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Q: disable gzip compression in railo I want to use cfflush in a backend on some pages. But on railo, the server administrator is configured to use gzip compression. So, the cflush command doesn't work (may be it was a bug, becouse it was reported as a bug, it may not send gzip compression in headers under cfflush, but the bug is marked as resolved, but continue doing the same behavior).
I dont want to disable the gzip compression on all the frontend, only in a few pages in the backend.
There is some way to disable it using a tag on-the-fly as the same way that requesttimeout or the pageencoding?

A: I don't think this would be the way to go, you should just let apache do it since it is more configurable. For example:
<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</ifModule>

(from http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/enable-compression.html)
You can then look at more of the configuration options available to see if you could choose which specific url's you want to enable/disable compression for.
http://www.schroepl.net/projekte/mod_gzip/config.htm


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Girl group confirmed for X Factor: The Band final – meet Real Like You
Here are the contestants who made it into Simon Cowell's girl band
By Kimberley Bond
Sunday, 15th December 2019 at 8:01 pm
The competition is getting real now on The X Factor: The Band, as we now have our fully-formed girl band.
After a shock twist that saw Virginia invited back into the competition by Nicole Scherzinger despite being rejected first time at the arena audition, our girl group is now a six-piece.
So who are the lucky girls chosen to take a further step in the competition and will they end up being the next big thing in the world of pop music?
Here's the confirmed line-up of The X Factor: The Band's first girl group…
Halle Williams
Halle from London sang Waterfalls by girlband TLC for her audition with Simon and Nicole.
She studied dance and musical theatre at Urdang Academy, and from a young age would always sing songs by Beyonce, Aaaliyah and Ciara.
Dancing was her first love, and she'd love to bring this aspect to the girl band.
Instagram: @hallewilliamss
Seorsia Leagh Jack
Seorsia is from County Laois in Ireland and sang Little Mix hit Touch for her audition at Simon's Syco offices in London.
Music has always been her true passion, she's been singing since the age of two, and professionally since the age of 15 when she released her first song.
Since then she has continued to write music, with one of her songs having 200,000 streams on Spotify.
Instagram: @siababez
Jess Folley
A singer/ songwriter from Essex, Jess performed an original composition, I Love, which impressed Simon, Nicole and the industry pros in her audition.
She is currently studying music and has started writing original songs a couple of years ago.
In 2017 she won ITV's The Voice Kids with Pixie Lott mentoring her, and since then she has wanted to take her singing career even further.
Instagram: @jessfolleyofficial
Twitter: @jessfolleysings
YouTube: @JessFolley
Kelli-Marie Willis
Kelli-Marie was one of several successful auditions to sing an original composition in her first appearance on the show. She performed a song called Hasta La Vista.
She is the youngest of five and found singing the best way to stand out amongst her brothers. She is currently studying song writing part-time in Birmingham and loves to write her own music.
Instagram: @kellimariemusic
Luena Martinez
Luena sets herself the challenge of writing a song a day and has done so for the last two years.
She believes in the 'Power of Music' and goes into schools to speak to young people about positive mental health.
Instagram: @luenaofficial
Virginia Hampson
Virginia has a large family and says her older sister is the most important figure in her life and shares her love of performing.
She is currently studying for her A Levels and loves to paint as well as sing, but her lifetime ambition is to simply 'be happy'. Despite not having any formal vocal training, she has always sung and performed since the age of eight.
Instagram: @virginiahampson
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package egovframework.com.uss.olh.omm.service.impl;

import java.util.List;

import javax.annotation.Resource;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import egovframework.com.cmm.ComDefaultVO;
import egovframework.com.uss.olh.omm.service.EgovOnlineManualService;
import egovframework.com.uss.olh.omm.service.OnlineManual;
import egovframework.rte.fdl.cmmn.AbstractServiceImpl;
import egovframework.rte.fdl.idgnr.EgovIdGnrService;

/**
 * 온라인메뉴얼를 처리하는 ServiceImpl Class 구현
 * @author 공통서비스 장동한
 * @since 2009.07.03
 * @version 1.0
 * @see <pre>
 * << 개정이력(Modification Information) >>
 *
 *   수정일      수정자           수정내용
 *  -------    --------    ---------------------------
 *   2009.07.03  장동한          최초 생성
 *
 * </pre>
 */
@Service("egovOnlineManualService")
public class EgovOnlineManualServiceImpl extends AbstractServiceImpl
        implements EgovOnlineManualService {

    @Resource(name = "onlineOnlineManualDao")
    private OnlineManualDao dao;

    @Resource(name = "egovOnlineMenualIdGnrService")
    private EgovIdGnrService idgenService;

    /**
     * 온라인메뉴얼를(을) 목록을 조회 한다.
     * @param OnlinePoll 회정정보가 담김 VO
     * @return List
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public List selectOnlineManualList(ComDefaultVO searchVO) throws Exception {
        return (List)dao.selectOnlineManualList(searchVO);
    }

    /**
     * 온라인메뉴얼를(을) 목록 전체 건수를(을) 조회한다.
     * @param searchVO  조회할 정보가 담긴 VO
     * @return int
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public int selectOnlineManualListCnt(ComDefaultVO searchVO) throws Exception {
        return (Integer)dao.selectOnlineManualListCnt(searchVO);
    }

    /**
     * 온라인메뉴얼를(을) 상세조회 한다.
     * @param onlineManual  온라인메뉴얼 정보 담김 VO
     * @return List
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public OnlineManual selectOnlineManualDetail( OnlineManual onlineManual) throws Exception {
        return (OnlineManual)dao.selectOnlineManualDetail(onlineManual);
    }

    /**
     * 온라인메뉴얼를(을) 등록한다.
     * @param onlineManual  온라인메뉴얼 정보 담김 VO
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public void insertOnlineManual(OnlineManual onlineManual)throws Exception {
        String sMakeId = idgenService.getNextStringId();
        onlineManual.setOnlineMnlId(sMakeId);
        dao.insertOnlineManual(onlineManual);
    }

    /**
     * 온라인메뉴얼를(을) 수정한다.
     * @param onlineManual  온라인메뉴얼 정보 담김 VO
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public void updateOnlineManual(OnlineManual onlineManual) throws Exception {
        dao.updateOnlineManual(onlineManual);
    }

    /**
     * 온라인메뉴얼를(을) 삭제한다.
     * @param onlineManual  온라인메뉴얼 정보 담김 VO
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public void deleteOnlineManual(OnlineManual onlineManual) throws Exception {
        dao.deleteOnlineManual(onlineManual);
    }

}

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Today I was working with a pair from QUB Mountaineering Club who are over from Ireland. Over the last couple of days Coreen and Yo have been doing some winter skills and some grade II climbing. Today they wanted to have a swing around with 2 axes. So today we headed for Ben Nevis as there were lots of options for us to have a look at. We headed into Creag coire na Ciste to see what options we had. There were many teams out today but we opted for Number 3 Gully Buttress (my first ever winter route, back in 2006). This route has some patches of ice and some great mixed terrain which allowed the guys to have an taster of the different styles of climbing. We weren't the only ones on the route, a couple of other teams were making an ascent which made it a nice sociable day. Kenny was working with Gordon and climbed Two Step Corner. Other teams were on Green and Comb Gully and I think a team went up Thompson's. Castle ridge and Ledge route also saw ascents and were reported to be in good condition but a little windy.


Four games, 10 runs, three losses and a plethora of missed opportunities. A small sample size to be sure, but definitely not the kind of start to the season that Oakland manager Bob Melvin had in mind.
A glance at Sacramento-area baseball players active in Major League Baseball organizations.
Minnesota forward Gorgui Dieng has 18 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Timberwolves to a 105-97 win over the Kings at Sleep Train Arena.
Stephen Curry scores 27 points, and the Golden State Warriors became the second team to win 70 games in an NBA season by beating the San Antonio Spurs 112-101, wrapping up home-court advantage throughout the playoffs.
Chasing the Bulls: Warriors make history; more to come?
Golden State can break Chicago's single-season record of 72 wins by sweeping the final three games, including a rematch in San Antonio on Sunday.
After bouncing around Europe, Africa and the United States in search of soccer stability, Chris Christian, Republic FC's unsung 27-year-old defender, appears to have found a home in Sacramento.


