This is a photograph looking north at Hesbecourt where the Battery remained for a week from 18 September 1918, experiencing very intense activity as the Allied advance closed upon the Hindenburg Line. Walter Wright records "At about this period in the advance we experienced a--to us--new method of artillery concentration. The method adopted was that a number of batteries (the night before an attack was to be made) sent a single gun right forward to within five hundred yards of the trenches, so that the most effective use could be made of these guns when the attack opened in the small hours of the morning. This was a most hazardous operation, and entailed a great deal of hard work and risk for the gunners: manoeuvring a seven-ton gun at night being no light job."


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We Are Not All in This Together: COVID-19 and African American Communities
Opinion by Dr. Tonya Roberson
A novel phrase has emerged from the novel coronavirus pandemic. "We are all in this together," but in all actuality are we all "really" in this together? Working as a Community Psychologist and studying the impact of disease and inconsistencies, I have always seen a pattern in health care inequities that exists in the U.S. between African Americans and White Americans that is substantial, and with the overlay of the coronavirus and the magnitude of the spread of this virus the inequities have increased.
African American communities, structurally, are now the hub for the spread of the virus because of the lack of good policies in place, needed community resources, existing food deserts, lack of access to health care and the underlying chronic health issues that exist among that population. So, I am not surprised and feel that no one should really be shocked at the fact that African Americans are dying at a higher rate than everyone else from COVID-19. This disparity fact is not new and only shocking to those who've historically turned a blind eye to the dilemma of communities of color in this country.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in a speech to the Medical Committee for Human Rights in 1966 spoke to this same form of inequality, and injustice in health care and stated that it is the most shocking and inhumane. Don Lemon recently hosted an interview with Senator Kamala Harris about the COVID-19 disparities a few weeks ago. In this interview, Harris echoed that the virus is likely to hurt people of color more due to health disparities and pre-existing conditions.
Furthermore, Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently added local urgency, stating 72 percent of residents dying of COVID in Chicago are African American, a fact that underscores how the gross disproportions that existed with African Americans before COVID-19 now , with the overlay of this virus, contributes to the extreme rates of deaths.
University Park is located in Will County and officials there are closely monitoring the outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. University Park Village is taking every precautionary measure to ensure that the health, safety and welfare of the residents,especially seniors, are protected.
Will County Health Department (WCHD) is working with local healthcare community partners, as well as state and federal agencies. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, as of April 20, there had been: 1,692 confirmed cases, 102 deaths in Will County. Research shows that 16 of the 25 hardest hit towns have primarily African Americans residents: Matteson, Olympia Fields and Richton Park are in the top ten, with Glenwood, Country Club Hills, and Hazel Crest close behind. Keep in mind that these are all communities where a fair number of residents are struggling economically.
I am the health ministry leader at New Beginnings Church of Chicago that is coupled with Project HOOD (Helping Others to Obtain Destiny) a community organization that is housed in an old Walgreen's building on the Southside of Chicago in one of the zip codes that the Chicago coronavirus map has marked to be one of the greatest concentration areas. At Project HOOD we are have attempting to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 by passing out food and face masks to community members, answering questions and concerns about access to testing, and addressing concerns about this pandemic. Our team along with other community partners are working with Governor J.B. Pritzker and his staff to transform this location into a COVID-19 testing site using the drive through for coronavirus testing. I am focused on expanding public health efforts by developing culturally tailored health education and COVID-19 prevention messaging and other strategies to flatten the curve and save lives in the African American communities
I propose to promote and expand my work in community engagement efforts to work with fellow Governor State University faculty, staff, students and community public figures in Southland and Chicago to expand the critical work in the areas of health education and prevention, testing, data, research, and funding to further address the needs of this impacted population.
This is not the first pandemic and will not be the last.
I plan to cultivate relationships with the Village of University Park and Governors State University to address this glaring pandemic of health care disparities that now exist in our state and country with African Americans in order for us to be proactive instead of reactive and be prepared to face the necessary barriers without the loss of so many lives.
Tonya S. Roberson is the Director of Community Engagement, Program Development and Academic Support at Governors State University in the College of Health and Human Services. She is a public health professional with a particular expertise in methods to address health disparities and inequities utilizing health promotion theories, and models to assess the holistic health of African Americans in the urban centers.

