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Augustin Trébuchon, né le  au Malzieu-Forain en Lozère et mort au combat le  à Vrigne-Meuse (Ardennes), est considéré comme le dernier soldat français mort au combat de la Première Guerre mondiale sur le sol français. Il était âgé de 40 ans.

Un Lozérien mobilisé
Augustin Joseph Louis Victorin Trébuchon est le fils de Jean Baptiste Trébuchon et de Rosalie Vissac. Il est né au hameau du Montchabrier, sur la commune du Malzieu-Forain. Selon sa fiche matricule, il mesurait  et possédait des cheveux blonds, associés à des yeux gris.

Faisant partie de la classe 1898 (l'année de ses vingt ans), il est tiré au sort pour faire son service militaire parmi les jeunes du canton de Malzieu. Malgré le fait qu'il soit l'aîné d'une fratrie d'orphelins, il est incorporé le  comme soldat de  au  d'infanterie, caserné à Mende, jusqu'au . De 1900 à 1914, il occupe l'activité de berger à Saint-Privat-du-Fau en Lozère, restant d'abord en disponibilité de l'armée active, passant réserviste en , puis dans la territoriale en . Il accomplit ses périodes d'exercices, d'abord en mars- et en  au , puis du 2 au  au  territorial d'infanterie.

Dans le cadre de la mobilisation française de 1914, il est rappelé dès le  à la caserne de Mende, toujours au  d'infanterie territoriale, puis il est versé en renfort, malgré son âge, dans le  d'infanterie le  (ce régiment du  vient de perdre une partie de son effectif lors des batailles des Frontières, du Grand-Couronné et de Revigny). Il passe ensuite au  le , puis le  le , le  d'infanterie territoriale le  et enfin le  le . Il devient soldat de  le .

Tué le 11 novembre 1918
Augustin Trébuchon est, en , soldat de  avec fonction d'estafette au sein de la  du  de la  d'infanterie. Le , cette division française atteint la Meuse, entre les localités de Charleville-Mézières et Sedan (sans s'aventurer dans ces villes). Le soir venu, les ordres de son corps d'armée sont de maintenir le contact avec les troupes allemandes et de franchir la vallée. Les régiments d'infanterie de la division doivent improviser le franchissement du fleuve en crue, pendant la nuit du 9 au 10, le  à Nouvion-sur-Meuse et le  à Vrigne-Meuse, profitant du brouillard. Seul le  réussit, bénéficiant des restes du barrage de Dom-le-Mesnil, mais se retrouve bloqué et isolé sur l'autre rive. Les unités allemandes (comprenant des bataillons de la Garde) contre-attaquent cette fragile tête de pont dans l'après-midi du 10. Les fantassins français passent la nuit du 10 au 11 en restant enterrés, encadrés en cas de besoin par les tirs de barrage de l'artillerie divisionnaire. L'annonce de l'armistice arrive au régiment le  vers  ; les adversaires restent ensuite prudents durant le reste de la matinée, comptant les dernières minutes, même si les tirs d'artillerie et de mitrailleuses se poursuivent jusqu'au cessez-le-feu de .

Augustin Trébuchon est tué à  du matin, soit  avant l'heure du cessez-le-feu décidé par l'armistice du  à . Selon d'autres sources, il aurait été tué aux environs de  et .

Augustin Trébuchon avait 40 ans. Il reçoit une balle dans la tête alors qu'il portait un message à son capitaine. Le soldat Gazareth découvre le corps. Le  compte  et  dans ses rangs au cours des journées des 9, 10 et .

Mention antidatée

Sur les dix Trébuchon morts pour la France pendant la guerre de 1914-1918 et répertoriés sur le site SGA/Mémoire des hommes, seule la fiche d'Augustin Trébuchon porte la mention rectificative du lieu de son décès, l'armée ayant corrigé la première version situant la mort à Dom-le-Mesnil (sur la rive gauche de la Meuse) pour la remplacer par Vrigne-Meuse (sur la rive droite). La mention « Mort pour la France » est antidatée au  comme pour les autres Français morts le .

Le général Alain Fauveau rappelle entre autres les conditions de décès et d'enregistrement du décès d'Augustin Trébuchon dans son livre Le Vagabond de la Grande Guerre, d'après les carnets de guerre de son grand-père, le chef de bataillon Charles de Menditte en poste de commandement au village de Dom-le-Mesnil à cette époque. Dans un article consacré à ce livre et cet épisode, Jean-Dominique Merchet estime que, pour les autorités militaires, .

Le dernier mort au combat ?
Un doute subsiste sur le fait de savoir si Augustin Trébuchon est bien le dernier soldat français mort au combat pendant la campagne contre l'Allemagne (les combats se poursuivent dans les Balkans et au Levant) ; ainsi, selon l'historien belge Jean-Émile Andreux, un autre soldat serait mort, cinq minutes avant , par un tir d'obus allemand. Selon Jean-Dominique Merchet, il pourrait s'agir de Jules Achille (né en 1893, en Mayenne) servant dans le même régiment.

René Richard, spécialiste de la guerre de 1914-1918 et président de l'association « Bretagne 14-18 », a mis au jour en 2017 le décès d'un autre combattant, mort à , soit trois minutes après Trébuchon, qui ne serait donc pas le dernier poilu mort au combat. Il s'agit d'Auguste Joseph Renault, né le , à Saint-Trimoël (Côtes-du-Nord).

Le  parait le premier roman consacré à Augustin Trébuchon, Augustin, du journaliste et écrivain français Alexandre Duyck. Il raconte de manière documentée et romancée les derniers jours de la dernière bataille de la Première Guerre mondiale en France, dans les Ardennes, vus par Augustin Trébuchon.

Un jardin de la mémoire Augustin Trébuchon a été inauguré à Rethondes en 2012.