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President Obama doesn't have enough to worry about with the tumultuous debate on the final version of his health care reform proposal, continuing economic uncertainties, rising unemployment, and bank failures; two wars he's inherited and the ongoing threat of terror attacks. Now he's being criticized for not holding enough press conferences.
"Obama Going on Six Months Without a Press Conference" reads the headline on . . . you guessed it, Fox "News." The "article" continues to blast the President for being out of touch with the public. This from a "news" organization that just a few weeks ago criticized him for being overexposed. The article states, "Obama has given dozens of one-on-one interviews for television, radio and print, and Towson University political science professor Martha Joynt Kumar said presidents tend to favor media exchanges that best suit their particular goals,"adding that "some in the White House press corps are getting antsy for him to hold a news conference with reporters, something he hasn't done since July 22, almost six months ago."
Fox "News" and other, similar, Neocon media outlets continue their selective amnesia about Presidential administrations. First, one of the former Bush spokesmodels -- Dana Perino -- stated that there was no terrorist attack during the eight years Bush was in office, magically forgetting the tragedy of 9-11-2001. Naturally, that ridiculous statement went unchallenged as she was appearing on Fox "News" with Sean Hannity at the time.
As they accuse Obama of avoiding the press (itself a flip-flop from Fox's previous admonishment that he was always seeking the cameras) they seem to forget that their own Favorite Son, George Dubya, failed to hold a presser for his first nine months in office, and then entered an extended press blackout from July of 2008 to January of 2009, a (gasp!) six month period during which he avoided even a single reporter's question. Darn those pesky facts that keep interfering with their "news" reporting.
By the numbers, Bush only exposed publicly himself to the press three times in 2004 and four times in 2008 . . . hmmmmmm, both of those election years. Perhaps he was busy devising amusing new nicknames for the reporters, or trying to remember which ones were vision impaired so he didn't repeat his 2006 mistake of asking legally blind reporter Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times why he didn't remove his "shades."
But, Fox "News" has become infamous for its many double standards, be it politicians and their private parts (Bill Clinton affair = impeachable offense, Henry Hyde affair = youthful indiscretion), criminal activity (witness the innocent victims of circumstance Tom Delay and Irving "Scooter" Libby), response to terror threats (Bush's delayed response to the shoe bomber vs. Obama's prompt response to the Detroit incident), or natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Don't even talk about the number of troops that have died under Dubya compared to Clinton. The amnesiacs at Fox never, ever touch that topic. Nor do they discuss how the Bush Crime Family sucked up the Clinton budget surpluses into a massive, personal war chest and spent billions of our taxpayer dollars on fomenting terror, death, and destruction across the oily, Muslim Mideast. That will never be a headline on The O'Reilly Factor.
Sarah Palin, with her murky understanding of the world outside Wasilla, will fit right in with the other factually-challenged misfits at Fox "News." And they won't even have to fix her face like they did before dragging Greta over from CNN. How long before Sarah Barracuda and Glen Beck are dueling it out on white-board challenges to see who can wax crazier about death panels, Obama's terrorist pals, God-inspired crusades in various Muslim majority countries, ACORN, and bogus birth certificates?
They deserve each other.
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Japanese Tycoon Takes Off for International Space Station
Zozo founder and Chief Executive Yusaku Maezawa speaks during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, in Tokyo.
MOSCOW —
A Japanese billionaire and his producer rocketed to space Wednesday as the first self-paying space tourists in more than a decade.
Fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and producer Yozo Hirano, who plans to film his mission, blasted off for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
The trio lifted off as scheduled at 12:38 p.m. (0738 GMT) aboard Soyuz MS-20 from the Russia-leaded Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan.
Maezawa and Hirano are scheduled to spend 12 days in space. The two will be the first self-paying tourists to visit the space station since 2009. The price of the trip hasn't been disclosed.
"I would like to look at the Earth from space. I would like to experience the opportunity to feel weightlessness," Maezawa said during a pre-flight news conference on Tuesday. "And I also have a personal expectation: I'm curious how the space will change me, how I will change after this space flight."
A company that organized the flight said Maezawa compiled a list of 100 things to do in space after asking the public for ideas. The list includes "simple things about daily life to maybe some other fun activities, to more serious questions as well," Space Adventures President Tom Shelley said.
"His intention is to try to share the experience of what it means to be in space with the general public," Shelley told The Associated Press earlier this year.
Maezawa made his fortune in retail fashion, launching Japan's largest online fashion mall, Zozotown. Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $2 billion.
The tycoon has also booked a flyby around the moon aboard Elon Musk's Starship that is tentatively scheduled for 2023. He'll be joined on that trip by eight contest winners.
US Seeks Norms for Outer Space After 'Irresponsible' Russia Test
NASA Astronauts Conduct Previously Postponed Spacewalk
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Chiang Mai is a thrill seeker's dream. From trekking to ATV to zip lining to white water rafting, there are tons of activities for adrenaline junkies. So, after days of temple hopping and series of massages, I was ready to embark on an adrenaline-pumping adventure myself.
Is visiting an elephant camp ethical? Should I visit one? The ethics of elephant tourism are shrouded in controversy, much like the ethics of visiting the Long neck tribe. Several visitors travel to Chiang Mai, Thailand to experience personal encounters with the elephants. However, not all may visit in an ethical manner.
China is not only one of the world's largest countries, but with a population of more than a billion people, it's definitely the most populated. You could easily come to the conclusion that there is nowhere to visit in China that would allow you to get your own headspace. However, it is all part of the experience. So, to get a real feel of China's hustle and bustle, here are 3 important cities in this enormous country you need to visit.


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Majn () je řeka v Čukotském autonomním okruhu v Rusku. Je 475 km dlouhá. Povodí má rozlohu 32 800 km².

Průběh toku
Odtéká z Majnského jezera, které se nachází na svahu Penžinského hřbetu. Teče na severovýchod převážně v široké dolině. Na dolním toku se větví na jednotlivá ramena. Ústí zprava do Anadyru.

Vodní stav
Zdrojem vody jsou sněhové a dešťové srážky. Průměrný průtok činí přibližně 260 m³/s. Zamrzá v polovině října a rozmrzá na konci května.

Využití
Na dolním toku je při vyšším vodním stavu možná vodní doprava loďmi s malým ponorem.

