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New York City Opera to Open Spring 2013 Season with POWDER HER FACE, 2/15-23
New York City Opera opens its spring 2013 season with a new production of Powder Her Face (1995), composed by Thomas Adès (b.1971) to a libretto by Philip Hensher (b. 1965). The world premiere of the opera, inspired by a sex scandal that rocked Britain in the early 60s, not only caused controversy, with its on-stage depiction of fellatio, but also propelled Adès to international recognition.
Conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer, whose artistry is as musically omnivorous as Adès' score, and directed by Jay Scheib, who is known for technologically rich theatrical innovation, the opera returns to BAM, where it was semi-staged at the Majestic (now Harvey) Theater as part of the 1998 Next Wave Festival.
Performances will take place February 15-23 at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn): February 15, 21 and 23 at 7:30 P.M., and February 17 at 1:30 P.M. Tickets, $25-$250, can be purchased at 718.636.4100 or BAM.org. Please note: The production contains nudity and scenes of a sexual nature; parental discretion is advised.
Powder Her Face centers around a series of Polaroids presented during the 1963 divorce case against Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll. In the pictures, Campbell, dubbed the "Dirty Duchess" for the eighty-eight men with whom she allegedly had extramarital affairs, appeared nude, wearing only her signature pearl necklace. Some of the photos showed the Duchess performing oral sex on a man whose face was not visible. He was crowned "the headless man" by the tabloids, and his identity was the subject of much speculation.
Through the prism of Campbell's life story, Powder Her Face explores the intersection of gender, politics and power. Scheib has said, "Powder Her Face, with its high-speed turns, feels on the surface like a Don Giovanni-but this one's about a woman who does what she wants how and when she wants. Adès has singlehandedly resurrected the reputation of one Dirty Duchess, as dreamt by Jean Genet-and the music is absolutely thrilling."
With the exception of the "sterling tenor" (American Theater) William Ferguson, whose role as the Electrician follows many others with New York City Opera, the entire Powder Her Face cast and creative team-including Stockhammer and Scheib-is new to the Company. British mezzo-soprano Allison Cook, who recently garnered acclaim for her Teatro alla Scala debut in the world premiere of Luca Francesconi's Quartett (with subsequent performances at the Wiener Festwochen), will be introduced to American audiences as the Duchess. As the Maid, coloratura soprano Nili Riemer will make her Company debut, having won praise as the Queen of the Night in multiple European and American productions of Die Zauberflöte, among other roles. Matt Boehler, whom The New York Times has deemed "a bass with an attitude and the goods to back it up," and whom The Washington Post hailed as "a supple, clarion bass," makes his Company debut in the role of the Hotel Manager.
Several favorites of the downtown theater scene will have non-singing roles, including Jon Morris (Fuerza Bruta, Scheib's World of Wires) as the Waiter and Kaneza Schaal (The Wooster Group, Elevator Repair Service) as the Nurse. The cast also features a non-singing chorus of thirty nude men.
For Scheib, Powder Her Face follows World of Wires (based on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Welt am Draht), which premiered at The Kitchen in January 2012, won Scheib a 2012 Obie Award for Direction, earned rave reviews and has toured internationally. The director applies his signature multimedia approach to Adès' opera, with sets by Marsha Ginsberg, costumes by Alba Clemente, lighting by Thomas Dunn and projection design by Joshua Higgason.
Powder Her Face is the third production in a relationship New York City Opera has forged with BAM, which will serve as the Company's Brooklyn base through the 2014-15 season. As New York City Opera continues to match special projects with suitable venues across the city, BAM and New York City Center, the Company's original home, will serve as its primary theaters. The superior acoustics of BAM's 2,100-seat, 19th-century-style Howard Gilman Opera House enhances the artistry of singers and musicians, and the venue's convenient Fort Greene location offers a warm welcome to the New York City Opera's loyal audiences while also helping to attract a new, diverse and enthusiastic fan base.
Powder Her Face Personnel
* Denotes New York City Opera debut
Allison Cook* (Duchess)
Nili Riemer* (Maid)
William Ferguson (Electrician)
Matt Boehler* (Hotel Manager)
Jon Morris* (Waiter)
Kaneza Schaal* (Nurse)
Jonathan Stockhammer* (Conductor)
Jay Scheib* (Production Director)
Marsha Ginsberg* (Set Designer)
Alba Clemente* (Costume Designer)
Thomas Dunn* (Lighting Designer)
Joshua Higgason* (Projection Designer)
Jonathan Stockhammer (Conductor)
Powder Her Face marks the New York City Opera debut of the American-born, Berlin-based conductor Jonathan Stockhammer.
He has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared at the Salzburg Festival, Donaueschingen Music Days and Wien Modern.
Mr. Stockhammer began the 2012-13 season with his Bamberg Symphony debut concert, conducting works by Mozart and Rihm. With the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, he will also make his debut at Alte Oper Frankfurt. Other highlights of the season are re-invitations to the Oslo Philharmonic, Salzburg Biennial, Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Remix Ensemble Porto and Schwetzinger Festspiele.
Opera is central to Jonathan Stockhammer's work. The operas he has conducted, including Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper, Zemlinsky's Eine florentinische Tragödie, Sciarrino's Luci mie traditrici and Damon Albarn's Monkey: Journey to the West, identify him as a conductor who welcomes and masters the difficulties presented by complex scores and special, cross-categorical productions. Since 1998, he has been a regular guest at the Opéra de Lyon, where he has since conducted the successful French premiere of Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night. In the 2010-11 season he gave his successful debut with the Radio Kamer Filharmonie at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with Faustus. After premiering Wolfgang Rihm's Proserpina in May 2009 with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, he returned to conduct the orchestra at Strasburg's Festival Musica in September 2009 with another Rihm work, Deus Passus. In 2010, he conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in a production of Sondheim's A Little Night Music at the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris. In fall 2011, he directed the Swiss premiere of Zwicker's Der Tod und das Mädchen at the Theater St. Gallen.
Aside from conducting classical and romantic masterpieces and classical contemporary works, Mr. Stockhammer enjoys delving into music that blurs the boundaries between classical, rock, pop and hip-hop. His CD Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions with Ensemble Modern, featuring works by Frank Zappa, was released in 2003 on RCA and won an Echo Klassik Award. He also recorded a new soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film The Battleship Potemkin, composed and performed by the Pet Shop Boys. The live recording of The New Crystal Silence that he conducted with Chick Corea, Gary Burton and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra won a Grammy Award in 2009. His collaboration with spoken word artist Saul Williams on Said the Shotgun to the Head, featuring music composed by Thomas Kessler, has also been especially successful. To date, he has conducted the work with the WDR and SWR Symphony Orchestras and the Oslo Philharmonic. In March 2012, he conducted Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities at the South Bank Centre in London.
Jonathan Stockhammer first studied Chinese and political science before moving on to studies in composition and conducting in his hometown of Los Angeles. During his studies, he filled in for a series of concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, after which he was asked to become chief conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen's assistant. After completing his studies, Jonathan Stockhammer moved to Germany where he formed close relationships with well-known European ensembles like Ensemble Modern, musikFabrik and Ensemble Resonanz.
Jay Scheib (Director)
Jay Scheib, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2012 Obie Award recipient for Best Direction, is a director, designer and author of plays, operas and live art events. Internationally known for works of daring physicality, genre-defying performances and deep integration of new technologies, Scheib's 2012 productions include World of Wires, which premiered at The Kitchen, followed by performances at Festival d'Automne in Paris and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; a collaboration with choreographer Yin Mei and the Hong Kong Dance Company titled The Seven Sages, in Hong Kong; and Fassbinder's controversial play Garbage, the City and Death in Oslo, Norway. Upcoming productions include a live drive-in movie version of Chekhov's Platonov at La Jolla Playhouse in the fall of this year.
Past productions include Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and Maison des Arts in Créteil, France after its New York run at The Kitchen; Evan Ziporyn's A House in Bali, presented as part of BAM's Next Wave Festival 2010; a new staging of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Saarländisches Staatstheater in Saarbrücken; Brecht's Puntila und sein Knecht Matti at Theater Augsburg; This Place is a Desert (ICA/Boston, Under the Radar Festival/Public Theater); and Addicted to Bad Ideas, Peter Lorre's 20th Century, which played at Spoleto Festival, Urban Festival Helsinki, Luminato Festival Toronto, Peak Performances Montclair, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and more.
Other works include the world premiere of Irene Popovic's opera Mozart Luster Lustik at the Sava Center, Belgrade, Serbia; Lothar Trolle's Ein Vormittag in der Freitheit at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin; a new staging of the Novoflot science fiction opera saga Kommander Kobayashi in Saarbruecken, Germany; and Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) at Performance Space 122 in New York and the State Theater in Budapest, Hungary.
Named Best New York Theater Director by Time Out New York in 2009, and named by American Theater Magazine as one of the 25 theater artists who will shape the next 25 years of American theater, Scheib is a recipient of The Edgerton Award, The Richard Sherwood Award and the NEA/TCG Program for Directors. He is a frequent guest professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at the Norwegian Theater Academy and is Professor for Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Allison Cook (Duchess)
