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If you aren't Canadian then you may not understand the need to find a suitable vegan substitute for butter tarts. They are one of Vegan Mom and mine favourite treats, and we would make them on special occasions. The non-vegan version has butter in it, of course, and relies on eggs to set the filling. So, how to make a passable vegan version? The answer is some agar, which firms up the filling but lets it stay a bit runny. I did not bake these (I will experiment with that next time), so the top is slightly different, but they are still pretty great.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Vegan Butter Tarts
If you aren't Canadian then you may not understand the need to find a suitable vegan substitute for butter tarts. They are one of Vegan Mom and mine favourite treats, and we would make them on special occasions. The non-vegan version has butter in it, of course, and relies on eggs to set the filling. So, how to make a passable vegan version? The answer is some agar, which firms up the filling but lets it stay a bit runny. I did not bake these (I will experiment with that next time), so the top is slightly different, but they are still pretty great.
21 comments:
- DJ Karma said...
Never had them before, but they look delicious... been thinking about playing around with agar!
- February 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
- Amanda Nicole said...
Thank you for posting this recipe! I'm a fellow Canadian, and I've been craving these things since Christmas.
- February 9, 2009 at 10:26 PM
- kimberly said...
These look so yummy! Now I just need to add agar flakes to the grocery list and then I'll be in tart heaven.
- February 9, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- Chris said...
No bake butter tarts? Count me in! I like the use of agar agar; it's pretty common in SE Asian cooking so I can't complain. Any suggestions for arrowroot substitutes though? I somehow haven't ever encountered it in my recipe browsing.
- February 10, 2009 at 12:15 AM
- The Geographical Vegan Says... said...
Oh WOW!!
I was just dreaming of veganized butter tarts the other day, then I thought "no, maybe it can't be done".....
You're my hero!!
(This recipe looks great but I have one major concern..
- no maple syrup??? The best butter tarts have maple syrup 'dollupped' into the filling to give it that extra *wow* sweet factor.)
I'll let you know how it turns out...
- February 10, 2009 at 1:55 AM
- Eating Consciously said...
Never hear of butter tarts, but the concept sounds and looks delicious.
- February 10, 2009 at 5:15 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Cornstarch seems the obvious substitution, but I think you could probably do without it all together. I think the agar will hold it together--I just have not tested that theory yet.
- February 10, 2009 at 8:21 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Geographical Vegan,
That sounds intense. These are already pretty sweet and fudgy--the maple syrup might put you in a sugar-induced coma. Of course, worse things have happened.
- February 10, 2009 at 8:23 AM
- veganmum said...
Oh, yum. Bryanna has a great butter tart recipe (I can't remember if it's on her blog or not), but I will definitely be trying these, too. I love that they aren't baked - if only because the baked ones always make a mess of my oven.
(I'd love to see more traditional Canadian recipes on the blog!)
Can't wait to try this.
- February 10, 2009 at 8:34 AM
- The Voracious Vegan said...
Oh my vegan goodness! Those look AMAZING! Thank you so much for the recipe.
- February 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM
- Laci said...
Wow! so decadent, a omni would never guess! :D
- February 10, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- Barbara said...
These sound magical, I cannot wait to make them!
- February 10, 2009 at 5:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
these look really good. i bet they'd be good filled with a fruit filling too.
- February 11, 2009 at 3:53 PM
- Bullie named Moses said...
look super yummy!
- February 11, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- kmouse said...
Oh my god, they look like mini sugar pies! My husband who is quebecois would love those.
- February 12, 2009 at 12:41 AM
- Claire said...
Hey! DietDesserts and Dogs has a nice looking butter tart recipe too. I love importing all these Canadian recipes!
- February 12, 2009 at 8:59 AM
- Anonymous said...
I AM CANADIAN, but living in Spain and everyone always asks me about typical Canadian dishes... I belong to this vegan group and we have potlucks all the time. This is just perfect. I'm normally not the type to make desserts, but I think I'll make an exception...
- March 3, 2009 at 8:49 PM
- Anonymous said...
Just wondering I have been wanting butter tarts so badly I have all the ingredients but can not find the soy creamer, Any suggestions?
- December 13, 2009 at 10:08 PM
- Lynne said...
Yummy! Thanks for this. I laughed at the Canadian reference. My grandmother used to make buttertarts every christmas. One of those things I missed when I turned Vegan. Can't wait to try this recipe.
- December 16, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- AlexisonRios said...
Thanks for the great recipe. I made mine with the following changes:
- 2.5 cups of whole wheat flour
- Closer to 12 teaspoons of cold water, which I'm guessing is from using a different type of flour
The crust turned out great and could be a great pie crust too.
- Almond milk instead of soy creamer, and closer to 1+ cup
- No arrowroot (didn't have any), no vanilla (forgot), no raisins (don't like them)
The filling turned out really good as well, though I made way too much. My crust was quite thick and ideally I should have made more shells.
I let the agar set in the fridge for 30 minutes or so, and it turned out good. Still soft and gel like, but not running out of the shell.
Again, thank you for the recipe.
- December 24, 2009 at 4:41 PM
- Moreen Murray said...
Vegan Dad - just made these this morning for my dad who is in Sunnybrook Veterans Wing - of course I had to taste test - they are awesome! Thanks!
- October 24, 2011 at 11:06 AM


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7 Deadly Things You Won't Believe Most People Survive
We have previously pointed out that fewer people die in shark attacks than are killed by cows. But sharks are hardly the only danger the world loves to overhype.
In fact, sometimes the things that seem deadliest aren't so much deadly as they are inconvenient. For example ...
#7. You Have a 96 Percent Chance of Surviving a Plane Crash
You constantly hear about how safe air travel is, how rarely planes crash and how you're many times more likely to die in a car accident. All of that is true. But the reason we still get a bit nervous when strapping in for a flight is because we know that if the plane does go down, we are screwed.
A car accident you might walk away from. But you're not walking away from a flimsy aluminum tube plummeting 30,000 feet and smashing into the ground. Right?
And if you survive the crash, you still have those polar bears to contend with.
Actually ...
You probably will. Out of the collective 53,487 people involved in plane crashes in the U.S. from 1983 to 2000, 51,207 survived. That's nearly a 96 percent survival rate.
If you're wondering how that's possible, just look at something like Aloha Airlines Flight 243. That plane had half of its fuselage ripped off in midair after an explosive decompression:
Via Aloha.net
The sky filled with John Grisham novels and half-empty cans of cranapple juice.
