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Refugees in trouble, Greece, Libya
Posted on October 12, 2019 by petrel41
From daily News Line in Britain:
Lesbos: epicentre of refugee crisis
WARS in Syria and Afghanistan are driving refugees through Turkey as they make their way to Greece. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos, which is now an epicentre of the country's migrant crisis.
It's a dangerous journey – but one made slightly easier by Refugee Rescue, the last remaining humanitarian rescue boat in the area. 16,000 refugees have fled to a Greek island this year.
With a crackdown on refugees in Turkey, and tough immigration policies elsewhere in Europe, the number of people fleeing to Lesbos by sea has soared to more than 16,000 this year, according to the UN.
That's the biggest influx since 2016. As the only NGO left in Lesbos with a rescue boat, the group is working overtime, all the time.
'We are tired, we are tired,' said Giannis Skenderoglou, a crew coordinator for the group. 'But that, that's our job.'
Refugee Rescue said: 'Refugee Rescue is a grassroots NGO operating a skilled Search and Rescue (SAR) team on the North Shore of Lesbos, Greece. Our boat crew and rescue vessel "Mo Chara" are on call 24 hours per day, ready to assist those in distress at sea.
'Onshore, our land teams man spotting operations that keep watch along the treacherous coastline, and work alongside partners to provide emergency relief for those who have just arrived.
'Refugee Rescue was founded in response to inadequate SAR infrastructure in 2015 when thousands of people were arriving to the island by boat, having been displaced by war, conflict and persecution.
'Dinghies often directly navigate towards dangerous rocks or shallows that can easily break the floor of these flimsy rubber boats, causing them to sink or capsize.
'Smugglers abandon groups of refugees on rocks and inaccessible beaches. Many boats also land on treacherous rocks and people are then stranded in locations that are difficult to reach. There is no cliff rescue here, no helicopter to come and help them, and people are often impossible to reach from land.
'Hundreds have already lost their lives and people are still crossing the perilous stretch of water between Turkey and Lesbos every day. As long as people are denied safe passage to Europe, they will continue risking their lives unnecessarily, forced to take what is now one of the world's most dangerous migratory routes in search of refuge.
'By offering a consistent and skilled emergency response along this treacherous coastline, we seek to make this journey a little less deadly, with the hope of stopping any more lives being needlessly lost to The Aegean.'
Meanwhile, Médécins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) issued its own statement on Libyan refugees and migrants.
MSF said: 'MSF is currently working to provide medical help to people trapped in appalling conditions in Libyan detention centres.
'People are detained simply because of their migration status in overcrowded conditions, with a lack of access to sufficient food, water or medical treatment.
'A recent assessment of just one of these centres found alarming levels of malnutrition, with some people held in a room so small there was no space to lie down. Worse still, one third of the people detained indefinitely in this centre were children.
'But in recent days, things have got even worse. Fighting in and around Libya's capital Tripoli led directly to the deaths of 40 vulnerable migrants and refugees after a detention centre in Tripoli was hit by an airstrike on 2 July.
'Trapped in these centres, and at severe risk of being caught in the crossfire, migrants and refugees are unable to flee the fighting and are suffering from increased disruption to food and other supplies – some report not having eaten for days.'
Just seven of the 28 EU member nations agreed to launch a new system to help those rescued in the Mediterranean. A large majority of European Union member countries have refused to back a plan to quickly get migrants off boats in the Mediterranean Sea and distribute them among willing EU partners.
At a meeting of EU interior ministers, only Ireland, Luxembourg and Portugal offered to take part in the 'fast-track' plan drawn up by Germany, France, Italy and Malta, which would screen migrants, relocate asylum seekers and return people who do not apply or qualify for asylum, all within four weeks.
'We were seven yesterday, seven this morning and seven this evening. So things haven't changed much,' said a downbeat Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg's minister responsible for migration. 'Why us, and why no one else?'
For more than a year, humanitarian ships that have picked up migrants from Libya in unseaworthy boats were blocked from docking or disembarking passengers in Italy or Malta. Italy's former anti-migrant interior minister even threatened to jail the crews of charity-run rescue ships.
The stance taken by the two countries resulted in standoffs that kept rescued migrants at sea for weeks until other EU nations pledged to take at least some of the people seeking safety or better lives in Europe.
Tuesday's meeting in Luxembourg had been meant to gauge enthusiasm for the temporary plan, in which countries would make 'pre-declared pledges' on how many asylum seekers they would accept. Details of the scheme are sketchy, but it would operate for at least six months, unless migrant arrivals increase dramatically.
Earlier, France's European affairs minister, Amelie de Montchalin, had claimed that several countries were willing to accept asylum seekers.
'I think there are around ten countries that are ready to play the game. Perhaps others,' she told reporters. 'We are going to be able to say that when a boat arrives, we know who to call and that there are countries ready to send teams in.'
But Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said that those who agreed to take part 'are those three or four states that had already said they were available, like Luxembourg and Ireland.' She said she hoped that more EU partners would sign on by the end of the year.
Asselborn said that … those opposed to migrant-sharing quotas in the past – countries like Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – 'remain against it'.
Well over a million migrants arrived in the EU in 2015, most of them refugees from countries at war like Syria or Iraq, sparking one of Europe's biggest political crises as nations bickered over who should take responsibility for them and how much others should be forced to help.
New arrivals have now dropped to their lowest levels in about seven years, particularly between Libya and Italy, but EU countries are still unable to agree on the best way forward, and far-right and anti-migrant parties have taken advantage of the confusion.
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Movie Theaters moving to 4D Technology & Haptic Vests to Increase 'Guest Experience'
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Cinemacon 2019 Las Vegas had one unanimous viewpoint from Hollywood and the movie industry. "It's not just enough to put a movie on a screen and expect people to go, you have to give people a reason to have a night out," said Daniel Loria, editorial director for Boxoffice.
As reported by Benjamin Brown of Fox News, "At this year's CinemaCon in Las Vegas, companies like MediaMation underscored the importance of creating an experience for the viewer – showcasing their MX4D technology that makes moviegoers feel like they're actually in the film.
Pictured is a theater equipped with MX4D full motion cinema chairs that spray water, drop snow from the ceiling and whip the viewer around as if they were in the film. (MX4D/MediaMation)
"The full-motion cinema chairs do everything from squirt water to blow wind in your face to tickle your legs, coupled with a new haptics vest that was debuted for the first time to exhibitors this week to add another layer of immersion.
"You're not only watching the movie and getting all the great 4D effects, now you've got all of these other sensors," Dan Jamele, MediaMation co-founder, told Fox News. "So you're getting the bullet shots into your chest, you're getting the vibration of the motorcycle going through your whole body. You're getting everything right into you."
Movie Attendance & Other Facts. Movie attendance had a record year in 2018, surpassing 1.3 billion tickets sold according to data from the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) as compared to 1.24 billion in 2017 (the highest since 1993). It is important to note that ticket prices have increased year over year and 33 million Americans canceled their cable in 2018. Meanwhile, digital streaming giants Netflix, Hulu and Amazon keep growing. The New York Times reports that Netflix is producing 90 original films a year as compared to only 30 movies by Universal Studios.
MediaMation partnered with Sony to create a haptics vest equipped with sensors to add another layer of immersion to the MX4D experience. (Fox News / Ben Brown )
"We have a very high occupancy rate hovering us anywhere from two-and-a-half to four times the typical occupancy rate in theaters," Jamele said. "And on top of that, some of our complexes are doing with our one theater (equipped with 4D), we're doing more than 50 percent of the revenue for the entire complex."
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What this could mean? Movie theaters are a significant sector of the out-of-home (OOH) leisure entertainment industry as are family entertainment centers. Both compete for household entertainment spending dollars. Both are constantly using technology to raise the bar and gain market advantage. The movie theaters have introduced 3D, reclining comfortable chairs, surround-sound, dinner & a movie, FEC attractions, birthday parties and now introducing 4D with motion chairs and even eSports with promising results. Note that the movie industry has been increasing ticket prices and removing seating for the past dozen years in an attempt to stabilize revenues.
Meanwhile, the FEC industry has been using similar 4D technology in small footprint dark ride motion platform simulator attractions such as the XD Theaters from Trio-Tech.
FCDN also notes that 4D technology is very popular in international markets, particularly in Asia, but movie theaters have been slow in its introduction here in the US. For those theaters that have introduced 4D, the frequency of visitation has been almost 50% higher. We also are following the success of eSports that also is a competitive OOH growing sector. For example, the TCL Chinese Theater (Los Angeles CA) according to Robert Laity, Hollywood Esports CEO and one of the owners of TCL, now has the ability to "convert [their screens] between movie mode showing motion special effects movies, IMAX 4D movies, over to sports mode in about an hour". That certainly raises the bar!
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'The Tempest' Photos Featuring Russell Brand and Helen Mirren
The Tempest Photos Featuring Russell Brand and Helen Mirren
Miramax Films has released a new set of official photos from the upcoming drama The Tempest, which will be released in theaters nationwide on December 10. Click on any of these new images below, which feature Chris Cooper, Russell Brand, Helen Mirren and Djimon Hounsou, to access our growing photo gallery for Julie Taymor's new movie:
In her big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's mystical thriller The Tempest, Academy Award-nominated Julie Taymor (Across the Universe, Frida) brings an original dynamic to the story by changing the gender of the sorcerer Prospero into the sorceress Prospera, portrayed by Oscar winner Helen Mirren (The Queen). Prospera's journey spirals through vengeance to forgiveness as she reigns over a magical island, cares for her young daughter, Miranda, and unleashes her powers against shipwrecked enemies in this exciting, masterly mix of romance, tragicomedy and the supernatural.


