'Aromaaz International' manufactures and supplies finest ranges of essential oils, floral waters and more online. All the products that the company offers are processed in an adequate environment under the surveillance of experts by following the guidelines of USFDA. The Khus (Vetiver) Hydrosol is one such product known for its high purity, exact composition, and a long shelf life.
Vetiver, also known as Khus- Khus, is a perennial grass that has a height of about 1.5 meters. It belongs to the Poaceae family and is native to India. The leaves of this grass are hard and erect. This grass is widely cultivated in the regions having tropical climate. It bears brownish- purple flowers having a bronze tinge. The scent of this grass can be identified as woody, sweet, smoky, earthy and balmy.
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• Khus (Vetiver) Hydrosol treats inflammations in nervous and circulatory system.
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Noted Armenian researcher Liz Chater recently published a new book, Armenian Graves, Inscriptions and Memorials in India, DACCA, 1722–1977. It has more than 160 color photographs of the remaining graves at the Armenian Church Dhaka (Dacca, previously in Bengal but now in Bangladesh). The book also includes more than 25 individual family tree charts that relate directly to the Armenians buried in Dhaka. The grave inscriptions are cross-referenced with the original Armenian Church death register entries, with additional information from the registers where possible. All transcriptions and register entries written in Armenian have been translated into English. Chater is passoniate about Armenian genealogy and raising awareness of Armenians in India and hopes that her efforts will help keep the history of this community alive.
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Upon reading a post at the Pixar Planet forums and reading that Pixar's next short film is called Lifted and is about an alien, I decided to research into it to see if I could find out any more credible information to support the existance of this short film.
Animated Short. A bumbling young alien student from a distant world tests the patience of an increasingly weary instructor as he attempts a first-time abduction of a innocently slumbering farmer in Lifted, the comical latest short film from Pixar Animation Studios.
Pixar Animation Studios director Gary Rydstrom hosts a rare theatrical screening of four acclaimed Pixar shorts—culminating in a "makingof" presentation and sneak peek of Lifted, Rydstrom's first animated short film for the studio. Rydstrom, a seven-time Academy Awardwinning sound editor and mixer, will follow the screenings with a seminar providing insight into his work and discuss his recent transition from sound designer to animation film director.
Landmark's Century Centre Cinema 2828 N. Clark St.
This information was confirmed also here.
So there you have it everyone. Pixar's next short film is called Lifted and will be screening next month. How exciting!
I'm glad I've got your site to warn me if any LA screenings get scheduled. In the past, I've always heard about them about a week too late.
Only one month until Pixar day at the Screenwriting Expo! I'm so stoked. Got my tickets to that nice and early, also thanks to you….
So is this the rumored sci-fi project PIXAR has been working on and not W.A.L.-E ?
Gary Rydstrom as director. It fits nicely. He's always been a sound designer for PIXAR and now we finally get to see him move up the ranks.
Wowie! Pixar finally decided to move to the extraterrestrial side of the universe.
Heheh — it sounds (and looks) promising. Keep us updated….
Dave — Awesome! Try and get some photos if you can.
Bill — Sounds like it. I have lots of faith in Gary.
While some people have always been speculative about the sucess of PIXAR films, I think it's pretty easy to say that PIXAR has never gotten worse when it comes to their shorts. Each and every successor of the last film has always been regarded as a success!!
Luxo Jr. I love how you made the new "Upcoming Pixar" logos I especially like the Ratatouille one.
Now the Lifted video is availible to watch online for thoose of you who havent seen it yet.


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EVENT RESCHEDULED TO SUNDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 2022. Originally Saturday 15th August 2071. All original tickets are still valid!
For a limited time only, the iconic Buell Theatre in Denver, Colorado is honored to present My Fair Lady on Sunday 15th August 2021! This incredible performance will delight fans of live theatre old and new thanks to the 5-star talent making up the cast. Can you imagine being one of the first to enter the venue and greet My Fair Lady when they take the stage?! Your friends will be jealous, so why not bring them along! Critics are already predicting that My Fair Lady will be the ultimate production to hit Denver in 2021, and audiences agree. So if you don't want to miss out on the second to none show, make sure you order your tickets to see My Fair Lady live on Sunday 15th August 2021 while supplies last!
Director Bartlett Sher's last spectacular revival at this address was The King and I, which is preparing to move to the London Palladium. He is now helming a Rolls Royce production of My Fair Lady, in Broadway's latest revival of the title since the original production. It positively glows with class, shimmering with confidence and teeming with delight. But Sher also keeps the performance's pertinent astringency, as it shows how Professor Henry Higgins – a stubborn mule of a confirmed bachelor linguist who treats Eliza Doolittle as little more than a project to be manipulated and re-trained – is wrong-footed when she finally melts his own surprised heart. British actor Harry Hadden-Paton brings a nicely youthful yet appropriately flummoxed air to the role, and in what appears to be his first musical, carries the songs with true conviction, too. And what better venue than the breathtaking Buell Theatre in Denver to host this eagerly anticipated musical?!


The Future of Life Institute has awarded a total of $7 million in grants to 37 research teams that are studying ways to keep artificial intelligence safe. Groups will focus on computer science, economics, law, policy and other areas that relate to AI and will consider the advantages and disadvantages of AI.
The funds for the grants game from Elon Musk and the Open Philanthropy Institute. The Future of Life Institute describes itself as "a volunteer-run research and outreach organization working to mitigate existential risks facing humanity." It is "currently focusing on potential risks from the development of human-level artificial intelligence."


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Q: Amazon CloudSearch accented words I have an index with documents with accented words.
For example this document in Portuguese:
title => 'Ponte metálica'

If i search "metálica" it matches, so no problem.
But usually people search without accents, so it's very usual to search just for "metalica" (note the "a" without accent "á").
But it's not returning any results. I tested it in the AWS console and via endpoint /search. Im using the 2013 API.
I think the Synonyms can't solve this issue since they aren't full words

A: It looks like you posted the same question in AWS forums and got a reply:

The CloudSearch Portuguese stemmer does not remove accents, so á won't match a, and it does not currently have an option to remove them.
Two work-arounds I can think of:

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*Remove accents before uploading. (possibly to a different field)

*Use a copy field, and the "mulitiple languages" analysis mode. This won't stem words by Portuguese rules, unfortunately, but it does remove accents!

I like the idea of removing the accent before upload, but I also have two other ideas:

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*Use fuzzy matching, so that you can tolerate one or maybe two "wrong" characters. Might have performance drawback to consider.

*Provide an auto-complete/suggestor solution similar to a "did you mean?" type of experience.
I found this Stack Overflow thread from around 2014 that discusses these two possibilities, still using CloudSearch: Implementing "Did you mean?" using Amazon CloudSearch
About the fuzzy matching operator:

You can also perform fuzzy searches with the simple query parser. To perform a fuzzy search, append the ~ operator and a value that indicates how much terms can differ from the user query string and still be considered a match. For example, the specifying planit~1 searches for the term planit and allows matches to differ by up to one character, which means the results will include hits for planet.