Literatura

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Actor, critic, director - new winners of the Brodsky on Ischia Prize Automatic translate
ROME. The winners of the Brodsky on Ischia Prize became known on the poet's birthday.
Ischia Island in the Neapolitan Riviera, where the volcano once "bubbled," was a special place for Joseph Brodsky. In the villa of his friend, a professor at the University of Milan, theater expert Fausto Malkovatti, he spent several weeks at different times, inspiring him to wonderful poetic lines. The last time he visited was with his family shortly after the birth of his daughter Anna.
Over the short period of existence of the award (since 2013), established by the Ministry of Culture of Italy, the Ischia Friends Association and the Luchino Visconti Foundation, its owners were poets, actors, journalists, and musicians, who contributed to strengthening mutual understanding between the two countries. In the works of most of them, Brodsky's theme was voiced. The result - resonant films, books, song cycles, television shows.
On May 24, new laureates were announced: director Andrei Khrzhanovsky, actor and artist Lev Prygunov, literary critic and critic Natalya Ivanova. The painting "One and a half rooms" by Khrzhanovsky, still remains one of the most piercing films dedicated to the poet and the tragic story of his parents. The expulsion of the poet from the country turned into eternal separation. The cartoon parable "Lion with a gray beard", created by Khrzhanovsky in collaboration with Tonino Guerra and Sergey Barkhin, is a wonderful example of the co-creation of talented people from different countries. Natalia Ivanova is the chairman of the jury of the Russian-Italian Bella Prize, which helps identify and support young poets in Russia and Italy.
Lev Prygunov, a famous actor and talented painter, was friends with Brodsky for many years in the most difficult periods of his life at home and during the years of triumphal recognition in the West.
A priceless collection of manuscripts, letters, photographs of Brodsky will now be stored at Stanford