But, as is often the case, the pilot successfully got it onto the ground in a way that did not cause it to erupt in a giant fireball. As a result, out of 94 people, only one person died on that flight (the one person who wasn't strapped to her seat when the plane fell apart -- hey, that's why they have those seat belts!).
Here's a flight from 2001 where the plane lost both engines at 33,000 feet and was still 135 miles from the airport. Oh, and they also lost all hydraulic power, so they couldn't operate the flaps or brakes. The pilot muscled the dead aircraft into a series of gentle 360-degree turns to reduce speed and altitude until the aircraft glided to the airport, where the pilot could carefully set it down on the runway. No one was killed.
Via Airdisaster.com
But every pair of pants on the flight was ruined forever.
See, this is why you still need a pilot at the wheel instead of just letting autopilot take care of the whole trip, or letting passengers take turns behind the stick. They're there in case something goes wrong, and they're pretty freaking good at their jobs.
Also good at their jobs? The engineers who built these things. A plane can absorb a lot of shit going wrong before it just submits to plummeting sadly to earth. It's full of backups, redundancies and safety measures meant to keep it aloft even if multiple systems fail.
So, what is the secret to surviving an airplane crash? Remarkably, doing exactly as you are told. Yes, those in-flight demonstrations of how to use a seat belt are ridiculous, but if you're out of fuel and about to do an emergency landing in the ocean, that's going to be the difference between floating safely away on your seat cushion versus trying to jump out of the plane because you saw Arnold Schwarzenegger do it in Commando.
"Fuck you, sky, I am a GOD!"
#6. Getting Shot Is Only Fatal 5 Percent of the Time (If You Get to a Doctor)
In action movies, the rule for bullet wounds is fairly consistent:
Get shot in the arm or leg? It's basically a mosquito bite.
Get shot anywhere in the body? You're dead before you hit the ground.
This man had a gun thrown at him.
Obviously the first one only happens in movies because nobody pays to watch Bruce Willis sitting in an emergency room for an hour waiting for them to tend to his wounded shoulder. But then you have the second part -- if you shoot a bad guy in the chest or really anywhere in the torso, he's down for the count.
Indiana Jones whips out his gun and shoots that swordsman somewhere in the middle of the body and just turns around and walks away, knowing the guy is dead. It's been the same with tens of thousands of movie shootouts since the days of silent-film Westerns -- one shot, one kill. Here's a whole mess of dudes with no tolerance for bullets whatsoever:
Actually ...
In real life, unless you're one of those dudes getting shot in the head or perfectly in the heart, you're probably going to make it if you can get medical attention. According to one doctor who has a little experience with these things, as long as your heart is still beating once they wheel you into the hospital, there is a 95 percent chance of survival.
Ninety-five percent! We'd think the fatality rate would be higher from getting shot with a damned paintball gun.
Don't worry, they'll both be rebuilt as robot cops, and then the Blue Team will pay.
It turns out that your body is actually pretty damned resilient, and just as well engineered as those planes we mentioned in the previous entry. You're built to keep going despite taking a lot of damage. According to former military surgeon Dr. Martin L. Fackler, "Shots to roughly 80 percent of targets on the body would not be fatal blows."
Now, obviously, if you get shot and left in the desert to die, you've got a problem -- and each additional bullet hole significantly raises your chances of blood loss, shock or, well, death by bullet hole. But it's possible to rack up 20 bullet wounds and live to tell the tale. Just ask North Carolina man Kenny Vaughan, who was shot about 20 times with a rifle that was only 5 feet away.
Via Nytimes.com
Pictured: An entire episode of The X-Files.
Oh, and then there is Angel Alvarez, who was shot more than 20 times in 2010 and survived. Or Howard Morgan, who survived more than two dozen gunshot wounds after opening fire on police like an idiot. Or, lastly, soldiers like Roy Benavidez, who somehow survived 37 separate "bayonet, bullet and shrapnel wounds" over the course of six hours. That's the human body for you. Well, if you consider such a feat human.
Via Wikipedia
There's a reason Reagan looks nervous. These soldiers were never supposed to be known.
So if you need to kill a bad guy, really you should leave nothing to chance and just stab him right in the heart. The only problem there is ...
#5. You Have a 1 in 3 Chance of Surviving Getting Stabbed in the Heart
If getting stabbed through the ticker is bad enough to kill Dracula, surely no human can survive having their heart turned into shish kabob. Right?
Actually ...
Your odds of surviving a stab wound directly to the heart are roughly 1 in 3.
It's why the first person you convert in your new coven is a surgeon.
Yes, we realize that's not as favorable as the "getting shot" stat above, but come on. If Arnold Schwarzenegger had gotten stabbed in the heart in one of the movies where he plays a human and then came back like nothing had happened, you'd have been screaming bullshit. If in real life you stabbed a dude right in his heart and he just got back up, you wouldn't be saying, "Damn, that's a badass!" No, it'd be more like, "AAHHH! ZOMBIE! SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD!"
Quick, think of something before he dies -- "You've been businessed." Goddamnit.
Now, don't get us wrong; getting stabbed through the heart sucks, and if it ever happens to you, you should definitely stop what you're doing and go straight to a doctor. But according to a seven-year study on penetrating cardiac injuries involving more than 20,000 consecutive trauma patients, the survival rate for patients who were stabbed in the heart was 32.6 percent -- slightly better than the 31.9 percent for all passengers and crew on the Titanic.
In a twist of ironic justice, if you do this on any ship, the crew will stab you in the heart.
So, for those of you keeping score, if a heart-stab victim and a passenger on the Titanic were racing each other toward a finish line called "survival," the guy with the dagger in his heart would probably be the winner. Unless the Titanic passenger was one of the priority lifeboat passengers, like if it was some rich person's baby. But then, how would he race? You need to think these things through, people.
#4. Venomous Snakes Kill Fewer People Than Insects
First of all, we're going to limit this specifically to venomous snakes that bite people. You already probably know that most snakes aren't in that category, and are content to hang out in your yard and eat toads and mice. But those stats you hear about how snakes won't kill you -- that's not referring to the bad snakes, right? No matter what anyone says about snakes in general, if you run into a damned rattlesnake or cobra, it's still going to murder your ass, isn't it?
Dude, just let 'em have the damn baskets.
Actually ...