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The 33-year-old man left for Fuvahmulah with his three-year-old son last Tuesday on a speedboat arranged by his family.
The man and his 23-year-old wife had been living in Fuvahmulah before the woman left for Kanduhulhudhoo with their son.
The family of the Fuvahmulah man reports, it hadn't been his intention to remove the young boy from his mother. But that he wants both the mother and the son to live with him in Fuvahmulah.
The man alleged his son wasn't receiving proper care from his wife's family. And went to Kanduhulhudhoo on January 11 to bring both his wife and son to Fuvahmulah, says the family member who spoke to 'Sun'.
However, President of Kanduhulhudhoo Council, Ahmed Shaheem reports the man beat his wife before leaving the island with their son.
This has been denied by the man's family.
The family reports, the woman had been ordered by the Kanduhulhudhoo Magistrate Court to reconcile with her husband and return to Fuvahmulah with him.
The family says officials from both the Maldives Police Service and Ministry of Gender, Family and Social Services have paid visits to the family. And claimed that the authorities did not find any issues.
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Blake to face Federer
MASON, Ohio (AP) -- Roger Federer moved within a victory of his 50th career title by beating Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (1) in the semifinals of the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters on Saturday.
Federer, who won this event in 2005, will face James Blake on Sunday. Blake beat Nikolay Davydenko 6-4, 6-2 in the late semifinal match.
Federer is 6-0 against Blake. A win would make him the fifth-youngest player to win 50 titles, at 26 years, 11 days. Bjorn Borg won his 50th at 23 years, 7 months.
Blake, who has never lost to Davydenko in six matches, has improved with each match this week, after having to withdraw from the event in Montreal last week with a pulled stomach muscle.
He capped the seventh game of the second set with a 132 mph ace, and broke Davydenko in the next game with a cross-court smash for match point.
The championship match Sunday will pair two players who ran into problems last week. Blake had to withdraw from his second-round match with Hewitt; Federer thought he had played well all week and was just unlucky on Sunday.
"I missed 50 last week by three or four points," Federer said of his loss in the Rogers Cup finals to Novak Djokovic. "Maybe I'll get a little bit closer this week."
It was the second straight match in which the top-ranked player in the world was pressed to three sets. He beat Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 on Friday.
"It was quite a fight. It was a good match, I thought," Federer said of his 20th match with Hewitt. "I think it was the best match I've played this week."
Federer and Hewitt exchanged service breaks in the second and third games before Federer broke Hewitt again in the fourth game with a blistering cross-court shot to take control of the first set.
Both players held throughout the second set, which Hewitt won in a tiebreaker.
The third set went much like the first, with Federer and Hewitt trading service breaks in the fifth and sixth games.
But the second tiebreaker was played much differently than the first, in which Hewitt won the first three points and ultimately prevailed. This time, Federer yielded only on Hewitt's first serve, then ran off six straight points.
"In the second-set tiebreak, I played the big points well, and in the third-set tiebreak, he played the big points well," Hewitt said.
Federer let a couple chances slip away when Hewitt saved two match points in the 10th game of the third set. Later, he was able to laugh at his confusion while describing the way Hewitt held on to force the tiebreaker.
"He hangs in there like a cat with seven lives," Federer said, then corrected himself when laughter told him he had mixed things up slightly.
"Nine? Yeah, I thought so," he said. "Seven would have been easy."
Federer committed 36 unforced errors, but also served 18 aces.
"I thought I served really well," Federer said. "I'm very happy."
Federer has beaten Hewitt 11 straight times, including last week's quarterfinals in Montreal.
"The last two weeks have been good," Hewitt said. "Couldn't have asked for two better weeks, and it's taken the best guy in the world to knock me off."
Hewitt dominated Federer in their early matches, taking 7 of 9 from 1999 to 2003. But he has not beaten Federer since then.
"If I keep giving myself opportunities against Roger or Rafa (Nadal) or whoever at the end of tournaments, then sooner or later that's going to fall my way," Hewitt said.