Mezzo-soprano Allison Cook is increasingly in demand for her extraordinary versatility. Recent highlights include her critically lauded debut at Teatro alla Scala as the Marquise de Merteuil in the world premiere of Luca Francesconi's Quartett (with subsequent performances at the Wiener Festwochen) as well as Mme de Warens in the world premiere of Philippe Fenelon's JJR (Citoyen de Genève) for the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) at the Prague State Opera and Adalgisa (Norma) on tour in the Netherlands. She also featured in two other recent world premieres: Mark Anthony Turnage's Anna Nicole (in the role of Blossom) and Michael Berkeley/Ian McEwan's For You, both at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Upcoming engagements include further performances of Quartett at the Cité de la Musique, the Holland Festival, Strasbourg Festival, Casa da Musica (Porto) and the Gulbenkian (Lisbon); Britten's Phaedra at the Barbican; and Margret (Wozzeck) at Covent Garden.
She is a former member of Les Jeunes Voix du Rhin at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg and the Centre de Formation Lyrique at the Opéra National de Paris. Her European success has been built on performances such as Der Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Strasbourg; Der Trommler (Der Kaiser von Atlantis) for l'Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy and at the Cité de la Musique; Valetto and Fortuna (L'Incoronazione di Poppea) with Les Musiciens du Louvre at the Wiener Festwochen and Festival Aix-en-Provence as well as the title role in the same opera in Dublin; Baba the Turk and Mother Goose (The Rake's Progress) for Théâtre et Musique in Paris; and the world premiere of Peter Eötvös's Le Balcon in Aix-en-Provence.
Her ongoing association with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden has to date also included the title role in John Browne's Babette's Feast and Kate Julian (Owen Wingrave) as well as covering Countess Geschwitz (Lulu) and Ariadne in the world premiere of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur. For Glyndebourne on Tour she has performed Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus) and the title role in Carmen. She also sang the title role in La Cenerentola at the Shanghai International Arts Centre.
Allison Cook's concert performances range from the BBC Proms (Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites and Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music) to Schoenberg's Das Buch der hängenden Gärten at the Louvre, with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Münchner Symphoniker. Conductors and stage directors she has worked with include Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Andrew Davis, James Conlon, Louis Langrée, Stéphane Denève, Mark Minkowski, Susanna Mälkki, Robin Ticciati, Richard Jones, Robert Carsen, Stephen Langridge, Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus), Stephen Lawless, Marthe Keller and Irina Brook.
Nili Riemer (Maid)
Lauded by the Cleveland Plain-Dealer for her "graceful agility, rising to shining high notes" and her use of "coloratura writing as an extension of character," Nili Riemer makes her New York City Opera debut in Powder Her Face.
She recently returned to Oper Leipzig as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos. Last season, she returned to the role of Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte and the title role in Arriaga's Die arabische Prinzessin with Oper Leipzig, and made debuts with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos and the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken as the stratospheric Sehr hoher Sopran in Rihm's Eroberung von Mexico.
The soprano's recent performances include Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte in a new production with Opera Royal de Wallonie, at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the Minnesota Orchestra with Osmo Vänskä conducting, and in a return to Stadttheater Heidelberg; the Controller in Dove's Flight with Austin Lyric Opera, where she previously sang Princess Laoula in L'Étoile; and a return to the Lyric Opera of Kansas City for Marie in La fille du régiment. She has enjoyed a strong relationship with Minnesota Opera as a former Resident Artist and has joined the company for Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, the title role of Lakmé, and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro.
Her other recent performances include the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor in the opera's originally composed higher keys with Cleveland Opera; her European debut singing Cunegonde in Candide with the Kammerchor-Steffisburg in Thun, Switzerland; Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Anchorage Opera; Olymphia in Les contes d'Hoffmann with Des Moines Metro Opera; Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance with Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Despina in Così fan tutte with Chautauqua Opera; and Clorinda in La cenerentola with Florida Grand Opera.
The soprano has joined Tri-Cities Opera for leading roles including Rosina in IL Barbiere di Siviglia, Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Marie in La fille du régiment, and Monica in The Medium. As a former member of Chautauqua Opera's Studio Artist Program, she sang Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro. Other roles to the soprano's credit include Mademoiselle Silverpeal and Madame Goldentrill in Mozart's Impresario at the International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv, and Le Feu and Le Rossignol in L'enfant et les sortilèges at the Lowell House Operain Boston.
Also a versatile concert performer, Ms. Riemer joined Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for Donald Sur's Slavery Documents in a Martin Luther King Day concert broadcast on National Public Radio and the Brooklyn Philharmonic for a concert featuring Zerbinetta's showstopper aria from Ariadne auf Naxos. She has sung Barber's Prayers of Kierkegaard and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Binghamton Philharmonic, and Handel's Messiah with the New Choral Society. She joined the Binghamton University Concert Orchestra as a guest artist for Orff's Carmina Burana and the Tufts University Concert Orchestra for Poulenc's Gloria, and has performed Brubeck's Gates of Justice at the Newport Jazz Festival.
Ms. Riemer has received a number of awards from the Gerda Lissner Foundation, Shoshana Foundation, Career Bridges, Schubert Club Competition, Altamura-Caruso International Vocal Competition, Queens Opera Competition and Nebraska district Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Born in Israel, the soprano holds a Master of Music degree from the State University of New York-Binghamton and is a graduate of the dual-degree program at New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University, where she earned a Bachelor of Music and a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in International Relations.
William Ferguson (Electrician)
Acclaimed for his versatility in both opera and concert, tenor William Fergusonmade his debut with the Santa Fe Opera in 2006 as Caliban in the North American premiere of Thomas Adès' The Tempest, and in 2005 he bowed in Sydney with Opera Australia, singing Truffaldino in a new production of The Love for Three Oranges directed by Francesca Zambello and conducted by Richard Hickox (subsequently released on compact disc under the Chandos label). The same year, Ferguson joined the roster of The Metropolitan Opera, where he has performed Beppe in Pagliacci as well as roles in Le Nozze di Figaro and The Magic Flute (under the baton of James Levine). With New York City Opera, his performances have included the title role in Candide, Nanki-Poo in The Mikado, the Funeral Director in A Quiet Place, and two appearances as Hérisson de Porc-Épic in L'Étoile, amongmany others.
Additional credits include Andres in Wozzeck with Opera Festival of New Jersey, Ferrando in Così fan tutte at The Aspen Music Festival, Carl in Bitter Sweet for the Bard SummerScape Festival, Pang in Turandot with Opera Company of Philadelphia, Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance with both Virginia Opera and Opera Omaha, the Sailor in Dido and Aeneas with Gotham Chamber Opera, the title role in Albert Herring directed by Lotfi Mansouri at The Music Academy of the West, Gonzalve in L'Heure Espagnole and Fenton in Falstaff at the Tanglewood Music Center (both with Seiji Ozawa), and Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw at the Chautauqua Institution. Mr. Ferguson has also performed with Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall on several occasions, including as Nick in La Fanciulla del West and as Laërte in Mignon. A compelling interpreter of new music, Mr. Ferguson sang Bentley Drummle in Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Fire at Opera Theatre of St. Louis and performed in the world premiere productions of Anthony Davis' Wakonda's Dream with Opera Omaha, Robert Aldridge's Elmer Gantry with Peak Performances at Montclair, and operas by Lee Hoiby and Harold Farberman. While in St. Louis, Mr. Ferguson sang the role of Hippolyte in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie as a last minute replacement, earning a review in Opera News stating that he sang "with grace, and striking self-possession." He holds both Bachelor's and Master's of Music degrees from The Juilliard School and is a native of Richmond, Virginia.
A passionate concert and recital performer, Mr. Ferguson has appeared with The American Symphony Orchestra, BBC Orchestra (London), Boston Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (England), Handel and Haydn Society, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, a New York, National Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Oratorio Society of New York, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands), as well as the local symphony orchestras of Bellingham, New Haven, Omaha, Richmond, Santa Barbara, Wheeling and Winston-Salem. Mr. Ferguson appears as Brian on the recording and DVD of Not The Messiah, a comic oratorio based on Monty Python's film Life of Brian, recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London. His repertoire ranges from that of Baroque masters to the difficult cycles of Schubert, Schumann, Janá?ek and Rorem-showcasing him across the United States in chamber programs and recitals for the 92nd Street Y, Bard Music Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Marlboro Music Festival and Young Concert Artists, among others. Mr. Ferguson has performed extensively with The Marilyn Horne Foundation, Five Borough Music Festival, as well as The New York Festival of Song.


