COVID-19 vaccine clinic to be offered in downtown Green Bay
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - If you’re still in need of getting the COVID-19 vaccine, officials in Brown County are setting up a vaccine clinic in the downtown area in Green Bay.
The clinic will be offered on two dates in early October at the Sophie Beaumont Building, which is located at the corner of Cherry and Jefferson.
The first doses will be on October 1 and 8, with second dose dates scheduled for October 22 and October 29.
County officials say the Pfizer vaccine will be offered at the clinics.
“Right now, we’re just trying to do whatever we can to encourage people. We’re trying to remove barriers. We know, based on the census tract, that the downtown area actually doesn’t have as high a percentage of vaccinations,” said Troy Streckenbach, the Brown County Executive.
“We also have a lot of service sector employees in this area,” said Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich. “Those folks exposed to more of the public than many others, so this is a great opportunity for them to get a shot.”
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Hot Right Now: Naya Rivera And Big Sean Call Off Their EngagementNaya Rivera, best known for her role on Glee, and her now ex-fiance have called off their engagement.
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The Nigerian Army has provided free medical services for some communities in Kogi State, as part of its Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC)-related activities.
Speaking at the event, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Farouk Yahaya, said the medical outreach, which held on Thursday, was carefully planned to cater for the identified common health challenges of the indigenes in the communities.
This, he said, would enhance the existing cordial relationship and boost the support the Nigerian Army had enjoyed from the people.
The COAS, who was represented by the Commander, Headquarters Command Army Records (CAR), Maj.-Gen. Sunday Igbinomwanhia, said the free medical outreach was in continuation of exercise Enduring Peace II, recently inaugurated by the Nigerian Army.
The COAS said it was in line with his vision of a professional Nigerian Army ready to accomplish assigned missions within a joint environment in defence of Nigeria.
He said that in pursuance of his vision, he has ensured that Army formations and units paid adequate attention to non kinetic aspects of military operations.
While thanking Governor Yahaya Bello for his cooperation, the COAS assured the Citizens of the Army’s preparedness to secure all aspects of the country and her Citizens in partnership with sister security agencies.
Kogi State Special Asviser on Security, Commander Jerry Omodara (rtd) who represented the Governor urged the citizenry to use the occasion to renew their zeal of giving maximum cooperation and actionable intelligence to security agencies that will help in riding the communities of crime and criminality.

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For quite some time, Alfa Romeo was preparing its very own Vision Gran Turismo concept for the Gran Turismo 6 video game and even revealed a number of sketches for the upcoming car. However, it has emerged that the project is dead with sketches and the car’s name being removed from Gran Turismo’s official website.
While it remains unclear why the pin was pulled on the project, the sketch featured above does indicate how unique the Italian concept would have been. The car features an elongated bonnet alongside a speedster body style as well as Alfa Romeo’s traditional triangular front grille.
Other manufacturer’s to have taken part in the Vision Gran Turismo concept project include the likes of Toyota, Subaru, Aston Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Volkswagen, BMW, Mitsubishi and Chevrolet.


Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) has provided information to federal law enforcement and financial authorities about the sales of millions of dollars of stock owned by her and her husband in the wake of a closed-door Senate briefing on the coronavirus in January, Loeffler’s office said on Thursday.
Loeffler and her husband, New York Stock Exchange CEO Jeff Sprecher, unloaded millions in equities in the weeks after that briefing, as U.S. stock markets tanked, even as the two acquired a stake in a popular teleconferencing company whose stock has increased in value since that purchase. The Daily Beast first reported those transactions in March.
In a statement on Thursday evening, a Loeffler spokesperson said the senator “has forwarded documents and information” to the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Senate Ethics Committee “establishing that she and her husband acted entirely appropriately and observed both the letter and the spirit of the law.”
Loeffler’s sharing of that information comes as the FBI probes insider trading allegations against members of Congress who sold stocks in the weeks before the coronavirus outbreak sent markets plummeting. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) stepped down from his post atop the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday after the FBI reportedly served a search warrant at his home and seized his cellphone the prior evening. Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) was also questioned and turned over documentation to the FBI regarding her husband’s recent stock trades.
Federal law prohibits members of Congress from using nonpublic information obtained through their official position to inform investment decisions.
Loeffler’s office did not respond to a request to clarify the nature of her interactions with law enforcement officials.
She and her husband have vehemently denied any wrongdoing. They insist that all of their stock trades are handled by a third-party investment adviser—though Loeffler has refused to name that adviser—and that their sales of stock this year were not informed or prompted by nonpublic information gleaned through her official duties.
Loeffler nonetheless announced last month that she and Sprecher would liquidate their individual stock holdings. Her re-election campaign has since attacked The Daily Beast by name for reporting on her stock transactions in a huge advertising campaign designed to shore up her shaky political standing ahead of a competitive Republican primary election.
Loeffler was appointed to her Senate seat by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in December. Upon taking office in January, she immediately became the Senate’s wealthiest member. She has pledged to spend $20 million of her personal fortune on her re-election campaign this year.
That campaign is pitting Loeffler against Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), a Trump ally popular with grassroots conservatives in the state. Since news of Loeffler’s stock transactions broke, Collins has surged ahead in polls in that primary contest.
Loeffler nevertheless enjoys the backing of political machines allied with Kemp and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.


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Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration: National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners
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GAO reviewed the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) new rule on the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners. GAO found that (1) the final rule establishes a National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (National Registry) with requirements that all medical examiners who conduct physical examinations for interstate commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers meet the following criteria: complete certain training concerning FMCSAs physical qualification standards, pass a test to verify an understanding of those standards, and maintain and demonstrate competence through periodic training and testing. Following establishment of the National Registry and a transition period, FMCSA will require that motor carriers and drivers use only those medical examiners (MEs) on its National Registry and will only accept as valid medical examiners certificates issued by medical examiners listed on the National Registry. FMCSA is developing the National Registry program to improve highway safety and driver health by requiring that medical examiners be trained and certified so they can determine effectively whether a CMV drivers medical fitness for duty meets FMCSAs standards; and (2) FMCSA complied with applicable requirements in promulgating the rule.


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What do we mean?
She calls the 1989 singer “wise.”
Godney, meet Yogatina.
Swedish singer Tove Styrke takes a stab at the classic.
They co-wrote the song, so it only seems fitting.
Xtina readies her next viral video.
See what Christina has to say about Britney.