Out of the 7,000 to 8,000 people who receive venomous snakebites in the U.S. each year, guess how many actually die as a result?
It's five. Freaking five.
"He's not pissed off enough. Flute me up some Bizkit."
For comparison, that's fewer than the total number of people killed by non-venomous insects each year.
Hell, there's a good chance that even if you are bitten, you won't even get any snake venom in your body -- these are called "dry bites" and constitute anywhere from 25 percent to more than 50 percent of bites from venomous snakes. This means that women are more likely to fake an orgasm than deadly snakes are willing to go all the way when they bite, which, now that we think about it, seems like a major cop-out on both fronts.
That's why you can have stories like Sant Ram of India, who supposedly was bitten 60 times in three years, because apparently snakes think he tastes great. He was still alive the last time anyone heard.
"Well, there's your problem. Found this little guy hanging out in your colon."

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Let's talk about the 2012-2013 season
Posted 24 August 2012 - 07:10 AM
It might be a good idea to focus on artistic and performance issues on this thread, and to use our "Transitioning from Villella to Lopez" thread -- http://balletalert.i..._15#entry307512 -- more for matters of company governance, policy, etc.
For the record, the FOUR PROGRAMS are as follows. Anything you want to add about upcoming Nutcackers, tours, special performances like Open Barre, dancers, fantasy casting, etc., belong here, too
LES PATINEURS (The Skating Party) -- (Ashton, Meyerbeer).
PIAZZOLLA CALDERA (Taylor, Piazzolla)
APOLLO (Balanchine, Stravinsky
DIVERTIMENTO NO. 15. (Balanchine, Mozart)
DUO CONCERTANT (Balanchine, Stravinsky)
DON QUIXOTE PAS DE DEUX ("after" Petipa, Minkus)
WORLD PREMIERE BY LIAM SCARLETT (Scarlett/ TBD)
LA VALSE (Balanchine/ Ravel)
THE STEADFAST TIN SOLDIER (Balanchine/ Bizet)
TSCHAIKOVSKY PAS DE DEUX (Balanchine/ Tchaikovsky)
SYMPHONIC DANCES (Ratmansky/ Rachmaninoff)
DANCES AT A GATHERING (Robbins/ Chopin)
SLAUGHTER ON TENTH AVENUE (Balanchine/ Rodgers)
I'm so grateful for the Balanchine emphasis, especially Divertimento No. 15, which could be perfect for this company depending on who is doing the coaching.
I'm drawing a blank on ideal casting for the role of Apollo. There are no young gods in the company, but there are a coupe of men who could do quite well with Jacques d'Amboise's approach to the role. Jennifer Kronenberg was a good Terpsichore when MCB last did the ballet. She is on maternity leave this season, and will certainly be missed.
How about this off-the-cuff casting? Apollo/ Isanusi Garcia-Rodriguez I'm thinking of Marie-Jeanne saying that Balanchine wanted, in 1937, an "unformed unmajestic Apollo. He said that he had in mind a soccer player when he did it for Llifar. Lew [Cristensen] had a kind of jerky movement, a roughness. he was tall enough to wear a little skirt. The hairs on his head, chest, and legs were gilded, so when the lights turned on him, he shone."
Terpsichore/ Jeanette Delgado (Terpsichore doesn't have to be a long-legged Adams, Farrell, Kronenberg type. Marie-Jeanne wasn't; Tallchief wasn't.) Calliope/ Sara Esty. Polyhymnia/ Jennifer Lauren..
The Steadfast Tin Soldier has Kleber Rebello written all over it, but who should dance the doll? Mary Carmen Catoya was the Coppelia who reminded me most of Patricia McBride last spring. I'd pick Catoya.
I am getting more and more curious about how they will approach the Ashton, which is for many of these young dancers -- and their ballet masters -- a foreign language. I know the Joffrey version (1970s) best. When this was prepared, a team of Ashton experts including Michael Soames was brought over from the Royal to set the ballet. It paid off. Possibly someone from the Joffrey will come to help MCB. Kleber Rebello is my hope for the Boy in Blue. For the 2 girls in Red and the 2 girls in Blue, I'd give an opportunity to Sara and Leigh Ann Esty and as many of the excellent women of the corps as possible.
Lourdes Lopez will be down here quite a bit this season, I gather,. There is still no official word about who is actually 'running" the artistic business of the company for this season, as opposed to planning next season. Then there's the matter of the direction of School. And the orchestra, whose status appears to be up in the air.
The staff directory on the website -- administrators, development, ballet mistresses, music -- seems pretty much as it was at the start of the summer. I don't know MCB's contract cycle, but September is probably when we will see whatever changes have already been arranged.
Posted 25 August 2012 - 03:22 PM
Posted 25 August 2012 - 05:30 PM
OFF TOPIC: Villella himself played the non-dancing Gangster last time around,. (That was just two years ago.) . Contractually, he has the right to remain as A.D. right to the end of the season, though this may not actually happen. Now here's a casting idea !!! -- Why not rotate the Gangster part among the power brokers on the Board of Trustees? Just make sure that no one puts live ammo in the gun.
Posted 25 August 2012 - 06:54 PM
And as for Slaughter, Villella's was the best "Gangster" of my experience - an experience including Farrell's "Strip Tease Girl". (I am confident I will never see anyone else approach her natural combination of innocence and sensuality. But then, things do not always happen in the theater as I anticipate...) Not off topic, but we'll see if he's up for it, or coaches someone. (I presume he coached Jeremy Cox's "Prodigal", the best one of those I think I've seen since Villella's own and Baryshnikov's.)
So I happen to think this program has good program-making going for it. On the other hand, my conception of it as marking Villella's farewell may make it too much for me to bear to watch.
But I am strongly inclined to watch their Nutcracker again, which I think of as a Balanchine mixed-repertory program all rolled into one, with its realism, pantomime, dream-fantasy (with choreographed tree and bed!) and divertissements. (Not to mention one of Balanchine's best musical collaborators.)
Edited by Jack Reed, 25 August 2012 - 07:33 PM.
Posted 26 August 2012 - 08:09 AM
Posted 26 August 2012 - 08:46 AM
But I am strongly inclined to watch their Nutcracker again,
Oh, yes...B's Snow Scene, one of the most memorable "blanc" scenes EVAA!!