And about auto-complete, with fuzzy matching option:

When you request suggestions, Amazon CloudSearch finds all of the documents whose values in the suggester field start with the specified query string—the beginning of the field must match the query string to be considered a match. The return data includes the field value and document ID for each match. You can configure suggesters to find matches for the exact query string, or to perform approximate string matching (fuzzy matching) to correct for typographical errors and misspellings.

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Wood issued for 45th show
A wooden nickel has been prepared by California's Delta Coin Club to mark the 45th annual coin show that will be held Oct. 17-18 in Stockton, Calif.
The show will be held at the Eagles hall in that city.
The obverse of the wood provides the name of the club and the show information while the reverse has a very large "45th" that dominates the design and gets the message across of what is being celebrated.
Examples of the wood were mailed in late August to members of the club with the monthly newsletter.
No price was assigned to the new issue, perhaps because the club might run out at the show.
However, the club can be reached at P.O. Box 216, Victor, CA 95253-0216. Routinely clubs ask $1 plus a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Club issues show wood
A wooden nickel has been issued by the Charleston, W.Va., Coin Club for its annual coin show held Nov. 2-3.
By NMN Nov 13, 2013
Cougar on new wood issue
A cougar dominates one side of a wooden nickel issued by the Fishbowl Wooden Nickel Coin Club for its annual coin show Aug. 1.
Flood remembered on show wood
The South Hills Coin Club of Pennsylvania has issued a wooden nickel to mark its 51st Anniversary Coin Show Feb. 5-6.
By NMN Feb 2, 2011
New wood marks coin show
A wooden nickel with a traditional Indian Head design on the obverse has been created by the Charleston, W.Va., Coin Club to mark its November coin show.
By NMN Oct 12, 2009
Colored woods celebrate show
The Fremont, Neb., Coin Club has issued two wooden nickels to commemorate its 50th Annual Coin Show scheduled for May 30-31.
By NMN Jan 26, 2009
Glendale issues show elongated
The Glendale, Calif., Coin Club has issued an elongated coin to commemorate its annual coin show held Oct. 17 at the Van Nuys Masonic Hall.
Club sells back wood issues
Harrisburg, Pa., Coin Club wooden nickels are being sold by the club for 50 cents each.
By NMN Feb 23, 2010
Wood marks NY club
The Bath, N.Y., Coin Club released a wooden nickel at its spring show to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
By NMN Apr 5, 2010
New wood for next coin show
A wooden nickel has been created by the Gray's Harbor Coin Club of Aberdeen, Wash., to promote its 48th annual show slated for March 6-7, 2010.
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Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (* 12. Oktober 1999 in Ashford, County Wicklow) ist ein irischer Schauspieler und Musiker.

Leben
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo wurde als drittes von vier Kindern des Ehepaars Toni Walsh und Mick Peelo im irischen Ashford geboren. Seine Mutter ist Sopranistin und unterrichtete am DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin. Seine beiden älteren Brüder sind Musiker.

Walsh-Peelo begann im Alter von sieben Jahren ebenfalls eine Gesangsausbildung. Er ist auch Pianist. 2012 trat Walsh-Peelo in der irischen Fernsehsendung The Late Late Toy Show mit einer Interpretation von O Holy Night auf. Später sang er auch im Wexford Opera House. 2016 übernahm er an der Seite von Lucy Boynton die Hauptrolle in John Carneys Musikfilm Sing Street. Von 2017 bis 2020 war er in der Fernsehserie Vikings als Alfred der Große zu sehen.

Filmografie
 2016: Sing Street
 2017–2020: Vikings (Fernsehserie)
 2018: Dave Allen at Peace (Fernsehfilm)
 2020: Here Are the Young Men
 2021: Coda

Auszeichnungen
London Critics' Circle Film Award
 2017: Nominierung als Bester britischer Nachwuchsdarsteller (Sing Street)

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Einzelnachweise

Filmschauspieler
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Author's Note: When I first submitted this piece to ArtBeat, I asked the ArtBeat Team to feature it anonymously. As a first-year student entering this new world of medicine — a world that perhaps had unwritten rules and unspoken codes I didn't yet know about — I was afraid a piece like this would haunt me later down my career. However, I changed my mind after speaking to a wise friend of mine. She told me she believes that for a piece of writing to have accountability and integrity, the writer should be named. There could be no credence if the writer can't even stand behind their own stance. So, here I am, standing behind my stance.
As I walked through the double sliding doors, I tried to inconspicuously smooth out my scrubs for the last time. The nurse at the front desk eyed my bright-orange "Observer" badge and smiled at me, the cool, professional smile of a veteran. "You need a mask," she pointed to a box in the corner, "You must wear it at all times while you're in the OR." I nodded, and quickly grabbed one from the pile.
She led me down the hallway, her steps quick and silent as her black clogs grazed the floor. We arrived at OR 11, where the surgeon I was shadowing for the afternoon, Dr. X, was operating. The surgery started three hours ago, she told me, it's a major surgery and will probably go well into the night. My stomach did a little flip at my luck – a major surgery! I thanked her and tried not to look too ecstatic as I donned on my mask.
I walked into the OR and introduced myself as a first year medical student. The patient was lying at the centre of the room, his body draped in sterile blue. In the harsh surgical light, I could see his chest slowly rising and falling. Dr. X, his fellow Dr. Y, and his resident were all huddled around the patient, their eyes focused and alert. The scrub nurse stood close by, her hands hovering over the instrument table like hawks ready to swoop down onto a prey. The anesthesiologist, surrounded by beeping machines, and circulating nurse, situated by the supply cabinets, both nodded at me from across the room. I took a position by the foot of the patient, and tried to stand still.
This was not my first time in the OR, yet I could not contain my marvel as I watched the surgery proceed. An hour went by; Dr. X passed the scalpel over to his fellow Dr. Y and told him to continue. At first, everything went on as before. While Dr. X watched, Dr. Y delicately moved some tissue out of the way to gain access underneath. The resident held a protractor steadily in each hand, his body perfectly still. Light tapping rang from the instrument table as the scrub nurse switched one clamp for another. Overhead, faint music played from the radio.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Dr. X demanded suddenly. His voice was barely audible behind his surgical mask, yet his words sliced through the room like a hot knife.
"I'm isolating the tissue sir." Replied Dr. Y, his hands were frozen in space.
"No, you're destroying it!" Said Dr. X sharply. I heard him swear. I could feel the entire OR tense up – I tensed up.
The surgery continued, but Dr. X's reprimands didn't stop. For the next four hours, he not only berated Dr. Y's surgical competence, but also questioned whether Dr. Y was deserving of his spot in the fellowship program. I stood there, my feet rooted to the ground and my jaw clenched. I didn't dare to move. Dr. Y either quietly apologized or was silent entirely. I was silent too. The resident, the scrub nurse, the circulating nurse, and the anaesthesiologist: we were all silent. At one point, the resident caught my eye, and raised his eyebrows at me. I raised my eyebrows back at him. Still, I did nothing.
That night, with my scrubs stowed away in my backpack, I walked home in the dark. I thought of just a week earlier, we were asked in class to reflect on our biggest fears for clerkship. I wrote down that I was afraid of feeling powerless within the hierarchical nature of the hospital. I was afraid that I will see a superior's actions cause lapses in patient care, and not be able to speak up. I was afraid that under an environment of learned helplessness, I will become a cynic and forget the reasons that led me to choose to become a doctor in the first place.
I don't know if Dr. X's actions resulted in sub-optimal patient care; maybe you can even argue his actions led to better outcomes for this patient. But I do know that I saw one human being treat another malignantly, and I froze. There I was, choosing to succumb to the hospital hierarchy, and I was not even yet a member. As a first year medical student, I undoubtedly had many shadowing and observership experiences before me. If I were faced with this choice again, would I choose different? Do I dare to choose differently?
I hear from my classmates and my teachers, things are changing. Conflict resolution and teamwork courses are now part of our curriculum. Medical schools are choosing applicants that demonstrate willingness to listen to others. The speeches we hear during orientation week are infused with words like cooperation and humility. Still I wonder, because I believe actions of individuals build the shift in culture. Because in that OR, when faced with such a choice, I chose to do nothing.
One day, I will be a resident, and then a fellow. One day, I will be Dr. Y. Should I just trust that by then, things will be different? Should I just trust that in this future, doctors will treat their healthcare colleagues with respect?
And in the meantime, will I keep holding onto my silence?
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2014-2016 Catalog > Academic Affairs > Foreign Language Requirement Exemption
International Students whose languages are other than English are exempt from Bachelor of Arts foreign language requirements but are subject to TOEFL requirements. Non-international students who enter Dickinson State University as native or near-native speakers of languages other than English, or students with undocumented foreign language proficiency may pursue the following options to secure a waiver, substitution, or record for meeting the requirement:
Provide a transcript for graduation from a non-English speaking High School or College from a country other than the U.S.
Take an approved proficiency exam, such as the NYU 16 point Language Proficiency Test, which certifies proficiency through the 102 or 202 level, as necessary, or a CLEP Foreign Language Exam, which certifies proficiency for up to *12 credit hours.
Enroll in SPAN 102, SPAN 202, GERM 102, or GERM 202, as necessary, and pass with a B or better (pay recording fee for remaining 4 or 12 credits, as necessary).
Enroll in SPAN 321 and pass with a B or better (Requirement waived*).
*Students must still complete the minimum credit hours to graduate. Students pursuing Spanish Majors or Minors ARE required to complete the 16 lower-division credits, and they must pay the recording fee for those credits. Those wishing only to satisfy the foreign language requirement do not have to pay the recording fee.