Melissa Joan Hart recounts a time way back when she asked Britney to grab lunch but was denied because of Brit’s busy schedule. During her appearance on The Meredith Vieira Show today, Hart said she just wanted to hang with 17-year-old Britney, but her schedule was so jam-packed with vocal lessons, dance lessons yadda yadda […]
Spears Clarkson BBQ 2K15 FTW Kelly Clarkson is giving us yet another reason to love her as her promotional “Piece By Piece” campaign pushes forward. On Thursday (February 5), Miss Independent stopped by “Watch What Happens Live” with Andy Cohen and was put on the spot by someone from the Britney Army for leaving “Piece Of […]
Britney wanted to go artsy fartsy for her new album, but instead she’s enlisting the help of Iggy Azalea. Iggy Azalea stopped by Zach Sang & the Gang this week to talk about her exit from social media, how the hip-hop community doesn’t respect her but more importantly her collaboration with Britney Spears.
Christina does a pretty spot-on impression of Britney on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. This had the potential to end badly, but Christina Aguilera kept it light-hearted when she impersonated Britney Spears’ singing voice during a skit on Monday’s Tonight Show.
No Katy Perry did NOT. In her recent interview with Elle magazine, Katy opens up about the extreme pressures of fame and the sense of urgency to stay on top.
Guessing she won’t be missing him like candy! Word is just out singer/actress Mandy Moore will be starting 2015 as a single lady. The “Candy” chanteuse met rocker Ryan Adams in 2008 and the pair were wed on March 10, 2009. 6 years is roughly 50 years Hollywood time so it’s safe to say that, […]
Sometimes being a nasty mommy bitch is a thankless job. Britney Spears, like many straight women (and gay men), saw Jennifer Lopez’s new movie “The Boy Next Door” today and thought 1. Holy shit JLo never ages 2. Ryan Guzman YAAAAS and 3. Holy shit JLo is so amazing [insert crying emoji].


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Our willingness to share content without thinking is exploited to spread disinformation
- Many types of information disorder exist online, from fabricated videos to impersonated accounts to memes designed to manipulate genuine content.
- Automation and microtargeting tactics have made it easier for agents of disinformation to weaponize regular users of the social web to spread harmful messages.
- Much research is needed to understand the effects of disinformation and build safeguards against it.
As someone who studies the impact of misinformation on society, I often wish the young entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley who enabled communication at speed had been forced to run a 9/11 scenario with their technologies before they deployed them commercially.
One of the most iconic images from that day shows a large clustering of New Yorkers staring upward. The power of the photograph is that we know the horror they’re witnessing. It is easy to imagine that, today, almost everyone in that scene would be holding a smartphone. Some would be filming their observations and posting them to Twitter and Facebook. Powered by social media, rumors and misinformation would be rampant. Hate-filled posts aimed at the Muslim community would proliferate, the speculation and outrage boosted by algorithms responding to unprecedented levels of shares, comments and likes. Foreign agents of disinformation would amplify the division, driving wedges between communities and sowing chaos. Meanwhile those stranded on the tops of the towers would be livestreaming their final moments.
Stress testing technology in the context of the worst moments in history might have illuminated what social scientists and propagandists have long known: that humans are wired to respond to emotional triggers and share misinformation if it reinforces existing beliefs and prejudices. Instead designers of the social platforms fervently believed that connection would drive tolerance and counteract hate. They failed to see how technology would not change who we are fundamentally—it could only map onto existing human characteristics.
Online misinformation has been around since the mid-1990s. But in 2016 several events made it broadly clear that darker forces had emerged: automation, microtargeting and coordination were fueling information campaigns designed to manipulate public opinion at scale. Journalists in the Philippines started raising flags as Rodrigo Duterte rose to power, buoyed by intensive Facebook activity. This was followed by unexpected results in the Brexit referendum in June and then the U.S. presidential election in November—all of which sparked researchers to systematically investigate the ways in which information was being used as a weapon.
During the past three years the discussion around the causes of our polluted information ecosystem has focused almost entirely on (…)


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Reddog AOTM, how do you feel about that?
Being a very shy and quiet person I wasn't sure if Trent even noticed me at training sessions, finally all my hard work has paid off, very happy.
What attracted you to the sport of triathlon?
I was training with Trent for Masters pool swimming and being surrounded by Triathletes curiosity got the better of me and I eventually caved.
If you were Reddog coach for the week, what would you do differently?
I haven't seen a Wednesday night dinner at KFC yet....
How much training do you do at the moment?
I try to make most of the squad sessions - about 7-8 sessions a week plus Wednesday coffee & Thursday breakfast
Least favourite session and why?
I wouldn't say least favourite but I find the running sessions the hardest, my right butt cheek gets a beating every time I get passed.
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To be able to eat without putting on weight!
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What advice would you give to other Reddogs who would like to be AOTM?
Keep it fun.
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Next goal is to improve on last years Noosa result.
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MARIETTA, Ga. -- As his colleagues in Washington debated President Clinton's fate, House Speaker Newt Gingrich played host yesterday to a farewell town hall meeting in his district that combined effusive tributes for Gingrich with seething denunciations of Clinton.
At both his forum at Walton High School and at a news conference, Gingrich maintained his distance from the details of the impeachment process, which he has bequeathed to his successor, Rep. Bob Livingston, and to Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He relented to speak about Clinton only when Chris Bennett, a ninth-grader at Lassiter High School, asked him what the next president should do "to restore dignity to the office."
Gingrich responded: "I suspect every person in this room is a sinner. But there is an enormous difference between being human and failing to recognize the responsibilities and the duties you have voluntarily accepted.
"I hope that the next president, whoever they are and of whatever party, takes seriously being the leader of a free people, takes seriously being commander in chief, takes seriously that the Oval Office is the civic center of the American nation. And I think, frankly, any reasonable person who takes those three and does them will, in a heartbeat, will in the opening 24 hours, restore to the White House the dignity, the honor, the decency which it has so clearly lost in the last six years."
At the town hall meeting, the 33rd such forum that Gingrich has held in his district since becoming speaker in 1995, dozens of the 500 people present lined up to pay homage. They hailed Gingrich, who will leave the House on Jan. 3, as a compassionate visionary who made time for his constituents even after the Republicans took control of the House in 1994. With thunderous ovations, they urged him to run for president, which he later said he would not do in 2000.
Gingrich, who announced his resignation from the House last month after the Democrats gained seats in the Nov. 3 election, said he had consulted on Friday with Livingston about next week's impeachment vote.
He urged all House members to vote their consciences. While declining to specify his own views on impeachment, Gingrich emphasized that his withdrawal from the House's leadership had removed a political obstacle to the proceedings.
"For the last month, because I haven't been public, because I haven't said anything, the focus really has been on some issues that are pretty important to the country," Gingrich said with a grin. He acknowledged that he is such "a sufficiently vocal and polarizing personality" that Clinton had been able to use him effectively as a foil. As long as he remained speaker, he said, he would continue to serve as "the excuse."
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I am appalled at the recent comments by Mayor Rex Kenyon of Beverly. It seems that the Mayor believes that motorcycles in the front of an establishment indicate gang activity in his view. I would suggest that the mayor needs to familiarize himself with the tremendous amount of good that the motorcycle community, that frequent his town, do. There are many poker runs that pass through Beverly and contribute tax dollars to the town. These poker runs also raise money for people in need in Beverly, as well as the surrounding community. To be labeled a “gang” member because of riding a motorcycle with other enthusiasts is a monumental insult.
