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From the Publisher* "An illuminating and enthralling read ... Among other virtues, The Practice of Principle presents perhaps the most developed statement of inclusive legal positivism to date. In doing so, it advances our understanding not only of that position, but also of the various positions arrayed against it."—Modern Law Review
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Population Estimates of Extended Family Structure and SizeGarceau A.a · Wideroff L.a · McNeel T.c · Dunn M.d · Graubard B.I.b
aDivision of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch, and bDivision of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md., cInformation Management Services Inc., Silver Spring, Md., and dWestat Inc., Rockville, Md., USA
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Background: Population-based estimates of biological family size can be useful for planning genetic studies, assessing how distributions of relatives affect disease associations with family history and estimating prevalence of potential family support. Methods: Mean family size per person is estimated from a population-based telephone survey (n = 1,019). Results: After multivariate adjustment for demographic variables, older and non-White respondents reported greater mean numbers of total, first- and second-degree relatives. Females reported more total and first-degree relatives, while less educated respondents reported more second-degree relatives. Conclusions: Demographic differences in family size have implications for genetic research. Therefore, periodic collection of family structure data in representative populations would be useful.
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AA founder is focus in 'Bill W.,' showing at Downer
"Bill W.," a documentary about the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, is showing at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Landmark Downer Theatre, 2589 N. Downer Ave.
Unlike some such movies, "Bill W." is a warts-and-all portrait of William G. Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, using interviews, recreations and archival footage to show Wilson's personal battles, leading to the formation of the influential organization that he was never able to join himself. »Read Full Article
Tracy Morgan gets big laughs - and some unexpected exposure at the Pabst
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WTMJ-TV won for TV station of the year, while WTMJ-AM won for news and talk radio station of the year. WLUM won for music station of the year. All won in the large-market category. »Read Full Article(8)
Soulstice Theatre delivers shimmering 'Memory of Water'
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As the young vocalist took a sip from his thermos flask to massage a throat that had just belted out a torrent of notes, the percussionists set off a torrent of their own. All of a sudden, the world ended! To be sure, the lights went out, taking the sound along too. The electricity seemed to have been shorted out by an equally fluid torrent raging outside (this one more familiar to the Met department).
The tiny hall, which had but a moment ago been reverberating with the tumult of competing percussionists, was cast into an opaque blackness, and only a thin, muted rumble indicated that the ensemble on stage was carrying on undeterred.
Even as I began to feel a gnawing sense of discomfiture at a perfectly good concert falling martyr to spoilsport weather, a few pearls of mobile phone light popped into being. They began to drift in mid air as the more intrepid among the audience seemed to be attempting to wade their way through the aisles towards the exit (presumably to go in search of a maintenance man who could switch on a generator, or, perhaps seeking to exploit the shroud of darkness to make good their escape undetected during the thani avarthanam).
A mild glow enveloped the dais as Rithvik Raja appeared to have fished out his trusty iPad. A few calculated swishes and swipes on its surface later, a healthy tambura drone rang out even as a gentle swathe of light draped the performers. There was still no sound amplification and the intrinsically soft-spoken khanjira sounded undernourished, but the show was going on. It was like the advent of fire all over again. The Human Spirit, one; Capricious Nature, zero.
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Interim pension regulator PFRDA is working on a separate fund management guideline for corporates, a move that will allow them to enter into agreement with fund managers for managing the pension fund of their employees.
"The roadmap on the corpus management would be announced in the next three to four months," an official of the interim Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) told PTI.
The authority has decided to work out a separate guideline for management of funds of employees of corporates and other entities, following request by large employers like the Indian Banks' Association and the State Bank of India.
The country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has approached the pension regulator for management of the retirement money of its employees.
Similarly, IBA has shown interest in joining the New Pension System for the banks' new recruits.
Moreover, some self-help groups and one or two PSUs have also approached PFRDA for the management of their corpus.
"Discussion with them is on but no concrete decision has been taken so far," the official added.
New Pension System (NPS) was implemented for government employees who joined service on or after 1 January 2004. On May one this year, it was extended to all citizens.
There are six fund managers for all citizens' scheme-IDFC Mutual Fund, Kotak Mahindra, SBI, UTI Asset Management, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance and Reliance MF-to manage the corpus of customers.
Besides, there are 21 Points of Presence (PoPs) of NPS, which include, State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Axis Bank and Union Bank of India.
PoPs are contact and collection points for customers wanting to be part of NPS.
However, PFRDA is unhappy with the way the New Pension System activities have been carried out so far by the PoPs and would meet them on August 26 to ask them to get their act right.
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Excelsior Hotel - Manhattan, New York
45 W 81st St - New York1-877-662-6988
Free Wi-Fi and guest rooms with premium bedding are among the extra touches that make for a comfortable stay at this family-friendly New York hotel which is situated in the Upper West Side area. Excelsior Hotel is also near a metro station.
Enjoy a spot of brunch or an evening meal at this 3 star New York hotel's restaurant where you're sure to find something to suit your taste. You can find a fitness center on site so you will be able to take some time out to de-stress. Outfitted with a bar/lounge, you'll find the perfect place to have a drink.
Multilingual staff are available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide tour/ticket assistance, express check-in and express check-out. The reception also has a safe deposit box should you need to lock away any valuables during your stay. Planning a meeting? This hotel has conference rooms, as well as a business center. Other amenities include gift shops/newsstands, dry cleaning/laundry, an elevator (lift) and concierge services.
We found our four day stay at the Excelsior very enjoyable. The rooms cleanliness...Venere Guest, Canada
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Breakfast at Excelsior Hotel
A buffet breakfast is served between 7 AM and 11 AM for a fee.
Facilities at Excelsior Hotel
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- Private parking
- Internet/Email services
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- Children 11 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
Check-in: after 3 PM.
Check-out: before noon.
PolicyExtra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for buffet breakfast: USD 17.00 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: USD 9.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Refrigerator fee: USD 10.00 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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Excelsior Hotel reviews
- August 2014
- Venere Guest
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We found our four day stay at the Excelsior very enjoyable. The rooms cleanliness was up there as well as the common areas. The breakfast within the Hotel was a wonderful buffet in a classic library like setting where you could read the paper, read a book or watch the news. The area was very quint being midtown...only a couple of subway stops away from downtown. The location near Central Park and the Museum and a gorgeous residential area made it perfect for my family.
- October 2011
- Venere Guest
- Single traveller
New York hotels are (extremely) expensive and many are located in less than desirable areas. The Excelsior, while not inexpensive, represents very good value in the New York market. It is well maintained and attractive and very well located, just steps from Central Park West (across from the Hayden Planetarium and Museum of Natural History) and across the street from a Subway stop. The Upper West Side is mostly residential and that is all to the good when compared to hotels in Mid-Town.All in all, the Excelsior is a very good find in a tough hotel town.
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Excelsior Hotel reviews by TripAdvisor
Room Details
Book your family-friendly accommodation at Excelsior Hotel, offering 199 guest rooms with climate control. Guests can unwind at the end of a long day and enjoy 32-inch flat-screen televisions with premium satellite channels and pay movies. Corporate travelers will benefit from wireless high-speed Internet access (charges apply) as well as desks, complimentary newspapers and phones during their Upper West Side visit.