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One of the fundamental struggles of U.S. conflicts in the post-World War II era continues to be how to utilize the military instrument of national power as a way to influence people and populations in order to achieve national objectives. In the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey specifies that conducting humanitarian assistance is one of the twelve different ways in which the U.S. military achieves national security objectives. Given this support, there is ever increasing reliance on Humanitarian and Civic Assistance (HCA), specifically engineering civic assistance projects (ENCAPs), as a way to shape the operational environment. Given this increased utilization, assessing their effectiveness towards achieving national security objectives becomes paramount. However, an adequate method of assessment does not exist. The development of such a system will increase the value and effectiveness of ENCAPs given their expanded utilization in a fiscally austere environment that threatens to reduce or eliminate their funding.


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Florida sees historic surge in voting by mail, but it has its risks
Article Courtesy of The Tampa Bay Times
By Steve Bousquet
TALLAHASSEE — Florida is on pace to set a new record for voting by mail in 2016, as nearly one of every four voters will make their choices at home, weeks before Election Day.
As Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton duel in a handful of states and plan for two more TV debates, Floridians are voting in numbers never before seen in a statewide election. At least 2.6 million ballots are flooding mailboxes this week, a figure that could nearly double by Nov. 8, when total turnout could approach 9 million.
"We're seeing it grow and grow and grow," said Polk County Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards in Bartow.
At the current pace, more than half of all votes in Florida will be cast before the polls open on Election Day. The pacesetter remains Pinellas County, where a larger share of voters vote by mail than anywhere else in the state.
Linda Tindall, 67, a retiree in Seminole, said she wouldn't think of voting any other way.
"There's no expense to the voter, and no travel problems for the elderly," she said. "You have plenty of time to review the ballot in your own home."
Republicans lead Democrats in mail ballot requests, a trend that would appear to favor Trump in the nation's largest swing state.
But Democrats, citing figures from the state, say an aggressive outreach program has closed the gap with the GOP to fewer than 100,000 mail ballot requests.
Democrats also contend that early voters lean toward the candidate with momentum, and at the moment, Clinton holds a slim lead in Florida polls.
The highly volatile race could take unpredictable swings over the next month, but by then, a lot of people in Florida will have already voted by mail.
County election supervisors promote voting by mail as a convenience, and as a hedge against long lines at polling places on election day.
But there's a downside.
Casting a ballot at home requires voters to take simple steps to prevent fraud, yet a surprising number of them get it wrong. As a result, their ballots are not counted.
In the statewide primary on Aug. 30, several thousand ballots were rejected by county canvassing boards because voters neglected to sign their ballot envelope, or because their signature did not match the one on file.
In Jacksonville's Duval County, a three-member canvassing board rejected 669 ballots because of signature problems, including 515 with mismatched signatures.
That's less than one-half of 1 percent of votes cast in Duval in that election, the highest rejection rate of more than a dozen large and medium-size counties the Times/Herald surveyed.
"There are no letters there, just squiggly lines," said Duval Supervisor of Elections Mike Hogan.
Hogan's theory: Voters scribble their name because "they just want to get it done and they're not careful about it."
It's so prevalent that he hired a handwriting expert to teach canvassing board members how to study penmanship.
On social media and on their websites, counties constantly remind voters to sign the envelopes. But the mistakes continue.
The Florida Democratic Party and Democratic National Committee have filed suit against Florida, challenging the law that rejects ballots with mismatched signatures.
Democrats say those voters deserve a second chance to correct any problem, the same as is given to voters who omit a signature completely.
Those voters may be alerted by the elections office and can "cure" a missing signature by submitting a form by 5 p.m. the day before the election. But voters with mismatched signatures have no recourse.
In the primary, Pinellas County rejected 203 ballots, nearly all of them with signature problems. Hillsborough rejected 333 ballots.
The Miami-Dade canvassing board cast aside 594 primary ballots. Broward rejected 774 votes, more than any other county surveyed, including 725 ballots without a signature, according to records provided by election supervisors.
"Rejection rates for vote-by-mail ballots vary significantly across Florida's counties, underscoring the arbitrary and standardless nature of the statewide process," attorney Mark Herron argued in the Democrats' federal lawsuit.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, a nationwide think tank that studies voting trends, said in a research paper in June that the convenience of voting by mail is offset by the risks.
"Voters are more likely to unwittingly disenfranchise themselves," the report said.
The report urged voters to do their homework, including all signature requirements and the deadlines to return ballots.
Tens of thousands more mail ballots are not tabulated every election because they didn't reach elections offices in time.
Both political parties prefer voting by mail in Florida despite the persistent sloppy paperwork problems.
Party strategists have access to the names of voters who have requested ballots and they often "chase" them, using phone calls and direct mail, to remind them to vote.
"There's a huge advantage," said Steve Schale, a Democratic strategist. "You know who has a ballot and who doesn't."