I am also shocked that any mayor would advocate the closing of a legal business in his town. Allowing a mayor to act as moral authority on business would be a very dangerous move. One would have to ask what business is next. I would suggest that the mayor should be friendly to all legal businesses that set up shop in his or her town, and take the time to understand what that business entails.
Finally, I would call on Mayor Rex Kenyon to issue a public apology to the motorcycle community for his horrible and hateful remarks.


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WKOW's Greg Neumann featured Edgewood College’s Dean Tim Slekar and Percy Brown, the dean of students at Middleton High School. They talked about the real problem with education; economic status and poverty.
When Republicans see a problem, they go after the victims. They start at the back end instead of the front. For example:
Tort Reform: Instead of preventing medical errors that result in malpractice lawsuits, they penalize the victims and their families.
Safety Nets: Instead of solving, and encouraging higher pay, job training and education, Republicans penalize the victims of poverty by kicking them off support programs.
Poverty Hurts Education: The same is true for education, where poverty weighs heavily on desperate hungry students. Instead solving the root cause of low scoring students, Republicans decided to go after teachers; that was easier and helps speedup the move to privatize schools.
Through out the interview both guest make it very clear Common Core and testing aren't to blame, it's our lazy politicians. They're are deliberately sidetracking the public with scary stories about CC, instead of doing the job they were elected to do; write laws that try to lift people out of poverty:
The Wisconsin Soap Box did a great article on this show, check it out here.


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The continuous seasons are a series of moments.
For more than a thousand years, people have sung, written about, and painted seasonal scenes.
We bring you the seasons of Japan, blessed with the beauty of nature, in a variety of colorful writing instruments to enrich your everyday life.
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5Rhythms 'Movement Lab’
Sunday 20th May 2018, 12.30 – 5pm
Calling our wise elder self into the dance. In this 5Rhythms workshop we’ll be holding a wise and compassionate space for those bits of our bodies that are heavy, stiff, wobbly, weak or numb. Most of us will face times when dancing feels like a challenge, maybe we’re feeling our age, dealing with ‘wear and tear’ or arthritis, recovering from an injury or treatment, or adjusting to life changes such as pregnancy. We’ll be exploring how can dance the 5R with these limitations, and still find beauty and creativity in movement. We’ll also explore how to use the 5R practice in our self-care, and we’ll find ways to honour any ‘wise wounds’ we bring to the workshop. Both wise and foolish dancers welcome here!
Venue: St Hugh’s, Coach Rd, Bradford, BD17 5HS
Price: £30 (£25 concessions). To book your place contact me (Rose) on 07795253817 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.org
July 15th 12.30 - 5pm
A special treat for the body: an afternoon of listening to and following the wisdom buried in feet, hips, heart, head and hands: unwinding and unravelling, reaching and releasing, sweating, celebrating and honouring. We'll follow the body through Wave after Wave of the 5Rhythms, giving the body what it longs for: loving attention and free movement.
Price: £30 (£25 concessions). To book your place contact me (Rose) on 07795253817 or by email at email@example.com.
Two 5Rhythms Waves:
1pm - 2pm - a shorter Wave for families with young children
2pm -3pm - community lunch
3pm -5pm - two-hour Waves class for the whole family (young children are welcome as long as they can follow instructions!)
Prices and further details to be confirmed.
Nourish: A series of workshops for women
Sunday September 16th - Body, earth and hearth
Sunday October 21st - Heart, fire and passion
Sunday November 18th - Mind, water and community
Times: 12.30pm - 5.30pm
Space to move together with other women, honouring what nourishes us, and allowing one another space to explore what our bodies, hearts and minds hunger for in these complex and demanding times of change and social evolution.
Price: £30 per workshop (£25 concessions) - further discounts available if all three workshops are booked and paid for in advance.
For more details please contact me (Rose) on 07795253817 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.org
Due to the snow in March, I sadly had to cancel March's Movement Lab. This workshop will now run on May 20th in Bradford.
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Release! - July 2018
The WEEKLY Monday class at St Hugh's Coach Rd, Baildon, BD17 5HS continues throughout the year. We start at 7pm and finish at 9pm.
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We slept in the barn which the kindly old woman had placed at our disposal, and in which the hay was deep and warm. At three o’clock in the morning one of the stable pickets came to call us through the window. We harnessed our horses as best we could in the darkness.
An extremely diffused light was beginning to spread over the countryside, and the mist, rising from the meadows, dimmed the clearness of the dawn. We marched on through the powdery atmosphere. The fog was so thick that it was impossible to see the carriage immediately ahead, and from our places on the limber-boxes the lead driver and his horses looked like a sort of moving shadow.
Eventually we reached the little town of Virton. All the inhabitants were at their doors, and offered us coffee, milk, tobacco, and cigars. The men jumped off the limbers and hurriedly drank the steaming drinks poured out for them by the women, while the drivers, bending down from their horses, held out their drinking-tins.
“Have you seen the Germans?” we asked.
“Only one or two came to buy some socks and some sugar. I hope they won’t all come here. Will they?”
“Aren’t we here to prevent them?”
The women’s open faces, framed in their dark brown hair, were perfectly calm. Fat little children, like cherubs sprung to life from some canvas of Rubens, ran by the side of the column as we moved on, and others, a little bigger, kept crying : “Hurrah for the French!”
Our batteries joined up behind a group of the 26th Artillery on the Ethe road — a fine straight highway, flanked by tall trees. In the fog the sheaves in the fields looked so much like infantry that for a moment one was deceived. A few ambulances were installed in one of the villages. A little farther on some mules, saddled with their cacolets, were waiting at the end of a sunken road.
We had hardly passed the last houses when suddenly rifle-fire broke out with a sound like that of dry wood burning. A machine-gun also began to crackle, staccato, like a cinema apparatus.
Fighting was going on quite close, both in front of us and also to the right, somewhere in the fog. I listened, at every moment expecting to hear the hum of a bullet.
What had happened? Where were the batteries which had preceded us? We turned off to the right. The firing ceased. The march in the fog, which kept getting thicker, became harassing after a while. At all events we were sure, now, that the enemy was not far off.
Finally, at about seven o’clock, we halted. Not a sound of the battle was to be heard. We unbridled our horses and gave them some oats. The men lay down by the side of the road and dozed.
Suddenly the fusillade broke out again, but this time on the left. I asked myself how our position could have altered so in relation to that of the enemy. A few minutes ago the fighting was on our right. Perhaps it was only a patrol which had gone astray. I gave up thinking about it. Doubtless the fog had confused my sense of direction.