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New York, NY; August 24, 2009— As part of a national hunger awareness campaign to be formally launched this September, AJWS has published a new resource pack, "Sealed for a year of plenty: Challenging the destiny of hunger," for rabbis and other Jewish educators wishing to use the High Holidays as an opportunity to address global hunger.
An introduction to the global hunger crisis and Fighting Hunger from the Ground Up.
"We are launching Fighting Hunger from the Ground Up because hunger is an issue where every word spoken, every action taken and every dollar contributed can quite literally help somebody survive," Messinger said. "The world produces more than enough food every year. There needs to be a more universal understanding that hunger is not the result of a sudden drought and it is not about scarcity, but rather a function of inequities in control over the means of food production and distribution. The result has been poverty on a massive scale that has left more than one-sixth of the world's population without sufficient food.
"The message we need rabbis to communicate to their congregations this High Holiday season is that hunger is a political problem. As such, it can be solved— and Jews have an obligation to participate in the solution.
A PDF of "Sealed for a year of plenty: Challenging the destiny of hunger" is available for download at http://ajws.org/assets/uploaded_documents/ftgu_high_holidays_packet.pdf.


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Q: Different height and width property for PDF File in PDFBox For a certain PDF file if I use page.getMediaBox().getWidth() and page.getMediaBox().getHeight() to get width and height of PDF file page using PDFBox, if shows values which are different than the values I am getting using the PDFBoxDebugger. What might be the reason? I am attaching the screenshot for the PDFDebugger. I am using PDFBox-2.0.9 version. The values I am getting from page.getMediaBox().getWidth() and page.getMediaBox().getHeight() are 531.36597 and 647.99603 respectively which do not match with the PDFBoxDebugger values. (And it only occurs for the first page of PDF, for further pages it works fine)

A: As Tilman already stated in a comment, the values to expect are

*

*a width of 1282.2 - 750.834 = 531.366 and

*a height of 849.593 - 201.597 = 647.996 (corrected value).

The observed values

531.36597 and 647.99603

correspond to the expected values well enough considering the accuracy of the float type.

I assume the op misunderstands the values of the MediaBox array. They do not contain the width or height as explicit values but the coordinates of two opposite corners of the box.
The MediaBox value is specified to have the type rectangle, cf. ISO 32000-1 table 30 Entries in a page object. And a rectangle is specified as

a specific array object used to describe locations oon a page and bounding boxes for a variety of objects and written as an array of four numbers giving the coordinates of a pair of diagonally opposite corners,

cf. ISO 32000-1 section 4.40 rectangle.

As also already mentioned by Tilman you probably should be looking at the CropBox instead.