Posted 12 October 2012 - 07:11 PM
Posted 13 October 2012 - 08:23 AM
The story includes marvelous and helpful insights into the way Lourdes seems to be gradually, subtlely redefining things like class, coaching, interpersonal relationships. Makes me want to say about the season -- starting with the intimate Open Barre performances next month -- "I can't wait to see what happens."
I realize that much of what I'm quoting below probably belongs on our TRANSITIONS FROM VILLELLA TO LOPEZ thread. I'm keeping it all here to avoid confusion. Everything in tihs article, whether related to casting for Program I and even ideas for for where the MCB repertoire will go in the future will have an impact on the Company in 2012-13.
I hope there's healthy disagreement about what I am about to write, but .... Among the highlights for me:
This has been missing in the up-and-down, boom-or-bust management I've observed. I hope the re-invented Board and the new General Director take note.
Dancers just want to dance and be nurtured and encouraged, she says. I said to them that the greatest gift I can give you is for you to be able to just walk into this building knowing all you have to worry about is dancing not budgets, not drama, but your jump and your role that night.
When she teaches company class, a crucial foundation for the dancers technique and style, she has zeroed in on precision and details shaping the upper body or cleaning up specific steps, for example where Villella tended to focus on broader qualities like energy, rhythm and musicality.
I see it as an opportunity to fix things so they dont have to worry about it onstage, she says.
The dancers have noticed the difference. Shes clearly paying attention to peoples strengths and weaknesses, says principal dancer Tricia Albertson. Corps dancer Neil Marshall says Lopez has challenged the troupe: I think shes ambitious for the company and the dancers.
As she coaches Delgado and young Brazilian dancer Renan Cerdeiro in Apollo, Lopez makes some technical corrections, but mostly talks about the ballets back story about a young god discovering his inspiration and power.
[ ... ]
She speaks in a mix of Spanish and English as she rehearses Venezuelan Mary Carmen Catoya and Cuban Carlos Guerra in the same ballet. As she adjusts Catoya in a precarious arch atop Guerras shoulders, the shy dancer, who has struggled since a serious foot injury two years ago, breaks into a radiant smile.
Villella's teaching style produced what most people consider to be MCB's greatest and most appealing strengths: speed, momentum, joy, the ability to syncopate and go all out. I hope these remain a focus, even while paying more attention to "precision and details." Helping the dancers to refine their upper bodies, something often fudged in current performances, is an excellent idea. Can one have it all? I don't know, but it would be nice to see them try.
Very interested to see how Catoya (I assume she is Terpsichore) and Guerra do together. My impression is that the popular husband-and-wife team of Guerra and Kronenberg actually become more interesting dancers when partnering with dancers they haven't worked with forever. Also, Catoya has a way on stage of making every partner look good.
[N]ext year she plans a new work on each of the troupes four programs.
On her wish list are Polyphonia by Christopher Wheeldon, the choreographer with whom she launched Morphoses; a work by Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato that she describes as lush, mellow, romantic, and West Side Story Suite, drawn from Jerome Robbins choreography for the famous Broadway musical and film, which would require some dancers to sing.
Shed like to do Don Quixote, which MCB has danced before, but using the costumes and sets Santo Loquasto created for American Ballet Theater and pairing guest stars with MCBs principals, partnerships she believes would enrich the Miami dancers.
I'm not convinced that it's wise to bring in "guest artists." I would do a cost-benefit analysis on this one. Currently, MCB dances only 3 performances of each program in Miami itself. (Plus 4 in Fort Lauderdale and 4 in West Palm.) Guest principals mean fewer performances for MCB's own dancers, which means less chance to grow on their own.
I'm actually enthused by her suggestions for additions to the rep. (I realize this will not be universally shared on Ballet Alert.) We need more Wheeldon. Based on what I've seen of his work, there's "good Duato" and (inevitably) "not so good Duato." The across-the-board criticisms I've often read on B.A. -- as when he was brought in to revive the fortunes of the MIkhailovsky in Petersburg -- seem unjustified and unfair. West Side Story Suite is a brilliant programming choice, given the nature of the MCB audience. On the other hand, I don't see that spending money on another production of Don Q would make much difference. (The lackluster quality of performances in the past had to do more with the failure to communicate the the style and feeling of the piece to the dancers, not with sets or costumes. Don Q works best when everyone takes it VERY seriously and gets the style. it should not be, as it has been, unfocused or a "sketch.")
"Non traditional venues like museums or malls" etc. A great idea for Miami especially, and easily transportable to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
She wants to turn Morphoses into a creative arm of MCB, inviting guest choreographers and the troupes dancers to make pieces, possibly staging them at nontraditional venues like museums or malls or at the troupes in-house studio series Open Barre.
And she wants to incorporate more choreographers, including major ballet modernists such as William Forsythe and Jiri Kylian, into the troupes repertoire.
Miami City Ballet really functions as a very traditional and I mean that with full respect dance company, she says. What it doesnt have is a choreographic arm.
But she insists she wont take the troupe too far from its classical base of Balanchine and Robbins and modern dance masters such as Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp. 'Were not going to do Pina Bausch, she says, referring to the experimental German choreographer.
The foundation of Miami City Ballets repertoire will not change. Im bringing in other choreographers that are very similar, that will complement those. I strongly believe the more information you have, the more accomplished you are as an artist."
I could spend the rest of my life watching Balanchine, but I've felt for a while that well-selected Kylian and Forsythe will be good for the dancers and for the company. I know that "Kylian" especially, and "Forsythe" to a lesser degree, still manage to provoke either rage or rolling eyes in certain quarters. But they have been around for a long time, and much of what they have produced is hardly radical.
Posted 13 October 2012 - 01:27 PM
I could spend the rest of my life watching Balanchine, but I've felt for a while that well-selected Kylian and Forsythe will be good for the dancers and for the company.
What Lopez needs to do is to bring Odile to the company once and for all. A full lenght SL is long overdue. A trying at putting together the ill fated company's "Aurora's Wedding" would be VERY healthy also, along with SL, to the basic stylistic development of this dancers whom have had almost no exposure to Petipa-(huge mistake, IMO).
Posted 13 October 2012 - 02:47 PM
... Lourdes's openness to the press is refreshing. Villella came from an older generation and never seemed comfortable with reporters unless he was able to control the situation and the story.
Maybe he was influenced by a still-older generation including someone who told an interviewer, "Why don't you ask all your questions and then I'll talk?"