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text: I've been thinking about what happens in the next quad leading into Sochi. There is a lot of talented men coming up. Kozuka, Rippon, Brezina, Florent, Fernandez, Denis Ten, the Japanese men. I'm wondering who everyone thinks is going to be the next star. For me, while I don't think he's the skater Kozuka or Chan is. And I don't think he's as well packaged right now as Florent or Rippon.. If I had to put my money on any of the young guys its Brezina. Its just he's a great jumper, and a lot of the other guys are not great jumpers. And I think he does have artistic potential too, even though his choregraphy especially needs work. If he can do those quads consistently, and manage to get the type of levels he got at worlds, I think he will start winning competitions quickly.. My gut is telling me that he's going to have an easier time improving his PCS marks, transitions, footwork spins. etc, than someone like Chan, or Rippon will have at becoming great jumpers. Or Kozuka at developing consistency at this point too. If he can keep on getting the types of levels he got at worlds, he won't loss out to much on spins or footwork.. I'm curious about what Frank does with Ten too. And the young man who won Juniors.


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RIP figure skating.
Never let Russia host the Olympics.
RIP figure skating.
Never let Russia host the Olympics.
I'm glad to see Yuna had a clean skate to finish her competitive career! Congrats to her on silver medal. Russia winning gold was already obvious so I won't go into the inflated scores and what not lol. I'm just glad the top skaters were able to have a good experience out on the ice what a competitive atmosphere it was today
This will go down as the blackest day in the history of figure skating, far surpassing 2002.
The judging $$$$ in these olympics was a farce, climaxing with the rigged result of the ladies event.
Judging the women's free skate on Thursday evening in Sochi is none other than Ukrainian Yuri Balkov.
Balkov, as you may remember, is the same judge who was recorded on tape - by Canadian whistle blower Jean Senft - listing the results of the pairs free dance at the Winter Olympics in Nagano before the event even took place.
His punishment for rigging an Olympic event, as handed down by the International Skating Union: A one year suspension.
Shocking. Especially for the absolute meritocracy that is figure skating.
You can't fix stupid.
Figure Skating = ????
I don't care no more.
Do I hear crickets? How Adelina beat both a clean Kim and a clean Kostner is impossible to explain otherwise.
I'm happy for the performances we got today, though. And Yuna managed to skate clean back to back in her last competition.
I'm sorry. Adelina was wonderful and she's a very pretty girl and she's Russian on home ice, but she was NOT 5.49 points better than Kim Yu-Na. One bad landing on a jump cost her the gold and a chance to repeat. There definitely was some funny business going on. The scores, though, that were given in the short were the reason there was never a chance for the podium members(not the order)to change.
It is what it is. But I don't like it.
I'd say I'm never watching FS again but at this point that is an empty threat. I may not pay as much attention during this year's worlds though.
Yuna Kim is one of the greatest figure skaters of all time, and no doubt the most competitive and clutch of all time.
The judges had clearly rigged the results, telling her she had to go out and skate perfect to win. And then with all of that pressure on her, in a hostile crowd, she still went out and skated near perfect, better than Sotnikova, who stepped out on a jump and UR another one. Her ability to perform under pressure was a testament to sport and life, and then she was robbed by corruption and everything that goes against fair play, competition, and positive life lessons.
It's the greatest travesty I've ever seen in sports in my 30 years.
It's a travesty alright, but it's hard for me to be so bitter when Mao, Yuna and Carolina all ended their careers with such wonderful performances today.
Adelina was clearly superior technically. It's the second mark that is in question. But today Kim was very tight and Adelina had more attack.
Yes, this whole event was a big scandal. The way the judges favorited Russians during this whole competition was ridiculous. Based on the team event, I knew it all would end up like this. Sad.
There are at least 2 people that I know of: Plushenko, Putin
Not for me, nope. She just didn't do anything for me. While she skated well, she wasn't up to par with Kim or Kostner in terms of artistry, IMO
Agree with you 100%. This was a travesty, and a rather sad for skating


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Baidu (BIDU) is scheduled to release its earnings on Friday morning and the big question mark: How far will the company's profit margins fall?
Macquarie's analysts, for instance, believe that Baidu's operating margins will decline at least four to five points from the previous quarter due to factors ranging from consolidate its online video business, competition with Qihoo 360 Technology (QIHU), and "weak seasonality."
T.H. Capital's Tian Hou and Gina Chen, meanwhile, call 2013 "an investment year both in search and mobile to stave off competition from Qihoo and the increasing PC-to-mobile migration, which could put pressure on margins."
Macquarie and T.H. Capital both see revenues roughly inline with forecasts, although Macquarie trimmed its earnings estimates ahead of the report and lowered its target price to $120.
Still, it's not all bad news. For starters, Baidu has plunged 21% during the last three months, which means much of the bad news could already be in the stock. T.H. Capital, which rates the stock a neutral, says the stock is fairly valued at current levels. And Macquarie insists it is still positive on Baidu, despite cutting its target. Its analysts write:
While margin pressure and competition concern will linger for some time, Baidu shares may present attractive investment value to long-term holders at current levels.
Everyone else, you've been warned.
Baidu has gained 2.5% to $87.69 today, while Qihoo has dropped 0.7% to $31.98.