US retail giant Walmart expects to close the $16 billion (roughly Rs. 1.07 lakh crores) deal to acquire 77 percent stake in Flipkart this year, according to a regulatory filing. Walmart also said it intends to fund the acquisition of Flipkart with a combination of newly-issued debt and cash on hand. The deal would also be the largest in India's e-commerce space so far.
"In May 2018, the Company announced it will pay approximately $16 billion in exchange for approximately 77 percent of the outstanding shares of Flipkart Group ("Flipkart"). The investment includes $2 billion of new equity funding. Closing is expected later this calendar year, and is subject to regulatory approval," it said in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
According to the filing made on June 4, upon closing and consolidating the financial statements of Flipkart, the ongoing operations of Flipkart are expected to negatively impact fiscal 2019 net income.
More than 100 trader organisations have opposed the $16-billion deal. Earlier, speaking at an investors' meet, Walmart President, CEO and Director, Douglas McMillon had said they were learning about retail ecosystems and how they work around the world.
"We're learning a lot from China. We'll be learning even more from India. And we basically want to be in places that have a tremendous opportunity, which is what led us to Flipkart in India," he had said.
He had also said that Flipkart, which has a strong management team, built out an ecosystem. "In the case of India, it's worth it. If it had been a smaller market, we may have passed. But this is a unique opportunity. "
"And when you look out 5, 10, 20 years from now, time will tell. But we're confident that we'll look back at it and say, Yes, that was a big bet. It was a bold bet. But we're glad we took it. We're not running this thing for one year," he had said justifying the proposed acquisition.
Last month, in a report about the proposed acquisition, Moodys Vice President Charlie OShea said that as Flipkart is expected to generate meaningful losses for at least the next few years, this is clearly an investment for the future.


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Q: Laravel 9 how to pass parameter in url from one controller to another controller? I was facing this problem of missing parameter when trying to pass a parameter from one controller to another controller. The parameter is $id whereby the data is originally from post method in details blade.php into function postCreateStepOne However, I want to pass the data into a new view and I return

redirect()->route('details.tenant.step.two')->with( ['id' => $id]
);}

And this is where error occur. However, it works fine if I skip it into a new route and directly return into a view with the compact parameter. For Example,

return view('document.details-step-two', compact('id', 'property'));

However, I would prefer a new url as I was doing multistep form using Laravel.
Error

web.php
Route::get('/document/details/viewing/{id}', 'ViewDetails')->name('details.tenant');
Route::post('/document/details/viewing/{id}', 'postCreateStepOne')->name('post.step-one');
Route::get('/document/details/viewing/step-2/{id}', 'ViewDetailsStep2')->name('details.tenant.step.two');

TenanatController.php
public function viewDetails($id){

        $view = Properties::findOrFail($id);
        return view('document.details', compact('view'));
    }

public function ViewDetailsStep2(Request $request, $id){

        $view = Properties::findOrFail($id);
        $property = $request->session()->get('property');

        return view('document.details-step-two', compact('view', 'property'));
    }

public function postCreateStepOne($id, Request $request)
    {
        $validatedData = $request->validate([
            'property-name' => 'required',
        ]);

        if(empty($request->session()->get('property'))){
            $property = new Tenancy();
            $property->fill($validatedData);
            $request->session()->put('property', $property);
        }else{
            $property = $request->session()->get('property');
            $property->fill($validatedData);
            $request->session()->put('property', $property);
        }

        return  redirect()->route('details.tenant.step.two')->with( ['id' => $id] );
    }

details.blade.php
<form action="{{ route('post.step-one', $view->id) }}" method="POST">
                @csrf

                        Property Name:
                        <input type="text" value="" class="form-control" id="property-name"  name="property-name">

                    <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Next</button>

</form>

A: When you use with on a redirect the parameter is passed through the session. If you want to redirect to a route with a given route parameter you should pass  that parameter in the route function itself like e.g.
return  redirect()->route('details.tenant.step.two', ['id' => $id]);

