GENEVA, Dec. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Memento S.A. ("Memento"), the family office of an investor in Sears Holdings Corporation ("Sears" or, the "Company") (NASDAQ: SHLD), delivered a letter to Sears' board of directors (the "Board") today to express concerns regarding historical patterns of alarming short-selling activity in the Company's shares and to ensure the Board is taking whatever actions may be required to curb any similar short-selling issues that may arise in the future.
The Elarof Trust ("Elarof") is a shareholder of Sears Holding Corporation ("Sears" or, the "Company") with nearly 2 million shares of ownership in the Company. Memento is the investment manager of the Elarof Trust and acts as family office of the Swiss-based Spadone family, the beneficiary owner of the Elarof Trust.
We are a long-term oriented value investor seeking to identify deeply undervalued opportunities in which boards of directors can take immediate and decisive action to significantly increase shareholder value.
Sears represents a significant investment for Elarof, and we have invested in Sears because of our belief in the long-term value of its vast national network of over 1,100 Sears and Kmart retail stores across the United States, the strength of its well-established proprietary brands, its position as the nation's leading provider of appliance and product repair services, and its insurance subsidiary. Our investment in Sears has taken in to consideration many factors, including its significant stakeholders who are closely aligned with its success, such as its vendors, customers, and over 140,000 employees. We believe Sears has the potential for strong financial performance once it addresses a few critical concerns including, among others, the high volume of short-selling activity in its shares.
We are writing at this time to highlight certain issues that have been plaguing the Company's shares on-and-off over the past two years that require your immediate attention to prevent further deterioration in shareholder value. We have been closely monitoring these recent developments at Sears and, while we remain optimistic about the Company's potential for long-term growth and shareholder value creation, we seek to engage in constructive discussions with the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") and management to address our deep concerns surrounding the integrity of the Company's securities ("SHLD shares" or, the "Common Stock").
There have been several occasions over the past two years in which the market has indicated that more short positions exist in the market than SHLD shares available to borrow, as shown by the unusually high volume of short-selling activity relative to the Company's real available float of outstanding shares. For the reasons set forth below, we believe that this shortage of available shares in the marketplace heightens volatility and places downward pressure on the share price. We believe the Board must promptly investigate and address this activity to prevent further decline in shareholder value, including (i) the formation of an independent Board committee to look after the equity ownership interests of all shareholders, (ii) seeking an SEC investigation in to the potential violations of Regulation SHO and a temporary suspension of short-selling in SHLD shares, and (iii) the evaluation of strategic alternatives such as going private.
Our interests are aligned with all Sears shareholders in seeking stable and sustainable growth in the value of SHLD shares. As such, we respectfully request the Company provide its investors with adequate assurances that it is taking the steps necessary to effectively address the urgent problem of naked short selling in its shares by establishing sophisticated internal controls and seeking appropriate regulatory action.
Naked shorting involves selling a stock short without first locating the shares for delivery at settlement. Such a practice is in violation of Regulation SHO, a 2005 SEC rule. Regulation SHO provides that brokerage firms may not accept orders for short sales without having borrowed the stock or having "reasonable grounds" to believe that it can be secured. This is known as the "locate" requirement. The SEC further noted that the practice of naked short selling can be abusive and drive down share prices.
We have observed on several occasions that the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding have fallen below short interest activity as measured by real available float. As shown below, short interest in SHLD shares has fluctuated between 12 to 19 million shares in the past two years. In early 2017 we identified that, not taking derivatives into account, there were more stocks lent than the real float, causing a deficit of 3.6 million shares.
We observed similar behavior in options activity for SHLD shares. Based on our analysis, it would not be possible for market makers to appropriately hedge their investments and, consequently, deliver the shares of options when exercised. If all of the open put or call contracts were exercised, it would be impossible for market makers to locate and deliver shares for settlement within the legally required time period of three business days.
Sears' put open interest as a percentage of shares outstanding has fluctuated between 30% to 40% of the Company's market capitalization, indicating that between 30 to 40 million shares are waiting to be delivered for these contracts. This is despite the fact that the Company's real available float remains between 12 to 20 million shares.
The call open interest is also rising but remains well below the put open interest.
We have learned through our own experience in lending SHLD shares that several institutions/brokers were unable to timely locate shares when we recalled them. It took ten or more days for us to receive our lent shares back. We recalled about 1 million shares twice this year with various institutions/brokers in order to transfer the shares to another counterparty. In both cases our brokers failed to deliver, and the SHLD share price soared between 30 to 100% after our recall.
When asked to explain their delay, these institutions/brokers indicated that the shares may have been borrowed by market makers who are subject to less stringent locate requirements and who have the ability to return shares later in certain circumstances as a result. We observed that the SHLD inventories for borrowing stocks were massively below what was reported to the SEC, and Markit informed us that the double-counting of some stocks could cause them to be lent over several times. This is alarming and demonstrates that the same shares may be sold short more than once.
We also note that the lending rate of Sears in 2017 has often reached levels close to 100%, indicating a high borrow cost that creates further incentives for naked short selling. This high interest rate raises the specter that market makers are engaged in naked short selling to avoid the high borrow cost associated with covered short sales.
Such behavior would violate the requirements of Regulation SHO. As their only recourse to prevent such an outcome, institutions/brokers would be forced to buy SHLD shares in the open market, which risks causing a spike in the price of SHLD shares, a pattern that would artificially distort the Company's value and increase its volatility in the marketplace.
The shares of SHLD stock owned by restricted shareholders cannot be borrowed against in the marketplace to cover short sales. Taking this in to account, the real float of Common Stock has fallen below the short interest on several occasions in the past two years. Sears has reason to know this occurs based on the volume of short-selling activity in the marketplace compared to the percentage of outstanding shares restricted from securities lending. It is clear to us based on our own experience in securities lending of SHLD shares and monitoring the Company's real float that there have been repeated instances of widespread naked short-selling in the Company's shares, with the short interest exceeding total Common Stock outstanding when excluding restricted shares.
Naked short selling has the effect of placing immense downward pressure on share price over time, since an unlimited supply of any commodity, including SHLD shares, places downward pressure on its price. At a time when Sears' employees, vendors and customers worry about the Company's long-term viability, we believe that the Board must treat this particularly delicate matter with the highest priority. Immediate action is necessary from the Company to prevent further destabilization and depression in the price of SHLD shares.
We request that the Board establish an Equity Ownership Committee comprised of independent Board members for the purpose of protecting the interests of all shareholders by monitoring real float versus short interest and seeking stable and sustainable growth in the price of SHLD shares.
We further recommend that the Board seek a temporary restriction on short-selling in the SHLD shares to allow the Company to instead focus on more urgent operational priorities. In addition, we believe that these facts warrant an SEC investigation in to the repeated instances of naked short-selling of SHLD shares in violation of Regulation SHO.
Lastly, we recommend that the Board consider strategic alternatives such as going private to allow the Company to focus on enhancing long-term shareholder value instead of monitoring short-selling activity in the marketplace.
We look forward to continuing our discussions and engaging with the Company to address these troubling concerns on behalf of all shareholders.
Memento is a Geneva-based long-term oriented value investor seeking to identify deeply undervalued opportunities in which boards of directors can take immediate and decisive action to significantly increase shareholder value. Memento is the investment manager of the Elarof Trust, a shareholder with nearly 2 million shares of ownership in the Company, and acts as family office of the Swiss-based Spadone family, the beneficiary owner of the Elarof Trust.
Memento seeks to engage in constructive dialogue with Sears' Board and management. Memento has retained Olshan Frome Wolosky, LLP as legal counsel to advise on its engagement and discussions with the Company.