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The second quarter was the worst financial hit in the history of the airline industry. The third-quarter results won't be much better.
US airlines reported combined losses of $12 billion in the second quarter, excluding special items, as revenue plunged 86% from the prior year. And analysts are forecasting that losses will come to about $10 billion in the just-completed third quarter.
Delta Air Lines (DAL) will kick off the flood of red ink on Tuesday when it reports results.
Airlines did manage to shave losses by trimming costs — including labor, as employees took buyouts and early retirement packages and agreed to unpaid furloughs. And there was a modest pickup in travel during the summer travel season.
Yet it's not much better than the previous disastrous quarter: Wall Street analysts forecast industry sales will be down 75% in the third quarter.
Bookings haven't looked particularly strong for the fall with leisure travel drying up and very little in the way of business travel to take its place.
Meanwhile, many, though not all, of the airlines have recently implemented involuntary job cuts and furloughs that had not been allowed through the end of September under terms of the Congress-approved financial relief for the industry earlier this year. US airlines received $25 billion in direct help to keep workers on payroll through the end of September, along with an additional $25 billion in no-strings loans that did not come with the promise to avoid layoffs.
As soon as the prohibition on involuntary job cuts ended on October 1, American Airlines (AAL) cut 19,000 jobs and United (UAL) cut an additional 13,000. There was bipartisan support for a second package of federal help to prevent those cuts, but hopes for that assistance died when Congress and the Trump administration failed to agree on another Covid stimulus package.
Every US airline lost money in the second quarter. And virtually all are expected to report a full-year loss, including Southwest (LUV), which had reported 47 consecutive years of profitability through 2019.
When will the losses end for the industry? That will depend on the simple but unanswerable question of when people will be ready to fly again.
"We don't expect six months from now that demand will return to where it was pre-pandemic," said American Airlines CEO Doug Parker in a CNN interview at the end of last month. But he has said he hopes by next spring there will be a least some clarity about when passengers will feel safe about flying again.
But it's not just safety concerns keeping passengers off planes. It's also a matter of the state of the economy keeping both leisure and business travelers at home. While the economy has started to rebound, it will be a long road to recovery. Economists and the Federal Reserve have warned the recovery will be slow and painful unless lawmakers pass additional federal stimulus.
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Post by Sascha (sab) » Sep 3rd 2004, 6:32 pm
dTheater wrote: Lost looks like it could be good, but it also looks like it could be really bad. Like over-acting, soap opera-ish melodrama bad.
I thought so too at first, but the show has some very interesting surprises. The pilot is a two hour episode - the first 20-30 minutes are exactly how you describe it - "over-acting, soap opera-ish melodrama bad" and that's where the show will loose a lot of viewers. But then things get crazy and there's a lot of blood...
Unfortunately (IMHO), from what I heard, J.J. Abrams already gave in and removed some of the more graphic scenes from the pilot episode for the final version.
And please don't miss your chance to check out Arrested Development, the best show on TV. This is an extremely rare case of a quality show pulling in horrible ratings but being given a much-deserved second chance.
I agree completely. I have only seen a few eps, but this show is great.
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Hello once again people.
Post by So-Called Loon » Sep 15th 2004, 5:43 am
Sascha (sab) wrote: As Mike mentioned, Gilmore Girls starts on theWB next week. I'm really wondering how the show will survive the "loss" of so many characters.
How about filling in the unfilled in.
Who's left or been axed?
Been a member since sometime BR (before Ross)
Re: Hello once again people.
Post by Sascha (sab) » Sep 15th 2004, 6:44 am
The Loon is back! Welcome back!
So-Called Loon wrote:
That was actually already last season (2003/04 - this thread is pretty old and got revived last month). Adam Brody (Lane's boyfriend) left for "The O.C." (very wise career choice IMHO), Jared Padalecki ("Dean") and Milo Ventimiglia ("Jess") were supposed to leave the show for good, but came back later in season 4. Dean will probably even become a regular again in season 5. David Sutcliffe (Rory's dad) left for "I'm With Her", but that show got cancelled, so he will be back in season 5 of "Gilmore Girls". Madeline and Louise (Rory/Paris' friends from school) also left the show. It was unclear last year, how many scenes Paris and Lane would have because they were supposed to go to different schools than Rory. But they had as many scenes as in earlier seasons.
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Thanks for the summary. I didn't realize Sutcliffe's show got keesed.
I liked the earlier more peculiar Paris than the just sort of irritating version this recent season.
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Post by sarahr_81 » Sep 16th 2004, 3:50 pm
hmm, shows this fall i am looking forward to the most are csi and the gilmore girls, and for my guilty pleasures, the oc and one tree hill.
Ah yes. One Tree Hill.
I thought it was going to be another... pick a show ripoff.
Turned out to be something quite different with a likeable cast.
I heard the stats for one of the big 3 networks which had the number of lame comedies way down this season.
But then i thought about it. I regularly read where network execs say how hard it is to get a drama going. That's when it hit me that all those stinker comedies aren't being traded in for dramas; but unreality shows. P. U.
Post by sarahr_81 » Sep 17th 2004, 12:34 pm
yeha, i dont really get the whole reality show craze, ive never seen an epsiode of survivor, i do love the amazing race though, that one got me hooked and i will watch nick & jessica if i see it on tv.
start dates fall 2005
Post by Sascha (sab) » Aug 15th 2005, 5:02 am
I did this already last year, so here are the start dates for this year's fall season. (Don't mind the upper case titles, I copied and pasted them from various press releases).
Sun 28 August
9:00-10:00 p.m. ROME (HBO)
Mon 29 August
8:00-10:00 p.m. PRISON BREAK (FOX, 2-Hour Series Premiere)
Mon 5 September
9:00-10:00 p.m. PRISON BREAK (FOX, Time Period Premiere)
Thur 8 September
8:00-9:00 p.m. THE O.C. (FOX, Season Premiere)
9:00-10:00 p.m. REUNION (FOX, Series Premiere)
Sun 11 September
8:00-8:30 p.m. THE SIMPSONS (FOX, Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 p.m. THE WAR AT HOME (FOX, Series Premiere)
9:00-9:30 p.m. FAMILY GUY (FOX, Season Premiere)
9:30-10:00 p.m. AMERICAN DAD (FOX, Season Premiere)
Tue 13 September
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Gilmore Girls" (WB)
8:00-9:00 p.m. BONES (FOX, Series Premiere)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Supernatural" (WB)
9:00-10:00 p.m. HOUSE (FOX, Season Premiere)
Wed 14 September
9:00-10:00 p.m. HEAD CASES (FOX, Series Premiere)
8:00-8:30 p.m. "What I Like About You" (WB)
8:30-9:00 p.m. "Twins" (WB)
9:00-11:00 p.m. THRESHOLD (CBS, two-hour series premiere)
9:00-9:30 p.m. "Reba" (WB)
9:30-10:00 p.m. "Living With Fran" (WB)
7:30-8:00 p.m. KING OF THE HILL (FOX, Season Premiere)
8:00-11:00 p.m. 57th ANNUAL PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS (CBS)
Mon 19 September
8:00-8:30 p.m. THE KING OF QUEENS (CBS, 8th season premiere)
8:00-8:30 p.m. "One on One" (UPN)
8:00-8:30 p.m. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (FOX, Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 p.m. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (CBS, series debut)
8:30-9:00 p.m. "All of Us" (UPN)
8:30-9:00 p.m. KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL (FOX, Series Premiere)
8:00-9:00 p.m. "SURFACE" (formerly "Fathom", NBC)
8:00-9:00 p.m. "7th Heaven" (WB)
9:00-9:30 p.m. TWO AND A HALF MEN (CBS, 3rd season premiere)
9:00-9:30 p.m. "Girlfriends" (UPN)
9:30-10:00 p.m. OUT OF PRACTICE (CBS, series debut)
9:30-10:00 p.m. "Half and Half" (UPN)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Las Vegas" (NBC)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Just Legal" (WB)
10:00-11:00 p.m. CSI: MIAMI (CBS, 4th season premiere)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Medium" (NBC)
8:00-9:00 p.m. NCIS (CBS, 3rd season premiere)
8:00-9:00 p.m. "According to Jim" (ABC, one hour season premiere)
9:00-9:30 p.m. "MY NAME IS EARL" (NBC)
9:30-10:00 p.m. "The Office" (NBC)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC)
8:00-8:30 p.m. STILL STANDING (CBS, 4th season premiere)
8:30-9:00 p.m. YES, DEAR (CBS, 6th season premiere)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Lost" (ABC)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "E-RING" (NBC)
10:00-11:00 p.m. CSI: NY (CBS, 2nd season premiere)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Invasion" (ABC)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Law & Order" (NBC)
Thur 22 September
8:00-8:30 p.m. "Everybody hates Chris" (UPN)
8:30-9:00 p.m. "Eve" (UPN)
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Joey" (special 1-hour premiere, NBC)
9:00-9:30 p.m. "Cuts" (UPN)
9:30-10:00 p.m. "Love, Inc." (UPN)
9:00-10:00 p.m. CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (CBS, 6th season premiere)
10:00-11:00 p.m. CRIMINAL MINDS (CBS, series debut)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "ER" (NBC)
8:00-8:30 p.m. THE BERNIE MAC SHOW (FOX, Season Premiere)
8:30-9:00 p.m. MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE (FOX, Season Premiere)
8:00-9:00 p.m. GHOST WHISPERER (CBS, series debut)
9:00-10:00 p.m. THRESHOLD (CBS, time period debut)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Hope & Faith" (ABC, one hour season premiere)
9:00-10:00 p.m. KILLER INSTINCT [formerly THE GATE] (FOX, Series Premiere)
10:00-11:00 p.m. NUMB3RS (CBS, 2nd season premiere)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "INCONCEIVABLE" (NBC)
8:00-9:00 p.m. COLD CASE (CBS, 3rd season premiere)
8:00-9:00 p.m. "The West Wing" (NBC)
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Charmed" (WB)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Desperate Housewives" (ABC)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (NBC)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Blue Collar TV" (WB)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Crossing Jordan" (NBC)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Commander In Chief" (ABC)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Sex, Love and Secrets" (UPN)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "Boston Legal" (ABC)
8:00-9:00 p.m. "George Lopez" (ABC, one-hour season premiere)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Veronica Mars" (UPN)
9:00-10:00 p.m. CRIMINAL MINDS (CBS, time period premiere)
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Alias" (ABC)
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Smallville" (WB)
8:30-9:00 p.m. "Will & Grace" (live episode, NBC)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Night Stalker" (ABC)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Everwood" (WB)
10:00-11:00 p.m. WITHOUT A TRACE (CBS, 4th season premiere)
Tue 4 October
8:30-9:00 p.m. "Rodney" (ABC)
10:00-11:00 p.m. CLOSE TO HOME (CBS, series debut)
Wed 5 October
8:00-9:00 p.m. "One Tree Hill" (WB)
8:30-9:00 p.m. "Freddie" (ABC)
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Related" (WB)
Fri 7 October
9:30-10:00 p.m. "Hot Properties" (ABC)
Wed 19 October
10.00-10.30 p.m. "South Park" (Comedy Central)
Wed 2 November
8:30 p.m. "Stacked" (FOX)
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Born in 1900, Dead in 1993, Swiss ice hockey players,
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Luzius Rüedi
Bronze 1928 St. Moritz Team Competition
Luzius Rüedi (June 12, 1900 – July 19, 1993) was a Swiss ice hockey player who won a bronze medal in the 1928 Winter Olympics.
He was born in Thusis and died in Zürich.
Rüedi was a member of the Swiss ice hockey team, which won the bronze medal. The team finished behind Canada and Sweden in the 1928 Olympics. [2]
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Top of the league: Most leading banks have seen their profits increase
GhanaFinancial Services
The banking industry is heavily dominated in terms of market share by a relatively small number of large banks, made up by a mix of state-backed and foreign-owned entities. The pack has long been led by the majority state-owned Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), which benefits from a number of advantages that help underpin its position, though mergers and new entries have begun to eat away at its dominance.
With a handful of banks accounting for more than half of the assets, some observers argue that despite the large number of players, the sector is uncompetitive, and that the large market share of state-backed banks is particularly problematic in this respect. A monograph published by the Institute of Economic Affairs Ghana in 2010 entitled "High Interest Rates in Ghana – A Critical Analysis" blames a lack of competition in part on what it says is the inefficiency of operations at GCB as well as Agricultural Development Bank (ADB), and suggest such banks should be privatised or restructured to improve efficiency and ensure business decisions are not affected by political motivations.
However, the top banks' dominance appears to be waning. GCB's market share by assets is falling, having dropped from nearly 16% in 2008, for example. So too is third-largest bank by assets, Barclays, with its share of total assets down from 13.4% in 2008 to 9.8% in 2010. Overall the share of the top 10 banks by assets of total assets fell from 73.2% in 2008 to 68.5% in 2010. "Smaller banks may start to overtake their larger competitors in niche areas where banks need to be proactive," said Sulemana Mohammed, a research analyst at Ecobank Capital. While the country's leading banks are largely profitable and had a good year in 2011, in contrast to the wider trend, profits at GCB fell.