A good night's sleep in supportive pillowtop mattresses with premium bedding will have visitors waking up refreshed and well-rested throughout their holiday or business trip. Private bathrooms are outfitted with shower/tub combinations, hair dryers and complimentary toiletries. Additional guest comforts include air conditioning, safes and blackout drapes/curtains.
Refrigerators can be provided on request.
Accommodation Services
- Air conditioning
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- Hairdryer in each room
- In-room ironing facilities
- Safe
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- Mini fridge
- Individually controlled air conditioning
- Satellite TV
- Wireless Internet access
Distances from Excelsior HotelTheodore Roosevelt Memorial - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi
Rose Center for Earth and Space - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi
American Museum of Natural History - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi
Hayden Planetarium - 0.3 km / 0.2 mi
The New York Historical Society - 0.4 km / 0.2 mi
Children's Museum of Manhattan - 0.4 km / 0.3 mi
Beacon Theater - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi
Central Park - 0.7 km / 0.5 mi
Strawberry Fields - John Lennon Memorial - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
Belvedere Castle - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
Bethesda Fountain - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
American Irish Historical Society - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Neue Galerie New York - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - 1.2 km / 0.8 mi
The closest major airports to Excelsior Hotel are:
New York, NY (LGA-LaGuardia) - 8.6 km / 5.4 mi
New York, NY (JRB-Downtown Manhattan Heliport) - 9.5 km / 5.9 mi
Newark, NJ (EWR-Liberty Intl.) - 20 km / 12.4 mi
New York, NY (JFK-John F. Kennedy Intl.) - 22.3 km / 13.9 mi
The preferred airport for Excelsior Hotel is New York, NY (JFK-John F. Kennedy Intl.).
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 km and mile.
Transportation services Excelsior Hotel
- Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
- Private parking
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The South Mumbai district consumer forum has pulled up New India Assurance company for failing to provide required services to one of its consumers, repudiating his claim on unreasonable grounds.
The forum has directed the firm to repay the claim amount of Rs8.3 lakh along with 6% interest from December 2009. The forum has also directed the firm to pay an additional amount of Rs5,000 towards the complainant's litigation cost.
Moreshwar Andhale, a Dongri resident, owned an Ashok Leyland Tusker Turbo tractor. To ensure its safety, he had approached the insurance firm for an anti-theft/anti-damage policy. Andhale bought a policy valued at Rs8.3 lakh and valid from July 26, 2008, to July 25, 2009.
According to the forum's order copy, on November 10, 2008, around 6pm, Andhale's tractor, parked at JNPT in Navi Mumbai, went missing. He searched for it till November 11 9am, but couldn't find it and, hence, lodged a police complaint. He also approached the insurance firm, informed them about the theft and sought compensation.
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The complainant has breached condition No. 5 of the insurance policy and, therefore, is not entitled for the relief as claimed, the firm said.
The forum, after going through the evidence, held, "There is sufficient evidence on record to show that the complainant has taken all reasonable steps to safeguard the vehicle... The statements and record placed in this complaint show the firm adopted unfair trade practice and proceeded to repudiate the claim... Thus, the forum holds... there is deficiency in (the firm's) service."


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Well, the only fragrance I like that matches your specifics is Dior's Poison, a fragrance I've recently fallen for.
If you weren't avoiding niche, I might also suggest Serge Lutens Muscs Kublai Khan.
Thread: The Most Sensual Fragrance Poll!
Follow the description carefully please! The most seductive, dreamy, sensuous, sensual, warm, calm, inviting fragrance that puts your conscious at total ease. Something soft, yet powerful. That's what I mean by my semantic description of sensual. So, go ahead, and give the cologne that is too lustful to wear and you will only do so to get soo noticed and remembered by.
*Please try and stay close to department store names, I can't stand those fancy names "Diptique" or other ones that are too expensive and you can rarely find them in the mall. Thanks.
Last edited by Dudester!; 28th April 2009 at 11:09 PM.
Well, the only fragrance I like that matches your specifics is Dior's Poison, a fragrance I've recently fallen for.
If you weren't avoiding niche, I might also suggest Serge Lutens Muscs Kublai Khan.
Last edited by Dudester!; 28th April 2009 at 11:24 PM.
Dude why can't you explore niche. These aren't "weird" mystical scents only available in a single store in the middle of nowhere in Antarctica. These are all relatively widely available, and many are relatively inexpensive. Just because a perfume's name is in French doesn't mean its "crazy" either. Man, you need to broaden your approach here. Oh, and why does it matter if it's a "women's" fragrance, if it smells good on you, no one will know or care.
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^Sorry, what is "niche" exactly? Totally unfamiliar w/that. Also, if it is for women, then I don't want to be mistaken for one when wearing it, otherwise it would be unisex. Haven't smelled Poison but I guess it might be a bit too rosy/flowery/girly.
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Niche means you won't likely find it at the mall. Most niche scents are easily available, though. I started trying niche fragrances as soon as I got into fragrance and haven't had an issue obtaining samples and bottles.
I don't care about the gender divide in fragrance; it only matters that it smells good to me. I was answering your poll on what I'd say fits your description, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily the right fragrance for you.
Which Poison are you talking about? There's like a ton of them on the review section.
In the Mainstream, The Dreamer seems to get nice responses from the opposite sex. Also Ive had good reactions to Code.
For your description, the best ones I can think of are Penhaligon's Endymion and Serge Luten's Chergui.
If you don't mind your "sensual" being a bit more powerful, I'd take a look at Yves Saint Laurent's M7. Maybe even Serge Luten's Ambre Sultan.
The five Poisons are: Poison, Tendre Poison, Hypnotic Poison, Pure Poison and Midnight Poison. Despite the shared name, none of them smell alike.
I tend to mostly enjoy niche so Poison in a notable exception in my tastes. There are many niche fragrances I know that might suit your needs better than my suggestion, though others can probably come in with some more designer recommendations.
While you're at Dior you might try Dior Homme, which could also fit your bill. Everyone seems to love it here but me.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. - Immanuel Kant
For mainstream, M7, Dior Homme, Bvlgari Black, Body Kouros.
If you want to go niche (which you should): Ambre Sultan, Dzing!,and Musc Ravaguer
These fragrances are sultry and sensual.
Last edited by runstile; 29th April 2009 at 01:00 AM.
I'm not the most experienced or worldly as fragrance lovers go but for me, M7, Envy for Men and some unlabeled oudh oil I got while in Qatar fit the bill.
Last edited by PorkFat; 29th April 2009 at 12:49 AM.
Most of the qualities you listed are usually attributed to creamy and sweet/thick frags, which arent my style, but out of the ones I own or have tried:
YSL L'homme is really good, own this one
Bulgari AQUA is probably the sexiest aquatic
DG The one for men gets really good responses too
The Dreamer is nice, and quite unique. But personally, I find an intelligent man with great conversation about interesting, yet diverse topics to be quite sensual. Not a scent in the world can take the place of a witty personality. Good luck with becoming lustfully unforgettable
Quand on boit l'eau, il faut penser à sa source
I will third the Dreamer. It's vicious and luscious. But don't wear it these days though.
Perfume noob
What about Department stores like Barney's and Saks that sell Serge Lutens, L'Artisan, Frederic Malle, Tom Ford, etc...? Do those count?