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Mort pour la France
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I remember reading in Marie Kondo's book, Spark Joy, that in Japan, they don't go on a cleaning spree during spring but rather around the New Year. Which makes sense, clean slate all around right? But she goes on to say that many families don't ever feel like the house is super clean because they only focus on that - cleaning. They don't declutter so the home still feels messy. Have you ever tried to clean the kitchen counter tops with a ton of crap on them? Not very effective.
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If you haven't decluttered in a long time, like a really long time, this phase will take awhile TBH. That's ok though because there is no better time to start than right now. You will still follow the plan but break it down into different days so you prevent burnout.
Starting in one room and one room only, and starting in one corner, begin to remove any items you see that are broken, expired, no longer used or no longer bring you joy (see, I got you, Marie!). The goal right now is not to organize but strictly declutter so do not zig zag around because you found a book in one room that belongs in another. Right now you are only removing things that you don't want anymore and there are three ways you can get them out of your home.
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Have I used/worn it in the last 6-12 months?
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If I do miss or need it again, can I find a replacement easily?
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Higher end items - designer clothes and bags, electronics - that are in good, working condition can make you a little money. Apps and sites like Letgo, Poshmark, Ebay, and Amazon make it super simple to make a sale. Second hand consignment stores are an easier/faster route to go since they do all the work for you but you might not make as much since they set the prices. You have to decide what is more worth it to you - taking time to get a higher bid or saving time by letting someone else do the legwork.
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Blast your favorite, UPlifting music. Just like when you workout, the right music will pump you up to keep going.
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Inmates fear 'the invisible enemy' in Wisconsin's overcrowded prisons
While county jails have driven populations down significantly during the pandemic, state prisons have seen just a modest reduction in inmate numbers
By Parker Schorr (Wisconsin Watch) | May 21, 2020
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Overall, the Wisconsin prison population has shrunk since the COVID-19 pandemic struck — a reduction mostly caused by inmates released after completing sentences and the halt on new prison admissions. Nevertheless, inmates say overcrowding leaves them regularly too close to their peers and staff.
Mia White was stepping off the walking track at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in 2018 when the ground crumbled beneath her feet and her back popped. Her spine, fractured and bulging, deteriorated for months while she begged medical staff to order imaging of her back.
White says her spine became arthritic, and she developed blood clots that burned in the back of her leg. Sometimes she woke in the middle of the night, gasping for air, the result of an enlarged heart. Now housed at the minimum security Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center, White struggles throughout the day to breathe and sometimes verges on passing out. But when her doctor recently suggested she should leave prison to get medical care, she refused.
"I denied it because I was afraid of being put on quarantine, because for two weeks you can't talk to your family," White said. "I fear dying alone."
White, who has a year left on a misdemeanor battery charge, faces a risk of developing complications from COVID-19. She lives in constant fear of catching what she calls "the invisible enemy" in an institution that she says does little to protect her. White prays that she won't be infected by the correctional officers not wearing masks, or the women who sit close by during meals, or her cellmate who sleeps less than 6 feet from her.
Life inside the walls of Wisconsin's prisons has transformed in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. Inmates say there are more frequent cleanings, and they have been issued cloth masks.
No new inmates are being admitted to the state's prisons, although limited admissions are scheduled to resume June 1, Department of Corrections Secretary Kevin Carr told WPR on Wednesday. Admissions will start at Dodge and Taycheedah correctional institutions with an initial cap on the number of intakes per week, although that number may slowly increase in the coming months, DOC spokeswoman Anna Neal wrote in an email to the Cap Times/Wisconsin Watch.
Visitation and transfers have ceased, and library and recreation access have been reduced. Some prisons have gone under a modified lockdown that keeps inmates in their cells most of the day except for showers and phone calls.
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As of May 19, 2020 the Wisconsin Department of Corrections had tested 405 of its more than 22,000 prison inmates for COVID-19, with 34 testing positive. The state says it plans to eventually test all inmates. The DOC updates the testing numbers each weekday.
The DOC has reduced the number of inmates in response to COVID-19 by nearly 1,600. The bulk of this reduction — 1,447 — were nonviolent misdemeanants facing return to prison for allegedly violating terms of their release. They were being held in county jails and at the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility. Another 65 inmates were released from MSDF as part of an alternative program.
Overall, the DOC inmate population has shrunk from 23,436 on March 13 to 22,104 on May 15, a reduction mostly caused by inmates released after completing sentences and the halt on new prison admissions.
ACLU-Wisconsin staff attorney Tim Muth said resuming admissions will increase the risk of a serious outbreak.
"Suspending admissions has been one of the few measures that has actually shrunk the prison population amid the COVID-19 pandemic," Muth wrote in an email to the Cap Times/Wisconsin Watch.
Inmates say overcrowding leaves them regularly too close to their peers and staff; Wisconsin prisons house 25% more inmates than they were designed to. And few prisoners have been tested.
"DOC is working to balance keeping operations as normal as possible, while taking the necessary steps to mitigate the risk of having the COVID-19 virus enter our institutions and spread," Neal said.
But incarcerated individuals say they still lack key protections from a virus that has ripped through prisons and jails in other states. Nationally, as of May 13, there were at least 6,779 correctional officers and 25,239 prisoners who tested positive, according to The Marshall Project, which is tracking prison outbreaks. At the same time, 373 prisoners and 28 employees had died from COVID-19 nationwide.
In Wisconsin, 34 prisoners and 32 prison employees have tested positive for COVID-19 as of May 19. Another 1,047 inmates were in quarantine because of potential exposure to the virus, and 24 were in isolation after showing symptoms of the disease, DOC figures show. No deaths have been reported. But at most jails and prisons in Wisconsin, testing so far is spotty, at best.
Across the country, prisons and jails have become epicenters of COVID-19 infection due to overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions. Seven of the 10 largest outbreaks have occurred in prisons and jails, according to a running tally by the New York Times.
The Cap Times and Wisconsin Watch interviewed nearly two dozen inmates, analyzed data and talked with experts to gauge how Wisconsin had responded to the pandemic in its prisons and jails. The findings:
Outside of three counties that have conducted mass-testing, most jails surveyed by the Cap Times/Wisconsin Watch reported testing few, if any, inmates. The picture is the same in state prisons. As of May 18, the state Department of Corrections tested just 405 of the state's 22,000 inmates — roughly half the testing rate per 1,000 people among the state's general population. DOC announced in early May it would test all inmates in Wisconsin, beginning with its facilities in Milwaukee.
Wisconsin's overcrowded prisons lag far behind county jails in reducing inmate populations, which experts say is crucial to allow for physical distancing. On average, jails surveyed by the Cap Times/Wisconsin Watch housed 37% fewer inmates in May than they did before the pandemic struck. The prison population decreased by just 5%.
In interviews, emails and letters, inmates confirmed prisons have upped cleaning protocols, handed out cloth masks and implemented physical distancing rules where possible. But they said key protections are still missing. Correctional officers go against CDC guidelines by routinely working without masks, and inmates are frequently within 6 feet of each other during meals and in common areas.
ACLU-Wisconsin legal director Larry Dupuis said incarcerated individuals were sentenced to do time but were not sentenced to suffer unnecessary disease — and potentially, death. The organization argues a significant proportion of inmates, many of whom are over the age of 50 or within two years of being released, could be put on home confinement or be required to wear a GPS bracelet. Fifty-five percent of prisoners had two or fewer years left to serve as of December 2018.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in the state Supreme Court in April that asked the court to order Gov. Tony Evers and state corrections officials to reduce the prison population enough to make social distancing possible. Evers, a Democrat, campaigned on a promise to cut the state prison population by 50%, but his administration opposed the ACLU's attempt to force inmate releases because of the pandemic.
The court dismissed that lawsuit, and officials are declining to use mechanisms that Dupuis said could quickly and meaningfully reduce prison populations, including sentence commutations and pardons — which Evers has the power to do single-handedly— and compassionate release of ill or elderly inmates. Evers' office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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Gilman Halsted, left, and Eric Howland from Moses, a prisoner-rights group, participate in a rally near the Department of Corrections building in Madison, Wis., on Jan. 22, 2020, to call for increased safety for people incarcerated in Wisconsin prisons. Since the pandemic, inmates say prisons have improved cleaning, handed out cloth masks and implemented physical distancing rules. But they say correctional officers often do not wear masks, and overcrowding makes it impossible to stay 6 feet away from other inmates.
The Rev. Willie Briscoe of the Milwaukee-based prisoner-advocacy group Wisdom said in a statement that the group is "deeply disappointed" in Evers.
"The governor has the authority to commute the sentences of people in prison, to grant pardons, and even to grant furloughs to people in prison," Briscoe said. "He does not need the Legislature or the Supreme Court in order to safely and quickly move at least 25% of people out of our state prisons, starting with the elderly, the sick and those who would be coming home soon anyway."
Dupuis said time is of the essence, and "There just doesn't seem to be a lot of urgency to get people out."
Early warning system lacking