THE CAST: With 27 universal banks, Ghana's banking scene is quite large and diverse, although a small number of major players dominate the market: in 2010 six of the 27 – GCB, Barclays, Ecobank, Standard Chartered, Agricultural Development Bank and Stanbic – accounted for more than half (53%) of total sector assets. GCB was the country's largest bank by assets in 2010, accounting for 12.6% of the total. Based on annual reports, it kept that designation in 2011, with some 9.8% of total assets. It is the largest by capitalisation ( shareholder funds were GHS241m, or $142.9m, in 2010), and by deposits, with 13% of all deposits in 2010.
GCB had 157 branches at the end of 2011, and 2273 employees. It is very difficult for smaller banks to take market share from the likes of GCB as it already has branches throughout the country. Its dominance is also underpinned by the fact that the government pays civil service salaries through it, guaranteeing it commissions. However, recent merger activity may bring renewed competition at the top of the heap. In December 2011 Ecobank's Togo-based parent company took over The Trust Bank (see analysis), merging the two into a single unit. Based on annual reports from 2011, with the takeover Ecobank now boasts some 8.53% of total banking assets in Ghana for the year, amounting to some GHS2.13bn ($1.263bn).
PERFORMANCE: Profits rose for most of Ghana's largest banks in 2011, sometimes impressively so. A notable exception was GCB, the country's largest, where net profit for 2011 stood at GHS17.97m ($10.7m), down almost 65% on 2010. The bank attributed the fall to increased operational costs and lower interest income, partly as a result of one-off factors such as staff changes and the restructuring of a loan to the Tema Oil Refinery. However, net profits for the first quarter of 2012 rose to GHS23.38m ($13.9m), an increase of 18%.
The UK's Standard Chartered, by contrast saw improved performance in 2011, when profits after tax hit GHS77.7m ($46.1m), up nearly 7.6% from GHS72.2m ($42.8m) in 2010. Profits at the bank have been rising steadily over the past five years and have more than doubled since 2007. British bank Barclays, which saw profits rise by 40% in 2011 to GHS83m ($49.2m), thanks to factors such as reduced operational and loan impairment costs. Profit after tax at Ecobank, which began operations in 1990, rose 16% to GHS105.5m ($62.6m) for 2011. The bank operates 53 branches – to which The Trust Bank's branches will be added as part of the merger – and employs 890 staff.
After-tax profits at the state-backed ADB, the country's fifth-largest bank by assets in 2010 (a title which it appears to have kept in 2011, based on annual reports) also rose strongly, from GHS11.65m ($6.9m) in 2010 to GHS43.6m ($25.9m), a more than four-fold increase. ADB, which is the primary financer of farming in the country, increased its branch network from 65 to 76 over the course of the year, while staff numbers rose considerably, from 1168 to 1345.
The bank was established in 1965 and is 100% owned by the state (52% by the government and 48% by the Bank of Ghana via the Financial Investment Trust). In 2011 the bank brought its non-performing loans (NPL) ratio down to 6.68%, from 11.82% in 2010, having written off GHS64m ($37.9m) of NPLs in 2010.
South African-owned Stanbic and French subsidiary SG-SSB, ranked sixth and eighth by assets in 2010 and 2011, based on annual reports, also had strong performances in 2011. "2011 was a good year for us and we met most of our targets," said Alhassan Andani, the managing director of Stanbic Bank. "The first quarter of 2012 was a bit slow, but the second quarter is now looking good," he said, speaking in May 2012. "We saw increased activity in 2011 and also opened more branches," Gilbert Hie, the managing director of SG-SSB, told OBG. Profits at SG-SSB increased 15% on 2010 figures to reach some GHS22.9m ($13.6m).
CORPORATE COMPETITION: Foreign-owned banks make up six of the top 10 banks by capitalisation (based on 2010 figures). Many of the major foreign banks – both European and African – are by and large more focused on the corporate market rather than on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or retail banking. For example around 55% of the business of SGSSB, part of the Société Générale Group, is in the corporate sector, followed by between 25% and 30% in the retail segment, and 10% in the SME segment.
"Our first two priorities are corporate and individual markets," said Hie. "Some banks are prioritising SMEs but that is not our focus." Nevertheless, the bank is keen to ensure that it remains diversified. "We are looking to diversify into sectors such as manufacturing in order to avoid over-dependence on oil and gas and cocoa financing," Hie told OBG.
Standard Chartered, despite being the third-largest bank by assets in 2010 and 2011, based on annual reports, had just 21 branches as of the end of 2011, pointing to a lack of reliance on the retail market. "The banks that focus on the corporate sector are seeing their margins squeezed by their clients," Charles Otoo, the general manager of First National Bank, told OBG. "These players have been repeatedly reducing their rates in order to keep business. Some corporate customers now ask for base rate minus."
This may have negatively affected other clients. "Competition for corporate customers has become worse since the entry of Nigerian banks into the sector," said Nii Anyetei Ampa-Sowa, the vice-president and head of research at Databank. "Banks are competing for the best corporate clients by offering base rate minus and charging others more in order to get the money back."
Furthermore, those firms working with infrastructure improvements remain a potent income source. "One of the most important areas for banking in Ghana is lending to companies in infrastructure projects," Benjamin T Dabrah, the managing director of Barclays, told OBG. "The government has made it clear this is a priority and there is a great need for funding these of projects."
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How 'Mary Poppins Returns' reinvents the beloved nanny for the 21st century
Yahoo Movies UK 20 November 2018
Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda in this new look at Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
This Christmas there's a new Mary Poppins on screen in Mary Poppins Returns.
Emily Blunt is stepping into the shoes of Julie Andrews in the sequel who – no pressure – won the Best Actress Oscar for the 1964 original.
There's already Oscar buzz surrounding Blunt's performance, but back in 2017 when Yahoo visited Shepperton Studios to see the film being made, awards glory was far from everyone's mind.
The cast and crew were all focussed on reinventing the beloved P.L. Travers character for the 21st century.
From the principal filmmakers we found out how Poppins is being updated for Mary Poppins Returns from the ground (well, the shoes at least) up.
Mary's unseen legacy
Emily Blunt receives instructions from director Rob Marshall on the set of Mary Poppins Returns. (Disney)
British author P.L. Travers published eight Mary Poppins books between 1934 and 1988. The original 1964 Mary Poppins adapted the stories from the first four books into one feature-length film, with input from Travers who demanded script approval (see Saving Mr Banks for that story), leaving four books still to be adapted.
Director Rob Marshall says Disney tried to adapt the other stories for a sequel in the 1980s, but faced pushback from the author, who eventually passed away in 1996, aged 96.
"P.L. Travers wrote eight books throughout the course of her life, so there was so much material," explains Marshall. "And I know that in the '80s for instance, when Jeffrey Katzenberg was at Disney, I know they explored the possibility of doing a sequel, and why wouldn't you, especially with all of this material? But, as we famously know, P.L. Travers was very protective of the material so it was always very difficult to try and make happen."
This image released by Disney shows Emma Thompson as author P.L. Travers in a scene from "Saving Mr. Banks." (AP Photo/Disney, François Duhamel)
A remake was out of the question, so the logical decision was to turn to the other books for inspiration for a sequel.
"What we found in her books was really a treasure trove of new characters and episodes," producer Marc Platt told us. "And we realised that we could bring the sequel, our own version and our own story, a original story of Mary Poppins all these years later in a very exciting way, but that we could draw upon the original source."
"In addition to working with all the new material, the new adventures from PL Travers," adds Marshall, "we actually set the film in the era when the books were originally written, which is in the '30s, London's depression era."
David Magee, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Life of Pi and Finding Neverland, was then brought in to give life to this new Poppins adventure.
There's something about Mary
The filmmakers insist they only had one name in mind to play the title role: Emily Blunt. Marshall and Platt "fell in love" with the 35-year-old Brit on another Disney musical, 2014's Into The Woods, and they both instinctively knew she would be a practically perfect as Poppins.
"There's quite a list of things you must be able to do to play Mary Poppins," says Marshall. "You need to be a great actor, but there's also a humanity in the character."
"Underneath there has to be a warmth and an accessibility and joy and humour, so it was so important to find an actor who could do those things. But she also needed to sing and dance, which is very rare these days. And I thought it was important that she be British because it's such an iconic British character."
"What [Emily] does with the role is what we're trying to do with the film throughout, which is have a foot in the original source, a nod to it, if you will," adds Platt. "Sort of realise the tropes of the original, but move it forward into a contemporary sense of storytelling and tell the story our way with our personality, our sensibilities."
Emily Blunt was hand-picked to play P.L. Travers' iconic character (Disney)
Mary's return is precipitated once again by the Banks children: Jane and Michael. Emily Mortimer and Ben Whishaw play the siblings as adults, and just like the original, Mary is needed to bring some magic into their lives: something we could all do in these turbulent times.
"What you realise is that the magic, the hope, the optimism, the connectivity that Mary Poppins brings as a character to the family, and the world around her, is really what I think people are yearning for in their lives," says Platt.
"I do remember [the original film] very fondly and took such a great comfort in it as a child," adds Blunt. "That was something that struck me of that person coming in and so capable and so magical, and just sweeping it all up and making it right. I took a lot of comfort in that as a child, so I think we are trying to, obviously, continue that now too with our film."
Top of the Poppins
Costume designer Sandy Powell arrives at the UK Premiere of The Favourite during the London Film Festival, in London, Britain October 18, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
With the story and Blunt in place, Disney set about framing Mary in the best way possible with Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell – who previously dressed the star in Young Victoria – hired to update the nanny's iconic wardrobe.
Powell told us she rewatched the original just once as a refresher, before leaping into all new designs "because the idea wasn't to go and copy anything specifically, but I think we needed to maintain the essence of the look of Mary Poppins."
"The first thing to think about, and probably the most daunting task, was what Mary's arrival outfit is, as it's the look that we're going to remember her for," shared Powell. "So, thinking back to the original and what you notice most about the original look is the silhouette because that's what we all remember seeing is that little silhouette of her coming down with the umbrella."
"The coat was just above the ankle, sort of nipped-in at the waist with a hat and an umbrella. So I wanted to do something similar."
Emily Blunt in her Mary Poppins entrance costume, which was one of the first images released from the film (Disney)
The costumes we've seen so far in the trailers are all instantly Poppins, albeit a bit brighter than we saw her wear in the original.
"The colour – blue – is stronger than it probably would have been for a real governess and brighter than the original, which is navy. I didn't want to do navy because it's too hard and actually reads on camera as black," explains Powell.
"The hat is a typical 1930s shape with a brim and it's not a million miles away from the original. I thought [red] would be a sort of interesting new take on Mary Poppins, a little less rigid."
Although Poppins has many costume changes, Powell says she only has two pairs of shoes, but like the rest of her costume, they're exquisitely detailed.
"The shoes are really important because I'm assuming the shoes are going to be the first thing we see when she arrives. I think there's a moment in the scene with Topsy (Meryl Streep) where there's actually reference to shoes and we get a close-up of the shoes. And then all the dance numbers, we'll be seeing the feet."
Alongside Mary's regular costumes, Powell had to design costumes for the animated sequences too – including ones for the animated animals – that were made to look like they had been hand drawn "to make them sort of fit with the animated world rather than look like they'd been plunked on top of it."
Summing up Mary Poppins Returns Platt said "The film has magic in it, it kind of has everything we'd want from a great big family entertainment: Music, original music. Dance. Laughter. Magic. Animation.
"It will entertain people. It will make people laugh. It will be joyful and it will make people cry."
We are ready, and so are our hankies, for when Mary Poppins Returns to cinemas on 21 December.
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Not sure which tent is best for your needs? Save time researching with a Printable craft tent comparison chart.
When you decide it's time to buy a canvas canopy for your craft booth, there's a lot to think about.
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There are plenty of popular brands that make portable tents that are suitable for use at craft shows, and most of those brands offer several different models of canvas canopies.
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Il s'agit de la lettre E diacritée d'un tréma et d'un ogonek.