This time the firing sounded more distant. A single detonation, like a signal, was heard. I thought at first that it was one of the drivers whipping up his team, but a minute later the crackling of rifles broke on our ears in gusts, as if carried by a high wind. And yet the air was quite still, and the fog floated, motionless, on all sides.
Suddenly the sun broke through and the mists disappeared as if by magic, like large gauze curtains rapidly lifted. In a few moments the whole stretch of countryside became visible. The cannonade began at once.
On the right were some meadows in which flocks were feeding, and, farther on, a line of wooded hills, in the lap of which nestled a tiny
On the left and towards the north the horizon was hidden by a semicircle of hills through which a river wound its tortuous course, draining the stubble-fields on either side. A large, bowl-shaped willow-tree made a solitary green blotch on the background.
A battery was evidently already installed there, four dark points indicating the position of the four guns. As we stood waiting on the straight road, the perspective of which was accentuated by the trees flanking it on each side, the twelve batteries of our regiment, followed by their first lines of wagons, formed an interminable and motionless black line.
The Captain gave the order:
“Prepare for action!”
The gun-numbers who had been lying beneath the trees jumped to their feet and took off the breech-and muzzle-covers which protect the guns from dust when on the road. This done, they got the sighting-gear ready, and saw that the training and elevating levers were in good working order.
We were surprised in our work by an explosion quite near at hand. Above the stubble-fields a small white cloud was floating upwards. It expanded, and then disappeared. And suddenly, near the bowl-shaped willow-tree, six shrapnel shells burst, one after another.
I felt an odd sensation, as if my circulation was growing slower. But I was not afraid. For the matter of that, no immediate danger threatened us. Only I had an intuition that a big battle was about to begin, and that I should have to make a great effort.
The gunners anxiously riveted their eyes on a point of the horizon where shells were now falling almost incessantly. Of course none of them would have confessed to their anxiety, but there was a significant lull in the conversation. I do not know what we were waiting for — whether the fall of a shell or the arrival of orders.
For my part I excused myself for feeling apprehensive. The baptism of fire is always an ordeal, and the motionless waiting on the road had worked on my nerves. The enemy need only have lifted his fire in order to hit us as we stood there, defenceless, in column formation.
Besides, such emotions are only skin-deep. Even if anxiety could plainly be read in every man’s face we still kept smiling and inwardly resolved to do whatever might be necessary in order to make the coming battle a French victory.
The Colonel passed by, accompanied by Captain Manoury and a Staff of Lieutenants. He gave us a quiet but searching look, which seemed to gauge our mettle and encourage us at the same time. The small group of horse-men made off rapidly, ascending the slopes which were being bombarded by the enemy.
We were going into action.
On the side of the horseshoe-shaped ring of hills sections of infantry were deploying and advancing by successive rushes. Of a sudden men rose up and ran across the fields, and again as suddenly, at an inaudible word of command, threw themselves down, disappearing from view like so many rabbits. They went on farther and farther, and at last we saw their outlines silhouetted against the sky-line as they crossed the ridge of the hill.
It was about ten o’clock, and very hot. From the unknown country on the other side of the hills came the awe-inspiring roar of battle. The rifle-fire crackled continuously and the noise of the machine-guns sounded like waves beating against the rocks. The thunder of the heavy guns drowned, so to speak, the general din, and blended it into a single roar, similar to that of the ocean in a storm, when the waves gather and break with dull thuds amid the shriek of the wind as it lashes the waters.
The battle-line seemed to lie from east to west, the Germans holding the north and the French the south.
First we had to cross a meadow traversed by a stream almost hidden in the high grass. The gunners took the off-horses by the bridle and urged them forward, while the drivers whipped up their teams into a trot. The sun was shining under the wheels of the ammunition wagon as it suddenly proved too much for the horses and sank heavily up to the axle in the mud. It was eventually dislodged by some strong collar-work.
Where on earth were we going to? We seemed to be bound for the bowl-shaped willow-tree, near the heights from which the German machine-guns, for more than two hours, had been riddling every square inch of ground. Why were we being sent there? Were there not plenty of excellent positions on the hills? We should inevitably be massacred! But still the column advanced at a walking pace towards the sloping field in which shells were falling at every moment.
Why? Why? Death had reigned supreme there ever since the fog lifted. We were riding into the Valley. . . .
I felt a choking sensation grip my throat. And yet I was still capable of reasoning. I understood quite clearly that the hour was come for me to sacrifice my hfe. All of us would go up, yes! — but few would come back down the hill!
This combination of animality and thought which constitutes my life would shortly cease to be. My bleeding body would lie stretched out on the field; I seemed to see it. A curtain seemed to fall on the perspectives of the future which a moment ago still seemed full of sunshine. It was the end. It had not been long in coming, for I am only twenty-one.
Not for an instant did I argue with myself or hesitate. My destiny had to be sacrificed for the fulfilment of higher destinies — for the life of my country, of everything I love, of all I regretted at that moment. If I was to die, well and good 1 I was willing. I should almost have thought that it was harder ! . . .
We continued to advance at a walking pace, the drivers on foot at their horses’ heads. Presently we reached the willow-tree. A volley. . . . From far off came a sound at first resembling the whirr of wings or the rustle of a silken skirt, but which rapidly developed into a droning hum like that of hundreds of hornets in flight. The shell was coming straight at us, and the sensation one then experiences is indescribable. The air twangs and vibrates, and the vibrations seem to be communicated to one’s flesh and nerves — almost to the marrow of one’s bones. The detachment crouched down by the wheels of the ammunition wagon and the drivers sheltered behind their horses. At every moment we expected an explosion. One, two, three seconds passed — an hour. The instinct of self-preservation strong within me, I bent my shoulders and waited, trembling like an animal flinching from death. A flash! It seemed to fall at my feet. Shrapnel bullets whistled by like an angry wind.
But the column still remained motionless in the potato-field, which was so riddled by gun-fire that it was difficult to steer the vehicles between the shell craters.
Why were we waiting? How we wished that we could at least take up a position and reply to the enemy’s fire! It seemed to me that if only we could hear the roar of our .75’s the dread of those deathly moments would become less intense. But we seemed to be merely awaiting slaughter; the minutes dragged by and we still remained motionless.
Some shells, which for a moment I thought had actually grazed the limber, hurtled by and shook me from head to foot, making the armour behind which I was sheltering vibrate. Fortunately the ground was considerably inclined, and the projectiles burst farther back. I perspired with fear. . . . Yes, I was badly frightened. Nevertheless I knew that I should not run away, and that I should, if necessary, let myself be killed at my post. But the longing for action grew more and more insistent.
At last we started off again, progressing with difficulty across the furrowed field. The drivers could hardly manage their horses, which had been seized with panic and pulled in all directions.
Hutin gave me a nod:
“You are quite green, old chap!” he said.
“Well, if you could see your own face …” I answered.