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Packers' Quay Walker apologizes for 'making one other silly resolution' in shoving Lions coach
by BBC Brk News January 9, 2023 00
Green Bay Packers linebacker Quay Walker apologized for his actions throughout Sunday evening's recreation in opposition to the Detroit Lions, when he was seen pushing a coach on the sector.
Walker took a second Monday morning to ship out a collection of tweets on the difficulty.
Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur talks with Quay Walker, #7, after he was ejected for an unsportsmanlike penalty throughout the fourth quarter in opposition to the Detroit Lions at Lambeau Field on Jan. 8, 2023 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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"I need to apologize publicly about what occurred Sunday evening. I reacted off of my feelings once more and take full duty of creating one other silly resolution. Since then I've questioned myself on why did I do what I did when the coach was doing his job!! I used to be fallacious!!" the rookie tweeted.
"I perceive I've to face every little thing that comes with the choice I've made and I'm positively paying for it now."
Walker additionally defined why he was sobbing within the tunnel as he walked about to the locker room.
Green Bay Packers linebacker Quay Walker runs off the sector after being ejected throughout the second half of an NFL soccer recreation in opposition to the Detroit Lions Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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CHARGERS' BRANDON STALEY EXPLAINS PLAYING STARTERS WITH PLAYOFF SPOT LOCKED IN: 'THESE AREN'T EASY DECISIONS'
"Also to clarify my frustration within the tunnel," he wrote. "I wasn't upset about being kicked out, I simply knew I tousled once more and was fallacious for what I did and couldn't consider I did it once more. To the Detroit lions and to the whole coaching workers together with the individual I did that too. I'm sorry."
Walker was penalized within the fourth quarter after he apparently pushed a member of the Lions coaching workers who was attempting to are inclined to working again D'Andre Swift. Walker was ejected from the sport.
Packers coach Matt LaFleur denounced Walker's actions.
"That is unacceptable," the Packers coach mentioned, by way of Pro Football Talk. "I've bought a a lot greater normal for our gamers than to do foolish issues like that. We've bought a man ejected twice. I don't assume I've ever seen that in my profession. We've bought to be rather more mentally robust.
Green Bay Packers linebacker Quay Walker, #7, celebrates throughout the first half of an NFL soccer recreation in opposition to the Detroit Lions Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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"Any time our guys commit private fouls I take that very personally as a result of I believe that's all the time a mirrored image of myself and the requirements we set for these gamers. And we've bought to be higher and we've bought to study from that as a result of that's unacceptable."
Detroit would take the lead with a landing afterward the drive.
Ryan Gaydos is the sports activities editor for Fox News Digital.
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The Arapahoe High School parking lot was wrapped with crime-scene tape on the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, after a shooting that resulted in the death of the shooter and another student.
Parents should consider state reports that are supposed to reflect the number of violent incidents at Colorado schools with a great deal of skepticism, if not discount them altogether.
How can that be? Because the shooter killed himself as well, and schools are obliged to report cases only when a student is disciplined.
Admittedly, that's a loophole that doesn't apply to many incidents and so shouldn't affect overall statistics much. It ought to be fixed, but it's not necessarily a sign of deeply flawed record-keeping. But the problem is that the Arapahoe High case is a reminder that failure to report violent incidents is actually par for the course for many schools.
A joint investigation by The Denver Post and 7News earlier this year revealed that some schools regularly fail to include assaults and other serious incidents on school discipline data. "Some schools fail to report assaults that police would consider felonies, while others document even the smallest scuffle between elementary students," The Post's Zahira Torres reported.
For example, the joint investigation obtained records from police documenting assaults at several Denver schools that did not show up on the state reports — including one in which a student was beaten unconscious.
As for Arapahoe High's failure to report the fatal shooting, it certainly helped keep Littleton schools looking unblemished. "Traditional high schools at Littleton Public Schools have not reported an assault, robbery or felony in the past five years," Torres found.
Nor was the Post/7News probe the first media report to reveal underreporting of school violence. The problem has been ongoing basically since the reporting mandate was enacted in the wake of the Columbine shootings in 1999.
Ironically, since those two killers shot themselves, they too were never disciplined and so their crimes might never have gone into an official school violence report.