And I think you should try some niche fragrances; why pigeon hole your hobby? It is like a car collector refusing to drive a Porsche.
In addition, to answer your question, none, your personality and social skills should enchant people; not your fragrance. If you look and talk like a train wreck but have the cologne of the Gods then there is no helping you.
Plus this is not a Harry Potter movie; no cologne is going to cast a cute little magic spell on people. A cologne cannot put a person's "conscience at ease" - the very idea is absurd and is asking way too much from a fragrance.
Ok, fine, I will play along, go pet a unicorn and milk a fairy and collect the dust and put it into a 3ML decant from Sally mixed w. M7 and viola - you have your answer!!!
Last edited by TheAttorney; 29th April 2009 at 02:44 AM.
lodi dodi we likes to podi we don't cause trouble we don't bother nobody we're just some...
the dreamer will force women to want to do naughty things to you
m7 will at first make you wrinkle your nose, then want to do naughty things to yourself
bulgari aqua will make women want to to dirty things to you while you do dirty things to yourself, only out somewhere in the north pacific ocean
michael by michael kors will make you forget that you even have sex organs and will force you to spend your days with your face buried in your wrists, shirt, arm... wherever else you spray it
other than that if you really want sensual you will need to at least "explore" the niche market... there are crafted fragrances out there with so much more thought to the entire experience that they blow all of your "designer house" fragrances out of the water... right now I am absolutely hooked on Montale Attar... If each bottle was a buck I would buy a hundred, but since each bottle is a hundred I guess I'll be stuck buying just one
At your service
I'm gonna think about Prada Amber pour homme
The 2 best designers that fit this bill to me are :
Opium Homme EDP and Patou PH.
Too lustful to wear ??hmm...I concur with Dreamer and Michael kors..addendum to these.. I'd suggest
L'Anarchiste - Caron
Encre Noire and Lalique Lion- from the Lalique collection
Vera Wang Men
Guerlain L'instant ph
YSL's Nu and M7
Designer sensual = Bulgari, Black
Niche sensual = Le Labo, Rose 31
Well I meant too lustful to wear in the sense that you would only wear it for a special someone, certain event where you surely would not want to go unnoticed, et cetera.
Bulgari Black smells like black fashion gloves, i don't see anything sensual there.
When we talk about sensual, we usually mean something lusty, creamy, or even a bit milky in that it drives the other person into you closely, something like a frosting cream undertone, makes the person want to lick you up.
Last edited by Dudester!; 29th April 2009 at 05:28 AM.
For designer scents I'd say Body Kouros, Fleur du Male, Armani Code (or Zegna Intenso, which is similar).
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I'll throw in a mainstream frag that most have never smelled in the public and that is Dunhill for Men (2003) in the slender curved bottle. Its all that you described in your requirements.
Kiehl's musk wears differently on different people, in that some find it raunchy and sexy, while on me it smells soothing and sensual. IT's very affordable.
The most sensual I experienced is the dry down of Paul Smith Story, creamy, soft, warm, not perfumy like, IMO good for intimate moment (you know when someone stick their nose to you skin, and your skin smell exactly like that "frosting cream undertone" with a bit peanut added and it's not like you're putting on a fragrance and smell good, it's more like it's your skin scent) but the middle notes are quite feminine with jasmine and rose. The middle notes will stay for like 2 hrs before the fragrance hit it wonderful base.
Last edited by jasonx; 29th April 2009 at 06:56 AM.
Any decent oud/agarwood oil is just pure sex and sensuality to me. From dirty, animalistic through to humid jungle, this one is my sex scent!
If I can get a spray of 212 on my partner, it is also super sexy the next day. like a whiff of floral hanging round a musky/woody base that got dirtier during the night.
I second Poison. It reminds me of my first teenage funblings. The smell of the original Poison makes me feel 13 again when I catch a whiff, which is very rare these days.
Lol, 'Dudester!' has no idea.
JPG Gaultier^2, Thierry Mugler Angel, Ambre Sultan, CdG 2 Man and Cacherel Nemo all have very 'sensual' elements to them, however no frag turns me on like Angel or Gaultier^2 on my girlfriend. I don't think a guy could pull off Angel in public without some funny reactions, however Gaultier^2 works on either sex.
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Hmmmm- Hypnotic Posion for me meets those criteria.
Niche- Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille to a lesser extent. And ofcourse Opium.
As above, so below.
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Gucci PH II. I find it very comfortable and very senual. As close to a boudoir designer scent as you will get.
Acqua di Giò pour Homme - it works everytime, I swear! The number of times I got laid, while wearing this, is unbelieveable.
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Try Hermes Roccabar. I find it so sexy that I am considering buying it for myself. It can be purchased at Nordstrom.
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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
My Antaeus can beat up your Armani.
ointments and perfume delight the heart....
I would rate Gucci Envy, Rive Gauche PH and Cerutti 1881 Amber.
Tom Ford Black Orchid
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I have experienced those feelings by: euphoria men and armani code.
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According to what seems might fit the bill for your tastes and availability, I can suggest you:
YSL Rive Gauche PH
Versace The Dreamer
Dolce&Gabbana PH
Narciso Rodriguez for him
Calvin Klein Obsession for men
Armani Code
Forgive me but where can I find Serge Lutens Muscs Kublai Khan?
Rumors are that it will become temporary part of the export like for the next xmas. Otherwise you can try to find it online from "unofficial" sources.
Dior - Dior Homme
Lalique - Eau de Lalique & Perles de Lalique (both these gems are underrated, here on BN)
Kenzo - Air
Luciano Soprani Man
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Now I'm in the mood to say: Viktor&Rolf Antidote. About a year ago I didn't really like it, but now as I'm experiencing again with my new sample, I find it extremely sensuous and interesting.
Revision. Sorry: probably you won't find it in the mall, though the price-tag is not really hefty.
From the mall Armani Code.
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I favor Annick Goutal's Neroli as my olfactory nightgown.
(Oops, sorry! I was wondering why only men answered, but found out too late this was male fragrance discussion...)
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ClassicsOnline Home » LULLY, J.: Armide (Opera Lafayette, 2007)
Armide represents the culmination of the long and fruitful career of Jean-Baptiste Lully, the most powerful musician at the court of Louis XIV and the first important composer of French opera. Though not his final composition, Armide was his last complete tragédie en musique and the last work he wrote in collaboration with librettist Philippe Quinault. It was an instant and enduring success: a crowd-pleaser at its initial production and a perennial favourite of audiences and critics in the 18th century.