Utilisation

Représentations informatiques
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Bibliographie
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Voir aussi
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Lettre E diacritée
Lettre latine comportant un ogonek
Lettre latine comportant un tréma


For example, if you're testing a dynamic website with siege you could (1) give it a list of all the urls on your site and have it rotate among them, or you could (2) pick a representive url and just hit that one repeatedly. Like any synthetic test this isn't completely realistic, but in this case you're missing something pretty important: if you want to test something that uses caching, you need to approximate the distribution of a real workload.
This is kind of a mess, but the main idea is that we have a few "hot" endpoints, and then a long tail of less popular entries. I can use this distribution in load testing, to get something between uniform sampling (option 1) and singleton sampling (option 2) that better represents what real load on the site would look like.
In case this is useful to other people, here's the frequency list (hits-frequency.txt.gz) and a short script to sample from it (generate_urls.py).


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Die Regierung Leburton II amtierte in Belgien vom 23. Oktober 1973 bis zum 19. Januar 1974.  Der vom wallonischen Sozialisten Edmond Leburton am 26. Januar 1973 gebildeten 5-Parteien-Regierung gehörten die flämischen (CVP) und wallonischen Christdemokraten (PSC), die Sozialisten (BSP-PSB) sowie die flämischen (PVV) und wallonischen (PLP) Liberalen an. Am 23. Oktober kam es zu einer großen Umbesetzung der Regierung, die sich weiterhin auf die gleichen Parteien stützte. Die Anzahl der Staatssekretäre wurde von vorher 14 auf sechs reduziert. Nach wenigen Monaten Amtszeit erklärte Premierminister Leburton in Januar 1974 zurück. Nachdem die Bildung einer neuen Regierung scheiterte, wurden vorzeitige Neuwahlen für den 10. März 1974 angesetzt. Ursache für den Rücktritt war die Ibramco-Affäre, der gescheiterte Versuch der belgischen Regierung gemeinsam mit der staatlichen iranischen Ölgesellschaft NIOC in der Provinz Lüttich nahe der niederländischen Grenze eine Raffinerie zu errichten.

Kabinett

Die Positionen des Bildungs und des Kulturministers sind doppelt besetzt mit je einem flämisch- und französischsprachigen Amtsinhaber.