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JR beside his new Eiffel Tower installation. Images courtesy of the artist's Instagram
JR opens the ground beneath the Eiffel Tower
The French artist and Phaidon author has created yet another incredible trompe l'oeil in his home city
JR doesn't only hide his own identity; sometimes he masks whole landmarks. As our book, JR: Can Art Change The World? explains, "In 2016, responding to an invitation to make an artistic intervention at the Louvre museum in Paris, JR decided to make architect IM Pei's 21-metre-high pyramid disappear.
"Inspired by the fact that most visitors turn their back on the famous monument in order to take selfies, JR made the pyramid seemingly vanish using anamorphic techniques," the book goes on. "The pyramid rises out of the ground at the centre of the Cour Napoléon, the museum's main courtyard, and its transparent glass structure normally allows visitors to see the Louvre's facade through it. By reproducing a highly-detailed image of this facade and placing it on the pyramid's front side, JR's intervention created a grand-scale trompe l'oeil, disguising the pyramid from view."
JR's new Parisian Installation. Image courtesy of the artist's Instagram
A few months ago the Parisian artist installed a similar trompe l'oeil at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy, apparently revealing the works held within this pandemic-closed art institution for passers by to admire.
Now, as social restrictions begin to lift across Europe, he's installed a new public art optical illusion, this time beside the continent's best-known landmark. Stand on the Places de Trocadero in Paris right now, and it look as if the earth has opened up beneath the Eiffel Tower.
The optical illusion was unveiled to the world a few days ago via the artist's social media accounts, and will remain in place for around a month. The Eiffel Tower itself will be closed throughout that time; it is due to reopen on July 16. However, visitors to the City of Light right now can take in a uniquely Parisian view, created by one of the country's greatest contemporary artists.
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Filled with stunning photography, this extraordinary monograph charts JR's widereaching trajectory and a range of collaborative projects executed across the globe. Created in close collaboration with the artist, it features chapters on each of JR's major bodies of work – from 'Expo2Rue,' which launched his career as a street artist, to 'The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America' published in Time magazine in 2018. A specially commissioned graphic novel by comic artist Joseph Remnant and a survey essay by Nato Thompson tell JR's fascinating story.
Size: 245 × 210 mm (9 5/8 × 8 1/4 in)
JR is an internationally acclaimed artist, whose large-scale, black-and-white photographs are exhibited freely in the streets of the world.
Nato Thompson is artistic director of Philadelphia Contemporary, and was chief curator of Creative Time from 2007 to 2017.
Joseph Remnant is a Los Angeles-based artist/cartoonist whose work has appeared in Arthur magazine, New York Times, and Juxtapoz.
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August 9, 2017 / New Advisers
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Row New York has announced the designs for its new boathouse, located in Sherman Creek Park on the Harlem River in New York City, designed by Foster + Partners with local architects Bade Stageberg Cox. Founded on the belief that the skills learned in rowing are essential to the development of well-rounded individuals, Row New York offers a competitive rowing and academic success program to students from underserved communities throughout New York City. Located on the banks of the Harlem River, the proposed boathouse seeks to expand Row New York's free and low-cost programs that teach young people in under-resourced communities the sport of competitive rowing, while also assisting them with their education to prepare them for higher education and a path to college. Through the discipline and rigor of sport, the project seeks to transform the lives of people in the local community, giving young people a sense of self-confidence and purpose, inspiring them to achieve their full potential. The expansion will enable Row New York to substantially increase its reach, accommodating up to five times as many students, including those with physical and cognitive disabilities and bringing all its activities under one roof for the first time.
Norman Foster, Founder and Executive Chairman, Foster + Partners, said: "In envisioning a design for a boathouse that will serve a diverse population and be a resource to the community at large, I wanted to create a building that was both functional and accessible, but also one that responded to the Hudson River's long history as a busy transportation hub. This timber boathouse will fit naturally into the landscape of the riverfront and will transform this stretch of the Harlem River into a lively gathering place for people from all communities."
At the beginning of the 20th century, the river was dotted with many timber boathouses along its banks. The new Harlem Boathouse recalls this tradition with a simple rectilinear structure made entirely from wood. The new building is fully accessible – a generous plaza foregrounds the building, from where a gentle folding ramp extends to the upper and lower levels of the building. The lower level contains an expanded storage for boats, which is designed to withstand severe flooding events, while the upper level features a large multi-purpose hall alongside changing rooms and classrooms for after school programs. This expansive flowing space on the upper level opens onto a wide terrace on the building's eastern edge, looking onto the river – framing views of early morning sunrise as the rowers begin the first sessions.
The boathouse is shaded by a large folding timber canopy that sails over the structure, cantilevering over the plaza and terrace and providing shelter from the sun. Its distinctive timber lattice is a fusion of engineering and design, providing soft, dappled shade to the flexible multipurpose waterfront open space – a landscaped area designed for informal leisure activities as well as community events and performances. The boathouse will transform this stretch of the Harlem River into an arena at the heart of the community, furthering the wider social and educational aims of Row New York.
The new 1,600 square-feet facility will co-locate boat storage, fitness, and academic functions in one building on a new site, creating an integrated community space that uses rowing as a facilitator for several other social activities – from an outdoor cinema to financial literacy classes.
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(Paris - The Hague) Today, in the margins of the 20th session of the ICC Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, FIDH launches the report "International Criminal Court, An Analysis of Prosecutor Bensouda's Legacy". The report is a compilation of three FIDH papers published throughout 2021, providing a wide-ranging review of Prosecutor Bensouda's term in office and her legacy.
On 15 June 2021, Fatou Bensouda stepped down after a nine-year mandate as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), passing this great responsibility to Karim Khan. At a time when the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) faces a lack of State cooperation and limited financial and human resources, and with the Court embarking on a process of profound changes to bolster its performance, this transition represents a key opportunity to reflect on the OTP's progress and setbacks over the past decade, and learn from the experiences of the past.
FIDH carried out a stocktaking exercise and looked at the OTP's work during Prosecutor Bensouda's term (2012-2021) on three key areas: accountability for sexual and gender-based crimes, in collaboration with WIGJ; preliminary examinations; and outreach to victims, affected communities, and civil society organisations, in collaboration with NPWJ. Each topic was covered independently in three different papers. The findings and recommendations offered to Prosecutor Khan build upon FIDH's, WIGJ's and NPWJ's collective and individual long-standing expertise, continuous monitoring of and engagement with the ICC, and extensive consultations with nearly 70 FIDH national member and partner organisations working in and on ICC situation countries.
The report launched today is a compilation of the three papers and their respective recommendations and will be discussed during a virtual ASP side event at 14h00 CET. The event provides an opportunity to discuss some of the report's findings and key recommendations on ways to enhance the work of the OTP with representatives from national NGOs working in situation countries, international NGOs, and the OTP. The event, moderated by Raquel Vazquez Llorente, FIDH's Permanent Representative to the ICC, will benefit from the active participation of: James Stewart, ICC Deputy Prosecutor, Diane Brown, Legal expert on SGBV accountability, Calixto Ávila Rincón, Representative of PROVEA, Marika Antadze, Georgian Centre for Psycho-Social and Medical Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, and Alison Smith, NPWJ Director of International Criminal Justice Program.
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Cinematic history
Lost Expo '67 medical film classic rediscovered, on-campus screening
By Janet Harron
The original Expo '67 Miracles in Modern Medicine film poster.
Miracles in Modern Medicine, a film screened only once since its controversial debut during Montreal's Expo '67, is being screened on Memorial's St. John's campus March 9.
Robert Cordier, the film's director, will be in attendance.
Shot in 1966 at the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Montreal General Hospital, the Hotel Dieu, and the Montreal Rehabilitation Institute, the 19-minute film documents six medical interventions in a cinematic consideration of the marriage of humans and machines at vital medicalized moments.
"People keeled over in droves when the general public finally got a look at this kind of thing, which of course just made the film that much more popular." — Dr. Steven Palmer