By David Denton
Though Lully was to write a large number of works for the stage, it was with Armide, completed in the year before his untimely death, that he reached the zenith of his creativity. Without his presence the work was subsequently to undergo many changes—often well meaning—so that it was passed down in a different shape to the original concept. Though he became the most influential musician in 17th century France, he was born in Italy and christened Jean-Baptiste de Lulli. His claim to high parentage was untrue, his parents so poor that a monk took care of him, and it was he who taught the boy the basics of playing the violin. He arrived in Paris as a teenager with the aim of teaching Italian to Mademoiselle de Montpensier, but as she did not take to him, he was fortunate to be heard, by people with money, playing the violin. More tuition and he arrived at the court of the young Louis XIV employed as an accomplished composer and dancer, and he was to compose ballets that he danced with Louis. His association with the King opened influential doors, and in 1672 was allowed to form a theatre in Paris while his rival was ordered to close. There he took French opera to rival the best Italian music, and today 16 of those operas still survive. The story of Armide involves the love of the sorcerer, Armide, for the bravest of the Christian Knights, Renaud, whom she ensnares. His knights come to rescue him, and when brought back to his senses he resolves to leave her enchanted palace. In anger she is on the point of destroying him, but love triumphs and instead chooses to destroy her palace and all that inhabit it. The present performance from the American group, Opera Lafayette, base their recording on Lois Rosow's new edition of the original 1686 score. It uses period instruments that bring an originality I find most rewarding, the sound much different to anything I have heard in Lully before. We have not the slightest idea of the vocal quality used by singers in the 17th century, but it was most probably very different to that which we hear in this performance, as it is very much of our time. From a technical point of view it is accomplished, Stephanie Houtzeel's Armide being very persuasive, while Robert Getchell is a gentle lyric tenor of real quality. Maybe their efforts at a passable shake is still in the making. The remainder of a large cast—some coming from the Lafayette's admirable chorus—is more than pleasurable. The performance is conducted by Ryan Brown, who keeps the music moving at a nice pulse and avoids the present Baroque predilection for taking everything fast. You do feel the sense of a 'live' presentation in the way the engineers have recorded the opera.
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687)
The Tragedy of Armide
Armide - Stephanie Houtzeel, Mezzo-soprano
Renaud - Robert Getchell, Tenor
Hidraot; Ubalde - François Loup, Bass
Artémidore; La Haine - William Sharp, Baritone
Phénice; Lucinde - Ann Monoyios, Soprano
Sidonie - Miriam Dubrow, Soprano
Le Chevalier danois; Un Amant fortuné - Tony Boutté, Tenor
Aronte - Darren Perry, Baritone
Une Bergère héroïque - Adria McCulloch, Soprano
Une Naïade - Tara McCredie, Soprano
Opera Lafayette • Ryan Brown
Lully's Armide had a rich and varied performance history at the Paris Opéra during the eighty years following its début in 1686. Those in charge of the productions, while holding Lully and his librettist Quinault in the highest esteem and responding with deep enthusiasm to this extraordinary opera, did not hesitate to alter the score and libretto in ways they thought likely to ensure the success of the work. Performers today owe an immense debt of gratitude to scholars who, like Lois Rosow in the case of Armide, have created editions and done research which carefully reconstruct for us the original circumstances of a musical première and provide us with details on the subsequent historical treatments of these works.
For our recording, we have departed from the original 1686 version of Armide in some places. The changes reflect practical concerns, the differences inherent in listening to a recording versus seeing a production, and dramatic issues addressed in the work's own eighteenth century performance history.
The first important historical changes in the performance practice of the work centered around the much disputed relevance of Act IV and in particular its scene iv, during which the knight Ubalde is tempted by Mélisse, mirroring the previous scenes in which Le Chevalier danois is tempted by Lucinde. Lecerf de la Viéville declared in 1705 that "one must cut" this scene, and it was eliminated from productions as early as 1697. Rebel and Francoeur, inspecteurs généraux of the Opéra in the mid-eighteenth century, cut from a point in scene iii, though they also lengthened the previous divertissement. Our choice was simply to go from the third air of scene iii directly to the entr'acte before Act V, moving smoothly from one triple metre in C major to another. This addresses some of the larger dramatic concerns of repetitiveness within Act IV and reduces the extensive recitative which would otherwise both end Act IV and begin Act V.
We slightly shortened the divertissement in Act II, scene iv, by deleting one of the Bergère's airs. In the eighteenth century Rebel and Francoeur also made adjustments to this scene, though somewhat differently and in the context of other stylistic changes. In the dances of various divertissements and entr'actes we have eliminated several repeats, most significantly in the Act I Sarabandes which, seen fully choreographed in a stage production, would probably prove mesmerizing and give a grand symmetry to the scene, but seem too repetitive for a recording alone.
The final but largest change is that we move directly from the Ouverture to the drama of Act I, suppressing the Prologue, a paean to Louis XIV featuring the allegorical characters of Wisdom and Glory. Historically the Prologue was only dropped in 1761, at which time artistic and political sensibilities had changed considerably. Still, the public seemed enthusiastic for this dramatic tale, and in 1777 Gluck produced his own Armide without a prologue, which otherwise followed Quinault's libretto almost exactly and went on to have as impressive a performance history in the nineteenth century as Lully's version did in the eighteenth century. Both historically and in our own version we are reminded that each generation of performers bequeaths something of its experience to the next, and that interpreting masterpieces such as Armide is a living, transformative experience.
Ryan Brown
Armide: Lully's ultimate triumph
Armide represents the culmination of the long and fruitful career of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687), the most powerful musician at the court of Louis XIV and the first important composer of French opera. Though not his final composition, Armide was his last complete tragédie en musique and the last work he wrote in collaboration with librettist Philippe Quinault. It was an instant and enduring success: a crowd-pleaser at its initial production and a perennial favorite of audiences and critics in the eighteenth century.
The première, originally intended for the royal court at Versailles but repeatedly postponed because both Lully and the king were ill, took place in Paris on 15 February 1686, at Lully's public theatre in the Palais-Royal. A week later Henry Baud de Sainte-Frique described the event evocatively in a letter to a Tuscan court official in Florence: "There was such a large crowd that no more could enter at all, and more than 100 people were on the stage at a louis each. All the loges held ten people each. You know that seven is enough to fill them and is uncomfortably crowded. The amphitheatre and the parterre and the gallery were so jumbled that the size of the crowd there could not be taken in without astonishment. They claim that Lully received 10,000 francs that day." The Mercure galant reported that "the words were found very worthy of their author, which goes without saying since he excels in works of this nature. Everyone was charmed by the orchestra and the music. The scenery seemed grand and new, and especially the theatre that breaks apart. It is the invention of Monsieur Bérain, designer of the Cabinet du Roy. There were loud exclamations over the beauty of all of the parts that make up the fifth act of this opera." (The "theatre that breaks apart", an image commemorated in the frontispiece of the published libretto, was Armide's magical palace, destroyed by demons at her command at the end of the opera.) When Lully published the score later that year, he began his letter of dedication to the king by alluding to the scheduling difficulties at Versailles: "Of all the tragedies that I have set to music, here is the one with which the public has seemed the most satisfied. It is a show that draws crowds, and none seen before now has received more applause. Nevertheless, of all my works it is the one I deem the least happy since it has not yet had the advantage of appearing before Your Majesty… ." Louis apparently never saw Armide. It seems that Lully's involvement in a sex scandal the previous winter, coupled with the general atmosphere of austerity and religiosity at court in the late 1680s, was enough to make the king distance himself from his formerly favourite composer and from the Opéra in Paris.
Yet Louis XIV had selected the subject for the libretto: "Quinault took three opera stories for the coming winter to the king at Madame de Montespan's… . The king found all three to his liking and chose that of Armide." While most of Quinault's tragédies en musique have mythological plots, taken mainly from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the last three (Amadis, Roland, Armide) present tales of medieval chivalry, taken from the romances of Montalvo, Ariosto, and Tasso. On the one hand, this shift toward tales of the Crusades is understandable: after the queen's death in 1683, the king had grown increasingly preoccupied by religion and morality. On the other, the stories told in these operas represent archetypes familiar from classical mythology: the enchantress Armide and warrior Renaud could just as well be Circe and Ulysses. In any case, Torquato Tasso's epic Gerusalemme liberata, the source for the story of Armida and Rinaldo, was well known and popular—it had been translated into French several times between 1595 and 1671—and the Armida tale in particular had been dramatized in important French court ballets earlier in the century.