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Velké plivské jezero (bosensky Veliko plivsko jezero se nachází v centrální části Bosny a Hercegoviny, v blízkosti města Jajce. Vzniklo v mírně zvlněné krajině na řece Plivě. Jeho hladina je ve výšce 424 m n. m. Dlouhé je 3,3 km, široké 400 m, v nejdelší části až 700 m, hluboké je 36 m. Jezero získalo svojí současnou podobu výstavbou malé vodní elektrárny u Jajce, která využila místního vyššího spádu vody.

Po severním břehu jezera je vedena silnice, po jižním břehu byla vedena úzkorozchodná železnice Bosenské dráhy, zrušená v 70. letech 20. století.

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Q: Eclipse Nsight: Insisting synchronization error I'm getting really often the following message from Eclipse Nsight when I try to compile my code on a remote target system (in particular, a Jetson TK1):

I guess it happened because the remote system crashed in the middle of synchronization and I had to restart it. Is there a way to synchronize the two projects? So far I've been resolving the issue by creating a new project and copying the source files...

A: Nsight uses Git to synchronize changes between systems (this way it avoids overwriting the changes by mistake).
What most likely happened is that you now have inconsistent Git repositories. Do you need your remote copy? The easiest way would be to simply delete remote copy and then do a sync to create a complete copy. Note that Nsight keeps some synchronization state in-memory so you may need to restart the IDE before this "first sync"
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Don Sebastián, rey de Portugal (título original en francés, Dom Sébastien, Roi de Portugal) es una grand opéra en cinco actos con música de Gaetano Donizetti y libreto en francés de Eugène Scribe, basado en la obra de Paul Foucher Don Sébastien de Portugal (1838), una ficción histórica sobre el rey Sebastián de Portugal (1554-1578) y su malhadada expedición de 1578 a lo que hoy es Marruecos.  Se estrenó el 13 de noviembre de 1843 en la Salle Le Peletier de la Ópera de París. Esta fue la última ópera que Donizetti terminó antes de enloquecer como resultado de la sífilis.

En la época, Donizetti estaba intentando componer una ópera competitiva con óperas históricas similares por Daniel Auber, Fromental Halévy y Giacomo Meyerbeer. Una descripción crítica de la naturaleza de Dom Sébastien es "un funeral en cinco actos". Por contraste, Winton Dean ha descrito la principal característica de la ópera como "honestidad dramática intransigente" en sus comentarios en facetas inusualmente dramáticas de la obra. Mary Ann Smart ha preparado una edición crítica de la ópera en francés, que incluye apéndices con variates y añadidos que Donizetti hizo para una producción en alemán en Viena en 1845.

Esta ópera rara vez se representa en la actualidad; en las estadísticas de Operabase aparece con sólo 4 representaciones en el período 2005-2010. Está grabado en francés, pero también en italiano.

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Ashbrook, William, Donizetti and His Operas, Cambridge University Press, 1982, ISBN 052123526X   ISBN 0-521-23526-X
 Donizetti, Gaetano; Smart, Mary Ann, editor. (2005). Dom Sébastien, Roi de Portugal. Opéra in five acts by Eugéne Scribe (reducción para voz y piano basada en la edición crítica de la partitura orquestal). Milán: Ricordi. ISBN 9788875927516.
Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, Nueva York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. ISBN 0-140-29312-4
Osborne, Charles, The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, Portland, Oregón: Amadeus Press, 1994  ISBN 0931340713
Weinstock, Herbert, Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Nueva York: Pantheon Books, 1963. ISBN 63-13703

Enlaces externos

 Discografía y libreto (en italiano) en kareol.es
Discografía en operadis (en inglés)
 en el diccionario de ópera (en italiano)
Dom Sébastien de Portugal en operone.de (en alemán)
 "Donizetti and Paris" , discurso de Roger Parker sobre "Dom Sébastien" en Gresham College, 16 de abril de 2007 (disponible para bajar como archivo de vídeo o audio)

Óperas basadas en piezas de teatro
Óperas de 1843
Óperas de Gaetano Donizetti
Óperas en francés
Óperas estrenadas en París