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Haiti: Fostering the Practice of Structural Engineering
Categories: Seismic
Overseeing a construction site in Haiti with a local engineer-in-training
Written: March 11, 2019
Ask most north Americans what they know about Haiti and they will tell you that it is a very poor country that appears to frequently make the news for its exposure to various natural and socio-political calamities. A few of us have a vague notion that it has been politically and economically unstable since the 1970's while under the leadership of a certain "Baby Doc", president Duvalier from 1971-1986. Some might recall that it was recently struck by hurricane Matthew in October of 2016. Most will recall that it was rocked by a devastating earthquake in January of 2010. Almost everyone has seen photos of agitated angry mobs of protestors or densely packed ramshackle housing clinging precariously to hillsides.
Hurricane Katrina (2005) had previously jolted US structural engineers (SE) into realizing that their deep understanding of structures and buildings made them critical participants in emergency response efforts. All of a sudden, NCSEA's SEER committee was on our lips. Where do I sign up? How can I help? Although SEAU's SEER committee never did get called to play a role in Katrina's emergency response, its members remained active organizing rapid evaluation trainings and making its existence known to municipal leaders and first responders.
Haiti's seismic catastrophe hit and the committee's members were ready to help. Unfortunately, just like Katrina, there was no invitation to come help, nor any funds to take us there had there been an invitation. Notwithstanding, the 2010 EQ was a call to arms. As an SE who has spent most of his career designing buildings in areas of high seismicity, and as a native French speaker, the call to arms was a personal one. If I was going to help I would have to raise the money to go, which I did.
It started with a seven-day mission in July of 2010 to assist in the evaluation of heavily damaged schools near the epicenter. This led to other missions and eventually to becoming so involved in the reconstruction effort that between June 2011 to July 2015 I was nearly living permanently in Haiti. Since 2015 I have been able to progressively reduce my commitment to rebuilding Haiti, but not eliminate it. The work is not done.
So, why would anyone choose to do this? In my case, a better question is why would an SE choose to do this? When asked this way, the answer becomes clearer: because Haiti is chronically underserved by appropriately educated and mentored SE's. Haiti's problems are seemingly never ending. It ranks 158 of 168 countries for corruption perception and 163 of 188 for human development. It's GDP is 141 of 194 economies. It is overwhelming to think about everything that needs improvement. But SEs know how to design safe buildings and this knowledge can be shared.
Steel cage confined stacked stone classrooms with transparent roofs in remote communities
Engineering learning opportunities are weak in Haiti. Haitian universities would not qualify for accreditation in North America. There are no adequate labs, few qualified educators, no graduate programs, and certainly no research. Civil engineers can specialize in structures, but they do not study seismicity and EQ design. Once they graduate, they cannot join a professional association that upholds and enforces ethics and standards. There is no professional licensing. If that was not enough, design consulting is practically nonexistent, leaving graduated engineers with one main avenue for employment – construction firms, as job superintendents.
It seemed natural to me that the best way to pass along my skills would be to mentor young graduates, just like I was mentored as a young engineer working alongside my peers, broadening my skills, and by furthering my education.
My commitment to Haiti has primarily been about teaching and showing Haitian engineers how to design EQ safe buildings. I was able to accomplish this by founding a Haitian structural engineering consulting firm, (only the second in the country, then, and now), hiring young engineers and drafters, securing projects, and designing buildings with them. The company opened its doors in July of 2012. In September of 2016 I gave the company to its employees and now act primarily as a technical and business coach. The company, Genie Structures d'Ayiti (GSA), now employs six engineers and one drafter.
In hindsight, the learning curve was just as steep for me as it was for anyone who worked under my wing. Sure, working in French and Creole was different, and adapting to a different culture was an unending effort, but fully grasping the complexities of Haiti's complex and inefficient construction economy was mandatory. Correctly designing a code compliant structure is one thing; ensuring that a compliant design is erected correctly in Haiti is an entirely different challenge and my skillset had to mold itself to the Haitian reality.
When a project is commissioned for design and implementation, the process goes
something like this: an owner/funder publicly or privately announces the project, construction firms respond, the lowest bidder is selected, the winning construction firm prepares a design encompassing all disciplines (which is completed in-house), the owner reviews the architectural elevations, floor plans, site layout, budget, and when approved the construction firm undertakes construction and completes all works themselves. The owner retains the services of a second construction firm to oversee construction and ensure the plans are followed. I use the word "plans" loosely since what passes as "for construction" is somewhere between schematic design and design development level. Typically, neither the construction firm nor the supervision firm understands the plans.
Challenge: building earthquake safe schools with stones and poor quality CMU
A slight and uncommon variation to the standard process is for an architect to be retained to prepare a design and a bill of quantities (BoQ). The architect will prepare a rudimentary set of plans and may or may not employ a civil engineer to design the slabs/beams/columns/footings. The contractor will prepare a price based almost exclusively on the BoQ and fill in the missing design elements.
Take a moment to wrap your mind around the multiple follies that this procedure includes. Surprised? Concerned? Now, picture the typical construction firm as being run by an un-mentored civil engineer, employing 2 to 8 un-mentored engineers (mostly civil), and one or two masons. Worried? Astounded?
Let's highlight some of the missing steps we are used to seeing and take for granted:
No coordinated design process involving multiple qualified specialists;
No competent structural design;
No MEP, nor civil;
No true architectural planning other than basic elevation and floor plan studies;
No peer review;
No municipal review nor building permit;
No subcontractors;
No construction project management;
No competent 3rd party technical supervision;
No certification for occupancy.
Before the earthquake, you could add to this list; A) no design basis, B) no code enforcement, and c) no city planning and zoning. The devastation of the quake exposed the inadequacy and flaws of this system. Haitian building infrastructure (commercial, institutional, public, industrial, residential, etc) was comprised predominantly of unapproved, ill conceived, un-engineered and atrociously constructed buildings, roads and utilities. Following the quake, hundreds of organizations provided experienced design and engineering capacity to Haiti, which has left its mark.
The commissioning and design process have somewhat improved. Haiti now has its own building code. This document is a mashup of the Canadian Code, the IBC, and Eurocode. It is basic and will not evolve, but it is better than nothing. A small department in the government body that oversees public works has been created and mandated to review the technical merits of public buildings. This department is understaffed (2 engineers – for the entire county) by poorly qualified and hastily trained but well-meaning individuals. Also, not optimal, but better than nothing. Geotechnical surveys have increased in their breadth and value. Concrete design is taken more seriously, and the percentage of steel and confinement has gone from completely inadequate to oftentimes overkill, especially since analysis and detailing is still largely guesswork.
Other improvements include the introduction of structural steel. This is usually designed and fabricated outside of Haiti, but some compliant steel structures have been designed by GSA and Miyamoto. Light gage steel is now present in Haiti and used as the primary structural system for structures in most sectors. National schools are now built according to standardized and modularized plans that were developed by Swiss engineers in collaboration with local agencies and engineers. Funders such as the World Bank and the InterAmerican Development Bank are now keenly aware that new infrastructure must be designed according to the process we are familiar with in North America.
Haiti remains a frustratingly difficult place to work and to practice the profession of structural engineering. There is still so much left to do. However, a lot has been accomplished and the foundation has been laid for more positive changes.
Author: Dany Tremblay, SE PE PEng
Dany is president and founder of Canyons Structural, Inc, in Salt Lake City, UT. He has been practicing structural engineering since 1991 and is licensed in the US and Canada. Since getting involved with Haiti's reconstruction efforts in 2010, Dany has participated in hundreds of design projects, including 300+ schools.
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Officials say a fire at a storm-damaged office skyscraper in Manhattan's Financial District has left more than two dozen people with smoke inhalation, including a firefighter. Four people have been taken to a hospital.
The Fire Department says it's not yet clear what caused Friday's fire in the basement of 55 Water St. Its tenants include Standard & Poor's and the city Department of Transportation.
In all, 27 people were injured. The firefighter and most others were treated at the scene.
The building's website says it remains without power after Superstorm Sandy. Utilities have largely restored electricity citywide, but some buildings' own equipment was so damaged they're still without power.
The telephone rang busy at the building's management office. The owner, the Retirement Systems of Alabama, was closed Friday.


Elton John made his first appearance on "Saturday Night Live" in nearly 30 years, providing both hosting and musical guest duties for the April 2 episode. And, though he did a bang-up job, he wasn't half as good as surprise guest Tom Hanks, who showed up in the night's best skits.
But before we get into that, can we acknowledge that something is amiss at 30 Rockefeller Plaza? There hasn't been a political cold open in episodes, and we're starting to wonder if the series is making a formal break from tradition.
So after the curiously non-political opening sketch and a monologue John spent making jokes about gay fatherhood, we got our first dose of Hanks.
Joining Carmelo Anthony and a returning Will Forte, Hanks played the equally clueless brother to Forte's absent-minded sportscasters. KY jokes, however crass, never get old.
Nor does making fun of British TV, like in the night's easy highlight, a layered sketch in which an episode of "Fancy a Jar, Do You?" is interrupted by a BBC News that London is being attacked by a dragon. Cut to Elton John's house, where the only knights left to defend the kingdom are celebrities, like himself and Sirs Michael Caine (Hanks), Bono, Richard Branson and Ian McKellen — in full Gandalf mode.
Hanks sticks around for another "Laser Cats" digital short, and the series' umpteenth snap at the beleaguered "Spider-Man" musical.
After that things settle down into the muddled post-midnight hour, with an appropriately Elton John-y Elton John performance an a Weekend Update featuring Fred Armisen's awesome Muammar Gaddafi (should have been the cold open!), a slightly delayed crack at the Bronx Zoo Cobra and Jake Gyllenaal playing off of Andy Samberg's Nick Cage impersonation.
Topical humor alert! Elton John plays himself again, speaking with the gauche versions of Queen Elizabeth (Armisen) and Prince Phillip (Bill Hader) we first met after news of the Royal Engagement. John really plays along with the Royal slams — including our favorite, "She must be the only Queen that wears Ann Taylor." He best be careful, though. We hear you can be de-knighted.
After reaching the saturation point of Brit-mocking, they return to gay jokes, with a (presumably) fake Logo show about an elderly gay couple talking about movies and bickering. We laugh, somewhat reluctantly, but mostly because this has to be somewhat inspired by John and husband David Furnish's home life.
Then… more gay jokes! For the final sketch, Bruce the Rhinestone Cowboy rides into the Old West on a fickle unicorn, looking for a mojito. We don't know if we're tired, frustrated with lazy gags or both.
But thanks, Tom Hanks. You made the whole thing worth it.