In fact, the story lent itself well to political allegory. The opera begins with an allegorical prologue (not on this recording), praising the wise and glorious rule of the king and referring obliquely to a "monster" that he had vanquished. The political event uppermost in the minds of Parisians at the beginning of 1686 was the revocation of the Edict of Nantes on 22 October 1685, the climax of years of persecution of the Huguenots. Thus, the "monster" was Protestantism, demonized here as in all officially approved literature. Metaphorically this theme may be read in the tragedy itself, the virtuous European Crusader Renaud symbolizing Catholic France and the seductive Middle Eastern princess-magician Armide symbolizing Protestant heresy.
Yet Renaud is not the principal protagonist of the opera. Against the backdrop of conventional royal allegory, the heroine Armide wages a fierce internal battle between love and vengeance, and it is her story that dominates the plot. Discussing the brilliant singingactress Marie ("Marthe") Le Rochois, who created the rôle, the 18th-century biographer Evrard Titon du Tillet wrote, "What rapture to see her in the fifth scene of the second act… , dagger in hand, ready to pierce the breast of Renaud, asleep on a bed of greenery! Fury animated her at the sight of him, love came and seized her heart; the one and the other affected her in turn. Pity and tenderness followed, and love was the winner." Jean-Laurent Lecerf de la Viéville, writing in 1705 about a revival that had taken place around a decade after the première, remarked, "When I picture la Rochois, that little woman who was no longer young, capped with black hair, and armed with a black cane with a ribbon the colour of fire, moving about that great stage, which she filled almost by herself, and drawing from her chest from time to time marvellous bursts of song, I assure you that I shiver again." In the end, neither Armide's beauty and power nor the army of demons at her command (who make several appearances disguised as gentle pastoral figures) can save her from herself. According to Lecerf, after the final curtain, "the spectator, filled with passion that has grown until this final moment…returns home profoundly moved in spite of himself, dreaming, chagrined at Armide's unhappiness."
Lully's music is characterized by the artful arrangement of linked and nested segments, much like the plantings in a formal French garden. Miniature songs and short instrumental introductions mingle with passages of melodious, expressive recitative to form large-scale patterned scene structures. The five acts were performed without break, with short musical entr'actes accompanying spectacular changes of scenery. The ballet episodes in each act, whether civic ceremony, scene of pastoral enchantment, or the horrifying ritual of Hatred and her followers, brought troupes of performers together in communal action, the dancers representing the bodies of the collective characters and the chorus representing their voices. Twice the libretto calls for elaborate stage machinery: in the entr'acte connecting Acts II and III, during which demons disguised as gentle zephyrs carry Armide and the sleeping Renaud away from the pastoral riverbank; and at the end of the opera, where Armide's magical palace crumbles to the ground. Throughout the opera the orchestra paints character and mood—as in the murmuring flutes and muted strings of Renaud's enchanted sleep, the wide leaps and jagged rhythms of Armide's entrance with dagger in hand, the growling repetitive bass line of Hatred's ceremony, and the hypnotic, seductive continuous variations over an endlessly cycling harmonic pattern in the extended dance (a passacaille) in Act V.
The edition is based mainly on the score printed under Lully's direction in 1686, with additional information drawn from two manuscript violin parts (the only parts to survive from the original orchestral materials), the libretto printed for the première, and a group of vocal and instrumental parts that survive from early 18th-century productions of Armide in Paris. For this performance editorial percussion has been added.
Lois Rosow
Portions of this commentary first appeared in J.-B. Lully, Oeuvres complètes, ser. 3, vol. 14 (Hildesheim, 2003); reproduced by permission of the Association Lully and Georg Olms Verlag.
Act I: Armide, a warrior princess and sorceress, is praised by her confidantes Phénice and Sidonie for her victory over the Crusaders whom she has taken captive. However, Armide expresses her anger and frustration because she has not been able to prevail over Renaud, the most valiant of the Christian knights. Armide's uncle, Hidraot, urges his niece to choose a husband, but she declares that were she to yield to love she would only consider someone who could conquer Renaud. Amidst the celebration of Armide's victory, Aronte, who was guarding the prisoners, enters mortally wounded, announcing the prisoners' rescue by Renaud. Armide and Hidroat swear that such an enemy will not escape their vengeance.
Act II: Artémidore, one of the knights rescued by Renaud, praises his rescuer and asks him to flee the place where Armide rules. Renaud assures Artémidore that his heart is safe from Armide's enchantment. Hidraot and Armide conjure up demons to put Renaud to sleep. The hero admires his surroundings and sits down to rest. The demons, in the shape of nymphs and shepherds, weave their spells over Renaud. Armide enters, intending to kill Renaud as he sleeps. Instead, she is overcome by love for him, and decides that her triumph, thanks to her spells, would be to bring Renaud into her power and have him love her. She asks the demons to transform themselves into zephyrs to carry her and Renaud far away.
Act III: Armide deplores the conquest of her heart by Renaud. Phénice and Sidonie urge Armide to abandon herself to love, but Armide is troubled because, while she is in love with him, he is bound to her only by her spells. Armide invokes the spirit of Hate to rescue her from her love for Renaud. Hate and her followers perform a powerful invocation, but Armide cannot give up Renaud, and she sends Hate away. Hate curses Armide, condemning her to the punishment of endless love.
Act IV: Two of Renaud's companions, Ubalde and the Danish Knight, are searching for their hero to rescue him from Armide. They manage to resist the temptations and dangerous delights set in their path by Armide.
Act V: Armide and Renaud declare their passion but Armide is haunted by a dark foreboding, and wishes to consult the Underworld. She retires and leaves the Pleasures and a troop of Fortunate Lovers to amuse Renaud. In her absence, Ubalde and the Danish Knight discover Renaud and break Armide's spell. She returns in time to confront Renaud as he leaves, imploring him to take her with him as a captive if he will not remain as her lover. For Renaud, Duty and Glory demand that he leave her, but he pities her fate. Armide, left alone, laments her love and the horror of her torment, and declares that the hope of vengence is all that remains to her. Armide then bids the demons destroy her enchanted palace, hoping to bury forever her cursed love.
Opera Lafayette would like to thank The Florence Gould Foundation, The Marpat Foundation, Areva, Inc., Pernod Ricard USA, Jerald and Alice Clark, Bill and Cari Gradison, and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center for their help in making this recording possible. Opera Lafayette is also deeply grateful to Marie-Hélène Forget for her extraordinary efforts to help bring music of the French Baroque to the United States.
The French libretto and an English translation can be accessed at www.naxos.com/libretti/660209.htm
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Morgan Stanley's Keith Weiss today raised his rating on software makers Tableau Software (DATA) and Splunk (SPLK) to Overweight from Equal Weight, with price targets of $84 and $66, respectively, seeing big opportunities for both.