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And I think Strahan should have got in over Sapp and Ogden. Parcels was a great coach for his SB runs, but more than that, he was revolutionary in his capacity for rebuilding broken teams (his eye for talent is often overlooked).
Then again, I'm biased there too
Ogden was incredible. He was so dominating at his position he should have absolutely made it.
With Strahan being the only first ballot player to not make the Hall this year, I think it speaks volumes as to how the media feels about Strahan's sack record.
Whenever you have someone who not only owns the single season record, but is also ranked 5th all time in that major statistical category, you would think it would be a no brainer. Not in this case and unfortunately it shows how screwed up the HoF voters are. Just look how long it took Chris Carter.
It is all staged for him to get elected next year at his home. That will be the icing on the cake.
Strahan is the epitome of what you want a 4-3 strong side DE to be.
And Ogden was an OT of one of the worst offenses in the NFL during his time (not to mention a primarily run-oriented offense). He was a very good OT but not on the par *at his position* that Strahan was at his.


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Did the New York Beauty Blocks go to sleep---did I miss something along the way? I just started up again, and finally got it to where the curves are coming a little easier. Haven't seen any pictures or activities for a long time.
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Did the New York Beauty Blocks go to sleep---did I miss something along the way? I just started up again, and finally got it to where the curves are coming a little easier. Haven't seen any pictures or activities for a long time.
I agree, it seems some of us did not get the patterns before the links were deactivated. Thank goodness I downloaded all of them in a couple of places.
I had asked for some help on Block #8 but heard nothing. Not one person responded. this lead to me believe nobody was on task anymore.
Boy am I ever disappointed.
I came in to view this thread and to see if anyone really did leave me a note as to what to do with this NYB block. I was so stumped with it, that I had not looked at it for over a month. April 24th to be exact.
Not even Kristen has responded.
Never fear though, I had to run to town and get some help with block #8 and they are now completed.
This is why I normally do not join in groups on the internet, everyone can disappear too easy. At least, this gave me the courage to start a new quilting concept.
Rainagade, I'm sorry you feel this way. I didn't start this project so I can't help you but I'm glad you did get some help. It's not always this way. At least one group on this board has been together for several years now.
On the 12/10 my husband lost his job,
on 12/17 he left me,
on 12/23 I was in a car accident, I have been in physical therapy done with that,
on 12/31 I came down with shingles on my eyelid imagine that all the stress
then in May my husband wanted to work on the marriage but lied about the affair, the other woman got pregnant . . . my life has been a soap orera and barely liveable. I live in Salem Oregon if you want together and still need help I would be happy some weekend to meet up with you. I did FINALLY sew some more blocks this weekend!
Kristen I am so sorry to hear everything you have and are going through. Prayers said.
I was watching this thread in the hope of being able to start at some stage and was disappointed to see it come to a halt.
Kristen I also am so sorry to hear of all that has befallen you recently and I hope that things start to look a little brighter for you soon.
Wow. You have been through a really bad patch. My heart goes out to you. I wish I did live close by. Please know that there are others out there who have been there, done that, and have the t-shirt. We'll be there to support you.
I am glad to see that you took a little bit of time for you, and sewed up a few blocks. Caressing fabric has therapeutic value. Try to pamper yourself every day. It might be as little as sitting down for five minutes with a cup of tea, but take it as "me" time.
I, too, have quit making the NYB quilt, but perhaps I should get at it again.
Hugs to you Kristen.
Thanks everybody I really appreciate your care and prayers! I am going to finish my blocks so you'll start seeing me post photos again. I started block 5 last night so pictures soon to follow . . . hopefully!
i intend to finish mine too but just like everyone else other things took top priority for a while. soon will have new blocks to post. ant to see everyone's finished blocks put together in a top a have no idea how I will be joining mine and could use some inspiration


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Reynolds, Others Join Wolverine
Twentieth Century Fox has added three more superheroes to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with Ryan Reynolds set to play Deadpool, Friday Night Lights regular Taylor Kitsch to star as Gambit and hip-hop artist will.i.am joining the cast as John Wraith, Variety reported.
The news confirmed Web reports from IESB.net, Ain't It Cool News, Superhero Hype! and other sites.
Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston and Lynn Collins round out the cast as Victor Creed/Sabretooth, Col. William Stryker and Kayla Silver Fox, the trade paper reported..
Hugh Jackman reprises the role of Wolverine in the X-Men spinoff, which Gavin Hood is shooting in New Zealand, Australia and New Orleans. The movie bows May 1, 2009.
David Benioff penned the script, which would reveal the origins of the Wolverine character and introduce other mutants not yet seen in the X-Men franchise.
Marvel has been eyeing the possibility of casting Reynolds as Deadpool, an assassin with self-healing powers, for some time, with the idea of spinning off the character into his own film series should the character prove popular among moviegoers.
Fox and Marvel have also long wanted to add the card-throwing character of Gambit to the X-Men franchise but could never find a way to give him enough screen time among the many other mutants that have appeared in each film.
Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am will play Wraith, a mutant who has the power to teleport and is another test subject of the Weapon X program that created Wolverine and other mercenaries. It would be his first film role.
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I also am joining!
Yes the swap will run from March 2013 thru February 2014
i hope u join us
I've been cutting candy! I'll be ready to party pretty soon.
What does "candy" fabric mean? Does this mean fabric with candy on it or what?
Do you send 50 squares to each person that has a birthday in that month?
Candy fabric is just a term that we have adopted to represent 2.5" squares.
so all you would have to do if you join is send each person on their birthday(during their month is fine) a package with 50 2.5" square with all different fabrics.
then in return on YOUR birthday you will receive 29 packages in the mail!
hope that helps and you will want to join us.
Can I still join? Birthday: Nov. 16
I'm in too !! Will pm you right away !!
Thank you, Barbara.
Wow ...first day of signing up and we have 10 people who have joined......and 2 people actually share the same birthday!


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I would have passed out. That's funny.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I would have passed out. That's funny.
I've heard that one before, but it's still funny!
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Thanks Jan for the laugh! Passing this on to my senior friends.
Thanks for my morning chuckle!
Take time to recharge your batteries. Its hard to see where youre going when your lights are dim. Robert H. Connelly
Thanks for that Jan. I enjoyed a good chuckle.
I loved that.. and shared it with my daughter. thanks
Hahahahaha, too funny. Thanks.
so many quilts to make, so little time.
rofl. thanks for sharing
That is a good one. I am sending it to my son the doctor!


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You have got to be fucking kidding me with this thing. I'm not going to link to it. I'm not going to name it. You know what I'm talking about. It is an atrocity. With that said, we bow our heads, take a deep breath, and say:
Thank god it's not Rush Limbaugh.
We've already emptied the vaults to give you the full story of Boston's only alternative radio station, WFNX.