A shell fell, throwing up a quantity of earth in front of the horses and wounding the centre driver of the ammunition wagon in the head,
killing him instantly.
Near the crest of the hill we took up our position on the edge of an oat-field. The limbers went off to the rear to shelter somewhere in the direction of Latour, the steeple of which could be seen overtopping the trees in the valley on our left. Crouching behind the armoured doors of the ammunition wagons and behind the gun-shields, we awaited the order to open fire. But the Captain, kneeling down among the oats in front of the battery, his field-glasses to his eyes, could discover no target, for yonder, over the spreading woods of Ethe and Etalle, now occupied by the enemy, a thick mist was still floating. All round us, behind our guns, over our heads, and without respite, high-explosive and shrapnel shell of every calibre kept bursting and strewing the position with bullets and splinters. Death seemed inevitable. Behind the gun was a small pit in which I took refuge while we waited for orders. A big bay saddle-horse, with a gash in his chest from which a red stream flowed, stood motionless in the middle of the field.
What with the hissing and whistling of the shells, the thunder of the enemy’s guns, and the roar from a neighbouring 75 battery, it was impossible to distinguish the different noises in this shrieking inferno of fire, smoke, and flames. I perspired freely, my body vibrating rather than trembling. The blood seethed in my head and throbbed in my temples, while it seemed as if an iron girdle encircled my chest. Unconsciously, like one demented, I hummed an air we had been singing recently in the camp and which haunted me.
Trou la la, ga ne va guere;
Trou la la, ca ne va pas
Something brushed past my back. At first I thought I was hit, but the shell splinter had only torn my breeches.
The battery became enveloped in black, nauseating smoke. Somebody was groaning, and I got up to see what had happened. Through the yellow fog I saw – Sergeant Thierry stretched on the ground and the six numbers of the detachment crowding round him. The shell had burst under the chase of his gun, smashing the recoil-buffer, and effectually putting the piece out of action.
Kneeling side by side. Captain Bernard de Brisoult and Lieutenant Hely d’Oissel were scanning the horizon through their field-glasses. I admired them. The sight of these two officers, and of the Major who was quietly strolling up and down behind the battery, made me ashamed to tremble. I passed through a few seconds of confused but intense mental suffering. Then it seemed as though I was awakening from a sort of feverish delirium, full of horrible nightmares. I was no longer frightened. And, when I again took shelter, having nothing else to do as we were not firing, I found I had overcome my instincts, and no longer shook with fear.
A horrible smell filled the pit.
“Phew!” I ejaculated hoarsely, “what a stink!”
Peering down I perceived Astruc in the bottom of the hollow. In a voice which seemed to come from the bowels of the earth he replied:
“All right, old son ! Don’t you worry . . . it’s only me. I’m sitting in a filthy mess here, but all the same I wouldn’t give up this place for twenty francs!”
Over the crest of the hill came some infantry in retreat. The sound of the machine-guns approached and eventually became distinguishable from the roar of the artillery.
The enemy was advancing and we were giving way before them. Shells continued to fly over us, and entire companies of infantry fell back.
The officers consulted together.
“But what are we to do ? . . . There are no orders … no orders,” the Major kept repeating.
And still we waited. The Lieutenant had drawn his revolver and the gunners unslung their rifles. The German batteries, possibly afraid of hitting their own troops, ceased firing. At any moment now the enemy might set foot on the ridge.
The order was quickly carried out.
We had to carry Thierry, whose knee was broken, with us. He was suffering horribly and implored us not to touch him. In spite of his protests, however, three men lifted him on to the observation-ladder. He was very pale, and looked ready to faint.
“Oh!” he murmured. “You are hurting me! Can’t you finish me?”
The rest of the wounded, five or six in number, hoisted themselves without assistance on to the limbers and the battery swung down the Latour road at a quick trot.
We had lost the battle. I did not know why or how. I had seen nothing. The French right must have had to retire a considerable distance, for, ahead to the south-east, I saw shells bursting over the woods which that morning had been some way behind our lines. We were completely outflanked, and I was seized with qualms as to whether our means of retreat were still open. We crossed the railway, some fields, and a river in succession, and approached the chain of hills, wooded half-way up their slopes, which stretched parallel to the heights the army had occupied in the morning. These were doubtless to be our rallying positions. The drivers urged their horses onwards while the gunners, who had dismounted from the limbers in order to lighten the load, ran in scattered order by the side of the column. The narrow road we were following was badly cut up, the stones rolling from under the horses’ hoofs at every step. Half-way up the steep incline we found the way barred by an infantry wagon which had come to a standstill. A decrepit white horse was struggling in the shafts. The driver swore and hauled at the wheels, but the animal could not start.
One of the corporals shouted out: “Now then, get on, can’t you?”
Get on! … As if he could! The driver, without leaving hold of the wheel which he was preventing from going backwards, turned a distracted face towards us, almost crying with, baffled rage.
“Get on? How am I to get on?” We lent him a hand and succeeded in pushing his wagon into the field so that we could pass.
It was about two o’clock in the afternoon, and the heat was stifling. The battle seemed to have come to an end, and the only gun-shots audible came from far away on the left, near Virton and St. Mard.
The column stretched out in a long black line on the hill-side as we crawled upwards through the woods crowning the summit in order to find a road by which we might gain the plateau. The horizon gradually opened out before us. Suddenly, from the direction of Latour, a machine-gun began to crackle; I hurriedly lifted my hand to my ear like one who drives away a buzzing wasp.
“They’re firing at us!” cried Hutin.
Bullets began to hum past. Machine-guns had opened fire on us from the top of the positions we had just vacated. One of the horses, wounded, fell to its knees and was promptly unharnessed. A gunner, shot through the thigh, nevertheless continued to march.
Close by, in a valley where we were sheltered from the fire, we found a spot where one corner of the field cut a wedge out of the forest. Here we parked our three batteries and waited for orders. I saw at once how critical our position was. There was no road leading to the plateau through the wood, and several vehicles of the 10th Battery, which had ventured to try a bridle-path, soon found it impossible either to advance or go back.
One of the guns had sunk up to the axle in the muddy ground. The only means of retreat, therefore, was to cross the bare fields on the right or left and once again run the gauntlet not only of the machine-guns, but also, perhaps, of the enemy’s field artillery, which by now had had time to come up. The longer we waited the more problematical became our chances of escaping unscathed.
Besides, I could not help wondering how long the route across the plateau was likely to remain available. We were already out-flanked, and in front of us the Germans were still advancing down the crescent-shaped hills. They had doubtless already occupied Latour.
The Major still waited for orders. He hardly spoke a word, but every now and then his jaws contracted spasmodically — a sign of nervousness we soldiers knew well. He was “cracking nuts,” as the men say. He had dispatched a corporal to ask for instructions, but no one knew where the Staff was likely to be found at that hour. The army was in full retreat.
