptying them as much as possible. The place is no place, but just an enclosing undefined lieu that traps the tragic heroes and heroines in their own disarrays. The action takes place elsewhere and the messengers just inform the enclosed heroes about them. The resulting single action we see acted is no action at all, but the soul's suffering them (in a way similarly to Baroque opera in which the recitatives tell the story and the arias sing the feelings). With so much material stripped out, then everything can happen quickly. We end up not been aware of whether it all happened in one day, or in an accelerated, condensed and immeasurable eternity. On the stage are left the abstract concepts that do not resolve.
For Phèdre has remained guilty.
I have reread this play as a complement to reading Marcel Proust's La recherche du temps perdu as part of the 2013: The Year of Reading Proust Group. And since it is a play I have sought to watch it acted out. I found this DVD http://www.amazon.co.uk/Phèdre-DVD-Dominique-Blanc/dp/B0002T279G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=..., and therefore my review will comment on this production as well.
I should add that, sadly, this is the only filmed production of a Racine play that I have been able to find. Are they commercially so unattractive? When I lived in Paris I was on a budget but was willing to stand and queue, for sometimes close to two hours, to be able to get the cheapest tickets (FF12.-) for the Comédie Française performances (Corneille, Marivaux, but mostly Molière and Racine). In one year I did not miss one single production.
I am lucky that I have seen some wonderful productions of Racine at the CF then. The stage settings were bare. The accoutrements for emphasizing the Drama were almost only the costumes that the characters wore, with their flowing tunics and floating capes and veils. They were simple but made out of absolutely exquisite materials. Contrasting hues in the clothing paralleled opposite personalities while subtle gradations in color tones marked allegiances. Only tenuously would they distract from the declaimed verses. The acting was selective. Racine's characters do not move abruptly nor do they gesticulate while they converse. They do not need to touch since they reach each other with their words. Racine's heroes and heroines are walking and speaking souls.
When in this DVD Phèdre first appears on the stage as a crouching and limping neurotic woman I was shocked that this could be a Racine Queen. I had been expecting a dignified dame whose august and majestic body carried the full weight of suffering in a stately manner. Phèdre is most famous for her remarkable and very long monologues, known to be so difficult to deliver well that they can make or unmake an actress. It seems that theatre critics count their career in France by the number of Phèdres they have attended. The legendary Sarah Bernhardt was unforgettably photographed in this role.
But this unappealing first entrance of a broken and bent Phèdre in my DVD is, furthermore, followed by somewhat hysterical characters who shout at each other their love and longings. Their incensed and broken sentences and undue emphasis at invented syncopations ruins Racine's verses and rhyme.
For Racine was a master of the Alexandrines, the twelve syllable verses with a clear caesura in its exact middle. His iambic hexameters establish a cadential rhythm which measures an even pace. True, at selected times he breaks and joins the verses with a skillful "enjambement" (the continuation of a thought in the following verse) that has an effect of an accelerated train of thought, but this enjambement ought not to interfere with a mellifluous enunciation of the lines. His verses should have the lulling effect of a hypnotic lullaby.
In the DVD production, with its broken chants and histrionic acting, a worthy exception is Théramène's account of Hyppolite's death. Were a film director of Steven Spielberg's kind get hold of Théramène's speech, it would be inflated it into a fantastic rendering of monsters, seas opening into abysms, and a hair-raising run of frenzied and desperate horses with a fatal consequence. Instead, true to Racine, a sad man, barely moving, declaims this succession of horrors, without blinking, depicting with only words the dreadful scene that gradually sinks the listening father into an unavoidable sorrow. What a wonderful speech.
It is not surprising that Racine's selected use of words and exquisite ability with the Alexandrines would fascinate someone as careful and sensitive to the power of language as Marcel Proust. We have Proust's explicit admiration for the way Racine could twist the very formal structure of his verses and with a broken syntax add ambiguity and richness to his meaning. These examples he gave are from Andromaque:
Pourquoi l'assassiner, Qu'a-t-il fait? A quel titre ?
Qui te l'a dit ?
But it was the poignant portrayal of guilty love in Phèdre that obsessed Proust. And it is this play, which he knew in its entirety by heart, that he has associated to his fictional actress La Berma and which figures in La recherche repeatedly.
After this wonderful reading I will proceed with the rereading of more plays by Racine and with the listening of Rameau's Opera, Hippolyte et Aricie.