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New protected bikeways are coming to the UMN campus
Project representatives are seeking feedback on whether to make one-way or two-way bike pathways on University Avenue and 4th Street SE.
Kathryn Chlystek, Daily File Photo
A biker stops behind a car as it passes through the bike lane at the intersection of 15th Avenue Southeast and University Avenue Southeast Tuesday morning.
by Emun Solomon
Protected bikeways are making their way to campus.
Local government officials are collecting feedback from residents at two meetings this week on protected bikeways for University Avenue SE and 4th Street SE.
These protected bikeways separate bike lanes from the street with plastic barriers. The bikeways are set to be implemented eventually, but the public works agency is still deciding whether to make them one-way or two-way.
The decision is contentious for bike enthusiasts, who say two-way bikeways help bikers navigate one-way streets in a safer way, and business owners in the area, who are concerned the two-ways would eliminate parking spots.
"Neighbors are divided on issues like parking, but there is no doubt that these lanes would provide a safer, easier biking experience for Como and for those that use the area to commute via bike to the University or Downtown," said Southeast Como Improvement Association (SECIA) neighborhood coordinator Cody Olson.
The University area has the highest biking traffic in the state. The Department of Public Works listed the University and 4th Street bikeways as a top priority because it expects traffic to increase as more residents move into new developments.
At a Marcy Holmes Neighborhood Association meeting Tuesday, Minneapolis transportation planner Simon Blenski said that 15th Avenue SE has the busiest bike traffic in the state.
A stakeholder group – including students, faculty and local business owners –– is calling for improved safety and lowered speed limits on University and 4th Street.
"What we have heard in discussions with the community so far is that University Avenue and 4th Street create a barrier between the neighborhood and the riverfront and University," said Minneapolis spokesman Casper Hill.
Because both four-lane streets are one-ways, it's difficult for bikers to navigate them, Hill said.
He added that since implementing protected bikeways on N. Plymouth Avenue and 8th Avenue NE, bicycle traffic increased from about 430 bicyclists per day in 2011 to 720 in 2014.
Some business owners have expressed concern that the two-way bike lanes would take more space away from parking, Blenski said.
Project representatives will hold another feedback session at the SECIA meeting Thursday, and will continue to review community feedback throughout the coming weeks.
Plans have already been finalized for another set of protected bikeways, scheduled to be installed in 2019, that will run along 10th Avenue and 15th Avenue SE.
This development is part of the city's Bicycle Master Plan. The plan puts forth a network of over 50 miles of protected bikeways centered around downtown and the University.
"Our aim is to enhance safety in the area for bikers and pedestrians in these areas while minimizing the effect on local parking," Blenski said.


Ghana is an attractive investment destination and has been the focus of international mining operations in West Africa for many years. The country has a stable democracy with well-established laws. Furthermore, it has a strong mining culture that has led to a large number of suitably trained personnel in country. Ghana is the second largest producer of gold in Africa. A further indication of the country's good standing in the international community is its Standard and Poor's credit rating of B and their expectation that Ghana is a stable economy.


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NAB Change to Rate Call – June update
NAB fine-tunes timing of rate call: RBA to cut in July to 1%
We have fine-tuned the timing of our call on the cash rate, bringing forward our next forecast rate cut from August to July. This would take the cash rate to a new low of 1%. There is not much separating July from August given the time it takes for policy to have an effect on the economy, but we do not see a need for the Board to wait, particularly when Governor Lowe said today that, "The most recent data – including the GDP and labour market data – do not suggest we are making any inroads into the economy's spare capacity … [and] it is not unrealistic to expect a further reduction in the cash rate as the Board seeks to wind back spare capacity … and deliver inflation outcomes in line with the medium-term target."
More importantly, we still see a strong case for the Reserve Bank to do even more on policy and expect another cut to 0.75% in November, with the risk of alternative monetary measures in 2020. The Governor is still making the case that lower rates are directed at reducing spare capacity in the labour market rather than responding to deterioration in the economy. We disagree, believing there is a more pressing need to deliver stimulus given the economy has lost some momentum and reflecting our weaker economic outlook. In brief, the RBA is behind the curve and needs to catch up quickly.
It could take time, but we expect the Bank will be forced to change its narrative as the year progresses, downgrading its forecasts to bring them closer to our own outlook of subpar growth, modestly rising unemployment and persistently below-target inflation.
The Governor has also repeated his call for support from fiscal and structural policies to assist in achieving still lower unemployment. We expect the Government will respond to the Bank's call with additional fiscal stimulus later this year, once the weaker economy overrides the political objective of achieving a budget surplus. Windfall company tax gains from unexpectedly high iron ore prices could help fund such stimulus, which could involve some mix of bringing forward planned tax cuts, cash handouts and increased near-term infrastructure spending.
For further details, please see NAB changes rate call – 20 June 2019
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