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Prevalence of microcephaly in Europe: population based study.
Morris JK., Rankin J., Garne E., Loane M., Greenlees R., Addor M-C., Arriola L., Barisic I., Bergman JEH., Csaky-Szunyogh M., Dias C., Draper ES., Gatt M., Khoshnood B., Klungsoyr K., Kurinczuk JJ., Lynch C., McDonnell R., Nelen V., Neville AJ., O'Mahony MT., Pierini A., Randrianaivo H., Rissmann A., Tucker D., Verellen-Dumoulin C., de Walle HEK., Wellesley D., Wiesel A., Dolk H.
OBJECTIVES: To provide contemporary estimates of the prevalence of microcephaly in Europe, determine if the diagnosis of microcephaly is consistent across Europe, and evaluate whether changes in prevalence would be detected using the current European surveillance performed by EUROCAT (the European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies). DESIGN: Questionnaire and population based observational study. SETTING: 24 EUROCAT registries covering 570 000 births annually in 15 countries. PARTICIPANTS: Cases of microcephaly not associated with a genetic condition among live births, fetal deaths from 20 weeks' gestation, and terminations of pregnancy for fetal anomaly at any gestation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Prevalence of microcephaly (1 Jan 2003-31 Dec 2012) analysed with random effects Poisson regression models to account for heterogeneity across registries. RESULTS: 16 registries responded to the questionnaire, of which 44% (7/16) used the EUROCAT definition of microcephaly (a reduction in the size of the brain with a skull circumference more than 3 SD below the mean for sex, age, and ethnic origin), 19% (3/16) used a 2 SD cut off, 31% (5/16) were reliant on the criteria used by individual clinicians, and one changed criteria between 2003 and 2012. Prevalence of microcephaly in Europe was 1.53 (95% confidence interval 1.16 to 1.96) per 10 000 births, with registries varying from 0.4 (0.2 to 0.7) to 4.3 (3.6 to 5.0) per 10 000 (χ(2)=338, df=23, I(2)=93%). Registries with a 3 SD cut off reported a prevalence of 1.74 per 10 000 (0.86 to 2.93) compared with those with the less stringent 2 SD cut off of 1.21 per 10 000 (0.21 to 2.93). The prevalence of microcephaly would need to increase in one year by over 35% in Europe or by over 300% in a single registry to reach statistical significance (P<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: EUROCAT could detect increases in the prevalence of microcephaly from the Zika virus of a similar magnitude to those observed in Brazil. Because of the rarity of microcephaly and discrepant diagnostic criteria, however, the smaller increases expected in Europe would probably not be detected. Clear diagnostic criteria for microcephaly must be adopted across Europe.
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Unaware of her past, Anne's friends do their best to help her get over a failed relationship. When the pressure becomes too much, Anne's repressed traumas explode in a cathartic moment where she makes a choice that is both horrific and heroic.
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Mouzam Makkar brings a subtly to her performance as Anne, who shows her discomfort with being hassled by the stranger her friends have left her with, while at the same time not hiding her inner emotions as she remembers her traumatic past.... The Night Before The Morning After does leave the viewer wanting more.
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With over 30 years of directing and producing experience, Bradburn's award-winning films have screened across the country, as well as in Europe and Asia.
His most recent short film, Family, has already won awards and continues to be screened at festivals across the US.
David has worked in the Indie film world, corporate video world, Network television as well as having a background in social work and education.
When not on set, he spends most of his time working and planning and thinking about being — back on set.
Originally a marketing major in college, Shannon took up acting on a dare to audition for a part in a theatrical production. Upon surprisingly landing the lead role, Shannon was bitten by the acting bug and has never looked back.
Shannon trained in Shurtleff and Meisner, then moved to LA and became a member of SAG, eventually returning to his roots in Chicago to be closer to his family. His passion, intensity, and professionalism drive his desire to help Chicago grow as a great TV and film market.
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McGinty Joel McGinty has worked in camera, lighting, and editing departments on numerous documentary and commercial works. His documentary, Cocal Gracias, told the story of a church helping a community in Honduras rise above poverty and helped raise $70,000 to construct a trade school. His credits include "The Wedding Pact", "The Last Letter", and Dreams.
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Jennifer Burhow's love of acting, comedy, and travel have spawned a successful career that has lead her across the globe in film, theater, commercial and industrial productions.
Recent film projects include the short films "The Night Before the Morning After," "Perhaps," and "Downpour," plus the web series "Guys Book Club" and "Practically Married."
On stage, Jennifer has worked with Theatre at the Center, New American Theater, Circle Theatre, Hell in a Handbag Productions, and many others. Favorite theatre adventures include playing Nancy in Oliver!, Mrs. Walker in The Who's Tommy, Ralphie's Mom in A Christmas Story, and Mary Lane in Reefer Madness the Musical.
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Mouzam Makkar's film and television credits include "Promise Land," "The Wake," "Easy Abby," "Chicago Fire" (NBC), "The Mob Doctor" (FOX), and "Sirens" (USA pilot). She is a proud ensemble member of Stage Left Theatre in Chicago and a graduate of The School at Steppenwolf and the Second City Conservatory and Writing programs.
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Born in Tracy, California to a large family, Suzette found her passion for acting in college. She got off to a successful start with a career in theater, film, and commercials, before taking time off to raise a family of her own.
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The latest release from Stevenson Overall Co. comes in the form of the Imperial Classic Jacket. Created with 100% "Beach Cloth", the light white striping caught our eye and is a nice subtle detail and a different take on pinstriping. Additional features include 3 front pockets, relatively slim lapels and a short body, which adds a casual look, making this an ideal piece to transition from day to night.
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We are inspired everyday by the human rights legacy of our founder, Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary, by the children and adults with whom we work; and by the power of music to touch the hearts of all and create new opportunities for building community together. We believe in the development of the whole child and that we must teach children the social and emotional skills they need to succeed in school and in life. We believe that each child, in each of our communities around the world, deserves to live in a safe, respectful, compassionate community, free of bullying, hatred and violence.
Of course, Operation Respect was founded in response to the powerful lyrics of "Don't Laugh at Me." Through the links on this page you will find the videos, songs and more that inspire us to keep on "keepin' on" as Peter, Paul and Mary would say. Feel free to send us some of your favorites and join us on Facebook and Twitter to find more.


Talk about a comfort food. This is a great way to use up left over ham.
Scalloped potatoes and ham is the perfect way to use up left over ham.
Melt butter in large saucepan over low heat; blend in flour, salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring constantly, for about 1 minute. Remove from heat gradually stir in milk. Return to heat; cook until thickened and bubbly. Fold in ham, onion, green pepper and cheese. Pour over potatoes in a large bow. Stir gently then move into a buttered 13X4-inch baking dish; cover with foil. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Uncover and continue to bake for 1 hour.
This was amazing!! I made this with some leftover ham from Easter. I added a little more cheese than the recipe called for and sprinkled some paprika on top. Other than that I followed it exactly. I resisted the temptation to melt the cheese into the cream sauce. I am so glad I did. Folding the cream sauce into the other ingredients made it perfect. It is awesome that such simple ingredients can come together to make something so spectacular!!