Eventually a dragoon galloped up and drew rein in front of our officers. We anxiously crowded round him. He brought information that the retreat of the army was being effected on the right by the Ruettes road. The enemy, he said, had already taken Latour, and was advancing towards Ville-Houdlemont.
The column immediately leapt into life. Lieutenant Hely d’Oissel, riding on alone ahead, showed us the way. Again the machine-guns broke out in the distance, but this time no bullets whistled past us. For a few moments we were stopped by a paling, which we broke down with our axes. The open space we had to cross was short — a meadow capping the rising ground between the trees. We eventually reached Ruettes by a narrow lane on both sides of which rose steep banks.
Near the church stood a General without any Staff, and accompanied solely by three Chasseurs.
The Tellancourt road was a veritable river.
In the breathless hurry and bustle of the retreat we had to make our way through the crowd by force. Such battalions as still possessed their Majors went on in front with the artillery column. And, tossed about from right to left Hke bits of cork in the swirl of a current, dragged this way and that in the eddies, sometimes pushed into the ditch, and sometimes carried off their feet by the torrent, the tattered remnants of troops surged down the road. Wounded, limping, many without rifle or pack, they made slow progress. Some made an effort to climb upon our carriages, and either hoisted themselves on to the ammunition wagons or let themselves be dragged along like automata.
While the retreat of the infantry divisions continued along the highway, we turned off down a steep road to the right and reached the plateau. The day was drawing to a close, and the shadow of the thick woods at Gueville, between us and the sun, was projected on to the side of the next hill. Here there were no stragglers, but the ditches were full of wounded, resting for a moment before continuing the painful ascent. Many of them looked as though they would never get up again. Some were lying half hidden in the grass.
There was already something skull-like about their faces; the eyes, wide open and bright with fever, stared fixedly from out their sunken sockets as though at something we could not see. Their matted hair was glued to their foreheads with sweat, which slowly trickled down the drawn, emaciated faces, leaving white zigzag furrows in the dirt of dust and smoke. Hardly one of the wounded was bandaged, and the blood had made dark stains on their coats and splashed their ragged uniforms. Not a complaint was to be heard. Two soldiers, without packs or rifles, were trying to help a little infantryman whose shoulder had been shattered by a shell, and who, deathly white and with closed eyes, wearily but obstinately shook his head, refusing to be moved. Others, wounded in the leg, still managed to hobble along with the aid of their rifles, which they used as crutches. They implored us to find place for them on the carriages.
We contrived to make room for them on the limbers. At every bump and jolt a big bugler, whose chest had been shot clean through by a bullet, gave a gasp of pain.
In the fields by the roadside lay torn and gaping packs, from which protruded vests, pants, caps, brushes, and other items of kit. The road itself was littered with boots, mess-tins, and camp-kettles crushed by the wheels and horses’ hoofs, shirts, bayonets, cartridge belts with the brass cases shining in the dust, kepis, and broken Lebel rifles. It was a sight to make one weep, and, despite myself, my thoughts went back to the retreat of August 1870, after Wissemboiurg and Forbach. . . . And yet for a month past we had heard continually of French victories, and had almost begun to picture Alsace reconquered and the road into Germany laid open. Nevertheless, at the first attack, here was our army routed ! With some astonishment I realized that I had taken part in a defeat.
We reached the edge of the Gueville woods, which were being defended by the 102nd Infantry. Arms and equipment still bestrew the road, which had also been cut up into ridges by the artillery and convoys. The wounded on our lurching and jolting wagons looked like men crucified.
I questioned the big bugler:
“Shall we stop? Perhaps this shakes you too much? ”
“No! Anything rather than fall into their hands.”
“Yes, but still . . .”
“No, no— that’s all right.”
And he bit his lips to avoid crying out. I was very tired, and my head felt at the same time heavy and yet light. My one desire was to sleep, no matter where.
Hardly were we out of the wood when the battery halted in a field full of wheat-sheaves near a village called La Malmaison. I threw myself down on some straw. If we stayed there we should certainly not even be able to sleep; the enemy was too close, and we should probably be attacked at night. And my one thought was to sleep, to get far enough away to sleep. I waited for the prophetic order “Unharness!” which would leave us in this field to fight again in an hour’s time — perhaps at once. But other orders arrived, and off we rumbled once more,
through La Malmaison, which we found congested with troops in disorder. Night fell. I had now reached the extreme limits of fatigue and began to be less conscious of what was going on around me. As if in a dream I saw the men huddled on the limber-boxes, their heads rolling on their shoulders, and the drivers lurching from side to side on their horses like drunken men. I still seem to hear a gunner of the 26th Artillery, who, sitting on the ammunition wagon, was telling how the three batteries which preceded us this morning on the road to Ethe were caught by the German machine-gun fire and taken in column formation, and how he himself had been able, thanks to the fog, to escape almost alone.
We went on through the night, our wagons creaking and ratthng with a sound almost like a sort of cannonade. One of the whips was dragging. . . . For a moment I thought I heard a machine-gun. . . . What an obsession! . . . The column rolled on through the darkness, the monotonous rumble of the wheels unbroken by an order or word of any kind.
About midnight, after a very long march, we again reached Torgny, and encamped there. The roll was not even called. I threw myself face-downwards on some hay in a barn, and it seemed to me, as I fell asleep, that I was dying.

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This is my first experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro’s surface replicator. The surface replicator uses 2 genesis figures with a walking nonlinear animation clip attached to a terrain object. Then I applied a Distance fog atmosphere.
Is there a way to get the figures to follow the contour of the terrain using the Carrara 8.5 Pro’s surface replicator?
I thought about it a bit more, and my experiences with creating walk cycles. If you have your figure selected you will see the bounding box. If the box stretches as the figure walks forward that me be the cause of the figure not following the terrain.
A possible solution is to keyframe the hot point’s position through the cycle so that it remains with the figure’s feet. The potential problem is that the hot point is the reference point that the surface replicator uses to place the object on the terrain, so you may end up with a figure walking in place.
The hotpoint is at the default position at the feet of the genesis figure.
I thought that it wasn’t possible, as it makes sense that the surface replicator only sets the start point. Also if it was possible there would be a bunch of samples out on the internet. It does work very well on flat surfaces, so I will just keep experimenting with the surface replicator within it’s limitations.
If you would like to have the drama of people on different elevations, you could set up two flat areas. One at a lower elevation and one at a slightly higher elevation, then use two replicators with their own distribution maps. One for each flat area.
That is probably the best way to go. A lot can be done with a little creativity within the limitations. Have you ever tried using a shader for placement? Where objects will be placed on white and nor object will appear on black?
Yep! All the time. You can paint it in a 2D graphics app, or if you have Carrara Pro, you could paint it using 3D Paint. The nice thing about surface replicators is that you can apply as many to the surface you want. I have a terrain in a scene that I’m working on that has no less than six replicators, each with their own distribution map. My plan is to add a seventh.