Testing is an imperfect but essential tool to prevent outbreaks, especially because a significant number of people can spread COVID-19 before showing any symptoms, said Lorraine Malcoe, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
"There are huge numbers of people who are in the population who are infected, transmitting it to others, who look perfectly healthy, and no one knows anything," Malcoe said. "So the only way to tell is to test."
Wisconsin ranked 37 out of 50 states and the District of Columbia for its testing rate of the general population as of May 18, according to an analysis of Marshall Project and COVID Tracking Project data. It also ranked low — 32 out of 39 states with reliable data — for testing people housed in state prisons as of May 13.
More than half of Wisconsin's prisons tested fewer than three inmates as of May 18. Seven prisons did not test a single inmate, DOC figures show.
That story holds true in most of the state's jails, run by county sheriff's departments, except for Dane, Kenosha and Milwaukee counties, which have done mass-testing with help from the Wisconsin National Guard.
Out of 31 counties surveyed by the Cap Times/Wisconsin Watch that provided testing data, just 19 of 2,546 inmates were tested since the pandemic struck. None of these inmates tested positive.
The lack of testing leaves Wisconsinites with no way to fully know how COVID-19 is affecting incarcerated people, Malcoe said. It is possible that the virus is silently spreading in jails and prisons, especially in areas where there is significant community spread.
Mass-testing in Wisconsin and other states support that idea.
At the House of Corrections in Milwaukee, 103 of 623 inmates tested positive as of April 22.
In Kenosha County, 80 inmates at two jail facilities tested positive, or about 20% of the population, plus 17 staff.
At the Dane County Jail, 37 inmates and seven employees have tested positive as of May 15 — including many who were asymptomatic.
The Council of Prison Locals, which represents more than 30,000 workers in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the ACLU called for mass-testing of all prison employees and inmates in response to more than 5,000 state and federal correctional officers testing positive for COVID-19.
"Anything less than immediate drastic action constitutes a lack of regard for the lives of tens of thousands of correctional professionals and millions of incarcerated people and their families," the organizations wrote in a joint statement.
Social distancing difficult behind bars
Physical distancing of at least 6 feet is the "only effective means of slowing the rate of infection," according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. But inmates at 10 Wisconsin prisons interviewed by the Cap Times/Wisconsin Watch said maintaining that distance while locked up is impossible.
Under state law, cells holding two inmates can be no smaller than 70 square feet — or the equivalent of 7 feet by 10 feet — making a 6-foot buffer between inmates virtually impossible.
Shane Taylor, an inmate at Stanley Correctional Institution near Eau Claire, said in a mid-April interview that inmates still eat shoulder-to-shoulder during dining periods. Four inmates eat at each table, he said, with a 1-foot buffer zone between tables.
Taylor has seen a virus sweep through Stanley before when the norovirus infected many inmates on his wing.
"It's going to spread if it gets in, like it did in Cook County," Taylor said, referring to a massive COVID-19 outbreak at the Illinois jail which has reported more than 1,000 positive cases.
'No elbow room'
At Oakhill Correctional, an inmate who wished to remain anonymous said ending library and recreation proved futile because of the prison's broader overcrowding. Oakhill is the most overcrowded prison in Wisconsin, operating at more than twice its 344-inmate designed capacity.
The inmate said he has "no elbow room" when inmates eat meals in the cafeteria, and he sleeps within 2 feet of his cellmate, who has respiratory issues and uses a CPAP machine to draw oxygen when he sleeps. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that people who use CPAP machines sleep alone during the pandemic because the machines could scatter virus-containing particles in the air.
Inmates at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wis., report struggling psychologically under the restrictions enacted after a potential positive COVID-19 case was discovered there. Since then, four staff and two inmates have tested positive. Inmates say they emerge from their cells only for phone calls and showers to curb the spread of the virus.
Inmates at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage said they struggle psychologically under the restrictions enacted after a potential positive COVID-19 case was discovered. Since then, they emerge from their cells only for phone calls and showers.
Raymond Jones, an inmate at Columbia, said the seclusion and lack of socialization and exercise are taking a toll.
Some prisons and jails also house inmates in barracks or dormitory-style settings. Inmate James Holloway said Oshkosh Correctional has stopped day room and outside recreation time, but inmates in his dorm still sleep within 3 feet of each other.
Ron Schilling, 68, an inmate at Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution, calls the Wisconsin Department of Corrections' attempts to control the spread of COVID-19 "patently ridiculous." Schilling has requested clemency, citing his compromised immune system and respiratory issues.
When two inmates from his dorm were placed in quarantine due to suspected COVID-19, Holloway said staff left their sleeping blankets behind.
"The admin locked us in the dorm where it could have spread to the rest of us," Holloway wrote in an email.
In an email, Ron Schilling, an inmate at Kettle Moraine, called DOC's attempts to control the spread of COVID-19 "patently ridiculous." Staff took out every other computer keyboard from the law library to allow for social distancing, yet everywhere else "we have to sit elbow to elbow," said Schilling, who is serving time for a 1975 homicide.
Schilling is parole-eligible and has requested clemency with the help of the prison advocacy group Forum for Understanding Prisons, citing his compromised immune system and respiratory issues.
"The lack of preventative treatment from systemic overcrowding and understaffing is going to be the final nails in our coffins," the 68-year-old Schilling said.
Releases one way to lower risk
Advocates want prisons and jails to allow social distancing by trimming inmate ranks. Wisconsin's county sheriff departments and the DOC have heeded that call, but populations inside the state's prisons have barely budged.
Among the 38 jails that answered a Cap Times/Wisconsin Watch survey or had inmate populations reported by New York University's Public Safety Lab, inmate reductions averaged 37% since the pandemic began.
Green and Chippewa counties saw the largest percentage decreases, reducing their populations by 65% each.
More populous institutions, including the Milwaukee and Dane county jails, released the most inmates. Public Safety Lab figures show the Milwaukee County Jail and House of Corrections populations dropped by 26% to 1,443 since mid-March.
Jails reduced populations by releasing on electronic monitoring inmates who are already on work-release; keeping fewer people in jail on probation holds; working with local courts to delay sentencing; expediting bail hearings; and working with police to limit arrests.
The DOC also contributed significantly to these reductions by cutting the number of probation and parole holds on inmates housed in county jails by 1,229. An individual can be placed in jail on a hold if they are suspected of violating terms of their supervised release.
The Chippewa County Jail normally holds about 120 inmates. It now has just 42 inmates thanks to the reductions, said Capt. Curt Dutton, the jail's administrator. Among the strategies Dutton used was sending 53 inmates eligible for work-release to serve their sentences on home detention.
The Dane County Jail cut its inmate population by more than one-third. Even so, physical distancing is difficult, said inmate Carlos Wilson. In early April, he struggled to stay 6 feet from the five other inmates in his pod, he said. That's still the case, another inmate in Wilson's pod said in an interview earlier this month.
"It's real scary," Wilson said of the jail's conditions. "I just want to make it home to my mother."
Tools to reduce population unused
In addition to shortening sentences and pardons, Evers could grant reprieves. This rarely used gubernatorial power would allow Evers to temporarily suspend inmates' sentences and reinstate them after the pandemic. Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among states that have confronted COVID-19 challenges by issuing reprieves, Dupuis, of ACLU-Wisconsin, said.
Despite campaign promises to slash populations, Evers has yet to order the release of a single inmate during this pandemic. Evers told the Wisconsin State Journal in late April that he would not use his powers to release inmates at that time.
Whether parole would achieve those goals is an open question. Since March 1, the Parole Commission authorized the release of 44 inmates. During that same period last year, 32 were authorized for release, according to the commission.
Wisconsin Parole Commission Chairman-designee John Tate II said in a brief in the ACLU case that he has created a list of about 270 people who may be suitable for expedited release due to age, medical condition and progress in the parole process, but they would have to meet all previous expectations to qualify for release.
"While I understand the gravity and urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to Wisconsin prisons," he wrote, "I cannot release persons-in-custody on a mass-scale."
Mia White, the Ellsworth inmate, petitioned for a shortened sentence due to her medical conditions. The request was denied.
"It honestly scares me on a regular basis because I have two small kids at home that depend on me," White said, her voice cracking. "I just feel like my kids deserve to be able to have a chance to have a mother."
This story comes from a partnership of Wisconsin Watch and the Cap Times. Parker Schorr is a Cap Times public affairs reporting fellow embedded in the newsroom of Wisconsin Watch (wisconsinwatch.org), which collaborates with WPR, PBS Wisconsin, other news media and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. All works created, published, posted or disseminated by Wisconsin Watch do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of UW-Madison or any of its affiliates.
About Parker Schorr
Parker Schorr is a public affairs reporting fellow for the Cap Times newspaper in Madison, Wis. As part of the fellowship, Schorr is embedded in the Wisconsin Watch newsroom focusing on in-depth stories of statewide interest. Schorr joined the Center in May 2019 as an investigative reporting intern. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, holding degrees in journalism and sociology. He has interned for University Communications and worked as an editor at The Badger Herald, one of UW-Madison's student newspapers.
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Are you ready for new year? 2015 is year of the Sheep in Chinese astrology. Before 2014 ends let me share to you my 2015 New Year Preparations to Bring Luck, Year of the Sheep. These preparations are traditional that my family practice through the years which is believed to bring good luck and prosperity for the new year.
Wearing Polka Dots on the night before New Year adds luck for the year round. This is a very popular traditional preparation. They say that if you do not have polka dots, you can wear something blue, yellow, red, and green.