Markus Prachensky was born in Innsbruck on 21 March 1932. After finishing school with examinations that qualified for university entrance, Markus Prachensky moved to Vienna in 1952, where he began to study architecture under Lois Welzenbacher at the Art Academy. In parallel Prachensky studied painting from 1953. Together with Wolfgang Hollegha, Josef Mikl and Arnulf Rainer, Prachensky was a co-founder of the "Galerie nächst St. Stephan" in 1956, whose principal patron was Monsignore Otto Mauer, a well-known art historian.
By 1957 the group was introduced to the public at a large-scale Viennese Secession exhibition and Prachensky became a member of the Secession. While staying in Paris in 1958, Markus Prachensky met contemporaries such as Jean Arp, Pierre Soulages, Yves Klein and Sam Francis. The first performance of "Peinture liquide" was put on at the "Theater am Fleischmarkt" in Vienna in 1959 and Markus Prachensky participated in "documenta II" in Kassel.
Early in the 1960s Prachensky spent quite some time in Berlin and Stuttgart, where he did the sequence "Rot und Rot - Berlin" in 1964-66 as well as the Solitude pictures. Whereas Markus Prachensky's early work still follows stringently geometric composition, from the 1960s Prachensky developed an inimitable tachist handling with leanings towards international Informel.
In 1967 Markus Prachensky went to New York, where he met Clement Greenberg. A year later Markus Prachensky moved to the US and set up a studio in Los Angeles but he also stayed at Palm Springs and travelled to Mexico. Returning to Europe in 1969, Prachensky worked at first in Hanover but from 1971 he again worked and exhibited in Vienna.
In 1972 Markus Prachensky was commissioned to execute an enormous tapestry for the Congress House in Innsbruck. Since 1975 Prachensky has travelled extensively over long periods in the Mediterranean, visiting Italian archaeological sites, which he has found a source of inspiration. Until the mid-1970s Prachensky's painting concentrated on reds but impressions gleaned in Italy enlarged his palette to include black and yellows. Mediterranean landscapes, the colours and forms of Italy, were at the core of the sequences Markus Prachensky painted during the 1980s and 1990s.
From 1983 until 2000 Prachensky taught and directed the master classes for painting at the Viennese Academy of Art. In 1992 Markus Prachensky was awarded the Medal of Honour in Gold of the City of Vienna and in 2003 he received the Prize of the City of Vienna for the Visual Arts. Large-scale retrospectives of Markus Prachensky's work were mounted at the "Hannover Kunstverein" in 1970, at the Viennese Academy of Art in 1979, and, on the occasion of Prachensky's seventieth birthday in 2002, at the "Österreichische Galerie im Oberen Belvedere".
In 2003 Pachensky's work was displayed at the Galerie Ulysses in Vienna and in the Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg. Markus Prachensky is one of the most important exponents of Informel in Austria. The Artist dies in 2011 in Vienna.


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James Edwin Hawley, genannt Ed Hawley, (* 27. September 1897 in Kingston, Ontario; † 20. April 1965 in Tucson, Arizona) war ein kanadischer Geologe und Mineraloge und Professor an der Queen's University (Kingston).

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Hawley wuchs in Kingston auf und studierte an der Queen's University  in Kingston mit dem Bachelor-Abschluss 1918 und dem Master-Abschluss 1920. Danach war er als Erdölgeologe in Alberta, Ecuador, Burma und Indien. 1926 wurde er an der University of Wisconsin–Madison promoviert und war danach dort Assistant Professor, bevor er 1929 Professor für Mineralogie an der Queen´s University in Kingston wurde. Nach Gründung der Fakultät für Geowissenschaften wurde er 1950 dessen Leiter. 1962 wurde er emeritiert.

Er befasste sich vor allem mit der Entstehung von Erzlagerstätten und deren Mineralogie, speziell in Kanada. Zum Beispiel verfasste er 1962 eine große Studie über die Nickelerzvorkommen in  Sudbury. Er befasste sich auch mit präkambrischer Stratigraphie und frühem Leben im Archaikum. Frühe Arbeiten von ihm befassen sich mit Entstehung von Erdöl im Gestein durch den Druck von Scherkräften. Da er ein führender beratender Geologe in Kanada war, blieb viel von seiner Arbeit vertraulich, er veröffentlichte aber rund 60 Aufsätze.

Das Mineral Hawleyit wurde nach ihm benannt.

Er erhielt die Willet G. Miller Medal und die Logan Medal. Nach ihm ist die Hawley Medal der Mineralogical Association of Canada benannt (für die beste Veröffentlichung im Canadian Mineralogist des jeweils vergangenen Jahres).

1949 initiierte er die Gründung des National Advisory Committee on Research in Geological Sciences in Kanada.

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 James Edwin Hawley von J. M. Harrison 1963 mit Publikationsliste (englisch, PDF, 231 kB)