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Agnes Ayres
Film: South side of the 6500 block of Hollywood Boulevard
Born Agnes Hinkle on Aug. 13, 1896 in Carbondale, Ill.
Died Dec. 25, 1940 of cerebral hemorrhage in St. Vincent's Medical Center, CA
Agnes Ayres rose to screen fame when she was cast as Lady Diana Mayo opposite Rudolph Valentino in "The Sheik."
Ayres also appeared in "Son of the Sheik," which was Valentino's last picture. Other pictures in which she appeared included "Clarence," Affairs of Anatole" and "Forbidden Fruit."
She retired from the screen in 1927 a woman of wealth, but in the stock market debacle of 1929 she lost her fortune.
She decided that she would again try a role in motion pictures. Because she had never been in "talkies," she went to New York and entered stage work to gain experience.
In 1936 she returned to Hollywood — after a series of uncredited bit roles she set herself up in a small real estate business and began her second career.
— Los Angeles Times Dec. 26, 1940
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Nigerian Child Brides As Young As 10 Years Old Sold To Old Men Via Facebook
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Child brides from Nigeria are being advertised and sold on Facebook, according to a report published Thursday by The Daily Beast.
Girls as young as 10 years old, known culturally as "money women" or "money wives," are sold to much older men in exchange for money or traded goods. While the tradition of child brides far predates the era of social media, some argue that Facebook has made the marketing of these young women very easy and widespread.
The Daily Beast examined this practice and its prevalence in the Becheve community of Nigeria, where the number of brides a man has reflects his wealth and status.
"The practice is meant to boost the status of the men in Becheve community," Magnus Ejikang, a chief in Ogbakoko, told The Daily Beast. "The more brides you have, the more respect you gain in the community."
TOPSHOT – Released Nigerian school girls who were kidnapped from their school in Dapchi, in the northeastern state of Yobe, wait to meet the Nigerian president at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on March 23, 2018. The Nigerian president promised on March 23, 2018 to free the remaining school girls still held by the Islamist militants Boko Haram, as he prepared to meet the other released Dapchi students. A total of 104 of the 110 students seized from the school in Dapchi on February 19 were released on March 21, 2018. [AFP PHOTO/PHILIP OJISUA/Getty Images]
The article emphasizes the fact that this practice, and Facebooks role in it, is not limited to just Nigeria, but spans across Africa, with one recent case involving a young girl from South Sudan. The girls father allegedly discussed the sale of his daughter with five separate bidders, some of which were reportedly senior officials in the South Sudanese government.
The girl was reportedly sold by her father to one of the Facebook bidders for 530 cows, three Land Cruiser V8 cars and $10,000. Facebook did take action to remove the post advertising the girl, but by that time, the girl had already been sold and made the 10th wife of Kok Alat, a wealthy South Sudanese businessman. (RELATED: The Reality Of Sex Trafficking At The US-Mexico Border)
A representative from Facebook reportedly told the Daily Mail in a statement that, "any form of human trafficking — whether posts, pages, ads or groups — is not allowed on Facebook and we remove this content whenever we identify it."
"Were always improving the methods we use to identify content that breaks our policies, including doubling our safety and security team to more than 30,000 and investing in technology," the representative continued.
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Dontnod's Vampyr is an interesting game with original ideas and great atmosphere, but with an execution that leaves room for improvements.
A new month begins and this only means one thing: time to look at the list of upcoming games to make sure you don't miss any of them!
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During this year's Inside Xbox event in London (XO19), Obsidian Entertainment announced their next project with a debut trailer. It's called Grounded, and it's a survival game where you've been shrunk to the size of a bug.
Grounded is a crafting-survival game with a unique twist – everyone has been shrunk to the size of an ant, and must navigate the dangerous terrain of a large, hand-crafted suburban backyard. Players can build bases, craft tools and weapons, and work alongside peaceful insects, while searching for resources and food and battling the not-so-peaceful bugs and arachnids.
Grounded isn't as massively multiplayer as something like ARK: Survival Evolved, but it will support online co-op for up to four players.
"Created by a small development team, one of many working on new projects in the studio, Grounded is a true passion project," writes Mikey Dowling, director of communications, Obsidian. "This title has given the team the creative outlet to bring their years of developing highly regarded games to bear on the survival genre. RPGs like The Outer Worlds will always be in Obsidian's DNA, but from time to time we want to stretch our creative muscles and try things that might be a little different."
Grounded is coming Spring 2020 as an Early Access game on PC (Microsoft Store, Steam) as well as Xbox One through Xbox Game Preview. Grounded will be the first Xbox Game Preview game available for Xbox Game Pass subscribers.
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Federalist Tycoon
The Life and Times of Israel Thorndike
Timothy H. Kistner
Born poor in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1755, the young Israel Thorndike was a fisherman and ship owner who made a small fortune as a Revolutionary War privateer. Later he became a wealthy merchant, a delegate to the Massachusetts Ratification Convention and a director of the National Bank in Boston. A longtime Federalist legislator, he was highly regarded within the radical circles that contemplated secession during the Jefferson administration and the War of 1812. After the war, Thorndike concluded his multifaceted career as the leading venture capitalist financing the early Industrial Revolution. Sadly, his story is little known. Federalist Tycoon pulls Thorndike's life and career from the shadows and fully examines his impact on American economic development. « less more »
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Subjects: History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Biography & Autobiography / Historical, History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History / Military / United States, History / Social History, Business & Economics / U.S. Economy, History / Military / Ancient Warfare, History / Intellectual History
Timothy H. Kistner is an attorney in Boston where he lives with his wife, Alex. A graduate of Tufts University and Boston University School of Law, he previously served in the Obama administration at the Department of Homeland Security.
Chapter 2: Revolution and Riches, 1775–1792
Chapter 4: War Again, 1802–1807
Chapter 6: I Would Spend All My Wealth, 1812–-1815
Chapter 8: Final Years of an Industrialist, 1821–1832
In this well researched and finely written biography, Kistner deconstructs the image of Israel Thorndike as the Scrooge-like tight fisted Yankee wedded to Federalist ideology. Instead, we meet a person who rises from nothing to become one of the nation's wealthiest men. Along the way he makes his share of enemies and mistakes but through the prism of Thorndike's extraordinary life we get a clear view of the fierce battles that shaped the economy and politics of American Republic in its early days while at the same time catching a glimpse into the family social life of New England's elite.
— William M. Fowler, Jr., Distinguished Professor of History, Northeastern University
With brisk pacing and a fine sense of the broader American narrative, Kistner gives us a full and rich biography of a man who was arguably the most successful entrepreneur in early New England. Kistner casts Israel Thorndike as a peerless businessman and a significant Federalist politician, with a range of ventures that included privateering, an extensive overseas trade network, internal improvements, and textile manufacturing.
— Benjamin L. Carp, Daniel M. Lyons Professor of American History, Brooklyn College, CUNY
In this detailed biography of Massachusetts entrepreneur Israel Thorndike, Timothy H. Kistner. . . .expertly and judiciously fills in the missing details based on careful research. . . .[The book] provides the general reader with an informative, enjoyable narrative account of several critical business and political events of the period.
— New England Quarterly
Born poor in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1755, the young Israel Thorndike was a fisherman and ship owner who made a small fortune as a Revolutionary War privateer. Later he became a wealthy merchant, a delegate to the Massachusetts Ratification Convention and a director of the National Bank in Boston. A longtime Federalist legislator, he was highly regarded within the radical circles that contemplated secession during the Jefferson administration and the War of 1812. After the war, Thorndike concluded his multifaceted career as the leading venture capitalist financing the early Industrial Revolution. Sadly, his story is little known. Federalist Tycoon pulls Thorndike's life and career from the shadows and fully examines his impact on American economic development.


I was looking through some of my unpublished posts and found my March dinner menu.
It looks like we ate a lot of soup that month!!!!! That is one thing I like about the fall coming so soon... it's time again for soup!


Here is our Johnny Appleseed farmhouse cottage on Little Horse Creek.
Sounds of the creek sooth.
There are four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Join us on Little Horse Creek where Merri and I spend our summers in the Lost Provence.
Enjoy the cool, green, fresh Blue Ridge simplicity of our farm.
Escape the hectic pressures of the city. Enjoy the freshness of our forest at the end of the world but, still be in the middle of things.
The motto at one of our nearest restaurants in Lansing, North Carolina (192 friendly people) was: "This is not the end of the world but you can see it from here".
Merrily Farms is at the end of the world… isolated… nurtured in nature… serene… a perfect place for creativity and peace.
When Merri and I sold our print publishing business in the 1990s, we built cabins and a seminar hall and renovated cottages here.
The farm is always quiet, peaceful and relaxing. We built this covered bridge as it allowed us to cross Little Horse Creek…before that one had to wade through!
In times that so many perceive as tumultuous, inspiration becomes even more valuable and important in business. The news on the internet, in the papers and on TV are so filled with negativity that it can be catching. In such eras, those who see positive realities gain an extra edge. This is the place where you leave all this behind.
Our idea was to have small seminars at the farm.
A group with us at the farm.
There was a problem. The seminars and courses kept growing too large. This is a pleasant problem but a difficulty still.
We have given up and have the seminars in West Jefferson at the Jefferson Landing Country Club where there is plenty of space.
We now offer these cabins as quiet escapes at the end of the world, even if you do not want a private consultation.
The cabins and cottage are available for a few days, a week or even a month so you can enjoy the peace and beauty of the Blue Ridge… as Merri and I do.
Make Merrily Farms your escape to our remote North Carolina farm on Little Horse Creek.
Here is the cabin in spring.
There is a huge deck for outdoor living.
Enjoy eating creekside overlooking the waters of Little Horse Creek.
The cabin is 800 square feet over all.
The floors and walls are poplar.
There is plenty of natural surroundings and light.
There is one bedroom, one bathroom.
There is a full kitchen. This cabin has one king size bed and a queen size sleeper sofa to accommodate up to four guests.
The second peaceful haven is our Creekside Farmhouse on Little Horse Creek.
Sounds of the creek are very soothing.
Three bedrooms, a den and dressing room. Up to ten can stay.
plenty of brook and rainbow trout in the creek.
A trout our daughter caught in the creek.
Travel is easy as well. There are really low cost flights on Allegiant Airlines from our nearest airport Tri City Regional Airport (1.5 hours away) to Tampa and Orlando. Delta connects to Atlanta and US Airways connects to Charlotte.
Join us at the farm through AirBNB.