Making loud sound noise as we welcome the new year. The best alternative noisemaker for children is the drum set. They are not only safe but children playing the drums will surely enjoy it. The loud noise or sound keeps the bad luck away.
What are the lucky foods to prepare for new year? They always say to prepare something sweet, foods with sticky texture, colorful, rich in flavor , and round. Our traditional lucky foods this new year are Hamonado, Beef Broccoli, Pansit for long life, Lechone Kawali, Cake, Salad, Arroz Valenciana, Camaron Rebosado, Steam fish, and the lucky fruits. It is believed that it brings a bountiful new year for the family.
Throwing of coins at the corner of the house for good luck. I always do this at home when the new year comes. I have different coins and throw it at the corners even the hard-reach areas of the house. The next day, my nephew and niece will pick up the coins. Finders keepers! I also pick some coins and keep it for the next new year celebration.
For my family's good health, I always prepare something healthy for them. My kids will have special treats like baked goods that I already prepared a day before New year. This New year is one of the happiest new year that we will spend. Why? It is because we are all in good health especially the kids. No sickness, no colds, no coughs! Even my mom-in-law, she doesn't have any sickness this coming new year. I am very grateful! With my kids, I am thankful to their multivitamins Propan TLC for helping my kids with good health tamang lusog 🙂 . There is nothing I ask for. We are so happy and excited to welcome the new year.
There you go. These are my 2015 New Year Preparations to Bring Luck for the Year of the Sheep. Whatever year it is, my family would always do these traditions and preparations to attract good luck and prosperity. It always depends on the person but with my family, these tradition have good effects because it makes us closer together as we prepare for new year. That we look at the brighter side for the coming new year. How about you? What are your New Year's Preparations?
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Early Sunday morning discussion has resulted in j00ru coming up with an idea to mitigate some variants of kernel exploitation techniques by introducing a CPU feature that would disallow execution control transfers in kernel-mode to code residing in user memory area pages (e.g. addresses < 0x80000000 on a 32-bit Windows with default settings). The idea was that the system would mark every page as either being allowed to execute code in ring-0 or not. And hey, guess what... Intel has already proposed such a feature a month ago! Furthermore, it seems that this exact idea was already described in 2008 by Joanna Rutkowska, and two days ago she has published a follow up post on her blog.
The feature is called Supervisor Mode Execution Protection (SMEP for short) and it is documented in the newest release (May 2011) of the Intel manual 3A sections 2.5 (CR4.SMEP flag) and 4.6 (per memory page settings). For convenience reasons, we have quoted the related parts at the end of this post.
Also, Dan Rosenberg has already (May 16, 2011) discussed how this feature will interact with Linux and its specifics. To contribute to the discussion, we decided to do a similar write-up, and describe the implications of SMEP on Windows (and possible ways of bypassing it).
Let's start with saying that SMEP is not supported on Windows, yet - but that is fine, since there are no CPU's supporting SMEP on the market anyway. The obvious question is - how much time will it take for Windows to fully support the feature, after new CPUs are released. Looking back at the NX-bit (introduced by AMD as "Enhanced Virus Protection" (sic!) in 2003; support for Windows appeared in 2004 with XP SP2) we don't think we'll have to wait too long.
1. It is currently an Intel-only feature currently, so Microsoft might want to wait for AMD's reply (well, AMD must implement the exact functionality, or its equivalent in order to stay competitive) just to make sure their implementation is similar / identical.
2. QA and backwards compatibility with faulty drivers that for some reason do callbacks with ring0 privileges to code lying in user memory area. These things will crash - but this is actually a good thing! These drivers should not be used in the first place, since calling code in user memory areas should always be considered a vulnerability. However, we actually believe that there aren't many drivers of this kind (hopefully - none).
Of course, for the purpose of this article, we assume that this feature is going to be implemented.
2. Redirects execution to the prepared payload, by exploiting a kernel/driver security flaw.
This is probably the simplest form of EoP-class exploit, and most commonly used as well. The shellcode residing in user memory results in its address being well known, which saves one the need to calculate/derive/predict its address in the somewhat opaque kernel memory area.
And this is where SMEP comes in - if one cannot jump to user memory, one cannot make use of this scenario.
The first and most intuitive idea of how to execute ring-0 payload without the need to reference user-mode memory pages is to make use of a commonly known user-mode technique called ROP. The general concept of the technique relies on constructing the final payload, using tiny assembly code snippets called gadgets, with an execution-transferring instruction (such as ret or pop+jmp) at the end. The method (being an actual extension of ret2libc) has been extensively used as a great measure to bypass hardware-enforced DEP protection, preventing the attacker from executing memory pages marked as Non-Executable.
In this case we would like to make use of existing code snippets somewhere within the executable pages residing in kernel-mode area. The code doesn't necessarily have to be found in the core NT kernel image (ntoskrnl.exe or equivalent), but any PE executable (or more generally - executable page) present in the high memory regions. The only potential problem one might stumble upon is how to actually obtain the virtual addresses of the kernel-mode gadgets from within a ring-3 application. As present in numerous articles, the above matter is not an actual problem, since any application (with no specific privileges in the system) is able to retrieve the base address of any kernel module. This can be accomplished by making use of either an undocumented NtQuerySystemInformation NT API together with the SystemModuleInformation information class, or a well-documented EnumDeviceDrivers function from the Process Status API interface.
2. The attacker is able to modify the stack pointer, so that it points to controlled memory (e.g. into user-mode memory areas, which are not restricted from being read / written).
Another concept of how the protection can be subverted is an equivalent of overwriting addr_limit with ULONG_MAX, described by Dan Rosenberg. This time the attacker's goal is to overwrite the nt!MmUserProbeAddress global variable, which is used in order to verify whether a user-specified address resides within user-mode memory areas, or not (i.e. the essential ProbeForRead and ProbeForWrite routines make use of the value, usually set to 0x7fff0000).
If it was possible to set the value to a value larger than the usual user-kernel address boundary (which is often true in case of typical write-what-where conditions), the attacker would gain an ability to read from and write to arbitrary kernel memory, thus making him able to directly store the payload in ring-0 pages, and later execute it through a device-driver vulnerability, without ever executing user-mode pages under CPL=0.
Additionally, what makes the technique even more feasible, is the fact that nt!MmUserProbeAddress is an exported symbol, thus its virtual address can be easily obtained by any user-mode application (see steps 3 and 4 in the previous section).
DEP is also applied to drivers in kernel mode. DEP for memory regions in kernel mode cannot be selectively enabled or disabled. On 32-bit versions of Windows, DEP is applied to the stack by default. This differs from kernel-mode DEP on 64-bit versions of Windows, where the stack, paged pool, and session pool have DEP applied.
4. Trigger the vulnerability, and jump to the NormalRoutine (first controlled) field of the KAPC structure.
As previously mentioned, one of the most serious limitations of the technique is that it only works on Windows 7, thus cannot be utilized on neither Windows XP nor Vista (the Reserve Object functionality doesn't exist on older platforms). Apart from that, we consider the technique very elegant and reliable as long as Data Execution Prevention is not extended to other areas of the kernel memory (such as Non Paged Pool); this is, however, very unlikely to happen.
* Ring-0 modules are expected to be passed various types of input data from user-mode. For obvious security reasons, the data has to be moved into kernel memory areas before being processed.
* The Windows architecture allows kernel-information leakage by its design (modules' image base, objects' addresses, kernel stacks' addresses, not to mention leaks caused by WIN32K.SYS). Interestingly, Microsoft has even created documented API interfaces for some of these functionalities, see e.g. EnumDeviceDrivers from PSAPI.
Given the above, any method which results in the storage of attacker-supplied bytes at a known location (most suitably, non-pageable memory pages) is going to effectively bypass SMEP. The statement remains true, for as long as Microsoft doesn't eliminate all information leakage issues present in the system, which – in our opinion – is never going to happen (especially, as the Intel architecture allows such disclosure through SIDT / SGDT / SLDT). A good example of the vendor's attitude towards the impact of kernel-related leaks has been presented in the recent "Subtle information disclosure in WIN32K.SYS syscall return values" blog entry.
While SMEP does introduce some additional level of security, it is still quite easy to bypass.
The add-on value SMEP brings to the game is an increased level of complexity for exploit developers and the fact that old exploits, which use the return to user memory technique, will simply cease to work.
SMEP-Enable Bit (bit 20 of CR4) — Enables supervisor-mode execution prevention (SMEP) when set. See Section 4.6, "Access Rights".
— If CR4.SMEP = 0, instructions may be fetched from any linear address with a valid translation.
— If CR4.SMEP = 1, instructions may be fetched from any linear address with a valid translation for which the U/S flag (bit 2) is 0 in at least one of the paging-structure entries controlling the translation.
— If CR4.SMEP = 0, instructions may be fetched from any linear address with a valid translation for which the XD flag (bit 63) is 0 in every paging-structure entry controlling the translation.
— If CR4.SMEP = 1, instructions may be fetched from any linear address with a valid translation for which (1) the U/S flag is 0 in at least one of the paging-structure entries controlling the translation; and (2) the XD flag is 0 in every paging-structure entry controlling the translation.
• For 32-bit paging or if IA32_EFER.NXE = 0, instructions may be fetched from any linear address with a valid translation for which the U/S flag is 1 in every paging-structure entry controlling the translation.
• For PAE paging or IA-32e paging with IA32_EFER.NXE = 1, instructions may be fetched from any linear address with a valid translation for which the U/S flag is 1 and the XD flag is 0 in every paging-structure entry controlling the translation.