Mr. Cordier (Injun fender, 1974) was then at the heart of the avant-garde theatre, film and performance art scene in New York; cinematographer John Palmer (Ciao! Manhattan, 1972) was known for his work in the Warhol Factory.
Archival discovery
Mr. Cordier will be joined by historian of medicine Dr. Steven Palmer, University of Windsor, who rediscovered the film at Library and Archives Canada.
According to Dr. Palmer, who is originally from St. John's, the graphic medical film was such a shock for viewers at the 1967 Montreal World Exhibition (Expo '67) that a reported 200 people a day fainted while watching it.
A film still of open-heart surgery from Miracles in Modern Medicine.
He says it is difficult for a contemporary audience to grasp the stir the movie caused, since people are now bombarded with graphic images on television and movies. In that time period only medical trainees had visual media access to things like open-heart surgery or brain surgery, two of the closeup procedures featured in the film.
2.5 million visitors
"Even a live birth, which opens the film, is something only midwives or obstetricians would see in a training setting," said Dr. Palmer, who is the Canada Research Chair in History of International Health. "People keeled over in droves when the general public finally got a look at this kind of thing, which of course just made the film that much more popular—lineups stretched for hours, and 2.5 million visitors saw the film over the six months of Expo '67."
Dr. Palmer will offer a commentary on the Montreal medical community's leadership role in establishing the Expo theme pavilions as well as a reconstruction of the Man and His Health/L'homme et le santé pavillon, and its core Meditheatre performance space where the film was screened. Following the screening, Mr. Cordier will be interviewed by writer Edward Riche.
Mr. Riche and Dr. Palmer are currently collaborating on a documentary about Mr. Cordier's life and work.
Miracles in Modern Medicine – 1967 is being presented by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and the Faculty of Arts.
The event is open to all and will take place on Wednesday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m. in room M1M101, Medical Education Building. Parking is available in lots 9 and 9L.
Janet Harron is a communications advisor with the Office of Public Engagement. She can be reached at jharron@mun.ca.
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Actor John Goodman Joins Fight to Stop 'Right to Work' Law in Missouri
Kurt Erickson on Wednesday, July 25 2018 - 10:49am
The union-backed fight against making Missouri a "Right to Work" state has enlisted some star power to get its message out.
Actor John Goodman is featured in a 30-second radio ad saying a law that will be decided by Missouri voters in the Aug. 7 primary election will hurt the middle class.
"The bill will not give you the right to work," Goodman says. "It's being sold as a way to help Missouri workers, but look a little deeper and you'll see it's all about corporate greed."
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AFL-CIO president: 'Workers Are United to Defeat Kavanaugh'
Mark Gruenberg on Monday, July 23 2018 - 4:15pm
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says the nation's labor movement has come to a conclusion about President Donald Trump's latest U.S. Supreme Court nominee: "Workers are united to defeat Kavanaugh," he declares.
His statement was part of a much longer July 12 speech behind closed doors to Democratic U.S. House candidates. While Trumka did not cite specific cases and rulings, the federation previously compiled a string of anti-worker decisions and statements by federal appellate judge Brett Kavanaugh in his dozen years on the bench.
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Stiglitz: Benefits of Multiple Layers of Financial Regulation So Much Higher Than Costs
Jinman Li on Tuesday, July 17 2018 - 10:45am
Joseph Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University, who was the Nobel laureate in economics in 2001, spoke at a talk on Monday with Damon Silvers, the director of policy and special counsel at the AFL-CIO, part of a day-long strategy session on "Bargaining for the Common Good in the World of Global Finance" held by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung office in New York, a non-profit political German foundation.
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AFL-CIO Chief Warns Red to Blue Candidates That Being a Democrat Isn't Enough
Simone Pathé on Monday, July 16 2018 - 2:08pm
House Democratic candidates in town this week for training at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington got a visit from AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka for some tips on how they can win back working-class voters.
"I don't have to tell you that you can't count on the D next to your name to gain our support," Trumka told Democratic leadership and a room full of candidates on Red to Blue, the DCCC's program for its strongest candidates.
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Belabored Podcast #155: The Future of Collective Action
Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen on Monday, July 16 2018 - 2:01pm
In the belly of the political beast in DC, grassroots organizers gathered at AFL-CIO headquarters to discuss collective action under Trump, beyond the beltway. Activists representing teachers, housekeepers, graduate students, and airline workers talked about union power in the wake of the Janus decision and keeping hope alive for the next generation of young labor leaders.
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Rebuilding Power in Open-Shop America: A Labor Notes Guide
Labor Notes on Tuesday, July 3 2018 - 9:48am
The moment you may have been dreading arrived June 27, when the Supreme Court imposed the open shop on the public sector nationwide with its decision in Janus v. AFSCME District 31.
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Despite setbacks and high court's ruling, unions show spark
Nicholas Riccardi on Friday, June 29 2018 - 1:02pm
Their membership has been declining for decades. They've been bedeviled by crippling new laws, and by a devastating U.S. Supreme Court decision just this week. From all appearances, it would seem that labor unions are an endangered species.
But here's the surprise: Organized labor is showing new signs of life.
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Supreme Court won't have the last word on worker rights
Craig Becker on Friday, June 29 2018 - 12:38pm
In Janus v. AFSCME, the US Supreme Court's conservative 5-4 majority held that public employees cannot be required by state law to pay a fair share of the cost of services that unions must provide members and nonmembers alike.
Janus comes a month after Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, where the same majority decided employees can be required by companies to submit all workplace grievances to private arbitration and waive their rights both to go to court and join together in class-action lawsuits.
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Kremlin-Critical Russian Journalist Found Shot And Killed In Kiev, Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine -- A Russian journalist harshly critical of the Kremlin was shot and killed in the Ukrainian capital Tuesday, and the national police said they are assuming he was targeted because of his work.
Babchenko, 41, was a vocal critic of Kremlin's policies.
Ukrainian police said Arkady Babchenko's wife found him bleeding at their apartment building in Kiev and called an ambulance, but Babchenko died on the way to a hospital.
Ukrainian and Russian officials immediately traded finger-pointing over his death.
Anton Herashchenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker who serves as an adviser to the interior minister, said on Facebook that investigators would be looking at "Russian spy agencies' efforts to get rid of those who are trying to tell the truth about what is going on in Russia and Ukraine." Herashchenko said.
Babchenko's killer was waiting for him on the staircase inside the journalist's building and shot him in the back as he was going out to buy bread.
In Moscow, officials and lawmakers criticized Ukrainian authorities for their alleged failure to protect journalists.
Mikhail Fedotov, the head of the Kremlin Human Rights Council, said Babchenko's slaying was a "clear provocation."
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that "bloody crimes and total impunity have become routine" in Ukraine.
Another renowned journalist, Pavel Sheremet, a native of Belarus who had worked for Russian media outlets in the past, was killed in a car bombing in central Kiev in July 2016.
The case has remained unsolved.
"Ukraine is becoming the most dangerous country for reporters," Russian lawmaker Yevgeny Revenko said in remarks carried by the state RIA Novosti news agency.
In March 2017, renegade Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov was shot and killed at the entrance of an upscale hotel in Kiev.
Ukrainian prosecutors alleged that Voronenkov, who had toed the Kremlin line while serving as a Russian lawmaker but turned into a Kremlin critic after his 2016 move to Ukraine, was killed on orders from a Russian crime lord.
Babchenko served in the Russian army and fought during the first separatist war in Chechnya during the 1990s.
He later became a journalist and worked as a military correspondent for several Russian media outlets.
He also published several books based on his wartime experiences.
Some of his articles and posts outraged many Russians.
In one, he said he felt no regret about the deaths of Russian army choir members and others from a December 2016 plane crash as they were heading to perform before Russian troops in Syria.
Several Russian lawmakers even called for stripping Babchenko of his citizenship over the comment.
Babchenko left Russia in February 2017, saying he was receiving threats and concerned he might be jailed.
He moved to Kiev last fall, where he worked as a host for the Crimean Tatar TV station, ATR.
Just hours before he was shot, Babchenko wrote on Facebook that he narrowly escaped death exactly four years ago when the Ukrainian military refused to take him on a helicopter heading to the front line in eastern Ukraine.
The aircraft was shot down minutes later.
"I was lucky, it was my second birthday," he wrote Tuesday.
Source: Time