For Splunk, the Big Data market has "expanding use cases," writes Weiss, "Unstructured data continues to sprawl within enterprises, helped in part by the 'Internet of Things' phenomena extending across consumer and into the enterprise."
"Expanding use cases, rapid growth in new customers and continued strength in large deals seen in recent results highlight Splunk's continued evolution into 'the' platform for deriving value from rapidly growing unstructured machine data."
In addition, writes Weiss, he's more comfortable now with some metrics, such as the company's productivity on the selling side and its billing metrics:
Given Splunk's expansive market opportunity, we believe productive sales capacity growth is one of the biggest driver (as well as limitation) of top-line growth. Splunk grew quota-carrying sales heads 41% in 1H FY15, an improvement from 35% growth exiting FY14 (down from >70% growth in FY13). With sales growth sustaining ~40% in 1H, we should see stable to improving productive capacity growth post- FQ3 [...] Sales Productivity: We're also seeing productivity metrics improve for Splunk, with license billings per productive rep flat YoY in FQ2 vs. -12% YoY in FQ1 and -11% YoY in FY14, as reps benefit from upsells in the existing customer base and continued strength in new customer adds [...] The transition to more term-based billings (through enterprise agreements and Splunk Cloud) has been a headwind to license revenue growth in FY14/ 1H FY15, as more sales move to the balance sheet versus recognized upfront. However, ramped term licenses at the end of FY14 should drive a ramp in recognized license revenue coming off the balance sheet in 2H FY15. We estimate ~$115M recognized as license revenue from term licenses in FY16 – up from $77M in FY15 and $39M in FY14.
Weiss notes today is Splunk's annual user conference and its analyst day meeting.
For Tableau, he's struck by the company continuing to increase its license revenue at a rate of greater than 80% over the last four quarters. "Business Intelligence / Data Analytics continues to rank as a top 3 CIO priority while Tableau's easy- to-use but powerful analytics solution opens up a larger market opportunity for Tableau outside of the traditional business intelligence (BI) base."
The issues for investors, writes Weiss, are how big the market is, how long the company can maintain a technology edge over competition, and whether it can achieve a stated target for operating profit margin of 20% to 25%.
Tableau, he insists, has a "long runway," and can scoop up more business while bringing profit "leverage" to the business:
Recent results provide support for Tableau's strong competitive differentiation while industry data suggest less than 5% market share for Tableau on a spend and per seat basis in the BI market. With Tableau's cumulative product revenue per customer only at ~$20K vs. traditional BI vendors (Cognos, Business Objects) reaching ~$70-80K at maturity, the runway for Tableau is likely quite long within the existing base. While Tableau has invested aggressively in sales and distribution ahead of its large opportunity, improved sales productivity coupled with a larger maintenance base should drive significant leverage in the model. We see a high probability of our bull case for Tableau, which looks for >50% top-line growth through CY16 and >100% FCF growth with better leverage. With 'real' FCF on the horizon, we see a catalyst as investors' start looking to FCF for valuation versus the stock trading on an EV/sales basis only. As such, we see a favorable risk/reward and we upgrade to Overweight with an $84 price target.
Shares of Splunk today are up 24 cents, or 0.3%, at $59.95, while shares of Tableau are up $1.39, or 2%, at $72.54.
Shares of cloud computing software vendor Yodlee (YDLE) of Redwood City, California, opened their first day of trading just now at $16.20, above last night's pricing of $12, immediately shot up to $17.21, and are now up about 41% at $16.91.
The company markets itself as a "financial cloud," as it sells products to banks that they can in turn offer to their consumer banking customers. The Yodlee cloud computing service charges a fee to a bank to be able to present an application such as personal finance management to the bank's customer. Yodlee counts those bank customers as its "paid subscribers," and claims to have 16.8 million of them across 750 organizations in 10 countries.
Yodlee also touts its ability to sift and sort big data gathered through the apps in order to help banks understand their retail customer base.
Yodlee made $41.07 million in revenue in the six months ended in June, and lost $949,000, versus revenue of $31.86 million a year earlier and a net loss of $2.6 million. The company made $70 million in revenue in all of 2013, and lost $1.18 million.
The company had an accumulated deficit of $351 million as of the end of June.
Shares of supercomputing and data center technology maker Silicon Graphics (SGI) are up 65 cents, or 7.3%, at $9.64, after D.A. Davidson's Mark Kelleher today raised his rating on the shares to Buy from Neutral, and raised his price target to $12 from $10, writing that after a loss of a big chunk of business from a "large cloud customer," which he thinks was Amazon.com (AMZN), "we believe SGI is positioned to return to growth mode."
In particular, the company has inked a partnership with software giant SAP (SAP) to support Big Data and data analytics applications, and SAP's "Hana" in-memory database program.
Kelleher thinks that could prove meaningful for the company:
SAP must work closely with providers of hardware to ensure HANA functions are met to specification, and, to do this SAP 'certifies' hardware platforms that it has proven will work with its HANA software. In January of this year SGI announced that it would be working with SAP to develop a HANA appliance, which is now in beta testing and needs to be certified by SAP as an 'approved' hardware platform for HANA. We expect such certification to be granted by the end of September. At that point the SGI HANA platform will be listed on SAP's web site as certified (a list of SAP HANA certified vendors can be found here). Integration partners will then be able to sell SGI's HANA platform, called the UV300H.
The Hana appliances might sell for $150,000 to $200,000 a pop, opines Kelleher, and as a result, "we believe SGI can generate in the neighborhood of $10 million of revenue in the back half of fiscal 2015 (March and June quarters), growing to an annual run rate of approximately $50-$60 million per year, with gross margin of 40%."
CLSA Americas's Ed Maguire, who has been chronicling the various aspects of the Internet of Things in a series of reports, this afternoon offered up what he bills as a survey of the IoT "Deep Field," writing that IT spending on the IoT can total as much as $500 billion by 2020.
The actual deep field report he published today runs 144 pages, incorporating some of the previously published material.
But Maguire, thankfully, provides a brief 13-page summary listing top themes and stock picks.
The theeme is one of an explosion of innovation and disruption:
Delving into the Internet of Things (IoT) reveals a metaphorical "deep field" as trained focus on fractional vistas exposes universes of possibility. Connecting the physical world with sensors and analytics will transform daily life and a spectrum of industries. There is opportunity and disruption in semis, components, hardware, networking and telecom. We expect value to accrue to applications, services and analytics. As the "Cambrian explosion" of innovative technologies coalesces over the medium term, the embrace of new data and analytics-driven business models will catalyze a coming demand inflection point. It's likely that hype will outpace reality over the next 12-24 months, but over three to five years we expect meaningful traction to take hold.
Overall, he sees at some point "an inflection point will follow from new services that harness incremental value from data and analytics," and is "most optimistic about the value-creation opportunity from industries that are not traditionally IT centric, like manufacturing, energy and agriculture."
How to invest? Maguire concedes it's all a "bewildering array of potential winners and losers," and thinks research firm Gartner's "Hype Cycle" illustration is a good way to guess about investment: "Typically, investors would want to buy technologies along the innovation trigger, short at the peak of inflated expectations and buy again at the trough of disillusionment.