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Munich Reinsurance America Appoints Kerner CEO of New Munich Re Specialty Insurance Unit
Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. (Munich Re, US) announced today the appointment of Michael Kerner as Chief Executive Officer for Munich Re Specialty Insurance, a new commercial insurance unit in North America. He will report to Tony Kuczinski, President and Chief Executive Officer, Munich Re, US. In this new role, Kerner will have oversight for uniting several Munich Re Group business units under the new primary specialty commercial insurance umbrella.
"We are pleased to welcome Mike, an insurance industry veteran, to this new leadership role," said Kuczinski. "His deep insurance industry expertise and experience managing multiple functional areas in a global organization are¬ important assets that will help unify and grow our primary specialty commercial insurance business. Munich Re Specialty Insurance will complement American Modern, Hartford Steam Boiler and other parts of the Munich Re family in the U.S."
Peter Roeder, Chairman of Munich Re America and Board Member of Munich Re, said, "Munich Re Specialty Insurance will unite the expertise of our multiple commercial specialty insurance divisions. I am convinced that the new unit will become an important and profitable part of Munich Re in the U.S. Mike Kerner is the ideal candidate to successfully lead Munich Re Specialty Insurance, and I am happy to have him on board."
Kerner brings with him more than 30 years of experience in the global re/insurance market. For the past two years, he served as Executive Vice President, Risk Management and Strategy at Everest Re. Prior to that, Kerner spent 23 years at Zurich Insurance Company in a variety of senior executive roles, including Chief Executive Officer of General Insurance, Chief Executive Officer of Global Corporate North America, Global Chief Underwriting Officer, Global Head of Group Reinsurance, and Chief Operations Officer of North America Specialties. In the past, Kerner also held actuarial leadership roles in the industry.
"I'm very excited to join Munich Re and help fulfill the company's vision of better serving our clients and brokers and becoming a more capable and relevant participant in the North American specialty commercial insurance market," said Kerner.
Kerner has a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton where he currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Harpur College Advocacy Council. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
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Located in Sydney and established in the year 1964, the Macquarie University was just the third university that was established in metropolitan Sydney. It was also the first university in Sydney to follow the Bologna Accord degree system. The university has a total of 5 faculties along with the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and Macquarie University Hospital that are situated on its main Sydney campus.
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Q: Python and BeautifulSoup scraping in HTML email I am very new to using beautifulsoup and python, therefore my question might seem simple or like I am misunderstanding something, so please bear with me and be patient.
I have an O365 mailbox which I need to scrape at a set time period and pull the body of the email out into a JSON string which is then passed via API to a web monitor.  I have this working with a number of other sources but for one email I cant get the needed details.
The raw email which is causing the problem is as follow's:-
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">'ExternalCon'  detected on 1 externally facing devices.