On November, 20 we have completed the work on maintenance of a fire door at the Shopping Center MEGA Parnas. The Swedish Food Market behind the IKEA checkout area used to have no separate entrance from the lobby of the shopping center and was separated from it by a fire wall.
In order to increase the accessibility of the Swedish Food Market for customers, decision was taken to install a separate entrance from the lobby of the shopping center. Since it was necessary to maintain a fire barrier there, the fire wall should be replaced with the fire door. The Customer chose the Efferts Firewall T 60 fire door as it meets all the European fire safety requirements: provides a high level of safety of staff and visitors in the event of fire, doesn't take much space on each side of the doorway (unlike the conventional one) and can be used as a doorway (can be opened and closed on a daily basis).
In order to use the shopping center in a normal mode of operation, engineers of our company carried out the work at night. The visitors did not even notice that the work was being performed. Everything was done without incident within the timescale agreed.


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Matthew Dellavedova Makes Huge Life Announcement via Cavs Twitter Page
By Brad Sullivan
Cleveland Cavaliers veteran guard Matthew Dellavedova, who is currently in China representing his native Australia in the FIBA World Cup, recently took the time to discuss a variety of topics in an interview on the Cavs' official Twitter page.
In the midst of that discussion, he offered the exciting news that he and his wife are expecting their first child.
📹: @matthewdelly takes a break to check in from China to share what he's been up to this summer, what skills he's been working on, thoughts on @JohnBeilein, and his expectations for the Boomers squad during the @FIBAWC tournament. pic.twitter.com/sBix8QThZo
— Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) September 1, 2019
"Actually, I have some exciting news to share," the veteran point guard said. "Anna, my wife, is pregnant, so we're expecting a baby boy. So, really excited to become a dad."
Dellavdova, who turns 29 on Sept. 8, met Anna Schroeder during his time playing college basketball at St. Mary's College of California, where she was a member of the school's volleyball team. The couple was married on July 1, 2017, following Dellavedova's first season as a member of the Milwaukee Bucks.
That time with the Bucks ended last December when he returned to the Cavaliers in a trade that sent George Hill to Milwaukee. However, he was limited to just 48 games during the 2018-19 season because of injuries, playing in only 36 games for the Cavs.
In the interview, Dellavedova also spoke about his efforts to get in shape for the upcoming season, noting his efforts at strengthening his legs.
He's set to begin his seventh NBA season after having signed with the Cavaliers as an undrafted free agent in 2013. Dellavedova is entering the final year of a four-year contract that he signed with the Bucks shortly after the Cavaliers won the 2016 NBA title.
The popular guard is a fan favorite, which could make the Cavs more inclined to re-sign him. However, it's entirely possible that he could be part of a trade during the season as the team continues their rebuilding project.
Whatever the future holds of Dellavedova professionally, there is no doubt that future of his family is very bright indeed.
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Q: Accidentally made my whole C drive a local git repository I am new to Git and wanted to try it out. I can't remember how I did it but now everytime I create a Visual Studio project it adds Git source control automatically and the changes are all my files from my C drive. How do I fix this?

A: Assuming you're beginner so you just created git repository, AND you don't have any important branches/history you can delete folder named .git in root of drive C.