When she teaches company class, a crucial foundation for the dancers' technique and style, she has zeroed in on precision and details — shaping the upper body or cleaning up specific steps, for example — where Villella tended to focus on broader qualities like energy, rhythm and musicality.
Sounds like part of someone's description of what Martins did to Balanchine's company.
As she adjusts Catoya in a precarious arch atop Guerra's shoulders, the shy dancer, who has struggled since a serious foot injury two years ago, breaks into a radiant smile.
One of the few things I really enjoy about In the Upper Room, aside from the fact that practically the whole bunch of these dancers I've grown to love is in it, is that, at the end, two boys pick Catoya up and toss her in the air, and she always cracks a smile. (Tell me that's just the choreography. Just try!)
Villella's teaching style produced what most people consider to be MCB's greatest and most appealing strengths: speed, momentum, joy, the ability to syncopate and go all out. I hope these remain a focus, even while paying more attention to "precision and details." Helping the dancers to refine their upper bodies, something often fudged in current performances, is an excellent idea. Can one have it all? I don't know, but it would be nice to see them try. Very interested to see how Catoya (I assume she is Terpsichore) and Guerra do together.
The idea of missing a few of Catoya's Terpsichores makes me sad, but there's not enough more to draw this Chicagoan to Program I. (A chance to see her Ballet Imperial a few years ago was, though.)
[N]ext year she plans a new work on each of the troupe's four programs. ... "Miami City Ballet really functions as a very traditional — and I mean that with full respect — dance company," she says. "What it doesn't have is a choreographic arm."
Sounds school-of-Martins again. It's true that about half her dancing at NYCB was in Balanchine's corps and then as a soloist for Martins; but I'd expect this to develop more of the concern for precision or perfection that made Martins's own dancing leave observers "perfectly content rather than excitedly alive" to quote Robert Greskovic's concluding phrase in his appreciation of Martins in Ballet Review 1978-1979 (reprinted in Robert Gottlieb's great anthology, Reading Dance)
I know that "Kylian" especially, and "Forsythe" to a lesser degree, still manage to provoke either rage or rolling eyes in certain quarters. But they have been around for a long time, and much of what they have produced is hardly radical.
Hardly radical, but is it any good? Apollo was pretty radical, to some, in its day: "Whoever saw Apollo do that?" "Whoever saw Apollo?" It's still danced because there's something good about it - what that is, is another thread, or forum, even, but I'd just offer that what the dancers do, they do in response to, or to complement the music, is a major part of it.
Posted 14 October 2012 - 07:27 AM
Jack, I appreciate your points about Martins but don't necessarily buy the comparison. All artistic directors -- including Petipa and Balanchine -- have believed in the need to keep the repertoire alive by giving dancers a chance to work with "contemporary" choreographers.
As I said, there are choreographers and choreographers. Martins, having a very long season and many ballets to produce, has gone, it sometimes seems, for quantity (numbers of new works) rather than quality. (On the other hand, even Balanchine had failures.) Lopez has a much more limited budget, many fewer programs, and an audience which has proved itself, on the whole, willing to accept a degree of "newness," while remaining generally conservative.
My hope is that Lopez will approach new work as Villella did. (I'm omitting the period in which MCB danced many works by Jimmy de Gamonet, none of which I had the chance to see.) Villella's choice of "original" choreography was mixed, but on the whole worth the effort. The costly fiasco of the Twyla Tharp/ Elvis Costello Nightspot is balanced by the achievement and success of Lliam Scarlett and Alexei Ratmansky. As for works already created and performed elsewhere, what exactly is "new"? Kylian began choreographing in the early 70s; Forsythe, in the early 80s. That's 40 and 30 years ago. Both of them have produced work, much of it widely performed by companies comparable to MCB, that would fit into MCB programming without much more of a stretch than adding Taylor and Tharp, as Villella did. The point is, surely, WHICH Taylor, Tharp, Kylian, Forstythe, or whomever?
As for commissioning new work -- a la Martins -- Lopez's references to plans for Morpheses (focusing on alternate venues) seems the best place. The MCB Board, with new financial oversight, knows just how much it costs to rent the Arsht or the Kravis Centers. Ballet audiences down here are educated but essentially anti-experimental. I have to trust that those in charge know that and will plan accordingly.
Posted 14 October 2012 - 12:37 PM
cristian, I would love to see you develop your point about a full-length Swan Lake. I know and appreciate your very high standards for the performance of classics like this. We both agree that mediocre Swan Lakes are in over-abundance in Florida. Wouldn't the ability to do it really well involve huge investment in time and money and, basically, a reinvention of the company? Would it work?
The point is an easy one,bart. A full length successful SL needs to be done to keep the very essentials of the art form in a ballet company. MCB is a ballet company, not a modern dance troupe. The last name Ballet is there for a reason, and yes, even if Balanchine is a strong part of its lifetime, it is at the end Miami City Ballet, not Balanchine Ballet, and that fact needs to be completely accepted and carried on. Then, all that floor rolling and bare footed stuff and Taylor and Twyla and so on and so forth should be interesting complements once and for all the company has finished with the task of mastering the very basic product of the art form. A full lenght SL could be costly, but Petipa is the very bones of every self respected ballet company, so it needs to be done over and over with the required reverence and mastership. 500 years from now the art form will keep surviving ONLY if the classics are still being produced and performed. All that Morphoses business stuff are nice experiments, but in the long run they have and will have a limited time, after which dancers, AD's and audiences will go back again at producing and watching yet another production of one of the classics. I don't know too much about Farrell and McBride and all those ballerinas who were able to survive and become internationally known without the essentials, but I firmly believe that their success had to do with the fact that they were part of something new that at the time was probably working just fine and didn't required for them to do anything else, but whatever that was, it is not new any longer. Graham and Merce and some others were also something new, and they too had dancers that were lucky to be there at the right time and the right place to show the novelty to the world, but that was it...the mystery of the BALLET pathos-(with its share of Auroras, Giselles, Swannildas, Odiles, pointes,tutus, tiaras, reverences and barre language)-has been able to go along all the rest and win in the lung run. Whatever the formula is, it has worked for many years, and people both on and offstage have accepted it and kept it where it is. MCB needs to be part of that too, and our great ballerinas deserve the great roles. And we the audience need them, want them and are rightly entitled to them too just as NewYorkers and Mariinsky goers.