https://

------------------------------ Query Results (up to 500 records) ------------------------------

"ip","uuid","repositoryID","score","total","severityInfo","severityLow","severityMedium","severityHigh","severityCritical","macAddress","policyName","pluginSet","netbiosName","dnsName","osCPE","biosGUID","tpmID","mcafeeGUID","lastAuthRun","lastUnauthRun","hostUniqueness","vulnBar","repositoryIDs"

"***.***.***.***","","External IPs","0","1","1","0","0","0","0","","8d6b2cf3-1218-18685270/External_Con (from IO)","101022242455","","","cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:X.X","","","","","2605561676","repositoryID,ip,dnsName","1:0:0:0:0","4"

Now I want to output the following information:-
ExternalCon detected on X externally facing devices.

ip -> X.X.X.X
total -> X
policyname -> X
osCPE -> X

The code I have so far is below, I know it is nasty and there will be much better ways to do it so please any advice would be welcome.
def extcon():
    logfile.write(currentDT.strftime("%H:%M:%S.%f") + " - STARTING IMPORT LOOP FOR ExtCon- lookng for folder . . . ")
    timed = calendar.timegm(item.datetime_received.timetuple())
    ip = re.findall(r'[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+){3}', item.body)
    r = item.body
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r, 'lxml')
    test = soup
    links = [a['href'] for a in soup.find_all('a', href=True)]
    descr = soup.text
    test1 = item.body.split('strong')
    test2 = soup.prettify #for string in test.stripped_strings:
    test = item.body.split('"')
    head = '# ' + test1[1] + "\n\r" + "\n\r" \
        + '-------------------------------------' + "\n\r" + "\n\r" \
        + test1[1] + test1[2] + test1[3] + "\n\r" + "\n\r"
    head = head.replace('<', '')
    head = head.replace('>', '')
    head = head.replace('\'', '')
    head = head.replace('/', '')
    body = test[1] + ' -> ' + test[2] + "\n\r" + "\n\r" \
        + test[3] + ' -> ' + test[26] + "\n\r" + "\n\r" \
        + test[4] + ' -> ' + test[28] + "\n\r" + "\n\r" \
        + test[11] + ' -> ' + test[35] + "\n\r" + "\n\r" \
        + test[15] + ' -> ' + test[39] + "\n\r" + "\n\r"

What I get is the test split breaking apart the email and giving me a list of 97 items, but when I try to call them individually to add them to the 'body' var it is showing me a lot more then I would have expected and I'm also not sure how to deal with when the tool finds more than a single extcon.  What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

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I'm an Army Brat so we moved around a great deal in my formative years. Born in Germany, I had stints in Oklahoma, northern and southern Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama, including time on Dauphin Island. From kindergarten through undergrad I attended 13 different schools. Then I kept moving as a young adult with time spent in Scotland and New York. To be honest I learned to adapt quickly and get along with many different groups of people. It's served me well working in PR to say the least.
This is a bit unconventional, but I'd have to say Aaron Sorkin. I dream of a world where people converse in Sorkin-esque vocabulary and speed. Language is a powerful tool for making connections and how you deliver your message is often as important as the words themselves. I try and keep that in mind when working with clients in my job every day.
What are some things most people don't know about you?
My dream job originally was to be a wildlife photographer and journalist for National Geographic. I have an extreme love of the natural world and the plight of animals is a cause near and dear to my heart. I'd love to use my talents to help further that cause in the future (and to visit the Serengeti for a month).
Does the ability to not push the snooze button on my morning alarm four times count?


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Varianti
Alterati: Vezzolo
Femminili: Vezia

Varianti in altre lingue
Catalano: Veci
Latino: Vetius, Vettius, Vectius
Polacco: Wetiusz
Spagnolo: Vecio

Origine e diffusione
Da una parte, può rappresentare un ipocoristico del nome Elvezio. Tuttavia questo nome può anche avere origini più lontane: alcune fonti lo riconducono al nome latino Vetius, basato su vetus ("anziano", "vecchio"), altre ad un altro nome latino, continua il nome latino Vettius o Vectius, di incerta interpretazione, risalente forse al verbo vehere ("trasportare").

Alla sua diffusione (comunque scarsa) ha contribuito, anche se solo in piccola parte, il culto verso il santo così chiamato.

Onomastico
L'onomastico si può festeggiare il 2 giugno in memoria di san Vezio, detto "Epagato", martire a Lione con diversi altri compagni sotto Marco Aurelio.

Persone

Lucio Vezio, politico romano
Vezio Crisafulli, giurista e costituzionalista italiano
Vezio De Lucia, urbanista italiano
Vezio Sacratini, hockeista su ghiaccio canadese naturalizzato italiano
Vezio Scatone, politico e militare romano
Tito Vezio Zapparoli, agronomo italiano

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Young riders speak up for hunt
DRESSED smartly in her black riding jacket, jodhpurs, and hat Stephnie Bell is excited about setting off for a day of hunting.
But it could be the last time she and her friends at the South Durham Hunt will gather.
She said: "People do not understand hunting and that is why they are trying to ban it.
"They see hunting as something that pompous old men wearing red coats do, and their wives and children are dragged along against their will.
"This is not true, we are not snobs, we are a small community. Everybody knows everybody and we look out for each other."
Her enthusiasm is infectious, as she and other members of the hunt, who range from farmers to car salesmen, sit in the living room of huntmaster Mark Shotton's home in Wingate.
Stephnie and Sophie Watchman, 11, whose dad Gary is a hunt leader, realise what they are doing is seen by many as cruel but they see it as a part of country life.
Stephnie said she had seen a fox killed on a couple of occasions but it did not worry her.
She said: "The fox is killed instantly. It is over in a matter of seconds. Young foxes can outrun the hounds. We catch the older or the injured foxes."
Stephnie's parents, Gordon and Janet, do not take part in the hunt. Mrs Bell runs Robinsons Butchers in Wingate and does the catering for hunt events, while Mr Bell follows the riders in his car.
He said: "I would rather she do this than hang around on street corners. She has her horse to look after every night and she loves it. She takes a bit of stick at school for doing it but she is mature about it."
Stephnie and Sophie talk about travelling to London to protest about the Government's hunting bill, which will ban the sport if it becomes law later this year.
South Durham Hunt has been running for 170 years. It is not just the horsemen and women who gather for the events on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The hunt has a loyal following. Many see it as a family day out with people taking along a packed lunch.
Sometimes the gathering does not find a fox. This was one of those occasions.
Mr Shotton said: "There were several foxes and they just made fools of us.
"We have one fox that we call Tony. He runs from the woods behind Tony Blair's house and we have chased him three times and we haven't caught him yet. Hopefully he will be there for a long time to come."
The Hunting Bill will be discussed in the Commons in ten days time when MPs will seek to amend proposed legislation to it bans all hunting with dogs.


During press preview night on April 8th at the Gilt City Warehouse Sale, I snagged some amazing finds under $100, even though there seemed to be a pricier selection of clothing items this time around.There was also an additional 20% off all Red, Green, Beige, Lavender and Pink price tags.
A few years back the Gilt sale used to be very exclusive on VIP night, but now they have opened up the press preview as a ticketed event, making it seem more like a public shopping night. So if you plan on going to the next Gilt sale, I recommend getting there ahead of time, to make sure you are one of the first ones through the door. I did like the new coat check system, though. You no longer have to worry about losing your coat check ticket. When you check in your coat, the ticket number/confirmation is automatically sent to your phone. It's a great feature as long as you keep it charged and running, and don't lose your phone.