It can be done, but it requires some manual labor. You have to create real instances and adjust the hight from each character. This can be done, because the upper parent is not included in the NLA clip.
This is my second experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro’s surface replicator. The surface replicator uses 4 genesis figures with a walking nonlinear animation clip attached to a plane. Then I applied Stonemason’s Urban Sprawl in the background. The figure are distributed with variable starting rotations. There are lots of problems with this method, but it does produce some interesting results very quickly.
evilproducer’s comments and your stuff on ShareCG have been very helpful with all my annoying questions about Carrara.
I like Pjotter’s suggestion to create real instances and adjust the height from each character.
PySwarm looks like it can been very powerful and you have been doing fantastic work on it. All the PySwarm examples started me thinking about this subject. I downloaded the plug-in but I haven’t had much luck with it yet (more experiments are needed). But it led me to thinking about the surface replicator and NLA clips. I am not on any time frame, as theses are quick daily experiments to understand Carrara better. I think next weeks daily experiments are going to be with PySwarm. =)
This is another quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro’s surface replicator. The surface replicator uses 4 genesis figures with 4 different cheering nonlinear animation clips attached to a multilevel object. The figures are distributed with variable sizes and starting rotations.
There are still lots of problems. Mainly I think I need to make the NLA’s loop correctly.
Another day, another quick experiment with Carrara 8.5 Pro’s surface replicator. The surface replicator uses 4 genesis figures with 4 different cheering nonlinear animation clips attached to a multilevel object. The figures are distributed with variable sizes and starting rotations. This time I created better looping clips. Still lots of problems, I think there needs to be more base figures and different movements so that they don’t stand out as distractions.
I thought I would post these experiments because people might want to see my mistakes so they don’t have to recreate them. As always feedback is greatly appreciated.
Of course I am still several months away (realistically) of getting this feature added. No idea your timeframe for what you want….
If you find a working solution, please post what you find!
This is certainly the way that I intend to do this stuff. Otherwise, when it comes to replicating animated people, yes… you need to make sure that you either use a quite a few of them to make for less repetition, or actually replicate much less of them and then add other people doing other things. I cannot wait for PySwarm to get its walk cycler. That will change the whole world as we know it!
Thanks for the feedback,
PySwarm looks like it will revolutionize the way people use Carrara. Using python in Carrara is a dream come true.
I have been viewing too much information about Massive’s crowd simulations and 3dsMax 2014’s crowd simulations and dreaming of the day Carrara has such features. But Carrara has built in features that are could be very powerful in this area with a little ingenuity without the high price of both those programs. =)
I don’t have an answer to the emitters/NLA question, but… as for Massive… wow!
But you’re right. That’s the sort of reasoning that draws me towards PySwarm as well. Massive… did you even look into the price tag on that? There’s the initial cost and then there’s the maintenance. I guess it was made for those who can afford (or will afford) that sort of thing in the first place. After all… it really does some great things and took a lot of hard time to develop.
Looking at everything that FD is doing for his PySwarm for free… I hope that there will someday be a way that we can pay him as well for his efforts.
Unfortunately the surface replicator won’t animate copies to follow a terrain, but the copies will move in place with a terrain or objects that are deformed or morphed.
For instance. You can create two similar size vertex grid objects. Deform one of them to make a simple terrain using the assemble room magnet deformer(Animation->Create Deformer->Magnet). Use the second grid object as a surface replicator source object.
Once you replicate the copies needed on the second grid object, attach it to the magnet of the other(Animation->Attach Deformer). Make the second grid object invisible and then animate through the magnets Zone.
If both grids are setup on the same axis planes it should appear that the replicated copies of the second grid object are moving along the other objects deformation. Like following a terrain. The surface replicator copies will not be deformed by the magnets. Multiple magnets can be used to deform objects, and most other objects can be attached to those magnets.

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The Arena Singapore
A stylish new spanking sports park which also incorporates Singapore’s first Cafe Football. Refurbished at over $1million, it’s an overhaul of the old Public Utilities Board (PUB) Recreation Club and in the midst of the black and white Colonial-styled bungalows, emerges a wonderful sporting hub, which has been the talk of Singaporeans since it had a soft-opening, beginning of 2017.
Aside from top-quality football pitches, ‘The Arena’ caters to fitness enthusiasts with many other sport activities that ensure an enjoyable time for players and family.
You can check their webpage at http://www.thearenasg.com/
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At Citizens Bank of Edmond, the term “community bank” is taken seriously. The 114-year-old bank is fully committed to strengthening the community in which it serves.
“Our governing philosophy is to be a positive force in our city, so we expect and encourage our employees to volunteer and be involved in organizations that make Edmond a better place to live,” said President and CEO Jill Castilla, who is a member of the fourth generation of her family to hold leadership positions with the bank.
The bank’s leadership actively encourages employees to get involved in the community by serving on boards and committees and volunteering for nonprofits. Citizens Bank of Edmond employees volunteer their time and often serve in leadership roles with more than 60 civic organizations, charities and nonprofits. Those organizations include the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, Hope for Families, City Rescue Mission, the Salvation Army and the United Way of Central Oklahoma, just to name a few.
“That engagement has deepened the bank’s bond with the community and created a new sense of civic pride in our employees,” said Castilla, who herself serves on numerous community boards, including the University of Central Oklahoma Foundation Board of Trustees, Edmond Public School Foundation Board of Trustees and the Peppers Ranch.
In addition, Citizens Bank of Edmond sponsors a number of programs designed to benefit the community, including fraud prevention seminars as well as affordable housing and scholarship programs. Citizens Bank also sponsors Heard on Hurd, a monthly street festival designed to support local shops, food trucks and performers.
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New York City Council Executive Budget Hearing – Youth Services – May 17, 2016
Chairman Eugene and other distinguished Council Members of the Committees on Youth, Finance, and Immigration, my name is Chantella Mitchell, Policy and Programs Associate at JobsFirstNYC, a policy to practice intermediary focused on the issues of young adults, ages 18-24, who are out of school and out of work. Last year, in our editorial, Opportunity Youth Missing from New York City’s 2016 Fiscal Year Executive Budget, we called attention to Mayor de Blasio’s lack of investments for out-of-school, out-of-work young adults. Unfortunately, while the Mayor has proposed several new major initiatives this year, he has again neglected to announce any new investments specifically directed toward decreasing the number of young adults who are disconnected from school and work.
As reported in our policy paper, Unleashing the Economic Power of the 35 Percent, there are 172,000 18-to 24-year-olds in New York City who are neither working nor enrolled in school, and another, 133,000 who are underemployed in low-wage jobs. In his Fiscal Year 2017 Preliminary Budget Address earlier this year, Mayor de Blasio celebrated the fact that the city has seen a growth of 220,000 new jobs in the past two years, the highest two-year gain ever. However, only about 19% of New York City teens are employed – the fifth highest teen unemployment rate of any major United States metropolitan area. Where in the Administration’s strategy for unprecedented economic progress is there an intentional plan to help out-of-school, out-of-work young New Yorkers reap the benefits of these significant financial opportunities?