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Geologe (20. Jahrhundert)
Mineraloge
Hochschullehrer (Queen's University, Kingston)
Kanadier
Geboren 1897
Gestorben 1965
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ABC's "Abbott Elementary" Season Finale Ties a Series High in Adults 18-49
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"Tamron Hall" Grows to Its Most-Watched Week Since March 2021 and to Its Highest-Rated Week in Women 25-54 Since July 2021
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FOX's "Accused" Dominates Sunday Night Delivering #1 Rated and Most Watched Debut on Any Broadcast or Cable Network in Three Years
Said premiere posting a 2.0 Live + Same Day rating among Adults 18-49 and 8.4 million viewers in preliminary results.
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Starz's Hit Drama Series "BMF" Draws Over Four Million Multiplatform Viewers for Season Two Premiere and Earns Early Third Season Renewal
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Aquaman 3D
Home is calling.
Jason Momoa is Aquaman in the DC Entertainment character's first feature film. Co-stars Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman and Temuera Morrison and helmed by James Wan (Furious 7).... More
When Arthur Curry (Momoa) learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, he must step forward to lead his people and to be a hero to the world.Hide
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Directed by James Wan ('The Conjuring', 'Furious 7', 'Saw')
Starring Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Kidman, Temuera Morrison
Written by Will Beall
Studio DC Entertainment
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, 3D, Blockbuster
Rating: M Fantasy violence
USA, Australia
BY Tony Stamp Flicks Writer
Aquaman is a lot of movie. Nearly every shot is drenched in visual effects, doused with music, dripping with whiz-bang action. It's a testament to the sure hand of director James Wan that it never gets overwhelming. In fact, it just gets more entertaining.... More
It's like several movies stuffed into one—parts involving the villainous Black Manta are as gloriously cheesy as The CW's DC roster, treasure hunts in the Sahara and Sicily come off like Indiana Jones (ok, maybe National Treasure), and there's a whole lot of Star Wars/LOTR-type world-building going on under the sea.
Wan holds nothing back: Amber Heard wears a dress made of jellyfish. An octopus plays tribal drums. Dolph f*cking Lundgren shows up with bright red hair. And this is when things are just getting warmed up. It's completely ludicrous, and all the better for it, Wan festooning his Hero's Journey with as many visual whimsies as he can.
There's also a small portion of brain-veges to go with all this eye-candy: Patrick Wilson's King of Atlantis is quite rightly POed about humans trashing the ocean. But then again he's pretty explicitly Aryan-coded, shrieking about pure bloodlines and whatnot. It's confusing. Anyway holy shit here comes an army of fish monsters!
Jason Momoa's screen presence was a concern going in, but you know what? He's pretty great! Charismatic enough, even if his chemistry with Heard isn't exactly off the charts. There is one extremely sweet romance in the film, but it isn't theirs, it's one that speaks to the film's larger theme about uniting across racial lines.
DC have doubled down after the muted reaction to Justice League and thrown everything at the wall, and most of it sticks. In my screening the crowd started off pretty muted. When the last shot cut to black a big cheer rang out.Hide
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Welcome to Aquaman, where you won't have a clue what's going on, but you won't be able to look away either. Full Review
It doesn't suck, but only if you're willing to sit through two hours of waterlogged world-building before the movie finally takes off. Full Review
Notwithstanding the inevitable formulaic dialogue and a superabundance of boilerplate superhero action sequences, "Aquaman" turns out to be, almost despite itself, an engaging undersea extravaganza. Full Review
This is a let-down: a laborious, slow-moving and dripping wet film, barnacle-encrusted with solemnity and with a ripply-underwater production design that looks like a giant version of the kitschy items that you put in fish-tanks. Full Review
Total Film (UK)
It feels like a step in the right direction for the DCEU. What's more, its hero's former 'joke character' status is kept well at bay. Full Review
Wan has taken a seemingly impossible task and imbued it with clarity and personality. Full Review
TimeOut (New York)
Aquaman is more seawater than bongwater, unfortunately, but when it gets trippy, it floats within hailing distance of Doctor Strange. Full Review
NZ Herald (Siena Yates)
It's a big call, but Aquaman - one of the most highly anticipated releases of 2018 - might just be the worst film of the year. Full Review
All of it is wrapped up in that much needed wry and irreverent self-awareness which DC just hadn't managed to crack until now. Full Review
Stuff.co.nz (Graeme Tuckett)
Aquaman does everything we expect a big-budget superhero movie to do, but it also remembers ... to have a heart, and something other than mere bombast to give us for bothering to show up. Bravo. Full Review
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North Korea threatens 'all-out war' over exercises
South Korean and US forces will start annual military exercises, which they say are purely defensive
North Korea has threatened "all-out war" in response to exercises by South Korean and US troops, starting Monday.
The South Korean capital Seoul would be turned into a "sea of flames", the Korean Central News Agency warned.
Pyongyang also said the South should stop sending propaganda leaflets and balloons over the border.
Inter-Korean relations have been extremely tense since 46 South Koreans died when their warship was sunk last March.
Seoul blamed the North for the incident, something Pyongyang denies.
But tensions rose even further after the North shelled a frontier island in November, killing four South Koreans.
Military talks aimed at defusing tensions and restarting dialogue broke down earlier this month.
Annual exercises
About 12,800 US troops and some 200,000 South Korean soldiers and reservists will take part in the military exercises, which will last 11 days, according to US and South Korean forces.
Seoul insists the drill is purely defensive but North Korea says it is a pretext for an invasion from the South.
"The army and people of the DPRK [North Korea] will return bolstered nuclear deterrent of our own style for the continued nuclear threat... and our own missile striking action for their vicious attempt to eliminate our missiles," KCNA said.
The North routinely issues war rhetoric against South Korea and the US, but analysts say the risk of clashes is higher when the two sides are not talking to each other.
Earlier, Pyongyang said it would fire across the border if South Korean did not "immediately stop psychological warfare".
The South has been launching balloons, carrying leaflets critical of the Pyongyang regime and news about the recent democracy protests in the Arab world, over the heavily fortified border.
"South Korea is driving the Korean peninsula to overall confrontation, with beefing up anti-republic, psychological plots," the North Korean statement went on.
South Korea has also been attaching food, clothes and radios to the balloons it sends over towards the North.
Pyongyang tightly controls access to the Internet and attempts to block other sources of information about the outside world.


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 Шапур II вторгся в Картли, низложил царя Саурмага и провозгласил царём его родственника Вараз-Бакура (Аспакура). Саурмаг бежал в Римскую империю и вернулся оттуда с войсками. Картли была разделена между ставленниками Рима и Персии.
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 Олимпиада (диаконисса) — христианская святая, дева Константинопольская.
 Цзюйцюй Муцзянь — правитель государства Северная Лян.
 Цзюйцюй Мэнсюнь — правитель государства Северная Лян.

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 7 июля — Матерниан из Реймса, святой епископ Реймса, исповедник.
 Вулкаций Руфин — государственный деятель Римской империи середины IV века.
 28 апреля — Феодор Освященный, христианский святой, авва, ученик Пахомия Великого.

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Larus (supposedly died 207 BC) was a leader of Cantabrian mercenaries in the Carthaginian army during the Second Punic War, according to Silius Italicus's poem Punica.

Biography

Larus is mentioned only by Silius in his poem, where he is noted as the only outstanding man in the battle in Celtiberia that pitted Punic generals Mago Barca and Hanno against their Roman homologue Marcus Junius Silanus. Some authors have doubted of the existence of Larus, noting in Silius the intention to embellish his chronicle of the war with epic heroes and duels in the style of ancient Greek literature. However, others have doubted this approach, pointing out that his role in the battle is too notable to be entirely fictitious.

Assuming his historicity, Larus would have been active in 207 BC. After the Battle of the Metaurus, where Hasdrubal Barca and his newly hired Spanish mercenaries were defeated by Gaius Claudius Nero and Marcus Livius Salinator, Hanno and Mago would have started another recruitment campaign in Hispania in order to replace Hasdrubal's army. Among their mercenaries it was Larus, leading a contingent of the Cantabrian youth armed with battle axes and caetras as per their custom. Larus was described as a man of immense stature and martial skill, embodying the Celtic warrior ideal, who went to war wielding a double-headed axe (bipennis) with a single hand. He was also known as a fearsome unarmed fighter.

Larus's first and only deployment started when the Roman forces attacked the Carthaginian positions. Believing themselves safe from attacks, Mago and Hanno had divided their camp and relaxed their defense, which encumbered their capacity of reaction. Their army was quickly routed except by Larus and his battalion, who mounted a fierce counterattack. Even when all his men were slain, Larus remained standing and doing battle, killing so many soldiers by himself alone that the Roman infantry began avoiding him in terror. Only Lucius Cornelius Scipio engaged him, fighting him in a singles duel and ultimately killing Larus after severing his arm. With the Cantabrian dead, the Punics were defeated and Hanno was captured.

In his text, Silius speaks as well about another mercenary named Larus, who was compared to a gorgon for his frightening appearance. However, this was not the same as the Cantabrian Larus, but a Gaul soldier of the same name.