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Théâtre complet by Jean Racine
The Misanthrope and Other French Classics (Eric Bentley's Dramatic Repertoire ; V. 3) by Eric Bentley
Six plays by Corneille and Racine by Pierre Corneille
Four Classic French Plays - The Cid, The Would-Be Gentleman, Phaedra & Athaliah by Helen A. Gaubert
Continental Drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lessing, Schiller by Charles William Eliot
Théâtre complet II : Bajazet, Mithridate, Iphigénie, Phèdre, Athalie by Jean Racine
3 Plays: Athalie / Britannicus / Phaedra by Jean Racine
Racine : Oeuvres complètes, tome I by Jean Racine
Masterpieces of the Drama by Alexander W. Allison
A Treasury of the Theatre; an Anthology of Great Plays From Aeschylus to Hebbel by Philo M. Jr. Buck
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Phaedra is consumed with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. Believing her husband dead, she confesses her love to him and is rebuffed. When her husband returns alive, Phaedra convinces him that it was Hippolytus who attempted to seduce her. In his interpretation, Racine replaced the stylized tragedy with human-scale characters and actions. Introduction by Richard Wilbur.
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Every year since 2006 DataXstream has participated in SAP's annual Technology users conference, SAP TechEd now called SAP TechEd && d-code. Each year we endeavor to bring knowledge and add value to the experience of the clients, users and partners that will be attending the show with us while increasing our own skill set. 2014 was no different.
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Rich Heilman is a Senior Product Manager with the Data and Analytic Engines Product Management team at SAP Labs, LLC. He is currently focused on SAP HANA development tools and SAP HANA Extended Application Services. Rich is also the co-author of the SAP Press book, Next Generation ABAP Development and a regular contributor to the SAP Community Network.
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© Reuse this The heated debate over the foreign ownership of South African land took a somewhat surprising new turn on Wednesday, with the head of the State power utility suggesting that foreign ownership of large tracts of land is constraining its ability to secure the servitudes necessary to strengthen the transmission network.
Speaking at the South African Institute of Electrical Engineering's inaugural breakfast briefing at Woodmead, north of Johannesburg, Eskom CEO Jacob Maroga indicated that the acquisition of land and servitude rights had emerged as a major challenge.
This issue, together with delays in environmental impact assessment (EIA) approvals, had also emerged as a possible constraint to the delivery of a R150-billion, five-year investment programme aimed at increasing generation capacity and strengthening the transmission and distribution systems.
"Timelines are tight," Maroga warned, pointing out that Eskom was aiming to spent some R15,5-billion on its long-distance transmission lines up until 2012, including the addition of new lines linking into the R78-billion Medupi power station, being constructed near Lephalale, in the Limpopo province.
He indicated that one of the biggest challenges for its transmission business was the securing of servitudes and the timeous delivery of EIA records of decision.
"The issue of foreign land ownership, for some, is a nationalistic thing. For us, it is a big issue, because in some areas, especially in Lephalale, we have to cross new game farms owned by very important people living abroad. They didn't buy it so that they can see ugly transmission lines on their farms. That becomes a problem," Maroga asserted.
EIA-LINKED DELAYSThe remarks follow a recent acknowledgement by the utility earlier this month that plans for the introduction of an additional 1 050 MW of open-cycle gas-turbine (OCGT) capacity by the winter of 2008 had been thwarted by delays in the finalisation of the EIA.
Envisaged was the addition of five 150-MW units for the 600-MW Ankerlig station, in Atlantis, raising that station's capacity to 1 350 MW by the winter of 2008. And, a smaller expansion plan had also been approved for Mossel Bay, where an additional two 150-MW units were to be added to the 450-MW Gourikwa OCGT facility, raising that plant's capacity to 750 MW by the winter of 2008.
The utility had hoped to have completed the construction and commissioning ahead of an anticipated record demand peak of 38 600 MW, which would be well above the 36 513 MW demand record set on July 5, this year.
But as a result of EIA challenges, Eskom admitted that it would not be able to deliver the new capacity within its budgeted timeframes and that the generation system, which was operating within a tight reserve margin framework of between 8% and 10%, would be vulnerable to increased interruptions next year.
Maroga's statements also follow closely on the release of a report by a panel set up specifically to investigate the appropriate policy response to the increasing tendency for foreigners to buy land in South Africa.
The panel's report is currently out for public comment and includes the following recommendations: the compulsory disclosure of nationality, race and gender; a possible temporary moratorium on the sale of State land to foreigners; a possible prohibition on foreign ownership in certain classified areas; the harmonisation of laws affecting land-use planning and zoning; the establishment of an interdepartmental oversight committee to monitor foreign land-ownership trends; and measures to deal with fronting.
However, Maroga stressed that the servitude acquisition issue was but one of several challenges associated with the group's accelerated capital programme.
'CORRECT PRICING' THE BIGGEST CHALLENGEHe again indicated that the correct pricing of electricity was probably the biggest challenge to the sustainability of its build programme, which could involve the doubling up of Eskom's generation capacity to nearly 80 000 MW by 2025.