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Put 8 tooth sprocket and a 16" bar and chain on that 44 she'll really fly!
been running the old 044 stihl. it seems to be a great saw. lots of power on the 24 inch bar. fairly easy to start and easy to run for such a big and powerful saw. decently light for its size and power. going to have to put a clutch on it though. otherwise very happy with it.
the new husky 455 rancher ran a bit rich ironically. and i don't like the safety chain crap they got on it from the factory. some of the stuff on it ain't pro quality but it looks livable. otherwise it is an OK saw. we will see if it holds up. the power is good enough for most uses somewhere around 3.5 hp i think it is a bit more heavy than the shindaiwa 575
i tried out an old dolmar 6800I while my 044 was in the shop. the dolmar 6800i is an old powerhouse but heavy as a cast iron stove! the thing was burning gas like it was still $0.25 a gallon and oiling like a saudi oil field! it does pull like a freight train though.
could have been a good saw with a little work. too much hassle factor for me though.
i did find a sort of deal on a like new shindiawa 575 chainsaw at the pawn shop. so cheap i just impulse bought it. took it out and cut about 2 ricks with it today. easy starting plenty of power on the short 16 inch bar. plenty of hp (4.2) for such a small saw. about all one would need for normal sized firewood. it don't burn much gas and the oiler just puts out just enough oil for the chain.
i like the little shindaiwa so much i have sort of been pawn-shopping around for little tojo"s big brother the shindaiwa 757! that is less i run across another deal on a 044!
Put 8 tooth sprocket and a 16" bar and chain on that 44 she'll really fly!


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Over the last month I've had the pleasure of engaging with a range of augmented reality tools for both children and adults that have me really loving watching this space develop. What is most exciting is seeing the potential, the way developers and designers are playing in the space and trying to work out what is the best fit. It reminds me of the days when I first discovered the internet in the mid-'90s, and how I found IRC so amazing and the interface somewhat clunky or the evolution of Angelfire and Geocities sites and the pixelated graphics, emerging design standards and the potential of online video summarized in some rudimentary animated gifs.
I say all this because at the moment that is where augmented reality is at. It is at the next beginning.
This beginning for AR is the commercial beginning. That doesn't mean everyone is trying to sell something — of course they are — but the commercialization also opens up the etch to amateurs. It is becoming easier for others to explore the space. That is what the Between Page and Screen project has been doing. This project reminds me of when I first discovered hypertextual writing. It was fascinating to see how words and narrative could do different things and be twisted and turned and controlled by the reader. This project is the brainchild of literary experimenter Amaranth Borsuk and designer and developer Brad Bouse and is effectively a book of augmented-reality poetry. It is a joyfully self-referential art project that examines what takes place between the pages of the book that bring words to life on the screen when captured by a computer's webcam. That capturing is a little stilted at time: the words flicker in and out as you try to move the image on the page in the right way. There is something enjoyable in the physical nature of the puzzle.


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Boaters ready to ride out storm
ORIENTAL - People in Oriental in Pamlico County are bracing for Hurricane Sandy.
The area was severely flooded last year during Hurricane Irene, and residents fear that could happen again.
"Anytime I hear storms coming near us, it just brings back flashbacks of Irene," said Linda Wright, an Oriental resident.
The area is preparing for Hurricane Sandy's impact, including people at Whittaker Point Marina in Oriental.
"We were hoping this wouldn't happen, but now that it's happening we're cautiously optimistic it will stay east of us," Bob Carr said.
Carr, like many other people at the marina, spent the day strapping down his boat in preparation for Sandy's strong winds and rain.
"I'm feeling confident in our preparations, but you can't predict the future and Mother Nature is a powerful thing," he said.
Pamlico County is putting all staff on alert for the weekend and monitoring the storm's conditions, according to county manager Tim Buck. Buck said a voluntary evacuation could possibly be issued for low-lying areas in the county.


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Anti Keylogger
Well ,i am working for a company and we think someone has installed a key logger on some of our client computer. so i need a tool that can scan the whole system and report us if the system is infected or not we need something like an anti keylogger or a tool that can make us sure that the system is clean.
i know that someone can write his own key logger so, no anti malware can find it but pleae give a good tool fir that thanx


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I just wanted to give an outstanding review for Country Rubes (one of the vendors here). I'm now running 2 of their screened bottom boards and their dipped (paraffin and rosin boiled) boxes. The SBBs are very well built, work perfectly, are well designed and look great. I really like the 'smoke' port as well.
Regarding the dipped boxes, the slightly additional cost far outweighs (for me) the time and money spent painting my boxes. Also, they don't have the disadvantage of the paint ever peeling off and no refinishing is ever needed so they should last a lifetime. Joints are very tight and the boxes are square (much more so than the Cheeseman boxes I bought this year). I'd planned on building my own dipping station, but after researching the cost of the materials needed I'd need to run far more than my few hives to make it worthwhile.
In any case, her customer service has been great and response is always fantastic as well. Just thought I should take the time to write a good review.