See also
Corocotta
Viriathus (Second Punic War)

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207 BC
Ancient mercenaries
Carthaginian commanders of the Second Punic War
Celtic warriors
People whose existence is disputed
Year of birth unknown


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Q: How to say any character except dash ("-") How to do we compose a regex that says "the matches fails if there's a dash somewhere in the middle"
I have several lines that are composed as 3958.3r - 5v and some are without the dash for example: 3958.3v4r. I am able to get the ones with the dash, but not only the ones without the dash

A: This can be accomplished with a character class negation. ^ at the beginning of a character class simply negates the character class. If you then only have the character -, then you create a character class that matches anything but -.
^[^\-]+$

According to what you have said, you need to put the ^ (start of string) at the front of your pattern, and escape the . or else you will match not only the . after 395[0-9], but any character at all like 3950z.
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Home » World » The Russian Federation decided to arrange a real economic blockade for us, some kind of "besieged Leningrad" begins in our country / GORDON
The Russian Federation decided to arrange a real economic blockade for us, some kind of "besieged Leningrad" begins in our country / GORDON
"We have winters and tariff stories are always difficult for the ruling parties, it's true. It seems to me that this winter there will be no problems with tariffs, how was the last… There may be electricity problems this winter. I would not like to be Kassandra, who brings trouble, but we understand that there are risks, and they are associated with the supply of coal, which is renewed. There may be some interruptions, "he said, responding to the journalist's assumption that after this winter, the current rating of the Servant of the People will drop dramatically.
He explained that coal is supplied by sea, and recalled the situation in the Suez Canal, "where bulk carrier across the canal, paralyzed navigation for a week. "
"Again, we are at war with the Russian Federation, which has decided to arrange a real economic blockade for us, including on the transportation of coal from Kazakhstan – we are starting some kind of" besieged Leningrad "with the road of life to Europe through the" Burshtyn Island " – said Kornienko.
He stressed that ministries and parliament need to work to achieve energy independence "as soon as possible", reform the energy sector to become a unified energy system with Europe, and "take power flows from Europe, and not from Russia and Belarus", as well as engage in energy efficiency, and consumers – to introduce household savings.
He also noted that the parliament will monitor the activities of the Cabinet of Ministers in the field of energy.
"We have a basic toolkit – to listen to information. And this should act, including at the level of" an hour for questions to the government. "I think that the Minister of Energy [Герман Галущенко] will be our frequent guest with [министром здравоохранения Виктором] Lyashko. They can paint themselves a "flashing light" before the end of winter – one week, another week, "said Kornienko.
Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine Maxim Nemchinov on October 15 warned that for the passage of the heating season in Ukraine additional coal to be supplied… According to him, Ukraine has contracts for the import of coal for $ 4 million, contracts for another $ 2 million are expected before the end of the heating season.
On October 29 it became known that the Russian Federation from November 1 stops the supply of thermal coal to Ukraine.
On October 30, the Ministry of Energy reported that in November of this year Ukraine will import coal from Poland, Kazakhstan and South Africa, Ukrainian companies have already signed the necessary contracts.
Energy Minister of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko on November 5 assured that Ukraine will be able to calmly go through the heating perioddespite the fact that the Russian Federation stops supplies of thermal coal to Ukraine and creates artificial obstacles for Ukraine's import of coal from Kazakhstan. The Ministry of Infrastructure Development of Kazakhstan claims that Russia did not block the supply of coal to Ukraine, "but there are some limitations in connection with the workload of the infrastructure from the Russian side ".
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal said on November 11 that the autumn-winter period in Ukraine will be stable and energy resources enough for the heating season.
As of November 15, coal reserves in the warehouses of thermal power plants of Ukrainian power generating companies made up 378 thousand tons tons… According to the agency "Interfax-Ukraine", over the last week, coal reserves decreased by 21.1% (101.3 thousand tons).
On the evening of November 15, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a video message in which he promised that there will be no shortage of coal in Ukraine, and "the state will not leave anyone without light and heat".
Topics: Alexander Kornienko, Business, coal, Companies, economy, Electricity, energetics, heating season, Industry, Kazakhstan, power supply, Russia, Russian Federation
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The promise of intelligent applications in the Middle East
May 9, 2021 August 16, 2021
For the real promise of AI to be realised, the entire ecosystem will need to work together to ensure its effective implementation and to enable regional organisations reap the benefits
When it comes to buzzwords in business, few have been more prevalent over the past few years than artificial intelligence or AI. The hype surrounding AI has certainly put it in the spotlight—and businesses are trying to understand the benefits that AI can offer and how they can put it into practice.
The development of AI
Let's start with what is artificial intelligence or AI. AI is all about algorithms that can be translated into a programme to represent models, which can perceive, think, and act in a way that has intelligence like humans or even more.
Over the last few years, fueled by a need for intelligent innovations, enterprises are now placing AI investment among their top priorities. IDC forecasts that US$96 billion will be spent on AI by 2023, with retail, banking, and manufacturing taking the lead, representing almost 39% of the total spend. By 2025, 100% of enterprises will be using cloud in some way, and 86% of these enterprises will be using AI, Huawei predicts.
The benefits of AI
AI offers huge promise for businesses. In today's data-driven economy, organisations are looking at AI to help deliver actionable business insights from the data collected by connected devices in order to drive competitive advantage.
AI can increase efficiency by processing routine tasks faster and more efficiently, increasing productivity by up to 100 times more than a human. It can increase effectiveness in scenarios like healthcare management, where AI can detect infections at a very high speed compared to human capabilities and at a higher level of accuracy. AI can also help mitigate risk; for example, it can aid in pipeline and power cables inspection in extreme weather conditions. AI-powered cameras on drones can help avoid risk to humans. Finally, AI can help reduce complexity. For instance, at busy airports for fleet management, terminal and gate allocation, complex workflows can be managed using AI in an intelligent way.
Adopting AI in your enterprise
For the success of an AI strategy in any organisation, I believe there would be three key areas to consider. Firstly, clear regulations for AI implementation are required that provide guidelines on where and where not to use AI. Secondly, organisations need to upskill their human resources in areas like data science & algorithms to be able to work together with AI technologies. And thirdly, for any AI strategy to be successful, there is a need for organisational collaboration and alignment between business, IT, legal & HR. Organisations need to look at the most complex, or repetitive areas of the business first, prioritise them based on the needs, run a successful pilot and then expand to other areas of the business.
Government AI Strategies Leading the Future
Governments must lead the AI efforts by first applying intelligent digital transformation to themselves, while paving the road for industries and society as a whole through relevant, supportive policies.
Indeed, governments in the Middle East have already taken bold steps by introducing long-term visions that center on digitalisation and AI to realise business and societal value. The UAE has already launched its National Program for Artificial Intelligence, which places special focus on the UAE's policy objective to become a leading participant in the responsible use of AI and its tools. The same goes for Saudi Arabia.
Collaboration for value-creation
Technology companies are also investing heavily in AI to help governments and organisations to maximise their performance in a data-driven digital economy. For example, at Huawei, we are working with regional enterprises and governments to provide technologies like AI, cloud, and big data as enablers of 'advanced intelligence', while integrating their existing IT platforms with the wider AI ecosystem.
Eventually, for the real promise of AI to be realised, the entire ecosystem will need to work together for effective AI implementation that can help organisations enhance their business models and make them more advanced, more competitive and more profitable and develop a new standard for value creation that will not only revolutionise user experiences but also create a better future for everyone.
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Cambodian prince and politician Norodom Ranarid dies at age 77
daviddalpeNovember 28, 2021
Phnom Penh – Former Cambodian Prime Minister Norodom Ranarid, the son of the late King Norodom Sihanouk, died in France on Sunday, intelligence minister Kieu Kanharis announced on a Facebook page. He was 77 years old.
Kieu Kanharis, who said he learned of the death from Um Dalabs, a member of the Cambodian royal family, did not reveal the cause of death.
Ranarid has been in poor health since the car accident in Cambodia in 2018. Ranarid's aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to talk to the media, went to Paris in late 2019 and had a pelvic fracture.