Posted 14 October 2012 - 01:26 PM
Can a company of 40 dancers plus a couple of apprentices do justice to a full length traditional Swan Lake. I remember Scottish Ballet (a similar sized company to MCB) having a gorgeous Swan Lake mounted by Galina Samsova who worked closely with Sir Peter Wright on BRB's wonderful production. It worked fine for me but a lot of people criticised it because of the "small" number of swans (I think it was 12). BRB has 18 swans in total, including the cygnets and 2 big swans.
What is ballet? I would have classed Balanchine's work as ballet and as he seems to be considered worldwide as one of THE choreographers, I would have thought that followers of MCB would be jealously guarding their Balanchine heritage.
Edited to add in parentheses.
Posted 14 October 2012 - 02:43 PM
With that said I think it is very hard for a ballet company to be all things to everyone. I sort of like how MCB in the past tried to do both Balanchine and a classical ballet (not counting Nutcracker). If there were a professional classical ballet company in Miami that was well funded (like if Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami took off and had lots of donors), I would be fine with MCB specializing mainly in Balanchine, but since that isn't the case yet or currently, I think it is a good idea to include classics here and there. Giselle and Don Quixote seem to cycle around quite a bit.
But some classical ballets do require a large company. I can't imagine a small company doing La Bayadere with 32 or 24 shades (depending on which version you use). It would probably require using extra dancers from other companies to supplement. Either that, or they would have to do a 12 shades scene! LOL LOL Just wouldn't be the same!
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Does spicy food give you weird dreams?
Does eating spicy food give you weird dreams?
The few times I ate some spicy food before bed, I had some of the craziest dreams of my life. They aren't necessarily nightmares all the time, but just vivid dreams that are stranger than usual.
I'm wondering if anyone knows if this is a real thing (and not just a coincidence), why it happens (if there is any science behind it) and for you to share your weirdest "spicy food dream".
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No issues here, and I'd go through a jar of salsa at least once a week, if not more often.
I believe in it. I always get the craziest dreams when I eat a lot of ice cream and drink a lot of wine before sleeping. I don't know which one does it and if it didn't mean I would have to work out every day I'd do it every night. Crazy messed up nightmares are way better than having dreams you can't remember in my book.
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I never get weird dreams but there have been reports of a chili that makes you hallucinate.
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Not spicy food. But if I take NyQuil my dreams become very bizarre.
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Am I the only one that has noticed the deals are not as good since Wootazon?
I am not sure but it seems that ever since Woot turned to the dark side and shacked up with Amazon the deals seem to be Woot peddling off the crap no one buys from Amazon. I have purchased quite a few things back in the good ole days but recently it seems like I could just go and get the same deal off of Amazon's website. My morning routine use to be wake up check my daily Woot app on my phone and then get up and start my day but I have since quit checking it all together. I know there is nothing you can really do about it but I just wanted to voice my issue and why I am probably not going to be purchasing anything from Woot again. I hope that you all one day find your identity again instead of letting the corporate fat cats tell you how to run your business. If you ever find the true Woot identity again let me know.
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I sort of agree. I was hoping to one day get a black square but it now seems hopeless.
Woot has changed and I have to just deal with what they have become. If they want to change their business model, they are allowed to do that. However, as a customer, I'm also allowed to spend my money elsewhere.
I still check all the woot sites daily but nothing has interested me in a long time. I'm stuck at 70 woots and probably will not get to the 100 required for the black square. They seem to offer the same things over and over again instead of offering unique products that were of interest to me in the past.
Deals.woot is the only thing that keeps me here. If it wasn't for this section of the site, I would have left a long time ago.
Not all of the deals are great, but I've seen more of a willingness by the staff (those that you see posting) in the recent past to occasionally lower prices to improve deals that we find are not great. In the past, that rarely happened.
@cengland0: Deals.woot is the only thing that keeps me here. If it wasn't for this section of the site, I would have left a long time ago.
@hunter306: I think the mods that are active on this forum are great and try their best to keep the moral up around here. I think the mods who are around here and who were here well before the Amazon purchase are stuck in a position to just "go with the flow". Again, they try their best to keep woot! fresh and different from the rest, but there is only so much they can do now.
Now I just kinda bounce around to a number of different deal sites.
If it weren't for the wine, I would agree. wine.woot FTW! I'll definitely get to 100 woots, one case at a time.
In for an agree. I miss the days of 2-for-tuesday. Sigh.
Hey now, there are still good deals to be found on woot every now and then. Don't forget the US economy (and world) has changed dramatically since woot first began, leading them to change their business model a bit. I agree the number of good deals has declined, or the number of crappy deals has increased; but the great wootizen community that woot helped create is right there to let us know what's what. That's why I stick around. I also have faith that one day they will go back to their roots, endless supplies of Zunes, 2 for Tuesdays, Roombas and Buckyballs galore.
@eraten: The economy has nothing to do with out impression of the deals. When we look at the same product elsewhere, it might still be cheaper at woot but only by a couple dollars. It is not significant enough for me to press that "Buy" button because I know I could always buy it later for just a few dollars more.
Previously, woot had deals you were hard pressed to find cheaper elsewhere. The deals also sold out. Today, I hardly see deals sell out and they just go from the main woot site to home to sellout to moofi only to come back as a side deal later.
I don't know if it necessarily is worse, but certainly different. It does seem that there are fewer and fewer great deals. Very few or no launch products. No more 2 for Tuesdays, no more Sansas (sniff), screaming monkeys, or woot lights.
The old woot had better deals, but also more carp. I mean real carp, like that gawdawful video recorder that I could not give away. We do get some more neat stuff (like the Woot skillet today), and some occasional good deals (like today's offering at Sport, that is a great knife for the price). Wine probably has the best ratio of good deals to bad, but even there you have to be carefule, WD has been dropping in some carp
If it weren't for the good shir ... oh wait.
Most everyone knows my stance here, and I'm at the acceptance stage, certainly not trying to be so negative like I have been in the past 10 months. I still love seeing the ideas the artists have every week and there are still good aspects here and there. That said, there are times in which even the good aspects [url=http://shirt.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=5228885]disappoint me[/url] ... maybe that explains why I have yet to click on the gold button this year.
I think this question has been asked, answered, discussed, made a hero, caused an angry riot, and my favorite inspired Amazon based mockery. http://deals.woot.com/questions/comment/48d09347-9b68-4bf7-9fa2-7d176643ea3b .
A 10 second search for duplicates:
And many more....