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Video: Milwaukee County sheriff's PSA on self-protection
posted at 10:01 am on January 26, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
One rule of thumb when hosting a radio talk show: don't bring an audio clip on the air "cold," i.e., without having heard it yourself. That's probably especially true when you're guest-hosting for a good friend and mentor. However, after Hot Air reader Tim R sent this to me near the end of the first hour of last night's Hugh Hewitt show, I asked Duane "Generalissimo" Patterson to check it out for hour two as I was wrapping up an interview with John Eastman on the recess-appointment ruling. In the break, I asked, "Can we use that?" Duane answered, "Oh, hell yes."
The sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin has a new public-service announcement on radio on protecting yourself, and it's causing quite a stir in the community:
In the PSA, Sheriff David Clarke says, "With officers laid off and furloughed, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option. You could beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back. But are you prepared?"
"You have a duty to protect yourself and your family. We're partners now. Can I count on you?"
Sounds pretty straightforward and honest. The police and sheriff's deputies can't arrive instantaneously to rescue citizens from every or even many violent crimes, and so it's incumbent on people to learn to defense themselves. The Fox affiliate leaves out a very important part of the PSA, though, which the Journal Sentinel at least mentions:
Clarke urges listeners to take a firearm safety course and handle a firearm "so you can defend yourself until we get there."
Yes, instead of either cowering under the bed or buying a weapon and shooting wildly, Sheriff Clarke wants citizens to receive proper instruction in self-defense — which includes learning how to handle a weapon as well as the proper uses and legal limitations of self-defense. These courses instill discipline and self-control, as well as prepare people for the unlikely-but-still-possible situation where they may be the only defense they have against a violent criminal.
Of course, that produced the usual hysteria:
"If he does not feel he is capable of doing this, and he's not qualified to take on this role of public safety, he should resign and he should do it today," said Jeri Bonavia of the non-profit Wisconsin Anti-violence Effort.
Bonavia says Clarke is asking citizens to become vigilantes.
"To issue a blanket statement that people should be out there, arming up, and taking care of safety matters that really law enforcement officials are trained to do, is just irresponsible," said Bonavia.
The office of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said in a statement: "Apparently Sheriff David Clark (sp) is auditioning for the next Dirty Harry movie."
Apparently, Barrett never watched the Dirty Harry movies, only one of which was about a vigilante (Sudden Impact, the worst of the series), and none of which had citizens acting in true self-defense. Dirty Harry wasn't about citizen vigilantes; it was about a sworn peace officer who used excessive force to deliver his own brand of justice. In fact, Sheriff Clarke is warning his community that it's impossible for police to rescue all the citizens from violent criminals, as Clint Eastwood manages to do in the film series, and that it's their responsibility to learn how to defend themselves.
There's a lot of irresponsibility in Milwaukee County, but it's not coming from Sheriff Clarke.
Update: Fixed the headline — it's Milwaukee County, not Milwaukee Country.
Update II: I messed up the video code when I added the first update. It's now fixed.
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I only have 2 blocks to finish & then my 6 sets will be done. I should be mailing them out this week-end! Looking forward to the swap! Getting close.
Blocks are inthe mail really hope you get them in time.
I'll keep an eye out...
Another week to go before the deadline. If all blocks are received by the due date, I'll have them back on their way to you on Monday 3/4. Woohoo!
Tracibug, have your received my package?
My blocks have departed the local sorting facility and are on their way ..... hope they don't get stuck in a snowdrift!
Make it a scrappy happy day!
I have received:
This will be a beautiful quilt!!
Guess we need to start praying to the mail guru's for everyone's to get there this week. Sure hope so we need a little more variety than just 5 of us . You did get yours done didn't you Traci?
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The condition of getting sick from eating the same food in the cafeteria all the time due to limited variety. This may occur frequently at universities that offer unlimited meal plans coupled with extremely limited food choices.
I've been eating nothing but pizza for a week because it's the only thing that tastes like real food here, but I think it's given me caf scurvy.
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Movie Review: Frances Ha
No big, overarching statement gets made and no corny conclusions or lessons get learned which is reason enough to watch this quirky film.
Director: Noah Baumbach
Rating: R
Studio: RT Features, Pine District Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions
Stars: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver
In his newest and aeriest film, writer-director Noah Baumbach appears to be as enchanted by Brooklyn and his star Greta Gerwig as Woody Allen was with New York City and his star Diane Keaton in 1979's Manhattan. Frances Ha, filmed in retro black and white and swooning with nostalgia for European and American movies of the '60s and '70s, centers around Gerwig, who also cowrote the film, as an aimless, childlike, pratfall-prone eccentric closing in on 30 but acting like an overly pampered, self-obsessed, super-entitled adolescent.
She doesn't seem to want to be much—except, maybe, a modern dancer—or to do much except hang out with her roomie and bestie whom she sees as "the same person" as she (Mickey Sumner). In between, she pals around with her quasiartsy crowd of cynics and complains about douchey, fedora-wearing poseurs she sees as great dating material (Adam Driver) and loses her moorings when her roommate throws her over for a boyfriend. There's not much forward thrust to the movie. Our hapless heroine moves from one apartment to another and, on a wing and a prayer, takes a trip to Paris. Baumbach's gentle, wry, lovely movie, scored to classic film music by the late Georges Delerue, invites us to worry about how reality keeps bitch-slapping the spoiled but amiable and irrepressible heroine prone to making terrible decisions about her personal life.
No big, overarching statement gets made and no corny conclusions or lessons get learned. The dialogue is almost consistently sharp and funny, and Gerwig has a loopy, gawky grace that might have been at home in the old Warhol factory days. She and the movie around her make for a loose, endearing and accessible 86 minutes.