Ranarid's career has always been behind his charismatic father Sihanouk and his wise and ruthless political rival Hun Sen. Hun Sen remains prime minister.
Sihanouk exchanged his position as son of Sihanouk, but lacked his father's strong personality and political ingenuity. Ranarid's half-brother, Norodom Sihamoni, became king in 2004 after the abdication of Sihanouk, who died in 2012. Sihamoni's Facebook page confirmed Sihamoni's death.
Ranarid, a French-educated legal scholar, entered public life in 1983 when he took over the leadership of Funcinpec.
Lanarid converted Funcinpec to the Royalist Party and won a UN-sponsored election in 1993. The election was part of the Khmer Rouge collapse and the 30-year post-civil war peace process.
Hun Sen's post-election threat to unleash the security forces he was still in control led him to be appointed second prime minister under Ranarid.
After Hun Sen coup d'etat with his partner in a lightning-fast military takeover in 1997, Funcinpec fell strongly under Hun Sen's influence. Ranarid made several comebacks and founded the Norodom of Cambodia Narid Party in 2006, but was destined to remain a marginal political player.
Ranarid's last position was the chief adviser of his half-brother, King Sihamoni. He was also the leader of the Remains of the Funcinpec Party, which announced late Sunday that his body would soon be sent back to Cambodia.
Ranarid's second wife, Ouk Phalla, is a classical dancer who was more than 30 years younger than him, who had two children, and died in a car accident in 2018.
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Night Must Fall (1937 film)
1937 film by Richard Thorpe
Night Must Fall
Richard Thorpe
John Van Druten
Night Must Fall
by Emlyn Williams
Hunt Stromberg
Robert Montgomery
Rosalind Russell
Dame May Whitty
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April 30, 1937 (1937-04-30)
$589,000 (est.)
$1,015,000 (worldwide est.)
Night Must Fall is a 1937 American film adaptation of the 1935 play by Emlyn Williams, adapted by John Van Druten and directed by Richard Thorpe. It stars Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell and Dame May Whitty in her Hollywood film debut at age 72, who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised her role in the stage drama in London and New York City. A critical success, Night Must Fall was named the best film of the year by the National Board of Review. Robert Montgomery also received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. A 1964 remake starred Albert Finney, although the remake did not do as well as the original.
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Box office
6 Accolades
7 Home media
8 Adaptations
Robert Montgomery and Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall
Rosalind Russell and Robert Montgomery in Night Must Fall
Local police drag the river and search the surrounding countryside in a small English village for the body of Mrs. Shellbrook, a flashy blonde who was a guest at the local hotel and has been missing for several days. The authorities question the town folk, including those living in the home of Mrs. Bramson, (Dame May Whitty) an irascible elderly woman who holds court in this small English village. She pretends to need a wheelchair, and impulsively threatens to fire her maid, Dora (Merle Tottenham), for allegedly stealing a chicken and breaking china. Dora distracts Mrs. Bramson by mentioning her Irish boyfriend, Danny (Robert Montgomery), who works at that hotel. Danny comes by to visit Dora, who asks Mrs. Bramson to speak with him. Perceiving that Mrs. Bramson is a hypochondriac who only affects her need for a wheelchair, Danny is charming toward her and says that she reminds him of his mother. He tells Mrs. Bramson that he loves Dora and would marry her if he had a better job. Mrs. Bramson offers him one and he becomes her doting servant.
Mrs. Bramson's niece and companion, Olivia Grayne (Rosalind Russell), is suspicious of Danny, but Mrs. Bramson dismisses her concerns. When Mrs. Bramson's attorney, Justin Laurie (Alan Marshal), arrives to give his client money, he warns her not to keep so much cash in her possession but she dismisses his concerns as well. When Danny arrives with his belongings, he peers through a window and sees Mrs. Bramson putting cash into her safe, but pretends not to notice. Meanwhile, Justin, who is in love with Olivia, asks her to marry him, but she refuses because their relationship lacks any true romance. Justin leaves, feeling dejected. Later that day, Olivia catches Danny lying to Mrs. Bramson about a shawl that allegedly belonged to his mother, as Olivia notices the price tag still attached to the shawl. Even so, she removes the tag so Mrs. Bramson doesn't become aware of it. Olivia, annoyed by Danny at first, comes to feel strangely attracted to him as he challenges her from time to time and even compliments her on occasion.
Dora discovers Mrs. Shellbrook's decapitated body in the forest; her head is still missing. Olivia accuses Danny of the murder, but he denies it. Again, Mrs. Bramson dismisses her niece's concerns as she has grown very fond of Danny. Olivia visits Justin and tells him she's afraid, so he invites her to stay with him and his mother. Olivia first accepts his offer, then moments later declines it, explaining that she is silly for being so fearful.
During the week, locals take tours of the crime scene. Since her house is in the vicinity, Mrs. Bramson becomes a local celebrity, and basks in the attention to Olivia's disgust. A detective questions Danny and searches his room, making him fearful. Olivia feels sympathetic towards Danny so helps him deceive the detective. Meanwhile, the rest of the household does not feel comfortable being in the house while a killer is at large, but Mrs. Bramson feels safe to stay because of Danny.
One night later in the week, Olivia leaves because she's had enough of battling wits with Danny and is afraid with him in the house. She warns Mrs. Bramson not to spend another night there, either. Mrs. Bramson dismisses Olivia as silly, declaring Danny will protect her. The two other servant girls leave for the evening as well. Realizing she is alone, Mrs. Bramson hears noises and becomes frightened. When she screams for Danny, he comes in and calms her down by giving her something to drink, and tries to lull her to sleep. To her shock and horror, Danny suffocates her and empties the safe.
Olivia returns unexpectedly, just as Danny is about to pour kerosene all over the house to set it ablaze. She tells Danny she came back to prove she was right about him, realizing he has murdered her aunt. Danny tells her about his poor childhood, and resenting being looked down upon for being a servant, and states that this is his chance and he is taking it. He tells her he must kill her too, so no one can incriminate him in Mrs. Bramson's murder. Olivia replies she understands he will kill her, but wants him to know she is no longer attracted to him and now sees him for who he really is, a cold-blooded killer. Just as he closes in on Olivia, Justin arrives with the police. He tells her he called them when he could not reach her by phone. They arrest Danny for murder and before they take him away Danny says, "I'll hang in the end, but they'll get their money's worth at the trial." At last, Justin and Olivia embrace.
Robert Montgomery as Danny
Rosalind Russell as Olivia Grayne
Dame May Whitty as Mrs. Bramson
Alan Marshal as Justin Laurie
Merle Tottenham as Dora Parkoe, the maid
Kathleen Harrison as Emily Terence, the cook
Eily Malyon as Village Nurse
Matthew Boulton as Inspector Belsize
Beryl Mercer as Saleslady
E. E. Clive as Tour Guide
Dame May Whitty, Kathleen Harrison, Merle Tuttenham and Matthew Boulton reprised the roles they originated in the London production. Whitty and Boulton also appeared in the Broadway production.[2]
In an article on TCM.com, Margarita Landazuri reports that Montgomery saw the play in New York and "badgered" Louis B. Mayer into giving him the role. Apparently, the studio was willing to risk a flop in order to get control over Montgomery and his desire for meatier roles. He recalled: "... they okayed my playing in it because they thought the fan reaction to me, in such a role, would humiliate me." The actor also agreed to pay part of the cost of the film.[3]
The film was a critical but not a financial success. The New York Daily News said Robert Montgomery's performance "lifts the MGM actor out of the lower brackets, where he has slipped because of shoddy material, into an eminent position among the top-notchers of Hollywood players." The newspaper Variety proclaimed that "the appearance of Montgomery in a part which is the antithesis of his pattern may be art, but it's not box office." Louis B. Mayer personally supervised the making of a trailer which preceded the film, warning filmgoers of its "experimental nature."[4]
Writing for Night and Day in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a poor review, describing it as a "pretentious little murder play [] made [into] a long dim film". Greene comments that the main problem with the film is that it is directed "like an early talky [...] no more than a photographed stage play".[5]
The film grossed a total (domestic and foreign) of $1,015,000: $550,000 from the US and Canada and $465,000 elsewhere. It made a profit of $40,000.[citation needed]
Night Must Fall was named the best film of 1937 by the National Board of Review.[6]
Montgomery was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and Whitty for Best Supporting Actress.[7]
The Warner Archive Collection released Night Must Fall on DVD (Region 0 NTSC) on December 14, 2010.[8][9]
A radio adaptation of Night Must Fall was presented on Philip Morris Playhouse October 24, 1941.[10] Starring Burgess Meredith, Maureen O'Sullivan and Flora Robson, the program has not survived in radio collections.[11]
Night Must Fall was adapted for the July 24, 1944, broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater, starring James Cagney, Rosemary DeCamp and May Whitty.[12][13]
Robert Montgomery produced, hosted and starred in a CBS Radio adaptation of Night Must Fall on Suspense March 27, 1948. May Whitty, Heather Angel, Richard Ney and Matthew Boulton costarred.[14][15]
^ Night Must Fall at the American Film Institute Catalog
^ "Night Must Fall (1937) - Notes - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
^ "Night Must Fall (1937) - Articles - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
^ "Night Must Fall". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