@caffeine_dude: I'm afraid that just proves the issue is real, and that the question is not irrelevant. This isn't like some arbitrary rep-builder of an ATCQ.
I can't help but think that if Amazon wants this to remain a useful property, that they'll have to notice and react to the increased user dissent eventually .... though who knows.
I see you're new here: Welcome to Deals ATC, where we complain weekly, especially when it comes to this theme. Sometimes, the complaints are even merited. ;-)
@psaux: User dissent means nothing to Amazon. Sales do.
I'm not trying to be all nihilistic or Debbie Downer here, it's just a simple fact of business.
This question always reminds me of people who complain about Reality TV shows. Reality TV shows do not bother me because I do not watch them.
I do catch wind of Reality TV shows in spoof form, and yet they still do not bother me.
They could have done what egghead.com did and continue on the path that made egghead great, insanely low prices on computer parts.
Deal with it. Woot is not going to split from Amazon.
I still come for the Sea Salt caramels!!!
@caffeine_dude: You should get all of the upvotes; if only I had more to give. @psaux: It is an "arbitrary rep-builder of an ATCQ". It appeals to the small group of vocal people who actually vote on these stupid questions. Look at the vote totals the questions get and then think about how many people are on deals.woot.
I thought the last Woot-off was the best one in quite a while. Maybe things are changing.
@gigi889: those are ridiculously delicious! Although, the no Bag of Crap during Woot-Offs is really strange. "Let's take the one item uniquely ours and stop offering it, that is such a great idea!" - said no one ever.
sadly things always change, rarely for the best it seems.
everyone thinks they know so much about retail, reselling and supply chain economics. nobody ever said that woot had a guarantee on oddball merchandise at rock bottom prices or that they could guarantee economic conditions in the future. quit crying, if the deals aren't good, don't buy. it's ridiculous that there are hundreds of threads addressing the same whiny issue; I can't believe that these are adults crying like this.
@cengland0: economy has everything to do with deals. and as woot has grown over the years, their customer base has grown and their buying opportunities are always changing. so should we fault woot because they are buying larger lots of merchandise and therefore don't sell out in a day and they move across their various sites?
and let's not forget that woot was so impactful on the world that they created a MONSOON of competitor sites, therefore limiting the amount of rare, end-lot, closeout, etc. merchandise they can offer because there is more competition.
I assure you all this post had nothing to do with "rep building" as you so eloquently put it. This was merely a post to see if I was not the only one that had noticed this. I could care less about deals.woot rep.
Also several people stated "if you don't like the deals don't buy them" which is exactly what was stated in my post. Reference "Not going to be purchasing anything from Woot again".
As for the multiple other posts I tried to do a search for similar but was not able to find them so I apologize for the similar post.
Hope you all have a good day and thank you to all the people that actually answered the question rather than complaining that I was complaining.


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I am using an array of dimension 3 (might become more) to store some values. I would like to implement a function that takes as argument the array and a couple of numbers smaller than the array dimension and returns a standard matrix (dim=2) which is obtained by reduction or "projection" (I don't really know how to call it) of the array along all the "other" dimensions. First a quick example with an array of dimension/depth 3
data=Table[10 (i - 1) + 3 (j - 1) + k, {i, 2}, {j, 3}, {k, 4}]
--> data = {{{1, 2, 3, 4}, {4, 5, 6, 7}, {7, 8, 9, 10}},
{{11, 12, 13, 14}, {14, 15, 16, 17}, {17, 18, 19, 20}}}
My desired function would do, for example, the following
Myfunction[data,{1,2}] = {{10,22,34},{50,62,74}}
After this brief introduction, let me explain where I've arrived. First let's generalize a little bit, as it is my goal, eventually.
2. Definitions
Let $M \in \mathbb{R}^{\Pi d_i}$ be an array of dimension $N \in \mathbb{N}$.
Let $d_i \in \mathbb{N}, \quad i=1,\dots,N\quad$ be the sublengths of each of the dimensions.
What I will call in the following the projection of the array along the dimension $q$ is the following surjective function : $$ \textrm{For } q\leq N \in \mathbb{N}_0,\quad P(M,q) : \mathbb{R}^{\Pi d_i} \rightarrow\mathbb{R}^{\frac{\Pi d_i}{d_q}} : M(n_1,\dots,n_N) \mapsto \sum_{j=1}^{n_q}M(n_1,\dots,n_{q-1},j,n_{q+1},\dots,n_N) $$
3. Goal
The goal is to write a function that takes any multidimensional array as well as a list of all the dimensions that will be "kept" in the final array. For the sake of any representation, the obtained array should be of dimension $\leq$ 2 but I would like to stay as general as I (we) could.
The dimensions ordering should simply be the one used to implement the array, and the code should be consistent in order to keep the dimensions in the same order at any time.
4. Implementation
ProjectedColumns[len_,cols_]:= Complement[Range[len],cols]
ProjectedColumns is a function that returns a list of the dimensions to project, where
cols is the list of dimensions to be kept and len is the dimension of the array.
CompoundProjection[data_, cols_] :=
Module[{len, vect},
len = Depth[data] - 1;
vect = ProjectedColumns[len, cols];
SingleProjection[data, vect[[i]]],
{i, Length[vect]}
CompoundProjection is a function that will project all the dimensions sequentially in order to arrive to the final result (The projection is commutative).
SingleProjection[data_, dimnumber_] := ???
Now what I need and I don't manage to get is the function that will actually perfom a one-dimensional projection. In my mind, I would need to have a number of
Do loops which equals the dimension of the array.
In that case, I simply parse through the array and do the summation over the one I'm interested in. Is it possible to set up such a structure with all the commands that Mathematica offers and that I probably don't know ?
5. In summary
- Has anyone followed this nonsense ?
- Is there a Mathematica command that makes what I want directly ?
(If Yes then No to the previous questions, then I'm happy)
- Is there a way to improve the correctness or elegance of what I did ?
- Is there a way to intricate a dynamic number of Do loops ?
- Or, in general, is there another way to achieve the goal described in 3.


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COSTANTINI, Catherine A., 64, of Wintersville, died Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, at Trinity West.
She was born April 9, 1948, in Steubenville, the daughter of the late William J. Costantini, Sr., and Mary Carfagna Costantini.