Turkey said on March 13 that it would suspend high-level diplomatic relations with the Netherlands after Dutch authorities prevented its ministers from speaking at rallies of expatriate Turks, deepening the row between the two NATO allies.
The sanctions – which include a ban on the Dutch ambassador and diplomatic flights from the Netherlands but do not appear to include economic measures or travel restrictions for ordinary citizens – mark another low point in relations between Turkey and the European Union, which it still officially aims to join.
Kurtulmuş also said Turkey's deal to stop the flow of migrants into Europe may need to be re-evaluated. He said high-level government meetings would be suspended between the two countries until the Netherlands atoned for its actions.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is seeking Turkish voters' support in an April 16 referendum on constitutional amendments, has previously accused the Dutch government of acting like "Nazi remnants" for barring his ministers from addressing expatriate Turks to drum up votes.
The row is likely to further dim Ankara's prospects of EU membership. It also comes as Turkey wrestles with security concerns over militant attacks and the war in neighboring Syria.


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Song of the Day: "Queens (Featuring ZéFire)" by Her
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Today's song is "Queens (Featuring ZéFire) by Her.
This is the latest track from the French pop duo's EP Her Tape #1 via Republic Records released in the US last month.
The six-track collection arrives soon and includes the previous international hit single "Five Minutes," which has already amassed 1.8 million Spotify streams and nearly 800K YouTube/VEVO views. Since emerging in 2015, HER has drawn unanimous praise from tastemakers including Complex, Noisey, The Line of Best Fit, Pigeons and Planes, Gigwise, and more.
The band is currently on a US tour in support of their album (see dates below).
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We believe in giving personalized attention to all our students so as to develop their capacities to the maximum. All our schools, across all classes always maintain a Teacher : Student ratio of 1:25.
Sapphire believes in the early development of a child in order to prepare him for the challenges of the real world.
It is vital for today's youth to be aware of career choices.
Located in the heart of the city, Noida, Sapphire International School with its extraordinary and innovative approach has laid a new foundation for learning. Way back in 2003, Sapphire Nursery School was set up at Anand Vihar to provide quality and value based education to students.
The senior secondary School at Noida, Sector 70, is a premier co-educational English medium day boarding School, open from pre-nursery to Grade XII. With its sprawling lush green campus, state-of-the-art facilities, modern technologies and world-class infrastructure, it provides a perfect room for learning and knowledge for the leaders of tomorrow. A blend of tradition and modernity, this institution imparts a natural impetus towards a quest for excellence.
"I am so proud as a parent that my child is in such optimistic and artful hands. Teachers are very laborious n helpful, make a lot of efforts to nurture the child in every manner. Not only teachers, every staff member takes care of the child and look after them as their own. 'IMPOSSIBLE' itself says "I M POSSIBLE" n so does Sapphire. Best school for every child."
" school has such a unique way of evolving the child. They develop the child in a scientific manner, keeping in mind the tenderness with which they should be taught. My kid is always happy to go to school. Teachers are amazing, they discuss each and every child in detail with the parents, keep us informed about all our child's activities. Very happy to have enrolled my child in Sapphire."
How is the Sapphire International School different from other international schools?
Established in 2003, we are committed to raise future ready global citizens who are innovative and courageous to venture into unexplored territories. Sapphire International School has been known for its excellence in education. Its focus is on high quality teaching and learning and consists of a broad and rich curriculum including a robust enrichment programme along with diverse extra-curricular opportunities. Most importantly, children at this school are loved and cherished so that they approach life with a positive attitude. A blend of tradition and modernity, this institution imparts a natural impetus towards a quest for excellence under the guidance of the most creative and qualified teachers leading the learning in the classroom.
What curriculum does the school follow? What is its approach towards learning?
Sapphire International Senior Secondary School at Noida, Sector 70, is a premier co-educational English medium day-boarding school, running from Pre-Nursery to Class XII. It is a CBSE affiliated school and follows the curriculum provided along with various academic and non-academic activities.
The communication skills of the students are developed via role plays, dramatizations and activities. We also develop a sense of openness in children by taking them on nature walks and educational excursions. The curriculum has been designed to address the developmental needs of each child and caters to their holistic development.
What is the procedure for admission?
You can apply online at the site for admission to the school. After filling in the required information, our executive will contact you and fix an appointment to the school along with further instructions.
What is the annual fee charged for different classes?
What are the subjects offered at senior secondary level?
As per the CBSE scheme of studies, each student is required to opt for one compulsory language at the core level along with four electives, and one can be additional. The school offers these subjects under three sections – Science, Humanities, and Commerce.
Are there any clubs/societies available for students at the school?
What are the various sports activities offered at the school?
A healthy mind in a healthy body'– following this mantra Sapphire believes in the holistic development which plays a pivotal role in the upbringing of our pupils. The fact that children develop very well through activities like swimming and sports is never underestimated at Sapphire.
What are the various Academic Facilities available at Sapphire?
We follow the investigative method of education which ascertain long term retention.
Are daycare facilities available too?
Learning and fun continues even after the school day is done. In our extended day care activities the children engage their kinetic minds in a balance of homework support, creative arts and other fun activities. In this endeavour, the nutrition aspect is also given equal importance. The students are provided with a healthy meal which ensures a healthy body.
What are the norms available for safety and security of children at Sapphire International School?
An onsite trained and qualified nurse is available to manage emergencies that may arise during the school hours. The infirmary is equipped with the basic first aid facilities and medicines to address the health needs of learners in our school.
Sapphire has security guards who do not allow any visitors without prior appointment. The entire school premises is continuously monitored through CCTV cameras. The school is outfitted with new safety elements like cameras at entrances and hideout areas, fire alarm, monitoring devices to keep students, faculty and staff in a protected environment.


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By Tonja Dillon Castaneda
In 1953, developer Sam Hoffman set out to build modern brick homes in a brand-new neighborhood north of Denver. He envisioned a planned community with land reserved for schools, churches, and shopping centers. Many veterans of World War II, with their young families, moved into houses built by Hoffman's F&S Construction, and these new citizens formed the Thornton Community Association, which eventually led the effort to incorporate the city in 1956. The history of Eastlake, founded in 1905, is tied to that of Thornton, and it is therefore included in this volume as well. Eastlake retains its own identity even though it now lies within Thornton's boundaries, and both communities continue to see housing and population growth as new families move in seeking the same opportunities as those who first settled here.
Writer and journalist Tonja Castaneda lives with her husband and two children in Thornton. The images showcased in this collection were provided by current community members, the City of Thornton archives, Thornton's police and fire department leaders, local churches, and families who farmed the area for generations before it became a town. Many of the images have never before been published.
Fort Carson
Garden of the Gods Trading Post
Along the Huerfano River
Southwest Denver
Five Points Neighborhood of Denver
Golden, Colorado
Jewish Denver: 1859-1940