As is, the Mayor’s budget, not only leaves out any significant new expenditures to serve out-of-school, out-of-work young adults, but it also neglects to budget for the restoration of critical existing funds that have the potential to benefit this population such as, the $4.1 million needed for Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) to serve the same number of youth as last year while adjusting for the minimum wage increase; the $12 million in Council funds needed for a year-round youth employment program; and the $2.1 million needed for the NYC YouthBuild Project Initiative, which serves young adults who have dropped out of high school.
We are calling on the administration to invest in a comprehensive plan to reduce the number of young adults who are out of work and out of school. We applaud the Council’s recommendations that the administration increase opportunities for this population by expanding programs like Work Learn Grow to out-of-school youth, as well as the Young Women’s Initiative that has an intentional plan to serve out of work, out of school young women. However, there needs to be larger investment in alternative employment pathways specifically for this population such as sectoral programs, apprenticeships, and place-based neighborhood initiatives–that include employers, colleges and community-based organizations. We are also recommending exploration and development of a public sector employment pathways initiatives, such as those underway in Minnesota and New Mexico, and an expansion of service model programs, like Year of Service, to include targeted numbers for OSOW young adults
While the de Blasio administration continues to position itself as a champion for economic opportunity for all, the Mayor’s budget does little to meet the great need of more than 172,000 young New Yorkers – a significant portion of the city’s millenials who now make up the largest share of the American workforce. JobsFirstNYC urges the administration to invest in the future economic success of New York City by investing in the city’s future workforce. Thank you.
Chantella Mitchell, MSW, Policy & Programs Associate, firstname.lastname@example.org


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Yes, you. The one reading these words right now. You.
What’s that you say? No, you’re not a racist?
That’s the situation the Tea Partiers find themselves in this week, after claims that during the Obamacare protests on Capitol Hill last weekend, African-American congressmen were subjected to… well, here’s how William Douglas of McClatchy Newspapers described it.
WARNING: RACIAL EPITHET AHEAD, AS IT APPEARED IN THE NEWSPAPER:
Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol , angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted “nigger” Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis , a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s…
“They were shouting, sort of harassing,” Lewis said. “But, it’s okay, I’ve faced this before. It reminded me of the 60s. It was a lot of downright hate and anger and people being downright mean.”
Lewis said he was leaving the Cannon office building across from the Capitol when protesters shouted “Kill the bill, kill the bill,” Lewis said.
“I said ‘I’m for the bill, I support the bill, I’m voting for the bill’,” Lewis said.
A colleague who was accompanying Lewis said people in the crowd responded by saying “Kill the bill, then the n-word.”
Did you catch that last part? As Jack Cashill at the American Thinker points out, there’s some sleight of hand going on here. Lewis himself isn’t quoted as saying he heard it. The “n-word” claim is attributed to an unnamed colleague. Who? Apparently it doesn’t matter who.
Somehow this is turned into the headline, “Tea party protesters use racial epithet against Georgia’s John Lewis.” Not “Georgia’s John Lewis claims” or “Colleague of Georgia’s John Lewis alleges.” No, they make a direct statement of fact that is, based on the story itself, tenuous at best. Some guy who was with Lewis claims he heard somebody yell something. So hey, it must have happened the way he said it did, right? Why even try to verify it? Everybody knows those Tea Party guys are racists.
And we’re not supposed to pay attention to the video clips of the event that have surfaced:
Do you hear what you’re supposed to be hearing? Me neither. I hear “Kill the bill” and that’s it. But it doesn’t matter, see, because the awful horrible rednecky racism could’ve happened before or after what’s shown here. You’d think that, with such a big crowd in the year 2010, somebody must have recorded such a thing. But no. Not that it matters anyway. The accused, whoever he is, must prove his innocence.
Is it possible that in a crowd of thousands of people, one guy said something awful? Of course it’s possible. But just because a thing is possible does not make it true. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Or, in this case, any at all.
Of course, I’m only saying this because I’m a racist, and so are you for reading it and failing to condemn me publicly and with sufficient passion. That’s how this works.
John Lewis is a genuine civil rights hero, there’s no doubt about that. But if he wants everyone to accept his word without question, or the word of his unnamed colleague, he should’ve thought about that before he became a congressman.
For further discussion:
Our own Alex Pappas
Reason‘s Michael Moynihan
And of course: Keith Olbermann


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Our Detailed Guide to Building Model Ship Kits has been designed to help model builders who are building a model ship kit for which we have no specific practicum for. It contains 12 chapters. Each chapter covers a specific aspect of construction of a model ship kit. We have addressed the various designs that we have encountered over the years and how to tackle those designs. NOTE: These are the same books we were offering a printed and spiral bound. They are in PDF format and come on one single CD.
The following chapters are included:
- Building the Framework
- Planking the Decks
- Planking the Hull
- Making Deck Furniture
- Beakhead and Bow Details
- Stern Transom and Stern Details
- Channels, Chainplates, and Outer Hull Details
- Making Yardarms
- Making Masts
- Standing Rigging
- Running Rigging
This course comes on a data DVD and is compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. All chapters are in Acrobat Reader format (PDF).

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Around the middle of the 13th century, German King Rudolf I of Hapsburg gave the area to his boys, and the Hapsburgs ruled Austria into the twentieth century. During World War II, Austria became part of Germany (1938). The Allied Forces occupied the country after the war until 1955, when Austria became an independent Republic sworn to neutrality.
Austria joined the European Union in 1995 and the Euro monetary system in 1999. Austria is a representative democracy.

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View Full Version : Expert poring over long-lost Philadelphia A's records
10-24-2011, 11:14 AM
10-24-2011, 02:42 PM
Less than $200...damn.
10-24-2011, 03:13 PM
Didn't someone find a bunch of old White Sox photographs several years ago that were thrown away?
10-24-2011, 03:54 PM
Interesting how it details how the Depression hit the A's. Outside of the team, I don't know if Mack really had any other substantial income?
Lip Man 1
10-24-2011, 04:35 PM
I don't recall that but I do remember they found a number of items connected with the "Black Sox" situation that had been lost for decades including trial transcripts.
10-25-2011, 12:14 AM
Pretty cool find there.
10-26-2011, 04:21 PM
In 1932, the season after their third straight World Series appearance, the A's payroll was $253,000, Macht said, unsustainable in a year when ticket revenue plummeted by $300,000.
Mack reacted by selling players. Al Simmons, Mule Haas and Jimmie Dykes brought $150,000 in 1932, beginning a downward spiral from which the franchise never recovered.
To the White Sox (http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1933/UCHA01933.htm).
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