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Of course, regardless of what party is in control, there always seems to be enough votes to pass another law limiting freedoms. Whether Dems or the GOP is in charge, there's always enough votes to pass higher taxes. There's always enough votes to do what the elites want done. There's never enough votes to roll back repressive measures. No matter how many millions the "pro-life" scammers raise, there's NEVER enough votes to repeal child sacrifice (abortion).
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So what's the first thing out of Hogan's mouth after getting elected?
Hogan pledged to do more to work with Democrats in the legislature.
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WHAT WAS HAPPENING A YEAR AGO?
Now that Christmas has degenerated into the yearly Season of Greed, the best thing that could have happened is that Christ's name is no longer associated with it in the world's mind. Christians will continue to keep Christmas in the way it was intended.
The only difference between the world celebrating the Season of Greed and apostates?
Apostates say "Merry Christmas" as they're wallowing in covetousness and sating their flesh.
This time the "V," sometimes known as the Peace sign or the V for Victory sign. It's much older than the Peace movement of the 1960s or Winston Churchill's use during WWII.
People who protest the innocence of this hand sign are basically ignorant of two things: 1- history; and, 2- that so many public figures are photographed using it in a surreptitious manner.
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The Price Of American Eugenics – Eugenics didn't originate with the Nazis. Oh no. Modern eugenics was birthed in the good old USA.
People like Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) were HUGE into eugenics. There are pix on the Internet of Sanger lecturing to KKK members. You thought abortion was just about sacrificing the unborn?
Oh no, there a reason Planned Parenthood blankets the communities of people of color.
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Cobots like Sawyer are an obvious choice as a solution to pressing labor shortages across manufacturing segments including packaging production.
The second in Packaging Digest's series of interviews with collaborative robots vendors in this ultra-high-growth market—one report forecasts cobots growth at an amazing 57% CAGR between 2017 and 2023—is Mike Fair, product manager at Rethink Robotics.
What types of cobot applications are you seeing?
Fair: Collaborative robots (cobots) can be implemented in a variety of industries including packaging, plastics, electronics, metal fabrication, automotive and general manufacturing. They are useful in a diverse range of manufacturing functions and play an important role in automating tasks that previously could only be performed by humans.
The best workflows for cobots include repetitive tasks that tend to strain human workers, or dangerous tasks that involve interacting with other machinery. By automating these tedious, time-consuming tasks, factory workers are free to perform more valuable tasks.
What's the most notable change in cobots since about 2015?
Fair: The whole category of automation is continuing to grow rapidly. The biggest evolution we've seen in cobots across the board is integration with other technologies. For example, Rethink Robotics recently announced the ClickSmart technology (see image above), a solution for end-of-arm tooling that incorporates smart sensing and rapid swapping capabilities. Designed to simplify robot deployment, ClickSmart offers a way for users to swap end effectors in seconds, whether they are Rethink's ClickSmart family of grippers or grippers from a variety of end-effector vendors.
Cobots are also moving into the data gathering sphere, empowering manufacturers to make better business decisions. At Rethink Robotics, we recently released the Intera Insights feature with the Intera 5 software platform, providing critical data insights to manufacturers in real time. Intera Insights displays key performance indicators (KPIs) via a customizable dashboard on the robot's display, making it accessible directly on the factory floor. This data drives more informed production decisions, while saving time and money by eliminating the need to invest in or create another data collection system.
With Intera 5, manufacturers can also optimize cycle time with additional enhancements to Sawyer's vision capabilities.
What can cobots do now or do better they couldn't before?
Fair: I think it's more of a question of what manufacturers do better than they did in previous years—namely, identifying and deploying cobots on the right task. Cobots are particularly well-suited for specific tasks, like packaging, and don't do as well on tasks that require human cognition and dexterity. Manufacturers today have a better understanding of cobot technology, and are deploying cobots in the right tasks to see higher productivity and efficiency as a result.
How has the justification for using cobots changed?
Fair: Industry acceptance of cobots has grown significantly over the past few years as more manufacturers have deployed cobots and seen direct impact on ROI [return on investment] and other metrics. Experts project the market for cobots will reach more than $4 billion by 2023, a figure that shows the confidence manufacturers have in this technology.
One major reason for the cobot adoption trend is the labor shortage that is impacting every industry and geography: Fundstrat Global Advisors says that through 2027, there will be a global shortage of 8.2 million manufacturing workers. With that size void facing them, manufacturers have a strong imperative to find alternative means of staffing their factories, and cobots are an obvious choice.
How much of a factor are those labor shortages in the growth you're seeing?
Fair: I can't overstate this enough: Labor is and will continue to be a major challenge for manufacturers into the foreseeable future. The stats say it all: Ten thousand baby boomers reach retirement age every single day, and 76 million are set to retire in the coming years. Many of those boomers are working in factories, and the next generations aren't interested in working mundane manufacturing jobs.
This trend makes it critical that manufacturers have an alternative labor source. Cobots are a great solution to this challenge, filling jobs on the factory floor that are undesirable, involving monotonous tasks, while freeing workers to perform more valuable jobs.
What's an example of a state-of-the-art cobot installation?
Fair: Cox Container, a plastics blow molding manufacturer, recently deployed Rethink's Sawyer robot in its packing function to address challenges associated with labor shortages and offer high-quality jobs to its workers. Sawyer picks up bottles from a conveyer belt and places them into a custom bin designed by Cox Container. Once the bin is half full, Sawyer is programmed to go to another picking area, select a corrugate divider, place it in the bin and begin filling the container with a second layer of bottles. Once complete, the operator gives Sawyer a new bin to start packing, and the operator finishes the final packing of the product. With Sawyer, the company has reduced labor needs in one packing work cell by 50% and reassigned multiple staff members to more valuable and meaningful work.
When is a cobot a better choice than a traditional robot?
Fair: It's really not a "one or the other" choice; cobots and traditional industrial robots accomplish two very different things. Cobots are a cost-effective solution for manufacturers looking to boost productivity and improve quality of their operation, and are meant to be deployed on repetitive, mundane tasks that integrate with other machines or are completed in close proximity to humans.
Cobots offer the benefit of adaptability, and can be used on multiple work cells or handle a variety of parts, as production needs change, without requiring any extensive programing or engineering.
They also complement the work produced by traditional industrial robots, which are better suited for high-volume, low-mix manufacturing models and aren't suitable for working around humans.
What's the question you hear most from potential users and how do you answer it?
Fair: One of the most common questions we receive is, "What applications can I deploy Sawyer on most successfully?" This is an important question since successful integration begins with selecting the right task. When we hear this question, we reassure the potential customer that we work directly with the customer from day one to help identify the right application and ensure the cobot is used in the task that will provide the most ROI for the business.
What's the biggest takeaway you'd like to leave for readers?
Fair: Cobots are safe enough to work alongside people, easy to deploy and able to perform dull or dirty tasks that must be completed, but aren't very satisfying. Offering a solution to the labor problem fueled by an aging workforce and a new generation that doesn't want to work in manufacturing, cobots provide an effective and dependable way to automate more tasks and increase productivity without sacrificing quality.
Mike Fair is a product manager at Rethink Robotics, where he leverages his in-depth customer experience and customer advocacy to help guide the company's product strategy. Having worked at multiple Boston-area robot companies—and with more than 20 years' experience in mechanical engineering, product support and applications—Fair has traveled worldwide to advance the company's presence in new and emerging markets. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering Technology and a Global MBA with a focus on International Marketing.
See also Cobots in packaging 2018: A debriefing with Universal Robots, published April 2018.


Located 14 km from Cathedral of St. Peter of Alcantara Floresta do Pico - Paraíso verde features accommodation in Petrópolis. Complimentary WiFi is featured. Some units also have a kitchen equipped with an oven and a microwave. A continental breakfast is served every morning at the property. The holiday home offers an outdoor pool. Guests can relax in the garden at the property. Carvalho's Solarium is 15 km from Floresta do Pico - Paraíso verde while Free Flight Ramp of Simeria is 15 km from the property. The nearest airport is Rio de Janeiro/Galeao International Airport 35 km from the accommodation.