Here's Gartner's illustration (click on the image to see a larger version):
Maguire has his own favorites in data analytics technology, which he thinks will be important to tie it all together:
From the broad universe, we attempt a preliminary filter to identify global names that we believe will be either major players in the IoT landscape and/or those with business models that will be heavily exposed to IoT adoption. We highlight a dozen top picks for investors below. In software, we believe analytics-related firms are well positioned, particularly Splunk (SPLK) and Informatica (INFA). Salesforce.com (CRM) is an early leader targeting the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) opportunity for wearables and industrial applications.
Here's his list of top CLSA picks:
He also offers top public names not formally covered by CLSA:
Here are some things going on today in your world of tech:
Shares of NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) are higher by $2.22, or 3.3%, at $69.18, after The Financial Times's Tim Bradshaw, Sarah Mishkin and Daniel Thomas wrote this morning that the company's chips for "near-field communications," or NFC, will be included in a forthcoming iPhone 6 from Apple (AAPL), which is expected to be unveiled at Apple's media event in Cupertino on September 9th.
Shares of Big Data and data analytics software maker Splunk (SPLK) are higher by $8.51, or almost 19%, at $53.80, adding to last night's gains, after the company yesterday afternoon beat fiscal Q2 expectations and forecast higher, driving multiple price target increases this morning.
Also reporting yesterday was life sciences software maker Veeva (VEEV), which beat fiscal Q3 expectations and raised its outlook for the year. The stock is up $4.31, or over 17%, at $29.27, adding to last night's gains.
There don't appear to be any ratings changes at this time. Canaccord Genuity's Richard Davis, reiterating a Buy rating, raises his price target to $33 from $30, writing that "Veeva remains a best-in-class firm, with an exceptionally talented management team that has a demonstrated ability to efficiently build a substantial business – thus, proving the power of a vertical cloud model."
Joining the triumvirate of earnings champs, shares of Avago Technologies (AVGO) are up $6.28, or 8%, at $82.64, after the company yesterday afternoon beat fiscal Q3 expectations, and offered a better-than-expected view for this quarter.
Analysts raised price targets and estimates, salivating over the company's anticipated role in the new iPhone, and also the continued expansion of China's 4G wireless market.
In other earnings news, smartphone and automotive camera sensor maker OmniVision Technologies (OVTI) are down 15 cents, or half a percent, despite also beating expectations. Analysts this morning said the stock is weighed down by uncertainty around a buyout offer from a Chinese investment firm, and also what is expected to be a loss of sockets in the new iPhone.
Shares of 3-D printer makers 3D Systems (DDD) are down 8 cents, or 0.2%, at $53.11, despite an initiation of coverage of the name at Buy by Stifel Nicolaus's Patrick Newton, who writes that the company has several growth opportunities in the broad expansion of "additive manufacturing." Newton gave the stock a $65 price target. He also rates Stratasys (SSYS) a Buy, and its shares are up $1.58, or 1.3%, at $119.37.
Research firm IDC cut its tablet computer forecast for this year nearly in half, citing lack of growth in mature markets. The firm believes the category still has appeal for consumers, however.
Shares of big data and data analytics software vendor Splunk (SPLK) are up $6.97, or 15.4%, at $52.26, after the company yesterday afternoon reported fiscal Q2 revenue that beat analysts' estimates, and delivered a surprise profit per share where the Street expected a loss, and also forecast this quarter and the full year's results higher than consensus, after raising its year revenue view.
There are no ratings changes today, that I've seen, but price targets are going up here and there, and estimates are rising. The company has put to rest some of the worries about competition, but there's debate over the significance of the company bringing prices down.
Cowen & Co.'s Gregg Moskowitz, reiterating an Outperform rating, raises his price target to $60 from $55, writing that Splunk is "extremely well positioned to capitalize on Big Data, and the use cases continue to grow steadily, in turn expanding the addressable market."
"It's also important to note that term license bookings constituted 37% of total license bookings, much higher than our 25% forecast and indicative of an even stronger quarter than it initially appears," adds Moskowitz.
Moskowitz raised his year view to $427.6 million and a 2-cent profit per share from a prior forecast for $409.1 million and break-even on the bottom line.
Canaccord Genuity's Richard Davis actually cut his price target to $60 from $70, while reiterating his Buy rating on the shares, "to take into consideration recent multiple compression in the space," he writes.
But "we believe Splunk is now very close to reasonably priced," he declares, laying out his valuation argument:
Our new $60 price target is based on an 11.7x EV/revenue multiple applied to our C2015 estimate of $558.5M plus approximately $1.0B in prospective net cash and assumes approximately 125M fully diluted shares outstanding. Using a 5-year FCF discount model and approximate C2020 estimates of $1.7B in revenue and $430M in FCF, we calculate an IRR of roughly 15%, which implies a 25x EV/FCF and 6.2x EV/revenue multiple in C2019.
Davis Raised his year revenue view to $430 million from $412 million, and raised his year profit view to a penny per share from a prior 1-cent loss estimate.
Ed Maguire with CLSA-US reiterates a Buy rating and an $80 price target, writing that "It's increasingly clear that 1Q seasonality was overly misconstrued as a secular slowdown on competitive headwinds."
Maguire likes the company's approach to lowering pricing:
The company cut pricing for Splunk Cloud by 33% during 2Q, passing on most of the cost declines from Amazon Web Services. With the operational savings being passed through to the customers, this lowers barriers to new customers for new services, setting the stage for expansion of business over time. The company also launched the online cloud sandbox to make it easier for new customers to try Splunk. The strategies appear to be working, with an influx of entry-level customers driving 500 new additions in 2Q.
Atlantic Equities's Josep Bori reiterates an Overweight rating, and a $75 price target, writing that demand is picking up: "he strong Q2 results support our thesis that the business momentum continues to accelerate driven by machine data analytics demand."
Bori raised his estimate for thsi year to $425 million in revenue, up from a prior $416 million, while maintaining a 7-cent EPS view.
Morgan Stanley's Keith Weiss reiterates an Equal Weight rating, writing that the shares are pricey and that competitive concerns still haven't gone away:
While Splunk does generate positive FCF, the EV/FCF multiple against our CY15 forecast remains quite elevated (>50X), which keeps the focus on EV/Sales multiples and keeps the onus on sustaining strong top-line growth. Combining the multiple drivers of expanding use cases, a broadening of data stores, new delivery models and increasing penetration into a nicely growing customer base (up 30%+ YoY in Q2) with the better sales metrics in Q2 bolsters our confidence in Splunk sustaining strong growth. That said, competitive concerns are not likely to alleviate completely with one print and the potential for further price cuts signaled by management remains a headline risk for the company.
William Blair's Bhavan Suri reiterates a Market Perform rating, writing that he's concerned about management's inclination to lower prices:
While we were pleased overall with the company's performance, we wonder whether management's commentary about pricing will temper any positive reaction to the outperformance this quarter and raised full-year guidance. The company noted for the first time that it is willing to take an Amazon-like approach and gradually drive down the cost of indexing, and our recent conversations with investors have indicated significant concerns about price degredation. Still, we like the strategy given the rapid emergence of competitors at the low end of the deal spectrum and the land-and-expand model inherent in the space, and expect volume increases to more than offset the revenue impact of lower pricing.
Big data and data analytics software maker Splunk (SPLK) this afternoon reported fiscal Q2 revenue that topped analysts' expectations, and delivered a surprise profit where analysts had been expecting a net loss, offered a Q3 revenue view that topped expectations, and raised its year revenue outlook above consensus.