^ Greene, Graham (8 July 1937). "Black Legion/Night Must Fall/Top of the Town/The Last Train from Madrid". Night and Day. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. p. 154. ISBN 0192812866. )
^ "The Outstanding Films of 1937". National Board of Review Magazine. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. XIII (1): 3. January 1938. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
^ "Night Must Fall". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 2014-02-07. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
^ "Night Must Fall". DVD Beaver. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
^ "Night Must Fall". Warner Archive Collection. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
^ ""Playhouse" Star". Harrisburg Telegraph. October 18, 1941. p. 27. Retrieved July 21, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Philip Morris Playhouse". The Digital Deli Too. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
^ "Suspense". RadioGOLDINdex. J. David Goldin. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
^ "Night Must Fall". The Screen Guild Theater. Internet Archive. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
^ "Night Must Fall". Suspense. Internet Archive. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
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Political Anticipation is for the future what history is for the past, and in both cases it is about conquest. Conquest over the field of rationality, humanity, intelligence, power, freedom. And the common features between knowledge of the past and knowledge of the future are more numerous than they seem.
In a way, political anticipation is part of the fight against privileges. Indeed, if the present is the realm of action and therefore of the serf, ruling castes – or decision makers – have always taken ownership of the past and the future. Any decision is a bet on the future. He must therefore claim control over the entire time line.
Thus, in our human societies, the leader is the one who authorizes him/herself to produce narratives on the past and the future. Religious powers are masters in this field: control over the discourse on the past on the basis of a single authorized version – all the others being blacklisted(1) (founding myths (2), sacred texts (3), …); and prohibition of any uttering on the future "which belongs only to God" ("In Cha Allah", "si Dios quiere" (4), etc …). It is this knowledge of what has happened and what will happen, this so-called divine or genetic gift, which legitimizes the leader and imposes silence on everyone else.
However, our so-called democratic societies are not exempt from abuses either, even if they are generally more subtle: history is so overvalued that it has gradually become a matter reserved to the experts, historians – once again elite – and therefore eludes again the majority who are only given fragments considered comprehensible to their limited brains. Currently, it is the media, more than history classes at school, that train to the "understanding" of the past. But journalists are not historians, unlike history teachers, and the direct link between the specialist and the greater number has thus been gradually weakened.
If the past is so vulnerable to these kinds of distortions, it is because it can not be the subject of a real science: uncertainty remains and the interpretation reigns supreme. But that is not a good reason to refrain from exploring it, with the humble objective of "aiming for" its rationalization and denying any prerogative of a group over others in this area. In a democratic society, the knowledge of the past time needs to escape from the corridors of universities and feed young heads in its most factual form possible (6) to train men and women masters of their past and free to create their own future.
More than history, it is the process of historicization that matters, just as more than democracy, the process of democratization matters. One of the most interesting positive enterprises currently taking place in this area is of course Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not perfect but it demonstrates some really interesting principles: History can be written by a few amateurs or specialists, as long as it can be corrected by many other amateurs or specialists. The issues surrounding Wikipedia are also interesting to observe: censorship, blacklisting, opprobrium thrown by some interest groups against this or that "disturbing" information,… the "lobbies" of the History have invaded the virtual corridors of Wikipedia's content monitoring mechanisms. They are recognized by the fact that they do not offer counter-arguments, contenting themselves with denying the information or judging it unimportant and "not deserving" to appear on this noble encyclopedic work.
This brings us back to this notion of authorization to talk about distant facts … given by whom? Why ?
We have just seen that we can say a thousand things on the past whose perfect knowledge, if it is to approach some truth as rationally as possible, is in fact illusory. Too few factual documents to really know the distant past, too much conflicting data for us to understand the recent past, imposing selections according to more or less random or ideological priorities, … history is a mess or a desert that our human nature requires us to explore, but only if we can do so without losing sight of the humility required to take on this infinite task. Our view of the past will always end up telling us more about ourselves than about our ancestors.
A to the future, what difference really? Countless information on trends shaping it, with great difficulty in selecting the most relevant ones and in predicting the possible outcomes of their combinations. And, the further away from the present, the more the data become scarce and fuzzy. Therefore, if we have succeeded in allowing ourselves to think rationally about the past, why forbid ourselves to think rationally about the future?
For this reason, the leaders, masters of time, often prefer not to say much about it, or even nothing at all, simply prohibiting any speech to others: the gift of envisioning the future is a curse (Cassandra); it is sinful or presumptuous to speak of tomorrow; taboo, madness, curse, black magic, charlatanism … are notions strongly associated with any utterance on the future.
But for practical reasons, doing business in our complex societies increasingly requires us to start opening up this temporal dimension. The "leaders" can no longer be credible if they do not talk about it. They must therefore surround themselves with specialists. Thus the future becomes a specialty, a field of study and exploration. The general direction is good, but there is still a need to get this specialty out of the elite camp. In an enlightened society, everyone must have access to the knowledge and tools of the "leaders" in order to be able to correctly judge their effectiveness and make a useful contribution to the collective effort. And this is true for both the private and public spheres.
The media, moreover, are full of information on what the future holds for us, asserted with the greatest authority. In a way, Political Anticipation proposes methodological axes intended to allow everyone to better situate themselves in this mass of propositions about the future, to develop their critical sense and their personal interpretation of trends, to understand the risks without being paralyzed by them by identifying the opportunities that make it possible to assert that man is an actor of his destiny, thus setting him free.
Political Anticipation, by affirming that the future belongs to all and that everyone has a share of responsibility in it, is a tool at the service of human free will, against the prevailing determinism tending to enslave us by offering us, as the only choice, terrifying visions of the future (damnation) (7) or the lobotomy of "trust in me" (pray to God).
Human free will was already at stake in the historicisation of the past. It is time to finish the job by proposing a streamlined method of appropriation of the future by/for the majority. This is the mission that Political Anticipation has given itself.
(2) The epic of Gilgamesh in Babylon, the myth of Romulus and Remus in Rome, the myth of Erechtheus in Athens, the Kalevala in Finland, the myth of Adam and Eve in the Bible … are myths of foundation giving a version of the origins of the human group considered.
(3) The Bible, the Koran, and many others.
(4) "If Gid wants it" in Arabic and Spanish, two languages in which the use of this expression helps to defuse the superstitious negative charge conveyed by any statement about the future. In the case of Arabic, added to a verb in the present, it is even used to produce a future meaning.
(5) See for example this article entitled "Fascism, Auschwitz and Berlusconi" published in Le Monde on 11/02/2013. Very concretely, the Berlusconi years have absolutely transformed the perception of fascism within an important part of the Italian public opinion, which now allows itself to speak positively about this regime.
(6) Franck Biancheri, the inventor of the Method of Political Anticipation, was of course also very much interested in the past and had conceived a project of presentation and teaching of the European history which avoided the rewriting of an official European version and promoted the comparative addition of different national perspectives on common events. This project was called E-Storia.
(7) The evolution of the theme of the environment in the mid-2000s is a very good example of this return to determinism in Western society. By moving from a pro-active agenda of environmental preservation in all its aspects to that of a statement of global warming associated with a single-minded fight against CO2 emissions (an agenda proposed by a single body, suddenly dubbed the only holder of the truth – with its own 'sacred text'), we switched from ecology to ecologism. Energy lobbies now make the law, the summits of the earth fail one after the other, nuclear and shale gas have become panaceas despite Fukushima and fracking, etc … But global warming is characteristic of a catastrophist millenarian vision imposed on public opinion to scare them, block their thinking and make them believe anything, contrary to the positive and liberating project preservation of the previous environmental agenda.
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        normal.set(0, 0, 1);
        normal.applyMatrix4(rotationMatrix);