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ForUtils
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:ForUtils: Various fortran 2003/2008 utility classes.
:Version: 0.1
:Author: Antony Lewis
:Homepage: https://github.com/cmbant/forutils
:Code documentation: http://cosmologist.info/forutils/

Description
============

ForUtils is a package of Fortran classes and convenience functions for
Fortran 2003/2008 programs. The utilities comprise these areas:

* ArrayUtils - Find (minimal/maximal) index of an element in an array.
* FileUtils - Classes for handling file access, python-like loadtxt/savetxt functions
* IniObjects - Read/Write name=value configuration files with inheritance, array and default value support.
* MatrixUtils - Read/Write matrices and interface to some BLAS/LAPACK routines.
* MiscUtils - Utility functions for optional arguments.
* MpiUtils - Wrappers for MPI-routines to compile with(out) MPI library.
* ObjectLists - Lists of arbitrary objects including specializations for vectors.
* RandUtils - Some functions to generate random numbers.
* RangeUtils - Maintain sets of equally spaced intervals, e.g. for integration ranges.
* StringUtils - Utilities for strings, like concat of distinct types a.s.o.

For a class summary see the `class trees <http://cosmologist.info/forutils/classes/_index.html>`_.

Getting Started
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Clone this git repository::

    $ git clone https://github.com/cmbant/forutils

Compile::

    $ make all

This generates the subdirectories Debug and Release and when an MPI library is
available also DebugMPI and ReleaseMPI. Each directory contains a libforutils.a
archive, which can be used directly for static linking on the compiler command
line by giving the absolute filename::

    forutils/<RTYPE>/libforutils.a

or by specifying it as a library::

    -Lforutils/<RTYPE> -lforutils

Specify one of Debug, DebugMPI, Release, or ReleaseMPI for <RTYPE>. The Debug
release types contain debug symbols and use no optimization, while the Release
types use a reasonable level of optimization.

Dependencies
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* Fortran 2008 compatible compiler - E.g., ifort 14+, gfortran 6 or higher.
* MPI library - Only when you want the MpiUtils fully functional. Without an MPI library MpiUtils compile, but the functions are merely no-ops and the makefile target DebugMPI and ReleaseMPI can not be built.

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You're a wise man, can you tell me if I get some warranty work done at a different dealer then I bought the car from, will they call them to get records on the car?
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Eight people were shot across the city — including two teens — on a bloody Sunday and Monday, cops said.
Most recently, a 29-year-old man was blasted in the lower back at a birthday party on 30th Street near 47th Avenue in Long Island City around 1 a.m., according to authorities and police sources.
He was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell, where he is listed in critical condition, cops said.
The suspect took off, and a 9mm shell casing was recovered, according to police sources.
About a half-hour earlier, a 39-year-old man was shot as he sat on a bench on Chester Street near Dumont Avenue in Brownsville, according to police sources.
He was struck twice in the groin and once in the stomach, the sources said.
Police said he did not cooperate with investigators.
On Sunday alone, six people were shot in as many incidents in Gotham, police said.
The latest incident came around 11 p.m., when a 29-year-old man was hit multiple times, in the left leg, stomach and left hand, on Avenue M near East 89th Street, cops said.
He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he is described as uncooperative.
And around 8:50 p.m., a 26-year-old man was blasted in the right leg during a drive-by shooting on 211th Street near 94th Avenue in Queens Village, authorities said.
The suspect, possibly in a Volkswagen Jetta, was hanging out the window and let some rounds off, cops said.
It was unclear whether the victim, who was taken to Long Island Jewish Hospital in stable condition, was the intended target.
Just over an hour earlier, a 40-year-old man was assaulted by a group of 10 to 15 men, on Watson Avenue near Rev. Isaiah J. Jones Boulevard, on the grounds of the Sotomayor Houses in Soundview, when he heard gunfire ring out, police sources said.
The victim didn't realize he was shot until after the suspects took off, according to the sources.
The victim's 21-year-old son told police he tried to help his dad but was attacked as well, the sources said.
The victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.
A few minutes earlier, a 53-year-old man was hit in the left leg on East 115th Street near Second Avenue in East Harlem, cops said.
He reported standing outside when he saw a man open fire into a crowd and run off. It was unclear whether he was the intended target.
He was taken to Cornell in stable condition.
And around 5 p.m., a 16-year-old boy was shot inside Jackie Robinson Park, at West 150th Street and Bradhurst Avenue in Sugar Hill, police said.
The victim was taken to BronxCare Health System in stable condition. It was unclear whether he was the intended target.
The day's first gun violence victim was another 16-year-old boy — who was shot by someone who tried to rob him, according to police sources.
The victim was walking at East 29th Street near Foster Avenue in Flatbush around 3:30 p.m. when a suspect came up from behind, pressed a gun against his back and demanded, "Run your s–t" — slang for, "Empty your pockets."
As the victim turned around to grab the gun, a shot rang out and he heard the weapon fall to the ground, the sources said.
As the victim ran home, he realized he was struck in the hand. He walked to SUNY Downstate Hospital, where he is listed in stable condition.
On Sunday's date in 2019, which was a Tuesday, two people were shot in as many incidents.
Between Nov. 23 and Sunday, 24 shootings were reported with 26 victims, according to the latest NYPD figures. During that period in 2019, 12 shootings were reported with 20 victims.
As of Sunday, 1,730 people had been shot in 1,410 separate incidents — more than double the victims and nearly twice as many incidents reported during that period in 2019.
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Responding to a Gabonese government charge of bias for not mentioning an attack on a state media outlet, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) emphasizes that it condemns all attacks on media and journalists without exception and reiterates its call to the authorities not to obstruct access to information.
During a news conference in Libreville on 8 September, communication minister and government spokesman Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nzé criticized RSF for not reacting to an attack on the pro-government newspaper L'Union, and thereby questioned RSF's impartiality.
"We defend all media outlets and journalists whenever they are the victims of violence and abuses, regardless of their political affiliation," RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire said.
"We deplore the attack on L'Union as we do the attacks on opposition newspapers. No obstruction of the work of journalists should be permitted. This includes Le Monde Diplomatique reporter Olivier Piot, who was denied entry to Gabon on 10 September, in yet another example of the clampdown on media coverage being orchestrated by the authorities. Under what criteria are some journalists allowed into Gabon and other are banned?"
After the unrest and violence in Libreville on the night of 31 August, RSF issued a press release condemning the attacks on several media outlets and has continued to closely monitor events in Gabon ever since.
In that press release, RSF also urged the authorities to protect the media and to guarantee unrestricted access to information.
The National Council for Communication voiced concern on 7 September but RSF is amazed that, given the gravity of the situation, there has been no official condemnation of the violence against the media and journalists except the attack on Gabon TV journalist Jean-Raoul Mbadinga at opposition candidate Jean Ping's campaign headquarters on 9 September.
RSF also questions the effectiveness of the measures taken by the government to end the acts of violence that keep on targeting and media and journalists and its measures to restore communications networks, which continue to be partially blocked or slowed down.
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Genealogical resources can be scant when it comes to older generations, but modern genealogists, casual and professional alike, are taking a more proactive role in preserving family history. Traditionally, enthusiasts were fortunate to possess a mere shoebox of photographs, but future tree tracers will have access to video that lets them to see their ancestors as actual people within the context of the world as it was at that time.
The modern family gathers a tremendous amount of video, and in order to make that video archive practical and usable for future generations, it's necessary to pare down. Consider what a video editor does for a sports program when he or she scales an entire game down to just the most crucial highlights. Selecting video and editing requires making some difficult choices and creative techniques, which is why many archivists use professional video services to make those decisions effectively and objectively.
Our Milwaukee video production services can help genealogists choose the right video slices and then edit them together in a way that tells an actual story. A real sense of story is important for a couple of reasons. If you've ever sat through an unedited family movie, then you know how important it is to engage the audience. Additionally, video without context only provides your future family with a snapshot, while video with context paints a picture and delivers understanding.
Another important consideration is how searchable the video is. Currently, video search is still in its infancy, but the technology is evolving rapidly. Soon, genealogists will be able to explore video quickly and easily based on key phrases, image matching and other advanced techniques. In the meantime, you can make you family videos far more usable with indexing features, including timelines, thumbnails, chapters, markers, clickable elements and so forth. Such features are possible using video editing software, some that are available as freeware, but a professional service can achieve those same items affordably and with high production values.
Lastly, the amateur genealogist must determine how to preserve the video for distribution purposes and for the long term. Using EdiTran's Milwaukee video production services can provide you with a series of benefits. For instance, optimized videos take up less space in the cloud and thus make it more practical and cost-efficient to store videos in redundant fashion. In addition, DVD is still the most popular media for distribution of family videos, and we're able to duplicate and replicate your DVDs quickly and inexpensively.