Revenue in the three months ended in July rose to $101.5 million, yielding EPS of a penny per share, excluding some costs.
Analysts had, on average, been modeling $93.8 million and a 2-cent loss per share.
CEO Godfrey Sullivan called the results "strong," and said Splunk "continue to invest heavily in product innovation."
Splunk shares are up $1.51, or 3%, at $46.80, in late trading.
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue of $105 million to $107 million, above consensus for $93.8 million.
For the full year, Splunk raised its outlook for revenue to a range of $423 million to $428 million, from a prior range of $402 million to $410 million, and above an average estimate on the Street for $411.5 million.
Update: Splunk has now added to gains and is up $4.03, or almost 9%, at $49.32.
Enterprise data visualization software vendor Qlik Technologies (QLIK) this afternoon reported Q2 revenue that topped analysts' expectations, and surprise profit per share where the Street had expected a loss, while the outlook for revenue this quarter and the full year was a bit higher than expected.
Revenue in the three months ended in June rose 22%, year over year, to $131.6 million, yielding EPS of 2 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $125 million and a 3-cent loss per share.
CEO Lars Björk said the company had introduced today the first version of its long-awaited "QlikView.Next" software technology, "Qlik Sense Desktop," had been released, and that the server edition of Qlik Sense will be available in September.
Said Björk, "The launch of Qlik Sense, combined with the continued strong demand for QlikView demonstrated by our results this quarter, will enable us to capture the significant market opportunity that we see in self-service visualization and Data Discovery."
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue of $122 million to $126 million, and earnings per share, excluding some costs, ranging from a net loss of 2 cents to a penny profit of 1 cent. That compares to the average estimate for $123 million and 4 cents.
For the full year, the company sees revenue in a range of $545 million to $555 million, and EPS of 23 cents to 27 cents, better than consensus of $547.8 million and 24 cents.
Qlik shares are up $1.91, or 8.2%, at $25.30, and were earlier up as much as 10%.
The Hadoop developer summit for the open-source data mining software today attracted some reflections from William Blair's Bhavan Suri, who believes the take-up of Hadoop could be positive for data analytics vendors Qlik Technologies (QLIK), Datawatch (DWCH), and Splunk (SPLK), and possibly for big data equipment vendor Teradata (TDC), though with some caveats.
I posted a brief item about the Hadoop Summit back on June 5th in San Jose, noting how some companies such as BNY Mellon were increasingly rolling out the technology to sift and sort very large data sets.
But Suri was a bit disappointed that the enterprise attendance wasn't higher, with many of the people there being more of the early-adopter techie types rather than mainstream IT:
While attendance at the Hadoop Summit was up 50% (about 4,000 attendees), most were either technology providers in the Hadoop ecosystem (e.g., MapR and Teradata) or consulting companies that are building out their big-data practices, and even within the latter group, it was typically small systems integrators and not the very large ones. We did not see a material uptick in the number of corporate attendees and were somewhat disappointed at the turnout of more corporate-type users. There were a few IT executives and developers present, but our sense was that it was possibly 100-200 organizations that had any internal staff at the conference.
Still, he notes intriguing, promising small vendors doing analytics work on top of Hadoop, such as startup InsideSales.com. What is necessary is completion of parts of the Hadoop infrastructure, he concludes:
Over the longer term, given the rapid proliferation of proprietary SQL-to-MR translation solutions (e.g., Cloudera Impala), the progress on the Falcon ETL project, and the introduction of YARN (which decouples the resource management and job scheduling/monitoring, allowing more real-time-like use of Hadoop infrastructure, which should provide significant performance gains), we believe the transition is getting closer to completion.
Once that happens, it could help Qlik, Splunk and Datawatch:
We therefore expect accelerated adoption over the next 12-24 months, which should provide nice tailwinds for the business analytics vendors under our coverage—Qlik Technologies, Datawatch, and Splunk—since these companies, especially Splunk, can access Hadoop storage directly today. We suspect that adoption will also help Teradata (which should deliver more than $100 million in revenue this year related to Hadoop/big data), but we believe that the company needs to improve its go-to- market messaging for its Hadoop offerings and continue to focus on expanding its market awareness for its appliance/point- based solutions.
Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
Shares of Micron Technology (MU) are are up $1.41, or almost 5%, at $32.67, bouncing back from after-hours losses last night following a better-than-expected fiscal Q3 report and Q4 revenue forecast that nevertheless wasn't sufficient in after-hours trading to lift the stock.
This morning, the stock is getting price-target increases all around, and at least one upgrade in rating, from Needham & Co.'s Rajvindra Gill, who upped the stock from Buy to Strong Buy, and raised his target to $50 from $40. Writes Gill, "While implied gross margin guidance was slightly below expectations, we see MU making the right decision to invest in controller firmware in order to grow its SSD business in the future; we urge investors to look past the temporary NAND GM hit."
On the other hand, Wells Fargo's David Wong, reiterating an Underperform rating, but raising his "valuation range" to a range of $19 to $24 from a prior range of $14 to $17, writes that "we continue to think that DRAM pricing might be unsustainably above trend at the moment and that memory pricing could correct and pressure Micron's profitability in the future."
Shares of Apple (AAPL) are on the march after a couple of price target increases, rising 63 cents, or 0.7%, at to $91.46. Needham's Charlie Wolf raised his rating on the shares to $97 from $86.32, based on strength in Apple's March-ending quarter, and the software developments shown at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference two weeks ago, of which he thinks the new "Swift" programming language was the most significant.
Also today, J.P. Morgan's Rod Hall reiterated an Overweight rating, and raised his rating on the shares to $108 from $89, writing that "We continue to believe that Apple is on the cusp of multiple new product launches that are likely to reinvigorate earnings growth relative to Street expectations."
"While an iWatch on its own is unlikely to move the needle by much, our non-consensus view that what we are calling 'iAnywhere' is likely to launch in early 2015 does have a potential material positive impact on earnings growth."
Speaking of all things Apple, Oppenheimer & Co.'s Cody Acree reiterates a Buy rating this morning, and a $22 price target, arguing InvenSense has a lot to look forward to in the September and December quarters, including continued business from Samsung Electronics (005930KS), but also, probably, a wearables product from Apple.
Shares of Pandora Media (P) are up $1.10, or 3.9%, at $29.30, following a couple of positive notes. MKM Partners's Rob Sanderson reiterates a Buy rating this morning, writing that he can see a path to $5.60 per share in earnings for the company versus just 17 cents expected this year, if it can increase its add load. As he points out "P was about 8% of radio audience last year (9% of ad-supported radio)" but its "audio ad sales represented less than 2% share of the spending pie last year."
And Canaccord Genuity's Michael Graham reiterates a Buy rating and a $43 target after meeting with the company's investor relations team, a meeting that gave him "renewed confidence in Pandora's ability to exceed our revenue targets over time, especially when viewed through the lens of future local sales capacity. "
In case you missed it, Cloudera, the startup company that is selling licenses to the open-source Hadoop software, and which got a boost earlier this year with an investment by Intel (INTC), this morning said it is offering a new hardware product in partnership with Intel and Dell, called "The Dell In-Memory Appliances for Cloudera Enterprise," which is intended to greatly speed-up the use of Hadoop.
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