We've been photographing lightning for several years using different triggers; most worked but were bulky. We were about to replace our current trigger after Don had inadvertently fried the battery and decided to check the current assortment of triggers on the market.
MIOPS came on our radar recently due to water drop photography we've been doing and decided to dig into them a little to see what they have to offer. We started looking at just a replacement for the lightning trigger and liked what we saw with the MIOPS Smart. The Smart allows one to capture lightning as well as other things either as a stand-alone device or using a smartphone. Using the smartphone also opens up broader applications.
One of the first test images done shortly after setting up the MIOPS Splash. Using plain water in a dimly lighted kitchen.
We now have the MIOPS Smart and have tested it using light to trigger the camera as well as sound and laser. The cool factor is that we can connect the Fuji GFX50s medium format camera without any issues. We've also found the operation either as a stand-alone or via the smartphone one of the easiest we've encountered.
We were so impressed with the Smart that we decided to order the MIOPS Splash. We felt we were testing our luck on this as we were very pleased with the system we had been using however we felt this might be slightly better. And we were correct. We found the setup easy and the footprint much smaller. We set up the Splash using a ground tripod in the kitchen. The kitchen while convenient is not the best place to capture water drops due to the light in the room. Knowing the drawbacks of the location we decided to go ahead with the testing. In short, we were impressed.
Like the Smart, the Splash talks to the smartphone via WIFI. Don installed the battery in the Splash, turned it on and the phone instantly recognized the connection. We found this the same as when we first connected to the Smart.
Pleased with the initial test images we decided to add a little color.
Now the slightly bad news. We use 3-Nissin Digital Di700A flash units to capture water drops. No big deal. The Splash like the Smart has one 3.5mm connection port for the flash. The units came with a 3.5 mm to PC Sync cable. The issue is the sync connection is too loose to give a proper connection to any of the flashes which meant we needed to use a combination of tape and rubber bands to keep the connection. All isn't lost as we've ordered a new set of cables to try; we'll also be trying a 3.5mm cable to the 3.5mm port on the flash.
We found that connecting a flash to the Splash worked (with the tape and rubber bands) and setting that flash as the master and the other 2-flashes as slaves. We shot around 150 files during testing and found the flashes worked well.
There is little to no information found on the web as to settings or height of the drop. Most of this is trial and error. We decided on dropping at a height of between 8 and 9 inches into a device about 5 inches deep. We were immediately pleased with results. We kept the drop size at 50ms and experimented with the delay in between the drops as well as the flash delay. In all the cases We kept the camera on bulb, triggering the camera then the Splash using a combination of remote shutter release and smartphone.
We began writing this shortly after receiving the Splash and began testing it. Since then we took it to our garage where we normally shoot water drops. The reason to relocate is that the garage is much darker and we are use to shooting there. We also used a slightly smaller tabletop tripod to set the Splash on. The bowl is a straight wall glass 10" diameter approximately 5.25" tall. We set the distance of the drop to the water level at approximately 9".
Typical setup in our garage using 3-flashes and the large bowl.
Make certain everything is level. We try to have the table level as well as the arm off the tripod. Then there's the MIOPS itself; which we believe is the most important to have level. If the MIOPS valve isn't level the drops coming out will fall at an angle causing problems. We have a cheap 2-bubble level that we put on top of the water tube to check the plum.
The following are samples from the second day of testing. All were captured using the GFX 50s, GF120mm lens and 45 WR extension tube.
Don's finger slipped and activated the trigger a second time while the shutter was opened for a total of 6-drops.
We've now used the MIOPS Splash twice while writing this. This might not seem like much however we've been shooting water drops for several months and am not entirely new to it. There are several things we like and enjoy about this system. Ease of setting up, size of set up, no need to be plugged into an electrical outlet.
We changed the background to capture this sample.
We had been wanting to experiment using photographs as back drops and decided to test it out. The images in the background are 8x10 ceramic tiles.
We'd like to suggest that MIOPS include information on purging the system once done. If not, it's a simple method of rinsing the tube and valve out with warm water and setting the first drop to 999 ms in order for the water to purge out. Watch the water as it comes out and once you have clear water the system is clean. The last thing you want is to be using a dark color one day and light the next and get left over coloring as it cleans itself. Do it right and you won't have an issue.
Taken years ago in Tubac Arizona we titled "Blue Pot"
Received the 3.5mm cable for the Di700A flash and tried it out and it works. No more need to use a combination of tape and rubber bands to keep the Sync cable in place.
We're busy testing, experimenting and learning and hope to add more later so stay tuned.
We've done a lot of "wet photography" since our last blog on the subject (August 2018). The more we shoot the more we learn and with that we hope to pass it on. We've included several samples of what we've been able to accomplish.
We began shooting drops using a large plastic container and since then we find ourselves using smaller and smaller containers. While the size of the well has changed the one constant is the use of cold water. We've found that no matter the device we use to capture the drop the container works best if chilled. We've also learned that we need to have the container clean which means several changes of water during the process.
We've learned that environmental aspects of where we're shooting have a large impact. We set our wet studio in our garage and while it's insulated it nevertheless has no HVAC. Temperature and humidity play a key roll in how well our shots turn out as no two days are the same. We've found that a stopping for a couple of hours can effect the outcome.
While the above is true the water solution of the drop is critical. We attempt to create as near as possible the same solution of Xanthan Gum each time. A mixture of warm water and Xanthan stirred and left overnight works well, straining the mixture before using. The food coloring is the least of the concerns and we've found adding a small amount of 2% milk will enhance the color before topping off with cold water. I can't give a precise ratio however a little of the gum, food coloring, and milk go a long way. This is where you get to experiment.
We've been using a Cognisys Stopshot Studio connected to a Microsoft Surface Book II. This has worked very well for us. We've settled on using 2-3 flashes depending on the effect we're looking for. We also use multiple backdrops ranging from glass to paper again depending on what we're after. We have also been experimenting using various surfaces to place the container on which also depends on which object we're using.
We've been doing this often enough that setup is getting routine now. I'll make the gum the night before. The table setup is fast and easy with the most difficult part now being choosing which colors to use.
Post processing is a key element to the images and using Capture One-12 has been a huge help. I now do well over 70% of post processing in C1-12 before sending the file to Photoshop. If you haven't used Capture One before I suggest looking into it.
One final thought is don't get discouraged. We've had countless times when we felt we weren't capturing anything worthwhile however we resisted the urge to quit and reformat the drive. Not reformatting the drive was the smartest thing we ever did after spending time reviewing the files on our computer screen. We've shot anywhere from 1 to 3 hours at a time and well over 500 files on the card. We've gotten to the point that we only keep the exceptional images.
I hope this helps answer any questions that might still be lingering.


Last year at Dougherty Valley, the student body was informed partway through the year that School Loop, a service many students used throughout their schooling career, would be phased out by a platform known as Haiku Learning. Haiku Learning was to offer a deeper integration with the classroom, allowing teachers to combine various resources into one program, such as discussion boards, blog posts and even grades. A trial program was offered to teachers in order to beta test their classrooms, but as the new school year began, the integration of Haiku failed to become a reality, as School Loop continues to be a dominant service.
Most teachers did not find a use for it, and chose to stick to the "known entity", as math teacher Mr. Colin O'Haire put it. The gradebook was harder to access, lacking the ability for parents to check their child's grades, which they can do with School Loop.
Students, on the other hand, were pleased to discover that the Haiku project was scrapped upon returning to school this year.
The Wildcat Tribune was able to sit down with Mr. Hillman to get some clarification on the matter. Due to a rough pilot program, Haiku was never able to become fully adopted as the standard platform due to some of the difficulties it presents for students and teachers alike, especially with the gradebook. A great deal of "student and teacher feedback" was taken into account before deciding that Haiku was best left as an optional service for teachers to apply to their liking. When asked what might be replacing School Loop in the years to come, Principal Hillman has said that currently the district does not have their eyes set on a clear replacement, but may investigate a service called Illuminate Education in the future.
The future of new systems rests in the interests of streamlining the multiple system of School Loop and Haiku Learning that the district currently has in place. For now, School Loop will continue to remain dominant in the lives of Dougherty Valley students and the foreseeable future.


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William S. Hahn
The Podcast that Lived
By William S. Hahn and Isabel T. Mehta November 18, 2021
"When we are open to reading a text as sacred, we are willing to learn from it, and not just about it."
'Ad Astra': Marking the Passage of Time with STAHR
By William S. Hahn November 04, 2021
The Loomis-Michael Observatory, only accessible via a stairway and a registered HUID, sits on the 10th floor of the Science Center. Named after Walter Michael, who donated the telescope itself, and Lee Loomis, who funded its installation, the observatory is now operated and maintained by Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe, a student-run organization which hopes to allow Harvard students to learn about astronomy and appreciate the night sky.
It's Hard to Find Parking on Bow Street
By William S. Hahn and Jem K. Williams October 21, 2021
Late one lukewarm October night, a car careened off of Mount Auburn Street and crashed into the building of a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine.