        view.subVectors(reflectorWorldPosition, cameraWorldPosition);

        // Avoid rendering when reflector is facing away

        if (view.dot(normal) > 0) return;

        view.reflect(normal).negate();
        view.add(reflectorWorldPosition);

        rotationMatrix.extractRotation(camera.matrixWorld);

        lookAtPosition.set(0, 0, - 1);
        lookAtPosition.applyMatrix4(rotationMatrix);
        lookAtPosition.add(cameraWorldPosition);

        target.subVectors(reflectorWorldPosition, lookAtPosition);
        target.reflect(normal).negate();
        target.add(reflectorWorldPosition);

        virtualCamera.position.copy(view);
        virtualCamera.up.set(0, 1, 0);
        virtualCamera.up.applyMatrix4(rotationMatrix);
        virtualCamera.up.reflect(normal);
        virtualCamera.lookAt(target);

        virtualCamera.far = camera.far; // Used in WebGLBackground

        virtualCamera.updateMatrixWorld();
        virtualCamera.projectionMatrix.copy(camera.projectionMatrix);

        virtualCamera.userData.recursion = 0;

        // Update the texture matrix
        textureMatrix.set(
            0.5, 0.0, 0.0, 0.5,
            0.0, 0.5, 0.0, 0.5,
            0.0, 0.0, 0.5, 0.5,
            0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0
        );
        textureMatrix.multiply(virtualCamera.projectionMatrix);
        textureMatrix.multiply(virtualCamera.matrixWorldInverse);
        textureMatrix.multiply(scope.matrixWorld);

        // Now update projection matrix with new clip plane, implementing code from: http://www.terathon.com/code/oblique.html
        // Paper explaining this technique: http://www.terathon.com/lengyel/Lengyel-Oblique.pdf
        reflectorPlane.setFromNormalAndCoplanarPoint(normal, reflectorWorldPosition);
        reflectorPlane.applyMatrix4(virtualCamera.matrixWorldInverse);

        clipPlane.set(reflectorPlane.normal.x, reflectorPlane.normal.y, reflectorPlane.normal.z, reflectorPlane.constant);

        var projectionMatrix = virtualCamera.projectionMatrix;

        q.x = (Math.sign(clipPlane.x) + projectionMatrix.elements[8]) / projectionMatrix.elements[0];
        q.y = (Math.sign(clipPlane.y) + projectionMatrix.elements[9]) / projectionMatrix.elements[5];
        q.z = - 1.0;
        q.w = (1.0 + projectionMatrix.elements[10]) / projectionMatrix.elements[14];

        // Calculate the scaled plane vector
        clipPlane.multiplyScalar(2.0 / clipPlane.dot(q));

        // Replacing the third row of the projection matrix
        projectionMatrix.elements[2] = clipPlane.x;
        projectionMatrix.elements[6] = clipPlane.y;
        projectionMatrix.elements[10] = clipPlane.z + 1.0 - clipBias;
        projectionMatrix.elements[14] = clipPlane.w;

        // Render

        scope.visible = false;

        var currentRenderTarget = renderer.getRenderTarget();

        var currentVrEnabled = renderer.vr.enabled;
        var currentShadowAutoUpdate = renderer.shadowMap.autoUpdate;

        renderer.vr.enabled = false; // Avoid camera modification and recursion
        renderer.shadowMap.autoUpdate = false; // Avoid re-computing shadows

        renderer.render(scene, virtualCamera, renderTarget, true);

        renderer.vr.enabled = currentVrEnabled;
        renderer.shadowMap.autoUpdate = currentShadowAutoUpdate;

        renderer.setRenderTarget(currentRenderTarget);

        // Restore viewport

        var bounds = camera.bounds;

        if (bounds !== undefined) {

            var size = renderer.getSize();
            var pixelRatio = renderer.getPixelRatio();

            viewport.x = bounds.x * size.width * pixelRatio;
            viewport.y = bounds.y * size.height * pixelRatio;
            viewport.z = bounds.z * size.width * pixelRatio;
            viewport.w = bounds.w * size.height * pixelRatio;

            renderer.state.viewport(viewport);

        }

        scope.visible = true;

    };

    this.getRenderTarget = function () {

        return renderTarget;

    };

};

THREE.Reflector.prototype = Object.create(THREE.Mesh.prototype);
THREE.Reflector.prototype.constructor = THREE.Reflector;

THREE.Reflector.ReflectorShader = {

    uniforms: {

        'color': {
            type: 'c',
            value: null
        },

        'tDiffuse': {
            type: 't',
            value: null
        },

        'textureMatrix': {
            type: 'm4',
            value: null
        }

    },

    vertexShader: [
        'uniform mat4 textureMatrix;',
        'varying vec4 vUv;',

        'void main() {',

        '	vUv = textureMatrix * vec4( position, 1.0 );',

        '	gl_Position = projectionMatrix * modelViewMatrix * vec4( position, 1.0 );',

        '}'
    ].join('\n'),

    fragmentShader: [
        'uniform vec3 color;',
        'uniform sampler2D tDiffuse;',
        'varying vec4 vUv;',

        'float blendOverlay( float base, float blend ) {',

        '	return( base < 0.5 ? ( 2.0 * base * blend ) : ( 1.0 - 2.0 * ( 1.0 - base ) * ( 1.0 - blend ) ) );',

        '}',

        'vec3 blendOverlay( vec3 base, vec3 blend ) {',

        '	return vec3( blendOverlay( base.r, blend.r ), blendOverlay( base.g, blend.g ), blendOverlay( base.b, blend.b ) );',

        '}',

        'void main() {',

        '	vec4 base = texture2DProj( tDiffuse, vUv );',
        '	gl_FragColor = vec4( blendOverlay( base.rgb, color ), 1.0 );',

        '}'
    ].join('\n')
};

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