He said he was optimistic that its approach to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to reopen the three-year tariff declaration early to allow for a material increase in the tariff structure was being given a fair hearing.
Earlier, a Nersa report described Eskom's application for changes to prices and the rules governing the that determination as "valid in broad terms".
The utility had proposed that Nersa change its rules to allow a flow through of primary-energy costs; to compensate for the accelerated capital programme; and to facilitate a reopening of the multiyear price determination (MYPD).
The prevailing MYPD allowed for a 5,1% increase for 2005/6, 5,9% for 2006/7, and 6,2% for 2008/9.
Eskom wants an early adjustment of 18% for 2008/9, followed by 17% in 2009/10, having warned that South African electricity consumers could face an even more dramatic 30% step change if the adjustment was disallowed.
Nersa would hold public hearings into Eskom's application on November 22 and make a final determination by December 20.
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This Dog Just Wants To Have Fun!
by Rob Lucas
posted Feb 25 2014 5:23AM
Haven't had a funny dog video in a bit. Not a whole lot happens here...this boxer is just having a great time playing with a bag of marbles. But this is a PERFECT example of Play Position. Even though the dog looks aggressive, having her butt up in the air and her front down on the ground means she is in a playful mood, not confrontational. Keep that in mind the next you another dog tries to play with yours...if they are in this position, they just wanna have fun!
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BONIVA®(ibandronate sodium)INJECTION
BONIVA (ibandronate sodium) is a nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate that inhibits osteoclast-mediated bone resorption.
BONIVA Injection is indicated for the treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.
In postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, BONIVA increases BMD and reduces the incidence of vertebral fractures (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Studies). Osteoporosis may be confirmed by the presence or history of osteoporotic fracture or by a finding of low bone mass (BMD more than 2.0 standard deviations below the premenopausal mean [ie, T-score]).
Following a bone fracture, older men less likely to receive osteoporosis screening and treatment Source: Bones / Orthopedics News From Medical News Today [2014.11.07]Osteoporosis, a common condition causing progressive bone loss and increased fracture risk, is primarily thought of as a disease affecting older women.
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Osteoporosis screening guidelines miss many younger post-menopausal women Source: Bones / Orthopedics News From Medical News Today [2014.10.23]To reduce the risk of bone fractures and the complications arising from them, the United States Preventive Services Task force (USPSTF) recommends that all women age 65 and older be tested and...
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Long-term safety of intravenous ibandronic acid for up to 4 years in metastatic breast cancer: an open-label trial. [2006]BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Despite their widespread use in metastatic bone disease, some bisphosphonate drugs are associated with adverse events (AEs), particularly renal toxicity, adding to treatment burdens and increasing healthcare costs. Ibandronic acid is a single-nitrogen bisphosphonate with high efficacy against bone events and metastatic bone pain, and a renal safety profile compar- able to that of placebo. In this study, the safety of ibandronic acid was examined over a period of 4 years... CONCLUSION: This 96-week open-label safety extension of a phase III, placebo-controlled trial demonstrates that long-term use of intravenous ibandronic acid is well tolerated.
Patient preference for once-monthly ibandronate versus once-weekly alendronate in a randomized, open-label, cross-over trial: the Boniva Alendronate Trial in Osteoporosis (BALTO). [2005.12]CONCLUSIONS: Significantly more women with postmenopausal osteoporosis preferred once-monthly ibandronate therapy to once-weekly alendronate therapy, and found the once-monthly regimen to be more convenient. Ease of following a treatment regimen for a long time was the most common reason given for the patients' preferences.
Renal function changes and NHS resource use in breast cancer patients with metastatic bone disease treated with IV zoledronic acid or oral ibandronic acid: a four-centre non-interventional study. [2010.03]AIMS: To describe renal function monitoring practice in patients with metastatic bone disease (MBD) treated with IV zoledronic acid (ZA) and oral ibandronic acid (IA), the management pathways and NHS hospital resources used... CONCLUSION: Although limited by retrospective design, these results demonstrate that in many patients, CrCl is not calculated before or during treatment with bisphosphonates. Renal function deteriorated in many patients during therapy. In view of these effects, practice should be reviewed to ensure appropriate dosing.
Oral versus intravenous ibandronic acid: a comparison of treatment options for metastatic bone disease. [2008.12]PURPOSE: This trial is the first to compare directly the clinical response to and safety of oral and intravenous (IV) ibandronic acid for metastatic bone disease... CONCLUSION: Oral and IV ibandronic acid for bone metastases have similar efficacy and tolerability.