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Safety and Efficacy of Investigational Anti-Influenza Immune Plasma in Treating Influenza (IRC002)
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Biological: Anti-Influenza Immune Plasma
Behavioral: Standard Care
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Randomized, Open-Label, Phase 2, Multicenter Safety and Exploratory Efficacy Study of Investigational Anti-Influenza Immune Plasma for the Treatment of Influenza (IRC002)
- Time to normalization of respiratory status (defined as room air saturation of oxygen [SaO2] greater than or equal to 93% AND respiratory rate within normal ranges) [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
- Duration of clinical symptoms, fever, intensive care unit (ICU) stay, and hospitalization [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
- Time to resolution of symptoms and fever [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
- Mortality [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
- Acute lung injury [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
- Time to 20% improvement in sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score for participants at least 18 years old and pediatric logistic organ dysfunction (PELOD) score for those younger than 18 years old [ Time Frame: Measured at study completion ]
- Time to 50 millimeters of mercury (mm/Hg) improvement in partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood/fraction of inspired oxygen (PaO2/FiO2) ratio [ Time Frame: Measured at study completion ]
- Incidence and duration of both supplemental oxygen use and mechanical ventilation use [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
- Disposition following initial hospitalization [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
- Birth complications for pregnant women [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
- Adverse events and laboratory abnormalities [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
- Relationship between hemagglutination inhibition assay (HAI) and measures of viral clearance [ Time Frame: Measured at Day 28 ]
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|December 2010
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|November 2015
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|March 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Anti-Influenza Immune Plasma and Standard Care
Participants will receive plasma with high titer anti-influenza A or anti-influenza B antibodies in addition to standard care.
Biological: Anti-Influenza Immune Plasma
2 units of plasma with high titer anti-influenza A or anti-influenza B antibodies at baselineBehavioral: Standard Care
Standard care for hospitalized people with influenza
Active Comparator: Standard Care
Participants will receive standard care.
Behavioral: Standard Care
Standard care for hospitalized people with influenza
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Morbidity and mortality occur despite treatment with current antivirals. Circulating influenza H1N1 and H3N2 isolates are highly resistant to amantadine and rimantadine, whereas previous seasonal H1N1 isolates were highly resistant to oseltamivir. So there is concern that circulating influenza A/H1N1 2009 virus may also acquire oseltamivir resistance.
This randomized, open-label, multicenter phase 2 trial will assess the safety, efficacy, and pharmacokinetics (PK) of anti-influenza plasma in subjects with influenza. Hospitalized subjects with influenza at risk for severe disease (as defined in the inclusion criteria) will be eligible for study participation. This study will enroll adults, children and pregnant women.
Up to 40 sites in the United States will participate in this protocol. One hundred eligible subjects will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive either 2 units (or pediatric equivalent) of anti-influenza immune plasma on Study Day 0 in addition to standard care or standard care alone (50 subjects receiving standard care alone; 50 subjects receiving anti-influenza immune plasma and standard care).
Subjects will be assessed on Study Day 0 (pre-dose), 30 minutes post-dose (plasma arm only), and on Study Days 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, and 28. All subjects will undergo a series of efficacy, safety, and PK (HAI) assessments during the study. Blood samples will be collected at each time point (except Day 1). Nasal and oropharyngeal swabs for influenza PCR will be obtained on Days 0,1,2,4 and 7.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of influenza A or B prior to enrollment
- Hospitalization for signs and symptoms of influenza (decision for hospitalization will be up to the individual treating clinician).
- Abnormal respiratory status, defined as room air saturation of oxygen (SaO2) less than 93% or tachypnea (respiratory rate above normal)
- Agree to the storage of specimens and data
- ABO compatible plasma available on site or available within 24 hours after randomization with activity against locally circulating strains of influenza
Exclusion Criteria:
- Receipt of non-licensed treatment for influenza within the last 2 weeks (or plans to receive any time during the study). This does not include licensed drugs at nonapproved doses, off-label indications, or drugs available under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).
- Symptoms or signs of the acute influenza-like illness have occurred for more than 7 days prior to enrollment.
- History of severe allergic reaction to blood products (as judged by the investigator).
- Medical conditions for which receipt of 500 mL volume (or 8 mL/kg for pediatric patients) may be dangerous to the subject (e.g. decompensated congestive heart failure [CHF], etc.)
- Clinical suspicion that etiology of illness is primarily bacterial
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01052480
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|Study Chair:
|John Beigel, MD
|Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID, NIH
|Study Chair:
|Richard Davey, MD
|Laboratory of Immunoregulation, NIAID, NIH
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01052480 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
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|Study First Received:
|January 16, 2010
|Last Updated:
|August 12, 2016
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Anti-Influenza Immune Plasma
Emerging Infectious Disease
Swine Flu
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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Orthomyxoviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Respiratory Tract Infections
Respiratory Tract Diseases
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These are things that I made for my new grandbaby that is due in August.
They were really fun to embroider on my Babylock Emore.
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These are things that I made for my new grandbaby that is due in August.
They were really fun to embroider on my Babylock Emore.
precious......love the burp cloths.......love it all actually.......great work
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You haven't just made cute things, you've made memories. I love all you have done, they are so cute. I've done similar when my great niece was a baby...now she is about to head off to kindergarten and will have outfits and smocked dresses to build more memories. Have fun with all you make for that precious baby.
Wow.. How nice everything is. Finished like a pro.
"Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern ... It will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that ...one stitch at a time, taken patiently."
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SANTA CLARA -- Safety Donte Whitner has printed up 125 T-shirts with the term "#LegalHitner" for his fans. At $28 each, he'll need to sell a slew more to cover the $21,000 fine he drew Tuesday, a result of his illegal hit that broke up a potential touchdown catch in the 49ers' win last Thursday at St. Louis.
Whitner planned to immediately appeal the career-high fine, and he twice noted how "the league is changing" in regard to legal hits.
"If the intent isn't there, I don't know what we can do as players. Maybe we should put flags on and pull those off," Whitner said. "Maybe fans will like that. Maybe not."
Linebacker Ahmad Brooks expressed disbelief over the fine and echoed Whitner's concerns about the NFL's direction.
"Oh, it's definitely changing, and all for the offense," Brooks said. "Defense has no regulations in our favor, and it's messed up, especially on the defensive line. Ian Williams got chopped and is out for the year (with a broken ankle)."
After Whitner dislodged a potential touchdown pass from Chris Givens in the end zone, referee Jeff Triplette announced that Whitner had hit a defenseless receiver. A 15-yard penalty was enforced, and the Rams promptly scored their only touchdown on the ensuing snap.
"Still in my heart, it's legal and I can't change the way I play," Whitner said. "I was going to the midsection where the ball is with my shoulder. You can actually see me turn and lay off the hit. If I ran through him, I could see it."
A month earlier, the Green Bay Packers' Clay Matthews clothes-lined Colin Kaepernick with a late hit and drew a $15,000 fine. Brooks got fined $12,750 for hitting Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. A league spokesman said he couldn't immediately confirm Whitner's fine.
"To see $21,000, you'd think I knocked the guy out. But I didn't," Whitner said. " ... I don't know what Clay Matthews was fined, but I know (my) intent was not there."
Whitner claimed his coaches and even Givens told him after the game it was a legal, "good hit." He added that he is a first-time offender for such an unnecessary-roughness fine.
"(Givens) came over while I was doing an interview and said, 'Good hit.' He said it was legal," Whitner said. "If the guy who was hit thought it was legal, then I don't know what else to do."
Whitner suggested that the league use instant replay to verify such calls against defenders. In the 49ers' previous game, Whitner drew an unnecessary roughness penalty for his first-snap tackle of Ahmad Bradshaw. The NFL did not fine him for that play.
The other vacant slot reportedly will be filled by former Cardinals quarterback John Skelton, a source told the Sacramento Bee. Skelton worked out for the 49ers on Sept. 3, and he auditioned Tuesday with the Tennessee Titans, according to The Tennessean.
Daniels, a seventh-round pick out of South Florida, was not active for any game. Marecic, a former Stanford star under coach Jim Harbaugh, was signed two weeks ago but did not play in either game since then.
Cunningham was a 2010 second-round draft pick by the Patriots, who released him at the end of this year's training camp. He served a four-game suspension late last season for violating the league's policy on performance-enhancing substances, reportedly testing positive for Adderall. Cunningham started 11 games as rookie and has 31/2 sacks through 36 career games.
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It was beautiful though with millions of insects creating a deafening chorus. We arrived in Collins and opted for Peggy's Diner. This was a true American highway caf� and full to the brim. We had a suitably huge sandwich and fries with iced tea and coke. We had only covered 12 miles but as we have 4 more days to reach St Louis we have calculated that it only requires 40 miles a day.
We have certainly found real America over the last few weeks and it has opened up a real treasure chest. Every stop introduces us to a new character and today was no different. As we cycled through a very small village we were questioned by a friendly guy with long hair and a longer beard. We had to turn around and go and find out more. He turned out to be living on a local farm in a kibbutz style community. Their organisation had groups all over the world, one of them in Honiton, Devon. His old buddy, 72 year old Gary was also living on the farm. They were renovating a restaurant which was extraordinary inside. Made entirely from local wood it was almost built around the trees that grew there. Next door they had a furniture shop with some stunning chairs and tables. The fresh produce which they grew on the farm was soon being piled into a bag for us to take with us. Gary was a keen cyclist and very interested in our bikes, especially keen to have some of our sophisticated gear to pimp out his $4 junkyard bike. We had to let him down gently, even though he offered a tractor as a swap.
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The detour was well worth it however. We arrived at a beautiful lake called Lake Pomme deTerre. We have enjoyed another heavenly evening watching eagles, squirrels and geese. The vegetables supplied by Qashad made a spicy ratatouille and we are ready for another day taking on the hills of Missouri.
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The bees are flying today (And bringing pollen in! It's mid February in northern Utah!), so I took the opportunity to lift the lid of both my hives and peek inside.
I was dismayed to find that the IC of one hive had a lot of mildew on it, damp and warped. Obviously, ventilation is an issue. To make matters worse, at the front end of the hive, the moisture had dripped down onto the ends of the top bars of the frames, and they have some mildew on them.
The box on the top (the one with the mildew on the frames) is a honey super. Obviously, this is a box I want to use and harvest from in the future. Hopefully the mildew is just on the ends of the top bars, but assuming the worst, how should I clean the frames off before I can extract from them?