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The Mongolian language is not easy for someone who speaks English. Many of the words sound like Sylvester The Cat. We were only able to really learn 2 words here: hello: sam-an-o; and thank you: bay-arl-a-laa (with that corner-of-the mouth sucking 'shhh' sound added somewhere towards the end of the word). Luckily, pretty much everyone we encountered knew those words, and more in English.
While there are buses and taxis, most people just approach the street and wave a hand and pretty much any car stops. Passengers pay the driver a somewhat standard fee per km. It is bizarre to me, but totally normal here.
Crossing the street is very exciting in Ulan Bator. Yes, there are crosswalks. Yes, there are stoplights. But it barely matters. Cars will simply keep driving, whether a person is in the way or not. It is like being in the later levels of Frogger.
There are vendors on street corners. The term vendor being used generously. It's usually an older woman sitting with a crate in front of her. On display are cigarettes, both in packs and individuals, roasted pine nuts in plastic solo cups, gum, and a telephone. When I witnessed someone approach the vendor, hand her some money and start dialing I was very confused. It was a large, non-cellphone, landline-looking telephone. Maybe it is a kind of old-school mobile phone, but honestly, I am still trying to understand this one. Many of these vendors also have a scale. Not the kind you would weigh pine nuts with, but the bathroom kind. I'm not sure if they will guess your weight, or just weigh you for a fee?


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Night Trap (1993)
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Directed by: David A. Prior
Starring: Robert Davi, Michael Ironside, and Mike Starr
Night Trap is a slow, plodding thriller from AIP regular David A. Prior.
New Orleans Detective Mike Turner (Davi) is trying to catch a devious criminal named Bishop (Ironside). Bishop has magical powers that include flying, and having a cool but pasted on beard. No one believes Turner that Bishop is evil, especially his captain who thinks he is "on the sauce" again. Turner is then partnered with Williams (Starr) to find suspects who have seen Bishop....as usual in other cop flicks, Williams and Turner bicker and eventually become buddies during their pursuit. Can they find and destroy Bishop before he strikes again?
The main problem with Night Trap is that it really wants to be good, but possibly out of guilt, it sabotages itself at every turn.
Every time Night Trap gets a good rhythm going, it pulls back for a ridiculous action scene and it loses focus. There is one scene where Bishop jumps over a car and the driver inside covers his eyes and then he slowly crashes into another car. 30 seconds later, the car blows up.
Davi puts in a good performance. Ironside has been in better work and he looks like he wants to take a nap. Starr tries his hardest to breathe life into his character, but the script fails him.
Every scene feels like it is in slow motion to stretch out the running time. There are a bunch of scenes with Davi just standing around doing absolutely nothing.
Overall, if you are a fan of Robert Davi, watch it. Anybody else should stay away.
Labels: 1993, AIP, David A. Prior, Michael Ironside, Mike Starr, Night Trap, Robert Davi


Remember when rain used to be sort of fun? You could sip tea and curl up with a book all day. Then you had children, and rain started to feel like punishment. After a day trapped inside with squirmy toddlers or preschoolers, your house will look as though it was hit with a tornado instead of a thunderstorm. Arm yourself with enough games to keep them busy, and rainy days will be fun again.
As much fun as your children will have being in charge, you'll have just as much fun taking a break from leading the activities. According to HealthyChildren.org, it's developmentally normal for a preschooler to use lots of inventive play and to take on the role of Mom or Dad. Declare your child the pretend parent and let her tell you what to do. You might need to pause the game occasionally to enforce house rules or keep your child safe. Otherwise, let your little dictator serve you lunch off her miniature dishes or strap you into the backseat of an imaginary car. A day full of (imaginary) errands will never be so relaxing. This is a game that could last for hours if you let it.
Using soft foam or plastic balls indoors lets your toddler or preschooler burn off some energy without putting your breakables in too much danger. Sit across from a toddler on the floor with your legs out and roll or toss one or several balls back and forth. Set up an indoor bowling alley by lining up several empty plastic bottles at the end of a hallway; take turns rolling the ball down to see how many you can knock over. Try juggling multiple balls, or bring a beach ball into the living room and tap it back and forth, trying to keep it from touching the ground for as long as you can.
Want to get those children moving without allowing chaos to reign? Try some controlled movement games. Play freeze dance in which everyone must bop around to some children's dance music. Whenever you press pause, everyone has to freeze in her current position until you press play again. Another safe indoor game is the classic follow the leader; give it a twist by playing an animal-themed version.
Let each child take a turn naming an animal of her choice. She then gets to lead everyone (even if everyone is just you) through the house while everyone imitates the animal. Fair warning: You can sway like an elephant and crawl on all fours like a dog, but slithering on your belly like a snake is not as easy for an adult as you might think.
When your little ones are getting too wound up and need a little quiet time, set up a variety of games at the table or on the floor. In addition to children's board games, matching games are appropriate for young children, but can get boring eventually. Take a tip from "American Baby" and keep children interested in these games by including some familiar faces. Pick out a photo of each member of your family and make a copy of each one.
Tape each picture to a small piece of colored paper. Spread the cards out and let children take turns trying to match them up into pairs. For a preschooler, turn the cards over and take turns flipping over two at a time until you've found all the matches. You might also ask your child to sort the cards into groups based on gender or by the color of the paper cards.


Source: Lizton High School's 1960 yearbook, Blazer. This yearbook is in the Archives of the Danville library.
NOTE: This yearbook only includes the first and last names of the students in the senior class; students in the other classes are only listed by their first initial and last name and are not included in this database.


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ESI's Gerald Knaus was invited to participate in a debate on the Republic of Moldova, organised by the representation of Baden-Württemberg to the EU.
Gerald spoke about the situation of refugees in the Republic of Moldova, the effect the war between Russia and Ukraine has had on the country's energy sector, and the impact of pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation within Moldova. He also added his experience and insights from his recent visits to Moldova and how the EU needs to help the country through its financial crisis and prevent further Russian intervention.
Gerald argued that the EU must deliver financial support, bring Moldova closer to the EU and to do this, offer Moldova access to the Single Market and the Four Freedoms.
Gerald debated with Florian Hassler (State Secretary in the State Ministry and Representative of the State of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union), Ambassador Daniela Morari, (Head of the Mission of the Republic of Moldova to the EU), Diana Jablonska (Head of Unit Georgia, Moldova, Economic Investment Plan, DG Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, European Commission), and Siegfried Mureşan (Vice-Chairman of the Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament, Chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee). The panel was moderated by Tinatin Akhvlediani (Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Head of Financial Markets and Institutions Unit).
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