Managing neoplastic bone disease with ibandronic acid: a preclinical and clinical data update. [2008.12]CONCLUSIONS: Ibandronate remains the only bisphosphonate with approved oral and intravenous formulations; ibandronate should be considered when designing a bisphosphonate-containing regimen for patients with bone metastases from breast cancer.
BONVIVA(Ibandronate) PMS(Post-marketing Surveillance ) [Recruiting]
BONCURE Study: A Study of Monthly Bonviva (Ibandronate) in Women With Post-Menopausal Osteoporosis on Bisphosphonate Therapy. [Active, not recruiting]
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BEATRIS Study: A Study of Adherence to Bonviva (Ibandronate) Once Monthly in Women With Post-Menopausal Osteoporosis [Active, not recruiting]
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The PDR 13 experience I had the awesome privilege and good fortune to attend the PDR ID course this weekend in Montreal. I for one, and some of my fellow first-timers I think, were drinking from the proverbial fire-hose as we grappled with the refreshing depth and breadth of the SPEAR system and PDR fundamental concepts. At times even the humour seemed too much... Tony Torres delivered an excellent course, consistently leading us to discover 'the magic of the SPEAR System' in many different ways and on several levels. He offered tough feedback on our group's understanding of the pre-load material and was at pains to ensure we took as much as possible from the weekend. Our time with Coach Blauer was as one could expect - challenging, inspiring and ultimately filled with meaning and substance on multiple levels. Coach Blauer has developed a system super-charged with credibility and fuelled by the desire to help real people to be safer on the streets. The basis is sound. The knowledge goes deep. The PDR/SPEAR training methods are challenging and at times brutally revealing. Where I'm from, it is said that "It's not a delay to stop and sharpen the scythe" - and this to some extent sums up the PDR programme for me - indeed in my case it has felt like discovering the scythe and the whetstone for the first time. Thanks to Coach Blauer, Tony Torres and the whole BTS team for all their work in delivering an excellent weekend. Looking forward to my next training opportunity already. Regards, Gerard
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Edited: 16-May-06
Member Since: 11/21/2005
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Thanks for the very nice comments Gerard!
The latest PDR session was amazing.
However you forgot something very important.
What always makes the PDR sessions so incredible is the attendees.
People like you that have the dedication, integrity, and desire to make your students safer during violent confrontations as well as live richer lives as they learn how fear affects their performance in any arena.
The tools learned at the PDR affect everyone you will come in contact with.
I consider myself one of the luckiest individuals in the world. I have what I consider the coolest job in the world thanks to Coach Blauer and the SPEAR System.
It allows me to meet groups, like the one from the recent PDR session, that share a passion to help their fellow man stay safe.
However I did not accomplish anything that weekend by myself. As a matter of fact I am only one small part of the team.
Coach Blauer's constant guidance and advice are key to what the PDR team is.
Marc and Patricia did plenty of logistics work behind the scenes.
Tom and Dana Arcuri are literally the life blood of the program. Although they couldn't be in Montreal for the full session, it was their hard work and deidication on the several days prior that made the event a success.
They are the force behind almost all the previous PDR sessions as well. They truly deserve the credit.
In short, it was our priviledge and our honor to have been able to help now and we will be more than happy to help in the future.
I look forward to seeing you at another session soon.
Tony Torres
Blauer Tactical Systems
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I just got done typing my 25 PAGES of notes from PDR 13, so yeah, I
think I learned a little bit from my PDR experience =D Seriously I
learned a ton of material.
It was both a demoralizing and invigorating experience. Demoralizing
because what I thought I was teaching as good self-defense was not as
good as it could be. Invigorating because the psychology and concepts
taught by Coach Blauer and his team are fantastic in their practicality
and applicability, not only for self-defense but also for combat sports
like submission wrestling, BJJ, muay thai, and MMA.
PDR 13 was well run, professional, and educational. If you want to see
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research this is the place for you. I'm pretty sure we spent 15 hours on
the first 15 seconds of a fight without ever doing a technique.
What?!? No techniques! Its not about that, techniques are complex
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to balance your checkbook while sprinting on a treadmill or making a
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Thanks to the whole BTS and PDR crew who made this possible as
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Please excuse rambling and spelling, I've been on call,
Mike Aref
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Mark Gavin
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I can't give enough credit and express enough thanks to BTMS for the best PDR to date (My first one, so I am biased).
I'm trying to absorb the info. and am coaching a couple of my friends and getting feedback as to how clear I give them the info. I have to admit I am keeping it very simple and cant wait to return to another PDR and looking forward to attending some advanced classes.
I have studied alot of self defense systems and in my humble opinion Tony Blauer has hit the nail on the head, The S.P.E.A.R system addresses all tools needed in a real confrontation not only in the street but in everyday life.
God Bless you all,
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