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It's 40 feet shorter than a football field: Meet Airbus' huge new A3XX, which could change the future of aviation.
Here is the future of aviation: By 2015, air passenger traffic will double; by 2020, it will triple to nearly 4 billion passengers a year. Think of your last flight -- the lines, the chaos, the lost luggage -- then multiply the number of people in the airport by three.
Over the past four years, a cabal of airline executives from around the world has regularly convened in the French countryside to decide if they want to change this picture. To do so, they will have to take one of the costliest gambles in the history of civil aviation. The price tag may be as high as $12 billion, but the payoff could be global dominance of the airline industry for the next half-century.
At the center of this bet is a new plane from Airbus Industrie -- the innocuously named A3XX, which happens to be the biggest passenger-carrying bird ever put in the sky -- a plane that makes the Boeing B747-400, currently the largest airliner flying, look like a runt.
In today's commercial airline industry, there are but two major players still in the game: the American Boeing and Airbus, a consortium of Continental aviation companies that has come to symbolize the new Europe. Both envision different solutions to the coming passenger crunch. The outcome will affect everything from bicontinental unemployment to the amount of sleep that people who live near airports get between takeoffs.
Boeing says the best way to fly us from here to 2015 is to double the number of jetliners in service, raising the present number to about 25,000. Though this could certainly work, imagine an air-traffic controller at a major airport during a peak summer vacation week, staring down at a wave of winged metal on the radar screen. Boeing's official response: "Airline schedulers and airports will work together to squeeze in more flights." Let's hope it's right.
Airbus says Boeing is wrong. "It seems to us absolutely inconceivable," says Adam Brown, the company's vice president for forecasting, "that the system can work without substantial numbers of airplanes larger than anything flying today."
Which brings us to the A3XX. At this writing, the final decision whether to build the flying Godzilla -- a decision once considered speculative -- has leapt nearly every obstacle. It could be days away.
If the A3XX is as successful as Airbus hopes (which remains to be seen), it is likely that the planes will dominate the industry for the next five decades -- and possibly much longer. Since a typical airliner has a 20-year production run and continues to fly for 30 years, the economic impact could be devastating. American prestige would also be seriously tarnished. Since the end of World War II, airliners have replaced battleships as emblems of national power. According to one aviation executive who works with both companies, "There's a strong identity link between Boeing and the U.S. -- between Boeing's force and American force."
For the past three years, many considered the A3XX to be a pipe dream. Since 1997, Airbus has been waiting for 30 of what it calls "public manifestations of interest" to launch production. Until last Friday, the count was stuck at 21, all slated for Emirates Airlines and Singapore Airlines.
On June 2, Airbus trumpeted the news that Air France was "interested" in buying 10 more A3XXs, with a fanfare usually reserved for firm orders. On Wednesday, the International Lease Finance Corp., the biggest buyer of airliners in the world, said it might take five. On Thursday, Virgin Atlantic added five to 10 planes to the total. It isn't certain that these "manifestations" will turn into orders, but an engine has certainly begun to rev.
A3XX is what aviation engineers call "a very large commercial transport," or VLCT for short. If it were a movie, it might be called "The Jet That Ate the Sky." This is how big the airplane is: The A3XX-200, the largest model that Airbus is flogging to airlines, will seat 965 people and will be just 40 feet shorter than a regulation football field. One A3XX-200 could replace two B747-400s.
A plane this large presents a few unprecedented challenges.
The A3XX-200 will change the ground as well as the sky. Philippe Joppart, manager of technical safety issues for the Airports Council International in Brussels, Belgium, asked me worriedly: "What happens if the passenger-baggage matchup fails, and you have to get all the passengers out of the plane?" At best, your flight schedule is ruined, and you deal with an angry crowd the size of an infantry battalion.
There are other unresolved issues: maneuvering, parking space, refueling, loading, cleaning and so on. Barely a dozen airports in the world could now accommodate an A3XX.
Until the first A3XX is built -- and there is a lot of infighting among the members of the consortium over who will build which parts of it (and where) before its projected maiden flight in 2006 -- no one can even be sure if it will work as promised. (Airbus' key selling point: The A3XX isn't just bigger, it's cheaper to fly than anything Boeing can offer.) It will require innovations like "a next-generation engine, less expensive to run, more powerful and less polluting," says Robert Fourmental, a union shop steward and board member at France's Snecma engine works. "The engines we make now won't do it, and it's the same for everyone else in the business."
Still, the payoff could be gigantic. Airbus predicts that airlines will buy 1,300 planes the size of an A3XX at about $230 million each. Adding up to nearly $300 billion, the total represents one-fourth of all the money that will be spent on airliners between now and 2020, the biggest market niche in aviation history.
But suppose Airbus fails? Even top executives within the Airbus consortium -- which includes BAE Systems P.L.C. (formerly British Aerospace) and the merged companies Aerospatiale Matra of France, Germany's Dasa and Casa of Spain -- have sometimes wondered if they are making a historic blunder.
Last year Gustav Humbert, president of Dasa's commercial aircraft division, candidly told me in his Hamburg office: "The A3XX is a size and technology we never had before, and we're really trying to see if the risk is on a scale we can bear." In Paris, Jean-Frangois Bigay, managing director of the aeronautics group of Aerospatiale Matra, conceded that "we can allow ourselves a mistake, but not on that scale." They've since come around.
Doubting voices are rarely heard at the Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France. It looks a lot like a luxury resort with airstrips where the tennis courts should be. Here, Airbus employees talk about the A3XX's future in ecstatic tones. It's a little like listening to medieval barons mapping out the Albigensian Crusade, a take-no-prisoners war on heresy that ravaged the region around Toulouse eight centuries ago. The A3XX is Airbus' battering ram, and once again the Europeans are storming the gates of the infidel. According to Philippe Jarry, V.P. in charge of the A3XX project, "When you have a certain stature, at a certain point you start to have duties." Likewise, Airbus' Brown talks of a "theological difference" between Airbus and Boeing. He means it, too.
When Airbus was created 31 years ago, few would have predicted it would still be around today. "What amazes me most is that Airbus exists," comments French scholar Pierre Muller, author of "Airbus: The European Ambition." "In 1969, the chances it wouldn't survive were much stronger than the chances it would." Says Brown, a grinning iconoclast whose office walls are lined with arcane aviation studies: "Predicting the future is a great job because nobody knows if you're right for 20 years."
Airbus staffers refer to the company's founders -- Frenchmen Roger Biteille and Henri Ziegler and German engineer Felix Kracht -- as "The Fathers," in capital letters. Dasa's Humbert calls them "pioneers," the kind of people who didn't panic when the Elbe River flooded the hangars in Hamburg two days before Airbus made its first deliveries to Lufthansa. Says Jarry, who grew up cutting clips on Airbus out of aviation magazines, "They had vision. If you want to succeed in aviation, you need vi-si-on."
What Brown remembers from the early years are crazed adventures. He flew the company's very first airplane, an A300 jetliner, to America on a barnstorming trip in 1973. "If anything went wrong," he says, "the company was dead." Nothing went wrong that couldn't be fixed, but that didn't stop American airmen from treating him and his colleagues like jerks. Brown hasn't forgotten that, either.
At the time, American mothers (including mine) still told their kids, "Eat your vegetables -- children in Europe are starving." In the American mind, Europe was a bunch of cute little countries that couldn't defend themselves without NATO, let alone make airliners. The same American airline executives who ripped down the street in BMWs told Brown they could never trust a European airplane.
At 1977's Farnborough air show, Brown took a cruel hit from Boeing on his English home ground. There he was at the Airbus stand when Boeing's Jake Steiner -- "a great father figure," Brown says, "the father of the B727" -- showed up to check out the new boys. "He said how delighted everyone at Boeing was that Airbus was there," Brown adds, "because the business was very cyclical, and it would be wonderful to have Airbus to provide additional capacity at the peaks." Brown recalls the story with some irony. "That's an extremely patronizing attitude," he says. Soon afterward, a cryptic little sign graced the front entry of Airbus headquarters. It said: "BB." Not for Brigitte Bardot, for "Beat Boeing." The crusade was on.
Its first great battle began when Airbus' A320 was launched in 1983. It had 150 seats, about the same as a B737. The A320 was also much more modern in its flight controls, roomier for passengers and cheaper to fly. Brown predicted Airbus would sell 600 of the planes, far more than the combined numbers of its first two airliners. "I seriously underestimated the reality," he says.
Through sheer Yankee arrogance, Boeing actually helped. While the A320 was in development, the American firm had ample time and resources to launch a new plane for the same short-haul niche. Jarry shudders to think how close Boeing came: "Wonder of wonders, Boeing arrives at the Le Bourget air show in 1984 with a model of their new revolutionary midrange plane. And people said, 'If the A320 has that in front of it, good luck.' It was scary." But instead of building a new plane, Boeing merely retouched its bestselling B737.
"One of the reasons we've got to where we are," allows Brown, "is because people didn't take us seriously." Boeing repeatedly declined to comment on these issues.
Remember how Detroit sneered when Japan Inc. started shipping gas-stingy little cars to the U.S. in the 1970s? Boeing had made the same mistake, with the same results. After the oil shocks of the mid-'70s jacked up the price of jet fuel, and deregulation split air routes into hubs and spokes, Airbus' little airplane that could became a hot item. Airbus quickly spun off three mama-papa-baby-bear-sized variations of the A320, of which it has sold a stunning 2,387 to date. In the 1990s, it built on that foothold with the A330 and A340 -- long-haul planes that cut deep into the middle of Boeing's market. Boeing belatedly replied with new airliners and a price war that left both companies gasping, but Airbus stayed in the game.
And like Lee Iacocca of Chrysler, who asked Washington to hammer Tokyo on his industry's behalf in the 1970s, Ron Woodard, former president of the Boeing commercial airplane group, went around Brussels in the late 1990s complaining that Airbus "is still trying to get state aid to launch new products." Though Airbus does indeed get government loans, they are repaid only when the planes sell. Boeing has received governmental help itself. The company developed the B747 as a troop carrier on a defense grant, and got a reported $1.6 billion from NASA in the 1990s to work on a supersonic transport.
Airbus asserts that the real reason for its success is a humanistic view of labor relations. Unlike strike-wracked Boeing, it avoided downsizing skilled workers throughout the 1990s. "It's a basic difference," says Airbus spokeswoman Barbara Kracht. But that isn't quite true.
Airbus doesn't actually build planes -- the consortium's member companies do that -- so it has few workers to lay off in the first place. Meanwhile, as price wars of the past decade heated up, its partners were decimated. In France, more than 21,000 of the 119,000 people in the aviation industry lost their jobs in 1991-94. At Dasa in Germany, a hiring freeze turned into a program called Dolores -- "like 'pain' in Spanish," says corporate spokesman Rainer Ohler. Two-fifths of the company's managers and workers vanished.
What Airbus really did was to give European aviation a choice: Toughen up or die. "Airbus put us under intense pressure," says an executive whose European company supplies both Airbus and Boeing. "They wanted more than the Americans, and they still do. They demanded cost cuts that went from 10 to 40 percent from their suppliers -- even 80 percent." He adds: "It nearly killed us, but it made us stronger. Everyone who works with Airbus is proud of it, because the result is continual improvement."
Boeing has just one remaining asset Airbus can't top -- the B747, the humpbacked jumbo jet that inaugurated the era of mass air travel in 1969; it remains the most profitable airliner the industry has ever seen. "In the 1990s, the B747-400 sold at $160 million. One-third of that was profit, and the production rate at one point was up to six a month," notes aerospace analyst Nick Cunningham of Salomon Smith Barney in London. When was the last time any company in your stock portfolio made $300 million in profit per month on just one product?
Those days are over. So far this year, Boeing has sold only six B747s. But Airbus appears unwilling to wait for the jumbo to die a natural death. It wants to kill it itself. Its goal for the A3XX, says Cunningham, is "to do the final project -- to cap Boeing so Boeing never again owns the high ground, as they did with the B747."
Ironically, Airbus doesn't really need the A3XX to beat Boeing because it already has. Since 1999 Europeans have sold more airliners than Americans. It has taken a while for this fact to sink in. Last year as I sat in Brown's office, he swore that without the A3XX, Airbus would never "kill Boeing's cash cow, this monopolistic B747 that throws off so much cash that they can use it to start other programs and subsidize other airplanes." Nor, he added, could Airbus ever take half the airliner market from the Americans. Then he paused, and said amazedly: "Both those objectives have been achieved. Talk about an ingrained underdog mentality."
Now, as the A3XX launch countdown accelerates, companies and cities across the European Union are fighting bare-knuckled for their cut of A3XX contracts. On the banks of the Elbe, civic boosters have erected mockups of cargo crates labeled "A3XX." Inside assembly plants in Toulouse and Hamburg, visitors are shown green-primed Airbus fuselages like hollowed-out Sequoias, their cabins lined with jungle weaves of cables, tubes and insulation. The message is that no one could build an A3XX better than the fine folks on this very (French or German) factory floor.
Meanwhile, with every day that goes by, the A3XX gets more expensive to build. One reason, says Jarry, is that airlines want no less than six versions of the plane, each offering variations in passenger capacity, freight load or range. "The Japanese, for example," he says, "want a short-range plane. The first, second and fourth air routes in the world are Japanese short-range routes." Airbus figures that just 20 airlines will buy 75 percent of all the A3XXs ever sold, so it makes sense to build them to order. But given the chance -- and the launch of a new airliner is the best they'll ever get -- airlines always demand the maximum number of options on their planes. According to former United Airlines CEO Gerald Greenwald, that makes airliners 20 percent more expensive to build than they should be. For an A3XX, the difference amounts to more than $45 million per airplane.
Numbers like that are scaring the bureaucrats who lend Airbus its development funds. When I told Jarry that the wonks at the Ministry of Finances on the Quai de Bercy in Paris, known to the French as "Bercy," calculate that the world market for the A3XX will be no more than 450 planes, he got angry. "What's the good of having computers if you don't have common sense?" he snapped. "I think our planes are going to sell by the thousands. Tell that to Bercy." Airbus is built on faith, and so far its faith has worked miracles.
As for Boeing, it's finally taking Airbus and the A3XX more seriously. Last year Boeing spokeswoman Susan Davis told me flatly, "There is no market for a plane larger than the B747-400." If so, then her president, Phil Condit, has stopped reading his own company's marketing studies. He has begun pushing Airbus' customers to buy the future B747-X, a remodeled, bigger version of Old Jumbo.
No one knows for sure what will happen in commercial aviation between now and 2020. But one thing is certain: The skies are about to become a lot less friendly.