Catherine was a graduate of Catholic Central High School Class of 1966 and Seton Hill College Class of 1970 and was currently an English teacher at Catholic Central High School since 1994. She was a former principal at the former St. Francis Grade School, Toronto and St. Anthony and All Saints Grade Schools in Steubenville.
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Catherine was a member of Triumph of the Cross Catholic Church and it's Catholic Woman's Club.
Catherine is also preceded in death by one brother, William J. "Bill" Costantini, Jr., and one sister, Dorothy Costantini and two infant sisters, Marian and Mary Ann.
Surviving are, one sister, Angela Costantini, of Wintersville, one niece, Susan Costantini, a student at St. Vincent College, sister-in-law, Mary Ann Costantini of Steubenville. Also many cousins including Harry (Rita) Costantini.
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Paul Week's comments are very rude & shows pure stupidity & ignorance.Photography is about appreciating the beauty & respecting the subject. It's called Forbidden City as it was used as a home for the previous rulers of China, the emperor for about 400 years. It was also used as a parliamentary meeting place, the highest political assembly area. I am unsure where you come from but will you say that of the white house(US)? The ticket is cheap to encourage visitors & it does not mean an expensive ticket = the place is superior. The tickets to visit Buckingham Palace or Vatican are not very expensive compared to some other places. So ,does it mean they are inferior?
just read the comments below, the Forbidden Palace was supposed to be a holy place, sarcastic remarks shouldn't be used here
One of the greatest shot I have ever seen.
Superb shot...Wish to visit the place once in my lifetime...
the picture is perfect, but when I was in the situation like the picture. I think everything is normal. Why?
Beautiful photograph wish i could go there.
Beautiful! I love the composition and the reflection on the water.
Wow. Stunning.
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very cool photos,,,,
Great View... Superb
wonderful shot perfect in every way OUTSTANDING
Wow! Decalcomanie..
what a nic place to visit realy amazing
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Great composition!
Brilliant picture Paul!!!!!!!!! well done!!!!!!
The snap of your camera lens allows us all to be there with you in Beijing at that early morning moment. Thank you for sharing this amazing photo. The composition is perfect for the subject!
Beautiful photo!
Amazing and meaningful picture.
Perfect shot!!
I wish that I could actually see things like this. But then any image viewed soon goes into ones 'memory bank' and is blurred or at worst forgotten. This picture is crisp, clear and there to view whenever one wants. Hurrah, for the great photographers who time and again bring great shots like this one to us. May I say, thank you. j.e.s.
it seems exactly that too, reflecting the ages .. wonderful shot
Perfect symmetry, perfect shot. I love it!
Very nice!
great pic
小時候我家裏有一幅與這個基本一樣(角度)及大小的刺繡, 當時我一直以爲是一張照片.
Very nice!
Great reflections. Thanks Shawn Wang for your information. Great to know.
The so-called Forbidden City was actually the royal palace in ancient China, where the common people were forbidden to enter, thus the name 'forbidden city'.
The photo is wonderful! But: " I'm not sure why it's called that, seeing as you can get inside for just a few yuan"? It was supposed to be a funny remark? Or just anogher case of USA tourists showing off being ignorant of the cultures they are visiting?
@mn tb may be not the nicest comment in the world, but you have a point
To attack someones intellegents, Alexander, ( USA tourists) is not very nice. We are all or mostly photographers here who understands that and not all of us are able to travel outside of our own countries and let alone have all the cultural knowledge of those who live there. Mike Bless had a very nice way to defend someone who maybe didn't know all there was to know - including me. Go well.
@mn tb Instead of denigrating, next time consider enlightening.
@mn tb It may have also been that he was looking forward to the comments of people who appreciate his self security and ability to publicly say "I don't know". I guess he must have spent his time learning other things for a moment, but now he knows the meaning of the forbidden city as well as other things that we may not know!
No need to be rude mn tb. Next time we have a querry. We will look you up for all the answeres.
@mn tb Thanks for your comment, I'm sorry that my sarcasm was lost on you. Dig a little deeper and you would have found that I've written about my appreciation of Chinese culture on multiple occasions. Your comment was actually a bit ironic...
Very nice
A beautiful photograph
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Although no new statistics or sampling plans are explicitly required by Q10, it goes without saying that current regulatory requirements are, in fact, mandatory. In addition, cGMPs continue to improve over time and according to Q10, "Implementation of ICH Q10 throughout the product lifecycle should facilitate innovation and continual improvement and strengthen the link between pharmaceutical development and manufacturing activities" (1). That link should include the results of statistically designed experiments and related statistical and risk analysis.
While not explicitly requesting these approaches, ICH clearly implies that companies need to be proactive when it comes to corrective and preventive action (CAPA) programs. In today's environment, it is not sufficient to be reactive alone when problems occur. The Quality department must routinely seek out potential problems and prevent them before they result in rejects or recalls. For example, Q10 notes that companies should "Establish and Maintain a State of Control. To develop and use effective monitoring and control systems for process performance and product quality, thereby providing assurance of continued suitability and capability of processes" (1).Having control over one's product and process is not a new expectation, although there is still confusion as to what a proper "state of control" means (4). It is not enough to ask for a state of control; the industry must provide and define additional modifiers. There are several ways in which a process can be in a state of control or, conversely, in a "state of out of control."
A process can be in control, for instance, for financial and accounting, for regulatory compliance, and for organizational and managerial control. These forms of control are usually assumed to be in place. There are two other states of control that are germane to statistics: engineering and statistical.
A process is said to be in a state of engineering control when the process can be changed and adjusted using control knobs and/or by setting the critical process parameters (independent variables) that affect the dependent responses (5). When in control, the product always meets its specifications even if inconsistent and erratic. Time plots with specification lines are used to monitor the process. A process is said to be out of engineering control when it fails to meet its specifications.
A process is said to be in a state of statistical control when the process has been designed, developed, and adjusted to produce product that, while still containing some variability in the critical quality attributes (dependent variables), is predictable in that variability over time. Statistical control charts are used to monitor the process. A process is said to be out of statistical control when it fails one or more of the eight Western Electric control chart rules (6). As Q10 notes, "The pharmaceutical quality system should include the following elements, process performance and product quality monitoring, corrective and preventive action, change management, and management review" (1).
Product quality monitoring can be interpreted as trending the critical quality attributes. Again, proactive CAPA is preferred to reactive CAPA. As Q10 highlights: "Advocate continual improvement" (1). This continual improvement should include proactive variability reduction.