OTTAWA – Focus Graphite (TSX-V: FMS; OTCQX: FCSMF; FSE: FKC) (or "the Company") is pleased to announce it has successfully purified fine flake graphite – sourced at its wholly owned Lac Knife, Quebec deposit – from 95% to 99.99% purity using a proprietary energy efficient purification process.
Attaining a 99.99% purity level from fine graphite flake is significant. Focus now has the technology to economically purify low value fine flake graphite or, "fines" to a high value material needed for the production of lithium-ion batteries.
Goldman Sachs Equity Research projects an emerging global low carbon economy that will produce 25 million hybrid and pure electric vehicles by 2025.
Other next generation renewable energy markets include portable electronic devices, utility scale energy storage, urban transportation, rail, marine, aviation and clean energy applications for the military.
Focus Graphite is at an advanced stage in testing high purity level graphite for use in battery and other high-tech applications.
Within the last 26 months, Focus has published the results of four successive independent test results highlighting the superior performance of Lac Knife graphite in short-term and long-term lithium-ion battery cycling. These tests are mandatory before customers can use any new materials in battery chemistry.
"We now have the technological capabilities to provide customers with a full range of battery-grade products to meet their specifications – from fine to large flake. We believe our novel process will further secure our competitive advantage in global markets," said Focus Graphite Chief Executive Officer Gary Economo.
"Given our relationships with end users and knowledge of our industry, we know of no other junior graphite developer today with a deposit capable of competitively converting their fine flake component to battery grade production," Mr. Economo said.
The traditional purification process involves heating the graphite to in excess of 2000C and essentially distilling off the impurities. There is a high-energy cost and some loss of graphite.
The Focus process reacts the graphite at a much lower temperature (less than 1200C) with gaseous chlorine compounds. The impurities are converted to chlorides which distill off at much lower temperatures, lower energy and no loss of graphite. Chemicals used are recycled and are relatively inexpensive.
The Company has invested in a long-term research program aimed at discovering the potential for transforming a fine flake graphite source to a high value material suitable for use in lithium-ion batteries.
The purpose of the Company's R&D fine flake production process program is to meet battery manufacturers needs for a novel, high-grade, high purity graphite that increases performance while reducing their input costs.
Focus Graphite's high-grade deposit's fine flake distribution is unique in that impurities are located mainly on the surface of the material, resulting in processing cost efficiencies.
Approximately one-third of the Lac Knife deposit is comprised of small and fine flakes suitable for processing to lithium-ion battery grade specifications.
"As a company currently engaged in battery testing with more than 20 potential end-users and seven universities and government laboratories, we see our latest processing breakthrough as a catalyst to encourage that industry to create new, lightweight battery designs enabled by our fine flake anode materials," said Mr. Gary Economo.
The fines that are produced during the flotation process can now be substituted for the large and medium flakes being purified for use in battery manufacturing, leaving the large and medium flakes for sale into higher value applications.
As such, holding the ability to purify Lac Knife's fine flakes expands the company's potential to sell substantially more of the graphite extracted from Lac Knife into high-value, high-tech applications instead of approximately 30 percent being sold for lower value industrial applications.
Focus Graphite will continue to explore its Lac Tetepisca, Quebec property for graphite material to fulfill the Company's "Polymer Offtake" agreement with Grafoid Inc. in addition to other potential customers.
Focus has established a recent history of technological successes by designing processes leading to superior performing coated spherical graphite for use in battery anodes.
Laboratory scale testing during the first half of 2016 involved approximately 30 trial runs using Lac Knife fine flake (-200 mesh to +400 mesh) graphite at the Grafoid Global Technology Centre in Kingston, Ontario.
The proprietary, low temperature process, developed by a Focus Graphite technical team, is believed to be more efficient than very high temperature thermal purification and is suitable for the removal of specific types of impurities found in the Lac Knife graphite deposit.
With some individual variations, the graphite sales process begins with the execution by the customer of a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). This is followed by supplying the customer with small quantities of samples for initial testing in coin cells, followed by life cycle testing in both larger and full sized batteries, followed by the signing of offtake agreements. This process can take anywhere up to 24 months.
Dr. Joseph Doninger, Focus Graphite's Director of Technology and Manufacturing is the Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects – has reviewed and approved the technical content of this news release. Dr. Joseph Doninger is an internationally recognized graphite processing expert and himself, the inventor of a number of patents and an author of over 22 technical papers and presentations related to graphite processing and the use of graphite in energy storage systems. Dr. Doninger is also a co-editor on the NATO Science Series book titled "New Carbon Based Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems". Dr. Doninger is also an Honorary Professor at the Department of Chemistry from the Kiev National University of Design Technology.
On May 27, 2014 the Company announced the potential for high value added sales in the Li-ion battery sector following battery coin cell tests performed on Spherical Graphite ("SPG") produced from the Lac Knife graphite concentrate. Testing measured the performance metrics and confirmed Focus' capability to tailor lithium ion battery-anode-grade graphite and value added products to meet the most stringent customer specifications.
On February 26, 2015, the Company announced the results from independent laboratory testing that indicated Coated Spherical Graphite ("CSPG") produced from Lac Knife concentrate outperformed synthetic graphite anodes for use in lithium-ion batteries.
On November 25, 2015, the Company announced results from independent laboratory testing that reported "zero loss" in long-term battery anode cycle testing of high purity CSPG produced from Lac Knife concentrate.


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HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy. One of four Admiral-class battlecruisers ordered in mid-1916, her design - although drastically revised after the Battle of Jutland and improved while she was under construction - still had serious limitations.
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Royal Navy King George V Class Battleship - HMS Prince of Wales (53) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale)
HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England. She was involved in several key actions of the Second World War, including the battle of Denmark Strait against the German battleship Bismarck, operations escorting convoys in the Mediterranean, and her final action and sinking in the Pacific in 1941.
Royal Navy King George V Class Battleship - HMS King George V (41) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale)
HMS King George V (pennant number 41) was the lead ship of the five British King George V-class battleships of the Royal Navy. Laid down in 1937 and commissioned in 1940, King George V operated during the Second World War as part of the British Home and Pacific Fleets.
Royal Navy Nelson Class Battleship - HMS Nelson (28) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale)
HMS Nelson (pennant number 28) was one of two Nelson-class battleships built for the Royal Navy between the two World Wars. She was named in honour of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson the victor at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Royal Navy King George V Class Battleship - HMS Duke of York (17) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale)
HMS Duke of York was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy. Laid down in May 1937, the ship was constructed by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, and commissioned into the Royal Navy on November 4th, 1941, subsequently seeing combat service during the Second World War.
Royal Navy King George V Class Battleship - HMS Howe (32) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale)
HMS Howe (pennant number 32) was the last of the five British King George V-class battleships of the Royal Navy. Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, she was laid down on June 1st, 1937, and launched April 9th, 1940.
Royal Navy Nelson Class Battleship - HMS Rodney (29) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale)
HMS Rodney (pennant number 29) was one of two Nelson-class battleships built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship was named after Admiral Lord Rodney. The Nelsons were unique in British battleship construction, being the only ships to carry a main armament of 16-inch (406 mm) guns, and the only ones to carry all the main armament forward of the superstructure.
Royal Navy Queen Elizabeth Class Battleship - HMS Warspite (03) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale)
HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Her thirty-year career covered both world wars and took her across the Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Pacific Oceans.
Royal Navy Queen Elizabeth Class Battleship - HMS Queen Elizabeth (01) [With Collector Magazine] (1:1000 Scale)
HMS Queen Elizabeth was the lead ship of her class of dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s, and was often used as a flagship. She served in World War I as part of the Grand Fleet, and participated in the inconclusive Action of August 19th.