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Washington eco-saboteurs topple towers
Monkey-wrenching of radio station doesn't last
M.L. Lyke Nov. 26, 2010 From the print edition
Two KRKO radio towers, pushed down by vandals last fall near Snohomish, Washington.
Michael O'Leary/The Everett Herald
A banner, signed "ELF," was left near the towers.
Lee Bennett, president of Citizens to Preserve the Upper Snohomish River Valley, has led the 10-year legal battle against the radio towers (in the background) and says, "We're not done yet."
M.L. Lyke
Fall is usually a tranquil season in this rural suburb north of Seattle, where small farms grow flowers, nursery trees and other niche crops along the meandering Snohomish River. At harvest time, U-pick pumpkins swell on the vine, sunflowers bow their heavy heads and enterprising farmers cut cornfield mazes, urging tourists to "Come get lost."
That bucolic spell was broken last year on Sept. 4 around 3 a.m., when one or more people sneaked up to a 40-acre site near the river, climbed a fence, fired up a large excavator that was equipped with a steel claw and aimed it at the dominant architecture: four giant broadcasting towers for KRKO, a sports-talk radio station.
Neighbors heard the grinding of metal on metal. One grabbed a shotgun and chased a fleeing man, who vanished into the darkness. Another reported seeing three people fleeing. News helicopters awoke more locals, and a flurry of excited phone calls spread the word that the main tower -- 349 feet tall -- and an adjacent 199-footer had been knocked down.
Near the crumpled steel latticework, someone left a banner with a hand-drawn heart, the scrawled words: "Wassup? Sno. Cty.?" and the signature "ELF" -- acronym for the radical Earth Liberation Front.
Barbara Bailey at first thought the toppling was some kind of miracle. Her fifth-generation 400-acre farm is just across the river from the site, and she had opposed the construction of the towers. But when she learned it was sabotage, her feelings were complicated. She thought: "It was not right. It was a crime ... but still it was a good feeling. After all the writing letters, lobbying politicians, raising money to pay lawyers, it was like somebody had decided the system wasn't working, and took matters in their own hands."
The crime remains unsolved. Lee Bennett, president of Citizens to Preserve the Upper Snohomish River Valley, says he has no clue who was behind the pre-dawn raid. "It had to be someone who knew the machine was here, how to operate it, and how to safely punch an electrified tower over without being electrocuted."
Bennett's group has waged a legal battle against the towers for a decade, arguing that they pose a threat to wildlife, scenery and human health.
But KRKO's owners aren't backing down. The Skotdal family, which made its fortune in real estate development and does its radio business as S-R Broadcasting, began rebuilding the two damaged towers in August. They expect KRKO to be broadcasting its powerful 50,000-watt signal on 1380 AM once again by January 2011. They are also preparing the site for new towers for a proposed second 50,000-watt station, 1520 AM.
"You couldn't put (the towers) in a worse possible place -- right between two beautiful county parks," says Bob Heirman, who spent decades helping restore those parks, one of which is named after him. "It's like putting a rendering plant next to your local high school."
The continuing conflict seems to highlight two notorious Northwestern character traits -- a strong green streak and a long stubborn streak. And the lack of arrests shows the of difficulty of catching the monkey-wrenchers who keep popping up in the region.
War on (eco) terror extends to the West
Who you calling terrorist?
Burning one for the road


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