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THE BIG MUDDY: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina. Christopher Morris. xiv + 300 pp. Oxford University Press, 2012. $35.
As I write this review, images of Hurricane Sandy fill the news media. My mother's hometown, Staten Island, was devastated by stormwater surge. The streets where she once played are now soaked in a toxic muck deposited by floodwaters. Hardened fortifications built to separate land from water have failed. And in that failure's wake, we learn of children swept from their mothers by the water's surge, an elderly woman who drowned in her daughter's arms, and houses knocked off their foundations by the force of the water.
These stories haunt a nation that still remembers Hurricane Katrina, during which a massive infrastructure of levees built to separate land from water failed, leaving thousands of the most vulnerable stranded by rising waters and bureaucratic incompetence. Katrina was then only the latest in a long series of floods in the Mississippi River basin, and it's unlikely to be the last. Each time the Mississippi sweeps over the levees, another wave of politicians lays blame on past decisions and promises to fix the problem. In The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples, from Hernando de Soto to Hurricane Katrina, environmental historian Christopher Morris offers a valuable corrective to those who would tell simple stories about who is responsible for these disasters. Problems in the basin, Morris argues, developed not just because of inadequate scientific models or poor engineering. They have deeper roots: namely, a belief that people can and should separate water from land.
Morris's core argument in The Big Muddy is that we have denied the Mississippi's history, and in so doing we have made it impossible to restore resiliency to a degraded river system. History matters, in other words. Over hundreds of years, he writes, Europeans and their American descendants in the Mississippi River basin "dried one of the world's greatest natural wetlands. They did so by first imagining the valley as a dry place, and then by technologically separating land and water." To grow the most profitable commodities, the fertile land of the basin had to be dried. To gain control of new political territories, the annual floodwaters had to be engineered into obedience.
Relying on levees to protect us from rising waters is a bad strategy, not just because levees are expensive and often fail. More importantly, levees let us forget the river's past as a place where floods created the richness that we now try to capitalize on: "The land has been cleared, dried, and planted so that people can take advantage of the rich soil," Morris writes, "and yet clearing, drying, and planting has deeply disrupted the system that created and maintained the land in the first place."
Morris sets out to help us remember the "forgotten past when land and water freely mixed." His first chapters describe the intertwined ecological and human histories of the Mississippi valley before the arrival of Europeans. American Indian cultures thrived in the basin, for they were able to move with the floods and take advantage of the wetlands' ecological riches. Huge ruins—earthen structures larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza—testify to their ability to use the basin's resources.
European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the shifting Mississippi River. Although American Indians were able to adapt to the flooding, Europeans saw it as something messy, troublesome and inconvenient, a natural chaos that needed to be either avoided or engineered away. Chapters 3 and 4 of The Big Muddy examine the French and their efforts to farm the valley, whereas chapter 5 explores the Spanish governance of the valley. Chapters 6 through 8 illustrate the ways that drying the valley for agriculture has influenced our current landscapes. Morris describes how cotton planters created the political pressure for a levee system—and a social system of racial inequity—that haunt us today. The giant levees required an army of bureaucrats, experts, engineers and politicians to fund and design, and an army of laborers to build and maintain. Those laborers were predominantly African American. As early as the 1700s, plantation owners forced slaves to build levees. And in the wake of the Civil War, Morris notes, as part of a plan by General Nathaniel P. Banks for "'compulsory' free labor," "many of the 700,000 former slaves in the lower Mississippi Valley found themselves once again planting cotton, cutting sugarcane, and building levees."
To design levee systems, government officials called on the expertise of scientists and engineers, and in Chapter 8, "Engineering the River of Empire," Morris shows how contested their understandings of natural complexity were. Hydrographers and hydrologists approached flood control from very different scientific perspectives. Hydrographers like Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, likened the lower Mississippi River to an enormous reservoir whose borders could be hardened and protected. Hydrologists, however, believed that "banks and natural levees were not barriers between water and land . . . but a kind of middle zone between the two, partly solid, partly liquid, hard yet porous, and always shifting." Damaging floods, these hydrologists believed, were caused by deforestation and agriculture in the river's upper reaches, which suggested that levees would offer less protection than would land-use reform. Hydrographers won the debate over flood control, and a massive effort to build and maintain levee systems resulted.
Chapters 9 and 10 explore the leaks that began to appear in engineered river systems as early as the late 1800s. Levees sprang literal leaks, and the ideologies of engineering control that propped up the physical infrastructure began to sag as well. Yet even when data from actual floods refuted hydrographers' models and predictions, the bureaucracy of river-control planning made it hard to change course. The book ends with a chapter on the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, yet—surprisingly—Morris offers some evidence that new ways of living and farming in the valley are emerging that take advantage of its "natural abundance and regenerative capacity." The aquaculture that he describes approvingly is hardly environmentally friendly, but at least it does not try to make a wet land dry.
The Big Muddy focuses on the lower Mississippi River valley, south of Memphis, Tennessee. Neither the book's title nor its introduction makes it clear that this is not an environmental history of the entire river. The focus on the lower basin means that histories are sometimes disconnected from their larger ecological context. For example, the migratory birds that fly briefly across the pages of this book are seen within only a fraction of their full flyway's complexity; the sediments that lead to eutrophication in the Gulf of Mexico are disconnected from agricultural and urban changes occurring north of Memphis. These caveats aside, The Big Muddy makes a powerful argument that nature is trying to tell us "something about the way we understand the natural environment and our place within it." As Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy suggest, we ignore these stories at our peril.
Nancy Langston is an environmental historian and the King Carl XVI Gustaf Professor of Environmental Science at Umeå University's Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. Her current research can be found at sustaininglakesuperior.com. Her most recent book is Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES (Yale University Press, 2010).
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We should organize a time to all be in our suits at C4 so we can get a group TDH in cosutme picture. I for one only want to wear my costume for one day... MAYBE 2 if I feel up to it but thats it. I expect the same from others so we should pick a time or day and gather up for a photo opp. :)
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(Dec. 3, 2008)--The Victory in Praise (V.I.P.) Gospel Choir at UTSA will share with San Antonio its ministry in the second annual "Gospel Fest at UTSA." The performance is 6 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 6 in the Arts Building Recital Hall on the 1604 Campus. Admission is $7, $5 for students with ID. Tickets are available at the University Center ticket office on the 1604 Campus.
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The event will feature a women's chorus giving tribute to the pioneers of gospel music, along with the melodic voices of the Texas State University Gospel Choir -- GEA, The Anointed Vessels of Praise and Perfect Praise of Houston.
V.I.P. was founded in 2006 with the goals of inspiring the UTSA community through gospel music and fostering a spiritual link between UTSA and the community. In the two years since its founding, the choir has performed at UTSA, throughout San Antonio and across Texas.
V.I.P. began with just over 20 voices and a two-piece band. Today, the student group is one of the largest organizations at UTSA with more than 70 members and a five-piece band representing an array of religious denominations, ethnicitities and genders. With such a diverse group of student voices, the choir can present a broad range of song selections from contemporary Christian, Christian rock, gospel rap and gospel music.
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This was my mother's original recipe, but through the years I've changed is slightly. Now my four daughters enjoy making this family favorite. Before we retired, we raised hogs on a farm in Pennsylvania. I cooked a pork dish at least once a week then, and I still do today.
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- 6 pork chops (1/2 inch thick)
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 3 cups cubed day-old bread
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/4 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese, optional
- In a large skillet, brown pork chops in oil. Place in an ungreased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Combine bread cubes, soup, celery, onion, garlic, egg, poultry seasoning and pepper; spread over pork chops. Bake uncovered at 350° for 45-55 minutes. If desired, sprinkle with cheese and return to the oven for 5 minutes or until melted. Yield: 6 servings.
Originally published as Pork Chops with Stuffing in Reminisce January/February 1995, p53
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Reactive-banana is a library for Functional Reactive Programming (FRP).
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Current development focuses on dynamic event switching. Examples from game programming and computer music are planned.
- 24 October 2011: reactive-banana 0.4.3.0 released.
- 26 September 2011: Added some more examples, reactive-banana 0.4.2.0 released.
- 14 July 2011: Implemented many examples, reactive-banana 0.4.1.0 released.
- 22 June 2011: reactive-banana 0.3.0.0 released
- 28 April 2011: reactive-banana 0.2.0.0 released
3 Releases and Resources
- Download on Hackage
- reactive-banana - the FRP library itself
- reactive-banana-wx - binding to the wxHaskell GUI library
- Documentation
- Feedback and Contact
- Maintainer: Heinrich Apfelmus <apfelmus at quantentunnel de>
- Issue Tracker
- Ask a question on StackOverflow
- Source code on github
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